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All about Teamwork
By: Robert Drury
Tags: Product Management, Teams, Startup, Book Recommendations, Product Manager

All about Teamwork

Working together a team can apply individual perspectives, experience, and skills to solve complex problems, creating new solutions and ideas that may be beyond the scope of any one individual.

But people are complicated, and the more people, the more complicated it can be, which is why understanding the dynamics and what makes a group of individuals come together is key for product managers to understand.

Here are six books that support product managers understand the ways in which teams form and perform, and you can find more in the Teamwork section on the Getting Started in Product bookstore.
The Un-Sprint
By: Chris Bojarski
Tags: Software Development, Teamwork, Agile, Scrum, Team

Can we have a sprint for refactoring? This sprint we are only going to do bug fixes. Let’s take a sprint to tackle some technical debt!

We’ve heard it before. Maybe we were even the ones asking for it. We just need a block of time to clean up the mess we’ve made. Then everything will be better! Some teams will do this a few times a year. Others may need to do it more often. I was on a team that had a “bug-fix” sprint every fourth week. Yes, a quarter of our time was spent on fixing and stabilizing.

At the end of a sprint, we should be delivering something valuable to the customer. But these un-sprints don’t really do that. Often, there is very little to show. Sure, bugs are fixed, but fixing bugs is rework. Those bugs shouldn’t have been there in the first place. Some bugs are unavoidable. Having enough bugs to fill an entire sprint is a failure in the development process.

Photo by You X Ventures on Unsplash

Fixing bugs, refactoring, and paying down technical debt should be part of the daily activity of a development team. Putting those activities off costs more. Having regular un-sprints incentivizes developers to kick that can down the road. They can develop “faster” by ignoring these concerns until then. The result is more bugs and more technical debt.

Teams that have frequent un-sprints should invest in improving code quality earlier in the process. This investment pays dividends as fewer defects reach production, fewer un-sprints are needed, and more work is done to build valuable features.
Leading an Employee Who Isn’t a Team Player
By: Dr Rick Goodman
Tags: Leadership, Teamwork, Entrepreneurship, Employee Engagement, Team

You’re committed to building a work environment of collaboration and teamwork — a work environment in which all your employees work together to reach common goals. The problem is, you have one employee who simply doesn’t share your team mindset.

That’s where it may fall to you to step up and show some leadership — proactively working to bring that employee into the fold and instill in him or her the central fact that, in your business, teamwork is non-negotiable.

But how do you manage these lone wolf employees? How do you show leadership in the face of an absolute defiance of teamwork initiatives?

Working with Lone Wolf Employees

A few basic steps:

Make it clear what your corporate values are, and what your values are as a leader. Offer public praise and affirmation to employees who do exemplify the team approach you’re looking for. And for employees who don’t like to work with the team, offer some private corrective counseling. Simply make it clear to them that — again — teamwork is a non-negotiable. Take a firm stand. This doesn’t mean you have to be needlessly aggressive. What it means is that you shouldn’t sit around and hope that the employee will have a change of heart. You’re going to need to address the issue head-on. Explain to that employee that part of the job description is supporting the team — period. Provide clarity on all projects and assignments. Make sure teamwork is implicit in all the work you provide to lone wolf employees. Don’t tell the employee to do X; tell the employee to work with Beth, Dan, and Sally to complete X. Again, the goal is to leave no question that teamwork is mandatory. Listen to the employee. Allow the employee to explain why he or she doesn’t like working on a team. It may be that some additional training or resources are needed, or perhaps just that the person is an extreme introvert — in need of some assignments or projects that better utilize that particular skillset. Ask other employees. Privately approach other employees and ask them for their take on the issue; it may be that the employee in question has been doing solid work, but in a more solitary context — and ultimately, you may decide that there’s no problem with that. Then again, your other employees may feel like they are shouldering too much of the workload, and that’s obviously problematic.

The bottom line is that there will come a time when you have an employee who just isn’t a team player — and that’s when showing some real leadership will be necessary.

Dr. Rick Goodman CSP is a thought leader in the world of leadership and is known as one of the most sought after team building experts in the United States and internationally.

He is famous for helping organizations, corporations, and individuals with systems and strategies that produce increased profits and productivity without having the challenges of micromanaging the process. Some of Dr. Rick’s clients include AT&T, Boeing, Cavium Networks, Heineken, IBM, and Hewlett Packard.
[Create Your Own Esports Team]
Tags: Esports News, Esport, Team Building, Crowdfunding, Team

Have you ever thought of creating your own Pro Esports Team/s, and seeing them compete in the world’s major competition? This is your chance to make it happen!

Do you know that there are millions of underprivileged youths who got no resources and opportunity to accomplish their dreams?

We, Yesports, are now raising money to form a Pro Esports team. With your donation, you can help youths achieve their dream.

You can read more about our campaign and make a donation on our crowdfunding campaign page by clicking here:

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Feel free to share this post and encourage your own friends to support our campaign!

Make a difference today! Act now!

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From freelance to full-time, in just one conversation!
Tags: Employees, Invideo Hiring, Inside Invideo, Team, Engineer

He’s someone who’s been with InVideo since its inception, and super dedicated to his job. We’re so thrilled to have Chirag on the team.

How’d you come across InVideo?

I’ve known the founders since their MassBlurb days! I was working with them at MassBlurb, then at Mobikon, and now at InVideo.

It’s been one hell of a long journey with them.

What was your interview experience like?

I don’t think I can even call it an interview. Earlier, I used to freelance for InVideo. Sanket called me up for a conversation in reference to a freelance task — and somehow, the chat took a different turn, and I ended up joining InVideo full time.

Why InVideo?

Well, who better than me can answer this? Knowing the founders since their early entrepreneur days, working closely with them, plus a kickass product idea with a vision to disrupt the video creation and editing domain makes it a no-brainer. The founders vision, their heads-down execution approach and a great product idea — you have it all.

Finally, what’s one moment/incident that stands out in your time at InVideo?

I have been on this journey for a very long time. There were too many ups and downs we have witnessed.

Lifting ourselves from the bottom to top has always been the best memory here at InVideo.

The moment that particularly stands out was the AppSumo launch. With a small team and not-so great product — with all our brave hearts we decided to go B2C — and it paid off.
Remote team health check
Tags: Remote Working, Retrospectives, Remote Team, Retro, Team

Photo credit: Bart Slaets (source)

Inspired by the Spotify “Squad Health Check” (read more here) our team decided to mix up one of our bi-weekly retros and try something different. However, like for most teams, this year has been a little different and our team has been working remote-first. This means we needed to be creative to figure out how to run the activity in a meaningful, but still engaging, way.

This lead me to create a simple Google spreadsheet template where each member of our team would have their own tab so they could fill their score without being influenced by the thoughts of others. We ran through each topic in the exercise one-by-one, and then at the end, all circled back to the main aggregate page and had discussions around the topics that scored the lowest overall. This lead us to talk about (and have action off of) things that would likely not have come up in a traditional retro.

If you’re running a remote team and looking for a different way to reflect, I wanted to share my resources with you!

Copy the activity spreadsheet template for your team here.

See the slides we used to run the health check here.
Catholic-B.R. vs Byrd | Louisiana High School Football Live Stream 12/27/2020
Tags: American, Louisiana Tech, American Dream, Louisiana, American History

Catholic-B.R. vs Byrd | Louisiana High School Football Live Stream 12/27/2020 Ciremai ·Dec 27, 2020

Catholic-B.R. vs Byrd | Louisiana High School Football Live Stream 12/27/2020

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Bears

8–2

Yellow Jackets

10–0

The Byrd (Shreveport, LA) varsity football team has a neutral playoff game vs. Catholic-B.R. (Baton Rouge, LA) on Sunday, December 27 @ 6p.

Game Details: at Northwestern State University

This game is a part of the “2020 Allstate Sugar Bowl/LHSAA Non-Select Prep Classic — Division I” tournament.
DeSoto vs Spring | Texas High School Football Live Stream 12/26/2020
Tags: Texas, American History, American, Texas Rangers

DeSoto vs Spring | Texas High School Football Live Stream 12/26/2020 Jarkonilele ·Dec 26, 2020

DeSoto vs Spring | Texas High School Football Live Stream 12/26/2020

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Eagles

9–1

Lions

9–0

The Spring (TX) varsity football team has a home playoff game vs. DeSoto (TX) on Saturday, December 26 @ 7p.

Game Details: McLane Stadium, Baylor University Waco, Texas

This game is a part of the “2020 Football State Championships — 2020 Football Conference 6A D1 “ tournament.
Trinity vs Allen | Texas High School Football Live Stream 12/26/2020
Tags: American, Texas Rangers, Texas, American Football, American History

Trinity vs Allen | Texas High School Football Live Stream 12/26/2020 Jarkonilele ·Dec 26, 2020

Trinity vs Allen | Texas High School Football Live Stream 12/26/2020

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Trojans

10–1

Eagles

10–0

The Allen (TX) varsity football team has a neutral playoff game vs. Trinity (Euless, TX) on Saturday, December 26 @ 7:30p.

Game Details: at Globe Life Park

This game is a part of the “2020 Football State Championships — 2020 Football Conference 6A D1 “ tournament.
White Flag
Tags: Native American, American, Creative Writing, Poetry, American History

Photograph from the collection at Pixabay

Before meeting this man clad in soft leather

they said I was too wild to be tethered.

But Grey Wolf shackled our hands, and I watched

his sun-beaten muscles tighten to knots,

collecting a thousand tiny drops

of salty Appalachian rain.

His body was toned by his love of the woods,

yet he walked with a limp over moss and root.

My stare tracked the weakness down to his knee,

blown apart by the tragedy of white men,

who drank bitter whisky, and fired guns

at unarmed native daughters and sons.

When we reached his cabin built of timber,

a log fire banished the hard chill of winter

and we tangled like day and night do at dawn

our silhouettes merging against the wall.

Cocooned in his arms, I glanced around

his humble lodge, miles from town.

There was a bare lantern. A narrow bed

scattered with deerskin. And I wept,

to see how my people had kept him hungry and poor,

so they could stockpile land and ore.

At the thought of his kin butchered like bison on the plains,

my body shook with violent shame,

I broke before him, in pieces, unclothed,

and knelt to kiss his dusty toes.

He whispered: you are not my slave.

But I offered myself to him again —

not as a captive, but a gift. One possession

in this world he could always call his.

This poem features in my pamphlet: Where Concrete and Coral Bells Kiss.

10% of all profits from sales go to the Native American Heritage Association.
Shadow Creek vs Katy | Texas High School Football Live Stream 12/26/2020
Tags: American, Pearland Tx, Texas Rangers, Texas, American History

Shadow Creek vs Katy | Texas High School Football Live Stream 12/26/2020 Jarkonilele ·Dec 26, 2020

Shadow Creek vs Katy | Texas High School Football Live Stream 12/26/2020

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Sharks

6–3

Tigers

9–1

The Katy (TX) varsity football team has a neutral playoff game vs. Shadow Creek (Pearland, TX) on Saturday, December 26 @ 1p.

Game Details: at Freedom Field

This game is a part of the “2020 Football State Championships — 2020 Football Conference 6A D2” tournament.
Spaulding vs Winnacunnet | New Hampshire High School Football Live Stream 12/25/2020
Tags: American, New Hampshire, American Dream, American Football, American History

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Spaulding vs Winnacunnet | New Hampshire High School Football Live Stream 12/25/2020

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Red Raiders

S

1–3

Warriors

6–3

The Winnacunnet (Hampton, NH) varsity football team has a home conference game vs. Spaulding (Rochester, NH) on Friday, December 25 @ 3p.

Game Details: Winnacunnett HS
Longview vs Ryan | Texas High School Football Live Stream 12/26/2020
Tags: American, Denton Texas, Texas Rangers, Texas, American History

Longview vs Ryan | Texas High School Football Live Stream 12/26/2020 Caringinjaya ·Dec 25, 2020

Longview vs Ryan | Texas High School Football Live Stream 12/26/2020

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Lobos

9–2

Raiders

11–0

The Ryan (Denton, TX) varsity football team has a neutral playoff game vs. Longview (TX) on Saturday, December 26 @ 2p.

Game Details: at Mesquite Memorial Stadium

This game is a part of the “2020 Football State Championships — 2020 Football Conference 5A D1 “ tournament.
PragerU Gets Slandered For Defending Robert E. Lee
By: Alexander R. Outlaw
Tags: Prageru, Robert E Lee, Politics, Confederate Monuments, American History

Recently communists like the Majority Report or Vaush and left-wing centrists like Hunter Avalone have been slandering PragerU by saying they think slavery is ok or justified. This could not be any further from the truth.

What happened was PragerU released a video saying we should not take down the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. In the video, PragerU talks about the complex history around Lee and his anti-slavery stance but also brought up his racist views about black people. For example, Lee once said:

In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution, is a moral & political evil in any Country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.

Lee then continues by saying that it is a:

greater evil to the white man than to the black race… (since blacks are) immeasurably better off…

PraegerU also mentions how Lee stopped a rebellion from John Brown, a radical Abolitionist who had taken over a federal army. And to add to the complexity, they mention that Lee was against giving black men the right to vote. PragerU does not try to sugarcoat the history of Lee but instead gives you his full history, worts and all. If anything, I believe this shows how PragerU does not defend slavery and wants to give you a better idea of Lee’s views.

You also have to remember that those were different times. The support for slavery was common and so was racism very common. Was Lee perfect? Of course, he wasn’t. Lee decided to work for the Confederacy despite not supporting succession. He had a great amount of patriotism for his state.

Although I believe he was wrong for supporting his state, I can understand his reasons. You don’t have to like Robert E. Lee, but you should understand that his history is not just black and white. And just because people like PragerU or myself do not think you should take down statues of Lee, does not mean we support slavery or think that the Confederacy was justified.

Values change over time and our values will more than likely change again in the future. For example, only recently have we started to believe that homophobia is unacceptable and trans acceptance has only just significantly increased in the last decade. We have come a long way as a country. And we will hopefully continue to improve by dropping ideas like white privilege. History is complex and society does not always change for the better. All we can do is strive to do better and hope that we will do what is right.

Thank you for reading my opinion piece. If you like it, please share this article, clap it (like), and follow me on all of my social media. If you really liked it, please support me on one of my donation pages. All of these links are on the link to my website. Do all that and I’ll see y’all later!

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Superior vs Unity | Wisconsin High School Football Live Stream 12/25/2020
Tags: Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, Wisconsin, American, American History

Superior vs Unity | Wisconsin High School Football Live Stream 12/25/2020 Caringinjaya ·Dec 25, 2020

Superior vs Unity | Wisconsin High School Football Live Stream 12/25/2020

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Spartans

0–0

Eagles

4–3

The Unity (Balsam Lake, WI) varsity football team has a home non-conference game vs. Superior (WI) on Friday, December 25 @ 12p.
Trinity vs Allen | Texas High School Football Live Stream 12/26/2020
By: Dewi Adinda Futri
Tags: Texas, American, American Dream, American History

Trinity vs Allen | Texas High School Football Live Stream 12/26/2020

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Trojans

10–1

Eagles

10–0

The Allen (TX) varsity football team has a neutral playoff game vs. Trinity (Euless, TX) on Saturday, December 26 @ 7:30p.

Game Details: at Globe Life Park

This game is a part of the “2020 Football State Championships — 2020 Football Conference 6A D1 “ tournament.
DeSoto vs Spring | Texas High School Football Live Stream 12/26/2020
By: Dewi Adinda Futri
Tags: Spring Texas Real Estate, Texas, American Football, American History

DeSoto vs Spring | Texas High School Football Live Stream 12/26/2020

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Eagles

9–1

Lions

9–0

The Spring (TX) varsity football team has a home playoff game vs. DeSoto (TX) on Saturday, December 26 @ 7p.

Game Details: McLane Stadium, Baylor University Waco, Texas

This game is a part of the “2020 Football State Championships — 2020 Football Conference 6A D1 “ tournament.
Cedar Hill vs Tomball Memorial | Texas High School Football Live Stream 12/26/2020
By: Dewi Adinda Futri
Tags: Texas, American History, American, Texas Rangers

Cedar Hill vs Tomball Memorial | Texas High School Football Live Stream 12/26/2020

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Longhorns

9–1

Wildcats

11–0

The Tomball Memorial (Tomball, TX) varsity football team has a neutral playoff game vs. Cedar Hill (TX) on Saturday, December 26 @ 4p.

Game Details: at Waco ISD Stadium

This game is a part of the “2020 Football State Championships — 2020 Football Conference 6A D2” tournament.
Mark Shields — We will miss you!. “Every one of us has been warmed by…
By: Kerry Landon-Lane
Tags: Pbs Newshour, Politics, David Brooks, Honesty, American History

“Every one of us has been warmed by fires we did not build and every one of us has drunk from wells we did not dig. Together we can’t do less for those that come after us and together we can do so much more” — Mark Shields

Mark Shields on the PBS NewsHour — illustration by Kerry Landon-Lane

Like a big column standing upright over the ages, Mark Shields has been with us across the table from David Brooks, David Gergen, Paul Gigot and Lucius Sejanus. Last week was his final regular appearance on the Friday PBS NewsHour. We can’t help but be sad to lose that weekly bulwark of democracy but we can delight in the 33 years of Shields giving us the political and social situation and his thoughts on it. He always told it how it was with no personal agenda other than to make us take notice of what’s been happening and how it should rattle in our heads. Shields could always be counted on for digging into history, putting us in another’s shoes, painting scenarios and delivering arguments with humor and wit.

He remains Wow about politics — and that we need to increase, not decrease, this wonderful part of our lives because the alternatives are fist fights, military takeovers and nuclear plumes. Shields believes that time spent listening to folks with views different from our own is always worth the trouble, because from these exchanges solutions (even part solutions) can be uncovered, and fashioned into secured agreements. He also understands that total solutions are unlikely and holding out for them often nails the box of absolutely nothing happening. Success, to Shields, is defined by making policy and legislation better than it served the day before rather than building a grand opera house for all times.

Praise for Mark Shields can not be separated from praise for his colleague and friend David Brooks as the interaction of the two has delivered something not only unique but way, way beyond the wonderful achievements of each by themselves.

For the final program celebrating Mark Shield’s contribution to American politics and well being go to the PBS NewsHour 12/18/2020
Ah, well said!
By: Laura Federico
Tags: American Exceptionalism, Pandemic, Sacrifice, American History

Ah, well said! We’ve been living off the ego fumes of “saving the world” twice — WWI and II — for more than 100 years. We make movie after movie about our triumphs & use phrases like “the greatest generation” without irony. Those may have been two great moments we had but we’ve had many more wars since then that have ended ambiguously or with us on the losing side — or, like Afghanistan, still continuing because we can’t figure out how to end what we rashly & foolishly started.

We don’t think “the rules” apply to us, or should, so it’s no wonder we make huge mistakes & commit appalling offenses like driving native people off the land & jumping into the slave trade & fighting to maintain our “superiority” over our fellow Americans to this day, usually based on skin color & immigration status, never mind that we’re a nation of refugees.

We got a Donald Trump because we’re him. We are dying in spectacular numbers and living in degradation because we can’t follow rules and we think we shouldn’t have to. We’ve bought our own hype about our specialness & apparently many of us would rather extinguish ourselves & our democracy than let that go.

This pandemic is about the biggest wake up call possible. It’s showing us exactly where we’re fucked up & why. We can change it whenever we want to. The cruel stimulus drama, the totally predictable election drama, the long overdue racial rebellion, the abuse by authority, our willingness to destroy our planet for profit and our greed and money obsession overall: these are all up in our faces now because we’re supposed to be looking at them and, um, changing.

But so far we’re mostly still rebelling & feeling sorry for ourselves. We don’t care to look at the problems we’ve sown throughout our history as a nation. Now that the reckoning has come, we don’t want to face the fact that our suffering is self-inflicted. It ruins the narrative we love about ourselves as exceptional, special, unique, blessed and deserving.

Thanks for this article — it was bleakly funny, and far too true.
Duncanville vs Westfield | Texas High School Football Live
Tags: Houston Texans, Texas, Houston, American History

Duncanville vs Westfield | Texas High School Football Live Caringinjaya ·Dec 21, 2020

Duncanville vs Westfield | Texas High School Football Live

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Panthers and Pantherettes

8–1

Mustangs

8–1

The Westfield (Houston, TX) varsity football team has a neutral playoff game vs. Duncanville (TX) on Thursday, December 24 @ 2:30p.

Game Details: at Belton Tiger Stadium

This game is a part of the “2020 Football State Championships — 2020 Football Conference 6A D1 “ tournament.
The Hall of Fame for Great Americans
By: Yve Laran
Tags: Museums, Sculpture, New York City, History, American History

The Hall of Fame for Great Americans

Photo: The Detroit Publishing Company 1900–1910

Library of Congress Digital Collection — Public Domain

A distinguished place of American History remains on the campus of Bronx Community College in New York City.

The Hall of Fame for Great Americans was the U.S.A.’s first memorial of its kind. It contains sculptures of the most renowned Americans, including Thomas Edison, Edgar Allan Poe, and Benjamin Franklin. Malvina Hoffman, an American sculptor, completed the bust of Thomas Paine and was commissioned throughout the United States to share her work.

The building, designed by architect Stanford White, was modeled upon German architecture to showcase memorial sculptures and artifacts.

The building remains open to the public and is a favored recreational visit for city residents.

Links: Hall of Fame | History & Inductees | Britannica

Malvina Hoffman | American sculptor | Britannica
Cedar Hill vs Tyler Legacy | Texas High School Football Live
Tags: Texas, American History

Cedar Hill vs Tyler Legacy | Texas High School Football Live Ciremai ·Dec 19, 2020

Cedar Hill vs Tyler Legacy | Texas High School Football Live

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Longhorns

8–1

Raiders

6–5

The Tyler Legacy (Tyler, TX) varsity football team has a neutral playoff game vs. Cedar Hill (TX) on Saturday, December 19 @ 2p.

Game Details: West Mesquite
Diabetic Cyborg Life 12/19: The Tiniest POTUS Ever
By: Adam, Diabetic Cyborg
Tags: Election 2020, Trump, American Democracy, Optimism, American History

45 will forever be the biggest coward and most petulant sulky POTUS ever in American history. Not Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon, Andrew Garfield or any past President of the United States was as cantankerous as this peevish fool. Such an A-typical supposed “leader” of the free world is more than historic.

The days of the President of the United States and American Politics being separated from celebrity or pop culture slowly eroded away. Now, 45 is a direct result of the shredding of norms and morals of the still prestigious office. I still believe in civility, and what was, the honor of the office still remains.

We just have to endure the last dishonorable days of the child born with a silver spoon forever in his, you know where, and emerge the better. Please, oh please, observe, take note and see WHY we do as American democracy dictates. Let the honorable rise and privileged children fall away.

Yes, American democracy is messy, but that IS why it is so great. Breathe deep, release all the tension and see that our American democracy still functions before hacking and algorithms predict and stop it.
6 Little Known Serial Killers from the Old West
By: Charles Stephen
Tags: Outlaws, Old West, History, Society, American History

6 Little Known Serial Killers from the Old West

Image by Pixabay

Some might argue that the complicated stresses and violence of today are the cause of serial killers. But they have been around for thousands of years.

Each generation had its own complications and mental illnesses. As a result, they had their own share of serial killers as well. Perhaps since news in the Old West traveled only as fast as the pony express or even the telegraph, their stories weren’t told as often as today’s killers.

Imagine in the Old West, where gunfighters became instant heroes after racking up a body count. In such an atmosphere, it is only logical that drifters with no life or prospects would be willing to take a chance on becoming a legend.

From such an environment, it is no surprise that serial killers were also created. Let us examine six of these serial killers from the days of the Old West that are not very well known.
Detroit’s Diaspora
By: Arthur Keith
Tags: BlackLivesMatter, Motown, The Great Migration, Detroit, American History

By 1950, the population of Detroit peaked at 1.85 million, making it the fifth largest city in the country. Additionally, Detroit was the wealthiest city in the US on a per capita income basis. With new freeways being built at a frenzied pace to ferry workers back and forth from rapid suburbanization, black neighborhoods were literally cut in half. Many families were forced into public housing projects. The focus on the freeways signaled the end of the heavily used electric streetcar system, further hindering the black community.

Thousands of homes were foreclosed on and left for nature to take over. The city is slowly demolishing such structures, making way for the development of urban gardens and parklands. Photo: Daniel Tuttle, Unsplash.

Continued housing scarcity (due in part to blacks’ inability to receive bank loans) restricted their ability to improve their standard of living. The practice of redlining encouraged whites to keep blacks out of their neighborhoods. Blacks were in essence, trapped.

Immigration from the South continued, with 2.4 million more blacks moving north in the 1960s and early 1970s. And then it stopped.

Recession, inflation, high oil prices, and the oil embargo stopped automobile manufacturing in its tracks. On top of an already low tax base, the automakers began to lay off thousands of workers and shutter plants. White, middle class flight to the suburbs continued en masse. By 1970, the city’s population had fallen to 1.51 million, down nearly 20% from the peak in 1950.

What was once known as the Manufacturing Belt became The Rust Belt. In addition to the above, high interest rates forced many manufacturers overseas. Numerous other forces such as automation began to transform the economy, leaving many in its wake. What was once a bustling economy (though not without its problems), became riddled with a host of issues: population loss and it’s resultant declining tax base, an uneducated workforce, high unemployment and crime, drugs, welfare rolls and deficit spending.

Abandoned factories litter many areas of Detroit. Photo: Hieu Vu Minh, Unsplash

Is “reverse diversity” a thing? According to the 2010 census, 83% of the citizens were black, with 11% being white. Detroit remains as one of the most segregated cities in the country.

The most significant population loss occurred from 1980 to the present count of 670,000, or a loss of about 55%. Once the fifth largest city in the United States, it now sits at number 24. But it gets better.
South Grand Prairie vs Allen | Texas High School Football Live
Tags: America, Texas, NFL, American History

South Grand Prairie vs Allen | Texas High School Football Live Ciremai ·Dec 17, 2020

South Grand Prairie vs Allen | Texas High School Football Live

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Warriors

6–2

Eagles

9–0

The Allen (TX) varsity football team has a home playoff game vs. South Grand Prairie (Grand Prairie, TX) on Friday, December 18 @ 7:30p.

Game Details: @ Globe Life Park

This game is a part of the “2020 Football State Championships — 2020 Football Conference 6A D1 “ tournament.
Nicely done. The poem with the historical background is a unique way to present historical events.
By: K.C. Knouse
Tags: History, Poetry, Racism, Civil Rights, American History

Nicely done. The poem with the historical background is a unique way to present historical events.

I started public schools in Topeka in 1958 and attended an integrated elementary school there. It seemed perfectly natural to a 5-year-old who had been raised without racial bias. I made friends with everyone, even the bully, a large white kid. I knew nothing of the segregation or racial discrimination that afflicted the families of my Black classmates until Junior High when prominent parents of some of the Black students told their stories during Government class.

I entered high school in 1968. Even during those racially tense times, most students got along with each other. Many of my Black friends had fathers who played on the all-Black basketball team that had existed during segregation. There were some incidents, the worst of which was a riot in the main hall provoked by outside agitators my senior year. Uniformed police occupied the school for two weeks. Nobody liked that. Black, White, and Chicano students came together and created a public relations program to restore the image of the school.

I am grateful for Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka. Without it, I would have missed out on many great friendships and experiences.
American “greatness” in question. As 2020 draws to a close, just one in…
By: Catherine Morris
Tags: American Greatness, 2020, American Exceptionalism, Make America Great Again, American History

American “greatness” in question

President Trump ran in 2016 on a campaign promise to “Make America Great Again.” Now, four years later, just how many Americans believe the United States is “great?”

Spoiler — just a minority, and fewer now than before. From 2017 to today, the number of Americans who rank the nation as an 8 to 10 on a 10-point scale of greatness has fallen from 51% to 37%.

Democrats and Independents drove the decline. The number of Democrats who see the country as “great” was more than halved from 2017 to 2020, while the number of Independents feeling this way dropped by 15 points. Republicans, by contrast, are still much closer to where they were at the start of the Trump era.

In another sign of Republican satisfaction with the current status quo, the number who identify the present day as the pinnacle of American greatness grew by 10 points from 2017 to the close of 2020.

By contrast, just 9% of Democrats see the current moment as the greatest point in American history. Instead, Democrats’ views of American greatness have dimmed over the past four years. Today, one in five Democrats believe that America “was never great” — an 8-point increase from 2017.

Coming off a year marked by protests against racially-based police violence and being disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, 30% of Black Americans in 2020 agree that America was never great, up 10 points from 2017.

Overall, however, Americans continue to believe that the height of American greatness lies somewhere in the past. While the 1990s and 1980s garner a relatively strong ratio of adherents, a plurality (34% across partisan lines and the nation as a whole) see America’s peak as existing at some point from before the 1920s to the 1970s. Opinion is scattered as to which decade was particularly “great.”

As 2020 draws to a close, Americans show signs of ambivalence about how the year has affected them personally and considerable pessimism about how it has affected the nation. On a scale of 1 to 10, Americans give 2020 a 5.1 on how it has impacted their lives, but a 3.4 on how it has affected the country.

While on the balance, Americans may feel middling about how 2020 has affected them personally, most can agree that 2020’s negative repercussions for the country as a whole were profound, underscoring that things may not feel “great” right now.
WE The People
By: Mindy Hall
Tags: Constitution, Haiku, Democracy, Poetry, American History

Are you watching? Are

you listening? Trump and the

Republicans are

attempting to throw

out the results of a free

and fair election.

Republicans in

leadership roles, who could make

this all stop, won’t step

up to help secure

our Democracy. You all

do understand this,

don’t you? “To ignore

evil is to become an

accomplice to it.”

The longer folks like

Rob Portman stand by and let

this happen, the more

precarious our

Democracy becomes. We

are one election

away from its loss.

The Republican Party

is now — according

to Steve Schmidt — our first

autocratic party. It

is important that

we all understand

the implications of this.

The eroding of

our Constitution

and the attempts to get our

fellow citizens

to distrust the rule

of law, the government and

facts don’t go out the

door when Trump leaves the

White House. This is just the start.

We must stay alert.

Our Democracy

only functions, when WE the

People do the work!

(Haikus #3350–3363)

(Martin Luther King, Jr. is quoted in this haiku)
Beautiful Cities in America – Best Places in America
Tags: Usa Tour Packages, America, USA, Cities Of America, American History

Top Beautiful Cities in America

America is known for its diversity and mixture of cultures. And keeping that in mind you can only imagine the beauty that lies within it. Traveling the world and exploring some of the most beautiful cities in America is an incredible journey.

It’s difficult to narrow down these stops to the top 15, but we’ve compiled such a list for you today.

The locations featured here today are known for their historic significance. Beautiful landmarks, diverse cultural events, breathtaking views, and astonishing architecture. But each city has something a little different than the last. But that’s enough for the intro… let’s get started.

Located in the southeast state of Georgia. Atlanta is one of the most important landmarks for both the Civil War and the Civil Rights movement.

With gorgeous lines of trees, green hills, and lavish city parks, Atlanta was appropriately named “the City in a Forest.”

But there are also numerous skyscrapers that contribute greatly to the city’s beauty.

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Originalism and The Other Founding Fathers.
By: Petr Swedock
Tags: Politics And Protest, History, Originalism, Progressive, American History

When we think of the ‘founding fathers’ we think of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams and many others. These men, who fought the Revolutionary war, contributed to the Declaration of Independence, crafted the Constitution, and who were part of the early Congresses that voted to adopt these documents as the root and foundation of our Republic, are the image we call to mind when we say ‘founding fathers.’

And when conservatives speak of originalism, it is largely in reference to these original founding fathers. The words of the Constitution, they say, only have the meaning they had when written. If, for example, the Constitution does not use the word ‘privacy’ then — according to originalism — there is no guaranteed right of privacy protected by the Constitution.

But the founding fathers of 1789 famously left few things all that clear and many things undone; after all, it was a product of contention, competing interests and compromise. One could fairly make the case that the very ambiguity of the founding documents denies a strict originalism as further clarification is always required: It was, in fact, the very ambiguity — if not an alchemical and combustible ambivalence — that allowed different and differing interpretations, allow the contradictions to muster into the Civil War.

With the founders lack of clarity, most especially considering slavery, further foundational work needed to be done. Certain things needed to be clarified, other ideas needed to be excised, and still others needed to be concretized. Two men dedicated their lives and their not inconsiderable intellects to this endeavor and, I think righteously, ought also to be considered founding fathers of the 1850’s, every bit the equal to those original founders.

Those two men were Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, (though many already consider Lincoln great for other reasons). Expounding and expanding on the work of the original founding fathers they ruthlessly excised slavery from American life and gave, in Lincolns words ‘a new birth of freedom,’ in public discourse and congressional legislation. Lincolns last great triumph, the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution, was — in effect — a ratification, and enlargement, of the Emancipation Proclamation. After Lincolns assassination, later Congresses passed the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, further clarifying the document.

For a close reading of the constitution alongside the intent(s) of the founding fathers there are no better documents than, first, Frederick Douglass famous speech 'What, To the Slave is The Fourth of July,’ and, second, Lincolns 1860 speech at Cooper Union.
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By: Erfanul Islam
Tags: Sex, America, American Football, American History

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Obligatory Anti-Communism Promise
By: Teresa English
Tags: America, Patriotism, Politics, Flags, American History

I pledge

an earnest agreement

allegiance

devotion and loyalty

to the flag

the fabric, the history, or the symbolism?

of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One Nation, under God

who’s God and which one?

indivisible

ignoring the Civil War?

with liberty

freedom from undue restrictions

and justice

fairness in the way people are treated

for all.

every person.

Additional thoughts I am pondering… “The ugly history of the Pledge of Alliance and why it matters.”
American Demise
By: Jim Mason
Tags: Politics, War, Nuclear Weapons, Civil Rights, American History

Photo by Jim Mason

Going through old papers today, I came across this poem I wrote over 59 years ago. Some of the background was the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, then already years-long, in which I was involved on the margins as a university student. I found it disheartening that people’s desires for simple rights to ride anywhere in a bus or dine at a lunch counter could be denied, and that rights to voting and fair housing, among many other important ones, could be so callously defeated.

There was also the escalating involvement of the U.S. in the Vietnamese civil war, as part of the larger Cold War with the Soviet Union and China. The U.S. was proceeding to develop nuclear missiles at an alarming rate, but it was still a year before the Cuban Missile Crisis in which the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. scared us all by coming close to nuclear war.

It is even more disheartening, now, that issues of the Civil Rights Movement are still being fought over, almost 60 years later, and that the U.S. is still the leader among nuclear-armed nations, with a President much less intelligent than Kennedy who has threatened to use them.

It’s hard for me to believe how prescient I was in 1961. I thought I was overly cynical at the time, but now I’m just appallingly sad. As Pete Seeger’s song “Where Have All The Flowers Gone?” says, “When will they [we] ever learn?”
In a world where separation is the law and where Love is freedom, but a dream, and hope...
By: Leavie Scott
Tags: Country, Handmade, Poetry, Love, American History

In a world where separation is the law and where Love is freedom, but a dream, and hope...

Well, hope is the rope that holds onto the Dream. I have experienced the Greatest... In a place where lives are forgotten and light is seldom seen.

I have experienced Love in it's rarest and rawest form and nourished it.... Watched it grow and blossom while in a pit of darkness....https://vocal.media/poets/two-souls-holding-hands
Return to the Future
By: Dryden Brown
Tags: Technology, Society, Cities, American History

In 2020, our society is divided. Technological advance has stalled. We’ve lost coherence and dynamism.

People born in the early 20th century saw the arrival of airplanes, telephones, cars, televisions, computers, and spacecraft. They expected continued progress. But somewhere along the line, reality went off-road. Man last stepped on the moon 48 years ago. The sci-fi futures our ancestors envisioned look as far in the future today as they did then.

Most think 2020 will be remembered for its chaos: plans derailed, businesses shuttered, windows shattered, and sidelong glances at masked neighbors. But chaos brings clarity.

We have lost the future because we’ve lost our common cause. If we can return to a society based on shared values, we can converge on a vision for the future. If we share a vision for the future, we may be able to build it.

Today, we must build the future our values demand.

Most dread aging; we seek eternal life.

Most gaze passively at the stars; we design the machinery of exploration.

Most hope purpose finds them; we live with purpose every day.

We are proud to announce Praxis: a new society that supports ambitious founders, creators, and pioneers in discovering and executing on their life’s work, while working together towards a shared vision for the future.

2020 won’t just be remembered for its dark moments. With courage, vision, and faith in the frontier, we can ensure that 2020 is remembered as a turning point:

The inception of a new golden age.
The Federalists
By: Danielle Gibson
Tags: Government, History, Politics, Poetry, American History

The Federalists

Alexander Hamilton and John Adams, leaders of the Federalist Party. — Images courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

The Federalist Party was started

During the year Seventeen Ninety-One.

They navigated waters uncharted,

Being the first faction ever begun.

The nation’s first political faction

Was led by Alexander Hamilton.

John Adams was also in the action,

As well as some other important men.

The Federalist Party did control

National government for some decades.

Keeping conservatism was the goal,

But the party would soon lose to new trades.

While the Federalist Party dissolved,

The party allowed issues to be solved.