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theuniverseawakens347 · 2 months ago

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Me putting your body out there for you bitches in botched competition is NOT A COMPLIMENT- ONLY MEN N WOMEN CHECKING FOR IT IN FLATTER OF YOURS VS THEIRS IS WEAK MINDED MEANING RAPE VICTIMS.

- MANY LEVELS TO RAPE CULTURE.. psychological physical sexual and emotional and ME FUCKING SPIRITUAL - ALL THESE BITCHES WHO LOOK LIKE ME OR PUTTING MY DETLA DNA BREAK DOWNS N THEM ARE LEADING W THEIR TITS ASS OR FUCKING CURVES BEFORE SHOW CASING ANY FUCKING REAL TALENT TO ASPIRE A YOUTH OR ELDER TO WANT TO MOVE THEIR BODY TO A PLACE OF HAPPINESS AND JOY - NICE MURDERING OF INNOCENCE- UR INNER KIDS STARVED N LEFT FOR DEAD.

… you made a society that forces ppl into a hole of I gotta starve or do some dumb shit for what they deem a necessity for their living lifestyle to be played off as okay to the public.

- cash when have you last showered and why!? - at a rapist apartment bc the water offered had the option of being warm - PLANET FITNESSES DOES ICE SHOWERS IM TINY AS FUCK - ST FRANCIS HYPOSHOCK “therapy “ DOESNT WORK FOR SOMEONE W LITTLE TO NO BODY FAT NATURALLY … “gut health” … I DONT HAVE THE ISSUES THE OTHER GIRLS WHO LOOK LIKE ME GOT - LEE FORGED MY MEDICAL RECORDS DR WATSON BUT HER MALE DOCTOR AT UCLA “ur anemic based on the whites of ur eyes” ABSOLUTELY SO YOU CAN PULL MY FUCKING BLOOD FOR EVELYNS FUCKING BBL AND JASMEAN BOTOX N INDIA BBL FILLERS WIINTR..

IM BEYOND HEALTHY EVEN WHEN YOU CUNTS STARVE ME - IM DEAD WALKING AROUND IN MY GHOST FORM BUT W FLESH - THE BODY AND FUCKING FLESH OF CHRIST YOU CANT COMPREHEND VISUALLY SO YOU THINK DRAINING ME IN FULL W BRING THE FUCKING HOLY GHOST UR STARING AT - IM GAUNT AND THEN WHEN AROUND SPIRITUAL NATURAL FAMILY OR SOMEONE IS SYPHONING OFF MY BLOOD …

IM THICC WHEN IM FULL NATURAL IN MY OWN ZONE - SHANYCE YOU PUT ON WEIGHT LIKE EVELYN TO GET LIPO AND MY FUCKING STEM CELLS YOU NASTY STUPID FUCKING CUNT COI LERAY TO SAY UR MY MOM DARNIECE WEHN I GET OFF THE STREETS.

NO. YOU CANT FUCKING KILL ME BUT IMA FUCKING LEGALLY KIKL ALL YOU STUPID FUCKING HOES. AND LEE FUCK YOU IN FULL MISUSING MY MOM DARNIECE AND DAD LIKE ME TO DO YOUR FUCKING TERRORIST THREATS - THE WORSE FUCKING SNIPER EYE PI YOU. - WHY YOU DONT COME TO THE LIB TO ACTUALLY FEED ME .. how you gon give money to a stranger to me but someone you had rob Howard your wedding night or beat him up so you cud sue the church back for the $$

“Oh im so sorry well comp back 1/2 of ur wedding rental for the incident please don’t hold a grudge to our business”

Lee “oh it’s fine I’ll just have Judy Carter and other lesbian friends of mine specifically get married and this church and my brother n cousin and do the same shit now that I know it worked for demi mores wedding too”

- I BLEW A HOLE IN MY CREDIT NOW I GOTTA DO FINACIAL FRAUD BY RISKING 2 pac Naz and others lives bc welp “fuck blacks and gays white supremacy Westley victor Raymond taught me in the church 1961 watching black gay girls die” - Harvey milk let me help ur campaign grow but then get you raped sexually and START AN AIDS COMMUNITY WHERE WE PURPOSELY RAPE VICTIMS THEN SUE THEM FOR EMOTIONALLY AND BODILY HARM while I get you murdered AFTER BEING THE FACE OF A CAMPAIGN- ANY WAR HALL BENEFICIARIES - JAMAL RON HENDERSON WHYD YOU MAKE ME URS AFTER WE BROKE UP 2020 in like Aug Sep?? LEE GARLINGTON OR HOWARD NUGENT FOR FUCKING ME OVER .. then a yr later lets kill cashay and work him like a slut to make back our money but eqsy kill on her and Tristan bc like welp double the pleasure lot I got slaves turning who need to eat - MAY 2021 “robbery” of Victoria park house … but like Aug 11-15? 2021 let’s send men cashay doesn’t know to her apartment to kidnap her .. RANSOM … how would that work Lee when UR LEADING IT AND THEIR ASKING YOU FOR MONEY BC NO ONE SAID ANYTHING BOUT WHO MY REAL PARENTS ARE YOU NIMROD!

- nefarious crimes from the penthouse executive suite of Victoria park where Lee pretends to be “nothing more than a mother and wife w hobbies [i] don’t have time to do the crazy lunatic things you accuse me of bc for whatever reason THEN W UR GRANDMA AND MOTHER THEY WENT SMOOTH BUT WITH YOU STUPID LITTLE SHIT FUCK IM CLEARLY GUILTY”

- I know you fucking dumbass ass cunt ITS CALLED GOD. YOU GOT MANY PORTRAITS OF ME HANGING IN THE HOUSE YOU STUPID FUCKING BITCH A REMINDER IM GOING TO FUCKING KILK YOU FOR ALL THE BLACKS AND GAYS AND MINORITIES RACES AND SMALL POCKETS YOU BIG BANKED HUNTED IN THAT SHIT FUCKING HOUSE.

- ur fucking dead and I’m pulling the trigger personally WITH YOU IN FRONT OF LAPD. STUPID BITCH. FOR HOWARD.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Minecraft (Video Game), Video Blogging RPF Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Wilbur Soot & Technoblade & TommyInnit & Phil Watson, Wilbur Soot & TommyInnit, Technoblade & TommyInnit (Video Blogging RPF), TommyInnit & Phil Watson (Video Blogging RPF), Technoblade & Phil Watson Characters: TommyInnit (Video Blogging RPF), Wilbur Soot, Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF), Phil Watson (Video Blogging RPF) Additional Tags: Sam Fundy and Scott (Smajor) are briefly mentioned/present, Antarctic Empire, King Technoblade (Video Blogging RPF), Prince TommyInnit (Video Blogging RPF), Phil's an adviser and Wilbur didn't take the throne, Oldest brother Wilbur supremacy, Assassination Attempt(s), :), nondescript depictions of violence, Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Panic Attacks, Platonic Cuddling, Family Dynamics, Alternate Universe - Royalty, Wilbur Soot and Technoblade and TommyInnit are Siblings, We make our own 4/4 SBI content, No Beta We Die Like Wilbur in Skyblockle, Angst, for some spice Series: Part 1 of The sins of the ancient burn the souls of the ancestors - MCYT Royalty AU Summary:

Wilbur didn’t know why he was awake. It was the middle of winter and the castle was freezing. His bed was warm and comfortable and easy to fall asleep in, especially in this weather. Insomnia just hit like a bitch, he guessed. He’d been staring at his ceiling, his walls, out his window, at literally anything for the past three hours, waiting for his body to shut down and finally fall asleep. The world was cruel, he decided. He couldn’t comprehend it’s reasons for keeping him awake.

But he found out soon enough.

Dread filled Wilbur’s stomach in a heartbeat. Goosebumps riddled his skin as he frantically detangled himself from his sheets, falling to the floor as he hurried to stand. There were few things that could scare him as much as what scared him now. Hearing a scream echo through the halls of the castle was frightening enough. What was even worse was knowing exactly who the scream had come from.

#tommyinnit #wilbur soot #technoblade #philza #sbi #sleepy bois inc #royalty au #mcyt #sleepyblr

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artelingua · 5 years ago

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'We have a once-in-century chance': Naomi Klein on how we can fight the climate crisis

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/14/crisis-talk-green-new-deal-naomi-klein

On a Friday in mid-March, they streamed out of schools in little rivulets, burbling with excitement and defiance at an act of truancy. The little streams emptied on to grand avenues and boulevards, where they combined with other flows of chanting children and teens. Soon the rivulets were rushing rivers: 100,000 bodies in Milan, 40,000 in Paris, 150,000 in Montreal. Cardboard signs bobbed above the surf of humanity: THERE IS NO PLANET B! DON’T BURN OUR FUTURE. THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE!

There was no student strike in Mozambique; on 15 March the whole country was bracing for the impact of Cyclone Idai, one of the worst storms in Africa’s history, which drove people to take refuge at the tops of trees as the waters rose and would eventually kill more than 1,000 people. And then, just six weeks later, while it was still clearing the rubble, Mozambique would be hit by Cyclone Kenneth, yet another record-breaking storm.

Wherever in the world they live, this generation has something in common: they are the first for whom climate disruption on a planetary scale is not a future threat, but a lived reality. Oceans are warming 40% faster than the United Nations predicted five years ago. And a sweeping study on the state of the Arctic, published in April 2019 in Environmental Research Letters and led by the renowned glaciologist Jason Box, found that ice in various forms is melting so rapidly that the “Arctic biophysical system is now clearly trending away from its 20th-century state and into an unprecedented state, with implications not only within but also beyond the Arctic.” In May 2019, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services published a report about the startling loss of wildlife around the world, warning that a million species of animals and plants are at risk of extinction. “The health of ecosystems on which we and all other species depend is deteriorating more rapidly than ever,” said the chair, Robert Watson. “We are eroding the very foundations of economies, livelihoods, food security, health and quality of life worldwide. We have lost time. We must act now.”

It has been more than three decades since governments and scientists started officially meeting to discuss the need to lower greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the dangers of climate breakdown. In the intervening years, we have heard countless appeals for action that involve “the children,” “the grandchildren,” and “generations to come”. Yet global CO2 emissions have risen by more than 40%, and they continue to rise. The planet has warmed by about 1C since we began burning coal on an industrial scale and average temperatures are on track to rise by as much as four times that amount before the century is up; the last time there was this much CO2 in the atmosphere, humans didn’t exist.

As for those children and grandchildren and generations to come who were invoked so promiscuously? They are no longer mere rhetorical devices. They are now speaking (and screaming, and striking) for them selves. Unlike so many adults in positions of authority, they have not yet been trained to mask the unfathomable stakes of our moment in the language of bureaucracy and overcomplexity. They understand that they are fighting for the fundamental right to live full lives – lives in which they are not, as 13-year-old Alexandria Villaseñor puts it, “running from disasters”.

On that day in March 2019, organisers estimate there were nearly 2,100 youth climate strikes in 125 countries, with 1.6 million young people participating. That’s quite an achievement for a movement that began eight months earlier with a single teenager deciding to go on strike from school in Stockholm, Sweden: Greta Thunberg.

The wave of youth mobilisation that burst on to the scene in March 2019 is not just the result of one girl and her unique way of seeing the world, extraordinary though she is. Thunberg is quick to note that she was inspired by another group of teenagers who rose up against a different kind of failure to protect their futures: the students in Parkland, Florida, who led a national wave of class walkouts demanding tough controls on gun ownership after 17 people were murdered at their school in February 2018.

Nor is Thunberg the first person with tremendous moral clarity to yell “Fire!” in the face of the climate crisis. Such voices have emerged multiple times over the past several decades; indeed, it is something of a ritual at the annual UN summits on climate change. But perhaps because these earlier voices belonged to people from the Philippines, the Marshall Islands and South Sudan, those clarion calls were one-day stories, if that. Thunberg is also quick to point out that the climate strikes themselves were the work of thousands of diverse student leaders, their teachers and supporting organisations, many of whom had been raising the climate alarm for years.

As a manifesto put out by British climate strikers put it: “Greta Thunberg may have been the spark, but we’re the wildfire.”

For a decade and half, ever since reporting from New Orleans with water up to my waist after Hurricane Katrina, I have been trying to figure out what is interfering with humanity’s basic survival instinct – why so many of us aren’t acting as if our house is on fire when it so clearly is. I have written books, made films, delivered countless talks and co-founded an organisation (The Leap) devoted, in one way or another, to exploring this question and trying to help align our collective response to the scale of the climate crisis.

It was clear to me from the start that the dominant theories about how we had landed on this knife edge were entirely insufficient. We were failing to act, it was said, because politicians were trapped in short-term electoral cycles, or because climate change seemed too far off, or because stopping it was too expensive, or because the clean technologies weren’t there yet. There was some truth in all the explanations, but they were also becoming markedly less true over time. The crisis wasn’t far off; it was banging down our doors. The price of solar panels has plummeted and now rivals that of fossil fuels. Clean tech and renewables create far more jobs than coal, oil, and gas. As for the supposedly prohibitive costs, trillions have been marshalled for endless wars, bank bailouts and subsidies for fossil fuels, in the same years that coffers have been virtually empty for climate transition. There had to be more to it.

Which is why, over the years, I have set out to probe a different set of barriers – some economic, some ideological, but others related to the deep stories about the right of certain people to dominate land and the people living closest to it, stories that underpin contemporary western culture. And I have investigated the kinds of responses that might succeed in toppling those narratives, ideologies and economic interests, responses that weave seemingly disparate crises (economic, social, ecological and democratic) into a common story of civilisational transformation. Today, this sort of bold vision increasingly goes under the banner of a Green New Deal.

Because, as deep as our crisis runs, something equally deep is also shifting, and with a speed that startles me. Social movements rising up to declare, from below, a people’s emergency. In addition to the wildfire of student strikes, we have seen the rise of Extinction Rebellion, which kicked off a wave of non-violent direct action and civil disobedience, including a mass shutdown of large parts of central London. Within days of its most dramatic actions in April 2019, Wales and Scotland both declared a state of “climate emergency,” and the British parliament, under pressure from opposition parties, quickly followed suit.

Humanity has a once-in-a-century chance to fix an economic model that is failing the majority of people on multiple fronts

In the US, we have seen the meteoric rise of the Sunrise Movement, which burst on to the political stage when it occupied the office of Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful Democrat in Washington, DC, one week after her party had won back the House of Representatives in the 2018 midterm elections. They called on Congress to immediately adopt a rapid decarbonisation framework, one as ambitious in speed and scope as Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal, the sweeping package of policies designed to battle the poverty of the Great Depression and the ecological collapse of the Dust Bowl.

The idea behind the Green New Deal is a simple one: in the process of transforming the infrastructure of our societies at the speed and scale that scientists have called for, humanity has a once-in-a-century chance to fix an economic model that is failing the majority of people on multiple fronts. Because the factors that are destroying our planet are also destroying people’s lives in many other ways, from wage stagnation to gaping inequalities to crumbling services to surging white supremacy to the collapse of our information ecology. Challenging underlying forces is an opportunity to solve several interlocking crises at once.

In tackling the climate crisis, we can create hundreds of millions of goods jobs around the world, invest in the most systematically excluded communities and nations, guarantee healthcare and childcare, and much more. The result of these transformations would be economies built both to protect and to regenerate the planet’s life support systems and to respect and sustain the people who depend on them.

This vision is not new; its origins can be traced to social movements in ecologically ravaged parts of Ecuador and Nigeria, as well as to highly polluted communities of colour in the United States. What is new is that there is now a bloc of politicians in the US, Europe, and elsewhere, some just a decade older than the young climate activists in the streets, ready to translate the urgency of the climate crisis into policy, and to connect the dots among the multiple crises of our times. Most prominent among this new political breed is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who, at 29, became the youngest woman ever elected to the US Congress. Introducing a Green New Deal was part of the platform she ran on. Today, with the race to lead the Democratic party in full swing, a majority of leading presidential hopefuls claim to support it, including Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and Cory Booker. It had been endorsed, meanwhile, by 105 members of the House and Senate.

The idea is spreading around the world, with the political coalition European Spring launching a green new deal for Europe in January 2019 and a broad green new deal coalition of organisations in Canada coming together (the leader of the New Democratic party has adopted the frame, if not its full ambition, as one of his policy planks). The same is true in the UK, where the Labour party is in the middle of negotiations over whether to adopt a green new deal‑style platform.

Those of us who advocate for this kind of transformative platform are sometimes accused of using it to advance a socialist or anticapitalist agenda that predates our focus on the climate crisis. My response is a simple one. For my entire adult life, I have been involved in movements confronting the myriad ways that our current economic systems grinds up people’s lives and landscapes in the ruthless pursuit of profit. No Logo, published 20 years ago, documented the human and ecological costs of corporate globalisation, from the sweatshops of Indonesia to the oil fields of the Niger Delta. I have seen teenage girls treated like machines to make our machines, and mountains and forests turned to trash heaps to get at the oil, coal and metals beneath.

The painful, even lethal, impacts of these practices were impossible to deny; it was simply argued that they were the necessary costs of a system that was creating so much wealth that the benefits would eventually trickle down to improve the lives of nearly everyone on the planet. What has happened instead is that the indifference to life that was expressed in the exploitation of individual workers on factory floors and in the decimation of individual mountains and rivers has instead trickled up to swallow our entire planet, turning fertile lands into salt flats, beautiful islands into rubble, and draining once vibrant reefs of their life and colour.

I freely admit that I do not see the climate crisis as separable from the more localised market-generated crises that I have documented over the years; what is different is the scale and scope of the tragedy, with humanity’s one and only home now hanging in the balance. I have always had a tremendous sense of urgency about the need to shift to a dramatically more humane economic model. But there is a different quality to that urgency now because it just so happens that we are all alive at the last possible moment when changing course can mean saving lives on a truly unimaginable scale.

#naomi klein #green new deal #reposted the whole extract because IMPORTANT #climate crisis #my emphasis #important

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On Whose Land Do You Sit?: raceAhead

Hugh Weber is a consultant, a creative convener, a marketer, a design expert, an advocate for rural communities, and a dear friend to raceAhead.

So, I was prepared for his most recent TEDx talk, organized in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to be inspiring. But his elegant introduction got my attention first.

He talked about the collective inheritance of place, made more complex by how people came to be in that uniquely “American” room. “Some of us… not many of us, came from ancestors who were brought here against their will,” he said, others were drawn in by the hope of a better future. “And others have lived here since the beginning of time.”

“Since I believe that the foundations of community are acknowledgement, trust, and a mutual respect across barriers of heritage, belief, and difference… I would like to acknowledge that this event is being held on the traditional ancestral lands of the Ochente Shakoan people.”

This simple acknowledgment is becoming more common now, finding its way into high profile moments, like Anne Hathaway’s similar acknowledgment when she received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this spring.

“I started to think about the land that goes underneath the star, that land that goes beneath all of these stars, and how it was cared and kept for millennia, more than millennia, by the Tongva people,” she said. “I think it’s important to mention that they still live here today. So the soul and the spirit that runs through the earth beneath us originates with and continues to be kept by them.”

“So I would like to begin by thanking the Tongva people and by acknowledging that they are the rightful keepers of the land this star is on.”

But they’re also found in everyday moments, too.

The United States is late to the land acknowledgment practice, lagging behind New Zealand, Australia, and Canada. There, schools, meetings, even hockey games frequently begin with even a perfunctory acknowledgment, explains Teen Vogue. “An acknowledgment might be short: ‘This event is taking place on traditional Chickasaw land.’ Or it might be longer and more specific: ‘We are gathered today on the occupied territory of the Musqueam people, who have stewarded this land for generations.’”

I am writing this column today on the ancestral lands of the Tequesta people. They hunted, fished, and lived their lives in this beautiful place. From what I can gather, they were slowly devastated by European diseases starting in the 1500s, embroiled in colonial-era conflicts, and pestered to convert to Christianity against their will. Most Tequesta survivors were sent to Cuba by the Spanish by the mid-1700s. Only ten words from their language have been preserved.

I can now attest that land acknowledgment really makes you feel some type of way.

Felicia Garcia (Chumash) and Jane Anderson, both associated with the Museum Studies department at New York University, have compiled a comprehensive guide to land acknowledgment statements for arts and education organizations which looks like an excellent resource for everyone else, too.

Northwestern University has an interesting resource that shares their work with healing and acknowledgment. They’ve posted a list derived from a steering group of Native and Indigenous people who shared what the practice means to them. Here are a few choice ones: Addressing invisibility; defrosting the past; feels good spiritually/emotionally; can be performative; must be paired with action; honoring.

It’s all part of the delicate work of decolonizing, a journey very few organizations or individuals have begun in any kind of earnest. Maybe it’s just the oppressive heat of the racist times we’re living in, but “defrosting the past” sounds like something worth doing.

Let me know what you think.

By the way, Weber works as a professional “creative counsel,” advancing the aims of creative organizations by connecting the dots between their capabilities and possibility. His excellent TEDx talk, well worth your time, soon moved from the dusty plains of Ochente land to a miraculous school in the D.C. neighborhood where a fifteen-year-old “king” named Gerald Watson had been shot and killed.

He quickly makes the case that all dots are there to be connected if you’re just willing to open your heart and look. Enjoy.

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Protecting Hawaii’s Mauna Kea The dormant volcano has tremendous significance to many kanaka ’ōiwi (native Hawaiians), explains marine paleoecologist Sara Segura Kahanamoku. But now, kiaʻi (guardians) are currently holding vigils to stop the construction of the world’s largest ground-based telescope on its summit. The protesters are being framed as anti-science and barriers to progress. This is a false choice that masks the bigger issue, she says. Who gets to decide the future? “I am kanaka ‘ōiwi, and I do science because I am Hawaiian,” she begins. “I research out of aloha ’āina, a deep familial love for the land.” There is a dark, colonial history of astronomy in Hawaii that’s worth learning. “I envision a future where the practice of science is truly ethical,” she says. “[W]here human rights, including the rights of indigenous people to self-determination, are upheld through the practice of science.” Massive Science

Research: Officer diversity doesn’t change racial disparities in police shootings Data published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences yesterday found that as the percentage of officers of color increase, citizens who are killed in officer-involved shootings are more likely to be people of color. The research also claims to find no evidence that white officers are more likely to fatally shoot people of color. Researchers used a database of 900 officer-involved shootings from 2015; their explanation for the primary findings were that the officers were drawn from the same demographic pool. By way of comparison, an investigation by The Guardian found that in 2015, people of color were more likely than their white counterparts to be killed by police officers. The Guardian

Trump administration seeks to remove food stamp benefits from 3.1 million people Currently, 43 states allow people to automatically qualify for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, if they also qualify for other types of federal assistance; the proposed rule change would force 3.1 million to reapply for the benefit. If successful, the move could save the federal government some $2.5 billion a year. USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue said the change is to remove a loophole that let unqualified people participate. But Senator Debbie Stabenow, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, says he’s wrong. “This rule would take food away from families, prevent children from getting school meals, and make it harder for states to administer food assistance.” SNAP provides free food to 40 million Americans, or about 12% of the total U.S. population. Reuters

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The ‘safety net’ works, y’all Two Harvard University economists examined 133 U.S. policy changes over the 50 years looking for the biggest bang for the investment buck—which includes analyzing Medicare and Medicaid expansions, the introduction of food stamps, and dozens of state and local programs. The goal was to identify the interventions that saved the government money long term, typically by figuring out which who ended up need less assistance over time, or who were able to increase their earnings and taxes paid. Programs benefitting low-income kids were the clear winner; every dollar spent on education and health care programs returned 47 cents in down-the-road savings. “The results show there’s a potential to get really high returns when you’re focusing on kids,” says co-author Ben Sprung-Keyser. Wall Street Journal

What’s another way to be transgender in young adult novels? We live in a time in which its possible for a transgender or questioning teen to see themselves in works of fiction. This is tremendous progress, notes reviewer Clarence Harlan Orsi, ticking through a helpful list of popular books. But what comes next? “A lot has changed for trans people in the last 15 years, yet the novels reflect a relatively unified perspective,” he says. Part of the problem is the formulaic nature of YA novels themselves. “The pedagogy of these novels entails setting up a series of rites of passage and then repeating them in different iterations,” which always means some predictable moments—gender affirming prom clothes, the first bullying, coming out to an unwelcoming family. All of this requires a “didactic obligation” that masks missed opportunities to tell different stories. “[I]t is not enough to simply want to transition. Rather, these books must prove that changing genders is the only thing that will keep these characters alive.” L.A. Review of Books

Sixty years later, a picture of closeted love emerges This is a story that’s sure to bring the water to your eyes. In 1957, a young man dropped off a roll of film to be developed at his corner drug store. The pictures were of his wedding, but he never received them. The photos were of a touching commitment ceremony to another man, and the store manager withheld them for being “inappropriate.” But a warm-hearted clerk kept the pictures, hoping to run into the groom somewhere. Now, many years after her passing, the photos belong to an advocacy group who are looking to reunite the photos with either the couple or their families. Do you know them? The Philadelphia Citizen

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“I believe in white supremacy. We can’t all of a sudden get down on our knees and turn everything over to the leadership of the blacks… I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from [Native Americans], if that’s what you’re asking. Our so-called stealing of this country from them was just a matter of survival. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.”

—John Wayne in an interview for Playboy

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On Whose Land Do You Sit?: raceAhead

Hugh Weber is a consultant, a creative convener, a marketer, a design expert, an advocate for rural communities, and a dear friend to raceAhead.

So, I was prepared for his most recent TEDx talk, organized in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to be inspiring. But his elegant introduction got my attention first.

“So I would like to begin by thanking the Tongva people and by acknowledging that they are the rightful keepers of the land this star is on.”

But they’re also found in everyday moments, too.

I can now attest that land acknowledgment really makes you feel some type of way.

Let me know what you think.

He quickly makes the case that all dots are there to be connected if you’re just willing to open your heart and look. Enjoy.

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—John Wayne in an interview for Playboy

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On Whose Land Do You Sit?: raceAhead

Hugh Weber is a consultant, a creative convener, a marketer, a design expert, an advocate for rural communities, and a dear friend to raceAhead.

So, I was prepared for his most recent TEDx talk, organized in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to be inspiring. But his elegant introduction got my attention first.

“So I would like to begin by thanking the Tongva people and by acknowledging that they are the rightful keepers of the land this star is on.”

But they’re also found in everyday moments, too.

I can now attest that land acknowledgment really makes you feel some type of way.

Let me know what you think.

He quickly makes the case that all dots are there to be connected if you’re just willing to open your heart and look. Enjoy.

On Point

On Background

Tamara El-Waylly helps produce raceAhead.

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—John Wayne in an interview for Playboy

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hamiltongolfcourses · 5 years ago

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British Open

British Open, officially the Open Championship or the Open, one of the world’s four major golf tournaments—with the Masters Tournament, the U.S. Open, and the Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA) Championship—and the oldest continually run championship in the sport. Best known outside the United States as the Open Championship or, simply, the Open, it has been held annually (with a few exceptions) on various courses in Scotland, England, and—on one occasion—Northern Ireland since 1860. History The first Open Championship was played on October 17, 1860, at Prestwick Golf Club in Scotland. A field of eight professionals played three rounds of Prestwick’s 12-hole course in one day. Willie Park, Sr., won the inaugural tournament and was presented with the Challenge Belt, a silver-buckled leather belt that each champion was to keep until the following Open. The tournament was opened to amateurs in 1861. In 1863 a purse of £10—which was to be shared among the professionals who finished in second, third, and fourth place—was introduced, and a first-place cash prize of £6 was added in 1864. In 1870 Tom Morris, Jr., won the Open for the third consecutive time and was thus allowed to keep the Challenge Belt permanently. As there was no award to present to the winner, the Open was not held again until 1872, when it was determined that the winning golfer would receive the Golf Champion Trophy, now commonly known as the Claret Jug. In 1892 the Open became a 72-hole event (four rounds of 18 holes), and in 1898 a cut (reduction of the field) was introduced after the first two rounds of play. The Open has always been dominated by professionals, with only six victories by amateurs, all before 1930. The last of those was Bobby Jones’s third Open, which was part of his celebrated Grand Slam (four major tournament victories in one calendar year). The popularization of golf in the mid-20th century produced a string of noteworthy Open champions, including England’s Sir Henry Cotton (winner in 1934, 1937, and 1948), South Africa’s Bobby Locke (1949–50, 1952, 1957), Australia’s Peter W. Thomson (1954–56, 1958, 1965), and the United States’ Arnold Palmer (1961–62) and Tom Watson (1975, 1977, 1980, 1982–83). Watson’s final win in 1983 ended an era of U.S. domination, during which American golfers won 12 times in 14 years. For the next 11 years there was only one American winner, with the Claret Jug going to Spain’s Seve Ballesteros, Australia’s Greg Norman, and England’s Nick Faldo, among others. In 1995 the Open became part of the PGA Tour’s official schedule. American John Daly won that year after a play-off with Italy’s Costantino Rocca, beginning another period of American supremacy at the Open in which 10 of the next 13 winners hailed from the United States, including Tiger Woods, who won three championships (2000, 2005–06). Subsequent years saw a number of victories by golfers for whom the Open was their first major tournament triumph, including Paul Lawrie in 1999, David Duval in 2001, Ben Curtis in 2003, and Padraig Harrington in 2007. Another notable Open champion is Jack Nicklaus, who won in 1966, 1970, and 1978 and placed in the top five 16 times, including seven second-place finishes. Harry Vardon won the Open six times—more than any other player—and four golfers, including Thomson and Watson, won five championships. South African Gary Player, who won the title in 1968 and 1974, holds the record for the most appearances in the Open, with 46. Courses The Open Championship has always been played on links courses (mostly treeless golf courses that are built along a coast and retain the natural uneven terrain of their locations). From 1860 to 1870 the Open was played exclusively at Prestwick Golf Club. Since 1872 it has been played at a number of courses in rotation. Initially the three courses were Prestwick, St. Andrews, and Musselburgh, all located in Scotland. The nine courses in the current rotation are the Old Course at St. Andrews; Carnoustie Golf Links in Carnoustie, Scotland; Muirfield in Gullane, Scotland; the Ailsa Course at the Westin Turnberry Resort, outside Girvan, Scotland; Royal Troon Golf Club in Troon, Scotland; Royal St. George’s Golf Club in Sandwich, England; Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England; Royal Lytham & St. Annes Golf Club in Lytham St. Annes, England; and Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake, England. The Open is a unique event and is of great importance to professionals and amateur golfers alike, as well as to fans of golf. Unlike the play of other majors—which are typically contested in sunny locales in the United States—the outcome of the Open is often influenced by the weather. On a links course, morning and afternoon tee times can produce vastly different playing conditions, depending on the breeze that comes in off the sea. The weather is just one of the many unique features of the Open that combine with its long history and prestigious reputation to make it an event unparalleled in golf. This author, who experienced a warm reception from his home crowd when he finished second to Tiger Woods at St. Andrews in 2005, looks forward to competing in the Open every year. To him, the Open is pure romance and theatre, and it truly is a special event that every golfer dreams of winning. British Open Winners year winner* 1860 Willie Park, Sr. 1861 Tom Morris, Sr. 1862 Tom Morris, Sr. 1863 Willie Park, Sr. 1864 Tom Morris, Sr. 1865 Andrew Strath 1866 Willie Park, Sr. 1867 Tom Morris, Sr. 1868 Tom Morris, Jr. 1869 Tom Morris, Jr. 1870 Tom Morris, Jr. 1871 not held 1872 Tom Morris, Jr. 1873 Tom Kidd 1874 Mungo Park 1875 Willie Park, Sr. 1876 Bob Martin 1877 Jamie Anderson 1878 Jamie Anderson 1879 Jamie Anderson 1880 Bob Ferguson 1881 Bob Ferguson 1882 Bob Ferguson 1883 Willie Fernie 1884 Jack Simpson 1885 Bob Martin 1886 David Brown 1887 Willie Park, Jr. 1888 Jack Burns 1889 Wille Park, Jr. 1890 John Ball 1891 Hugh Kirkaldy 1892 Harold Hilton 1893 William Auchterlonie 1894 J.H. Taylor 1895 J.H. Taylor 1896 Harry Vardon 1897 Harold Hilton 1898 Harry Vardon 1899 Harry Vardon 1900 J.H. Taylor 1901 James Braid 1902 Sandy Herd 1903 Harry Vardon 1904 Jack White 1905 James Braid 1906 James Braid 1907 Arnaud Massy (France) 1908 James Braid 1909 J.H. Taylor 1910 James Braid 1911 Harry Vardon 1912 Ted Ray 1913 J.H. Taylor 1914 Harry Vardon 1915–19 not held 1920 George Duncan 1921 Jock Hutchison (U.S.) 1922 Walter Hagen (U.S.) 1923 Arthur Havers 1924 Walter Hagen (U.S.) 1925 Jim Barnes (U.S.) 1926 Bobby Jones (U.S.) 1927 Bobby Jones (U.S.) 1928 Walter Hagen (U.S.) 1929 Walter Hagen (U.S.) 1930 Bobby Jones (U.S.) 1931 Tommy Armour (U.S.) 1932 Gene Sarazen (U.S.) 1933 Denny Shute (U.S.) 1934 Henry Cotton 1935 Alf Perry 1936 Alf Padgham 1937 Henry Cotton 1938 Reg Whitcombe 1939 Dick Burton 1940–45 not held 1946 Sam Snead (U.S.) 1947 Fred Daly (Ire.) 1948 Henry Cotton 1949 Bobby Locke (S.Af.) 1950 Bobby Locke (S.Af.) 1951 Max Faulkner 1952 Bobby Locke (S.Af.) 1953 Ben Hogan (U.S.) 1954 Peter Thomson (Austl.) 1955 Peter Thomson (Austl.) 1956 Peter Thomson (Austl.) 1957 Bobby Locke (S.Af.) 1958 Peter Thomson (Austl.) 1959 Gary Player (S.Af.) 1960 Kel Nagle (Austl.) 1961 Arnold Palmer (U.S.) 1962 Arnold Palmer (U.S.) 1963 Bob Charles (N.Z.) 1964 Tony Lema (U.S.) 1965 Peter Thomson (Austl.) 1966 Jack Nicklaus (U.S.) 1967 Roberto de Vicenzo (Arg.) 1968 Gary Player (S.Af.) 1969 Tony Jacklin 1970 Jack Nicklaus (U.S.) 1971 Lee Trevino (U.S.) 1972 Lee Trevino (U.S.) 1973 Tom Weiskopf (U.S.) 1974 Gary Player (S.Af.) 1975 Tom Watson (U.S.) 1976 Johnny Miller (U.S.) 1977 Tom Watson (U.S.) 1978 Jack Nicklaus (U.S.) 1979 Seve Ballesteros (Spain) 1980 Tom Watson (U.S.) 1981 Bill Rogers (U.S.) 1982 Tom Watson (U.S.) 1983 Tom Watson (U.S.) 1984 Seve Ballesteros (Spain) 1985 Sandy Lyle 1986 Greg Norman (Austl.) 1987 Nick Faldo 1988 Seve Ballesteros (Spain) 1989 Mark Calcavecchia (U.S.) 1990 Nick Faldo 1991 Ian Baker-Finch (Austl.) 1992 Nick Faldo 1993 Greg Norman (Austl.) 1994 Nick Price (Zimb.) 1995 John Daly (U.S.) 1996 Tom Lehman (U.S.) 1997 Justin Leonard (U.S.) 1998 Mark O'Meara (U.S.) 1999 Paul Lawrie 2000 Tiger Woods (U.S.) 2001 David Duval (U.S.) 2002 Ernie Els (S.Af.) 2003 Ben Curtis (U.S.) 2004 Todd Hamilton (U.S.) 2005 Tiger Woods (U.S.) 2006 Tiger Woods (U.S.) 2007 Padraig Harrington (Ire.) 2008 Padraig Harrington (Ire.) 2009 Stewart Cink (U.S.) 2010 Louis Oosthuizen (S.Af.) 2011 Darren Clarke 2012 Ernie Els (S.Af.) 2013 Phil Mickelson (U.S.) 2014 Rory McIlroy 2015 Zach Johnson (U.S.) 2016 Henrik Stenson (Swed.) 2017 Jordan Spieth (U.S.) 2018 Francesco Molinari (Italy)

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