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Stem Cell Injection to Treat Heart Damage During Open Heart Surgery
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01557543
Recruitment Status : Terminated
First Posted : March 19, 2012
Last Update Posted : July 5, 2018
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- Bone marrow stromal stem cells (also known as mesenchymal stem cells) have been isolated and are found to make large amounts of growth factors. Because they make growth factors, these cells can help re-grow tissue and encourage repair of damaged tissue. Tests on damaged heart muscle suggest that injecting these cells directly into damaged heart muscle can improve heart function. Researchers want to give stem cells to people who are having open heart surgery to see if they can help to repair heart muscle damage.
- To test the safety and effectiveness of bone marrow stromal stem cell injections given during heart surgery to treat heart muscle damage.
- Individuals at least 18 years of age who are scheduled to have open heart surgery for heart artery or vein blockages.
- Participants will be screened with a physical exam and medical history. Blood and urine samples will also be collected.
- Participants will have bone marrow taken from both hip bones about 3 weeks before the heart surgery.
- During the surgery, the stromal stem cells collected from the bone marrow will be given into the damaged portion of the heart muscle. The rest of the heart surgery will be performed according to standard procedures.
- After the surgery, participants will be monitored for complications from the stromal stem cells.
- Participants will have heart function tests to see if the stromal stem cell treatments were effective....
|Condition or disease
|Heart Disease Ischemic Heart Disease Coronary Artery Disease Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)
|Other: Cell Therapy
|Phase 1
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|24 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Preliminary Assessment of Direct Intra-Myocardial Injection of Autologous Bone Marrow-derived Stromal Cells on Patients Undergoing Revascularization for CAD With Depressed Left Ventricular Function
|Study Start Date :
|February 29, 2012
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|July 25, 2017
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|June 18, 2018
- Other: Cell Therapy
Intramyocardial Injection of BMSCs
- To evaluate the safety and feasibility of direct intra-myocardial injection of autologous bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) in adult subjects undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) or transmyocardial revascularization (TMR).
- To assess if direct intra-myocardial injection of autologous BMSCs improves the patient's cardiac function, quality of life, and reduces cardiac events compared to historical controls at three and six months after intervention.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 85 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
- Consenting adult patients (male or female, aged above 18 and less than or equal to 85), and
- Plans to undergo CABG or TMR at the NIH Heart Center at Suburban Hospital and are willing to participate.
- Must meet indications for CABG or TMR:
Indications for CABG (31)
- Significant left main coronary artery stenosis (> 50% reduction in lumen diameter).
- Left main equivalent: significant (greater than or equal to70%) stenosis of proximal LAD and proximal left circumflex artery.
Three-vessel disease (stenosis of 50% or more in all 3 major coronary territories). (Survival benefit is greater when LVEF is
Two-vessel disease with significant proximal LAD stenosis and either EF <0.50 or demonstrable ischemia on noninvasive
- One- or 2-vessel coronary artery disease without significant proximal LAD stenosis, but with a large area of viable
myocardium and high-risk criteria on noninvasive testing.
- Indications for TMR (32, 33).
- Canadian Cardiovascular Class III or IV angina that is refractory to maximal medical therapy.
Reversible ischemia of the left ventricular free wall and coronary artery disease corresponding to the regions of myocardial
- In all regions of the myocardium, the coronary disease must not be amenable to coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) or
percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), due to:
i. severe diffuse disease,
ii. lack of suitable targets for complete revascularization,
iii. lack of suitable conduits for complete revascularization
- Stable Angina. Patient?s clinical state has to be stable to receive surgical treatment. Patients must have received or currently receiving standard of care medical therapy(33) for at least 4 weeks prior to enrollment, to include:
- Aspirin in the absence of contraindications in patients with prior MI
- Beta-blockers as initial therapy in the absence of contraindications in patients with prior MI.
Lipid-lowering therapy in patients with documented CAD and LDL cholesterol greater than 130 mg/dL, with a target LDL of less
than 100 mg/dL
- ACE inhibitor in patients with CAD (considered significant by angiography or previous MI) who also have diabetes and/or left
ventricular systolic dysfunction.
- Three-vessel CAD. Multi-vessel diffuse coronary artery disease not amenable to percutaneous coronary intervention.
- LV EF less than or equal to 50% by by MRI or Echocardiogram. The left ventricle ejection fraction less than 50% evidenced the diagnosis of heart failure indicating global weakness of myocardial contractility and leaves space for functional improvement.
- Evidence of hypokinetic segment. Regional wall motion abnormality which includes regional low/no motion, or motion in opposite direction, is a good indication for invasive intervention and can be well-compared before and after treatment.
Laboratory tests showed no evidence of major organ dysfunction, bleeding disorder, or infectious diseases. Patients must have organ and marrow function as defined below:
i. Leukocytes greater than or equal to 2,500/mcL
ii. Lymphocytes greater than or equal to 800/mcL
iii. Platelets greater than or equal to 100,000/mcL
iv. Total Bilirubin less than or equal to 2mg/dL
v. AST (SGOT)/ALT (SGPT) less than or equal 1.5 times
institutional upper limit of normal (ULN)
vi. Creatinine less than or equal to institutional upper limit of
normal (ULN)
- Must be willing to participate in 10-CC-0053 to obtain autologous bone marrow.
- Patients must understand and sign an informed consent document that explains the nature of his/her cardiac disease, the procedures to be followed, the experimental nature of the treatment, alternative treatments, and potential risks and toxicities.
- Patients who have the following conditions will be excluded from the study:
- Acute MI. Less than three months after recent acute myocardial infarction.
- Unstable angina. Excluded due to the propensity to deteriorate into AMI.
- Bleeding disorder, including history of familial hemophilia, signs and symptoms of easy bruising, petechiae, or platelet count < 80,000 cells/mcL. This disorder may unnecessarily complicate the operative procedure and postoperative recovery.
- Severe respiratory disorder, including acute asthma, chronic bronchitis, severe chronic obstructive lung disease. A disorder that would complicate the operative procedure and postoperative recovery.
- Unable to provide informed consent on this study or on 10-CC-0053.
- Unable to wait 3 weeks for surgery, which is the waiting period for ex-vivo cell expansion.
- Reactive for anti-HIV, Hepatitis B surface antigen, anti-HCV or nucleic acid testing for HIV, Hepatitis B and C. An investigational component accompanying this major surgical procedure in the presence of infection has the potential to increase risk of complications, and manufacturing contaminated products risks contaminating other cellular products in CPS.
- Pregnant or lactating females, due to the highly investigational nature of this study and its unknown effects on a developing fetus.
- Allergic to Gentamicin.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01557543
|United States, Maryland
|Suburban Hospital
|Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20814
|National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike
|Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892
|Principal Investigator:
|Pamela G Robey, Ph.D.
|National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|March 19, 2012 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|July 5, 2018
|Last Verified:
|June 18, 2018
Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
Coronary Artery Disease
Transmyocardial Revascularization
Bone Marrow Stromal Cells
Coronary Artery Disease
Myocardial Ischemia
Coronary Disease
Heart Diseases
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MONTICELLO, NY - It's not like it was totally unexpected but Monticello Raceway's Au Revoir, the race exclusively for 14 year olds who will be forced into retirement on January 1, 2014, failed to attract enough entries.
"When we opened the (entry) box this morning we only had three entries," noted Eric Warner, the tracks Director of Racing." Actually I was somewhat surprised because we worked hard on filling the race and there seemed to be quite a lot of interest."
However, Warner shouldn't be too surprised since after the Mighty M first staged the race for the retiring crew back in 1991 only four other times in the 22 following years did the Au Revoir fill.
Although the race was presented three times in the last four years, still getting enough entries is never a given.
"We are asked from time to time why don't you include 12 and 13 year olds but it wouldn't be the same race. That it doesn't always fill (get enough entries) every year makes the AuRevoir that much more special," Warner explained.
Of all five of the Au Revoir's that were raced the most exceptional occurred last year when Whitlock N and driver Kevin Switzer, Jr. turned back the much hyped and race favorite, Tattler's Jet in a time of 2:01.3.
To say that the 2012 Au Revoir was much hyped would be an understatement. That $5000 race drew a full page story with a photo of Tattler's Jet and his trainer Gene Miller, on the opening page of their sports section sports page in the New York Times and there was a follow-up story the next day, also of huge proportions.
The USTA's Ellen Harvey, whose unwavering assistance helped get the story published, said a few days after the event "Never did a $5000 race get so much coverage."
A race exclusively for 14 year olds near the end of the year is unique in that not only is it hard to find enough 14 year old standardbreds still competing in late December but it is the final race in the careers of the entrants because every January 1 all horses become one year older, no matter when they were foaled, and at 15 years old all Standardbreds have to hang up their racing shoes.
"Although we are discouraged by not being able to fill the Au Revoir this year we'll definitely try again next season," Warner promised.
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Life as we know it
It's alive! These famous lines of Dr. Frankenstein remind me of zombie movies and sci-fi horrors. But apparently the idea of creating life from death may be jumping from the pages of sci-fi novels into actual science.
According to the New York Times four years ago at the University of Massachusetts Medical School scientists created a molecule that could replicate and evolve by its self. It was nicknamed "The Immortal Molecule."
This molecule may be only the beginning. Biologist and chemist in a lab in San Diego are trying to create life. They are attempting to bridge the gap between inanimate and animate using modern genetics. Perhaps Mary Shelly was on the right track, but only about two centuries too early. Read more about this here.


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The politics of geographical boundaries are incredibly complicated, and engulfed in years and sometimes generations of dispute. Here in the US, the illegal immigration of Mexicans across the borders in California and Texas remains high on the political agenda, but the issues and conflicts it inspires remain unresolved. But, on the afternoon of Sunday June 22, a group from San Diego called The Border Meetup sought not to divide the two nations but to find the gift of unity through yoga.
Yogis from Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego, CA came together to practice yoga on both sides of the border fence. The purpose of the gathering was very much the same as the purpose of the practice itself, to remove the veil of separation, be it tangible or psychological, and encourage the experience of unity that transcends geographical demarcation and personal prejudice. Every few months, the group organizes a gathering on both sides of the border based on a theme that "has no borders" in the hopes of improving the region through understanding and friendships across cultural boundaries.
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On the afternoon of the 22nd of June, that theme was one that by pure definition means joining together. Teacher Javier Alonso Bazua from Tijuana led the bi-national group in an asana practice based on friendship and love taught through the partition of the gate meant to separate not unite. This experience and its surroundings, often in direct contrast to one another, illustrated goal of the The Border Meetup group; to bring people together across cultures in an effort to improve the region and cultivate friendship and understanding, a transformation that is bigger than politics or fences.
We often find ourselves surrendering to the external circumstances of our situations in life, and then placing blame to ease our own misgivings. Be it border relations or neighborhood disputes, so often we throw up our hands in exasperation and resign ourselves to helplessness, anger, or the creation of boundaries in ourselves. What The Border Meetup Group is showing us is that we are all humans regardless of location or circumstance, and that with just a little effort, we can find our commonality far outweighs our separateness. Through the uniting of cultures in shared activities, many people are finding that we are not that different after all. The fear of the unknown "them" across the fence starts to fade, and compassion grows in its place.
It is the fear that the line drawers count on, though. By placing another person, culture, or nationality in opposition to ourselves, they find support for division and endorsement of measures that will keep us apart. One side becomes the victor and the other is defeated. But through yoga practice and groups like The Border Meetup, a deeper understanding can emerge, one that is not based in external circumstances but emerges from that place in us that exists in everyone. That place that we can uncover in a committed practice of yoga, meditation, or simply a practice of unfettered understanding, that place in which we are all one expressed as many unique and interesting individuals.
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Although I know that you are right about Lv210 being the highest possible for tri-moonstones, I gonna be stubborn go stick to the legend...MaximumBurst wrote:Would it be better to have a Lv270 tri-moonstone or Lv330 tri-diamond? Next time free Premium comes around (or maybe I'll buy it), it might be worth it to do the premium training trick to get a Lv270 tri-moonstone. I bet the chance of that is 5% or so lol.PenPen wrote:tri-moon stone that is lv270 yet does everything, etc
Edit: Actually, I looked at the CSC guide here and it looks like moonstones are only 0/+10/+20 for the level cap, so the most should be Lv210, not Lv270.
Anyway, I think tri-moonstone is hard to use this method because not only the level it adds to is important, the stats it adds to is also important. (Where as tri-diamonds may deduct stats, but recovered mainly by the level difference...)
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From 2010 Sensini received a total of 9 Nominees for Best Score (categories Feature Film, Documentaries, Promotion, Best Song, Best Short) at the Jerry Goldsmith International Film Music Award.
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Just when you were starting to get to know Week 11, it peed all over your toilet seat, finished off your leftover orange chicken from the Jade Dragon, scratched all your Stooges records and drove westward toward the Pacific. Life will never be quite the same. These are our Wonder Years — or at least our Oneder years, if you're into That Thing You Do.
The year has also been wondrous for SmokenTrees StrokenThrees, who has quietly climbed from 42nd place on January 25 to 11th this week. It's easily the farthest, steadiest climb of any team over the last seven weeks. He's third in the Big Ball Dance division behind the overall leader One Piece and ninth-placer Shock the Monkey. Steve Novak and Isaiah Thomas have accelerated STST recently, while shrewd grabs of Ryan Anderson and Nikola Pekovic have helped him come on up for the rising over the last few months.
While Trees 'n' Threes climbed seven spots in the last two weeks, I Give it a TEN! and California Defenders climbed the highest ladders since before the All-Star Break (8 and 9 spots respectively).
Team joniuscaesar, currently fourth place in the All-Star Dance-Off '08 division, took a nine-spot slide from 46th to 55th, while Kiwi Connection dropped from 22nd to 38th, making him almost as hateful of DeMar DeRozan as I am. If you unfocus your eyes and stare at the small version of this week's graph shown above, you can spot Kiwi immediately. While most everyone else is rising or falling only a few spots, Kiwi jumped out of the plane without a chute. Shoot! Splat.
Ah well, cats and kittens. You've got nine lives and there's always next week.
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As industry officials digest the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's (FINRA) new suitability rule, Rule 2111, which took effect July 9, more onerous due diligence requirements for BDs are surfacing as well as reps having to take on what looks to be fiduciary responsibility.
Ron Rhoades (left), the 2012-2013 chairman of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA) and associate professor of Alfred State College's Financial Planning Program, points to the rule's "investment strategy" language as providing the most challenge.
Rhoades says that under the rule, reps and BDs are now required to make sure their "investment strategy" meets suitability requirements.
"The 'investment strategy' language used by FINRA has already been interpreted by FINRA to apply to 'hold' recommendations," Rhoades told AdvisorOne. "This will require registered representatives to document, in their client relationship management software, 'hold' recommendations to a client, such as: 'Don't do anything now.' And, of course, some supervision of such recommendations must occur."
Primarily, he continues, "this presents a documentation requirement for BDs and reps." Plus, "liability for hold recommendations may result, especially in situations when due diligence on a product has not been updated."
But a "larger issue," he says, "is whether FINRA construes 'investment strategy' more broadly, as they have stated they will."
For instance, if investment strategy is construed to apply to "portfolio investment policy" (i.e., overall portfolio investment strategies), then this may require BDs to perform two tasks, he says.
First, BDs would have to "undertake significant due diligence on the academic underpinnings (through academic research or back-testing) of various investment strategies, especially as to risks present."
Second, BDs would have to ensure this information is communicated to customers. Until now, Rhoades says, "suitability related primarily to gathering information about the client, from the clients, and did not require communication of that information back to clients. It also required due diligence at the product level."
Continues Rhoades: "Once you get into portfolio investment strategy that will evolve into communication of any adopted strategy back to the client, as a best practice—including the risks present in that strategy."
Moreover, Rhoades says, "the imposition and maintenance of a strategic or tactical asset allocation plan by a registered rep for a client may well result in a fiduciary relationship being formed."
In this respect, fiduciary status may be imposed under state common law—i.e., case law. Why? "Because the design and maintenance of an overall portfolio investment strategy for a client feels like much more than an 'arms-length' product sales relationship, and more like a relationship in which ongoing advice (of a comprehensive nature) is provided," Rhoades explains.
As a result, if FINRA interprets the investment strategy language broadly, "registered reps cannot just rely on the fact that the account statements say: 'This is a brokerage account, not an advisory account,'" Rhoades says, because "fiduciary status under state common law results from representations made and actions taken, evaluated on a case-by-case basis, and is generally not determined by the agreement of the parties."
Rhoades says that he suspects dual registrants "may find that it is just easier to avoid all of the ambiguity created where they are providing ongoing advice to a client, and just establish investment advisory accounts." Also, he says, "I suspect that greater use of written investment policy statements will occur, with disclosures of historical portfolio-level volatility contained within these statements."


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Traffic signal a waste of money
We appreciate your editorial regarding the signal scheduled for installation at El Camino Real and Clark Avenue in Mountain View ("Clark traffic signal a big waste of money," Feb. 27).
How do citizens of Los Altos and Mountain View reach out to Caltrans to discourage this from happening? Can't our city officials do that also? Or is it a done deal?
The signal is an absurd waste of our tax dollars and a traffic creator. Four traffic lights in a less-than-1-mile stretch from Rengstorff Avenue to El Monte Avenue? Try a "No Left Turn" sign first and see how that impacts the situation. Duh …
Rita Held
Los Altos
Apartment developers respond to criticism
In her Feb. 29 letter to the editor ("Developers should support community," Feb. 20), Los Altos resident Emily Wu suggested that Carmel the Village developers should support the community. We do! We just started welcoming our first residents March 1, but the property is already having a big financial impact. And we appreciate the writer's suggestions for the community involvement we'll be ramping up soon.
As a one-time set of fees from development-agreements governing the Village, the apartments have already provided the Los Altos and the Mountain View Los Altos Union High school districts more than $1 million in development impact fees.
Wu is incorrect in her statement on the property-tax payments. The property owner is paying property taxes to the Los Altos and MVLA districts. This is no different than multiple owners paying when it is a condominium project versus a single owner paying for the apartment and retail assets.
Demographic research does not suggest that the property will have many children. To date, only two of the first 20 committed residents have children under the age of 18. Carmel the Village consists of 70 percent studio and one-bedroom units and 30 percent two-bedroom units, with an overall average of 816 square feet for the residences.
We are active in every community in which we operate. As Carmel the Village begins to fill, we will work through Carmel Cares to support programs that benefit the local community in a positive way – and we love the suggestions!
Nicole Histo
Carmel the Village
leasing manager;
Kim Hoeksema
Carmel Partners
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Minister supports sex education for teens
I've been following the controversy around the articles on sex and sexuality in The Oracle, the Mountain View High School newspaper, as reported in the Los Altos Town Crier ("Parents sound off over Mountain View High newspaper content," Feb. 27).
Our church, the Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto, serves both Los Altos and Mountain View, and we have a number of young people attending Mountain View High, so this issue is of particular interest to me.
Our faith community strongly supports comprehensive education on sexuality for adolescents at a developmentally appropriate level. Research into teen sexuality consistently shows that a fairly high number of teens, probably more than half, engage in sexual intercourse or other sexual acts during their high school years. While I certainly believe it is best for legal minors to postpone all such sexual activity until adulthood, given the high level of sexual activity among teens, I also believe that as a public health matter, they should have accurate information about avoiding sexually transmitted infections and pregnancy.
Indeed, our church believes this strongly enough that we provide comprehensive sexual education to adolescents using a highly regarded curriculum titled "Our Whole Lives." We also offer copies of a renowned book on teen sexuality, "Changing Bodies, Changing Lives," to the families of all early adolescents in our programs.
While the number of teens we see go through our programs is too small to serve as an adequate sample size, anecdotal evidence strongly suggests that providing comprehensive education actually reduces and postpones sexual activity.
While much of the opposition to The Oracle article seems to stem from persons voicing specific religious views, I would like to make it clear that there are other religious views that strongly support comprehensive education on sexuality, in the classroom and through other outlets such as the school newspaper.
The Rev. Dan Harper
Unitarian Universalist Church
of Palo Alto


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Prominent historian John Hope Franklin named first Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals at UH ManoaUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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HONOLULU — John Hope Franklin, celebrated historian of American southern history and the African American experience, has been named as the first Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Franklin is the James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University and perhaps best known for his book "From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African-Americans," of which more than three million copies have been sold.
He will be in residence as the chairholder and participating in various activities and events at UH Mānoa from March 15-25, 2007.
"I am humbled that John Hope Franklin has agreed to serve as the first holder of the Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals," said Senator Daniel K. Inouye. "As a historian, Franklin has raised our country's sensitivity about the basic rights that are set forth in our constitution—life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. He has at times bruised our conscience which I believe helps to ensure that we not repeat the errors of our past. Through his many achievements and scholarly works, he has broken down barriers and opened up pathways for the generations who have followed. There is no better person to inaugurate this Chair. This will be an extraordinary opportunity for Hawaiʻi's students, our state's future leaders, to learn from a pioneer of American history and society."
Established to honor U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye and his late wife, Maggie, for a lifetime of public service, the Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals is jointly housed at the William S. Richardson School of Law and the Department of American Studies in the College of Arts and Humanities. The chair is envisioned as a visiting academic position held by a distinguished public figure. The chairholder will offer lectures and seminars for the campus and the community that emphasize democratic processes and the importance of public life.
"Senator Inouye has been a hero of mine since I learned of his military heroism shortly after World War II. My view of him was greatly enhanced during my service as a visiting professor at the University of Hawaiʻi in 1959, the year of statehood," said Franklin. "After more than 50 years of hero worship, I'm honored to hold the chair that bears the name of him and his wife."
"The careers and contributions of Senator Inouye and his late wife, Maggie, have served as catalysts for democratic ideals and have helped to shape the contemporary conscience of Hawaiʻi and the nation," said UH President David McClain. "John Hope Franklin's own contributions to society epitomize the spirit in which the Inouye chair was established, and the University of Hawaiʻi is honored to have such a renowned historian and national treasure as the first chairholder."
In addition to "From Slavery to Freedom," Franklin's numerous publications include "The Emancipation Proclamation," "The Militant South," and most recently, "My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin," an autobiography of his father that he edited with his son, John Whittington Franklin.
A graduate of Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., Franklin received his master's and doctoral degrees in history from Harvard University. He has been affiliated with Duke University since 1982, and in 2000, the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies was established there in his honor. He has also served as chairman of the Department of History and as the John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where he holds the professor emeritus title. Previously, he was chair of the Department of History at Brooklyn College and has taught at Howard University.
In addition to his academic appointments, Franklin has served on many national commissions and delegations, most recently as advisory board chair to "One America: The President's Initiative on Race," a national effort to deal openly and honestly with racial differences launched by President Bill Clinton in 1997. He is also a past president of the American Historical Association, the largest historical society in the United States.
The recipient of more than 100 honorary degrees, Franklin was one of two historians recently awarded the John W. Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the study of humanity from the Library of Congress. The Kluge Prize, which totals $1 million, rewards lifetime achievement in the wide range of disciplines not covered by the Nobel prizes, including history, philosophy, politics, anthropology, sociology, religion, criticism in the arts and humanities, and linguistics.
Franklin has received numerous other honors, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. In 1978, he was selected by Who's Who in America as one of eight Americans who has made significant contributions to society, and he has been awarded several medals and prizes from prestigious historical and educational organizations, including the Jefferson Medal from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, the Charles Frankel Prize for contributions to the humanities, and the NAACP's Spingarn Medal, among others.
Established in 2005 with what has become today an unprecedented investment at the university of nearly $3 million by more than 1,000 donors, the Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals recognizes Senator Inouye's service to Hawaiʻi and the nation, as well as Maggie Inouye's work in education and for the people of Hawaiʻi. She served with her husband in many capacities throughout his career, including as co-chair of the "Ready to Learn" program in Hawaiʻi.


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Learning from past mistakes can help prevent one from repeating those mistakes. The purpose of this lesson is to educate students about the past and prepare them to become concerned and active students. Students study the experience of European Jewish citizens during the Holocaust. Through a reading of a novel set during the Holocaust period, students gain a better understanding of the social injustices and atrocities that occurred. Students then research the experience of the Cherokees during the Trail of Tears and the Japanese Americans during World War II. To compare these three events, students use an online Venn diagram tool. Students write about their reactions to these events in journals and discuss them during class. Critical thinking is encouraged to allow students to come to their own conclusions about these events.
Venn Diagram: Students can use this interactive Students can use this interactive tool to compare three historical examples of social injusticethe Holocaust, the Trail of Tears, and Japanese internment.
Wood, K.D. (1988). Guiding students through informational text. The Reading Teacher, 42(8), 912920.
- Readers combine their own knowledge with the text to formulate knowledgeable conclusions.
- Skimming a text guide before reading allows students to predict the information they will encounter.
Kane, S. (1998). A view from the discourse level: Teaching relationships and text structure. The Reading Teacher, 52(2), 182184.
- Discourse knowledge refers to students' understanding of the language organization that determines meaning; it includes knowledge of a variety of genres and types of writing.
- Discourse knowledge must often be taught explicitly to students.
- Students learn discourse knowledge when they are taught to notice patterns of organization, or relationships among sentences, paragraphs, and chapters in the texts they read.


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We Are NEA Retired
After 25 years of advocacy, mentoring, and fellowship, what's next for NEA's retired educators?
By Kristen Loschert
After 30 years as an elementary school teacher and reading specialist, Jean Savidge wasn't about to turn her back on her profession simply because she had retired.
So in 1983 she attended a conference in Philadelphia to learn more about a new NEA program created specifically for retired educators like her.
She joined on the spot.
"I joined NEA-Retired because I felt there was a great need to continue to be involved in the association that I had worked with for so many years," says Savidge. "It was a continuation of the profession that I grew up in and I wanted to continue to support my fellow educators."
For 25 years, retirees like Savidge have supported their active colleagues by joining NEA-Retired. What started as an effort to reconnect retirees with the Association has become an integral part of NEA's mission to support students and public education.
Whether they are reading books to school children, mentoring new teachers, or lobbying for education funding, retirees work hand-in-hand with active educators, influencing public education at the local, state, and national levels.
"Being a member of NEA-Retired…gave me all kinds of insights into the things retirees could do and how we could help the active teachers," says Savidge, who helped organize the Washington Education Association-Retired in 1986. "Even though we were not active [educators] anymore, we still had the ability to impact what was going on in education."
For Marie Theerman, a retired elementary school teacher in Missouri, having a retired teachers association keeps her and her colleagues connected to their profession and to each other.
"We missed being involved," says Theerman, co-founder of Missouri NEA-Retired. "We didn't want to miss out on all the great things that were happening in education—all the political activity and all the things we had been doing before we retired. We wanted to keep contributing."
Mary Bishop, a retired primary and secondary education teacher in Arizona, agrees. "I've always been active in my local, and after I retired I still wanted to know what was going on in my organization," says Bishop, who joined NEA-R at the 1983 convention. "Keeping the Association going, that's what it's all about."
In the past 10 years alone, membership in NEA-R has more than doubled, growing from 110,000 members in 1998 to 282,000 retired and pre-retired members today. But that growth came with a few growing pains.
"In the early stages of the organization, we were a mom-and-pop store. People joined but didn't know what their national organization was doing," explains Todd Crenshaw, organizational specialist for NEA-R. "There was little connection between the local member and what was happening at the national level."
Since then, NEA-R has formed a governance committee to oversee the program's operation, and it organizes two regional conferences and a national conference annually to help local members connect with the national organization. Retired members also hold voting seats on the NEA Board of Directors, the Representative Assembly, and NEA's various committees.
"We are much more included in all areas of NEA than we were at the beginning of our organization," says Barbara Matteson, NEA-R president. "Everyone sees the value of having all members—students, ESP, retired, higher education, and the active members—working together for the same goal."
Retired members have given back to the Association as well. NEA-R members have participated in NEA's Read Across America since it began in 1999. Jack Kinnaman, a former NEA-R vice president, even served as the program's official mascot, the Cat in the Hat, at national RAA events until his death in 2002. Many retired members coordinate their state's RAA programs as well, says Crenshaw.
In 2003, NEA-R launched its Intergenerational Teacher Mentoring Project to pair retired educators with junior and senior college students studying to become teachers. The mentor-student pairs work together for three years, during which the retired teachers take the aspiring educators through their student teaching and first years in the classroom—critical times for a novice educator.
Members of NEA-R also brought attention to the plight of educators impacted by the Government Pension Offset and Windfall Elimination Provision (GPO/WEP), which penalize some public employees by cutting or taking away Social Security benefits they or their spouses have earned.
Retired members urged the Association to support the repeal of GPO/WEP, says Crenshaw; now NEA has a member task force dedicated to the issue. As a result of the Association's efforts, 352 members of the House of Representatives and 37 senators have endorsed legislation to repeal the GPO/WEP.
"Here you have retirees playing a significant role in changing legislation that will affect retirees for years to come," says Crenshaw. "You're talking about millions of dollars in retirement benefits that could be available to future retirees because of the advocacy and work of NEA-Retired."
Through the years, retirees have had an equally significant impact at the state and local levels too. In 1987, members of the newly affiliated Missouri NEA-Retired successfully lobbied for legislation that let retired educators buy into their local school district's health insurance plans.
In Washington, Savidge and her fellow retirees have walked the picket line with striking teachers and distributed union leaflets during school conferences. And in Arizona, Bishop and other retired teachers volunteered as substitutes for a teacher who had exhausted all of her paid sick leave during cancer treatment.
"Collective action is a cornerstone of NEA's mission," says NEA President Dennis Van Roekel. "Nothing in this country was ever accomplished without the collective action of individuals who believed in something strongly enough to band together. As a collective force, members of NEA-Retired can achieve anything they set their sights on achieving. Nothing stands in their way."
What do the next 25 years hold for NEA-Retired?
Program officials would like to expand the pre-retirement workshops many state programs offer to help active members prepare for retirement. While NEA-R offers some pre-retirement resources online, most of the workshops come from state-based efforts, Crenshaw says.
Crenshaw would like to develop a training manual and system to support the existing workshops and to provide materials to states interested in starting similar programs.
NEA-R is also developing ways to help active members transition seamlessly to retired status at the end of their careers.
Currently, eight states are piloting the Continuous Membership Program, which lets active members prepay their dues for NEA-R and their state retired associations while they still are in the classroom, says Crenshaw. Active members can continue to join NEA-R as pre-retired members as well.
"The growth in membership potential is huge," says NEA-R President Barbara Matteson. "The potential for NEA is we can be a really powerful voice in support of public education. Our issues are not just senior issues. We, as retirees, are concerned about healthcare for the active teachers, wages for teachers, and class sizes—all those things are important to us, too, even though we aren't in the classroom anymore."
Lester Mason Jr., a retired science teacher and counselor in Alabama, says he shares that message with as many educators as he can.
"A lot of people retire, and they don't come back to support the organization; but I tell them 'you should join the retired teachers association'," he says. "We're very important people—we're educators—and we can still teach. We are still leaders, and we can still be active in our community."
Retired educators agree that their membership in NEA-R provides countless benefits.
For some, it offers an opportunity to build their leadership skills. For others, it connects them to the students they once taught. For still others, it gives them the chance to speak out about the issues confronting their schools and communities and to advocate for change. But more than anything, NEA-R links retired educators together, and some say that is the greatest benefit of all.
"I would miss it if I weren't involved. I would miss the people. I would miss trying to promote education and trying to keep education in the forefront with the legislators," says Theerman in Missouri. "I'm just glad we started [the retired program]. I think it's been a boon to everyone who has joined."
Collecting for a Lifetime
If you've ever attended an NEA Representative Assembly, then you probably have seen Fred Stark.
In his 46 years as an NEA member, Stark has attended 37 RAs—and he has the collection to prove it. Stark, a retired band instructor from Iowa, has, most likely, the largest collection of NEA memorabilia in the country.
"It shows my life, in a way," Stark says of his collection.
"NEA has meant a lot to me because [being involved with it] has developed my ability to be a parliamentarian. It's given me leadership training. It's given me people skills. But the most important thing is I've developed friendships that will last a lifetime.
"I thought there was a need for someone within the NEA or ISEA to remind people where we came from."
Stark's collection, which fills several display cases in his home and a shed in his yard, includes pins and badges from every RA he has attended. He also collects pins and buttons from candidates running for NEA office, as well as posters, booklets, commemorative items, and anything else he finds interesting. Friends, colleagues, and fellow members of the Pin Traders Caucus, which Stark organized, also contribute to his collection.
Stark displays many of his items each year at the Iowa State Education Association (ISEA) Delegate Assembly and at the ISEA-Retired conferences. He hopes one day to display some of his collection at an NEA RA.
His most treasured collectibles include an original poster announcing NEA's endorsement of Jimmy Carter for president (NEA's first political endorsement); an Iowa state badge from the 1891 RA in Toronto (the only RA held outside of the United States); pins from the 1905 RA in New Jersey and the 1921 RA in Iowa; and a ribbon from the 1887 ISEA convention.
"To know where we came from is important. We learn from our mistakes and our successes," says Stark. "The new generations a lot of times don't realize what has happened, and it's important to show them we have had some struggles along the way so they won't become complacent."
Stark began documenting the Association's history partly because he became an involved member early in his career, he says. In 1962, he joined as a student member. Three years later he attended his first RA, where he heard President Lyndon Johnson speak.
Then, in 1969, he became secretary of ISEA. Later, he served on NEA's resolutions and elections committees. He currently serves on the ISEA Retired Standing Committee.
"I've always had a passion for collecting things I think are important," Stark says. "As long as I keep on going to the NEA RAs and stay active, I will keep on collecting."


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From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...At some point, the neighborhood kids started calling Mrs. P's meringues porcupines. The adults, perhaps with a greater sense of propriety, refused to follow suit and continued to call her spiced meringues, Cinnamon Angels. These unusual melt in the mouth morsels were studded with slivered, half buried almonds that structurally created a void in the middle of the baked cookies. The cookies were sweet in the extreme and guaranteed to please even the most demanding sweet tooth. There were no electric mixers when I first saw these cookies being made. Mrs. P used an old rotary beater that required upper body strength and a perseverance that not all bakers of that time had, but she managed to make these cookies for the neighborhood every Christmas that I can remember. The addition of cinnamon and almonds set these meringues apart from others of their kind and folks who love sweet treats will adore them. They keep well, but they are hard to store because they are so fragile and it doesn't take much to reduce them to crumbs. I like to make these the day before I plan to serve them. I store them in the pantry away from kitchen moisture so they retain their just baked crispness. If you have an electric mixer you will find these cookies simple to make. They make a lovely, unexpected addition to Christmas cookie platters and I know your family and friends will enjoy them. They are, by-the-way, called angels because they are feather light. Here is how they are made.
4 large egg whites
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1-1/2 cups sugar
1 small bag (2-ounces) slivered almonds
1) Preheat oven to 300 degrees F. Line 2 baking pans with parchment paper and set aside.
2) Beat egg whites until stiff peak form. Gradually beat in cream of tartar, cinnamon, salt and sugar until blended and sugar dissolves. Stir in vanilla extract.
2) Drop mixture by heaping teaspoonfuls onto prepared baking sheets. Poke 5 or 6 slivered almonds into top and sides of each cookie, allowing 1/2 of each sliver to show. Bake for 50 minutes, until almonds are toasted and cookies are slightly brown and dry. Remove to a wire rack to cool. Yield: 3-1/2 dozen cookies.
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Only one out of five bidders to design and build the first phase of California's high-speed rail project will win the $1.8 billion contract — but they will all get paid.
The California High-Speed Rail Authority has agreed to issue a $2 million "stipend" to all four of the losing bidders, an obscure practice used for some large-scale construction projects. Bullet train officials say the incentive was designed to attract bidders and therefore spur better, more competitive proposals.
"It might seem curious to people at first why we would pay losing bidders, but it's very much a mathematical proposition," said Dan Richard, authority chairman. "We think that we'll get better bids and lower bids as a result."
Richard described the stipends as standard policy on large projects and added that the reimbursements do not come close to the costs incurred by unsuccessful construction firms.
Contractors last month submitted proposals to design and build the first 30-mile stretch of track for the proposed $68 billion high-speed rail system. The statewide network endeavors to eventually stretch more than 800 miles north to south with trains traveling at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.
Eric Christen, executive director of the Poway-based Coalition for Fair Employment in Construction and a project opponent, said he has never seen a payout for losing bidders in his 13 years in the business.
"If it was the only thing that these guys were doing like this, well, I might give them the benefit of the doubt," he said. "But it's one after another, after another, after another."
As to the amount of the stipends, he said, "The numbers to me as a taxpayer and as a private citizen are shocking."
Assemblywoman Diane Harkey, an outspoken critic of the project, cited the recent dust-ups in arguing for legislative oversight of the rail authority.
"We've never had a business plan. We've never had a funding source. We've never had an accurate ridership study and we are thinking of eminent domaining hundreds of parcels," said Harkey, R-Dana Point. "And we're sending out bids and paying out $2 million as if we are a private company for anyone who wants to bid but doesn't happen to win.
"It's easy to see how this money could just be sucked out of the state and end up going into the black hole and never producing any transportation element for the people of California."
The rail authority has been challenged in recent weeks over the way it's reviewing the bids. Concerns have also been raised about potential conflicts of interest if the contractor gets to hire inspectors reviewing the work.
"There is a certain reality that this project gets an entirely different level of scrutiny from a wide array of people then a typical project does," Jeff Morales, chief executive of the California High-Speed Rail Authority, said in an interview at his Sacramento office. "And that's understandable. It's a big, massive, statewide program.
"But I think we have people sometimes who aren't familiar with how other projects and programs are moved forward and they see something happening here and assume it's unique when in fact it's not."
Sajeev Malaveetil, an expert in government contract accounting, administration and compliance, said stipends are most frequently seen at the state level on major transportation projects.
"It's not a common practice, and I can't necessarily think of situations where you see it outside of a major construction or developmental project, but it's not unprecedented," said Malaveetil, a director at the Berkeley Research Group in Washington, D.C. "It is used primarily in situations where the procuring party cannot itself identify the specific requirements they are looking for.
"They know what the end result is, but they are looking for different options and design components and technical approaches with the understanding that when they make the final contract award, they may actually adopt some of those facets from one offer into the ultimate contract."
He added that stipends tend to be used as an enticement in private-sector projects because the money is less restricted.
U-T San Diego requested the California High-Speed Rail Authority and the California Department of Transportation to provide examples of projects that compensated unsuccessful bidders.
The rail authority cited stipends in nine states, including Louisiana, Maryland, Utah and Florida. The lowest was $10,000 and the highest was $1 million.
Caltrans provided one example in which it compensated three unsuccessful bidders $100,000 each for putting together complex proposals for a tunnel project in the San Francisco Bay Area. Spokesman Mark Dinger said the bids came in about $60 million below original estimates for the Caldecott Fourth Bore Project. The tunnel connects Oakland and Orinda through the Berkeley Hills. Other stipends have ranged from $25,000 to $250,000, Dinger said.
"On our design-build projects we offer stipends to offset the cost of the proposals and in order to own the ideas of the unsuccessful proposers," Dinger said.
Former Caltrans director Will Kempton said stipends were "not uncommon" on large, complicated projects. He said the Bay Bridge project originally received just one bid that came in way over budget. A subsequent round offered a stipend and there were two bidders.
"As a result, the price was better than it was in the first go-round," Kempton said.
Several major contracting firms contacted by the U-T requested to speak only on background so not to jeopardize their chances of securing the contract for the first stretch of the high-speed line in Fresno and Madera counties. Some said without the cost deferrals they would hesitate to bid on what could amount to a fruitless endeavor.
Aaron Fukuda, a Central Valley civil engineer and activist against the project, said he has serious doubts about the bidder payments saving taxpayer money.
"I understand this is a big project, but the stakes alone should hold the bidders to sharpen their pencils and make it a good bid," he said.
Looking forward, many observers of the project are watching for the results of the design-build contract, which the rail authority hopes to award in June, as an early indication of whether the estimated $68 billion project cost will hold true or start rising.


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- 2 cups milk
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 5 egg yolks
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 cup sweetened flaked coconut
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 1/2 tablespoons gelatin
- 4 tablespoons water
- 1 recipe Sponge Cake
- 2 cups Strawberry jam, warm
- 1/2 cup whipped heavy cream
- 1 1/2 cups sweetened whipped cream
- Combine the milk, sugar, and vanilla in a saucepan over medium heat. Whisk to dissolve the sugar. When the mixture comes to a gentle boil, take 1 cup of the milk-sugar mixture and add it to the yolks. Whisk to blend well. Temper the egg mixture to the milk mixture. Cook over medium heat until it thickens slightly, 4 to 5 minutes, whisking occasionally. Dissolve the cornstarch in the water. Over medium heat, slowly add this mixture to the saucepan, whisking constantly for 1 minute. Using a wooden spoon, continue stirring for about 2 minutes. Add the coconut and continue stirring for 2 more minutes. Add the butter and stir until it is completely melted and mixture has thickened to a custard, about 2 minutes. Soften the gelatin in the water and stir into the hot custard. Pour the mixture into a glass bowl. Cover with plastic wrap, pressing the wrap down the surface of the custard to prevent a skin from forming.
- Cool completely, stirring occasionally and chill for at least 4 hours. Carefully peel the cake back from the paper. Place the cake on a fresh piece of parchment paper. Roll and unroll the cake several times. Using a spatula, spread the jam, evenly, over the sponge cake. Using the paper underneath to help you, carefully roll the cake tightly. Refrigerate until set, about 1 hour. Remove from the refrigerator and slice into 1/4-inch round slices. Butter a shallow 9-inch steel ring and a baking sheet.
- Line both the sides and bottom of the ring with the cake slices, packing them tightly without overlapping them. Fold the whipping cream into the coconut mixture. Spoon the coconut mixture into the mold. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until set, about 3 hours. Remove from the refrigerator and invert onto a glass serving platter. Slice the mold into individual servings and garnish with sweetened whipped cream and mint.
Recipe Details
- Source: Emeril Live EM1B50
- Dish Type: Dessert
- Cuisine: French
- Cooking Method: Baking
- Occasion: Any
- Effort Level: Experienced


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Anthropological research is often about listening to your informants and interpreting what they say through your own filters. On this occasion, I thought I would simply quote one of my 'philosopher informants' who explained our general election to his friends in the US and elsewhere as follows: 'Politically speaking, Theresa May's original decision in April to hold a snap election was a smart move. Corbyn looked unelectable, and following the Brexit referendum, the Tories would scoop up the UKIP vote as it returned to the Conservative mothership.
The development workers who are in a relatively powerful position – allocating resources, deciding on priorities – tend to come from countries with a history of perpetrating slavery, colonialism and now, once again, racist immigration policies. This spills over into international development encounters. It has become urgent to talk about this.
I talked about this week with fellow panelists William Cunningham (Creative Investment Research) and Conor Shapiro (CEO, St Boniface Haiti Foundation) at the lovely Middlebury College, Vermont. We were invited by Prof. Tamar Mayer and her colleagues from three departments – racism needs an inter-disciplinary approach after all.
We began from the same starting point: racism can be found in endless everyday micro interactions and given that these are so numerous, they form global patterns with pernicious consequences for all. Conor talked about how donors in Haiti use racist arguments to justify limiting their funding, the implication being that some lives (white ones) matter more than others. William brought light to bear on why and how this happens: the whole discipline of economics skews value in racist and ethnocentric ways. He proposes a radical rehink and has recently published a book about how to make this happen: the JOBS Act.
Hierarchies of expertise
While doing doctoral research on aid in the 1980s I noticed that the knowledge of women living in poverty was referred to by British engineers as 'cultural' or 'traditional' knowledge. And yet talking to these women (mostly in East Africa and South Asia) over several years I realized that their knowledge about how to use simple tools – wood, fire and cookstove technology – is of course highly skilled. This is hardly surprising since they do it for 1-3 hours a day. French anthropologist Maurice Bloch wrote about how it is only through practice that you learn to develop skills and expertise, rather than accumulate knowledge (1991). You can't learn the violin or chess from a book or a teacher alone – you have to do it yourself, over and over and over. The same is true of using fuel for cooking.
Some women I met in Sri Lanka innovated hoods and chimneys so that the smoke was funneled out of the house but this was described by the British engineers disparaging as 'traditional' even though they had only invented fairly recently. One of my colleagues made a drawing of the idea and marketed it to donors as 'improved', modern technology.
So technology is often rated by its source not its effectiveness or utility. The expertise of Black and Asian and Latino women living in poverty is rated at the bottom of the global hierarchy of expertise – in a painful combination of racism, sexism and class inequality – and the elites at the other end, whose knowledge is highly rated and valued, are predominantly male, white and rich. So that is my first pattern of racism, or 'silent tradition' as the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu calls them because they are taken for granted and hardly spoken about: – a racist hierarchy in how knowledge is valued. If we expand the definition of technology to embrace the idea that it is about the use of expertise and organization of tools, rather than narrowly as hardware, we recognize the technical skills and innovation of Black, Asian and Latino people (including women) living in poverty.
The SOAS logo is knowledge is power. But it is no guarantee. And it can also be true that power gives you the false appearance of wisdom.
This is just one example of everyday micro racism, which creates a global pattern. But over the years I have realized that the whole development industry is founded on this racist hierarchy of knowledge. The transfer of knowledge through training, toolkits, sensitization, and manuals from Global North to Global South, from urban to rural, from old to young rests on racist assumptions in conversation with sexism, ageism, class, religion, and nationality.
Social hierarchy and separation
The second racist global pattern is simple. White visitors to Eastern Africa and South Asia tend to segregate themselves into different areas, social events and even exclusive clubs, just as they did during the colonial era. When I lived in India a few years ago a Dutch businessman explained about a club that only allowed expatriates to join: 'the international organization has been a blessing. We have a whole life here within weeks because they provide everything. Without them we would be lost'. Lost in a city of many millions with apparently no Indian people to advise? Really?
Expatriate and international can be a euphemism for white. This message in the club's newsletter provides an example: "come along to our new happy hour this evening. If you're not yet a member, just show your complexion and they will let you in. If your complexion does not make it obvious that you are an expatriate, then explain that you are going to the happy hour".
I was seriously puzzled by this segregation. Why live in a different country and then distance yourself from people despite their extraordinarily welcoming attitude? The pattern is similar to the one Norbert Elias desribes in his brilliant book Established and Outsiders but in reverse. In Elias's English village the established families kept apart from the newcomers and rubbished them through gossip but in colonial encounters it is the outsiders who keep their distance. In both cases the group who see themselves as superior maintain their status through separation.
I was travelling with a young white man, a work colleague, from the UK to a country in Asia and he said one afternoon, "can we refuse dinner when our colleagues ask us to join them as I'd really like an evening off, I need a rest. Could we just be on our own?" But an evening off would mean an evening with me – his boss! Surely this was work? I insisted we ate dinner with our Asian colleagues and as we drank beer and talked about family, films, books and politics I watched him. My colleague looked uncomfortable. Talking to people you perceive to be different is an effort for many. But was he also uneasy about establishing a form of intimacy with people he felt superior to? (By the way I'm being vague about the place to protect anonymity).
Whenever people start treating me with automatic respect, I notice that I talk about my daughters and ask about their family members. I think I'm saying, "we all mind about our families, or people we are close to, because at heart we are emotionally equal." I'm asking for social intimacy. (If this sounds insufferably self-satisfied, don't worry – I'll get to the confessions at the end of this blog).
It is not only white people who experience 'the other' as different. Priyanthi Fernando and I have written about the endless configurations of racist stereotyping in an article in 2004. I have heard Africans talk about white people – distinguishing between the strange habits of Germans versus Dutch versus Brits – but the effects don't usually damage white people in the same way as white on black racism. (Although when an African boyfriend told me his family wouldn't let us marry because I'm white I was rather indignant). The problem with the aloofness of white people, who tend to be in relatively powerful positions when encountering black people in development encounters, is that it can make us whites both arrogant and ignorant. That so few write about this is revealing in itself.
Here is an example of white ignorance. I was recruiting with two other white middle class British women to choose a programme manager for an INGO. We narrowed the candidates down to two: a white middle class British woman and a black middle class Ugandan man. The other two wanted the white woman, I thought the best candidate was the Ugandan man. I knew that patterns of recruitment tend to mean that people recruit people they think are similar to them. They said that he wasn't concise. I'd spent time in Western Kenya, where President Obama's father came from, and knew they have a tradition of public speaking. I wondered whether his long speeches were his way of performing his best, showing us respect. (Or maybe I just thought he was like me – after all, I talk a lot). So I said let's set him a task – ask him to speak for 5 minutes precisely. We called him back, we gave him the task, he spoke for 5 minutes exactly, we gave him the job and he turned out to be a superb programme manager. It is so easy to judge people according to your own norms and values without realizing the merit in theirs.
Hierarchies of power
Finally I talked about the third type of hierarchy – racism based on power. The explosion of audit around the world rests on distrust. Accountability for how you spend money given by others is entirely fair but the way planning, evaluation and audit are organized means that international development grant-makers and donors control how their money is spent. Although 'donor' countries has got complicated – with India, China and Brazil all giving aid – we are still in a post-colonial era where huge swathes of Africa, Asia and Latin America have the decision-making of their own development hugely circumscribed. For example, the predictions of national NGOs need to be made and trunkloads of paperwork produced to document your vision, hierarchy of objectives and then your indicators and reports to prove your predictions were right and money spent as promised. The result is that those on the receiving end of aid are relatively powerless, at least in how development is represented in documents, but also limited in their power to do development that allows democratic participation as initiatives emerge and policies are put into practice. Of course sometimes in reality people in aid-receiving sites manage to resist this nonsense and spend the money according to need and evolving rights, persuading the donors to accept variance. But these contortions waste huge amounts of time and money.
This global pattern applies to universities as well. Opportunities, grants, and intellectual property rights in international development research are disproportionately controlled by people from aid giving countries and, therefore, mostly (although not entirely) white people. Over 10 years ago a British manager of a consultancy firm employing me to do a piece of research said to me: "…we have two research programmes managed by organisations in the South and they are both a disaster. I mean, it is nothing racial, it is just that they don't work at that analytical level… We need an expatriate for the conceptual thinking, then the local consultant can do more of the running around for you." I probably should have walked out but I did the job (I needed the money) and made sure that the 'local' was a genuinely equal partner in the research. This experience sowed the seed in me to prove him wrong.
For the last few years I have been coordinating a grant to enable researchers in Bangladesh and Ethiopia to study their Parliaments. It took me ages to convince them that unlike other UK researchers I was not contracting them to do research for me, and then I'd publish the findings as my own, but that it is their research. They get to publish their findings because they have been doing all the fieldwork. All nations need scholars to take a close look at what is going on in political institutions and encounters because democracies around the world remain shallow. US anthropologist Arjun Appadurai wrote about how deep democracy needs an active civil society and a transformation in the relationships between decision-makers and citizens. Unsurprisingly, my colleagues are producing fascinating and innovative work about this and demonstrating the value of research as a form of political scrutiny. (We will be presenting the findings at a conference in the Westminster Parliament in May this year). There are signs that some powerful players want change. The Arts and Humanities Research Council/Global Challenges Research Fund are announcing calls that insist on a far larger proportion of research funding being allocated to national researchers in low-income countries. There is hope but only if there is a concerted and collective effort to recognise racism in ourselves (and others), challenge it and transform these racist hierarchies.
I don't pretend to be immune. I recently went to China with some assumptions that I hadn't really thought through. I picked them up mostly in Ethiopia – where I had learned that Chinese aid workers are there to promote Chinese interests and keep themselves to themselves – but during my visit to Kunming I realized how utterly ridiculous this was. My Chinese colleagues in the China office of Health Poverty Action (an INGO whose Board I chair) were as diverse as any other group of development workers, but shared one thing in common. They helped me unlearn everything I thought I knew about Chinese people.


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