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First and foremost, I would like to acknowledge that I humbly live on the traditional, unceeded territories of the səlil̓wətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) & xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. Thank you for allowing me to live on your land —Vancouver, BC Canada. I am a Canadian citizen who migrated from Kurdistan —Present day Northern Iraq, in 1995 after spending over a year as an asylum seeker in Turkey. I was born and raised in Baghdad in 1972, I am the fifth of eleven children; three boys and seven girls –one brother passed away in infancy. I am the author of ( I'm No Hero) and ( Counting Waves ) published by: Silver Bow Publishing. I am dedicating my third book of poems ( Dreamers Needed ) to my teenage boys, Trey, 15 and Wyatt, 13. I started reciting my poems for the first time in 2013 at The Holy Wow Poets Canada in Maple Ridge. I am currently a member of the Canadian Authors Association, Federation of BC Writers, The Royal City Literary Art Society and the Holy Wow Poets Canada. I am presently the secretary of the Royal City Literary Arts Society. I work as a freelance interpreter. I was commissioned in the fall of 2017 to write a poem about the refugee experience to DaCapo Chamber Choir in Toronto. The event will feature my poem "I am here" in spring 2019. I was one of the recipients of the 2018 Distinguished Poet Award from WIN– Writers International Network Canada and was 3rd place winner at the 2018 Tagore Festival Peace Poems contest. Since first sharing my poetry in 2013, I have featured in numerous poetry events throughout the Greater Vancouver area. My work has been published in The Royal City Poets Anthologies (Silver Bow Publishing), The Royal City Literary Arts Society online magazine eZine, Wordplay at Work, Creative Quills Ink Verse (North Vancouver), Celebrate Canada 150 and Culture Days From Far and Wide (Multicultural Creative Writing Collection 2017) and the 2018 Holy Wow Poets Anthology (Maple Ridge). View all posts by Lozan Yamolky


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The Parrot AR.Drone made waves when it was shown off CES earlier this year. The WiFi quadricopter that uses an iPhone as its remote control will launch in the US this September, for $299.99. You can control the device using an iPhone, iPod touch, or an iPad, and the drone has both a downward- and frontward-facing camera.
With two control modes that give you a sense for how the thing flies, anyone should be able to pick it up and get moving pretty quickly. The real fun comes when you install the augmented reality games onto the iPhone. Use the device's camera to blow away virtual ships from real space, or pilot against other drones and engage in dogfights using virtual rockets and munitions.
The software is open, and testers have enjoyed prerelease access to both the SDK and hardware to get their games and demos up to speed, making this a fun project for those who like to play as well as those who like to tinker. At launch, there will be two $2.99 games available from the App Store to try.
There are different shells you can attach to the core device, with different designs suited for flight both inside and outside. The modular design also makes it easier to repair the drone if it's damaged in flight, and as you can see from the pictures, the drone can look very different depending on which shell you're using.
Having flown an earlier model of the drone at CES, I was surprised at how touchy the controls felt; it definitely takes some time to get used to tilting and manipulating the iPhone to control it with anything approaching precision. Soon though, I was diving and floating with the best of them. Using the included cameras to check out the crowd as I flew was interesting: it was weird to see things from the point of view of the drone itself. Sadly, none of the games were yet ready to test, but be sure to read about our time with the drone for our full thoughts on the product.
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Political brinksmanship still threatens US economy
WASHINGTON - Even if U.S. lawmakers avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, higher taxes and brinksmanship in Washington are likely to continue damaging the fragile economy well into 2013.
In the early hours of the new year, the Senate passed emergency legislation to prevent deep spending cuts and even bigger tax hikes from taking effect. But the measure ran into fierce opposition Tuesday from House Republicans, leaving unclear whether a final agreement could be reached before the current Congress ends Thursday.
The Senate version would raise taxes on individual incomes over $400,000 and household incomes over $450,000 and on the portion of estates that exceeds $5 million. House Republicans are reluctant to sign on to those tax hikes - which would deliver some $600 billion in revenue over 10 years - at least without more cuts in government spending.
The higher taxes on the wealthy would likely slow the economy a little bit. But a bigger drag would come from a tax hike Democrats and Republicans aren't even bothering to fight over: the end of a two-year Social Security tax cut. The so-called payroll tax is scheduled to bounce back up to 6.2 percent this year from 4.2 percent in 2011 and 2012, amounting to a $1,000 tax increase for someone earning $50,000 a year.
"It's a huge hit," says Joel Naroff, president of Naroff Economic Advisors. "It hits people whether they're making $10,000 or they're making $2 million. It doesn't matter who you are ... The lower your income, the more of your income you're (spending). So if you're taxes go up, it's going to come out of your spending." And that is bad news for an economy that is 70 percent consumer spending.
Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, calculates that the higher payroll tax will reduce economic growth by 0.6 percentage points in 2013. The other possible tax increases - including higher taxes on household incomes above $450,000 a year - will slice just 0.15 percentage points off annual growth, Zandi said.
The economy doesn't have much growth to give. Mark Vitner, senior economist at Wells Fargo, predicts it will expand just 1.5 percent in 2013, down from a lackluster 2.2 percent in 2012. Unemployment stands at 7.7 percent.
A months-long political standoff over fiscal policy has already taken its toll, adding uncertainty that has discouraged consumers from spending and businesses from hiring and investing.
The squabbling seems sure to persist even if the House goes along with the Senate's partial fix.
Senators postponed tough decisions on government spending, giving themselves a reprieve from cuts that were scheduled to begin taking effect automatically Jan. 1. That just sets the stage for more hard-bargaining later, even if the House approves the Senate's version.
And another standoff is likely to arrive as early as February when Congress will need to raise the $16.4 trillion federal borrowing limit so the government can keep paying its bills. House Republicans probably won't agree to raise the debt limit without offsetting spending cuts that Democrats are sure to resist.
"Even if they cut some small deal, the process and what is left undone still means there's a lot of uncertainty," says Stuart Hoffman, chief economist at PNC Financial Services Group.
After Jan. 1, asks Ethan Harris, co-head of global economics at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, "what induces the two sides to stop fighting and start compromising?"
The fiscal cliff itself was created to force Democrats and Republicans to compromise.
To end a 2011 standoff over raising the federal debt limit, they agreed to a Jan. 1, 2013 deadline to reach a deal over taxes and spending. If they didn't, more than $500 billion in tax increases would hit the economy in 2013 alone, along with $109 billion in cuts from the military and domestic spending programs. The sharp tax hikes and spending cut would threaten to send the economy over the cliff and back into recession.
But negotiations to avert catastrophe have highlighted once again how far apart the two parties are on taxes (Republicans don't want to raise them) and spending (Democrats are reluctant to cut government programs).
"We're learning about how deep the impasse is," Harris says. "Both sides have decided that they were willing to go to the last minute."
Political gridlock has been rattling financial markets and shaking consumer and business confidence the past two years.
After a fight over raising the debt limit last year, the credit rating agency Standard & Poor's yanked the U.S. government's blue-chip AAA bond rating because it feared that America's dysfunctional political system couldn't deliver a credible plan to reduce the federal government's debt. S&P cited an overabundance of "political brinksmanship" and warned that "the differences between political parties have proven to be extraordinarily difficult to bridge."
The Dow Jones industrials dropped 635 points in panicked selling the first day of trading after the S&P announcement.
Outside Washington the economy has been getting some good news. Europe's financial crisis appears to have eased, reducing the threat of a renewed financial crisis. And the U.S. real estate market finally appears to be recovering from the housing bust.
But the old worries have been replaced by new ones about political gridlock, says Joseph LaVorgna, an economist at Deutsche Bank.
The partisan divide has left businesses and consumers wondering what's going to happen to their taxes and to federal contracts.
Companies have plenty of cash. But they reduced spending on industrial equipment, computers and software from July to September, the first quarterly drop since mid-2009 when the economy was still in recession. And hiring has been stuck at a modest level of about 150,000 new jobs per month this year.
"What we see is fear," says Darin Harris, chief operating for Primrose Schools, an Atlanta company with 250 franchised preschools in 17 states. He says franchise owners have been wary about investing in a second or third school until they know what tax rates are going to be and where government spending is headed. "All those things make our small business owners reluctant to reinvest."
Consumer confidence fell in December for the second straight month, according to a survey by the Conference Board, which blamed the drop on worries about the fiscal cliff. The uncertainty is also believed to have dinged holiday shopping, which grew at the slowest pace this year since 2008.
"Every kind of brinksmanship moment is a reminder to people to not trust the economy," Harris says.
Many economists are disappointed that Congress and the White House couldn't reach agreement on a broader deal that significantly reduces the deficit over the next 10 years. That could have boosted business and consumer confidence and accelerated growth .
No progress has been made on reforming the government's big entitlement programs, mainly Medicare and Social Security.
"Nothing really has been fixed," Lavorgna says. "There are much bigger philosophical issues that we aren't even addressing yet."


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When I was growing up my mother always told me I had "ants in my pants". I was always excited or agitated about something, and couldn't sit still for a second.
Not much has changed.
Even now I struggle to simply "be still". My mind always active – always looking ahead to the "next" thing – I have to force myself to live in the present, and find quiet reflection really difficult.
And yet, in a world where things are moving so fast, I realise that sometimes in life, you have to stop before you can truly begin, and that pressing pause to be still and reflect is often the best way to start. Of course, you don't want to live life looking behind you, but taking time out to intentionally slow down and consider the year gone past can be an extremely beneficial, rewarding, and productive thing to do. Trevor Hudson says,
"We don't learn simply from experiences; we learn when we reflect on those experiences."
Travis Gale, leadership coach and a good friend of mine, believes strongly in taking time out to reflect, and says that the key to healthy reflection is all about asking the right questions. He says, "Many of us look for answers, but few sit down and think about the right questions to ask. Questions have the uncanny knack to open up possibilities, to get us thinking out the box, and perhaps break down the limitations we put on ourselves."
And so, before you start 2012, why not STOP and ask the right questions? Questions like:
- What energised me most in 2011?
- Which relationships brought me the most joy? Why?
- Which relationships put me under the most pressure? Why?
- What were the "defining moments" of 2011?
- What strengths did I see in myself during 2011?
- Under which conditions did I see myself thrive?
- What did I avoid doing that I know I most needed to do?
- What books and mentors had the greatest impact on me? Why?
- Am I closer to my friends and family from my activities last year?
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Less than two weeks ago, Seattle's 5 Point Cafe became the first known establishment in the United States (and possibly the world) to publicly ban Google Glass, the highly anticipated augmented reality device set to be released later this year.
The "No Glass" logo that the café published on its website was developed and released (under a Creative Commons license) by a new London-based group called "Stop the Cyborgs." The group is composed of three young Londoners who decided to make a public case against Google Glass and other similar devices.
"If it's just a few geeks wearing it, it's a niche tool [and] I don't think it's a problem," said Adam, 27, who prefers only to be identified by his first name. He communicated with Ars via Skype and an encrypted Hushmail e-mail account.
"But if suddenly everyone is wearing it and this becomes as prevalent as smartphones—you can see it becomes very intrusive very quickly. It's not about the tech, it's about the social culture around it. If you think about what Google's business model is, it started as a search engine, and then Google Analytics. [Now, Google is] almost characterizing its [territory as being] the rest of the world. It's a loss of space that isn't online. [Google Glass] destroys having multiple identities, and I find that quite a scary concept."
Adam admitted he has never actually used or interacted with Google Glass in person, but he said he has extensive experience with augmented reality and currently is a post-doctoral student specializing in "machine learning" at a London university that he declined to name. He added that he and two friends are behind Stop the Cyborgs.
Google has yet to release much detailed information about Google Glass, only allowing small trials involving its own employees and select journalists and developers.
"Most people [have] no idea what they were looking at"
On the Stop the Cyborgs site, the group raises a significant concern: namely, that there's no obvious way to know when the device is on or what it's actually doing (recording or not). Indeed, Adam's fears may be warranted, based on The Verge's own experience last month:
At one point during my time with Glass, we all went out to navigate to a nearby Starbucks—the camera crew I'd brought with me came along. As soon as we got inside however, the employees at Starbucks asked us to stop filming. Sure, no problem. But I kept the Glass' video recorder going, all the way through my order and getting my coffee. Yes, you can see a light in the prism when the device is recording, but I got the impression that most people had no idea what they were looking at. The cashier seemed to be on the verge of asking me what I was wearing on my face, but the question never came. He certainly never asked me to stop filming.
Plus, it's not hard to imagine a situation where photos taken by Glass could be checked against Facebook, Google+, or another social network. For now, Google hasn't said what sort of facial recognition capability Glass will (or could) have.
"Google Glass is possibly the most significant technological threat to 'privacy in public' I've seen," Woodrow Hartzog, an affiliate scholar at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, told Ars. "In order to protect our privacy, we will need more than just effective laws and countermeasures. We will need to change our societal notions of what 'privacy' is."
For now, at least one privacy-minded senator doesn't seem worried.
"In the past, Google has taken a principled position in making facial recognition an opt-in service for its social network, Google+," said Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) in an e-mail to Ars. "This gives me hope that this same kind of thoughtfulness will be applied to its roll-out of Glass. I'm looking forward to talking to Google more about its deployment of Glass and what it means for privacy."
"You're never going to see a stranger as a stranger again"
Still, though, we can only speculate about how society will react to such an expensive geek toy that will almost certainly spawn copycat devices that will get cheaper and more expansive over time.
"In generation two, when you've got better battery life and apps that do better face recognition—maybe we're crying wolf a little early to a certain extent—but [what happens when] you get to competing products?" Adam said. "The idea that you'll have recognition of objects and infrared tags so it will always know what you're looking at—that kind of thing, it will be gathering information. It's more the face recognition stuff that changes society. You're never going to see a stranger as a stranger again."
That's a sentiment Hartzog echoed.
"Google Glass simply lowers the transaction costs of taking photos and videos and learning about your surroundings," the law professor said. "If Glass has a high adoption rate, it will significantly increase the likelihood of information that was assumed to be obscure or ethereal being discovered, recorded, and subject to publication. The law has yet to figure out how to unravel the fact that there are many situations where individuals expect privacy in public. So perhaps the best approach to this, at least initially, is a vocal, context-based opposition."
Even more interestingly, Adam admitted that part of why he's afraid of associating his name with such a campaign is that it might hurt his chances in the industry where he hopes to get a job.
"I want to get a job with Google, eventually," he admitted. "I'm part of that industry, so anything that I say in regard to that site could come back and bite me. I might not be able to afford my principles."


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20 Pieces of Knowledge The Mindy Project Cast Dropped at PaleyFest
What was Mindy Kaling's college strategy to become the success she is today? "I never partied or had boyfriends," she deadpanned at Friday's Paley Festival panel for The Mindy Project.
She's not entirely kidding. She focused on her passion at to the expense of not having a busy social life. "I've dated more people on this season of the show than I've met men in my life," she added. "I never got distracted."
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It's clear that Mindy Project is a labor of love for the comedienne, and the cast was feeling the love for each other during the panel, which was moderated by TV Guide Magazine's Rob Moynihan. Not only did the actors frequently (and only sometimes cheekily) declare, "I love you" to each other, but there was a sibling-like sort of joshing and hair-mussing going on throughout.
Despite all of the silliness, the panel did give us quite a bit of insight and information about Fox's new comedy hit. Check out what we learned from Paley Fest's Mindy Project panel below:
1. The Office finale is nigh: Kaling just received the script for the final episode of The Office and will begin shooting the return of her character Kelly Kapoor in two days.
2. The doctor is in (Kaling's family): The star decided to make her character Dr. Mindy Lahiri a gynecologist because in real life, her late mother was a gynecologist.
3. Ike Barinholtz is the man with a thousand voices: No one, not even Kaling or co-star Chris Messina were safe from Barinholtz's hilarious impersonations. His voice doesn't necessarily sound like theirs, but he has a knack for mimicking the way his friends pronounced words and delivered lines. We'd love to see him bust this out on the show.
4. Danny will bare (almost) all: Messina, who plays Mindy's fellow gynecologist Dr. Danny Castellano, just shot scene in Long Beach in which he wore a speedo and wrestled with Mark Duplass (who plays Brendon the midwife), who wore a one-piece swimsuit.
5. Dancing Danny is real! Messina wanted to take karate, but his dance instructor mother demanded he learn to dance. "I got my a-- kicked throughout junior high," he confessed. "I loved it and I wanted to be Baryshnikov for a while."
6. Ed Weeks isn't as gifted as Barinholtz: The part of charming Brit gynecologist Jeremy Reed was originally written as an American. Weeks, however, says that his American accent was so bad, his roommate insisted he read for the part using his real accent, which apparently worked for Kaling.
7. No Mindy-Jeremy 'shipping for now: Weeks revealed that one of the story lines they had just begun shooting was Jeremy dating one of Mindy's best friends, the prickly Maggie who is in a wheelchair.
8. B.J. Novak is still a friend to the show: The Office star had recently finished directing a Mindy Projectepisode called "Santa Fe" in which Morgan (Barinholtz) and Jeremy strip down in a sweat lodge. During their time in Santa Fe for a doctors' convention, Jeremy is quite mean to Morgan. This also marks the return of Mindy's ex Josh (Tommy Dewey).
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9. The tat's going strong: Because of that semi-nude scene, Barinholtz had to freshen up Morgan's gigantic tattoo of the words "No More Stealing Cars" on his belly and flashed the Paley audience the evidence.
10. The Mindy Wears Prada: Inspired by The Devil Wears Prada, Kaling wanted a scene in The Office in which Michael Scott would fling his jacket at Pam when he entered the office. The idea never flew, so Kaling transferred the idea to The Mindy Project, in which poor Betsy (Zoe Jarman) would get Mindy's purse thrown at her head.
11. Morgan and Betsy could happen: Barinholtz said that "I think there is a romantic possibility for Betsy and I," but noted that Morgan was like an ambitious Downton Abbey servant who hung out Upstairs and put on airs not befitting his station.
12. Beverly (Beth Grant) has a busy past: "I've had several ex-boyfriends of many different religions," Grant said of ther character, whom the writers tried to bring back several times before Beverly returned officially in the "Mindy's Birthday" episode.
13. Justcall Messina Mr. Romance: The actor is in two of Kaling's favorite romantic comedies: You've Got Mail and Vicky Cristina Barcelona
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14. Mindy and Dannyarenot sitting in a tree ... yet: Both Kaling and Messina would like their characters to just kiss already, but apparently the writers are divided about getting the two gynos together this early.
15. Mindy doesn't need to stay single: Kaling thinks the show would work just as well if Mindy settled down and had kids.
16. Mindy is part of The Mindy Project theme song: Kaling's voice was used for the odd hip-hop-influenced song that was written by Novak's brother Jesse Novak.
17. Voiceover isn't just for the actors: Executive producer Matt Warburton is the voice of the person who says after the show, "Go to bed."
18. A Hollywood star resembles fungi: Apparently, an unnamed actor looks enough like a shitake mushroom that Kaling had a picture of the star and a shitake mushroom pinned up side by side in the writers' room.
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19. Kaling is tech-savvy: Unlike her character, who had a spare phone because she couldn't figure out how to transfer her contacts, Kaling says, "That was not a biological detail. I can transfer my contacts."
20. There are no limits to the dream casting: Kaling would love Danny McBride to play Mindy's un-fabulous, brawler gay friend who has a crush on Danny; for Judge Judy to play Morgan's grandmother; Rowan "Mr. Bean" Atkinson as Jeremy's dad; and The Office's Rainn Wilson to come on and play someone "dapper and sexy."
Watch the full Paley Festival session for The Mindy Project on Hulu.
The Mindy Project returns with all-new episodes on Tuesday, March 19 at 9:30/8:30c on Fox.
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Movie review: 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' is the best X-Men movie
It's safe to say that among both hardcore and casual fans of movies made from comic books, the "X-Men" series has gotten some of the highest accolades. It's been, for the most part, a classy bunch of films featuring a generous helping of fascinating characters. The sole entry that that didn't quite hit the mark was "X-Men: The Last Stand." That was also the only film in the series that didn't have the stamp of producer-director Bryan Singer. Singer only produced 2011's "X-Men: First Class," but that film was under the capable direction of Matthew Vaughn. Singer returns to full-fledged producer-director status with "Days of Future Past," and he's made the best of these films to date.
The only warning to be dealt out in advance is that the opening frames greet viewers with pandemonium, with non-stop action that takes a while to make sense of but eventually becomes clear when the pace slows down enough to let the storytelling begin. As happens so many times in a successful franchise, this film is going to be much easier to follow for those who have been watching the series from the start. In fact, even though care has been taken to satisfactorily explain what's going on, some pieces of this one will be distracting to newcomers. You might want to first check out "X-Men: First Class," which introduces the cast of actors who play the younger versions of X-Men heroes and villains Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr and Raven/Mystique.
One of the best things about "Days of Future Past" (aside from the non-Moody Blues-related title) is that the film manages to mix the older and younger casts together in a story that puts time travel at its center and actually manages to pull it off. Time travel has long been a genre that writers have freely played with and changed the rules of as they went along. Here, along with some additional but temporary confusion, it works.
At the film's start, things are going badly for the whole world. The longtime war between humans and mutants has turned far more vicious than either side had expected. The humans have created an army of creatures called Sentinels – tall, sleek humanoid things that are fast and destructive and seemingly indestructible, whose only purpose is to hunt down and eliminate all mutants.
They've been quite adept at their task, and the remaining mutants, including the current-day versions of the characters who originated the roles (Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman, et al), know they're in trouble. They, with the help of more recent mutant additions (notably Ellen Page) devise a plan to change history, to prevent the invention of the Sentinels, by sending one of their own back in time in order to … .
No, that won't be given away here. What will be revealed is that only the mind of the time traveling mutant will go back to 1973, the year of a certain fate-changing event, and that mind will become one with that mutant's own younger body. The only member strong enough to take on this taxing challenge is Wolverine (Jackman), who never ages and whose body has remarkable healing powers. It's another nice touch having Hugh Jackman play Wolverine both now and then, going back to meet the other younger mutants, played in the past by James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence (whose character of Raven/Mystique is not seen in the present).
Hmmm, this does sound confusing, doesn't it? And there hasn't even been mention made yet of single-minded mutant-hating Dr. Bolivar Trask (the excellent Peter Dinklage) or the fact that the film's plot neatly factors in a touch of JFK assassination theory.
Not to worry, all does come clear under the sure control of Singer and writer Simon Kinberg. When it's time for action, it's let loose. When the story could use a good laugh, it's provided (especially in a scene where the young mutant named Peter, aka Quicksilver (Evan Peters), makes things laugh-out-loud-worthy by besting a group of armed military guards in slapstick fashion).
The film also has its serious dramatic sides, during which it focuses on personal relationships, philosophical ideas and historical incidents. But no front seat is taken by drama or action or comedy, and the mix of all three is what makes the film work so well. There's also a terrific ending that will please longtime followers, and a post-credits ending that introduces the series' next menacing villain. Hint: That second ending also offers a hint of how the pyramids were built.
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Written by Simon Kinberg; directed by Bryan Singer
With Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Peter Dinklage
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I'd visited his grave earlier, with my grandmother, in 1968, and she had told me that she wanted to be buried there too, though whether she ever was buried there I don't know. I'd visited a few years later and had some photos of the grave, but we thought it would be nice to have some digital photos as well, so we went to look for it, and could not find it after looking at almost every other grave in the place. Had I imagined it? Had it been moved?
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The current St Thomas's Church is a bit further down the hill. The original one on the cemetery site was a wood and iron affair, replaced in the 1920s by the stone chapel that is there today, but is not used much. Richard Vause was one of the first, if not the first, churchwarden of the old St Thomas's, and he lived a little way down the hill in what may still be called Vause Road with his wife Matilda (nee Park) and their eight children.
Their son Charles Reynolds Vause was the very first to be baptised at St Thomas's, and is the fiorst entry in the baptism register, and was probably one of the first to be buried in the cemetery also. He and his sister Matilda, the two youngest of the Vause children, died young.
The second son of Richard and Matilda Vause, William John Vause, who died at the age of 41, is also buried in the plot. He married Jessie Cottam, but they had no children.
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There are several other members of the Vause family buried in the same plot.
The cemetery also contains the grave of Julia, the daughter of nCaptain Allen Gardiner, RN. After retiring from the navy, Gardiner became a missionary, and went to Zululand. There he met a hostile reception from King Dingane and his people, so he returned to Durban, and established himself on a hill above the town. After finding the people there more receptive to his message he named the hill Berea, after the place where St Paul met a better reception than he did in Thessalonica (Acts 17:10-12). Allen Gardiner is not buried at St Thomas's Cemetery, however. He went on to South America, where he died of starvation on Tierra del Fuego, and the South American Missionary Society was started in his memory.
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One of the added delights of this research into my father's writings is stumbling upon the voices of his colleagues and contemporaries. For weeks, I have been looking for something that might have some historical resonance to the voter suppression activities that are taking place in 2012. I also was looking for something that might be appropriate for Labor Day.
I found a twofer, not among my father's columns, but in a letter to the editor that ran in his paper written by Frank Crosswaith (1892-1965), a New York labor leader. Born in what is now the U. S. Virgin Islands, Crosswaith came to New York at the age of 13 and devoted his life to improving labor conditions for workers, particularly those in Harlem. A biography on the New York Public Library's website describes him as "one of the most effective organizers of black workers in New York City," during the 20s and 30s.
Though Crosswaith was based in Harlem and worked closely with unions that had significant numbers of blacks among their ranks, he also embraced and championed the cause of the white working class. He ran as the Socialist candidate for several statewide offices and although his election bids were unsuccessful, he drew strong multiracial support.
Periodically, Crosswaith and my father gave one another a nod in print. Crosswaith wrote a letter praising one of my father's columns, which Ebenezer then printed in his Dottings space on Jan. 1, 1938. My father once singled out Crosswaith as one of the few orators who took spoke on the streets of Harlem who were worth listening to and would not massacre "the King's English."
In that Oct. 8 letter to the editor in the New York Age, Crosswaith singled out Sen. Ellison "Cotton Ed" Smith (D-South Carolina). According to Wikipedia, Smith earned his nickname while serving in the House of Representatives when he said: "Cotton is king and white is supreme." Smith opposed women's suffrage, arguing that it would apply the same rights as the 15th Amendment had granted to "the other half of the Negro race."
During the 1938 Democratic Convention, Smith walked out when he saw that a black man was going to offer the invocation.
"Some day," Crosswaith wrote, "we are confident the people both black and white — the poor people who work in the mills and mine, in factory, on railroads in the school houses and on the farms will get wise to the Smiths and others who have kept them consigned to a life of long hard labor, who have robbed them of their labor power, who have prevented them from getting a full view of life, who have narrowed their vision to a glimpse of life only from behind the squalid walls of the slums. Some day these people will rise up; the scales of ignorance will fall from their eyes, they will learn at last to appreciate the power which is theirs through their numbers and their vital importance to industry and agriculture. And when that day comes, the bogey of race superiority, so attractive today, will be exposed for what it is: namely a device to weaken the ranks of the Negro and the white working class and thus continue the exploitation by a clever, scheming minority. "
To Cotton Ed Smith and "others of his ilk" Crosswaith had this message:
"Have your fun while you may . . . Today is your day. In the very nature of things yours can be but a temporary victory which the united and enlightened action of all workers irrespective of race, creed, color, sex or nationality will inevitably destroy."


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'Would you make the same decisions in a foreign language?'
To judge a risk more clearly, it may help to consider it in a foreign language.
A series of experiments on more than 300 people from the U.S. and Korea found that thinking in a second language reduced deep-seated, misleading biases that unduly influence how risks and benefits are perceived.
"Would you make the same decisions in a foreign language as you would in your native tongue?" asked psychologists led by Boaz Keysar of the University of Chicago in an April 18 Psychological Science study.
"It may be intuitive that people would make the same choices regardless of the language they are using, or that the difficulty of using a foreign language would make decisions less systematic. We discovered, however, that the opposite is true: Using a foreign language reduces decision-making biases," wrote Keysar's team.
Psychologists say human reasoning is shaped by two distinct modes of thought: one that's systematic, analytical and cognition-intensive, and another that's fast, unconscious and emotionally charged.
In light of this, it's plausible that the cognitive demandsof thinking in a non-native, non-automatic language would leave people with little leftover mental horsepower, ultimately increasing their reliance on quick-and-dirty cogitation.
Equally plausible, however, is that communicating in a learned language forces people to be deliberate, reducing the role of potentially unreliable instinct. Research also shows that immediate emotional reactions to emotively charged words are muted in non-native languages, further hinting at deliberation.
To investigate these possibilities, Keysar's team developed several tests based on scenarios originally proposed by psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who in 2002 won a Nobel Prize in economics for his work on prospect theory, which describes how people intuitively perceive risk.
In one famous example, Kahneman showed that, given the hypothetical option of saving 200 out of 600 lives, or taking a chance that would either save all 600 lives or none at all, people prefer to save the 200 — yet when the problem is framed in terms of losing lives, many more people prefer the all-or-nothing chance rather than accept a guaranteed loss of 400 lives.
People are, in a nutshell, instinctively risk-averse when considering gain and risk-taking when faced with loss, even when the essential decision is the same. It's a gut-level human predisposition, and if second-language thinking made people think less systematically, Keysar's team supposed the tendency would be magnified. Conversely, if second-language thinking promoted deliberation, the tendency would be diminished.
The first experiment involved 121 American students who learned Japanese as a second language. Some were presented in English with a hypothetical choice: To fight a disease that would kill 600,000 people, doctors could either develop a medicine that saved 200,000 lives, or a medicine with a 33.3 percent chance of saving 600,000 lives and a 66.6 percent chance of saving no lives at all.
Results of two tests of foreign-language effects on framing biases. In each, people were given the choice between sure savings or an all-or-nothing bet. Bars show how many people preferred sure savings when the choice was framed in terms of gains (black) or losses (gray) and considered in their native language (left pair) or second language (right pair). Image: Keysar et al./Psychological Science
Nearly 80 percent of the students chose the safe option. When the problem was framed in terms of losing rather than saving lives, the safe-option number dropped to 47 percent. When considering the same situation in Japanese, however, the safe-option number hovered around 40 percent, regardless of how choices were framed. The role of instinct appeared reduced.
Two subsequent experiments in which the hypothetical situation involved job loss rather than death, administered to 144 native Korean speakers from Korea's Chung Nam National University and 103 English speakers studying abroad in Paris, found the same pattern of enhanced deliberation. "Using a foreign language diminishes the framing effect," wrote Keysar's team.
The researchers next tested how language affected decisions on matters of direct personal import. According to prospect theory, the possibility of small losses outweigh the promise of larger gains, a phenomenon called myopic risk aversion and rooted in emotional reactions to the idea of loss.
The same group of Korean students was presented with a series of hypothetical low-loss, high-gain bets. When offered bets in Korean, just 57 percent took them. When offered in English, that number rose to 67 percent, again suggesting heightened deliberation in a second language.
To see if the effect held up in real-world betting, Keysar's team recruited 54 University of Chicago students who spoke Spanish as a second language. Each received $15 in $1 bills, each of which could be kept or bet on a coin toss. If they lost a toss, they'd lose the dollar, but winning returned the dollar and another $1.50 — a proposition that, over multiple bets, would likely be profitable.
When the proceedings were conducted in English, just 54 percent of students took the bets, a number that rose to 71 percent when betting in Spanish. "They take more bets in a foreign language because they expect to gain in the long run, and are less affected by the typically exaggerated aversion to losses," wrote Keysar and colleagues.
The researchers believe a second language provides a useful cognitive distance from automatic processes, promoting analytical thought and reducing unthinking, emotional reaction.
"Given that more and more people use a foreign language on a daily basis, our discovery could have far-reaching implications," they wrote, suggesting that people who speak a second language might use it when considering financial decisions. "Over a long time horizon, this might very well be beneficial."
Citation: "The Foreign-Language Effect: Thinking in a Foreign Tongue Reduces Decision Biases." By Boaz Keysar, Sayuri L. Hayakawa and Sun Gyu An. Psychological Science, published online 18 April 2012.


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Having let the dust settle a little from the initial release of OS X Yosemite, I decided to take the plunge and see if I could coax it on to my Mac Pro 1,1. As many of you will know the original 2006 Intel powered Mac Pro does not sport the required 64bit EFI to allow either Mavericks or Yosemite to install via the usual method.
You can read all about the method I used to install Mavericks despite this limitation in this previous post:- Mac Pro 1,1 and Mavericks. Using almost the same method as outlined in that post I have a working installation of Yosemite.
There were only two things that I did differently. Firstly, instead of installing on to a newly formatted SSD I decided to try the upgrade route and install on to my existing drive thus preserving all of my installed applications. Secondly I used Pike's new boot.efi, (thank you to commenter Ralph Sampson for pointing me in the right direction) as I believe Tiamo's existing version will not work. More details and latest version here.
The install itself went smoothly and early tests indicate that everything appears to be working with the exception of Facetime which was also broken for me under Mavericks. Not a huge issue, I may get around to calling customer support as prompted by the pop up window if I feel the need to see if it can be resolved. I have experienced a few graphical glitches whilst using Lightroom 4. I'm not sure if this is specific to Lightroom or a wider issue. I'll report back in due course.
(Update 18/11/14)
Installed the 10.10.1 update with no apparent problems. I've resolved the graphic glitches for now by selecting 'Reduce transparency' in the Accessibility settings. I've also been experiencing random wakes from sleep (wake for ethernet access is not enabled) along with the SSD that I have installed on a card in a PCI slot being randomly ejected.
One other problem that I have which I believe is more likely to be related to some new RAM that I've installed is the fans spinning up much higher than usual on wake from sleep. I decided to try some cheaper RAM without the Apple approved heatsinks to bring the total system memory up to 26 GB.


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Miss Representation – Premieres Tonight on OWN
Posted by The Situationist Staff on October 20, 2011
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The documentary explores how the media's misrepresentation of women has led to the underrepresentation of women in positions of power and influence. It will premiere in the US tonight at 9pm ET.
Related Situationist posts:
- Sarah Haskins on "Ladyfriend" Stereotypes,
- Selling Products With Sexism,
- Hey Dove! Talk to YOUR parent!,
- Hillary Clinton, the Halo Effect, and Women's Catch-22,
- Barbie Commercials Across the Decades and the Implications on Female Identity and Objectification,
- "Shades of Fairness and the Marketing of Prejudice,"
- "The Marketing Situation of Children,"
- Sexism: The Worst Part Is Not Knowing,
- Sexual Harassment at Wal-Mart?,
- The Situation of Sexual Harassment,
- "The Situation of Objectification,"
- Sian Beilock and Allen McConnell on Stereotype Threat
- "Women's Situational Bind,"
- "The Situation of Body Image,"
- The Gendered Situation of Math, Humanities, and Romance
- "The Nerdy, Gendered Situation of Computer Science."
- "The Gendered Situation of Chess,"
- "The Situation of Gender-Science Stereotypes,"
- "The Situation of Gender and Science,"
- "The Gendered Situation of Science & Math,"
- "Gender-Imbalanced Situation of Math, Science, and Engineering,"
- "Sex Differences in Math and Science,"
- "Women's Situation in Economics,"
- "Spas and Girls," and
- "Fitting in and Sizing Up,"


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Flacco named MVP of Super Bowl XLVII
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Until this Super Bowl, Joe Flacco always believed in himself more than many other folks did.
Maybe that's because the Ravens quarterback never put up the most scintillating statistics. Or because he kept falling short of a championship.
This much was clear: Flacco didn't get the top-of-the-line contract he wanted last offseason, so he put off negotiations until this season was done, confident he would prove himself.
That decision worked out rather well.
Capping a perfect postseason, the unassuming and unheralded Flacco completed 22-of-33 passes for 287 yards and three first-half touchdowns Sunday, earning Super Bowl MVP honors for leading the Ravens to a 34-31 victory over the 49ers.
Hey, Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti, get your checkbook ready.
"He did let me know if the day came, I could go beat on his desk and really give it to him," Flacco said with a smile. "And that's what I'm going to do."
Flacco set aside any questions about just how good he is and whether he belongs in the conversation about the league's best quarterbacks, becoming only the sixth in 47 Super Bowls to throw for three scores in a first half. He connected with Anquan Boldin for 13 yards, Dennis Pitta for 1, and Jacoby Jones for 56 in a back-and-forth game oddly interrupted more than a half-hour by a power outage.
Then, on the drive that ended with Baltimore's final points, a field goal with under four minutes left, Flacco faced a third-and-1 at his team's 45-yard line. Given three play calls to choose from, Flacco banged his wrists across each other, signaling for a fade to Boldin. The outcome? A 15-yard gain for a first down.
"It shows you he has got guts," Baltimore coach John Harbaugh said. "He has got the guts of a burglar."
Earlier, Flacco showed more athleticism than he gets credit for, running to his right under pressure from two linebackers before lofting a 30-yard pass to Boldin.
"Now they're gonna have to talk about Joe Flacco," C Matt Birk said. "Joe's a stud. He showed it tonight."
Not just Sunday, actually.
The admittedly mild-mannered guy, who played his college football far from the spotlight at Delaware, wrapped up Baltimore's four-game run to the title with a record-equaling 11 TD passes and zero interceptions, going 73-of-126 for 1,140 yards. It was an impressive streak that included road victories against two of the game's most respected QBs, Peyton Manning and Tom Brady, and a first-round home win against No. 1 overall draft pick Andrew Luck.
"I wouldn't take any other quarterback over Joe," OL Michael Oher said. "People give him slack, and I don't know why."
Flacco's job in the second half Sunday was more about being safe than spectacular. He had helped Baltimore take a 21-6 halftime lead, and it grew to 28-6 when Jones returned the second-half kickoff a Super Bowl-record 108 yards.
That is when things got strange.
First, the lights inside the Superdome cut out, delaying action for more than a half-hour. And when play resumed, San Francisco quickly scored 17 consecutive points to make things interesting.
The Ravens held on down the stretch. Two short field goals by rookie Justin Tucker padded the lead, and the Ray Lewis-led defense stopped the 49ers on a fourth-and-goal at the 5 with under 2 minutes left.
"I was sitting there thinking, `There's no way. There's no way we stop them here,'" Flacco said. "But we did."
Neither Flacco nor his team appeared to be ready to take on all comers as the regular season concluded.
After all, the Ravens lost four of their final five games to stumble into the playoffs.
And Flacco, a fifth-year pro, finished only 12th in the 32-team NFL in passer rating at a merely passable 87.7 - way behind league leader Aaron Rodgers' 108.0 - while compiling 22 touchdown passes and 10 interceptions.
Middle-of-the-pack, to say the least.
But he and his team definitely did shine when the results mattered most.
"I tell you what: We don't make it easy," said Flacco, who set an NFL quarterback record by leading his team to playoff wins in each of his first five seasons. He is 9-4 overall in the postseason, but was 0-2 in AFC championship games until this year.
And now his contract is up. He could wind up with one of the most lucrative deals in NFL history, perhaps commanding somewhere in the neighborhood of $20 million a year.
There would have been an opportunity to sign something last offseason, but Flacco's agent and the Ravens could not agree on how much he was worth.
The rest of the world wasn't really certain, either.
Flacco delivered quite an answer Sunday.
"I'm a Joe Flacco fan. I've been a Joe Flacco fan," said Ravens LB Lewis, who ended his 17-year career with a second championship. "To do what he did today, that's what we always see."


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A Blast from the Past
Published by MISS LORI
I am a certified center-based director, attaining over thirty years of experience in the field of Early Childhood Education; achieving an Associates of Arts degree, and completing 40 + early childhood educational units (16 E.C.E units as well as the essential 24 state required early childhood education courses, in addition to completing 150 + college credits in psychology, theater, sign-language and English). I also possess a current C.P.R and First Aid Certificate. I am also an aficionado of comedian memoirs, avid collector of snowmen paraphernalia, rainstorm enthusiast, red wine connoisseur, candle hoarder, water baby, national public radio diehard, ardent music lover, romantic comedy movie junkie, audacious self-published author, as well as an extraordinarily passionate preschool teacher and director, who is college educated with a background in theater, psychology and child development. I've received various certificates of notable accomplishments for my commitment to educating children and have self-published various children's books; Pumpkinpants, Little Turkeys, Tis the Season to be Molly, A Makeup Surprise for My Valentine Eyes, Lizzie the Lazy Leprechaun and Eddie the Edible Easter Bunny, as well as several adult books; Get it?, The Big Kid Method, Life After Lipstick, Diary of a Preschool Teacher, plentyofpickles.com and Aftertaste. View all posts by MISS LORI