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Boulud Sud is Chef Daniel Boulud's vibrant Mediterranean-inspired restaurant featuring flavors that travel the entire Mediterranean region from the shores of Southern France to the coast of North Africa and beyond. There is an emphasis on fish and an abundance of vegetables, as well as regional spices and seasonings. The Mid-Century Modern interior, including a spacious bar and lounge, is decorated in tones of sunflower yellow and slate grey. The light-filled space is framed by floor-to-ceiling windows, vaulted ceilings, pear wood paneling and terrazzo floors, as well as works by famed artist Vik Muniz. The restaurant, with an entrance on West 64th Street, is just steps from Manhattan's Lincoln Center and is adjacent to Bar Boulud and Épicerie Boulud.
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TRAVIS SWIKARD, Executive Chef
Travis Swikard can remember the exact moment he knew he would be a chef—he was four-years-old and his father deglazed a pan with cognac, flames erupted into the air, and "It was like magic," says Swikard. In fact, he can remember every culinary experience he's ever had with photographic precision: the first time he had duck at eight-years-old while out to dinner with his great grandparents; waking up on the beach in Mexico during a family surfing trip and paddling into the ocean to catch fresh lobster to cook with scrambled eggs for breakfast; unwrapping presents on Christmas morning and discovering the cookbooks of Chef Daniel Boulud. It was clear his interest in the kitchen far superseded others' his age—while his four brothers and two sisters preferred to play outside, Travis preferred to help his father, an entrepreneur by profession and passionate cook by hobby, prepare dinner for the family. "For me, cooking has always been about making family and friends happy. Creating a reason to gather around the table. That foundation has always kept me grounded, and continues to push me to be the best chef I can be." Knowing 'Chef' was in his DNA, he wasted no time getting to work and building his culinary caliber.
At age 15 and still in school, Travis took his first food job, running a sushi bar inside a San Diego grocery store. He treated the business as his own and quickly learned the dedication needed to succeed. He arrived to the store at 6am every morning before school to cook rice, cut fish, fill the display and set up for the day. He returned immediately after school at 3:30pm and worked until the store closed at 9pm. During high school career week he had to shadow a professional of interest and approached one of the top chefs in San Diego, Deborah Scott, who agreed to take him on. A one week stage turned into a four year job and his first high-end, service-oriented restaurant experience. At Island Prime Travis met other young chefs and became entrenched in the chef community and culture. A fellow young chef had recently come to town, 24-year-old Gavin Kaysen, to be Executive Chef of San Diego's El Bizcocho. Travis sought him out and the two met at a culinary competition hosted by Alton Brown at the local mall in which Kaysen was competing. At the time neither knew they would eventually be peers, both as Executive Chefs at Chef Daniel Boulud's lauded New York City restaurants.
Ready to experience cuisine outside of San Diego, Travis enrolled in the New England Culinary Institute (NECI). There he not only learned French technique, how to raise pigs and slaughter chickens, how to work on a farm and respect the integrity of ingredients, but also the importance of establishing systems in a kitchen and how to manage a team. Upon completing NECI's culinary arts program Travis headed to England to join the team at Chef Phil Thompson's renowned Auberge du Lac. The six month stint was an invaluable experience which shaped him as a chef and person. "Being around Chef Phil Thompson showed me the type of chef I wanted to be. I respected his skill and his sensibility. The key to being a great chef is being a great leader, and at Auberge that light bulb went off." Travis was laser focused and intent on taking away as much as possible, pushing himself harder than ever before. In fact one day Chef Thompson felt he was too focused, and reminded Travis that, "you're a person, cooking for people"—those simple yet powerful words are ones that he now lives by and reminds his team of that every day.
In 2008 Travis returned to the States and was serendipitously contacted by Gavin Kaysen, who had moved from San Diego to New York City to run Chef Daniel Boulud's upscale Café Boulud. Kaysen was building his team and solicited Travis to be a part of it. Having regarded Boulud as a culinary icon since childhood, he immediately headed to NYC to stage and got the job (also serendipitous, that same night while out celebrating he met his wife, Mia). The kitchen at Café was filled with talent and Travis thrived, working his way up the line from Garde Manger, Chef de Partie, to Tournant
In 2011, when Chef Boulud announced a new project, a contemporary Mediterranean restaurant that would open across from Lincoln Center, Travis was hand-picked to be Executive Sous Chef. Before the kitchen was constructed and the bar was built, Travis, with Executive Chef Aaron Chambers, researched dishes and flavors, tested recipes after restaurant hours in the kitchen at DANIEL, and met with Boulud to turn his vision into a reality.
In November 2013 Travis' childhood aspiration became a reality as he was named Executive Chef of Boulud Sud. Travis draws on his diverse culinary background to create dishes inspired by the vibrant region, executed with technique, and driven by ingredients. "Boulud Sud is about elegant and inspired Mediterranean cuisine. It's about taste, texture, and aroma first and foremost, but also about fun." As Executive Chef he plans to pay it forward, mentoring and molding young chefs the way many did for him, and continuing to feed friends and family, the reason he's always cooked.
Anna McGorman began working in professional kitchens in her hometown of Philadelphia; she spent three years at the James Beard-nominated Fork restaurant before earning her Bachelor degree from the Culinary Institute of America, with honors in Baking and Pastry Arts Management. During her studies she spent time in London where she spent time at the Michelin-starred and only female-run Gordon Ramsay restaurant, Angela Hartnett at the Connaught. In 2008 she joined the pastry team at Chef Daniel Boulud's flagship restaurant DANIEL, under the leadership of Dominique Ansel. At DANIEL Anna rose in the pastry kitchen ranks, from cook to sous chef, and developed the high-level skills found only in a fine dining restaurant. When Ansel opened his namesake bakery in 2011 he recruited Anna as his Executive Sous Chef. Eager to further develop her pastry acumen, she worked at DA Bakery for three years and was responsible for creating seasonal pastries and viennoieseries, overseeing production, acting as food stylist for media opportunities, and managing staff. During this time ('BC' = before cronut, 'AC' = after cronut), sales and production quadrupled, and the bakery won countless accolades including Zagat's 'Best Bakery in NYC.'
In December 2014 Anna rejoined Daniel Boulud's group of restaurants as Executive Pastry Chef at db Bistro Moderne, and in 2015 she moved to Boulud's Upper West Side restaurants, where she oversees the pastry programs of both Boulud Sud and Bar Boulud.
With an academic background in poetry and philosophy, Amanda Smeltz is far from your average sommelier. Working in restaurants was merely a way to support her undergraduate studies, until she crossed paths with a wine buyer who hailed from the opening team at Gramercy Tavern. Noting Amanda's curiosity for wine, he took her under his wing—and eventually persuaded her to pursue a career in the New York City wine scene.
While simultaneously earning her MFA in Creative Writing at the New School, Smeltz opened the Breslin and the John Dory under Wine Director Carla Rsezseskwi. She stayed with the April Bloomfield restaurant group until 2012, when she was offered unusual opportunity—and challenge—of convincing Bushwick beer drinkers to pair wine with their pizza.
Over the next four years, as the Wine Director of Roberta's and Blanca, Smeltz was at the center of the emerging Brooklyn food movement. The restaurants' rule-breaking influence on the rest of the New York City—and national—food scene sparked the questions that would fuel Smeltz's style as a sommelier. Most notably, how to defy the notion that wine be solely associated with luxury and expenditure.
Smeltz notes, "At Roberta's, they told me I would never make it into a wine restaurant, and by the end of my time there, the program was bringing in one million dollars annually. That, in a nutshell, is what I want to do with wine—prove that it fits in anywhere: at the table, your backyard…it's a beverage that is suited to all situations and contexts. Peasants have been drinking it for as long as royals have! It shape shifts from culture to culture." The media took notice, with Eric Asimov including Smeltz's wine list at Roberta's among his 2012 "10 Most Surprising Wine Lists in NYC" for the New York Times.
Of course, working at an edgy, young restaurant provides a wide open playing field in which to experiment. Translating that vision to fine dining is another challenge entirely. In choosing to oversee the wine program at Bar Boulud and Boulud Sud, Smeltz is facing down what she calls "the dichotomy between fine dining and hip restaurants." She adds, "There are false camps in food and drink, and many people think they want to be in one camp or another, versus having one foot in both. I want there to be less of a rigid divide between what makes things 'fancy' or 'fine,' and what makes things vivid."
As the new Head Sommelier for Bar Boulud and Boulud Sud, Smeltz seeks to honor the work of her predecessor, Mike Madrigale and his cellar. That means continuing a program of exceptional Burgundies and the nightly "Bar Boulud Big Bottle" program, but also championing regions that are lesser known. Specifically at Boulud Sud, whose influences span the Mediterranean, Smeltz looks forward to championing regions that American wine culture hasn't acclimated to—like Greek wines. "My goal is to continue to have a reason for collectors to come by, but also to welcome guests who want to explore," says Smeltz. "To keep that duality alive and well, to provide a diversity of experience—that's what enticed me to take over this cellar."


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World Soul Music is what Chris Turner uses as his remedy throughout this journey of life and love. So he presents to you his new project "LOVElife" to add to your collection of remedies that helps you continue to live life in all of its beauty. As a young man, Turner has experienced many worlds through this thing called life performing with musicians/friends such as Jesse Boykins III, ERIMAJ, Bilal, and Esperanza Spalding, as well as being father of two. "I'm blessed to know the feeling of fatherhood and to have a family of my own" says Turner, "It has taken all this time for me to gain the confidence to express what I have been living through this whole time." This project is every aspect and extent of his love; the evolution of emotions expressed from a good man with music as his vessel. The importance of Loving Yourself first and foremost before you can give True Love to a significant other, as well as the world, is key, and is a lesson that Turner has embodied in life directly and musically.
"I am merely a middle man trying to bring you and true love together. LOVElife is my melodic contribution that highlights the significance of loving yourself, sharing growth, and learning to forgive. Releasing this body of work on this day is my gift to you, for I was born on this day, and life is a precious gift to me." says Turner. LOVElife is a necessary part of an important search to find romance, of which there is no end. Happy Holidays to life and love, and all individuals finding their way, from Myself and The Romantic Movement. LOVEchild LP Coming Soon (@ChrisTurnerLC)
In April 2011, he was selected by BET to perform on 106 and Park as an "Artist To Watch" for BET's Music Matters campaign.
Chris released his first single, "Liquid Love," in 2010, and is working on his album, "LOVEchild."
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This classically trained crooner deftly combines streams of jazz, hip-hop, funk, and soul in his music; he's as comfortable with falsetto and scatting as he is with laying down smooth and creative phrasings. Growing up in Oakland, Chris Turner knew at the age of four that he wanted to be a singer just like his father. Chris recently graduated from the New School University for Jazz and Contemporary Music. There he met his future band mates who form the band ERIMAJ, Chris serves as the lead vocalist, the New York Times describes the band as, " properly new, part of something larger and still unnamed". He tours with Bilal Oliver and has toured with Gwen Stefani, Kelly Clarkson, Chris Brown, Bow Wow, Soulja Boy, and Sean Kingston. Chris recently was interviewed and performed live on BET's "106 & Park" as the latest Music Matters artist to watch. His first single, "Liquid Love," has been causing a stir on the Internet and radio programs such as BBC Radio with Gilles Peterson. Chris had the privilege in helping Esperanza Spalding finish her latest Album with background vocals. He is currently working on his first full-length release, "LOVEchild" and touring internationally. Welcome to the Romantic Movement..

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BCL/LLB student Joshua Krane has won the first prize in the undergraduate category of the Chaire du notariat – 2007 Concours de rédaction juridique. The paper, "Beneficiary-Initiated Modification of Trusts: A Comparative Examination," explored whether beneficiaries of Quebec trusts can modify their trusts without court approval. The paper, written under the supervision of Professors Madeleine Cantin-Cumyn and Lionel Smith, will be published in a forthcoming edition of the Revue générale de droit. Bravo, Joshua!
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(Another try) Ashes That Burn
The taste of coffee lingered on Bridget's teeth as she stalked down the empty street, her manicured nails now gnawed and the paint chipped in several spots as they fidgeted with bits of loose threads in her pockets. She hated Josh; everything from his straight, perfectly white teeth to his stupid shoes that squeaked when he would approach...she wished she had never, ever laid eyes on his annoying perfection. She licked her chapped, thin lips, fighting the hot, angry tears that prickled her eyes from the...don't think the word, don't think the... the break-up... yes, he was a total jerk. McAffree's was her favourite, favourite coffee place, for God's sake! And he had to tarnish it with an eiskaffee-sipped lie session, filled with countless "It's not you," and "It's me," and the final, "I think we should see other people." And there was nothing he could do about it once his words hit home. The first smart thing he'd done during the entire encounter was leaving first.
Well, the good part was...she now had more time to finish that cheesy romance novel...oh, right...that was his. She had to give it back...or did she? She could always toss it into the fire that night, pretending how she had just forgotten that it was his, and she needed more tinder... She smiled to herself as pressed the button to change the light allowing her to cross the street.
"I bet mom didn't have to go through this with dad," she said to herself as she passed the cemetery in which her mother was buried. She peeked in out of the corner of her eye, and stopped short, her heels skidding on the sidewalk.
Sobbing. Was that what she heard? She turned to face the cemetery, placing her hands on the cool, iron gates, and looked around. She didn't see anyone...
"Hello?" she called, marching over to the archway that bore the name, "Peaceful Resting Graveyard," and crossing through it. Petals of flowers billowed in the wind, swirling around the stones, causing Bridget to notice their special attention drawn to one stone in particular. There was a young boy kneeling in front of it, a single coral rose laid out in front of him. His hands were covering his face and a hood over his head, but the shaking of his slumped shoulders and sounds that seemed to emerge from his general direction led Bridget to believe that he was the one crying.
Bridget tiptoed closer to the stone, barely able to read the etchings on it, drawing in a gasp when she processed the information.
"Time heals all," it read, glowing faintly. Petals continued to convulse in a spiraling formation, like a whirlpool as they danced around it, climbing higher into the sky before flying away.
She had heard that saying many, many times, had pinned it up on her cork board, and even jotted it on a sticky note and put it up on her mirror in her bathroom, but facing it now, somehow she couldn't think of a time where she would not feel the heart-wrenching agony that Josh had inflicted on her. She scoffed at it, and suddenly the wind began to howl as if in response.
(TBC...reminders for self:
-No hoods allowed...hides identity
-The time has struck right by the clock, and then went on its way
It sped up and went on a run, having nothing left to say
Time is your friend, willing to be bent at your will
Wishing for more, begging for less, or wanting it to merely stand still,
Just stand in the loop and make your own stitch
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Police in LaPorte County are investigating a residential burglary incident that occurred Sunday afternoon at Hudson Lake.
When investigators arrived it was determined that unknown subjects entered the home where a confrontation took place. The victim was taken to IU Health LaPorte Hospital. The victim has since been released.
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Skip to comments.West-Murphy Day 8: Al Sharpton's office getting involved
Posted on 11/13/2012 7:49:31 PM PST by TigerClaws
A release issued by the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network late Tuesday afternoon indicated that representatives from his local office will speak at a press conference Wednesday "to call for a mechanical and hand re-count of the ballots in ... the West/Murphy race."
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I'd like to believe that the Sharpton crew is taking a principled stand to help West out but I could just as well entertain more cynical speculations that they're in it to sabotage him.
I'm surprised that Sharpton isn't asking for a "hand job".
He screws America every time he can, so why not?
This means things are getting hot for the Democrat. He doesn't have the numbers and he can't allow a recount to reveal it.
I know. This would be the first thing I've seen him do politically I respect.
Just count the votes fair and square. Especially the early pre Nov 1 votes where 4500 were miscounted.
I would like to believe that, too. I am apprehensive.
Col. West has done the right thing, win or lose.
I hope Shapton is pure of heart in declaring his desire to help.
Agree. It's a black man being kicked out of Congress in the deep south through fraud by the white opponent. Where is the MSM?
"No peace, no justice!"
If Rev Al comes out for the whitey, we'll have no choice but to call him racist.
Quite a pickle Al is jumping into.
I'm curious to know how many blacks voted for West. This would tell us how much it's about race vs. policies.
If Al will push thru the recount as described then I will have to say something I thought I would NEVER say —
Thank You Reverend Al Sharpton for your efforts..
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Bail Set At $250K For Daron Stinson For Instagram Stunt Pointing Gun At People [Photo]
Some things are just not funny! Im sure some of you may have come across a few 'instavideos' where jokes have just gone too far. CBS Philly reports; Daron Stinson, 21, told police that he was just kidding around and looking to record the pranks on video for his Instagram account. But Stinson now faces some very serious charges.
Philadelphia police Lt. John Stanford says last week Stinson and a friend pulled up to a 52-year-old man on Diamond Street near Sedgely and pointed what turned out to be a pellet gun at the man. They ordered him to put his bag of rock salt in the back of their truck.
The two drove away laughing. Stanford says this followed a similar stunt the pair pulled about six blocks away on Diamond.
In the video, the pellet gun is fired twice and you can see the victim running for cover.
Stanford says Stinson turned himself in to police Tuesday.
"I can't understand why anyone in their right mind would think something like this is a joke," Stanford said. "They could cause someone to have a heart attack. They could cause someone to be harmed in so many different ways. Again, this is just something that's senseless and stupid, for lack of a better term."
Stinson has been charged with Aggravated Assault, Conspiracy, Terroristic Threats, Possession of an Instrument of a Crime, Simple Assault and Recklessly Endangering Another Person.
"Hopefully he gets the maximum sentence, whatever that sentence is," Commissioner Charles Ramsey said Wednesday morning. "It just makes no sense, none at all. He's got to pay for it. It's not a prank. It's not funny."
Stinson was arraigned overnight Wednesday and his bail has been set at $250,000. His next court hearing is scheduled for March 6th.
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The news that the 8-acre portion of Innovation Park that contains the Alexander Eschweiler-designed buildings likely will be rehabilitated by the Mandel Group is good for those of us who have been anxious to see them live on with new purposes.
Mandel is one of the premier developers of condominiums and apartment buildings in Southeast Wisconsin and puts a premium on energy efficiency in its projects. The owner of the land, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Real Estate Foundation, is negotiating with Mandel to purchase the five buildings that sit on an 8-acre piece of the 89 acres the foundation bought from Milwaukee County in February.
Historic ties
The redevelopment can't come soon enough as officials of the UWM foundation have said that the buildings are deteriorating "by the week." The buildings were designed by Alexander Eschweiler, who came to Milwaukee to study at Marquette University and stayed to open his architectural practice in Milwaukee in 1892.
He designed homes for the city's business and commerce elite, including Charles Allis and James K. Ilsley. His commercial works include the Milwaukee Downer College building that is now part of UWM, the Wisconsin Gas Building in Milwaukee and the Japonist pagoda design for filling stations for the former Wadham's Oil and Grease Co., a few of which have survived in the area.
The buildings on the County Grounds were built to house an agricultural college that was one of the state's first attempts at offering technical education. The county's rural population dwindled, and the college was closed in 1928. Since then, the buildings have had a variety of uses, the most widely known was as a county-run sanitarium. They've been vacant for years and have fallen into severe disrepair.
A creative, green developer
Mandel has developed high-end condo and apartment projects on Milwaukee's East Side and in Elm Grove and Brookfield, among other locations. The company is not only dedicated to green building, but is also creative. For example, the city of Milwaukee requires storefronts on the street level of new condominium buildings. With the economy, many of those storefronts have gone vacant. Mandel, in an effort to fill buildings and make the locales more attractive to residential tenants on upper floors, has offered the space to creative types for $1 per month to help them get their businesses off the ground. Of course, the developer hopes they will convert to paying commercial tenants as their businesses grow and become established.
Energy efficiency also is important to Mandel Group. From building materials to Energy Star-rated appliances to high-efficiency heating and cooling systems, the company makes great efforts to create energy-efficient buildings.
Hoping for work to start
The hope is that the agreement between the UWM Real Estate Foundation and Mandel will be inked soon and work can begin on rehabbing those historic buildings.
This year also will bring the beginning of infrastructure changes in the building of roads to begin to create the layout of Innovation Park.
A building that will house what the university calls a business accelerator also is to begin, with the help of a $5.4 million federal grant, later this year.
It seems everyone who sees the potential of Innovation Park is chomping at the bit to see it move along, including many of the 22 engineering professors hired over the past couple years who have purchased homes in Wauwatosa in anticipation of the eventual construction of a $75 million engineering school that will be the centerpiece of Innovation Park.
Robert Warde is a freelance business writer living in Wauwatosa. He has been a journalist for more than 27 years. Reach him at robert.warde@ yahoo.com.
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I nodded and smiled. Of coarse, I'd do anything for any of them.
On the other hand, I was feeling quite guilty. Harmony had said that we all knew each oter's pasts. That wasn't entirely true. Nobody knew my past. Not one person. everyone knew me for who I was now, not who I was then. In fact, nobody except me knew anything at all about my life when I was human except me.
"Right then, that's that sorted," Harmony smiled brightly, giving Asha's shoulders a squeeze.
"Hey, Sara, guess what," Imira asked, grinning.
"You're doing something!" her grin got wider.
I blinked at her, and then we both burst out laughing. Kyo, Harmony, Xavior and Asha were looking at us as if we were completely insane.
"OK... so what're we gonna do now?" Xavior said.
"Let's find out what got into these two." Harmony suggested.
I calmed down before Imira did, but she told everyone, "Sara was moaning about how she never, well, does anything." she giggled. "And now she's doing something!"
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Harmony frowned jokingly. "No you don't."
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Resources for the Resistance
I realized today that I was seeing a bunch of helpful links, and I have not been tracking them. I'm going to put them here for my use, but if you know of good ones, let me know and I'll share them.
It's probably obvious, but inclusion here in no way implies that I've vetted the groups, nor am I recommending them. If I find out that a given link is dubious, I'll drop it. Also, I'm not even going to pretend that this is in any way an all-inclusive list.
I'm intending this list as a resource for people who are wondering what they can do to help, but I'm pretty sure that if you wanted to throw some cash their way, these organizations would be happy for that sort of help in return)
- How to stay safe when exercising your rights.
- Information about street medics. If you have some first aid training, you might want to read this for hints on how to be of great help at marches and demonstrations.
- How to gear up for a protest
- An Activist's Guide to Basic First Aid.
- "Get Ground Game." A listing of airport protests.
- Print out the Americans of Conscience Action Worksheet and make a plan.
- Sign up to receive a "Weekly Action Checklist."
- Resistance Database
- Not Up for Grabs (resource site focusing on women's issues arrising out of the 2016 election)
- Planned Parenthood (for reproductive health care)
- American Civil Liberties Union – ACLU is one of the oldest civil liberties orgs in the US)
- Resistance Manual (looks like the big dog of resource sites so far)
- Article on Mashable: '5 Calls' site makes calling representatives easy for people who hate talking on the phone (and here's actual 5 Calls site)
- Article on Mashable: 4 new sites to help you take action after the Women's March on Washington
- 10 Actions / 100 Days
- The Big Hundred (instgram focus)
- Call Them In
- Swing Left: "Don't despair. Mobilize." That's the tagline of Swing Left, a website that points out swing districts, or "places where the winner of the last House of Representatives election was determined by a thin margin." The site helps you find the swing districts closest to you and, in turn, find progressive politicians to support.
- March for Science
"I don't need to march for any rights," she said.
I spotted this post on Facebook today written by a Trump supporter in response to the women's march, a woman with an Hispanic-sounding last name.
I am not a victim. I don't need to march for any rights. I have the same rights as anyone else. I'm not raising a victim either. So let's call today's activities what they really are, an anti Trump rally for prochoice people. What a bunch of bullies and so much hate speech (scarlet johansen verbally attacking a woman – Ivanka Trump and Madonna talking of her fantasies to blow up OUR White House). I don't want my daughter looking up to any of those nasty women.
Anyone involved in this farce, I am disappointed in you for being a part of such hypocrisy. You are not victims. I would have so much more respect for you if you just called it 'Women marching against Trump in fear of losing (abortion) choice.' I stand behind your right to march for that. Just be honest about what you're doing.
I want to discuss this point-by-point, so I'm including the entire thing. I'm also going to write about some things that are at least implied by her profile.
Point one: A woman wrote this. Women only slightly older than I am have told me about rights they only gained within our lifetimes. She seems to assume that, because she has these rights now, that she'll always have them. Many, many, many women and men have fought for over 200 years to get to the point where she can feel confident that she has the same rights as the men around her. I don't think it's overstating the case to say that she has these rights in part because 'nasty women' stood up to social pressure to fight for them.
Point two: A person with a minority last name, Hispanic in origin, wrote this. There are American citizens of Hispanic descent in the US today who face daily discrimination, including being subject to unequal policing and discrimination in the workplace. She lives in an urban area in North Carolina, so it's possible she herself doesn't see such discrimination, but I suspect that it would be an eye-opening experience for her to drive through some of the states along the Mexican border. Even in North Carolina, though, it's probably only her economic status that's shielding her. I hear people casually referring to Hispanic folks with really ugly racist terms, and assuming/implying that "the Mexicans" are only capable of being roofers, landscapers, or house maids. I wonder if she'd be comfortable being addressed with any of those terms, or lumped into those assumed limits.
Point three: "I am not a victim" she says. That's great. I'm glad that she feels safe in her life. I'd never wish any ill to her. But many of our fellow citizens are not so safe. I am able to see that just because I'm not personally being victimized, the incoming administration is putting many more of those citizens into precarious situations or outright danger.
Point four: "I don't need to march for any rights." Nice. Apparently she doesn't have the slightest sense of gratitude for everyone who has marched and fought for those rights.
Point five: "let's call today's activities what they really are, an anti Trump rally for prochoice people." I can't call the marches that, because it would vastly understate the reasons I've seen my friends list for why they marched.
- Yes, some are pro-choice, but not all.
- Yes, nearly all the marchers are anti-Trump, but that wasn't exactly a hidden motivation.
- I've seen people who are also marching against the incoming vice president and Trump's choices for his cabinet and other administration posts; let's not pretend Trump is the marchers' only concern
- I've seen people marching in support of LGBT rights, which they see as being at risk with the new administration
- I've seen people marching in support of minority & immigrant rights
- I suspect the list is a lot longer than this.
Point six: "What a bunch of bullies" The dictionary definition of 'bully' is: A person who is habitually cruel or overbearing, especially to smaller or weaker people. It's essentially impossible for someone out of power to bully a person in power. I'll ding her here for poor word choice at a minimum. Given the tone of the rest of the post, though, I would prefer to list this as a biased word choice. People are often cruel, and if the speakers were, in fact, being cruel, then I wouldn't support that. If they were, rather, speaking emotionally and emphatically, then I totally support that.
Point seven: "I don't want my daughter looking up to any of those nasty women." That's fine. I hope that she models really good behavior for her daughter. I'd suggest she look carefully at her Facebook posts to see if she's doing so. I'm also really curious as to whether she thinks Trump's behavior is a good model for her offspring. Would she really feel comfortable sending her daughter out on a date with a young man who spoke about women the way Trump does? I think she's exhibiting a double standard by defending Trump, but accusing the speakers at the march as being nasty.
Point eight: "You are not victims." How can she know that? Her assumption — that everyone at those marches is as safe in their lives as she is in hers — goes beyond simple privilege into territory I find offensive. She is invalidating the concerns of millions of other Americans just because those concerns aren't hers. Outrageous.
Point nine: In her second paragraph, she accuses the march of being a farce, and the marchers of being hypocrites. To use the word "farce" to describe hundreds of thousands of people taking (in many cases) days out of their lives to express outrage and concern about a long list of political and social issues is just plain slander. It makes me doubt her claim that she would stand behind the right to march against Trump and for reproductive rights. She reinforces my doubt with her accusation of hypocrisy, because, again, the marchers have worked really hard to list their concerns on social media, on the signs they carried, and in innumerable blog posts, speeches, and interviews over the last two months. I see no hidden agendas, no hypocrisy.
Final point: I saved this for the last, because it would have been redundant to make it for each point above. To assume that — because you have a right — you will always have that right, is to ignore history and ignore all the people who fought and sometimes died for these rights. Rights, once gained, need to be actively protected for many years, and jealously guarded from attempts to diminish them.
To return to the subject line of this post… Why are people marching? People are marching to keep and extend the rights that this woman takes so much for granted.
Trump… and a meditation on buying stuff to make yourself feel better.
Most of us know — or suspect — that we don't always buy things because we need them, but because we think we'll feel better/more complete. Advertisements and reviews can hint that you'll be better looking/cooler/more manly/more well-liked (or whatever) if you just had this watch, or that jacket, or the new car, blender, book (OMG the promise of books…).
Then we buy it, and often experience buyer's remorse, or just a vague sense that it just wasn't right. In any case, the promised perfect future isn't here.
Most people either run out of cash to keep trying again or go deep into debt to keep buying more/ better quality/faster/bigger/more expensive things. Some people with more money actually buy stuff and then give it away soon after to make room so they can buy the latest stuff.
Some recognize the futility and try to find other paths to personal fulfillment, or try things like volunteering instead of purchasing.
These are really hard paths, not least because our whole society is set up to keep us hoping the next gadget or guru will be The One.
Even volunteering to help people can lead to the same disappointment; "oh, look, there are still homeless people, I've failed again." (I'm not trying to discourage volunteering, by the way. 🙂 I just suggest that you meditate a little on why you're doing it. Being really clear on your motivations will probably keep you focused for longer and prevent burnout. Heck, it might even keep you from being badly used.)
But now imagine that you are so rich that you not only have marketing people manipulating you to think "this is it!"
you also have hangers-on manipulating you to keep spending money because their chance for wealth depends on you thinking that.
If you're not particularly self-aware, it's not even likely that you'll recognize what's going on.
It's certainly easy to see this pattern in Trump. If he can just build the best resort, the biggest tower, the fanciest golf course… he'll get the adulation and satisfaction he craves.
Picture Trump in 2015: his 70th birthday is looming. He may not have many years left. He has his name on towers, golf courses, luxury resorts. It's all a bit flat.
He sets his sights on a new project; running for president. It's absurd, over-the-top… it's classic Trump. Ahh, now the hangers-on are really excited. This next vanity project is one that they can not only make serious money on, but maybe even get serious power, which is the ultimate prize at this level…
It's easy to see Trump as a buffoon; it's less easy to remember that nearly all of us have similar base urges; we just have more obvious limits. If you make $30,000 or $100,000 a year, you're pretty likely to run into your limits fairly soon. If you make $10,000,000 a year, your limits are probably less obvious.
I'm not saying that understanding that we have something in common with this guy means letting him off the hook. We absolutely have to fight him; and even more importantly, we have to fight the manipulators who helped him get to the point of being elected as the President of the United States, but we should at least be aware of our similarities, even if… or maybe particularly if… looking in this mirror makes us uncomfortable. I suspect that it's hard to fight efficiently and effectively if we are in denial about our own weaknesses.
People who annoy me. November 29 installment…*
- People who confuse the flag and the concepts the flag stands for.
- People who promote something close to worship of the American military.
- There are MANY people who risk everything to help others. Why aren't you in awe of those folks as well? If you can't figure it out, you may want to contemplate whether you've been taken in by an elaborate marketing scheme. (Corollary: not all veterans are combat vets. I was in the Navy. I washed floors and managed storerooms. Probably most military jobs are at that level of 'glamorous…' keeping things running so the small minority who are fighters can be ready to do their jobs. All of these jobs are important to keep the organization in a ready state, but don't assume every person who was in the military had some deep combat experience)
- Any organization is made up of people. People who are given large amounts of money and power are at grave risk of being corrupted by the attractions of money and power. We should be as critical of the U.S. military as we are of any other organization, to make sure that they're not falling into abuse of power or theft/mismanagement of resources.
- Supporting the troops shouldn't mean blindly supporting everything the military does. How about supporting the troops by not sending them into danger for stupid reasons? How about supporting them by taking care of them when they get home?
- People who think freedom of religion should only apply to their particular faith.
- People who assume that if you are religious you're more moral than non-religious folks… against much evidence to the contrary.
*prompted by current threads I'm seeing on Twitter, of course
PS: Get off my lawn.
My bias against bullies
I've been thinking about one of my biases, and how it undoubtedly influences my view of current events.
My entire school career, from about 3rd grade until I left school, I was the designated safe target for bullies.
My experience of trying to get help was that it leads to teachers telling you that you should not to make up stories, because those boys came from good families and would never do such things. It's of teachers punishing me if I dared to fight back, and never protecting me or punishing my tormentors.
Nine or ten straight years of being called faggot, nerd, loser. Having my homework stolen and destroyed, having food thrown at me as I got off the bus, of being beaten repeatedly, of hiding during recess, of having drinks poured over me, of being told I was entirely worthless.
I've had an absolutely great life since I left school. Amazing adventures, the craziest jobs (and finally finding my niche), great friends. I no longer suspect that I'm worthless, and I don't hang around with people who don't value me.
But I still twitch in reaction when I hear people shouting mean things; I assume they're targeting me, I guess, at some deep level.
When I recently learned the word "gaslighting," I understood it — and its implications — right away. I was told for years that, essentially, the bullying was my fault. Or that I was just imagining it. Or that I was just weak and should let it roll off my back. It has taken me a long time to stop believing that.
I'm not writing this to get sympathy. That whole thing ended 38 years ago. A guy I knew in the Navy talked me down from the last serious bad reaction I had. Done.
I'm writing because when I see stories of bullying, this is why I'm more primed to believe the victim's stories and disbelieve you when you say "that was staged" or "this is just people being too sensitive."
So there's my bias. I freely admit to being on the side of the underdog, not the side of the bully, the big man on campus, the Good Boy from a Good Family.
Cold air, false history, and privilege
I'm not sure I have the skills or knowledge to turn this into a decent blog post, but I keep finding myself mulling over these ideas so I figured I'd write them down, trying to clarify my thinking.
During the summer of 2015 I was reading the news about the attempts by various activists to get the Confederate battle flag removed from official government locations, including from in front of the statehouse in South Carolina, where I live. The conversations on social media during that time also frequently included a message along the lines of "check your privilege."
A Twitter poster whom I generally enjoy reading posted several angry comments, saying that he didn't want people to yell at him any longer about "privilege" because it was a concept that included no path for taking action. He said that he didn't mind being told that he needed to treat people more fairly, or stop doing something that caused distress …whatever… but that there seemed to be nothing that he could do about privilege. If we white men are privileged in America just by accident of birth, he said, then there's nothing he could do to change it. He wasn't going to stop being male nor white, so everyone should just shut up already…
I knew right away that I disagreed with him, while also sympathizing with him to some extent. After all, being blamed for something you aren't even aware of benefiting from isn't much fun for anyone.
My problem was that I couldn't figure out — any more than he could — what to do with this concept of privilege.
A few days later, it occurred to me that a great use of being aware of social privilege is in checking assumptions for things like… oh… the idea that police treat everyone fairly. I saw posts this summer that were variations of the old "hey, if you don't like being mistreated by the police, maybe you shouldn't do any crimes, then the police won't have an opportunity to mistreat you." This can only be spoken by someone who has never had to fear that they'll be pulled over while driving just because of how they look, stopped and searched just because of how they're dressed while walking through a neighborhood. If you know that privilege exists, then you can, perhaps, pause while reading a news story about someone being arrested and not automatically assume that the person deserved to be arrested. You might start realizing that there are people who 'do the time,' even if they haven't 'done the crime.' There is value in this not only in the sense of your being a more discerning consumer of news, but even in a larger sense of perhaps supporting changes to some future legislative efforts to bring about police reforms.
I think that one of the reasons privilege is so hard to think about when you're a beneficiary of it is that it spoils you, and no one likes to give up comfort. It's like someone who is sound asleep in a warm bed on a cold night, and their partner steals the blanket. Without even waking up they grab the edge of the blanket and grumpily pull it back into place. Feeling the cold air outside your cocoon is uncomfortable.
Here's a real-world example. I know mature, responsible adults; upstanding members of their communities; valued employees; parents… who did drugs in their 20s. It would strike them as completely absurd if you tried to explain to them that the world would somehow be a better place if they'd spent the last 20 years in jail for their indiscretions. It's obvious that punishing them for something that hurt no one would not have helped the world. Their current lives clearly enrich the world, and strengthen the fabric of society. But somehow they manage to ignore the fact that our prisons are chock full of people who committed no worse crime. People who will have no chance to ever turn their lives around, because very few businesses are willing (or even able; it's often against the law) to hire anyone with a felony conviction. These people don't see that having an entire underclass of people who can never hope to contribute to society weakens the country. Some of these prisoners didn't even commit the crimes they are in jail for.
You don't even want to get me started on the subject of the way that prisons have systematically removed proven programs for educating and reforming prisoners over the last few decades, essentially ensuring the profit structure of the prison industry (all in the name of being tough on crime).
Then, just this morning, several more pieces fell into place in my mind.
I recently listened to a podcast profile of the "father of PR," Edward Bernays. The podcasters described how Bernays helped create the consumer culture we live in today, but they also touched on his forays into politics, including his involvement in the overthrow of legitimate governments in Latin America. This clicked with a complaint that was popular a few years ago among right-wing columnists; the idea of "historical revisionists" who were re-writing the history of the US and, for that matter, all the history of western civilization. I doubt that any real historian would use the term revisionism, because the practice of history involves (or should involve) going back and checking assumptions, checking the work of other historians, making sure that we try to describe what really happened.
The columnists, of course, were upset because their cherished mental images of glorious, flawless founding fathers were being shown as the figments of imagination that they actually are. Great men and women are never flawless (which is not to say that they were not great).
Where does public relations and marketing come in? All of this hinges on the old idea that history is written by the winners. I'd take it further; I'd say that history, perhaps particularly so in the US, has been written by marketing experts, often in the guise of the writers of heroic stories and songs, but just as often by patriotic textbook authors and newspaper columnists. It's very easy to buy their product's authenticity when their stories are providing the warm blanket that reassures you that all is well with your world. That the USA is a glorious bastion of freedom, that your religious leaders are moral paragons, our soldiers clean and upright young patriots, and our police firm- and fair-minded defenders of justice.
This is why the argument by poor, disenfranchised white men — that since they are poor and disenfranchised that they clearly are not privileged — doesn't hold water. Privilege doesn't imply that you have all good things in life. It implies that you're able to continue to believe the comforting stories that you've grown up with. That the police only arrest bad people (of, if they make a mistake, our justice system will correct the problem), that our military only serves to protect our shores from evil men, and our leaders have our best interests in mind. I'll grant you that the fabric of this mythology starts looking more than a little thin when you're poor.
Becoming aware of the layers of unreality you live behind… in other words, becoming aware of your privilege… won't, in fact, directly change anything. You can't stop benefiting from it. But becoming aware of it might help you see through some of the illusions and, if nothing else, help you make decisions based on something closer to reality. Who knows, perhaps you'll even help someone struggling under an unjust system somewhere.
(First draft dashed off without edits on Dec. 20, 2015… I reserve the right to edit for content (as I learn more), clarity, grammar, wording, or anything else…)
"The history of a nation is, unfortunately, too easily written as the history of its dominant class."
– Kwame Nkrumah
Possible essay topic I'm mulling over.
I'm not gradually moving left on the American political spectrum because I have some love for governmental intervention (rather the opposite, I suspect).
No, I'm moving left because most of the kindest people I know seem to be on that end of the spectrum.
I have, with a little luck, a few decades left alive. I'd rather spend them working toward solutions to problems than being told that I need to be afraid of other humans who are also dealing with really bad problems.
I can't ignore the legacy of political maneuvering and disastrous political experiments of the last 100+ years, but if you can hold that legacy to one side and look at the people involved, I keep finding the bravest and kindest ones (the people I want to hang with) seem not to be on the far right.
I know this isn't much of a basis for making decisions on, but it feels… at least honest to the person I want to be.
My fifth Toastmasters speech: Getting physical
The assignment for this, my fifth Toastmasters speech and with the project name "Your Body Speaks" was to express myself physically as I gave the speech, so I walked when I described walking, bowed when I described myself bowing, etc.
My uniform is a simple pair of trousers, the legs of which reach barely below my knees; a heavy cotton jacket; and a simple white belt.
As I change into my uniform, I can start feeling the cares of my day — even the stress of the drive to the dojo — fade away. Like traffic sounds fading as I go deeper into a forest, I may not notice it right away, but the hurry and bustle is less, then less again. I'm often the first person to arrive and I have the changing room to myself.
Once I'm dressed, I gather the bag of wooden weapons and leave the changing room, then walk down the flagstone path to the dojo itself. This is a simple wooden building on the edge of the woods, with a high roof, windows all the way around, and a porch across the front. The flagstones of the path are irregularly spaced, requiring me to slow down even more as I approach the porch.
I step onto the porch and leave my sandals by the bench. I slide the door open and bow. I enter the dojo and place the weapons in their proper corner, then get the broom and clean the dojo. As I do each task carefully and in its proper order, the external stillness starts settling deeper and deeper into my mind, and my body further slows. I've gradually learned that taking time to do something carefully and well holds value in and of itself.
Sweeping done, I enter the dojo again, bowing more deeply as I do so. Bowing slows me down, makes me pay attention. Bowing breaks the rush that I go through most of my life in. Bowing reminds me of why I'm here. It shows my respect for my teacher, and the teachers who went before him, and shows my respect for this space, for my fellow students, and even for myself.
I begin my warm-up, and while I'm stretching and rolling and swinging my arms, other students begin to arrive, each quietly bowing in and greeting me. Finally, our teacher shows up and we pause in our warm-ups to welcome him.
Soon the class begins, and we always start by bowing again, very formally this time, once to the front of the dojo as a symbol of respect to the teachers who have created, preserved, and strengthened this art, and once to our teacher; he bows to us as well; the respect goes both ways.
Then the class is in full swing, and we are practicing with sticks or wooden swords; throwing each other across the room (and being thrown!); learning new skills or practicing familiar motions.
On the inside I'm feeling a swirl of emotions. I'm gleeful when I execute a front roll correctly and at high speed; I'm frustrated at not being able to do a pin or a kata correctly which I thought I'd perfected. I'm embarrassed when I forget something my teacher just taught me a few days ago.
In the brief interludes of rest I sometimes think about the fact that I've spent so much of my life avoiding anything that might embarrass me, anything that I wouldn't be able to excel at doing, and I wonder how many good things I've missed. At the dojo there's certainly no danger of my excelling! I'm no natural athlete, and even those who are athletes may have to start studying when they're in their teens to be considered experts… but that matters less here than anywhere else I've been. Experts don't spend any time strutting around on the mat; they spend their time teaching and learning and practicing. The teachers and my fellow students are incredibly helpful to me, because we can't have fun on the mat unless everyone is as capable as possible. It's an art with no competition and no conflict.
Every time I make a mistake, forget a move, or mix up my Japanese vocabulary, I start to sink into my usual self-pity and self-accusation, but none of that comes from my teacher or my fellow students, and I've gradually learned the difference between humility and humiliation, between being humble and being humbled. My pride, which has stopped me so many times, in fear of being hurt… I'm finally learning how to set it aside and not be ruled by it. To learn, with no expectation of perfection, an art that seems to get bigger the further into it I go.
I'm starting to discover that there's something to learn that's not only in my head, things to learn that you can't cram for, that take years to discover, and that that discovery is both inside and outside. It's how to be physically present so that I can roll out of a throw without being hurt, and how to be with other students with respect and attention. There's something in the process that is changing me in subtle ways. I can tell that a change is happening, but I can't tell where I'm going yet.
Finally, the class ends, and once again we bow to the front of the dojo, then to our teacher, and last to each other, quietly gather our wooden weapons and bow a last time as we leave the mat.


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