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"The Fourth Way will harness the power and strategic location of indigenous people, exploiting pressure points beyond the workplace to oppose and transform unjust, unequal, and undemocratic systems." -Julian Brave Noisecat
Mapping Our Radical Atlas: Introducing the 2015 People's Progress Report
Washington, DC is one of the most rapidly gentrifying cities in the country. But this is only the latest flare of violent, economically driven displacement in the area. The Piscataway, the Anacostank (who resided in the area now known as Anacostia), the Pamunkey, the Mattapanient, the Nangemeick, and the Tauxehent were all brutally forced from the region. And more: the names are not complete, the stories are not complete, and the maps are not complete.
So it feels all the more apt to transform the People's Progress Report into a gesture of counter-mapping—to fill in maps and to fill in the gaps. Counter-mapping, also known as counter-hegemonic cartography, radical cartography, and mapping-back, originated as an indigenous resistance practice to contest colonialist claims to land. It's about story and sovereignty. It's about spatial justice. No map is neutral. And this radical atlas, far from exhaustive, does not claim to be. We're unapologetic about mapping toward a more equitable District and mapping back against the "official" maps that erase and displace longtime Black residents of DC and all people who are "mapped out" of DC's local history.
In 2015 we went on learning journeys, self-study tours, and trainings to build our knowledge and to chart out new plans and strategies for subversive cartography—mapping back to reinvigorate ourselves and mapping forward to reclaim our city. In order to reclaim DC, we must acknowledge that we are losing Black homelands and Black landscapes. The whitewashing of DC is real and it is formidable. That's why our organizing work—through the People's Platform, Black Workers Center, and Right to Housing—is key to building a powerful base of longtime DC residents, to naming the terrain of renewed power and resistance.
And yes, we are hopeful. ONE DC supporters are showing up in our organizing geography: Justice First, API Resistance, Black Lives Matter DC, BYP100, DC Showing Up for Racial Justice, and the Neighborhood Solidarity Network. So let's "map in" our struggle for freedom! As freedom fighter and former political prisoner Angela Y. Davis wrote in her book, Freedom Is A Constant Struggle, "Our histories never unfold in isolation. We have to talk about systemic change. We can't be content with individual actions." Everyday we organize we add a page to the DC radical atlas. Join this movement of cartographers of organized resistance!
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We Dance About Life
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Click here to view more photos from our latest fundraising event -- a special ONE DC showing of Dance Place's What's Going On? Life, Love, & Social Justice. Thanks to your support, we are closer to our goal of raising $1.3 million over 2 years to support the opening of the Black Workers Center and #Another10Years of resident-led organizing for racial & economic equity in DC! Click here to donate.
Thank you again to our sponsors and to all those who bought tickets, donated, & volunteered!
We Appreciate You.
Member Appreciation is our end-of-year event to celebrate the wins, actions, and accomplishments of our members, donors, supporters, volunteers, but you don't have to be a member to attend! This is the perfect event to learn more about ONE DC and how you can get involved, while enjoying good food, music, & company. All ages are welcome.
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Housing is a Human Right
By Mary Walrath, StreetSense
Is housing a universal human right? This is the question that community members gathered to discuss in a town-hall style meeting at the Church of the Epiphany on October 28. The Focus Attitude and Commitment to Excellence (FACE) group of Street Sense vendors, along with the People for Fairness Coalition (PFFC), convened to form a panel and deliberate, with an audience of housed and unhoused individuals, on issues of housing, poverty and homelessness.
Robert Warren, the executive director of the People for Fairness Coalition, Sheila White, member of FACE and PFFC, Dominic Moulden of ONE DC, William Merrifield of Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, Schyla Pondexter-Moore from Empower DC and Jane Zara, a public interest lawyer, came together on a panel moderated by Patty Mullahy Fugere of the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless.Click here to read the full article on StreetSense
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Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellowship
The Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellowship supports visionary leaders by giving them boundless space to turn an inspired idea in the field of social justice into a world-changing reality. The Fellowship awards three individuals up to $150,000 each to pursue an innovative project that seeks to address a challenge related to climate change or inequality – or within the intersection of these two major issues. An NCF Fellowship must align with at least one of the Foundation's core focus areas: Inclusive Clean Economy; Racial and Economic Justice; Corporate and Political Accountability; and Voice, Creativity and Culture. The Nathan Cummings Foundation is currently accepting applications for the 2017 Fellowship until December 12.
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DC Labor Chorus presents An Evening of Favorite and Sacred Songs
Saturday, December 3rd - 7:30 PM
ATU Tommy Douglas Conference Center - 10000 New Hampshire Ave, Silver Spring MD
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Join MLOV for a review of our year's work and organizing highlights, hear from our powerful immigrant members, recommit yourselves to being warriors, bask in each other's fierce presence, and of course...enjoy great music and food!
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ONE DC's Black Workers Center (BWC), is a member-led space that builds racial and economic justice through popular education, direct action and worker-owned alternatives.
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Obama and Mrs. Jones…
They have a thing going on/do they know it's wrong? *
On Friday, the US State Department released a chart of international offers of assistance for the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe.
A total of 24 nations and several international maritime agencies offered resources; including people, booms, skimmers, dispersants and most importantly, vessels.
Outside of accepting minor assistance (some booms and skimmers), the chart clearly shows that the US government has by-and-large, declined international offers to help stem the flow of oil towards the U.S. coast, including vessels.
The Merchant Marine Act of 1920, better known as the Jones Act, precludes foreign flagged vessels from maritime commerce between U.S. ports; hence, the White House's refusal to allow vessels from the European Maritime Safety Agency and from the governments of Italy, Russia, Sweden and Vietnam to assist with skimming and booming operations. (More: Foreign Nations Offer Gulf Spill Aid to US—for a Price)
This is kind of ironic. One of the few things the Bush Administration did right in the wake of Hurricane Katrina was to immediately suspend the Jones Act. This allowed for a virtual armada of foreign flagged vessels to flood the US market with European oil products. In turn, the post-storm spike in price was capped.
In the eight weeks following Katrina's landfall, US imports of total gasoline supplies were 9.2% higher than the five-year average, inclusive of extended disruptions to GoM shipping channels in early October related to Hurricane Rita.
As such, despite the fact that 804 Mbbl/d of Gulf Coast (PADD III) refinery capacity was still shut-in through the first week of November 2005, average US gasoline prices at the pump (all grades) peaked one week after Katrina at $3.117, but were back below $2.25 by November.
Now fast forward from the "Neanderthal" days of Bush to the "postmodern enlightenment" of Obama. This was supposed to be the administration that was going to usher in a new era of international cooperation. The suggestion of The Schork Reportis to hit the reset button on the Jones Act so we can "mobilize" to combat the Gulf Oil spill.
*With apologies to Gamble, Gilbert and Huff
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Well, that was a whirlwind. Every year in November I look at the schedule and think that March Madness seems so distant and far away. And yet it always sneaks up on me. I had a lot of fun in my third year on the beat and fourth year at the Star Tribune.
Every now and then, I have to tell myself to stop, sit back and realize for a moment that I'm doing what I've always dreamed. I consider myself pretty lucky. Thanks to you guys for continuing to read and helping to make us one of the more successful papers of our size.
Now, though, I am looking forward to a more relaxed offseason and the opportunity to take some vacations, such as I just did to the great state of California, where I had the best sushi of my life (at a place called Sugarfish in Santa Monica).
Alright, enough sap. Onto the questions.
@jessejames3ball: @AmeliaRayno What was your favorite (non-Sidbit) moment of the Gophers season? #aMAILiaBAG
Nice of you to ask, Jesse.
I don't know if I can actually pick one moment, but I have a small quilt of moments.
like the Wisconsin game at Williams-- when Austin Hollins dunked, one-handed, over Nigel Hayes and the building nearly caught fire -- just for the sheer noise and atmosphere of it. Senior night was fun to watch simply because I've spent three years getting to know Hollins and Maverick Ahanmisi and Oto Osenieks, and they're all genuinely good people I wish well in life. Malik Smith had just one season at Minnesota, of course, but he was a real pleasure for the media earlier in the year (unfortunately, his late-season slump eradicated a lot of interview opportunities). There are plenty others that stick out. Watching Hollins go off for 32 against Southern Miss, on his last night on the Williams Arena floor. That last-minute rainbow in the NIT championship, and the moment everyone realized that would be the last shot of Hollins' four-year career. The players celebrating like kids on the court; climbing up a step ladder to snip down the net, piece by piece.
Then there are other, off-the-court things I'll remember fondly. The three days in Chadron, Nebraska and reporting for my eventual story on center Elliott Eliason: roaming the pine-crested hills; chatting with his parents as they constructed a tower of blueberry pancakes; getting the tour of the town by his former high school coach. Writing my story on Daquein McNeil, and the chance to tell a little bit of his tough but heartwarming story. Covering DeAndre Mathieu, who really lit up the team this season. His incredible speed and quickness of the tiny guard in driving to the basket, finishing in ways that never ceased to make you shake your head -- that was all great to watch. But the real gold came in the locker room, where we got to know Mathieu as one of the most genuine players out there, and one with a sharp sense of humor, a willingness to say what's on his mind and the guts to hold himself accountable. Covering the Big Ten tournament is always a blast, both for the on-court intrigue -- especially in a year like this one -- and off-court drinking with all the league's writers in one place.
Finally, there is the travel. I really love that aspect of my job as well. I enjoyed going to Richmond for the first time this year and was actually blown away by how much I liked the little Southern town. Maui, of course, was absolutely amazing, even if it did put a damper on the rest of my winter. And there are a lot of Big Ten cities I really like visiting. This year, I stayed in Omaha instead of Lincoln, found some really solid eating/drinking spots and saw one of the top three sunsets I think I've ever viewed. Columbus is a legitimately great mid-sized town. Madison and Chicago never disappoint. But Ann Arbor might be the new favorite to lead the pack.
@JimPolzinWSJ: @AmeliaRayno Do you plan on giving your readers what they really want -- more Wisconsin coverage -- next season? #aMAILiaBAG
You know, Jim, I think you're referring to this story, which was SO popular amongst my readers I feel the need to share it again.
I have to say, I get that this is a rivalry, but the reaction to a news story -- not a column, mind you, but just a factual look at the program -- baffles me a bit. I mean, the state border is about 40 minutes away from Minneapolis, Jim, you know this. The team made the Final Four. The NIT was over. In what world would I not write that story? I'm not saying that to be facetious. I'm a Red Sox fan and a North Carolina fan, so hey, I get rivalries. I also grew up in cities where the primary news organizations cover those rivalries from many angles. The Raleigh News and Observer covers NC State, UNC and Duke because of sheer proximity. And yes, the Boston Globe has often written about the Yankees. Minnesota fans seem like an intelligent bunch (see, we can be friends), so I have a hard time believing so many wouldn't see the logic in a similar approach.
I had a lot of folks asking me (more like obnoxiously lecturing, if we're being honest, Jim) whether a Wisconsin paper would do the same were the contexts of the programs flip-flopped. I have no idea. It's impossible to know, of course, because we can't change the context. I wonder if the State Journal or another Wisconsin publication did do a big MInnesota takeout, if Badgers fans would have such an outcry.
Which begs the question, and maybe you, as a Wisconsin beat writer, can help solve this for me: Do Badgers fans hate Gophers fans as much as Gophers fans hate them? Or is this a classic case of Little Brother Syndrome and Wisconsin fans don't really care (but would if it were the Gophers that were reaching the NCAA tournament year after year while their own school consistently missed out). I really need to get to the bottom of this.
To answer your question, though, in more succinct form: if the Badgers start out strong again next year -- yeah, we'll probably cover more of them.
@minnygrad89: @AmeliaRayno Can you give me an educated guess (term used loosely!) on the five starters in the first game next November?
It's hard to say without knowing whether Minnesota will sign two more recruits for next season, and if so who they'll be. But assuming the roster looks the way it does now (plus Josh Martin, Nate Mason, Carlos Morris and Gaston Diedhiou and sans Austin Hollins, Maverick Ahanmisi, Oto Osenieks and Malik Smith), my best guess is the following:
1: Mathieu
2: Andre Hollins
3: "Squirrel" Morris
4: Joey King
5: Mo Walker
Spots 1, 2 and 5 are as good as sealed. Elliott Eliason was very strong defensively this season, but his offensive production was inconsistent at best. With Walker's defense improving, he should be able to edge Eliason out for the starting role. He's only getting better. Mathieu was another one of the bright spots from this season and has the point guard role locked down. Hollins will be at shooting guard once more. Small forward and power forward are the areas with some wiggle room. My guess is King will start the season based on the production we saw from him in the last few weeks. He will be the only four-man on the roster with meaningful experience in coach Richard Pitino's system. Martin and Diedhiou will both get the chance to make the case for starting, but may not get that distinction right away. Rising sophomore Charles Buggs should get a bigger role next year as well, but should still come off the bench. Morris is probably the most game-ready options of the current incoming recruits and would probably best help to fill the defensive vacancy created with Austin Hollins' graduation. Mason has a lot of upside, but with Mathieu and Hollins rooting the backcourt and the incoming freshman's size limiting him somewhat, there doesn't seem to be room for him in a non-reserve role just yet.
@bonehead267: @AmeliaRayno In regards to spring recruits, any updates on when those players we are recruiting will make their decisions? #amailiabag
The spring signing period begins April 16 (today!) and ends May 21, so expect to start hearing a little more chatter soon. A few notes on Minnesota's current situation here.
@AboyJakeRadke: @AmeliaRayno mayonnaise or miracle whip? #amailiabag
Mayo. Miracle Whip is gross.
@bangerang17: @AmeliaRayno any updates on the big man from Grand Rapids? could definitely help? #aMAILiaBAG
Sounds like you're referring to Alex Illikainen, Bangerang. The 2015 four-star big man is really starting to generate a lot of interest, and he's up to No. 83 in the Rivals national rankings for that class. He visited California earlier this winter, and things should be heating up soon with visits to schedule and a cache of offers to narrow down. He told Rivals he wants to make a decision by the end of the summer. But most of what will go into that decision will be played out in these next few months.
@rademp1: @AmeliaRayno could you give us how you would grade the end of year contribution by position? also grade for bench and coaching staff.
Another good question. Here we go:
Point guard: A -- Minnesota has to be happy with how this aspect of the team evolved. At the start of the season, no one knew who the point guard would be. At the end, it was one of the strengths. Without Mathieu, who was the heart and the engine of the team all year, it's hard to imagine the Gophers winning the NIT or even coming close. Andre Hollins was solid in relief. The only real sticking point would be Mathieu's tendency to become turnover prone, especially when frustrated.
Shooting guard: C -- There is no doubt that Andre Hollins plays a big role on this Minnesota team. But too often, he didn't live up to those expectations.. Away from the ball, Hollins often struggled to get himself involved offensively. An ankle injury in January set him back substantially. And both Ahanmisi and Smith -- though capable of big boosts -- were largely unreliable. The result was one of the more inconsistent areas on the team.
Small forward: B -- Mainly rooted by the ever-versatile Austin Hollins, with Smith stepping in occasionally, the three-spot was mostly solid with good production. Even when Hollins went through his mid-season shooting slump, his lock-down defensive skills and improved nose for rebounding were big assets.
Power forward: C -- We expected this position to be average and scrapped together all year and for the most part production and expectations evened out. The power forward was mainly a platoon between Osenieks and King with some late-season spurts from Buggs. All had their bright spots (Osenieks' improved shooting; King's postseason tear; Buggs Mania vs. Iowa) and their hiccups (Osenieks' degenerative knees causing him to struggle and finally mostly hang up his high tops; King's defensive lapses and decision-making; Buggs' rawness as a liability). Overall, the contribution from that spot was about what I thought and if anything, maybe a hair better.
Center: A+ -- We didn't know what to expect from Mathieu. But we did know what to expect from Minnesota's centers. Or at least we thought we did. Eliason had been mostly a spot player without much offensive value up until that point. Walker had just lost 60 pounds, but had to learn how to play in his new body and hadn't gotten much court time, really, for the last three years. Surprise. The tandem wound up being one of Minnesota's biggest strengths. Eliason's shot-blocking ability was hugely valuable and Walker developed some post moves that were genuinely hard to stop.
Coaching staff: B -- This staff is still learning and growing in front of us. The 32-year-old Pitino is still very youthful and that occasionally showed in on-court decision-making and late-game calls. Some of that can be disguised with a really strong right-hand man to key in on specific moments that a head coach -- looking at the big picture -- can occasionally miss. But the assistants are all fairly youthful as well. In general, though, I think that youth played out in a very positive way. The Gophers staff has already shown a relentless attitude toward recruiting and an ability to bring out the best in the players. Year One showcased the staff's knack for finding underrated talent -- an absolute necessity when building a program that hasn't had a ton of recent success -- and developing the guys that are already there. Up and down the roster, we saw a lot of improvement. Of course, the biggest judge of their success is the postseason, and there the Gophers excelled. I never thought this was an NCAA tournament team. Winning the NIT would have been a very optimistic prediction before the season began.
*It should be noted that these rankings are a) subjective and b) relative to initial expectations of that position.
@los_jim: @AmeliaRayno in light of the evolution of Mo & EE, what is your prediction for the biggest surprise of the Gophers next year? #aMAILiaBag
I think Mason has a chance to be very good off the bench and when in with Mathieu could transform the Gophers' backcourt into one of the speediest in the Big Ten. I anticipate Buggs taking some pretty strong steps as well.
@N0ELTHOMPSON: @AmeliaRayno Any goal for how much muscle Pitino wants Mo to add? I think with the added muscle, he could be two times better below the rim.
He hasn't given us a number, but I know lifting will be a major focus of Walker's offseason regimen. Obviously, most of his effort a year ago went into actually losing the weight. This summer brings a big opportunity to get a lot stronger.
@SuperFanMN: @AmeliaRayno Who's the backup 2 [next season], when [Andre Hollins] is playing 1?
Good question. Right now, the only guys on the roster that could play that role are Daquein McNeil or Nate Mason. The former is still developing his offensive game, and the latter is very undersized, but will probably see some time both there and at point. I think the Gophers see a lot of potential in him.
@karlanderson13: @AmeliaRayno where in Scandinavia are you going this offseason? CPH is better when warm. #aMAILiaBAG
I don't think I'll be going to Scandinavia this offseason, although I'm sure Copenhagen is a whole new world in the summer. In hindsight, going at Christmas wasn't the best idea because, well, they take holiday very seriously over there and a lot of things -- including NOMA and every tattoo shop in the city -- were closed.
I am hoping to get to Europe, and if I do my plan is to hit either Spain or Italy, France and potentially the Greek islands to consume more than my share of Assyrtiko.
@AndyGlockner: @AmeliaRayno Best reuben in Mpls now that Rye closed?
The answer to that imperative query is Eli's Downtown. They smoke their own meats, just as Rye did and while they don't have the fancy schmancy cocktail list that fallen favorite did, they do put plenty of tender love and care into their sandwiches (and just about everything on their menu, for that matter).


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The eight-inch pipe broke around 12:45 a.m. in the 500 block of North Sycamore Avenue, the Department of Water and Power said.
About four to five blocks were flooded in each direction with water visible down to La Brea and Beverly Boulevard, officials said.
Approximately 20 to 30 residents were affected.
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Full of fascinating information, both historical and genealogical, and averaging about ten pages per issue, you will find information such as land transactions, legal notices, horse and cattle impoundments, partnerships, licences, government contracts and an enormous amount of information relating to convicts, such as Certificates of Freedom, Tickets-of-Leave Granted, Tickets-of-Leave Cancelled, Absconders from Employment, Lists of Runaways Apprehended ... and so much more. So if you've got an interest in New South Wales during this period - you're bound to find something of interest.
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TITLE DEEDS, bearing date respectively the 19th of October, 1831, of the undermentioned TOWN GRANTS, described in the Government Notices of 18th and 25th May, 1831, have been this day transmitted to the Registrar of the Supreme Court, in order that, when duly' enrolled, they may be forwarded through the Surveyor General to the Collector of Internal Revenue, for the purpose of being delivered to the respective parties, upon payment of the fees prescribed by the Government Notice of the 9th January, 1832, and any arrears of quit-rent which may be due thereon :--
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My book, The Tamils in India, Ceylon and Malaya, was published this year. It is currently available at MPH Bookstores in Malaysia. The book can also be ordered via the Internet through my distributors, Gerak Budaya. I am very grateful for all of their kind advice and assistance in distributing my book. I am currently involved in a project to convert it into an E-Book format. This will be announced shortly.
It has been the result of much research and dedication to the subject. It harnessed all the knowledge I have gleaned over the years on the subject, which is very dear to me and my conscience.
I have received a lot of help from various people. My brother-in law Mr S.Sivanathan got me all seven volumes of Thurston's Castes and Tribes of Southern India. My nephew R.Tharmaraj obtained many books from India. My children Punita, Vishnu Kumar and Sumitra also got me a lot of books. So did my friend Mr A.Poobalan who got me many books from Ceylon. I owned the set of Encyclopedia Britannica that was used. The circumstances did not permit me to do research from primary sources.
In the project, I have adopted both the chronological and topical approach. This appeared to be the most suited. The Tamils have settled in various parts of the world. Let others compliment it. The typing was done mainly by my children particularly my son Vishnu Kumar who in spite of other important duties spent quite a lot of time typing my work. The project has taken a long time. The subject was wide and it required sufficient reading. I had to present a truthful and unbiased account.
In writing the history of Jaffna, I had to depend on the research findings of Dr Paul Peiris and Mudaliar C.Rasanayagam. Mudaliar C.Rasanayagam has dismissed Kailayamalai, Yarlpana Vaipava Malai and Vyapadal as unreliable. But the Vanni conquest during the early years of Chakravarthy rule, the Vyapadal appears reliable. I have considered all South Indians as Tamils. The people of Andhra Desa, Karnataka and Kerala were once part of the Tamil cultural region. The Singhalese too have been defined as Tamils as most are Tamils of South India with a springkling of Kalingans.
The cover design is my own. My printer has helped me in many ways and I am very thankful. My friends Dr V.Selvaratnam, Mr Veloo Saminathan and Dato' R.Kumarasingham have been constant sources of encouragement.
My book is dedicated to the memory of my loving wife, Rasawathy. It is my hope that this will be one of the legacies that I can leave for my granddaughter, Divhya.
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Many of the most meaningful aspects of music are not always discernible to listeners. They are, however, apparent to composers and performers, as they trace a lineage between the past and present; they enable musicians to create new work by quoting, honoring, and remaking history. Reid, a cellist and composer who until recently lived in Chicago, is especially concerned with the reception of jazz and improvised music. She wonders how, without advocacy and education, the music will continue to be heard, and by whom. Will the stories of musicians continue to be recorded, and will the references that infuse and enrich the music be understood? How might speech capture music, and how might music act as speech? In a performance punctuated by remarks and dialogue, Reid will ask how languages and communities of speakers look backward while moving forward, and who bears the responsibility for assembling and disseminating the history of the music. She'll be joined by Taylor Ho Bynum, Mike Reed, and Ugochi Nwaogwugwu.
On Onomatopoeia is a component of "Parts of Speech," an exhibition on public speech organized by Triple Canopy and Public Fiction with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. The exhibition hinges on six experimental lectures, which will be live-streamed only at the museum; edited documentation will be available on Triple Canopy's website at a later date. "Parts of Speech" is being published by Triple Canopy as a series in Two Ears and One Mouth, a forthcoming issue that examines how we speak and listen and who has the right and capacity to be heard.
Parts of Speech is made possible in part through the generous support of the Stolbun Collection and Karyn Kohl and Silas Dilworth. Triple Canopy has received additional support for Two Ears One Mouth from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; the Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston; the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; the Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation; the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts; and the Opaline Fund of the Jewish Community Endowment Federation and Endowment Fund.
- Tomeka Reid is a cellist and composer who lives in New York, having recently moved from Chicago, where she was based for fifteen years. Reid has been a key member of ensembles led by musicians such as Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, and Nicole Mitchell, many of which are associated with Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. She is the coleader of the string trio Hear in Now. Reid released her debut recording as a bandleader in 2015 with the Tomeka Reid Quartet (Jason Roebke, Tomas Fujiwara, and Mary Halvorson). Reid is a 2016 recipient of a 3Arts Award in music and received her doctorate in music from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2017.


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It was five in the evening, or night, depending on whether you look at the clock or the sky. I decided on how much to wear. Two sweaters or three? Two pairs of long johns /thermals or one? The usual complex decisions, you know. A mere 20 below zero Celsius does not require much, nevertheless one can never be too warm in Harbin.
(brain nudges) Oh yes, I need to mention that it was unusually warm till about last week when things got into place. By things I mean, icicle-decorated nostrils, icy roads, icy lashes, and stuff like that. Hooray! It's winter! My happiness sounds like this 'tadatumtum!' . No I'm not crazy. The minus tens were scary, brought global warming so close to home! So after the very warm #NYE (New Year's Eeeve, dad, that's how it's referred to now, you really need to get an Instagram account ) , we in Harbin are singing in the ice, just singing in the ice, what a gloooorious feeeli.. whoops .. getting derailed here. Gosh I love musiiicahhls!
Ah so, like I was saying, I went out to meet up with friends ….(fast forwarding noise) .. and on my way back home, my common sense (Mrs. CS hereafter) had this familiar conversation with me, again. Yep, Mrs. CS is very entertaining. A half an hour walk is not as simple is it sounds. Mrs. CS insisted on keeping me company and I was glad of that coz Mr. Husband was at his lab and couldn't be my perpetual knight-in-yellow-armor. SO glad we bought a happy colored down jacket last year for him. Yellow never gets boring, does it? Anyhoo, here's what went on;
Me : "Brrr… you know it's cold when you are bundled up but can't do anything about the cold. It's still so fascinating, that one can wear on so many layers but fifteen minutes tops and the cold gets to you and …I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my to-ohs…"
Mrs. CS: "Stop singing, focus your energy on walking, really, brisk walking helps warm up your legs , how many times do I need to tell you that ?"
Me: "ya ya I know, I know" walks fast nearly slips
"aargh! It's ice all over, they really only care about the roads that are visible to the public slash media. I can't walk fast ,ok !" Skid left foot, skid right foot, Skid left foot, skid right foot
Mrs. CS : "Your nose is runny, running all over your pretty woolen muffler, wipe it. "
Me: " errr, but that would mean I need to take my hands outta my pockets and then outta my mittens. You know once my fingers feel the cold they hold on to that memory, right?"
Mrs. CS: "that would be a better option than sniffling all the way up that slope and sniffling all over your muffler . washing that cheap thing too many times is gonna ruin it"
Me: "I don't care, really, I don't. frozen fingers aren't the best kinda experience"
Mrs. CS : "Whateeverrr"
Me: "you know what, this is gonna make a good post for that weekly challenge thing on WordPress, hey, you listening? Hullo? You really are too sensitive, seriously. "
I reach the gate, pull out my gate card, beep , and I've got another two minutes to enter my apartment building. I feel the yucky wetness of the muffler over the lower half of my face yuuuuck
Me: "I give up, gonna wipe my nose. I'll try doing that with my mittens on, how hard can it be, picking up that piece of tissue and swiping it across my nose huh…"
The awkward lifting of the paw-like mitten painfully grasping onto the tissue….
Mrs CS :"just take your hands out of your mi…"
thushh (not a 'thud' coz tissues fall on the ground ever so lightly)
Me: "noooooo not agaiiiinnn …"
Mrs. CS: "You are sucha natural, a natural klutz.. bahaha"
Me: "stop talking!"
I pull open that heavy ,heavy metal door to my building and take off my mittens ,pull off the damp muffler … eewwww ewww eww and press the button for the elevator. My thumbs, having been singled out from the rest of the family , are red.
Frozen digits after all.
Mrs. CS won.
In case you are wondering what just went on up there, this is it
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This page aims to help you remove BlackJockerCrypter Virus File for free. Our instructions also cover how any BlackJockerCrypter Virus file can be recovered.
The largest number of malware infections that are reported on a global scale are normally caused by Trojan horse viruses. Nevertheless, the ones, which are most hazardous, are the consequences of the activities of the so-called Ransomware viruses. Typically, what Ransomware does is it encrypts your data. More precisely, the data, which you use most regularly, may become victims of such viruses. Below we are describing BlackJockerCrypter Virus – an exemplary Ransomware version.
Important details about Ransomware
In fact, there is nothing more dangerous than this malware on the web. These viruses normally invade your system on their own. Most importantly, an infection may occur immediately after you happen to come across a possible source of such a virus. Below you will find a list with all the typical Ransomware sources. One more important aspect of all Ransomware versions, whatever exact category a particular virus falls into, is that they are likely to encrypt something of importance on your computer, and after that – require a ransom for unblocking it. What's more, nearly all the viruses from this group are awfully hard to remove and could become the reason for a real headache if you try to get rid of them. In addition, Ransomware consists of several virus groups. Here they are:
- The awful file-encrypting subtype:
These types of Ransomware are exploited for encoding They invade your PC by themselves, then get to your hard disks, search for the files, which are used the most, and block these files with a key, which is very difficult to destroy. To be honest, this is the most horrible type of Ransomware, as your data is in real danger, and at times you can do really nothing about that. Uncertainty is everywhere in such a case as even completing the payment of the ransom, which you are harassed into doing via a frightening notification, may not really help you restore your encrypted data.
- Display-encoding Ransomware:
This category itself can be divided into two subtypes:
– Ransomware, which blocks the displays of mobile devices (such as tablets and phones) and makes them completely inaccessible to you. This virus subtype doesn't encode any data. However, you will not be capable of accessing them because your display is going to be covered with a really big notifying alert, which states that the hackers require a ransom payment from you in order to unlock it.
– Ransomware, which blocks the screen of your desktop computers and laptops. Normally, it works in a way very similar to this of the mobile device locking viruses. Actually, these viruses can simply make you unable to use the desktop of your computers, again, by showing a huge ransom-demanding notification.
BlackJockerCrypter Virus falls into the Ransomware subfamily, which is to blame for the encryption of files. It must be terrible to read that, but as we have mentioned above, this subgroup is indeed the worst and the most hazardous one. All these facts mean your data will get encrypted, and then – the hackers will start harassing you in an attempt to make you pay them.
How to cope with such a terrible contamination?
Unfortunately, there is no working solution when it comes to Ransomware, once such a virus has already infected your PC. If NO infection has occurred yet, the most effective tip we can share with you is to simply back up all of the files that are of value to you on external drives or a cloud. However, as soon as your machine has caught such a Ransomware version, the chances are that you will be unlikely to counteract it in any way. No one, no program and no tip could really promise you the successful removal the virus and decryption of the affected data. Just improvise and see what happens when you explore some of your alternatives:
- Purchase a powerful decrypting tool. It is possible that the new programs will be able to deal with a Ransomware infection. Still, we haven't heard of such effective programs, yet.
- Try to remove the virus with the assistance of a professional in this field. This could, however, be quite costly. Nevertheless, it is still a better choice than, for instance, mindlessly giving your money to some unfamiliar cyber criminals.
- Look for and find a successful kind of know-how, which has already been shared by some previous victims on blogs and forums.
Our Removal Guide could be your solution
You can always try our Removal Guide below. It will help you delete the virus and it may work towards recovering some of your data in a successful way.
|Danger Level
|High (Ransomware is by far the worst threat you can encounter)
|No real ones. In the general case the first symptom is the appearance of the ransom-requiring alert.
|Distribution Method
|Malicious ads are the most likely source. Also, possibly included inside torrents, fake requests, contagious web pages.
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parasite may reinstall itself multiple times if you don't delete its core files. We recommend downloading SpyHunter to scan for malicious programs. This may save you hours and cut down your time to about 15 minutes.
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BlackJockerCrypter Virus File Removal
Some of the steps will likely require you to exit the page. Bookmark it for later reference.
Reboot in Safe Mode (use this guide if you don't know how to do it).
Press CTRL + SHIFT + ESC at the same time and go to the Processes Tab. Try to determine which processes are dangerous.
Right click on each of them and select Open File Location. Then scan the files with our free online virus scanner:
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After you open their folder, end the processes that are infected, then delete their folders.
Note: If you are sure something is part of the infection – delete it, even if the scanner doesn't flag it. No anti-virus program can detect all infections.
Hold the Start Key and R – copy + paste the following and click OK:
notepad %windir%/system32/Drivers/etc/hosts
A new file will open. If you are hacked, there will be a bunch of other IPs connected to you at the bottom. Look at the image below:
If there are suspicious IPs below "Localhost" – write to us in the comments.
Type msconfig in the search field and hit enter. A window will pop-up:
Go in Startup —> Uncheck entries that have "Unknown" as Manufacturer.
- Please note that ransomware may even include a fake Manufacturer name to its process. Make sure you check out every process here is legitimate.
Type Regedit in the windows search field and press Enter. Once inside, press CTRL and F together and type the virus's Name.
Search for the ransomware in your registries and delete the entries. Be extremely careful – you can damage your system if you delete entries not related to the ransomware.
Type each of the following in the Windows Search Field:
- %AppData%
- %LocalAppData%
- %ProgramData%
- %WinDir%
- %Temp%
Delete everything in Temp. The rest just check out for anything recently added. Remember to leave us a comment if you run into any trouble!
How to Decrypt BlackJockerCrypter Virus files
We have a comprehensive (and daily updated) guide on how to decrypt your files. Check it out here.
If the guide didn't help you, download the anti-virus program we recommended or ask us in the comments for guidance!


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Bahen & Co. makes stone ground chocolate from bean to bar. Josh Bahen, a former wine maker turned Chocolatier from the Margaret River, Western Australia is taking a simplistic approach to respect the cacao flavour and connect back to the source.
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Americans already know to pencil in Big Ben, the Tower of London, and Buckingham Palace on their London must-see checklist. But a surprisingly eco-friendly city is emerging that's also worth crossing the pond to see. In recent years, local politicians put climate change and carbon emissions on the radar, and suddenly the whole capital is racing to go green. Many restaurants and boutiques are making fair-trade and organic offerings a higher priority, and museums and walking tours now have the earth-conscious tourist in mind. Even Prince Charles has hopped aboard the greening machine, creating several environmental charities, including a foundation that supports sustainable urban development. We'd never suggest skipping the changing of the guard, but there's a whole different London to explore.
Sightseeing need not be a gaggle-of-tourists affair. These under-the-radar highlights let you experience and learn about local and global environmental efforts.
Borough Market
Nestled in the London Bridge neighborhood, the city's oldest food market dates back to Roman times. It's the local's choice for cheap whole food or organic eats: wild boar burgers, pints of cider, and all the cheese, olives, and fish your heart could desire. 8 Southwark Street, SE1.
Climate change audio tour
"And While London Burns" is a 70-minute operatic audio walking tour around the City. This historical, haunting walk explains the area's role in climate change, taking you on an environmental adventure through the skyscrapers and alleyways. Download an mp3 of the tour from their website.
London Transport Museum
This Victorian building in Covent Garden was refurbished and reopened this fall. The exhibits tell the story of the city's buses, trams, rail, and the Underground, as well as cycling, walking, taxis, and the Thames River. The museum also features a new family learning area and a play zone for kids under five. 39 Wellington Street, WC2.
Natural History Museum
Housed in a grand Romanesque building, this South Kensington museum is hailed as a temple to the natural world. Boasting more than 70 million specimens, it features an ecology area that details world-wide conservation efforts and gives tips on how you can make a difference at home. Cromwell Road, SW7.
The Original London Walks
Take a ramble on one of dozens of guided sojourns throughout the city, following the footsteps of famous Brits from Shakespeare to Harry Potter. Walks originate from different places and times, and are offered 365 days a year.
London Wetland Centre
Home to one of the largest bird and wildlife havens in any European capital, this award-winning attraction in Barnes spans more than 100 acres of lakes, reed beds, and marshes created from old reservoirs. It also has a café, theater, and a children's adventure area. Free guided tours twice daily. Queen Elizabeth's Walk, SW13
London is world-renowned for its exceptional parks and green spaces. In fact, natural and landscaped greenery accounts for more of the city's total composition than roads, buildings, and concrete areas.
To relax in some of the city's finest, visit Hyde Park, a holder of the Green Flag Award—a national program that recognizes England's and Wales' best parks and green spaces. Every half hour, the SolarShuttle ferries passengers across the Serpentine Lake. When docked and not in use, the panels' surplus electricity is fed back into the national grid.
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a former royal residence and World Heritage Site near Richmond. Kew's 300-acres feature Victorian greenhouses and themed gardens and their postal code is the most biodiverse in the world.
Thames Barrier Park spans 22 acres along the river's north bank at Woolwich Reach. A great place to picnic, it boasts fantastic views of the city's flood barrier and a beautiful fountain plaza.
Dining out
London's notoriously bad restaurant scene is getting an eco-shot in the arm with a tasty new crop of eco-friendly, locally sourced and oft-organic eateries.
This all-organic takeaway near Covent Garden serves breakfast, smoothies, and a variety of other fare like organic beef and veggie burgers. They also use green electricity and cleaning products. Prices range from $4 to $10. 22 Wellington Street, WC2.
Vita Organic
This vegan and organic eatery is an oasis in the Soho desert of cocktail bars and Chinese take-out. All fare is organic, pure whole food, raw, or gently cooked. If you've ever longed for an Ayurvedic meal, this is your chance. Specialities like Red Pepper Sauce Steam Mousaka run around $16. 74 Wardour Street, W1.
This friendly local chain serves virtuous (often organic) seasonal food at fast food prices: salads, Moroccan meatballs, stews, and even wheat-free chocolate brownies if you still have room. They also offer sustainably-farmed fish and free-range chicken. A three-course meal can cost less than $20. Multiple locations.
The Duke of Cambridge
This yuppie haven in Islington is the world's first certified organic gastro pub. Most all food and drink is organic—and as local and seasonal as possible. And the restaurant's power is all wind and solar generated. The menu of modern British fare changes twice daily. Entrees start at $20. 30 St Peters Street, N1.
One of England's oldest vegetarian restaurants, this Primrose Hill standby is still modern and imaginative. Sample their homemade pasta of the day or their vegetarian chef salad made with crispy tofu and Greek butter beans. Pair it with homemade organic bread and organic wine, spirits, and beer. Entrees start at $20. 4 Erskine Road, Primrose Hill, London NW3.
The currency exchange is steep — the dollar was worth only half a pound at press time — but London is filled with green treasures to suit all tastes.
The Natural Kitchen
This three-story foodie heaven near the Baker Street Tube station sells food supplied by small, independent British companies. There's a large selection of fair-trade and organic goods, foods to sample, and a café that serves light snacks and meals. 77/78 Marylebone High Street, W1,
Neal's Yard Remedies
The grandmother of English herbal beauty care, they sell handmade, mostly organic lotions, soaps, and shampoos and herbal, aromatherapeutic, and homeopathic remedies. Indulgences include $10 lip balm and a $50 liter of rosemary and elderflower shower gel. Multiple locations.
The Organic Pharmacy
Launched in 2002, this shop is fast becoming one of the leaders in the natural skin care world. All products are certified organic, handmade, and contain no artificial preservatives, dyes, fragrances, or petrochemicals. The Rose Crystal Lymphatic Facial at the day spa is divine. Multiple locations.
Getting around
London's congestion charge, which levies stiff fees on those who insist on driving in the city center during peak hours, keeps private vehicles to a minimum. Skip driving on the wrong side of the road and tap into greener ways to see the sights.
On foot
The 14-mile Jubilee Walkway connects London's key attractions. Or log on to walkit.com to devise your own stroll, replete with the time, distance, calories you'll burn, and the carbon dioxide emissions avoided.
On a bike
Go Pedal! will deliver a rental bike to your hotel and fetch it too.
By bus
Hop aboard the world's first hybrid double-decker bus, which runs from Palmer's Green to London Bridge station. (Six single-deck hybrid buses are also on the roads.) Powered by a diesel engine and electric power, it cuts emissions by as much as 40 percent per bus.
On the Tube
The world's oldest underground train system is also one of the most comprehensive. When your dogs get tired—or the winding streets leave you lost—descend into one of the 275 stations and whisk off to your next destination.
By cab
Ride guilt-free in a Green Tomato Car — a Toyota Prius decorated with its namesake fruit. Green Tomato offsets double their cars' carbon emissions. Radio Taxis also limits its carbon footprint with renewable energy and tree-planting projects.
There's still room for improvement in London's eco-lodgings—you won't find a wind-powered hostel constructed from bamboo and bee saliva just yet—but these hotels are headed in the right direction.
Apex City of London Hotel
A stone's throw from the Tower of London, this Scottish chain is as sustainable as you'll find: energy-efficient lighting, ventilation, heating and water systems, and extensive recycling. Rooms start at $150 a night. No 1 Seething Lane, EC3.
Meliá White House
Sleep in style while keeping your conscience green. This four-star Regent's Park gem is the only UK member of the Green Hotels Association. It has efficient lighting, thorough recycling, and carbon offsets. Rooms start at $190 a night. Albany Street, Regent's Park, NW1.
Hilton London Metropole
London's largest hotelier recently announced plans for carbon-free electricity in 69 of its UK and Irish properties. This location, a short walk from shop-central Oxford Street, also recycles guest room paper and has glass-recycling bins on every floor. Prices start at $240 a night. 225 Edgware Road, W2.
The Zetter
This Clerkenwell's hotel is a modernist design housed in a converted Victorian warehouse. Ecophiles will love that water for drinking, flushing, and air-conditioning is pumped from the hotel's own borehole. Rooms start at $265 a night. St John's Square, 86-88 Clerkenwell Road, EC1.
One Aldwych
This Edwardian building in Covent Garden has contemporary interiors and is committed to eco-friendly practices and charities. Their flushing system uses 80 percent less water than conventional types, they eschew bleach, and the lighting is timed and energy-efficient. Prices start at $425 a night. 1 Aldwych, WC2.
London's lap of eco-luxury
These high-end highlights let you pamper yourself in guilt-free style:
Book a room at 51 Buckingham Gate, a Westminster hotel with spacious, contemporary apartments and suites with personal butlers and chauffeur-driven limousines. Sure those are indulgences, but this hotel harvests water, recycles comprehensively, and is reducing their energy consumption by 40 percent this year. Prices start at $530 a night. 51 Buckingham Gate, SW1.
To truly experience England's posh life, there's no substitute for taking afternoon tea. Claridge's, a nearly two-centuries-old hotel in the upper-crust Mayfair neighborhood, serves a selection of organic teas from 3:00 to 5:30 pm for $63 per person ($79 for the champagne option). You don't need to stay there to partake, but reservations are essential. Brook Street, W1.
Tuck into a savory meal in Richmond's Petersham Nurseries. Their enchanting café and teahouse is the perfect respite from the city's congestion. After your meal you can amble through the nurseries' fruit trees. The menu changes daily, but you'll find fall menu entrees such as pan-fried halibut with Puy lentil, roasted tomatoes, and buerre blanc. Entrees start at $32. Church Lane, off Petersham Road, TW10.
London 2012: The greenest games ever?
Previous Olympic host cities aimed to impress with dazzling buildings. London is gunning for green credentials. A look ahead for the nearly 15,000 athletes, 9,000,000 ticketed visitors, and the future of the city:
The stadiums and Olympic village will be built in London's East End, currently an underdeveloped industrial wasteland. Contaminated soil will be treated and returned, and new greenery will be added to create one of the largest new urban parks built in Europe in the last 150 years.
Construction crews will reuse ninety percent of the materials from the demolished landscape in new structures, with the remaining new timber coming from fair-trade and sustainable sources. After the Games, the athlete's village will be converted into 4,000 housing units, with other buildings finding new life as community and health centers and commercial space.
In addition to creating more than 270 acres of new open space and wildlife habitats, the plan calls for restoring existing woodland and waterways, connecting these habitats to London's other green areas by a network of terrestrial and aquatic corridors.
Organizers aim for a zero-waste garbage policy at the games. Wind turbines and biomass boilers will provide 20 percent of the Games' energy. Rainwater will be harvested, greywater will be reused, and organizers strive to minimize all emissions other than those created by attendees flying in.
Cars will be used minimally, and organizers hope to create about 7,000 bicycle parking spots—some permanent. Transit officials plan to repair and extend existing train lines adding more trains, more cars, new stations, and new signaling systems to boost ridership capacity.
Ask an insider
These hot spots are recommended by members of London's eco-minded inner circle.
"I pop in the Story Deli off Brick Lane if I've got a pizza craving. (ph: 020 7247 3137) The food is organic and delicious, and the owner's girlfriend decorated the space with a mix of vintage mirrors and sustainable cardboard. When I eat there, I always make a pitstop at Blondie, a great vintage boutique around the corner." -- Virginia Rowe, editor of the eco-friendly digital magazine StyleWillSaveUs.com
"I buy all my own food from farmer's markets, Fresh & Wild and Planet Organic. For dining out, I like The Duke of Cambridge—they're really good with organic produce—and I'm friends with the owners of Petersham Nurseries." -- Arthur Potts Dawson, executive chef and co-founder of Acorn House restaurant
"The Grain Shop, a takeaway on Portobello Road in Notting Hill (ph: 020 7229 5571) is an old-school, organic, vegetarian favorite. I also like Pizza Organic and Food For Thought on Neal Street in Covent Garden (ph: 020 7836 9072). I also recommend Portobello Market on Saturdays for great vintage and local finds." -- Jocelyn Whipple, London-based ethical stylist and consultant
Story by Zoe Cormier & Giovanna Dunmall. This article originally appeared in Plenty in November 2007.
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Gain Visibility and Continuous Security Across All Your Public Clouds
As organizations increase their use of public cloud platforms, they encounter cloud-specific security and compliance threats, which can be challenging to address without the right tools and processes.
Organizations' cloud security difficulties lie in two main areas: Lack of visibility into their cloud assets and resources, and a misunderstanding of cloud providers' shared security responsibility model. As a result, there have been a multitude of easily preventable security mishaps in public cloud deployments due to leaky storage buckets, misconfigured security groups, and erroneous user policies.
These security breakdowns have caused data breaches and other compromises at organizations large and small, including Verizon, Viacom, the Republican National Committee, Tesla and the U.S. Department of Defense. The key to protect public cloud workloads lies in adopting a cloud-native way of supporting and securing your resources in a hybrid IT environment, so as to have full visibility and control.
"Rather than having bifurcated tooling or bifurcated processes or even bifurcated teams, organizations need a unified view of their resources and security posture across on-premises and cloud environments," Hari Srinivasan, Director of Product Management at Qualys, said during a recent webcast.
Read on to learn about cloud security challenges, best practices, and how Qualys can help you secure any infrastructure, at any scale, on-premises and in cloud, via a unified interface, using uniform standards and processes.


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Say goodbye to Guerrero Street's Median Concrete
|Image: SF Public Works
|Housing located where Palm Broker formerly sat. Image: Urban Life Signs
|New tree plantings and plants on Guerrero at 18th St, looking north. Image: Urban Life Signs
However, my assumptions regarding funding the landscaping proved to be wrong. Trees and plants are already in the ground between 17th and 18th streets. Workers have removed the concrete of the narrow median between 15th and 17th street. However the concrete remains north of 15th and between 18th and 20th streets.
|1950s Guerrero St at 19th St with new median and narrowed sidewalks (looking north). Image: SFPL
|Guerrero at 19th St (2014). Image: Urban Life Signs
|Image: Urban Life Signs
|Guerrero Street at 17th Street (looking south) has brand new landscaping.
Guerrero Street between 20th and 19th Streets (looking south) still have no landscaping.
Images: Urban Life Signs
|Work starts by ripping out the old concrete median. Looks harder than it looks. Image: Urban Life Signs
The tracks! 1920s shot looking south at 20th and Guerrero. Image: SFPL
|Guerrero Street, looking south towards 20th Street (2014). Image: Google StreetView


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Interested in working 1:1 with Marilyn? Enrollment in Revise Your Truth is done by phone call. Email Marilyn to set up a time to talk, and together we'll decide if 1:1 mentoring is the next best step for you and your writing right now!
Revise Your Truth is open to women writers who have completed Craft Your Truth~Claim Your Voice and/or Excavate Your Truth~Free Your Voice and want to continue their conscious writing journey with a committed writing coach (Marilyn!) who understands the craft of memoir as well as the patterns of female conditioning that keep so many women silent.
Now that you are writing at a whole new level of craft and consciousness, how do you keep the momentum going? How do you continue to hone your craft and show up for your writing practice from a place of confidence while at the same time guarding against those pesky Angels in the House—your inner critic—when the writing gets challenging?
Revise Your Truth!
Revise Your Truth is a 1:1 mentoring program for women who want to live a conscious, creative, productive, and empowered writing life. This unique mentoring program integrates the writing essentials of craft, discipline, and productivity with the consciousness and mindset work necessary to recover your voice and your truth from silence. This program is designed to help you build and sustain an ongoing conscious writing practice that empowers you with the confidence and commitment necessary to see your short-form and/or long-form memoir writing projects through to completion.
This conscious writing mentorship will help you to hold yourself accountable to your writing goals and stay in relationship to your writing through every stage of the writing process.
Components of Revise Your Truth
Foundation of Consciousness
So many of the obstacles we face in reaching our writing dreams and goals are rooted in our mindsets and internalized conditioning. These limiting beliefs disempower and silence us—they are not the truth of who we are. Once we are aware of these limiting beliefs, we can shift our mindsets and really step into our writing power—our true voice and vision. This takes consistent and intentional mindset—i.e., consciousness—work. For this reason, consciousness work is built into the foundation of this program so that you not only get the most out of our work together, but you also continue writing at a whole new level of confidence and clarity long after this program ends.
This program begins with a series of "Consciousness Modules" that are designed to help you claim your writing truth, your writing subject, and your writing vision. The consciousness exercises you do in these modules will help you get clear about who you want to become as a writer, and how your inner critic operates so that you can stay in relationship to your writing self and your writing vision even when this critic rears. These exercises also position you to set a powerful writing intention as well as achievable writing goals that align with your writing dream and vision.
Consciousness Modules are pre-recorded audio modules that walk you through the consciousness exercises and conscious writing assignments. The work you do in these consciousness modules will comprise your Foundations of Consciousness Packet, which will be the basis for our first coaching call, the Foundations of Consciousness Coaching Call (see below).
Marilyn's Written Response to FOC Packet (1)
I respond to the exercises in your Foundation of Consciousness packet with my observations and suggestions regarding your subject, goals, intention, and vision. This packet often offers glimpses of the deeper story that wants to be told, and I reflect back to you the connections and patterns I see emerging. I also take a very close look at the inner critic you've identified and "reframed," and I offer "tweaks" to help clarify your perspective as you begin to distinguish between truth and fear in your relationship to your writing.
Foundation of Consciousness Coaching Call (1)
During this initial 60-min. coaching call, we dive deep into your Foundation of Consciousness packet and begin to lay the foundation upon which you will deliberately build your conscious writing practice. This call often leads to new levels of self-awareness, confidence, and clarity that transform the way you see yourself as a writer; it also leads to greater insight into your subject and clarifies your writing goals and vision. During this call we establish your deliverables for Writing Packet #1 so that you have clear direction moving forward.
Writing Packets (5)
Your precious work! Following your Foundations of Consciousness Call, you submit a Packet of your writing every other week for a total of 5 packets of new or revised writing. Each packet consists of up to 25 pages (6,250 words). Together on our Craft & Consciousness Coaching Calls (see below) we establish the content of your upcoming writing packets so that your next step is always clearly identified within the context of your larger writing goals and dreams.
Marilyn's "Deep Dive" Response to Your Writing Packets (5)
I immerse myself in your submitted pages, and I send you my written response in track changes. Each response will depend, of course, on the needs of your submitted work, but in general I focus on the "deeper story that wants to be told" to ensure that the contextual theme(s) of your memoir story—whether essay length or book length—is developed throughout the packet and that your writing stays within the parameters of the memoir story you are telling. I also hone in on scene development, the reflective voice, backstory, the story's arc, the metaphors of the experience, the emotional truth (internal arc), and other elements of craft essential to writing memoir.
Craft & Consciousness Coaching Calls (5)
These 60-minute coaching calls are in many ways the heart of our work together. We review and discuss in depth your submitted pages, and we strategize and work through any challenges of both craft & consciousness (emotional/mindset challenges) that are coming up for you in your writing and/or your writing practice. We do this in the context of your larger writing goals and intentions, and within the parameters of the story in development. Together we establish your deliverables for the next packet so that you can continue working toward your writing goal with clear direction.
The work we do together on our coaching calls helps you cultivate a habit of staying in relationship with your writing even in the face of inevitable challenges any given writing project presents. These calls also provide valuable time for you to "think out loud" about your work. It is very common for women to have "aha" moments during these calls that deepen their vision as they gain clarity on the connections, metaphors, and story truth in their own work. Valuable insights that "pop" into their conscious awareness during these empowering calls often lead to on-the-page wisdom in their work in progress. And since these calls are recorded, you can be completely present—no need to take notes—knowing that you can review the recording later.
We meet on the phone every other week for 60 mins.
Craft-based writing assignments
During our work together, I offer "as needed" writing assignments personalized to meet your writing needs and to strengthen your craft skills and writing techniques. These writing assignments may target a particular craft element that I determine would benefit your writing, or they may help you "crack open" a particular story truth in development so that you can "go vertical" into the story you are telling (i.e., the story that wants to be told). I am known to suggest research assignments, such as interviews or subject-specific research—whatever your work calls for—to help you deepen your understanding of your subject, extend the metaphor(s) in development, and elevate the artistry and cohesion of your work.
Craft-based reading assignments
I've been called a "literary matchmaker" ☺, and for good reason. One of my unsung talents (ha!) is "matching" people with the memoir, essay, or poem that speaks deeply to their writing need at a particular time in their conscious writing journey. I give suggested reading assignments that are personalized to your work and subject. The purpose of these assignments is to expose you to literary memoir essays and books as well as craft readings that help you to expand your working knowledge of the craft moves you can make in your own writing. These readings may be subject-based to give you models for how other authors handle your subject, or they may be craft-based to expose you to a wide range of craft and structural possibilities for telling your own memoir stories.
"Consciousness" assignments
Consciousness assignments are designed to promote self-awareness, shift mindsets and limiting beliefs, and help you deepen your relationship to your writing and to your deep, wise writing self so that you can amp up your confidence and your productivity and stay in relationship to your writing, your writing goal, and your writing self. Consciousness assignments build on your Foundations of Consciousness packet established early in the program so that you can continue to shift limiting beliefs and grow in confidence and consciousness.
Coaching Call Prep Form & Post-Coaching Call Integration Form
The Coaching Call Prep form invites you to reflect on your accomplishments and challenges from the weeks leading up to our call. It also gives you an opportunity to think about how you would like to use our coaching time together. By completing and submitting this form 24 hours before each Craft & Consciousness Coaching Call, we both come to the call prepared to celebrate your wins and address your writing needs and concerns so that you can keep moving your writing forward in ease and flow.
After our call, you complete the Post Coaching Call Integration form. This form invites you to reflect on our call so that you can solidify and integrate your "ahas" and "take aways" into your conscious writing practice and/or project. It also encourages you to set your writing schedule for the coming 2 weeks so that you practice putting your writing first and showing up for yourself & your writing consistently. The object is for you to stay firmly grounded in your writing intention between calls. While you are welcome to share this form with Marilyn (I always love to see how you assimilate the work we do on our coaching calls into your writing practice and/or project), this Integration form is meant for your own personal use to help you strengthen your "self-accountability" muscle as you practice showing up for and keeping track of yourself.
Together these forms serve as clarity, consciousness, & accountability tools that help you to keep track of your writing & hold yourself accountable so that you sustain a clear and focused writing practice and consistently write from the power of your voice rather than from fear or doubt. I encourage you to print them out and keep them in a binder so that you can readily track your growth & build on your progress.
Your own private online classroom
As a Revise Your Truth mentoring client, you will enjoy the benefits of your own private online classroom. No more searching your email inbox for recordings and assignments from previous coaching calls! Your coaching & deliverables schedules, consciousness modules, craft & consciousness assignments, and recordings of coaching calls will be housed in this classroom so that you have easy access to all of your materials at all times. And because this classroom includes its own built-in teleconference line, you will receive email reminders with call-in information prior to each of your coaching calls. And you will have lifetime access to your private classroom even after your coaching program ends!
Recordings of all coaching calls
Our coaching calls are automatically recorded and housed in your private classroom so that you have access to downloadable mp3 recordings of all calls. This allows you to review your "in the moment" insights and ahas about your work in progress and to explore any mindsets that you are shifting as you continue to show up for your writing and for yourself.
These recordings eliminate a need for you to take notes during our calls, which frees you to speak candidly and listen later to the words that came out of your mouth. It is common for those very words to "untangle" a writing challenge you've been working on. Because our coaching calls often uncover "seeds" of the deeper story truth that wants to be told, women often use their own words from these recordings to begin a new reflection or scene within their work in progress.
Schedule of all coaching calls and deliverable dates
At the start of our work together, you receive an in-depth schedule, which includes the dates and times of our coaching calls and of your deliverables so that from the get-go you have a clear-cut schedule months out that you can plug into your calendar. This schedule serves as a framework—a structure—around which you can begin to create your long-term conscious writing practice. It also helps you to cultivate and reinforce your accountability to your writing and to yourself. This schedule will be housed in your private Ruzuku classroom for easy access.
"Recap" after each coaching call specifying deliverables
After each of our coaching calls, I create a post in your private classroom that outlines your upcoming deliverables, including any suggested writing, reading, and conscious awareness assignments, so that you are clear on your next steps as you move your writing forward. Women finds these post-coaching call "recaps" a helpful way to keep track of their writing progress, assignments, and growth. These recaps also provide a record for you to refer to so that you can go back and complete any readings and/or suggested assignments you were not able to get to at the time.
Interested in working 1:1 with Marilyn? Enrollment in Revise Your Truth is done by phone call. Email Marilyn to set up a time to talk, and together we'll decide if 1:1 mentoring is the next best step for you and your writing right now!


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Carol Allen-Storey is an award-winning photojournalist specialising in chronicling complex humanitarian and social issues. Her imagery illuminating people's dignity and quest for survival reflects the unique trust and respect she engenders with her subjects.
"My images are intimate, about issues and citizens I deeply care about. I believe photographs may not be capable of doing the moral work for us, but they can trigger the process of social consciousness."
Storey's work has been exhibited and published extensively. Installations of her photography appear in corporate HQs and commercial premises. In October 2009 she was appointed a UNICEF ambassador for photography. Her recent prize money for winning gold in the Act of Kindness Award was donated to a small AIDS charity in Uganda because she believes it was morally responsible to donate the money back to those most in need.
In 2000 Carol graduated from Central St. Martins, Master Photography programme with distinction. A native New Yorker, Storey resides in London.
CLIENTS Include
Save the Children
International Alert
The Elton John Foundation
Spirituality for Kids
2014 'The AMAHORO Generation' – outdoor solo show at Southbank, London
'The Royal Photographic Society' – print exhibition, China
'CROSSINGS: The journey to peace' – solo show
at the Pullman Hotel, London
'Social Documentary' – finalist award show at the Powerhouse Gallery Arena, New York
New York Photography Festival – finalist show
at the Powerhouse Gallery Arena, New York
2013 'Taylor Wessing Portrait Award' – National Portrait Gallery, London
The Royal Photographic Society Annual International Members Exhibition
'Sign of the Times' – Photographic Collective Outdoor show at Berkeley Square, London
'The Press Photographer's Year 2013' - National Theatre South Bank, London
2012 'FRACTURED LIVES' – solo show at the SW1 Gallery, London
'Moving Walls' – Teplice, Czech Republic
'Media and Modern Conflict' – SW1 Gallery, London
2011 'Our Lives' – The House of St Barnabas, London
on behalf of Save the Children
'Reluctant Sex Worker' - Taylor Wessing Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London
'Children of Hope' – solo show at the Kendal Gallery, Kendal for Kasese Street Kids Foundation
'25 Years of War and Peace' – Gallery SW1, London on behalf of International Alert
'The Press Photographer's Year 2011' – National Theatre South Bank, London
2010 'RED DOT' – Association of Photographers Gallery, London for PhotoVoice
'One World In The Frame' – Chepstow Gallery, London
2009 'RED DOT' – Association of Photographers Gallery, London
'Taylor Wessing Portrait Award' – National Portrait Gallery, London for PhotoVoice
'Anything is Possible' – solo show at the Association
of Photographers Gallery, London
2008 'RED DOT' – Association of Photographers Gallery, London for PhotoVoice
'The Press Photographer's Year 2008' – National Theatre South Bank, London
2007 'RED DOT' – Association of Photographers Gallery, London for PhotoVoice
2006 'The Vanishing Assets of Africa' – solo show at the Inmarsat Gallery, London
2005 'Images of Woman' – Sotheby's, London
2004 'The Savagery & Poetry of Africa' – solo show at Proud Galleries, London
2011 'ONE LIFE Stories Told Through Photography', published
by signature book, USA
'Our Lives', published by Save the Children
2009 'UNSEEN', published by Skateboarding Duck on behalf
of the BPPA, London
'Anything is Possible', published by SFK, London
2008 'Assignments 3: The Press Photographer's Year, published
by PPI, London
2005 'PHOTOGRAPHY' photo reportage, published by Cassell Illustrated, London