text: Collaboration v. sovereignty A watershed planning meeting between upper Sacramento, McCloud and lower Pit River stakeholders turned into a heated debate over tribal sovereignty Wednesday, when a group of activists from northern Siskiyou County traveled to Mount Shasta to intentionally disrupt it. Read more: http://www.siskiyoudaily.com/article/20130610/NEWS/130619998/0/SEARCH#ixzz2W78sNnVv By John Bowman June 10. 2013 9:31AM Collaboration v. sovereignty A watershed planning meeting between upper Sacramento, McCloud and lower Pit River stakeholders turned into a heated debate over tribal sovereignty Wednesday, when a group of activists from northern Siskiyou County traveled to Mount Shasta to intentionally disrupt it. Roy Hall Jr. tells upper Sacramento River stakeholders they have no authority to engage in watershed planning because his tribal sovereignty trumps all other powers. A watershed planning meeting between upper Sacramento, McCloud and lower Pit River stakeholders turned into a heated debate over tribal sovereignty Wednesday, when a group of activists from northern Siskiyou County traveled to Mount Shasta to intentionally disrupt it. The planning group, known as the Upper Sacramento, McCloud and Lower Pit River Integrated Regional Water Management Group, has been meeting for more than two years to develop a watershed plan that will qualify them for public money allocated for water infrastructure projects. The protesters who derailed the gathering said they believe the planning process is part of a larger government conspiracy to gain control of local water, and possibly more. On Tuesday, the group Scott Valley Protect Our Water (POW) posted a notice on its website calling on supporters to attend and disrupt the meeting. "This is a good chance to get everyone there and stop one of the stakeholder processes," the post stated, adding, "We stopped the TMDL meetings. let's stop this one to [sic]." The group of about 10 north county residents was led by Roy Hall Jr., leader of one faction of the Shasta Tribe known as the Shasta Nation, and accompanied by three other members of his tribe along with several non-tribal citizens active in local water and property rights battles. The meeting began with independent facilitator Elizabeth Betancourt attempting to give an overview of the group's activities and progress. However, 10 minutes into Betancourt's introductory statements, Hall asked how tribal sovereignty figured into the group's planning. Betancourt, as well as a representative of the state Department of Water Resources, both explained that issues of tribal sovereignty must be handled at the state level because the planning group lacks the authority to address those issues. Betancourt also suggested that Hall submit written comments on the issue so it can be officially incorporated into the group's planning document. "I don't think that's going to work," Hall replied. "This has been going on too long and the state is blowing us off." He said a group of tribal representatives had recently met with John Laird, California's secretary for natural resources, about their demand for recognition of tribal sovereignty over land management issues. Hall said no notable progress had been made in the meeting. Louise Gliatto of Yreka said, "It seems to me that if the tribes are sovereign, they should not be put on the same level as the other stakeholders that aren't sovereign." Betancourt explained that, according to the planning group's governance structure, "Everybody is equal in this process." Non-tribal Klamath River resident Mike Adams argued that tribal sovereignty gives tribes ultimate authority over all land and resource management decisions, though he and Gliatto are both outspoken critics of efforts to remove dams on the Klamath River – a concept which several local tribes openly support. "Sovereignty over the land, which the aboriginal people claim, means they get to put on the land what they choose to put on the land, and only allow you to put on the land what they choose," Adams said. "Right now they're saying we don't want you to put anything on their land. Sovereignty trumps all. They are God. They're king, and if you don't like it, you better go find another piece of land. Simple as that. The water is theirs. The air is theirs." For nearly an hour, Betancourt attempted to refer Hall and his supporters to state level representatives. She said the proper way to have input incorporated into the planning process is to submit written comments through the official process. Hall repeatedly said he would not allow the meeting to move forward because, in his opinion, the planning group has no authority. Hall told Betancourt that if the planning group could not solve the issue of tribal sovereignty, "Well, then it's over. As a tribal chairman with powers above that of the state I can say that this is the only way we're going to get the state to recognize that we're thrown under the bus here. It has to stop somewhere, so this is where it's going to stop." "Nobody has to be here. It's not mandatory," said Betancourt "That's right, so why don't you go back to where you came from," Hall replied. At that point several stakeholders that have been involved in the planning process since the beginning walked out. Several members of the planning group, including Curtis Knight of California Trout, county supervisor Ed Valenzuela and River Exchange Executive Director Dan Olstein told Hall and his supporters that the regional planning process is an opportunity for cities and communities to come together, identify water infrastructure needs and secure government funding to satisfy those needs. "We see it as a single, achievable opportunity to bring some allocated state dollars to something that's greatly needed for our municipalities," Knight said. Olstein said, "We've received some written input from members of the Pit River Tribe, from members of the Winimum-Wintu Tribe …" Hall's mother Betty Hall interrupted Olstein in mid-sentence saying, "The Wintu Tribe doesn't count here. They're not aboriginal to the McCloud or those other rivers. That's ours." The level of civility in the room continued to deteriorate – and shortly thereafter, Olstein called for a break but the meeting was never reconvened. None of the items on the meeting agenda was addressed, and meeting organizers would not comment on when a new meeting would be scheduled. After the meeting, Luisa Navejas of the Winimum-Wintu Tribe told the Daily News, "The best thing to do when you have a water project is to involve the stakeholders, and the projects here have done that." She said her tribe does not necessarily agree with everyone else in the planning group, but it has been involved in the process as a collaborator from the start. "Our tribe has spent a lot of time trying to get the wording right to be inclusive of indigenous people, and they have been really great about including us, rewriting it and being open," Navejas said. They're using all the right words," said Belinda Brown, a tribal council alternate for the Kosealekte band of the Pit River Tribe. "They're saying 'integration, we're all stakeholders, we're getting our needs out there, we're working together,' but it's a fatally flawed system." Brown said the important thing to remember is that the water and land are sacred to local tribes – and their connection to those things has been forcibly taken away. Members of the Modoc Tribe were present but did not take part in the debate. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www2.dcn.org/pipermail/env-trinity/attachments/20130613/ebe8fdf2/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: AR-130619998.jpg&MaxH=225&MaxW=225 Type: image/jpeg Size: 8563 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www2.dcn.org/pipermail/env-trinity/attachments/20130613/ebe8fdf2/AR-130619998-0001.jpe


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The ninth annual Seattle Erotic Art Festival, to be held May 20-22, 2011 at Fremont Studios is now now accepting art submissions. (Click on the banner below for further information.)
- The Call for Visual Art is open January 1-31, 2011. The Festival sells more art than any other erotic art festival, has low submission fees, and competitive commission rates. Artists may submit up to five works of erotic art of any medium. Sculptors, multimedia artists and painters are particularly encouraged to apply. The 2011 jury consists of art historian Gene Burt; artist and collector Steve Jensen; sex-positive activist and deputy director of Gay City, Peter Jabin; and the last jurors are in the process of being confirmed.
- The Call for Short Film/Video is open January 1 – February 28, 2011. No other major erotic art festival has a film component, and this year film will be a main attraction, presented at Fremont Studios in a modern 50-seat movie theater. Filmmakers are encouraged to submit up to three works, each up to 30 minutes in length. The Erotic Short Film Exhibition is curated by Three Dollar Bill Cinema (producer of the Seattle Gay & Lesbian Film Festival and the Seattle Transgender Film Festival). The jury will consist of a Three Dollar Bill Cinema review panel and the Seattle Erotic Art Festival Director.
- The Call for Installation Art is open January 1 – February 15, 2011. Installation art is extremely popular at the Festival, and artists enjoy significant notoriety as a result of media and audience reviews. Additionally, the Festival is continuing to offer its grant for interactive visual artists; selected artists will be granted up to $750 to create works of art that feature a participatory element and encourage the audience to become part of the art. Installations are selected by a Festival Curatorial Team. There is no fee for installation submissions.
- The Call for Literary Art is open January 1 – February 15, 2011. This is the third year of the Literary Art Exhibition, featuring work from poets, playwrights and authors from across the country. Selected works are exhibited through live readings and on the printed page. Artists may submit 5 pieces. The jury consists of Lydia Swartz, who generates one of the most extensive spoken word calendars for the Seattle area; Dobbie Reese Norris, who is the originator and host of and contributor to one of the longest running reading series in Seattle: Third Tuesdays Poets and Writers; Eileen Fix, a Tacoma Distinguished Writers selection and founder of the Little Red Studio Poetry Posse; and Victor David Sandiego, prize-winning poet and former editor of the Washington Poets Association.

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Arizona Cardinals linebacker Daryl Washington already is suspended for the first four games of the 2013 season for violating the NFL's substance-abuse policy. Now he appears to have lost his spot on the Cardinals' first-team defense.
Washington worked next to second-round draft pick Kevin Minter on the Cardinals' second-team defense Tuesday while newly signed Karlos Dansby joined Jasper Brinkley with the starters.
Although Washington doesn't believe his standing with the organization has changed, it certainly seems as if the Cardinals' coaching staff is sending a message in the wake of the linebacker's disastrous offseason. The Cardinals have to prepare for an absence that might extend beyond four games after Washington's recent arrest for domestic assault.
On the heels of a Pro Bowl season highlighted by a team-leading 134 tackles and nine sacks, Washington likely will be inserted back into the Cardinals' starting lineup once his suspension is lifted. Along with Calais Campbell and Patrick Peterson, Washington comprises the backbone of a talented young defensive nucleus.
The offseason benching should serve as a reminder that even a budding star like Washington can't afford anymore off-the-field trouble with a $10 million option bonus due next year.
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Starring on a hit TV show sounds exciting, a dream come true — unless you've been doing it for 10 seasons.
"Grey's Anatomy" star Patrick Dempsey certainly sounds less than enthused about his role as Dr. Derek Shepherd. He'd rather be driving a race car at LeMans, as he does in the four-part series cleverly titled "Patrick Dempsey: Racing LaMans," which premieres Aug. 28 on cable channel Velocity.
"I just love it," Dempsey said. "I've loved it since I was a kid. You're really testing yourself. You're going into your own fears and anxieties, and you have to test yourself physically and mentally."
He's less excited about his regular job. "I'm not necessarily bored with the show," he said without much enthusiasm.
Acting? That's just an extremely high-paying job. Various estimates put Dempsey's salary somewhere between $250,000 and $350,000 per episode. And he's "very grateful that I have a show that's been on for 10 years."
Actually, it's a little over eight years; "Grey's" is heading into its 10th season.
But, creatively, Dr. McDreamy doesn't provide much of a challenge, in part because "I'm not the creator. I'm not the writer," he said. "It's a trade, quite honestly. And that's fine, you know."
He doesn't make it sound like it's fine.
"When you're on a show that's been on for, we're coming up to 200 episodes, it's about surviving," he said. "And you find ways to turn yourself on with the material that you're given. But it's like being in a band. You have a specific note that you play, and that's what you do. So you just try to play that as well as you can."
"So for me, now, it's much more just discovering in the moment. There's not a lot of homework that goes into it. You learn your lines, and you try to be present and try not to get caught acting."
Before we get too judgmental about Dempsey's attitude, think about your own life. Are you excited to go to work every morning? Or do you sound sort of like him?
"I'm an actor, so that's my profession," he said. "That's my job. It's a trade."
That's not true of all actors. Especially the young and hungry ones.
But Dempsey is 47; his first movie role came when he was 19; and he's got tens of millions of dollars.
And as passionate as fans of "Grey's Anatomy" can be, his passion lies elsewhere. He described his TV job as being about "endurance," whereas racing is "very exciting and keeps me alive. And then I can go back to work and enjoy it. So I think I need both, quite honestly."
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Jada Pinkett Smith And Marc Anthony's Show HawthoRNe Canceled! Is It Because Of Affair Rumors?
TNT pulls the plug on Jada Pinkett Smith's show HawthoRNne after three seasons — but did it have to do with the bad press surrounding a rumored Jada and Marc affair?
Our sister site Deadline reports that TNT has decided to cancel HawthoRNe after its third season. But why now? Is it because of the rumors swirling around about costars Jada Pinkett Smith and Marc Anthony having an affair?Likely not. There has been buzz for weeks that TNT would pull the plug on their medical series, but it's awkward timing with all of the gossip about Jada and Marc.
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TNT has decided not to order a fourth season of HawthoRNe. TNT truly appreciates the tremendous dedication of everyone involved in HawthoRNe. The series gave TNT the opportunity to work with many outstanding people, including Jada Pinkett Smith and the rest of the show's talented cast, crew, producers and writers. We wish everyone involved with HawthoRNe nothing but the best.
The show, which centers around Jada, recently made Marc a series regular just last March. In his interview last night, Marc Anthony vehemently denied rumors he cheated on now-estranged wife Jennifer Lopez, and specifically called the gossip about Jada "laughable."
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text: New York Dairy Wins 2013 Agricultural Environmental Management Award August 7, 2013 08:07 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By MILK Editors Email Family has farmed the land for 100 years, and today its thriving dairy farm uses cutting-edge technology to increase profits and protect the environment. Source: New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets news release New York State Agriculture Commissioner Darrel J. Aubertine today announced that Sheland Farms of Ellisburg, N.Y., is the recipient of the 2013 New York State Agricultural Environmental Management (AEM) Award. The Shelmidine family, which operates the farm, along with the Jefferson County Soil and Water Conservation District, were honored by the State Department of Agriculture and Markets, Empire State Potato Growers and American Agriculturist Magazine during the Agricultural Leadership Luncheon at Empire Farm Days in Seneca Falls. "I congratulate the Shelmidine family on this tremendous achievement," said Commissioner Aubertine. "For 100 years, the Shelmidine's have been farming this land in Jefferson County. From generation to generation, their family has grown and their farm has persevered. Today, it is a thriving dairy farm using cutting edge technology to increase profits and protect the environment." Sheland Farms milks approximately 700 cows and utilizes 2,100 acres of land to grow all the crops needed to feed the dairy cows and young stock on the farm. They use reduced soil plowing practices and cover crops to enhance the health of the soil and increase the amount of organic carbon that can be sequestered and utilized by growing crops. These proven conservation systems also reduce the loss of nutrients and topsoil to the nearby waters of Sandy Creek, an important tributary to Lake Ontario. Sheland Farms made the necessary investments in the farm to not only improve efficiencies and minimize impacts to the local watershed but taken an extra step by covering their manure storage, successfully capturing and filtering methane emissions. Sheland Farms are also digesting cow manure to produce a clean, renewable source of electricity for the operation of the farm and utility grid. These advanced conservation systems put into practice on the farm protect the watershed and reduce climate changing emissions, in effect improving the global environment. With the help of state and federal funding from sources like NYS's Environmental Protection Fund (EPF), Sheland Farms has invested in conservation practice systems to protect water quality by eliminating runoff from barnyard, feed storage, and milkhouse areas. Diverting and collecting rainwater or melting snow away from these areas minimizes pollution concerns from manure and allows for nutrient recycling when manure is properly applied to fields as natural fertilizers to crops. Conservation practices like these are a win-win scenario for both the farm's economic bottom line and the environment. The Shelmidine family is very active in its community, serving on the local Cornell Cooperative Extension Board, Jefferson County Agricultural Development Board, Jefferson County Farmland Protection Board, and in town government. In addition, the Shelmidine family participates in the NYS and Jefferson County Farm Bureaus, 4-H, Future Farmers of America, and the Northeast Dairy Producers Association. The Shelmidines also volunteer in both school and church organizations and have opened their farm for a number of community and educational tours. Finally, to further support their commitment to the environment beyond Jefferson County, Doug Shelmidine has served on the nationwide USDA Agricultural Air Quality Taskforce for 10 years. The Jefferson County Soil and Water Conservation District typifies outstanding service to the farming community of the county and beyond. The District offers a wide variety of programs to farmers, including comprehensive nutrient management planning assistance, technical assistance and conservation equipment rental. Members of the District provide technical assistance to all farmers regardless of whether they are involved with a state or federal grant program. Christine Watkins, Executive Director and Certified Nutrient Management Planner, also provides training and education assistance to other Districts at numerous training events across the state helping to ensure that all Districts have the capacity to serve the agricultural community statewide. Since 1993, the EPF (originally known as the Environmental Trust Fund) has been funding programs that help farmers to apply conservation on their lands, thereby protecting drinking water supplies and water resources across the state. Since the EPF was signed into law 20 years ago on Aug. 4, 1993, over $120 million has been invested in the State's Agricultural Environmental Management Initiative helping farms like the Shelmidines preserve and protect New York's vital natural resources. When the value of clean water for tourism, boating and fishing is factored in with avoided water treatment costs, collectively conservation projects supported through the EPF provide a huge economic benefit as well as a cleaner environment. New York's AEM program is a model for the entire nation. Its incentive-based approach protects natural resources and meets economic needs in the field of agriculture. Back to news


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Despite the stillness that fell across the killing fields of Williamsburg when the bloody battle of May 5, 1862 ended, the struggle to decide the town's fate was far from over.
Inside the houses lining Duke of Gloucester Street, the daughters and granddaughters of Revolutionary War heroes set their jaws, intent on resisting the blue-clad oppressors who marched past their doors playing "On to Richmond" and "Yankee Doodle."
And just outside the westernmost Yankee sentry post in the College of William and Mary's Wren Yard, rebel scouts looked on from hiding, eager to dash back and bloody the defenders of what for much of the Civil War was the Union's closest stronghold to Richmond.
Three times they raided Williamsburg in force, sparking running gun battles that killed, wounded and captured so many Federal troops that — 150 years ago today — the humiliated garrison burned the Wren Building in retaliation.
Rightly suspecting the townspeople of aiding their foes, they would have torched much more had not the Union high command prevailed. Yet even then it was the Williamsburg women's steely devotion to their homes — and their decision to stay and protect them from looters and vandals — that preserved so many of the colonial capital's historic structures.
"Southern women weren't supposed to be independent thinkers. They were supposed to be guided and protected by their men," says Carol Kettenburg Dubbs, author of "Defend this Old Town: Williamsburg during the Civil War."
"But when their men left and the Union marched in, these women were the ones who saved the town. They showed tremendous courage and resolve."
Open defiance
As the Stars and Stripes rose from a half-dozen Federal outposts scattered across the Wren Yard, Duke of Gloucester Street and the Palace and Courthouse greens, Williamsburg's women lost no time finding ways to show their disdain for what one called "the degrading yoke" of the Yankee invaders.
Whenever they approached a Union man on the street, they veiled their faces with their hats and compressed their billowing dresses so that they could not be seen or touched, a Federal officer reported. And if they had to stop, acknowledge and talk to a Northern soldier, their replies were strained if not openly hateful.
"I give you the water," one young woman said as she nursed a wounded Yankee following the battle.
"But if you were well I would gladly kill you."
Teenage girls treated the U.S. flag with scorn, sneering and sticking out their tongues, then stepping off the sidewalks into the 6-inch-deep mud rather than walk beneath the detested banner of what one described as "fiends in human form."
In response, the Federal troops "got a long flag and stretched it completely across the Main Street," lamented a 16-year-old refugee girl from the nearby burned town of Hampton.
So bitter was one old woman over her son's Unionist bent that she moved from their home at the Armistead House into a backyard cottage. And as such displays of Secessionist zeal mounted, many Federals hardened, too, compelling one suspicious officer seeking a drink of water from a town woman to make her taste two glasses before he accepted one.
Few Union men doubted the reasons behind the constant clatter of cookware and coughing of children that seemed to signal their movements whenever they went on patrol, either.
"They called Williamsburg a nest of sympathizers and spies," Dubbs says.
"And it was."
The South strikes back
That tension came to a head on the night of Sept. 8, when it took a desperate bucket brigade of old men, women and children to save the Wren Building from a mysterious fire.
At dawn the next day, 500 Confederate cavalrymen stormed the Union positions as if exacting revenge, killing 7, wounding 13 and capturing the provost marshal and 66 others before racing back up Richmond Road almost as swiftly as they had appeared.
The town's cheers were still ringing in the ears of the angry 5th Pennsylvania Cavalry troopers as — addled by drink — they set the Wren Building ablaze, then kept its would-be rescuers at bay with their sabers.
"It wasn't the building we know today," says historian Carson Hudson, author of "Civil War Williamsburg," describing the structure rebuilt after an 1859 fire
"But it was still a devastating loss for the town."
Two more Confederate raids bloodied the garrison in 1863, igniting running gun battles on Duke of Gloucester Street and artillery fire from Federal guns at nearby Fort Magruder.
Yet even before former Virginia Gov. Henry Wise's Confederate legion liberated the exuberant town for 6 days in early April, Federal Brig. Gen. Richard Busheed was so frustrated by the potshots at his pickets and the stealing of boots from "murdered" Union troopers that he asked for permission to destroy Williamsburg.
"Conclusive evidence has been furnished…that the attack was aided, if not planned, by the citizens of Williamsburg," he declared following a March 29 raid.
Just days before he'd condemned the defiant town as "a stronghold of rank traitors."
Tightening the knot
Despite misgivings from Washington, D.C., Maj. Gen. John A. Dix quashed the looming threat from Fort Monroe, ruling that "We must not destroy towns unless they are actually taken possession of by the enemy, and then not unless absolutely necessary for our own safety."
But he also restricted the town's supplies and suspended its residents' right to trade or travel within Union lines without first taking an oath of allegiance.
Some Williamsburg women fled from this tightening of martial law. But many more stayed, refusing to utter the detested oath while still struggling to defend their homes.
Among them was Sallie Galt, who evaded taking the oath twice, was shipped off to Norfolk and then wrangled her way back through the help of sympathetic Northern friends. An aging Lucy Tucker returned, too, only to discover that her beloved house had been ransacked in her absence.
"Her family home was here. Her late husband's library was here. Her whole life was here," Hudson says.
"If she hadn't stayed, they might not have survived."
Many deserted buildings failed to outlast the war, including two large survivors from the Governor's Palace complex pulled down for their bricks.
Occupied structures fell prey, too, looted by Federal soldiers who exploited any absence or lapse of oversight to carry off everything from Revolutionary War letters to pianos.
By the winter of 1864, conditions had hardened so much that Tucker was forced to meet her visiting daughter at the front lines on the edge of town, where a sympathetic sentry allowed them to kindle a fire and celebrate Christmas in the snow-covered ruins of an abandoned house.
Sitting on logs under umbrellas, they set aside their misfortunes and the bleak war news to renew their devotion to the South and the legacy of their historic town.
"(We) ate our cake and drank toasts to our Confederate heroes in the hearing of a Sentinel whose forbearance we rewarded with a glass of wine," recalled daughter Cynthia, who later founded the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.
"Prisoners and Lunatics are grateful for very small favors."


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(Ed. Note: In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday, we present this two-part essay by an 83-year-old African American minister who lives at Cathedral Village in upper Roxborough and who has spent a lifetime spreading the gospel of love and understanding, sometimes against almost insuperable odds.)
"Few of us realize that racism is man's gravest threat to man; the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason, the maximum of cruelty for a minimum of thinking."—Rabbi Abraham Heschel
A casual comment by my oldest sister over 60 years ago helped to frame my life and career. When I happily showed her my letter of acceptance into a small, white, church-related Nebraska college, she protectively warned me that once I graduated, I would still have to return home and work within the colored community. From her experience, whites would never offer me employment, social status or a way of life equivalent to theirs.
I felt I was of a new age. The teachings of my faith led me to believe that social justice, social action and race relations were about to bring in a new way of life for all people, and I wanted to be a part of it. My goal, consciously and sub-consciously, was to prove my family and friends wrong.
A male, African American octogenarian, I have devoted the better part of my life to the arena of social justice and race relations. What used to be considered a trophy was for a Negro to be designated as "the first black…" in one area or another. Few knew what hard knocks and diminished intrinsic satisfactions accompanied such a designation. In the aggregate, however, when evaluating my life, the joys outstripped most of the impediments and pain connected with trying to help build a multi-racial society.
When I speak of both the pain and joy of a bridge builder, I know what it has taken to identify with both sides of the color/race issue long before, during and after the Civil Rights Movement.
The pain came from all that my sister and family tried to warn me against to keep me whole and healthy and not give up my birthright as a proud African American. But in the midst of so much of this, I have experienced and witnessed the joys of bringing people together, changing attitudes and mindsets in ways that have sustained me all my life.
It began in the early 1940s when race and class wars were at a high pitch in my hometown of Chicago. We had come through the Great Depression, WW II had ended, and yet old leaders and politicians and the prevailing community wanted to return to business as usual when it came to the Negro.
What made this venture into the white world unusual had to do with what we might call reverse prejudice. A line from South African anti-apartheid writer Alan Paton may set this in perspective: "Before the white man's heart turns to love, the black man's heart will turn to hate."
My parents both migrated from the south to Chicago. They wanted to leave a south with all of its Jim Crow peonage, segregation, lynchings and unemployment for what they thought would be a place of dignity and respect for the Negro. They found that living and working at menial jobs in the north was not the hoped-for panacea.
My folks experienced so much racism and class injustice that their hearts were hardened when it came to the people who they felt were the source of so much pain in their lives. My mother, more so than my father, was a harsh critic of what white folk did to our race, and she indoctrinated her children, friends and extended family with her ideology.
Few table conversations, church meetings or casual chit-chats with neighbors were without racial overtones. All of her six children bought into her theories about the white community and all they inflicted on black people, except her youngest child. I, the rebel, spent a lifetime trying to prove her wrong.
In my teenage years, a new pastor and his wife came to our small Congregational church on Chicago's South Side. As they reached out to their new flock as well as to the wider community, they (who were Negroes) brought to their ministry the need to challenge the city's social justice issues, especially as it related to race. It was also a time when their denomination — on the national level — made pronouncements decrying the injustices of society and called for a racially inclusive church and society.
I followed my minister and his wife to church gatherings and was on the ground floor for what we felt was a new day ascending in the area of race and the commitment to this uphill struggle that it entailed. At summer church camps and conferences, as leader of my local youth fellowship and involvement with nearly all the 70-plus all-white Congregational churches in the city, I became the poster boy for all that the church wished to accomplish in its initiative on social action and race relations. These were "firsts" for me and my race. I even managed to ascend to the high office of secretary of our national youth organization as the first black to do so.
As I visited white churches, homes and families, I would return the favor by bringing whites to my home, church and neighborhood. After my mother would have her say about her lifetime of experiences in the south and all that she witnessed and experienced, she was not short in extending Biblical hospitality and genuine acceptance to my friends. My siblings and close friends were a bit more skeptical and standoffish.
Once I had worked to earn enough money to make such a leap, like my white counterparts who were heading for Congregational church-related colleges, I too, applied to one in Nebraska, along with one of my dear female friends who was a fellow church member. We were turned down by the dean, who indicated there were no white male or female students willing to room with us. We could reapply when we brought our own roommates of color.
My first thoughts ran to all of those manifestos of ending racism in our church and society. I went to see some of the church's top officials and presented the letters from the dean. Almost without a word, they went into action, helped to turn around the dean's refusal to accept us, and before long, letters of acceptance arrived. A new dean had been appointed.
We were suddenly in the midst of an all-white campus (Doane College in Crete, Nebraska) and what that meant socially, academically, culturally, spiritually and more. As "firsts" we had our ups and downs. We never shunned who we were as African Americans; we nurtured classmates who were interested in our lives and culture in the big city of Chicago, and we exposed them to our big-city lives. We made lots of friends, learned from them and developed a great fellowship of cohorts. Upon my graduation, it was noted that I was the first black person to make that transition.
At this point I had to make vocational decisions. I worked to pay off my college debt and in consultation with friends and denominational leaders, moved in the direction of becoming a minister and giving back to the church and community what I had so richly enjoyed during my formative years.
My minister and a number of other clergy in the Chicago area eventually became alumni of Hartford Theological Seminary in Connecticut. There I was a person of color among a few others, a rich tapestry of students from all races and backgrounds, and the horror of standing out like a sore thumb was no longer present. However, there were color issues when I applied for a field work job, and after my graduation from the seminary, the office could not locate a church to accept me because of my race.
The Civil Rights Movement was on the horizon; lynching, beatings, lunch counter demonstrations, challenges to that segregated way of life were on the move in the south. Had there been a church down south willing to accept me, my mother would have forbidden my going. The few urban black Congregational churches were staffed and without need for additional clergy.


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Aakash2 details...
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The world's cheapest tablet will be launched in February 2012 and
will be available at the same price of Rs 2,276 or $49.
Aakash-2, will have a new microprocessor of 800 megahertz as compared
to the present 366 megahertz processor. This will solve the existing problems
of quick overheating, frequent system freeze,
poor sound quality, absence of support for all
formats and inability to install free online software.
It will also enable downloading of videos from YouTube, another popular
activity among internet users.
Also, the RAM of the new version will be enhanced to 1GB from 256 MB in
Aakash-1, which was the reason behind restricted multi-tasking.
An in-built camera, which was the major application missing in the first
version, will also be integrated in Aakash-2, to enable front online video
chatting on an improved 7'' screen.
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The tablet's designers at IIT Rajastan say the Aakash 2 will contain "a more
capable processor, more memory and more onboard storage" for the same
low price. The next-generation Android 3.2 Gingerbread version may also
contain new hardware, according to one of Aakash's project managers,
Professor Anupam Gupta.
"We think that if we have our own chip, the performance will shoot up and
the price will come down drastically," he said.
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I think in this time all are thinking this is a small laptop while it was once projected as a laptop computer; it is actually a tablet computing device. Akash is the cheapest tablet in the world and is cheaper than the basic models of some mobile phones. The device was announced under the name Aakash on 5 October 2011 in India. Akash is produced in Kwad electronics solutions pvt ltd Hyderabad. The product is currently under testing and in the first phase one lakh products would be released and later 9,00,000 more would be released and the price may come down to less than 2,000. The device has been developed as part of the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology. The Aakash tablet hardware and software details given below.
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Guys I was wondering government has planned to sell this tablet ubislate7 aka Aakash to students at a cheaper price of Rs1800 or less as compared to shops which sells at Rs3000. But the question here is where to buy it from and what proof to show that I am a student? Anyone here on TDF bought it? If yes at what price because I'm thinking for going for it...
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CTV in Canada has a story about the Canadian company
that is designing the computer
Datawind CEO Suneet Singh Tuli said accusations against the company are driven by envy, sour grapes and corruption in the Indian media. His firm has followed its contracts to the letter, the device does everything it was meant to, and a deluge of orders for the ultra-cheap tablet speaks for itself, he said.
The Ministry of Human Resource Development, which commissioned the product, did not respond to repeated requests for comment from the Globe and Mail. A week ago, HRD Minister Kabil Sibal reportedly told the Indian media that there were "differences" with Datawind, but "we believe in resolving issues rather than highlighting them."
Mr. Tuli rejects all those assertions. "Anyone who is complaining that there is a quality problem is comparing it to the wrong level – it's too slow, compared to what? Show me a [$49] device where it's too slow. Yes it's too slow compared to the iPad – wrong customer, wrong market," he said in an interview as he rushed between meetings in the capital earlier this week.
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More about the bad relations between Datawind and the
Indian government.
"We have already rejected 3,000 tablets on quality," a ministry official said.
The Indian government wants to continue with a faster processor...
The new tablet will have a microprocessor of 1.2 gega hertz (Ghz), five times faster than Aakash 1 and a minimum battery life of eight hours.
Datawind founder Suneet Tuli had claimed that such a tablet can cost not less than $1,500. Ministry officials said it has not been decided to debar Datawind from future bidding.
HRD and telecom minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday held a meeting with public sector telecom companies including ITI to gear them up for supplying Aakash 2 at $35.
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Review of Akash tablet
The cons? It's ridiculously slow, the resistive touch is horrendous (even
worse than other resistive touch-screens I've used, such as that on the
Nokia 5500) and a clunky home screen button, which is the only hardware
button other the one for power.
The pros? Nothing at all. The fifteen minutes I got with it felt like a
punishment. And considering the delivery delays, I would never suggest
giving the sequel a try, either. Even the most outdated syllabus, with a
boring text book and an even worse teacher would do more for education
than this.
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June 17, 2014
Call it a fever, a virus, or merely an emotional infection, World Cup-itis is no fictional disease. Every four years, it afflicts hundreds of millions of people (this blogger included). And although the causes are easy to explain—the exhilaration of watching diving headers kiss the side netting, free kicks bending around walls just out of reach of fully extended goalkeepers, thirty-yard passes threaded between defenders onto the boots of strikers sprinting toward goal—there's no known cure. Which means companies worldwide have a serious problem on their hands: what to do with employees who suffer from the disease and insist on skipping out of work to watch the World Cup.
Across the Atlantic, and down in South America, there's been a longstanding tradition of allowing employees to ditch work to watch their home countries suit up for the Cup. But here in the U.S., where soccer isn't as popular, there's no such tradition, and, for the most part, employees with World Cup-itis must surreptitiously stream matches on their desktops or leave work to catch the action at a local watering hole. However, this year, a handful of U.S. companies are breaking this rule and not only allowing their employees to catch the action but also encouraging it.
On the West Coast, in Silicon Valley, firms like Twitter, LinkedIn, Zynga, Facebook, Nvidia, and Evernote have been hosting on-site World Cup viewing parties (which leads me to believe there must've been some rather raucous fiestas yesterday in the Valley when the U.S. miraculously beat Ghana; the match took place at 3 p.m. PST, that is, during West Coast working hours). These parties are in line with other generous perks that Silicon Valley firms typically offer employees; they also serve as a way to team build and strengthen employee morale.
Which reminds me that, four years ago, when Landon Donovan scored in extra time against Algeria, sending the U.S. Men's National Team into the second round of the World Cup in South Africa, I was watching on a big-screen TV along with three dozen coworkers. The screen was located in our office and was brought in specifically to watch the game (if the screen wasn't actually brought in by management, it was at least sanctioned by it). Watching the match in our office meant that I and my coworkers didn't have to stream the game online or skip out of work and meet at one of the many local bars airing the Cup (like we did before the screen was brought in). To say the least, we very much appreciated being able to watch the Cup at the office. We also, without trying, became a much more cohesive group of employees as result.
I remember that, just as Donovan scored, I leapt off the floor and then embraced several coworkers. Hugging a coworker whom I wasn't close with (or was close with for that matter) was an odd position to find myself in. And yet, at the time, it felt completely natural and right and only heightened the emotion I felt in that moment. And, to this day, I can't imagine another team building or morale building event that would result in two employees ending up in a genuine embrace.
In any case, although the U.S. lost to Ghana in the second round in South Africa four years ago, and the giant screen in our office magically disappeared long before Spain beat the Netherlands in the final, many bonds were forged, friendships were made, and departments intermingled while watching and discussing the matches. And, as I recall, right around the summer of 2010, our management (Vault is now under different management) had been unsuccessfully trying to effect these same results using a wide variety of other tactics.
Of course, since not everyone is a soccer fan, and soccer fans tend to be more male than female, and watching soccer isn't all that productive in a literal sense, a fair argument exists for why employees shouldn't be encouraged to watch the so-called world's game. Still, I'd argue that if employees are going to figure out ways to watch anyway (especially a week from Thursday at noon EST when the U.S. takes on Germany; just watch as your office empties out a few minutes before game time), why not offer the opportunity to do so in a communal setting where coworkers can mingle and be together and perhaps forge unlikely connections.
As a friend of mine put it recently, when explaining why he prefers to watch the World Cup with others as opposed to alone, "When a goal is scored, and you're watching with others, you all enjoy that goal together. Which is a beautiful thing."
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