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Reading, PA - Heavyweight prospect Travis Kauffman will lead the Reading Express professional indoor football team out onto the field for their home game against rivals Harrisburg Stampede this Sunday, May 17. The Reading Express play their home games at the Sovereign Center, where King's Promotions will feature Kauffman in the main event against former Ecuadorian Olympian Livin Castillo and cruiserweight Julio Cesar Matthews against Kamarah Paisley in the co-main event. Kauffman, (16-0, 13 KOs), is on the fast track up the heavyweight ranks at only 23 years old. Kauffman will be competing in his hometown for the first time since his smashing national TV debut in December when he knocked out Malachy Farrell on Showtime.. During the second quarter, Kauffman and Matthews will be introduced into a boxing ring set up near the lounge area in section 109 while a Kauffman highlight reel plays. The Express dancers, known as the Smokin' Hot Steam Team, will dance in the ring throughout the game. Afterwards, Kauffman and Matthews will be on hand to sign autographs for the fans. "I'm excited about the opportunity to go out and support my hometown team," says Kauffman. "I believe that I am the best heavyweight prospect in the world and I'm going to show it on May 30." The Reading Express compete in the American Indoor Football Association. With a record of 7-2, the Express are on top of the North Division. The May 30 event will be the first in Pennsylvania history to feature boxing and mixed martial arts on the same card. Tickets, priced at $65, $50, $35 and $25, are on sale now and can be purchased at the Sovereign Center Box Office at 700 Penn Street in Reading (610-898-7200) and at all Ticketmaster outlets (800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com). WORLD BOXING COUNCIL NEWS May 14, 2009 Mexico City. From the office of WBC President José Sulaimán: World Boxing Council president Jose Sulaiman has travelled to Korea to oversee the preparations and facilities for the 47th annual WBC world convention that will be held later this year in Jeju, South Korea. He will also bring to a close a national boxing competition there featuring boxers in four and six-round fights. The WBC has been involved in tournaments like this around the world to find boxings new idols, as many of boxings great idols are gone or are about to be. President Sulaiman is also planning to attend the first professional world championship fight to be held in The Peoples Republic of China on May 26 in the great city of Shanghai. WBC flyweight world champion Daisuke Naito of Japan will be defending the title against Xiong Zhao Zhong, the first Chinese fighter who will fight for a world championship in his own country. The May 26 fight card will have two more very interesting fights: the OPBF (Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation) female super featherweight championship between Chika Mizutani of Japan and Yang Yu Ying of China; and the ABCO (Asian Boxing Council) female super featherweight championship between Xia Yu Qing of China and Yu Kajikawa of Japan. The WBC wishes to be present at this historic event that will form part of the present and future of professional boxing in China, which had never before been recognized or approved. WBC representative General Kovid Bhakdibhumi of Thailand will also hold a meeting with President Sulaiman in Shanghai. The promoters of the May 26 event are Mr. Hiro Miyata and Takashi Ishii (MG Promotion) from Tokyo, Japan, in association with Chinese promoter Liu Gang. The card will be overseen by a Chinese Committee, together with the Japan Boxing Commission and World Boxing Council. It is said that Daisuke Naito is currently the most popular fighter in the great country of Japan, which has been one of the cathedrals of professional boxing in the last quarter-century. **** WBC super featherweight world champion Humberto Soto travelled to Mexico City on Wednesday and was presented by President Sulaiman with his green and gold WBC world championship belt. Soto won the title in December and has made two successful title defenses. He was present at the ceremony with his manager, Antonio Lozada, and promoter, Fernando Beltran. Soto is also a proud former champion of the formidable WBC World Youth Championship program. Mexico is back to normal, and there will be heavy boxing activity in May and June. Earthquake Predicted for May 19th - Bruce Lionheart Scott To Face Buster Keeton At Prizefighter 7 The Southern area seismic centres are going to have to shut down this coming Tuesday as Hackney, London, based Jamaican former WBU International, Commonwealth and British Cruiserweight Champion Bruce Lionheart Scott learned that his first opponent, in the Prizefighter 7 - The Cruiserweights tournament at Earls Court Arena in West London on May 19th, is Sheffields John Buster Keeton, and has predicted an earth shaking knockout of his former foe. Scott, who is returning to the ring after a three year sabbatical from the sport, has been taking his preparations for the tournament very seriously. In addition to securing the services of one of Londons top boxing coaches, John Rooney Jnr of the famed Gleasons Gym London, near Tower Bridge, Lionheart has also been sparring with some of the UKs top fighters including current British Heavyweight Champion, Danny The Brixton Bomber Williams, best known as the man that knocked out Iron Mike Tyson, to ensure he is fighting fit for the event. When recently asked if he thought that being three years out of the ring may put him at a disadvantage Jamaicas favourite son answered, First of all, I think the lay off has been good for me as Ive had a good rest, no stress, nobody around me stressing me going boxing, boxing, boxing. I just kick around and spend time with my kids and family. Ive boxed for the World championship 3 times, I think that was good for me. If I win this (Prizefighter 7 tournament) Ill get a shot at the British title again. Ill get to fight Rob Martin and knock him out and then get to fight for a World championship again. Itll be great if I win that. Itll be magic Like Lionheart, Keeton is a former multi title holder. During his near sixteen year professional career Buster has held both the World Boxing Foundation and World Boxing Federation Cruiserweight World titles as well as WBO Inter-Continental and BBBofC British titles. This will be the third time that Lionheart and Buster have locked horns in battle. In their first meeting, at the York Hall in Bethnal Green in December 94, Scott knocked Keeton out in the second round. Almost six years to the day later they were to face each other again, this time in Keetons own back yard at the Sheffield Arena on the 16th December 2000, in a BBBofC British Cruiserweight title fight. After six rounds of brutal toe to toe combat Lionheart again finished off Buster with a devastating knockout punch. On being drawn to face his old foe Scott said, Ah, Buster, bless him. I knocked him out cold already, twice. Then again maybe third time lucky. Na, It will be third time lucky for me. Im in good shape and intend to knockout old Buster again. I want to knock them all out. Anybody come in the ring with me Im gonna knock them out. Im gonna let them know Bruce Scott is back. Then Im going for the British Championship and knock Rob Martin out as well. Should Lionheart make this a a hat trick win over Buster Keeton he will then progress to the semifinal, later that evening, to face one of the other successful quarterfinalists. The Prizefighter series is a knockout boxing tournament created by boxing promoter Barry Hearn and aired on Sky Sports. The format has an initial eight fighters compete in four quarterfinals with the chance of fighting their way into a final fight for a chance to win a main prize of £25000. All contests take place on the same evening and consist of 3 x 3 minute rounds. Take note now so you dont kick yourself afterwards. Prizefighter 7 - The Cruiserweights is a dont miss event and will be held at Earls Court Arena in West London on Tuesday 19th May 2009 Tickets cost £25 (unreserved) and £50 (reserved, ringside) and are available by calling 0870 264 3333 or 01277 359900. One In A Million Boxing Helps Legendary Gary P.A.L. Reopen The Gary P.A.L. Program was the starting point for some of the world's greatest fighters including former world champion Angel Manfredy and the current WBC International Super Lightweight and NABC Lightweight Champion "Merciless" Mary McGee. Both of whom were in attendance along with another 100 fight fans to watch an amateur fight card dubbed "The Comeback." This event could have never happened if it wasn't for the hard work of Coach John Taylor and donations from Octavius James' One In A Million Inc. The gym has boxing posters clattered all over the walls showcasing some of the sport's biggest fight cards, but not too long ago the walls were covered in water that was as high as the ring and mold that had built up from the flooding that stunned the region destroying most of the furniture that once sat inside the gym. "It was a shame to see such a legendary place on the verge of disappearing, that gym and coach (John) Taylor are the heart of boxing in Gary," said Octavius James, C.E.O. of One In A Million Inc. Taylor presented McGee with a plaque that gave thanks to James and One In A Million Inc. for the funds they donated from their fight card "SLUGFEST 2009." "I was so sorry that I couldn't be there to accept that plaque, because that means more to me than any award I could ever receive," said James. "To give kids from the city I was raised in a chance to do better with their lives is such a special honor for me." "With Octavius and One In A Million helping us rebuild our gym and their donations, it really helped make this a success," said Taylor. "I'm so excited about this card, because people came out and the fights have been great; it's just been amazing." One of the future stars of boxing given a chance to step into the recently refurbished ring was Portage 15 year-old Alexis Carrasco. Carrasco was making his amateur debut and ended it with a bang and a 1st round TKO. "I was training at One In A Million before coming here and to know that this is where Mary and Angel got their starts means a lot and it was coach Taylor that helped them get to where they are now," said Carrasco. Octavius James' One In A Million Inc. gets back to business with the "Tinley Park Rumble". Tickets can be purchased at VIP $100, VIP ringside $75, ringside $50, and general admission $30 and they are available from any Ticket Master location at (800) 745-3000, (866) 438-7372 or www.TicketMaster.com. The Holiday Inn/Tinley Park Convention Center, which is just 25 minutes from Northwest Indiana, will open doors at 7 p.m. with the first bout at 8 p.m.
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Women and Girls Around the World Celebrating International Women's Day
First Lady Michelle Obama greets guests during the International Women's Day reception in the East Room of the White House. March 8, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Samantha Appleton)
The international theme of this year's celebration is "Equal access to education, training and science and technology: Pathway to decent work for women." Not only are women and girls essential to winning the future in the United States, they are important for global prosperity. Just in time for International Women's Day, the United Nations released a report that giving women the same agricultural tools, resources, and access to work as men could feed 150 million people. And last week, our White House Council on Women and Girls released our report on "Women in America," that documented " the ways in which American women and girls have made substantial progress in educational attainment and achievement in the last few decades." The full report can be found here.
The President has emphasized the importance of education, and especially in math, science and technology. As he recently said at the TechBoston Academy, "There's no better economic policy than one that produces more graduates with the skills they need to succeed -- to start their own businesses, to create their own Microsoft, to create new industries." And to win the future we will need women and girls to fully participate in those fields and careers of the future. You can read more about the President's commitment to women in education here. That's why we are committed to investing in the efforts of the Department of Education and the National Science Foundation to encourage girls to pursue science, math, engineering, and technology. Preparing young women for careers in these important fields is key to our commitment to innovation and growth. That's why Startup America, a new public/private collaboration launched by the President, will help female entrepreneurs connect with corporations, startup funders, foundations and mentors to help their businesses start and grow.
At the White House's celebration in the East Room, we had the opportunity to hear from two young women who are helping forge that pathway to work for women in their countries and abroad. We met Aissatou Hamidou Diall, an inspiring young activist and 6th grade student from the West African country Burkina Faso. Last year, Aissatou represented her school at an event in the city of Dori with over 500 important guests, including the Minister of Education, the Governor, and a Vice President of the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Aissatou is an advocate for educating girls like herself – someone who is the first in her family to go to college. Aissatou is just the type of young woman that the President wants to empower. We want more young women acting as ambassadors for women's issues in their communities and around the world.
On Tuesday, we also heard from Shannon McNamara, a 17 year-old high school senior from Basking Ridge, NJ, who founded an organization to empower girls in Africa through education. When not in Tanzania working on SHARE (Shannon's After-school Reading Exchange), Shannon speaks to organizations across the country about the education of African girls. For young women who are inspired by Shannon, the United Nations Foundation's Girl Up campaign allows American girls to use their passion and energy to help their peers around the world by advocating for education, health services and safety from violence for hard-to-reach adolescent women. Shannon and the Girl Up girls are just the type of young women who will help win the future through innovative and collaborative foreign policy and aid.
And at the end of the evening, I watched a group of four girls who joined us from the Howard Math and Science Academy as they met Assiatou and her sister, connecting through interpreters on the things that middle school girls around the world have in common – their favorite color, their favorite subject in school. They are our future, and why celebrating International Women's Day is so important.
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Web Letter
Katha Pollitt has performed a valuable service informing a mass readership of Nazia Quazi's plight. Still, I wonder if she's thought carefully about what an attempt to "whisk" Quazi out of Saudi Arabia might entail. Maybe Quazi will be lucky and Saudi Arabia won't see such actions as something to resist by strenuous and even violent means. Maybe Quazi won't be so lucky.
What is clear is that Quazi did something foolhardy in entering the cradle of Islam itself in the company of parents she plainly distrusted. Moreover, she seems intelligent enough to have avoided such a mistake. I suspect Nathalie Mohrin should have been, too. While both cases are worthy of outcry and efforts to make whole, I wonder if the facts on the ground make Canada's actions more prudent than Pollitt cares to see.
Douglas Presler
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
The Sexual Offences Act 2009 has been passed in the House of Representatives.
The Act is an amalgamation of various laws relating to rape, incest and other sexual offences.
It will repeal the Incest (Punishment) Act and several provisions of the Offences Against the Person Act.
The Bill also provides for the establishment of a Sex Offenders Registry, which will maintain a register of sex offenders.
Prime Minister Bruce Golding told Parliamentarians yesterday that the Bill will be introduced in the Senate on Friday by Justice Minister and Attorney General, Senator Dorothy Lightbourne.
The prime minister had previously sought leave of Parliament to withdraw the Bill, because of the significant number of amendments that had to be made.
However, he said after discussions with Opposition Leader, Portia Simpson Miller, he decided to have it debated in the House yesterday.
The introduction of the bill in the senate on Friday will allow for it to be debated immediately after the new session of Parliament convenes next week.
Peter King Case - Sentence
Experimental stage or what?
Teen accused of molesting 11-y-o
Police have confirmed that a woman and her son have moved out of a community after the boy was alleged molested by a teen.
Police have also confirmed that they have taken the teen into custody for molesting the woman's 11 year-old son. The incident reportedly occurred in St Catherine recently.
The 15-year-old boy was set upon by residents before he was taken into custody. He was accused of sexually molesting the boy.
Police reports are that about 2 p.m., they responded to a call and was just in time to rescue the teenager from an angry mob.
He was placed into custody as a juvenile in need of care and protection.
The Old Harbour police said that the juvenile is scheduled to face the Children's Court in St Catherine on April 24.
There was no word about the whereabouts of the mother and her 11-year-old son.
The police told the Star that acts of sexual impropriety among teenagers in the parish is uncomfortably high among juveniles.
To this end, they said that more intervention from support groups is needed at this time to address the issue.
A few gay men for Bruce's Cabinet (REPOST)
published: Tuesday June 17, 2008
The Editor, Sir:
After only nine months in office, the Jamaica Labour Party government, led by the self-righteous paragon of virtue Bruce Golding, is trailing the People's National Party in the latest polls. This, after a narrow victory in the 2007 elections.
There are many reasons put forward for this short-lived popularity, including the failure to show the Jamaican people that it has got things under control. And his Cabinet of 'straight' men can't seem to find solutions for the myriad of problems that are racking this country of 'Christians'. Not that a PNP administration would do better, and I don't think they can. So, Sister P, I am not in your corner, either. Gay men needed What Bruce Golding needs in his Cabinet to make it effective are a few gay men. We are brilliant, industrious, creative in our thoughts, dedicated to our craft, result-oriented, and very important, sensitive to people's needs. And we don't go around being proud for being a bigot.
Look around, Bruce, and see the organisations and institutions that are run by gays in this country and you will see what I am talking about. But you prefer to let hatred blind your eyes to people who have the potential to take this country out of the doldrums in which we are.
You are the driver, but you don't seem to know where you are going in your vortex of discrimination, failure and confusion. But while the country suffers, gays are prospering, so exclude us at your own peril.
Mr Prime Minister, your Cabinet is full of old and impotent 'straight' men. You need a few good men, gay men, to spruce it up, and put the country on a path of prosperity, and not depravity.
And what about GAP? The Gay Action Party? I think it's a brilliant idea!
I am, etc.,
Are Gay Men Here Lesbophobes? (REPOST)
Even at our bi weekly Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Community (GLABCOM) meetings in Kingston and reportedly at the other three chapters it is evident that the ladies are not interested or so it seems, as the meetings are predominantly attended by men.
Gay men here have been accused of being too overbearing and intolerant of lesbian views and issues and that we (men) don't listen, many lesbians have expressed displeasure at these meetings where the males tend to out speak the them while they are trying to make a point, even at the local level socially, at regular parties the difference is clear, save and except for some gatherings.
My lesbian counterpart in the discussion said many lesbians are expressing their displeasure at the behaviour of some of our brothas and rightly so, but to then criticise the effeminacy or "realness" is just too much for me as some gay men are just that, REAL and cannot express themselves no other way.
However on the matter of my brothas being overbearing, in all fairness that's true to a certain extent and I have heard gay men also expressing their dislike for associating with lesbians.
What is this? Lesbophobia, we nuh like dem, dem nuh like we? eh eh,
(english: we don't like them, they don't like us? wow).
Is it a lack of understanding of each other's lifestyles or are we so busy being "Gay" in our own gender box that everything else seems irrelevant?
Another strange observation I have found is that many gay men like myself seem to have more "straight" female friends than lesbian ones and the reverse is true of lesbians in the Jamaican context.
For example a so called thug/shotta (male) will hang with a "butch" female and take her as one of the boys as opposed to socializing with an effeminate male, we see it publicly, lesbian females dressed in men's baggy jeans and smoking weed and being all "thuggy" on the corner and very few oppose it.
Strange bed-fellows in our so called homophobic environment. Personally I have many lesbian friends and in fact many of my gay brothas wonder how come I get along so easily with lesbians.
How can we begin to build the bridge between us and how can we sustain it?.
What do you think?
Peace and tolerance
Stigmatization on Effeminacy in Gay Jamaican Culture (REPOST)
however there are some masculine men who like their cream with a little "sugar" on top.
Most Jamaican GB men including those who publicly "bun out chi chi" (pretend to be homophobic) will tell you behind closed doors that an effeminate man can be who they are ("real") in a private setting but when in public they must be masculine acting.
This unwritten rule applies to most African descented gay cultures especially African American where gay, bisexual and progressive men feel that somehow their manhood would be threatened or depleted when seen with a "queen", in Jamaica their person may be threatened by others and they may loose respect from the thugs or other males.
To be even identified as "Gay" is a problem as many attach the stereo typical "queen acting" male who has on tight fitting designer outfits, outrages drag and wigs and carrying a designer handbag image, hence shy away or refute the description/word being applied to them.
We just seem to be hooked on this idea of a hyper macsuline homo thug image somehow.
Jamaica is a unique place as far gay culture is concerned, if we are to really examine the underground scene right here on the rock it would be amazing as Bob Marley says "if night turns to day" then we would really see the other side of things. While we have rampant homophobia, we also have rampant homosexuality and bisexuality too, of course this is based on my experiences. Lots are men especially from the inner city will get down for the right price, if there is a reward to be had and if you really look good too. I think though we have more bisexuals than any other Caribbean territory as the common thread in justifying gay sex is that they are just stealing it on the side.
While the stigmatization of "queens" publicly occurs by masculine bisexuals gays, for sexual purposes some of these same masculine men don't have a problem having an effeminate man as a substitute for his absent or predisposed girlfriend for a night yet this is the same man who when attending a dance party, stage show or club event and the DJ plays an anti gay tune and asked for audience support, will have his hand/rag or cigarette lighter (as is customary) in the air in solidarity.
Interesting how we can switch personalities and attitudes with the greatest of ease to match the environment we are in.
Personally, I have had my run-ins with this "thug type" or heaviots as we call them here derived from the word "heavy" to mean deeply masculine or a gangsta, they are very protective of their identity and image and would do anything including vilify and bash another gay man so as not to be identified.
I have seen it oh too many times,they pass you on the street and if you should say hi that could lead to problems, worse if you are effeminate looking or acting.
The stigmatization is also used by the homophobic mainstream to justify attacks on alleged gay persons and the regular outcry after an attack would be "Is because he act funny/like a girl, serves him/them right, is him/them cause it on themselves."
I can appreciate the "buy in" by gay and bisexual men using as a form of protection when you play the masculine part in order not to be identified, verbally or physically abused in public.
Don't be fooled by the dancehall industry's seemingly homophobic stance, well at least I am not, I think they do it for two main reasons
1). to make money off the homophobic sentiments the public carries in the majority - one of the easiest ways for a struggling artist to make a come-back or a current artist to stay current is to voice an anti gay track
2). To cover their tracks left from behind the scenes liaisons and affairs - it is alleged and known that many in the fraternity engage in homosexual activities but try to put a str8 face to it.
Judge Dread
Gays in US 'Boycott Jamaica' - Gleaner Story 01.04.09
Sonia Mitchell, Gleaner Writer
A gay-rights lobby last week launched a Boycott Jamaica campaign in the United States city of San Francisco, discouraging patronage of the island's exports - particularly Red Stripe - to put pressure on government and private-sector interests to rein in a perceived rise in attacks on sex minorities.
The move was launched in the Harvey Milk Plaza - named after a gay-rights activist whose characterisation won Sean Penn the Best Actor Oscar in February.
Michael Petrelis, campaign organiser, told The Gleaner Monday that the catalyst for the campaign was a US State Department report, published in February, citing an escalation of violent attacks against homosexuals in Jamaica
Petrelis said neither the Govern-ment of Jamaica nor the police had exhibited a commitment to protect gays or encourage tolerance of sex minorities.
Aims to spread message Though not providing specific figures on the size of its movement, Petrelis said the group aimed to spread its message in other US cities such as New York and Chicago.
The boycott has targeted Red Stripe beer, mainly because of the product's international prominence, Petrelis said. The group is bidding to cut sales of Red Stripe beer in gay bars and restaurants in San Francisco within 30 days. Twelve such establishments have assented to the boycott, Petrelis said. The Gleaner could not immediately verify if Red Stripe products had indeed been pulled.
Petrelis said his group would also dissuade Americans from holidaying in Jamaica. Tourism is one of the island's foreign-exchange gold mines.
A meeting between the lobbyists and Dr Newton Gordon, honorary consul of Jamaica for San Francisco, has been scheduled for next Tuesday.
J-flag deplores boycott
However, Jason McFarlane, programmes manager at the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-sexuals, and Gays (J-FLAG), said it deplored the boycott, particularly because Red Stripe had withdrawn support from entertainers - particularly of the dancehall genre - who promoted violence against gays.
"We had spoken to them not to go ahead with the boycott when they first contacted us last week, but they went ahead despite our response," McFarlane told The Gleaner.
Meanwhile, Maxine Whittingham- Osborne, head of corporate relations at Red Stripe, said the company was surprised by the gay advocates' apparent random targeting
"Over the years, by our actions and our policies, we have demonstrated that we do not advocate any bias or prejudice against any individual or group(s)," she said yesterday.
Whittingham-Osborne said Red Stripe had not had any consultations with the group, but did not rule out engaging them in discussions. She declined comment on whether the company was considering legal proceedings against the boycotters.
Prime Minister Bruce Golding earlier this year said his government would not repeal its buggery laws. Attempts yesterday to contact local police about whether attacks on gays had increased were unsuccessful.
Monday, March 30, 2009
A Word on San Fransican Gays Launch 'Boycott Jamaica' Campaign Over Rising Violence
boycottjamaica's site and http://mpetrelis.blogspot.com/
Members of the public and by extension select public opinion shapers will consider this as interference by foreigners and hence push for more hatred and opposition towards gays. Not to mention the increase in violence that occurs when a situation like this becomes public knowledge. As we have seen before during the planned Canadian group EGALE's boycott early last year many persons including lesbians suffered attacks, we saw a spike in the numbers that was never so for lesbians especially before. The stories told to us by many victims included hints that we (gays) were getting foreigners to force their nasty lifestyle on Jamaica and other derogatory remarks so the attackers felt justified in their actions.
War of words between pro & anti gay activists on HIV matters .......... what hypocrisy is this?
Urgent Need to discuss sex & sexuality II
Calls for Tourism Boycotts are Nonsensical at This Time
(2014 protests New York)
Calling for boycotts by overseas based Jamaican advocates who for the most part are not in touch with our present realities in a real way and do not understand the implications of such calls can only seek to make matters worse than assisting in the struggle, we must learn from, the present economic climate of austerity & tense calm makes it even more sensible that persons be cautious, will these groups assist when there is fallout?, previous experiences from such calls made in 2008 and 2009 and the near diplomatic nightmare that missed us; especially owing to the fact that many of the victims used in the public advocacy of violence were not actual homophobic cases which just makes the ethics of advocacy far less credible than it ought to be.
See more explained HERE from a previous post following the Queen Ifrica matter and how it was mishandled
Newstalk 93FM's Issues On Fire: Polygamy Should Be Legalized In Jamaica 08.04.14
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Violence and venom force gay Jamaicans to hide
Violence and venom force gay Jamaicans to hide a 2009 Word focus report where the history of the major explosion of homeless MSM occurred and references to the party DVD that was leaked to the bootleg market which exposed many unsuspecting patrons to the public (3:59), also the caustic remarks made by former member of Parliament in the then JLP administration. The agencies at the time were also highlighted and the homo negative and homophobic violence met by ordinary Jamaican same gender loving men. The late founder of the CVC, former ED of JASL and JFLAG Dr. Robert Carr was also interviewed. At 4:42 that MSM was still homeless to 2012 but has managed to eek out a living but being ever so cautious as his face is recognizable from the exposed party DVD, he has been slowly making his way to recovery despite the very slow pace
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thank you for your donations via Paypal in helping to keep this blog going, my limited frontline community work, temporary shelter assistance at my home and related costs. Please continue to support me and my allies in this venture that has now become a full time activity. When I first started blogging in late 2007 it was just as a pass time to highlight GLBTQ issues in Jamaica under then JFLAG's blogspot page but now clearly there is a need for more forumatic activity which I want to continue to play my part while raising more real life issues pertinent to us.
Activities & Plans: ongoing and future
- To continue this venture towards website development with an E-zine focus
- Work with other Non Governmental organizations old and new towards similar focus and objectives
- To find common ground on issues affecting GLBTQ and straight friendly persons in Jamaica towards tolerance and harmony
- Exposing homophobic activities and suggesting corrective solutions
- To formalise GLBTQ Jamaica's activities in the long term
- Continuing discussion on issues affecting GLBTQ people in Jamaica and elsewhere
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- Present issues on HIV/AIDS related matters in a timely and accurate manner
- Assist where possible victims of homophobic violence and abuse financially, temporary shelter(my home) and otherwise
- Track human rights issues in general with a view to support for ALL
Thanks again
Mr. H
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What to do if you are attacked (News You Can Use)
Try to reason with the attacker: Establish communication with the person. This takes a lot of courage. However, a conversation may change the intention of an attacker.
Do not try anything foolish: If you know outmanoeuvring the attacker is impossible, do not try it.
Do not appear to be afraid: Look the attacker in the eye and demonstrate that you are not fearful.
This may have a psychological effect on the individual.
Emergency numbers
The police 119
Kingfish 811
Crime Stop 311
Steps to Take When Contronted or Arrested by Police
b) Only give name and address and no other information until a lawyer is present to assist
c) Try to be polite even if the scenario is tensed) Don't do anything to aggravate the situation
e) Every complaint lodged at a police station should be filed and a receipt produced, this is not a legal requirement but an administrative one for the police to track reports
f) Never sign to a statement other than the one produced by you in the presence of the officer(s)
g) Try to capture a recording of the exchange or incident or call someone so they can hear what occurs, place on speed dial important numbers or text someone as soon as possible
h) File a civil suit if you feel your rights have been violatedi) When making a statement to the police have all or most of the facts and details together for e.g. "a car" vs. "the car" represents two different descriptions
j) Avoid having the police writing the statement on your behalf except incases of injuries, make sure what you want to say is recorded carefully, ask for a copy if it means that you have to return for it
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Common English Bible (CEB) | New International Version (NIV) |
1 From Paul and Timothy, slaves of Christ Jesus. To all those in Philippi who are God's people in Christ Jesus, along with your supervisors and servants. | 1 Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, together with the overseers and deacons: |
2 May the grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ be with you. | 2 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. |
3 I thank my God every time I mention you in my prayers. | 3 I thank my God every time I remember you. |
4 I'm thankful for all of you every time I pray, and it's always a prayer full of joy. | 4 In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy |
5 I'm glad because of the way you have been my partners in the ministry of the gospel from the time you first believed it until now. | 5 because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, |
6 I'm sure about this: the one who started a good work in you will stay with you to complete the job by the day of Christ Jesus. | 6 being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. |
Copyright © 2011 Common English Bible (Common English Bible) | Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |


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Citrix eyes wide area networking optimization via CloudBridge
Citrix is merging its Branch Repeater, which delivers PC applications to virtual desktops with CloudBridge, which connects to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and data centers.
Citrix is merging its Branch Repeater, which delivers PC applications to virtual desktops with CloudBridge, which connects to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and data centers.
According to Amazon, the number one selling laptop isn't a Windows PC or a Mac, it's the Samsung Chromebook, which runs Google's Linux-based Chrome OS.
A new report argues that Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google are leading the way in the post-PC world when it comes to banking and brand management.
Amazon's new "Send to Kindle" option makes it possible to transfer files from Windows applications to the Kindle.
Not to be outdone by all the buzz for the newly released Blackberry Playbook or iPad 2, it seems Amazon is also joining the color tablet PC fray.
It seems Samsung is close to releasing its Series 7 Sliding PC. Amazon was taking orders for this novel convertible tablet earlier today (the page is no longer accessible).
Asus and Amazon have just announced a partnership that will see the Kindle for PC software pre-installed on a number of Asus netbooks and laptops.
Last fall Amazon rolled out Kindle for PC so you could enjoy your purchased Kindle content on your Windows computer. Last night Amazon released a beta of Kindle for Mac so you could enjoy Kindle content on a Mac.
Amazon launched their Kindle for BlackBerry application so you can now take your Kindle content with you on the go. You don't even need a Kindle to take advantage of the Amazon ebook library and can read content on your BlackBerry and PC if you desire.
Amazon says the Kindle for PC app is now available. The app allows you to read your Kindle books on your PC.
Amazon is making its Kindle electronic book service more accessible by launching a new free app for Windows PCs. The new app will let users download and read ebooks on their computer, and, like the iPhone app, it will sync with Kindle readers.
Windows 7 was the big news of the week and James, Kevin, and I started off MobileTechRoundup show #186 talking about this latest Microsoft operating system. Hopefully James doesn't really go try to eat a Burger King Whopper 7 today. I talked a bit more about the Nokia N900 now that I have had this mobile Linux computer for almost 2 weeks. The other big news of the week was the Barnes & Noble Nook and James sounds like he is as excited as me, although I am the only one who placed a pre-order so far. Amazon didn't want to be left out of the ebook news and also announced Kindle for PC this week.
Amazon announced on Thursday its "Kindle for PC," a free application that lets users read e-books and use the Kindle store on their PCs.
One of the most important accessories for your mobile gear is a good bag and case. I've been using a Waterfield Designs bag for over 2 years and even though I use it every single day it still looks almost the same as the day I picked it up. I now have a couple Waterfield Designs sleeve cases that I use with my MacBook Pro and Celio REDFLY or Amazon Kindle. My current mobile PC is the MSI Wind (just loaded it up with Windows 7) and I was excited when Waterfield sent me one of these to try out. I was also sent a simple T-Mobile G1 felt slip case and offer some thoughts on it below. You can check out my image gallery that shows both cases in use with my MSI Wind and T-Mobile G1.
Netbooks dominated the Computers & PC hardware bestsellers list on Amazon this Cyber Monday, the biggest online shopping day of the year in the U.S.
Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:Mary Jo Foley: Windows Live team confirms Win7 to replace subsystems with servicesEd Bott: How to set up a new PC in one easy sessionLarry Dignan: Amazon adds Oracle support to EC2 Video: Oracle unveils BeehiveOliver Marks: Oracle's Beehive: integrated large scale, secure collaborationMichael Krigsman: Oracle collaborates with BeehiveSam Diaz: Oracle OpenWorld: Looking for some excitement.
I have a Fujitsu U810 UMPC and like to keep it around to use as a Tablet PC, traveling media player (Amazon Unbox looks fantastic), and my home Windows PC (in the docking cradle connected to a 17 inch LCD). A few weeks ago the folks at Ritescript, a division of Evernote Corporation, asked if I wanted to beta test their upcoming release of ritePen version 3.0. I jumped on the chance and have been playing with it for a bit and now see that the official press release and announcement were posted yesterday so you can now download and install it on your Tablet PC.
Dan Farber was one of the first to cover the Giant Global Graph, here on ZDNet. A few days on, though, there's value in taking a look at how these ideas are being discussed across the blogosphere.The GGG, or Giant Global Graph. It sounds like something with which you might terrify a child at bed time, but this is no Gruffalo, no Jabberwock, no Smaug. Rather it's father-of-the-web Tim Berners-Lee's label for his latest attempt to express the power of the Semantic Web's core technologies in ways that will resonate beyond the established SemWeb literati. In the post he writes; "So, if only we could express these relationships, such as my social graph, in a way that is above the level of documents, then we would get re-use. That's just what the graph does for us. We have the technology -- it is Semantic Web technology, starting with RDF OWL and SPARQL. Not magic bullets, but the tools which allow us to break free of the document layer. If a social network site uses a common format for expressing that I know Dan Brickley, then any other site or program (when access is allowed) can use that information to give me a better service. Un-manacled to specific documents"As we might expect when someone like Berners-Lee posts, his thoughts sparked the usual flurry of interest, picked up by The Guardian, Read/Write Web, ZD Net, Nova Spivack, GigaOM, Nick Carr, and a host of other bloggers. The compulsory Wikipedia stub is already in place, and anticipating (at the time of writing) that "it may become a common expression."So what is this Giant Global Graph, how's it related to the Semantic Web, and what does it all mean?In his post, Tim clarifies the distinction between the Net(work of computers) and the (World Wide) Web offered up over that network; "So the Net and the Web may both be shaped as something mathematicians call a Graph, but they are at different levels. The Net links computers, the Web links documents. Now, people are making another mental move. There is realization now, 'It's not the documents, it is the things they are about which are important'. Obvious, really."He then goes to the next level, to connect the statements in that web of documents to form a graph; "We are all interested in friends, family, colleagues, and acquaintances. There is a lot of blogging about the strain, and total frustration that, while you have a set of friends, the Web is providing you with separate documents about your friends. One in facebook, one on linkedin, one in livejournal, one on advogato, and so on. The frustration that, when you join a photo site or a movie site or a travel site, you name it, you have to tell it who your friends are all over again. The separate Web sites, separate documents, are in fact about the same thing -- but the system doesn't know it. There are cries from the heart (e.g The Open Social Web Bill of Rights) for my friendship, that relationship to another person, to transcend documents and sites. There is a "Social Network Portability" community. Its not the Social Network Sites that are interesting -- it is the Social Network itself. The Social Graph. The way I am connected, not the way my Web pages are connected. We can use the word Graph, now, to distinguish from Web. I called this graph the Semantic Web, but maybe it should have been Giant Global Graph!"Tim concludes; "In the long term vision, thinking in terms of the graph rather than the web is critical to us making best use of the mobile web, the zoo of wildy differing devices which will give us access to the system. Then, when I book a flight it is the flight that interests me. Not the flight page on the travel site, or the flight page on the airline site, but the URI (issued by the airlines) of the flight itself. That's what I will bookmark. And whichever device I use to look up the bookmark, phone or office wall, it will access a situation-appropriate view of an integration of everything I know about that flight from different sources. The task of booking and taking the flight will involve many interactions. And all throughout them, that task and the flight will be primary things in my awareness, the websites involved will be secondary things, and the network and the devices tertiary. I'll be thinking in the graph. My flights. My friends. Things in my life. My breakfast. What was that? Oh, yogourt, granola, nuts, and fresh fruit, since you ask."So not, then, anything radically new. This is the long-held promise of the Semantic Web, but it is valuable to see that promise rearticulated in something akin to the language of the social network. Those involved in the Semantic Web probably 'knew' all of this at some level, but had perhaps become too caught up in the mechanics and the model, too distant from the point. This is why the Semantic Web matters; the graphing of relationships between resources on the open Web. Not ontology wars. Not RDF-is-better-than-microformats. Not demonstrations of concept in the laboratory and behind the firewall. Not the creation of a shadow web. This. So thank you, Tim, for reminding us. That said, might Nova's 'semantic graph' not be a better label for this important restating of the point than the rather obtuse GGG? 'Giant' and 'Global' set too many alarm bells ringing for me, and hint way too much about all-encompassing-ness and top-down-ness... even if that's (probably) not what Berners-Lee intends. We got waylaid by misconceptions of ontologies as all-encompassing and all-pervasive. Rubbing everyone's noses in 'Giant' and 'Global' just sets us up for yet another round of that particular debate, and I for one have better things to do...Let's turn to look at some of the commentary that Berners-Lee's post received. Journalist and author Nick Carr, for example, remarks; "Sir Tim suggests that the Semantic Web (recently dubbed 'Web 3.0') was really the Social Graph all along, and that the graph represents the third great conceptual leap for the network - from net to web to graph"and concludes; "But while it's true that technologists and theoreticians desire to abstract the graph from the sites - and see only the benefits of doing so - it's not yet clear that that's what ordinary users want or even care about. That'll be the real test to whether the graph makes the leap from mathematician to mainstream - and it will also tell us whether a social network like Facebook has a chance to become a true platform or is fated to remain a mere site."Nick's concluding point is certainly well made, but probably in the early mobile phone camp (who knew they wanted one?) rather than presenting any insurmountable unwillingness to adopt and adapt. The onus is clearly on us to move beyond the talk, and to demonstrate compelling and desirable benefits to being in (on?) the Graph. Tim O'Reilly's damning criticism of Open Social offers a lesson that we would do well to learn; "If all OpenSocial does is allow developers to port their applications more easily from one social network to another, that's a big win for the developer, as they get to shop their application to users of every participating social network. But it provides little incremental value to the user, the real target. We don't want to have the same application on multiple social networks. We want applications that can use data from multiple social networks." "Set the data free! Allow social data mashups. That's what will be the trump card in building the winning social networking platform."Surely we can all agree with those sentiments?The scepticism is in evidence elsewhere, perhaps most noticeably when Pete Cashmore writes; "Much like 'Web 2.0', 'ajax', 'crowdsourcing', the 'wisdom of crowds', 'UGC' (user generated content) and other catchy terms before them, the social graph looks set to become a bullet point on every web startup's VC pitch in 2008. The blessings this week from Tim Berners-Lee make that inevitable. Let's leave aside the fact that the 'graph' isn't a graph in the sense that most people think of it (most would describe it as a 'network') or that the phrase 'social network' could already serve this purpose: there's a sense that we need a new word for the concept now that these networks are becoming portable, and the term can ride a wave of Facebook hype to become the de facto nomenclature for this latest piece of the portable identity puzzle. Beyond that, the Webfather's latest blog post gives us a meandering introduction to the social graph's role in the development of the web. For the record, I'm not bothered by the phrase: it's nice to have new labels for specific parts of the solution. I am, however, adopting a new lexicon for my day-to-day life in keeping with the trend: making a landline phone call will now be 'unSkyping', Post-It notes will henceforth be called 'retro-Twitters', going outside will now be 'outdoorsing', a paperback book will be known as a 'Kindle Alpha' and Wednesdays will be Day 3.0. No need to remember any of these, of course: I'll rename them all next month."Recent podcast subject Yihong Ding offers a thoughtful consideration of Tim's post, opening with; "Sir Tim Berners-Lee blogged again. This time he invented another new term---Giant Global Graph. Sir Tim uses GGG to describe [the] Internet in a new abstraction layer that is different from either the Net layer abstraction or the Web layer abstraction. Quite a few technique blogs immediately reported this news in this Thanksgiving weekend. I am afraid, however, that few of them really told readers the deeper meaning of this new GGG. To me, this is a signal from the father of World Wide Web: the Web (or the information on [the] Internet) has started to be reorganized from the traditional publisher-oriented structure to the new viewer-oriented structure"and continuing, "Both Brad Fitzpatrick and Alex Iskold presented the same observation: every individual web user expects to have an organized social graph of web information in which they are interested. Independently, I had another presentation but about the same meaning. The term I had used was web space. Due to current status of web evolution, web users are going to look for integrating their explored web information of interest into a personal cyberspace---web space. Inside each web space, information is organized as a social graph based on the perspective of the owner of the web space. This is thus the connection between the web spaces under my interpretation and the social graphs under the interpretation of Brad and Alex. Note that this web-space interpretation reveals another implicit but important aspect: the major role of an web-space owner is a web viewer instead of a web publisher"before concluding that; "The emergence of this new Graph abstraction of Internet tells that the Web (or information on Internet) is now evolving from a publisher-oriented structure to a viewer-oriented structure. At the Web layer, every web page shows an information organization based on the view of its publishers. Web viewers generally have no control on how web information should be organized. So the Web layer is upon a publisher-oriented structure. At the new proposed Graph layer, every social graph shows an information organization based on the view of graph owners, who are primarily the web viewers. In general, web publishers have little impact on how these social graphs should be composed. 'It's not the documents, it is the things they are about which are important.' Who are going to answer what are 'the things they are about'? It is the viewers instead of the publishers who will answer. This is why information organization at the Graph layer becomes viewer-oriented. The composition of all viewer-oriented social graphs becomes a giant graph at the global scale that is equivalent to the World Wide Web (but based on a varied view); this giant composition is thus the Giant Global Graph (GGG)."Writing for GigaOM, Anne Zelenka worries that the GGG is not best-suited to the modelling of inter-personal relationships; "But the Giant Global Graph itself is like Dustin Hoffman's autistic savant character Raymond Babbitt in the 1988 movie Rain Man. Raymond knew all about plane trips but couldn't make sense of human relationships." "...though Berners-Lee borrows social graph talk, he's not really concerned with human relationships, but more about things that computers can understand, things like plane trips" "The semantic web has always been about computers taking on more processing for us, not about computers allowing us to be more human, which is where the social graph might more naturally aim. Semantic web fans would like to suggest otherwise. Nova Spivack, founder of semantic web startup Radar Networks, as well wants to make everything into a semantic graph story. 'The social graph is a subset of the semantic graph,' he told me."Whilst Tim's examples might support Anne's point, I'm unconvinced. The semantic technologies behind the GGG are all about expressing relationships between things, and those relationships might as easily be human or social as a manifestation of the airline timetable. Those social relationships, though, are about far more than the zombification of your 'friends' on Facebook. Rather, we can reach through to the implicit and explicit pattern of relationships between professional peers, students in a class, or citations of an author. We can map the shape of those relationships, and we can leverage existing capabilities to expose them back to participants in the relationship in order to allow them to see it, understand it, and use it in new and beneficial ways.Richard MacManus also covers the story for Read/Write Web, concluding; "I'm very pleased Tim Berners-Lee has appropriated the concept of the Social Graph and married it to his own vision of the Semantic Web. What Berners-Lee wrote today goes way beyond Facebook, OpenSocial, or social networking in general. It is about how we interact with data on the Web (whether it be mobile or PC or a device like the Amazon Kindle) and the connections that we can take advantage of using the network. This is also why Semantic Apps are so interesting right now, as they take data connection to the next level on the Web. Overall, unlike Nick Carr, I'm not concerned whether mainstream people accept the term 'Graph' or 'Social Graph'. It really doesn't matter, so long as the web apps that people use enable them to participate in this 'next level' of the Web. That's what Google, Facebook, and a lot of other companies are trying to achieve."I'm not sure that Nick's concern was with acceptance of the term, so much as acceptance of the concept that their data become (potentially) more portable than they understand or wish. And Google, Facebook and the rest have a very long way to go in achieving (or even, in some cases, recognising) an open and actionable graph. "Incidentally, it's great to see Tim Berners-Lee 're-using' concepts like the Social Graph, or simply taking inspiration from them. He never really took to the Web 2.0 concept, perhaps because it became too hyped and commercialized, but the fact is that the Consumer Web has given us many innovations over the past few years. Everything from Google to YouTube to MySpace to Facebook. So even though Sir Tim has always been about graphs (as he noted in his post, the Graph is essentially the same as the Semantic Web), it's fantastic he is reaching out to the 'web 2.0' community and citing people like Brad Fitzpatrick and Alex Iskold."On the Web 3.0 blog, we learn that; "We sometimes forget the real use of data - that of providing value to humanity in various forms, and providing true functionality as the humans need it. Connections are good, but functionality is paramount. The fact that a company can store ticket information on the web is not sufficient, but the user being able to buy it is significant. A company storing data is not sufficient, it being able to sieve out information from it, transforming it into knowledge, and converting to action is paramount. Someone along this, functionality becomes the significant aspect. URLs are becoming more potent with XML wrappers (RDF/OWL/SPARQL) around it. The new generation of applications will be playing on these enhancers to achieve seamlessness that we have sorely been lacking in the last 25 years. The WebTop is becoming more significant than the desktop. Browsers that were a mere window to the world may become a real wide entrance to the world itself. In a very short time, local resources on a computer may have no significance in how users achieve functionality."Nova Spivack also offers a long and considered response, picking up on some of Anne's concerns; "But if the GGG emerges it may or may not be semantic. For example social networks are NOT semantic today, even though they contain various kinds of links between people and other things. So what makes a graph 'semantic?' How is the semantic graph different from social networks like Facebook for example?"He continues, "A semantic graph is far more reusable than a non-semantic graph -- it's a graph that carries its own meaning. The semantic graph is not merely a graph with links to more kinds of things than the social graph. It's a graph of interconnected things that is machine-understandable -- it's meaning or 'semantics' is explicitly represented on the Web, just like its data. This is the real way to make social networks open. Merely opening up their API's is just the first step"and concludes with; "The Giant Global Graph may or may not be a semantic graph. That depends on whether it is implemented with, or at least connected to, W3C standards for the Semantic Web. I believe that because the Semantic Web makes data-integration easier, it will ultimately be widely adopted. Simply put, applications that wish to access or integrate data in the Age of the Web can more easily do so using RDF and OWL. That alone is reason enough to use these standards. Of course there are many other benefits as well, such as the ability to do more sophisticated reasoning across the data, but that is less important. Simply making data more accessible, connectable, and reusable across applications would be a huge benefit."So where does all of that leave us?Well, I don't think we saw something new created last week. What we saw was a restating of some principles at the heart of the Semantic Web, a recognition that the social graph so frequently mentioned in relation to the big Social Networking sites shares many of those principles. Finally, we saw the beginning of an informed discussion that might - finally - see the fruits of many years of Semantic Web research and development surfaced in language that can be used in conversation with the pragmatists building the mainstream Web of today, aligned to technologies and techniques fitting for that Web, rather than simply making the gloomy shadows a bit more pronounced.Which brings us, with all due respect to Julia Donaldson, right back to the Gruffalo! :-) "'A gruffalo? What's a gruffalo?' 'A gruffalo! Why, didn't you know? He has terrible triples, and terrible graphs, and terrible OWL in his terrible ontologies.'"Hmm. Maybe not. Read the original anyway, it's good...Content adapted from a post to Nodalities.
This week is iPhone week and James, Kevin, and I just couldn't avoid talking a bit about the upcoming release in MobileTechRoundup show #103. Kevin asked each of us if we planned on getting an iPhone so listen to the show and find out our responses. James talked about some of the usability features on the Lenovo X61 Tablet PC that make the device just that much better. Opera Mini 4 was covered as well as Kevin's first thoughts on the Nokia N80ie device. The HTC Advantage is available on Amazon for US$850 and HTC may have some other cool devices up their sleeves.
Redmonker James Governor argues that IBM is too risk averse, large-enterprise focused, and lacks a strong presence at the core of the Internet. His solution to IBM's apparent conservatism (which is how the mainframe obsessed IBM missed out on the PC revolution at first) is that the company should acquire Amazon: Buying the company could be a transformative acquisition that would bring IBM new opportunities in both business process outsourcing (BPO) and grassroots development.


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Communicating a Struggle for Giffords, Aide Says
Five months after sustaining a bullet wound to her brain, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords struggles to communicate, and may not be able to run for re-election, an aide said Thursday.
Ms. Giffords, a Democrat from Tucson, was shot in the head during a shooting rampage outside a Tucson-area grocery store during an event to meet her constituents.
In an extensive interview with the Arizona Republic, Pia Carusone, Ms. Giffords's chief of staff, said Ms. Giffords uses gestures and facial expressions to communicate basic needs but "when it comes to bigger and more complex thought that requires words, that's where she's had the trouble," Ms. Carusone said.
Ms. Carusone said she believes Ms. Giffords has normal comprehension, and is frustrated with her inability to communicate more fully. She said it is unclear if Ms. Giffords will be able to run for re-election in 2012.
Ms. Carusone's assessment offered a clearer picture of Ms. Giffords condition, and the first indication from Ms. Giffords staff on the outlook for her political future.
Doctors at TIRR Memorial Hermann Hospital couldn't confirm Ms. Carusone's assessment, a spokesman for the hospital said Thursday night. Doctors don't speak about Ms. Giffords without permission from the family. Ms. Carusone didn't respond to requests for comments. A spokesman for Ms. Giffords said he couldn't comment on the report.
Ms. Carusone is a frequently by Ms. Giffords side at the hospital. Ms. Giffords celebrated her 41st birthday at the hospital Wednesday, a hospital official said.
Ms. Giffords survival was considered miraculous. But her doctors have always warned that brain injuries are slow to heal and much is unknown.
In the days and weeks immediately following the January shooting, her recovery and progress astounded her doctors and lifted the spirits of her city. Details and milestones of her recovery were described daily—even by President Barack Obama, who announced to Tucson and the world during a live event after the shooting that Ms. Giffords had "opened her eyes" on the night of his visit.
In late January, Ms. Giffords was moved to a long-term rehabilitation hospital in Houston. Since then, updates on her progress have been sporadic, in compliance with the wishes of her family. Hospital officials said Ms. Giffords family wanted her to focus on recovering without the intense media attention that she faced in Tucson. Family members only allow doctors to provide information about major milestones, a hospital spokesman said. The last update on Ms. Giffords was in late April, when Ms. Giffords traveled to Florida for the launch of her astronaut husband's space shuttle.
Ms. Giffords staff has continued serving constituents—securing war medals for war veterans, keeping Ms. Giffords's Twitter feed alive, and even arranging safe passage out of Egypt for a Tucson woman during the uprisings there.
On Wednesday, her office announced the re-introduction of Ms. Giffords bill to shift the Pentagon's use of energy away from fossil fuels to greener sources. In re-introducing the Department of Defense Energy Security act on Ms. Giffords's behalf, Colorado Sen. Mark Udall said, "Together we're going to get it passed in Congress."
Speculation about Ms. Giffords political future remained vague Thursday. Democrats have always held high hopes Ms. Giffords would be healthy enough to run, but knew it would be a while before they had a solid prognosis on her recovery, politicians there said.
Ms. Giffords has until May 2012 to decide whether or not to seek re-election.
"A lot of the things we were saying and thinking in February and March are still what we're saying and thinking now," said Jennifer Johnson, spokeswoman for the Arizona Democratic Party. "We're focused on her recovery and just don't know what she'll decide to do and where she'll be. We're in the same place today as we were before."
Ms. Giffords was injured along with 12 others during the Jan. 8 shooting rampage. Six people, including a federal judge and a 9-year-old girl, were killed. The alleged shooter, Jared Loughner, was recently found incompetent to stand trial.
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