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On The CHE's Reinforcement Of Suspicion Of Black Academia
By Guest Contributor T.F. Charlton
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, La TaSha B. Levy, and Ruth Hays: they're the doctoral students Naomi Schaefer Riley smeared–in unprecedented fashion–as inadequate, irrelevant scholars, in The Chronicle of Higher Education (CHE) based on nothing more than their race and field. But media coverage of the controversy has barely noted their names or their response to Riley; even black commentators have framed Riley's comments as solely an attack on Black Studies.
Riley's argument was not only aggressively ignorant and racially aggrieved; it has a clear racist pedigree. Mockery of PoC scholars and ethnic studies is hardly new–as Riley herself is aware–and somehow thinks justifies her piece ("The content of my post, after all, is hardly shocking; the same thing could have been written 30 years ago"–not the defense she thinks!). Suggesting that PoC should debate our lives and our scholarship with white people who are ignorant and resentful of our very existence isn't just white privilege–it's white supremacy.
The more I think about it, the more it seems to me that this debacle, and the media response to it, tell a story about the subtle ways in which white supremacy remains deeply embedded in our culture–in the media, in academia, and in our "national conversation" about race and racism in general. Four ways this story is about white supremacy:
1. The coverage of the controversy has centered Riley and erased the black women she attacked.
Instead of focusing on the people Riley bullied, the media has allowed her to paint herself as a victim of perfectly reasonable consequences of her own unprovoked attack and distract from the real issues by claiming she would make the same attacks on old white men doing Black Studies. Influential conservative writers have rallied to Riley's defense. There's been a similar lack of concern about "intellectual freedom" for the fields Riley believes shouldn't exist, notwithstanding that ethnic studies are under very real attack right now by white legislators abusing their power to encode racial fears and resentments into law.
Taylor, Levy, and Hays don't have the media contacts or influence Riley has. They've been forced to defend their work against attack rather than making a positive case for it on its own terms. Anyone would be angry and humiliated to suddenly find themselves the subjects of a hostile conversation framed to be of little relevance or benefit to them, their work, or their field.
2. Riley's tenure at CHE reveals an institutional problem.
CHE had little problem with the content Riley was producing for them before this–content that included quite a few race-baiting posts and mostly consisted of shallow, boilerplate conservative invective. (Sidenote: would a writer of color have gotten away with such lackluster, gratuitously provocative writing for so long?)
Unsurprisingly, CHE's objection to Riley's comments on Black Studies came only when it was necessary to salvage their brand and reputation. This says much about their institutional culture, as does the shortage of visible PoC among their contributors–e.g., of the twelve remaining contributors to Brainstorm, only one appears to be a PoC. Unless CHE expends actual effort to change their institutional culture, to feature more PoC voices and a broader range of perspectives, their self-protective firing of one blogger–welcome as it is–changes little.
3. CHE's initial response elevated white opinion above lived black experiences and knowledge production.
CHE editor Liz McMillen has apologized that her initial response, encouraging readers to see Riley's comments as an "invitation to debate," "seemed to elevate [them] to the level of informed opinion." But her response–along with a CHE staffer's chastisements of critics as attention hungry media illiterates maligning CHE as a villain and ignorant of its First Amendment rights–did more than that. They actually elevated Riley's screed above lived black experience and scholarship on black communities. They also overlooked the fact that Riley was explicitly motivated by resentment over the idea that blackness is worthy of study in itself. She was rather clear that she singled out Levy, Hays, and Taylor for disdain because CHE dared to publish a positive profile of them and their program, but "neglected" to include quotes from anyone "skeptical of Black Studies … Like me." Well!
And despite obviously scant familiarity with scholarship coming out of Black Studies departments, Riley now asserts that "[while] the black experience in America is worthy of study…the best of this work rarely comes out of Black Studies departments." She then proceeds to name, as an example of "pathbreaking" scholarship on racial disparities, Roland Fryer, a Harvard economist who–wait for it–spent 2 years as director of the Dubois Institute for African and African American Studies and remains affiliated with it now. Whoops. Guess Fryer is down with a field that Riley dismisses as a "series of axes…to grind."
Riley is only one of many producing a large, profitable genre of racial concern-trolling, fear-mongering, and hypocritical laments that any attention is paid to race at all (especially by "race-hustling," "victim mentality" buying PoC). Just in the past few months we've seen right-wing media paint critical race pioneer Professor Derrick Bell as some kind of wild-eyed "racialist" radical. Since 2008 we've been subjected to pontifications on Black liberation theology by conservatives, set on stirring up white racial anxiety, who clearly don't know the first thing about this theological tradition (hint: Black liberation theology=Latin American liberation theology).
Such commentators routinely use influential media platforms to complain about how put upon they are by anything that centers PoC. They present themselves as edgy, brave souls, risking livelihoods to speak "truth" about race–because attacking PoC is so taboo–while they repeatedly attack POC with impunity. It's a prevalent mindset exemplified by the white theater critic who recently derided the all-black production of A Streetcar Named Desire, not based on its quality, but because there are no all-white August Wilson plays–implying that black folks are somehow taking something from him and other white people in an industry where black actors are extremely marginalized and black critics are virtually nonexistent. As Blair Underwood, the star of this adaptation, put it on his Facebook page, the clear message is "BLACK FOLKS, STAY IN YOUR PLACE."
4. Black scholarship and black scholars are viewed as suspect and having to be justified, while implicitly white scholarship is seen as neutral, worthwhile, and objective.
What's true of the media is true of academia: the legitimacy and value of "traditional" (disproportionately white) fields are taken for granted. There's little room to question the "objectivity" of white mainstream scholarship, despite the long history of institutional racism in academia; still less room to articulate the indispensable contribution Black and other Ethnic Studies have made to our knowledge.
Without Black Studies, what would we know of black protest of Jim Crow, slave revolts (and white suppression of records of these revolts), or the medical exploitation of black and brown bodies? Who would chronicle not just the struggle, but the achievements, creativity, and joys of black lives and experiences? Do naysayers really imagine white scholarship, on its own, has given an honest account on these topics? Or are such accounts simply irrelevant to them?
If anything is intellectually fraudulent, it's scholarship that, consciously and not, excludes POC scholars or ignores race and ethnicity as categories of analysis. We all, white people included, need Ethnic Studies. Both academic scholarship and our understanding of the world are better, more honest, more robust with them than otherwise.
None of this is to say that black studies is perfect. Like many academic disciplines, it can be deeply bound to "traditional" approaches that marginalize scholarship from or about women, queer, and/or trans people. But it's also the case that substantive critiques of Black Studies by scholars who take race and racism seriously (i.e., not Sowell and Steele) already exist. That critics are wholly ignorant of both the contributions and critiques of Black Studies is an example of what Spelman anthropologist Erica L. Williams describes as the "emotional labor" PoC scholars "must perform … beyond our job descriptions" and not just in the humanities. The considerable stresses of educating and producing scholarship are compounded by the suspicion and racial hostility PoC scholars routinely face.
PoC are constantly expected to be emotional midwives to white people. Attempts to claim space or identity for ourselves–without deference to whiteness–are inevitably met with suspicion, anger, fear, and guilt (witness white anger over the President's racial self-identification). We're expected to have a conversation on race and racism that centers and assuages white emotions, to speak about race in terms and frameworks that are neither by, for, or ultimately about us. What little space we're afforded in mainstream media is taken up with 101-level education, demands that we justify our existence, and prove the merit of our perspectives and accomplishments beyond the shadow of a doubt. White critics and, occasionally, other people of color, often feel a casual entitlement to pass judgment on PoC narratives of our own experiences, and on our scholarship, without putting in the effort to learn about or engage with either.
This episode highlights the need for POC scholars to create our own media platforms where they can make a positive case for the work they do. I confess to deep pessimism that there will be any substantive change in mainstream media when it comes to diversity; there are few incentives for such changes and little will or power to enact them. But more than that, in mainstream spaces POC are routinely forced to play rhetorical defense. We are in desperate need of spaces where we can define our lives and our work on our own terms.
T.F. Charlton is a writer and blogger at Barnacle Studios.
One could argue that it's appropriate to make an editorial decision to leave these scholars names out of the debate because in addition to the issue of the blindly racist content of Riley's ridiculous piece (I say blindly because the topics she presented as absurd were the nothing of the sort — how can one consider studies of housing issues and midwifery unnecessary or even esoteric?), there was the cruelty of calling out young, vulnerable, job seeking, publisher courting scholars who don't deserve the ridicule and have other things they need to focus their attention on. If a rising academic has their profile raised because they present challenging ideas that is one thing, but Riley was just making fun of the titles of these pieces (and if those were the wildest titles and topics of the bunch, Black Studies may be the most conservative field in academia), so unless a follow-up piece involves actually reading all of their work and giving it a fair critique, I'm all for discussing this incident without focussing on the scholars being attacked.
Great article! I go
to this very liberal state University and I was talking about La Raza and how I
wanted to join but I was too busy with classes.
The two men (both white) then talked about how La Raza was racist organization and
how it unfair to white people. O.O This was the same crowd that said, I that I
hated my white side since I always tend to associate myself to Latino/people of
color groups. There sense that when we
write, talk or discuss our experience people accuse us about race. I would also
argue that our experiences are fetished and stereotyped. White people( not all
but people who are caught doing this are
white) tend to lecture a person of color about their respected cultures, language,
etc or expect them to be a walking stereotype.
We all know that if you are Black people assume you are poor, grew up on
welfare, into hip- hop when you are a middle class who like hip- hop but also
likes rock and had a Goth phased in high -school. e.g., I am Latina
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"Instead of focusing on the people Riley bullied, the media has allowed her to paint herself as a victim [...]"
I'm curious what "focusing on the people Riley bullied" means? When I see the media spotlight turned on the victims of attack lately– Sandra Fluke, Trayvon Martin and his family, others who have limited means of media access– it has been, itself, an invitation to further attack. I assume this isn't what Charlton has in mind. I'd love to know more about how Charlton would have preferred the media to behave, since I am hoping there's a clear way to shine a spotlight on a victim of bullying without it becoming an interrogation.
Um, I would venture to say that what he means is that as usual, the suffering of the white woman who was being racist and dismissive of their work was made into the most important thing as opposed to the reputations of the doctoral students whose work she insulted.
Too many conversations about white women's racism devolves into a discussion about how much the white woman's feelings have been hurt when she is rightfully called out. Privileged white woman are pretty high up the totem pole in this country. They should not be beyond reproach when they mess up.
It would be great if just one conversation about racism didn't become a discussion about a white woman's butthurt.
And to equate Riley's "suffering" with Trayvon Martin is beyond insulting. He is dead, and she will never be treated as he was, nor will be ever be subjected to unjust search, seizure, profiling, etc.
I wouldn't include Sandra Fluke precisely because everyone goes nuts if a single hair on a white woman's head is insulted. POC are not afforded that kind of protection by the media.
This is one giant derail. She has assaulted the powerless using a role that she is barely qualified for. She has no doctorate but she can dissect dissertations that she didn't bother to read? And you, like so many others, take issue with that?
I'd love for the media to focus on real victims, not racists whose feelings have been hurt for getting called out on their racism.
And I'm so tired of people trotting out their Black/Asian/other partners as proof that they are not racist. Yes Virginia, you can sleep with a POC every night, have children who are POC and still be the biggest racist ever.
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OP here. I'm not suggesting media interrogations of the students involved, but rather equal consideration – at least – of the professional and personal implications of this fiasco for them as the media has given Riley. There's been endless handwringing over the loss of a minor position for Naomi Riley and little consideration of what it means for a graduate student to have their work in progress lampooned before a national audience. On top of that, the fact that Riley attacked graduate students by name should be part of basic reporting on the controversy. Much of the media coverage has failed to mention this, framing the original post only as an attack on Black Studies as a field. Beyond mention of that fact it would have been nice to see more journalists acknowledge that it's highly unusual to single out graduate students, who are not established scholars and are still in the middle of their research and writing, for ridicule – and this was a huge part of why it sparked such a backlash in the first place.
These students are already in the spotlight and open to attack and interrogation; they might as well have an equal opportunity to put their perspective out there. I know Ta-Nehisi Coates has extended an invitation to them to write about their work on his blog, and Mark Anthony Neal/New Black Man just had LaTasha Levy on his Left of Black podcast to discuss Riley's piece. -
My favorite writer about the history of racism in America is J Sakai. He didn't come from academia and he writes in a clear way that anybody can understand but I have a feeling if white critics had ever heard of him they wouldn't like him any better! I guess the pathbreaking scholarship from outside academia she likes are people like Huey Newton and Omali Yeshitela right? I'm sure that must be what she means.
We must be having some sort of miscommunication. My comment begins with the assumption that what Riley did was racist and unprofessional, though I could have explicitly stated that, and at no point did I imply Riley is "suffering," much less compare her suffering to Trayvon Martin's, and yes, it would be insulting to do so. I'm not questioning why Charlton feels these grad students are being bullied, that is crystal clear to me. I noted that, lately, highlighting victims of bullies in the media, however dissimilar they may be, has led to further vicious attacks, and I asked what practical media strategies Charlton has in mind that don't further open these students, simply because it would be a useful thing to know.
Sorry, I have strong feelings about the topic and this wasn't directed at you, just the frustration from the situation in general.
I totally agree. This debate should center around Riley… I wouldn't want these scholars to be associated with this piece of racist drivel. It would be totally unfair for them to be dragged into this (well, even more than they were already dragged into this by this shitty article) because of CHE's apparent lack of discretion.
I totally agree. This debate should center around Riley… I wouldn't want these scholars to be associated with this piece of racist drivel. It would be totally unfair for them to be dragged into this (well, even more than they were already dragged into this by this shitty article) because of CHE's apparent lack of discretion.
Oh, nevermind then!
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Well said Cleo! Well said!
Some people seem to think because they are married to or dating someone who is a person of colour, or if they are female, or a person of colour they are exempt from saying racist, and or sexist things.
That kind of logic always astounds me.I remember once that I pointed out to a woman that what she was saying about another woman was rather misogynistic. She got upset and angry at me and then said "I CANNOT BE A MISOGYNIST! I AM A WOMAN!!"
Sometimes it is not to be believed the depths of the obtuse. -
"Emotional midwives" is a sublime term.
So many white people see POC as sidekicks in whatever heroic white quest they see themselves on, and they see the world of POC as an empty stage for them to star on.
Hey white people, it's not always all about you.
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When Matthew DiRisio was a college student, he got a job as an intern and was sent to a basement to clean historic rifles that had not been touched in years.
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"After going through a couple of dozen rifles, I thought, 'Hey. These are really cool,' " he said. "There's a lot of history."
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It's definitely sweater season but how about wearing your sweater on your bag. The Tory Burch 'Amulet' messenger bag is done in leather with a nautical logo crest and a flap front that includes a swath of cable-knit sweater. The bag would be the perfect choice for casual weekend adventures. It measures 12 1/2"W x 11"H x 3"D and has 7" drop or 15" - 19" with the shoulder strap. Inside there is a pocket for your cell phone. It's also available in black with black leather which might be a better choice because as adorable as the ivory is I can see that it would get dirty fast. This bag sells for $475.


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The end of my Irish dance hiatus - coming out of retirement for Oireachtas 2011
Getting back in the game with my first Irish dance competition of the year
The fall season is high-time for regional Irish dance competition across North America, and for the Mid-Atlantic region, Thanksgiving weekend is forever linked with the annual Oireachtas in Philadelphia.
The Oireachtas is a three-day event that, for my Mid-Atlantic region, turns the Philadelphia Marriott into a ground-zero for all things Irish dance. From the competitions to the always hectic but enjoyable results, to vendors selling all things Irish, and of course after-parties in the lobby, there is no escape from the world of Irish dance on Thanksgiving weekend.
I've been involved with Irish dancing for quite literally, my whole life. I started taking classes at the ripe old age of 3 with the same dance teacher my mom danced for, Patsy McLoughlin, in New Jersey. Now, at 22 years old, I've found myself practicing again after coming out of a five year long hiatus.
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I competed in my first Oireachtas at only 5 years old. My mom likes to remind me how she and the other dance-veteran mothers had less than high hopes for our first ever 4-hand competition. "We just hoped you'd get through it up there," she's said. Magically, we did.
I'm happy to say that I'll be making my return to competition this year. While I don't have the guts (or, apparently, the ankles) to undertake solo competitions again, some friends and I have decided to throw our hats in for the adult 4-hand competition. To be in the adult competition, all members of the team need to have not competed for at least five years.
The last time I competed at the Oireachtas was when I was still in high school. After that, I hung my dance shoes up in order to focus on college, and resolved myself to be a spectator, and sometimes frantic team assistant at the Oireachtas every year. This weekend's Oireachtas will be my seventeenth - evidently, I can't escape them, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
This year my desire to compete again materialized when I made the cut-off for the adult teams.
Organizing three fellow "retired" dancers, we embarked on the physically-shocking practice of a measly 1 hour a week class. I often find myself wondering now how in God's name I ever endured two to three hour practices at least twice a week, which were usually intensified around competitions.
The day after practices this year were often met with aching bones and sore feet; time hadn't been too kind to us during our retirement.
Our first practice about two months ago was a sight to behold. We all knew the dance nearly inside out as we had grown up doing the 4-hand reel every year at the Oireachtas. Physical endurance, on the other hand, was a different story.
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Markets React to Mideast Unrest
Andy Lipow, Lipow Oil Associates president, weighs in on how the recent unrest and violence in the Middle East is impacting oil prices.
Sep 17, 2012
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Thank you very difficult -- wouldn't -- -- prices taking a plunge in late day trading after hitting 100 dollars a barrel last week.
Prices dropped nearly five dollars.
And just a few minutes of trading today to -- below 95 dollars a barrel.
Perfect guy to join us on this today Andrew without president of without oil associates thanks for joining is sandy.
Now thanks for having me can you explain this what happened today.
Where -- I think the market sentiment is changing and it when you look around there was a lot of euphoria last week in QE3.
They did the Fed going -- -- unlimited mortgage backed security purchases.
Driving the dollar weak are driving commodities hi there.
And then people look around and go well -- -- really gonna make a difference as far as demand.
Then when you look over in the Middle East and we do see all this.
Unrest and a lot of that -- our demonstrations against America.
But what it really is is that we're not gonna impact this -- the flow of crude oil out of there are so the marketers think and the supply stays the same demand is going to be an issue.
Maybe we got over enthusiastic.
Anyone a couple of things out there for viewers -- -- just seeing that this actually happened today because again this was a very sharp sell off.
In a matter of minutes just for the for the close of pit trading.
I'd today we didn't this -- a coordinated selloff it wasn't just oil it was the rest of the energy complex as well natural gas heating oil.
Our Bob gasoline also took a tumble the CME group in Chicago's that there is no technical issues involved that the move but the market's performed as designed.
But you're saying that this sell off in the last few minutes of -- treating.
With a lot of that a piled into the alongside of this market gotten nervous because all the geopolitical -- the talk of the White House and the SP RX -- -- Well I think so -- we've seen this big run up in crude oil prices over the last couple of months people -- either take profit or get out and then.
A small selloff -- generates a bigger one is people are trying to liquidate all at once head to the exit -- -- As -- as they see the market sentiment changing.
So let's look -- what happens tomorrow and the rest of the week the rest of the year when we have this fed policy on the table where they're willing to stimulate.
This economy until like gets up and going what does that end up doing long term to this oil market.
Well on a longer term basis I expect that the oil price would rise because you would see a weaker dollar.
And as a result people pile into commodities but the other side of me says when I look at demand especially in Europe which is declining.
I see that the after affects of hurricane eyes -- over oil production has returned.
Gasoline supplies are increasing I think that's bearish for the market.
We already saw -- 95 dollars earlier today I think we'll go below that to 9392.
OK and that being said everyone at home wonders about their gasoline prices.
Obviously we're an election year this is a political issue is well the folks around the country are still paying well over four dollars a gallon for gasoline -- -- a lot of talk about possibly prices are peaking at these recent highs what do you think.
Well I think prices are peaking or have peaked in fact we're now making the winter grade of gasoline.
You're gonna see that distributed throughout the northeast over the next week prices will be coming down.
Around fifteen cents a gallon I expect the national average to go below three dollars and seventy cents.
Alright Andy let outlook our associates thank you so much for joining us on that very important -- finally it.
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A few years ago I took a look at the AC power here at my house on an oscilloscope. I had done this when I first moved to Yerington, Nevada in 1999 and saw a sine wave with a few glitches here and there. Now I saw a strange waveform that was far from a sine wave. To make sure this wasn't caused by some odd load in the house, I shut off all the power except for the scope, and the waveform was unchanged. I called my friend Wally in Sunnyvale, California and asked him to check his power, and he found essentially the same waveform. Here is a waveform I took recently, which is similar to what I saw a few years ago:
What has caused the change over the last ten years? My theory is that the amount of non-linear loads on the power grid has increased dramatically. These are almost always power supplies with capacitor-input filters which draw current only at the peak of the waveform, thus flattening the waveform. The large increase in the use of computers with their cheap switching power supplies as well as the program to replace incandescent light bulbs with CFL lighting is probably driving this. I saw this "flat-topping" effect on the power line waveform when I worked at Tandem Computers in the 1980s. The buildings were filled with multi-processor mainframe computers with multiple 1 KW switching power supplies. However, the waveform at my house in San Jose, in a residential neighborhood, was a sine wave. The waveform I see now is deranged in a more complicated way.


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NEW YORK, May, 26 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Western companies doing business in Russia often find themselves in courts against their former Russian partners. According to statistics compiled by RUXX, an index that tracks Russian companies traded overseas, more than 75 percent of court rulings in Russia are against Western companies. The percentage is even higher in courts outside of Moscow.
Several large corporations have appealed to Russia's leaders trying to bring their attention to possible "managed" court rulings. Italcementi, one of the world's largest makers of cement, expects to see its dispute with Russian cement maker Siberian Cement over a EUR 50mn forfeited commitment fee to go before Russia's Supreme Arbitration Court. Even though the Italian company was in the right to withhold the deposit, it may see its appeal denied one more time by the Russian court.
Back in 2008, SibCement won an auction to buy Italcementi's cement assets in Turkey for USD 850mn. The deal was duly approved by SibCement's Board and shareholders, and the Russian company paid the commitment fee of EUR 50mn to the Italian cement major. However, SibCement's core shareholder Oleg Sharykin chose to walk away from the deal, overruling both the Board and a shareholders' general meeting. As a result, SibCement forfeited the commitment fee and made another EUR 4mn paid to ING in advisory fees go to waste. Sharykin is suing Italcementi for a refund of the commitment fee.
Russian arbitration courts ruled for Sharykin, and this decision was later repeatedly upheld on appeal. The Italian group is asking the newly re-elected Russian President Vladimir Putin to intervene on their behalf as the case goes up for final appeal before Russia's Supreme Arbitration Court. "This should not come as a great surprise," says RUXX Senior Analyst Ilya Lushnikov. "Valery Bodrenkov, former deputy head of regional FSB security service and Olga Kondrasheva, former deputy chairperson of the Arbitration Court, now work for Sharykin, and the Italian industrial group is now facing a situation typical for Russia when a legal dispute becomes a battle of political influence. Italcementi does not stand a chance in a purely legal battle, and their appeal to the Russian President is a smart move."
"In the last few months, there has been a major capital flight from Russia amid the decrease of appetite for risk. Judicial and political risk is high in this country, there is a very good chance that the reason for that is a cozy relationship between the court and the Russian company's executive or key owner. Overall, corruption risk is one of the most important risks of doing business with Russia," Ilya Lushnikov adds: "We estimate that more companies will be repatriating their capital from Russia unless the president does take Italcementi and other companies' appeals seriously."
RUXX, a Dow Jones calculated index that tracks Russian equities traded overseas, fell 14% in the last two months.
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My last shoot in South Africa during March this year was a creative bridal shoot. I've always wanted to do an urban bridal shoot in Johannesburg (where I'm originally from) and I'm very happy to say that the results of this shoot, more than exceeded my expectations! I really enjoy being involved in and shooting creative concept shoots and this […]
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i basically do a seven day split with no rest days. i jus use the other days as rest days for the certain muscles.
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