#metro Detroit

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Brother!

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Here’s my jars for interested parties!!! They’re a little out of date, extreme wg I’ve become more into and transforming kinks have been more my thing lately

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Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS): Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), is a complex and debilitating condition characterized by extreme fatigue that does not improve with rest and is not caused by any underlying medical condition. The exact cause of CFS/ME is still not fully understood, and there is no specific diagnostic test for the condition. Symptoms of…

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New Heather Raffo play to explore migration at the Arab American National Museum

From the Tigris to the Detroit River, The Migration Play Cycle written by and starring Heather Raffo, is an epic map of a play linking the world’s migration patterns to the daily transactions of our lives. An ambitious theatrical experiment, it invites us to imagine a new relationship to human value, by first unpacking what we value. Uncovering a world where all populations must confront not only global migration, but their own.

Heather Raffo is a singular and outstanding voice in the American theater whose work has been championed by the New Yorker as “an example of how art can remake the world.” Having helped forge a new genre of Arab American theater, she’s spent her career writing and embodying stories of Iraq: from the lives and dreams of Iraqi women in her seminal work 9 Parts of Desire (2003), to the suicidal ideation of an Iraq war veteran in the opera Fallujah (2012), to the restless longings of an Iraqi refugee architect in Noura (2018).

“As an Iraqi American playwright, migration is personal to me.  In 2003, I had over one hundred family members living in Iraq, I now have two cousins left in the country.  In the last decade, my Iraqi relatives have scattered across four continents. My family understands what it means to be rooted to a place for thousands of years, then to scatter in less than ten.  While many audiences feel sympathetic to those impacted by war, the trajectory my family took can be traced to economic factors to which we all contribute.”

The Migration Play Cycle: A New Theatrical Platform by Heather Raffo is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by the Arab American National Museum and NPN. This project is made possible in part by a grant from the Association of Performing Arts Professionals, made possible through support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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As a resident of Metro Detroit, I'm would like to add that geographically impossible portrayals of real places (the other big global complaint) in American media is not limited to foreign cities.

Things writers on the coasts have attributed to Detroit:

Multiple issues of Justice League of America's Detroit era describe the city as on the shores of Lake Michigan. The major city on Lake Michigan is actually Chicago, Detroit's 200 miles away from the Michigan shore of the lake, and in fact not on a lake at all (it's on the Detroit River).

The 1990 film Bird on a Wire ends with the characters boarding the Detroit, MI to Racine, WI Ferry. That route would require going around the entire lower peninsula of Michigan. It would be a cruise, not a ferry.

Journey's infamous "South Detroit" reference from Don't Stop Believing. While there is obviously a southernmost area of Detroit, it's not a landmark like the South Side of Chicago or South Central L.A. because directly south of Detroit's core is Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

Writers don't do research on any location.

"I hate how American media will just make up a European nation rather than do any research, so I'm going to get back at them by writing a story set in a fake American state" like, do you have the slightest idea how much American media is set in a geographically impossible fictional small town located in no particular state and characterised entirely by some guy from Los Angeles' collection of half-remembered stereotypes about the American Midwest? They've already got the "lazily inventing fictional parts of America" bit locked down.

No, if you want to play the Uno reverse card on American media, what you need to do isn't to make up a fake state: you specifically need to wilfully misrepresent southern California.

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Omg I've been so worried to check the results for my city and the one surrounding us, but phew!

80.5% Kamala - for our city

52% Kamala - for the fancier, rich city across the street

Plus they got rid of their trumper BOE members! Good job rich people

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I am a slut for gut damn that is good

imagine this.. i lug this thing around alllll day 🤭😚

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Too many SMART buses aren't showing up when riders need them - leaving riders stranded or waiting for hours - because SMART is short about 100 bus drivers and has been for more than a year. “I’ve experienced this many times,” says rider Kathy Meagher, who’s visually impaired and uses SMART to get to her job as a substitute teacher. When her bus doesn’t show up, she has to shell out for Uber or Lyft or call her husband to give her a ride, which, she explains, is “stressful for both of us.” Other riders don’t even have that option. The driver shortfall is a crisis that cannot be allowed to continue! SMART has stepped up its recruitment efforts, but that hasn't been enough. They now need to provide more competitive wages and better working conditions for new drivers. SMART drivers currently start at $19/hour, after training, whereas the MIT Living Wage Calculator estimates a living wage for a family of 4 in the Detroit metro area at $28/hour. SMART is currently negotiating a new contract with its operators’ union, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1564. This is critical time to make SMART a more appealing workplace. Tell SMART management to boost pay and improve working conditions now, so they can become an “employer of choice,” as SMART General Manager Dwight Ferrell has stated. Doing right by drivers is the right thing to do, and it’s crucial to providing the service that riders need!

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Back in Michigan for the holidays.

1) There is no better food than middle eastern food (this is Lebanese) in Metro Detroit. Fucking fire. I could eat like this every damn day and I’m grateful there’s such a rich Arabic culture in this area of the states. (MN has some fire places too but this is out of the world)

2) One half of presents bought for the Michigan folk. Half of these are for a baby and his new mom, a toddler, and a small child. The adults were second.

3) Half of the nights I get the basement and the others??? Idk. It’s what happens with five adults & two adults in the house at once.

Glad that I’ll get a 2nd Christmas in Minnesota to wrap up this year. 🥰

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I like my ladies like this 🥵

Beer belly 😮‍💨

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ASHLEY + JAKUB

http://vimeo.com/858699400

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Remember church bulletins? This was mine from the 80s-90s. Obviously, the summer edition.

Churches used to be named First or Second. So you’d say, “I go to the Baptist Church,” and everybody knew you meant the church that was officially the First Baptist Church.

As fundamentalism was rising, however, in the 20th century, they were breaking away from the “First” churches. So you start getting named like “Calvary Baptist” and “Tabernacle Baptist.” It dates the church to be a mid-century creation.

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Catholic organizations mobilize for Turkey and Syria aid efforts

Father Dogondke learned about the devastating earthquake that killed more than 40,000 in Turkey and Syria as of Feb. 14 while he was on retreat in his native Poland.

"I left on Saturday and on Monday morning the earthquake hit," he said with disbelief. "I will return to Turkey this Friday to see what I can save from my apartment that was literally attached to the cathedral."

Rebuilding the cathedral will be a long process. "It's really building anew that is ahead of us," Father Dogondke said. But now, he underscored, "the most important thing is to help those in the community."

"We have some people sheltering in church buildings that survived the earthquake,” he said. “From what I'm hearing, it's about 100 people, but news that reaches me is still very limited. There is no water, electricity; the situation is very dire in Iskanderun.”

As Paulina Guzik of OSV News explained, with the 19th-century cathedral lying in ruins, along with many of the homes of his parishioners, Father Dogondke is left with a community of people who are accustomed to serving others who now have nothing left themselves.

"Some of my parishioners now went to live with their families in other cities or in hotels hundreds of miles away," the priest said, adding that there are no prospects that the situation will improve anytime soon in Iskanderun.

"In less than two minutes, some were left with nothing," Inés San Martin of Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States told OSV News.

Humanitarian needs in Turkey and Syria are desperate, especially in Syria that has suffered a bloody civil war for almost 12 years. Following the Feb. 6 disaster that left many cities and villages in northwestern Syria completely ruined, the United Nations announced Feb. 14 a $397 million humanitarian appeal to aid its people.

"The Syria effort brings together the entire U.N. system and humanitarian partners and will help secure desperately needed, life-saving relief for nearly 5 million Syrians -- including shelter, health care, food and protection," U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres told reporters as the appeal was launched.

Catholic organizations mobilizing for aid efforts.

The U.S.-based Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) raised $200,000 in an online fundraiser that aims to collect $250,000.

"We hope to meet our goal by the end of this week. We have had an incredibly generous response thus far from our donors, and we trust the drive will continue," San Martin told Paulina Guzik of OSV News.

"The magnitude of what happened is hard to fully comprehend," said San Martin, vice president of communications for the mission societies. "Hundreds of thousands were left homeless and will need our help while they rebuild," she said, adding that "when people are back on their feet, we will have to work on rebuilding the many churches, monasteries and pastoral homes destroyed by the earthquake."

Given the many years of war and the economic collapse of Syria, Aid to the Church in Need already had projects in place and partners on the ground in cities such as Aleppo and Lattakia, which have considerable Christian communities, and which were badly affected by the quake, the organization said.

Several of the relief projects already approved are small in scale and aimed at addressing immediate and short-term needs. Xavier Stephen Bisits, head of ACN’s Lebanon and Syria section, traveled to Aleppo, the second-largest city in Syria, immediately after the quake.

"We are working with the Franciscans in Lattakia, who are providing blankets and food for displaced families; the Armenian Orthodox in Aleppo have prepared a project to supply medicine to displaced families; the Institute of the Incarnate Word wants to work with us on a project for the affected families," he said in a report released by ACN.

The organization also has a project with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul to provide personal hygiene care for the elderly, "many of whom have chosen not to leave their homes and are living alone," Bisits said.

The most important project, however, has to do with helping people get back to their homes as quickly as possible. For this, however, it is necessary for the houses to be surveyed by engineers to make sure there is no risk of collapse.

Fortunately, according to Bisits, the nine different Christian churches that are present in Aleppo have an excellent working relationship and have already taken the lead.

"On Wednesday night, the Synod of Catholic bishops met in Aleppo and assembled a team of engineers who are going to start assessing the damage to the houses of the Christian families, and the approximate cost to repair each one, and this is something I hope ACN can help with, and we fully expect to be able to do it in a very professional way," Bisits said.

ACN in Syria also is planning to help families rent houses if they're unable to live in their own homes because it's simply too dangerous.

The Caritas network has already started distributing supplies in cities and villages devastated by the earthquake. Mattresses, blankets, hygiene kits and food baskets are among the items most needed by the people whose houses were turned into ruins.

"We’re going to be facing a really difficult situation and a really long-term response," said John Coughlin, emergency response team leader for Caritas Internationalis.

In Aleppo, Syrian Patriarch Archbishop Absi Melkite Catholic Patriarch Joseph Absi, together with Caritas staff from Damascus, will assist with the distribution of 1,300 food baskets, mattresses and blankets to six shelters in the city. Caritas Syria teams will also move to Lattakia to support additional distributions of aid.

The earthquake in Syria hit areas that were already devastated by years of conflict. Described as a tragedy within a tragedy, it has left the population in despair. But not without hope.

"In general, people are afraid, but they are showing a solidarity we had not seen in 12 years in Syria. People gather, share, and pray," said Marie Rose Diab, a Syrian who works for ACN in Damascus.

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Gassy gals are where it’s at

I dunno if any of you are into burps but I really love them 🤤🤤

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