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40 Books to Celebrate National Poetry Month

The forty books listed offer a range of diverse topics from Phillis Wheatley’s ruminations on various subjects to Mahogany L. Browne’s Black Girl Magic—from laughing feet to family love—Harlem to hair. April is��National Poetry Month, and there’s something here for personal, classroom, and community enjoyment or inspiration. Poetry Month is “the largest literary celebration in the world,” so go here for ideas on how to celebrate all month long and here for more poetry selections from Nikki Grimes, Marilyn Nelson, Kwame Alexander, and other poets. Happy Poetry Month!

My People - Langston Hughes, Illustrator - Charles R. Smith Jr.

I Am Loved - Nikki Giovanni, Illustrator - Ashley Bryan

My Feet Are Laughing - Lissette Norman, Illustrator - Frank Morrison

Young Cornrows Callin Out the Moon - Ruth Forman, Illustrated by Cbabi Bayoc

Bronzeville Boys and Girls - Gwendolyn Brooks, Illustrator - Faith Ringgold

Love to Langston - Tony Medina, Illustrator - R. Gregory Christie

Hey Black Child - Useni Eugene Perkins, Illustrator - Bryan Collier

Read and Rise - Sandra L. Pinkney, Illustrator - Myles Pinkney

I Am the Virgin Islands - Tiphanie Yanique

I Live in Music - Ntozake Shange, Illustrator - Romare Bearden

We Are Shining - Gwendolyn Brooks - Jan Spivey Gilchrist

In Your Hands - Carole Boston Weatherford, Illustrator - Brian Pinkney

That Is My Dream! - Langston Hughes, Illustrator - Daniel Miyares

Some Kind of Love: A Family Reunion in Poems - Traci Dant Illustrator - Eric Velasquez

Life Doesn't Frighten Me - Maya Angelou, Illustrator - Jean-Michel Basquiat

Oh, Brother! - Nikki Grimes, Illustrator - Mike Benny

Sail Away - Langston Hughes, Illustrator - Ashley Bryan

Ostrich and Lark - Marilyn Nelson, Illustrators - San Artists of the Kuru Art Project in Botswana

Crowning Glory - Joyce Carol Thomas, Illustrator - Brenda Joysmith

Harlem - Walter Dean Myers, Illustrator - Christopher Myers

Poetry for Young People: Maya Angelou - Dr. Edwin Graves Wilson Ph.D., Illustrator - Jerome Lagarrigue

The Angels Lullaby - Joyce Carol Thomas, Illustrator - Pamela Johnson

Wonders: The Best Children’s Poems of Effie Lee Newsome - Rudine Sims Bishop (Compiler), Illustrator - Lois Mailou Jones

I See the Rhythm - Toyomi Igus, Illustrator - Michele Wood

Under the Moon & Over the Sea: A Collection of Caribbean Poems - James Berry & Grace Nichols

Daddy Calls Me Man - Angela Johnson, Illustrator - Rhonda Mitchell

Children of Long Ago - Lessie Jones Little, Illustrator - Jan Spivey Gilchrist

America, My New Home - Monica Gunning, Illustrator - Ken Condon

Soul Looks Back in Wonder - Tom Feelings (Editor) Illustrator - Tom Feelings

Words with Wings: A Treasury of African-American Poetry and Art - Belinda Rochelle https://amzn.to/2Gz4E5m

The Pioneers (Poetry from the Masters) - Wade Hudson

The Poems of Phillis Wheatley: With Letters and a Memoir - Phillis Wheatley

Carver: A Life in Poems - Marilyn Nelson

Poetry from the Masters: The Black Arts Movement - Eugene Useni Perkins

Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People - Carole Boston Weatherford

Martin Rising: Requiem for a King - Andrea Davis Pinkney, Illustrator - Brian Pinkney

How I Discovered Poetry - Marilyn Nelson, Illustrator - Hadley Hooper

One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance - Nikki Grimes, Illustrators - Various Artists

Out of Wonder - Kwame Alexander, Chris Colderley, & Marjory Wentworth, Illustrator - Ekua Holmes

Black Girl Magic - Mahogany L. Browne. Illustrator - Jess X. Snow

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Hyperallergic: Art Movements

Norman Rockwell, “Shuffleton’s Barbershop” (1950). The painting is one of two Rockwell’s owned by the Berkshire Museum (image via wikiart.org)

Art Movements is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world. Subscribe to receive these posts as a weekly newsletter.

According to Le Monde, authorities are investigating three individuals following the abrupt closure of the Amedeo Modigliani exhibition at the Doge’s Palace in Genoa. Twenty-one works, all considered likely forgeries, were confiscated by authorities last week after art critic and collector Carlo Pepi filed a formal complaint with the Carabinieri art fraud unit. Those under investigation include curator Rudy Chiappini, Massimo Vitta Zelman (president of Mondo Mostre Skira, the organizer of the exhibition), and art dealer Joseph Guttmann.

In a joint statement, the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) and the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) criticized the Berkshire Museum’s decision to auction 40 works of art from its collection, including two paintings by Norman Rockwell. “Actions such as those being proposed by the Berkshire Museum undermine the public’s trust in the mission of nonprofit museums,” the statement reads, “and museums’ ability to collect, teach, study, and preserve works for their communities now and into the future.” The museum — an accredited member of the AAM — plans to deaccession the works to fund a $40m endowment and $20m refurbishment rather than fund future acquisitions — a direct violation of the AAM’s code of ethics.

A number of arts journalists, writers, and cultural figures signed an open letter to Peter Barbey, the billionaire owner of The Village Voice, accusing him of attempting to weaken the paper’s historic union. Barbey’s management team have purportedly sought to eliminate the paper’s diversity and affirmative-action commitments, reduce the amount of leave for new parents, and terminate the union’s ability to negotiate over healthcare. Signatories of the open letter include Hilton Als, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jerry Saltz, Peter Schjeldahl, and Amy Taubin.

A group of local artists and activists published an open letter to the ICA Boston requesting that the museum pull its Dana Schutz exhibition.

Architect Shigeru Ban signed an agreement with the United Nations to design 20,000 new homes for refugees at Kenya’s Kalobeyei Refugee Settlement.

Vogue commissioned Elizabeth Peyton to paint a portrait of Angela Merkel. The work appears as part of a profile on the German Chancellor.

Alan Boyson, “Three Ships” (early 1960s), Hull, England (via Flickr/El Toñio)

According to the Hull Daily Mail, a request has been submitted to review the decision not to include Alan Boyson‘s “Three Ships” (aka the Co-Op Mosaic) to the UK’s national register of historic listed sites. The mosaic, which contains over one million cubes of colored Italian glass, is thought to be the largest of its kind in the country.

Germany’s State Paintings Collection agreed to retain a Renaissance painting from its holdings by purchasing it from the heirs of its Jewish owner. The work was looted by the Nazis and was later acquired by Hermann Goering.

Brothers Irving and Samuel Morano, the owners of Metropolitan Fine Arts and Antiques, pled guilty to illegally selling and offering to sell over $4.5 million in ivory. According to Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, the ivory recovered from the Morano’s store was the largest seizure of illegal elephant ivory in New York State history.

An Andy Warhol painting owned by rock star Alice Cooper was rediscovered in a storage locker where it lay forgotten for over 40 years. Cooper’s ex-girlfriend, Cindy Lang, gave Warhol $2,500 for the work — a red silkscreen of “Little Electric Chair” (1964) — in 1972. The painting, which is unsigned, has never been stretched on a frame.

Author Richard Polsky published an unofficial “addendum” to the Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné. According to an announcement, the addendum will focus “on genuine paintings that, for various reasons, were not included in the official Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné.” The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts ceased to authenticate artworks in 2011 after a number of protracted legal battles with collectors who fought against the foundation’s rulings on the provenance and authenticity of their works.

Cady Noland filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against art dealers Chris D’Amelio and Michael Janssen, collector Wilhelm Schurmann, and Berlin’s KOW Gallery. Noland claims that the group is responsible for a “forgery” of her sculpture “Log Cabin Blank with Screw Eyes and Café Door (Memorial to John Caldwell)” (1990). Noland disowned the work in 2014 after claiming that she was not consulted about its restoration. Her suit describes the work as a “reproduction,” arguing that the restoration process effectively destroyed the work’s original state.

Sydney’s Sirius building, widely considered an outstanding example of Brutalist architecture, was spared from impending demolition after a judge ruled that the former heritage minister Mark Speakman made legal errors when he decided not to include the structure on the State Heritage Register. Campaign group Save Our Sirius have fought against plans to replace the building with a new housing complex for well over a year.

Sirius building, Sydney, Australia (via Flickr/coffee shop soulja)

Paula Pape, the daughter of artist Lygia Pape, filed a lawsuit against LG Electronics, alleging that a cellphone wallpaper created by the company is an “unauthorized derivation” of her mother’s 2003 installation “Ttéia.”

Ken Simons, Tate Liverpool’s art handling manager, will curate a show of work drawn from the museum’s collection prior to his retirement. The exhibition, Ken’s Show: Exploring the Unseen, is slated to open at the museum on April 2, 2018.

Microsoft made MS Paint available as a free app following reports that the program would be discontinued in Windows 10.

The National Museum of American History digitized 80 of Crocket Johnson’s Mathematical paintings.

The British Museum published the first 3D model of the Rosetta Stone.

The British Museum‘s annual accounts revealed that it lost a £750,000 (~$979,939) Cartier ring in 2011.

Transactions

Marcel Sternberger, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, 1952, Mexico City (image date 1952, print date 2017), silver gelatin print, gift of Robert and Malena Puterbaugh in memory of Anne Tucker, recipient of the 2008 Harrison-Hooks Lifetime Achievement Award, Polk Museum of Art

Robert and Malena Puterbaugh donated a Marcel Sternberger photograph of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera to the Polk Museum of Art.

Telfair Museums acquired a Nick Cave soundsuit for its permanent collection.

Jack and Sandra Guthman donated 50 photographs by contemporary women photographers to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

The South Street Seaport Museum received a $200,000 Maritime Heritage Grant from the National Park Service. The grant will be used to fund the restoration of the 1930 Tugboat W.O. Decker, the last surviving New York-built wooden tugboat.

The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation awarded a $100,000 grant to the Parrish Art Museum [via email announcement].

The Getty Museum announced a major acquisition of drawings, including works by Michelangelo, del Sarto, Parmigianino, Rubens, Goya, and Degas.

The San Antonio Museum of Art acquired 31 photographic portraits from Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’s Latino List series.

The Nationalmuseum acquired two Italian scenes by Martinus Rørbye (1803–1848) and Constantin Hansen (1804–1880).

Constantin Hansen, “The Temple of Minerva at the Forum Nervae” (c. 1840) (courtesy Nationalmuseum)

Transitions

Janice Monger was appointed president and CEO of the Staten Island Museum.

Christina Olsen was appointed director of the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

Amy Gilman was appointed director of the Chazen Museum of Art.

Philippe de Montebello, the former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was appointed director of Acquavella Galleries in New York.

Neil MacGregor extended his contract as director of the Humboldt Forum.

Sheikh Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi was appointed to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago’s board of trustees.

Barry Till, the curator of Asian art at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, will retire at the end of September.

Katherine Brinson was appointed curator of contemporary art at the Guggenheim Museum.

Amanda Donnan was appointed curator of the Frye Art Museum.

Rhiannon Paget was appointed curator of Asian art at the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art.

Karen Lautanen was appointed director of strategic initiatives at the Andy Warhol Museum.

Christopher Turner was appointed keeper of design, architecture, and digital (DAD) at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Ashley Clark was appointed senior programmer of cinema at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Laura Paulson was appointed vice chair of Christie’s Americas advisory board.

Accolades

Peter Smeeth, “Lisa Wilkinson AM” (2017), oil on linen, 100 x 150 cm (© the artist, photo by Felicity Jenkins, AGNSW)

The Art Gallery of New South Wales awarded its 2017 Packing Room Prize to Peter Smeeth.

The City of Houston awarded total of $3,463,217 in arts grants for the programming and activities between July 2017 and June 2018.

Merion Estes and Mario Martinez each received the 2017 Murray Reich Distinguished Artist Award.

Sam Durant was awarded the Rappaport Prize.

Jade Powers was appointed the Saint Louis Art Museum’s 2017–2018 Romare Bearden Graduate Minority Fellow.

Galit Eilat was appointed the 2017–18 recipient of the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism.

Pat Brassington was awarded the inaugural Don Macfarlane Prize.

The recipients of the 2017 Eisner Awards were announced.

Thomas P. Campbell was awarded the Getty Rothschild Fellowship, a scholarship that provides housing and resources to one scholar per year.

Obituaries

David Newell-Smith, a crush of commuters at Charing Cross railway station, London (c. 1965) (courtesy Tadema Gallery, London)

Dina Bangdel (1963–2017), art historian. Specialist in South Asian, Indian, and Himalayan arts.

Keith Bard (1923–2017), linguist and educator. Argued against the use of ‘negro’ in favor of ‘Afro-American.’

Chester Bennington (1976–2017), lead singer of Linkin Park.

Nathan David (unconfirmed–2017), sculptor.

Thomas Fleming (1927–2017), historian.

Sam Glanzman (1924–2017), comic-book artist and writer.

Kenneth Jay Lane (1932–2017), jewelry designer.

Robert Loder (1934–2017), collector, philanthropist, and cofounder of the Triangle Network.

Kitty Lux (1957–2017), musician. Co-founder of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain.

Denis Mack Smith (1920–2017), historian of modern Italy.

David Newell-Smith (1937–2017), photographer.

Clancy Sigal (1926–2017), writer and activist. Included on the Hollywood Blacklist.

Dr G Yunupingu (1971–2017), singer and guitarist.

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bellus-spiritus · 8 years ago

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@MoCADA_Museum cordially invites you to the opening of 'My Collection' the museum's first public #artauction exhibition! Join us tonight Friday, May 12th, 6 - 9pm for the premiere of an extraordinary collection of prints, drawings, #paintings, #sculpture, #photography and other mixed media works On view from May 12th to June 4th, this exhibition will highlight both #emerging and established #artist and artist friends of the #AfricanDiaspora, many of which have previously exhibited at MoCADA and supported MoCADA since its inception. This exhibition will also serve as an opportunity for patrons to support MoCADA's mission of using #art to build community, by purchasing a piece of #artwork. Curated by @JoakimvonDitmar in collaboration with Richard Beavers Gallery + The Projects Gallery, the funds raised through the auction will directly support #MoCADA's free programming, and its growth into a new building at Lafayette and Flatbush, slated to open in Fall 2018. My Collection Friday, May 12th, 2017 6-9pm MoCADA 80 Hanson Place, Brooklyn Tunes: DJ @youngwavyfox Sponsors: #Courvoisier @courvoisierusa @livelle_collins & Maison Marcel Rosé #drinkmarcel @drinkmarcel A full catalogue & Bidding will be available online via Paddle8.com/mocada until May 26th, 5pm when the #auction closes ! #MoCADA thrives because it's #artistic community continues to create and address the issues that are pressing within the global #African #Diaspora, and because of the support of its community. Detail of work by Dagmar van Weeghel @vanweeghel 'MOMBASA Blues" Additional works by: Derrick Adams @derrickadamsnyc Victor Ehikhamenor @victorsozaboy Faith Ringgold @peopleproject_____ George Osodi @timokamura Arno Elias @imnotyourtrophy David Salle @_kyleweeks_ @dawnokoro Sheena Rose @abiy_solomon @marcbaptiste007 LeRone Wilson @sculptwax @svenballenthin Sophia Dawson @WilliamCoupon @mcclinton @NelsonMakamo Romare Bearden Tahir Carl Karmali @tacaka @osborne_macharia @JonathanMannion @maimouna.guerresi @GuyStanleyPiloche Kristofer Dan-Bergman @kristoferstreet Ken Browar & Deborah Ory @nycdanceproject @rogerio_mesquita & Ludovic Thiriez and more #AfricanArt #ContemporaryArt (at MoCADA Museum)

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Watch "devils knot" on Netflix, I believe the WM3 are innocent

Thanks but I don’t need to. I’ve seen all three paradise lost documentaries and once believed they were innocent too. However like most documentaries, it was biased, and left out incredible amounts of evidence that did not go along with what they were trying to prove (their innocence). Let’s look at that evidence. This first section is taken from Reddit user luckyballandchain. Everything he posts is sourced straight from court documents and evidence:

No substantial evidence? Excuse me

Damien has never come up with an Alibi for where he was during the murders. Well, actually he has, per Damien: > “At the time the police say the murders took place I was actually on the phone with three different people. The problem was, my attorneys never called them to the stand.” - Damien Echols (source)

Really? Lets examine these three (actually four) other peoples testimony, shall we? Do they exonerate him like he suggests? In a word, no. They weren’t called because they exposed Damien’s alibi for the total lie it was.

Holly George - Damien claimed he talked to Holly George on May 5th, 1993. Holly told police she didn’t talk to Damien that evening. She said she spoke with him much earlier in the afternoon, around 3:00pm or 4:00pm. (source)

Heather Cliett - Damien claimed he spoke with Heather Cliett on the evening of May 5th, 1993. Cliett said she’d been unable to reach Echols until 10:30pm. She also mentioned that Holly George told her that Echols had been “out walking around” on May 5th, 1993. (source)

Domini Teer - Damien’s girlfriend, Domini Teer, said she last saw Damien around 5:00-5:30pm on May 5th, 1993. She said she did not speak with him again until Damien called her around 10:00pm that night. (source)

Jennifer Bearden - The one Damien misses out because it’s most damaging. Bearden told police in a 9/10/93 statement that she called Jason’s house between 4:15pm and 5:30pm on May 5th, 1993. She says Jason answered the phone and she talked to Jason and Damien for about 20 minutes. Damien told her he and Jason were “going somewhere” and to call him back at 8:00pm. When Bearden called Damien’s house at 8:00pm his grandmother answered. Damien’s grandmother told Bearden that Damien “wasn’t there.” In her police statement, Bearden says she finally reached Damien around 9:20pm. (source)

So where were Damien and co for four to five hours that happen to coincide with the time of the murders? Well we don’t know. Damien told Jennifer that Jason’s mom had driven them somewhere… which was a lie because she was at work til 11pm (source). It’s strange that he can’t come up with an alibi that holds up isn’t it? Surely if he’s innocent, he just needs to tell us where he was? So why doesn’t he?

Jessie Misskelley has no alibi either. I know, you’re about to say he was in a karate tournament, but he wasn’t. The so-called photos depict a different event a month prior, and the “witnesses” all gave conflicting testimony. This alibi only emerged after a previous alibi (he was at a party with 12 other people) fell apart (source)

And nor does Jason Baldwin, after an attempt to get his brother and a friend (Ken Watkins) to lie for him, he stopped trying to construct one; to the point that in 2008 his lawyer stood up in court and said he couldn’t find a reliable alibi witness for Jason. (source). It’s really weird that three totally innocent men all tried to fabricate alibis for the same period of time that just happens to correspond with a murder they’re suspected of. Really weird that.

Blue wax found on the bodies matched wax found in Damien’s room and a candle belonging to his girlfriend (Photo of candle taken during search)

The Knife - multiple people testified it was Damien’s knife, including his ex-girlfriend Deanna Holcomb (source). She said Damien’s knife stood out because it had a compass, and the knife manufacturer testified that the knife found was missing a compass (source)

But it doesn’t end there. The so called “bitemark” on Stevie Branch (photo) perfectly matches the diameter of the compass slot, complete with central wound for the pin (picture of knife with compass to compare). It’s shocking that an innocent man’s knife would match not just the knife wounds, but other contusions on the body too.

A necklace was found (too late to be included in trial evidence) in Damien’s possession that was covered with blood. Tests proved that the DNA on it was consistent with Damien, Jason and… Stevie Branch. (source)

The three boys were tied with three, distinct, unique knots. This usually points to three distinct killers and is almost unheard of in cases involving just one suspect (source)

Paradise Lost claims “there was no blood at the crime scene” which is… wrong. Completely. Here are the Luminol test results. “It lit up like a Christmas tree […] there was a lot of blood there”

Damien was seen, by a family that knew him very well near the crime scene on the night of the murders. The Hollingsworth Family, who correctly described Damien’s clothes, thought they saw him with his girlfriend. They have never retracted this statement and gained nothing by coming forward, except to have their credibility attacked again and again by WM3 researchers looking to discount their sighting. Despite this, one of the key reasons Narlene Hollingsworth was called to testify was her reputation for brutal honesty, even when it came to her own children. (more info on The Hollingsworth Sighting)

Green Fibres found at the crime scene matched a shirt in Damien’s home (source). Red fibres that the police suspected were from a bathrobe in Misskelley’s home but stressed that they couldn’t match them, were retested by the defense in 2008 and found not to match. It’s odd that they would retest the fibres known to not be a match, but not the ones that were a match, isn’t it? What’s even odder is that they neglected to mention that owing to evidence decay, most crime labs refused to retest for the defense, saying that after all this time they would have decayed too much and that “any findings, would be deeply suspect - no matter which side they favored”. Odd that they forgot to mention this.

Damien is a liar. Straight up. He lies to his supporters to make his innocence seem more compelling and lies to make himself seem more of a martyr. A few examples:

“I lived 15 miles away from West Memphis and the crime scene” (2010 interview, Larry King interview). He lived in a trailer park in West Memphis, less than two miles away from the crime scene.“I never went to West Memphis… Hardly at all” (2010 interview). He was known for walking around West Memphis constantly, and testified in 1994: “I walk around frequently… there’s not much to do”“I wasn’t familiar with Robin Hood Hills before the murders… it was a residential area, and I only went to West Memphis to go to Walmart and stuff” (2010). In 1994, in response to the question “how often do you go to Robin Hood Hills?” Damien responded “two, three times a week? Probably more”.He literally agreed with the prosecutor on the stand that he was moving events around depending on what time he needed to cover. You see him cover for this in Paradise Lost by saying he was “Daydreaming”In his book “Almost Home” Damien claims he “barely” knew Jessie Misskelley. The testimony of Domini Teer, Jim McNease, Jason Crosby, Deanna Holcomb, and about 15 others testifies to a friendship between the two, with everyone mentioning them walking around town together, attending events, turning up at people’s houses together and so on. It’s a total lie, and a poor one.Claimed Marc Gardner “raped” him in prison. He later retracted the whole thing after investigation proved he hadn’t. The prison at the time said he retracted the claims after he was told a report would be published that called him “a manipulative pathological liar”. He was concerned about the effect this would have on his supporters.Claims his mom and sister never visited him in prison (“maybe one or two times… but not often.. my sister only came twice and stopped coming after”). Prison records prove he’s lying and that his mother visited weekly, while his sister came fortnightly or once a month when she was busy.He told Piers Morgan that the prison forced him to “eat with his hands”. “I had to learn to use a fork again”, a claim that is demonstrably bullshit.Odd that an innocent man lies enough to be called a “manipulative pathological liar”.

Misskelley and Echols failed their polygraph tests (Echols’ results | Misskelley’s results). Not conclusive, but interesting.

It’s frequently claimed that Jodee Medford and the Softball Girls (the girls who heard Damien brag about the murders) have recanted their stories. They haven’t. It’s based on a misunderstanding of a declaration by Medford’s mother and ascribing her words to Jodee: http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/d_medford_declaration.html

The Confessions - Jessie didn’t confess “once” after hours of questioning. That’s another lie.May 6th 1993 - The day after the murders, Jessie told his friend Buddy Lucas that he’d “hurt some boys” the day before. He then cried and gave Buddy a pair of sneakers (source)May - June 1993 - Jessie is heard crying, praying and apologizing in his room. He would later be diagnosed with PTSD, after witnessing a “traumatic event” that people still think he completely made up.June 3, 1993 - Jessie arrived with his father for questioning and confesses. This is where people imply he was questioned for 12 hours. He wasn’t. He arrived at 10am and confessed at 2:20pm. Only two hours of that time was interrogation (source)June 11, 1993 - Jessie confesses to his attorneys (source)August 19, 1993 - Jessie Misskelley met with his attorney, Dan Stidham, at the Clay County Detention Center and confessed again (source)February 4, 1994 - On the day he was sentenced, Jessie confessed to the officers driving him to the prison (source)February 8, 1994- Jessie put his hand on a Bible and swore to his attorney (Dan Stidham) that he, Damien, and Jason committed the murders. As proof, he told Stidham that he was drunk on Evan Williams whiskey during the murders and the broken bottle could be found where he threw it on the ground under a bridge in West Memphis. Stidham told prosecutors he would be force to believe his client’s confession if he could find that bottle. So Stidham, WMPD, and the prosecutors drove to West Memphis to look for it. They found a broken Evan Williams bottle in the exact area that Jessie said it would be. (source)February 17, 1994 - Jessie confesses again, this time to the prosecutors. His attorneys begged him not to give this confession, but he gave it anyway (source)October 24, 1994 - Jessie’s cell mate wrote to the prosecutors begging him to keep the WM3 in prison, saying Jessie had repeatedly confessed to the crime in detail and describing it as “awful” and “cold”. He had no reason to do this, it was no benefit to him.. he was simply disturbed by the campaign to release the WM3 after what Jessie had said (source)1994 - Present Day - Jessie continued to confess, possibly to prison counselors (heavily rumored and hinted at by his own attorney and said to be the reason Damien Echols fell out with him) but definitely to fans, most notably one known as TrueRomance, who as a result of what Jessie told her switched from one of their most vocal supporters to the total opposite and her story can be read here

Oh let’s finish on my absolute favorite one: Satanic Panic.

Worried that the case would be branded an example of “Satanic Panic” the trial was moved over an hour away to Jonesboro (Echols and Baldwin) and Corning (Misskelley) in order to give the defendants a better shot at seating fair, unbiased juries. All those “damning” stories in the West Memphis papers? The jury never saw them. All those damning rumors? The jury never heard them. The jury was mostly under 30, with very little religious influence (Jonesboro is a college town, and it was thought the younger Jury pool would favor the WM3, to the point that the state was accused of bias against the prosecution…)

During his initial police interview, Echols stated that the killer probably urinated in one or more of the boys’ mouths, apropos of nothing.

Urine was later found in the stomachs of 2 of the victims, but that information was given by phone only to Gitchell, and not before May 16th, 1993. There is no possible way Damien Echols could have had case- specific information unless he was there or knew someone that was that told him what occurred, as the detective interviewing him at the time was clueless to that fact during the interview. At the time Damien mentioned this detail, no one would have known about this, except those directly involved with the crime. Damien attempted to explain this away by saying he was “thinking about what I would have done if I was the killer”.

Source: https://amp.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/4mw5nl/what_case_has_kept_you_up_at_nightdoesnt_sit_well/d41kjxq

The above link contains every source link that’s missing above, I’m just too lazy to source it myself.

Also there is this website, the owner has literally combed through every piece of evidence, read Damiens books, transcribed his interviews, etc

https://thewm3revelations.wordpress.com/author/wm3revelations/

I totally suggest looking through that website. Most people I know who think they are guilty were at one point convinced that they were innocent due to the movies and documentaries. It doesn’t have to change your opinion but you’re doing yourself an injustice by only knowing one side.

#wm3 #west memphis three #damien echols

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Classic racing returns to most cycle-loving state in America

Denver (CNN)When is a race more than a race? When it’s an event.

Fit Nation: Around the World in 8 Races will air three times on Saturday, August 18 between 1pm and 6pm ET and one time between 5pm and 6pm ET on Sunday, August 20.

That’s not really a riddle as much as a puzzle Colorado race coordinators worked hard to solve after a professional bike race there was dissolved a couple of years ago.

The solution they devised is the Colorado Classic. Combined with a tandem spectator event called the Velorama, it’s something like the Lollapalooza of bike racing. It may also be the most ambitious elite-level bike competition in the country after the Tour California. And year one is starting strong off the line.

The Colorado Classic is also the highest (in terms of overall elevation) bike race in North America. This year’s event consisted of four days and some of the best racers in world lapping through the downtowns of three cities, up some of the state’s prettiest and most demanding peaks, live-streamed by NBC, following a flotilla of pace and support vehicles, watched by hundreds of spectators and one helicopter.

The races culminated in a three-day festival in downtown Denver with food, drink, a marketplace and a concert by 20 bands including Wilco and Death Cab for Cutie.

It’s a race series that seems organized more for spectators than for cyclists, which is sort of the point. The multiple laps ensure that no one misses the action, repeatedly. The Western backdrop gives the courses a cinematic quality. The bands, beer and bikes along the main streets, plus impromptu parties along the route, are all for fans of the sport and designed to make the race profitable and therefore sustainable.

A new classic

The first Colorado Classic featured 16 men’s teams and 15 women’s for a total of 186 elite riders. The women completed 70 miles between two races in and around Colorado Springs and Breckenridge, with 8,000 feet of total elevation. The men had two additional stages, both in Denver, and over four days, they completed 313 miles with more than 21,000 feet of intense climbing.

The morning of the first stage, racers woke to the flash and boom of a thunderstorm. But by the time they kicked off in downtown Colorado Springs, the sky had turned into a blue canvas with puffy storybook clouds, broken only by a flash hailstorm in the middle of the men’s race.

The Colorado Springs stage contained six laps of 93.5 total miles for the men and five laps of 38.36 miles for the women. The women’s race, announced by Rio Olympic gold medalist Kristin Armstrong, kicked off dramatically with the James Bond theme blaring.

Other than the start/finish line, the most popular spot to watch the Breckenridge stage was along the steep climb known as Moonstone — located 10,000 feet above sea level — where bell-clanging spectators lined the road, some in costume. “The energy from the crowds was amazing,” said Jillian Bearden, 36, who was taking part in her first pro race. She said Breckenridge tested her personally, but overall, the day was “epic.”

The last two stages of the Classic over the next two days started in downtown Denver for the men’s teams only. Stage 3 was a single out-and-back loop of 81 miles, with an elevation of 6,500 feet going through the beautiful Golden Gate Canyon park and taking a fun detour onto dirt roads in the foothills. Stage 4 was a thrillingly fast urban loop of 7.5 miles.

Mellow Velo

And all that racing is just half the fun. The three-day Veloroma festival — part concert, part craft fair — took up more than six downtown Denver blocks over the weekend and attracted about 30,000 people who drank, ate and shopped among 200 vendors, as well as watching several more pro-am races. Velo is the French word for bike.

“It was a broad, epic celebration of health, wellness and community,” said Ken Gart, chairman of RPM Events, which organized the Colorado Classic. But there were some first-year problems: ATMs crashed, beer lines were long, food trucks ran out of meals before everyone enjoyed them, and some complained that the $25 to $50 entrance fee was too, shall we say, steep.

The Classic evolved from Colorado’s USA Pro Challenge, which ran for five years. Despite the million spectators who came to cheer racers on, the annual event struggled to make a profit.

Colorado: First place for bikes

Colorado is arguably the most bike-friendly state in the country. Topographically speaking, there is an extensive network of trails into mountains and along flat areas, cities are committed to bike lane expansions, and there are races all year long, both amateur and professional. Gov. John Hickenlooper even pledged $100 millionto the effortand appointed Gart the state’s “bike czar” to oversee the effort.

The state’s topography is well-suited for many types of recreation, from mountain climbing and biking to kayaking and fishing, but the hills and flats are ideal for bike race training and competitions. And the altitude helps any athlete increase their red blood count — which in turn increases oxygen flow and improves performance — a reason one of the three US Olympic Training Centers is located in Colorado Springs, next to the starting line of the Classic.

“Colorado is unsurpassed in the US” in terms of outdoor recreation, Gart said. And what’s special about supporting biking culture is that bike riding is “something anyone can do.”

Reaching your own peak

The Classic invited the highest ranked racers they could get among teams licensed with the International Cycling Union. There were several national and world champions and one from the most recent winning Tour de France team. There were also sponsor teams. As if the scenery and prestige weren’t enough of an incentive, prizes for racers totaled $84,400.

In order to qualify for race consideration, a cyclist must have accumulated enough points or have been a finalist in other races. For those not on the pro circuit but interested in participating, some of the Veloroma races are open to amateurs.

Once you’ve qualified for the Classic, your physical condition should be up to the challenge of multiple days of competition and hours of uninterrupted riding at speeds of up to 55 miles per hour, at high altitudes. But since it’s possible to qualify without necessarily having done serious climbing, cyclists may still need to clock those climbing training runs.

Bearden trained for the Classic with “lots of climbing, every day, an average 10,000 feet a week.” She also shed 13 pounds with a balanced diet in order to pull less weight uphill. And she raced elsewhere with her team so they were familiar with one another. Racers coming from lower sea levels need to build in days for acclimating to Colorado’s elevation.

Biking is, of course, excellent exercise, strengthening core and back in particular. Although biking has been common for more than 100 years, the sport continues to grow in popularity as a way to stay fit and lose weight (which helps in getting up those hills!). And cities around the world are getting progressively bike-friendly.

Many runners turn to biking after an injury because it’s easier on your knees while still engaging major leg muscles from your rear to your ankles: glutes, quadriceps, hamstrings and calves.

According to fitness expert Dr. Tom Flaherty, who compared the two for CNN, running outdoors burned 970 calories an hour, while biking got only 570 calories. But biking uphill burns a lot more depending on steepness grade and headwind; it’s two to four times the number of calories than on a flat surface.

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And then there are the well-known mental benefits of exercise and exposure to nature. Before she started staying fit to compete, Bearden started riding to stay fit. She also loved to immerse herself in the outdoors. In general, she found biking to be an effective mental stress release, “a therapist, so to speak,” she said. “It helped me move through challenges in life (and) eventually got me off antidepressants.”

Cycling throughout Colorado, one could easily argue, is about as opposite from depressed as you can get without the use of pharmaceuticals.

Source: http://allofbeer.com/classic-racing-returns-to-most-cycle-loving-state-in-america/

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adambstingus · 6 years ago

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Classic racing returns to most cycle-loving state in America

Denver (CNN)When is a race more than a race? When it’s an event.

Fit Nation: Around the World in 8 Races will air three times on Saturday, August 18 between 1pm and 6pm ET and one time between 5pm and 6pm ET on Sunday, August 20.

That’s not really a riddle as much as a puzzle Colorado race coordinators worked hard to solve after a professional bike race there was dissolved a couple of years ago.

The races culminated in a three-day festival in downtown Denver with food, drink, a marketplace and a concert by 20 bands including Wilco and Death Cab for Cutie.

A new classic

Mellow Velo

The Classic evolved from Colorado’s USA Pro Challenge, which ran for five years. Despite the million spectators who came to cheer racers on, the annual event struggled to make a profit.

Colorado: First place for bikes

“Colorado is unsurpassed in the US” in terms of outdoor recreation, Gart said. And what’s special about supporting biking culture is that bike riding is “something anyone can do.”

Reaching your own peak

Many runners turn to biking after an injury because it’s easier on your knees while still engaging major leg muscles from your rear to your ankles: glutes, quadriceps, hamstrings and calves.

See the latest news and share your comments with CNN Health on Facebook and Twitter.

Cycling throughout Colorado, one could easily argue, is about as opposite from depressed as you can get without the use of pharmaceuticals.

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allofbeercom · 6 years ago

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Classic racing returns to most cycle-loving state in America

Denver (CNN)When is a race more than a race? When it’s an event.

Fit Nation: Around the World in 8 Races will air three times on Saturday, August 18 between 1pm and 6pm ET and one time between 5pm and 6pm ET on Sunday, August 20.

That’s not really a riddle as much as a puzzle Colorado race coordinators worked hard to solve after a professional bike race there was dissolved a couple of years ago.

The races culminated in a three-day festival in downtown Denver with food, drink, a marketplace and a concert by 20 bands including Wilco and Death Cab for Cutie.

A new classic

Mellow Velo

The Classic evolved from Colorado’s USA Pro Challenge, which ran for five years. Despite the million spectators who came to cheer racers on, the annual event struggled to make a profit.

Colorado: First place for bikes

“Colorado is unsurpassed in the US” in terms of outdoor recreation, Gart said. And what’s special about supporting biking culture is that bike riding is “something anyone can do.”

Reaching your own peak

Many runners turn to biking after an injury because it’s easier on your knees while still engaging major leg muscles from your rear to your ankles: glutes, quadriceps, hamstrings and calves.

See the latest news and share your comments with CNN Health on Facebook and Twitter.

Cycling throughout Colorado, one could easily argue, is about as opposite from depressed as you can get without the use of pharmaceuticals.

from All Of Beer http://allofbeer.com/classic-racing-returns-to-most-cycle-loving-state-in-america/

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full-imagination · 6 years ago

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Earline Horton Sutton

Earline Horton Sutton passed away on March 22, 2019 at Spartanburg Medical Center. She was born on July 22, 1936. Earline was a native of Boiling Springs, South Carolina. She was the wife of the late Kenneth Lane Sutton and a daughter of the late Earl and Ada Kimbrell Horton. She attended Cecil’s Business College and was an office manager at Johnson Motor Lines for many years. She was also a founding partner of Lone Oak Properties. Earline loved to cook and was especially known for her biscuits and gravy and fried chicken. Her greatest honor was raising five children with her husband Ken, who served in the United States Army Special Forces and was often deployed. Earline is survived by her daughter Kim Hinson (Jim) of Columbia; four sons Michael Sutton and Kelvin Sutton (Jennifer) of Spartanburg, James “Tinker” Sutton (Sandy) of Inman, and Todd Sutton of Honolulu, Hawaii. Earline is also survived by ten grandchildren, Bryson Barnett, Kelsey Hand (Kevin), Abigail Lambert (Chris), Ryan Sutton, Joel Sutton, Lillie Sutton, Savannah Sutton, Autumn Sutton, Kathryn Bearden (Mark), and Lane Hinson (Lacey); five great grandchildren, Karson Hand, Karten Hand, Kanden Lambert, Raine Kibora, and Parker Garrett; a brother, Ken Horton (Nancy), and two sister in laws Derlie Horton (Bud) and Delores Black. She is predeceased by three brothers Fred, Jody, and Bud Horton. Visitation will be at 4:00 – 6:00 PM, Sunday, March 24, 2019 at the home of Tinker and Sandy Sutton. A graveside service will be at 11:00 AM Monday, March 25, 2019 in Good Shepherd Memorial Park, 4164 Boiling Springs Road, Boiling Springs, SC 29316. The family encourages for any remembrances to be made through a local charity of your choice or to the National Military Family Association at http://bit.ly/2HDAvTz. The Sutton family would like to thank the nursing staff of Spartanburg Medical Center Intensive Care Unit for their kind and loving support during her illness. Floyd’s North Church Street Chapel from The JF Floyd Mortuary via Spartanburg Funeral

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Daily Lisinopril vs Placebo for Prevention of Chemoradiation-Induced Pulmonary Distress in Patients With Lung Cancer (Alliance MC1221): A Pilot Double-Blind Randomized Trial

Publication date: Available online 2 November 2018

Source: International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics

Author(s): Terence T. Sio, Pamela J. Atherton, Levi D. Pederson, W. Ken Zhen, Robert W. Mutter, Yolanda I. Garces, Daniel J. Ma, James L. Leenstra, Jean-Claude M. Rwigema, Shaker Dakhil, James D. Bearden, Sonja J. van der Veen, Apar K. Ganti, Steven E. Schild, Robert C. Miller

Abstract

Purpose

Chemoradiation (CRT) is an integral treatment modality for patients with locally advanced lung cancer. It has been hypothesized that current use of an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor during CRT may be protective for treatment-related lung damage and pneumonitis.

Methods and Materials

We conducted a pilot, double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized trial. Study-eligible patients receiving curative thoracic RT were randomly assigned to 20 mg of lisinopril or placebo once daily during and up to 3 months after RT. All patients received concurrent chemotherapy. The primary end point was adverse event profiling. Multiple patient-reported outcome (PRO) surveys, including Lung Cancer Symptom Scale, Function Assessment of Cancer Therapy–Lung, and the EORTC for Lung Cancer Questionnaire (EORTC-QLQ-LC13), were applied with a symptom experience questionnaire. Exploratory comparative statistics were used to detect differences between arms with χ2 and Kruskal-Wallis testing.

Results

Five institutions enrolled 23 patients. However, accrual was less than expected. Eleven and 12 patients were in the placebo and lisinopril arms (mean age, 63.5 years; male, 62%). Baseline characteristics were balanced. Eighteen patients (86%) were former or current smokers. The primary end point was met; neither arm had grade 3 or higher hypotension, acute kidney injury, allergic reaction (medication-induced cough), or anaphylaxis (medication-related angioedema). Few PRO measures suggested that compared with the placebo arm, patients receiving lisinopril had less cough, less shortness of breath, fewer symptoms from lung cancer, less dyspnea with both walking and climbing stairs, and better overall quality of life (for all, P<.05).

Conclusions

Although underpowered because of low accrual, our results suggest that there was a clinical signal for safety—and possibly beneficial by limited PRO measures—in concurrently administering lisinopril during thoracic CRT to mitigate or prevent RT-induced pulmonary distress. Our results showed that a definitive, larger-scale, randomized phase 3 trial is needed in the future.

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ethnographiesofblacklife · 8 years ago

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I was curious about the piece First-Time: The Historical Vision of an African American People by Richard Price as written about in “That Event, This Memory: Notes on the Anthropology of African Diasporas in the New World” by David Scott, and especially its apparent commentary on West Indian writers like V.S. Naipaul, Orlando Patterson, and Derek Walcott re: “pastlessness” in the Caribbean. I found this text on an event organized by Scott for commentaries on Price’s work by Kenneth Bilby, Aisha Khan, and Deborah Thomas pertinent, especially the following quotes:

“Ken also comments helpfully on the avoidance of essentialism, African or otherwise, in Travels. A year or two ago I was quite taken aback by a Nigerian (Yoruba) professor (teaching in the United States) who casually commented to me, upon the publication of the book that Sally and I wrote on the Caribbean art of Romare Bearden, that it was hardly a surprise that I quoted Derek Walcott so frequently in my work. The ‘controversial’ essay that I wrote with Mintz, the professor explained, placed me squarely in the camp of both Walcott and Bearden—people who were somehow unable to comprehend, or unwilling to recognize, what he saw as the true impact of Africa on Afro-American culture. As Ken makes clear, those particular culture wars are far from finished.7 Ken ends by describing how, at the conclusion of Travels, I defer to Walcott in order to speak about the unspeakable, in what Ken calls ‘a stirring finale, a meditation on the ‘frightening duty’ owed by those who would try to capture something of this [Afro-American] historical experience in writing.’”

“There are more general questions that the “meat” of the book is intended to raise: What is the place of long-term ethnography of the sort represented by Travels in Caribbeanist research? How do we best think about ways of knowing (including subject positions, relationships, disciplines) in the Caribbean? How do we best think about ways of writing Caribbean culture (literary modes, social science modes), the languages needed to express what Ken calls the “ineffable”? To what extent and in what ways are apparently exotic or marginal peoples, such as Saramakas, truly part of the Caribbean world? (In what ways are they relevant to—and what do they share with—say, urban Jamaicans or Cubans? What are the implications of Saramaka ritual and belief for an understanding of the development and practice of 'religion’ and ‘magic’ elsewhere in the Caribbean? Can our detailed knowledge of the history and development of Saramaka society and culture teach us lessons relevant to the rest of the Caribbean or Afro-America more broadly?)”

Source: “Further Travels,” Richard Price. http://www.richandsally.net/files/Price_reply_sma.pdf

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