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Alice Keeney had to study for months in the Navy to learn how to operate nuclear reactors that power submarines and aircraft carriers. But when she tried to transfer her classes over to Cal Poly Pomona, they wouldn't give her credit. Why is credit for learning outside the classroom important? And how did Alice — and her allies — eventually change how CSUs evaluate transcripts? Guests: Alice Keeney, Former machinist mate in the Navy and former student at Cal Poly Pomona Emma Gallegos, Reporter, EdSource Education Beat is a weekly podcast hosted by EdSource's Zaidee Stavely and produced by Coby McDonald.
Matthew Fraze is a Full-time Lecturer, Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach and an Olympic Weightlifting Coach working with students preparing for fields related to Exercise Science and Physical Education. He teaches classes in Strength & Conditioning, Physical Fitness and Outdoor Education for the Department of Kinesiology at California State University, Stanislaus. In addition to teaching at CSU Stanislaus, Coach Fraze is the Strength & Conditioning Coach for the Women's Soccer Team at San Joaquin Delta Junior College. Previously, Coach Fraze became the first Head Strength and Conditioning Coach for CSU Stanislaus (and the second Head Coach in California at the DII Level). Coach Fraze and trained the teams for the CSU Athletic Department from 2005 to 2016.Coach Fraze earned his B.A. degree in Physical Education from CSU Stanislaus and a M.S. degree in Strength and Conditioning from CSU Sacramento, where he served as Graduate Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Hornets Athletics Department. He is a certified Strength and Conditioning specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association.Coach Fraze is married to Cindy Fraze a manages and runs her own real estate business. They have three beautiful daughters together. On his own time Coach Fraze coaches weightlifting, where he's helped students compete at national levels. Additionally, he is an avid outdoorsman. Has worked with different young men's and women's groups teaching and leading outdoor adventures. He has planned and organized youth base camps in the mountains of California. Personally, he spends his summers and parts of the winter hiking in the Sierra's.To learn more about our podcast visit us on TikTok @awakenyourego or on Instagram @awakenyour ego, @_egowellness @_egobeauty Visit our website www.egodefined.comYouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO9Ha4hv2mkM0dEtiN32cDQVisit us on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/egobeautymodestoand https://www.facebook.com/egowellnessmodesto
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) teams up with the NFL to tackle cybersecurity at the Super Bowl, making a defense play that extends beyond the field. Dive into the shadows with us as we explore the stealthy advances of Raspberry Robin malware, leveraging Discord and new exploits to breach systems. Shift gears to the macOS landscape, where RustDoor backdoor emerges as a sophisticated threat. Then, join us underground on the London Tube, where AI surveillance trials spark debate over privacy and safety. Finally, we unravel the evolving menace of MoqHao Android malware, highlighting the relentless pace of cybercriminal innovation. Stay vigilant with us on the digital frontier, where cybersecurity is not just a strategy but a necessity. Featured Topics and Original Articles: CISA's Cybersecurity Touchdown at the Super Bowl Cybersecurity Dive - Super Bowl and Cybersecurity AI Surveillance on the London Underground Ars Technica - AI Surveillance London Underground RustDoor MacOS: A Stealthy Threat The Hacker News - RustDoor Backdoor Alert Raspberry Robin Malware's Tactical Evolution The Hacker News - Raspberry Robin Upgrades The Evolving Threat of MoqHao Android Malware McAfee Labs Report on MoqHao Listen and Learn: Join us as we dissect these pressing cybersecurity issues, offering insights into how individuals and organizations can navigate the complexities of the digital age. Whether it's the excitement of the Super Bowl or the daily commute on the London Underground, security is omnipresent and paramount. Stay informed, stay secure, and let's protect our digital world together. Thanks to Jered Jones for providing the music for this episode. https://www.jeredjones.com/ Good morning, everyone. Today is Monday, February 12th, and you're listening to the daily decrypt. Yesterday was a pretty big day for television fans. I believe Taylor swift. Made an appearance, um, at the sports game. So congratulations to Taylor swift for winning the super bowl. We're going to quickly talk about the CSUs cybersecurity touchdown at the super bowl. We're going to be discussing AI surveillance at the London [00:01:00] underground. I'm gonna be talking about RustDoor which is a MacOS vulnerability. Raspberry Robin. And the evolving threat of the MoqHao Android malware. Okay, so up first, this past. Weekend we had the Superbowl. And CISA. Which is the cybersecurity infrastructure security agency. Has launched a NFL wide campaign called secure our world. And they're teaming up with the NFL to boost cybersecurity awareness. Not only at the Superbowl. But throughout the entire season with 32 of the NFL teams committing. To promoting cybersecurity tips. This is pretty cool. It's becoming more and more important to discuss ways to stay safe online. So we're really glad that the NFL is partnering with CISA. To get the word out there. You'll be [00:02:00] shocked to hear their recommendations. Which are as follows. Adopt strong passwords. Enable multi-factor authentication. Be vigilant against phishing. And keep your software up to date. These messages appeared on screens throughout Allegiant stadium. They appeared on the jumbo Tron. They appeared on posters. I believe they even. I had an ad. On the Las Vegas sphere. So, this is huge. This is going to be great. We know how much you guys love hearing lectures about how to stay safe online. And we know how much you love ignoring them. We're so excited for you to watch the Superbowl and get more of those lectures. The lectures won't stop. Until you follow that advice. This campaign is not only coming. As a result of. The huge breach on major Las Vegas casinos last year. But also because regular citizens lost over a billion dollars last year due to cyber crime. So we need to [00:03:00] start cracking down on this for your safety, for the economy. For many reasons at a macro level. So I have some friends who have spent between 10 and $80,000 to get to go to Allegiant stadium. For the super bowl. To see Taylor swift. To get a cybersecurity lecture that they couldn't get from me. And maybe they'll even see some sports. So all in all, I think that's pretty worth it. So the London underground is testing AI surveillance to detect crimes unsafe behaviors. And fare evasion. With a pilot at Willis, then green tube station. The system uses live CCTV and machine learning to issue over 44,000 alerts, including 19,000 in real time to station staff for behaviors like weapon brandishing, falling on the tracks and fare dodging. Okay, well, that's great. They're not just worried about. The money that they're losing, but they're also worried about your [00:04:00] safety. Like if someone falls on the tracks, AI can recognize that as a safety hazard and get someone over there, hopefully before a train comes. Experts worry about the ethical implications, potential expansion to facial recognition. And the lack of public awareness about the trial. And those things concern me too. It's only a fine line from using AI. To detect crimes and to detect all these things to now tracking you and your face. And feeding that information to. Big banking to Amazon, to all these people that want your data, Facebook, et cetera. I'm sure that London is not doing a great job of advertising this. So it's really important to stay up to date on this news. By sharing this podcast with them. So if you know anyone in London, go ahead and send this to them. The London underground is going to start watching. Yeah. Apple Mac OS users find themselves at the center of a sophisticated cybersecurity threat. A new rust based backdoor rust is just a programming language [00:05:00] and it's been code named rust door by bit defender. This threat has been around since November of 2023. So it's not new, but it is just coming to fruition. Rust door masquerades as an update for Microsoft visual studio, which is pretty clever because. For some reason, certain things need Microsoft visual studio to run effectively on your Mac. And. By the time you realize that that's what's missing, you're frustrated. And you just click download you, Google, Microsoft visual studio update, and you click the first thing and you click download and you walk away because it's like, 20 gigabytes. Of data that has to download over the next hour. It's so frustrating. I've done it way too many times. So attackers have realized this and they've bought Google ad space for Microsoft visual studio probably duplicated the website. So it looks exactly the same with the download button you're going there. You're clicking. Download. And you're getting malware. So, yeah. Be careful, especially for downloading Microsoft [00:06:00] visual studio. On a Mac. Raspberry Robyn. Which is a fun name is the name of malware. Used as sort of initial foothold during breaches. So it. It historically has been distributed using USB keys or malicious downloads. But it's continually evolving. And it's now harnessing one day exploits for escalated privilege. Hinting at either an exploit market purchase or in-house development by its operators. So we've talked about zero days before on this podcast. So as a reminder, a zero day is something that was built into the initial software. So when something is released, There's a vulnerability in there that the developers don't even know about. So that's, what's called a zero day. Uh, one day is when the developers find [00:07:00] out about that vulnerability. Now we're in this weird limbo, which is called a one day. Where the developers know and are working on developing a patch, which will come to you via a security update. And now all bad actors also know about this vulnerability. So they're hustling to get out an exploit. For this vulnerability and it's sort of a race between the developers trying to fix it and the bad actors trying to exploit it. So. Raspberry Robin has successfully exploited. What's called a one day, which we just discussed. And it has become harder and harder to detect and analyze because it employs anti analysis and obfuscation techniques. It is also now using discord. For a platform to distribute this malware instead of a USB key. And introduces what's called PAE exec. For lateral movement and a refined command and control method using a list of tour addresses to maintain communications stealth. So there's a lot in there. But [00:08:00] over the past couple of weeks doing this podcast, I've seen discord being used for a lot of things. Uh, I know I am clicking these server, join links all the time and join servers and then leave them. I'm going to be joining less servers moving forward. And I'll be very picky about the ones that I do decide to join. And finally we've got the evolving threat of the MoqHao Android malware. So this malware. Has been around for a few years, but. As of recently it now executes automatically on infected devices. So there's no user action required. The malware is like to roaming mantis, a Chinese cyber crime group focused on financial gain. And it starts with SMS messages containing fraudulent links. So maybe you have a package [00:09:00] coming in. Today and you get a message from someone, someone@gmail.com saying your package has been delayed. Click the link. That's how you get it. As soon as it's downloaded, it demands risky permissions from the phone. In July of 22. Sequoia. Reported over 70,000 Android devices in France were compromised. So. How can you prevent this? Like CISA said at the Superbowl, be vigilant with phishing links. Make sure your devices are up to date. And. If you notice any weird slowdowns on your devices Turn it off. Turn it back on again. Maybe even reset it. Alrighty, that's it for today, guys. Thanks for listening. We hope you enjoyed this new format, bringing you a little bit more news in a little bit shorter of a format. Thanks for tuning in and we will talk to you tomorrow. [00:10:00]
In this episode, we chat with Andrea Allen, a Grad Student and CSUS Academic Advisor. Breaking down everything CSUS with topics such as Campus highlights, Clubs, Dorms/Housing, Class Size, Diversity, Freshman Tips, Resources, Transferring, Financial Aid, Scholarships, *music by Joseph McDade -Olympus 3 Disclaimer: this episode did run longer than 10 mins
In recent years, it seems that the radio dial on ethics is moving up and down the spectrum. Ethical behavior, intentional or not, is at the root of cheating. This episode of The Score explores how our guest, Garret Merriam (@SisyphusRedemed), an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Sacramento State University in California, responded to widespread cheating on a final exam in his Introduction to Ethics course. High points of the conversation follow. Note: Removal of filler words and minor edits have been made for clarity. Kathryn Baron (01:33): Would you tell us what happened in your Intro to Ethics class? Garret Merriam (01:42): I came to suspect that some students in my class might've been cheating on my final by Googling the answers on the final. I teach a course that's fully online, has almost a hundred students, and with that much material, that many students going on, it simply isn't possible for me to create novel finals every semester, as much as I would like to do that. I reuse large portions, though never the entire thing, of my final. And so, I found that by Googling the questions on my final, you could come up with a student who had uploaded a copy of the final with many of the correct answers to the questions. I made the request of the website, called Quizlet, that they take it down, and I was very pleasantly surprised that they did so promptly and quickly. I was under the impression, I was assuming that they weren't going to respond, but they did. I was very grateful for that, very professional of them on their side of things. And then after that, a part of me, perhaps somewhat of a devious part, I suppose, decided to run a little experiment. Part of my research is in experimental philosophy, and I like running experiments, and so I decided to see what would happen if I uploaded a copy of my final with the right questions but the wrong answers. Garret Merriam (03:01):…After the final was complete, I ran a statistical analysis and found out that approximately 40 of the 96 students cheated on the final. Garret Merriam (3:35): And this understandably created a bit of havoc both for me, for my students, for my department, and a number of people who became a part of this conversation going forwards.Kathryn Baron (03:47): When you learned that a student had put the test up on Quizlet, how did you know that the students in your current class had copied it?Garret Merriam (03:54): What initially led me to be suspicious was a mistake that I had made earlier in the semester. Every week, I upload a reading and a reading quiz, and the idea is they do the reading, and they take the reading quiz just to make sure to put a little pressure on them to incentivize them to actually do the reading. And one week I neglected to upload the reading, but did upload the reading quiz, and then a few hours later I realized my mistake and I went, and I uploaded the reading. But when doing so, I noticed that some of the students had already taken the reading quiz and had gotten a perfect score on it.Garret Merriam (04:37):….That was hardly proof of anything, but it was enough to make me suspicious. It was enough to make me concerned that something would've been going on. So, I Googled those quiz questions, and sure enough, I found the copy of them on Quizlet. Kathryn Baron (05:49): I read that you contacted the students suspected of cheating. How did that go?Garret Merriam (6:04):…I put together sort of a blank form letter in which I contacted them and said that I have reason to believe that they had cheated on the final and a few more details without tipping my hand completely. And I sent that out to all of the suspected students. And somewhere in the ballpark of about two thirds of them got back to me right away and confessed and said that yes, they had cheated, they were apologetic, some of them made excuses, others just asked for understanding and forgiveness, and about one third of them denied it.And then about half of that third then turned around within 24 hours and even before I got back to them and said, "Okay, you know what? I actually, no, I changed my mind. I'm going to confess.” So, all of this very much reassured my confidence that my method was working here. And of the remainders, some of them, as far as I know to this day, still insist on their innocence. I'd handed things over to the administration at my university. Kathryn Baron (07:59): Do you have any input into what action the university takes?Garret Merriam (08:03): I get to determine the penalty as far as my class is concerned. All of the students who did this at the very least got an F on the final.Kathryn Baron (10:33): I have heard of instances where some professors think, "Well, that would never happen in my class," and I'm wondering if you received any feedback like that, sort of implying that you must have done something not quite right as a teacher for students to cheat.Garret Merriam (10:49): It's certainly tempting to think, and obviously there is some truth to that. The room for this kind of thing is going to vary depending on a lot of details about a particular instructor's class. To take the most obvious example, if you're not reusing material like I was, then you're not going to be encountering this particular problem.While none of my colleagues gave that particular response, if there's anyone out there listening, I can certainly imagine that that might be a justified response. However, at the same time, there can be a kind of certain amount of arrogance and maybe laziness that might come along with that too, to think that the problem is something specific about the individual instructor, in this case me, rather than something that is a little bit more systemic.Again, I want to give credit to professors and other instructors who have found ways to effectively discourage cheating, but I would also say you shouldn't rest on your laurels and recognize that it is, I think, a best practice to double-check your methods and your sources and to find out in any way you can, whether or not there actually is academic dishonesty going on. You should not simply assume that you are one of the fairly small percentage of instructors who has managed to stamp out academic dishonesty in their ranks completely.Garret Merriam (12:13): The irony of cheating on an ethics final is something that was not lost on me, and I tried to impose that recognition on all the students who I communicated with as well.Kathryn Baron (12:21): You did reach out to other colleagues and peers around the country on the online philosophy journal called the Daily Nous, that's spelled N-O-U-S, which I read is ancient Greek for intellect or understanding. What feedback were you looking for and did you get it?Garret Merriam (12:38): It actually started on Twitter. I have a fairly modest Twitter presence, but a lot of fellow philosophers follow me, and I follow them. And so I post about the experience and Twitter being Twitter, everything was condensed and a lot of detail was washed out, so I think a lot of people didn't possibly fully understand exactly what I did and what my reaction to it was. So, someone with a larger following retweeted it with criticism and a lot of people started to jump on and accused me of engaging in dishonesty myself. The most common criticism is a kind of entrapment, that I encouraged or enabled students to cheat and then punished them for doing so.Garret Merriam (14:07): I wanted to try to filter the audience down to people who at least had some experience with the kind of thing I was talking about.…It became a very, very populous discussion, which I was fascinated to participate in, and the results were somewhat mixed. I think a lot of the people, once they got the full picture, recognized that I hadn't engaged in anything majorly morally problematic, and in particular the charge of entrapment was ill-placed. At the same time, several people did criticize, and I think quite fairly, some of the particular ways I went about it, acknowledging that there was things that I could have done better. And I took a lot of that to heart and plan on trying to incorporate some of those criticisms and some of those pieces of advice going forward…Kathryn Baron (15:06): I'm curious about what parts of the plan do you think were flawed and what did you decide to do differently going forward? And I guess this could be a time to bring in that you actually did try this again with a summer school class. What was different?Garret Merriam (15:41): For starters, one thing which I did not realize when I reached out to these students and accused them of cheating was that for many of these students, websites like Quizlet are not thought of as forms of academic dishonesty, but just tools that students can use on the internet to study. Several of my students' claims, and I have no reason not to believe them, that they were just looking for study guides.Garret Merriam (16:48): To preempt that, I made a change to the syllabus, the academic dishonesty section of the syllabus, and I had a small, recorded lecture on academic honesty, and I made it explicit that the use of websites like Quizlet were not acceptable for the purposes of this class. There may be, and I think there probably are, legitimate uses for websites like that, but I told my students that especially when it comes to the final, all that they need is the material that I hand them and any notes that they have taken over the course of the semester. And that if they start looking online, they risk the possibility of coming across material which qualifies as academically dishonest.I also, in addition to that, put two new questions at the start of the final. The very first one was whether or not using websites like Quizlet qualified as academic dishonesty and what should happen to students who cheat on their ethics final. Garret Merriam (18:00): I deployed this new material for my summer session, which had a total of 29 students. Every single student got those first two questions on the final right, so they were paying enough attention to follow through on that. But in spite of this, I still had three students who cheated, three students who looked up the Quizlet and found it. So that's an improvement on some metrics. I fell from about 40% down to about 10%, so that's encouraging. At the same time, again, I reached out to these three students, and I genuinely tried to understand, I did everything I could to impress upon them that using these resources qualified as academic dishonesty. I tried to get their buy-in to say they wouldn't do this. And in spite of that, three students still did.Kathryn Baron (23:30): Do you feel that cheating is getting the attention of the wider higher ed community that it deserves? Are there discussions underway in universities, professional associations, and accrediting agencies to identify steps that colleges and universities can take?Garret Merriam (23:47): Obviously, the 900-pound elephant in the room for academic honesty is large language models like ChatGPT. That has been getting a tremendous amount of attention, and I think rightfully so. I have my students write essays, and I've been concerned about that. There are tools and countermeasures to try to check for that, but they're far from perfectly reliable. It just so happened that this particular instance is not one that had anything to do with artificial intelligence. This was just standard Google and academic websites like Quizlet. I do think that there should be more discussion about websites like that, in no small part just so professors could be more informed about it. Again, I had the assumption, which is no doubt true for some of these websites, that like you said, that it's a purely for-profit, that they will pay students with credits or something like that for turning in and sharing information. Garret Merriam (25:27 )…Students are very, very internet savvy. And while I consider myself reasonably internet savvy myself, I know a lot of my colleagues are a little bit older than I am, and even the younger ones aren't always as online and as plugged in, and even those who are, aren't always aware of all the possible resources out there that students can use to cheat. So, a broader conversation amongst academia and amongst professional teachers, again, if for no other reason than to draw awareness to these resources, I think is something that is important. The Score is a podcast about academic integrity and cheating with Kathryn Baron.The Score is a podcast series of interviews with people who know what's really happening in our classrooms. We'll talk with a journalist who writes about academic integrity, and we'll talk with several leading researchers and working educators about this multifaceted issue challenging academia today. Each of our guests has published either research or is a published author about the challenges faced in education institutions. We'll delve into each of our guests' scholarly work and ask them to share either personal experiences or their opinions on academic integrity. Some of our questions are pretty challenging such as the question about where the responsibilities lie for addressing instances of cheating. We'll ask if the problem really is as serious as it seems, Or is it actually worse? And, we'll ask our guests to weigh in on regulatory and legislative action, and other policies that they think may work.
A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists. The Supreme Court's ruling earlier this week has struck down on affirmative action in college admissions. What does this mean? What can we do? Where do we go from here? All of these questions will be answered in this week's episode of AACRE Thursday at APEX Express. Miko Lee and Cheryl Truong are joined by affirmative action experts, Vincent Pan, Co-Executive Director of Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) and Sally Chen, Harvard alum and CAA's Education Equity Policy Manager for a discussion on SCOTUS's repeal of race-conscious admission policies. Make sure to tune in! CAA and APEX Express are proud to be a part of the Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality (AACRE) network. Petition to Universities in support of Affirmative Action Affirmative Action Resources Let's Talk Affirmative Action show Transcripts Miko Lee: Good evening, you are on APEX Express. This is Miko Lee and Cheryl Truong. Tonight is an AACRE night, APEX Express is proud to be part of the AACRE Network, which is Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality. Cheryl Truong: Tonight, we're talking about the Supreme court's ruling against affirmative action in the repeal of race conscious admission policies just earlier this week week. Joining us today from Chinese for Affirmative Action are co-executive director Vincent Pan and education equity policy manager Sally Chen Miko Lee: Sally and Vin, thank you so much for joining us tonight. Sally, I know that you have had a personal connection to affirmative action. Can you tell us a little bit about your personal connection? And I know you wrote an article that was amazing in the LA Times. Tell us about your experience. Sally Chen: Absolutely. I was born and raised in San Francisco. The daughter of Chinese immigrants who are working class worked in restaurant and service industries all of their time in the United States. And from a young age, I was both a translator and advocate for my parents, whether that was letters from our landlord in the mail, dealing with insurance, calling the bank, and. All of these experiences really shaped my motivations, my aspirations, and ultimately the content of what I wrote about in my college application at the time. I talked really candidly about my background and ultimately matriculated to Harvard in 2015. As a part of my experiences as an organizer, a student organizer on campus involved with various racial justice efforts, including advocating for ethnic studies and for supporting junior faculty of color on campus I came to be involved with student for fair admission versus Harvard in my junior year of college. I ultimately was one of eight students and alumni that testified in support of race conscious policies such as affirmative action for two reasons. One, for how I saw the benefits of race conscious policies reflected in my own admissions experience. I had gotten to look at my admissions file and I saw how much of the reality that I would not have been able to get across all of who I am with my skills, strengths, perspectives, without talking about race and ethnicity, without talking about my background, my upbringing, and second, because of how I saw racial diversity on campus, playing out in really meaningful ways for cross-racial school coalition building or our joint advocacy. And I really think it's important. It's important to highlight that in the course of this case. Students for Fair Admissions, Ed Blum's organization, never brought forward a single student in any of his proceedings to testify, to even show proof that they had been harmed by race conscious policy, and as one of the only eight students who did get to weigh in on this case, on the public record. We all showed really direct support and answered the question that I was disappointed to see that the Supreme Court justices did not answer, did not hear in answering why these policies are important, why racial diversity is important, why racism is still a reality in the society. Miko Lee: Thanks for that Sally. Vin, as the co-executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action can you talk about the impact of this ruling across the work that you're doing with CAA? Vincent Pan: Sure. I'm happy to do so. Miko and, and thanks for having us on the program. You know, I think that the ruling is devastating on so many different levels. I think most notably it affects college admissions and who will have access to higher education. It's already been a very difficult struggle for students of color, for students from backgrounds that, you know, may have been less traditionally college going. And this will make it even harder for students to present the entirety of themselves for consideration at the most select private institutions of, of higher education. But on another level, I think that impact is, is even worse. Because when you really read and understand the ruling that the supreme court conservative, super majority made and understand, you know, how those individuals got onto the court we can also recognize that this ruling is about going backwards on the whole issue of race and racial justice. Because it is trying to convince America again that the way to deal with racism is to either pretend that it doesn't exist by sticking our head in the sand, or by saying that racism is okay and that we can live with these deep inequities that affect so many of us. So I think for CAA and, and for the communities that we work with and we represent it's a time to really deepen our resolve and our commitment because the work for racial justice is not going to be easier by this decision, but in many ways becomes even more important. Cheryl Truong: In a similar vein, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said that deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life. And so, Sally, I was wondering just because you were a first-generation student at an Ivy league school. I was wondering what your experience was like just navigating these educational systems Sally Chen: Absolutely. As I mentioned, my parents were working class immigrants. They had not attended college themselves. And in my K 12 educational journey, a lot of. What I was able to navigate was, for the most part on my own. My parents were not able to help me with my homework starting in around third or fourth grade, and I nonetheless, I still felt that a lot of the values and the lessons that they taught me were of value. That people who do not often have their voices uplifted should nonetheless be heard. That people who are directly impacted by issues are experts on issues. And when I was writing my college application, my personal statement, I talked a lot about wanting to do work that would be relevant to the communities that I'm from to Asian American communities of the Bay Area that I called home. And I remember when I wrote my personal statement, I actually had advice from my counselor at the time who himself was Asian American. And he said something along the lines of, don't tell an Asian immigrant story. It's not compelling, it's not of interest. And. I remember at the time as a young person feeling utterly crushed honestly, by that advice. And in the end, I didn't listen. One because I had already written my statement and I was not going to rewrite it, being a tired student myself, but second, because I really felt that I wanted to be going to an institution that would. Value the perspectives that I would bring that would see the value of my presence there. And are still able to and are empowered to. Speak directly about the issues that affect our lives, about what shapes our perspectives, and that no student should feel they have to hide who they are or what their needs are, or what their goals and ambitions are either. Miko Lee: Well, number one, thank you young Sally for standing up for yourself, not listening to that counselor and just saying, I'm gonna speak my truth. Yay. Thank you for doing that. This brings up this question that I'm hearing Edward Blum and all these conservatives bring up around a holistic idea of admissions. And having colorblindness. Can both of you talk a little bit about that holistic admissions process? Because Sally, like you're saying, part of your upbringing is being an immigrant, you know, having to translate for your parents. So now with this new ruling, this whole idea of colorblindness, how do you separate those two out? Vin, can you speak a little bit about that process and what does that mean and, how are they gonna go forward? How are people supposed to go forward with this idea of a holistic admission process, but also being colorblind? Doesn't one contradict the other? Vincent Pan: They, they absolutely contradict. And so what makes sense is to have a holistic process that takes into account, not just academic performance, but also extracurriculars, also adversity, also race and ethnicity, gender, immigration status. Like all the things that make us human beings. , as a result of being these full human beings, being able to participate in learning processes with beloved students and classmates and to share those perspectives. And so, why this court ruling makes no sense is because it somehow suggests that we consider everything else but race when we know that race is actually one of the driving and determinant factors of how we experience life. Maybe there's a time or a place where that wouldn't be the case but in the United States, it has probably been one of the most important factors in terms of how people experience life. Not only historically but today. So in some ways colorblindness is just a mask. There's, there's really no such thing as colorblindness in the way, you know, America navigates either it's public policy or it's social and cultural life. Colorblindness becomes a way of, of just saying, we're going to make invisible people of color. And, you know, Blum and, and his allies and the super majority of conservatives on the court, that's really what this has always been about. And it really has been an effort to turn back much of the progress that began with the civil rights era and the in the sixties, to try and reckon with race by more directly confronting and addressing it. Sally Chen: Right. And. Totally agree with everything Vin is bringing up here, and I can speak to a little bit just how holistic admissions works. Naming first that holistic admissions at generally elite institutions include often hundreds of factors including gender, sexuality, religion, geographic diversity. Socioeconomic status includes a large range of factors, and this calling out specifically of race as being problematic is just as ridiculous as Vin has discussed. And if anything, the decision from the court really throws a confusing challenge to colleges and universities around how they can navigate these limitations and move forward. We really see the role of advocates in this space to both show support for and call for accountability from colleges and universities to still hold racial diversity and equity as part of their goal, part of their mission, and that. They need to invest more and double down on the alternatives available to them, and even to implement policy changes that were available to them even before this decision that can open access for more students in particular students of color that I'll plug here on CAA's website. We have an open letter to colleges and universities outlining some of these changes, including eliminating legacy preferences, removing racially biased SAT or ACT tests as evaluation for admissions or merit scholarships, and really looking at racial diversity, after admissions to continue tracking data around who is being admitted and encourage diverse student matriculation to support financial aid or mentorship programs for first generation college students, and to really double down and invest more in these practices that we know work and that are more important than ever. Cheryl Truong: Thanks Sally, for that plug. If folks are interested in signing that open petition that Sally mentioned, we will have it linked in our show notes. We're going to take a quick music break and listen to a Burmese track. “Thai Rhymes with Sound” by Ma Ei Moe. This is a recording by Columbia records from back in around 1932 and features the saung-gauk, an arched harp that is considered the national instrument of Burma. And a little fun fact for all of our listeners out there, the saung gauk is said to be the only surviving harp in Asia. Cheryl Truong: you are tuned in to apex express at 94.1 KPFA and 89.3, KPF B in Berkeley and online@kpfa.org. That song you just heard was a Burmese song called “Thai Rhymes with Sound” by Ma Ei Moe. The singer is singing about the colors and smells of each flower. How in the summer, after the long monsoon season flowers are in bloom. Once again that was “Thai Rhymes with Sound” by Ma Ei Moe. Now, back to the show. Where we will be diving in a little bit on asian american history and Asian Americans, long history of supporting affirmative action. Cheryl Truong: Vin, you mentioned something really important earlier, and I just it's so important that I want to say it again. Asian Americans have had a long history of supporting affirmative action since the 1960s. And yet Blum is perpetuating this harmful narrative about affirmative action attacking, targeting Asians. And weaponizing this fear against other communities of color. I wonder if you can talk a little bit more about this. Vincent Pan: Yeah. Well, you know, the, the narrative it is very problematic. It's very dangerous. And for me personally, I, I find it sickening. ,the reality is that almost all the gains made by Asian Americans, in this country have been in part, due to leadership by African Americans. Uh, in the 1960s on civil rights. It really opened the door for, immigration to be expanded from Asian countries. It opened the door in education and employment. In public contracting, media representation, political representation. So, this idea that somehow Asian Americans could ever afford to be against affirmative action because of some false belief that select school admissions at the smallest, most elite institutions are working against them and to blame that on other people of color, you know, it's, it's quite frankly, it's horrifying and it's also not true. Right. We know through the research and through the evidence that there is discrimination, of course against Asian Americans in all sectors of society, but it very, very rarely, and I would say almost never has anything to do with how affirmative action is practiced. It has to do with anti-Asian racism. So again, the cause of fighting anti-Asian discrimination can be solved with things at college admissions, like better training, more oversight, really making sure that there are not biases that creep into the process. But to suggest somehow that one of the more powerful tools for rectifying systemic discrimination is a cause, it's not just cynical. it's also, I think, reflective of just the lengths that the far right is willing to go. And to really use basic tenants of the Constitution and equal protection and flip them upside down in their head. I'm very, very discouraged when I see Asian Americans who put a fall for these lies. It behooves the rest of us. Asian Americans had to really speak out, you know, speak out in solidarity with other communities that are marginalized and oppressed to speak out in support of, of race conscious programs, whether that's in college, admissions or in the workplace, or in culture and, and media. I think Asian Americans, you know, we, we have our work cut out for us, both in terms of rooting out anti-blackness in our, our own communities in terms of really getting educated on how public policy and complicated areas work. But also, to take this as a challenge to do even more to lead the way to push for policies that makes society work for everyone. Miko Lee: Vin can you back up and speak a little bit more about Asian-Americans history of support for affirmative action? I know there was a 2020 Asian-American voter survey that said that 70% of Asian-Americans actually support affirmative action, even though the narrative has been shifted a lot. But can you go back in time with us a little bit about how AAs have had this history of supporting affirmative action? Vincent Pan: Sure, I'm happy to, you know, so Chinese affirmative action was found in 1969 and it's important to know at the time, affirmative action did not have the same sort of political controversy around it because it was understand as a broad approach and a deal. Simply stated that we have to be proactive to try and fix these problems that we've inherited, that lead to unfairness and discrimination towards women, towards people of color, towards folks who are trans and queer. It's not a hard idea to grasp that you can't take a society that is so unfair and just automatically expect that by doing nothing, things will get better. No. And so for more than five decades in, in all areas of society, CAA and other Asian American groups with other Asian Americans have fought for affirmative action. And they continue to fight for affirmative action. But I think, in some ways they've come to misunderstand just how much affirmative action has benefited us. And so when, you know, I have community members tell me how much they like, say Everything everywhere, All At Once, pushing for Asian Americans, the media is affirmative action. When folks say that they really want to see more Asian American judges or senators or maybe someday the president. That's a form of affirmative action. So it's not surprising that many of the polls do show when people understand what affirmative action is, Asian Americans overwhelmingly support. Now I think what we're seeing though, in terms of this very loud vocal minority is frustration around select school admissions. Or to be quite blunt, maybe their kid didn't get in. Right. That frustration is, is, is driven by a whole number of things, including unhealthy of what higher education in the United States could be, um, but other things as well. There's a lot of work that needs to be done to explain in the future know, like the constructive ways to push against anti-Asian discrimination and to create productive outlets for some of these frustrations. For example, just expanding the pie and making sure that there are more good school and college slots for everyone as opposed to like buying into this idea that a good education or somehow needs to be this very, very scarce commodity by design. Right. But, you know, I think that it's also very true that Asian Americans, and it's really primarily East Asians and South Asians, who I think have got caught up in this. That's also part of this challenge of a growing right wing within our communities that also needs to be confronted. Miko Lee: Thank you for that. , you know, this whole idea around the colorblindness and holistic admissions and really talking about how many students can be allowed into these elite schools. One of the things that the justices didn't address was the bulk of folks that get into these school sites, which is, you know, 43% of Harvard admissions fall into the legacy, donors ,and children's of staff. Those are the folks that are getting this special admissions. Sally, can you talk a little bit about that? Who is getting access into these select schools and why that aspect hasn't been addressed? Sally Chen: Absolutely. Part of what VIN had talked about was the idea that we already knew, which was that college admissions as it stands is not fair, and that there's so much work to be done to make sure that there is meaningful, real access for all students. And one of the first points on our open letter to colleges and universities in calling on them to reassess all the different levers that they have to address inequity in college admissions in this moment is to reexamine exactly what you named this Athletic Legacy Dean's List, children of. Faculty, A L B C category under which, as you named at Elite institutions, this factor is often the first in consideration and even when it is not explicitly named the numbers that you see around students in these types of categories. Applying under early admissions, applying under early action. As a kind of backdoor for them to be able to ensure their admissions in ways that disadvantage certainly first generation students, immigrant students, students of color that are not benefited by these policies. We see that this is one of the key areas where we do need to address what some people have said is, Affirmative action for wealthy white students and that while this still stands, there is a very clear contradiction in how college admissions is allowed to continue to operate. Miko Lee: Thanks for that, Sally. We know already that nine states have passed anti-affirmative action laws and California sadly did this with Prop 209. Vin, can you talk a little bit about the impact that that has had on the uc system in California and how that can be utilized as a model for how we deal with affirmative action in other states and nationally in the future. Vincent Pan: Sure, sure. It's a really important question because there's aspects of Prop 209, the ban on affirmative action in California that overlaps with the ruling that occurred at the Supreme Court. Prop 209 really limited race and gender conscious programs in California's public institutions that deal with education, employment, and contracting, but it did not govern any of the private institutions. And so, you know, the, the private colleges and, and universities in California were not affected by Prop 209. And I should also say that businesses in the private sector were not affected by it either. Supreme Court ruling affects institutions of higher education that are both public and private. And private because most private colleges have received at least some federal funding. And so they will be governed by this as, as well. What we saw in California was a real drop in access for students of color at the UCs. We saw a tremendous drop in the number of minority owned and women owned businesses who were able to obtain public contracts. We saw real slowdown in the diversity of the public sector workforce. And that includes teachers, includes civil servants, it includes firefighters. We also saw, and this is one thing we need to be careful about, sort of an overreaction too, where many government agencies who could still do a lot of different things just decided not to even try not to even ask the question. Through the support and leadership of advocates, it's taken time, but we've been able to get many of these institutions to do better. At some parts of UC, you do see a rebound in the number of students of color because folks have learned to be more assertive and to really understand that they have to do everything that the law will allow. And I think there's a lesson there for public colleges and universities. To what Sally was saying before it's on our petition. This ruling should not be an excuse for college presidents and universities to back down or to shy away from this, this critical question of how we achieve racial justice in society. It's a call to action for them to really make sure they're doing everything possible. And that includes getting rid of the SATs. It includes making their campuses more welcoming for students of color by having stronger ethnic studies programs. It includes really accelerating the need for a more diverse faculty. It also means thinking about how we can get at issues of the adversity that students of color face and being able to account for that in the application process. In California we are unfortunately, with Prop 209, we made it very, very hard for ourselves. To achieve the type of equitable society that we all want. But as hard as it's been, we've recognized that there are multiple tools, and affirmative action was a powerful one, but it was not the only one. We've got to get better at using all of the tools available to us and also developing new ones. Cheryl Truong: So I'm so glad we're actually talking about Prop 209 because it's a point in history where we've already repealed affirmative action and we have seen how it affects our communities. I think 40%, the enrollment of black and Latino communities dropped by 40% with the passing of Prop 209. This is going to change how a lot of young people imagine their futures because now we are being told that we cannot financially succeed or we won't have financial opportunities due to this example of systemic racism. How do you think this repeal of affirmative action is going to impact how families and communities think about our futures? And if you have any advice you'd like to share especially with high schoolers who are trying to navigate the college process in the wake of this repeal. Vincent Pan: Well, I'll, I'll go first and I would love to hear what you think Sally. I think a lot of it is still unclear, right? We know like the pathways are as a result of the ruling and by limiting affirmative action or really ending affirmative action in, in college admissions, it's gonna be much, much, much harder. But a lot of it will depend on what the colleges and universities decide to do. If they decide to take the easy way out and say we really can't prioritize diversity and inclusion anymore, then the numbers of students of color are going to drop dramatically. There's no question about that. But on the other hand, if the colleges and universities say, okay we've got to double down on our commitment to diversity because our schools can't function if they're only serving just one community, the white community or just one community, the rich community. If they really step up and understand that's not acceptable, then they will have to employ every single tool at their disposal with the absence of affirmative action. And they will have to also create new ones. I think if they do that, then perhaps there's more reason to be optimistic. what does that mean for, for students and families? I think they have to stay engaged and to really understand what's happening in, in this space. It's important as Sally has said before, for students to talk about adversity, to present themselves as who they are. and to also know that in many parts of society that there is still discrimination against all students of color and people of color. It'll depend on finding allies in particular universities or colleges and really understanding what they're trying to do in this moment. Are they looking at this as an excuse to go back to when universities were really just for rich white men ? Or are they going to really step up and meet the call that this ruling really demands of all of us. Cheryl Truong: We are deep in conversation with affirmative action specialists, Sally Chen and Vincent Pan from CAA. We're going to take a quick music break and listen to some music by Namgar, an international ethno music collective that fuses traditional Buryat and Mongolian music with pop, jazz, funk, ambient soundscapes, and art- pop. We'll be back in just a moment with more on the supreme court ruling after we listen to “part two” by Namgar. Cheryl Truong: Welcome back. You are tuned in to APEX express on 94.1 KPFA and 89.3 KPFB B in Berkeley and online at kpfa.org. That song you just heard was “part two” by Namgar, an incredible four- piece Buryat- Mongolian ensemble that is revitalizing and preserving the Buryat language and culture through music. Now, back to the show as we continue our conversation with Vincent pan and Sally Chen discussing their valuable insights regarding the Supreme court's recent ruling on affirmative action. Miko Lee: I wanna go back Vin, to something that you just said about getting faculty to look more like the students, and I'm wondering both of your response to actually also getting the Supreme Court to look more like our population , and actions that can be taken to actually change the Supreme Court. Vincent Pan: Well, the Supreme Court questions are as, as many of your listeners know, Supreme Court members are appointed for life and there are not that many of them. It becomes very important to make sure that we have people in the White House who make those appointments. Who I would say not only appoint people who look like America, but who actually represent a vision that works for all Americans. In a very small body like that you're gonna have your Clarence Thomas's who, you know, are African-American, but in, in my view, are not representing the interests of, of African-Americans at all. It speaks to the importance of being involved political process and voting and civic engagement throughout the country and being smart about it. I think for folks who say that elections don't matter, here's another example of just how much they do. I think that the representation in all aspects of government is also critical. And again, that's not just the folks who work at college and university say, but it's also in Congress it's also all of our elected officials, and I think that we are making progress in, in this way. But for Asian Americans, we again have to be very, very careful because you do see folks running who are Asian Americans on the far right. It's incumbent upon us not just to vote for someone who looks like us, but to be smart and, and to vote for people who represent the interest of all those who've been left behind, including our communities. Miko Lee: That's right. And I guess I'm asking about expansion of the Supreme Court and actually changing the very function of how it's operating. Sally Chen: I can uplift here specifically on Supreme Court reform. That is one of the areas in which many of our advocates and allies have been thinking about in and planning for, in pivoting in response to this recent slate of decisions that came out. I'll uplift here. Equal Justice Society, one of our , close partners, both in the Prop 16 campaign and ongoing that they have really dug into exploring and researching and educating people on the history of Supreme Court expansion at Pivotal moments in US history and other opportunities for reform and even intervention. Curtailing some of the Supreme Court's power and really calling on the other branches of our federal government to step up here, whether that is our Congress or the executive branch and highlighting equal justice society as well as an expert in that area. Vincent Pan: Yeah, it's a great point, Sally. You know, and I think it is something we all have to look more closely at because you see like ruling, after ruling, after ruling they are all right wing decisions that sort of overturn not only settled law but are really trying to take the country backwards, to a place where none of us want to go. So whether that's on reproductive rights, whether that's on racial justice issues, whether it's on, student loan, debt relief. This term in particular, right? Voting rights, Trans and queer rights. It's just like one after the other. So I do think it does make sense to look at ways to try and get the Supreme Court to do what it was meant to do. And at the same time are so many things for all of us work in the grassroots to, to engage in as, as well. And so when we talk about all these other tools at our disposal, we need to know that many of those occur at the local level. sometimes we have pretty good laws maybe passed at the, the state level, but they're not implemented at the city or township I think that there are always very, and this is one thing I'm really, you know, proud of that we do at CAA and proud of all the folks in AACRE, there's so many ways to push for social justice. And as despondent and, and frustrated and angry as many of us are about the Supreme Court latest rulings, one thing we cannot say is that there aren't things that we can do. And that's one thing in particular that I think for Asian Americans, we have to, you know, we have to step up our game on. Sally Chen: Thanks Vin. And just adding on that, a lot of CAA's work on the ground, whether that's in our civic engagement team or our Chinese digital engagement is engaging directly with students, families, community members, and the message that we want to send to students and their families is that our young people should follow their dream, should be able to celebrate their identities, and reach their full potential, strive for success in ways that are meaningful to them. They should feel able to be unapologetically themselves and at the end of the day know that, we, the broader community, are ultimately with them separately. I did, I was thinking a little bit about the legacy question. I just wanted to add one more piece, if that's okay. Which is that. Reform around the removal of consideration of legacy or significant donations in college admissions is not a new conversation. And in fact, we've seen universities like Amherst College only a few years ago, publicly announced that they would no longer consider legacy as a factor in admissions. And they saw a significant change in the demographics of their student bodies admitted .The number of first generation college students certainly increased and they did see racial diversity overall broaden and that this is not a new change and it's not one that is unprecedented either, and that we really have seen universities already at the forefront of taking action even before this decision came. Vincent Pan: Right. The other piece that I think has been lost in all this is there are more Asian Americans, uh, who attend City College of San Francisco than who are in all of the Ivy Leagues. So there's a real distortion of just how important the Ivy Leagues are in real terms for Asian Americans. Another good thing to know is that more than half of Asian Americans who are in any type of higher education or in community college, Right. So if we understand that the real damage of the Supreme Court ruling on the one hand is in the way, it's changing how this country wants to deal with the issues of race and racism. You know, we could also know that for Asian-Americans who are seeking college, that there also has to be an emphasis on where students are actually at, which is in the community colleges. Community colleges have historically been dramatically under invested in. We know that there need to be better pathways for folks to get from the community colleges into to four year degree programs. I think that the degree that we can at CAA we also wanna lift up the need for all of our communities, not just to always be focusing in on what the media feeds us, which is that we only care about the Ivy Leagues, but to focus in on what we also live and experience. That it is the community colleges, it's the CSUs. It's all these other nontraditional pathways to higher education that our community benefits from. ESL classes, vocational training. Now, all those need support as well. And those are also other ways to drive educational equity across and with other communities of color. Miko Lee: Well, Vincent Pan and Sally Chen, you've given us so many things to think about and so many actions that we can take from fighting for investments in more community colleges to paying attention to Asian American candidates to make sure that we're in values alignment to checking out this open petition that is on the CAA website, which we will put a link to. What else can people do to get involved so that they can actually take action around affirmative action? Sally Chen: Well, certainly our open petition is still available for signatures. We are hoping to, and are rapidly reaching a thousand signatures by the end of this week, but we are preparing to use that as the launching off point for a lot of engagement with colleges and universities, certainly advocates that have relationships to their alma maters, to their networks should engage as much as possible, show their support publicly for the investment in commitment to values of racial diversity and equity, especially at these institutions of higher education .And like Vin had mentioned, a lot of this implementation will , happen at the local and state level. Folks should pay attention to any attempts to broaden this decision beyond the scope of what it should be, of any kind of backing down from originally stated commitments to equity, diversity, inclusion, and to call that out where they see it. Vincent Pan: Yeah, obviously I second what Sally has, has said in terms of ways for folks to get involved, especially on the issue of, of colleges and universities and access and equity to those institutions. You know, I, I think more broadly for Asian Americans, it, it really can't be understated how dangerous a time we are in. And that what, the anti civil rights litigator Ed Blum, has done and the way that our community is now being portrayed that it becomes important. So, so important, even more important for Asian Americans to speak out. To speak out and, and declare themselves as an anti-racist, to declare themselves as a supportive of affirmative action, and to declare them themselves in solidarity with all people who have been oppressed.. It's the time to lift up our histories as activists, as people who have fought for civil rights and social justice. This ruling coupled with everything that we know is going on with the escalation of anti-Asian hate, with the uprising in China, just behooves our community to really to reflect and to, and to move forward and to act, as you said, Miko. And so I think that one of the great ways to support affirmative action in the broad sense is by getting involved with any of the key social justice issues that are currently needing our attention. Again, it's intersectional. And so whether it's voting rights, reproductive rights, trans and queer rights, civil rights, immigrant rights, there's just so much work that all advances this broader ideal that really reflect what affirmative action has always been about. This has to be a wake up call for Asian Americans. Most of us have fought for progress. Most of us know that our fate is intertwined with other communities of color, but there's also far too many who've been on the sidelines. And this should be a wake up call to engage on, on the side of those who have been fighting for justice and equity for all communities and not allowing themselves to be exploited by groups and people who clearly do not have our community's best interests at heart. Miko Lee: That was a great wrap up, VIN. Thank you. Is there anything else either of you would like to add? Vincent Pan: Yeah, I have one thing. There's, there was one part of the ruling that was also very instructive. Part of the conservative majority, the ruling said, well, the only institution of higher education and learning that can still maybe consider race are military academies. In effect saying that no, well, we want diversity in the schools that are preparing people to go and die in wars. Right? But it's not in the rest of of society. And so I thought that was like extremely telling, right? Because I think that these right-wing folks, they really don't believe in colorblind. They only want to use it as a way to mask white supremacy. But in instances where it won't uphold white supremacy, then they will toss it overboard, right? So they want race conscious admissions for military academies. They want race conscious admission for the military. I mean, you know, that tells us everything I think that we need to know about what's motivating them. I'll pause on that. The other thing that I think affirmative action as it was conceived and as it moved in the 1960s benefited white women, and white women have been perhaps the largest beneficiaries of affirmative action programs. And affirmative action programs have always included gender, right? To say that this has been just about affirmative action when it really is about how we understand race in America. Some parts of the community will still continue and say, oh, this is about whether or not the admissions process is fair. But it really is about trying to solve what's always been maybe the most difficult thing to solve in America. The question of race. And that there have not been uprise Of opposition against affirmative action programs that have helped white women. It is only because affirmative action has been a tool that's been able to increase racial diversity at some of these institutions that we've seen such a backlash against it. Miko Lee: Holy cow. I just have a whole nother series of questions about white women beneficiaries, but that's another show. Sally, do you have anything that you wanna add? Sally Chen: I'm good. Thank you both so much, Miko and Cheryl for this interview. Miko Lee: Thank you. Thanks to both of you. I actually additionally have more questions about what's behind this Ed Blum guy, like what's in it for him? I mean I'm kind of blown away. I know we're at time, but I do wanna have a further conversation about that too, because it's like, dude is the rebellion to his progressive parents. He was raised by Jewish progressive parents and he's every progressive's parents nightmare. I just like, what's in it for him? Is this just a money thing? Like what's that about? Vincent Pan: That's great question. Yeah, I don't know, but maybe there's a, a six hour version of this podcast that we could do time where we're just going all different directions. Cheryl Truong: check out our website, kpfa.org to find out more about the fight for affirmative action and equal access to higher education. And to learn more about our wonderful guests, Sally Chen and Vincent pan. We think all of you listeners out there, keep resisting, keep organizing, keep creating and sharing your visions with the world. Your voices are important. Cheryl Truong: Apex express is produced by Miko Lee, Paige Chung, Jalena Keane-Lee, Preeti Mangala Shekar. Shekar, Anuj Vaidya, Kiki Rivera, Swati Rayasam, Nate Tan, Hien Nguyen, Nikki Chan, and Cheryl Truong tonight's show was produced by me cheryl. Thanks to the team at KPFA for all of their support. And thank you for listening. The post APEX Express – 7.6.23 Let's Talk Affirmative Action appeared first on KPFA.
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On this episode, we zero in on the intersection of health and criminal justice with Dr. Nick Zaller, a professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Public Health and founder and director of the Southern Public Health and Criminal Justice Research Center. Dr. Zaller talks about his study of crisis stabilization units (CSUs) in Arkansas and what can be done to improve access to CSUs for people experiencing mental health crises. He also discusses key interventions to address the spread of infectious diseases among people who inject drugs, and the need to provide treatment for those who are incarcerated and actively using or undergoing treatment for opioid use.
Listen in as Criminal Justice Professor Danielle Slakoff talks with M.A. recipient and first-generation Latina student Erica Amaya. Erica describes her experiences with being unhoused, graduate school, and her Master's thesis work on media portrayals of intimate partner violence during the COVID-19 pandemic.Full transcript available at www.csus.edu/crisj/buildingjustice
In this episode, Dr. Nicole Fox discusses her new book "After Genocide: Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda." The pair cover Dr. Fox's motivations for engaging in this work, the vicarious trauma that can stem from doing qualitative research on victimization, and what she believes are the key takeaways from her fieldwork in Rwanda. For a full transcript please go to www.csus.edu/crisj/buildingjustice
In this episode, the hosts welcome to the studio Corinn Cook, Sac State's chapter president for NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness). Discover how NAMI on campus has made a positive impact on students and how you can get involved with this incredible organization here at Sac State.Learn more and connect with NAMI on campus at Sac State. Check out their Instagram and Facebook.Hosted byLaura De La Garza, Director of Social Sciences & Interdisciplinary StudiesDhruvisha V. Budhani, Director of Undeclared StudentsSadia Ashraf, Vice President of Academic AffairsSpecial GuestCorinn Cook, NAMI on Campus at CSUS chapter presidentIntro theme created by Juan Marmolejo.We Are ASI is produced by KSSU, Sacramento State's Student-Run Radio
Conservative/libertarian host Craig Peterson is heard throughout New England every week giving his opinion on Cybersecurity, new Technologies, and Government involvement. This week, Craig talks about the latest announcement from the Feds: "Shields Up!" They're warning about Cyber attacks against the US. Coming from Russia, they expect untold carnage. But how likely is it? Also this week: Senators trying to spy on all our digital information (including a RINO Republican). The "Right to Repair" backfires. Six reasons Meta/Facebook is failing. The top Cyber problems in 2021. More malware attacking Apple Mac computers. The five things businesses need to do for Cyber Security right now. We've got a big alert from this CISA. That's our cybersecurity and infrastructure agency to come down about a week or so ago. It's been going up and down and of course the tensions out there are causing problems. So let's talk about it. [The following is an automated transcript.] [00:00:17] CISA is an agency of the federal government. And it's one that I follow frankly, pretty closely, because they are the ones that are supposed to be helping us in industry, as well as helping the federal government keep their security stuff in order now, are they well, yeah, they are. They are, but the bottom line is they've got a whole bunch of rules. [00:00:44] Cool new things. And I'm going to show that to you here. This is called shields up over at CISA. For those of you who are watching online, you'll be able to see it right here. So let me just switch over. You've got it up now. Let me just go full screen on that so you can see the whole thing, but this is see. [00:01:06] C I S A.gov and they have a whole ton of cybersecurity resources there. One of the things I hear the most from people is just how freaking difficult it is to try and keep track of things, even understand the regulations, let alone learn all of this stuff, but you can see on their site that. [00:01:28] Training and exercises summit, that's coming up, combating cyber crime, and many other things. So what we're concerned about right now is. But this whole thing with Russia. Now you've heard about Russia or a lot, of course we've caught the germ report talking about Russian fake collusion, frankly. And we have Russians who have been hacking us. [00:01:53] In fact, I've got an article on that today. Let me pull that up as well. You'll be able to see it. It is an incredible thing when you get right down to it. What Russia has been trying to do is attack and steal things directly from our agencies, right? The DOD as well. If you are a contractor, You are in a great deal of trouble. [00:02:18] I don't have that article handy, but they are going after all of our friends at the DOD and all of their contractors and subcontractors. So what happened? There was technology that was supposed to believe be implemented at all of the contractors that of course did not get implemented. So that's a problem if you ask me, but it's now changed. [00:02:43] Okay. 2022, what has happened? 20, 20, 22, they decided that the regulations that were in place were not tough enough. Not even close to being tough enough. So what. Is they added teeth, incredible teeth to these what are called CMMC regulations, which are the regulations that are about the cyber security maturity, if you will, of these DOD contractors. [00:03:12] So now we're looking at this article, I'll pull it up on my screen again here that this has particular ones from security Boulevard, but it is warning about the risk of the Russians really hacking us. Now that's nothing new. We've known about that for a long time. We've known that the Russians and the Chinese are both trying to get in. [00:03:34] I have customers who I picked up after they'd been hacked. And in fact, in most cases they didn't even know they'd been hacked was just something weird that was going on. So this alerts highlighting several cybersecurity vulnerabilities that these nation states and cybercriminals are likely to be leveraging. [00:03:56] And they've outlined certain steps that organizations can take to reduce the risk. So what are those steps? I'm going to bring them up right now for those of you who are watching, but I may make it a little. How do you do this while they're saying let's break it down. We want you to reduce the likelihood of a damaging cyber intrusion. [00:04:19] Again, sisa.gov. If you want to follow along at home, cis.gov, validate that all remote access to the organization's network and privileged or administrative access. Requires multi-factor authentication. We're setting that up for a company right now. In fact, ensure that software is up-to-date prioritizing updates, that address known exploited vulnerabilities identified by CISA. [00:04:44] So you see that link that's right there. That brings us to this massive. Database, if you will of known vulnerabilities just 38 pages, 377 known vulnerabilities. So how does this work? When you get right down to it, you can look at the CVS. CVS over here on the left. If you cook on one of the CVS. [00:05:07] It gives you some really good information, including some information about how to fix it, how to patch it and what the severity is. So what you want are those that are being actively exploded in the wild, basically 10 or a nine. There is a scale of zero to 10. Probably not even zero, but that's where the scale is. [00:05:31] You notice here, by the way I add Dole bay is their top one. They are terrible when it comes to a lot of their software. So you can start. By whatever you might want to sort it by when it was added the action and the due date, which is for again, federal government people and federal government contractors and there's notes there as well. [00:05:55] So this is something, if you are responsible for the cybersecurity in your business, you might be the office manager. That's so common in small companies and as the office manager, you are supposed to be. In charge of the computers. I can tell you with a great deal of assurance that most of the companies that are providing computers service are not providing these types of updates in a timely manner. [00:06:25] Why because it's difficult to do so you have to do it. You have to track it. Okay. So shields up, let's go right back to that. They're talking about the other things that you should do. If you're using cloud services, this is just incredible because there's more. To do Microsoft. I had to put this in a proposal this week because the company didn't realize you're using all of this Microsoft 365 thing. [00:06:53] You've probably heard about that. They've got email, they've got SharePoint, they've got all these other wonderful services and it's nice in an expensive to use, but here's your. The problem is that these particular services don't provide you with backups. It's not a guarantee, data, integrity, any data loss is your problem. [00:07:15] And Microsoft has been sued on this unsuccessfully so far I might add. So just because it's in the cloud, not only does it mean it's not safe, it is just another word for someone else's computer and it can be completely. Unsafe. So you gotta watch it. You gotta be careful. So CSUs warning about that. [00:07:35] They've got this free hygiene service. Now I applied for this. I'm going to pull this up again on my screen here for those who are watching live. But. The hygiene services. Very interesting because they say, Hey, listen, we'll go ahead and do it. And these CSUs cyber security assessment services are available at no cost, so who can receive them. [00:07:58] Now, remember, I'm involved with the infra guard program. I put together their training for two years, I established that whole program training thousands of government and business sector people on cybersecurity. So you'd think they would respond to me. This is a huge program. There are people have probably even been on my webinars that I've held. [00:08:23] They didn't get back. They say, okay, you can receive these free services while federal state, local tribal territorial, government, public, and private sector, critical infrastructure organizations will that to me, my clients, every last one of my clients is in a critical infrastructure service. [00:08:43] Now it can be a dentist office. That's pretty critical. Just ask someone, who's got an infection. It, I have other people who are in the DOD. Base or providing materials and also products, manufactured products to government contractors, et cetera. So did these people get ahold of me return my email? No, nothing. [00:09:07] So you can have look at this if you want to. But I got to tell you, it really turned me off from some of these CSUN people. So anyways, you can sign up, but you can't get it right. Take steps to quickly detect a potential intrusion. There's a lot of subsets here. You can see on my screen, or you can just go to sisa.gov/shields-up. [00:09:29] I'll try and put a link to this in my newsletter this week ensure the organization is prepared to respond. If an intrusion occurs, that's a very big. As well, you have to have people, you have to have drills. You have to know what's happening when to do it. This is everybody right? This is HR. This is your public relations people. [00:09:47] This is your it people. This is everybody all the way through the business. They've all got to be involved in this maximize the organization's resilience to destructive cyber incident. What is the. What has been happening lately? Coming out of Russia, isn't just ransomware it's they destroy your data. [00:10:07] A very bad thing. If he asked me, and if he asked a lot of other companies out there, so you got to understand this, you got to be careful with this. Make sure you are following this rather closely, frankly, and this type of alert it's there. It's going to be there for a long time. No question about it. [00:10:25] Shields. I liked that. I think it's neat. Obviously we got some star Trek fans in the work, so I don't know, just star wars have the, they have shields, but I don't remember them saying chills up. That was a card thing. Wasn't it? So there you go. Every organization is at risk. This is a big worry. [00:10:42] It comes and goes. It's like. Orange and green and yellow or whatever those colors were over on the other side, right from our friends at Homeland security. [00:10:53] We've been legitimately concerned for years about the government, watching what we're doing, listening into what we are saying while there's ways that they've been monitoring us for a very long time. And the senators now want even more. [00:11:09] Senators, right? What are you going to do about them? [00:11:12] It is back. I'm going to put this up on the screen for those watching live, but people don't want outsiders reading their private messages, not physical mail, right? Not texts, not DMS. Great little article here from the electronic frontier foundation. These guys are just amazing. I have agreed with most of what they've done and. [00:11:35] Some of what they've done, but basically what they're saying is we have a right to privacy and it is enshrined in the U S constitution. It's something we're supposed to be paying attention to. Isn't it. And what we're supposed to be secure in includes our papers done. Which papers are we talking about here? [00:11:58] I've got some paper here. This is an index card, right? I've got some paper here. There's some notes on it. So I'm supposed to be secure in this. So I guess that means that the file cabinet over there is a secure, right? We don't have to worry about the government breaking into my file cabinet. [00:12:14] How about these things? How about our smart devices, our smartphones? How about our computers, our laptops, et cetera, always supposed to be secure in those, the constitution doesn't mention those things. It's funny how some people look at the second amendment to say, oh, it only covers a blunder buses, it just, It doesn't cover any modern weapons. And yet at the same time, they'll argue the exact opposite way when it comes to being secure in our papers, because we are supposed to be secure with all of our communications. Senator Richard Blumenthal and Lindsey Graham. One's a rhino and one's a dyno, right? [00:12:54] Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut and Senator Lindsey Graham Republican from South Carolina have re-introduced what they're, what's called the Ernie act, earn it act and incredibly unpopular bill from 2020. Now it had a lot of opposition, which I think is fantastic, frankly. And it whole thing got through. [00:13:19] But what the eff is concerned about is that in fact, this could end up being a massive new surveillance. It would be run by private companies. You saw what happened with the filings in Washington, DC from the germ investigation, right? Private companies were being used by the Democrats to spy on the sitting president of the United States. [00:13:46] Incredible way. So Ernie. I have a surveillance system run by private companies would roll back some of the most important privacy and security features in technology that are used by people around the globe. So it's things like using signal, which is generally thought to be the best end to end private communications app out there, signal WhatsApp, which is questionable because it's owned by Facebook. [00:14:13] But they say it's end to end encrypted, just, be careful about those things. I message on apple is end to end encrypted, but apple does respond to subpoenas and provides information, which again is supposed to be able to do. But should the government be able to go to third parties to get into your private papers? [00:14:35] That's a completely separate thing, but the earnings act could ensure that hosts. Anything online, we're talking about backups, websites, cloud photos, your voice messages, all kinds of stuff is captured and scan. This is really scary. Now I'm going to put this back up on the screen because it's also talking about how this bill empowers the states and territories to put their own sweeping internet regulations into place and they strip away. [00:15:14] The critical legal protections for websites, apps, things like social media. That's the whole thing. Section two 30 was about when we talked about two 30 on my Shelby. And two 30 is double-edged you got social media sites saying while section two 30, lots of us limit what people can say on our platform. [00:15:38] I would tend to think that it actually says the opposite that they're not being held. They can't be held liable for what a third party says on their platform. So it's definitely not the same. And in fact, since they can't be held liable for what set on Facebook or Twitter, et cetera, they should not be censoring it because if they started censoring it now, all of a sudden aren't they a publisher they've got editorial. [00:16:08] So liability comes into play here. Yeah. They don't want that, but that's what section two 30 is all about. And there's been a lot of debate about that over the last five or 10 years. And there's arguments on the far left and the far right. End in the centers to why it should go away and why it should stay. [00:16:27] All right. So I tend to be on the, I think it should stay side. I don't like what some of these companies are doing by censoring speech, particularly, libertarian or conservative speech, they sensor like crazy. But the bottom line is if the, they didn't have that, then how about the good sites that are out there? [00:16:48] The rumbles of the world, et cetera, that are trying to get a good message out to everybody. And are protected by section two 30. If 2 31 away a company like Facebook that has billions of dollars. Would remain the only major social media site, because nobody else could go in. They'd all be sued out of existence and they could not conform to all of these government regulations. [00:17:14] That's part of the reason big companies love big government. It makes it so they don't have big competition. Absolutely amazing. The, so this document here. Earn it, bill is saying. And another document that came out from the bill sponsors. Amazon is not scanning enough of its content. Now, Amazon is the host of Amazon web services and I've used them before. [00:17:42] I still use some of their services. For instance, for transcribing this show, I wrote some code that uses API APIs that go into Amazon and upload it and download transcripts and then reformat it for me. So I use some of those, but Amazon. Has the lion share of what's called the cloud data services. [00:18:07] So they're storing a lot of data for people. Long-term data in a glacier, for instance, and short-term data and ask three. But they're complaining a huge number of websites are hosted there. And this Bill's aim is to ensure that anything hosted online gets scanned and the bill creates this is just, you couldn't make this up a 19 person, federal commission dominated by law enforcement agencies, which are late. [00:18:36] Best practices for attacking the problem of online child abuse. It's for the children, everybody, regardless of whether state legislatures take their lead from that commission or the bill sponsors themselves, we know where the road will end says CFF. Absolutely. True government approved software, like photo DNA. [00:18:59] I don't know if you've heard about what happened with photos and with Metta Facebook, but they just lost a huge lawsuit where they were sued by a few different states about you remember the, it would automatically tag people in photos. So it was doing photo recognition, the photo DNA thing. And they got sued because. [00:19:23] Obeying the law. Yeah. Talk about that one for an hour as well. So earn it. Not something you want, but apparently these senators wanted as well. [00:19:36] We've got a problem with our cars nowadays. Have you tried to turn a wrench on one of these things? They're all computerized. I don't mean a computer. Some of the cars nowadays have dozens of computers in them. How about repairing them? We're going to talk about right to repair. [00:19:53] A great article in ARS Technica that you'll find, and this is about the flight. [00:20:00] For the right to repair. Now, there have been a few right to repair bills that have been released over the years. And the idea behind this is well, having a big fancy car is wonderful. You can drive it all over. But how about when it's time to get that car repaired? What are you going to do? How are you going to do it right? [00:20:26] Does that make sense to you? It can be a real problem. And this article is fascinating because it talks about this chief Morelli who had a Subaru SUV. Now she bought this in 2018. A lot of people buy Subarus because that engine is incredible. There's nothing like a boxer engine. That's where I'm on. My motorcycle has, and I have 160 something thousand miles on my motorcycle. [00:20:53] These super engines last, no, the electronics, the motors, the electric motors. I had different story. Are there problems with Subaru's? But it made her feel safe. So off she goes, right? Like Volvos. People buy those for perceived safety as well. I have some issues with those, but her husband mark decided to purchase his own car last summer. [00:21:18] So they went to the Subaru dealer near their home in south east, Massachusetts. Now here's the catch to all of this Massachusetts passed a right to repair ballot measure that was approved overwhelmingly in 2020. So what that means is that all of the vehicle manufacturers have to use a standard. [00:21:47] Computer interface in order to do anything on the car, the idea being that you can take it to a regular mechanic that can read from that wonderful little port under your dashboard can maybe do a little bit of reprogramming of the car and not have something different that they have to buy. Like for almost every car. [00:22:10] I know I have. Oh, for quite a few years, I'll a Honda dealer as a customer of mine on the cybersecurity and computer side. And I ended up having to have help Honda's headquarters in Japan, fix major problems that they had with this little computer device that they were using to fix the car. So they're there. [00:22:37] They are trying to fix them and the device just isn't working and the device has to be constantly upgraded because there's bugs in their software and there's new features in the cars. So it has to be upgraded and updated and everything. So the idea behind right to repair is we can't have everybody out there constantly trying to upgrade their hardware in order to talk to the car. [00:23:04] And they shouldn't have to buy multiple pieces of hardware for a single family of cars, let alone multiple pieces of hardware to cover all cars. So Massachusetts voters did the right thing, right? Cause they said. We want the right to repair our cars. You can't keep us out of them anymore. So that's when she and mark, I had a bit of a surprise. [00:23:30] Because they went and bought a Subaru in mass, another one. And then they found out that the Subaru telematics system and the app that went along with it, and that includes remote engine start, it gets cold up here. New England, no emergency assistant, no automated messages. Tire pressure was low oil needed, changing. [00:23:56] What's available now, if they had remembered they were living in Southern mass Southeastern mass, but they could have gone just over to Rhode Island or up to New Hampshire. And Bob that same car and would have had all of those features. You see what happened is Subaru said we cannot support this right to repair because that means we have to have a, basically a different car format. [00:24:28] Now this isn't the first time we've seen this type of problem before California and Massachusetts have both had crazy. If you will laws on the books for a long time defining, oh wow. You can't have diesel. Cause it has this too many particulate matter pieces of matter in it. And it has to have this kind of mileage overriding federal regulations by. [00:24:50] So let's not the first time now. I'm in New Hampshire, live for your die is our state motto. And all of the states around us, have we effectively banned diesel vehicles, New Hampshire hasn't we could get into this. But basically a diesel vehicle is every bit as clean and non-polluting as an electric car. [00:25:13] In fact, it's less polluting when you consider the lifetime of the vehicle and the manufacturing of the cars. Okay. With the batteries and everything else. They were pretty upset about it. And this article of ARS Technica talks about this a little bit more. It says Subaru disabled, the telematic system, and the associated features on new cars registered in mass last year as part of a spat over a right to repair ballot measure. [00:25:42] As I mentioned before, this open data platform that they're talking about here in the LA. It doesn't even exist yet. We've talked about laws before and how really the laws either a few steps behind technology or they try and get in front of technology and just mess it up. Like they have with nuclear power, right? [00:26:06] The new nuclear, the fourth generation is just amazing stuff. And yet they really messed up. It says that it doesn't exist in automakers have filed suit to prevent the initiative from taking effect. So first Subaru and then Kia turned off telematic systems on their newest cars in mass, which has really gotten some people upset. [00:26:26] And here's the quote from them. This was not to comply with the law compliance with the law. This time is impossible, but rather to avoid. Violating it now. Isn't that interesting because again, companies and people have to do things to avoid violating. Okay. I'm going to say it stupid laws. So interesting staff. [00:26:49] This is just the latest dispute in this whole thing about the right to repair. What should you be able to do with your car? What shouldn't you now? I've got some really bad news if you're a right to repair advocate because. All of the newer cars that are coming up, particularly these electric cars that they love so much in Massachusetts, these electric cars are going to be sold as a base model. [00:27:19] And then what's going to happen is you pay monthly. In order to have certain features turned on you. If you follow Tesla, Tesla has done this thing where it's okay. Six grand and you can get the auto drive. And the course they still don't have the fully autonomous driving. And then they raised it to eight grand. [00:27:42] I think it's 10 grand now, or maybe even $12,000 for it. And they decide, okay let's step into that and we're going to change it. And some of these companies, I think it was, I'm not going to mention the name because I'm not absolutely positive, but some of these car companies have decided, oh, you, you know that remote start that you paid extra for them and you got your car. [00:28:02] Unless you pay us $8 a month, you're not going to get the remote start. So think about that for a few minutes. Your car's going to have the ability to drive autonomously. It's going to have the ability to do all kinds of wonderful things, but you won't be able to use them. Unless you pay your monthly fees. [00:28:22] Talk about right to repair. All right. Hey, I have a weekly newsletter and that newsletter has a little bits of training for everybody business or otherwise, but you have to sign up, go right now to Craig peterson.com. [00:28:40] About Metta and that Metta has been busy making changes because Metta is really Facebook. And if you've been paying attention, the medicine. Huge stock drop. [00:28:55] Metta oh my word. I, where to even begin? Mark Zuckerberg and company have known for a while that their company is going to be in trouble. [00:29:08] Metta is the parent company. Of Facebook just like alphabet, right? The parent company of Google. So it's almost like a reverse merger, or they move them around. So Metta is now the company that owns Facebook as well as other properties. And what Facebook has been doing for years now. [00:29:29] Over a decade is by. Potential competitors. If you have enough money in the bank, you can just go ahead and spend that money to buy competitors. Then you don't have to worry about competing with them. Look at the Insta. Look at WhatsApp. Look at many of these other things that Facebook has acquired over the years and what they're looking for of course, and always have been looking for is eyeballs. [00:29:56] And they want to know what are those eyeballs really interesting. They've been doing a good job at that and have been really sucking a lot of data out of us. And I don't need to really say this, but Hey, listen, if you're not paying for it, you are the product. They suffered their biggest one day. [00:30:18] Wipe out. Ever this year, this is an article from our friends at the New York times. So they're saying Mehta, the company formerly known as Facebook suffered its biggest one day. They called it a wipe out. I love that as that stock plummeted 26% and its market value plunged by more than $230 billion. So they had a really bad earnings report. [00:30:51] They have been trying to transition from social networking towards what they're calling the virtual world of the metaverse. Now the metaverse has been a promise for a very long time. And you can think of it in a few different ways. One way is the, you have the goggles. I don't know if you've seen ready player one, a scifi movie where this kid is. [00:31:18] Trying to solve this. Basically you're a riddle that was put in place by this guy, geeky guy that founded this company and they all played this video game against each other. And they had not only the goggles, but they had a whole suit, so they could feel what was going on. Ready player one. Very cool. [00:31:40] So that's one idea of the metaverse, which is you don't have to live in the real world. You can just live in this virtual world and that's exactly what they did. So they reported some modest games and new users at over at Metta, which includes of course, Instagram messenger and WhatsApp, which are the core of their money. [00:32:05] I lost about a half a million users over the fourth. How is that a quarter to quarter or half a million users? So that's the first time they've had a decline like that in the company's history. And frankly, Facebook was such a Darlene of the stock market because they were continually growing. It was like the perfect bet. [00:32:31] There's no way you could lose money, investing it in Facebook. And yet, in fact, What did they do? They lost money. They lost a lot of the money. Now executives over at Facebook are saying, Hey, listen, we can grow this company more. We haven't even done anything with WhatsApp. The, the running that you might remember back in the day, WhatsApp used to charge a dollar a year. [00:32:57] Now that doesn't sound like much, but when you have a hundred million members or more yeah, that's a fair amount of money to run a small company that has, I think it was like 50 employees at its peak here. So they're saying over at Facebook we could start inserting ads into WhatsApp. [00:33:17] We could start monitoring communications. What. That's why I don't trust WhatsApp. There's a lot of things that we could, things we could do. We get generated a lot of revenue from WhatsApp users. They're also looking at weather metas, other top apps like Instagram might beginning getting to the top of their user growth. [00:33:39] Now I've been talking with a couple of. That are in one of my mastermind groups. And they've been talking about how they've found their businesses have grown very well using. Instagram advertising and not just advertising, organic stuff where they post things and people find it on there, which I thought was kinda interesting because we're all pretty much in the business to business world and they really like it. [00:34:06] So I'm going to try it out too. And if you've used Instagram, And the success been success with it for your business. I'd love to know. Just drop me an email Craig at Maine, or excuse me. me@craigpeterson.com. mainstream.net is my main business. Where I'm I do the CSO work the chief information security officer stuff. [00:34:30] So apple introduced what they're calling. App tracking transparency. This is a pretty big deal. Put this up on my screens. You guys can see it, but apple made some changes to I O S and what it's doing is trying to wall off its safari browser from tracking software. The total. What does that mean, frankly, to somebody like Facebook? [00:35:00] It's going to be very hard for marketers to be able to figure out who is doing what a win now to top that all off our friends at Google who also make money from us in our eyeballs, our friends at Google have said we're not going to use the pixels. Who used. And what Google is doing is incentive tracking you as an individual user. [00:35:27] They're going to put you in a bucket with a whole bunch of similar users. So in other words, I'm not much of a change on Google's front, but enough of a change that it has made investors more than a little bit worried about what the future holds, because Apple's blocking their access people. You guys, right? [00:35:49] How many of you guys attended those webinars? I did on how to disable tracking on your computer, on your browsers, et cetera. When you're going online, a lot of you guys did, so we don't want to be tracked. We don't want them to be tracking us. And again, how do they make their money? They make their money by tracking us. [00:36:13] And that is precisely what they've been doing. No wonder that our friends at Metta had a terrible, no, get good, very bad week earlier this years. So Apple's limiting it. Google is stealing online advertising chair because remember Google has ads all over the place. They're on all kinds of platforms on. [00:36:42] It's not just on the one Facebook site, for instance, for Facebook. So in Google's earning call the same week, Google reported record sales, particularly in e-commerce search advertising. No. Where you go to Google and you're searching for something that can be bought online. Yeah. That's particularly where they made money. [00:37:04] Very same category that tripped up Mehta the last three months of 2020. So Google is not heavily dependent on apple for user data. You said it was like to do the Google had far more third-party data for measurement and for optimization purposes to Metis ad platform. All of this great information here in New York times article I've got it up on my screen so you can see it. [00:37:28] Next one, ticked. They have been stealing young eyeballs, like crazy Tik TOK has been very popular. It is unfortunately owned by a Chinese company. And there has been a lot of talk lately about how tick talk, collects our data. And we don't actually know what they do with it, but we do. That it's in China and all of these businesses in China ties to what the people's liberation army, the Chinese communist party. [00:38:02] They have more than a billion users on their site and the videos are addictive. Like one of my kids forwarded me one this morning. I was happy. I didn't have to download the Tik. Yeah. I was able to watch it on my web browser. It was actually quite funny, but it has been an amazing competitor for Meadows, Instagram, for eyeballs and attentions people, by the way, have also been a business friends. [00:38:29] I know have been making some pretty good inroads using tick-tock advertising. So what does Mehta do? I can't buy, tick-tock not for sale, so they introduced something. They call real. And if you're on Instagram, you'll see reels ads been very prominent. R E L S. Yeah. It's currently the number one driver of engagement across the app. [00:38:56] So reels is attracting users. It isn't making money as well as Instagram is stories in the main feed, make way more money for them and spending on the metaverse. According to the New York times popped up on my screen again. Is bonkers. So Zuckerberg is thinking that the Internet's next generation is this Metro versus this wonderful world of who knows what, that he's willing to spend big money on it. And I'm highlighting some this screen from New York times article because the spending a mounted apparently to more than $10 billion last year, and. Metta is going to spend even more than that in the future. And there's no evidence that it's really going to work, what's going to happen. Now we also have, of course, the specter of antitrust laws here in the us, various similar y'all laws in Canada. It's the anti combines act in Canada, but same thing in. They have already been sued. They're going to be sued again. So Metta is in meta trouble and we'll see what ends up happening with these guys. [00:40:11] But this is really interesting because frankly. Even though Zuckerberg says they're not a monopoly, regulators are disagreeing. And I agree with the regulators for once. All right. Hey, visit me online. Sign up for that newsletter. Get all of those free little trainings every week and a whole lot more. [00:40:31] Craig peterson.com. [00:40:33] And data breaches are a very big problem. So what do we do about them? What are they? That's the first step, right? You got to know what you're protecting and you got to know what the attacks are. So we're going to talk about that. What has been the case in the last 12 months? [00:40:50] The three most common causes of data breaches in 2021 were. [00:40:58] This is according to dark reading number one, cyber attacks. And we're going to talk about those different types of cyber attacks. Number two, human errors and system errors. Those are very big ways to get attacked and get breached. And physical attacks was the third one. Now what do all of those things mean? [00:41:19] And what are they doing? We know the Russians and the Chinese are trying to get our information. In both cases, it's espionage. In both cases, they want to see the information about our military, what the military is doing and how. Can really steal our secrets. Look at the newest fighter in the Chinese air force. [00:41:44] That fighter looks a lot like our fighter. In fact, they beat us to the punch and making it. Here's what we can tell. Still got some things to work out, but they made it from our designs, which they stall that's the allegation. And certainly looking at the two planes. I think that's probably exactly what happened. [00:42:07] That's what they're doing. So that's on one end of the scale, right? Way, way up there, where it's major industrial espionage, it's worth billions of dollars. And then there's you and me. So from the you and me standpoint, what are they looking to get? On one end, they just want to cause chaos and confusion. [00:42:30] We know, for instance, during the 2020 election cycle, there were all. Of social media posts that were not legitimate. They weren't real, they were all fabricated. We know that they were trying to do it, particularly the Russians, just to confuse the issue entirely same thing in 2016, we can expect a lot more of that as elections go forward. [00:42:56] So that's one thing, how can they do that effectively while they need a lot of computers? How do they get their hands on a lot of computers? Simple, they steal them. So what they want to do is get their hands on your computer, on my computer. And once they've got their hands on our computers, now they can use them in order to do posts online. [00:43:21] So they it's going to look like it's in 1, 2, 3 main street, downtown USA, because of. They're using your computer to do these posts. Now, the other thing they'll use your computer for is to hack other people and other people's computers. So you've seen it for years. I remember. The Matthew Broderick movie war games, and they were trying to go through, remember back then it was dial up modems going through the network in order to hide where they were and to get around blocks that were in place. [00:43:56] That sort of thing is continuing to happen today, where they can hop between the computers, but some businesses, for instance, have been hosting videos of just horrific things that are being shared by. Bad guys jihadists over in the middle east, the people all around the world, the using our computers as store and forward. [00:44:19] The biggest thing right now is what's called fishing. Now fishing has a few different categories and if you're watching this, you can see right now, The eighth, the growth in fishing over the last three years. So in 2019, it was 928 cases. Again, this is reported right to 2020. It went down slightly. [00:44:45] Yeah. The vid, and then 2021, it doubled to 1600. Isn't that amazing. It doubled. So there's fishing, there's smishing and there's email compromise that amounts to the biggest amount of hacking that's happening. So what does that mean? What is this big hacking that's going on? It's pretty simply put, we're talking about hackers who are trying to fool us into doing things. [00:45:16] So you've heard about phishing attacks. I'm sure. Before. P H I S H I N G. And that's where a bad guy sends you an email. It looks like it's from some legitimate sores and it might be a bank. It might be the FBI, PayPal, you name it. So you open it up and when you open it up, what ends up happening? Wow. Click on the link inside there. [00:45:39] There are bugs in various email programs. There haven't been over the years. We're just having that headline show up in the summary, caused your machine to be compromised. But nowadays, most of the time you have to in fact, click on something, doing that. So that's fishing. I just prepared a video for our clients. [00:46:02] One of whom was having a real bad problem with phishing attacks, using specifics for their business, it's okay, now one of our vendors got hacked and they're using their email server, defend fish, send phishing emails that happens with. So I put together a training video for their people. Okay. [00:46:23] Here's the vendor. Here's what these things look like. Here's how you report it. Here's what to do about it. The next one is Smith. This is effectively the same thing as fishing, but it's using SMS. It's using text messages to try and get you to do something. So again, it might be a link that sent to you in a text message, or it might be a message saying, call me, I get almost every day I'm asking. [00:46:52] On WhatsApp. We use WhatsApp for one of my masterminds. I'm not a fan of WhatsApp, you know that, but that's what everybody else is using. It's not the worst thing in the world, but I get I would say at least weekly, maybe every twice a week, who knows, but I get a message saying is this Brian? [00:47:10] Of course I'm not Brian, right? I'm Craig Peterson. So the normal response from somebody would be. No, this isn't Brian's number, but the problem is that now you have engaged with them. They know there's a real person, they start a conversation, they try and get a little bit of information about you, and then use that against you to get into bank accounts, to steal money, et cetera, which is the third. [00:47:37] Fishing, which is called BEC, which is the business email compromise. This is absolutely huge. According to the FBI, there have been billions of dollars stolen using BEC I know one company that got really nailed and their operating account got emptied because of a business email compromise. So what is that? [00:47:59] That's where you get an email. At your business email address and that email again, just like a regular phishing email looks legitimate. So you look at that email and it looks legitimate. You open it up. Okay. So far it's the same thing, but what they're trying to do with the business email compromise is get you to do something that's going to hurt the business. [00:48:24] In these cases that I've been talking about, what happens is it looks like it's from the CEO or looks like it's from the CFO. We could talk about a lot of the different compromises that have happened. Probably one of the most famous is with Barbara Cochran. She of course, on shark tank and she had about $400,000 almost stolen from her because in the email was. [00:48:51] To basically her bookkeeper accountant saying, Hey, we need to pay 400 grand. Here's the account number, because remember she's in real estate. So there, rehabs happened in all of the time and the assistant, I think caught it and they were able to stop the transaction, which is amazing because you only. [00:49:10] Second is quite literally in order to stop those types of transactions. So she stopped it, but that's an example of a business, email compromise. There are fancier ones that happen to this is the problem with having your email addresses or names even on your website. So people can just go to the company website and say who's the CEO, who's the CFO who. [00:49:37] This person who's that person. And so they go through all of that information and they've now got something they can use against you. So what do they do? They know who the CEO is, so they chum up to the CEO, Facebook or other social media, LinkedIn. Where'd they go to school and then they send us a note on, let's say LinkedIn or Facebook saying, Hey, I want to follow you. [00:50:01] I want to talk whatever you don't remember me because you put on LinkedIn that you went to Harvard business school. So yeah, you remember me? We were in class together. This is Joanne. And we took econ 1 0 1 at Harvard. So now a conversation starts up, they get LinkedIn to you, they get your Facebook start following you and see, oh, they're going to be in The Bahamas this week. [00:50:26] That means they're out of touch. So during that week, they go ahead and send an email to the CFOs saying, Hey, we've got this new vendor. And if we don't go ahead and pay this vendor, we're going to lose. Because we haven't paid them in three months. So the CFO then wires the money. Now you might think, oh, that's just too much work. [00:50:45] First of all, a hundred thousand dollars will support families in Eastern Europe for about three to five years. Okay. Secondly, that particular tactic didn't just get them a hundred thousand dollars. It got them $45 million. Oh. And it wasn't them. It was a, her a single. That was able to do that. So business, email, compromise, you've got to watch it. [00:51:11] And then of course, all of the normals, right? Ransomware, malware, a unsecured cloud environment, credential stuffing, et cetera, et cetera. All right. Hey, I want you guys to take a minute right now. Go to Craig peterson.com one cheer there. You'll see right at the top of the page, I'm going to pull this up here for those watching on video. [00:51:34] Subscribe for email updates. You'll get my updates. You'll get my trainings as well. Craig peterson.com. [00:51:41] I'm a Mac fan and being a Mac fan means that I like max and a lot of people like max, because they are typically safer than a windows computer, but now that they become so popular, Hey, they're a target, too. [00:51:57] So here's your problem. As it might say, Macs are starting to see the heat. In this case, the heat they're seen is something called update agent. It has been around a while. And many people have downloaded it. And I've known about various types of Mac malware over the years. Some of them worse than others. [00:52:22] The one in particular that I'm thinking of a friend of mine paid for this stuff that was supposed to keep his Mac clean. So first of all, If you're looking for some anti-malware software for year Mac, I prefer what Cisco has as very nice advanced stack that you can use. But in addition, here, you can use, if you can't get the advanced Cisco stuff, you can use Malwarebytes. [00:52:49] It is quite good. Now, historically, one of the main reasons you want to protect your Mac against viruses, including. Windows viruses is that your Mac can potentially spread a virus to a windows machine. So let's say the virus is sitting there inside of an Excel file, a word file. Some other document exec, whatever it might be. [00:53:14] So that virus is sitting inside of there. It's not going to hurt your Mac. It's a windows virus, right? So now you send the file to somebody else and now they are on a windows machine and they are susceptible. They get nailed with it. Okay. So that's been the main reason historically. You want to make sure your Mac machines are clean. [00:53:36] Cisco on the Mac, advanced mow, worse platinum. Does look for windows malware. Okay. As well as something that might be affecting a Mac, but what we're looking@hererightnowoverondarkreading.com is a piece of malware that is specifically aimed at max. And it's interesting too, because it isn't just max. [00:54:03] It actually has multiple versions that included. Our friends over on the windows side. So it's called update agent or wizard update. And it is malware that I, as always, it seems is pretending as legitimate software, right? Support agents, video software. It's been around for a couple of years now. Adobe flash. [00:54:29] Not only was it a serious security problem, but Adobe flash, as it turns out, was shoes to spread a whole lot of malware here over the years. So they've constantly updated this thing. They came up with a new version in October. They've been sending it around using Amazon and cloud front in order to do it. [00:54:52] So instead of using zip files or. Apple uses, which are called DMGs, which are basically compressed file systems. The new version can use zip files or Mac DMGs. It's not good. Again, be very careful. Now apple has had for quite a while, and a signature based thing where software developers register with apple, they sign the software, they send out, but there are ways around it. [00:55:24] And some of the hackers have been exploiting those ways. In fact, this version is the fifth version. Of this update agent and wizard software. Okay. So be very careful with it. Don't think that because you have a Mac, you are guaranteed safe because you're not, but they're also talking in this article about jam. [00:55:49] Now. Jam is a great. Of software for managing your Macs. We use IBM's mass 360 for our clients, and it lets us do mobile device control as well as for desktops. If you're a CSO, how valuable, something like that really can be apple has their own thing built in. If you have Meraki equipment, they have their own lightweight. [00:56:15] Controller as well, but jam is very well known in the industry and it's one of the better ones out there jam was showing in research last year, that ad where is continuing to be a much bigger threat to Mac users than most other types of malware. Now, what is that? What are we talking about here? Add where is where a piece of software. [00:56:41] Gets onto your computer and shows you ads. That's one type, right? There's other types of ad wares as well. The most malicious types being, they will run as JavaScript inside your browser. Or sometimes they'll add, they'll run as an extension. That happened to one of the extensions I loved for. And I used it all the time and someone bought it and turned it into ad where spyware. [00:57:09] Okay. So on the Mac front, it's very hard to get a legitimate piece of nastiness, like ransomware on your. You actually have to go out of your way to allow it to get installed, but this ad where some of it even minds Bitcoin, we've talked about that before, but what will happen is there's just an added in ad network, right? [00:57:34] So if I pull up my screen again here, this is just the regular webpage here for dark reading. It's the article we're talking about. Here's some sponsors. Content is actually from one password, which is, something. I really if you look down at the very bottom of the screen is kinda hard to see, but it's the link to this takes you to ad click.g.doubleclick.net. [00:57:58] That down there on my screen. So that particular URL now is going to track. You see how long that URL is. It has all of this other you ID type stuff. That's an ad. And then ad was probably delivered via a network of some sort, these editor choices, things. These are not ads that are purchased. [00:58:21] These are probably coming from dark reading itself, who knows. But this Menlo security ad is an ad. You click on it. You can see, again, this is doubleclick.net. These ones here are not doubling. Those are direct on this paper. So what is that double click is what we call an ad network. So if I'm an advertiser and I want to get in front of people who really liked technology, maybe the visited the one password page, which I've done, right? [00:58:53] So I go to the one password page. It deposits a cookie on my browser. Now I'm on dark reading and on the dark reading site, what's it going to do? The ad network is going to show me an ad for things that thinks I'm interested in one password. The guys who bought through paid for the ad to double-click. [00:59:14] So that's how double clicks making money. They show the ad to me on dark reading. So that's how dark readings making money either by showing the ad or potentially by being paid. When I click on the ad, if I do click on that ad. All right. So if it's a company you liked, don't click on the ads because it's going to cost them money. [00:59:34] If it's a company you don't like, then click on the ads, there's actually plugins by the way, that will click on every ad on every page you go to. But not really, it's not going to take you to all these sites. It's just going to look like you clicked on it. So these ad networks. Are being used by bad guys to put an ad in that is actually some form of malware. [00:59:57] So just seeing the ad might cause some JavaScript to start. And you've probably seen this before. All of a sudden your computer screen shot is full of all of this crap. Where did that come from? It probably came from a small window hidden window, but came from some of this ad stuff that's happened. [01:00:14] All right. Big problem. And it is right now, the biggest problem in the Mac world, according to jam, and it's called malvertising. You got all these cute names for everything malvertising in this case. Hey, thanks for spending a few. Today, if you would, please go right now, go to Craig peterson.com. You'll see at the top subscribe for email updates. [01:00:43] When you subscribe, you're going to get my top special reports on passwords and other things, and you'll get my weekly emails and trainings stick around. [01:00:54] Cloud security. Wow. What a mess. If you are using any of these services online, you probably have a cloud security issue. That means your websites, too. [01:01:09] Security pros like myself are very frustrated by what we loosely call the cloud. [01:01:19] So the cloud is just a name, frankly, for somebody else's computer. So you might be using a cloud for instance. Salesforce.com system you might be using your email, Hotmail, Yahoo, right? You might be using Microsoft mail. There's a lot of them out there and they're all cloud systems. Being a word for somebody else's computer. [01:01:48] That doesn't necessarily mean that's somebody else's backing it up or that they're providing adequate cyber security for it. So we've got an article right here. Again, from our friends at dark reading, Robert limos about why security professionals are frustrated with cloud security. So more and more companies are moving their operations to the cloud. [01:02:16] And because there are so few people available for cyber security. They're really getting in trouble. Okay. They're really getting in trouble. There's a lot of security data that does never get looked at. It's full-time jobs for people, depending on again, how much cyber security they need so many false alerts and we've got warnings from the feds now that are probably going to continue forever. [01:02:48] Cybersecurity breaches that they're seen and they're thinking they're going to come. So security data they're saying is wasting more than half of the time spent on security issues. That is not a good thing because there are so many false positives when it comes to cyber security. So how does the basic cybersecurity work? [01:03:13] For instance, if we were to look at one of the firewalls that we maintain for our. Or our clients, you would see attacks coming up every few seconds. I can show two on just one little machine. If you're talking about a bigger company or a contractor for the department of defense or a subcontractor for the government in any angle, you will see. [01:03:40] Sometimes dozens of attacks per second. So they're pinging. They are trying to connect to services like Microsoft, remote desktop. They're trying to break in any way they can. That is frankly, a pretty huge problem. Are those legitimate security alerts? Yeah, I guess they are. I have stuff set up so that if someone is trying to, for instance, log in remotely on one of these remote type protocols and they fail three times in a row, they are automatically added to the firewall automatically. [01:04:22] And they are. Now it removes that ban after a while, but if they do it again, they get banned again. So we know who the bad guys are. And let me tell you, there are a lot of bad guys out there. I don't know if I can get on that machine right now, because I think you might find that. Interesting. Yeah. It's not going to let me on right now, so I'm not going to do that, but it is a very big problem. [01:04:53] Should I be looking at each one of those security alerts about somebody trying to remotely connect to one of these connection services, right? Desktop services, SSH services. Probably not, it's probably not the best use of my time. So what we have is other canaries, if you will, in the networks. So other points that, okay, they're trying to get in from the outside, but people are always trying to get in past the gate. [01:05:23] But if they are not successful getting past the gate, I don't really care so much about. Okay. So how do we tell if they're inside the network? So we have other security probes inside the network. We have probes in the switches themselves. We have every network segment. Firewall from each other. [01:05:46] And in some cases we have absolutely zero trust. So every connection to any machine is checked and firewalled depends on how much cybersecurity you need. So this is a report from a Cod automation firm called Lacework and they talked to 500 security practitioners, blah, blah, blah. They are saying that the vast majority of respondents regularly have to deal with at least a 20% false positive rate and a third deal with a 50% false positive rate. [01:06:25] The analysts are not alone. Only a third of developers believe that the time spent on security is meaningful. According to the survey and frankly, that's what we have found as well. And that's why we have automated systems and the automated systems say, whoa, this looks really bad. And that's when a person gets involved. [01:06:48] So it's a real problem. Now here's the next step. And the next step is while we had so many people who were working from home. And because of the lockdowns. Following the start of the Corona virus pandemic, according to this article or dark w reading organizations quickly moved operations to the cloud, we know that's true. We've seen it. We've helped companies secure themselves from their hasty moves to the CRA the cloud. But after two years, companies still have a long way to go before moving. All of the operations to a cloud is less than half of respondents consider the most important applications to be cloud native. [01:07:34] Now, this is really important because some companies have been moving in, particularly some of the larger ones moving critical applications back in house. Now the cloud is wonderful. A lot of vendors love the cloud because it's MRR monthly recurring revenue. Yeah, you can use my software, but you have to pay me every month. [01:07:57] Oh. And by the way, I don't want to support you guys anymore. I don't want to have to get onto your servers and take this apart girls. So I'm going to do all of this on my servers. We'll call it the cloud. Maybe it's on Amazon or Azure. Maybe it's in my data center, whatever. And I'm going to charge you a premium. [01:08:14] What's happening with your data when it's sitting on their computer or Amazons or Microsoft's computers out there, right? It's a very legitimate question and a very concerning question, frankly, cloud apps, particularly those that aren't specifically security related. Won't have the types of details on security that are really needed. [01:08:41] So you talk about all of the false positives that you have as a business in your own networks. How about false positives that these guys would have in the cloud? The bottom line is forget about. You can't see any of those security breaches. You don't know if your data has been stolen, et cetera, et cetera. [01:09:04] And that's why we use a cloud lock in front of all of these cloud apps. Now, this is fascinating too. This is from our friends. Over at a glass. What is it about burning glass technologies? Only professionals with application security experience are expected to be in greater demand with a five-year growth rate of 164%. [01:09:29] Okay. Yeah. And they're talking about 115% growth as well. Hey, visit me online, get all of this information and more put in a little bit of training right at Craig. Peter saw. Calm go there right now at the very top, you can sign up, get my newsletters and get my special reports. Craig peterson.com. [01:09:54] So we know already hackers went wild. So what are the things we should be doing to help keep ourselves safe? Five things. We're going to go through. Right now how to stay safe. [01:10:09] This whole thing with hackers is it's just so annoying. I got hacked back in. I'm trying to remember. [01:10:19] 91 92, something like that. And I, it. It really sent me for a loop to go about three days to figure out what was going on. So I had a couple of deck servers. You might remember those digital equipment corporation. I was working for them as a contractor. So I had purchased those systems and I had them in my data center that I had built in the building that I bought. [01:10:44] And it was down on the ground floor. It was something I was really proud of. Cool. It was so neat. So I was down there in the computer room trying to figure out what had happened because my customers were calling and complaining that the email wasn't working, it wasn't going through what was the. I had banked some dial up modems. [01:11:07] I had my T1 lines going to the internet, which costs a pretty penny and all in all, just trying to figure out what's what, and how did this happen? And it turned out it was a back door that was purposely built into the male applicant. So with the mail application and was send mail. I was using at the time, still a great mail program, but I tend to use postfix now. [01:11:33] And then of, I use again, Cisco's advanced mail filters and I often will use Microsoft email for businesses and then put the additional mail filters in front of that. Send mail had this feature so that you could get onto someone else's mail server that was misconfigured and reconfigured. Which was really a cool idea. [01:11:57] It worked great for years when the internet was a safe place when it was just us online, a bunch of wonderful people, libertarians trying to spread the word and the gospel of libertarianism and sending jokes back and forth and using Usenet and everything. This is before websites even existed. [01:12:21] And. It was a shock to me to see what had happened. And it was something called the Morris worm. And one of these days where we should probably talk about that whole worm thing, but it nailed me and my machine was spreading it to other machines on the internet. And the reason it all slowed down in the mail stop was it was so busy, spinning off new processes to find other machines to infect. [01:12:49] But the machine just ran out of gas. So it was very frustrating. And although my business was a technology business at the time, I've always almost always had technology businesses. But it was not an internet security business. Who was dealing with that then, nobody, because it was barely legal to do business on the internet. [01:13:10] I think I was doing it before. It was actually. To do business on the internet. There was just Al gore in me back then. At that problem really got to me. And none of my customers understood what had happened. And there was no reason to even try and explain what a worm was and stuff. I just said, some hacker got in and of course, Back then hacker was a term disused for people that were not professional computer programmers, a hacker where somebody that sat there and hacked code and tried to figure it out and trying to put it together. [01:13:44] That was a. What do you do? You'd tell them the basics of what happened and you continue on your way. So I almost lost the business, frankly. I ended up losing some customers over the next few months, but not very many. So it worked out okay. But then in talking to friends of mine, I found out even more of them that had been hacked and that it was a a serious problem for. [01:14:09] What do they do? They turn to me cause I knew I'd been hacked before I was a techie guy and I went on and I built some big. Systems. I built the largest website in the world at the time. And it was, you might be familiar with it, big yellow or yellow pages.com. Any of those sorts of platforms. [01:14:33] The first one of those and got that up online, built the whole data center and even had to make our own routers at the time and firewalls. We actually designed one of the world's first firewalls, and that was my design. And I had a couple of guys that helped to implement it with me. We had to do everything back. [01:14:53] And ever since then, I've had a focus on this because one of my clients had a million dollar, a day lottery system down in New York city. You got to keep that safe. And they were sending out millions of emails. So I had to learn about the email security, all of that stuff. So I mentioned all of that to you guys, because think about the position you're in now. [01:15:16] I don't think it's much. And then the position I was in 30 years ago, but you don't want to spend all of the time that I've had to spend the last 30 years to understand this better and to learn how to protect it better. So that's why I do what I do. I try and get this information out to you. Here's this another article from our friends at dark reading and it's a Leche, I think they invite people to come on and write things for them, but he's talking okay. He's the product strategy manager over at UConn to can canonical they've been around quite a while. Been to was a Linux distribution. What's happening. We know about the colonial pipeline, right? We know the hack that happened and how bad that hack was. [01:16:08] They was absolutely huge. And it affected all of the east coast for fuel. Every kind of fuel you can think of a real big problem. Russian linked. Th
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In this episode, the hosts welcome to the studio Maddie Ravera, Sac State's Alpha Phi chapter president. Find out what it's like to be a sorority president, and if Maddie has what it takes to solve some ASI riddles. Check out Alpha Phi on Instagram @alphaphisacstateHosted byLaura De La Garza, Director of Social Sciences & Interdisciplinary StudiesDhruvisha V. Budhani, Director of Undeclared StudentsSadia Ashraf, Vice President of Academic AffairsSpecial GuestMaddie Ravera, Alpha Phi Sac State chapter presidentIntro theme created by Juan Marmolejo.We Are ASI is produced by KSSU, Sacramento State's Student-Run Radio
In this episode, the hosts chat with Sarah Weatherhogge from Sac State's very own women's varsity rowing team. Dive into a conversation about rowing, UK travel plans, cats, and of course ASI resources that are available for you!Hosted byLaura De La Garza, Director of Social Sciences & Interdisciplinary StudiesDhruvisha V. Budhani, Director of Undeclared StudentsSadia Ashraf, Vice President of Academic AffairsSpecial GuestSarah Weatherhogge, Sac State Women's Varsity Rowing Team Intro theme created by Juan Marmolejo.We Are ASI is produced by KSSU, Sacramento State's Student-Run Radio
Laura, Dhruvisha and Sadia sit down with Samantha A. Elizalde, the 2021-2022 ASI president. A lively discussion about music, career goals and mexican food. Hosted byLaura De La Garza, Director of Social Sciences & Interdisciplinary StudiesDhruvisha V. Budhani, Director of Undeclared StudentsSadia Ashraf, Vice President of Academic AffairsSpecial GuestSamantha A. Elizalde, ASI PresidentIntro theme created by Juan Marmolejo.We Are ASI is produced by KSSU, Sacramento State's Student-Run Radio
This episode was originally released September 30th, 2021! Dr. Joyce shares such great insights it seemed like the perfect fit for our last rerun of the year! Doctor and Author Joyce Mikal-Flynn suffered a brain injury in an unusual swimming accident. After experiencing significant aphasia and cognitive delays, a doctor helped her to realize that she needed to rehabilitate her brain!Today Dr. Joyce is a professor in the School of Nursing at California State University, Sacramento. She holds a Doctor of Education from St. Mary's College and a Masters of Science in Nursing at CSUS, focusing on trauma-informed care with an emphasis on building resilience and posttraumatic growth. She developed the word “metahabilitation” to describe a more optimistic and productive outcome in the aftermath of trauma and her research has provided a strengths-based clinical pathway to guide individuals towards posttraumatic growth. She has also written two books on the subject of overcoming trauma.Dr. Joyce shares some very helpful advice on how to rehab your brain, the importance of cross-training your brain with your body, and the vital role of your mindset on your neural networking and brain chemistry during recovery. Tune in to find out why she recommends a therapist, the importance of taking control of what you can control, and how not to let your injury define you.Leann more about Dr. Joyce and her book: www.drjmf.com Find Show Notes, & More: https://postconcussioninc.com/podcastSupport the Podcast! If you love the podcast please consider supporting us through our tip jar! All tips are greatly appreciated. (https://postconcussioninc.ck.page/products/support)
I welcome Dr. Joyce Mikal-Flynn, a CSUS professor and expert in PTG (Post Traumatic Growth) to the show for a deeply inspiring conversation about her book, Anatomy of a Survivor: Building Resilience, Grit, and Growth After Trauma. Anatomy of a Survivor examines how survivors can utilize their inner strengths in order to build resilience, navigate through, and ultimately grow from traumas and other major life challenges. Dr. Joyce brings a positive attitude to the episode, but without the poofy platitudes we often hear. You'll hear about her story and her book, and be sure to listen carefully later on in the show for that turning point where she went from feeling sorry for herself to instead, taking on challenges and being grateful for a second chance. This wide ranging conversation touches on everything from her to academia classes to the state of today's students to the problem with today's “lawnmower parents.” In the middle of the show, we hear the wild and true story that is the centerpiece of Dr. Joyce's personal journey: In 1990, after a sudden cardiac event, she was actually dead for twenty-two minutes. CPR and determined doctors brought her back to life, but she found that her new life was entirely different. Dr. Joyce found herself suddenly facing depression, as well personal and professional setbacks. But as you'll hear, she ultimately recognized that this moment in her life was not an end point—it was the beginning. Time taught Dr. Joyce that taking control of your life begins with the essential choice to move forward. In spite of every obstacle, failure, and misstep on the way, she harnessed the power of positive thinking and continued to tell herself: you got this. Trauma and crisis are inescapable aspects of life; ones that never really leave you once you experience it. But for over two decades, Dr. Joyce has worked with and studied issues faced by survivors. Years of professional and personal experience with trauma and crisis have helped Dr. Joyce recognize that for survivors, moving forward and identifying specific mindsets and behaviors that encourage progress are essential. I hope you enjoy listening to this powerful episode with Dr. Joyce, and if you're interested in reading Anatomy of a Survivor or gifting it to a friend or loved one who you think could benefit from it, click here to check it out. Featuring interlacing stories with research on genetics, posttraumatic growth, and the neuroscience of resilience and happiness, Anatomy of a Survivor shows us how survivors of trauma can structure a positive and productive response by using Dr. Joyce's unique system to guide them forward. TIMESTAMPS: Dr. Flynn talks about how survivors of traumas use their inner strengths to build resilience. [01:20] One of the classes the professor teaches is called Traumatology. [06:44] There are three classifications of trauma: victim of the trauma, the secondary and the community. [08:48] There is nothing positive about trauma but there can be productive responses. [12:05] Word choices reprogram the brain. [15:20] Take control of what you can control. [18:26] There are six stages of meta-hab. [20:32] Are there differences between the male and the female brain? [21:55] What are the nutritional needs of the brain? [24:29] The technology of today can overwork the brain, but know too, that daydreaming uses the brain as it does a lot of work. [26:19] Joyce had a very close call with death that was a turning point in her life. [30:33] This stuff is tough but there is a way out and there is a way up. [36:57] During her recovery, Joyce was able to monitor her own progress as she got her brain function back. [48:00] You need to realize that you need help in order to move forward. [55:01] Some athletes in her study didn't see themselves as resilient. [57:05] How did she recalibrate after the months of recovering? [01:01:50] Instead of saying, “I have to do this,” say, “I get to do this.” Think of people who would love to be in your situation. [01:06:13] Pick one thing at a time that you want to do to improve your life. [01:10:06] How do you know, as you are supporting someone in recovery, when is the right time to say “Get up off the couch” or saying, “Enough. Let's get going?” [01:13:59] Isolation is a red flag to look for in the person recovering. [01:18:30] Joyce lists the other stages in meta habilitation. 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Erik Ramirez, Coordinator of the Dreamer Resource Center at Sacramento State, discusses how the Center functions to empower and transform the lives of students impacted by undocumented status. The discussion explores how institutional agents—including staff, administrators, faculty and students—can work collaboratively to build social justice within institutional settings.
Doctor and Author Joyce Mikal-Flynn suffered a brain injury in an unusual swimming accident. After experiencing significant aphasia and cognitive delays, a doctor helped her to realize that she needed to rehabilitate her brain!Today Dr. Joyce is a professor in the School of Nursing at California State University, Sacramento. She holds a Doctor of Education from St. Mary's College and a Masters of Science in Nursing at CSUS, focusing on trauma-informed care with an emphasis on building resilience and posttraumatic growth. She developed the word “metahabilitation” to describe a more optimistic and productive outcome in the aftermath of trauma and her research has provided a strengths-based clinical pathway to guide individuals towards posttraumatic growth. She has also written two books on the subject of overcoming trauma. Dr. Joyce shares some very helpful advice on how to rehab your brain, the importance of cross-training your brain with your body, and the vital role of your mindset on your neural networking and brain chemistry during recovery. Tune in to find out why she recommends a therapist, the importance of taking control of what you can control, and how not to let your injury define you. Leann more about Dr. Joyce and her book: www.drjmf.com Get your own TheraSpecs https://theraspecs.com/Use code BELLA15 for $15 OFF! Find Show Notes, & More: https://postconcussioninc.com/podcast Support the Podcast! If you love the podcast please consider supporting us through our tip jar! All tips are greatly appreciated. (https://postconcussioninc.ck.page/products/support)
What the Tech? is a podcast powered by the Computer Science Department of UCalgary. Here to deconstruct complex computer science concepts, and explain what the tech's going on? In this episode, we talk to members from three different UCalgary clubs – Computer Science Undergraduate Society (CSUS), Women in Computer Science (WICS), and Information Security club (InfoSec). We discuss each club's mission, as well as some of the things they have planned for this upcoming year and how you can get involved. More info about CSUS can be found on their Instagram @csusucalgary where you can find the link to their Discord. More info about WICS can be found on their Instagram @wics.uofc where you can find the link to their Discord. More info about InfoSec can be found on their Instagram @infosecucalgary where you can find the link to their Discord. Thank you to all our wonderful guests! If you enjoyed today's episode, make sure to subscribe on whatever platform you're listening on. We encourage you to reach out to us, ask us questions about the show, or even suggest topics of interest to you! You can do so by following us on Instagram @uofc_cpsc. Music: Intro / Outro Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeod || Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4148-nowhere-land || License: CC BY http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Background Loopster by Kevin MacLeod || Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4991-loopster || License: CC BY http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod || Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama || License: CC BY http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ I Knew a Guy by Kevin MacLeod || Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3895-i-knew-a-guy || License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Cool Vibes by Kevin MacLeod || Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3553-cool-vibes || License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Thinking Music by Kevin MacLeod || Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4522-thinking-music || License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Funk Game Loop by Kevin MacLeod || Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3787-funk-game-loop || License: CC BY http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Umbrella Pants by Kevin MacLeod || Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4559-umbrella-pants || License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/whatthetech-ucalgary/message --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/whatthetech-ucalgary/message
Dr. Joyce Mikal-Flynn is a Professor in the School of Nursing at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS). She received her Doctor of Education from St. Mary's College and Masters of Science in Nursing at CSUS, focusing on trauma-informed care with an emphasis on building resilience and post-traumatic growth (PTG). She developed the word Metahabilitation, to describe a more optimistic and productive outcome in the aftermath of trauma, and her research provided a strengths-based clinical pathway guiding individuals toward PTG. Her post-doctoral research focused on how traumatic experiences also build resilience and bring forth Post-Traumatic Growth in secondary and vicarious trauma survivors as well as communities. Along with the course she created at CSUS, Traumatology. An Introduction to Post-traumatic Growth, she continues to research, lecture and directly apply Metahabilitation in a variety of rehabilitation and recovery settings. Her second book on the subject, Anatomy of a Survivor. Building Resilience Grit and Growth After Trauma, was released in April 2021.Topics discussed include:Dr. Mikal-Flynn's own traumatic event and recovery from itWhat ‘Metahabilitation' is and how it worksThe importance of support system in any recovery processReframing challenges and struggles as starting points vs. end points The power and importance of permission and control in recoveryGet in Touch with Dr. Joyce:Web - https://metahab.comInstagram - https://instagram.com/dr.jmfGet in Touch with Steve:Email: steve@sensitiverebel.comInstagram: https://instagram.com/thesensitiverebel
Dr. Joyce Mikal Flynn – Founder and Originator of MetaHab Where You Can Find Joyce: Her website is www.drjmf.com Instagram @dr.jmf , Email is jmf@metahab.com About the Guest: Dr. Mikal-Flynn received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of San Francisco, a Nurse Practitioner Certificate from the University of California, Davis, and her Master's of Science in Nursing at Sacramento State University, publishing the thesis: “A Phenomenological Investigation of Near-Death Event Survivors.” She completed herDoctor of Education with a dissertation entitled: “Transforming Life Crisis: Stories of Metahabilitation After Catastrophic Life Events.” A marathoner and triathlete, in 1990 she survived a sudden-death event requiringtwenty-two minutes of CPR to return to life. Already a nurse practitioner and dismayed at the focus of her recovery and what was presented in the aftermath of her trauma, her mind emphasized the negative, painting a bleak future. However, her master's and doctoral research focused on posttraumatic growth (PTG) and she created a strength-based clinical pathway guiding survivors toward a productive recovery and PTG. Her first book was Turning Tragedy Into Triumph: Metahabilitation: A Contemporary Model of Rehabilitation, which profiled survivors and detailed a pathway toward PTG. Her work and research continue involving how trauma affects families and communities and recognizing how they experience PTG. A Professor at CSUS, she speaks nationally and internationally on trauma, focusing on resilience and PTG. With multiple publications, her work and research continue to provide strength and hope for those who suffer in the aftermath of trauma. Her second book Anatomy of a Survivor: Building Resilience, Grit, and Growth After Trauma just released April 27th. TOTD: To be ‘in charge' is certainly not only to carry out the proper measures yourself but to see that everyone else does so too. Florence NightingalePlease enjoy this episode of Life's Essential Ingredients! Thanks for listening!
Dr. Adamson is an Assistant Professor of Education Policy and Leadership Studies at CSUS and helped C12 across the finish line. In this episode, Dr. Adamson discusses the doctoral program and ed leadership. Check out the whole series at csuscohort12.com.
A marathoner and triathlete, in 1990 Dr. Mikal-Flynn survived a sudden-death event requiring twenty-two minutes of CPR to return to life. Already a nurse practitioner and dismayed at the focus of her recovery and what was presented in the aftermath of her trauma, her mind emphasized the negative, painting a bleak future. However, her master’s and doctoral research focused on posttraumatic growth (PTG) and she created a strength-based clinical pathway guiding survivors toward a productive recovery and PTG. A Professor at CSUS, she speaks nationally and internationally on trauma, focusing on resilience and PTG. With multiple publications, her work and research continue to provide strength and hope for those who suffer in the aftermath of trauma. Dr. Mikal-Flynn received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of San Francisco, a Nurse Practitioner Certificate from the University of California, Davis, and her Master’s of Science in Nursing at Sacramento State University, publishing the thesis: “A Phenomenological Investigation of Near-Death Event Survivors.” She completed her Doctor of Education with a dissertation entitled: “Transforming Life Crisis: Stories of Metahabilitation After Catastrophic Life Events.” Her book: "Anatonmy of a Survivor: Building Resilience, Grit, and Growth After Trauma" is available on Amazon. Find her book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3gEnIAV Episode brought to you by: Integrated Brain Centers
We covered a lot of topics and news today, including: FSA retiring the FSA ID website. FSA releasing Volume One of the 2021-2022 FSA Handbook. A University Business Magazine article on transforming the student experience at college (based on a Barnes and Noble Education report). Politico article on CSUs and UCs requiring vaccinations for fall semester. NASFAA wants to hear from you! CSAC making improvements to WebGrants for Schools. Article from Pierce College's student newspaper regarding financial aid. NASFAA training. FSA releasing an updated 2021-2022 list of school codes. Free training from the USDE MSURSD. Dennis's "I Dare You To Read" selection is the 2020 Wristwatch Annual guide. Find out more about CCCSFAAA at cccsfaaa.org. Have feedback for Dennis and Dana? Got a topic you want us to discuss? Email us at wbcccsfaaa@gmail.com. "What's Brewing, CCCSFAAA?" is a Studio 1051 production. Studio 1051 is a creative collaboration of Dennis Schroeder and Dana Yarbrough.
On the 11th episode of Wonks at Work, we're talking about a new safe and secure alternative for those who encounter law enforcement officials during an acute mental crisis. Crisis stabilization units, or CSUs, are short-term, residential medical facilities that provide immediate care for those experiencing mental health crises who might otherwise be jailed or treated at an emergency room. Dr. Lisa Evans, a psychologist and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Pulaski County CSU program director, talks to host Craig Wilson about the importance of crisis intervention, the need for more CSUs around the state, and what has surprised her the most about the receptivity of law enforcement, patients and the community to CSUs.
The newly appointed California State University Chancellor, Joseph Castro, made Cal State San Bernardino his second stop on a statewide virtual tour of campuses Wednesday. During a media briefing, Castro, the former President of Cal State Fresno, said he plans to raise the visibility of the 23-campus system throughout the state and nation. “We have such a powerful story to tell and we have such a dramatic transformational impact on our students and their families," said Castro. "I want to make sure that everyone knows about that and to inspire even more investment of all kinds, public and private investment because we can do even more.” Since taking on the role in January, Castro has announced a series of plans including safely reopening campuses by the fall, an aggressive initiative to address equity gaps in graduation rates, and new tactics to recruit a diverse faculty that represents the students who attend CSUs. He said his background uniquely positions him to tackle these
We are back! And our guest this week is Tia White, a CSUS graduate of Journalism and Film Studies, co-creator of FilmmeNoire, and choreographer/dancer. She is also a fiction writer committed to adding multi-dimensional authenticity to black stories and heroines, which we discuss a lot in today's episode! Tia and her best friend Deja, also run FilmmeNoire, a film review and history platform showcasing cinema arts past and present; and their connectivity of humans across various demographics. Join our community of women filmmakers over on Instagram @MakingItWomenInFilm For more from Tia, follow @FilmmeNoire on Instagram and check out FilmmeNoire.com See you next week for another exciting interview with Director Chelsea Christer and Producer Erin Persley - the makers of Bleeding Audio. This episode was hosted by Malin Evita, guest-starring Tia White, and edited by Shania Bethune. For more information, go to malinevita.com/podcast or email us at makingitwomeninfilm@gmail.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/makingitwomeninfilm/message
This is The EdUp Experience President Series Episode #50. In this episode, sponsored by MDT Marketing, we welcome Dr. Jack Thomas, President, Central State University! Jack talks about faculty being the heart and soul of the university - they are responsible for providing students with a world-class education! Students need more counseling and mental wellness services than ever - learn how Jack focuses on building CSUs academic profile that helps with recruitment efforts. Dr. Jack Thomas took office as the ninth president of Central State University on July 1, 2020, bringing decades of successful academic leadership. Dr. Thomas comes to Central State after nearly a decade as president of Western Illinois University, a state-run university, where he successfully managed a budget of nearly $224 million during a period of unprecedented state fiscal challenges. Thanks so much for tuning in. Join us again next time for another episode! Contact Us! Connect with the hosts - Elvin Freytes, Elizabeth Leiba, and Dr. Joe Sallustio ● If you want to get involved, leave us a comment or rate us! ● Join the EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! ● Follow us on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Thanks for listening! We make education your business!
This podcast looks at the cost of housing for college students in California, with a special focus on the CSUs. By Ashley Marquez.
President Trump to announce his Supreme Court pick, how to have important conversations with kids about police violence and the CSUs have new leadership.
What the Tech? is a podcast powered by the Computer Science Department of UCalgary. Here to deconstruct complex computer science concepts, and explain what the tech's going on? In this episode we talk to Nadhif Satriana, a student in the UCalgary CPSC program and former President of the Computer Science Undergraduate Society, also known as CSUS. For any students at UCalgary wanting to connect with other people interested in tech, we explore why CSUS is something you want to be a part of. If you enjoyed today's episode, make sure to subscribe on whatever platform you're listening on. We encourage you to reach out to us, ask us questions about the show, or even suggest topics of interest to you! You can do so by following us on instagram @uofc_cpsc . You can also send us a voice message on anchor.fm/whatthetech-ucalgary to potentially get your questions featured on the show! Thanks for tuning in! Be sure to come back every week to find out what the tech's going on? . Music: Intro / Outro Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeod || Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4148-nowhere-land || License: CC BY http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Background Loopster by Kevin MacLeod || Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4991-loopster || License: CC BY http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod || Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama || License: CC BY http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ I Knew a Guy by Kevin MacLeod || Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3895-i-knew-a-guy || License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Cool Vibes by Kevin MacLeod || Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3553-cool-vibes || License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Thinking Music by Kevin MacLeod || Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4522-thinking-music || License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Funk Game Loop by Kevin MacLeod || Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3787-funk-game-loop || License: CC BY http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Umbrella Pants by Kevin MacLeod || Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4559-umbrella-pants || License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . Other Resources: --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/whatthetech-ucalgary/message
* This event was recorded on August 19, 2020 * NOTE: The conversation ends at the 7:08-minute mark Listen to this virtual discussion on how California State University campuses are addressing students' and parents' concerns during the pandemic, from the cost of tuition to remote learning. The discussion was moderated by CalMatters College Journalism Network Editor Felicia Mello, along with student journalists. Special thanks to the College Futures Foundation and Walter S. Johnson Foundation for sponsoring our Student Town Halls. WHO SAID WHAT WHEN * 7:08 min - Felicia Mello introduces the event and Chancellor Tim White * 10:40 min - How ready the Chancellor is to take on the 2020-2021 school year * 14:20 min - How many students have tested positive for coronavirus, and is CSU tracking that number? * 16:30 min - What are you doing to keep on-campus students safe and healthy? * 20 min - What support is CSU giving to students struggling with mental health issues? * 23:20 min - What's the process for COVID-19 testing in students living in the dorms? * 27:40 min - What kind of enrollment changes are happening on CSU campuses this year? * 31 min - What has Cal State done to improve the quality of education for this new school year? * 41:30 min - Will Cal State cancel student fees for services that are unavailable to students during the pandemic? * 46:35 min - How is Cal State getting WiFi access and hardware access to the students that still don’t have it? * 53:10 min - Will the CSUs consider asking its executives to take pay cuts? * 1 hr - What changes, if any, has CSU made in the past few months to be a more equitable and safe place for students of color?
San Diego is now officially off the state’s coronavirus watch list but what that means for local businesses remains to be seen. Plus, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill by Assemblymember Shirley Weber (D-San Diego) that requires all students at California State University to take an ethnic studies course to graduate. Also, California’s power grid manager is in the hot seat after calling for the first rolling blackouts since 2001. In addition, as the new school year starts during the pandemic, the question of how to discipline students who are attending classes virtually is a challenge for teachers and administrators. And, many nursing homes are ill prepared for wildfire disasters, we examine the regulations that are supposed to protect residents. Finally, La Jolla Music Society Summer Fest is back — the musicians will be live but the audience will be virtual.
In this special episode, we talk with agent Gordon Warnock and author Jorjeana Marie about how to reignite your creativity, learn to trust yourself, and stay inspired along the way. We learn how they met (in the slush pile!), why people are pressured to choose just one creative passion (and what you should do about it), and (perhaps most important) how to bring back the joy of creation to your work. Jorjeana Marie is a storyteller. Whether it's as a writer for Disney's “Mickey and the Roadster Racers”, as a voice actress enacting all the roles in the “New Nancy Drew Diaries” (where Nancy now uses GPS to find her criminals and spends her spare time Googling herself!) or as a stand-up comedian touring the nation at The Improv and Catch a Rising Star Comedy Clubs, or as a produced playwright in NYC-she focuses on the fun and funny. As an award-winning narrator of over 250 books, Jorjeana's narrative skills have earned her multiple Earphones awards, Best Voices of 2014, 2015 and 2016 and a prestigious Audie Award for “Salt to the Sea” by Ruta Sepetys. Publisher Weekly calls her “Pitch-perfect” and Audiofile Magazine for “The Assistants” by Camille Perri stated “Bridget Jones meets Working Girl in this audiobook, and holy moly, is it fun. Jorjeana Marie puts this diverse and hilarious cast of New York characters through their many-accented paces like Dorothy Hamill landing a triple axel. In every paragraph. Her warm, bright tone creates just the right mood, and her pacing, balancing humor and looming disaster, is perfect.” Gordon Warnock is a founding partner at Fuse Literary, serving as a literary agent and Editorial Director of Short Fuse Publishing. He brings years of experience as a senior agent, marketing director, editor for independent publishers, publishing consultant, and author coach. He frequently teaches workshops and gives keynote speeches at conferences and MFA programs nationwide. He is an honors graduate of CSUS with a B.A. in Creative and Professional Writing. With a zest for fresh, new voices and a deep love of the classics, Gordon actively seeks out both the timely and the timeless. In that spirit, he establishes involved, long-term working relationships with talented and dedicated authors of many genres.
In Episode 5 of Beyond Fear: The Sex Crimes Podcast, Alexa and Alissa interview Dr. Nicole Fox, an assistant professor in the Criminal Justice Division at CSUS whose current research focuses on how post-genocide communities remember violence through the creation of national collective memories embodied in memorials and monuments. In “The Weaponization of Sexual Violence” we talk about rape as it is used during war and genocide.At the 18:00 minute mark in this episode, Dr. Fox mentions an article that has the most accurate counts of the number of rapes that occurred during the Rwandan genocide. You can access that article by clicking here.Dr. Fox’s forthcoming book Rising From the Ashes: Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda After the Genocide is due out in the spring of 2021.We recognize that every episode of this podcast can be difficult to digest, but episode 5 in particular is quite heavy. We caution that you listen with care.For a transcript of this episode of Beyond Fear, click here.For a direct download of this episode of Beyond Fear (MP3), click here.Follow us on Facebook at Beyond Fear: The Sex Crimes Podcast, on Instagram @beyondfearpodcast, and on Twitter @fearcrimes
Episode 13: Treat the Partner(s): EPT The sun rises over the San Joaquin Valley, California, today is May 22, 2020. The COVID 19 pandemic has created a limited access to PPE in many health centers around the nation. Last week, Amazon also prioritized individual physicians for COVID-19 Supplies in providing much needed PPE for private practices. As a result, AAFP members and others working on the front lines of the pandemic have direct access to hundreds of items related to PPE, disinfectants, sanitizing products, diagnostic equipment and other materials. Way to go Amazon! Thank you for your business. Welcome to Rio Bravo qWeek, the podcast of the Rio Bravo Family Medicine Residency Program. We train residents and students to prevent illnesses and bring healing and hope to our community. Our mission: To Seek, Teach and Serve. Sponsored by Clinica Sierra Vista, Providing compassionate and affordable care to patients throughout Kern and Fresno counties since 1971. “Don't let success determine your happiness but instead let your happiness determine your success” –Salah Barhoum What a great quote. When you are happy, you are successful. We can see our happiness as the highest level of our success. Today our guest is a successful man, Joseph Gomes. He is a very entertaining guy with a great sense of humor and very intelligent, he is known by his friends as Joe. Welcome Dr Gomes. 1. Question number 1: Who are you? My name is Dr. Joseph Gomes, I am a father of 2 twin munchkins and R2 in the Rio Bravo Family Medicine Residency program in Bakersfield, CA. I was most recently bestowed the honor of being elected as one of the 3 chief resident physicians for the 2020-2021 academic year, which I am quite excited about. I completed my undergraduate degree, a BS in Biomedical Sciences at CSUS in Sacramento, CA and completed medical school via the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine. I like playing with my kids and eating cupcakes. 2. Question number 2: What did you learn this week? I think if I were to attempt to list all that I learned, or forgot and was reminded of this past week we would run out of time. However, I am here to talk about a topic that I don’t think gets very much attention and that’s the subject of Expedited Partner Therapy, or EPT for short. I was exposed to this concept for the first time during my intern year and was shocked that it was something that wasn’t more well-known or discussed in the resident community. EPT Definition EPT is “the clinical practice of treating the sex partners of patients diagnosed with chlamydia or gonorrhea by providing prescriptions or medications to the patient to take to his/her partner without the health care provider first examining the partner.” Patient’s sex partners from the past 60 days should be treated. EPT is for gonorrhea and chlamydia only. How would you write the prescription to treat gonorrhea if the treatment is IM Ceftriaxone? The current recommended treatment for gonorrhea is an IM dose of ceftriaxone AND a single dose of oral azithromycin 1 gram. The CDC recommends using cefixime and azithromycin in EPT. General Guidelines for EPT • Prescribe treatment for gonorrhea and chlamydia under the index patient’s name or their partners’ names. • Prescription should be accompanied by treatment instructions and warnings about taking medications • Gonorrhea health education and counseling • A statement advising that partners seek personal medical evaluation, particularly women with symptoms of PID. • No sexual intercourse for 7 days after treatment (ACOG, 2018) EPT is not recommended for: • MSM (high risk for coexisting infections, especially undiagnosed HIV infection) • Suspected child abuse • Sexual assault • Any other situation when patient safety is compromised • EPT has lower evidence in HSV, scabies, pubic lice, and trichomonas. 3. Question number 3: Why is that knowledge important for you and your patients? Per the Kern County Health Department website, based on published data from 2017, Kern County alone has approximately 1 new STI case per hour, each day. With the vast majority of these cases being Chlamydia, followed by Gonorrhea, Syphilis and lastly HIV. Of note, Hep B data was not published in 2017, but I fully expect its inclusion in the forthcoming publication. And specifically, regarding Chlamydia, Kern County is the 3rd worst in the state, following San Francisco and Alpine counties and as a county has a 38% increased average number of cases compared to other counties in the state. For syphilis, Kern is actually a bit worse. Kern County syphilis rates in 2017 were 333% higher when compared to other counties in the state. More disappointing than that, Kern County had 313% increase in CONGENITAL syphilis cases and ranked the 2nd worst in the state behind Fresno. This is a big deal. Not just in this county, but nation-wide. STI rates continue to climb and this is just one mechanism by which we can help prevent the continued spread of infection. Why is this important? To prevent what is referred to as the “Ping Pong” effect. The phenomenon in which sexual partners re-infect each other with the same sexually transmitted disease (STD). First, an individual who has the STD infects his or her partner. The partner may then re-infect the individual, after the individual has been cured from that particular STD. This often occurs because individuals and their partners may or may not be aware that they have an STD, since symptoms are not always present. The 3 major players include Gonorrhea, Chlamydia and Trichomoniasis. EPT is permitted in all 50 states, save for one, South Carolina. Get it together South Carolina! 4. Question number 4: How did you get that knowledge? I prefer self-study and read by myself the topics that interest me. Also, I enjoy watching videos such as the AAFP 2020 Lectures Series for Board Review. 5. Question number 5: Where did that knowledge come from? Websites used: CDC website, Kern County Public Health Website, Z-dogg MD podcast, which I highly recommend, published as Incident Report 197 in 2018. Additional information: Something I did not know is that through the Kern County Public Health department, those who have been diagnosed with an STI can anonymously notify their sexual partner via their website at KernPublicHealth.com (https://dontspreadit.com/). This is a fantastic resource as a myriad of factors contribute to neglecting to notify sexual partners, including, but not limited to undue shame, guilt, hostility and the obvious avoidance of confrontation. The public health department eliminates much of this through their website. Speaking Medical (Medical word of the Week): Fasciculation by Dr Monica Kumar A fasciculation is a small involuntary muscle contraction and relaxation also known as a muscle twitch. Approximately 70 percent of fasciculations are benign in etiology. However, the remaining 30 percent of the cases can be due to hypomagnesemia, benzodiazepine withdrawals, acetylcholinesterase inhibitor use, caffeine use, rabies, and other lower motor neuron disorders such as ALS, poliomyelitis, and spinal muscular atrophies. In order to further evaluate the etiology behind the fasciculations, a thorough neuromuscular examination should be performed. Further evaluation with an electrolyte panel, electromyography, nerve conduction studies, neuromuscular ultrasound, or muscle biopsy can also be performed in determining the cause. If you have a patient with eye twitching, it may be a fasciculation, but it also could be them winking at you. Espanish Por Favor (Spanish Word of the Week): Enfermo by Dr Claudia Carranza The Spanish word of this week is enfermo. Enfermo or enferma means ill/sick in Spanish. This word comes from Latin root “infirmus”, which can be broken down into “in” and “firmus” meaning “not firm”. This is understood as “not standing” or “not well”. Patients can come to you with the complaint: “Doctor, estoy enfermo” or “Doctor, me siento enfermo o enferma”, which means: “Doctor I’m ill, or I feel sick”. At this point, you will know they do not feel well and you can start investigating what’s going on. Now you know the Spanish word of the week, “ENFERMO”. Have a great week! For Your Sanity (Joke of the Week) by Dr Verna Marquez and Dr Steven Saito Teacher: "Kids, what does the chicken give you?" Student: "Meat!" Teacher: "Very good! Now what does the pig give you?" Student: "Bacon!" Teacher: "Great! And what does the fat cow give you?" Student: "Homework!" —What’s the difference between a rectal thermometer and an oral thermometer? —The taste. —Doctor, my ear is ringing, what should I do? —You should answer it! Now we conclude our episode number 13 “Treat the Partner(s): EPT”. For partners who are unlikely to seek medical attention, Cefixime and Azithromycin is the current recommended regimen for gonorrhea; and azithromycin 1-gram single dose is the recommended treatment for chlamydia. This practice is not only permissible, but it is endorsed by the CDC, AAFP, ACOG, and many other organizations. Also, next time a patient winks at you, think of the word fasciculation. If your patient tells you they are enfermos, don’t panic, you are being trained to cure your ill patients. This is the end of Rio Bravo qWeek. We say goodbye from Bakersfield, a special place in the beautiful Central Valley of California, United States, a land where growing is happening everywhere. If you have any feedback about this podcast, contact us by email RBresidency@clinicasierravista.org, or visit our website riobravofmrp.org/qweek. This podcast was created with educational purposes only. Visit your primary care physician for additional medical advice. Our podcast team is Hector Arreaza, Claudia Carranza, Monica Kumar, Verna Marquez, and Steven Saito. Audio edition: Suraj Amrutia. See you soon! References: “Expedited Partner Therapy”, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, https://www.cdc.gov/std/ept/default.htm, accessed on May 18, 2020. ACOG Committee Opinion, Number 737, June 2018, https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/committee-opinion/articles/2018/06/expedited-partner-therapy, accessed on May 18, 2020. “Treating an STD Patient’s Partner WITHOUT Seeing Them??”, ZDogg MD, November 5th, 2018, https://zdoggmd.com/incident-report-197/ STDs in Kern County 2017 Data Update, Kern County Public Health Department: https://kernpublichealth.com/wp-content/uploads/STDs-in-Kern-County-update-2017-web.pdf Anonymous Partner Notification: https://dontspreadit.com/
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In a follow-up to the previous episode of Strangers in China — Chapter 8: The Plague — Clay reconnects with previous guests for an update on how COVID-19 is impacting their lives in China.On March 10, Xí Jìnpíng 习近平 toured Wuhan. The message was clear: He was declaring victory over this disaster on behalf of the Chinese people. One question remains to be answered, though: Is this plague really over, or are we just in the eye of the storm? This episode was produced by Clay Baldo, with audio mastering by Kaiser Kuo and research help from Shunyao. Music credits: “Analytical Skeletons,” “Hip hop instrumental,” “Vaporize Me,” and “Crumbling Chia Pets,” by Csus; “Road Trip,” “Fake Mustache,” and “Wait What,” by Purrple Cat; “f@y,” by Jack Meijer; “I Like You.,” by ARTST_UNKWN_2; “I Was Nothing,” by Le Gang; “IC3PEAK,” by svd_b1tch; “Hip Hop Instrumental 82 BPM,” by Terri Skillz; and “xmpty” and “Light Showers,” by lofee.
UPDATE: 4/17/20 CSUs terminate testing requirement!Are colleges making the SAT/ACT tests optional for admissions this coming year? Is that a good thing for students? Should people take the test, even if it is optional? Is this going to be a forever change??
Welcome to the forth of our bonus episodes of the Planned Solutions Incorporated Podcast. Shannon Druivenga joined Planned Solutions in 2000 and has spent a majority of his tenure building and nurturing the client services and culture of Planned Solutions. He is a graduate of CSUS and holds a Chartered Life Underwriter designation from the American College of Financial Services, and CA Insurance License #0F24746. He has extensive experience working as the firm’s Insurance expert helping individuals and families mitigate financial risks and plan for a secure financial future. When he is not coaching his kids’ sports teams, he enjoys relaxing and taking family vacations along the coast. He is also a huge Sacramento Kings fan. To subscribe to the Personal Finance Review (the written form of all the content we discuss on the podcast) please e-mail Katie@PlannedSolutions.com The Personal Finance Review is published and distributed on a biweekly basis by Planned Solutions, Inc. for informational purposes only. Please seek the advice of a qualified financial planner before taking any action. Planned Solutions, Inc. ADDRESS: PHONE: 1130 Iron Point Road, Suite 170 (916) 361-0100 Folsom, CA 95630 (800) 750-2111 E-MAIL: FAX: Shannon@PlannedSolutions.com (916) 361-0191 WEB SITE: www.PlannedSolutions.com #finance #invest #investment #stocks #interestrate #bonds
What is the ASI, Business Office/Student Shop? Donna 'BasicTaq' Walters and Gabriella 'DJ Gabster' Santiago sit down with Jean Sanchez and Luna Kassis to talk about all the many great services the ASI Student Shop and Business Office have to offer! The ASI, Student Shop has so many resources. check them out at asi.csus.edu/asi-student-shop Music by Lame Drivers Track - Frozen Egg https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lame_Drivers/Live_on_WFMUs_Burn_It_Down_With_Nate_K_-_October_11_2015/Lame_Drivers_-_04_-_Frozen_Egg
Donna 'BasicTaq' Walters and Gabriella 'DJ Gabster' Santiago sit down with CSSA Liaison Alyssa Lee and ASI President Christian Landaverde to talk about CSSA, ASI, and compete head to head in a game show about Student Government at the campus and CSU levels. Make a difference and be the change for all California State Universities! Check out the CSSA and find out more information at asi.csus.edu/local-state-federal-advocacy Music by Lame Drivers Track - Frozen Egg https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lame_Drivers/Live_on_WFMUs_Burn_It_Down_With_Nate_K_-_October_11_2015/Lame_Drivers_-_04_-_Frozen_Egg
Hosts Gabriella Santiago and Donna 'BasicTaq' Walters are discussing the Life of an ASI Board Member! They talk about the specifics about what it's like to be on the Board and what the ASI Board can do for you as a Sac State student! Have fun with Donna and Gabby as they talk about the different board positions, student committees, and more! Music by Lame Drivers Track - Frozen Egg https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lame_Drivers/Live_on_WFMUs_Burn_It_Down_With_Nate_K_-_October_11_2015/Lame_Drivers_-_04_-_Frozen_Egg
Guest appearance by ASI's VP of University Affairs, Noah Marty who chats with BasicTaq (Donna Walters) about the Primary Elections, how they are different from the General Elections, why it's important, and how to vote! As well as, Sac State's NEW Vote Center is in Modoc Hall, 3020 State University Drive Music by Lame Drivers Track - Frozen Egg https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lame_Drivers/Live_on_WFMUs_Burn_It_Down_With_Nate_K_-_October_11_2015/Lame_Drivers_-_04_-_Frozen_Egg
Hosts BasicTaq and Gabriella Santiago discuss the history, purpose, and mission of ASI; why it's important to student success; and where to get more info on how to get involved or run for student government. Later on they interview interview the Director of ASI Peak Adventures, Sasha Smirnova, and discuss what ASI Peak Adventures offers, ways to participate in free or reduced activities, and the department's goals for the 2020-2021 Academic Year.
Jeremiah Ramirez is a research analyst at CalPERS and recently obtained his Masters in Public Policy Administration from CSU Sacramento. He joins us to discuss his masters thesis on California gaming, including online betting, sports betting, tribal interests, social costs, and California's byzantine gaming regulatory structure. Want to sponsor the show or be a guest of the show? Email: Gibran@sactowntalks.comFollow us on twitter! @Sactowntalks / @gibranjitsuFollow Jeremiah on Twitter: @jeremiahMPPA
Former ASI President Mia Kagianas does a brief overview of all the great things ASI has to offer students!
Show Notes Moe Factz with Adam Curry for December 2nd 2019, Episode number 17 Shaft Stache Shownotes Robert Townsend (actor) - Wikipedia Mon, 02 Dec 2019 13:13 American actor Robert Townsend (born February 6, 1957) is an American actor, director, comedian, and writer.[1][2] Townsend is best known for directing the films Hollywood Shuffle (1987), Eddie Murphy Raw (1987), The Meteor Man (1993), The Five Heartbeats (1991) and various other films and stand-up specials. He is especially known for his eponymous self-titled character, Robert Peterson as the starring role as on The WB sitcom The Parent 'Hood (1995''1999), a series which he created and of which directed select episodes. Townsend is also known for his role as Donald "Duck" Matthews in his 1991 film The Five Heartbeats.[3] He later wrote, directed and produced Making The Five Heartbeats (2018), a documentary film about the production process and behind the scenes insight into creating the film. Townsend is also known for his production company Townsend Entertainment [4] which has produced films Playin' for Love,[5] In the Hive and more. During the 1980s and early''1990s, Townsend gained national exposure through his stand-up comedy routines and appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Townsend has worked with talent including Halle Berry, Morgan Freeman, Chris Tucker, Beyonc(C), Denzel Washington and many more.[6][7][8] Early life and career [ edit ] Townsend was born in Chicago, Illinois, the second of four children[9] to Shirley (n(C)e Jenkins) and Ed Townsend. His mother ended up raising him and his three siblings as a single parent. Growing up on the city's west side, Townsend attended Austin High School; graduating in 1975.[10] He became interested in acting as a teenager. During a reading of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex in high school, Townsend captured the attention of Chicago's X Bag Theatre, The Experimental Black Actors Guild. Townsend later auditioned for parts at Chicago's Experimental Black Actors' Guild and performed in local plays studying at the famed Second City comedy workshop for improvisation in 1974. Townsend had a brief uncredited role in the 1975 movie Cooley High. After high school, Townsend enrolled at Illinois State University, studied a year and later moved to New York to study at the Negro Ensemble Company. Townsend's mother believed that he should complete his college education, but he felt that college took time away from his passion for acting, and he soon dropped out of school to pursue his acting career full-time. Career [ edit ] Townsend auditioned to be part of Saturday Night Live's 1980''1981 cast, but was rejected in favor of Eddie Murphy. In 1982, Townsend appeared as one of the main characters in the PBS series Another Page, a program produced by Kentucky Educational Television that taught literacy to adults through serialized stories. Townsend later appeared in small parts in films like A Soldier's Story (1984), directed by Norman Jewison, and after its success garnered much more substantial parts in films like The Mighty Quinn (1989) with Denzel Washington.[11][12][13] In 1987, Townsend wrote, directed and produced Hollywood Shuffle, a satire based on the hardships and obstacles that black actors undergo in the film industry. The success of his first project helped him establish himself in the industry.[6][14] Another of his films was The Five Heartbeats based on 1960s R&B male groups and the tribulations of the music industry. Townsend created and produced two television variety shows'--the CableACE award''winning Robert Townsend and His Partners in Crime for HBO, and the Fox Television variety show Townsend Television (1993). He also created and starred in the WB Network's sitcom The Parent 'Hood which originally ran from January 1995 to July 1999. In 2018, Townsend also directed 2 episodes for the B.E.T. Series American Soul which began airing in 2019. The show is about Don Cornelius and Soul Train. Townsend was programming director at the Black Family Channel, but the network folded in 2007. Townsend created The Robert Townsend Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to introduce and help new unsigned filmmakers. Awards and other credits [ edit ] Townsend directed the 2001 TV movie, Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story for which Cole won the NAACP Image Award as Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special. Townsend also directed two television movies in 2001 and 2002 respectively, Carmen: A Hip Hopera and 10,000 Black Men Named George. In 2013 Townsend was nominated for an Ovation Award in the category of "Lead Actor in a Musical" for his role as Dan in the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts production of Next to Normal.[15] Personal life [ edit ] Townsend was married to Cheri Jones[16] from September 15, 1990, to August 9, 2001.[17] Together they have two daughters, Sierra and Skylar (Skye Townsend), both entertainers, and a son, Isiah.[6] Filmography [ edit ] Further reading [ edit ] Alexander, George. Why We Make Movies: Black Filmmakers Talk About the Magic of Cinema. Harlem Moon. 2003.Collier, Aldore. "Robert Townsend: a new kind of Hollywood dreamer. Actor-producer-director plans to make films that uplift and transform Black audiences". Ebony Magazine. 1 June 1991.Rogers, Brent. Robert Townsend Article in Perspectives. Sustaining Digital History, 12 November 2007.References [ edit ] ^ "Robert Townsend". The New York Times. ^ "As Robert Townsend Sees It : He's Fighting Stereotypes With 'Meteor Man' and New TV Show". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2010-10-10 . ^ The Five Heartbeats , retrieved 2019-09-16 ^ "Townsend Entertainment - IMDbPro". pro.imdb.com . Retrieved 2018-03-06 . ^ "Playin' For Love". Black Cinema Connection. 2014-11-05 . Retrieved 2018-03-06 . ^ a b c "About". Robert Townsend. Archived from the original on 2011-07-14. ^ "Carmen: A Hip Hopera", Wikipedia, 2019-08-09 , retrieved 2019-09-17 ^ B*A*P*S , retrieved 2019-09-17 ^ "Townsend, Robert (1957-)". BlackPast.Org. 2008 . Retrieved September 18, 2017 . ^ "1975 Austin High School Yearbook (Chicago, Illinois)". Classmates.com. 1975 . Retrieved September 18, 2017 . ^ Vincent Canby, "Review/Film; Tropical Murder", The New York Times, February 17, 1989. ^ The Mighty Quinn , retrieved 2019-09-17 ^ A Soldier's Story , retrieved 2019-09-17 ^ Hollywood Shuffle , retrieved 2019-09-17 ^ "2013 Ovation Awards Nominees '-- South by Southeast". thisstage.la. LA STAGE Alliance. September 16, 2013 . Retrieved 2017-04-21 . ^ "The Week's Best Photo". Google Books. JET Magazine. March 25, 1991 . Retrieved September 18, 2017 . ^ Gimenes, Erika (2001). "Robert Townsend to divorce". Hollywood.com . Retrieved September 18, 2017 . ^ "Jackie's Back! (1999)" at IMDb. External links [ edit ] Robert Townsend on IMDbRobert Townsend (Official Website) (9) Charles Woods (The Professor) - Hollywood's Tricknology: Mandingo To Malcolm X - YouTube Mon, 02 Dec 2019 12:59 Tyler Perry Mon, 02 Dec 2019 12:57 Tyler Perry is a world-renowned producer, director, actor, screenwriter, playwright, author, songwriter, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Tyler Perry's Story Tyler Perry is a world-renowned producer, director, actor, screenwriter, playwright, author, songwriter, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Read His Story Outreach Since 2006, The Perry Foundation's aim has been to transform tragedy into triumph by empowering the economically disadvantaged to achieve a better quality of life. We focus on health and clean water, education and technology, arts and culture, and globally-sustainable economic development. Get Involved Visit Website You are viewing Tyler Perry Entertainment. If you'd like to view the Tyler Perry Studios, click here. Black writers courageously staring down the white gaze '' this is why we all must read them | Stan Grant | Opinion | The Guardian Mon, 02 Dec 2019 12:46 The white gaze '' it is a phrase that resonates in black American literature. Writers from WEB Du Bois to Ralph Ellison to James Baldwin and Toni Morrison have struggled with it and railed against it. As Morrison '' a Nobel Laureate '' once said: Our lives have no meaning, no depth without the white gaze. And I have spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books. The white gaze: it traps black people in white imaginations. It is the eyes of a white schoolteacher who sees a black student and lowers expectations. It is the eyes of a white cop who sees a black person and looks twice '' or worse, feels for a gun. Du Bois explored this more than a century ago in his book The Souls of Black Folk, reflecting on his conversations with white people and the ensuing delicate dance around the ''Negro problem''. Between me and the other world there is an ever unasked question'.... All, nevertheless, flutter around it ... Instead of saying directly, how does it feel to be a problem? They say, I know an excellent coloured man in my town ... To the real question '... I answer seldom a word. Baldwin was as ever more direct and piercing, writing in his book Nobody Knows My Name. I have spent most of my life ... watching white people and outwitting them so that I might survive. The flame has passed to a new generation. In 2015 three more black writers have stared down the white gaze. In their own ways Ta-Nehisi Coates, Claudia Rankine and George Yancy have held up a mirror to white America. These are uncompromising and fearless voices. Coates' searing essay Between The World And Me critiques America against a backdrop of black deaths at the hands of police. He says the country's history is rooted in slavery and the assault against the black body. In the form of a letter to his son, Coates writes: Here is what I would like for you to know: In America it is traditional to destroy the black body '' it is heritage. In Citizen '' An American Lyric, poet Rankine reflects on the black experience from the victims of Hurricane Katrina, or Trayvon Martin, a 17 year-old black youth shot dead by a neighbourhood watch volunteer who was acquitted, or black tennis star Serena Williams. In each case Rankine sees lives framed by whiteness. She writes: Because white men can't police their imagination, black men are dying. Philosophy Professor George Yancy just last week penned a letter in the New York Times addressed to ''Dear White America''. He asks his countrymen to listen with love, and to look at those things that might cause pain and terror. All white people, he says, benefit from racism and this means each, in their own way, are racist. '...don't run to seek shelter from your own racism'...practice being vulnerable. Being neither a ''good'' white person, nor a liberal white person will get you off the proverbial hook. Their unflinching work is not tempered by the fact a black man is in the White House '' that only makes their voices more urgent. Coates, Rankine, Yancy '' each has been variously praised and awarded, yet each has been pilloried as well. This is inevitable when some people don't like what the mirror reflects. It takes courage for a black person to speak to a white world, a world that can render invisible people of colour, unless they begin to more closely resemble white people themselves '' an education, a house in the suburbs, a good job, lighter skin. In Australia, too, black voices are defying the white gaze. We may not have the popular cut through of a Morrison or a Baldwin or a Coates, but we have a proud tradition '' Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Kevin Gilbert, Ruby Langford or more recently Kim Scott, Alexis Wright, Anita Heiss. I have spent some time recently reading some of the most powerful works of Indigenous writers. Their styles and genres are many and varied but there is a common and powerful theme of defiance and survival. This is a world so instantly recognisable to us '' Indigenous people '' but still so foreign to white Australia. Natalie Harkin's book of poetry, Dirty Words, is a subversive dictionary that turns English words back on their users: A is apology, B is for Boat People '... G is for Genocide ... S for Survival. ''How do you dream,'' she writes, ''When your lucky country does not sleep''. Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu challenges the white stereotype of the ''primitive hunter gatherer''. He says the economy and culture of Indigenous people has been grossly undervalued. He cites journals and diaries of explorers and colonists to reveal the industry and ingenuity of pre-colonial Aboriginal society. He says it is a window into a world of people building dams and wells and houses, irrigating and harvesting seed and creating elaborate cemeteries. Pascoe's work demands to be taught in our schools. Tony Birch is an acclaimed novelist and his latest Ghost River is remarkable. It is the story of two friends navigating the journey into adulthood guided by the men of the river '' men others may see as homeless and hopeless. It is a work infused with a sense of place and belonging. Ellen Van Neerven's Heat and Light is a genre-busting mystical journey into identity: sexual, racial and national. It is provocative and challenging and mind bending, and altogether stunning. You won't find many of these titles in the annual best book lists. Occasionally they pop up, but not as often as they deserve. You probably won't hear much of Samuel Wagan Watson's Love Poems and Death Threats, or Ken Canning's Yimbama, or Lionel Fogarty's Eelahroo (Long Ago) Nyah (Looking) Mobo-Mobo (Future). That these works are not more widely read is a national shame. In our busy lives, try to find time for some of these books in 2016 '' read with the courage of these writers. George Yancy asks white Americans to become ''un-sutured'', to open themselves up and let go of their white innocence. Why is this important? Well, for white people it may simply be a matter of choice '' the fate of black people may not affect them. For us it is survival '' the white gaze means we die young, are locked up and locked out of work and education. We hear a lot about recognition '' acknowledging Indigenous people in the Australian constitution. But there is another recognition '' recognising the pervasive and too often destructive role of race in our lives, and the need to lift our gaze above it. Queen | Definition of Queen by Merriam-Webster Mon, 02 Dec 2019 12:40 To save this word, you'll need to log in. ËkwÄ'n 1 a : the wife or widow of a king b : the wife or widow of a tribal chief 2 a : a female monarch b : a female chieftain 3 a : a woman eminent in rank, power, or attractions a movie queen b : a goddess or a thing personified as female and having supremacy in a specified realm c : an attractive girl or woman especially : a beauty contest winner 4 : the most privileged piece of each color in a set of chessmen having the power to move in any direction across any number of unoccupied squares 5 : a playing card marked with a stylized figure of a queen 6 : the fertile fully developed female of social bees, ants, and termites whose function is to lay eggs 7 : a mature female cat kept especially for breeding 8 slang , often disparaging : a male homosexual especially : an effeminate one queened ; queening ; queens intransitive verb 1 : to act like a queen especially : to put on airs '-- usually used with it queens it over her friends 2 : to become a queen in chess the pawn queens Pan-Africanism - Wikipedia Mon, 02 Dec 2019 12:37 Worldwide movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all people of African descent Pan-Africanism is a worldwide movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all indigenous and diasporan ethnic groups of African descent. Based on a common goal dating back to the Atlantic slave trade, the movement extends beyond continental Africans with a substantial support base among the African diaspora in the Caribbean, Latin America, the United States and Canada and Europe.[1][2] It is based on the belief that unity is vital to economic, social, and political progress and aims to "unify and uplift" people of African descent.[3] The ideology asserts that the fate of all African people and countries[clarification needed ] are intertwined. At its core Pan-Africanism is a belief that ''African people, both on the continent and in the diaspora, share not merely a common history, but a common destiny".[4] Pan-Africanist intellectual, cultural, and political movements tend to view all Africans and descendants of Africans as belonging to a single "race" and sharing cultural unity. Pan-Africanism posits a sense of a shared historical fate for Africans in the Americas, West Indies, and, on the continent itself, has centered on the Atlantic trade in slaves, African slavery, and European imperialism.[5] The Organization of African Unity (now the African Union) was established in 1963 to safeguard the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its Member States and to promote global relations within the framework of the United Nations.[6] The African Union Commission has its seat in Addis Ababa and the Pan-African Parliament has its seat in Johannesburg and Midrand. Overview [ edit ] Pan-Africanism stresses the need for "collective self-reliance".[7] Pan-Africanism exists as a governmental and grassroots objective. Pan-African advocates include leaders such as Haile Selassie, Julius Nyerere, Ahmed S(C)kou Tour(C), Kwame Nkrumah, King Sobhuza II, Thomas Sankara and Muammar Gaddafi, grassroots organizers such as Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X, academics such as W. E. B. Du Bois, and others in the diaspora.[8][9][10] Pan-Africanists believe that solidarity will enable the continent to fulfill its potential to independently provide for all its people. Crucially, an all-African alliance would empower African people globally. The realization of the Pan-African objective would lead to "power consolidation in Africa", which "would compel a reallocation of global resources, as well as unleashing a fiercer psychological energy and political assertion...that would unsettle social and political (power) structures...in the Americas".[11] Advocates of Pan-Africanism'--i.e. "Pan-Africans" or "Pan-Africanists"'--often champion socialist principles and tend to be opposed to external political and economic involvement on the continent. Critics accuse the ideology of homogenizing the experience of people of African descent. They also point to the difficulties of reconciling current divisions within countries on the continent and within communities in the diaspora.[11] History [ edit ] As a philosophy, Pan-Africanism represents the aggregation of the historical, cultural, spiritual, artistic, scientific, and philosophical legacies of Africans from past times to the present. Pan-Africanism as an ethical system traces its origins from ancient times, and promotes values that are the product of the African civilisations and the struggles against slavery, racism, colonialism, and neo-colonialism.[8] Alongside a large number of slaves insurrections, by the end of the 19th century a political movement developed across the Americas, Europe and Africa that sought to weld disparate movements into a network of solidarity, putting an end to oppression. Another important political form of a religious Pan-Africanist worldview appeared in the form of Ethiopianism.[12] In London, the Sons of Africa was a political group addressed by Quobna Ottobah Cugoano in the 1791 edition of his book Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery. The group addressed meetings and organised letter-writing campaigns, published campaigning material and visited parliament. They wrote to figures such as Granville Sharp, William Pitt and other members of the white abolition movement, as well as King George III and the Prince of Wales, the future George IV. Modern Pan-Africanism began around the start of the 20th century. The African Association, later renamed the Pan-African Association, was established around 1897 by Henry Sylvester-Williams, who organized the First Pan-African Conference in London in 1900.[13][14][15] With the independence of Ghana in March 1957, Kwame Nkrumah was elected as the first Prime Minister and President of the State.[16] Nkrumah emerged as a major advocate for the unity of Independent Africa. The Ghanaian President embodied a political activist approach to pan-Africanism as he championed the "quest for regional integration of the whole of the African continent".[17] This period represented a "Golden Age of high pan-African ambitions"; the Continent had experienced revolution and decolonization from Western powers and the narrative of rebirth and solidarity had gained momentum within the pan-African movement.[17] Nkrumah's pan-African principles intended for a union between the Independent African states upon a recognition of their commonality (i.e. suppression under imperialism). Pan-Africanism under Nkrumah evolved past the assumptions of a racially exclusive movement associated with black Africa, and adopted a political discourse of regional unity [18] In April 1958, Nkrumah hosted the first All-African Peoples' Conference (AAPC) in Accra, Ghana. This Conference invited delegates of political movements and major political leaders. With the exception of South Africa, all Independent States of the Continent attended: Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Sudan.[18] This Conference signified a monumental event in the pan-African movement, as it revealed a political and social union between those considered Arabic states and the black African regions. Further, the Conference espoused a common African Nationalist identity, among the States, of unity and anti-Imperialism. Frantz Fanon, journalist, freedom fighter and a member of the Algerian FLN party attended the conference as a delegate for Algeria.[19] Considering the armed struggle of the FLN against French colonial rule, the attendees of the Conference agreed to support the struggle of those States under colonial oppression. This encouraged the commitment of direct involvement in the "emancipation of the Continent; thus, a fight against colonial pressures on South Africa was declared and the full support of the FLN struggle in Algeria, against French colonial rule"".[20] In the years following 1958, Accra Conference also marked the establishment of a new foreign policy of non-alignment as between the US and USSR, and the will to establish an "African Identity" in global affairs by advocating a unity between the African States on international relations. "This would be based on the Bandung Declaration, the Charter of the UN and on loyalty to UN decisions."[20] In 1959, Nkrumah, President S(C)kou Tour(C) of Guinea and President William Tubman of Liberia met at Sanniquellie and signed the Sanniquellie Declaration outlining the principles for the achievement of the unity of Independent African States whilst maintaining a national identity and autonomous constitutional structure.[21][22] The Declaration called for a revised understanding of pan-Africanism and the uniting of the Independent States. In 1960, the second All-African Peoples' Conference was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.[23] The membership of the All-African Peoples' Organisation (AAPO) had increased with the inclusion of the "Algerian Provisional Government (as they had not yet won independence), Cameroun, Guinea, Nigeria, Somalia and the United Arab Republic".[24] The Conference highlighted diverging ideologies within the movement, as Nkrumah's call for a political and economic union between the Independent African States gained little agreement. The disagreements following 1960 gave rise to two rival factions within the pan-African movement: the Casablanca Bloc and the Brazzaville Bloc.[25] In 1962, Algeria gained independence from French colonial rule and Ahmed Ben Bella assumed Presidency. Ben Bella was a strong advocate for pan-Africanism and an African Unity. Following the FLN's armed struggle for liberation, Ben Bella spoke at the UN and espoused for Independent Africa's role in providing military and financial support to the African liberation movements opposing apartheid and fighting Portuguese colonialism.[26] In search of a united voice, in 1963 at an African Summit conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 32 African states met and established the Organization of African Unity (OAU). The creation of the OAU Charter took place at this Summit and defines a coordinated "effort to raise the standard of living of member States and defend their sovereignty" by supporting freedom fighters and decolonisation.[27] Thus, was the formation of the African Liberation Committee (ALC), during the 1963 Summit. Championing the support of liberation movements, was Algeria's President Ben Bella, immediately "donated 100 million francs to its finances and was one of the first countries, of the Organisation to boycott Portuguese and South African goods".[26] In 1969, Algiers hosted the Pan-African Cultural Festival, on July 21 and it continued for eight days.[28] At this moment in history, Algeria stood as a ''beacon of African and Third-World militancy,''[28] and would come to inspire fights against colonialism around the world. The festival attracted thousands from African states and the African Diaspora, including the Black Panthers. It represented the application of the tenets of the Algerian revolution to the rest of Africa, and symbolized the re-shaping of the definition of pan-African identity under the common experience of colonialism.[28] The Festival further strengthened Algeria's President, Boumediene's standing in Africa and the Third World.[28] After the death of Kwame Nkrumah in 1972, Muammar Qaddafi assumed the mantle of leader of the Pan-Africanist movement and became the most outspoken advocate of African Unity, like Nkrumah before him '' for the advent of a "United States of Africa".[29] In the United States, the term is closely associated with Afrocentrism, an ideology of African-American identity politics that emerged during the civil rights movement of the 1960s to 1970s.[30] Concept [ edit ] As originally conceived by Henry Sylvester-Williams (although some historians[who? ] credit the idea to Edward Wilmot Blyden), Pan-Africanism referred to the unity of all continental Africa.[31] During apartheid South Africa there was a Pan Africanist Congress that dealt with the oppression of Africans in South Africa under Apartheid rule. Other pan-Africanist organisations include: Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association-African Communities League, TransAfrica and the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement. Additionally, Pan-Africanism is seen as an endeavor to return to what are deemed by its proponents as singular, traditional African concepts about culture, society, and values. Examples of this include L(C)opold S(C)dar Senghor's N(C)gritude movement, and Mobutu Sese Seko's view of Authenticit(C). An important theme running through much pan-Africanist literature concerns the historical links between different countries on the continent, and the benefits of cooperation as a way of resisting imperialism and colonialism. In the 21st century, some Pan-Africanists aim to address globalisation and the problems of environmental justice. For instance, at the conference "Pan-Africanism for a New Generation"[32] held at the University of Oxford, June 2011, Ledum Mittee, the current president of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), argued that environmental justice movements across the African continent should create horizontal linkages in order to better protect the interests of threatened peoples and the ecological systems in which they are embedded, and upon which their survival depends. Some universities went as far as creating "Departments of Pan-African Studies" in the late 1960s. This includes the California State University, where that department was founded in 1969 as a direct reaction to the civil rights movement, and is today dedicated to "teaching students about the African World Experience", to "demonstrate to the campus and the community the richness, vibrance, diversity, and vitality of African, African American, and Caribbean cultures" and to "presenting students and the community with an Afrocentric analysis" of anti-black racism.[33]Syracuse University also offers a master's degree in "Pan African Studies".[34] Pan-African colors [ edit ] The flags of numerous states in Africa and of Pan-African groups use green, yellow and red. This colour combination was originally adopted from the 1897 flag of Ethiopia, and was inspired by the fact that Ethiopia is the continent's oldest independent nation,[35] thus making the Ethiopian green, yellow and red the closest visual representation of Pan-Africanism. This is in comparison to the Black Nationalist flag, representing political theory centred around the eugenicist caste-stratified colonial Americas.[36] The UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association) flag, is a tri-color flag consisting of three equal horizontal bands of (from top down) red, black and green. The UNIA formally adopted it on August 13, 1920,[37] during its month-long convention at Madison Square Garden in New York.[38][39] Variations of the flag have been used in various countries and territories in Africa and the Americas to represent Black Nationalist ideologies. Among these are the flags of Malawi, Kenya and Saint Kitts and Nevis. Several Pan-African organizations and movements have also often employed the emblematic red, black and green tri-color scheme in variety of contexts. Maafa studies [ edit ] Maafa is an aspect of Pan-African studies. The term collectively refers to 500 years of suffering (including the present) of people of African heritage through slavery, imperialism, colonialism, and other forms of oppression.[40][41] In this area of study, both the actual history and the legacy of that history are studied as a single discourse. The emphasis in the historical narrative is on African agents, as opposed to non-African agents.[42] Political parties and organizations [ edit ] In Africa [ edit ] Organisation of African Unity, succeeded by the African UnionAfrican Unification FrontRassemblement D(C)mocratique AfricainAll-African People's Revolutionary PartyConvention People's Party (Ghana)Pan-African Renaissance[43]Economic Freedom Fighters (South Africa)Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (South Africa)In the Caribbean [ edit ] The Pan-African Affairs Commission for Pan-African Affairs, a unit within the Office of the Prime Minister of Barbados.[44]African Society for Cultural Relations with Independent Africa (Guyana)Antigua Caribbean Liberation Movement (Antigua and Barbuda)Clement Payne Movement (Barbados)Marcus Garvey People's Political Party (Jamaica)Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (Jamaica)In the United Kingdom [ edit ] Pan-African FederationIn the United States [ edit ] The Council on African Affairs (CAA): founded in 1937 by Max Yergan and Paul Robeson, the CAA was the first major U.S. organization whose focus was on providing pertinent and up-to-date information about Pan-Africanism across the United States, particularly to African Americans. Probably the most successful campaign of the Council was for South African famine relief in 1946. The CAA was hopeful that, following World War II, there would be a move towards Third World independence under the trusteeship of the United Nations.[45] To the CAA's dismay, the proposals introduced by the U.S. government to the conference in April/May 1945 set no clear limits on the duration of colonialism and no motions towards allowing territorial possessions to move towards self-government.[45] Liberal supporters abandoned the CAA, and the federal government cracked down on its operations. In 1953 the CAA was charged with subversion under the McCarran Internal Security Act. Its principal leaders, including Robeson, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Alphaeus Hunton (1903''70), were subjected to harassment, indictments, and in the case of Hunton, imprisonment. Under the weight of internal disputes, government repression, and financial hardships, the Council on African Affairs disbanded in 1955.[46]The US Organization was founded in 1965 by Maulana Karenga, following the Watts riots. It is based on the synthetic African philosophy of kawaida, and is perhaps best known for creating Kwanzaa and the Nguzo Saba ("seven principles"). In the words of its founder and chair, Karenga, "the essential task of our organization Us has been and remains to provide a philosophy, a set of principles and a program which inspires a personal and social practice that not only satisfies human need but transforms people in the process, making them self-conscious agents of their own life and liberation".[47]Pan-African concepts and philosophies [ edit ] Afrocentric Pan-Africanism [ edit ] Afrocentric Pan-Africanism is espoused by Kwabena Faheem Ashanti in his book The Psychotechnology of Brainwashing: Crucifying Willie Lynch. Another newer movement that has evolved from the early Afrocentric school is the Afrisecal movement or Afrisecaism of Francis Ohanyido, a Nigerian philosopher-poet.[48] Black Nationalism is sometimes associated with this form of pan-Africanism. Kawaida [ edit ] Hip hop [ edit ] Since the late 1970s, hip hop has emerged as a powerful force that has partly shaped black identity worldwide. In his 2005 article "Hip-hop Turns 30: Whatcha Celebratin' For?", Greg Tate describes hip-hop culture as the product of a Pan-African state of mind. It is an "ethnic enclave/empowerment zone that has served as a foothold for the poorest among us to get a grip on the land of the prosperous".[49] Hip-hop unifies those of African descent globally in its movement towards greater economic, social and political power. Andreana Clay in her article "Keepin' it Real: Black Youth, Hip-Hop Culture, and Black Identity" states that hip-hop provides the world with "vivid illustrations of Black lived experience", creating bonds of black identity across the globe.[50] From a Pan-African perspective, Hip-Hop Culture can be a conduit to authenticate a black identity, and in doing so, creates a unifying and uplifting force among Africans that Pan-Africanism sets out to achieve. Pan-African art [ edit ] Further information on pan-African film festivals see: FESPACO and PAFFSee also [ edit ] Literature [ edit ] Hakim Adi & Marika Sherwood, Pan-African History: Political Figures from Africa and the Diaspora Since 1787, London: Routledgem 2003.Imanuel Geiss, Panafrikanismus. Zur Geschichte der Dekolonisation. Habilitation, EVA, Frankfurt am Main, 1968, English as: The Pan-African Movement, London: Methuen, 1974, ISBN 0-416-16710-1, and as: The Pan-African Movement. A history of Pan-Africanism in America, Europe and Africa, New York: Africana Publ., 1974, ISBN 0-8419-0161-9.Colin Legum, Pan-Africanism: A Short Political Guide, revised edition, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1965.Tony Martin, Pan-African Connection: From Slavery to Garvey and Beyond, Dover: The Majority Press, 1985.References [ edit ] ^ Austin, David (Fall 2007). "All Roads Led to Montreal: Black Power, the Caribbean and the Black Radical Tradition in Canada". Journal of African American History. 92 (4): 516''539 . Retrieved March 30, 2019 . ^ Oloruntoba-Oju, Omotayo (December 2012). "Pan Africanism, Myth and History in African and Caribbean Drama". Journal of Pan African Studies. 5 (8): 190 ff. ^ Frick, Janari, et al. (2006), History: Learner's Book, p. 235, South Africa: New Africa Books. ^ Makalani, Minkah (2011), "Pan-Africanism". Africana Age. ^ New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. 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Retrieved January 28, 2016 '' via Soundcloud. Ebro Darden - Wikipedia Mon, 02 Dec 2019 12:36 Ebro Darden BornIbrahim Jamil Darden ( 1975-03-17 ) March 17, 1975 (age 44) NationalityAmericanOccupationMedia executiveradio personalityYears active1990''presentKnown forHot 97 radio personalityBeats1 DJChildren1Websitewww.EbroDarden.comIbrahim "Ebro" Darden (born March 17, 1975) is an American media executive and radio personality. Until 2014, he was Vice President of Programming for Emmis Communications' New York contemporary urban station WQHT (Hot 97). He is currently a co-host on the Hot 97 morning show, Ebro in the Morning, alongside Peter Rosenberg, and Laura Stylez. As of 2015, Darden also hosts a hip hop music-based radio show on Beats 1. Early life [ edit ] Darden was born to a black father and a Jewish mother. He attended a Pentecostal church and Hebrew school while growing up in Oakland and Sacramento.[1] Career [ edit ] Start in radio [ edit ] Darden began his career in radio in 1990 at KSFM in Sacramento, California, while he was still a teenager. At KSFM he worked in research and as a sales runner until moving into programming as an intern, and later co-hosting for KSFM's night and morning shows. In 1997, he worked at KBMB in Sacramento as Programming and Music Director, as well as an afternoon host. Eventually, Darden became Operations Manager at KBMB, while also co-hosting mornings at KXJM in Portland, Oregon, in 1999. Hot 97 [ edit ] In 2003, Darden became Music Director for WQHT, ultimately becoming the Program Director for the station in 2007.[2][3][4] Darden worked alongside several past WQHT Hot 97 morning show co-hosts including Star and Bucwild, Miss Jones, DJ Envy, Sway, and Joe Budden from 2004 to 2007, and introduced Cipha Sounds and Peter Rosenberg to the AM drive in 2009. He rejoined the Hot 97 Morning Show in 2012, alongside Cipha Sounds, Peter Rosenberg, and Laura Stylez. As Programming Director and on-air host, Darden was the main voice of several events at Hot 97 including Nicki Minaj's relationship with the station, and her alleged sexual relationship with the host; Hurricane Sandy; and Mister Cee's personal life.[5] In 2014, VH1 announced a new unscripted comedy series, This Is Hot 97, which featured Darden and fellow hosts including Angie Martinez, Funkmaster Flex, Peter Rosenberg, Cipha Sounds, Miss Info, and Laura Stylez.[6] Beats 1 [ edit ] In addition to his current on-air role at Hot 97, Darden is now one of three anchor DJs on Beats 1, an Internet radio service from Apple Music. Feuds and controversy [ edit ] A comedic rivalry between Darden and fellow accomplished radio personality Charlamagne Tha God of Power 105.1 has been ongoing for years. In May 2017, Darden clarified their relationship, stating, "The stuff we do on the radio is stupid. It's for fun. I make fun of you for fun. That's it. It's not that deep... me and that dude don't have a personal problem... a personal relationship".[7] Darden was mentioned in Remy Ma's "shETHER" diss track, on which Ma insinuated that he slept with Nicki Minaj by stating "Coke head, you cheated on your man with Ebro". After jokingly going back and forth with both Ma and her husband Papoose on social media, Darden denied the rumors, stating that he and Minaj had only a professional relationship.[8] Ebro has been in an ongoing feud with Brooklyn artist 6ix9ine. Ebro made fun of 6ix9ine as looking like a clown and criticized him for bragging about streaming numbers,[9] and 6ix9ine responded on the song "Stoopid" with the line "That nigga Ebro, he a bitch/Just another old nigga on a young nigga dick." [10] Personal life [ edit ] Darden has a daughter, Isa, who was born in 2014.[11] Recognition [ edit ] In 2013, he was recognized by Radio Ink as a future African American leader.[12] Filmography [ edit ] References [ edit ] Queen & Slim (2019) - IMDb Mon, 02 Dec 2019 12:13 3 nominations. See more awards >> Learn more More Like This Comedy | Crime | Drama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.1 / 10 X A detective investigates the death of a patriarch of an eccentric, combative family. Director:Rian Johnson Stars:Daniel Craig,Chris Evans,Ana de Armas Action | Crime | Drama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.6 / 10 X An embattled NYPD detective is thrust into a citywide manhunt for a pair of cop killers after uncovering a massive and unexpected conspiracy. Director:Brian Kirk Stars:Chadwick Boseman,Sienna Miller,J.K. Simmons Action | Biography | Drama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.5 / 10 X The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history. Director:Kasi Lemmons Stars:Cynthia Erivo,Leslie Odom Jr.,Joe Alwyn Biography | Drama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.9 / 10 X Based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod. Director:Marielle Heller Stars:Tom Hanks,Matthew Rhys,Chris Cooper Drama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.2 / 10 X A young actor's stormy childhood and early adult years as he struggles to reconcile with his father and deal with his mental health. Director:Alma Har'el Stars:Shia LaBeouf,Lucas Hedges,Noah Jupe Drama | Romance | Sport 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.7 / 10 X Traces the journey of a suburban family - led by a well-intentioned but domineering father - as they navigate love, forgiveness, and coming together in the aftermath of a loss. Director:Trey Edward Shults Stars:Taylor Russell,Kelvin Harrison Jr.,Alexa Demie Comedy | Drama | War 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.1 / 10 X A young boy in Hitler's army finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home. Director:Taika Waititi Stars:Roman Griffin Davis,Thomasin McKenzie,Scarlett Johansson Action | Crime | Drama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.7 / 10 X A rookie New Orleans police officer is forced to balance her identity as a black woman after she witnesses two corrupt cops committing murder. Director:Deon Taylor Stars:Naomie Harris,Frank Grillo,Mike Colter Biography | Drama | History 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.3 / 10 X A corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of pollution. Director:Todd Haynes Stars:Anne Hathaway,Mark Ruffalo,William Jackson Harper Drama | Fantasy | Horror 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.3 / 10 X Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. Director:Robert Eggers Stars:Willem Dafoe,Robert Pattinson,Valeriia Karaman Crime | Drama | Mystery 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.5 / 10 X Consummate con man Roy Courtnay has set his sights on his latest mark: the recently widowed Betty McLeish, worth millions. But this time, what should have been a simple swindle escalates into a cat-and-mouse game with the ultimate stakes. Director:Bill Condon Stars:Helen Mirren,Ian McKellen,Russell Tovey Crime | Drama | Mystery 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.1 / 10 X In 1950s New York, a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend. Director:Edward Norton Stars:Edward Norton,Gugu Mbatha-Raw,Alec Baldwin Edit Storyline Slim and Queen's first date takes an unexpected turn when a policeman pulls them over for a minor traffic violation. When the situation escalates, Slim takes the officer's gun and shoots him in self-defence. Now labelled cop killers in the media, Slim and Queen feel that they have no choice but to go on the run and evade the law. When a video of the incident goes viral, the unwitting outlaws soon become a symbol of trauma, terror, grief and pain for people all across the country Written bystmc-25959 Plot Summary | Add Synopsis Motion Picture Rating (MPAA) Rated R for violence, some strong sexuality, nudity, pervasive language, and brief drug use. | See all certifications >> Edit Details Release Date: 27 November 2019 (USA) See more >> Edit Box Office Opening Weekend USA: $11,700,000, 1 December 2019 Gross USA: $15,810,000 Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $15,810,000 See more on IMDbPro >> Company Credits Technical Specs Runtime: 131 min Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1 See full technical specs >> Edit Did You Know? Trivia First feature film to be directed by Melina Matsoukas, who has previously only directed music videos and TV episodes. See more >> Quotes Slim :Are you tryin' to die? Queen :No. I just always wanted to do that. Slim :Well, don't do it while I'm drivin' Queen :You should try it. Slim :Nah, I'm good. Queen :Pull over. Slim :Na-ah. Queen :Come on! Pull over. Pull over! Slim :If I do, would you please, let me drive the rest of the way it is? Queen :Swear to God. [...] See more >> Explore popular and recently added TV series available to stream now with Prime Video. Start your free trial Music in this episode Intro: Puff Daddy - It's all about the benjamins Outro: Blue Magic - Sideshow Donate to the show at moefundme.com Search for us in your podcast directory or use this link to subscribe to the feed Podcast Feed For more information: MoeFactz.com
Show Notes Moe Factz with Adam Curry for December 2nd 2019, Episode number 17 Shaft Stache Shownotes Robert Townsend (actor) - Wikipedia Mon, 02 Dec 2019 13:13 American actor Robert Townsend (born February 6, 1957) is an American actor, director, comedian, and writer.[1][2] Townsend is best known for directing the films Hollywood Shuffle (1987), Eddie Murphy Raw (1987), The Meteor Man (1993), The Five Heartbeats (1991) and various other films and stand-up specials. He is especially known for his eponymous self-titled character, Robert Peterson as the starring role as on The WB sitcom The Parent 'Hood (1995''1999), a series which he created and of which directed select episodes. Townsend is also known for his role as Donald "Duck" Matthews in his 1991 film The Five Heartbeats.[3] He later wrote, directed and produced Making The Five Heartbeats (2018), a documentary film about the production process and behind the scenes insight into creating the film. Townsend is also known for his production company Townsend Entertainment [4] which has produced films Playin' for Love,[5] In the Hive and more. During the 1980s and early''1990s, Townsend gained national exposure through his stand-up comedy routines and appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Townsend has worked with talent including Halle Berry, Morgan Freeman, Chris Tucker, Beyonc(C), Denzel Washington and many more.[6][7][8] Early life and career [ edit ] Townsend was born in Chicago, Illinois, the second of four children[9] to Shirley (n(C)e Jenkins) and Ed Townsend. His mother ended up raising him and his three siblings as a single parent. Growing up on the city's west side, Townsend attended Austin High School; graduating in 1975.[10] He became interested in acting as a teenager. During a reading of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex in high school, Townsend captured the attention of Chicago's X Bag Theatre, The Experimental Black Actors Guild. Townsend later auditioned for parts at Chicago's Experimental Black Actors' Guild and performed in local plays studying at the famed Second City comedy workshop for improvisation in 1974. Townsend had a brief uncredited role in the 1975 movie Cooley High. After high school, Townsend enrolled at Illinois State University, studied a year and later moved to New York to study at the Negro Ensemble Company. Townsend's mother believed that he should complete his college education, but he felt that college took time away from his passion for acting, and he soon dropped out of school to pursue his acting career full-time. Career [ edit ] Townsend auditioned to be part of Saturday Night Live's 1980''1981 cast, but was rejected in favor of Eddie Murphy. In 1982, Townsend appeared as one of the main characters in the PBS series Another Page, a program produced by Kentucky Educational Television that taught literacy to adults through serialized stories. Townsend later appeared in small parts in films like A Soldier's Story (1984), directed by Norman Jewison, and after its success garnered much more substantial parts in films like The Mighty Quinn (1989) with Denzel Washington.[11][12][13] In 1987, Townsend wrote, directed and produced Hollywood Shuffle, a satire based on the hardships and obstacles that black actors undergo in the film industry. The success of his first project helped him establish himself in the industry.[6][14] Another of his films was The Five Heartbeats based on 1960s R&B male groups and the tribulations of the music industry. Townsend created and produced two television variety shows'--the CableACE award''winning Robert Townsend and His Partners in Crime for HBO, and the Fox Television variety show Townsend Television (1993). He also created and starred in the WB Network's sitcom The Parent 'Hood which originally ran from January 1995 to July 1999. In 2018, Townsend also directed 2 episodes for the B.E.T. Series American Soul which began airing in 2019. The show is about Don Cornelius and Soul Train. Townsend was programming director at the Black Family Channel, but the network folded in 2007. Townsend created The Robert Townsend Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to introduce and help new unsigned filmmakers. Awards and other credits [ edit ] Townsend directed the 2001 TV movie, Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story for which Cole won the NAACP Image Award as Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special. Townsend also directed two television movies in 2001 and 2002 respectively, Carmen: A Hip Hopera and 10,000 Black Men Named George. In 2013 Townsend was nominated for an Ovation Award in the category of "Lead Actor in a Musical" for his role as Dan in the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts production of Next to Normal.[15] Personal life [ edit ] Townsend was married to Cheri Jones[16] from September 15, 1990, to August 9, 2001.[17] Together they have two daughters, Sierra and Skylar (Skye Townsend), both entertainers, and a son, Isiah.[6] Filmography [ edit ] Further reading [ edit ] Alexander, George. Why We Make Movies: Black Filmmakers Talk About the Magic of Cinema. Harlem Moon. 2003.Collier, Aldore. "Robert Townsend: a new kind of Hollywood dreamer. Actor-producer-director plans to make films that uplift and transform Black audiences". Ebony Magazine. 1 June 1991.Rogers, Brent. Robert Townsend Article in Perspectives. Sustaining Digital History, 12 November 2007.References [ edit ] ^ "Robert Townsend". The New York Times. ^ "As Robert Townsend Sees It : He's Fighting Stereotypes With 'Meteor Man' and New TV Show". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2010-10-10 . ^ The Five Heartbeats , retrieved 2019-09-16 ^ "Townsend Entertainment - IMDbPro". pro.imdb.com . Retrieved 2018-03-06 . ^ "Playin' For Love". Black Cinema Connection. 2014-11-05 . Retrieved 2018-03-06 . ^ a b c "About". Robert Townsend. Archived from the original on 2011-07-14. ^ "Carmen: A Hip Hopera", Wikipedia, 2019-08-09 , retrieved 2019-09-17 ^ B*A*P*S , retrieved 2019-09-17 ^ "Townsend, Robert (1957-)". BlackPast.Org. 2008 . Retrieved September 18, 2017 . ^ "1975 Austin High School Yearbook (Chicago, Illinois)". Classmates.com. 1975 . Retrieved September 18, 2017 . ^ Vincent Canby, "Review/Film; Tropical Murder", The New York Times, February 17, 1989. ^ The Mighty Quinn , retrieved 2019-09-17 ^ A Soldier's Story , retrieved 2019-09-17 ^ Hollywood Shuffle , retrieved 2019-09-17 ^ "2013 Ovation Awards Nominees '-- South by Southeast". thisstage.la. LA STAGE Alliance. September 16, 2013 . Retrieved 2017-04-21 . ^ "The Week's Best Photo". Google Books. JET Magazine. March 25, 1991 . Retrieved September 18, 2017 . ^ Gimenes, Erika (2001). "Robert Townsend to divorce". Hollywood.com . Retrieved September 18, 2017 . ^ "Jackie's Back! (1999)" at IMDb. External links [ edit ] Robert Townsend on IMDbRobert Townsend (Official Website) (9) Charles Woods (The Professor) - Hollywood's Tricknology: Mandingo To Malcolm X - YouTube Mon, 02 Dec 2019 12:59 Tyler Perry Mon, 02 Dec 2019 12:57 Tyler Perry is a world-renowned producer, director, actor, screenwriter, playwright, author, songwriter, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Tyler Perry's Story Tyler Perry is a world-renowned producer, director, actor, screenwriter, playwright, author, songwriter, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Read His Story Outreach Since 2006, The Perry Foundation's aim has been to transform tragedy into triumph by empowering the economically disadvantaged to achieve a better quality of life. We focus on health and clean water, education and technology, arts and culture, and globally-sustainable economic development. Get Involved Visit Website You are viewing Tyler Perry Entertainment. If you'd like to view the Tyler Perry Studios, click here. Black writers courageously staring down the white gaze '' this is why we all must read them | Stan Grant | Opinion | The Guardian Mon, 02 Dec 2019 12:46 The white gaze '' it is a phrase that resonates in black American literature. Writers from WEB Du Bois to Ralph Ellison to James Baldwin and Toni Morrison have struggled with it and railed against it. As Morrison '' a Nobel Laureate '' once said: Our lives have no meaning, no depth without the white gaze. And I have spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books. The white gaze: it traps black people in white imaginations. It is the eyes of a white schoolteacher who sees a black student and lowers expectations. It is the eyes of a white cop who sees a black person and looks twice '' or worse, feels for a gun. Du Bois explored this more than a century ago in his book The Souls of Black Folk, reflecting on his conversations with white people and the ensuing delicate dance around the ''Negro problem''. Between me and the other world there is an ever unasked question'.... All, nevertheless, flutter around it ... Instead of saying directly, how does it feel to be a problem? They say, I know an excellent coloured man in my town ... To the real question '... I answer seldom a word. Baldwin was as ever more direct and piercing, writing in his book Nobody Knows My Name. I have spent most of my life ... watching white people and outwitting them so that I might survive. The flame has passed to a new generation. In 2015 three more black writers have stared down the white gaze. In their own ways Ta-Nehisi Coates, Claudia Rankine and George Yancy have held up a mirror to white America. These are uncompromising and fearless voices. Coates' searing essay Between The World And Me critiques America against a backdrop of black deaths at the hands of police. He says the country's history is rooted in slavery and the assault against the black body. In the form of a letter to his son, Coates writes: Here is what I would like for you to know: In America it is traditional to destroy the black body '' it is heritage. In Citizen '' An American Lyric, poet Rankine reflects on the black experience from the victims of Hurricane Katrina, or Trayvon Martin, a 17 year-old black youth shot dead by a neighbourhood watch volunteer who was acquitted, or black tennis star Serena Williams. In each case Rankine sees lives framed by whiteness. She writes: Because white men can't police their imagination, black men are dying. Philosophy Professor George Yancy just last week penned a letter in the New York Times addressed to ''Dear White America''. He asks his countrymen to listen with love, and to look at those things that might cause pain and terror. All white people, he says, benefit from racism and this means each, in their own way, are racist. '...don't run to seek shelter from your own racism'...practice being vulnerable. Being neither a ''good'' white person, nor a liberal white person will get you off the proverbial hook. Their unflinching work is not tempered by the fact a black man is in the White House '' that only makes their voices more urgent. Coates, Rankine, Yancy '' each has been variously praised and awarded, yet each has been pilloried as well. This is inevitable when some people don't like what the mirror reflects. It takes courage for a black person to speak to a white world, a world that can render invisible people of colour, unless they begin to more closely resemble white people themselves '' an education, a house in the suburbs, a good job, lighter skin. In Australia, too, black voices are defying the white gaze. We may not have the popular cut through of a Morrison or a Baldwin or a Coates, but we have a proud tradition '' Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Kevin Gilbert, Ruby Langford or more recently Kim Scott, Alexis Wright, Anita Heiss. I have spent some time recently reading some of the most powerful works of Indigenous writers. Their styles and genres are many and varied but there is a common and powerful theme of defiance and survival. This is a world so instantly recognisable to us '' Indigenous people '' but still so foreign to white Australia. Natalie Harkin's book of poetry, Dirty Words, is a subversive dictionary that turns English words back on their users: A is apology, B is for Boat People '... G is for Genocide ... S for Survival. ''How do you dream,'' she writes, ''When your lucky country does not sleep''. Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu challenges the white stereotype of the ''primitive hunter gatherer''. He says the economy and culture of Indigenous people has been grossly undervalued. He cites journals and diaries of explorers and colonists to reveal the industry and ingenuity of pre-colonial Aboriginal society. He says it is a window into a world of people building dams and wells and houses, irrigating and harvesting seed and creating elaborate cemeteries. Pascoe's work demands to be taught in our schools. Tony Birch is an acclaimed novelist and his latest Ghost River is remarkable. It is the story of two friends navigating the journey into adulthood guided by the men of the river '' men others may see as homeless and hopeless. It is a work infused with a sense of place and belonging. Ellen Van Neerven's Heat and Light is a genre-busting mystical journey into identity: sexual, racial and national. It is provocative and challenging and mind bending, and altogether stunning. You won't find many of these titles in the annual best book lists. Occasionally they pop up, but not as often as they deserve. You probably won't hear much of Samuel Wagan Watson's Love Poems and Death Threats, or Ken Canning's Yimbama, or Lionel Fogarty's Eelahroo (Long Ago) Nyah (Looking) Mobo-Mobo (Future). That these works are not more widely read is a national shame. In our busy lives, try to find time for some of these books in 2016 '' read with the courage of these writers. George Yancy asks white Americans to become ''un-sutured'', to open themselves up and let go of their white innocence. Why is this important? Well, for white people it may simply be a matter of choice '' the fate of black people may not affect them. For us it is survival '' the white gaze means we die young, are locked up and locked out of work and education. We hear a lot about recognition '' acknowledging Indigenous people in the Australian constitution. But there is another recognition '' recognising the pervasive and too often destructive role of race in our lives, and the need to lift our gaze above it. Queen | Definition of Queen by Merriam-Webster Mon, 02 Dec 2019 12:40 To save this word, you'll need to log in. ËkwÄ'n 1 a : the wife or widow of a king b : the wife or widow of a tribal chief 2 a : a female monarch b : a female chieftain 3 a : a woman eminent in rank, power, or attractions a movie queen b : a goddess or a thing personified as female and having supremacy in a specified realm c : an attractive girl or woman especially : a beauty contest winner 4 : the most privileged piece of each color in a set of chessmen having the power to move in any direction across any number of unoccupied squares 5 : a playing card marked with a stylized figure of a queen 6 : the fertile fully developed female of social bees, ants, and termites whose function is to lay eggs 7 : a mature female cat kept especially for breeding 8 slang , often disparaging : a male homosexual especially : an effeminate one queened ; queening ; queens intransitive verb 1 : to act like a queen especially : to put on airs '-- usually used with it queens it over her friends 2 : to become a queen in chess the pawn queens Pan-Africanism - Wikipedia Mon, 02 Dec 2019 12:37 Worldwide movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all people of African descent Pan-Africanism is a worldwide movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all indigenous and diasporan ethnic groups of African descent. Based on a common goal dating back to the Atlantic slave trade, the movement extends beyond continental Africans with a substantial support base among the African diaspora in the Caribbean, Latin America, the United States and Canada and Europe.[1][2] It is based on the belief that unity is vital to economic, social, and political progress and aims to "unify and uplift" people of African descent.[3] The ideology asserts that the fate of all African people and countries[clarification needed ] are intertwined. At its core Pan-Africanism is a belief that ''African people, both on the continent and in the diaspora, share not merely a common history, but a common destiny".[4] Pan-Africanist intellectual, cultural, and political movements tend to view all Africans and descendants of Africans as belonging to a single "race" and sharing cultural unity. Pan-Africanism posits a sense of a shared historical fate for Africans in the Americas, West Indies, and, on the continent itself, has centered on the Atlantic trade in slaves, African slavery, and European imperialism.[5] The Organization of African Unity (now the African Union) was established in 1963 to safeguard the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its Member States and to promote global relations within the framework of the United Nations.[6] The African Union Commission has its seat in Addis Ababa and the Pan-African Parliament has its seat in Johannesburg and Midrand. Overview [ edit ] Pan-Africanism stresses the need for "collective self-reliance".[7] Pan-Africanism exists as a governmental and grassroots objective. Pan-African advocates include leaders such as Haile Selassie, Julius Nyerere, Ahmed S(C)kou Tour(C), Kwame Nkrumah, King Sobhuza II, Thomas Sankara and Muammar Gaddafi, grassroots organizers such as Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X, academics such as W. E. B. Du Bois, and others in the diaspora.[8][9][10] Pan-Africanists believe that solidarity will enable the continent to fulfill its potential to independently provide for all its people. Crucially, an all-African alliance would empower African people globally. The realization of the Pan-African objective would lead to "power consolidation in Africa", which "would compel a reallocation of global resources, as well as unleashing a fiercer psychological energy and political assertion...that would unsettle social and political (power) structures...in the Americas".[11] Advocates of Pan-Africanism'--i.e. "Pan-Africans" or "Pan-Africanists"'--often champion socialist principles and tend to be opposed to external political and economic involvement on the continent. Critics accuse the ideology of homogenizing the experience of people of African descent. They also point to the difficulties of reconciling current divisions within countries on the continent and within communities in the diaspora.[11] History [ edit ] As a philosophy, Pan-Africanism represents the aggregation of the historical, cultural, spiritual, artistic, scientific, and philosophical legacies of Africans from past times to the present. Pan-Africanism as an ethical system traces its origins from ancient times, and promotes values that are the product of the African civilisations and the struggles against slavery, racism, colonialism, and neo-colonialism.[8] Alongside a large number of slaves insurrections, by the end of the 19th century a political movement developed across the Americas, Europe and Africa that sought to weld disparate movements into a network of solidarity, putting an end to oppression. Another important political form of a religious Pan-Africanist worldview appeared in the form of Ethiopianism.[12] In London, the Sons of Africa was a political group addressed by Quobna Ottobah Cugoano in the 1791 edition of his book Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery. The group addressed meetings and organised letter-writing campaigns, published campaigning material and visited parliament. They wrote to figures such as Granville Sharp, William Pitt and other members of the white abolition movement, as well as King George III and the Prince of Wales, the future George IV. Modern Pan-Africanism began around the start of the 20th century. The African Association, later renamed the Pan-African Association, was established around 1897 by Henry Sylvester-Williams, who organized the First Pan-African Conference in London in 1900.[13][14][15] With the independence of Ghana in March 1957, Kwame Nkrumah was elected as the first Prime Minister and President of the State.[16] Nkrumah emerged as a major advocate for the unity of Independent Africa. The Ghanaian President embodied a political activist approach to pan-Africanism as he championed the "quest for regional integration of the whole of the African continent".[17] This period represented a "Golden Age of high pan-African ambitions"; the Continent had experienced revolution and decolonization from Western powers and the narrative of rebirth and solidarity had gained momentum within the pan-African movement.[17] Nkrumah's pan-African principles intended for a union between the Independent African states upon a recognition of their commonality (i.e. suppression under imperialism). Pan-Africanism under Nkrumah evolved past the assumptions of a racially exclusive movement associated with black Africa, and adopted a political discourse of regional unity [18] In April 1958, Nkrumah hosted the first All-African Peoples' Conference (AAPC) in Accra, Ghana. This Conference invited delegates of political movements and major political leaders. With the exception of South Africa, all Independent States of the Continent attended: Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Sudan.[18] This Conference signified a monumental event in the pan-African movement, as it revealed a political and social union between those considered Arabic states and the black African regions. Further, the Conference espoused a common African Nationalist identity, among the States, of unity and anti-Imperialism. Frantz Fanon, journalist, freedom fighter and a member of the Algerian FLN party attended the conference as a delegate for Algeria.[19] Considering the armed struggle of the FLN against French colonial rule, the attendees of the Conference agreed to support the struggle of those States under colonial oppression. This encouraged the commitment of direct involvement in the "emancipation of the Continent; thus, a fight against colonial pressures on South Africa was declared and the full support of the FLN struggle in Algeria, against French colonial rule"".[20] In the years following 1958, Accra Conference also marked the establishment of a new foreign policy of non-alignment as between the US and USSR, and the will to establish an "African Identity" in global affairs by advocating a unity between the African States on international relations. "This would be based on the Bandung Declaration, the Charter of the UN and on loyalty to UN decisions."[20] In 1959, Nkrumah, President S(C)kou Tour(C) of Guinea and President William Tubman of Liberia met at Sanniquellie and signed the Sanniquellie Declaration outlining the principles for the achievement of the unity of Independent African States whilst maintaining a national identity and autonomous constitutional structure.[21][22] The Declaration called for a revised understanding of pan-Africanism and the uniting of the Independent States. In 1960, the second All-African Peoples' Conference was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.[23] The membership of the All-African Peoples' Organisation (AAPO) had increased with the inclusion of the "Algerian Provisional Government (as they had not yet won independence), Cameroun, Guinea, Nigeria, Somalia and the United Arab Republic".[24] The Conference highlighted diverging ideologies within the movement, as Nkrumah's call for a political and economic union between the Independent African States gained little agreement. The disagreements following 1960 gave rise to two rival factions within the pan-African movement: the Casablanca Bloc and the Brazzaville Bloc.[25] In 1962, Algeria gained independence from French colonial rule and Ahmed Ben Bella assumed Presidency. Ben Bella was a strong advocate for pan-Africanism and an African Unity. Following the FLN's armed struggle for liberation, Ben Bella spoke at the UN and espoused for Independent Africa's role in providing military and financial support to the African liberation movements opposing apartheid and fighting Portuguese colonialism.[26] In search of a united voice, in 1963 at an African Summit conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 32 African states met and established the Organization of African Unity (OAU). The creation of the OAU Charter took place at this Summit and defines a coordinated "effort to raise the standard of living of member States and defend their sovereignty" by supporting freedom fighters and decolonisation.[27] Thus, was the formation of the African Liberation Committee (ALC), during the 1963 Summit. Championing the support of liberation movements, was Algeria's President Ben Bella, immediately "donated 100 million francs to its finances and was one of the first countries, of the Organisation to boycott Portuguese and South African goods".[26] In 1969, Algiers hosted the Pan-African Cultural Festival, on July 21 and it continued for eight days.[28] At this moment in history, Algeria stood as a ''beacon of African and Third-World militancy,''[28] and would come to inspire fights against colonialism around the world. The festival attracted thousands from African states and the African Diaspora, including the Black Panthers. It represented the application of the tenets of the Algerian revolution to the rest of Africa, and symbolized the re-shaping of the definition of pan-African identity under the common experience of colonialism.[28] The Festival further strengthened Algeria's President, Boumediene's standing in Africa and the Third World.[28] After the death of Kwame Nkrumah in 1972, Muammar Qaddafi assumed the mantle of leader of the Pan-Africanist movement and became the most outspoken advocate of African Unity, like Nkrumah before him '' for the advent of a "United States of Africa".[29] In the United States, the term is closely associated with Afrocentrism, an ideology of African-American identity politics that emerged during the civil rights movement of the 1960s to 1970s.[30] Concept [ edit ] As originally conceived by Henry Sylvester-Williams (although some historians[who? ] credit the idea to Edward Wilmot Blyden), Pan-Africanism referred to the unity of all continental Africa.[31] During apartheid South Africa there was a Pan Africanist Congress that dealt with the oppression of Africans in South Africa under Apartheid rule. Other pan-Africanist organisations include: Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association-African Communities League, TransAfrica and the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement. Additionally, Pan-Africanism is seen as an endeavor to return to what are deemed by its proponents as singular, traditional African concepts about culture, society, and values. Examples of this include L(C)opold S(C)dar Senghor's N(C)gritude movement, and Mobutu Sese Seko's view of Authenticit(C). An important theme running through much pan-Africanist literature concerns the historical links between different countries on the continent, and the benefits of cooperation as a way of resisting imperialism and colonialism. In the 21st century, some Pan-Africanists aim to address globalisation and the problems of environmental justice. For instance, at the conference "Pan-Africanism for a New Generation"[32] held at the University of Oxford, June 2011, Ledum Mittee, the current president of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), argued that environmental justice movements across the African continent should create horizontal linkages in order to better protect the interests of threatened peoples and the ecological systems in which they are embedded, and upon which their survival depends. Some universities went as far as creating "Departments of Pan-African Studies" in the late 1960s. This includes the California State University, where that department was founded in 1969 as a direct reaction to the civil rights movement, and is today dedicated to "teaching students about the African World Experience", to "demonstrate to the campus and the community the richness, vibrance, diversity, and vitality of African, African American, and Caribbean cultures" and to "presenting students and the community with an Afrocentric analysis" of anti-black racism.[33]Syracuse University also offers a master's degree in "Pan African Studies".[34] Pan-African colors [ edit ] The flags of numerous states in Africa and of Pan-African groups use green, yellow and red. This colour combination was originally adopted from the 1897 flag of Ethiopia, and was inspired by the fact that Ethiopia is the continent's oldest independent nation,[35] thus making the Ethiopian green, yellow and red the closest visual representation of Pan-Africanism. This is in comparison to the Black Nationalist flag, representing political theory centred around the eugenicist caste-stratified colonial Americas.[36] The UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association) flag, is a tri-color flag consisting of three equal horizontal bands of (from top down) red, black and green. The UNIA formally adopted it on August 13, 1920,[37] during its month-long convention at Madison Square Garden in New York.[38][39] Variations of the flag have been used in various countries and territories in Africa and the Americas to represent Black Nationalist ideologies. Among these are the flags of Malawi, Kenya and Saint Kitts and Nevis. Several Pan-African organizations and movements have also often employed the emblematic red, black and green tri-color scheme in variety of contexts. Maafa studies [ edit ] Maafa is an aspect of Pan-African studies. The term collectively refers to 500 years of suffering (including the present) of people of African heritage through slavery, imperialism, colonialism, and other forms of oppression.[40][41] In this area of study, both the actual history and the legacy of that history are studied as a single discourse. The emphasis in the historical narrative is on African agents, as opposed to non-African agents.[42] Political parties and organizations [ edit ] In Africa [ edit ] Organisation of African Unity, succeeded by the African UnionAfrican Unification FrontRassemblement D(C)mocratique AfricainAll-African People's Revolutionary PartyConvention People's Party (Ghana)Pan-African Renaissance[43]Economic Freedom Fighters (South Africa)Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (South Africa)In the Caribbean [ edit ] The Pan-African Affairs Commission for Pan-African Affairs, a unit within the Office of the Prime Minister of Barbados.[44]African Society for Cultural Relations with Independent Africa (Guyana)Antigua Caribbean Liberation Movement (Antigua and Barbuda)Clement Payne Movement (Barbados)Marcus Garvey People's Political Party (Jamaica)Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (Jamaica)In the United Kingdom [ edit ] Pan-African FederationIn the United States [ edit ] The Council on African Affairs (CAA): founded in 1937 by Max Yergan and Paul Robeson, the CAA was the first major U.S. organization whose focus was on providing pertinent and up-to-date information about Pan-Africanism across the United States, particularly to African Americans. Probably the most successful campaign of the Council was for South African famine relief in 1946. The CAA was hopeful that, following World War II, there would be a move towards Third World independence under the trusteeship of the United Nations.[45] To the CAA's dismay, the proposals introduced by the U.S. government to the conference in April/May 1945 set no clear limits on the duration of colonialism and no motions towards allowing territorial possessions to move towards self-government.[45] Liberal supporters abandoned the CAA, and the federal government cracked down on its operations. In 1953 the CAA was charged with subversion under the McCarran Internal Security Act. Its principal leaders, including Robeson, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Alphaeus Hunton (1903''70), were subjected to harassment, indictments, and in the case of Hunton, imprisonment. Under the weight of internal disputes, government repression, and financial hardships, the Council on African Affairs disbanded in 1955.[46]The US Organization was founded in 1965 by Maulana Karenga, following the Watts riots. It is based on the synthetic African philosophy of kawaida, and is perhaps best known for creating Kwanzaa and the Nguzo Saba ("seven principles"). In the words of its founder and chair, Karenga, "the essential task of our organization Us has been and remains to provide a philosophy, a set of principles and a program which inspires a personal and social practice that not only satisfies human need but transforms people in the process, making them self-conscious agents of their own life and liberation".[47]Pan-African concepts and philosophies [ edit ] Afrocentric Pan-Africanism [ edit ] Afrocentric Pan-Africanism is espoused by Kwabena Faheem Ashanti in his book The Psychotechnology of Brainwashing: Crucifying Willie Lynch. Another newer movement that has evolved from the early Afrocentric school is the Afrisecal movement or Afrisecaism of Francis Ohanyido, a Nigerian philosopher-poet.[48] Black Nationalism is sometimes associated with this form of pan-Africanism. Kawaida [ edit ] Hip hop [ edit ] Since the late 1970s, hip hop has emerged as a powerful force that has partly shaped black identity worldwide. In his 2005 article "Hip-hop Turns 30: Whatcha Celebratin' For?", Greg Tate describes hip-hop culture as the product of a Pan-African state of mind. It is an "ethnic enclave/empowerment zone that has served as a foothold for the poorest among us to get a grip on the land of the prosperous".[49] Hip-hop unifies those of African descent globally in its movement towards greater economic, social and political power. Andreana Clay in her article "Keepin' it Real: Black Youth, Hip-Hop Culture, and Black Identity" states that hip-hop provides the world with "vivid illustrations of Black lived experience", creating bonds of black identity across the globe.[50] From a Pan-African perspective, Hip-Hop Culture can be a conduit to authenticate a black identity, and in doing so, creates a unifying and uplifting force among Africans that Pan-Africanism sets out to achieve. Pan-African art [ edit ] Further information on pan-African film festivals see: FESPACO and PAFFSee also [ edit ] Literature [ edit ] Hakim Adi & Marika Sherwood, Pan-African History: Political Figures from Africa and the Diaspora Since 1787, London: Routledgem 2003.Imanuel Geiss, Panafrikanismus. Zur Geschichte der Dekolonisation. Habilitation, EVA, Frankfurt am Main, 1968, English as: The Pan-African Movement, London: Methuen, 1974, ISBN 0-416-16710-1, and as: The Pan-African Movement. A history of Pan-Africanism in America, Europe and Africa, New York: Africana Publ., 1974, ISBN 0-8419-0161-9.Colin Legum, Pan-Africanism: A Short Political Guide, revised edition, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1965.Tony Martin, Pan-African Connection: From Slavery to Garvey and Beyond, Dover: The Majority Press, 1985.References [ edit ] ^ Austin, David (Fall 2007). "All Roads Led to Montreal: Black Power, the Caribbean and the Black Radical Tradition in Canada". Journal of African American History. 92 (4): 516''539 . Retrieved March 30, 2019 . ^ Oloruntoba-Oju, Omotayo (December 2012). "Pan Africanism, Myth and History in African and Caribbean Drama". Journal of Pan African Studies. 5 (8): 190 ff. ^ Frick, Janari, et al. (2006), History: Learner's Book, p. 235, South Africa: New Africa Books. ^ Makalani, Minkah (2011), "Pan-Africanism". Africana Age. ^ New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. 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Paul Robeson, 1989, pp. 296''97. ^ "Council on African Affairs", African Activist Archive. ^ "Philosophy, Principles, and Program". The Organization Us. ^ "Francis Okechukwu Ohanyido". African Resource. ^ Tate, Greg, "Hip-hop Turns 30: Whatcha Celebratin' For?", Village Voice, January 4, 2005. ^ Clay, Andreana. "Keepin' it Real: Black Youth, Hip-Hop Culture, and Black Identity". In American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 46.10 (2003): 1346''58. External links [ edit ] SNCC Digital Gateway: Pan-Africanism'--Digital documentary website created by the SNCC Legacy Project and Duke University, telling the story of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee & grassroots organizing from the inside-outAfrican UnionAfrican Code Unity Through DiversityA-APRP WebsiteThe Major Pan-African news and articles siteProfessor David Murphy (November 15, 2015). "The Performance of Pan-Africanism: performing black identity at major pan-African festivals, 1966''2010" (Podcast). The University of Edinburgh . Retrieved January 28, 2016 '' via Soundcloud. Ebro Darden - Wikipedia Mon, 02 Dec 2019 12:36 Ebro Darden BornIbrahim Jamil Darden ( 1975-03-17 ) March 17, 1975 (age 44) NationalityAmericanOccupationMedia executiveradio personalityYears active1990''presentKnown forHot 97 radio personalityBeats1 DJChildren1Websitewww.EbroDarden.comIbrahim "Ebro" Darden (born March 17, 1975) is an American media executive and radio personality. Until 2014, he was Vice President of Programming for Emmis Communications' New York contemporary urban station WQHT (Hot 97). He is currently a co-host on the Hot 97 morning show, Ebro in the Morning, alongside Peter Rosenberg, and Laura Stylez. As of 2015, Darden also hosts a hip hop music-based radio show on Beats 1. Early life [ edit ] Darden was born to a black father and a Jewish mother. He attended a Pentecostal church and Hebrew school while growing up in Oakland and Sacramento.[1] Career [ edit ] Start in radio [ edit ] Darden began his career in radio in 1990 at KSFM in Sacramento, California, while he was still a teenager. At KSFM he worked in research and as a sales runner until moving into programming as an intern, and later co-hosting for KSFM's night and morning shows. In 1997, he worked at KBMB in Sacramento as Programming and Music Director, as well as an afternoon host. Eventually, Darden became Operations Manager at KBMB, while also co-hosting mornings at KXJM in Portland, Oregon, in 1999. Hot 97 [ edit ] In 2003, Darden became Music Director for WQHT, ultimately becoming the Program Director for the station in 2007.[2][3][4] Darden worked alongside several past WQHT Hot 97 morning show co-hosts including Star and Bucwild, Miss Jones, DJ Envy, Sway, and Joe Budden from 2004 to 2007, and introduced Cipha Sounds and Peter Rosenberg to the AM drive in 2009. He rejoined the Hot 97 Morning Show in 2012, alongside Cipha Sounds, Peter Rosenberg, and Laura Stylez. As Programming Director and on-air host, Darden was the main voice of several events at Hot 97 including Nicki Minaj's relationship with the station, and her alleged sexual relationship with the host; Hurricane Sandy; and Mister Cee's personal life.[5] In 2014, VH1 announced a new unscripted comedy series, This Is Hot 97, which featured Darden and fellow hosts including Angie Martinez, Funkmaster Flex, Peter Rosenberg, Cipha Sounds, Miss Info, and Laura Stylez.[6] Beats 1 [ edit ] In addition to his current on-air role at Hot 97, Darden is now one of three anchor DJs on Beats 1, an Internet radio service from Apple Music. Feuds and controversy [ edit ] A comedic rivalry between Darden and fellow accomplished radio personality Charlamagne Tha God of Power 105.1 has been ongoing for years. In May 2017, Darden clarified their relationship, stating, "The stuff we do on the radio is stupid. It's for fun. I make fun of you for fun. That's it. It's not that deep... me and that dude don't have a personal problem... a personal relationship".[7] Darden was mentioned in Remy Ma's "shETHER" diss track, on which Ma insinuated that he slept with Nicki Minaj by stating "Coke head, you cheated on your man with Ebro". After jokingly going back and forth with both Ma and her husband Papoose on social media, Darden denied the rumors, stating that he and Minaj had only a professional relationship.[8] Ebro has been in an ongoing feud with Brooklyn artist 6ix9ine. Ebro made fun of 6ix9ine as looking like a clown and criticized him for bragging about streaming numbers,[9] and 6ix9ine responded on the song "Stoopid" with the line "That nigga Ebro, he a bitch/Just another old nigga on a young nigga dick." [10] Personal life [ edit ] Darden has a daughter, Isa, who was born in 2014.[11] Recognition [ edit ] In 2013, he was recognized by Radio Ink as a future African American leader.[12] Filmography [ edit ] References [ edit ] Queen & Slim (2019) - IMDb Mon, 02 Dec 2019 12:13 3 nominations. See more awards >> Learn more More Like This Comedy | Crime | Drama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.1 / 10 X A detective investigates the death of a patriarch of an eccentric, combative family. Director:Rian Johnson Stars:Daniel Craig,Chris Evans,Ana de Armas Action | Crime | Drama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.6 / 10 X An embattled NYPD detective is thrust into a citywide manhunt for a pair of cop killers after uncovering a massive and unexpected conspiracy. Director:Brian Kirk Stars:Chadwick Boseman,Sienna Miller,J.K. Simmons Action | Biography | Drama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.5 / 10 X The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history. Director:Kasi Lemmons Stars:Cynthia Erivo,Leslie Odom Jr.,Joe Alwyn Biography | Drama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.9 / 10 X Based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod. Director:Marielle Heller Stars:Tom Hanks,Matthew Rhys,Chris Cooper Drama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.2 / 10 X A young actor's stormy childhood and early adult years as he struggles to reconcile with his father and deal with his mental health. Director:Alma Har'el Stars:Shia LaBeouf,Lucas Hedges,Noah Jupe Drama | Romance | Sport 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.7 / 10 X Traces the journey of a suburban family - led by a well-intentioned but domineering father - as they navigate love, forgiveness, and coming together in the aftermath of a loss. Director:Trey Edward Shults Stars:Taylor Russell,Kelvin Harrison Jr.,Alexa Demie Comedy | Drama | War 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.1 / 10 X A young boy in Hitler's army finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home. Director:Taika Waititi Stars:Roman Griffin Davis,Thomasin McKenzie,Scarlett Johansson Action | Crime | Drama 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.7 / 10 X A rookie New Orleans police officer is forced to balance her identity as a black woman after she witnesses two corrupt cops committing murder. Director:Deon Taylor Stars:Naomie Harris,Frank Grillo,Mike Colter Biography | Drama | History 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.3 / 10 X A corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of pollution. Director:Todd Haynes Stars:Anne Hathaway,Mark Ruffalo,William Jackson Harper Drama | Fantasy | Horror 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.3 / 10 X Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. Director:Robert Eggers Stars:Willem Dafoe,Robert Pattinson,Valeriia Karaman Crime | Drama | Mystery 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.5 / 10 X Consummate con man Roy Courtnay has set his sights on his latest mark: the recently widowed Betty McLeish, worth millions. But this time, what should have been a simple swindle escalates into a cat-and-mouse game with the ultimate stakes. Director:Bill Condon Stars:Helen Mirren,Ian McKellen,Russell Tovey Crime | Drama | Mystery 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.1 / 10 X In 1950s New York, a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend. Director:Edward Norton Stars:Edward Norton,Gugu Mbatha-Raw,Alec Baldwin Edit Storyline Slim and Queen's first date takes an unexpected turn when a policeman pulls them over for a minor traffic violation. When the situation escalates, Slim takes the officer's gun and shoots him in self-defence. Now labelled cop killers in the media, Slim and Queen feel that they have no choice but to go on the run and evade the law. When a video of the incident goes viral, the unwitting outlaws soon become a symbol of trauma, terror, grief and pain for people all across the country Written bystmc-25959 Plot Summary | Add Synopsis Motion Picture Rating (MPAA) Rated R for violence, some strong sexuality, nudity, pervasive language, and brief drug use. | See all certifications >> Edit Details Release Date: 27 November 2019 (USA) See more >> Edit Box Office Opening Weekend USA: $11,700,000, 1 December 2019 Gross USA: $15,810,000 Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $15,810,000 See more on IMDbPro >> Company Credits Technical Specs Runtime: 131 min Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1 See full technical specs >> Edit Did You Know? Trivia First feature film to be directed by Melina Matsoukas, who has previously only directed music videos and TV episodes. See more >> Quotes Slim :Are you tryin' to die? Queen :No. I just always wanted to do that. Slim :Well, don't do it while I'm drivin' Queen :You should try it. Slim :Nah, I'm good. Queen :Pull over. Slim :Na-ah. Queen :Come on! Pull over. Pull over! Slim :If I do, would you please, let me drive the rest of the way it is? Queen :Swear to God. [...] See more >> Explore popular and recently added TV series available to stream now with Prime Video. Start your free trial Music in this episode Intro: Puff Daddy - It's all about the benjamins Outro: Blue Magic - Sideshow Donate to the show at moefundme.com Search for us in your podcast directory or use this link to subscribe to the feed Podcast Feed For more information: MoeFactz.com
On today’s show John Gerardi talks about Unplanned, the pro-life movie telling the story of Abby Johnson an ex-Planned Parenthood employee. John also discusses California Senate bill SB 24 that requires all UCs and CSUs to provide chemical abortion on campus. Tune in!
We uncovered artifacts in the CSUS archives from the South Eastern Asian Collection. This special collection has pieces from Hmong, Mien, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Thai, and Chinese cultures. We focused on Hmong artifacts, describing the pieces and share the stories we heard from members of the Hmong community.
Dr. Eric T. Karlstrom is professor emeritus of Geography at California State University, Stanislaus - where he began his teaching career in 1990. As a full time university instructor of 30 years, what Karlstrom accumulated, discovered and recovered is shocking. He is now making his research available to the general public in a most discerning manner. Whereas he states that: "The information herein proves that the catastrophic, human-caused global warming scare is a scientific fraud and that this fraud helps to advance various political, economic, corporate, and military/intelligence objectives." LINK Prior to his work at CSUS, Eric served as an Assistant Professor at Northern Arizona University, a Visiting Professor at The University of Kansas, and as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Wyoming. At CSUS, in addition to teaching his core courses on physical and environmental geography (Geomorphology, Climatology, Introduction to Physical Geography, Human Ecology), it is noted, that he also directed the honors course: "State of the World: The Environmental Perspective". Eric holds the following credentials: Ph.D. (Soils and Geomorphology), Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (1981); M.A. (Soils-Physical Geography), Department of Geography, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming (1977); B.S. (Anthropology). Apart from his accomplishments in the academia of climate and geography, Eric is a proponent of free and just media. For far over a decade now, he has become a staunch vocal opponent of corrupt media, government and banking. The following quote of hisresearch in this passion (outside of his academic fields of expertise) is best summed as: "I DO THIS AS A PUBLIC SERVICE". "Since the corporate media now presents us mostly with “info-tainment" / propaganda rather than facts and truth, it now seems incumbent upon citizens / researchers to discern the truth from many various sources and disseminate the facts to their fellow citizens. As an educator, this is my goal. It is my hope that, fortified with accurate information, the American citizens will have the wisdom and ability to implement the solution, articulated by Jefferson over 200 years ago: “THE TWO ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE ARE CRIMINALS AND GOVERNMENT, SO LET US TIE THE SECOND DOWN WITH THE CHAINS OF THE CONSTITUTION SO THE SECOND WILL NOT BECOME A LEGALIZED VERSION OF THE FIRST.” --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/iantrottier/support
Join host Amy Zellmer as she speaks with Dr. Joyce Mikal-flynn Dr. Joyce Mikal-Flynn has firsthand experience with trauma. An avid marathon runner and triathlete, in 1990 she survived a sudden death event requiring 22 minutes of CPR. Since her survival she completed 5 marathons, several triathlons, earned her Master’s In Nursing and a Doctor of Education. She is passionate about her philosophy of using one’s inner strengths and courage to turn tragic events into victories. Her ongoing research and clinical work is intended to positively influence the field of trauma focusing on PTG for individuals, vicarious survivors and communities who suffered and survived critical events. She developed a contemporary system of rehabilitation: Metahabilitation bringing forth her business: Methab.com. An associate professor at CSUS, she continues clinical practice, lecturing and researching on posttraumatic growth (PTG), presenting internationally and nationally on the subject. Publications include articles in Nursing Times (2012), Journal of Addictions Nursing (2015) and Nursing 2016. Her book: Turning Tragedy Into Triumph: MetaHabilitation, A Contemporary Model of Rehabilitation was released in 2012. She completed a sabbatical (2015) studying vicarious survivors of trauma, focusing on family and friends of those who suffered and survived troubling life events. She visited Oklahoma City, NYC and Boston interviewing people who witnessed and were affected by these traumatic events. Her ongoing research along with a deep concern for those who deal with trauma and those who care for them lead to the creation of a course at CSUS: Traumatology: Introduction to Posttraumatic Growth. Sponsored by: Minnesota Functional Neurology, DC
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In Part 2 of our "Spies In Our StarciEty" three-part series, Shashank and Barry talk about Section 31, linking it to historic and contemporary spy agencies. Using DS9 Episodes "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" and "Extreme Measures", we compare the CIA, Gestapo, CSUS, ISI methods, make-up, and tactics.
In Part 2 of our "Spies In Our StarciEty" three-part series, Shashank and Barry talk about Section 31, linking it to historic and contemporary spy agencies. Using DS9 Episodes "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" and "Extreme Measures", we compare the CIA, Gestapo, CSUS, ISI methods, make-up, and tactics.
In this week's epsiode, Andy has a unique and spiritually-focused conversation with two people—one of whom lives and works in Maui, the other who is visiting, and both of whom embody the Maui spirt—Beth Marcil and Mariabruna Sirabella. Check it out and enjoy a dialogue about live freely lived, 2nd senses, and the interconnectedness of everything. Beth Marcil is a widely-recognized visual artist and creative workshop facilitator. An honor graduate of Ringling College of Art and Design, she's adept at a wide range of approaches in multiple mediums. From the serenity of Hawaiian taro patches, colorful foreign marketplaces, and traditional landscapes to naive, whimsical works of art, Beth Marcil interprets the essential spirit that brings a people or a place to life. Mariabruna Sirabella, MS, LMFT, has a Laurea Degree in Communication and Performing Arts from Bologna University, Italy and a Master in Counseling from CSUS, California, and is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist based in California. As the Translation Coordinator and lead Trainer for SoulCollage, she's found the SoulCollage process to be an enduring source of personal truth, guidance, and a universal bridge she has shared with hundreds of individuals worldwide. Links Beth Marcil Beth Marcil: Art From the Inside Out Ke Ola Magazine: "Visual Art as a Tool for Transformation and Healing" Beth Marcil [requires Flash] Beth Marcil on Facebook: Journaling Art 'n Soul Adult/child collaboration Mariabruna Sirabella Mariabruna Sirabella Event: Your New Narrative: Create a Visual Biography Through SoulCollage Upcoming programs Mariabruna Sirabella on SoulCollage "Creativity is your birthright"
Based on our recent global survey of more than 100 higher ed brand identity redesigns over the past 2 years, Ken Steele counts down the 10 best rebrandings – those that are professional, memorable, balanced and well-designed, AND that didn’t spark a backlash from faculty, students or alumni. #10: Saint Louis University, Missouri Design firm Olson of Minneapolis created a streamlined new logo using a vastly simplified coat of arms and an “ownable” fleur de lis. The branding system includes specs for consistent iconography, a variety of wallpapers, and a wide range of subbrands – including a new logo for Billken Athletics. This is SLU - https://youtu.be/CYMBLYkEsPQ About SLU’s New Logos - https://youtu.be/oc1tCyzm0_c What is a Billiken? - https://youtu.be/xmaxVk8lakY #9: Belmont Abbey College, North Carolina Another Catholic college redesigned their steeple-focused identity with the help of Rickabaugh Graphics in Ohio. The result is a dynamic shield emblem with fresher typography and a slightly brighter crimson, and a new mark for Crusaders Athletics. #8: Augusta University, Georgia In 2012, Augusta State University merged with Georgia Health Sciences to create Georgia Regents University – and then, apparently after a lawsuit from Regents University in Virginia, it changed its name again in 2015 to Augusta University. The new identity features a slick illustration of a colonial belltower (which doesn’t actually exist) that is simultaneously clearly a letter “A”. Augusta University Identity in Depth – https://youtu.be/CIBKWkF9DMY #7: Stanislaus State University, California It was known by far too many different names: CSU Stanislaus, CSUS, California State Stanislaus, Stanislaus State, Stan State, and even “Turkey Tech.” But with the help of the Jeffrey Scott Agency in Fresno, Stan State unveiled a snazzy new “split shield” logo system in 2015 that standardized its name. Departments and individuals can now choose from “CSU Stanislaus” or “Stanislaus State” logos, and even “Stan State” is officially endorsed for internal audiences. #6: Maricopa Community Colleges, Arizona The 10 colleges in Maricopa County had startlingly different brand identities, but in 2015 the Maricopa System unveiled “One Maricopa,” a new unifying logo system that would create consistent subbrands for each campus, while retaining their former colours and visuals. It was a masterful effort at compromise… but so far, there’s little sign that the colleges have actually adopted the new branding system. That’s the first half of our round-up of the world’s top ten recent rebrands. Next time, we’ll complete the countdown with the top five! Subscribe so you don’t miss it, or check out Top 10 Identity Trends for a review of overall higher ed branding trends in the past 2 years – https://youtu.be/8lD3PUQLBnw
Based on our recent global survey of more than 100 higher ed brand identity redesigns over the past 2 years, Ken Steele counts down the 10 best rebrandings – those that are professional, memorable, balanced and well-designed, AND that didn’t spark a backlash from faculty, students or alumni. #10: Saint Louis University, Missouri Design firm Olson of Minneapolis created a streamlined new logo using a vastly simplified coat of arms and an “ownable” fleur de lis. The branding system includes specs for consistent iconography, a variety of wallpapers, and a wide range of subbrands – including a new logo for Billken Athletics. This is SLU - https://youtu.be/CYMBLYkEsPQ About SLU’s New Logos - https://youtu.be/oc1tCyzm0_c What is a Billiken? - https://youtu.be/xmaxVk8lakY #9: Belmont Abbey College, North Carolina Another Catholic college redesigned their steeple-focused identity with the help of Rickabaugh Graphics in Ohio. The result is a dynamic shield emblem with fresher typography and a slightly brighter crimson, and a new mark for Crusaders Athletics. #8: Augusta University, Georgia In 2012, Augusta State University merged with Georgia Health Sciences to create Georgia Regents University – and then, apparently after a lawsuit from Regents University in Virginia, it changed its name again in 2015 to Augusta University. The new identity features a slick illustration of a colonial belltower (which doesn’t actually exist) that is simultaneously clearly a letter “A”. Augusta University Identity in Depth – https://youtu.be/CIBKWkF9DMY #7: Stanislaus State University, California It was known by far too many different names: CSU Stanislaus, CSUS, California State Stanislaus, Stanislaus State, Stan State, and even “Turkey Tech.” But with the help of the Jeffrey Scott Agency in Fresno, Stan State unveiled a snazzy new “split shield” logo system in 2015 that standardized its name. Departments and individuals can now choose from “CSU Stanislaus” or “Stanislaus State” logos, and even “Stan State” is officially endorsed for internal audiences. #6: Maricopa Community Colleges, Arizona The 10 colleges in Maricopa County had startlingly different brand identities, but in 2015 the Maricopa System unveiled “One Maricopa,” a new unifying logo system that would create consistent subbrands for each campus, while retaining their former colours and visuals. It was a masterful effort at compromise… but so far, there’s little sign that the colleges have actually adopted the new branding system. That’s the first half of our round-up of the world’s top ten recent rebrands. Next time, we’ll complete the countdown with the top five! Subscribe so you don’t miss it, or check out Top 10 Identity Trends for a review of overall higher ed branding trends in the past 2 years – https://youtu.be/8lD3PUQLBnw
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! 1. Jeff Liberman, dir. The Amazing Nina Simone opens in Bay Area theatres this weekend. Visit theamazingnina.com We open with a tribute song by Sam Waymon, Ms. Simone's younger brother, friend and band member. 2. Billy X Jennings, Black Panther Party Archivist speaks about a new exhibition at the Oakland Public Library. He is speaking 10/24, 2 p.m. at the Bradley C. Walters Community Room, 125 14th Street, Oakland. Visit itsabouttimebpp.com 3. Charles Blackwell, poet, painter, joins Dr. Eugene Redmond to speak about Eugene B. Redmond Collection and Learning Center, SIUE, which just opened Oct. 19, 2015. See http://www.siue.edu/news/index.shtml He is Poet Laureate of East Saint Louis [Illinois], Emeritus Professor of English, Founding Editor of Drumvoices Revue, former Chairman of Creative Writing Committee at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville). Before he began his 15-year stint at CSUS, however, he spent two years (1967-69) as Teacher-Counselor and Poet-in-Residence at Southern Illinois University's Experiment in Higher Education in East Saint Louis. At EHE, he taught with Henry Dumas, Joyce Ladner, Oliver Jackson, and Katherine Dunham, serving as a Senior Consultant to the latter at her Performing Arts Training Center. . . .
Stephen Thomas and Evan Schwartz discuss Ripple Labs open source smart contract system Codius! Codius.org Thanks to CSUS for the music beyondbitcoinshow@gmail.com
This time we're checking out culture on the block chain with Alex co Author of the Bitcoin graphic novel which is at this moment awating a name. We talk making money interesting, working with the guys at Swarm, funding models, the Bitcoin ethos and the power of the graphic novel medium. Alex Preukschat (content) Csus (music) https://www.swarm.co/comiccoin.html#/comiccoin beyondbitcoinshow@gmail.com
This episode Bas Wisselink, an NXT community organiser joins me again to discuss what's going on in the next ecosystem. From a little grand theft crypto to a new altcoin adapter for the next asset exchange, there is a ton of interesting stuff going on and Bas is always great value. Thanks to Csus for the tune Multigateway: http://multigateway.com/
Brian Hoffman and Washington Sanchez join me to discuss Open Bazaar, a marketplace built from Amir Taaki's Toronto Hackathon winning "Dark Market". A great exposition of a broad range of new ideas. CREDITS Audio production by Kerry Guy. Music provided by Csus. Check them out on Soundcloud. Content provided by Washington Sanchez and Brian Hoffman Any questions or comments? Email beyondbitcoinshow@gmail.com. Check out beyondbitcoin.fm for more material and recordings of developer hangouts
Alex joins to discuss his platform for betting on binary feeds in Counterparty and the basics of BIP32 wallet recovery. https://xcpfeeds.info Then Manfred Karrer explains the operation of the peer to peer fiat - Bitcoin exchange he's working on - bitsquare. http://bitsquare.io/ CREDITS Music provided by Csus. Check them out on Soundcloud. Content provided by Alex and Manfred Karrer Any questions or comments? Email beyondbitcoinshow@gmail.com. Check out beyondbitcoin.fm for more material and recordings of developer hangouts
In this hangout session, Stephen Reed presents his proposed reengineering of Bitcoin, Cooperative Proof Of Stake. Dan Larimer and others join the conversation to have their questions answered. CPOS is a fresh solution to the problems Bitcoin faces which maintains what remains of Satoshi's social contract while dramatically improving the efficency of the ecosystem. CREDITS Music provided by Csus. Check them out on Soundcloud. Content provided by Stephen Reed - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=584719.0, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=366214.0 The recording of the Weka courtesy of Department of Conservation - http://www.doc.govt.nz. Any questions or comments? Email beyondbitcoinshow@gmail.com. Check out beyondbitcoin.fm for more material and recordings of developer hangouts
This weeks episode features Dan Larimer of Invictus Innovations discussing the shift from Proof Of Work to Delegated Proof Of Stake and the thought process behind the change. We go on to discuss pretty much everything else going on in the development of the bitshares platform. It was a great opportunity to tie up all the loose ends I could think of and Dan was happy to oblige. Then a fellow named Ian with the deepest knowledge of NXT of anyone I've met does pretty much the same thing. We began with Transparent forging and the scope of the interview just widened from there to cover the value of Javascript as a language, some of the frankly astonishing capabilities being developed in the NXT ecosystem and even NEM, a fork of NXT with aspirations of its own! CREDITS Music provided by Csus. Check them out on Soundcloud. Content provided by Dan Larimer - www.bitshares.org, and Ian - www.nxtcommunity.org. The recording of the Bellbird courtesy of Department of Conservation - http://www.doc.govt.nz. Any questions or comments? Email beyondbitcoinshow@gmail.com. Check out beyondbitcoin.fm for more material and recordings of developer hangouts
Great guests this week! First is a brief talk with Joel Deitz of Swarm. Swarm is a crowd funding platform with some checks in place to protect both project creators and investors. This, along side anonymous transactions and remission is in my mind a top killer app of cryptocurrency. Swarm is itself looking for capital investment from the public, beginning in a few days. Editing out connection difficulties turned this solid interview into a brief short but the important stuff is in there. http://www.swarmcorp.com/ Next up, Neil and Jonathan from Altcoin Labs chat amiably about the time when as kids they engaged in manipulating the price of pickaxes, the meme on USD bank notes, currency agnostic wallets, the importance of altcoins . . . It goes on, these guys have tons to impart. http://altcoinlabs.org/ CREDITS Music provided by Csus. Check them out on Soundcloud. Content provided by Joel Dietz, Neill Miller and Jonathan Zevallos. Any questions or comments? Email beyondbitcoinshow@gmail.com
Nikos Bentenitis and Panos Skourtis discuss the difficulties of educating in cryptocurrency, the efficacy of technical analysis in understanding price movements and scientific peer review enhanced by blockchain reputation systems. Then Joseph Lubin of Ethereum joins to talk about all kinds of interesting stuff including the super fluid economy of the future and consensus vs hierarchical organisation structure. CREDITS Music provided by Csus. Check them out on Soundcloud. Content provided by Nikos Bentenitis, Panos Skourtis and Joseph Lubin. Any questions or comments? Email beyondbitcoinshow@gmail.com 1Dy8TtQvc9W7WqdowN4avVtnLDu3VLJch9
http://d1dt8p0rq76s70.cloudfront.net/scp24.mp3 SUN DEVILS ADVOCATE! With the podcast being moved to this Monday I decided to talk about the college team that’s near and dear to my heart through this forum. So last Saturday the ASU Sun Devils beat the USC Trojans 62-41 at Sun Devils Stadium. With that win ASU is now 3-1(1-1 in the Pac-12 Conference) for the season while also jumping back into the top 25 being ranked at #22, and that game also lead to the firing of USC coach Lane Kiffin. I want to talk about two things that I took from this game before I get into today’s matchup. First up is the offensive display that ASU showed. The Sun Devils put up 62 points on the Trojans while also compiling 612 yards of total offense. This offense is clicking with junior quarterback Taylor Kelly being the trigger man, make no mistake about it, this is an elite offense that can put up points with just about any team in college football. Now the second thing I want to talk about is the awful defensive showing. USC scored 41 points on the Sun Devils while also compiling 542 yards of total offense, that’s just bad. Since shutting out CSUS in the opening game the Sun Devils defense has allowed 30, 42, and 41 points in the three games after, that’s not good, if the Sun Devils want to contend for the Pac-12 South with UCLA they need to have a better showing on defense. The offense is clicking right now all the defense needs to be is at least average and I think the Sun Devils should be good. Now with that said, on to today’s game! No. 22 ASU is playing the Notre Dame Fighting Irish (3-2) at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX. Notre Dame is coming off a loss, 35-21 to be exact against Oklahoma last week which dropped them out of the top 25. Notre Dame starting quarterback Tommy Rees has come back down to earth it seems these last two games, since throwing for more than 300 yards in the first three games, the senior has only thrown 246 yards combined the last two games while only completing 39 percent of his throws. I see Notre Dame relying heavily on the running game in this game, not cause of Tommy Rees’s struggles, but because the ASU defense can’t stop the run. The ASU defense has allowed 718 yards on the ground over the last three weeks which is sixth most in the country. Now the Notre Dame defense hasn’t been the same since last season’s BCS title run. Notre Dame is among the worst in the nation with allowing 110 first downs while only having four sacks in the season. I see Tommy Rees continuing to struggle as Taylor Kelly carves up the Notre Dame defense, I usually don’t give scores cause I just don’t like to (sorry Nick) but I predict an ASU win. GO ASU!
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Kathryn Hohlwein of CSUS's English Department on her group The Readers of Homer & the upcoming public reading of the Odyssey (pt 1)
Welcoming author of her own Chapter in the Adventures in Manifesting health and happiness series... Jan Noble! Jan Noble, HHScEd, is the founder/director of the Holistic Life Institute, School of Massage and Natural Health in Oakdale, CA. (www.holisticlifeinstitute.com) Prior to opening HLI, Jan trained as a Holistic Health Science Educator at CSUS in Turlock, CA, the American College of Nutripathy in Scottsdale, AZ, and the University of Metaphysical Sciences in Studio City, CA. Jan has authored two books, "FigureShaping - The Completely Natural Weight-loss Protocol," and "Home with God - The Restoration of Your Spiritual Self," and contributed to a third, "Adventures in Manifesting," with a chapter titled, "The Clarity of True Surrender." 1) Healing with spirit guides (MAP team) 2) Asking for help from spirit in dealing with difficult people and/or problems 3) The Course in Miracles and why I advocate for itPresenting to you the authors of Adventures in Manifesting. Adventures in Manifesting, Success and Spirituality is a new 'must have' one of a kind book! also in the series is Health and Happiness.
Welcoming author of her own Chapter in the Adventures in Manifesting health and happiness series... Jan Noble! Jan Noble, HHScEd, is the founder/director of the Holistic Life Institute, School of Massage and Natural Health in Oakdale, CA. (www.holisticlifeinstitute.com) Prior to opening HLI, Jan trained as a Holistic Health Science Educator at CSUS in Turlock, CA, the American College of Nutripathy in Scottsdale, AZ, and the University of Metaphysical Sciences in Studio City, CA. Jan has authored two books, "FigureShaping - The Completely Natural Weight-loss Protocol," and "Home with God - The Restoration of Your Spiritual Self," and contributed to a third, "Adventures in Manifesting," with a chapter titled, "The Clarity of True Surrender." 1) Healing with spirit guides (MAP team) 2) Asking for help from spirit in dealing with difficult people and/or problems 3) The Course in Miracles and why I advocate for itPresenting to you the authors of Adventures in Manifesting. Adventures in Manifesting, Success and Spirituality is a new 'must have' one of a kind book! also in the series is Health and Happiness.
Learn How Solar Cooking, Water Pasteurization and Portable Microbiology Laboratories Can Benefit Health Worldwide Kirk Hamilton interviews Dr. Bob Metcalf microbiologist and Professor of Biological Sciences at California State University, Sacramento on his three decades of work in bringing solar ovens, solar purification and portable microbiology testing world-wide to improve the health of the local population (solarcookers.org). Download or Open:
Kyle calls in to talk MLB World Series, Tanner and Justin Preview the MSU/ Sac. State football game.
Gnanagurudasan PrakasamMD (USA) DCH (India) MRCP (UK) MHA (USA)Dr. Prakasam holds an MBBS DCH (India) and MRCP-Pediatrics (UK) and is Board Certified in Pediatrics & Endocrinology in the United States. In addition, he has a Masters in Health Administration (MHA) from the University of Southern California.Dr. Prakasam holds several positions, including Medical Director for the Pediatric Endocrinology, Diabetes and Healthy Life Style program for children at the Sutter Medical Center, and Medical Director for the Telemedicine Program and ehealth for the Sacramento Sierra Region for Sutter Health. He is the Founder and a Member of the Board of Directors for the Subishta Medical Consultancy in India, and also involved in various positions in 2 start ups in the US and one in India. He is currently the Chair of the eHealth Committee at Sutter Health for the region, President of the Leadership Council of American Diabetes Association in Northern California, and a Board Member for the American Heart Association in Sacramento.He successfully started a private endocrine practice in 2001, which now has 4 Pediatric Endocrinologists and five satellite offices, taking care of more than 4,500 patients, over 1,000 with Diabetes. The practice has the biggest pediatric insulin pump program in the western USA and is involved in several clinical trials in the field of diabetes and growth. He organized several comprehensive pediatric endocrine CME programs in Sacramento, and is an active participant of CME programs in several hospitals globally.Dr. Prakasam has started and successfully run a low-cost telemedicine program in India for the past six years. He has cared for more than 400 patients through the system, and conducts low-cost medical education programs from the US and UK.He conceived, designed, and initiated the first multidisciplinary and age appropriate, healthy lifestyle program for children in the Sutter Health system, enabling the first coordinated program between Sutter Health system and CSUS.He started the first telemedicine program at Sutter Medical Center, and wrote the guidelines and advised the formation of the first newborn screening program in Vietnam. He has been the Web Medical Consultant for Magic Foundation, a non-profit organization for children with growth disorders.He sits on the Board, and is a member of Business Improvement and IT Committees for the Children's Specialists of Sacramento Medical Group, and is an Advisory Committee Member for the Pediatric Endocrine Program at Sutter Medical Center. He also serves as an advisor, speaker and marketing consultant for several pharmaceutical companies, while running a unique patient support online program for children with diabetes, lifestyle issues, and growth hormone deficiencies.His current projects involve creating a network for health care in India, his country of origin, by using his multinational experience and eHealth background, and works on consumer and provider web communications.He is happily married for 18 years to a Pediatrician/Entrepreneur, and they have two beautiful children, 15 and 10.
Dr. Gordon, who teaches CSC 133, 180 and numerous grad courses came to talk about Artificial Intelligence, and what projects have and can be done in the field of AI at CSUS.To see the video click here
Sara Lynn gives report on Loveline's Dr. Drew Pinski's recent lecture at CSUS
Sara Lynn gives report on Loveline's Dr. Drew Pinski's recent lecture at CSUS
Sara Lynn, Radio Parallax's CSUS liason, gives a report about Director Oliver Stone's recent lecture at CSUS
Sara Lynn, Radio Parallax's CSUS liason, gives a report about Director Oliver Stone's recent lecture at CSUS
Sara Lynn, Radio Parallax's new CSUS liason, gives a report about a recent comedy competition
Sara Lynn, Radio Parallax's new CSUS liason, gives a report about a recent comedy competition
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