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July 13, 2009 WIC Update
SUBJECT 1: World Breastfeeding Week Promotion
SUBJECT 2: New Food Package – Summary of Promotional Materials
SUBJECT 3: Update on Forms (HANDS and MOWINS)
SUBJECT 4: Discontinuation Date Change - Nutramigen LIPIL (Powder, 16 oz can
SUBJECT 5: National WIC Association's (NWA) 2010 Calendars
SUBJECT 6: MOWINS Release 1.39.05
SUBJECT 7: Local Agency Plan (LAP) for 2010
SUBJECT 8: June 2009 Caseload Report
SUBJECT 9: WIC Online Invoicing Application Suggestions for 2010
SUBJECT 10: 2010 Outreach Funding—How to Apply?
- World Breastfeeding Week Promotion: August 1-7 is designated each year as World Breastfeeding Week by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) and the entire month of August is designated Missouri Breastfeeding Month. The theme for this year is "Breastfeeding: A Vital Emergency Response Are you ready?" The objective of this year's theme is to draw attention to the vital role that breastfeeding plays in emergencies worldwide.
Visit the ILCA website or www.worldbreastfeedingweek.org for more information on World Breastfeeding Week. Breastfeeding promotion kits that contain information on breastfeeding in an eco-friendly bag and table tents that depict the nutritional value of breast milk are available to order. Please use the attached order form and fax to Karen Schenk at 573-751-6185. There is a limit of 50 promotion kits per order and supplies are limited. For additional breastfeeding literature please visit the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services warehouse website.
For promoting breastfeeding activities in your community, attached are a sample news release, sample breastfeeding proclamation, and suggested promotion activities from the National WIC Association. If you have any questions, please contact Kathy Mertzlufft by email at firstname.lastname@example.com or by phone at 573-526-4792.
- New Food Package – Summary of Promotional Materials: The following is a summary of the release of new food package promotional materials:
- In December 2008, LWPs received the Sesame Street Healthy Habits for Life kits and a flyer to promote fruits and vegetables.
- An icon was added to the WIC Home Page as a location for posting New Food Package Information. As they are developed, all materials are posted to the Food Packages website.
- Current participant materials, which will be available in the DHSS warehouse soon:
- Single page nutrition education handouts for new food items including whole grains, fruits and vegetables, and evaporated milk.
- A shopping guide for buying fruits and vegetables.
- A handout that meets the "all required" nutrition education contact requirement to promote breastfeeding. The handout compares the new food packages for a fully breastfeeding mom and baby, partially breastfeeding, and fully formula feeding dyad.
- A poster with photos of sample food packages for children and women.
- A packet for health care providers was released in the April 27, 2009 WIC Update. Use these materials to communicate the upcoming changes with the providers you work with. These items can also be found on the food package web site.
- A link to the video for health care providers, "Partnering with WIC for Breastfeeding Success," to describe how WIC promotes breastfeeding. Contact Kathy Mertzlufft at firstname.lastname@example.com to request additional copies of the video. This is linked at Food Packages.
Promotional materials that are being developed include:
- A WIC folder insert of WIC Foods for Children and WIC Foods for Moms to Be listing the food received in the new package for each of these categories.
- Clinic posters with photos of sample food packages for each category and posters of new food items.
- A New Food Package Lesson Plan.
- Single page participant nutrition education handout for soy foods (soy milk and tofu).
- Pictorial food list.
- A press release about the new food package that will meet LWP requirements for public notification.
You may direct questions or comments about participant education and promotional materials to Rita Arni at 573.751.8159 or email@example.com.
- Update on MOWINS Forms: The following is a list of required forms that were developed for use in MOWINS.
- Participant's Rights and Responsibilities (bilingual) Green Laminated Sheet (WIC -10-LAM)
- WIC Certification MOWINS Back-Up (WIC 1&2 M)
- Rights and Responsibilities (English) MOWINS Back-Up (WIC -10-EN-M)
- Rights and Responsibilities (Spanish) MOWINS Back-Up (WIC -10-SP-M)
- Proof of Eligibility MOWINS Back-Up (WIC 30-M)
- Household Food Instrument Register MOWINS Back-Up (WIC 31-M)
If you have any HANDS forms of those listed above, please recycle them. Please destroy the Participant's Rights and Responsibilities (bilingual) Yellow and/or Blue Laminated Sheets. If you have any questions, please contact Takako Tagami at email@example.com.
- Discontinuation Date Change - Nutramigen LIPIL (Powder, 16 oz can): The discontinuation date for Nutramigen LIPIL (Powder 16 oz can) has changed from August 1, 2009 to September 30, 2009. According to the letter from Mead Johnson Nutritionals dated July 7, 2009, Nutramigen LIPIL (powder) may be available at WIC vendors until October 2009. Therefore, the State Office has decided to keep Nutramigen LIPIL (Powder) available in MOWINS until September 30, 2009 instead of the discontinuation date (August 1, 2009) indicated in an earlier WIC Weekly Update (April 3, 2009).
If your agency has participants who are receiving Nutramigen LIPIL (Powder), it is very important to contact the local WIC vendors for availability before issuing checks. The concentrate and ready-to-use forms of Nutramigen LIPIL will continue to be available at WIC vendors. If you have any questions, please contact Takako Tagami at email@example.com.
- National WIC Association's (NWA) 2010 Calendars: The State Office has purchased the 2010 National WIC Association's (NWA) Calendars (English and Spanish) for local WIC providers. The State office has developed a simple survey to determine which agencies are interested in receiving the 2010 NWA WIC Calendar (Spanish version).
Local WIC Coordinators will receive an e-mail message with a link to the survey from Takako Tagami on July 14, 2009. Each agency must complete the survey by August 7, 2009. If you have any question, please contact Takako email@example.com.
- MOWINS Release 1.39.05: MOWINS Release 1.39.05 will be applied to the MOWINS Production Database on Friday, July 17, 2009. We recommend that you allow time for the updates to download on each PC (approximately 45 minutes), to minimize delays in providing WIC services.
This release contains the fix for the list that you see when trying to link mom to baby and/or baby to mom. The default view for the list will be alphabetically by last name. However, you can change the sort, to numerically by State WIC ID or back to alphabetically by last name, whichever you prefer, by clicking on the column header in the linked participant window.
There are no other fixes in this release.
The MOWINS letter templates must be downloaded to each WIC computer that runs MOWINS after each release is implemented. Please refer to the e-mail sent to all WIC Coordinators and Nutrition Coordinators on July 7, 2009 for the download website and instructions.
If you have any questions, please contact Melissa Seaver at firstname.lastname@example.com or 573-751-6489.
- Local Agency Plan (LAP) for 2010: Enhancements to the online LAP application have been completed and will be included in the FFY2010 LAP Training. Since the training this year is optional, a list of enhancements to make the LAP more user-friendly is included in the attached document for those who will not attend training. ASAP instructions for access to the online LAP are also attached. LAP Data will be updated and the online LAP will be ready for entry on Wednesday, July 15, 2009. If you have any questions about the ASAP instructions, LAP Training or the LAP Enhancements, you may contact Betty Cassidy at 800-392-8209 or by email firstname.lastname@example.com.
- June 2009 Caseload Report: The June 2009 caseload report is now available. The attached Excel spreadsheet has the caseload for June for MOWINS. You will note it is all on one page in numeric order- not individual tabs for agencies as it was previously. The attached PDF has the June caseload for HANDS. These caseload reports are also on Crystal Reports. The attached Word document has a screen shot to show where these files are posted on Crystal Reports.
If you have questions contact Mark Davis at email@example.com or 573-526-5323.
- WIC Online Invoicing Application Suggestions for 2010: It's hard to believe but our first anniversary of implementing the WIC Online Invoice System is approaching. In an effort to improve the invoice submission process we want to hear from the people who work closely with the new system. We would like suggestions for upgrades/improvements to the system. What would you like to see changed? How can we make the process work more smoothly?
Please send your suggestions to Laura Weiler at email@example.com by July 22.
- 2010 Outreach Funding—How to Apply: Funds will be available to develop and implement Outreach Projects for 2010.
- What has changed? Changes for this year include sending an email to your District TA Team to request the funding available to your agency. When you email your request to the TA Team, your allocation will be loaded into the LAP, allowing your detail budget to be entered. Goals, funding amounts and suggestions have remained the same as last year.
- Who can apply? Current WIC agencies
- How much funding is available? $495,000 is allocated for agencies according to the size of the agency WIC program. Amounts can be found in the guidance.
- Deadline? Each agency must request the funding by an email to their TA Team by August 1, 2009. Amounts will be loaded for each agency requesting funding. The agency will be required to enter a budget for approval on the LAP.
- Questions? Contact your District TA Team
Outreach Project-2010 Guidance
WBW Action Ideas 2009
3-Attachment 3 - Outreach Project SOW 2010 Draft
Breastfeeding Month order form
Crystal Reports
HWIAC425-01 Report - 07-02-09
June 2009 - MOWINS
LAP Enhancements 2010
Missouri Breastfeeding Month Proclamation


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Marie Howe uses poetry to explore disagreement + the distance between people.
Michael McCullough describes science that helps us comprehend how revenge came to have a purpose in human life. At the same time, he stresses, science is also revealing that human beings are more instinctively equipped for forgiveness than we've perhaps given ourselves credit for. Knowing this suggests ways to calm the revenge instinct in ourselves and others and embolden the forgiveness intuition.
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In 2002 and again in 2004 my dream of becoming an ordained Lutheran minister was shattered by a candidacy committee in the church. Since then I have struggled to find a new vocation but without success. I feel as if some essential and good part of me has been lost because of this experience. Although I am more sensitive now to those who suffer injustice, I am more anxious and less trusting than before. My life has been diminished and I am sad.
As I continue to worship in a Methodist church I struggle with the notion of forgiveness. I am currently reading The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal and the collected essays on forgiveness. I have also found Embodying Forgiveness by Gregory Lloyd-Jones to be helpful. Most of what we hear about forgiveness is psychological gibberish with no theological foundation. To speak of revenge and forgiveness is to present a false choice. There is a difference between vengeance and justice.
I love Speaking of Faith. Keep up the good work!
The world we live in is governed by revenge, and forgiveness is nothing more than a platitude. Witness 9/1/2001: The US could have forgiven those who precipitated this event, but instead chose not just revenge, but "shock and awe" revenge. And we call ourselves a "Christian" nation. And of course there is the never ending cycle of Middle East revenge involving Israel and its neighbors. If there is one core tenet of Jesus Christ's teachings, it is that of forgiveness. Not just forgiving one time, but seventy times seven times. The cycle of revenge is never-ending, just like the wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan. And we as a nation do not deserve to call ourselves Christian.
My story of forgiving the man who murdered our daughter is on Storycorps. I think you can get it by just finding storycorps.com and my name, Hector Black It's written up in other places if this doesn't work, let me know.
Forgiveness...what a charged topic. Thank you for a sensitive presentation. I've seen the power of forgiveness and its opposite, the life-draining power of refusing to forgive. In 1986 my sister, Linden, was a grad student at Texas A&M. She had been in College Station for only two months when she was killed by a stranger who invaded her apartment while high on drugs. Needless to say, my mother was devastated by this event, as were my brother, my soon-to-be-ex brother-in-law and me. The killer admitted the crime, avoiding the death penalty in a tradeoff for life (which, in Texas, is a minimum of 20 years).
My mother was never able to forgive Linden's killer. Both my brother and b-i-l threatened revenge if this man were paroled.
LSS, here's what happened to our family:
Mother - suffered "mystery" ailments for the rest of her life, spent countless hours chasing medical intervention to help her feel better and lamenting her fate (Why did God do this to me?) because she never did feel better. She died an angry, bitter person. As I read her lifelong journals, I've found 20+ years of angst and complaints directed at God and "the system" for allowing her (Mom) to suffer this terrible injustice.
Brother - now twice-divorced and prefers not to have contact with me. Still expresses outrage that the killer is alive and our sister is not.
B-I-L - suffered health problems for the rest of his life. Died at age 59 of multiple invasive cancers. His sister tells me he hated the killer until the day he died and wished he had gone ahead and taken revenge (since he was going to die so soon, anyway).
So much time wasted hating, desiring revenge. Over the years, I tried to help my family come to acceptance through forgiveness. For a short time, no one would talk to me, saying I was "siding" with the killer. At every anniversary or holiday, even 20 years later, my mother would ask if I even remembered my sister, or if I was now "his" best friend.
But the truth is that I sided with myself. Only by finding the courage to forgive could I get on with life. My husband and children needed me to be there with them, not hanging around in The Land of Revenge and Hatred. Forgiveness was not easy; I struggled to stay balanced. Some days I hated that guy and wished every bad thing possible would happen to him. Ultimately, though, I discovered that forgiveness was not so much for him but for me. Peace is possible when I don't expend my energy hating. Forgiveness is not always perfect. It's just the healthier alternative.
Thanks for listening.
My husband and I have seen
My husband and I have seen several people on the newsw who have abandoned spouse, children, everyone they love who is still alive, to spend YEARS chasing wisps of rumors in a fruitless attempt to find the body or the killer of one family member who has disappeared or been murdered. Your experience, though truly sad, is far more healthy. I'm sure it was a nightmare for you to lose your sister in her prime as you did (I'm assuming she had gone there for college.) But to abandon those who are still alive and - as you pointed out - to live the rest of your life in hatred and in bitterness rather than to honor the short life she did have by going on with your own, that is even more tragic in many ways than the actual loss which everyone had mourned.
I feel for children whose mother or father essentialy abandon them (even if they still live in the same house with them) because the parent makes the rest of their life a memorial to the one child they lost, instead of acknowledging that the ones they still have left are still on this earth, still need their parents, and still deserve a life here on this earth.
Krista and Staff,
I catch your show for about 10-15 minutes while driving on Sunday morning. I plan on listening to today's show on the podcast as it spoke to me in many ways. I am a special education teacher and have experienced the human dynamic of what I refer to as "demonizing" groups who do not share your same beliefs, needs, or concerns. I am guessing it is a regular occurence for administrators and teachers to be at odds, for teachers to be at odds with various groups of parents, etc. I have thought the saying "absence makes the heart grow founder" is quite often not the case. It is the face to face contact on a regular basis, the active listening, and the true desire to put yourself in the other person's shoes which develop trust and real solutions.
On a separate note, I write and perform music as a hobby and recently co-wrote a song called "Sorry Don't Change the Weather". Born of the frequency of the use of the word sorry without any meaningful change in behavior.
Lyrics below.
Raised me well all these years
Watched many sunsets disappear
Played you like a wishing well
But still you steered me clear
Now you stare with dying eyes
As autumn trees begin to cry
Kneeling down in front of you
I apologize
I apologize
Sorry don't
Sorry don't
Sorry don't change the weather
Loved me sweet, loved me strong
Loved you bad and loved you wrong
Searching through all my fear
To find where we belong
Now you star with loving eyes
Summer winds begin to sigh
Kneeling down in front of you
I apologize
I apologize
Sorry don't
Sorry don't
Sorry don't change the weather
What the Prodigal Son never had to say
Keeps rolling off my tongue
Every single day
Every single day
Life can sting
Life can fray
Sunken ships don't sail away
With St. Peter at the gate
I wonder what he'll say
Now he stares with righteous eyes
As all my sins cloud the sky
Kneeling down in front of him
I apologize
I apologize
Sorry don't
Sorry don't
Sorry don't change the weather
Last July I lost my father and instantly become a suicide survivor at the age of 31.
He took his life in Southern California, placing my sister and I in the position of flying from Minnesota in mere hours to hope for the best even though we knew what the outcome would be. We got there and he was still connected to machines so it was up to us if we wanted to say good bye.
Once we got there, due to the bullet in his head, we had decided not to see him because it was probably not the way we wanted to remember him. This feeling changed immediately in me because I didn't want him to leave this earth without someone holding his hand. He deserved more despite what he had put our family through. Then immediately this sense in my being told me to "forgive him, the chance will not be there again". Rise above the anger, stop questioning his actions, no begging and pleading with God. Just go in there and forgive him.
My sister, aunt, and I went into the room to see him. After a few minutes my sister and aunt left the room. I went over and stroked his beautiful brown hair, when we were kids my sister and I used to brush his hair and he loved it.
I said to him out loud, "I love you. I forgive you. I love you, dad."
Doing this I believe helped me to not seek revenge on myself in this darkest time in my life. I didn't beat myself up about seeing warning signs. It was something I had to do.
I loved listening to this broadcast today and find reading about forgiveness is part of the healing process 8 months after the forgiveness of my dad.
I wanted to share my reaction to Krista's comment that the concept of forgiveness may have a Christian flavor to some people. As part of that conversation, she noted that a Holocaust survivor once told her that the idea of tikkun (healing the world) was more meaningful to him than the concept of forgiveness. I think we need to be careful not to over-generalize here: the Holocaust was an extraordinary evil which may be beyond forgiveness for most people. In this context, the concept of tikkun may well be a more meaningful response for many. However, I believe that in most other contexts, the concept of forgiveness is as relevant and meaningful for Jewish people as it is for Christians.
I was intrigued by Michael McCullough's discussion regarding the human nature of revenge and forgiveness. It amazed me that some animals exhibit traits of revenge. He presented one example of a type of monkey that possess status levels where a monkey with higher status may cause harm to the monkey with lower status. The monkey with the lower status knows that the monkey with a higher status can over power it, but as a way to get revenge, the monkey that was harmed will harm one of the monkey's relatives with the higher status that has a lower status then the monkey harmed by the monkey with a high status. The monkey will harm the higher status monkey's lower status relative in front of the monkey. This definitely shows how revenge can exist in our everyday nature.
My personal stories of forgiveness also relate to some of Michaels. I find myself forgiving family and friends everyday for little mistakes, but find it harder to forgive someone who I don't know at all for something significant. I do find myself sometimes looking at ways to get pay back (revenge) if someone seriously hurts me intentionally rather than forgiving right away.
What a beautiful story about human capacity. I enjoyed listening and as usual it was a thought provoking program. One of the many things it brought to mind for me was the cycle of domestic violence, particularly when listening to what circumstances that must be in place for a person to forgive. A person must feel safe and that they will not be harmed again. It must also be a situation that is important or meaningful to them. It struck me...that is why women go back again and again. They are somehow convinced it will be safe this time and the abuser will not abuse again. Also, the abuser is most likely an important person in their life...usually someone they love. I was recently with a friend who, not for the first time, has separated from her husband who has abused her. They have an 8 month old baby now. Intellectually, she knows this is the right thing to do for herself and their daughter, but she still struggles with her decision. I am hoping she is strong enough to walk away and stay away this time. In my deepest places, I am not only hoping this for her and her daughter, I am hoping this for myself because my sister was not able to escape. Although she tried, her boyfriend and father of their 6 year old son found them and brutally murdered them. I am hoping that if I can help my friend then maybe I can find it in my heart to forgive myself for being incapable of helping my sister and nephew so many years ago.
I struggle with Michael McCullough's "forgiveness theorem" in the case of Bud Welch. As was stated in the interview, "it was a process." His desire to "fry" McVeigh and Nichols was indeed his search for revenge, but he realized that revenge wouldn't resolve his problem, since it wouldn't bring his daughter or the other casualties back. I believe his compassion for McVeigh was part of a healthy healing process and a way of coming to terms and accepting his loss and the loss of others.
I sincerely believe that there are things in our world today so terribly bad in which there is no way the perpetrators can or should be forgiven – take 9-11for example.
From an ethological approach, revenge and forgiveness is just one side of the die. But when this side is cast a whole new spectrum of ideas come forth. Revenge, according to Michael McCullough is a part of who we are; an instinct that reacts to the feeling of injustice toward us. At times, revenge is compensated by its counterpart forgiveness which allows ourselves to alleviate the once boiling bowl of anger to a chill cup of sympathy. But forgiveness doesn't come so easily when directed at those we truly despise.
With a semester worth of knowledge in the matter of Ethics, I have come to believe all morals of past, present, and future to sustain the biological approach "survival of the fittest". For those unfamiliar with this phrase, what is deemed crucial for survival will be the adapt trait required. McCullough started his interview by using an example of his favorite animal, the Japanese Macaque. These creatures when threatened by another Macaque will seek out the family member of the other Macaque's family and threaten them. A revenge mechanism that shows, "hey, you can't just push me around without consequences". With forgiveness, we only seem to forgive those whom we know we will benefit in some way later. According to McCullough, your wife, husband, friend, or parents are such cases we often forgive easiest. Overall this was a great broadcast of further proof of the underlining matter that morality is biologically innate.
I found myself reflecting on
I found myself reflecting on everything Michael McCullough said in the context of what is for many people the most difficult act of forgiveness: self-forgiveness. We all have regrets about things we've done or haven't done and the challenge is that we judge ourselves from where and who we are now, not recognizing and honoring who we were then. The concepts of safety, forgiving those we are in relationship with, and finding ways to foster compassionate understanding can all be applied to ourselves. And I think that being willing to offer ourselves those gifts makes it possible to in turn offer the same to those who hurt us. Traveling the inner landscape of forgiveness makes it easier to separate a hurtful act from the actor and to acknowledge within ourselves that we've acted similarly, or the potential to do so in different circumstances.
Thank you for yet another inspiring, thought-provoking show.

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Building a Trail Town from Scratch - Page 2
Taking the First Steps
Jim Unckless and Dave Schaeffer belong to the Crescent Trail Association (CTA), a nonprofit organization of volunteers who help plan, develop and maintain the Crescent Trail in Perinton, New York. They agree that the first step in turning your city into a trail town is to assess opportunities for space to establish trails. These can be on public or private lands. Says Unckless, "After roughly determining the route you want, you need to find out who owns the land and contact those people to describe what you want to do and how it will impact them (hopefully minimally)."
After determining ownership of the land in question, Schaeffer suggests the next steps:
1. Have a plan. Objectives, ideas and trail-map designs will move you in the right direction.
2. Get buy-in from local officials.
3. Engage volunteers.
4. Develop partnerships with local outdoors groups.
Says Unckless, "We work closely with the town—with the Supervisor, Planning Board, Conservation Board, Parks Department and DPW, to push for trails on town land and as part of new developments. Developers can deed land to the town or otherwise provide open space and easements for trail rights of way."


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Kathy Thomsen, president of the Dalcroze Society of America, took issue with the way we described the function of Dalcroze eurhythmics in both our script for "Meredith Monk's Voice" and in Krista's journal entry about the interview. Rather than slapping us on the hand, she provided this helpful clarification, which we will most certainly incorporate into the script if we rebroadcast this show again:
"I enjoyed listening to your recent interview with Meredith Monk but was dismayed to hear your description of a musical experience Ms. Monk had as a child. You said, "She learned a musical method called Dalcroze eurhythmics, a music method to correct early problems with bodily coordination." In the online interview you write, "Dalcroze eurhythmics uses music to create physical alignment."
Whatever benefits Ms. Monk reaped from Dalcroze eurhythmics, those descriptions are not apt. Dalcroze, a Swiss music educator (1865-1950) believed the body was the principal instrument of musical expression and response. Dalcroze eurhythmics engages the whole person — body, mind, and sensibility — in the captivating and often joyous pursuit of moving to music. This whole-body movement is purposeful, and is connected intimately to the music, which is usually improvised on-the-spot by the teacher in response to the students' movements.
While improved bodily coordination may be a result of Dalcroze eurhythmics, its purpose is to promote discovery — discovery of music and of one's deep connection to it. And Dalcroze is not just for young children. We have classes in colleges and music conservatories, in public and private schools, and in community music programs for people of all ages. I'm delighted to learn that Dalcroze eurhythmics was part of Ms. Monk's early music education and that it left a lasting impression."
Many thanks for the correction, Kathy, and we promise to get it right next time.


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'Wearable' Art
I am drawn to natural things. That sounds like a silly thing to say, for a naturalist at least.
Obviously I would be drawn to natural things.
But this applies even to colors and textures and shapes. If you put a rainbow of colors in front of me I will gravitate toward what are called "earth tones." If you put curtains in front of me I will choose the linen ones. If you put dishes in front of me I will choose the botanical print.
This is why the opportunity to make my own naturally printed silk scarf is appealing. There are two opportunities to make a unique and natural scarf in the upcoming weeks at Audubon.
They both involve scarves and showcase two different techniques for creating "wearable" art. One is the Silk Scarf, Natural Dyes and Pounded Leaves workshop on Sept. 21.
Dyeing of the scarves is a lengthy process and so you will learn the technique for preparing the dyes in a mini-lesson. After learning that backstory on how the scarves were prepared, you will stroll through the Ted Grisez Arboretum. This collection of over 60 native trees provides the materials for the next step in creating your scarf. Collecting fresh leaves of shapes and colors that are attractive to you, you will wander through the Arboretum's trails.
With leaves in hand, you will return to the center and learn by doing – there is a specific process to transfer the color from the leaves onto your scarf. After you have established your own unique leaf color print, you have to fix that color.
Kathleen Tenpas, your instructor, will teach you all the skills needed for the process.
You will walk away with a stunning piece of wearable art and the skills to make more.
The other opportunity also involves leaves.
The Leaf Mono-printing workshop on September 28 uses a different technique to capture the shape and character of the leaves on fabric. After a brief demonstration in the Center about monoprinting, you will head to the Arboretum to collect fallen leaves that appeal to you. Program Director Jennifer Schlick will accompany you on your walk and give you a tree lesson on this field walk. The history of the Arboretum is as long as the history of Audubon, if not longer. The stories and knowledge will be imprinted on your mind as you work with the leaves to print your scarf and wall-hanging.
After collecting your leaves, you'll head back inside to learn how to monoprint your fabric.
The bamboo fabric that retired art instructor Sue Yauchzy uses drapes beautifully and is a sustainable product. You will walk away from this workshop with a new skill and a greater appreciation for the trees and what they can bring your life.
Both workshops are priced at $35 for participants.
If you are a Friend of the Nature Center the reduced cost is $30. Reservations with payment are due the Monday prior to the class, register soon.
So, OK. If any of you know me well you know that I'm not really the silk scarf wearing type. But I love natural projects and I love giving useful gifts. This is perfect. The scarves are multi-purpose wrapping paper, scarf, table runner, belt, the list goes on and on. They would make great gifts for people I know and give me yet another artsy nature project to do.
If you need more information on either workshop, please call 569-2345 or visit our website www.jamestownaudubon.org. The center is located at 1600 Riverside Road, just off Route 62 between Warren and Jamestown. The trails are open from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. to avoid peak mosquito activity. The center is open daily from 10 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. except Sundays when we open at 1 p.m. Admission rates apply for the center every day except Sunday.


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09. Market Segmentation by End-users
10. Geographical Segmentation
11. Key Leading Countries
12. Buying Criteria
13. Market Growth Drivers
14. Drivers and their Impact
15. Market Challenges
16. Impact of Drivers and Challenges
17. Market Trends
18. Trends and their Impact
19. Vendor Landscape
20. Key Vendor Analysis
21. Other Reports in this Series
Companies Mentioned:
- Enea AB
- GreenHills Software Inc.
- Intel Corp.
- Microsoft Corp.
- Advantech Co. Ltd.
- Emersion Network Power Inc.
- IBM Corp.
- Microchip Technology Inc.
- Mitsubishi Electric Corp.
- National Instruments Corp.
- NEC Corp.
- Radisys Corp.
- STMicroelectronics
- Toshiba Corp.
- Via Technologies Inc.
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Principal battling cancer surprises students at pep rally
Fundraiser to benefit principal's family set for March 15
JANESVILLE, Wis. - An annual event for Monroe Elementary School in Janesville will be a fundraiser for the school's principal.
Principal Lori Burns remains on medical leave battling stage four breast cancer.
She surprised her students by returning to school Thursday for their pep rally to kick off "Monroe Madness," the school's annual students verses staff basketball game.
After three weeks, Burns returned to Monroe Elementary School to cheers, high fives and applause.
"I have lesions on my brain, on my liver, my lungs and my vertebrae. So I have a big battle ahead of me," Burns said.
Burns said she has good days and bad ones. She said she has some vision problems and the radiation treatment causes a burning sensation in her body.
Despite that, Burns said she's thankful Thursday was a good day because she really wanted to see her students.
Burns says she missed her "second family" and wanted them to know she's fighting and doing OK.
"I'm here and I'm fighting. I know they're going to be thinking, 'Oh my goodness, she has no hair,'" Burns said.
Treatment robbed her of her hair, but the 44-year-old remains optimistic. She credits community support for her strength.19132454
"I feel like I have the perfect situation in order to beat this and that's the way I'm entering this. With God on my side and all these people supporting us. I'm going to fight the good fight," Burns said.
Burns travels to Madison daily for treatment. She said fundraisers hosted by Janesville groups have helped with those expenses. It's unclear when she will be able to return, but she said her heart remains with her students.
"When they've come in here for discipline or when I'm talking to them out at recess, all I want them to do is try, and that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to try and I feel like I am the most equipped that I have ever been in my life to battle this."
This year's Monroe Madness will be a benefit for Burns and her family. It is being held March 15 in the gym at Craig High School, 401 S. Randall Ave. Tip-off is at 6 p.m.
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...To the long and winding road.
In the real world, New Years day was almost a week ago. In the world of making numbers and getting everything taken care of, yesterday was the end of the year, December 37th.
This has been a long, long O-N-D. It started in August and finally ended, days into January. We are tired, but happy. Happy to see it over. But knowing it will start all over again. In fact I am packing my bags and will be on the move for the next few months.
A few housekeeping notes: Jeremy Parzen has blogged about the upcoming Friuli blogger trip. I guess I better take my blow-dryer, this is looking more like a hair band trip. But I am excited to be a guest of the Italians, to delve more deeply into a region we all love and respect.
On the other blog I contribute to, The Blend, I recently did a little piece on Pinot Grigio trends in America and where the business is going. Check it out, it is quite revealing, at least for those of us in flyover country.
Lastly, thanks to all for a great year here on the wine trail in Italy. And in the spirit of Jeremy's "Dolly shot", and just for fun, I will leave you with our New Years greeting, where we managed to "finagle" a compliant Luca Zaia into going along with another photo-caper.
Auguri Capo!!!
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Normally, IBM has its announcements on Tuesdays, but this week it was on Monday!
I am here in New York City, at the Kaufmann Theater of the American Museum of Natural History, for the [IBM Storage Innovation Executive Summit]. We have about 250 clients here, as well as many bloggers and storage analysts.
My day started out being interviewed by Lynda from Stratecast, a division of [Frost & Sullivan]. This interview will be part of a video series that Stratecast is doing about the storage industry.
(About the venue: American Museum of Natural History was built in 1869. It was featured in the film "Night at the Museum". In keeping with IBM's focus on scalability and preservation, the museum here boasts skeletons of the largest dinosaurs. The five-story building takes up several city blocks, and the Kaufmann theater is buried deep in the bottom level, well shielded from cell phone or Wi-Fi signals allowing me to focus on taking notes the traditional way, with pen and paper.)
Deon Newman, IBM VP of Marketing for Northa America, was our Master of Ceremonies. Today would be filled with market insight, best practices, thought leadership, and testimonials of powerful results.
This is my first in a series of blog posts on this event.
- Information Explosion on a Smarter Planet
Bridget van Kralingen, IBM General Manager for North America, indicated that storage is finally having its day in the sun, moving from the "back office" to the "front office". According to Google's Eric Schmidt, we now create, capture and replicate more date in two days than all of the information recorded from the dawn of time to the year 2003.
- 1928: IBM's innovative 80-column punch card stored nearly twice as much as its 50-column predecessor.
- 1947: Bing Crosby decided to do his radio show by recording it at his convenience on magnetic tape, rather than doing it live. This was the motivation for IBM researches to investigate tape media, delivering the first commercial tape drive in 1952. One tape reel could hold the equivalent of 30,000 punch cards.
- 1956: the IBM RAMAC mainframe was the first computer to access data randomly with an externally-attached disk system, the "350 Disk Unit", which stored 5 million 7-bit characters (about 5MB) and weighed over 500 pounds. Compare that today's cell phone that can store several GB of data in a handheld device.
- 1978: IBM invented Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) through a collaboration with University of Berkeley.
- 1993: IBM introduces the [IBM 9337 Disk Storage Array], the first external disk storage system for distributed operating systems. This was based on the Serial Storage Architecture [SSA] protocol.
- 1995: IBM launches products that support Storage Area Networks (SAN), based on the Fibre Channel Protocol. IBM's internal codenames for disk products were all names of sharks, and so our internal mantra was that a healthy storage diet was comprised of "Plenty of Fish and Fibre".
- 2010: IBM ships Easy Tier, the world's easiest-to-use sub-LUN automated tiering capability, for the IBM System Storage DS8700 disk system.
Storage is growing (in capacity) at 40 percent per year, but IT budgets are only growing (in dollars) by a measly 1 to 5 percent. She cited the success at [Sprint], presented at the October 2010 launch. By combining IBM SAN Volume Controller with a three-tier storage architecture, Sprint lowered their raw capacity from 10PB to 8.4PB, increasing utilization from 35 to 78 percent. This involved shrinking from six storage vendors to three, and reducing total number of disk arrays from 166 down to 96. The resulting system has only 38 percent of their data on their most expensive Tier-1 storage, the rest is now living on less expensive Tier-2 and Tier-3 storage.
Companies are entering the era of Big Data with an insatiable appetite for collecting and analyzing data for marketplace insights. IBM [InfoSphere BigInsights], based on the Apache Hadoop, has helped customers make sense of it all. Innovative technology, expertise and marketplace insight will provide the competitive path forward in the coming decade.
- Storage Challenges and Opportunities in 2011 and Beyond
I always enjoy hearing Stan Zaffos, Gartner Research VP, present at the annual [Data Center Conference] in Las Vegas every December. His analysis and research focuses on storage systems and emerging storage technologies.
Stan provided his perspective on the storage industry. He suggested a top-down approach, based on the market trends that Gartner is closely monitoring. He suggests focusing heavily on managing data growth, using SLAs to improve efficiency, and to follow Gartner's recommended actions. His statement, "If something is not sustainable, then it is unsustainable." resonated well with the audience. His key three points:
- Design to meet but not exceed Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
- Re-evaluate your ratio of SAN versus NAS based on growth of unstructured data content,
- Explore the variety of Cloud options available.
Those of us who have been in this business a long time recognize that the problems haven't changed, just the dimensions. When in the past three decades were IT budgets generous and plentiful? When was there more than enough IT staff to handle all the requests in a timely manner? When hasn't there been a period of information growth? Gartner's analysis external control block (RAID protected disk systems) is growing revenue at 8.7 percent. Raw TBs of disk capacity is growing at 55 percent, and expected to be 100 Exabytes by 2015.
SAN has four times more revenue than NAS today, but NAS is growing faster. NAS was only 9 percent marketshare in 2010, but is projected to grow to 32 percent by 2015. SAN can offer higher price/performance for traditional OLTP and database workloads, but NAS is better suited for unstructured data, backups and archives, assisted by storage efficiency features like real-time compression and data deduplication. Which industries create the most unstructured data? The ones involved in filling out forms! This includes government, insurance agencies, manufacturing, mining and pharmaceuticals.
The phrase "good enough" should no longer be considered an insult. Too often IT departments design solutions that far exceed negotiated Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and they should instead focus on just meeting them instead. Modular storage systems are often sufficient for most workloads. Slower 7200RPM SATA disks can be one third the price of faster 15K RPM Fibre Channel drives, and often sufficient performance for the tasks required. Unified storage, such as IBM N series, can help simplify capacity planning, as storage can be re-purposed if different workloads grow at different rates. The key is to focus on meeting SLAs based on the price-vs-risk factor. Take a minimalist approach with fewer SLAs, fewer management classes, and fewer storage vendors.
Stan suggests a two-pronged approach: Capacity management through content analytics and classification, and Efficient Utilization through Thin Provisioning, storage virtualization, Quality of Service (QoS), compression and deduplication capabilities. This features will be ubiquitous by 2013. If you are worried that these technologies mean more information packed onto fewer devices, Stan's response was "If it's not there, it can't break." Storing data on fewer disks or tape cartridges means less chance something will fail.
Stan feels IT shops using Thin Provisioning should continue to charge their end-users on what they ask for (the full allocation request) rather than what the thin-provisioned amount actually is on the storage devices themselves. For example, if someone asks for 100GB LUN to be allocated to their system, but this only takes up 30GB of actual data space, chargeback the full 100GB!
It can take five years for new technology to get 50 percent adopted. The Romans took eight years to build the [Colosseum]. His research on "network convergence" found that 42 percent planned to use iSCSI, 32 percent Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) or other Top-of-Rack(TOR) converged switches, and 16 percent looking for full convergence of servers, switches and storage. Features like IBM Easy Tier automatic sub-LUN tiering were introduced later, and so have not been adopted as widely as other features like Thin Provisioning that have been around since the 1990's IBM RAMAC Virtual Array.
Stan felt that Public and Private clouds were two different approaches. Public clouds offer reservation-less provisioning. Private clouds offer improved agility, but can be more complex to set up, and has the risk of idle capacity similar to traditional IT datacenter deployments. Storage and File virtualization should be considered a pre-req for adopting Cloud technologies.
Storage IT teams need to adopt more than just technical skills. They need to learn about legal and government regulatory compliance issues, financial considerations, and would even benefit doing some "marketing". Why marketing? Because often IT departments need end-users to change their attitudes and behaviours, and this can be accomplished through internal marketing campaigns.
This certainly was a great way to start the day!
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Four middle school teams from the Kenai Peninsula (Homer, Kenai, Nikiski and Soldotna) competed for 10 boys medals and 10 girls medals in middle school Boroughs ski championships held March 1 in Homer.
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Homer girls scored five medals. Sarah Wolf placed third, Katia Holmes, fourth, Mia Alexson, fifth, and Libby Fabich, 10th.
Homer Huskies continued to dominate the podium as they did this entire season. The event took place at Sunset Loop after deteriorating snow conditions made the original venue at Lookout Mountain impossible.


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efghijiloveyou wrote:Yeah, H in regards to the NYC album, I have heard many a Macca fan bemoaning the dirty rotten autotuning on that one. Frankly, I don't notice anything out of the ordinary.
Careful or we'll get into this debate again. If you can't hear auto-tune, more power to you. But it's very obviously used all over the place, so much so that some of you think that's just the vocal effect used or something. He sounds like super paul, never missing a note. It's ridiculous and I think one of the big reasons so many of you are stunned at how old he sounds now--ancient when compared to his 2009 auto tuned self!


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Skip to comments.Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 24 March 2013
Posted on 03/24/2013 4:29:28 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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Alas, I've always been more into DO than WATCH, and the only movies I've watched for the past 30 years have been the ones I've taken the kids and lately the grandkids to see.
....for at least as long as it takes for the teenagers to prefer The Company of Others at their movie goings. (Only two out of the nine are that old, but the birthdays sure come around fast these days.)
Jedi Time, eh? Sounds like fun.
Yes the citizenship by birth has to end, not only do the illegals living here take advantage; those that live in Mexico cross the border just to have their babies here. That issue causes many problems, most have had no prenatal care, they show up in labor at a US hospital, then lie/don't know about their medical issues- don't pay the bill and if ANYTHING goes wrong there are lawyers usually in the waiting room to sue Dr. and hospital. Those that cross just to have their babies don't live here, don't plan to- contribute NOTHING but that child is a US citizen and entitled to all the goodies whenever they want.
Citizenship by birth is such a bad deal women from many countries come here just to have babies here to get every advantage- it is not just a problem with the Southern border.
I agree with you..IF the gays wanted what a LOT of single people want..get marriage out of the tax code, let people "assign" a soc sec or estate tax beneficiary...they would have asked for those changes. No need to mess with "marriage".
Its MY taxes...and MY social security....why can't I do what I want with it...And you don't think there is and will be fraud with gay marriage.
And now, time for the Sunday Show Transcripts:
Fox News Sunday: http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/fox-news-sunday-chris-wallace/2013/03/24/sen-rand-paul-top-congressional-issues-pivotal-moment-battle-over-gay-marriage
Meet the Press: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51308323/ns/meet_the_press-transcripts/t/march-michael-bloomberg-wayne-lapierre-david-boies-richard-engel-ralph-reed-hilary-rosen-ej-dionne-david-brooks/
Face the Nation: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-57576019/face-the-nation-transcripts-march-24-2013-same-sex-marriage-foreign-policy/
This Week: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcripttwo-powerhouse-roundtables/story?id=18790698
State of the Union: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1303/24/sotu.01.html
Should have been illegals years ago. We need a law that can backdate for ten years.
lol. Hey, I didn't say anyone was old. :-)
Had I known that verbose but utterly insipid beyotch Nicolle with two l"s for emphasis was on Fox, I would not have watched the re run at 6! She is the equivalent of a cold war spy in the GOP, woman makes me ill. By the way, she needs a freaking hairdresser! What a drudge!
The House Committee on UnAmerican Activities came about because they defined the communist party as advocating the VIOLENT OVERTHROW OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT. Sedition and treason were not taken lightly by either the US citizens or most of their elected officials. Most democrat and Republican senators and congressmen supported the US govt whatever political differences they may have had. My only vote for a democrat EVER was for Congressman Larry McDonald of Georgia. LM teamed with NC Republican Senator Jesse Helms, former democrat, to fight the communist infiltration of the US govt. McDonalds death in a plane headed for Korea, which was shot down by the Russians, was not a coincidence IMO. The communist infiltration has progressed to their now open advocacy of the total destruction and remake of our Republic into an appendage of the socialist, one world govt. Communists and variations thereof call themselves whatever umbrella name fits a current agenda and avoids whatever is left of the stigma of admitting their communist affiliation. Oh well, speaking of pills!!!
As for Dems, even JFK and RFK worked directly against the communist infiltration. McCarthy, as you might recall, hired RFK and was his godfather, I believe. Too bad about Teddy. His infamous letter to Andropov was not just an act of treason but a betrayal of his dead brothers too.
Back in the day, there were plenty of worthy Dems, Scoop Jackson to mention the best. But that party is long gone.
lol, tell us what you really think about NicoLLe. She WAS particularly irritating yesterday.
Wrong. Flemming vs Nestor put an end to that charade. Once your payroll taxes are provided to the government, they no longer belong to you. SS can change the terms of its program anytime. You don't "own" your SS contributions or the account.
If you allow everyone to direct their their SS survivor/disability benefits to anyone they like, it would represent a huge increase in costs for a program that has been running in the red since 2010 and has an unfunded liability of $20 trillion.
Yes, there will be widespread fraud with gay marriage. There will be marriages of convenience so that people can share benefits and coverage.
thanks for the info...didn't know all that. yeesh.
Almost all the Republican politicians are no more conservative than Scoop Jackson, Howard Heflin or David Boren. All of them were lying-scum politicians, but they loved their country.
Now the democrats of today are true Leftists/Socialists at best, Communists at worst, and the Republicans today are the conservative democrats of old.
All we have to do is turn it around on the dems. They set the agenda.They figure out what con they will pull on us, how it will end, then implement it. Much of the time they are successful. We look foolish and then they repeat the entire scenario.
FRiend, right on. It is depressing to watch these GOP critters on the sunday shows. No initiative, follow Dem talking points the MSM gets from the WH, no offense at all, etc., etc. Rove or somebody else dumping on the base on a weekly basis. Staggering buffoonery. This has gone on for YEARS. Totally unacceptable.
I really don't get it. Rubbing our faces in it like we have no choice. Do they really think we are plantation voters with no choice?
Almost all the Republican politicians are no more conservative than Scoop Jackson, Howard Heflin or David Boren. All of them were lying-scum politicians, but they loved their country.
Now the democrats of today are true Leftists/Socialists at best, Communists at worst, and the Republicans today are the conservative democrats of old.
There are Republicans with paleo liberal leanings, and even Dr. Ben Carson, the latest conservative darling, is closer to being a paleo liberal than a paleocon.
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Wilma I. Arnold, 78, of 106 E.L. Day Drive, Westline, passed away Thursday (October 17, 2013) at Lakeview Senior Care and Living Center in Smethport.
Born November 12, 1934, in Westline, she was a daughter of the late Martin and Margauretta Young Dann. On September 12, 1952, in Westline, she married Robert D. Arnold Sr. who preceded her in death.
Mrs. Arnold was a psychiatric aide at Warren State Hospital for twentyeight years retiring in 2000.
She was a former member and officer of the Lafayette Township Volunteer Fire Department and also was a member of the Lafayette Community Action Committee. She enjoyed quilting with friends, spending time with her grandchildren, gardening, music and dancing.
Surviving are a daughter, Gale (Willard) Shay Sr. of Mt. Jewett; two sons, Ben James (Victoria) Arnold of Oil City and Billie J. Arnold of Bradford; and a daughterinlaw, Peggy Arnold of Huntingtown, MD. Also surviving are seven grandchildren, Rod (Denise) Arnold and their sons, Rodney and Ryan. Willard (Pam) Shay Jr. and their children, Harley, Nicholas, Samantha and Joey, Ronald (Lori) Shay and their children, Kayla, Alyssa, Jordan, Brandan and Lindsey, Monica (David) Conklin and their children, Paige and Max, Brian Carey, Abigail Arnold and Micah Arnold; and several nieces and nephews.
Preceding her in death, in addition to her husband and parents, are two sons, Robert D. Arnold Jr. and Kurt Allen Arnold; two brothers, Carlyle "Mutt" Dann and Martin James Dann Jr.; and three sisters, Elenora Milbourne, Marie Chirillo and Loretta Keeton.
Friends will be received at the Cummings Funeral Home, Inc. in Mt. Jewett on Sunday from 7:30 to 9:30 pm and again on Monday from 11:00 to 1:00 pm at which time a funeral service will be held with the Rev. W. Craig Smith, Methodist pastor, officiating. Burial will be at McKean Memorial Park at a future date.
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FOLLOW UP: Intel Denies Larrabee Negotiations with Add-In-Card Makers.
Intel Corp. has initiated negotiations with China-based manufacturers of graphics cards regarding making products based on Larrabee graphics processing unit (GPU) due in 2010. The consultations mean that Intel is more or less confident that its first discrete graphics chip in more than ten years will emerge in 2010.
The chief executive officer of Intel – Paul Otellini – himself has talked to several China-based manufacturers of graphics cards to promote the Larrabee GPU, reports DigiTimes web-site citing sources among makers of graphics boards. The main aim of the visit of Mr. Otellini to the country was encourage manufacturers of graphics cards to use Larrabee, which means that the GPU project is very important for Intel.
Certain unnamed first-tier graphics card manufacturers remain rather negative concerning adoption of Intel Larrabee in the beginning due to the fact that the GPU may still have erratums or may not be competitive with ATI Radeon and Nvidia GeForce, they do expect Larrabee to have a chance of competing against the leading-edge graphics chips designers after a couple of years.
Although large graphics boards makers remain conservative about Larrabee, Intel reportedly proposed certain business schemes under which companies would receive preferential pricing when Larrabee is purchased along with other products or separately. While discount plans seem to be interesting it is unlikely that they will work since initially demand for Larrabee is unlikely to be comparable to demand to for Intel's microprocessors or chipsets.
The world's largest chipmaker earlier said that the first Larrabee GPU will be released in the first half of 2010 and then it indicated that Larrabee was due early in 2010.
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Malcolm X was assassinated on this day in 1965 in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom while speaking to a meeting of the Organization of Afro-American Unity. Weeks before his death, he appeared on the CBC's "Front Page Challenge" and addresses questions ranging from the his departure from the Nation of Islam to his disagreements with "Uncle Martin" to his practice of Islam.
It's near the end of the conversation that piqued my interest as I think about recent events in Egypt and an unforgettable photograph of Malcolm X praying in a mosque in Cairo:
"We are black Americans. We have a problem that goes beyond religion."
We feel that the problem, number one, of the black man in America is beyond America's ability to solve. It's a human problem, not an American problem or a Negro problem. And as a human problem or a world problem, we feel that it should be taken out of the jurisdiction of the United States government and the United States courts and taken into the United Nations in the same manner that the problems of the black man in South Africa, Angola, and other parts of the world — and even the way they're trying to bring the problems of the Jews in Russia into the United Nations because of violations of human rights.
We believe that our problem is one not one of civil rights but a violation of human rights. Not only are we denied the right to be a citizen in the United States, we are denied the right to be a human being."
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Less bloody affairs in Detroit, Michigan and San Jose, California.
Also see our previous post, Video: Bloody Muslim Ashura Ritual in Atlanta, Georgia
Gateaway Pundit linked to our post, many thanks, and has video from 2011.
The Blaze linked to our post, many thanks, and has more detail on the mosque.
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