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by Leslie Woit
Waking to see the sun rise, pausing to watch it drop — ritual is at the heart of our ability to cherish great things in small moments. One place does this better than the rest. We raise our cups to Africa.
Nearly a week into the timeless rhythm of our Kenyan safari, fair to say we were getting a little Pavlovian about the day's end.
Elegant ellies, stubborn rhino. Loping giraffe and a dazzle of zebra… as another afternoon's extraordinary bush sightings drew to its end, our driver would begin to strategically loop back towards camp. Then with one more perfect day under our belts, like magic, as the light would wane so our thirsts would rise.
Parking the Landrover in pole position – one day near a cool river's edge, next at the crest of acacia-speckled plain — out come the trestle table, the canvas chairs, perhaps even an impromptu camp fire to really get stuck in. Just as the red ball slowly begins its magic act, we'd clink glass to glass and toast the incredible good fortune that delivered us here.
One day our trusty Micato guide, that wily magician, surprised us when he jammed firmly on the brake. Voila, the ultimate dusky spectacle: we are nearly nose to nose with four lionesses languidly stirring from an afternoon's snooze. For this spellbinding performance, we sit quiet as mice in Landrover Theatre – while he dips silently into a well-stocked cooler box, swiftly pressing filled glasses into our hands. "To lions. To life." Sundowner dynamite.
What'll you have? Traditional sorts plump for a classic G+T, whose tonic water has been a stalwart safari tipple since colonial times. (The quinine is meant to harbour mosquito-repelling qualities; the gin's to make the medicine go down.)
For some, nothing cuts through the heat of safari day like an icy beer. Africa's favourite beers even come with evocative names: Lion Lager, Black Label, Serengeti…. In Kenya, Tusker Lager is named for brewery co-founder George Hurst, fatally gored by an elephant in 1923. Cheeky or what.
Locals ask for Dawa. Swahili for "magic potion", it's a classic Kenyan cocktail of muddled lime, honey and brown sugar that meets ice and vodka. And soft drinks here are no pushover either: the up-the-nose pleasure sensation that accompanies the first swig of Stoney Tangawizi is a doozie. "Mainlining liquid ginger," says one devotee.
Dawn, and time for more elixir. An early yet gentle tap at our tent signals The Arrival of The Coffee. The scent of rich Kenyan brew instantly wafts through the veil that envelops our four-poster bed. They've been growing in Kenya since 1893; that famous coffee-grower, Karen Blixen, got her plantation up and running in 1914. And there's tea too, of course: Kenya cultivates about 50 varieties of tea and over 90 per cent is hand-picked – only the finest top two leaves and the bud. Whatever you favour, its ritual delivery to your bed (or balcony, if you're less of a morning refusenik than me) accompanies not merely the rising of the sun but the escalating cacophony of birds and beasts that is Africa's wake up call.
Let's drink to that.
Stalking one creature for hours, days, even weeks, was not uncommon in the hunting safaris of yesteryear. Hemingway spends the entirety of The Green Hills of Africa searching for kudu, a breed of antelope with horns so curly that they look like something out of Dr. Seuss. Beryl Markham chronicled the unpleasant conditions that surrounded elephant hunting in West with the Night, from being cornered by a frightened bull to losing her compatriots deep in the bush. Today, with the changing of the times signaling a growing awareness of the merits of conservation, safaris are no longer synonymous with hunting. And of course, the only shooting that has ever happened on a safari with Micato is with a camera. But a safari still requires cunning, a predatory instinct for where to find the creatures you hope to see, and The Big Five—the lion, leopard, cape buffalo, elephant, and black rhino—remain the most sought-after animals: the five most difficult animals in Africa to hunt on foot. Elusive, fast and dangerous, each animal has, in its own right, earned its place on the list of the most coveted safari sightings.
1. The Lion: Royal for a Reason (more…)
Elusive. That's me. Solitary, secretive, nocturnal… notorious for my stealth: the life of a leopard is much like that of a reluctant member of the royal family. So why am I writing a blog post for Micato Safaris? Well, it's primarily because I just want to be left alone, and the rest of the Big Five—Elephant, Lion, Cape Buffalo and Rhino—would not stop bugging me until I wrote about myself and completed the collection. So to get a little peace and quiet, I agreed to spill my secrets.
They Also Call Me:
In East Africa, where they speak Swahili, I'm known as Chui. The Setswana speakers in Botswana call me Nkwe. In parts of South Africa and Zimbabwe the Zulu people call me Ingwe; in other parts of South Africa and Namibia, people who speak Afrikaans call me Jagluiperd. (Which is sort of a funny mix between jaguar and leopard, isn't it? We're actually closely related.) My family members make all sorts of noises when they want my attention, from roars to grunts, but we're famous for our purrs, which sound like someone sawing.
Best Places to Find Me:
This may impress you: my family has the largest distribution of any wild cat—East, Southern and Central Africa are the places where I thrive most, even in weird habitats where other large cats have long since disappeared. You can find me in such disparate places as Mount Kenya and Kruger National Park, and everywhere in between: I love the savannah and the rainforest equally. However, we haven't heard from any of the North African family members in a long time, and I'm sad to say that they're probably extinct.
I even have family members in Asia, though that portion of my family is small and scattered. You can find us in India, Southeast Asia, and China. I even have cousins in Russia who live in temperate forests, which get as cold as -13◦F. They don't mind a bit—they have the most privacy of all of us. My theory as to why leopards are everywhere? Because we need so much space. Male leopards generally have a home range between 12 and 30 square miles, and there is rarely ever any overlap. I'm a lady, thus I don't have qualms about making my home territory on a piece of land that overlaps a male's home—as long as he doesn't crowd me.
How to Find Me
Despite my family's favourable numbers we are, as I said, reclusive. And if you want to follow suit, here's a tip: learn to climb. This ability is something I'm known for. I rest in trees, lick myself clean in trees, drag my food up into trees to eat, jump up to 10 feet to get up onto a tall branch of a tree, and can even climb down trees headfirst. The black rosettes on my fur look a lot like the shadows of leaves, and my gift is to blend right in.
If you really want to see me (and I know for some of you it's an obsession), stay at a lodge or camp that has a leopard blind. These fine people have learned that I like to do my eating in trees, where I can get away from those pesky other animals, so they hang meat right where I can smell it. You see, there is a limit to my solitude—I suppose I'll let you see me in exchange for a side of beef.
Most Embarrassing Facts:
Quite honestly, nothing. I'm an all-star athlete—great at hunting, climbing, swimming, and running—and there's no denying that I'm gorgeous. My lovely silhouette has been used as an emblem for sports teams and coats of arms in Africa, and I've been depicted in the art of places where I used to live but haven't visited in ages, such as Greece, Rome and even England. Some call me proud—the Cape Buffalo even calls me a snob—but really I'm not. I'm just realistic about my talents and looks. And modest.
Favourite Food:
I love the hunt. LOVE it. Thus I'll eat anything from tiny dung beetles to 2,000 pound eland—whatever allows me to exercise one of my favourite skills: stalking my prey with complete silence, then pouncing at the very last minute. Day-to-day I eat mostly antelopes and monkeys, but I've been known to catch rodents, reptiles, birds, fish and even smaller predators, like jackals. I even had an uncle who caught and ate a crocodile. Seriously. Don't mess with leopards.
Everything Else:
Type: Mammal
Diet: Carnivorous (these brilliant teeth aren't just flair, you know)
Average life span in the wild: Twenty years
Size: Between four and six feet long, plus the tail, which can be up to four feet long!
Weight: For myself and the rest of the ladies, we're small: between 50 and 130 pounds. Males are bigger—they can get up to 200 pounds. All told, though, we're the smallest of the big cats in our genus (Panthera), the other three being tigers, lions and jaguars.
Protection status: We're classified as "near threatened" which makes me nervous…
Group name: A leap! Because we're so darn good at jumping up trees, at our prey, and away from poachers.
Sure, I heard that my fellow "five" were blogging for Micato. The lion, the elephant, and the Cape buffalo all had plenty to say—but like many rhinos, I seldom speak unless spoken to. However, the Cape buffalo pressured me (he is SUCH a bully), but by then I had already made up my mind to deliver Micato's first ever blog post from a Rhino.
What They Also Call Me
In East Africa, where they speak Swahili, I'm known as Kifaru. In parts of South Africa and Zimbabwe the Zulu people call me Nkombe; in other parts of South Africa and Namibia, people who speak Afrikaans call me Renoster. The Setswana speakers in Botswana call me Tshukudu. I don't usually answer to any of these names though—like I said, I usually keep to myself.
Best Places to Find Me
It depends on who you're looking for. Personally, I'm a Black Rhino, and my family and I can be found in Tanzania, parts of Kenya, Namibia, Botswana and parts of South Africa. Although this sounds like an awful big range, there are still very few of us—about four thousand in the wild. You certainly have to look hard to find us, although if you visit a rhino conservancy you have a much higher chance, as those rangers monitor my whereabouts. I don't like having so much to-do about things—it's a little embarrassing—but I guess it's what we have to do to stay alive these days.
My cousin, the White Rhino, has a bigger immediate family—about 17,000—which makes them the most numerous of all the rhinos in the world! They're mostly in South Africa, though they can also be found in Namibia and Botswana. There is a subspecies of White Rhino called the Northern White Rhino, which is nearly extinct. Some humans have just reintroduced this rhino to the wild, in Kenya's Ol Pejeta Conservancy. It seems like they're doing ok so far—as long as they can keep poachers out.
What You'll See Me Doing
Eating leaves or wallowing in mud, alone. As a male, I particularly like to keep to myself. The women and babies will sometimes gather together in groups, but only for short periods of time, until the babies are big enough to not get chomped by a croc. Adult rhinos have no natural predators and we don't do any hunting, so there isn't much need to gather in big groups. In fact, it's probably best if we don't. I'm…well…ok, I'm aggressive. I mean Incredible Hulk-style aggressive, to the degree that sometimes I attack trees or termite mounds for no reason at all. It's no surprise then that Rhinos have the highest rate of mortal combat for any animal—50% of males and 30% of females die from fighting with each other. "Dysfunctional family" is an understatement for us.
Most Embarrassing Facts
Oh man. Can I tell you a secret? The reason I'm such a loner—and probably why I'm so aggressive too—is that EVERYTHING feels like an embarrassing fact.
First off, I'm an odd-toed ungulate. That means I have a hoof with an odd number of toes on it, like a horse. Secondly, I have a weight problem: I'm the second-largest mammal on the planet. The first-largest animal is the elephant, but she doesn't need to be embarrassed because she's nice and smart, which makes up for it. Me, on the other hand, I've got a really small brain. Seriously small. And bad eyesight. Also, no front teeth.
Gosh, I don't even know if I can finish this blog post, I'm so embarrassed now. Oh, I'm almost done? Well, ok then, I guess I can go on.
Favourite Food
Leaves, branches, fruit—all that good stuff. This is why I have a pointy, prehensile lip, the better for stripping branches. The White Rhino, on the other hand, eats grass, and that's why she has a long, flat lip—the better for clipping. That's also why she's called the White Rhino—it's because English-speaking humans misunderstood her original Dutch name, which was Widj (Widj means wide, as in wide-lipped), and started calling her White Rhino. Which is silly, as anyone can see that her skin is grey just like mine.
Everything Else
Type: Mammal
Diet: Herbivorous
Average life span in the wild: 35-50 years—that's assuming that I don't get poached or killed in a fight with one of my brothers.
Size: I'm about five feet tall, and between 11 and 15 feet long. The White Rhino is the same length, but generally taller (around six feet). Like I said, we're big.
Weight: 1,900 to 4,000 lbs, on average. The White Rhino, if you can believe it, gets even bigger—up to 10,000 pounds! That's a lot to carry around
Protection status: It's critical. The categorization differs for the different subspecies, but basically all rhinos need help. The problem is our horns. Certain people insist that they make good medicine—in many parts of Asia they grind rhino horns up and use the powder to reduce fevers and stop convulsions. But honestly, my horn is made of the same stuff as your fingernails and hair (keratin), and you don't see anybody grinding up fingernail clipping for medicine, do you? NOT a good reason to hunt us, in my opinion.
Group name: A crash, which adequately describes what happens when we hang out—fighting, fighting and more fighting. And you wonder why I'm a loner?
People get all excited about the lion, Mr. King of the Jungle, and are SO impressed by the elephant, the world's largest land mammal. But what about me? The Cape Buffalo? Hello? I'm one of the Big Five, too! So I asked Micato Safaris if I could do a guest blog post, and they generously obliged.
What They Also Call Me
In East Africa, where they speak Swahili, I'm known as Nyati. In parts of South Africa and Zimbabwe the Zulu people call me Inyathi; in other parts of South Africa and Namibia, people who speak Afrikaans call me Buffels. The Setswana speakers in Botswana call me Nare—they also have a separate name for my little son, the buffalo calf, who they call Natshana.
Now, when it comes to my family members, well…the herd is so close that we rarely need to speak, we usually just KNOW what the other buffalo is thinking. But when something specific needs to be expressed, I'll usually hear about it via a bellow, grunt, honk or croak. People say it's similar to how human males communicate at the gym.
Best Places to Find Me
We are everywhere in East and Southern Africa: Chyulu Hills, Serengeti, Samburu, Etosha, Okavango Delta… wherever there is grass to eat and wide-open plains to exercise in, seriously I'm not picky. My only caveat is that I need to stay close to water—have to hydrate every day!
What You'll See Me Doing
Hanging out on the savannah with a bunch of big guys, because (ahem) in my family I'm in the sub-herd of high-ranking males, which means (a) I'm important (but you probably already knew that), and (b) I get first pick of the ladies in the herd. The ladies are, of course, the core of the herd, with their kids—I'm an old-fashioned, chivalrous kind of guy.
You can tell I'm important by the thickness of my horns, and I use those bad boys to fight off any other males who try to challenge me. You can catch me sparring with my horns a lot—either for play or in an actual battle for dominance (which I obviously always win.)
When not fighting or eating, I'm on the alert for any distress in my family. We're tough, as you can tell, and not easy to hunt—taking down one adult buffalo requires the hunting prowess of multiple lions working together. However, our calves are more vulnerable, so we cluster around them whenever possible, and come to their defense as soon as we hear the call (as illustrated in the famous Battle of Kruger.) This is part of why we're known for our altruism—it's rare that any male in the wild would protect a calf that wasn't his own.
Most Famous Admirer
Ernest Hemingway. As one of the Big Five—the five most dangerous and difficult animals to hunt—I posed a rare challenge to that great writer, who travelled to Africa in the bad old days when big game hunting wasn't controlled, and my family constantly had to fight off hunters. Thank goodness things are more controlled now, although I still work out regularly, flexing my muscles and jogging the plains, just in case I have to charge someone to protect my family.
Like all big game hunters, Ernest loved and feared me in equal measure, and even wrote a whole story starring me, called "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber." I'm not sure how many copies it sold, but I hope not a lot—I mean, guys, I DIE at the end. Worst. Ending. Ever.
Most Embarrassing Facts
Ok, ok, I'll give you just one. My temper. When I feel threatened I am quick to go on the offensive: lions, leopards, crocodiles—I've attacked them all. Amongst African humans, I'm known as "Black Death" or "Widowmaker," and they're not joking. It's an embarrassing personal trait, but also a useful one—it's why I'm the only member of the exclusive Big Five club that isn't classified as endangered or vulnerable.
Favourite Food
Mmmm, grass! That's all I eat, and all I ever will. Tall, coarse grass is my favourite treat, which makes me a popular guy on the savannah, since my family and I act as lawnmowers, clipping down great swathes of dense grass and exposing the gentler green ground-cover below for the grazers with more delicate palates (ahem, antelopes—wimps!)
Everything Else
Type: Mammal
Diet: I'm a vegetarian, but that doesn't make me nice, ok? I can wrassle with the best of them.
Average life span in the wild: About 18 to 20 years old
Size: My family members are all within the range of 5 to 11 feet long, and 3 to 5 feet tall—but don't let my short legs fool you, I'm still fast… and pretty darn huge.
Weight: 1,100–2,000 pounds (gentlemen, like me, are larger than the ladies). For someone who's about four feet tall, this is inarguably a lot. And that's all muscle!
Protection status: According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, I am in the "Least Concern" category, which means that they were worried enough to check on me, but when they saw that my family and I were doing pretty well they decided they didn't have to fret about us anymore. At least, for now—as long as there's plenty of grass to eat, and those darn hunters stay off my back.
Group name: "Herd" is most common, although people also refer to us as "a gang" or "an obstinacy." The last also means "a state of stubbornness," which seems most appropriate. I dare you to argue with me about it!
Good morning everyone! Yes, I am a mama elephant. I asked the Micato Safaris writers to transcribe a blog post for me, as my flat feet are terrible for typing. After all, why should those vain lions get all the press?
They Also Call Me:
In East Africa, where they speak Swahili, I'm known as Tembo, or Ndovu (they like me so much, they named me twice!) In parts of South Africa and Zimbabwe the Zulu people call me Indlovu; in other parts of South Africa and Namibia, people who speak Afrikaans call me Oliphant. The Setswana speakers in Botswana call me Tlou. But when anyone in the family needs me, they usually just amble over and cuddle—I am a mom, after all.
Best Places to Find Me:
I ought to be clear about who I am, exactly. You see, there are smaller Asian elephants in India and Sri Lanka—I'm not one of them. There are also African forest elephants, who crash around the forests and jungles of West Africa—I'm also not one of them. I'm an African bush elephant, so my kids and I spend our days in the glorious parks of Southern and East Africa: Amboseli, Kruger, Maasai Mara, Serengeti, Samburu, Okavango Delta… if it's savannah or bushveldt, I'm there.
What You'll See Me Doing:
Usually you can find me eating, but I also love to bathe and swim, and if you want to hang out with me your best bet is to spend some time near the rivers and lakes of Southern and East Africa. Just be aware if you're sitting in "the splash zone": each of my kids can suck up to fourteen litres of water into their trunks at once, and they love to play…
How My Family Is Like Yours:
I'm always with my family, too, so if you visit me you're sure to meet everyone. As a mama elephant, I spend my days with all the other ladies and their babies. They boys get a little feisty and controlling around age fourteen, so that's when we kick them out on their own. Male elephants are loners—your typical cranky bachelors, always fighting with each other—though sometimes they'll get together with other males and cruise for ladies up and down the savannah. But the women are very close; in fact some female elephants have died from loneliness in captivity. This is why human organizations like David Sheldrick's Wildlife Trust are so important—orphaned baby elephants need special help, because they're so used to having a big family around them.
I'm the matriarch of my family, which means I'm the oldest and biggest, and everyone follows me. If mama isn't happy, nobody's happy, and that's the truth!
Most Embarrassing Facts:
Oh my goodness gracious, really? Well, ok, I suppose I can spill a few beans. Let's see…
I'm the largest land animal in the world, which already is kind of embarrassing (though also impressive, you have to admit.) I somehow have to keep this giant body working and moving on an all-vegetarian diet, plus feed all my wee babies (ok, my 200-pound babies—they're still wee to me). So for about sixteen hours a day, you can find me eating. In fact, I only sleep for about two hours a day… all the rest of my time is taken up by eating, bathing, and taking care of the kids.
Also, well, there's another draw-back to being so gosh-darn big: I can't run or jump. I pretty much just have two gaits: either I walk, or I walk fast. To be fair, when I get mad (and when you mess with my kids, I get furious!) this fast walk is certainly speedier than your run. In fact, humans have clocked me at 25 mph when I'm charging, which is not too shabby for a 6-ton mama, wouldn't you agree?
And one more thing: thick skin. This actually doesn't embarrass me—I'm proud of my one-inch thick flesh. Nothing really bothers me—not bugs or acacia thorns or sitting on a pokey log—because I'm so difficult to hurt. Hence, I'm a pretty mellow gal, unlike my excitable neighbors, the antelope. This is why some people call elephants pachyderms, which means "thick-skinned."
Favourite Food:
Elephant grass. You have to love a food that's named after you, don't you think? And anyway, if I don't like it, who will? Elephant grass is tough to eat and to digest, and with my crazy digestion system I'm one of the only animals on the savannah that can handle it. I know, I know, it's very predictable—mom eats all the left-overs. I'm fine with that!
Just to keep this big ol' body going, I have to eat 300-600 pounds of food a day, which means I can't be all that picky anyway. I'll eat acacia leaves, herbs, tall grass, fruit, shrubs… whatever I can get!
Everything Else:
Type: Mammal
Diet: Vegetarian (if I was a biologist, I'd say "herbivore"… but I'm an elephant, so I say whatever I want)
Average life span in the wild: 50-70 years (we're the oldest animals on the savannah!)
Size: About 12 feet tall. It's too bad we don't have thumbs; we would have been great at basketball.
Weight: Don't ask. I've broken every scale I've ever stood on! But people say that we range from 12,000-14,000 lbs (which is 6-7 tons). To put that into perspective, I weigh about the same as a hundred grown men, all piled up.
Protection status: Vulnerable. Our beauty is our curse, as my family members have been hunted for our gorgeous tusks for decades. Ivory, schmivory—doesn't it look better on me?
Group name: "Herd" is most common, but I prefer the lesser-used "Parade"—because every day is a celebration when you're in an elephant family.
Africa is home to the largest land animal in the world (the elephant), the longest river in the word (the Nile), the oldest human fossils (Ardi, a 4.4 million year old skeleton found in Ethiopia), and several wonders of the world (including the Rift Valley and Victoria Falls). It's an amazing continent, and one we're very fortunate to know like the backs of our hands.
Nevertheless, Namibia still manages to surprise and enchant us with its breath-taking natural wonders. From the shipwrecks on the Skeleton Coast to the pink and orange towering dunes of Sossusvlei, this land is more like a dream than anything else. Care for a taste of a Namibian safari? Here are just a few of our favourite facts about Namibia… careful, they're sure to whet your appetite for the real thing!
Jambo from Kenya! Today we have a special treat for you. One of our Safari Directors left his laptop unattended out in the bush, and returned to find that the blog post that he'd been preparing to write—a well-researched piece on lions—had already been written… by a lion! Read on to get a rare perspective on the king of the jungle, written with his own paws (we assume—unless he got a monkey to do the typing.)
Well hello everyone! Yes, it's me—the King of the Jungle! Which is a bit of a misnomer, as I actually spend most of time in the savannah… but we'll get to that.
They Also Call Me:
In East Africa, where they speak Swahili, I'm known as Simba (but of course, any Disney fan knows that). In parts of South Africa and Zimbabwe the Zulu people call me Imbube; in other parts of South Africa and in Namibia, people who speak Afrikaans call me Leeu. The Setswana speakers in Botswana call me Tau. At home, the kids call me "Raaawwwr!"
Best Places to Find Me:
Well, that's easy—the best place to find me is near a Micato jeep! No kidding, it's almost spooky how good those Micato guides are at figuring out where I am.
But if you want me to be a little more specific… well, at one point in history my cousins and I were found all over Africa and Asia; we even hung out in Greece for a while (there was some pretty yummy goat to be found there.) I'm sad to say that most of my northern cousins—lions subspecies quite similar to me—are now extinct, and there's only a small group of them left in India's Gir Forest. You can still come visit me, though, in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly east and southern Africa. I especially enjoy spending time in savannahs and bushveldt, so the Serengeti, Maasai Mara, and Kruger are some of my favourite places to set up shop.
My immediate family is pretty diverse. If you want to visit some of my favourite siblings, I'd recommend stopping by to see my sisters in Linyanti Plains, Botswana, who are known as "surfing lions" because they hunt hippos. Crazy girls, I tell you. There are also my shy brothers who hang out with me in Kruger National Park, the white lions—I don't envy them the amount of grooming they have to do to keep their coats so white. And I have some tough brothers in Kalahari Game Reserve, who you'd know as the black-maned lions. You should definitely spend some time with them, if you have a chance.
We're all night-owls, so you can find us on the move in the early morning on the way home or at dusk on the way out for a hunt. And I'll admit it… in the daytime you might catch me sleeping under an acacia tree—it's the best shade in the savannah.
Most Embarrassing Facts:
What? Well, ok, hmmm…
I'm pretty lazy, for starters. Usually I sleep for 18-20 hours a day, which doesn't leave me much time for hobbies—kind of explains why you don't know any lions who knit or play guitar.
Also, I have one of those voices that really carries. I can't help it! When I get going and really let out a good roar, you can hear it up to five miles away. I'm the loudest of all the big cats, and I usually only roar at night, so if it wakes you up from your peaceful sleep, I'm sorry.
Sometimes I get teased because the lady lions do all the hunting, but that doesn't actually embarrass me. Those women bring home delicious food, and I have to admit, I get pretty overheated if I do too much work, since I have this huge mane (which is useful for impressing girls and intimidating rivals.) I'm pretty satisfied with my gal bringing home the bacon—and speaking of bacon…
Favourite Food:
Ha, just kidding! No way would I eat broccoli. I'm all meat, all day, baby. Some of my favourite meals are wildebeest, impalas, zebras, and buffalo. If I'm feeling peckish and just need a little snack, I'll settle for springbok or Thompson's gazelle. And man, I do love warthog—it's savannah bacon!
Everything Else:
Type: Mammal
Diet: Carnivore (well, obviously)
Average life span in the wild: About 16 years
Size: We range from 5-7 feet long and 3-4 feet tall. The longest of my ancestors—we called him Grandpa Kubwa—was 12 feet long! He was, I'm sad to report, shot and killed in Angola in 1972.
Weight: Well that's a rude question—oh, alright… we range from 300-550 pounds. My heaviest ancestor—Grandpa Nono—was almost 700 pounds! He passed on in 1936 in South Africa.
Protection status: Vulnerable (even though we look tough, we're sensitive—lions need love too!)
Group name: Pride (which says it all, don't you think?)


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At this modern hotel, you can easily combine business and pleasure. Look forward to quiet rooms that come with all desirable amenities. In the Junction Restaurant, British classics and Indian curries are served. After a tasty meal, the Spirit Health Club Fitness Centre invites to workouts and relaxation. The conference rooms are designed for events with up to 120 guests.
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Up to 2 children under the age of 18 stay for free when sharing their parents' room. Children under the age of 13 are offered breakfast and meals from the children's menu free of charge when eating together with their family.
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Hotel built in: 2001, Last complete renovation: 2015, Number of floors: 2, Number of single rooms: 0, Number of double rooms: 0, Number of suites (separate rooms): 0, No-smoking room: 143,
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(San Francisco, CA) In celebration of its 35th anniversary, the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) will hold a one-day symposium entitled "Building Bridges: Connecting Communities through Librarianship & Advocacy" at the University of San Francisco's McLaren Conference Center on Thursday, June 25th, 2015.
"We are celebrating and commemorating this milestone in a city that has a deep history and strong presence of Asian Pacific Islanders," said Gary Colmenar, one of the co-chairs of the APALA 35th Planning Committee. "We are holding this symposium to reflect the work APALA has done in the past and continues to do so. The theme for the symposium reflects what we have been doing to accomplish the organization's mission. We serve as a bridge between library, archives and museum professionals with the APA communities." The APALA Symposium will be held right before the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference and Exhibition, June 26-30, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Additional programs and cultural events are slated during the ALA Annual Conference, June 26-30.
The keynote speaker is Valarie Kaur, an award-winning documentary filmmaker, civil rights lawyer, and interfaith leader who centers her work on storytelling for social change. She has led campaigns on hate crimes, racial profiling, immigration detention, marriage equality, solitary confinement, and the open Internet. Valarie Kaur believes "the way we make change is just as important as the change we make." She currently serves as Media and Strategy Fellow at Stanford Law School.
Founded in 1980 by librarians of diverse Asian and Pacific ancestries, APALA has long been committed to supporting and providing greater visibility for Asian / Pacific American (APA) professionals in the areas of libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs) and advancing services to APA communities.
Early bird registration starts January 27, 2015 and ends April 3, 2015
For more information, updates, and registration, visit http://apala35th.apalaweb.org/
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Who: Asian Pacific American Librarians' Association (APALA)
What: 35th Anniversary Symposium entitled "Building Bridges: Connecting
Communities through Librarianship & Advocacy"
When: Thursday, June 25th, 2015, 8:00 A.M. to 7:30 P.M.
Where: University of San Francisco's McLaren Conference; Registration
Attached: Keynote speaker Valarie Kaur – biography
Valarie Kaur is a civil rights lawyer, documentary filmmaker, and faith-rooted organizer who helps communities tell their stories and organize for social change. She has made award-winning films and led multimedia campaigns on a wide range of issues: hate crimes against Sikh and Muslim Americans, racial profiling, gun violence, marriage equality, immigration detention, and solitary confinement. Valarie is a regular television commentator on MSNBC and opinion contributor toCNN, NPR, PBS, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, and The New York Times. She has reported on the military commissions at Guantanamo and clerked on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Valarie founded Groundswell Movement of 100,000 members, the nation's largest multi-faith online organizing community known for "dynamically strengthening faith-based organizing in the 21st century."
A Senior Fellow at Auburn Seminary, she serves as a national Sikh voice who teaches on movement-building for students, organizers, and interfaith groups. She also works with the U.S. State Department to bring these tools to activists around the world, most recently traveling and teaching throughout Myanmar. She earned degrees at Stanford University, Harvard Divinity School, and Yale Law School, where she founded the Yale Visual Law Project to train future lawyers to make films for social and policy change. She is currently the Media and Strategy Fellow at Stanford Law School, where she helps build the movement to keep the Internet free and open, especially for under-served communities.
The Center for American Progress lists Valarie among 13 national progressive faith leaders to watch. She has been called "a standout figure in the world of interfaith organizing and activism and one of eight Asian American "Women of Influence." A prolific public speaker on college and university campuses, she was also the youngest to deliver the Baccalaureate Commencement Address at Stanford University.
Valarie lives with her husband and filmmaking partner Sharat Raju and their baby boy Kavi Singh in Los Angeles. She believes that "the way we make change is just as important as the change we make."
For more information on Valarie, visit her website at http://valariekaur.com/. You can also follow her on Twitter at @valariekaur.
Attached: APALA35th Press Release [pdf]
APALA Midwinter 2015 Events
Reminder: Early bird registration ends Thursday, January 29th.
Please find a list of our events and activities for the 2015 ALA Midwinter Conference. Registration for a visit to the Chinese-American Museum & the Chinatown Chicago Public Library on Friday and for the APALA 35th Anniversary Fundraising Dinner on Saturday is now live at http://www.apalaweb.org/resources/registration/.
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11:30 – 3:30 p.m. – The Chinese-American Museum & The Chinatown Chicago Public Library
Early Bird Registration: (before event) $15.00
Registration at event: $20.00
Gathering place: Networking Uncommons at McCormick Place, 11:30 a.m.
The Chinese-American Museum: 238 West 23rd Street, Chicago, IL 60616
The Chinatown Chicago Public Library: 2353 South Wentworth Avenue, Chicago, IL 60616
Tentative Schedule:
11:30am – 12:45 p.m. — Take bus to Chinatown and eat lunch
1:00 p.m. — Tour of the Chinese American Museum of Chicago
2:00 p.m. — Tour of Chinatown branch Chicago Public Library
Please join us for a tour of the fabulous Chinese-American Museum of Chicago & the Chinatown Chicago Public Library. For those who want to eat lunch in Chinatown beforehand, we will meet at the Networking Uncommons in the Convention Center on Friday, January 30, 2015 at 11:30 a.m. to take the bus to Chinatown. The tour of the Chinese-American Museum of Chicago begins at 1:00 p.m., followed by the tour of the Chinatown Chicago Public Library Branch. Tour will end around 3:30 p.m.
Register at http://www.apalaweb.org/resources/registration/
7:30 – 9:30 p.m. – APALA Executive Board Meeting, McCormick Place W186-C
Saturday, January 31st
4:30 – 5:30 p.m. – APALA Membership & 35th Anniversary Committees Meeting, McCormick Place W473
6:30 – 10:00 p.m. – APALA 35th Anniversary Fundraising Dinner
Join us for a wonderful and entertaining evening with delicious Asian cuisine and great company! All are invited and encouraged to join APALA in celebrating our APALA 35th Anniversary & Symposium fundraising campaign.
Register at http://www.apalaweb.org/resources/registration/
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The Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) Scholarship and Awards Committee announced the following Travel Grant recipient during the ALA Annual Conference 2014 in Las Vegas:
Gerie Ventura has been a library paraprofessional for almost twenty years and currently is employed as the Circulation Operations Lead at Highline Community College in Des Moines, Washington. While brand new to APALA, Ventura was first introduced to the group and the travel grant through librarian colleague Karen Fernandez. Ventura currently attends Emporia State University on the Portland, Oregon campus with a concentration in Leadership and Administration, and plans to graduate in 2015. Ventura expresses excitement in learning the plans for APALA's upcoming conference in San Francisco, as well as being open to new opportunities for her involvement and leadership as she finishes up with library school.
When asked about her experiences at ALA, Ventura states that she was "on Cloud 9" during most of the 2014 ALA Conference, knowing how overwhelming the conference can be yet fueled by inspiring and empowering conversations with many APALA librarians and other librarians of color. The panel discussions of first-time directors and librarians of color, as well as an OCLC Symposium on the "future of libraries" were most thought provoking and challenging for Ventura.
Ventura makes note on how hearing current APALA President Eileen Bosch share stories about the challenges of assuming leadership roles in libraries has allowed her to feel more confident that meeting her educational goal of completing library school is possible. She is comforted by the fact that there is a network of librarians in and outside of APALA who are happy to lend an ear or offer advice. This open flow of librarians sharing their stories or assistance in the future allows Ventura to feel more comfortable and connected to the community of librarians.
Since Ventura is currently in library school, her primary interests lie in hearing the practical application process of information theory in her classes. While taking a Collection Development class, she enjoyed listening to the librarians from around the nation in the collection management interest group, as they discussed managing multiple digital products and how floating collections affect access to library materials for inner-city/urban public library customers.
Her vision for librarianship stems from the many librarians who have encouraged her throughout her entire educational career. "Keeping the karma going" is Ventura's motto to putting a friendly, accessible face to librarianship for APA library users and, especially, non-users. Ventura thinks there are many within the vast APA community who are not yet aware of the amazing library services that are available to and for them, at no cost. She excitedly envisions continuing "talking libraries" with her friends and family to inform them of how libraries can enrich their lives, both virtually and face-to-face, and of how to make deeper connections between APA community groups and many libraries that want to serve them.
If you've heard about "the big library conference" and have always wanted to attend, Ventura encourages you to apply for the 2015 APALA Travel Grant. She encourages future participants to "make the most out of it by finding workshops and sessions of interest to you and meet as many APALA members and librarians as you can. They will inspire and encourage you!"
Many thanks to Gerie Ventura! Best wishes as you continue your librarianship journey!
Editing assistance provided by Raymond Wang.
by Melissa Cardenas-Dow
Hanna Lee is a new librarian professional and is currently a Youth Services Librarian at the Princeton Public Library in New Jersey. Librarianship is not her first career, however. She spent quite a bit of time as a teacher in middle school and high school and as a student services staff member in a higher education setting.
Of her path to professional librarianship, Hanna writes:
After living in Mozambique for a little bit and volunteering at an international school library there, I finally decided to pursue librarianship. It was something I'd been planning to do since I was an avid library visitor as a child! I went to Rutgers University's School of Communication and Information, started interning at my current library, graduated in May 2013, and started working full-time there that August. I'm very, very lucky to be at a wonderful library with an incredibly engaged community.
Hanna is also a new APALA member, having just joined our association in the summer of 2013. Of her involvement, she writes:
I joined APALA last summer to get connected to other APA librarians. Having grown up in a predominantly [racially] white Midwestern suburb, and then having spent the majority of my adult life prior to now in largely black urban environments, I see APALA as a great way to join a larger community of people/librarians with whom I have some specific shared experiences. The website, the emails, and the community at large have been huge resources for me already, even if I haven't yet become as active within the organization as I would like. This year, I was particularly glad to be a member of APALA during the robust discussion following BCALA's statement regarding the 2016 ALA Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida. It's heartening to be a part of a body of thoughtful professionals who take each other's concerns seriously.
When asked about her decision to join ALA's Emerging Leaders program, Hanna's response:
Since I'm always on the lookout for opportunities for professional growth and enrichment, I learned about the ALA Emerging Leaders program on the ALA website. My library is an extremely supportive place, and we are encouraged to get involved in local and national associations. I was particularly interested in having a chance to meet and work with "emerging leaders" from all over the country and beyond. Since I'm still very new to the profession and ALA, it was really nice to have a more structured, intimate introduction to all of this.
For Hanna's ALA-EL project, she worked with Team E to develop a calculator that can quantitatively translate the value of local youth-oriented services and programs. Team E's project is sponsored by ALSC (Association for Library Service to Children). Of this project, Hanna writes:
ALSC charged my group to create a library value calculator for youth services. Basically, an online form that calculates a library's value based on usage, like this one on ALA's website: http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/advocacyuniversity/toolkit/makingthecase/
library_calculator. Except just specifically focused on youth services.
This project was intended to be of use to librarians in underserved communities who may benefit from such a tool when advocating for maintaining or increasing services. The more research our group did, though, the more we started to think that this project could not actually be accurate or helpful, since value calculators rely on a very simple return on investment model that fails to take into account the many complex, social benefits of library youth services.
So instead, we offered a glimpse into some of the other valuation methods being used in other areas—public libraries at large, school libraries, museums and other non-profits—and recommended that ALSC continue this project with a task force and future Emerging Leader teams. At the Annual Conference 2014, the ALSC Executive Board told us that they have decided to move forward with our recommendations, which was very exciting.
The ALA Emerging Leaders program is a great way for participants to become more involved with ALA, the professional library organization in the United States, and its affiliate organizations. When asked what she recommends aspiring ELs do to apply and participate in the program, especially those who may be interested but reluctant, Hanna has this to say:
Do it! It's a great way to get connected to passionate people and a wealth of resources, quickly. I would also encourage incoming Emerging Leaders to take some care in the selection of their project, if possible. The ALSC staff liaison and member guide on my project both went above and beyond, which made a huge difference in my experience. It also seems that the program leaders are truly interested in the feedback of participants (for example, they've made the cohorts much smaller, which was a hugely positive change), and I think the program is just going to continue to get better and better.
Thank you, Hanna, for sharing your great insight. We hope APALA members are encouraged to take part in the Emerging Leaders program.
Editing by Jaena Rae Cabrera.
by Melissa Cardenas-Dow
You may remember Raymond Pun when he was still working at The New York Public Library. He also wrote a "What's Your Normal?" essay for APALA that was published in May 2013. Since then, Ray, as he wants to be called, has moved to Shanghai, China, where he now works as a reference and research services librarian for the New York University campus there.
Of the beginnings of his librarian career, Ray writes:
I've been working in libraries since 2006 as an undergraduate intern and student worker. And like many people that I know, I just fell into the career of being a librarian. I was encouraged by my mentors in college to pursue a degree in library science since I was already working in one of the best research libraries in the world: The New York Public Library: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building.
I went to City University of New York: Queens College for my MLS, and then later received an MA in East Asian Studies from St. John's University, my alma mater. Initially I was getting an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies, but due to the rise of the Arab Spring and ongoing conflicts in the Middle East (particularly in Egypt and Syria where I wanted to study), it just didn't seem like a viable idea to pursue that course of study since I wouldn't be able to visit those countries at all. So I switched regional studies. Maybe in the future I'll go back to finish up my M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies.
For my first professional job, I was promoted as a librarian in NYPL in 2010. Later, I was encouraged to apply for the ALA-EL program and for my current position as a reference and research services librarian in New York University Shanghai in China. I'm currently in Shanghai, collaboratively building the library collections and services to support the NYU community. It has been a fascinating experience and a great opportunity to start a new job and work abroad in a startup environment.
Since moving to Shanghai, Ray has scaled back his involvement with APALA. Of his most recent involvement in APALA, Ray writes:
Most recently, I've contributed articles to the newsletter and content for the website, volunteered my time to represent APALA in the exhibition booth at ALA annual and APALA's poster in the ALA Diversity and Outreach Fair. I've also managed to talk to people about the benefits of joining APALA and it has worked! So in that sense, I've been an "unofficial ambassador" for APALA. Since I am working abroad, it can be tricky to coordinate my involvement with the organization. Soon, I hope to be more active!
When asked about his decision to apply to the ALA Emerging Leaders program, Ray says:
I decided to apply to the ALA-EL program because I was interested in working on a group project that extended beyond my workplace, but I didn't know I would also be moving to China at that time. It became a "global project collaboration," in that sense. In the beginning, I also didn't think I could pull it off, but I did and it turned out to be a very good learning experience. I found out about this program, maybe 3 years ago, from NYPL colleagues who also went through the ALA-EL program. They said it was a good way to learn more about ALA and its leadership structure. I thought about being more active in ALA, but didn't know where to begin so the ALA-EL program seemed like a good start.
Ray worked with fellow APALA member, Monnee Tong, on the same ALA-EL project.
For my EL project, my team and I worked on an oral history video featuring two prominent Chinese American librarians who have contributed a lot to the profession. Since my project was sponsored by CALA (Chinese American Library Association), this was timely and appropriate. The two librarians are Dr. Lois Mai Chan from University of Kentucky and Dr. Tze-Chung Li from Dominican University. My project specifically focused on Dr. Lois Mai Chan. We interviewed her and some of her former students about the influence and impact Chan had on our profession. It was a lot of work, but it was also fun and rewarding. I worked closely with Monnee Tong from San Diego Public Library. She was my partner in crime on this video project. She was great to work with!
We asked Ray if he could give advice to anyone aspiring to take part in the ALA-EL program. He writes:
I would say — just apply for it. It's good to apply for things and learn about different application processes. And if you get accepted (great!) but not get sponsored by an association, you should still participate if you can. The way I see it, ALA-EL provides a little bit of networking, resume/CV boosting, but there's definitely a strong learning component. If you are interested in designing a project and working in a collaborative team, then this is perfect for you because you'll learn a lot about teamwork, communication, leadership, and project and time management. All of these are great experiences to put on your resume/CV, but also great interview stories to tell future employers.
For your ALA-EL application, focus on something unique about yourself–what do you think you are doing or can provide that many people can't? What are some challenges and obstacles that you overcame? Those character-defining moments can make you really stand out from a pool of applicants. Being part of APALA also gives you a wide connection to people who have participated in the EL program. They can give you advice on your essays, look over your resume/CV, or help brainstorm as well. So you aren't alone in the process!
Ray was one of two CALA-sponsored 2014 Emerging Leaders.
Thank you very much, Ray. APALA is very proud and lucky to have you in our association. We look forward to your continuing involvement.
Editing assistance provided by Jaena Rae Cabrera.
by Melissa Cardenas-Dow
APALA member Monnee Tong has just finished her ALA Emerging Leaders experience with the rest of the 2014 ALA-EL class. She is a librarian at the San Diego Public Library system, working in the newly built Central Library @ Joan Λ Irwin Jacobs Common, the central branch of the system. Monnee has been at her position in San Diego since June 2012, when she was hired right after graduation from the iSchool at the University of Washington. She holds a B.A. in the History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley.
Of her career path to librarianship, Monnee writes:
Before I became a librarian, I worked in educational publishing, a very different professional environment from public libraries (even though they both involve books!)… It's been a whirlwind two years, jam-packed with a whole lot of learning, but it's all been worth it.
What I love most about being a librarian is what I missed in publishing—people! I love connecting with different people, whether they are my supportive and collaborative co-workers at SDPL, the teen interns I supervise in our new multimedia lab, the partner organizations we work with to bring free services and programs to the community, or the patron who just discovered the oversize section in Art & Music. People make my job rewarding, challenging, and never boring.
Monnee is a new APALA member and is part of the 2013-2015 Picture Book Literature Committee, which is responsible for selecting the awardees of the annual Asian American Literature prize for picture books. For Monnee, the work of the APALA Picture Book Literature Committee has a strong personal connection:
Although I'm from diverse California, I grew up in a rural town in the Sierra Foothills with almost no Asian Pacific American peers, especially none with parents who were immigrants like mine. I was always searching (and still searching!) for characters in books who resembled my experience in some way, shape or form. I'm really happy to be part of this committee so I can learn about and promote API authors and stories.
Monnee's ALA Emerging Leader team project is an interesting study in virtual collaboration. Of it, she writes:
Our Emerging Leader group (which included fellow ELs Ray Pun, Sam Suber, and Leila Rod-Welch,) worked on the project "Telling Chinese American Librarians' Stories" for the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA). We created two short videos about notable Chinese American librarians Dr. Lois Mai Chan and Dr. Tze-chung Li. Both videos can be found on the CALA YouTube channel for your viewing pleasure.
I worked on the video about Dr. Lois Mai Chan with Ray Pun. (You may recognize her name if you read "Cataloging and Classification" in library school.) The big challenge was how to work on a video about Dr. Chan, who lives in Kentucky, and collaborate with Ray, who lives in Shanghai. I got pretty good at figuring out what time it was in Shanghai!
We also received a lot of help from the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Kentucky (UK) where Dr. Chan is Professor Emeritus. UK found these amazing vintage photos of Dr. Chan and filmed several interviews for us. We took the footage and edited it in iMovie and pared all the material down to a 13-minute video.
This project gave me the opportunity to build my video editing skills, to learn about a venerable and accomplished figure in the Chinese American and library communities, and to connect with CALA. Right before we started the project, I was assigned to coordinate San Diego Central Library's multimedia lab (the IDEA Lab,) and had just taken an iMovie workshop. The EL project gave me the opportunity to really work on my editing skills in iMovie and now I feel I can 'graduate' to either Adobe Premiere or Final Cut Pro.
Check out our final product on CALA's YouTube channel.
For the convenience of our readers, we have embedded Team G's video on Dr. Lois Mai Chan in this post. Please view the video above.
Monnee offers these pieces of advice to anyone interested in participating in the 2015 ALA Emerging Leaders cohort:
I would advise anyone thinking about applying to ensure that you have the time to devote to the program, because it does take a significant amount of time (at least in my opinion it did!). At times, it was reminiscent of library school (which I did online), so I'm glad that the two didn't coincide. I would suggest that anyone currently in an online program apply later. That way, you won't have another online project in addition to your current coursework.
When I was thinking of applying, I found this post from Abby the Librarian helpful (although I should have paid more attention to the fifth bullet point, addressing public, children's, and teen librarians—Abby, you were right!). If you know someone that went through the program you can talk to, reach out to her/him. I didn't know anyone but relied on what I read online, and I wish I had reached out to people to get a better sense of what the program entailed.
Despite the time involved, I'm still glad I did the EL program. I got to attend my first ALA Midwinter and Annual Conferences, meet library folk from around the country and world, and be part of a project that gives back to the Chinese American and library communities. I'm also so grateful to my colleagues and mentors at my library, who were all so supportive and excited for me, and proud that I was representing them to the greater library community.
If you're thinking about applying, feel free to reach out to me—you can find me on Twitter @librarianmo or at monneetong.com. Good luck!
Monnee, we are very happy and proud that you are among us in APALA!
Again, should you wish to contact Monnee regarding the ALA Emerging Leaders program, please find her on Twitter @librarianmo or through her blog, Monnee Tong, Librarian.
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A year and a half ago, Scott Brown won the Massachusetts seat in the U.S. Senate left vacant by the death of Ted Kennedy and electrified the GOP. At the time, his views on GLBT equality seemed moderate; he went so far as to call marriage parity, which Massachusetts pioneered, "settled" in the state.
Since then, however -- with the exception of a vote to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" -- Brown either opposed or declined to support bills and other initiatives geared toward meeting the needs of the GLBT community. Most recently, the senator refused to join fellow members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation in making a video with an encouraging message aimed at GLBT youth.
The video was made as part of the "It Gets Better" campaign, in which gay and straight celebrities, politicians, and everyday people create messages encouraging GLBT teens not to kill themselves. Gay columnist Dan Savage and his partner launched the campaign last year in response to a rash of gay teen suicides covered in the mainstream media.
That coverage threw a spotlight on a fact that has been well known to mental health professionals and GLBT equality advocates for years: GLBT youth are far more at risk of suicidal conduct than their heterosexual peers. Studies on the neurological impact of bullied teens have demonstrated that the developing brains of youths can be physiologically altered by the sort of harassment, and even violence, that gay youths face. Advocates for anti-bullying programs and laws to protect teens from abuse say that the homophobic harassment GLBT teens suffer is a leading cause of the higher rate of suicide among young gays.
But anti-gay groups oppose anti-bullying efforts, claiming that legislation and programs designed to counter bullying disguise efforts by gays to carry out an "agenda" to recruit young heterosexuals and convert them into homosexuals -- a charge that has been leveled at the GLBT community for at least four decades, but for which no evidence exists.
Rather, mounting scientific evidence points to sexual orientation as an innate and unchangeable personal characteristic. As such, the data suggest, gays are not "abnormal" or stricken by some form of pathology, but rather are part of the realm of natural variation for human sexuality.
But Sen. Brown has not lent his support to any federal legislation meant to address the problem of homophobic bullying, noted a July 29 article at ThinkProgress.
"Brown's spokesperson explained the rejection by saying Brown's 'main focus right now is on creating jobs and getting our economy back on track,' but this is only the latest example of the senator's long history of enabling homophobia," the article said, before going on to provide a rundown of Brown's other anti-gay actions and omissions, both before and during his tenure in the U.S. Congress.
"In 2001, he attacked state Sen. Cheryl Jacques and her domestic partner, Jennifer Chrisler, for deciding to have children, calling it 'not normal,' though later said he chose the wrong words," the article recounted. "As a Massachusetts state senator, Brown voted twice in 2007 to ban same-sex marriage after voting for two similar amendments in 2004."
Moreover, the article said, "Brown took a 'state's rights' position on same-sex marriage in his campaign for U.S. Senate, but in March of 2010, Brown voted for a referendum to overturn marriage equality in the District of Columbia. This was in contradiction to previous statements leaving marriage to the states."
The article also recalled that the senator has spoken out against the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, a bill that has been re-introduced to almost every legislative session of Congress for thirty years, but which has never passed.
The article also noted that Brown has relied on campaign cash from groups that specifically oppose legal parity for GLBT citizens and their families.
"Many of Brown's electoral victories have been thanks to the support of anti-gay PACs and organizations like hate-group MassResistance and the National Organization for Marriage," noted ThinkProgress.
Brown is not alone in his refusal to offer support to suffering GLBT youth through an appearance in an "IT Gets Better" video, the article noted.
"To date, not a single elected Republican lawmaker has participated in one of the project's anti-bullying videos," ThinkProgress reported.


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Online pharmacy verification service LegitScript and Internet compliance company KnujOn released a report last week analyzing Microsoft-sponsored search results on bing.com for Internet pharmacies, showing that some sold counterfeit drugs and many did not require a prescription. Microsoft subsequently said they conducted a manual sweep to clean up the problem. Days after that, the researchers again purchased more addictive prescription drugs without a prescription from a bing.com ad.
Arlington, VA (PRWEB) August 14, 2009 -- KnujOn.com, an Internet compliance company and LegitScript.com, an online pharmacy verification service, have released a statement indicating that they were again able to purchase addictive prescription drugs without a prior prescription from a bing.com advertisement, just days after Microsoft announced that it had manually reviewed and removed any illegal Internet pharmacy advertisers.
The researchers' original report, released on August 4, 2009, indicated that most Microsoft Internet pharmacy advertisements reviewed by the authors were illicit Internet pharmacies. In its response, Microsoft said it had since manually reviewed all pharma-related keywords to sweep out advertisers in violation of their policies, and that it believed the violation percentage to be substantially smaller than the report indicated.
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'Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle': this Michelangelo quote immediately struck us, on the window of dental practice Ardenois. Besides providing general dental services, the Ardenois team are experts in restorative dentistry - hence the link to 'perfection' at the entrance.
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France Introduces Smoking Ban In Public Places
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