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Monday, April 17, 2017
Mitchell and the Outfield
Mitchell and the Outfield
Today in my column at BP I take a look at two topics that couldnt be more different. First, I give my take on the Mitchell report and then delve into outfield defense in a continuation of my series on Simple Fielding Runs (SFR).
One of the goals that prompted looking at creating a fielding system with retrosheet style play by play data was to combine the outfield SFR ratings with the throwing arm ratings (Equivalent Throwing Runs) I developed for an essay to be published in Baseball Prospectus 2008. The final table in todays columns shows the two measures side by side for all outfielders in 2007 who played in 80 or more adjusted games (9-inning equivalents). I did not, however, total them up by team and so here are the totals for each team in 2007. Note that the SFR values are a first pass and are park adjusted using a three-year factor. Those adjustments I believe lead to the imbalance you see with more teams coming out positive. I havent looked into it deeply but thats my assumption anyway.
Also, just a reminder that Ill be chatting at BP tomorrow at 11AM Mountain, 1PM Eastern. Hope to see you there.
2007 Outfield Defense
Team Balls SFR EqThr Total
BOS 2100 65.0 -0.9 64.1
CHN 2081 46.5 11.9 58.4
NYN 2206 29.2 -6.1 23.1
WAS 2394 29.2 -7.0 22.2
COL 2202 27.0 -1.8 25.2
ARI 2207 25.3 1.0 26.3
ANA 2268 20.5 0.0 20.5
TEX 2250 20.2 3.1 23.2
FLO 2366 16.7 4.6 21.3
TOR 2010 13.3 8.5 21.8
DET 2286 10.0 4.7 14.7
CLE 2248 9.6 -7.5 2.1
NYA 2340 7.3 6.5 13.8
CHA 2290 2.8 -6.2 -3.4
HOU 2259 1.9 -2.1 -0.2
LAN 2120 1.4 -14.6 -13.2
CIN 2418 0.8 -1.2 -0.4
KCA 2426 -2.1 3.9 1.8
PIT 2315 -2.9 1.8 -1.0
ATL 2191 -3.9 13.0 9.0
MIL 2294 -4.5 -4.2 -8.7
BAL 2243 -5.0 1.4 -3.6
OAK 2231 -11.3 -16.8 -28.1
PHI 2249 -15.5 13.5 -2.0
MIN 2216 -19.5 2.8 -16.7
SDN 2153 -19.6 -10.4 -30.1
TBA 2318 -22.9 11.4 -11.5
SLN 2266 -24.6 -1.6 -26.3
SFN 2242 -32.2 -5.3 -37.5
SEA 2296 -38.1 6.2 -31.9
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May the Force Be With You
May the Force Be With You
My mom should earn the title "Jedi Master" solely for this cake she made Jer for his birthday!!!
It started a few weeks ago when she called and told me she had an idea for a cake she could make him, if we were interested. "As long as its not very big, because there are only going to be about seven of us," I told her. Well, five and a half feet long is a long stretch (hehe) from not very big!!! It was only 4 inches wide though, so it evens out, right? I couldnt say no, I KNEW Jer would absolutely go nuts about this cake, so I accepted the offer!
There are a few Star Wars
She brought it over on Saturday before our few guests arrived. We were AMAZED!!! Jer would have picked it up and wielded it, slashing invisible enemies, had I not told him, "Fall victim to the dark side of the force you must not. Cake for eating. Restrain yourself you must." She has made many many awesome cakes before, but this one, I have to say it, takes the cake! I mean, who do you know that can make a cake that measures 5.5 feet long?!
OK... youve been waiting long enough for the pictures, so here they are!
(I had to tilt my camera to get the whole cake in the picture!)
It was the star of the party. A cake to remember! Awe-inspiring, and DELICIOUS to boot!
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
Medical Self Defense and the Black Panther Party An interview with Alondra Nelson
Medical Self Defense and the Black Panther Party An interview with Alondra Nelson
Medical Self Defense and the Black Panther Party
--An interview with Alondra Nelson
By Angola 3 News
Alondra Nelson, a professor of sociology and gender studies at Columbia University, is the author of a new book released last month, entitled Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination. By documenting the multifaceted health activism of the Black Panther Party (BPP) and critically assessing the BPP’s strategy and tactics in a respectful and appreciative manner, Body and Soul presents an analysis that is rare and badly needed in US colleges and universities today. In this interview, Nelson discusses how the Panthers’ legacy can both inspire and provide important strategic lessons for today’s new generation of political activists
In her book, Nelson writes that “the Party’s focus on health care was both practical and ideological.” On a practical level, the BPP provided free community health care services, including preventative education. Simultaneously, the BPP railed against the medical-industrial complex, declaring that health care was “a right and not a privilege.” Ronald “Doc” Satchel, the minister of health for the Chicago BPP, wrote in the BPP newspaper that “the medical profession within this capitalist society…is composed generally of people working for their own benefit and advancement rather than the humane aspects of medical care.” A newsletter published by the Southern California chapter argued that “poor people in general and black people in particular are not given the best care available. Our people are treated like animals, experimented on and made to wait long hours in waiting rooms."
By 1970, People’s Free Medical Clinics had become a requirement for every BPP chapter. In 1972, the BPP revised point six of the founding ten-point-platform, adding a demand for “completely free healthcare for all black and oppressed people…We believe that the government must provide, free of charge, for the people, health facilities which will not only treat our illnesses, most of which have come about as a result of our oppression, but which will also develop preventative medical programs to guarantee our future survival. We believe that mass health education and research programs must be developed to give Black and oppressed people access to advanced scientific and medical information, so we may provide ourselves with proper medical attention and care.”
While citing Martin Luther King’s 1966 declaration that “of all forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane,” one chapter provides an important historical context for the BPP’s health activism by detailing what Nelson calls “the long medical civil rights movement,” that began long before the BPP. “Mobilized in response to the distinctly hazardous risks posed by segregated medical facilities, professions, societies, and schools; deficient or nonexistent healthcare services; medical maltreatment; and scientific racism, activism challenges to medical discrimination have been an important focal point for African American protest efforts and organizations. The Panthers were heirs to health activism that directly reflected tactics drawn from this tradition,” writes Nelson.
Nelson says the central focus of her scholarly work is on “the intersections of science, technology, medicine and inequality.” She has co-edited Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life (2001) and Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History (scheduled to be released in March, 2012). To learn more, please visit www.alondranelson.com.
Angola 3 News: In our recent interview with Billy X Jennings from It’s About Time BPP, one theme explored was how, with rare exception, the mainstream media has misrepresented the BPP. However, it seems that the even the radical and anti-capitalist media has generally underreported the health activism that is the focus if your book. How did the BPP’s health activism relate to their better-known stances against white supremacy, capitalism, and police violence?
Alondra Nelson: Yes, it’s true. The Black Panthers’ health activism has been under-reported across the ideological spectrum. Their critics obviously did not want to cast them in a positive light. And, as your question suggests, even the Party’s supporters said little about this important aspect of the BPP’s work. I think its plausible to say that many on the Right and some of us on the Left--in very different ways and for completely opposite reasons--were captivated by a vision of the Party that did not include its health politics. Depictions of African Americans working in their neighborhoods, wearing white medical coats, was unspectacular compared to images of Black radicals wearing leather jackets and carrying guns.
It is ironic that our collective memory of the Panthers remains so incomplete because their health activism—from their political writing about medical issues in The Black Panthernewspaper, to their practice of DIY healthcare—exemplified the anti-racist, anti-capitalist stance for which they are known. In fact, the reality of health inequality brought the BPP’s political perspective into sharper relief because it offered stark and specific examples of how economic and racial oppression literally damaged bodies, families and communities.
As you know, the BPP was originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, a name that reflected that protecting communities from police brutality was a primary motivation for the group’s founding. The BPP exposed the misuse of power whether it was at the hands of police officers or physicians. So, it’s also useful to think of the Panthers as being engaged in medical self-defense.
In Los Angeles, Party members Ericka Huggins and Elaine Brown, nursing professor Marie Branch, Dr. Terry Kupers, and others established that chapter’s People’s Free Medical Clinic. But, like all of the BPP’s health activism, this work extended beyond the clinic, including in this case, confronting police brutality. (Branch shared meeting notes with me from the 1970s from her personal archive where the formation of BPP health programs and prisoners’ protection from medical discrimination were seamlessly discussed). The LA Panthers advocated for and provided health care for incarcerated persons; some of these men and women needed medical attention because they had been abused while in police custody.
A3N: How does the story of the BPP’s health activism, as presented in your book, contribute to and challenge the traditional presentations of the BPP by both the mainstream and alternative media?
AN: Body and Soul offers an account of the BPP that moves away from the narrow confines of the so-called “culture wars,” in which the Party can only ever be a positive force or a negative element. Paying attention to the Party’s health activism calls into question the inaccurate stereotype of the activists as aimless thugs.
We also gain a different perspective on things we thought we already knew about the BPP, like the fact that the Panthers were avid followers of Fanon, Che and Mao, whose writings were required reading for all members. Through the prism of health, one can see very clearly the influence of Fanon’s dissection of colonial medicine in Algeria on the Panthers’ understanding of medical discrimination in the U.S. We can take seriously the fact that Fanon and Che were physicians as well as political thinkers. We can appreciate that Mao, who established the “barefoot doctors” lay health worker program, made available to the Party not only broad revolutionary principles, but also specific ideas about health care as political practice.
A3N: What do you think were the most successful tactics employed by the BPP as part of its health activism? Strategically speaking, what lessons from the BPP’s health activism do you think are most applicable for today’s activists to learn from?
AN: In addition to setting up their own clinics, they used legal approaches not dissimilar from the NAACP to voice their opposition to problematic biomedical research. The Party leadership realized early on that “policing the police” would not be the only method they used in their effort to topple racism and capitalism. The Panthers were pretty flexible tacticians.
One of the lessons that the BPP offers today’s activists is that they should be more loyal to the desired outcome than to the tactic. The sit-in came to be associated with the southern civil rights movement just as the mic check is now emblematic of the Occupy movement. But these groups also used other tactics: marching, occupying, sermons, etc. Social movements are dynamic phenomena; circumstances are constantly changing. So too should tactics.
One of the BPP’s more fascinating tactics was what I call, after sociologist Lily Hoffman, the “politics of knowledge.” Working in this vein, the Panthers engaged and reinterpreted scientific ideas about race and disease. They reinterpreted scientific theories about the causes of sickle cell anemia, for example, by placing the prevalence of the disease in the context of the history of the transatlantic slave trade, the medical-industrial complex and contemporary racism.
The Panthers use of this tactic—the politics of knowledge—should remind today’s activists that “framing” matters. It is important to be able to translate political arguments—health-related ones and other ones—into language, into stories really, that resonate with the broader public. The Party could be expert at this.
The Nixon administration and mainstream philanthropies would ultimately coopt the issue of sickle cell anemia. But the BPP played a key role in raising awareness about the disease and in situating it in a powerful political language that could mobilize communities.
A3N: Along with chapters focusing on the BPP’s free medical clinics and the campaign to educate the Black community about and test for Sickle Cell Anemia, another chapter focuses on the BPP’s involvement with a diverse coalition that successfully organized against the formation of the Center for the Study and Reduction of Violence at UCLA in 1973. You write that BPP felt that the Center’s “biologization of violence” line of research would ultimately “craft a narrative of Black and Latino violent pathology” that would serve to “make already marginalized populations more vulnerable to medicine as a tool of social control,” and “effect the further criminalization of social groups—black males, the incarcerated—and in turn justify calls for increased surveillance and social control.”
While writing that the defeat of the Center was a “notable triumph,” you note further that it “was somewhat of a Pyrrhic victory for Newton and his allies, as blocking resources to the center as an entity would not prevent individual researchers from pursuing other sources of support for their investigations.” With this in mind, how has biologization of violence research progressed since the 1970s? How much influence has it had on public policy?
AN: Attempts to attribute the causes of violence to biology (and closely related to this, criminality) are a very old story. In the late 19th century, the influential Italian criminologist Lombroso, claimed that new methods (e.g., phrenology) and theories (e.g., social Darwinism) showed that the tendency toward criminal behavior was inherited.
More than one hundred years later, similar ideas persist. In the 1990s, during the first Bush presidency, Louis Sullivan, the Secretary of Health and Human Services set-up a “violence initiative” to explore the biological models of social unrest in urban settings. Your readers may recall that around the same time another Bush official, referencing studies on violence among non-human primates, said that disproportionately black and brown “inner cities” were like “jungles.” (The initiative and controversial commentary around it would recall to the heated debate the Panthers were engaged in over plans to form a “violence center” at UCLA in the 1970s that may have had an especially harmful impact on black and Latino youth and men).
Recently behavioral researchers have aimed to link the presence of what has been called the “warrior gene” to violent, criminal behavior. At a time when we are learning even more about the complexities of genetic inheritance, about the epigenome and the systems biology, it simply does not make sense that one single genetic marker could have such a dramatic, determinative effect.
A3N: What role has biologization of violence research played in justifying the mass incarceration explosion that began in the 1970s, increasing the prison population from 300,000 to 2.4 million today, giving the US the highest incarceration rate and the largest total prisoner population in the world?
AN: To the extent that the longstanding efforts that I have just described have kept in circulation the fallacy that there is a definitive link between human biology and violence, theses ideas have indeed served as a justification for the expansion of the carceral system.
This is where the policy implications of the biologization of violence come to the fore: If violence is “in your genes” or “in your blood,” then one can justify policies that lock people away because these people are “lost causes.”
And, in turn, the idea that there is a innate predisposition to violence contributes to the decline of support for rehabilitation and reparative justice programs.
A3N: Since the 1970s, has the US come any closer to realizing the BPP’s public health goals? If BPP co-founder Huey P Newton were alive today, what do you think he would say about President Obama’s “Affordable Care Act?”
AN: The revised ten-point platform was prescient in capturing one side of the recent debates about widening health inequality in the U.S. and what to do about it. If I had to venture a guess, I would say that Newton and the Party would have appreciated the historic nature of what President Obama accomplished—a feat that many administrations before his had variously tried to accomplish and failed to do. Perhaps Newton would have even observed that the Affordable Care Act is a very small step in the right direction.
However, some journalists and pundits have noted the similarity between President Obama’s historic Affordable Care Act and the national insurance plan that former President Nixon backed unsuccessfully. Given the animus between the Party and Nixon, and the way this administration and its agents worked to destroy the BPP, it is hard to imagine that Newton would have been in strong support of recent healthcare reform legislation. There would have certainly been opposition to the fact that President Obama’s plan is a boon for insurance companies because the Panthers demanded, “healthcare for the people, not for profit.”
--Angola 3 News is an official project of the International Coalition to Free the Angola 3. Our website is www.angola3news.com, where we provide the latest news about the Angola 3. Additionally we are also creating our own media projects, which spotlight the issues central to the story of the Angola 3, like racism, repression, prisons, human rights, solitary confinement as torture, and more. Our articles and videos have been published by Alternet, Truthout, Counterpunch, Monthly Review, Z Magazine, Indymedia, and many others.
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Thursday, April 13, 2017
Meeting at the White House the State Tax Initiative and the UC Regents
Meeting at the White House the State Tax Initiative and the UC Regents
On March 27th, I made a presentation at the White House on how to control tuitin increases at American research universities. My first major point was that any attempt to contain tuition at public universities has to deal with state budget cuts for higher ed. I was told that the administration is aware of this issue, and they have been meeting with the presidents of several public universities to come up with a way to motivate states to stabilize higher ed funding.
My second major point was that while President Obama has been stressing affordability and access, he also has to focus on the quality of instruction. To make this point, I discussed how universities have been increasing the sizes of their classes and their dependence on under-supported non-tenure-track faculty to drive down the costs of instruction; meanwhile, the cost of administration, athletics, and construction has continued to increase. As I argue in my forthcoming book, the only way to control costs in higher education is to focus on providing quality instruction and research, but there are no incentives to make universities concentrate on their core missions.
One possible way of changing how universities spend their funds is to rank and rate universities based, in part, on the percentage of their budget that they spend on direct instructional costs (faculty salaries and benefits). I suggested to the administration that they add to their new College Scorecard statistics on how much of a university’s budget is spent on direct instructional costs and what percentage of their student credit hours are taught by full-time faculty. If universities had to report on these factors, they would need to commit more attention and funding to their core mission.
We also discussed President Obama’s fight to stop student loan interest rates from doubling this summer. I mentioned that in California, we are trying to freeze tuition by increasing the taxes on the wealthy, but we still need the federal government to combine the current emphasis on access and affordability with a focus on educational quality. Moreover, in the case of the UC system, it is clear that we have to force the governor and the legislature to dedicate new tax revenue to higher education. In fact, at the recent Regents meeting, several of the regents said that they do not think they can support the governor’s tax initiative if it does not dedicate funds directly to the UC in order to prevent another tuition increase. I have been meeting with people from the governor’s office and key legislators to push for a major increase in UC funding, but so far, no one has committed to guaranteeing UC funding and tying the higher education budget to the new tax initiative. We all need to work together now to push the governor and the legislature to provide enough funding to roll back recent tuition increases.
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Sunday, April 9, 2017
Me Made May15 Days 28 31 The End!
Me Made May15 Days 28 31 The End!
Ah sad times! Heres the final round-up of documentation pics from Me-Made-May15, plus my thoughts at the end.
Day 28 (spot the cheeky feet at the bottom of the pic!)
Me-Mades:
50s day dress
Vest
Undies
Day 29
Me-Mades:
Black Dolores batwing top
Stripy Mabel skirt
Vest
Undies
Day 30
Me-Mades:
Ditsy floral Mimi blouse
Nautical Cressida skirt
Vest
Undies
Day 31
Me-Mades:
Black Bronte top
Leopard print Jenna cardi
Black leggings
Vest
Undies
Final thoughts:
My pledge this year was to wear as many me-made garments as possible (which wasnt too difficult because I do that most of the time anyway) and to wear a dress or skirt five days a week (which was difficult but I achieved it, phew!). To go from wearing a skirt or dress perhaps once a month, to wearing one five out of seven days was a big leap. I chose to do this because I want to expand the variety in my day-to-day looks; Id got into a serious rut of wearing secondhand jeans, a knit top and cardigan every-single-frikkin-day and I just wasnt happy with what I saw in the mirror most of the time. A couple of months ago a friend of mine even said You dont have many clothes, do you?, which certainly isnt true but says a lot about how predictable my outfits had become.
I also think I felt a bit lost to my current role/s. Yes, I am the mum of a crazy little toddler so comfort and movement is key, but this is my life now for the next few years. I had to figure out a way to combine those practical necessities with outfits that make me feel something closer to me when I look in the mirror. Or at least just not bored.
So here I am on 1st June, free from my pledge and still wearing a skirt! So Me-Made-May15 seems to have helped me integrate most of my dresses and skirts into more regular rotation and Ive found some good new outfit combinations. Ive discovered which of my tights Im able to wear for a whole day and which require disposal or reworking. Ive found that the dresses and skirts that can be worn with trainers are the ones that I will reach for during the week. The rest that need to be worn with nicer shoes and/or are perhaps a little more restrictive will be confined to the weekends when I go to work, and to the occasional date night.
I feel like Im still a fair way away from the wardrobe Id like to own, but this month has given me a good idea about what items will be worth the investment of time and expense to create, and what would be a waste. Im not going to write a strict To Make list because I like the freedom to make whatever I like when the urge takes me, but I am not going to make anything that Im sure wont see hefty action. I think this Me-Made-May has really helped me figure out what will and what wont get lots of use with my lifestyle as it is at present. Well fitting trousers and perhaps shorts would be a welcome addition, as would a black or navy knit skirt, and any time spent making jackets or coats will be well spent because of the frequency of wear those garments receive.
How about you? What have you taken away from participating in MMM this year (if you did, of course)? Do you feel you have a better relationship with your handmade clothing now? Or at least a bit of insight into what is required to improve that relationship? I want to thank everyone who took part and got involved in the community aspect in some form or other. Its always such an inspirational and supportive part of the year and 2015s challenge was bigger and better than ever! I already cant wait for Me-Made-May16!
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Me and the APT
Me and the APT
Gav and I visited the Asia Pacific Triennial Exhibition at The Gallery of Modern Art on Tuesday. It was fantastic.
I realised I have been to every single APT since its first incarnation in 1993...
In January 1993, I had just finished my first year of my Bachelor of Visual Arts degree at QUT. Lets call it my first year, anyway. It is also known as My Only Year. I dropped out. Well, I think I dropped out. I actually just stopped going. I may still be enrolled. Who knows. There may be a Wednesday morning Art Theory Lecturer STILL calling out my name on the roll. (I know.. lecturers dont call out names on a roll like in Primary School. They dont know or care whether you exist.)
My year at Uni had been very tumultuous. I had left home, straight out of school, at seventeen to move into an inner city flat with a friend. My parents moved to the Sunshine Coast and both my sisters were interstate. I was kind of alone for the first time in my life. And I wasnt very good at it. Responsibility and being a grown up all at once was a lot. Coupled with a few very traumatic and stressful events, I kinda messed it all up.
So I dropped out. I have always regretted that decision. Although, in my younger years, I didnt really MAKE decisions... I kinda just let life bat me around like a ball in a pinball machine. I have always wished I could go back and say to my young self- stick it out. It will be OK. This will be worth it if you just hang in there. My leaving was never because I didnt like my course. Or because I wasnt good at it. I think I would have loved it if I hadnt been to scared to let myself. I dropped out of Uni, and of life, because I didnt know how to do anything else.
That January in 1993, I walked through the old Art Gallery with my mum and my Aunty Margie. I remember being inspired and feeling a part of this universe- this world of art and creation and expression. But then I let it go... I languished on the dole. I made bad choices. I let myself forget who I was. I let my art be silenced.
So this January when I walked through that exhibition once again, I am a grown woman. I am an artist. I am loved and secure and although I am still a little crazy and unbalanced (as I was all those years ago) I am (mostly) the person I think I was meant to be... I just went the hard way round....
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Friday, April 7, 2017
Memoirs of the Jungle
Memoirs of the Jungle
I remember getting on a boat, after a plane and a bus, then a truck, then walking and finally stepping on- in the midst of Asian houses standing on stilts in the water. I remember thinking I was in a movie, I wasnt sure what kind, but the lighting was so ominous over the mysterious waters we were slowly moving on- I cant really describe it except it felt like the edge of the world, where you leave civilization and move into a different realm that is not earth. Had my camera not broken, these would have been the best photographs Id taken.
I had traveled, coming from living in Australia, moving through the Island of Borneo to the edge of Sabah- in Malaysia. It was an American some Norwegians, Malaysians and a sometimes-armed South African. We were on a mission- not entirely sure what, but we were going into the jungle... deep and far away, with only what we carried on our backs. I slept with no pillow, only a small mat and a piece of fabric and several sets of clothes compressed and folded into small plastic baggies. I was always awake long after everyone was sleeping.
One thing tropical remote life will teach you is that in the depths of the earth, furthest from familiar, hidden in mystic- you can reach the edge but you cant run from yourself. Everything you feel, everything you are, the story you carry is the same- a million miles away, you will always be you.
We were there three months, but most my memories were the moments in between. Life is slow in the jungle, and now with blogging and i-phones, Im not sure many of us would make it out there again. Between the balance of long hikes and very uncomfortable adventures I remember writing lists to keep myself occupied. After our daily rations of rice three times and an occasional "milo-ping" I daydreamed of Bojangles chicken biscuits and computers.
I learned to play the guitar, hunt for jungle greens and river snails, a delicacy when youre only eating rice, skin a coconut with a machete and drink its fresh water and silky white meat- like youve never tasted before, and speak a little Norwegian, thanks to Joakim & Martin- fresh out of the Nordic army full of stories and life. I learned about "hell week"and Santa Lucia and practiced talking in the rhythm of a song. Jeg heta Ana And every night, to keep ourselves occupied, or to keep from insanity, we laid on our mats and recited things we were grateful from earlier in the day.
We did things with the natives, but mostly I felt useless... as their tribal language needed several interpreters and by then- I wasnt sure anyone knew what we were saying. I remember childrens faces- their perfectly browned skin and beautiful dark eyes. I even gave up my shoes, after the straps broke, and decided to walk on foot for weeks- as they did. We did what I thought was incredible things, but I wish I could return with the skill and wisdom of being 30 but the adventure and bravery of 18.
I became ill and delusional once, proclaiming rooster men were coming to take us away, and Joakim fed me garlic potions that were used for all our ailments. There was garlic in our ears, and down our sore throats - I can only imagine the stench we carried walking through the green.
I was carried through crocodile infested waters, and witnessed tribal witches who worshipped salt that their beheaded ancestors laid upon. long story- I also, experienced night terrors and cold sweats and midnight revelations. I saw a Komodo Dragon swimming in the water and I believed in dinosaurs again.
When we were finished with our voyage, we arrived in Brunei by invitation of the Sultan, so I was told and stayed at a hotel across from a solid gold temple, that had a story of being torn down and rebuilt several times because a shadow of a cross kept appearing on the wall. It was the cleanest, wealthiest and smallest country Ive ever been to.
We joined the modern world again and I felt out of place, belonging nowhere. Joakim became my safety in a strange world but instantaneously didnt fit into my real life with amenities. I got off the plane after now being 7 months away. I was a know-it-all, and lost. I went on a small circuit sharing my stories with different groups of young people... but shortly after, no one cared about my stories, and no one could relate to my feelings- and the only people that did- were spread out on different continents.
Joakim & Martin came to North Carolina to visit months later and it was too strange to mix urban life with the two Viking men who carried me on their shoulders and told stories of the army, crawling through mud and learning to live on no sleep, which this adventure was the closest to being in the army I may experience. In the jungle, we were close, most of them felt like family. Carla, from England, felt like a sister. But at home we were strangers... and continued to be.
I rarely think of those times. The times I was brave (naive). When I didnt know about trafficking, or didnt worry incessantly about my little girl, or all the reasons I should not be wandering in head-hunting country or sleeping where mountain creatures could tear us apart at night.
But sometimes I miss the ignorance, before I really knew the weight of life and lived more like a dare than a task. Sometimes I miss the journey of strangers who became family, and late night conversations beside the never-ending sky and the mystery of tomorrow. And in all those daydreams, I never thought life would be like this. And sometimes I wish I was brave again.
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Megaman 2 The Power Fighters Via el Emulador Tiger Arcade para Android
Megaman 2 The Power Fighters Via el Emulador Tiger Arcade para Android
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Thursday, April 6, 2017
MobiKin For Android Review The Best Tool To Deal With Everything On Your Android Phone
MobiKin For Android Review The Best Tool To Deal With Everything On Your Android Phone
MobiKin For Android Review: The Best Tool To Deal With Everything On Your Android Phone
Initially, MobiKin works as well as all Android and iOS users is dedicated to the daily life partner. The most innovative and easy-to-use software MobiKin sparing no effort, our knowledge and expertise in software for portable devices to keep enriching. MobiKin finally launched a full line of iOS and Android devices in the mobile software. And the software quickly gained a warmly welcomed in the market for third-party app.
So What This Mobikin Assistant for Android?
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Windows and Mac: two versions of the program.
You can use your mobile phone in its full power and a wide range of data to store it if you are, you may have installed all the files and applications management issues. Android MobiKin assistant software solutions to help you resolve the problem, one without any hassle
Now, your Android OS application, Android OS dropped data with the help of luck to accomplish. On the computer help, it is possible to burn almost all data in the system, a straightforward simply click.
PC and Mac based, MobiKin mobile app for Android and the Android team as assistant, recreational users to run Android applications and offers.
Windows and Mac: two versions of the program.
You can use your mobile phone in its full power and a wide range of data to store it if you are, you may have installed all the files and applications management issues. Android MobiKin assistant software solutions to help you resolve the problem, one without any hassle
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Whenever you are looking for your Android data management solution unregistered version is a straightforward, though many disorders that affect the user experience of all, Android MobiKin assistant, which can come in handy.
Whenever you are looking for your Android data management solution unregistered version is a straightforward, though many disorders that affect the user experience of all, Android MobiKin assistant, which can come in handy.
Now, your Android OS application, Android OS dropped data with the help of luck to accomplish. On the computer help, it is possible to burn almost all data in the system, a straightforward simply click.
- Photos, media files like music, videos and your local disk via the program loaded on your device.
- You will still be able to free up more space for new files, computer, mobile phones and tablets Android contacts, text messages, applications, photos, music, etc., movies, books, cannot be shipped.
- Install or remove Apps on your phone with a simple click on the desktop computer.
- Computer backup applications for Android phones and tablets to choose from, or a block.
- Your key contacts stored in CSV format and computer text into dialog and click Export
Requirements:
Above 800MHz Intel or AMD CPU, or; 512MB RAM or more
What Makes Mobikin Assistant Different From Others??
Many Android users on the Android device while using some unfamiliar functions, they always complain that accidentally delete something important. So if you are tired of losing items from randomly if your phone?
Currently, through this android application android help finish this destiny of the dropped data. It is a uncomplicated click on, you possibly can support each of the data through the device in your computer
Features:
1:Android Backup
Android phones & tablets from the computer, etc. text messages, contacts, photos, music, apps, such asbacking up all your personal data can be a great way to avoid accidental data loss. And in some casesyou need to share files between the device and the desktop computer. That's why you want to find all thereferences to the center.
Transfer SMS from Android to PC
In some cases, a specific time in your life books about the need to be treated as a precious memories.That's why the backup system to copy text from your mobile phone.
Transfer Contacts from Android to PC
Contacts mobile phone is one of the most important data. In this article, we show you detailed instructionsfor converting clicks to your personalcomputer to the Androidcontacts.
2:Android Recovery
No matter how careful you are, lost data, daily life and work is still going on here and there. So in addition to your Android device regularly data backup, data recovery, you must have some knowledge.
So, for the first time, you can find your lost deleted or formatted data back. In this center, we collected andpicked up tips for your reference most useful Android data recovery. If you have this problem, go to a pageto find your own answers.
Recover Deleted Contacts from Android
Now you can be a devastating loss of important contacts information. Read this article and you are easilyremoved from any kind of Android phones is the easiest way to get back in the contacts list.
Removed Text Messages coming from Samsung Galaxy
Many people hold the idea that it will never come back deleted SMS. So in response to the loss ofimportant messages, they usually do not have anything to do. But in fact, you are still in your device to loadnew data is that a chance to recover deleted messages on the Samsung Galaxy.
Final Words
I cannot say the same for the back end, the best way to attract the person that goes out of his way towards the sun "Mobikin the attention of the competition is to help people " And a similar platform provides all the features needed for efficient marketing and you want to achieve in the field where the key is to help the Android Mobikin Android Therefore, it is undoubtedly worth the effort Mobikin assistant safest mode of your data, or if you plan to get started
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