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Quinteros Beginning against Argentina and Bolivia is amazing
Gustavo Domingo Quinteros Desabato is an earlier Argentine-Bolivian football guard and a football executive, now in charge of Ecuador national football team. His selection as Reinaldo Rueda’s successor came at the beginning of this year and was provoked by his success in becoming the first…
Farida Sarwar, 4 years ago 6 min read
Match schedules for FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 and 2018 FIFA World Cup unveiled
Well, here are the match schedules for FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 and 2018 FIFA World Cup unveiled, hope that you want to know about it’s fascinating. On the day of the beginning Draw in St. Petersburg, the Organizing Committee of the FIFA World Cup™ today revealed the…
World Cup Host Countries and FIFA World Cup
Here I am going to tell you about world cup host countries and FIFA World Cup. The World Cup competition has been rewarded every four years since the first competition in 1930 (except in 1942 and 1946 because of World War II). Read About: The Federation…
Pinto I want a fresh style for Honduras
Jorge Luis Pinto Afanador is a Colombian football trainer, and current executive of the Honduras national football team he was born in born 16 December 1952. Pintos handled numerous groups in Colombia. Read About: The Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)-Part 2 Some disasters offer legitimate…
Russia 2018 Host Cities celebrate 1000 days to go
Here I am going to tell you about Russia 2018 host cities celebrate 1000 days to go.The starting of the countdown clock in Moscow’s Manage Square signaled 1000 days to go as the earliest FIFA World Cup™ to be held in Russia, with some Host Cities with…
2018 World Cup Qualifying How It Works
Here I will tell you about 2018 World Cup qualifying how it works.The qualifying procedure for 2018 World Cup started on March 12, 2015, with introduction ties among the 12 lowest-ranked states in Asia. Read About: The Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)-Part 1 Chiquito Do…
1000 days to Russia 2018 Footballers and Fans Celebrate in Red Square
The 1,000-day countdown to the beginning of the FIFA World Cup™ might, for some, be nothing more than an enjoyable target. But that was most certainly not the case for those gathered by the walls of the Kremlin in central Moscow today. Russia 2018 Footballers are very excited for this World Cap. In the very spirit of the Russian capital, fans were taking pleasure from the environment of the festival of football in which Russia will be engrossed three years from now. Read About: The Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)-Part 1 Russia 2018 Footballers Could you visualize yourself with playing football in a playing field in the center of Red Square? Even those competing in 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ will not have the possibility to play in this world well-known, attractive site, which has so much historical importance for over 800 years. Today, though, U16s representing teams from Italy, Spain and Germany – the three last World Cup winners – and hosts Russia giving…
International Federation of Association Football (FIFA)-Part 4
This is the last part of my series which I wrote on FIFA, titled as International Federation of Association Football (FIFA)-Part 4. I hope you must have liked it. The people who missed the chance must read the other parts to know the background of…
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FIFA World Cup History – Part 1
Everybody is die heart fan of FIFA World Cup that is arranged after every four years span. A crowd of million people are seen in the stadium where countries qualified for FIFA are going to give us a show. Here, in this series of articles…
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The Real Causes of Extinction of the Yangtze River Dolphin (Baiji)
The extinction of the Yangtze River dolphin is one of the most striking examples of species falling prey to human greed. We will tell you how this river dolphin species had to pay the price for industrialization in China.
Abhijit Naik
Little-known Fact
The last known Yangtze River dolphin, Qiqi died in 2002, while the last confirmed sighting of this species in the wild was in 2004.
In 2006, the Yangtze River dolphin, or baiji, was declared functionally extinct when an intensive survey involving a team of thirty scientists failed to yield any results. They looked for the species all over its natural habitat, right from the Three Gorges Dam to the Shanghai estuary, over a period of six weeks. It was the first cetacean species to become extinct as a result of human activities.
A species is said to be functionally extinct when the population is no longer viable, or it has no role to play in the ecosystem. Nevertheless, it will be enlisted as a 'critically endangered' species for some time, before it is moved to the list of extinct species.
How Did the Yangtze River Dolphin Become Extinct?
The extinction of the Yangtze River dolphin wasn't really surprising, as its population had taken a severe hit over the period. It plunged from over 5,000 in the 1950s to less than 400 in the 1980s, and down to 13 by 1997. As with other river dolphins, one of the major problems this species faced was that of a restricted range. It was found in the lower course of the Yangtze―the longest river of Asia. The upper course of the river was perhaps too swift for it. But then, the major reason for the extinction of this species came with the onset of industrialization in China. Each of the reasons are discussed below.
The Great Leap Forward
The Yangtze River dolphin was hailed as the Goddess of the Yangtze at one point of time, but was stripped of this status when Mao Zedong set out to eradicate superstition and idol worship as a part of his ambitious campaign 'The Great Leap Forward'. Thus, began the hunting of this species for its flesh and skin. It was just the beginning of bad times to befall the species though, as the worse was yet to come.
Increased Fishing in the Yangtze
Also to be blamed for the extinction of the baiji was the advent of modern fishing gear, which resulted in high incidental mortality of the species. A large number of dolphins died after getting entangled in fishing gear, as they were not able to surface to breathe. Then came the concept of electric fishing, which made hunting of this harmless species even easier. By the beginning of the 21st century, electric fishing had become the biggest threat for the survival of this species.
Demons of Industrialization
✦ Things went from bad to worse, as China took to industrial development, and the environment took a backseat. The Yangtze River dolphin was one of the many species to bear the brunt of environmental pollution, caused due to the dumping on industrial waste in the Yangtze.
✦ Furthermore, when the Chinese decided to develop the Yangtze as a waterway, the riverbed was dredged and even reinforced with concrete in some places. This, along with pollution, resulted in the loss of habitat for the Yangtze River dolphin.
✦ The construction of the Three Gorges Dam didn't just result in the loss of habitat for the species, but also provided a boost for shipping traffic. The traffic increased over the course of time, and so did the size of ships.
✦ The increase in shipping traffic also translated into more noise pollution, as a result of which the nearly blind and disoriented baiji collided with ships, and even got caught in propellers.
Despite the fact that the Yangtze River dolphin languished in the list of endangered species for decades, no concrete measures were taken to save it from extinction. In fact, even a range-wide survey was only initiated in 2006, almost a decade after it was revealed that only 13 dolphins were left in the wild. This lethargy on the part of concerned authorities was equally responsible for the extinction of this dolphin species.
Post Script: Ironically, the range-wide survey of 2006 was initiated to capture Yangtze River dolphins, and start a captive breeding program to save them.
Why are Pink Dolphins Endangered
Endangered Dolphins
Dolphin Food Facts: What do Dolphins Eat?
Interesting Facts About Bottlenose Dolphins
Types of Dolphins
Pink Dolphin Facts
Dolphin Facts for Kids
Bottlenose Dolphin Adaptations
Bottlenose Dolphin Habitat
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HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1970s → 1975 → January 1975 → 16 January 1975 → Commons Sitting → NORTHERN IRELAND
Murderers (Release)
§ 10. Mr. Bradford
asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement about the approach by Northern Ireland clergymen to his Department to approach the European Commission on Human Rights to appoint a representative to sit on a special commission to recommend parole or release for convicted murderers.
§ Mr. Orme
My right hon. Friend has no knowledge of this proposal.
§ Mr. Bradford
Does the Minister of State accept that it would cause great misgivings and mistrust in Northern Ireland to involve an institution which has been used by the Republican Member for Belfast, West (Mr. Fitt) to castigate, discredit and demoralise members of Her Majesty's Forces when those forces are doing a great job in Northern Ireland and deserve the full support of the House?
The hon. Member is not facing the reality of the situation. I have given him a clear answer that the Government have no idea of any such proposals and therefore could not act upon them.
§ Mr. Fitt
May I ask a supplementary question to what was said by my hon. Friend in a reply to an earlier Question?
Order. I am certain that it is not beyond the hon. Member's ingenuity to make his point in the form of a supplementary question to this Question.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The two Questions are tied. In Northern Ireland—and the question directly relates to events in Northern Ireland—a very small group of people are casting aspersions on the good will of the clergymen who have been acting in the context of peace. The Question relates directly to whether or not they have been carrying messages to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State in relation to the European Commission on Human Rights. It is accepted that this is not so. Is my hon. Friend aware that when the hon. Member for Belfast, West appeared at Strasbourg in relation to a very important case proceeding there the evidence had not been published and could not have been known by the hon. Member for Belfast, South (Mr. Bradford)?
I am sure that my hon. Friend does not want me to intervene in a personal dispute between himself and the hon. Member for Belfast, South (Mr. Bradford). The Government are at present looking for a constructive peace, based on the Secretary of State's statement on Tuesday, and we believe that the basis for such a peace is there.
§ Mr. Mather
Will the Minister of State say what success he is having with the Dublin Government in persuading them to withdraw their case against British troops in Northern Ireland, which is before the European Commission on Human Rights?
Overall we are getting more co-operation from the Dublin Government on matters like the border and other sensitive areas. We want to do nothing which would disrupt that now.
Back to Churchmen (IRA Talks)
Forward to UDR and Royal Ulster Constabulary
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Complete Humphreys County, TN accident reports and news.
Accidents in Humphreys County are a major cause of property damage, injury, and death each year
In Humphreys County, statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration show that traffic crashes remain a primary public safety issue. Car, truck, bicycle, pedestrian, and motorcycle accidents are all a common occurrence, despite improvements in vehicle safety features, road design, bicycle and pedestrian corridors, and traffic signs.
When an accident happens in Humphreys County, it is important to do the following immediately:
Remain at the crash scene;
Check on the condition of all people involved in the crash;
Call the police;
Exchange information with other drivers;
Get contact information from witnesses;
Inform your insurance company;
Get appropriate medical treatment, and track the details;
Take photos of vehicle damage and injuries;
Consider hiring a personal injury attorney.
An injury attorney handles all the details so that you don't have to.
After a Humphreys County accident, there are many issues that need to be handled immediately. Dealing with doctors, repair shops, car rental companies, police, and insurance companies is overwhelming, especially when someone is seriously injured. At this point, many injured people choose to hire a personal injury attorney whose job it is to handle the details and paperwork so that you can focus on recovery.
Personal injury lawyers offer a no-cost claim evaluation to help you.
Since there is no cost to speak with a lawyer, it is a good idea to learn more about your potential claim. Accident Data Center can help you by connecting you with our network of experienced injury lawyers who can provide you with information about your rights and options. Learn more here about the value of a no-cost legal claim evaluation.
Accident Reports by city
McEwen, TN - 2
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Two people killed in two-vehicle collision on Interstate 40 in Humphreys County, Tennessee
Shane Keele and Chris Young killed in boating accident on Tennessee River in Humphreys County, Tennessee
Dustin Andrew Edwards, 23, killed in 2-vehicle crash on Highway 70 in Humphreys County, Tennessee
Jerry Greer, 19, dead after boating accident on Tennessee River near Waverly, Tennessee
Russell Moses, 33, killed, and Barry Webb, 57, injured in collision between passenger vehicle and semi truck on State Route 70 near McEwen, Tennessee
Jeffrey Scott, 51, killed in single-vehicle crash into tree off of Bakersville Road in Humphreys County, Tennessee
Jeffrey Scott, 51, was traveling in an SUV when the vehicle exited the road and crashed into a tree near Anderson Lane just after 8 a.m. Scott was wearing his seat belt. The cause of the crash is under investigation.
Former Mrs. America Susan King Goodman, 63, killed in collision with train in Waverly, Tennessee
Susan King Goodman, executive director of United Way of Humphreys and Benton counties, was trying to cross train tracks in a rural area of Humphreys County when her car collided with a train.
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For more than 30 years, ADRA has remained committed to working with communities worldwide to improve their quality of life.
Established in 1956 by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, ADRA underwent two name changes before becoming the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in 1984. Originally called Seventh-day Adventist Welfare Service or SAWS, the agency became Seventh-day Adventist World Service in 1973.
While our name changed throughout the early years, our core principles remained. In 1958, SAWS reported disaster relief shipments to 22 countries with a total value of $485,000. Four years later, the number of countries increased to 29, totaling $2.3 million worth of supplies. During this period, countries in South America and the Middle East, sites of major disasters, were the recipients of immediate emergency relief.
By the mid-1970s, we began to broaden our mission from disaster relief to long-term development projects in vulnerable communities. From an initial international staff of approximately 600, our programs expanded to include: building health clinics in parts of Africa, assisting hurricane victims in Central America, teaching hygiene and health to children in Asia, and supporting women and girls through education.
In 1997, ADRA was granted General Consultative Status by the United Nations, the highest status given to nongovernmental organizations. This allowed us the opportunity to participate in the international community on a broader scale.
New decade, same mission
Today, ADRA is a leading humanitarian agency operating in more than 130 countries with a dedicated team of 6,000 staff and volunteers. While our offices are often miles and oceans apart, we work together as a unified whole, bringing positive transformation to a world in need.
Every day, we task ourselves with finding new ways to feed the hungry, give water to the thirsty, and take in the stranger. As needs arise and challenges grow, we strive to realize our mission, reflecting God’s love through compassionate acts of humanitarian service.
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By U.S. Mission Argentina | 11 January, 2018 | Topics: Consular Affairs, Messages for U.S. Citizens, U.S. & Argentina | Tags: Argentina Travel Advisory
Protest Near Embassy April 12
United States Embassy Buenos Aires, Argentina Security Message for U.S. Citizens: Protest Near Embassy April 12 April 11, 2017 The U.S. Embassy informs U.S. citizens living and traveling in Argentina of a protest planned for tomorrow, April 12, 2017 at 14:00. The protest is against U.S. policy on Venezuela and Syria. Protestors will gather in …
By U.S. Mission Argentina | 12 April, 2017 | Topics: Messages for U.S. Citizens, Security & Emergency Messages, U.S. Citizen Services
General Strike April 6
United States Embassy Buenos Aires, Argentina Security Message for U.S. Citizens: General Strike April 6 The U.S. Embassy informs U.S. citizens living and traveling in Argentina of a nationwide general strike planned for April 6. You should expect disruptions in public transportation and traffic, with possible road blockages as well as possible delays and cancellations …
By U.S. Mission Argentina | 5 April, 2017 | Topics: Messages for U.S. Citizens, Security & Emergency Messages, U.S. Citizen Services
Update on the Zika Virus in Argentina
The U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires informs U.S. citizens that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a travel notice for Argentina regarding the Zika virus . The CDC has concluded that the Zika virus is a cause of microcephaly and other severe fetal brain defects in some fetuses and babies born to infected mothers. This conclusion …
By U.S. Mission Argentina | 4 June, 2016 | Topics: Messages for U.S. Citizens, Security & Emergency Messages, Travel & Tourism | Tags: Zika
Argentine General Elections October 25
The U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires reminds U.S. citizens that local, provincial, and national elections will be held throughout the country on October 25, 2015. As Argentine national law requires most Argentine citizens to participate in the electoral process, millions of people are expected to vote. Throughout the Election Day weekend, there may be increased …
By U.S. Mission Argentina | 23 October, 2015 | Topics: Messages for U.S. Citizens, Security & Emergency Messages
Planned Demonstration April 10
The U.S. Embassy informs U.S. citizens living and traveling in Argentina of a demonstration planned for Friday, April 10, 2015 from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. near the U.S. Embassy. You should expect disruptions in public transportation and traffic into and out of the demonstration area. The demonstration is expected to focus only on the …
By U.S. Mission Argentina | 9 April, 2015 | Topics: Messages for U.S. Citizens, Security & Emergency Messages
General Strike
The U.S. Embassy informs U.S. citizens living and traveling in Argentina of a 24- hour general strike planned for March 31, 2015 (starting at midnight on March 31 and continuing through that entire day). You should expect disruptions in public transportation and traffic, as well as possible delays and cancellations of flights into and out …
By U.S. Mission Argentina | 27 March, 2015 | Topics: Messages for U.S. Citizens, Security & Emergency Messages
Silent March
The U.S. Embassy informs U.S. citizens living and traveling in Argentina of a silent march in Buenos Aires from Congress to the Plaza de Mayo, planned for Wednesday, February 18 from approximately 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (1700-2100), to mark the one month anniversary of the death of Alberto Nisman. You should expect disruptions in …
By U.S. Mission Argentina | 17 February, 2015 | Topics: Messages for U.S. Citizens, Security & Emergency Messages
General Security Awareness
The U.S. Embassy wishes to inform U.S. citizens living and traveling in Argentina that in recent months, U.S. citizens have reported a number of crimes to the embassy. Crimes reported include petty crime, taxi scams (especially at international airports), mugging, snatch-and-grab robbery involving motorcycles and bicycles, and occasionally more serious crimes such as express kidnapping, …
By U.S. Mission Argentina | 29 September, 2014 | Topics: Messages for U.S. Citizens, Security & Emergency Messages
General Labor Strike Scheduled for Thursday, August 28, 2014
The U.S. Embassy informs U.S. citizens living and traveling in Argentina of a general strike planned for Thursday, August 28. Disruptions in public transportation and traffic could begin as early as Wednesday, August 27, as well as possible delays and cancellations of flights into and out of Buenos Aires. While the strike will likely focus …
By U.S. Mission Argentina | 25 August, 2014 | Topics: Messages for U.S. Citizens, Security & Emergency Messages
Security Message for U.S. Citizens – General Labor Strike Scheduled for Thursday, April 10
The U.S. Embassy informs U.S. citizens living and traveling in Argentina of a general strike which several labor unions have planned for Thursday, April 10. You should expect disruptions in public transportation and traffic, as well as possible delays and cancellations of flights into and out of Buenos Aires. While the strike will likely focus …
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This article is about the volcano. For other uses, see Mount Rainier (disambiguation) and Rainier.
Mount Rainier as viewed from the northeast.
14,411 ft (4,392 m) NGVD 29[1][2]
13,211 ft (4,027 m)[3]
Ranked 21st[4]
U.S. state high point
Decade Volcano
Mount Rainier National Park, Pierce County, Washington, U.S.
46°51′10″N 121°45′37″W / 46.8528857°N 121.7603744°W / 46.8528857; -121.7603744Coordinates: 46°51′10″N 121°45′37″W / 46.8528857°N 121.7603744°W / 46.8528857; -121.7603744[5]
USGS Mount Rainier West
Stratovolcano
Age of rock
500,000 years
Volcanic arc
Cascade Volcanic Arc
Last eruption
November to December 1894[6]
1870 by Hazard Stevens and P. B. Van Trump
Easiest route
rock/ice climb via Disappointment Cleaver
Mount Rainier (pronounced: /reɪˈnɪər/) is the highest mountain in both the State of Washington and the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest. It is a large active stratovolcano located 54 miles (87 km) southeast of Seattle in the state of Washington, United States. It is the most topographically prominent mountain in the contiguous United States and the Cascade Volcanic Arc, with a summit elevation of 14,411 ft (4,392 m).[1][2] Mt. Rainier is considered one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world, and it is on the Decade Volcano list.[7] Because of its large amount of glacial ice, Mt. Rainier could potentially produce massive lahars that could threaten the entire Puyallup River valley.[8]
2 Geographical setting
2.1 Subsidiary peaks
3 Geology
3.1 Modern activity and the current threat
3.2 Seismic background
3.3 Glaciers
4 Human history
5 Climbing and recreation
6 Climate
§Name[edit]
Mount Rainier was first known by the Native Americans as Talol, or Tacoma or Tahoma, from the Lushootseed word [təqʷúʔbəʔ] ("mother of waters") spoken by the Puyallup. Another interpretation is that "Tacoma" means "larger than Mount Baker".[9] This comes from the Skagit "Ta", larger, plus "Koma (Kulshan)", Mount Baker.[10] Other names originally used include Tahoma, Tacobeh, and Pooskaus.[11] The current name was given by George Vancouver, who named it in honor of his friend, Rear Admiral Peter Rainier.[12] The map of the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804-1806 refers to it as "Mt. Regniere".
Although "Rainier" had been considered the official name of the mountain, Theodore Winthrop, in his posthumously published 1862 travel book The Canoe and the Saddle, referred to the mountain as "Tacoma" and for a time, both names were used interchangeably, although "Mt. Tacoma" was preferred in the city of Tacoma.[13][14][15]
In 1890, the United States Board on Geographic Names declared that the mountain would be known as "Rainier". Following this in 1897, the Pacific Forest Reserve became the Mount Rainier Forest Reserve, and the national park was established three years later. Despite this, there was still a movement to change the mountain's name to "Tacoma" and Congress was still considering a resolution to change the name as late as 1924.[15]
In the excitement leading up to Super Bowl XLVIII, John Hickenlooper, Governor of Colorado, named 53 mountains after the 53 members of the Denver Broncos.[16] In response, the Washington State Senate passed a resolution on Friday, January 31, 2014, temporarily renaming the mountain Mount Seattle Seahawks. The resolution expired on midnight Monday, February 3, 2014.[17]
§Geographical setting[edit]
Mount Rainier is the highest mountain in Washington and the Cascade Range. This peak is located just east of Eatonville and just southeast of Seattle and Tacoma.[4] Mount Rainier is ranked third of the 128 ultra-prominent mountain peaks of the United States. Mount Rainier has a topographic prominence of 13,211 ft (4,027 m), which is greater than that of K2, the world's second-tallest mountain, at 13,179 ft (4,017 m).[3] On clear days it dominates the southeastern horizon in most of the Seattle-Tacoma metropolitan area to such an extent that locals sometimes refer to it simply as "the Mountain."[18] On days of exceptional clarity, it can also be seen from as far away as Portland, Oregon and Victoria, British Columbia.[19]
With 26 major glaciers[20] and 36 sq mi (93 km2) of permanent snowfields and glaciers,[21] Mount Rainier is the most heavily glaciated peak in the lower 48 states. The summit is topped by two volcanic craters, each more than 1,000 ft (300 m) in diameter, with the larger east crater overlapping the west crater. Geothermal heat from the volcano keeps areas of both crater rims free of snow and ice, and has formed the world's largest volcanic glacier cave network within the ice-filled craters,[22] with nearly 2 mi (3.2 km) of passages.[23] A small crater lake about 130 by 30 ft (39.6 by 9.1 m) in size and 16 ft (5 m) deep, the highest in North America with a surface elevation of 14,203 ft (4,329 m), occupies the lowest portion of the west crater below more than 100 ft (30 m) of ice and is accessible only via the caves.[24][25]
The Carbon, Puyallup, Mowich, Nisqually, and Cowlitz Rivers begin at eponymous glaciers of Mount Rainier. The sources of the White River are Winthrop, Emmons, and Fryingpan Glaciers. The White, Carbon, and Mowich join the Puyallup River, which discharges into Commencement Bay at Tacoma; the Nisqually empties into Puget Sound east of Lacey; and the Cowlitz joins the Columbia River between Kelso and Longview.
A panorama of the south face of Mount Rainier viewed from Westside Road, Washington State Route 706
§Subsidiary peaks[edit]
The broad top of Mount Rainier contains three named summits. The highest is called the Columbia Crest. The second highest summit is Point Success, 14,158 ft (4,315 m), at the southern edge of the summit plateau, atop the ridge known as Success Cleaver. It has a topographic prominence of about 138 ft (42 m), so it is not considered a separate peak. The lowest of the three summits is Liberty Cap, 14,112 ft (4,301 m), at the northwestern edge, which overlooks Liberty Ridge, the Sunset Amphitheater, and the dramatic Willis Wall. Liberty Cap has a prominence of 492 ft (150 m), and so would qualify as a separate peak under most of strictly prominence-based rules. A prominence cutoff of 400 ft (122 m) is commonly used in Washington state.[26]
High on the eastern flank of Mount Rainier is a peak known as Little Tahoma Peak, 11,138 ft (3,395 m), an eroded remnant of the earlier, much higher, Mount Rainier. It has a prominence of 858 ft (262 m), and it is almost never climbed in direct conjunction with Columbia Crest, so it is usually considered a separate peak. If considered separately from Mt. Rainier, Little Tahoma Peak would be the third highest mountain peak in Washington.[27][28]
§Geology[edit]
Hazard map
Mount Rainier is a stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc that consists of lava flows, debris flows, and pyroclastic ejecta and flows. Its early volcanic deposits are estimated at more than 840,000 years old and are part of the Lily Formation (about 2.9 million to 840,000 years ago). The early deposits formed a "proto-Rainier" or an ancestral cone prior to the present-day cone.[29] The present cone is more than 500,000 years old.[30]
The volcano is highly eroded, with glaciers on its slopes, and appears to be made mostly of andesite. Rainier likely once stood even higher than today at about 16,000 ft (4,900 m) before a major debris avalanche and the resulting Osceola Mudflow approximately 5,000 years ago.[31] In the past, Rainier has had large debris avalanches, and has also produced enormous lahars (volcanic mudflows) due to the large amount of glacial ice present. Its lahars have reached all the way to Puget Sound, a distance of more than 30 mi (48 km). Around 5,000 years ago, a large chunk of the volcano slid away and that debris avalanche helped to produce the massive Osceola Mudflow, which went all the way to the site of present-day Tacoma and south Seattle.[32] This massive avalanche of rock and ice removed the top 1,600 ft (500 m) of Rainier, bringing its height down to around 14,100 ft (4,300 m). About 530 to 550 years ago, the Electron Mudflow occurred, although this was not as large-scale as the Osceola Mudflow.[33]
After the major collapse approximately 5,000 years ago, subsequent eruptions of lava and tephra built up the modern summit cone until about as recently as 1,000 years ago. As many as 11 Holocene tephra layers have been found.[29]
§Modern activity and the current threat[edit]
Nyiragongo
Avachinsky
Koryaksky
Mount Rainier is one of the 17 Decade Volcanoes.
The most recent recorded volcanic eruption was between 1820 and 1854, but many eyewitnesses reported eruptive activity in 1858, 1870, 1879, 1882 and 1894 as well.[34]
Although Mount Rainier is an active volcano, as of 2010[update] there was no evidence of an imminent eruption.[35] However, an eruption could be devastating for all areas surrounding the volcano.[36] Mount Rainier is currently listed as a Decade Volcano, or one of the 17 volcanoes with the greatest likelihood of causing great loss of life and property if eruptive activity resumes.[37] If Mt. Rainier were to erupt as powerfully as Mount St. Helens did in its May 18, 1980, eruption, the effect would be cumulatively greater, because of the far more massive amounts of glacial ice locked on the volcano compared to Mount St. Helens[33] and the vastly more heavily populated areas surrounding Rainier.[38] Lahars from Rainier pose the most risk to life and property,[39] as many communities lie atop older lahar deposits. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), about 150,000 people live on top of old lahar deposits of Rainier.[8] Not only is there much ice atop the volcano, the volcano is also slowly being weakened by hydrothermal activity. According to Geoff Clayton, a geologist with a Washington State Geology firm, RH2 Engineering, a repeat of the Osceola mudflow would destroy Enumclaw, Orting, Kent, Auburn, Puyallup, Sumner and all of Renton.[32] Such a mudflow might also reach down the Duwamish estuary and destroy parts of downtown Seattle, and cause tsunamis in Puget Sound and Lake Washington.[40]Rainier is also capable of producing pyroclastic flows and expelling lava.[40]
One of many emergency evacuation route signs in case of volcanic eruption or lahar around Mt. Rainier
According to K. Scott, a scientist with the USGS:
"A home built in any of the probabilistically defined inundation areas on the new maps is more likely to be damaged or destroyed by a lahar than by fire...For example, a home built in an area that would be inundated every 100 years, on the average, is 27 times more likely to be damaged or destroyed by a flow than by fire. People know the danger of fire, so they buy fire insurance and they have smoke alarms, but most people are not aware of the risks of lahars, and few have applicable flood insurance."[41]
The volcanic risk is somewhat mitigated by lahar warning sirens and escape route signs in Pierce County.[42] The more populous King County is also in the Lahar area, but currently has no zoning restrictions due to volcanic hazard.[43] More recently (since 2001) funding from the federal government for lahar protection in the area has dried up, leading local authorities in at-risk cities like Orting to fear a disaster similar to the Armero tragedy.[44][45]
§Seismic background[edit]
Typically, up to five earthquakes are recorded monthly near the summit. Swarms of five to ten shallow earthquakes over two or three days take place from time to time, predominantly in the region of 13,000 feet (4 km) below the summit. These earthquakes are thought to be caused by the circulation of hot fluids beneath Mount Rainier. Presumably, hot springs and steam vents within Mount Rainier National Park are generated by such fluids.[46] Seismic swarms (not initiated with a mainshock) are common features at volcanoes, and are rarely associated with eruptive activity. Rainier has had several such swarms; there were days-long swarms in 2002, 2004, and 2007, two of which (2002 and 2004) included M 3.2 earthquakes. A 2009 swarm produced the largest number of events of any swarm at Rainier since seismic monitoring began over two decades earlier.[47] Yet another swarm was observed in 2011.[48]
§Glaciers[edit]
Three-dimensional representation of Mount Rainier
Glaciers are among the most conspicuous and dynamic geologic features on Mount Rainier. They erode the volcanic cone and are important sources of streamflow for several rivers, including some that provide water for hydroelectric power and irrigation. Together with perennial snow patches, the 26 major glaciers cover about 36 square miles (93 km2) of the mountain's surface and have a volume of about 1 cubic mile (4.2 km3).[20][21]
Glaciers flow under the influence of gravity by the combined action of sliding over the rock on which they lie and by deformation, the gradual displacement between and within individual ice crystals. Maximum speeds occur near the surface and along the centerline of the glacier. During May 1970, Nisqually Glacier was measured moving as fast as 29 inches (74 cm) per day. Flow rates are generally greater in summer than in winter, probably due to the presence of large quantities of meltwater at the glacier base.[21]
The size of glaciers on Mount Rainier has fluctuated significantly in the past. For example, during the last ice age, from about 25,000 to about 15,000 years ago, glaciers covered most of the area now within the boundaries of Mount Rainier National Park and extended to the perimeter of the present Puget Sound Basin.[21]
Between the 14th century and 1850, many of the glaciers on Mount Rainier advanced to their farthest extent downvalley since the last ice age. Many advances of this sort occurred worldwide during this time period known to geologists as the Little Ice Age. During the Little Ice Age, the Nisqually Glacier advanced to a position 650 to 800 ft (200 to 240 m) downvalley from the site of the Glacier Bridge, Tahoma and South Tahoma Glaciers merged at the base of Glacier Island, and the terminus of Emmons Glacier reached within 1.2 mi (1.9 km) of the White River Campground.[21]
Retreat of the Little Ice Age glaciers was slow until about 1920 when retreat became more rapid. Between the height of the Little Ice Age and 1950, Mount Rainier's glaciers lost about one-quarter of their length. Beginning in 1950 and continuing through the early 1980s, however, many of the major glaciers advanced in response to relatively cooler temperatures of the mid-century. The Carbon, Cowlitz, Emmons, and Nisqually Glaciers advanced during the late 1970s and early 1980s as a result of high snowfalls during the 1960s and 1970s. Since the early-1980s, however, many glaciers have been thinning and retreating and some advances have slowed.[21]
§Human history[edit]
Artist rendering of Mount Tacoma from Commencement Bay, 1888.[49]
Viewed from the northwest (Tacoma), Liberty Cap is the apparent summit with Mowich Face below.[50]
At the time of European contact, the river valleys and other areas near the mountain were inhabited by many Pacific Northwest tribes who hunted and gathered berries in its forests and mountain meadows. These included the Nisqually, Cowlitz, Yakama, Puyallup, and Muckleshoot.
Captain George Vancouver reached Puget Sound in early May 1792 and became the first European to see the mountain.[12]
In 1833, Dr. William Fraser Tolmie explored the area looking for medicinal plants. Hazard Stevens and P. B. Van Trump received a hero's welcome in the streets of Olympia after their successful summit climb in 1870.[51][52] The first female ascent was made in 1890 by Fay Fuller, accompanied by Van Trump and three other teammates.[53]
John Muir climbed Mount Rainier in 1888, and although he enjoyed the view, he conceded that it was best appreciated from below. Muir was one of many who advocated protecting the mountain. In 1893, the area was set aside as part of the Pacific Forest Reserve in order to protect its physical/economic resources: timber and watersheds.[54]
Citing the need to also protect scenery and provide for public enjoyment, railroads and local businesses urged the creation of a national park in hopes of increased tourism. On March 2, 1899, President William McKinley established Mount Rainier National Park as America's fifth national park. Congress dedicated the new park "for the benefit and enjoyment of the people"[55] and "... for the preservation from injury or spoliation of all timber, mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or wonders within said park, and their retention in their natural condition."[56]
In 1998, the United States Geological Survey began putting together the Mount Rainier Volcano Lahar Warning System to assist in the emergency evacuation of the Puyallup River valley in the event of a catastrophic debris flow. It is now run by the Pierce County Department of Emergency Management. Tacoma, at the mouth of the Puyallup, is only 37 mi (60 km) west of Rainier, and moderately sized towns such as Puyallup and Orting are only 27 and 20 mi (43 and 32 km) away, respectively.[57]
The Washington state quarter, which was released on April 11, 2007, features Mount Rainier and a salmon.[58][59]
§Climbing and recreation[edit]
Climbers on Ingraham Glacier, above Little Tahoma
Mountain climbing on Mount Rainier is difficult, involving traversing the largest glaciers in the U.S. south of Alaska. Most climbers require two to three days to reach the summit. Climbing teams demand experience in glacier travel, self-rescue, and wilderness travel. About 8,000 to 13,000 people attempt the climb each year,[60] about 90% via routes from Camp Muir on the southeast flank.[61] Most of the rest ascend Emmons Glacier via Camp Schurman on the northeast. About half of the attempts are successful, with weather and conditioning being the most common reasons for failure. All climbers who plan to climb above high camps, Camp Muir and Camp Schurman, are required by law to purchase a Mount Rainier Climbing Pass and register for their climb.[62] Additionally, solo climbers must fill out a solo climbing request form and receive written permission from the Superintendent before attempting to climb.[63]
The worst mountaineering accident on Mount Rainier occurred in 1981, when eleven people lost their lives in an ice fall on the Ingraham Glacier.[64] This was the largest number of fatalities on Mount Rainier in a single incident since 32 people were killed in a 1946 plane crash on the South Tahoma Glacier.[65]
More recently, the mountain received media attention in 2012, as one of the park rangers lost his life when several climbers were caught in a storm while trying to ascend the mountain. While trying to help load the climbers into a rescue helicopter, the ranger lost his footing, and slid 3,700 feet (1,100 m) to his death.[66][67]
In one of the worst disasters on the mountain in over thirty years, six climbers—two guides, and four clients—last heard from on May 28, 2014, were presumed dead on May 31, 2014, when low-flying search helicopters pinged the signals from the avalanche beacons worn by the climbers. Officials concluded that there was no possible chance for survival after the climbers fell 3,300 feet while attempting or returning from the summit via the Liberty Ridge climbing route. Searchers found tents and clothes along with rock and ice strewn across a debris field on the Carbon Glacier at 9,500 ft (2,900 m), possible evidence for a slide or avalanche in the vicinity where the team went missing, though the exact cause of the accident is unknown. [68] The bodies of three of the guest climbers were spotted on August 7, 2014, during a training flight and subsequently recovered on August 19, 2014. The bodies of the fourth guest climber and two guides have not been located.[69][70]
About two mountaineering deaths each year occur because of rock and ice fall, avalanche, falls, and hypothermia associated with severe weather (58 reported since and including the 1981 accident through 2010 per American Alpine Club Accidents in North American Mountaineering and the NPS).
Hiking, backcountry skiing, photography, and camping are popular in the park. Hiking trails, including the Wonderland Trail—a 93-mile or 150-kilometre circumnavigation of the peak—provide access to the backcountry. Mount Rainier is also popular for winter sports, including snowshoeing and cross-country skiing.[71]
§Climate[edit]
[hide]Climate data for Mount Rainier (14,411 feet)
(−13) 18.9
(−7.2)
(−19) 4.9
Source: [72]
§Gallery[edit]
§See also[edit]
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Bailey Willis, USGS geological engineer, played a key role in getting Mount Rainier designated as a national park, Willis Wall is named after him.[73]
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§External links[edit]
Mount Rainier National Park (also used as a reference)
"Mount Rainier Volcano Lahar Warning System". Volcano Hazards Program. United States Geological Survey. Archived from the original on 2008-01-19. Retrieved 2008-10-30.
Mt. Rainier Eruption Task Force (pdf)
Mount Rainier stream drainage
Mount Rainier Trail Descriptions
"Mount Rainier". SummitPost.org. Retrieved 2011-05-07.
Mount Rainier National Park at DMOZ
Doughton, Sandi (2014-09-26), "Under Rainier’s crater, a natural laboratory like no other", The Seattle Times : contains images and videos of the summit caves
University of Washington Libraries, Digital Collections:
Lawrence Denny Lindsley Photographs, Landscape and nature photography of Lawrence Denny Lindsley, including photographs of scenes around Mount Rainier.
The Mountaineers Collection, Photographic albums and text documenting the Mountaineers official annual outings undertaken by club members from 1907–1951, includes 3 Mt. Rainier albums (ca. 1912, 1919, 1924).
Henry M. Sarvant Photographs, photographs by Henry Mason Sarvant depicting his climbing expeditions to Mt. Rainier and scenes of the vicinity from 1892-1912.
Alvin H. Waite Photographs Photographs of Mt. Rainier by Alvin H. Waite, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Yes, my child. We have had GREAT Presidents and Teddy Bears.
Yes, child.
We have had great Presidents.
He was the only man to win the top prize for peace and war – the only president ever to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. And he won the Nobel Peace Prize. At 43 he became the youngest President in the Nation’s history, becoming the 26th President of the United States at the age of 42 – in office from 1901 to 1909.
He jump-started the conservation movement, and was the first voice of reform in American politics. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa due to his outstanding grades, he was appointed Police Commissioner in New York and began to drive out corruption there with his usual fearlessness. President McKinley then appointed him as Secretary of the Navy. Later, he was elected Governor of New York in 1899. He worked very hard to make the Panama Canal a reality and obtained the Pure Food Act in 1906, regulating the food industry. He attacked corruption ruthlessly.
By the way, I found it interesting to discover that Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for bringing about a peace conference in September 1905 between warring Russia and Japan. Later, Franklin Roosevelt, his Fifth cousin (same family), would be notable for getting a commitment from the leader of Russia (then the U.S.S.R.) to Enter a war (WWII) against Japan (same countries), after Germany’s impending surrender. Theodore was a Republican, Franklin a Democrat. You cannot make this stuff up. History is always fascinating and, like politics, truly strange territory indeed.
Franklin Roosevelt proved to be another of our great Presidents. You would not believe the problems he had to deal with – a world wide great depression and a world war, and all while having to cope with the deadly disease of Polio. Do you know why he is Honored with his image on the United States coin – the dime? Because of his crusade to defeat polio and the “March of Dimes” campaign to raise funds to fight this horrible disease!
The Teddy Bear, so beloved of children everywhere, was named for Theodore Roosevelt, after he refused to shoot a defenseless small cub black bear on a hunting trip. Yes, the Teddy Bear was invented in honor of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was an outdoors man and a hunter, but also loved animals. In 1902, President Roosevelt legendarily spared this life and prompted a plush toy craze for so-called “teddy bears.”
Yes, I am the proud owner of one. It was given to me by my Mother at the tender age of six. No, you may not borrow him. He is in almost as fragile a condition as his owner. And you may not borrow me either. I have napping to do. After all, we are almost the same age. And what he represents possesses far more wisdom than I can imagine having. By the way, his ears are totally worn out from being dragged around on the floor – by his ears. I simply must stop doing that. The students say it is embarrassing behavior (like they never embarrass anyone with their behavior). I blame “Teddy” Roosevelt for all the abuse.
And I blame my “Teddy Bear” for acquiring a major in political science. I must admit that my professors never accepted my eccentric behavior or that of “Teddy”, my bear. I think he also majored in political science. Why not? I told the other students he was a Baylor Bear. You would be shocked at what he got by with, claiming to be the school mascot. And, I believe he learned far more than me. His transcript may appear blank, like his stares. But he charmed all the teachers and students and got by with frequent naps, while I had to take copious notes. Next time around, I am wearing a fur coat and cuddling with everyone. One is never too old to learn!
Why let the bears have all the fun? By the way, convincing the wife to dress like this – was difficult!
President Theodore Roosevelt became the Father of Conservation. As president, he created five national parks – America’s best idea – which doubled the previously existing number and signed the landmark Antiquities Act. What he did was to preserve and protect the environment and wildlife of the United States. He was dedicated to preserving the country’s natural beauty. He created the Grand Canyon Game Preserve by proclamation in 1906 and the Grand Canyon National Monument in 1908.
“There can be no greater issue
than that of conservation in this country.”
– Confession of Faith Speech, August 6, 1912
Yes, my child. We have had truly great Presidents,
and adorable Teddy Bears!
A 1902 cartoon in the Washington Post was the inspiration behind the birth of the “Teddy Bear.”
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FILM: Online and Off No One Sees Your Face October 3, 2009
Tags: Film, independent film, new media
ORIGINAL at SpliceToday.
Please excuse the following nerdy statement: I care about how artists represent online video. This is something you need to know to understand why Afterschool, an independent film out in limited release on Oct. 2, is one I respect but do not love.
Afterschool, the debut feature of Antonio Campos that premiered at Cannes last year, tells the story of Rob, a lonely student at a prestigious high school who, in a turn of bad luck, witnesses the death of two popular girls at his school. He captures the incident on film, and then he is tasked with filming and editing a memorial video of the two girls.
Rob is unpopular and spends his time watching YouTube and other online videos, most of them concerning violence and sex. While Afterschool is a coming-of-age story, and a somewhat bleak one at that, it is also a film about our current media moment.
“It feels like YouTube has been around forever and will always be around,” Campos said in an interview with The New York Times.
That’s the setup, now the film. (more…)
ONLINE VIDEO: Where and How to Publish Your Videos, Web Series September 29, 2009
Tags: comedy, new media, vlogging, web series, youtube
UPDATE: For the full interview, click here.
I had an email interview with Benny and Rafi Fine recently, the pair that makes up the Fine Brothers, the duo of producers making some of the most popular viral videos on the net, along with a couple of web series. They’re razor-smart, and I hope to quote extensively from our interview in future articles, but I wanted to pull out an interesting statement from Rafi that I think is useful for producers starting out in the space. It’s about where to publish your videos and knowing which websites are good for specific kinds of videos. The Fine brothers publish everywhere: YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Atom, iTunes, FunnyorDie, Break. This is in part because they do all kinds of videos; so take the advice with a grain of salt: they’re more versatile than your average producer, so they publish more places.
Rafi: YouTube is of course the bread and butter of everything online. No other site gives any ad money to independent producers on that scale, and no other site gets us steady views like YouTube (thanks to their subscriber system which over time has stood out as the best). That said, the other sites have their specific merits… whether it’s the million views you can get in a day or 2 if Break puts you on the homepage, to the more traditional media cred Funny Or Die gives you.
It all depends on what ones goals are online really, and changes month to month on which websites can help you achieve those goals. That said, YouTube should be the base of operations since it has stood out as the only place other than iTunes that can generate a reliable fanbase that will always come back for more.
Not all producers have found success on YouTube, of course. I got an email the other from a web series creator whose YouTube videos have not taken off in the same way. The Fine Brothers probably do well on the ‘Tube because they’re really funny. Their videos go viral, because people like to share them. They’ve used the visibility from YouTube to build a fanbase and support their other activities — like their Atom project MyProfileStory, which, despite being of one the more creative web series ideas, did not go past the pilot, though Benny tells me it’s not over quite yet: “It was a huge success though and we have several companies interested in the series.” So there’s still hope!
Although they are still invested in the future of web video, the Fine brothers told me they are taking meetings with traditional TV companies; it’d be great to see the aesthetics of web humor make it onto the TV screen (aside from the activity already happening in web video, like YouTube on AppleTV and the Koldcast/TiVO deal, noteworthy developments on their own from the past few years).
If you haven’t seen them yet, here’s one of their latest viral vids, part of their “spoilers” series, which apparently they shoot in one take (looks like it to me)! I can’t imagine how hard it is to memorize all these lines, and then say them so fast — though I guess Michael Buckley knows something about that.
For more of the interview you’ll have to stay tuned and watch for them in other publications!
ONLINE VIDEO: A New Kid Delivers Mad Men Parody “Ma Men” September 16, 2009
Tags: comedy, Digital Culture, new media, online video, web series
(Click the photo above for video!)
The level of humor here is pretty base: the Boston accent is funny. But, hey, it is funny!
Bloggers are already raving about New Kids on the Block’s Joey McIntyre’s spoof Ma Men — although it really has little to do with the original. The 36-year old McIntyre is a Massachusetts native, hailing from Needham and Jamaica Plain, both outside Boston.
It looks pretty clear Budweiser sponsored this and that’s okay. Perhaps if it becomes sufficiently popular (70,000 views on FunnyOrDie in 24 hours isn’t half bad), it’ll become a web series. There are enough Mad Men fans to pull in an initial audience, and the fact that it’s hilarious will keep them coming! Could this be one of the next hit web series? Will it go viral? Time will tell!
TV: “Adam On The Road” and Other Web Series July 10, 2009
Tags: Digital Culture, new media, TV, vlogging, web series, youtube
You’re forgiven if you don’t watch any made-for-Internet television — also known as: web series, webisodes, web shows, or web originals; they’re still working on the name. Most people don’t. Ever since Lonelygirl15, the faux-vlog on YouTube turned ridiculously over-the-top web series, debuted three years ago, the web show has been consistently on the rise but never reaching a breaking point. Sure, there have been breakouts, most notably Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, the Neil Patrick Harris starrer recently honored with a few Streamys — a web series Webby — and now available on Hulu, and of course there is YouTube’s Fred, perhaps the most obviously popular (with 12 year-olds). But nothing has broken through the culture in a huge way. Not that celebrities aren’t trying.
More at Ronebreak…
YOUTUBE: Music Video Remakes: Fair Use (!) and History June 11, 2009
Tags: fame, fans, hollywood, meme, new media, online video, youtube
So the following post is a truncated version of a paper I’ve written and plan to submit to conferences and publications soon. For an unrevised draft of the paper, click here. For a playful YouTube video I made on this topic, click here.
Katy Perry's I Kissed a Girl"
Venetian Princess' parody of "I Kissed a Girl"
For non-academics and makers of YouTube and other online video the headline for this post should read: Music Video Remakes = Fair Use! Though this isn’t the main point of my essay, it’s obviously the most relevant and practical. My basic fair use argument is this: using the most important part of Pierre Leval’s “four factors” and jettisoning the rest, music video remakes are almost always fair use because they necessarily “transform” the original work they mimic. Why? Because corporate music videos (the originals) are promotional tools for celebrities and music. Nearly all remakes either change, replace or remix the celebrity or the music in a video, thereby transforming fundamentally the original purpose of the music video and creating something new and interesting!
There are other ways to justify the fair use of the many other videos that appear on YouTube. The best of these remedies is Peter Jaszi and Pat Aufderheide’s “Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video,” a clear and brilliant set of guidelines to assure users they are not criminals — it also provides a useful defense for users when they receive a takedown notice from YouTube or another portal. There are only six categories, so it’s worth a look-over. I was surprised how many YouTube users obey the takedown notice without protest; there is a knowledge gap between copyright holders (mostly corporations, but some small producers) and YouTube users. Many users are simply unaware of the fair use defense, and if they are, they are not skilled enough to make a convincing one.
The bulk of the paper examines the history of the music video and shows how, from it’s inception, the video was all about challenging coherent narratives, dominant representations and authorship itself, or at least that’s how scholars interpreted it. Music videos were inherently participatory, sites of fandom; people sang and acted out the videos in their homes. I use this framework to suggest the video remake follows in the music video tradition of challenging dominant narratives, encouraging fandom and viewer participation.
A remake should not have to be a parody to be fair use; it shouldn’t even have to critique the original, which courts have seen as the clearest fair use defense. Many of the remakes are simply homages, and my framework allows for derivative works that don’t critique but instead extend or reinvent the original. Transformativeness should be interpreted as broadly as possible. Just because Weird Al Yankovic asks (and pays) for consent because he needs the industry’s approval to survive, doesn’t mean that model is appropriate for the user who simply wants to remix to demonstrate skill, or his/her love or disdain of the original!
This is a very clear extension of James Boyle (The Public Domain) and Lawrence Lessig’s (Free Culture) argument that culture belongs to everyone, that it is public, and that no one can make anything that is wholly original. As Henry Jenkins argued quite a long time ago, we all make culture from existing (often mainstream and corporate) culture.
So make remakes and prosper! If YouTube sends you a takedown notice, call me.
Britney Houston's "Lipgloss." Houston told me: “If I didn’t like a video I wouldn’t do it…I do it because I like the artist…I’m a big fan of all those people, and people know who they are.”
Lil' Mama's original "Lipgloss"
THESIS (for those who care):
For a genre most recognizable by the antics of Weird Al Yankovic, who inaugurated the form over twenty-five years ago soon after MTV inaugurated the music video, the moderate popularity of music video remakes on YouTube marks a hallmark in the evolution of several historical trajectories, including that of music video itself, the increasingly public nature of fandom, the desire for fame among young people raised on the Internet (“millennials”), the power of digital technology to democratize cultural production, the growing cultural power of remixing, sampling and mash-ups, and the persistence, perhaps the evolution, of postmodern aesthetics. In all, these cultural artifacts on YouTube fundamentally question cultural ownership at a time when digital technology is forcing corporations and legal institutions to continually rethink copyright, fair use and how to ensure the progress of the sciences and the arts, a Constitutional imperative, while honoring rich cultural histories and modes of production of users. All of these currents run through the genre of music video remakes, marking them as a historically significant development in media history.
This paper proposes answers to the dilemma of cultural ownership in the digital age – copyright – through a theoretical and historical lens. First I will place the remakes in the context of music video history and then differentiate them from forms of production that have arisen since, including remixing, sampling and mash-ups. I will then discuss the cultural significance of music video remakes, i.e. what they say about this contemporary moment. Next I will discuss why individuals engage in such activities and offer a way to categorize their videos. In compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, YouTube takes down videos accused of violating copyright, so I will proceed by discussing some of the consequences of this policy on the remakes. Finally I will attempt a fair use argument using the examples of Britney Houston’s “Lipgloss” and a few others as a way incorporate the history and meanings of this form into actionable policy and practice; I argue that nearly all music video remakes inherently transform their source material by remaking and reimagining the corporate image, providing a legal justification for this form of media production predicated on pastiche, sharing and multiple interpretations.
Once again, full paper here.
FIRST ENCOUNTER: Bakhtin and the Carnivalesque April 25, 2008
Tags: bakhtin, first encounter, new media
So last night after an exhausting day — 4 hours of class, a presentation, preparing to teach today, starting a paper on realism — I came home in the mood for reading. I selected a random essay in the Cultural Theory and Popular Culture reader, and I’m so glad I did! Here is my take on my first reading of Mikhail Bakhtin’s “Carnival and the Carnivalesque:”
My favorite quote comes early, it’s what woke me up last night:
“Carnival is a pageant without footlights and without a division into performers and spectactors. In carnival everyone is an active participant, everyone communes in the carnival act. Carnival is not contemplated, and, strictly speaking, not even performed; its participants live in it, they live by its laws as long as those laws are in effect; that is, they live a carnivalesque life.”
Bakhtin goes on to discuss how the carnival — primarily a Renaissance phenomenon — opened up a space where social distinctions become blurred, hierarchies suspended, free contact between people became possible, and parody allowed for open critique, “an entire system of crooked mirrors elongating, diminishing, distorting in various directions and to various degrees.”
There’s a lot more there, but I want to focus on these concepts. I know there is tendency to take Bakhtin and run with him in all sorts of direction, but I cannot help but think of parallels to the current new media environment — and perhaps a large part of contemporary youth subculture.
Let me break it down.
There’s been this fantasy in new media studies that the Internet collapses boundaries and distinctions. We can think of the now infamous 1997 MCI commercial made famous by Lisa Nakamura: “there is no race.” “there is no gender” “there are no disabilities” online. It seems foolish now, but perhaps we can salvage the thrust behind the campaign.
I’m studying the performance of camp on YouTube right now, and, despite the prevalence of homophobia, one of the interesting things I notice is the amount of “normalcy” the performers confer to their vlogging. On YouTube, they just “are.” (“I’m just being me,” I hear often.) There is a sense of marginality, but it’s usually discussed as if it’s something that only gives the performers more agency, not less.
There are so many “weird” people on YouTube that hierarchical distinctions from the “real world” matter a bit less. It isn’t MCI’s utopia (or Cisco’s “Human Network” or the Washington Post’s “OnBeing”) but it’s this sense of finding a place for oneself in democracy’s individualist, neoliberal framework, in ways that begin to transform the definitions — individual, citizen, male, female — themselves.
Bakhtin, a favorite of postmodernists, talked a bit of “disruption” in the carnival. But perhaps we can see the new media carnival not as “disruptive” per se, but progressive and inclusive instead. A colleague of mine, C. Riley Snorton, talks about the “radical politics of hope” (before Obama, mind you), and while he’s never explained this to me in detail, I suspect this is somehow related. In other words, rather than lament the system, decry “power,” people online are finding ways of articulating their own kind of power, in ways that seek to remake the “system” from within, in ways that blur the lines between performers (agents) and spectators (subjects). (Think: can there be anything more neoliberal than YouTube?)
Perhaps I’ll write more on this later. This was just my stream-of-consciousness thoughts on my first reading of Bakhtin.
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4-H Canada Announces 24 Youth Service Leaders as Part of the Hands to Larger Service Program
Ottawa, Ontario – May 22, 2018 – 4-H Canada is very proud to introduce the 24 Youth Service Leaders who will be leading 4-H clubs across the country in creating innovative service projects as part of the Hands to Larger Service Program. The program is funded by the federal government as part of the Canada Service Corps, an initiative that focuses on community service by young Canadians.
Platinum, Gold and Bronze for 4-H Members at Canada-Wide Science Fair
Ottawa, Ontario – May 18, 2018 – 4-H Canada is ecstatic to announce that five 4-H members were medal-winners at the Canada-Wide Science Fair held in Ottawa, Ontario this week.
Mac Dykeman from B.C. took home top honours in the Junior category, earning a gold medal and platinum award for her project “Safer Chick-ments: An innovative solution to reducing stress in chick shipments.”
4-H Canada to Send Five 4-H’ers to Canada-Wide Science Fair
Ottawa, Ontario – March 13, 2018 – 4-H Canada is thrilled to announce the winners of our third annual 4-H Canada Science Fair, recently selected by a panel of 12 judges at the annual event in Truro, Nova Scotia. The five winners will move on to the Canada-Wide Science Fair taking place in Ottawa, Ontario from May 12‒19, 2018.
Former 4-H Canada President Rob Black Named Senator
Ottawa, ON – February 16, 2018 – The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada announced yesterday that Governor General Julie Payette appointed Robert Black, 4-H alumnus and former 4-H Canada president, board member, and staff member at the national level, to a seat in the Senate of Canada.
4-H Canada to Honour Outstanding Volunteer Leaders at Prestigious 2018 4-H Leadership Awards
Ottawa, ON – February 2, 2018 – 4-H Canada is pleased to recognize and honour its exceptional volunteer leaders and the recipient of the 2017 4-H Canada National Volunteer of the Year Award, Ms. Norma Ansloos. This year these outstanding volunteer leaders will be celebrated at the 2018 4-H Canada Leadership Awards happening in Ottawa on February 8, 2018.
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30 Years Ago: ‘Tales From the Crypt’ Debuts Uncensored TV Terror
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Noted character actor William Sadler's career caught fire with the grisly, groundbreaking June 10, 1989, premiere of Tales From the Crypt. But it almost didn't happen.
The first episode of the HBO series, which featured Sadler in a segment titled "The Man Who Was Death," was based on a story written by DC comic legend Gardner Fox in the May 1950 issue of the controversial Tales From the Crypt comic books.
Famed filmmaker Walter Hill and screenwriter Robert Reneau adapted the script, as the Tales team got HBO to sign on for six episodes of the show with the help of producers Richard Donner, David Giler, Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis.
On deck to direct "The Man Who Was Death," Hill chose Sadler to star as Niles Talbot, but he was not the casting department's first choice for the role. Instead, they were hoping an established actor with better name recognition would take on the part, such as Christopher Walken or John Malkovich.
In fact, Sadler first auditioned for a bit part at the conclusion of the episode as a police officer with essentially one line. Then Karen Rea, the show's infinitely wise casting director, had a moment of inspiration.
"They were looking for a name. I said ‘Oh, okay’ and left," Sadler told Hollywood News in 2015. "I got halfway across the parking lot and she yelled out of the window, ‘Bill, come back.’ She gave me the sides for Talbot; she said ‘Come back on Monday, grease your hair, black out your teeth or something because you’re too pretty. We’ll put you on tape and see what they say.’ I came back in, I put myself on tape, Walter Hill saw it and said 'He's great; he should play this role.'"
"The Man Who Was Death" unfolds in a slow and methodical way, as we meet a state executioner who philosophically believes he is doing the Lord's work through his daily life. Some film buffs interpreted the character's name as a nod to Larry Talbot, the character played by Lon Chaney Jr. in 1941's The Wolfman. Niles certainly strikes a tragic figure, though not in the sense of the forlorn and unwilling Wolfman. Instead, Niles has a terrifying God complex.
Listen to Ray Cooder's Theme for 'The Man Who Was Death'
The scene is set early on as Talbot calmly discusses details surrounding the imminent execution of fictional death-row inmate Charley Ledbetter, while Ledbetter pleads for his life as he is dragged away to the electric chair. This is a man who clearly loves his work.
In addition to filming a script about someone he said was a "twisted human being," "The Man Who Was Death" also gave Hill an opportunity to experiment with the form. "I wanted the character to talk to the camera," the director said in Tales From The Crypt: The Official Archives. "It's an old technique that I'd seen many times when I was a kid."
Unfortunately for Talbot, the unidentified state where he works has voted to rescind the death penalty, and Talbot finds himself out of a job. As he bitterly reflects on the decision, Talbot rages that the "whole world has gone to hell." He's pissed off at computers, corporations and lawyers, as well, but decides to focus his energies on carrying out his own non-state approved executions with the help of his muse, electricity.
In keeping with the source material – William Gaines and Al Feldstein created the violent original comic book series – the HBO show was a no-holds-barred affair. Back then, producers were not obligated to censor the show's content to meet modern decency standards now outlined by the FCC. That meant guts, sex, gore and R-rated language got the green light.
"This would never be a movie – the material is too thin – and it would never be on network TV because it's too strong," Hill told the Los Angeles Times in 1989. "If it was ever going to be done, this is the only way."
That played out from the first, as Talbot discovers he's not as qualified as he thought to serve as judge, jury and executioner. He's apprehended in the act, and Talbot's life comes full circle in the worst possible way. The conclusion of the episode requires you to forget that his is the same state which had previously banned executions, but that doesn't prevent Talbot from meeting his maker by way of the device he once championed, the electric chair.
Watch as Niles Talbot is Apprehended in 'Tales From the Crypt'
In this grim way, the debut edition of Tales From the Crypt set viewer expectations for the entire series – in terms of content, tone and edgy directorial approach. "The Man Who Was Death" notably featured the premiere of the Crypt Keeper, the decaying host operated by puppeteer Van Snowden. Memorably voiced by actor John Kassir, the Crypt Keeper introduced the episodes, often with a ghoulishly funny pun.
"The Crypt Keeper is that ride up to the top of the peak before the roller coaster drops you down," Kassir told the Observer in 2016. "Whether the roller coaster ride was the best you’d ever been on, or pretty good, or it sucked, the anticipation of going up is always amazing. It’s the anticipation of it. It’s the fun, giggly part. No matter what the other part is, the fun part makes it okay for you to be doing this. The Crypt Keeper did that."
This was also the initial showcase for Danny Elfman's Tales From the Crypt theme song, as viewers descended to the CryptKeeper's dungeon lair. Along the way, music would play an integral part in the series, and contributors during the show's run included Jan Hammer and James Horner (of Titanic and Avatar fame) and Ry Cooder, the storied session musician and slide-guitar whiz who provided the soundtrack for Niles Talbot's dark story of non-redemption. Big Screen Records released a soundtrack for the series during the fourth season that included Cooder's moody "A Man Who Was Death" theme. (He borrowed from Link Wray's 1958 classic "Rumble," which later found a home in Pulp Fiction.)
Hill went on to oversee a string of well-received Crypt segments, often with a roughly similar theme. "I mean, these are nasty people, caught in a nasty situation, that out of the experience are somewhat chastened and wiser for it," Hill told Film Comment in 2017. "Assuming they survive — not all survive! Which was certainly out of the old EC Comics."
Tales From the Crypt had grown to 93 episodes by the time it ceased production in July 1996. Numerous spin-offs and films followed, then a comprehensive box set of the original HBO production called Tales From the Crypt: The Complete Series was released in 2017. At that point, a previously announced reboot from M. Night Shyamalan appeared to be as "dead as the Crypt Keeper." He'd earlier issued a promising teaser for the project, but reportedly had trouble securing other ownership rights associated with the show.
Meanwhile, Sadler subsequently collaborated with Joel Silver on 1990's Die Hard 2, and Hill again on 1992's Trepass. Tales From the Crypt writer Frank Darabont picked Sadler for the cast of 1994's Shawshank Reception. "He would later go on to work with me in The Green Mile and The Mist, as well," Sadler told Coming Soon in 2015. "I can't count the roles that have happened since then as a result of that one episode of Tales From the Crypt. So yes, that one audition for Karen Rea and her willingness to give me a chance at the lead was a moment that changed the trajectory of things for me."
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Russia May Ban Cigarettes For Everyone Born After 2015
Oleg Nikishin/Getty ImagesA young girl smokes a cigarette at the Griboedov Channel in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Russia’s Ministry of Health has confirmed that a plan to ban the sale of cigarettes to anyone born after 2015 is now circulating the halls of the Russian government, and receiving a positive reception.
The plan, first reported by Russian news site Izvestia, would make Russia the only country in the world to take such a severe anti-tobacco position, a surprising reversal from the country’s policies over the past century.
Despite a few countrywide campaigns during the Soviet era, the Russian government has long been tolerant of tobacco with almost no regulation until restrictions on smoking in public spaces were introduced in 2013.
Now, the new ban is already receiving significant support from crucial politicians, such as Nikolai Gerasimenko, a member of the Russian parliament’s health committee. He told The Times that “This goal is absolutely ideologically correct.”
However, the potential ban has encountered some opposition as well.
For one, there are doubts that police will actually be able to enforce such a ban, and even the ban’s advocates have voiced concerns that the black market could step in with fake tobacco to satisfy demand.
However, even though fake tobacco would be worse for public health, Marina Gambaryan, an expert at the Health Ministry, has hope for the ban.
“By 2033 [the year the ban would take effect], the ban on the sale of tobacco products to people born after 2014 [sic] will not seem an extreme measure, but an entirely logical development of events,” Gambaryan told Russian news agency Tass, according to TIME.
But if the country is serious about the ban, Russia has serious work ahead of them, with a Kremlin spokesman noting that implementing the idea would require serious consideration and consultation with other ministries.
Furthermore, the country has one of the highest smoking rates in the world — 40 percent of its population in 2015 — and Russians can purchase cigarettes packs for less than one dollar. Overall, the country’s tobacco market is estimated to be worth more than $22 billion.
Thankfully, Russia has made steady progress in cutting that smoking rate down. Tass reported that in 2016, the number of smokers nationwide fell by 10 percent, bottoming out at 31 percent.
The figure marks Russia’s lowest smoking rate in decades. Now, some officials are hoping that this unprecedented new ban can push that number lower still.
Next, find out how vodka shaped the course of Russian history, before checking out some vintage cigarette ads that now look hilariously, tragically absurd.
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MAELGWN GWYNEDD (died c. 547) king of Gwynedd and monk
Name: Maelgwn Gwynedd
Date of death: c. 547
Child: Rhun ap Maelgwn Gwynedd
Parent: Cadwallon Lawhir ap Einion Yrth
Occupation: king of Gwynedd and monk
Area of activity: Politics, Government and Political Movements; Religion; Royalty and Society
Author: William Hopkin Davies
Son of Cadwallon Lawhir and great-grandson of Cunedda Wledig, he ruled over Venedotia (Gwynedd) in the second quarter of the 6th century. His kingdom seems to have comprised most of north-west Wales, including Anglesey, while tradition credits him with a favourite stronghold at Degannwy on the Creuddyn peninsula. As a fifth and last ruler arraigned by Gildas for his misdeeds, he is addressed as ‘Maglocunus, the island dragon,’ a martial prince who has overthrown many other rulers. Tall of stature (cf. his sobriquet ‘Maelgwn Hir,’ ‘Maelgwn the Tall’) and excelling most contemporary princes in power, he was an able military leader, impetuous and generous by nature, but given to many failings and deeds of violence. In his early years he overthrew his maternal uncle, whose identity is unknown, but not long afterwards gave up all his royal power and dignity and entered a monastery as a monk. It was now or earlier that, as Gildas tells us, he listened to the instruction of ‘the accomplished teacher of almost the whole of Britannia,’ a teacher generally identified as the celebrated Illtud, the site of whose monastery has been assigned either to Llantwit Major in south Glamorgan or to Caldey Island off the coast of Pembrokeshire. Maelgwn, however, soon found the monastic life unbearable, broke his vow, and returned to his former regal position. It is during this subsequent period that Gildas and Welsh tradition agree in portraying him as opposed to the ‘Saints,’ i.e. monachism, and the perpetrator of evil deeds, among them the murder of his wife and of his nephew, whose widow he then married. The same traditions, however, hint at later repentance and the bestowal of many privileges upon various religious centres. In the reference of Gildas to Maelgwn's own praises resounding on the lips of ‘ranting’ minstrels, we may detect a possible allusion to his court bards and his patronage of native song. A strong and able, though wayward ruler, who, according to an old Welsh saying, fell upon his ‘long sleep in the court of Rhos.’ He died in a widespread plague) c. 547.
Professor William Hopkin Davies, Aberystwyth
Gildae De excidio Britanniae fragmenta, Liber de paenitentia, accedit et Lorica Gildae / Gildas The ruin of Britain, fragments from lost letters, The penitential, together with the Lorica of Gildas (ed. H. Williams), 1899, 76-86;
A History of Wales: from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest (London 1912), 128-31.
Wikipedia Article: Maelgwn Gwynedd
Wikidata: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q886399
Davies, W. H., (1959). MAELGWN GWYNEDD (died c. 547) king of Gwynedd and monk. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 18 Jul 2019, from https://biography.wales/article/s-MAEL-GWY-0547
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Scott Wilson – Lars von Trier and the Fear of Philosophy
Lecture Theatre E002, Granary Building,
Central Saint Martins,
London N1C 4AA
The Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) and the London Graduate School in collaboration with Art and Philosophy at Central Saint Martins present:
Professor Scott Wilson (Kingston) – Lars von Trier and the Fear of Philosophy
‘Let us recognise the subject’s efficacy in the gnomon he erects, a gnomon that constantly indicates truth’s site to him.’ Lacan, Ecrits.
This is a paper about the creativity of fear in film and philosophy, focussing on Lars von Trier and Gilles Deleuze. The former is a film maker who has a long history of psychotherapy and psychoanalytic treatment for phobic anxiety which he has used both critically and creatively as material for his films. The latter, we discover from his biographer Francoise Dosse, had a phobia for both milk products and schizophrenics. In this paper, the understanding of phobia developed in the cinema of von Trier will be deployed in order to disclose the link between a fear of milk and the figure of the schizophrenic and offer a different way of understanding the dynamic genesis of Deleuze’s philosophy, particularly his logic of sense. Neither exactly a structure nor a symptom, phobia is a problematic category in psychoanalysis. Here, psychoanalytic, schizoanalytic and neuroscientific accounts of phobia are discussed by way of elaborating a ‘gnomonology’ that articulates a critical and clinical understanding of cultural production, particularly in its engagements with scientific discourse.
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Long Beach’s People’s State of the City Urge City Council to Support Their Issues
Crowd on the ground level at People’s State of the City, April 5; Photo by Barry Saks
Hundreds of people sat in the pews on the ground level and in the balcony of the First Congregation Church in downtown Long Beach in the evening of Wednesday, April 4, to hear and see speakers, videos and dramatizations regarding issues Long Beach residents face and confront, such as police killings of young men of color, gentrification, ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids, struggles by hotel workers and port drivers, and struggles around education by students and parents.
The press release for the event said Long Beach Rising organized the event and characterized Long Beach Rising as a coalition of organizations focused on promoting civic participation, voter engagement, and organizing among communities historically marginalized from the political process.
Staged potest, April 5, at State of City; Photo by Barry Saks
The evening program began with about 20 young people marching in a circle in front of the audience chanting are carrying signs, as if they were at a protest. While they aimed some of their anger toward the President by chanting “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Donald Trump has got to go,” they included two other chants, one indicating their solidarity with “Black Lives Matter” and another indicating their solidarity with women’s reproductive freedom.
Some of the young people spoke individually. While one referred to Hillary Clinton and said she would have a better president the Trump, others raised the need for people who are new to activism to continue. They ended with the chant, “The people United will never be divided.”
Emcees Victor Espinoza and Yunique. on April 5, at People’s State of the City; Photo by Barry Saks
The emcees were Yunique Pettigrew and Victor Espinoza. They introduced the Rev. Elena Larssen, the Senior Minister of the First Congregation Church. The Reverend welcomed everybody.
A video was next shown, which started with a quoting the Mayor Robert Garcia, where he said he would defend the rights of the people of Long Beach. It then highlighted the efforts to get the City Council to address sexual harassment of hotel workers by passing Claudia’s Law and to create affordable housing, and to spend more money on youth programs; it also highlighted the marches of Black Lives Matter regarding police killings and the organizing efforts of port drivers.
Amber-Rose Howard and Maria Lopez, April 5, at People’s State of the City; Photo by Barry Saks
Amber-Rose Howard presented the People’s State of the City. Howard said that she grew up in Pomona in a poor Black and Brown community and was a focused student. By the time, she was a high school senior, she said, she had lost her mother and sister, and a month after her eighteenth birthday she was in prison for committing a felony. After being released, she said she was determined to succeed. She worked 40 hours a week, went to school fulltime and stayed connected with her community. She said even after doing everything right, she still continued to face barriers and realized that she had to dedicate her life for people’s rights and for fighting for social justice. She said her father worked hard and sacrificed himself for his family, but like her faced the same systematic barriers.
She said while some people get ahead, most don’t because of systemic barriers—like low paying jobs, poor housing, toxic air, abuse and discrimination that prevents them from succeeding. Howard said what makes tonight exciting is we’re moving into action to change the odds for everyone. She pointed out a couple of the local victories—getting the minimum wage raised to $15 per hour and getting the City Council to allocate $700,000 to fight wage theft. Howard said, “Tonight we renew that call to our City Council and ask them to stand up for working families.”
She, then, highlighted the need for safe and affordable housing, and the need for renter protections. She talked about the polluted drinking water in west Long Beach and the expansion of Tesoro Refinery, as examples of environmental racism. She said that we stand in solidarity with Don’t Waste Long Beach and reiterated the need for the City Council to pass Claudia’s Law.
Howard brought attention to activity in the Long Beach Unified School District, such as the youth-led “Every Student Matters” campaigns led by Khmer Girls in Acton and the legal-struggle by parents represented by the Uniform Complaint Procedure. Then she introduced Maria Lopez. They left for the audience to see and hear two dramatizations between a parent and a child. One dealt with police killings of young black men. The second dealt with the fear of deportations immigrants face.
Howard and Lopez returned and in response to the dramatizations, Lopez spoke. She said, “Communities like ours have been oppressed for trying to unite and fight against racism, sexism and capitalism….Unity is the only thing that will lead us toward a true sanctuary, a sanctuary where families don’t get deported, where I don’t worry about my black brothers and sisters being killed, and where all workers are treated with dignity and respect.”
Before the evening’s program, a community fair was held, where about 30 local organizations with their volunteers had set up informational tables to engage community members.
One volunteer was Annika Swenson, 28, standing behind a table for Long Beach 350, which according to a flyer is a group of residents “with a passion for climate justice table.” Swenson said she lives in the northeast of Long Beach, near Lakewood. She said she has been with Long Beach 350 about four months and that she has volunteered in the past to do beach cleanups and trash collections. Swenson said, “I think events like this are important because they bring a pretty-wide variety of groups together and so that we can learn about other people’s interests and things they care about and learn how we can collaborate together.”
Another person who had volunteered to be at the table for Long Beach 350 was Sean Kearns, 29. Kearns said he lived in Long Beach from 2009 to 2011, but now lives in Redondo Beach and studies Political Science at Cal State University Long Beach (CSULB). Kearns said it was his first time at the Peoples State of the City and was interested in Housing Justice and Environmental Justice. He said he had previously volunteered his time with Housing Beach and East Yards Communities for Environmental Justice (EYCEJ).
Taylor Thomas of East Yards Communities for Environmental Justice Outside at the Community Fair, April 5, before People’s State of the City; Photo by Barry Saks
Meanwhile, Taylor Thomas, who is also a CSULB student said, “I’m here to get folks to come out to the People’s Climate March, in Wilmington, on April 29 (Saturday) at Banning Park. We want to center front-line communities, communities of color (and) low-income communities in the climate discussion because they are the ones most impacted by climate change.”
Bobbie Ferencsik Sitting with her Sign at the Community Fair, April 5; Photo by Barry Saks
Four people were sitting with signs. Holding one in front of her was Bobbie Ferencsik. Sitting with Ferencsik were Margaret Hennessey and Elizabeth Cino, both of whom identify with the Gray Panthers. With her sign in front and wearing a line-green sweater, Cino indicated they lived at Plymouth West, which is about a block away from the church on Chestnut Ave. Cino said she was 74 said she has lived in Long Beach since 1956. She said, “There are (sic) not enough low-rent housing for seniors from HUD (Housing and Urban Dcvelopment) program. They’re just not available” and added that costs for rental units locally are now thousands of dollars each month.
The event’s press release added the coalition’s member organizations include A New Way of Life Re-entry Project, All Of Us Or None, Anakbayan Long Beach, Building Healthy Communities: Long Beach, California Faculty Association Long Beach Chapter, Don’t Waste Long Beach, End Oil, Filipino Migrant Center, Housing Long Beach, Khmer Girls in Action, Latinos in Action California, The LGBTQ Center of Long Beach, Long Beach Area Peace Network, Long Beach Coalition for Good Jobs and a Healthy Community, The Long Beach Time Exchange, the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, the Participatory Budgeting Project and Unite Here Local 11.
Crowd, April 5, at People’s State of the City; Photo by Barry Saks
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Restoring my coverage
Leslie complained that staff representing the Medical Services Plan (MSP) told him they could not restore his medical coverage because they required proof of citizenship. He...
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Exceptional case coverage received after all
Hal’s body was extraordinarily resistant to insulin and he required very high doses of it for treatment of diabetes. He said this made him feel lethargic and generally unwell...
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Eligibility requirements for an adopted child
Lori is a B.C. resident and has two adopted children from the United States. She applied for coverage under the Medical Services Plan (MSP) for the two boys in February 2011...
Getting my medicine paid for
Elena required injections of medication in order to treat her medical condition. Those injections had to be given by her doctor at the doctor’s office. The doctor dispensed...
Reimbursement for an extraordinary expense
Marla had recently arrived in British Columbia as a refugee and had been enrolled in the Medical Services Plan (MSP) for a few months. While she was temporarily in Alberta,...
Getting help that's needed
Andrew had been designated a Person with Disabilities (PWD) and received disability assistance. As a recipient of disability assistance, Andrew wanted to apply for health...
Telephone privileges
Sean is a patient at a forensic psychiatric hospital. He complained his telephone access had been restricted and he was limited in who he could call and how often. He thought...
Authority/Authorities: Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission, Provincial Health Services Authority
Premiums that should not have been charged
John was concerned that he was being charged for Medical Services Plan (MSP) premiums that he did not think he owed. John understood correctly that while he was receiving...
Double billed
Kathy moved to Quebec from British Columbia to attend university. In 2000 she was enrolled in the Quebec Medical Plan. She moved back to British Columbia in 2005 and enrolled...
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The flame : poems and selections from notebooks
Cohen, Leonard 1934-2016 (author.). Atwood, Margaret, (narrator.). Crowell, Rodney, (narrator.). Doe, John, (narrator.). Fletcher, Jim (Actor), (narrator.). Fliakos, Ari, (narrator.). Hoffman, Maggie, (narrator.). Marquand, Ross, 1981- (narrator.). Patton, Will, (narrator.). Rogen, Seth, 1982- (narrator.). Shannon, Michael, 1974- (narrator.). Vaswani, Neela, 1974- (narrator.).
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Publisher: [New York] : McClelland & Stewart, 2018.
Participant or Performer Note: Read by Margaret Atwood, Rodney Crowell, John Doe, Jim Fletcher, Ari Fliakos, Maggie Hoffman, Ross Marquand, Will Patton, Seth Rogen, Michael Shannon and Neela Vaswani.
Summary, etc.: The Flame is the final collection of the seminal musician and poet, which he was determined to complete before his death. Just weeks before his death in late 2016, Leonard Cohen told The New Yorker that he was ready for the end to come. He just wanted enough time to put his last book in order. Fortunately, that time was granted. The Flame is Cohen's eloquent farewell, a valedictory collection of lyrics and poems that maps his singular creative journey. As noted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's citation, "For six decades, Leonard Cohen revealed his soul to the world through poetry and song--his deep and timeless humanity touching our very core."In addition to new poems about war, desire, regrets, lamb chops, and hummingbirds, and lyrics from his last three albums, including the chart-topping "You Want It Darker," The Flame includes carefully selected excerpts from Cohen's voluminous notebooks, which he kept faithfully over the years. Listeners will hear about the subjects that have always preoccupied Cohen: the dimensions of love, the secret code of existence, and the hope for transcendence in a broken world. In the words of Cohen's longtime manager and friend, Robert Kory, The Flame "reveals to all the intensity of his inner fire" to the end.
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Online resource; title from title details screen (OverDrive, viewed October 9, 2018).
Subject: Canadian poetry
Cohen, Leonard -- 1934-2016
Genre: Poetry.
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Saudi Arabia Planing To Build A Mega City Worth $500bn
Posted on Oct 29, 2017 Oct 29, 2017 by matthewtim
“This place is not for conventional people or conventional companies,” Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said.
Saudi Arabia’s powerful crown prince has announced plans to build a futuristic city run entirely on alternative sources of energy and said the ultraconservative kingdom must return to “moderate Islam”.
The $500bn (£381bn) “Neom” project , envisioned as a hub for technological innovation, will be funded by the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund, which the prince oversees, as well as the Saudi government and a range of private and international investors.
“This place is not for conventional people or conventional companies,” Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told an audience of investors from around the world gathered in the capital, Riyadh, on Tuesday. “This will be a place for the dreamers of the world.”
It’s the latest surprise move by Saudi Arabia, a country that for decades was characterized by slow, cautious reforms, bureaucratic red tape and promises that fell short of target. The kingdom was forced to spring into action nearly three years ago after global energy prices fell by more than half, threatening to deplete Saudi foreign reserves and spending power by 2020.
Now, the kingdom is on a mission to build the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund to invest in projects like Neom. The aim is diversify revenue away from oil exports and create more jobs under a plan spearheaded by the crown prince known as Vision 2030 .
No reform, however, was more disruptive to the old order than last month’s decision to lift the ban on women driving next summer. Saudi Arabia is also expected to bring back cinemas soon as it opens the ultraconservative country to more entertainment.
Prince Mohammed defended these reforms at the conference on 24 October , saying “we were not like this in the past.”
“We want to go back to what we were: Moderate Islam,” the prince said during his rare public appearance. The heir to the throne said the kingdom will work to defeat extremist ideas and ensure that young Saudis live in harmony with the rest of the world.
A promotional video on Neom, shared on social media, features women jogging as they wear crop tops and working alongside men in laboratories. The footage suggests the new city-state could be a place for Saudi women to gain more freedom in the conservative kingdom, where they are currently subjected to several restrictions.
Among other limits, Saudi women are banned from wearing revealing clothes while in public. As per the country’s strict dress code, they must wear a loose garment called abaya – usually black – and a headscarf.
Furthermore, interaction between men and women who are not related is strictly forbidden in the country.
Prince Mohammed was speaking on a panel that included business titans Stephen Schwarzman of U.S. private equity firm Blackstone and Masayoshi Son of Japan’s technology conglomerate SoftBank.
As panelist after panelist lavished praise on the 32-year-old prince for his “passion,” ”vision” and “enthusiasm,” he interjected, saying: “I’m one of 20 million people. I am nothing without them.”
For many middle and lower-income Saudi families, the prince’s reform blueprint is long overdue.
Most Saudis hold jobs with the government, where wages for many can average just a few hundred dollars a month. Still, the public sector wage bill eats up about half of the government’s total expenditure. As part of Vision 2030, the government plans to trim the public sector workforce by about 20 percent while ensuring there are enough jobs in the private sector to keep up with demand.
Over the next decade, an estimated 5 million young Saudis will enter the workforce, creating an urgent need for rapid job creation.
Projects like Neom are focused on creating some of those jobs. The independent economic zone in the northwestern region of the country, near Egypt and Jordan, sits on 26,500 square kilometers (10,230 square miles) of untouched land along the Red Sea.
The crown prince envisions it as a hub for innovation, where scientists would develop new technologies and investors would make healthy returns. It’s a place, he said, where drones, driverless cars and robotics might all work together to ensure there’s no traffic, for example.
Prince Mohammed chose to unveil the project at the Future Investment Initiative conference being organized by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund.
Bin Salman
Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
The kingdom plans to transform the fund into the world’s largest by listing less than 5 percent of state-owned oil giant Aramco on the Saudi stock exchange and an international exchange, and transferring ownership of Aramco to the Public Investment Fund, also known as PIF.
Saudi Arabia says this could put some $2 trillion under PIF’s control— double that of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, which is currently the world’s largest.
Speaking to Bloomberg TV on the sidelines of the conference, PIF Managing Director Yasir al-Rumayyan said the fund currently manages about $230bn in assets.
Recently, reports emerged that Saudi Arabia was considering holding off on the international portion of the Aramco IPO in favor of a private offering from a key investor like China. Saudi officials, however, insist Aramco is on track for listings as early as next year.
Al-Rumayyan, who is also on the board of Aramco, addressed those concerns at the forum in Riyadh, saying: “Everything is on track, 2018 is our target.”
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Time travel Tuesday #timetravel a look back at the Adafruit, maker, science, technology and engineering world
Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time. ~Elbert Hubbard
1821 – Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician is born.
Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, as well as the first woman on the UK Medical Register. She was the first openly identified woman to graduate from medical school, a pioneer in promoting the education of women in medicine in the United States, and a social and moral reformer in both the United States and in Britain. Her sister Emily was the third woman in the US to get a medical degree.
1870 – The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race.
The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen’s “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” It was ratified on February 3, 1870, as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
In the final years of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction Era that followed, Congress repeatedly debated the rights of the millions of black former slaves. By 1869, amendments had been passed to abolish slavery and provide citizenship and equal protection under the laws, but the election of Ulysses S. Grant to the presidency in 1868 convinced a majority of Republicans that protecting the franchise of black voters was important for the party’s future. After rejecting more sweeping versions of a suffrage amendment, Congress proposed a compromise amendment banning franchise restrictions on the basis of race, color, or previous servitude on February 26, 1869. The amendment survived a difficult ratification fight and was adopted on March 30, 1870.
United States Supreme Court decisions in the late nineteenth century interpreted the amendment narrowly. From 1890 to 1910, most black voters in the South were effectively disenfranchised by new state constitutions and state laws incorporating such obstacles as poll taxes and discriminatory literacy tests, from which white voters were exempted by grandfather clauses. A system of whites-only primaries and violent intimidation by white groups also suppressed black participation.
In the twentieth century, the Court began to interpret the amendment more broadly, striking down grandfather clauses in Guinn v. United States (1915) and dismantling the white primary system in the “Texas primary cases” (1927–1953). Along with later measures such as the Twenty-fourth Amendment, which forbade poll taxes in federal elections, and Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections (1966), which forbade poll taxes in state elections, these decisions significantly increased black participation in the American political system. To enforce the amendment, Congress enacted the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which provided federal oversight of elections in discriminatory jurisdictions, banned literacy tests and similar discriminatory devices, and created legal remedies for people affected by voting discrimination.
1966 – The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.
Luna 9, internal designation Ye-6 No.13, was an unmanned space mission of the Soviet Union’s Luna programme. On 3 February 1966 the Luna 9 spacecraft became the first spacecraft to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, or any planetary body other than Earth, and to transmit photographic data to Earth from the surface of another planetary body.
1995 – Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Eileen Marie Collins is a retired NASA astronaut and a retired United States Air Force colonel. A former military instructor and test pilot, Collins was the first female pilot and first female commander of a Space Shuttle. She was awarded several medals for her work. Colonel Collins has logged 38 days 8 hours and 10 minutes in outer space. Collins retired on May 1, 2006 to pursue private interests, including service as a board member of USAA.
2014 – Announcing the First White House Maker Faire @make @makerfaire #Imadethis
Inspired by “Joey Marshmallow” and the millions of citizen-makers driving the next era of American innovation, we are thrilled to announce plans to host the first-ever White House Maker Faire. We will release more details on the event soon, but it will be an opportunity to highlight both the remarkable stories of Makers like Joey and commitments by leading organizations to help more students and entrepreneurs get involved in making things. Learn more at http://www.whitehouse.gov/makerfaire
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Tags: 15th amendment, astronauts, Luna 9, Maker Faire, time travel tuesday, women in STEM — by Jessica
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"This good fun, explore, explore, explore, that's what science is, exploration, finding out new things, so have a good time with it" - Charles Townes
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Posted on 2019-07-06 2019-07-16 by Denny Vrandečić
[The following article is from the Wikipedia @ 20 blog and extremely interesting to have here as well. The present copy is a draft version and offered on the original page together with the invitation to propose improvements. Denny Vrandečić is working at Google. Previously he has been at the Institute AIFB at the KIT (Karlsruhe Institue of Technology) and at Wikimedia Deutschland, where he founded Wikidata.]
Wikipedia is available in almost 300 languages, each with independently developed content and perspectives. Sharing more knowledge across languages would allow each edition to focus on their unique contributions, and yet improve their comprehensiveness and currency.
Differences between Wikipedia language editions
Wikipedia is often described as a wonder of the modern age. There are more than 50 million articles in almost 300 languages. The goal of allowing everyone to share in the sum of all knowledge is achieved, right?
The knowledge in Wikipedia is unevenly distributed. Let’s take a look at where the first twenty years of editing Wikipedia have taken us.
The number of articles varies between the different language editions of Wikipedia: English, the largest edition, has more than 5.8 million articles, Cebuano — a language spoken in the Philippines — has 5.3 million articles, Swedish has 3.7 million articles, and German has 2.3 million articles. (Cebuano and Swedish have a large number of machine generated articles.) In fact, the top nine languages alone hold more than half of all articles across the Wikipedia language editions — and if you take the bottom half of all Wikipedias ranked by size, they together wouldn’t have 10% of the number of articles in the English Wikipedia.
It is not just the sheer number of articles that differ between editions, but their comprehensiveness does as well: the English Wikipedia article on Frankfurt has a length of 184,686 characters, a table of contents spanning 87 sections and subsections, 95 images, tables and graphs, and 92 references — whereas the Hausa Wikipedia article states that it is a city in the German state of Hesse, and lists its population and mayor. Hausa is a language spoken natively by 40 million people and as a second language by another 20 million.
It is not always the case that the large Wikipedia language editions have more content on a topic. Although readers often consider large Wikipedias to be more comprehensive, local Wikipedias may frequently have more content on topics of local interest: the English Wikipedia knows about the Port of Calara?i that it is one of the largest Romanian river ports, located at the Danube near the town of Calara?i — and that’s it. The Romanian Wikipedia on the other hand offers several paragraphs of content about the port.
The topics covered by the different Wikipedias also overlap less than one would initially assume. English Wikipedias has 5.8 million articles, German has 2.2 million articles — but only 1.1 million topics are covered by both Wikipedias. A full 1.1 million topics have an article in German — but not in English. The top ten Wikipedias by activity — each of them with more than a million articles — have articles on only hundred thousand topics in common. 18 million topics are covered by articles in the different language Wikipedias — and English only covers 31% of these.
Besides coverage, there is also the question of how up to date the different language editions are: in June 2018, San Francisco elected London Breed as its new mayor. Nine months later, in March 2019, I conducted an analysis of who the mayor of San Francisco was, according to the different language versions of Wikipedia. Of the 292 language editions, a full 165 had a Wikipedia article on San Francisco. Of these, 86 named the mayor. The good news is that not a single Wikipedia lists a wrong mayor — but the vast majority are out of date. English switched the minute London Breed was sworn in. But 62 Wikipedia language editions list an out-of-date mayor — and not just the previous mayor Ed Lee, who became mayor in 2011, but also often Gavin Newsom (2004-2011), and his predecessor, Willie Brown (1996-2004). The most out-of-date entry is to be found in the Cebuano Wikipedia, who names Dianne Feinstein as the mayor of San Francisco. She had that role after the assassination of Harvey Milk and George Moscone in 1978, and remained in that position for a decade in 1988 — Cebuano was more than thirty years out of date. Only 24 language editions had listed the current mayor, London Breed, out of the 86 who listed the name at all.
The events after the death of Ed Lee until London Breed became mayor on top. On bottom, at what point a given Wikipedia switched.
An even more important metric for the success of a Wikipedia are the number of contributors: English has more than 31,000 active contributors — three out of seven active Wikimedians are active on the English Wikipedia. German, the second most active Wikipedia community, already only has 5,500 active contributors. Only eleven language editions have more than a thousand active contributors — and more than half of all Wikipedias have fewer than ten active contributors. To assume that fewer than ten active contributors can write and maintain a comprehensive encyclopedia in their spare time is optimistic at best. These numbers basically doom the mission of the Wikimedia movement to realize a world where everyone can contribute to the sum of all knowledge.
Enter Wikidata
Wikidata was launched in 2012 and offers a free, collaborative, multilingual, secondary database, collecting structured data to provide support for Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, the other wikis of the Wikimedia movement, and to anyone in the world. Wikidata contains structured information in the form of simple claims, such as “San Francisco — Mayor — London Breed”, qualifiers, such as “since — July 11, 2018”, and references for these claims, e.g. a link to the official election results as published by the city.
The statement in Wikidata about London Breed being mayor of San Francisco.
One of these structured claims would be on the Wikidata page about San Francisco and state the mayor, as discussed earlier. The individual Wikipedias can then query Wikidata for the current mayor. Of the 24 Wikipedias that named the current mayor, eight were current because they were querying Wikidata. I hope to see that number go up. Using Wikidata more extensively can, in the long run, allow for more comprehensive, current, and accessible content while decreasing the maintenance load for contributors.
Wikidata was developed in the spirit of the Wikipedia’s increasing drive to add structure to Wikipedia’s articles. Examples of this include the introduction of infoboxes as early as 2002, a quick tabular overview of facts about the topic of the article, and categories in 2004. Over the year, the structured features became increasingly intricate: infoboxes moved to templates, templates started using more sophisticated MediaWiki functions, and then later demanded the development of even more powerful MediaWiki features. In order to maintain the structured data, bots were created, software agents that could read content from Wikipedia or other sources and then perform automatic updates to other parts of Wikipedia. Before the introduction of Wikidata, bots keeping the language links between the different Wikipedias in sync, easily contributed 50% and more of all edits.
Wikidata allowed for an outlet to many of these activities, and relieved the Wikipedias of having to run bots to keep language links in sync or of massive infobox maintenance tasks. But one lesson I learned from these activities is that I can trust the communities with mastering complex workflows spread out between community members with different capabilities: in fact, a small number of contributors working on intricate template code and developing bots can provide invaluable support to contributors who more focus on maintaining articles and contributors who write large swaths of prose. The community is very heterogeneous, and the different capabilities and backgrounds complement each other in order to create Wikipedia.
However, Wikidata’s structured claims are of a limited expressivity: their subject always must be the topic of the page, every object of a statement must exist as its own item and thus page in Wikidata. If it doesn’t fit in the rigid data model of Wikidata, it simply cannot be captured in Wikidata — and if it cannot be captured in Wikidata, it cannot be made accessible to the Wikipedias.
For example, let’s take a look at the following two sentences from the English Wikipedia article on Ontario, California:
“To impress visitors and potential settlers with the abundance of water in Ontario, a fountain was placed at the Southern Pacific railway station. It was turned on when passenger trains were approaching and frugally turned off again after their departure.”
There is no feasible way to express the content of these two sentences in Wikidata – the simple claim and qualifier structure that Wikidata supports can not capture the subtle situation that is described here.
An Abstract Wikipedia
I suggest that the Wikimedia movement develop an Abstract Wikipedia, a Wikipedia in which the actual textual content is being represented in a language-independent manner. This is an ambitious goal — it requires us to push the current limits of knowledge representation, natural language generation, and collaborative knowledge construction by a significant amount: an Abstract Wikipedia must allow for:
relations that connect more than just two participants with heterogeneous roles.
composition of items on the fly from values and other items.
expressing knowledge about arbitrary subjects, not just the topic of the page.
ordering content, to be able to represent a narrative structure.
expressing redundant information.
Let us explore one of these requirements, the last one: unlike the sentences of a declarative formal knowledge base, human language is usually highly redundant. Formal knowledge bases usually try to avoid redundancy, for good reasons. But in a natural language text, redundancy happens frequently. One example is the following sentence:
“Marie Curie is the only person who received two Nobel Prizes in two different sciences.”
The sentence is redundant given a list of Nobel Prize award winners and their respective disciplines they have been awarded to — a list that basically every large Wikipedia will contain. But the content of the given sentence nevertheless appears in many of the different language articles on Marie Curie, and usually right in the first paragraph. So there is obviously something very interesting in this sentence, even though the knowledge expressed in this sentence is already fully contained in most of the Wikipedias it appears in. This form of redundancy is common place in natural language — but is usually avoided in formal knowledge bases.
The technical details of the Abstract Wikipedia proposal are presented in (Vrandecic, 2018). But the technical architecture is only half of the story. Much more important is the question whether the communities can meet the challenges of this project?
Wikipedia and Wikidata have shown that the communities are capable to meet difficult challenges: be it templates in Wikipedia, or constraints in Wikidata, the communities have shown that they can drive comprehensive policy and workflow changes as well as the necessary technological feature development. Not everyone needs to understand the whole stack in order to make a feature such as templates a crucial part of Wikipedia.
The Abstract Wikipedia is an ambitious future project. I believe that this is the only way for the Wikimedia movement to achieve its goal, short of developing an AI that will make the writing of a comprehensive encyclopedia obsolete anyway.
A plea for knowledge diversity?
When presenting the idea of the Abstract Wikipedia, the first question is usually: will this not massively reduce the knowledge diversity of Wikipedia? By unifying the content between the different language editions, does this not force a single point of view on all languages? Is the Abstract Wikipedia taking away the ability of minority language speakers to maintain their own encyclopedias, to have a space where, for example, indigenous speakers can foster and grow their own point of view, without being forced to unify under the western US-dominated perspective?
I am sympathetic with the intent of this question. The goal of this question is to ensure that a rich diversity in knowledge is retained, and to make sure that minority groups have spaces in which they can express themselves and keep their knowledge alive. These are, in my opinion, valuable goals.
The assumption that an Abstract Wikipedia, from which any of the individual language Wikipedias can draw content from, will necessarily reduce this diversity, is false. In fact, I believe that access to more knowledge and to more perspectives is crucial to achieve an effective knowledge diversity, and that the currently perceived knowledge diversity in different language projects is ineffective at best, and harmful at worst. In the rest of this essay I will argue why this is the case.
Language does not align with culture
First, it is wrong to use language as the dimension along which to draw the demarcation line between different content if the Wikimedia movement truly believes that different groups should be able to grow and maintain their own encyclopedias.
In case the Wikimedia movement truly believes that different groups or cultures should have their own Wikipedias, why is there only a single Wikipedia language edition for the English speakers from India, England, Scotland, Australia, the United States, and South Africa? Why is there only one Wikipedia for Brazil and Portugal, leading to much strife? Why are there no two Wikipedias for US Democrats and Republicans?
The conclusion is that the Wikimedia movement does not believe that language is the right dimension to split knowledge — it is a historical decision, driven by convenience. The core Wikipedia policies, vision, and mission are all geared towards enabling access to the sum of all knowledge to every single reader, no matter what their language, and not toward capturing all knowledge and then subdividing it for consumption based on the languages the reader is comfortable in.
The split along languages leads to the problem that it is much easier for a small language community to go “off the rails” — to either, as a whole, become heavily biased, or to adopt rules and processes which are problematic. The fact that the larger communities have different rules, processes, and outcomes can be beneficial for Wikipedia as a whole, since they can experiment with different rules and approaches. But this does not seem to hold true when the communities drop under a certain size and activity level, when there are not enough eyeballs to avoid the development of bad outcomes and traditions. For one example, the article about skirts in the Bavarian Wikipedia features three upskirt pictures, one porn actress, an anime screenshot, and a video showing a drawing of a woman with a skirt getting continuously shorter. The article became like this within a day or two of its creation, and, even though it has been edited by a dozen different accounts, has remained like this over the last seven years. (This describes the state of the article in April 2019 — I hope that with the publication of this essay, the article will finally be cleaned up).
A look on some south Slavic language Wikipedias
Second, a natural experiment is going on, where contributors that are more separated by politics than language differences have separate Wikipedias: there exist individual Wikipedia language editions for Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, and Serbocroatian. Linguistically, the differences between the dialects of Croatian are often larger than the differences between standard Croatian and standard Serbian. Particularly the existence of the Serbocroatian Wikipedia poses interesting questions about these delineations.
Particularly the Croatian Wikipedia has turned to a point of view that has been described as problematic. Certain events and Croat actors during the 1990s independence wars or the 1940s fascist puppet state might be represented more favorably than in most other Wikipedias.
Here are two observations based on my work on south Slavic language Wikipedias:
First, claiming that a more fascist-friendly point of view within a Wikipedia increases the knowledge diversity across all Wikipedias might be technically true, but is practically insufficient. Being able to benefit from this diversity requires the reader to not only be comfortable reading several different languages, but also to engage deeply enough and spend the time and interest to actually read the article in different languages, which is mostly a profoundly boring exercise, since a lot of the content will be overlapping. Finding the juicy differences is anything but easy, especially considering that most readers are reading Wikipedia from mobile devices, and are just looking to satisfy a quick information need from a source whose curation they trust.
Most readers will only read a single language version of an article, and thus any diversity that exists across different language editions is practically lost. The sheer existence of this diversity might even be counterproductive, as one may argue that the communities should not spend resources on reflecting the true diversity of a topic within each individual language. This would cement the practical uselessness of the knowledge diversity across languages.
Second, many of the same contributors that write the articles with a certain point of view in the Croatian Wikipedia, also contribute on the English Wikipedia on the articles about the same topics — but there they suddenly are forced and able to compromise and incorporate a much wider variety of points of view. One might hope the contributors would take the more diverse points of view and migrate them back to their home Wikipedias — but that is often not the case. If contributors harbor a certain point of view (and who doesn’t?) it often leads to a situation where they push that point of view as much as they can get away with in each of the projects.
It has to be noted that the most blatant digressions from a neutral point of view in Wikipedias like the Croatian Wikipedia will not be found in the most central articles, but in the large periphery of articles surrounding these central articles which are much harder to keep an eye on.
Abstract Wikipedia and Knowledge diversity
The Abstract Wikipedia proposal does not require any of the individual language editions to use it. Each language community can decide for each article whether to fall back on the Abstract Wikipedia or whether to create their own article in their language. And even that decision can be more fine grained: a contributor can decide for an individual article to incorporate sections or paragraphs from the Abstract Wikipedia.
This allows the individual Wikipedia communities the luxury to entirely concentrate on the differences that are relevant to them. I distinctly remember that when I started the Croatian Wikipedia: it felt like I had the burden to first write an article about every country in the world before I could write the articles I cared about, such as my mother’s home village — because how could anyone defend a general purpose encyclopedia that might not even have an article on Nigeria, a country with a population of a hundred million, but one on Donji Humac, a village with a population of 157? Wouldn’t you first need an article on all of the chemical elements that make up the world before you can write about a local food?
The Abstract Wikipedia frees a language edition from this burden, and allows each community to entirely focus on the parts they care about most — and to simply import the articles from the common source for the topics that are less in their focus. It allows the community to make these decisions. As the communities grow and shift, they can revisit these decisions at any time and adapt them.
At the same time, the Abstract Wikipedia makes these differences more visible since they become explicit. Right now there is no easy way to say whether the fact that Dianne Feinstein is listed as the Mayor of San Francisco in the Cebuano Wikipedia is due to cultural particularities of the Cebuano language communities or not. Are the different population numbers of Frankfurt in the different language editions intentional expressions of knowledge diversity? With an Abstract Wikipedia, the individual communities could explicitly choose which articles to create and maintain on their own, and at the same time remove a lot of unintentional differences.
By making these decisions more explicit, it becomes possible to imagine an effective workflow that observes these intentional differences, and sets up a path to integrate them into the common article in the Abstract Wikipedia. Right now, there are 166 different language versions of the article on the chemical element Helium — it is basically impossible for a single person to go through all of them and find the content that is intentionally different between them. With an Abstract Wikipedia, which contains the common shared knowledge, contributors, researchers, and readers can actually take a look at those articles that intentionally have content that replaces or adds to the commonly shared one, assess these differences, and see if contributors should integrate the differences in the shared article.
The differences in content may be reflecting difference in policies, particularly in policies of notability and reliability. Whereas on first glance it might seem that the Abstract Wikipedia might require unified notability and reliability requirements across all Wikipedias, this is not the case: due to the fact that local Wikipedias can overlay and suppress content from the Abstract Wikipedias, they can adjust their Wikipedias based on their own rules. And the increased visibility of such decisions will lead to easier identify biases, and hopefully also to updated rules to reduce said bias.
A new incentive infrastructure
The Abstract Wikipedia will evolve the incentive infrastructure of Wikipedia.
Presently, many underrepresented languages are spoken in areas that are multilingual. Often another language spoken in this area is regarded as a high-prestige language, and is thus the language of education and literature, whereas the underrepresented language is a low-prestige language. So even though the low-prestige language might have more speakers, the most likely recruits for the Wikipedia communities, people with education who can afford internet access and have enough free time, will be able to contribute in both languages.
In which language should I contribute? If I write the article about my mother’s home town in Croatian, I make it accessible to a few million people. If I write the article about my mother’s home town in English, it becomes accessible to more than a hundred times as many people! The work might be the same, but the perceived benefit is orders of magnitude higher: the question becomes, do I teach the world about a local tradition, or do I tell my own people about their tradition? The world is bigger, and thus more likely to react, creating a positive feedback loop.
This cannibalizes the communities for local languages by diverting them to the English Wikipedia, which is perceived as the global knowledge community (or to other high-prestige languages, such as Russian or French). This is also reflected in a lot of articles in the press and in academic works about Wikipedia, where the English Wikipedia is being understood as the Wikipedia. Whereas it is known that Wikipedia exists in many other languages, journalists and researchers are, often unintentionally, regarding the English Wikipedia as the One True Wikipedia.
Another strong impediment to recruiting contributors to smaller Wikipedia communities is rarely explicitly called out: it is pretty clear that, given the current architecture, these Wikipedias are doomed in achieving their mission. As discussed above, more than half of all Wikipedia language editions have fewer than ten active contributors — and writing a comprehensive, up-to-date Wikipedia is not an achievable goal with so few people writing in their free time. The translation tools offered by the Wikimedia Foundation can considerably help within certain circumstances — but for most of the Wikipedia languages, automatic translation models don’t exist and thus cannot help the languages which would need it the most.
With the Abstract Wikipedia though, the goal of providing a comprehensive and current encyclopedia in almost any language becomes much more tangible: instead of taking on the task of creating and maintaining the entire content, only the grammatical and lexical knowledge of a given language needs to be created. This is a far smaller task. Furthermore, this grammatical and lexical knowledge is comparably static — it does not change as much as the encyclopedic content of Wikipedia, thus turning a task that is huge and ongoing into one where the content will grow and be maintained without the need of too much maintenance by the individual language communities.
Yes, the Abstract Wikipedia will require more and different capabilities from a community that has yet to be found, and the challenges will be both novel and big. But the communities of the many Wikimedia projects have repeatedly shown that they can meet complex challenges with ingenious combinations of processes and technological advancements. Wikipedia and Wikidata have both demonstrated the ability to draw on technologically rather simple canvasses, and create extraordinary rich and complex masterpieces, which stand the test of time. The Abstract Wikipedia aims to challenge the communities once again, and the promise this time is nothing else but to finally be able to reap the ultimate goal: to allow every one, no matter what their native language is, to share in the sum of all knowledge.
Thanks to the valuable suggestions on improving the article to Jamie Taylor, Daniel Russell, Joseph Reagle, Stephen LaPorte, and Jake Orlowitz.
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Electric Cloud Customer Summit
SPARK 2013 by the Numbers
A few weeks ago we wrapped up the sixth annual Electric Cloud Summit: SPARK 2013. This year’s event was hands down the best we’ve done, with more content, more speakers and more attendees than ever before. For the first time we had invited keynote speakers including agile development and continuous delivery luminaries like Jez Humble (who literally wrote the book on continuous delivery!) and Gene Kim. We also had live streaming so that people who couldn’t make it to the conference in person could still watch and listen to the keynote sessions — if you missed the conference, you can watch the recordings now, and I really recommend that you do.
As usual, I did some analysis of the event once the conference was over. Here are the results.
Registration and Attendance
Each year since its inception, the summit has set a new record for total registrations, and SPARK 2013 was no exception with 186 people signed up. But even more impressive is the record 168 attendees — those people that actually made it to the conference. That beats the previous high of 146 from 2011 and is a massive 33% increase from the 126 attendees in 2012:
But that’s not the end of the story on attendance this year, because for the first time we offered live streaming over the Internet. That added an impressive 84 additional “virtual” attendees to the keynote session, bringing the total to over 250 attendees.
I think three factors contributed to the high registration and the better-than-90% conversion rate. First, there’s no doubt that the list of keynote speakers helped attract people to the event:
Jez Humble, co-author of “Continuous Delivery”
Gary Gruver, co-author of “A Practical Approach to Large-Scale Agile Development”
Gene Kim, author of “The Phoenix Project”
Paul Rogers, Chief Development Office at General Electric
Second, this was the first time that the conference was open to the public rather than being exclusively for Electric Cloud customers. Finally, this was the first time that attendees paid to attend the conference — somewhat counter-intuitively, you can sometimes increase interest in an offering simply by charging more for it. I think this has to do with the perceived value of the offering: some people think, “If this is free, it must not be very good.” Plus, once you’ve paid for a conference, you’re more likely to attend because you don’t want your money to go to waste.
Repeat attendance
A solid 25% of the attendees in 2013 had attended at least one previous summit, slightly down from the percentage of repeat attendees in 2012, but in line with the historical average. Amazingly, three die-hard users have attended all six conferences!
SPARK 2013 had about 20% more sessions than 2012, and again more of the content came from users and partners than in any previous year. Sadly I didn’t get a chance to see too many of the presentations since I was a presenter myself, but I did get to watch the keynotes at least. If you didn’t watch the SPARK 2013 keynotes yet, you really should. It’s OK, I’ll wait.
The 2013 conference had 35 sessions in total, spanning four days and three tracks, including all the keynotes, training and track sessions:
As usual, the majority of attendees were from the United States, but a respectable 10% braved international travel to attend in person:
Fourteen US states were represented — the exact number of states represented in 2012 and in 2011, but a different set from either of those years. If I didn’t know better I’d say this was evidence of some kind of conspiracy. As expected, most of the US attendees were from California, but about 20% were from other states:
Industries and Delegations
67 companies sent people to SPARK 2013, representing a broad array of industries. Some of those are the usual suspects, like software and telecommunications, but there are some surprises as well, like the 4 companies in the retail industry and the one in education. As they say, software is eating the world. Many companies sent only one representative, but just a bit more than half sent two or more. One large networking company sent fifteen people to SPARK 2013!
Rate of registration
Finally, here’s a look at the rate of registration in the weeks leading up to SPARK 2013. In 2012 I hypothesized that the relatively low attendance numbers were partly because promotional activity for the event didn’t really get started until about 9 weeks prior to the conference. I thought perhaps that was not enough lead time for people. But to my surprise, the same is true this year and yet we had significantly more registrations than in 2012. I still think we could get even more if we started promoting the event earlier, but obviously there’s more to the story than simply that. The good news is that the team behind SPARK 2013 is already planning for SPARK 2014, so hopefully next year we’ll see if I’m right.
Don’t miss SPARK 2014!
Overall I think SPARK 2013 represents a turning point in the evolution of the Electric Cloud Summit. In a way it’s like we’re finally “growing up”, going from a small, private event to a serious public conference. I can’t wait to see what SPARK 2014 looks like, and I hope you’ll all join me there next year!
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Electric Cloud Customer Summit 2012 by the Numbers
This month saw the fifth annual Electric Cloud Customer Summit, in many ways the best event yet. Located at the historic Dolce Hayes Mansion in San Jose, California, the 2012 Summit had more presentations, more repeat attendees, and more customer and partner involvement than any previous summit. For the first time, we had a “Partner Pavilion” where our customers could meet and learn about offerings from several Electric Cloud partners: Parasoft, Perforce, Opscode, Rally, Klocwork and WindRiver. We also offered in-depth training on ElectricCommander and ElectricAccelerator the day prior to the summit proper, with strong attendance for both.
But the best part of the Electric Cloud Customer Summit? Meeting and speaking with dozens of happy customers. I always leave the summit energized and invigorated, and over the past few days I’ve used that energy to do some analysis of this year’s event. Here’s what I found.
Total registrations hit a record 170 this year, although only 126 people actually made it to the event. That’s a bit less than the 146 we had at the 2011 summit:
More than one-third of the attendees in 2012 had attended at least one previous summit, a new record and a significant increase over the 24% we hit last year. Only three individuals can claim to have attended all five summits (excluding Electric Cloud employees, of course, although including them would not dramatically increase the number):
The 2012 Summit had more content than any previous year, and more of the presentations came from customers and partners than ever before. I didn’t get a chance to see too many of the presentations, but I did see a couple that really blew me away:
Getting the Most Out of Your Development Testing, a joint talk between Parasoft and Electric Cloud, presented a method for accelerating Parasoft’s C/C++test for static analysis. The results were truly exciting — roughly linear speedup, meaning the more cores you throw at it, the faster it will go. In one example, they reduced the analysis time from 107 minutes to just 22 minutes!
Aurora Development Service, a talk from Cisco. ElectricAccelerator is a key component of their developer build service, where it provides two tremendous benefits. The first we are all familiar with: faster builds improve developer productivity. The second is less often discussed but no less significant: Accelerator allows Cisco to efficiently share hardware resources among many groups, which means they’ve been able to decommission hundreds of now-surplus servers. In electricity costs alone, that adds up to savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.
Overall, the 2012 Summit included 29 presentations on three technical tracks, including all track sessions, keynotes and training. That’s nearly 20% more than we had in 2011:
As usual, the majority of attendees were from the United States, but there were a handful of international users present:
Fourteen US states were represented — oddly, the exact number represented in 2011, but a different set. Naturally, most of the US attendees were from California, but about 30% were from other states:
Nearly 60 companies sent people to the 2012 summit, representing industries ranging from entertainment and consumer electronics to energy and defense. Here are the industries represented, scaled by the number of people from each:
Many companies sent only one person, but most sent two or more. Several companies sent 5 or more people!
Comparing the size of the delegations to the length of time that a company has been a customer reveals an interesting trend: generally speaking, the longer a company has been a customer, the more people they send to the summit:
Finally, here’s a look at the rate of registration in the weeks leading up the summit. At last we have a hint as to why there was so little international attendance and probably lower attendance overall: in 2011 promotion for the summit really started about 14 weeks prior, but due to various factors this year, we didn’t really get going until about 9 weeks prior to the event. For many people, and especially for international travellers, that’s just not enough lead time. You can clearly see the impact of our promotional efforts as the rate of registrations kicks into high gear 8 weeks before and remains strong even into the week of the event:
The Summit Is Over, Long Live the Summit
The 2012 Summit was a great success, no matter how you slice it. Many thanks to everybody who contributed, as well as everybody that attended. I hope to see you all again at the 2013 Summit!
Electric Cloud Customer Summit, Visualization
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Earlier this month, Electric Cloud hosted the fourth annual Electric Cloud Customer Summit. By any measure it was a fantastic success, with more people, more content, and lots of enthusiastic and intelligent customers. I thought it would be fun to look at some statistics from this year’s event.
How many people showed up?
The most obvious metric is simply the count of attendees. In 2011, there were 146 attendees (excluding Electric Cloud employees). That’s literally double the number that showed up for the first summit in 2008:
This was the first summit for the majority of those present, but a significant minorty — nearly 25% — had been to at least one previous summit. Several are “Summit All-Stars”, having attended all four!
Who presented?
Another way to measure the growth of the summit is to look at the number of presentations each year, and the proportion of those that were given by customers or partners, rather than by Electric Cloud employees. In 2011, a healthy 40% of the presentations were given by customers and partners, including two panel sessions, and a keynote from GE about how Electric Cloud enabled the transition to agile development:
Where did they come from?
The vast majority of participants were from the United States, but several braved international travel to attend. Here are the countries represented:
Within the United States, 14 states were represented:
How many companies were represented?
This year’s summit was a fantastic place to network, with nearly 60 companies represented, across a wide range of industries. This tag cloud shows the industries, scaled by the number of people from each:
One thing that surprised me is the number of people sent by each company. I expected that most companies would send only one person, but in fact most companies sent at least two. Three companies sent ten or more!
When did attendees register?
I thought it might be interesting to see how far in advance people registered for the summit. It’s not surprising that there’s a spike the week before, although the magnitude of the jump is less than I expected. In fact, less than 25% of the registrations occurred the week before and the week of the summit:
I had a lot of fun at the 2011 Customer Summit. It was great to finally put faces to the names of people I’ve collaborated with, sometimes for years before meeting face-to-face. And it was a pleasure to see so many familiar faces as well. Here’s hoping the 2012 summit is just as fruitful.
One final thought: if you have any suggestions for additional statistics that might be interesting here, let me know in the comments.
2011 Customer Summit “Conflicts” Handout
As promised, here’s the corrected handout to accompany the presentation I gave at the 2011 Electric Cloud Customer Summit, “Conflict Detection in ElectricMake”. This content is also available as a pair of blog articles:
How ElectricMake guarantees reliable parallel builds
Exceptions to conflict detection in ElectricMake
Thanks to everybody who came to the talk! I really enjoyed giving it and answering your questions. Looking forward to seeing you next year!
Electric Cloud Customer Summit, ElectricAccelerator
accelerator, emake
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Welcome to the Bury Business Leadership Group
The Bury Business Leadership Group is collaboration between local business leaders and Team Bury (Bury's strategic partnership) to improve communication, understanding and a joint commitment to support the wider economic development of the borough.
We have been working together since April 2016 with a remit of putting business growth, innovation and entrepreneurialism at the heart of what the public sector do.
We are a group of individuals from a diverse range and size of businesses across the borough. We are supported by the elected Leader of Bury Council and the Chief Executive who represent Bury's public sector.
Our vision: "To foster a vibrant and dynamic Bury, building on our entrepreneurial culture, to enable residents to take advantage of a well-connected economy".
The Bury Business Leadership Group is accepting membership applications from businesses in the borough. If you represent a Bury business that is committed to supporting economic development in the borough, that would like to join the Bury Business Leadership Group then please complete our Bury Business Leadership Group application.
Details of the members of Bury Business Leadership Group
Andrew Roberts
Managing Director / Pennine
Pennine Telecom Ltd is £14M t/o business employing 75 people in Bury.
I left college at 17 and started work at Pennine as an apprentice engineer. I continued to obtain my City & Guilds Qualifications at night school. Over the years, although I have only worked for one company, I have had roles in engineering, sales, marketing and business management. In 2003 I led a successful management buyout and became Managing Director.
I have an interest in technology and skills especially the STEM subjects.
I am a Fellow of the IET (The Institution of Engineering and Technology), Fellow of The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), Chair of Governors Bolton College, Member of Rossendale Business Leaders Forum, Bury President of Manchester Chamber of Commerce, a Primary School Governor and Trustee of Youth Work Charity which aims to improve the life chances Young People in the local area.
Ian Connor
Managing Partner / Connor Richardson
I am the Managing Partner and co-founder of Connor Richardson Accountants, a small firm of Chartered Accountants based in Bury with a satellite office in Cheadle Hulme. Specialising in tax returns, VAT and payroll services, we mainly act for individuals, but also assist small/medium sized business and start-ups with areas such as limited company information, preparation of annual accounts and business tax returns.
I am also Chair of the Bury Town Centre Management Board, an independent partnership between public and private sector organisations across Bury with the aim of co-ordinating efforts to promote and improve Bury. Members include Bury Council, Greater Manchester Police, Bury Market, various representatives from the business community, transport and community groups.
Graham Leigh
Director / GLP Law
Graham Leigh is the Senior Partner at GLP Solicitors, with responsibility for general management for the GLP Solicitors firms and has over 30 years experience within the legal profession and a wealth of business knowledge.
Graham is a past President and previous Honorary Secretary of his local Law Society and presently advises a number of charities.
Graham has a special interest in the utilisation of technology in the workplace ensuring all businesses with which he is involved are at the forefront of I.T. advancement. Graham is Legal Director at dictate2us Limited, the UK's leading transcription and translation outsourcing company, based in Manchester.
Married with two sons, Graham has a passion for photography which he enjoys in his spare time.
Phil Fellone
Representing Best of Bury businesses
thebestofbury has been established for over 12 years and we market and promote the best local businesses connecting them to thousands of other local businesses and to tens of thousands of local Bury people. We do this via many channels including, networking, exhibitions, billboards, banners, social media, newsletters and word of mouth.
Made in Bury Ltd - Delivering premier events, awards, exhibitions and a Business Academy in Bury, including:
The Made in Bury Business Awards.
The North West's Premier Business Fair.
The Made in Bury Business Academy.
The Made in Bury Brunch Club
The Made in Bury Business Draw
Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag
Community Champion / connecting with businesses within the Jewish community
I have been the Rabbi at Whitefield Hebrew Congregation based on Park Lane in Whitefield since 1987, a community of some seven hundred families.
I have served - since its inception in 2001 - as a member of the Greater Manchester Faith and Communities Leaders Forum, which meets regularly under the chairmanship of the Bishop of Manchester.
As a leader in the Jewish community And one engaged in strengthening the fabric of society by good inter-faith and inter-communal relationships, I view the economic environment as a crucial factor in the long term strengthening of local life.
I believe that business growth can be the key to increased prosperity for our borough and the region. The result can hopefully be better chances and a better life for all.
I am therefore committed to the group so that I can play my part in the strengthening of our lives and the community in Bury and beyond.
Rishi Shori
Leader / Bury Council
I am the leader of Bury Council. I was elected to this post in May 2016, becoming the first council leader in Greater Manchester to come from a BME background, as well as being the youngest leader in Bury Council's history.
I have been an elected member of Bury Council since 2009, representing Radcliffe West ward for the last seven years and working as Deputy Leader for the last two years, holding cabinet responsibility for health, housing, adult social care and finance.
I currently hold the portfolio for Economic Growth and Human Resources in my role as Leader of Bury Council.
Geoff Little
Chief Executive / Bury Council
Over the past few years, Geoff has had the responsibility for strategic development of children's, adults and education services, supporting the development of GM Health and Social Care Devolution, implementation of the health and social care reforms within Manchester and more recently became the Chief Executive of Bury Council.
Geoff started straight from school as a junior clerical assistant, at Liverpool City Council and has worked his way up to Chief Executive of Bury Council, following 9 years as Deputy Chief Executive of Manchester Council.
Charlie Deane
Principal / Bury College
I would like to introduce myself as the Principal and Chief Executive of Bury College, a further education college which offers a wide range of learning opportunities for all.
Dedicated to providing the communities we serve with a broad choice of learning options, Bury College offers a range of A Level courses, vocational programmes and apprenticeships. In addition to this, higher level courses are available to study at Bury College University Centre, as well as courses for adults. Training programmes are also delivered by Business Solutions, the college's employer-responsive arm.
Bury College is proud to consistently achieve excellent results. We are extremely proud to be in the top 10% of further education colleges in the country for 16-18 year old achievement progression in vocational Level 3, English and mathematics, as reported by the department for Education performance table January 2018.
In recent years, the college campus has seen investment of over £48 million in state-of-the-art modern facilities which further supports teaching and learning. The most recent development includes the Endeavour Centre which boasts a range of facilities to support our Plumbing and Computer Science courses.
Andrew Chaytow / Julie Ann Forbes
Managing Director / Sales & Marketing Director / Hamilton Heath Estate Ltd
Hamilton Heath is a Property Investment / Development Company based in Bury town centre. Our current investment portfolio includes warehouses, land, retail shops and offices. The in house team manage all our own property including letting, maintaining and refurbishing and also occasionally selling.
Andrew, as MD, heads up the team and identifies properties that are either in need of refurbishment or require asset management - and sites where new multi-let properties can be built. These properties are then either sold or retained within the investment portfolio.
Julie Ann works closely with Andrew and deals with lettings, marketing and client liaison.
Angela Davies
Director -Microbiological Solutions
MSL are a support service predominantly servicing the cosmetics and associated industries. We work with over 18 countries across the world
I am Managing Director of MSL and also majority shareholder.
Having progressed my way through various departments and technical roles within the companies I have worked for I have been fortunate in that I have gained much of my knowledge as part of my personal development and progression within those roles.
My extensive technical knowledge covers industrial microbiology, specialising in the Personal Care Industry & disinfectants, third party auditing, hygienic plant design and hygiene management.
I have developed my training skills and I am motivated to bring out the best in members of staff.
I would like to give my support to the council and also be able to challenge local and central council initiatives, representing SME's views and opinions. "Telling it how it is"
I am very keen on getting local young people interested in science.
Keith Fairhurst
Molygran
Molygran is a family business and is recognised as the leading polystyrene convertor in the North West.
With almost 40 years' experience converting and supplying expanded polystyrene (EPS), we are the go-to company for jobs requiring innovative design and precision tooling. We can profile cut any shape you want. Our reputation for exceptional customer service and quality is second to none.
As managing director I bring experiences gained in many industries. Qualifying as a chartered accountant I quickly moved in to lean manufacturing; animal feeds; call centres and finally twenty years of consulting.
Managing Director - Dream Agility
I am the CEO and co-founder of Dream Agility which is an award winning software company based in Ramsbottom. We provide cutting edge web based software enabling companies who manage Google shopping to increase traffic to their websites and improve return on investment.
We are a Google and Bing Certified Partner, recently winning the EMEEA Google Partners 2016 New Business Award in Berlin. Other awards include Start up of the Year winner at FDM Everywoman in Technology Award and Digital Professional of the Year at the Made in Manchester awards.
I am a qualified engineer, starting my career working as a designer before moving into engineering recruitment. In 2002 I decided on a radical career change, launching myself as a 'flirt guru', author and international speaker, helping businesses to shine in their chosen field. I have worked for many blue chip brands helping to endorse their products and have written a number of best selling non-fiction books, including 'Flirting for Dummies', published by Wiley as part of this well know series.
In 2012 I became co-founder and Chief Executive of Dream Agility and I am also the Director and Technology Partner at Jewellers Ark, the UK's fastest growing independent on-line jewellery retailer.
Dami Patel
Barclays Bank UK PC
I have worked for Barclays Bank UK PLC for 30 years. Throughout my time with Barclays I've worked across many different departments and branches.
I enjoy my leadership role and working closely with local community, upskilling them through the Life Skills Programme and supporting digital awareness using our Digital Eagles. Barclays also assist customers with cyber security and the provide work experience opportunities to local schools.
Kadant UK
Kadant UK has been operating from our Winterburn, Woodhill Road, Bury site since 1973. Our talented team of 85 people, designs and manufactures highly-engineered structures and unique, patented composites of glass and carbon fibre in specially developed, nanotechnology enhanced resins. Kadant UK is the global research & development and production centre for these special composites for all Kadant's operations around the world.
We serve well known customers throughout the UK and over 75% of everything we make is exported around the world to customers who need our products and expertise to keep their production processes operating continuously and efficiently. Kadant UK is growing as new customers seek out our expertise and we are constantly on the look-out for more talented people to join us. We are very proud to contribute to Bury, Manchester and indeed the wider UK economy.
Mike Goodier
Cheetham Hill Construction Ltd
Established in 1966, Cheetham Hill Construction Ltd are a civil engineering contractor based in Bury who work throughout the country undertaking a variety of work types, including pipelines, wind farms, household waste recycling centres, public realm, highway infrastructure, land remediation and reclamation, many on a design and build basis. We are currently on frameworks with Environment Agency and Northern Gas Networks across the North of England.
I commenced working for the company in 1999 on completion of a Civil Engineering BEng (Hons) degree and have worked my way up from Setting Out Engineer to my current position of Director. I became a member of the Bury Business Leadership Group to form links and relationships with other local companies, and to understand opportunities within the local area.
Angela Merotto
Thumps Up (Bury) Ltd
I am the Company Secretary at Thumps Up (Bury) Limited, a manufacturer of plastic products located in Greenfield. Thumbs Up formed in 1980 and rapidly gained a reputation for being one of the most innovative companies in its field.
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Bentley’s Bandstand: June 2019
Bentley's Bandstand Columns Reviews
June 25, 2019 June 26, 2019 Bill Bentley4
By Bill Bentley
Matt Andersen, Halfway Home by Morning. Sounding like it was recorded in a soulful sweat lodge, this is music meant to twist the heart into unique shapes and remind the world that love is a many-splendored thing. Canadian Matt Andersen has a voice that never fails to make the spirit shudder, and writes songs of such depth that he could have been part of the early crew at Muscle Shoals in the mid 1960s. This is an album to be savored for its simplicity as well as its ability to blow the world apart, reminding everyone that music is meant to supply a passion for those who seek salvation when they listen. Andersen’s gifts live right next door to church, and surely have a place with anyone who hopes to get to the hallelujah land while their feet are still planted on the ground. He’s got a band of righteous rockers who also know what’s going on at the dark end of the street, and when he needs them calls in the McCrary Sisters for a knockout backing vocals punch. On a side trip, if Bonnie Raitt doesn’t cover Andersen and Amy Helm’s “Something to Lose,” well, the planet will be missing a lick. Just when it looks like humanity might be heading into the darkness, HALFWAY HOME BY MORNING is here to set the course right and move men and women back into the light. Follow this leader.
Bhi Bhiman, Peace of Mind. Rock & roll is close to 70 years old, give or take an originator or two, and it’s not easy anymore to do something so singular that it stands out as original. But that’s exactly what Bhi Bhiman accomplishes on this nine-song album. Even more, he goes the heady route of doing everything himself: writes the songs (except a devastating cover of Warren Zevon’s “Lawyers, Guns and Money”), plays all the instruments, sings the songs (except for one backing vocal) and produces the whole set alone. Not an easy feat to bring all the way home, and only a few artists–Paul McCartney and Skip Spence come to mind–have handled that solo feat with permanent poise. Bhiman clearly has no fear. His songs zip from aggro power (don’t forget: his early band in the 2000s was called Hippie Grenade) to melodic distinction. Their subjects range from the mess of the modern world and possible reasons for it to love-ridden odes that even suggest possible solutions. Bhi Bhiman’s parents are Sri Lankan, but he was raised in St. Louis, which is about as Middle America as you can find, a perfect place for someone with rock tendencies to develop. Now, he has found a place to make a stand and who knows, find peace of mind. Or not. This music is more a call to arms by someone who clearly wants to enter the debate of how the United States and the world moves forward. PEACE OF MIND begins and ends with “Beyond the Border.” With today’s headlines blaring the news, that’s ground zero for the future. Follow this man.
Murali Coryell, Made in Texas. Time to blow down the doors with a rippin’ and runnin’ take on Texas music and then some. Murali Coryell has been drilling for oil in central Texas’ music fields for a few years, and he most definitely hits a gusher this go-round. Enlisting drummer Ernie Durawa, straight out of San Antonio, was a wise call, and along the way they’re joined by bassist Speedy Sparks, keyboard guru Augie Meyers and a host of other Lone Star Staters. Opening with “Herman Wright,” which also features father Larry Coryell on guitar sets fire to the album. From there the songs twist and turn and include Doug Sahm’s “I Got it Bad,” Luther “Snake Boy” Johnson’s “Woman Don’t Lie,” Bobby Bland’s “I Pity the Fool,” Paul Oscher’s “Satan’s Woman,” Meyers’ “All I Ever Needed” and, yes, Jimmy Webb’s “Wichita Lineman,” along with five Murali Coryell originals. Everything feels like it was inspired by an outdoor dance floor with a Texas sky full of stars, which means the music burns and yearns and always shoots for the moon. Coryell is a deeply soulful singer along with being one of the finest electric guitarists playing anywhere. Mostly blues-based, he’s also capable of reaching out into the cosmos when needed, always zeroing in on emotional bell-ringers to show his stuff. All the way down to artist Kerry Awn’s album cover painting, this music feels like a total celebration of everything Texas has to offer, and a sound that runs from El Paso to Port Arthur, Wichita Falls to Laredo and wherever musical freedom reigns supreme. Bluebonnets and beyond.
Carlo Ditta, Hungry for Love. When the summer gets sizzling in New Orleans’ French Quarter, anything can happen. The rootie toots on Decatur might start doing the Funky Penguin in front of Coop’s Place, or the not-so mellow fellows in the Golden Lantern on Royal could jump up on the bar and knock out a hot version of the Sideways Pony. And, yes, over in Jackson Square a brass band may break into “Cissy Strut” and show everyone what their mamas gave them. That’s just for starters. Carlo Ditta understands the Crescent City as well as anyone alive, whether it’s the deep down voodoo of the Ninth Ward or the more above ground shenanigans up Magazine Street way. Even better, Ditta can translate all that craziness right into his songs, including back-popping originals or sure-handed covers. This is someone who’s going to find the levee and burn it down no matter what. It’s all irreverent and right on at the same time, just like the city that care forgot itself, where there is no substitute for feeling and funkiness. His second album is a sultry lagniappe, and includes the John Fred & the Playboys perennial “Agnes English,” the back-o-town delight “Pass the Hatchet” and even a bulls-eye take on “The House of the Rising Sun.” Everything is played and sung with an inner expression of absolute emotion that can’t be duplicated. And when the drummer is nicknamed “Thunderfoot,” Jerry Jumonville and Andrew Bernard are blowing tenor and the legendary Freddy Staehle (drum king on Dr. John’s all-timer GUMBO album) plays the rain stick and tinker bells on a song, everything is everything. Mos’ scocious mania.
Rickie Lee Jones, Kicks. Sometimes an album arrives and it stops time, like there is nothing else that matters for that moment. It is usually a complete surprise, so the power of it is totally unexpected. This time out Rickie Lee Jones has recorded eleven cover songs, and best of all has made some decidedly surprising choices. Therein lies the beauty, because on first glance it might seem strange for this musical treasure to be singing songs first done by America, Skeeter Davis, Dean Martin, Steve Miller and others. Looking at Jones creativity, though, it makes perfect sense to seek out such left-field choices, because Rickie Lee Jones has made a career of overturning the apple cart and traveling her own road. It’s been that way from the start. Think of when her first album arrived: it was like someone had thrown open the door and let a brand new breeze in. Supported by some of New Orleans’ finest players, along with other imports, these sessions sound like they were a knocked-out joy of unending upness. They arrive right on time, because if ever America needed to share something like the classic “Nagasaki” or Elton John’s “My Father’s Gun,” it is now. Albums like this can reset the cultural clock with their gracious spirit. While it once was sung that kicks just keep getting harder to find, in 2019 start right here. Open all night.
Eleni Mandell, Wake Up Again. This Los Angeles native has made nine solo albums, but none like her latest. There is such an air of accomplishment on this tenth release, Eleni Mandel sounds positively reborn. It might be part of that assurance is because CIRCUMSTANCE was inspired by songwriter classes taught by Mandell in Los Angeles area women’s prisons. There is no getting around the power of that. For nearly two years the singer-songwriter participated in a program co-founded by former MC5 member Wayne Kramer and Billy Bragg. It put Eleni Mandell in a lot of different situations, and most definitely brought forth a palpable feeling of strength and insight. Her voice displays such different shades of soulful beauty it’s like she has embarked on a trip to another side of her musical world. Producer Sheldon Gomberg helps meld her backing trio in a subtle but intriguing approach to the songs, creating an air of quiet graciousness and ethereal emotions in support of Mandell’s singing. Some of the songs were written while she was teaching and participating in the writing assignments with the women in prison. And if that doesn’t get the mojo working, then it’s likely nothing will. “Be Together,” “Box in a Box,” “What’s Your Handle (Radio Wave), “Ghost of a Girl” and seven more songs come together in an album like no other, whether by Eleni Mandell or anyone else.
Ralph Molina, Love & Inspiration. Crazy Horse has always been a band that could take off for the moon on a moment’s notice. They are able to do it on their own, and surely do it playing with Neil Young. It’s one of their more enduring attributes. A single chord, a howling lyric or even the slightest whim, and the Horse is off and running. So imagine the wondrous surprise when Crazy Horse drummer Ralph Molina’s astounding new solo album enters the realm like a breathtaking sunset that very often sounds like a cross between ballads by Brian Wilson and Neil Young. It really is an accomplishment that never falters, through winsome songs like “You Wear an Angel’s Wings,” “Wonderland” and “Follow That Star.” Molina is a great singer. That’s all there is to it. Most likely those that have been near him for decades know this, but for those on hand mostly for Crazy Horse shows, it’s the kind of feeling that can knock a listener over with a feather. Naturally, he wrote all the songs himself with only a few assists, and they aim high, right up to heaven. Best of all, they get there every time. There isn’t likely to be another release this year that is such a glorious gift, and one that is more unexpected. Crazy Horse is now back in the race with Neil Young, and there is no doubt those shows will be mind-blowing on every level. But here’s hoping Ralph Molina can peel off for a night or two and perform this album in its entirety. It is music of the spheres that also belongs down here on earth. Love and inspiration.
Various Artists, Soul Explosion. A half century since its original release, Stax Records’ SOUL EXPLOSION gets to explode all over again. Thinking of all the crazy changes in the world during those 50 years, it’s also mind-boggling to think how things aren’t really that different. The nation is torn in two–granted for different divisional reasons–and the world is winking at war with newfound lust. There just may be another Vietnam staring the United States in the face. What is different, though, is how soul music has morphed completely and the sounds that once ruled the day in 1969 are but a blip on today’s radar compared to how hip-hop has taken over. Spirit-stirring singers like Johnny Taylor, Jimmy Hughes, Eddie Floyd and Carla Thomas were riding high in ’69, leading all races toward a promised land that felt just around the bend. To hear Taylor’s “Who’s Making Love” and Thomas’ “Book of Love” is to know just how significant the emotion of love could rule the world. There’s also some major surprises spread over these two vinyl discs, and an overall abundance of joy and gyration which made life then feel like good things were coming and as long as the power of faith held strong all things were possible. The Staple Singers’ “Long Walk to D.C.” held strong that social action could save the day, something that still rings loud in the United States, and hope was the fuel that drove the engine. Stax Records, a record label surely built on hope, supplied so much of the soundtrack for that walk. Ring them bells.
The Duke Robillard Band, Ear Worms. Not many guitarists get to do exactly what they want, but Duke Robbilard started his musical journey by founding Roomful of Blues, and then eventually continuing with his own aggregation. He’s also toured with Tom Waits and the Fabulous Thunderbirds, among dozens, and recorded with everyone from Bob Dylan to Ruth Brown. This time around Robillard rounds up thirteen tunes, a half-dozen guest vocalists and some of the best songs ever written. It’s like a zigging and zagging history of modern music, and includes permanently great songs like Allen Toussaint’s “Yes We Can,” Arthur Alexander’s “Everyday I Have to Cry Some” and even the obscure but always mind-blowing “Living with the Animals,” written and recorded by Powell St. John when he was a member of San Francisco’s Mother Earth. There is such a mood of celebration that pulses through the whole album that really is irresistible. Duke Robillard is a joyous guitarist, never one to get caught up in any single bag. He knows when to drop the music into the deep-fry, let it get good and greasy and then whip it out to share with listeners. Not one to be a slave to imitation, instead the man makes sure originality rules the road. One listen to the Neville Brothers’ “Yellow Moon” is enough to convince even the most hardcore purist. Music, whether it’s Beethoven or Link Wray, aims for the same center of passion within and either moves the needle or not. EAR WORMS is just that: recordings that won’t soon be forgotten, even when they can’t be remembered. Untangle that when life gets slow. Until then, turn it up and let it loose. Worms R Us.
Mavis Staples, We Get By. The reigning queen of get-down gospel can be none other than Mavis Staples. Coming from her legendary family band The Staple Singers opened the doors for her more than 60 years ago, but much of what she’s accomplished since then is all her own. When she started making solo albums in the 1960s, the world knew a master had moved into the house. Staples’ voice can roar from robust righteousness to a sensuous beauty, often in one song. The past few years have been especially rewarding for the mighty woman from Chicago: working with Ry Cooder, M. Ward and Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy has given her access to a lot of different arenas, and let her share an unstoppable message of love and hope that becomes more necessary every day. Mavis Staples’ new album was produced by Ben Harper, who also wrote the songs, and is about as soul-lifting as can be imagined. It is a moving display of how spiritual music is so directly connected to the street, and the divisions that sometimes divide the two can disappear in a downbeat. The open heart that connects with what all these songs offer is heaven sent, proving that Mavis Staples now walks in her own footsteps, the same ones she’s been making since the singer was a teenager toiling in the fields of the Lord. The rapturous rewards of all those miles of her efforts is heard in every note here, and offers a shining example of a life well-spent. Mavis gets by.
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4 thoughts on “Bentley’s Bandstand: June 2019”
Joe Compton says:
Good News, Brother Bill has a new home and the same great taste
James Larry Deaton says:
I had been waiting for the June offering on the other place. I love this new home (American Highways) which also collects Jeff Burger’s great columns!
bobmerlis says:
Happy that Bill is bandstanding again. Thanks to Melissa Clarke for making that happen.
Rusty Reid says:
Great taste, Bill. Check out my new album “Head to Heart.” A Revolutionary Manifesto in Song!
Rusty Reid.
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World Trade Organisation trading terms: A safety net for the ‘No Deal’ scenario?
Douglas McLachlan
Will WTO rules provide a safety net for a no-deal scenario?
Much has been claimed in Brexit debates about our future ability to trade internationally in reliance of WTO tariffs and new Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). Here we outline what this could mean and ask whether or not will we come to regret our new found trading freedom.
The WTO explained
The WTO is a forum for international trade negotiations. It monitors members’ trade policies and also has a dispute settlement function, of which more later. Its coverage now extends beyond goods to services and intellectual property (including geographic indicators of origin) and some government procurement. After Brexit, WTO law will apply between the EU and the UK, alongside and in addition to any other agreements that are negotiated.
It is a treaty based intergovernmental organisation with a large secretariat based in Geneva. Although not part of the United Nations family of bodies, it does have near global membership, including China (since 2001) and Russia (since 2012). The WTO is the successor body to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (the GATT), which primarily focussed on tariffs and other border barriers to trade and still exists in the form of a legal agreement (GATT 1994) under the WTO framework.
WTO tariffs - how do they work?
Each WTO member has to publish a table listing the customs tariffs to be applied to goods imported to it. These ‘schedules’ are lengthy with complex listing to distinguish between different types of goods. WTO ‘most-favoured-nation’ (MFN) rules require all WTO members to be treated equally – with preferences granted to one country extended all other WTO members. Hence the UK cannot, in principle, decide to simply waive duties on EU goods without waiving duties on the same goods from elsewhere, unless it enters into a comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the EU.
Free Trade Agreements - how soon after Brexit will we have these?
The principal goal of FTAs on goods and services are to seek to remove or reduce tariffs and non-tariff barriers to trade such as quotas and discriminatory regulations between the countries which are parties to the agreement. Frictionless trade and the efficient movement of materials, components and finished goods are crucial key business factors, with just over a third of UK traders relying on just-in-time delivery.
WTO rules permit them as an exception to MFN rules in defined circumstances. It is important nonetheless to appreciate that FTAs must cover all trade between the countries in question, not just particular types of products or sectors (such as motor vehicles or agriculture). Negotiations are never straight forward, nor are they quick. The EU – Canada FTA took 8 years to agree, which is why many experts question how soon after Brexit the UK will have new FTAs in place with the EU and indeed the rest of the World.
The EU currently has around 40 FTAs with 70 countries, which impact on 12% of UK trade. Whether those countries will agree to the UK continuing to benefit from the deals agreed with the EU during any transition period under a negotiated Brexit settlement, or ultimately to terms no worse than those with the EU on Brexit (on whatever basis) without concessions remains to be seen. In either case, there will need to be a negotiation with the other country as some existing provisions will not be capable of simply being copied over. The prospect of the UK entering into a network of FTAs with countries such as the USA, Australia, New Zealand, China etc. is one of the two key prizes (the other being greater Sovereignty) that motivates many who favour the UK leaving the EU.
Whilst WTO rules and specific FTAs may provide a basis for our trading with remaining EU members and other nations in the future, it should be appreciated that WTO rules do not remove the need for import / export paperwork (or checks on livestock etc.), provide rights for hauliers to operate in the EU, provide mutual recognition of product standards or professional qualifications, or provide for free cross-border flows of data. Our article on Authorised Economic Operator Status will provide further reading around this subject.
WTO disputes are only for the mighty!
Equally, while the WTO has a well-respected disputes settlement mechanism, only member states (and not individuals or companies) can bring a case. This means a company suffering discrimination would need to lobby its government to raise a case. There are no retrospective remedies and no awards of damages.
In effect, even if a case is successfully raised, there can be several years of ‘free’ violation before any judgement. This is a substantially weaker position than the present right for any person or company trading in the EU to bring proceedings directly in the courts and to seek damages or specific court orders. This means that only large, well-funded businesses or industries are likely to be in a position to persuade the UK Government to bring proceedings and to ride out the dispute.
In any event, the WTO’s dispute resolution process has all but ground to a halt and is in crisis, because the USA has ceased granting approval of appointments to judges to its Appellate Body (and the system requires unanimity). There are a number of reasons for this, including what the US considers to be the Appellate Body’s judicial activism and overreach. The WTO’s system, it seems, is not immune to the criticisms that have been made of the European Court of Justice.
Leaving the EU without a trade deal - is the price worth paying?
While there is little doubt that the WTO has achieved substantial success in reducing tariffs, non-tariff barriers and quotas across the globe, it takes a fundamentally different approach to trade than the EU’s Single Market. While the WTO system does offer a default ‘safety net’ if the UK leaves the EU without a trade deal, there will undoubtedly be some more friction in the trading system and the sudden imposition of external tariffs may pose significant challenges to certain industries like agriculture, food and drink, cars etc.
That said, Article XXIV of GATT 1994 and contains a potential a glimmer of hope that tariffs might not have to be imposed suddenly as it allows for the possibility of an ‘interim agreement’, or an agreement leading within a certain period to the establishment of a customs union or free-trade area. The WTO Understanding on the Interpretation of Article XXIV states that this period should not exceed 10 years. There is an equivalent provision in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).
There remains some debate about how effective this arrangement would be because: (i) the UK and the EU would still have to reach a deal; (ii) that deal would need to include a plan and timetable for reaching the final agreement; and (iii) the WTO membership could demand changes.
While it’s possible that the UK and the EU will co-operate out of urgency to avoid suddenly imposing tariffs after Brexit, it seems likely that it would at best only offer limited cover while they frantically try to reach a more stable and comprehensive deal, something that has eluded them to date.
Accordingly, whichever way you look at it, it seems likely that trading on WTO terms will still require businesses, farmers, producers and employers to make significant adjustments to their arrangements in a hurry and all that will come at a cost.
The questions being endlessly debated right now are; just how high a cost that will be and is it worth paying?
For more information on Brexit, please contact
douglas.mclachlan@andersonstrathern.co.uk
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's kids will have this surname
By Meaghan Wray
Now that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are officially the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, a question has weighed on the minds of royal fans: when are they going to have children? While the 36-year-old is not known to be expecting, we do know that their future kids will not be sharing a surname with their cousins, Prince William and Duchess Kate’s three kids – they will, in fact, be Sussexes.
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While this isn’t written in stone, it can be assumed given that Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis all have the Cambridge family name after their parents’ official titles, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Similarly, both Prince William and Prince Harry carried their father’s surname of Wales, as Prince Charles is the Prince of Wales. Once they were married, however, Her Majesty granted them new titles and their children take these on once they are born. Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice use the last name ‘York,’ as their father, Prince Andrew, is the Duke of York.
Meghan shared a sweet moment with a little boy while in Ireland. Photo: © Chris Jackson/Getty Images
So, all signs point to Sussex! As Prince George and Princess Charlotte are both enrolled in school and nursery as Cambridges, so too will the future children of the new Duke and Duchess of Sussex likely be enrolled with that surname. But by the public eye, as all members of the Royal Family before them, they will only be referred to by first name, preceded by His or Her Royal Highness.
In 1960, as per the Royal Family’s official website, the Queen and her husband, Prince Philip , decided that their descendant would take on the surname ‘Mountbatten-Windsor,’ to pay tribute to both of their last names and set them apart from the rest of the family.
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Record year for regional airport operator
Regional airport operator HIAL has handled more passengers than ever, according to latest figures for the last financial year.
The airport group, which operates 11 airports across Scotland, handled 1,437,625 passengers in 2015/16, up by more than 6000 on the previous year. Inverness Airport, the busiest in the group, added more than 13,000 passengers during the year. Smaller island airports such as Tiree and Barra - this year celebrating its 80th anniversary - enjoyed strong growth, with passenger numbers up 12% and 10.7% respectively. Dundee, where Flybe is about to launch a new Amsterdam service, also performed well.
Inglis Lyon, Managing Director of HIAL, said: "This has been a good year for HIAL's airports. Despite the downturn in the energy sector, a key market for HIAL, passenger numbers increased during the year.
“Our smaller island airports performed extremely well, as did Inverness and Dundee, both of which will see expansion in the coming months as a result of new routes.
“We have worked hard to improve connectivity across our group, with new aircraft serving the communities of Barra, Tiree and Campbeltown and new air services due to launch at Inverness and Dundee. As a result of our strengthening route network, regional Scotland is now better connected than ever before."
Meanwhile, figures for the first quarter of 2016 show a drop in passenger numbers across the group, a result of the downturn in energy sector traffic at Wick John O’Groats and Sumburgh airports, and the loss of Flybe’s Inverness to London City service, which operated in the first quarter of 2015 but was then discontinued. However, the new financial year is expected to be one of the busiest in Inverness Airport’s history as easyJet expands and British Airways and KLM launch new flights to Heathrow and Amsterdam respectively. Holiday airlines Thomson and First Choice have also confirmed new summer flights to Majorca in 2017.
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Air Discount Scheme Renewed And Extended To Sutherland
The Air Discount Scheme (ADS) which provides cheaper air travel for islands and north Highland residents has been extended. The scheme month has been renewed until 31 December 2020.
Wick John O'Groats Airport Will Be Involved In Strike Action
Prospect air traffic controllers in the Highlands and Islands to strike on 26th April 2019 over pay. Prospect air traffic controllers working for Highlands and Islands Airport Limited will be taking strike action on the 26th of April in relation to their 2018-19 pay offer.
Prospect Ballots Air Traffic Controllers In Highlands And Islands Airports On Pay
Prospect has confirmed arrangements for balloting air traffic controllers at Highlands and Islands Airports Limited on industrial action. The ballot will open on 11 February and close on 1 March.
Strong run of growth continues at HIAL
Airport operator HIAL's strong run of growth in 2015 continued in the last quarter according to latest figures. In the third quarter (July to September), the group recorded an extra 12,522 passengers (up 3.1%) compared to the same period in 2014.
More Energy Related Business But Numbers Down At Wick John O'Groats Airport
Island airports soar but overall numbers dip slightly at HIAL. Passenger numbers at HIAL's regional airport fell slightly in the third quarter of the year, though a number of island airports reported soaring growth.
HIAL invests for the future as passenger numbers reach all time high
Passenger numbers at regional airport operator HIAL climbed to their highest ever level in the latest financial year, as the group stepped up its investment for the future. The company's annual report and accounts for the year 2013/14 show that almost 70,000 extra passengers used the group's 11 airports during the year.
Island airports deliver passenger growth for HIAL
Passenger numbers at HIAL's regional airports grew by almost 8000 during the last quarter, with the group's island airports driving growth. Latest figures for the last quarter (April - June) show that passenger numbers at HIAL’s 11 airports grew by 7806, an increase of 2.2% on the same quarter last year.
HIAL Airports Record Busiest Ever Year
* Energy sector drives huge growth at Sumburgh and Wick John O’Groats * Extra 70,000 passengers across the group * Sumburgh is Scotland’s fastest growing airport * Inverness enjoys best performance for five years * But smaller airports affected by reduced capacity Scottish regional airport operator HIAL has recorded its busiest ever year, attracting an extra 70,000 passengers over the past 12 months, according to latest figures. HIAL’s 11 airports handled 1,367,342 passengers in the 2013/14 financial year, an increase of 5.4% on the previous year (an additional 69,666 passengers).
Business and tourism boost for regional airports
Increased demand for business and tourism flights saw passenger numbers grow by more than 5,100 at HIAL’s regional airports last month. Latest figures show the number of passengers using the airports in February increased by 5.9% to 92,607, compared to February 2013.
Wick John OGroats Airport well Placed To Become Energy Gateway
Wick John O'Groats Airport is well placed to capture a greater share of the energy market, says Airport Station Manager William Sutherland. His remarks followed a visit by Alan Simpson, Integrated Planning and Turnaround Manager at Chevron, to mark the end of the company's year-long presence at the airport.
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How did you get into belly dancing?
I started belly dancing when I was 34 or 35. In the early 90's, I went to a women's event that had belly dancers and I said to my friend, "Oh, that looks fun, maybe I should try that!" and coincidentally my friend was taking belly dancing classes already and invited me along! That's how it all started! I had done limited ballet when I was a little girl, but that's it. I was not a performer, and I certainly was not a dancer.
How did you transition from starting belly dancing as a hobby to founding Belly Dance New England?
It creeps upon you! I think this is addictive for many women, from the start I loved it. It was something I could do-- It didn’t require the athleticism of ballet or modern dance, and these are moves that suited my body, I could actually feel like I was getting it right away. Obviously, there were some struggles but it was something that I could rock right away and the moves didn’t feel uncomfortable or strange on my body-- I’ve always been very curvaceous. The belly dancing classes were wonderful, there was always a sense of camaraderie and so right away for me it was a lot of fun. When I walked into that first class, I never imagined that I would be teaching or performing. You get addicted, you go to classes, then you go to more classes. Our teacher had a recital and she has us work on our costumes, and of course there’s bling so you get into the bling and that’s super fun to wear! It escalates very easily!
Several members of my class and I formed in the late 90’s, a little troupe of students and we performed at fairs and outdoor festivals and it was around 1995, I think, and one of our great Middle-Eastern belly dance musicians, George Abdo was having a birthday party so our troupe performed that night for him and we did choreography to one of his songs. That same night, at the other end of the state a really big name dancer from New York was giving a workshop and show and neither end of the state knew what was going on at the other end. This was in the mid 90’s and I was a professional tech writer for many years and I thought, well something has to change so I started a newsletter called Middle Eastern Dance of New England and listed events, teachers, and classes and it was maybe originally six pages but then over the years it grew to be a magazine, Belly Dance New England. The website was a part of it, but for a long time it was a publication and I charged for it and did the website on my own but then in the mid 2000’s I moved the magazine online.
Now it seems to be an aggregate for everything belly dance related with events, articles, ads, etc it seems to be a go to for everything belly dancing!
Yeah that was my goal, I wanted to create a sort of portal for belly dancing.
What goes into a belly dancing show? Is it choreographed or improvised?
In belly dance’s true form, you’re not watching choreography, you’re watching improvisation so when you see a dance, it’s one-of-its-kind. Back in the day, in the 50’s and 60's in the heyday of belly dancing, dancers would dance to live music and with live music, you never know quite what the band is going to play so skills that belly dancers were taught was the ability to improvise. You learn rhythms and music, and how to adapt and recognize them and you have an idea of how to dance to them. In the east coast, we had a performance structure called The Five Part Routine which was a performance construct that was a structured routine and it had an Opening, a Veil Piece, a Taksim, a Drum Solo, and then a Closing. This Five Part Routine gave you a format that you could understand and structure your performance to. When I say improvisation, I mean structured improvisation, like jazz.
Sadly nowadays there’s much less live music so I do a lot of performance to CD but the roots of the dance were to improvisation. You’re really creating in the moment with the band because you never know what’s going to happen. When I first started taking belly dance and learned that’s what happened, it scared the crap out of me but then the first time you do it, it’s addictive. There’s nothing like dancing with live music and your training supports that. It’s not as if you're just thrown out into the maelstrom! Belly dancers training supports that. Musicians really want to work with you, it’s really a collaboration.
What is belly dancing a mixture of?
Belly dancing is a set of moves. The moves that we learn in America come from everywhere. The belly dance truly probably has its roots in North Africa and it is an outcropping of folk-dance. Belly dancing is really based on the folk dancing of those regions. There’s really no belly dancing in Armenia or Greece before the Ottoman Invasion, but when the Armenians came here to Boston and when the Greeks came here and the Syrians, before the Civil War in the 60’s, they were lonely for their homelands and they got together and played their music. What happened here in Boston was very unique, because Boston was so much smaller but you had these immigrant communities come together because they have shared food and geographical and political strife and a lot of their music was similar in terms of rhythms, and so they came together and they learned each others music and created this melting pot. That’s really the origin of the Boston belly dancing scene and it was very unique. The Armenians brought the Turkish repertoire, the Arabs had their music and the Greeks had their music and that was magical.
Then in 1952, the magic happened. The first Middle Eastern club with live entertainment opened in Boston, it was called Club Zara.
Tell me about Aziza!
Yeah, so we’re working on a documentary! In the early 2000’s, for my tenth anniversary of Belly Dance New England, I wanted to do something really special. A lot of the belly dance teachers came up in that nightclub era of the 1950s and I felt like I’d missed out on something big. I wanted to honor Boston’s belly dance history and legacy so I met this photographer, Michael Baxter and interviewed him for my magazine. He had this appreciation for dance that was just overwhelming and amazing so I approached him about a collaboration of photographing the legends of Boston belly dance. For several years, we put together these amazing photo shoots and I wasn’t sure what I would do with it but I just wanted to capture these people, I mean none of us are getting any younger!
In the middle of all of this, I got a call from a friend who mentioned that I should do a documentary and I was like “Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever, I’m up to my neck with these photoshoots and learning on the job about producing photoshoots!” but then a few days later, I got another call from another dancer and she was like, “I heard you’re doing a documentary!” So I was like, “Okay, I guess this is a sign!” That’s how this started! My friend was also a journalist by training and she was working with a local documentary company on another documentary and we started doing a lot of work and now we do have a sampler, which is used for funding pitches. We tried our best but the project went dormant for several years. Last year, I semi-retired and had a little more time on my hands so I took a class on the History of Belly Dance with a wonderful dancer in Vermont named Amity Alize and her approach is the whole world; she teaches Egypt and Turkey and Lebanon, but she also has an American section and we had a project for this class and so I thought to revise my research. I gave a presentation on my research and about how pivotal Boston was, and I got the bug again and reconnected with my producing partner and now I'm pursuing the history part in a separate story. The history has to be done because people are starting to die, I feel like I have a fire under me. I don’t know what the end result will look like but I’m very excited about it.
What the most surprising thing you've learned?
A couple things that weren’t so much surprising but interesting: What happens here in Boston and New York is something uniquely American and when you see a dancer performing, that’s not how belly dance was originally performed in Egypt or anywhere else, it was really shaped by these musicians coming together and sharing their repertoire and dancers sharing their own experiences with each other. There’s an ethno-musicologist, Anne Rasmussen who wrote her PhD thesis on the Arab-American musicians, and a lot of her research was done in Boston in the mid-to-late 80’s about how what was happening in the club was really a creation of the time. What came out of all that was something uniquely American. There’s a style called American Tribal Style that came out of California and some people claim that it’s not Middle-Eastern, but it’s based on Middle-Eastern dance and it’s something that’s uniquely American. Art evolves. Art changes. Jazz and tap come from dances that the slaves brought over. Jazz comes from that music! There are many belly dance purists and there’s nothing wrong with that because we need people to remember how things were, but I think it’s kind of exciting that America put its own stamp on this art form in many ways.
Belly dance was originally done in the restaurants and the streets, it was a dance of the people. It’s a good historical document, but it remains stagnant. I feel like personally, I think people need to relax a little bit. You asked what was surprising but I feel like what happened here and in New York has helped belly dancers shape their craft. This melting pot is really only something that could have happened here in America.
What do you think is the most common misconception people have of belly dancing?
That it’s burlesque. That it’s erotic dance. There’s a whole genre of performance that’s designed to titillate and arouse, and those are art forms in and of themselves. I had an older dancer tell me that the classic strippers of the 50’s could make a whole routine out of taking off a glove. It can be this amazing, amazing art form. But belly dancing is not designed to titillate. I‘m not saying it can’t, but the intention is not to do that. Some researchers have said that these dances may come from fertility dances and think about it-- you’ve got the hips going and for many that could be an eroticized area. But when you go out to perform, that’s not the central goal. Because of what belly dancers wear and because some of the moves, I think people assume that erotic dancing and belly dancing are all part of the same genre, and not for nothing! I mean, back in the day, at the end of the 19th-century, belly dancers were put in the circus along with the burlesque. Just think of the Victorian Era, they were moving their hips! Like, call the police!!
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16 Quotes About Tech Privacy That'll Make You Think - Search Encrypt Blog
16 Quotes About Tech Privacy That’ll Make You Think
July 9, 2019 by Search Encrypt
As more and more of our lives becomes fully integrated with technology and internet connected tools, privacy becomes more important and more controversial. It’s important to consider the privacy implications of using certain tools, and deciding if it does enough to keep your data private. There have been a number of high profile data breaches in the past few years and each seems to come as a shock, even though companies collecting your data have to disclose that they’re doing so. These quotes are from some of the most influential minds in the tech and privacy sectors, and will make you reconsider your approach to internet privacy.
“I’m speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about their personal information. They’re gobbling up everything they can learn about you and trying to monetize it. We think that’s wrong. And it’s not the kind of company that Apple wants to be.” -Tim Cook
There are too many companies collecting people’s information for marketing purposes, that people feel like there’s nothing they can do. The companies collecting the most user data happen to be the largest and most recognizable names in tech. People are willing to trust these companies with their data, even if it’s not in their best interest. Apple has maintained a strong public stance on privacy as other companies come under fire.
“Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people’s privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.” -Darrell Issa
If a hacker were able to crack into an ISP, they could potentially monitor internet activity for all of that service provider’s users. Their end goal is primarily to access information that they can use to make money. These types of threats could come from an individual, or a group of hackers looking to further their business interests.
“I really believe that we don’t have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.” -John Poindexter
It’s interesting that even as technology has advanced to its current level, many of the top companies fail to adapt to privacy concerns expressed by their user bases. The same innovation that created Facebook, Google and Amazon could be applied to making these products both user-friendly and privacy-friendly.
“If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can’t get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.” -Bruce Schneier
Security expert Bruce Schneier explains one of his biggest concerns with using biometric information as an authentication measure. While something like a password can be changed, if biometric information can be mimicked or hacked, it’s impossible to change that information.
“It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it’s expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.” -Clay Shirky
People have become so comfortable sharing their information with their friends, websites they visit, and businesses that it’s easier to find things out about people than ever. Prior to the age of mass sharing on social media, people’s lives were “private” by default. It was much easier to keep certain aspects of your life private.
“Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.” -John Perry Barlow
There has been a lot of conversation about how to best control tech companies and the massive power they’ve amassed. John Perry Barlow makes a good point that the government solving our privacy issues is a long shot. In the U.S. specifically, the government has many different agencies that are focused on monitoring citizens in the interest of national security. For the government, having platforms like Facebook and Google making people comfortable with sharing their data makes surveillance much easier.
“Taking privacy cues from the federal government is – to say the least – ironic, considering today’s Orwellian level of surveillance. At virtually any given time outside of one’s own home, an American citizen can reasonably assume his movements and actions are being monitored by something, by somebody, somewhere.” -Bob Barr
Government surveillance is concerning because if it becomes “normal”, any reasonable expectation of privacy a person may have will be lost. The other worrisome form of surveillance comes from private businesses like Google. For example, if you use an Android device, you’re likely sharing your location data with Google at all times. The scary thing is that while government agencies may not have access to your devices, they may have access to any of the data that these companies store on their servers. Anyone could access your data through a subpoena, if they can prove that them accessing your data is relevant and necessary to a legal case.
“The bigger the network, the harder it is to leave. Many users find it too daunting to start afresh on a new site, so they quietly consent to Facebook’s privacy bullying.” -Evgeny Morozov
Morozov explains how the network effects of social media and other tools keep users around. Even as news broke about Facebook’s lack of concern for people’s data privacy, the majority of Facebook users remained active. People feel like Facebook is their only choice for connecting with their friends, because that’s the social network that their friends use. The alternative is a privacy-focused social network that undoubtedly has a minor fraction of the users Facebook has.
“The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.” -Earl Warren
Because the majority of our communication now happens in a digital format, there are more records of our interactions than ever. Prior to this shift, there was information about who sent a message, the contents of the message and finally who received the message. Now there is metadata associated with many of our communication channels that reveal who you are, where you are, which device you’re using, what network you’re on and other potentially sensitive information.
“We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.” -Bill McCollum
It is interesting that people generally want more privacy when it comes to internet services, but are also fascinated the idea of a “hacker” cracking into different computer systems. People think that a hacker accessing data from a big server is exciting and fascinating, yet the effects of this
“When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.” -David Brin
This argument parallels the privacy versus security discussion. People want everyone else to have no privacy, in order to preserve their own sense of security. However, not many people are willing to sacrifice their own privacy.
“Whether it’s Facebook or Google or the other companies, that basic principle that users should be able to see and control information about them that they themselves have revealed to the companies is not baked into how the companies work. But it’s bigger than privacy. Privacy is about what you’re willing to reveal about yourself.” -Eli Pariser
People are demanding that Facebook, Google and other platforms give them privacy, but it’s an even bigger issue than that. For the most part, big companies like Google and Facebook offer very little transparency into the data they collect and how they do so. People should be given control over which information the company can collect and use.
“You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else’s mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.” -E.A. Bucchianeri
It’s so strange that letters sent in the mail have such strict laws protecting the privacy of the contents of those letters, but the internet has next to nothing. Messages sent on the internet, for the most part, can be assumed to be accessible by the platform you use to send them. Governing the internet has proved to be extremely complex and difficult for legislators.
“If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.” -Philip Zimmermann
There are a few countries in the world that have moved towards outlawing encryption and other privacy technology. Their motivation is typically to make it more difficult for criminals or terrorists to operate in private. However, making privacy efforts illegal will leave normal people powerless against a government that knows everything about them, while criminal organizations will continue to operate covertly.
“Like many of you, we at Apple reject the idea that our customers should have to make trade-offs between privacy and security. We can, and we must provide both in equal measure. We believe that people have a fundamental right to privacy. The American people demand it, the constitution demands it, morality demands it.” -Tim Cook
Apple’s CEO explains that people shouldn’t have to make sacrifices in exchange for privacy. It’s encouraging that one of the largest companies in the world is taking privacy seriously, and putting it into practice in a user-friendly way. People have been sold the idea that to get the most out of technology, as far as customization and convenience go, they have to give up their privacy.
“Privacy means people know what they’re signing up for, in plain language, and repeatedly. I believe people are smart. Some people want to share more than other people do. Ask them.” -Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was likely a big reason that Apple has been so focused on incorporating privacy into their products and services. Jobs’ explanation of privacy is quite simple, even as people still struggle to define what privacy really means. He explains that he thinks people are capable of judging for themselves which information they share.
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Research article | Open | Open Peer Review | Published: 21 July 2015
The adoption of a new diagnostic technology for tuberculosis in two Brazilian cities from the perspective of patients and healthcare workers: a qualitative study
Kenneth R. de Camargo Jr1,
Carla R. Guedes2,
Rosângela Caetano1,
Alexandre Menezes3 &
Anete Trajman4
This article presents the qualitative component linked to a larger study of implementation of the Xpert™ MTB/Rif technology in two Brazilian cities. Despite intrinsic advantages of new health technologies, its introduction can be disruptive to existing routines, and it is thus important to understand how these innovations are perceived by the different groups involved in its regular use.
This study was based on semi-structured interviews with patients, lab technicians, health care workers and managers involved with diagnosis and care of Tuberculosis (TB). The interviews had their content analyzed in order to abstract the different perspectives for the various actors.
For patients the changes were not perceived as significant, since their greatest concerns were related to treatment and the stigma associated with TB. The professionals in general welcomed the new technique, which dramatically decreases the workload, time and reliability of diagnosis, in their view. However, we noted difficulties with the concomitant implementation of new IT technology for recording and reporting test results, which negatively impacted the time necessary to get lab diagnosis to physicians.
Through this analysis we detected some bottlenecks in the surrounding environment, not necessarily linked to the technology itself but which could hamper considerably its advantages.
Tuberculosis (TB) is a curable disease with high treatment success rates. Nevertheless, it figures among the top ten causes of death worldwide, with 9.4 million new cases and 1.68 million deaths in 2009, 380,000 of which occurred in HIV-positive individuals. The emergence of drug-resistant forms of TB, particular to rifampin, a highly effective drug used worldwide, and their rapid spread in Asian, African and East European countries are a particular concern [1].
Early detection of both the sensitive and resistant forms of the disease reduces loss in quality of life, morbidity, deaths and prevents the transmission of drug sensitive and resistant TB. However, a major obstacle in the control of TB is the delay in diagnosis. The provision of diagnostic services is inadequate due to the organization and infrastructure of the health services network, and to limitations of the technologies currently used, such as sputum smear and culture for Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). The sensitivity of the former is low (especially among patients with HIV co-infection and children) and requires two patient visits to the clinic to provide the material: at least two samples are required to attain optimal, yet very low, sensitivity (around 70 %). Sensitivity of smears is even lower in paucibacillary forms of pulmonary disease, as in children and in patients infected with TB and HI. It should be noted R. de Camargothat sputum smear is a fully manual, labor-intensive process whose quality is entirely dependent on technicians’ expertise, and fluctuations in the processing influence heavily the test’s diagnostic properties. Sensitivity of culture is over 90 %, but long delays in providing results reduce its applicability for rapid medical decision and infrastructure bottlenecks hamper its wide availability in developing countries [2].
Brazil is among the 22 countries with the highest TB burden. The estimate by World Health Organization (WHO) for 2011 was 91,000 new cases and 4,900 deaths in the country [1]. Th diagnosis of pulmonary TB in Brazil relies almost exclusively on sputum smears, offered free of charge by the national health care system (Sistema Único de Saúde, or SUS). The National TB Control Program (Programa Nacional de Controle da Tuberculose – PNCT) recommends the use of culture (and drug sensitivity tests if appropriate) for diagnosing TB when specimens are difficult to obtain, in cases with a high probability of resistance and in those with usual negative smears [3]. In practice, Brazil has more than one third of new TB cases reported without bacteriological confirmation. It is estimated that 20 % of them do not represent true cases of TB, which means delay in correct diagnosis and unnecessary exposure to the risk of liver toxicity and other adverse effects from tuberculostatics [4, 5]. On the other hand, the WHO estimates that only 79 % of new and relapsed cases are detected in Brazil [1], leaving a considerable number of patients without proper care and hindering the control of the disease in the country.
After a century of virtual stagnation, new technologies for the detection of MTB are being developed, mostly based on molecular methods. One of these new technologies is the automated polymerase chain reaction-based test Xpert™ MTB/Rif, for the rapid detection of MTB and rifampicin resistance. The new test has been considered a milestone for the global control of TB, because of its high sensitivity and specificity both for detecting MTB and resistance to rifampin [2], as well as its ability to deliver results in less than two hours. In December 2010, the WHO recommended the adoption of the Xpert™ MTB/Rif [6]. The Brazilian Ministry of Health approved the incorporation of this method in March 2013, after an implementation pilot study in two high TB-incidence cities, Manaus and Rio de Janeiro.
The GeneXpert ™ MTB/Rif test performed on the GeneXpert ™ MTB/Rif system is a rapid molecular test for the detection of MTB and rifampicin resistance. It consists of a GeneXpert instrument, personal computer and net disposable cartridges. The system combines sample preparation in cartridges and the amplification and detection of nucleic acid DN in a fully integrated and automated instrument for analysis (Fig. 1).
Operating cycle of the GeneXpert™ MTB/Rif equipment
The test is based on the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). A number of molecular beacons are used simultaneously to detect the presence of MTB and to diagnose rifampicin resistance as a surrogate marker for multidrug resistant disease. Species-specific primers allow the amplification of the rpoB central region of MTB DNA. Nested PCR is used to increase the sensitivity of the assay. The manual pre-treatment of the sample for the test comprises the following steps: the technician adds the buffer to sputum samples and a defined volume of this mixture is transferred to the sample chamber of the cartridge, which is then inserted into the instrument. From this point, all steps are automated: the GeneXpert ™ first catches the MTB organisms from the sputum sample in a filtering membrane. The inhibitors are then washed away from the captured cells with the buffer solution. Finally, captured cells are washed and lysed with ultrasonic energy and the released DNA is eluted through the filter membrane. The DNA solution is finally mixed with dried PCR reagents and transferred to the PCR tube for PCR and real-time detection. The cartridges are disposable and contain: i) chambers to maintain the samples and reagents; ii) a valve body comprising a piston and syringe; iii) a rotary valve system to control the movement of fluids between chambers; iv) an area for cell capturing, concentrating, washing and lysis; v) lyophilized reagents of real time PCR buffer and wash solutions; and vi) An integrated PCR reaction tube which is filled automatically by the instrument. The total processing time is 1 h and 45 min.
There has been a recent increase in the literature on innovations in health [7–10], which points out that the process of diffusion of new technologies within health care systems is complex and determined by multiple factors that can hamper or facilitate their adoption. Innovations in health – new technologies, new services and/or processes – are usually implemented with the goal of having better outcomes, more managerial effectiveness, increase cost-effectiveness or users’ experience, or any combination of those. Despite any putative advantages, however, the introduction of new technologies can be disruptive of established professional roles and processes, especially in the case of TB in which diagnostic routines have remained unchanged for decades. This can elicit various forms of resistance from the different actors involved in the process, and if that does happen, the new technology will operate at a sub-optimal level (if at all), without granting its full benefits to the various professionals and patients depending on it [11–13].
A better understanding of the elements that can influence and shape the adoption of this new technology will help the effort to introduce the test in the clinical practice and health care facilities in the country, and, consequently, contribute to the control of the disease. The goal of this study is, thus, to qualitatively evaluate the repercussions of the adoption of the Xpert™ MTB/Rif in the Brazilian Health System from the perspective of patients, health professionals and managers, considering aspects such as understanding, perception and meaning that usually are not easily amenable to quantitative approaches.
The present study was a component of a larger implementation study, and the sites for the collection of empirical data were healthcare facilities in two Brazilian cities with high burdens of TB (Rio de Janeiro and Manaus), where the implementation study was carried out. We chose two of the ten selected areas in Rio de Janeiro, and an additional site in Manaus, according to criteria of accessibility and implementation of the new technology. The pilot implementation study was conducted in labs serving the primary care network covering the vast majority of new TB cases in both cities. The focus on primary care facilities was determined by the NTCP and local health authorities, considering the eventual applicability of this technology in the Brazilian context. In the city of Rio de Janeiro, the field sites for the qualitative research were a family clinic and a polyclinic. In Manaus, the chosen site was a polyclinic, which serves as a reference center for TB care in the city.
The qualitative component encompassed three perspectives: patients, healthcare professionals and managers.
The patients’ perspective
Two sets of interviews were conducted with patients referred for diagnostic procedures for TB, the first set with patients whose diagnoses were based on smears and the others with patients diagnosed after the introduction of the Xpert™ MTB/Rif technology. Patients were interviewed after a visit to the TB clinic.
We used a variation of the traditional in-depth interview, a semi-structured interview; in those, the interviewer has in mind a set of topics that (s)he intends to be addressed by the interviewee, but they are not formulated as questions, and do not have a rigid sequence. As the conversation flows, the interviewer will attempt, with minimal disruption, to cover the topics [14]. The interview is a process of producing a shared narrative between interviewer and interviewee [15], and caution must be taken not to induce responses that would cater to what they suppose interviewers might be interested in hearing. Thus, we selected trained interviewers with previous experience in this methodology, which were instructed to indirectly approach the issues we wanted to address. Three interviewers conducted the interviews, under the direct supervision of one of the authors throughout the fieldwork.
The interviews were recorded and transcribed. There was no preset number of respondents, the necessary number of interviews was established by the saturation criterion, “when new data appear to add little to the understanding of the phenomenon, at least in terms of how it applies to the material investigated” [16] p65. Thus, no other patients were recruited when new interviews ceased to add new information about what was being sought in the study.
In Rio de Janeiro, eleven patients diagnosed with smears (6 men and 5 women with ages ranging 20–58 years) and nine diagnosed with Xpert™ MTB/Rif (5 men and 4 women with ages ranging 16–59 years) were interviewed. In Manaus, ten interviews were conducted with patients diagnosed with the new technology (5 men and 4 women with ages ranging 19–85 years). We did not interview patients diagnosed with smears in Manaus, since at the time of the fieldwork the new technology was fully implemented in the clinic.
The following outline of issues were addressed:
Description of the steps to get to the clinic, identifying hurdles (queuing, scheduling, difficulties leaving the workplace);
Views on TB and its consequences;
Expectations regarding the diagnostic process;
Assessment of how the diagnostic process was handled to this point;
Main concerns and worries.
The healthcare professionals’ perspective
We used a modified version of a technique developed by Merhy and Franco [17], the diagnostic flowchart, a specialized form of group interview. This technique is akin to a focus group, but the task that the group is required to discuss, in the original formulation, is the trajectory of patients within a specific health care service; in our case, we adapted this to discuss the trajectory of test samples and results. It should be noted that although the explicit objective of the group is to produce a flowchart, the actual dynamics of their interaction is what is really relevant. The process of discussion often results in bringing to the forefront all sorts of issues that are usually dealt without reflection, that are taken for granted, but may have great importance in the daily operation. All professionals involved in the process were gathered and they were invited to draw up, with the help of a facilitator, a flowchart that describes the steps the patient takes once it enters the unit, tracing them all the way to the end of the diagnostic process. In this case, it was adapted to include the intralaboratorial steps, retracing all the way down to the formulation of a final laboratorial diagnosis.
Two flowcharts were traced on each site, one regarding workflow before and one after the introduction of the new technique. During the preparation of the flowchart, the conversation with the team was also recorded, and this material was analyzed in the same way as the interviews.
At the Rio de Janeiro site, a physician, a nurse, a laboratory technician and an administrative staff member were involved in the preparation of the flowcharts. In Manaus, the director of the facility, one municipal health official, a physician, two nurses, a receptionist and a lab technician participated. The three field researchers participated in all the group meetings to elaborate the flowcharts.
The managers’ perspective
We interviewed key informants at the research sites and higher-ranking positions of local health departments. They were interviewed after the introduction of the new technology.
The interviews were focused on the evaluation of the respondents about what has changed, what would be, in their opinion, the pros and cons of the new process and how they viewed the prospect of its expansion within the SUS. In Rio de Janeiro, the interviews were conducted with officers in two senior positions at the city’s health department, two laboratory directors and two officers of the facilities that served as research sites. In Manaus, three managers were interviewed: the director of the Polyclinic, a city health officer and a state health officer.
All transcripts were subjected to a content analysis [18] as a means to reduce and structure a large unstructured textual body. The text corpus was read looking for recurrences within the text and developing coding categories that could be applied to similar segments of text. Text segments coded in the same way produced synthetic aggregates and summaries were produced from such groups.
The flowcharts were compared, with emphasis on a before/after analysis, seeking to identify the changes produced by the introduction of the new technology in the laboratory workflow. The recorded material added an evaluative dimension to these changes, providing information on how the professionals see such changes.
The study was approved by the National (CONEP, #494/2011) and local Ethical Boards (CEP SMS # 236/11 and CEP FMT/HVD, no number, dated November 24, 2011). All participants signed an informed consent. None of the subjects selected for the interviews refused to participate in the study, although this option was clearly presented as available in the terms of the informed consent. To protect the identity of respondents, we used fictitious names for patients; managers were identified by numbers.
The collected data and its analysis provided a rich overview of the impact of introducing this new diagnostic approach in the settings of the study. We only report the most relevant aspects of our findings.
The patients’s perspective
The codes used in the content analysis of the interviews were as follows:
access to the facility: descriptions of how they got to the health facilities, difficulties and obstacles encountered;
access within the facility: narratives about the reception and stay within the health facilities;
trajectory within the health care system: general information on their experience with the health care system related to current diagnosis until the possibility of TB was first raised;
diagnostic communication : how the diagnosis was communicated, who communicated and reactions to it;
prior knowledge: information and (mis) conceptions about tuberculosis prior to getting the diagnosis;
stigma and discrimination: narratives about situations of perceived discrimination, cultural representations of stigma, local and family lore about the disease;
concerns: main worries related to the disease
The main concerns presented by the patients were related to the treatment (because of its long duration and some of the side effects of the drugs) and the persistent stigma attached to TB, as illustrated by interview excerpts below. What kind of technology was used for diagnostic was not their concern, and this issue was not highlighted by interviewees. Knowledge about different aspects of the disease was scarce among the interviewees, even though they all already had been diagnosed, and there were indications that they knew even less prior to diagnosis.
Access to the health facility was not an issue for most patients in all sites, although in Manaus, due to diagnostic activities being concentrated at the site of the fieldwork, patients residing in areas distant from the city center had to face long trips by bus. Most of the patients were on a medical leave due to the disease, and had their bus tickets subsidized, so the additional time was not an issue, although it could become one in case any of these conditions change.
The interviews reveal a strong stigma associated with the disease. Interviewees often reported that they omitted the diagnostic from their friends, neighbors and work colleagues for fear of social exclusion:
“In the street where I live, if people know that [I have TB], my dear, we would become celebrities. Everyone would talk [about that]! There would be so much gossiping that no one would come near [us]!” (Lucia, Rio)
“I would rather have another type of disease, that were not transmitted, because just from hearing about it, people walk away!” (Marta, Rio)
“I didn’t tell anyone, the only people who know are the folks at home. In the company I work, I’m on leave, I told it was my backbone.” (Luiz, Manaus)
“I prefer to stay away from people, so that no one will laugh [at me].” (Fatima, Manaus)
Other accounts mention a link of the diagnosis to being dirty and impure, or shameful.
“I didn’t want to tell anyone because it felt as if I was dirty. I thought it was a dirty disease. Like…, an ugly thing.” (Joyce, Ri)
“First it’s a sensation of, like, shame, that you feel” (Maíra, Manaus)
Analysis of the flowcharts
We found two considerably different situations in Rio de Janeiro and Manaus, much possibly related to the more recent (and somewhat incomplete, at the time of the field work) implementation of the new technology in the former city. Figures 2 and 3 show the flowcharts for the old and new technologies in Rio, respectively, as an illustration of the flowcharts produced.
Flowchart of the old technology
Flowchart of the new technology
Two issues stood out in the implementation of the new technology at the Rio de Janeiro site: the changes in workflow in the laboratory and the concomitant deployment of the laboratory information system, known by the acronym GAL, whereas those steps were not concomitant in Manaus.
With the previously current technology (smears), the lab technician is in charge of all stages of the procedure: sample preparation and analysis, and data entering in the internal information system. The introduction of the Xpert™ MTB/Rif introduces a new element, a decision process that did not previously exist. The technicians need to analyze the quality of the sample (not all samples are adequate for the Xpert™ MTB/Rif processing), and depending on that analysis different procedures will be adopted. They work with two methods concomitantly: the Xpert™ MTB/Rif and smears (in the case of inadequate or insufficient samples for Xpert™ MTB/Rif processing and when the Xpert™ MTB/Rif yielded positive results, a procedure used in the pilot study protocol happening at the time of the fieldwork). Consider the exchange below between a lab technician (T) and one of the field researchers (R1) durign the elaboration of the flowchart in Rio:
“T: If yes, then we have to know if the sample is adequate for analysis. I do not know if you will write this, but you have to know if it has enough volume …
R1: Okay, so, another question: is there enough volume? Before you did not do that?
T: You must have a minimum volume to make the smear, but is much smaller than for the Gene[XPert].
R1: Do you have enough volume? Then what?
T: Then, if so, what does the sample look like? If there is some food residue, you can’t use it to do it with the Gene[XPert]. If there are hemoptoics, OK, with blood residue, you can’t use the Gene[XPert] either. So there are two constraints like that …
R1: So I’ll change the question: Are there restrictions?
T: If there is food residue, if there is blood residue, and volume less than 1 ml… (…)
T: It’s a change. So that created a moment of decision that did not exist.
R1: Which is important…
T: This was created, a moment of decision that did not exist. Which method I will use? I’m going to do the smear or what I’ll do is… the GeneXpert?
R1: Is it the lab technician that decides it on the fly?
T: Yeah, it’s the technician who decides. Did it generate more work? Because you’re working with two methods instead of one.”
Additionally, the studied site chose to assign to a member of the administrative staff the task of entering data in the GAL system.
There was no noticeable resistance or difficulty posed by the lab technicians to the new technology. They referred to it just as a “change in the works”. One possible explanation for this acceptance is the fact that the lab technicians have not lost their relevance in the workflow. They are charged with deciding which technology is the most appropriate for the analysis of the sample, in the case of the Xpert MTB/Rif they prepare samples and operate the instrument, and with the smears they still perform the usual procedure. In addition to that, they are still in charge of the internal registration procedures and of authorizing the delivery of the diagnostic results.
Regarding the time the procedure takes in the laboratory, the technicians claim that there are no significant differences.
According to their discussion, the difference in time is mostly in reference to how quickly results are delivered. The rollout of the GAL, despite being yet a new technology under implementation, created greater speed and efficiency in the information system for lab results. Although the deployment of this information system has led to a speedier dissemination of the results to physicians, most of these professionals do not use this system in the laboratory facilities, lacking familiarity with the internet and computer use. There was only one exception, among the family doctors linked to the facility who regularly accessed the GAL: a team composed of younger physicians.
Additionally, not all health facilities in the public system have the necessary equipment to access the GAL system (computers and/or internet). Some still need to contact the lab secretary to get test results.
Still regarding the information system, we identified several systems present in the unit, besides GAL: a virtual internal parallel information system, patient record files (on paper), information from community health workers on patients’ treatments, stored in shoeboxes, and the lab technicians’ record notebook, with notifications of samples and test results.
The main issue that stood out in the rollout of the new technology at the Manaus facility was the change in the workflow within the laboratory. With the smear microscopy, the work process involved the preparation and reading of two samples per user. The process of preparation and reading a single slide lasts around 30 min. Workers reported that the job was a routine that involved contact with an abrasive substance, foul odors, and poor ergonomic conditions, as they spent their shifts hunched over microscopes. Conversely, with the new technology, technicians prepare the samples for inserting them in the instrument. The preparation time is about 15 min. At the facilities participating in this study, each instrument works simultaneously with four samples. At the site in Manaus there are two instruments in operation. As the instruments do their processing, the laboratory technicians are dedicated to other activities, such as smear control and HIV testing. This can be seen in the exchange below, from the Manaus session (P is a physician, T a lab technician, R1 is one of the field researchers):
P: Look, the routine is like this. 15 min, you wait, put in the machine. Then, when it strikes 1 h and 45, the lab people returns about 15 min before reading the result to begin preparing the second batch of samples.
T: Yeah, we do not waste time.
P: You can not prepare it much earlier, has to be 15 min. Then you have to wait 15 min. Then, when that sample is finished, take one and put the other. Then, you wait a further 1 h and 45 to start preparing other samples.
L: Yeah, that’s how we do it.
P: In these intervals, they will do the control smears, have a snack.
R1: They get time to do other things. So, the additional time they get, they get ahead with the control smears… got it.”
Finally, the lab workers reported that the implementation of the new technology has had a very positive impact on the improvement of working conditions in the laboratory. They do not have to constantly deal with fire, nor with foul odors. The ergonomic conditions improved considerably since the technicians do not need to spend their day poring over microscopes. Another fragment from Manaus illustrates this (P is a physician, R1 one of the field researchers):
“P: And for the smear, they used to spend the whole morning there burning that thing, that awful smell, and all afternoon on a microscope with a heck of a back pain, take out a slide, put another slide in…
R1: So, look, when a technician puts the samples on the machine, we have to make an observation: there is spare time to do the control smear and… [person] is talking about something important because in addition to having spare to make the control smear and then, balancing the process, you have better working conditions, because of the things that wear down the worker, like the smell… better working conditions, let’s put it this way.
P: Because there, they spend a whole morning with that dye, that awful fire, that bad smell…
R1: There’s temperature, smell, ergonomic performance…
M: And the whole afternoon reading slides with no rest. Take out one, put another in, right? 3 microscopes, 3 persons reading slides with no interruptions…
M: Sitting 4 h, on a microscope, reading slides, it is a heck of a back pain.”
As in Rio de Janeiro, a member of the administrative staff was assigned the task of entering data in the GAL.
pros: the perceived advantages of the new technology;
cons: the perceived problems with the new technology;
changes: what were the major changes detected by the managers;
sustainability: how they evaluated the perspectives of widespread and continued use of the new technology in the public health care system.
Managers interviewed considered the technology itself mostly in positive terms, but expressed concerns related to sustainability and the rollout of the information system to ensure its benefits. Among the positive points mentioned, the addition of rifampicin resistance detection, the accuracy and reliability of the results, the less burdensome processes for lab workers and shorter time to an accurate results were consistently highlighted. Negative aspects or reasons for concern were mostly related to the efficiency of the health system and its ability to make the most of the new technology considering the need for better data management, ensure adequate maintenance and sustainability and full rollout of the GAL system. The general perception was that, despite the changes required, the workflow and the management of samples between labs and care facilities were not significantly disrupted and adaptations to the new method were swift.
The pros of the new technology
The managers pointed out several aspects in favor of the new technology. The ability to identify resistance to rifampicin was unanimously praised by respondents:
“It is a more qualified result, we can identify rifampicin resistance in that patient. This also means that tuberculosis patients’ care will be quicker and more qualified by the health care staff.” (Manager 2, Rio).
“The diagnosis also informs you on the issue of resistance to rifampicin. Upon learning that the patient is already resistant to rifampin, this helps with the issue of patient severity, because the orientation of the Ministry of Health is that, if it’s resistant, we’ll wait for the old culture method, all that…” (Manager 3, Manaus)
Another issue highlighted was the reliability of the technology, providing the most accurate diagnoses:
“Its reliability is total. It’s out of this world! It is something magical! In the period from August 3rd to 25th, we performed 304 exams with the ‘Gene’ and 34 tested positive. Of these 34 positive samples, all were tested by smear, around six slides were negative. That is, these patients would pass right through and would continue to spread the disease.” (Manager 3, Rio)
“The test has a higher sensitivity, higher specificity, so we better qualify the diagnosis of tuberculosis.” (Manager 2, Manaus)
One respondent pointed out the importance of the new technology in the control of the workflow in the laboratory:
“The machine also has its importance from the point of view of monitoring, auditing what happens inside the lab. With smears, you did not know what was going on. I mean in quality, errors if the technique is being done properly.” (Manager 1, Rio)
The satisfaction of the professionals working in the area was cited by all respondents in Manaus:
“This new methodology was an incentive for professionals already working in the area, which for many years did not see any innovations in tuberculosis. Then, the emergence of this new methodology gave a new boost to many people.” (Manager 1, Manaus)
“The satisfaction of employees as well, because for them it was so … a very good thing for them. Just not having to do 100 smears per day, 100 cultures.” (Manager 3, Manaus)
One respondent also cited the benefits to worker’s health:
“The emotional and psychological factors of the workers who will be most pleased to do its work, will get sick less often, take fewer licenses, will be less prone to giving up working in that area. We saw a great satisfaction.” (Manager 1, Manaus)
Biosafety issues and worker’s protection were also mentioned:
“I think the main advantage [of the Xpert MTB/Rif] refers to biosafety, the minimal structure that is needed to perform the procedure with the equipment. Just a workbench with plug, and it is sufficient to install the equipment and do the exam. Unlike smears that require a necessary structure, adequated to the issues of biosafety, ventilation, a more adequate area. (…) The worker protection, which is sometimes required to work in a hazardous space, which does not have the proper conditions, and even sometimes does not receive all the necessary protective gear for biosafety. This is very common, especially in the countryside, where we see pathology technicians doing sample preparation without masks in any sink, in a hallway.” (Manager 2, Manaus)
Another issue highlighted was the reduction in required resources:
“If I performed 100 tests per day, I spent with the previous method 200 slides because it requires two samples. I needed to have dyes, slides, all doubled. The material was doubled. Because I had to make two samples (…) With the implementation of the ‘Gene’, no, not only one sample was worked on. Then all the required resources are reduced. If you do a test you will not use anymore those dyes, all those things. Why? The diagnosis is made directly on the machine.” (Manager 3, Manaus)
Reducing the time of diagnosis was identified as an advantage of the new technology by respondents:
“With the implementation of the ‘Gene’ only one sample became [necessary]. Then, the next day the patient had the result, or we told the patient to wait, he came to give us [the sample] in the morning and in the afternoon he could check with us the result that was already delivered. Before we did [the diagnosis] in three days, 72 h. Why? Collect the first sample, collect the second and 72 h have passed.” (Manager 3, Manaus)
Respondents also emphasized the ease of training the new technology:
“With smears, training is much more complicated, you need a lab bench, you need a microscope, the schedule for training is much more complex. And with the automated equipment it would be an automated thing and I believe training is very simple, just operate the equipment.” (Manager 2, Manaus)
The cons of the new technology
Most of the interviewed managers had difficulties in finding disadvantages in the new technology. Sentences like “I see nothing against it” or “I only see pros, no cons” were common:
“I personally can’t see any downside. Compared to smears, I see nothing that I could say: 'Ah! It would be better to stick to smears. I can’t see that, particularly.” (Manager 2, Manaus)
However, some respondents mentioned the difficulty of professionals at the front lines of health care to interpret the results produced by the new technique:
“When you have a positive result from the ‘Gene’ and a negative result from smear and do not qualify the intensity with [a number of] crosses, people [health care professionals] keep calling, they are in doubt. They are trying to quantify the positive result, they are used to it. Now there is no more quantification, then they get concerned, thinking that the result is wrong. We have to stop and explain. I mean, the lab loses time explaining to people how the test was done and why it was not quantified.” (Manager 5, Rio)
One respondent highlighted the challenge of getting the necessary funding for maintaning the new technology:
“The challenge is to get money to buy cartridges and maintain what has been started. While there is still resources left from this project it is assured, but after that, which is unfortunate, is that we go back to the same situation before, especially in facility X, which has the highest demand of our state. There, the problem is greater than anywhere. The downside is this: how to get resources to ensure that it is kept in the same proportion that was made during the implementation of the project.” (Manager 1, Manaus)
The information system
Respondents in Rio de Janeiro were unanimous in saying that the information system (GAL) presents itself as a challenge, with implications for the agility of the results produced by the new technology:
“We are in a phase of implementation of the GAL, which is a Health Ministry system that allows web access to all results, and this is not fully consolidated as we would like. So the agility we expected with the ‘Gene’, I think in practice, we still need to improve the use of the GAL system so that we actually get this result.” (Manager 6, Rio)
Some managers mentioned that GAL lacks infrastructure to operate with full functionality:
“The problem of the system is that the [healthcare] network is not completely structured in a way to work online. So not all units achieve a good connectivity. Do all of them have a computer? They all have. The policlinic, for example, has computers, but I do not have a computer in my office. I have no way to enter a test requisition in my sample collection room. Then, requisitions have to follow a flow in order to send this request somewhere where there are computers, where there’s good connectivity, so that we can enter the data.” (Manager 5, Rio)
Another issue that arose was the fact that when the facilities are not capable of making a test request through the system, they do not have access to the results through the GAL:
“Not all units have the same structure. So, what happens, we often receive samples in the laboratory with the requisition on paper and not in the system. Then, the laboratory has to enter the requisition and the result. And often, the facility can’t see the result, either. The GAL, I find it excellent, the problem is having the structure in order to harness the full potential of the system.” (Manager 5, Rio)
Despite the difficulties of infrastructure for the operation of the GAL system, respondents stressed that it is an important tool for the viability of new diagnostic technologies:
“We knew that if we did not couple it [the new diagnostic technology] with an information system that made the test results flow, we would be doing a compromised assessment. So, we anticipated some issues. So we are not seeing, for example, as if a Rolls Royce, which has the potential to run at 200 km/h, but won’t be able to do so on a bumpy road. We discussed and anticipated it, minimized this in the deployment itself. And that way we did not create an artificial thing, because the GAL is an Internet-based system and what we did was to accelerate its deployment so as to be able to address the issue of implementing a new technology in an environment that would not compromise our ability to evaluate.” (Manager 1, Rio)
Changes in workflow
The new diagnostic technology resulted in a change in the work process in the laboratory:
“The machine is considered a quick test, but it takes actually two hours. The machines that we are working with have four slots, then in fact the technician can only put four tests to cycle every two hours. So it ends up being a modifier in the work process in the laboratory, since before, with smears, the technician could arrive in the morning, stain all the slides and read them throughout the day, and whoever stained was not necessarily the person who would read.” (Manager 1, Rio)
This manager clarifies that changes in work processes are related to actions laboratory, not interfering in the front lines:
“The technology is not disrupting work processes at the front lines, that would be in fact more complicated. That is, I’m taking samples in the same way, I am forwarding samples in the same way, I’m waiting for and getting samples within a system that was already expected to receive, considering that the GAL was about to be deployed despite the Xpert project.” (Manager 1, Rio)
“It was a new thing and it messed a little with the structure of the laboratory, in the sense that people needed training, and it was something that took quite a while given the very activities that the ‘Gene’ required at that moment. And at that initial moment, I had to suspend the routine work in the laboratory. Routine tests, clinical analysis. So there was an exclusive dedication to the ‘Gene’ due to our demand here, which is immense.” (Manager 3, Manaus)
Respondents indicated that the new technology generated a decrease in the work load of the laboratory:
“The other advantage is to reduce the load of work in the laboratory. From the moment in which we work with only one sample, we can organize ourselves better for case detection. (…) The main change was in the lab, the operationalization of the test, and improving the workflow in the laboratory we can further intensify this surveillance, because the lab will respond to it. So when I had the smears, we limited ourselves: ‘No, there is a quantity limit.’ Then we restrict ourselves from making a more intense search [for cases]. With the change of the lab, we have a freer lab for us to have a larger number of persons to be examined.” (Manager 2, Manaus)
In relation to changes in workflow, no resistance or difficulties were identified in the interviews:
“There was no difficulty. It was very easy. People were trained. It was very smooth.” (Manager 3, Rio)
One manager mentioned the good adaptation of the technicians to the new technology:
“The machine software is in English, which is a limitation, but as everything is very standardized, they [technicians] have adapted very well.” (Manager 1, Rio)
Another interviewee even reported a fascination produced by the machine:
“All technicians who are working there are enchanted!” (Manager 3, Rio)
One respondent stated that technician satisfaction was related to the fact that their routine work became more similar to other laboratories working with computerized systems:
“From what I saw of the satisfaction of technicians who are already using it, it brings the routine of the tuberculosis lab closer to the mode of operation of other laboratory areas, which are automated and all work already with computerized systems. Tuberculosis was still somewhat apart, because it was the one that had to perform a very old technique. So the technicians were very happy to work with it.” (Manager 1, Rio)
Perspectives for the deployment of the new technology in the public healthcare system (SUS)
The interviewees were unanimous in that the deployment of new technology in the SUS would bring benefits for the diagnosis and treatment of TB:
“Our hypothesis is that the number of cases that are going to be treated with definitive diagnosis will be greater. Today we have around 50 % of patients who start treating tuberculosis with a correct diagnosis. We hope to increase this number which is certainly a quality indicator for the Health Programme.” (Manager 3, Rio)
“We will detect most cases, we will more adequately, and consequently, we can avoid more deaths than we have been able to do.” (Manager 1, Manaus)
“I believe it will be a breakthrough in the treatment of tuberculosis, which is a disease that primarily affects our county, Rio de Janeiro. So I believe that the city has everything to gain with this new method, in advance of multidrug resistance, resistance in tuberculosis. Already having a diagnosis where the patient is detected if it is resistant to some drugs or not, his treatment is completely changed.” (Manager 2, Rio)
Respondents showed, however, concerns regarding the necessary allocation of financial resources for the maintenance of the new technology:
“Who will maintain [the new technology]? From where will come the resources to keep it running? So, this will depend a lot on pacts between the Federal Government, states and municipalities. Maybe the Ministry [of Health] will contribute with the equipment and the municipalities will bear the costs of the kits… I think it will depend on how this conversation will be negotiated. I think the challenge will be in the pacts, in defining this, because when it comes to resources everybody tightens the strings of the purse.” (Manager 2, Manaus)
The main limitation of the study is its context specificity; the data collection was made in specific settings of two cities in Brazil, and any conclusions and inferences are limited by this. The selection of the sites, however, was done in accordance to the high prevalence of TB, on the one hand, and the different stages of implementation of the new technology, which confers a degree of representativeness with regards to the situation of the Brazilian healthcare system. Managers and professionals were purposefully selected in accordance to their relevance in the sites, and can be considered representative in that sense as well. Patients were selected by convenience, but the utilization of the saturation criterion gives us confidence that their views are also representative of the users of public healthcare in the country.
Having said this, however, we believe that the lessons learned from this specific process of implementation of a new technology can at least inform researchers and managers operating in similar contexts in understanding the complex factors that influence the acceptance of newly introduced technology.
The acceptance and dissemination of a new technology in health care is a non-linear process, that can be determined by a large array of factors, some linked to the technology itself or the associated health problem, others related to actions and interests of the different stakeholders [10, 19]. Scientific evidence of a potential superiority with regard to methods already in use is but an element to influence the adoption of a new technology. The capacity of organizations to incorporate new knowledge and practice, the institutional, social and political forces involved, and the perceptions and reasoning of the various actors participating in the multiple arenas where the incorporation of a new technology takes place may induce specific patterns of acceptance or rejection that need to be understood at a local level [20].
The incorporation of the new TB diagnostic technology discussed in this study seems to be taking place without much difficulty, but there are some limiting factors to fully taking advantage of its benefits. The difficulties with the online system echo observations made in other studies about problems with health information systems in general [21]. The low diffusion of the knowledge required for effective use of equipment and networks, the low availability of this resource type in public and the very proliferation of systems that do not interact with each other, often requiring the reinsertion of data that should already be available, lead to bottlenecks in the flow of information, which in our case even reflected in the selection of patients for interview.
Selecting patients who had been diagnosed by the new method demanded additional time, precisely because of the difficulties still existing among health care workers regarding access to the GAL. We view with concern the adopted solution, both in Rio and Manaus, specifically to designate an administrative staff member to enter data into the system, repeating a tradition of restricting the user interface of the system to a few administrative professionals, when by design it should be accessible to everyone involved.
This bottleneck can undermine one of the great advantages of the system, which is its speed. We observed that the practice of starting treatment with only the clinical diagnosis still persists; unless laboratory confirmation is available as soon as possible, this is unlikely to change. Nevertheless, we did witness a few examples of the desired change in clinical behavior. In interviews with managers in Rio de Janeiro, a circumscribed problem also emerged, in that certain doctors experienced difficulty to interpret the results produced by the new technology. It should be noted that, in general, even with quick access to test results, changes in medical conduct depend on a significant investment in the continued education of these professionals, which should perhaps be considered more carefully in the routine rollout of the new system.
A particular problem in the case of Manaus is the long time it takes patients to get to the testing facility, given the local practice of referring patients to a centralized facility. Although this is an aspect linked to the specific organization of public health services at that location, not the testing technology per se, it is a factor that may ultimately adversely impact the access to the test. Both in Manaus and in Rio, displacement is facilitated by the fact that patients are largely on medical leave, a contingency that must also be considered in designing the overall strategies to diagnose and treat TB in the general population.
From the patients’ perspective, changes seem less noticeable. The concerns that we have identified are linked to the disease itself and its stigmas, and unlikely to be impacted by any diagnostic technology.
The acceptance by managers was also wide and practically unrestricted, the only relevant question that arose in the interviews was about the sustainability of long-term use of the new technology. Given the uncertainties that unfortunately persist with regards to SUS funding, this is a relevant issue, but not specific to the adoption of any given technology.
A particularly encouraging finding is the virtually unrestricted acceptance of new technology by lab technicians. Resistance at this level could jeopardize the adoption of the new process, and we could not observe any indication in that direction. From this particular case, a general recommendation for the implementation of new technologies could be derived: the participation and empowerment of professionals directly involved is critical. We can also speculate on the effect of positive symbolic adoption of a technology in a field that has spent decades without major innovations.
Other than that, although there are attempts in the literature to systematize factors that can facilitate or hinder the adoption of new technologies [11–13, 22–24], it seems more likely that the specific reasons in each case are more contingent than algorithmically predictable [25]. Rogers [26] describes some of the attributes of an innovation that can favor its successful incorporation: comparative advantages with regard to preexisting technologies; reduced complexity; compatibility with values, needs and current practices within organizations; opportunities for experimentation offered by the new technology; visibility of results of the new technology to its users. Other authors emphasize evidence as a factor that works in favor of the acceptance of the new technology, but what constitutes “evidence” can vary across different groups [27]. In this particular case, pragmatic and cultural factors played a significant role, namely, making work in the laboratory easier but still within control of the technicians, and the relative fascination with “new” things. Kulviwat et al.’s suggestion that self-efficacy also plays a role in technology acceptance [28] may apply here as well, at least in the case of the lab technicians. Available evidence of the intrinsic qualities of the new technology, on the other hand, was not enough to make physicians change their routine of starting treatment before laboratory confirmation.
In summary, the introduction of the new technology has been widely accepted and is viewed very positively by those involved, especially laboratory technicians. The process of adoption itself was also uneventful and did not face major barriers by managers or health professionals. Most of the difficulties encountered are more attributable to contextual conditions than to the technology itself, but must in any case be considered for its expansion throughout the national SUS network.
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The study was supported by the InCo-TB project, a partnership between the Brazilian National TB Program (NTP) and the Ataulpho de Paiva Foundation, with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The funders had no influence on the content of the manuscript or the decision to publish, nor are they responsible for any of the statements in this manuscript.
KRCJ and AT have grants (PQ) from the CNPq; KRCJ has additional grants from FAPERJ (CNE) and UERJ (Prociência).
Departamento de Planejamento e Administração em Saúde, Instituto de Medicina Social, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, (R. S. Fco. Xavier, 524 7º Andar Bloco D.), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, (20559-900), Brazil
Kenneth R. de Camargo Jr
& Rosângela Caetano
Departamento de Saúde e Sociedade, Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal Fluminense, (Rua Marquês do Paraná, 303 - 3º andar), Niterói, RJ, (24030-210), Brazil
Carla R. Guedes
Global Health Strategies Brazil, (Largo do Machado, 21 sala 518), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, (22221-020), Brazil
Alexandre Menezes
Internal Medicine Post-graduation Program, University Hospital, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, (Av. Brigadeiro Trompowski s/no, Ilha do Fundão), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, (21949-90), Brazil
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KRCJ: PI of the qualitative study, analysis of data; CRG: Field supervision, analysis of data; RC: PI of the quantitative study; AM & AT: Original conception of the overall study. All authors participated in the writing and revision of the manuscript, and take full responsibility for its contents. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Indian sanitation innovator wins 2009 stockholm water prize
Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, founder of Sulabh Sanitation Movement in India, has been awarded the 2009 Stockholm Water Prize, according to a March 25 press release.
Dr. Pathak is known around the world for his wide-ranging work in the sanitation field to improve public health, advance social progress, and improve human rights in India and other countries.
His accomplishments range from sanitation technology to social enterprise and healthcare education for millions of people in India. They serve as a model for non-governmental agencies and public health initiatives around the world.
Since he established the Sulabh Sanitation Movement in 1970, Dr. Pathak has worked to change social attitudes toward traditional unsanitary toilet practices in slums, rural villages, and dense urban districts. He developed cost-effective toilet systems that have improved daily life and health for millions of people.
He has also waged an ongoing campaign to abolish the traditional practice of manual “scavenging” of human waste from bucket latrines in India and served as an advocate for the rights of former scavengers and their families to economic opportunity, decent standards of living and social dignity.
“The results of Dr. Pathak’s endeavors constitute one of the most amazing examples of how one person can impact the well being of millions,” noted the Stockholm Water Prize nominating committee in its citation.
“Dr. Pathak's leadership in attaining these remarkable socio-environmental results has been universally recognized, and not least by those who have secured the freedom of human dignity as a consequence of his efforts.”
First presented in 1991, the Stockholm Water Prize is the world’s most prestigious prize for outstanding achievement in water-related activities. The annual prize includes a $150,000 award and a crystal sculpture.
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FBI Archive
DB Cooper Brief Summary
Eyewitness Testimony
Money Find
Tena Bar
Money Analysis
Rubber Band Analysis
Dr. Palmer Report
Washougal Theory
Clip-on Tie
Tie Overview
Did the tie belong to Cooper?
Particle Imaging and Identification
Titanium Particles
Misc. Particles
McCrone Labs Analysis 2017
Research Conclusions
Cooper Sketches
Pink Parachute Gallery
Looking into the case of D.B. Cooper after almost 40 years, brings with it decades of speculation and theories. There are two goals when attempting a scientific analysis in this situation, first is to sort out fact from speculation and the second, to determine if there is any new information that has yet to be uncovered. Once those two things have been accomplished, then a road map moving forward should be evident. Half of the work performed here was invested in sorting out the various theories about how the money ended up on Tena Bar, where the flight path was, and if the description of Cooper and the jump was accurate. The rest of the effort was put into uncovering new physical evidence mostly centered around the particles on Cooper's tie.
This research came to several conclusions based on the best information at hand. The FBI Archive and the 302's were a significant starting point. Certainly 40 years after the event, any new information such as another discovery of hidden Cooper Cash, could come to light and significantly change the Cooper Landscape. Actual experiments were performed to acquire facts that were then used to constrain different hypotheses.
The FBI flight path map passes the test. Agents working on the flight path in 1971 had the radar and flight path data which is lost today. The SAGE radar used to track Cooper's plane was relied upon to identify, locate and track incoming Russian bombers and threats to the United States, so there is no reason to assume they would get it wrong. Analysis of various features of this case rule out the theories that require a different flight path than the one portrayed on the FBI map. Lastly, the text descriptions in the FBI 302 link the flight path to various towns. This research finds that the flight path and jump zone are reasonable and should be a cornerstone in the analysis of this case.
The money find on Tena Bar is complicated. The rubber band experiments allow less than a year for the money to become entombed in the sand. The money continues to resist all natural explanations for how it arrived on Tena Bar. The story behind the money may be as big as the Cooper story itself. There is no hard evidence that Cooper died in the jump so it remains a primary debate. If Cooper walked out of the woods, there would certainly be easier ways to explain the money if human intervention was involved.
The tie reasonably belonged to Cooper. A probability analysis was never done to estimate the likelihood of the black tie found on the plane belonging to Cooper. This probablility analysis shows that it is reasonable to assume that the tie belonged to the hijacker. This is a crucial first step since all the particles found on the tie tell a story, for that to be Cooper's story, there needed to be some critical review of the likelihood that the tie belonged to Cooper.
Cooper was a smoker. D.B. Cooper smoked eight Raleigh filter-tipped cigarettes on the plane, but there was no evidence to show if this was a regular habit of his. The majority of particles found on the tie had elemental compositions that matched book matches. The quantity of particles found must have accumulated over an extended period of time. Testimony also shows that he was concerned about retrieving his book matches after stewardess, Tina Mucklow used them to light his cigarettes.
Titanium metal was rare and exotic narrowing the field of possible D.B. Cooper suspects. The titanium particles on the tie was the most dramatic finding in this research. Most other metals would have to be written off as contamination or too common to be of any use. The additional finding that the titanium was not alloyed, allowed further restrictions on where Cooper could have acquired these unusual flecks. Cooper worked at or had access to a plant that used titanium and this fact alone reduces the number of potential suspects from millions down to hundreds.
A tie would have been worn by managers or engineers in metalworking plants. The spiral aluminum chips are only made using metalworking machinery. Since they were found on a tie, that suggests he was either an engineer or manager who went out on the shop floor. Only managers and engineers wore ties in metalworking plants at that time.
Chemical plants used pure titanium and other corrosion resistant metals. Pure titanium and 5000 series aluminum found on the tie have high anti-corrosive properties. In 1971 the most common place these two metals were found together would be chemical plants or the metal fabrication facility that built the components for the plant. Secondarily would be the companies who recovered scrap metal from these types of factories. This research shows that any new search for D.B. Cooper should begin in these areas.
Interesting but Speculative Notes about Dan Cooper
For decades Cooper has been a topic of conversation from bar rooms to the Internet (see Links). Special Agent Larry Carr gave a huge boost to the case by using the power of the public and releasing a lot of information relating to the case. Through the efforts of many people, a list of unusual characteristics has come to light that should be noted when formulating ideas about who, what and where is D.B. Cooper. Of course these ideas are all highly speculative, but are interesting enough not to be dismissed wholesale.
Cooper requested "negotiable American currency". This was the most notable line to come out of the Cooper transcripts where passengers on the plane, including the flight attendants, stated that Cooper had no distinguishable accent. Since no American citizen would use those terms, it suggests that Cooper was not originally from this country. If he was from another country, then his lack of accent points to French Canada as one of the few places in the world where you could hail from and not have an accent. The French Canadians without accents are the Franco-Manitobans, the Franco-Albertans, and possibly the Franco-Ontarians. They would be likely to not have an accent when speaking English. These communities live in a predominantly anglophone environment and tend to become native speakers. This also lines up with the fact that the Dan Cooper comic was only published in French, making Cooper's unusual request very interesting.
Wearing a suit to jump from an airplane is the classic icon of the Cooper mystery. It seems unusual until the other facts presented here are used to construct the bigger picture. If Cooper was an engineer type that wore a suit and tie to work every day, he would have been comfortable wearing it under a variety of situations. If he was planning ahead, he knew he had to hitchhike out of the woods and it is much easier to get picked up in a suit and tie than old blue jeans. If he had to invent some story and use the cash to prod a passerby into taking him to the nearest telephone or train station, a suit would have made the whole thing more believable and less suspicious.
The day before Thanksgiving is also interesting in light of the fact the FBI searched but couldn't find anyone who disappeared that weekend. If the continuing idea that Cooper died in the jump was true, then you would certainly expect to come up with a missing person report. If he lived, and the money was never found in circulation (they published all the serial numbers), then its also unlikely that he went on a spending spree and changed his lifestyle. If he didn't die, or buy a "new car", then the last option is to go back to your old life. If you were planning on going "back to work on Monday" then you would need as much time as possible to get out of the woods, find transportation and get home. The very best time for this is in front of a four-day weekend, which is the timing Dan Cooper chose for his crime.
For Cooper Sleuths, keep an eye out for a suspect from Canada, with military experience in airplanes. He would have come to this country to work in or around titanium metal fabrication. He was a gentleman, well dressed and smoked cigarettes. He was not the type to shy away from medication and knew his way around machinery, as well as the woods. Most notably, he probably lived a normal life and had one big problem that required about 200K in cash to solve.
The Cooper Research Team - 2011
Copyright 2017 © Tom Kaye. All Rights Reserved.
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'Game Of Thrones' Composer Ramin Djawadi on "The Night King" Meaning and the Music of the Final Season
The 'Game Of Thrones Live Concert Experience' starts in September
The 'Game Of Thrones' Connection Between 'Rocketman' and 'Bohemian Rhapsody'
When two actors from Westeros play the same role
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Interview – Jennifer Garvin
Interview: Jennifer Garvin
Julie: Jennifer, can you tell us a little bit about yourself, where you are and what your role is in your clinic or hospital?
Jennifer Garvin: Yes, my name is Jennifer, and I am an RN, and have a bachelor’s degree in nursing. I am a RN Clinical Coordinator and Health Coach here in Enid, Oklahoma.
I have five different clinics that I work with to educate people with any chronic disease, including smoking cessation, and weight loss. We’re also doing a cultural living class that’s open to the public as well.
Julie: Okay. How long have you been in this role?
Jennifer Garvin: It was a year in May.
Julie: Oh, okay, great. Well so far, how is your health coach training changed or altered your approach in working with patients?
Jennifer Garvin: Foremost, I think it has really made me stop and listen. Listen to the patient and really practice on being present with my clients. Using this skill of listening, I’ve heard a lot more. I’ve heard them tell me what they really want to do, and how they want to do it.
Julie: Sure, so that’s been really important.
Jennifer Garvin: Yes, absolutely.
Julie: Do you coach those patients on a regular basis? How does it work for you? Are you doing telephonic coaching or in-person?
Jennifer Garvin: I do both. I have a little over 200 clients on my panel that I see and try to call. I’m trying to call them at least once a month and follow up. I do a lot of in-person. I really prefer in-person because I just feel like sometimes a lot is lost on the phone, as far as communication. We do video, like a conference call, where they can see me and I can see them. That’s really fun.
We also do Full Plate classes, where we have some group classes, and some individual classes for weight loss, or diabetes, or any chronic disease.
Julie: Okay, that sounds great. Is it just you in this position, or how many coaching staff do you have?
Jennifer Garvin: There’s two of us here in Enid.
Julie: So far, you shared that listening has been very valuable. Can you think of anything else that you’ve used with your patients that’s been helpful in getting them to their goals?
Jennifer Garvin: Yes. There are several things, actually. But I think going the stages, like evoking and planning have been very helpful. Using those steps to really summarize with the patient. And maybe not necessarily inflicting my thoughts but just really letting them come up with their own ideas. It may not be something that I necessarily would pick for them, but as long as it’s something that is safe for them, I feel like it’s really been helpful to get our goals set.
We use the smart goals. It’s embedded in our program and in our documentation, to use those smart goals. Being a nurse, I was already aware of that, but just sitting down and really explaining to them what the smart goal is, has really has made a big impact.
Julie: Okay, great. Do you feel like they’ve taught you anything in your whole coaching experience? Have you learned from your patients also?
Jennifer Garvin: Absolutely. I love people, I’m a people person in general already, but I’ve learned how strong the human spirit is, and the will to get better. And individuality, because what one person can do, or is capable of doing, you have to meet that patient where they’re at. Another person…that maybe too hard for them. It’s really being empathetic with people, and meeting them where they’re at. Really letting them figure out what they can do, and how they can do it is really gratifying.
Julie: Do you have any success story with a patient that you’d like to share?
Jennifer Garvin: Yes, I do. The first one, the most recent, is a mother and a daughter, and she was a smoker. The daughter had been smoking and just had some real life events that were traumatic for her. Going through a divorce and things like that. She had just put herself on the back-burner and was really lacking in self-confidence. She had developed diabetes in the meantime.
So, her and her mom have banded together. We did some diabetic education with both of them. Now they’re doing my Full Plate class, which is an eight-session weight management class that meets every week. And both of them, have lost weight. The mom’s lost three pounds and the daughter’s lost two. But she’s also, in the meantime, quit smoking. And she’s just being mindful of changes, and what she wants for herself. It’s really awesome to see that.
Julie: Yeah, and I bet they have each other too for support, which is nice.
Jennifer Garvin: Oh yeah, and their relationship has gotten better. And they have each other to share recipes with. They walk. But also, she said to me when we met last week, she said, “You know, one thing that I’ve really become aware of is, we can’t hide ourselves. Like the world sees us.” And she said, “I feel like I’ve been hiding from myself for so long.” Just her thanking me, and telling me how much she appreciated that, I mean, we were all in tears. It was wonderful, wonderful experience.
And I’ve had a lot of those in this last year, that I’ve been able to work. And sometimes, I think, am I really making a difference? And then I have those moments like that, that are just so wonderful.
Another patient is a flight instructor. Enid is a training base for the airport. So I have a training instructor, flight instructor, and he was unable to fly. They had grounded him because his A1C was so high. He was very discouraged. He thought that he might lose his job. And it’s been about six months since we started, but he is now able to fly again. And he has lost weight, and he’s helping his wife. He’s also changed the whole area where he works. He’s introduced healthy food … They have fruits and vegetables now, instead of junk food.
Julie: Oh wow.
Jennifer Garvin: Yeah, I know. So, he’s helping other people.
Julie: That’s great.
Jennifer Garvin: Yeah. It’s a domino effect. It’s a great job. These are great skills that I’ve learned, for sure.
Julie: How are you measuring your patient outcomes? You’ve had some great results. Is there measurable ways you’re tracking those results?
Jennifer Garvin: Yes. There’re reports run every month, and in different categories, the metrics are measured and kept up with. It’s working.
Julie: Jennifer, keep up the great work and thanks for sharing your story!
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1. Criminal procedure — postconviction relief — criteria for assessing effectiveness of counsel. — The criteria for assessing effectiveness of counsel were enunciated by the Supreme Court in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984); Strickland provides that when a convicted defendant complains of ineffective assistance of counsel, he must show that counsel's representation fell below an objective standard of reasonableness and that counsel's deficient performance prejudiced his defense.
2. Criminal procedure — postconviction relief — judicial review of counsel's effectiveness. — Judicial review of counsel's performance must be highly deferential, and every effort must be made to eliminate the distorting effects of hindsight, to reconstruct the circumstances of counsel's conduct, and to evaluate the conduct from counsel's perspective at the time.
3. Attorney client — presumption that counsel's conduct reasonable. — A reviewing court must indulge a strong presumption that counsel's conduct falls within the wide range of reasonable professional assistance.
4. Criminal procedure — postconviction relief — ineffective assistance of counsel standard. — To prevail on any claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, the petitioner must show first that counsel's performance was deficient; this requires a showing that counsel made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as the "counsel" guaranteed the petitioner by the Sixth Amendment; secondly, the petitioner must show that the deficient performance prejudiced the defense, which requires a showing that counsel's errors were so serious as to deprive the petitioner of a fair trial; unless a petitioner makes both showings, it cannot be said that the conviction resulted from a breakdown in the adversarial process that renders the result unreliable; the petitioner must show that there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's errors, the factfinder would have had a reasonable doubt respecting guilt in that the decision reached would have been different absent the errors; a reasonable probability is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome of the trial.
5. Criminal procedure — postconviction relief — mere error insufficient to establish ineffective assistance of counsel. — Ineffective assistance of counsel cannot be established merely by showing that an error was made by counsel or by revealing that a failure to object prevented an issue from being addressed on appeal.
6. Criminal procedure — postconviction relief — determining claim of ineffective assistance of counsel. — In making a determination on a claim of counsel's ineffectiveness, the supreme court must consider the totality of the evidence presented to the judge or jury.
7. Criminal procedure — accomplice testimony — corroboration required. — Arkansas law requires that corroborative evidence that supports accomplice testimony must connect the defendant with commission of the crime; corroboration is not sufficient if it merely shows that the crime was committed and the circumstances of the crime; the corroboration must be sufficient standing alone to establish commission of the offense and to connect the defendant with it; the corroborative evidence must be substantial evidence, which is stronger evidence than that which merely raises a suspicion of guilt.
8. Criminal procedure — accomplice testimony — circumstantial evidence as corroborating evidence. — Circumstantial evidence qualifies as corroborating evidence but it, too, must be substantial.
9. Criminal procedure — corroborative evidence — relevant factors in determining connection of accomplice with crime. — Corroboration need not be so substantial in and of itself to sustain a conviction; the presence of an accused in proximity of a crime, opportunity, and association with a person involved in a crime in a manner suggestive of joint participation, are relevant factors in determining the connection of an accomplice with the crime.
10. Criminal law — accomplice — criminal liability. — When two or more persons assist each other in commission of a crime, each is an accomplice and criminally liable, ultimately, for his own conduct, but he cannot disclaim responsibility because he did not personally take part in every act that went to make up the crime as a whole.
11. Criminal procedure — corroborative evidence sufficient to connect appellant with commission of crime — trial court's decision not clearly erroneous. — Where, when viewing the evidence submitted and excluding the accomplice's testimony, the evidence tended to connect appellant with the murder, the finding of the Rule 37 trial court, that there was ample corroborative evidence tending to connect appellant with commission of the crime, that there was not a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's error, the result would have been different, and that appellant had failed to demonstrate any prejudice resulting from the alleged deficiency of his trial counsel, was not clearly erroneous.
12. Criminal procedure — incriminating statements by co-defendant — admission of results in denial of defendant's right of cross-examination as secured by Confrontation Clause. — In Bruton v. United States, 391 U.S. 123 (1968), the U.S. Supreme Court held that a defendant's right of cross-examination secured by the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment is denied by admission of incriminating statements made by a co-defendant.
13. Criminal procedure — postconviction relief based on claim of ineffective assistance — tactical reason for counsel's actions not outside range of professionally competent assistance. — At the Rule 37 hearing, trial counsel's explanation of the tactical reason why he did not move for a mistrial or raise a Bruton issue at that point in the trial where the accomplice testified about statements made by the non-testifying co-defendant was not outside the range of professionally competent assistance.
14. Criminal procedure — postconviction proceedings — prejudicial effect of co-defendant's admission harmless error if there is overwhelming evidence of defendant's guilt. — In reviewing the evidence under the second prong of Strickland, the supreme court noted that a violation of the Bruton rule may be harmless error if there is overwhelming evidence of defendant's guilt; in some cases properly admitted evidence of guilt is so overwhelming, and the prejudicial effect of the co-defendant's admission is so insignificant by comparison, that it is clear beyond a reasonable doubt that the improper use of the admission was harmless error.
15. Criminal procedure — violation of Confrontation Clause — factors that determine harmless error. — Whether violation of the Confrontation Clause is harmless error in a particular case depends upon a host of factors; these factors include the importance of the witness's testimony in the prosecution's case, whether the testimony was cumulative, the presence or absence of evidence corroborating or contradicting testimony of the witness on material points, the extent of cross-examination otherwise permitted, and the overall strength of the prosecution's case.
16. Criminal procedure — postconviction relief based on claim of ineffective assistance — finding that appellant failed to demonstrate prejudice from his attorney's alleged deficiency affirmed. — Where there was ample evidence to corroborate the accomplice's testimony supporting appellant's conviction, and excluding the statements in issue, the evidence indicated that appellant was with his co-defendants hours before the murder, appellant was at the victim's home at the time of the murder, appellant's father choked and stabbed the victim, stole the victim's wallet and distributed $95.00 to appellant, appellant was seen with approximately $100.00 in his possession immediately after the murder, appellant tried to flee when police approached him at a party, and after he was placed under arrest, appellant stated that his girlfriend was not involved in "this mess", the evidence against appellant was so strong that counsel's failure to object to the statements was harmless; the likely outcome of the trial would not have been different, and the trial court's holding that appellant had failed to demonstrate prejudice from his attorney's alleged deficiency was affirmed.
17. Criminal procedure — suppression by prosecution of evidence favorable to accused — duty to disclose such evidence. — Suppression by the prosecution of evidence favorable to an accused upon request violates due process where the evidence is material to guilt or punishment, irrespective of the good faith or bad faith of the prosecution; the duty to disclose such evidence is applicable even though there has been no request by the accused, and it encompasses impeachment evidence as well as exculpatory evidence; the rule encompasses evidence known only to police investigators and not to the prosecutor; the individual prosecutor has a duty to learn of any favorable evidence known to others acting on the government's behalf in the case, including the police.
18. Criminal procedure — suppression by prosecution of evidence favorable to accused — when evidence material. — Evidence that has been suppressed by the prosecution is material if there is a reasonable probability that, had the evidence been disclosed to the defense, the result of the proceeding would have been different.
19. Criminal procedure — suppression of evidence by prosecution — three elements needed to constitute due-process violation. — In order for the prosecution's suppression of evidence to constitute a due-process violation, three elements are needed; (1) the evidence at issue must be favorable to the accused, either because it is exculpatory, or because it is impeaching; (2) that evidence must have been suppressed by the State, either willfully or inadvertently; and (3) prejudice must have ensued.
20. Criminal procedure — no showing of prosecutorial misconduct or that outcome of trial would have been different had testimony been presented — trial court's decision not clearly erroneous. — Where an officer testified at the Rule 37 hearing that he did not recall speaking with the witness and that there were no notes or papers in the police file indicating that he had spoken to her at the time claimed; there was no credible evidence that the State suppressed the witness's alleged statements, and, in fact, there was no credible evidence that the State had ever been ever aware of or in possession of such evidence, the Rule 37 trial court's decision that there was no showing of prosecutorial misconduct and that the outcome of the trial would not have been affected by the witness's testimony was not clearly erroneous.
Appeal from Yell Circuit Court; Paul E. Danielson, Judge; affirmed.
John W. Rife, for appellant.
Mark Pryor, Att'y Gen., by: Todd L. Newton, Ass't Att'y Gen., for appellee.
The appellant, Kenneth Scott Andrews, was convicted by a jury of first-degree murder and was sentenced to forty years in the Arkansas Department of Correction. We affirmed appellant's conviction and sentence in Andrews v. State, 305 Ark. 262, 807 S.W.2d 917 (1991). Appellant then appealed from an order denying his request for postconviction relief. We reversed and remanded the case to the Circuit Court so written findings of fact and conclusions of law could be entered. The trial court complied with our request, and the case is back before us on review.
Appellant was convicted in 1990. At that time, Arkansas Criminal Procedure Rule 37 had been abolished and replaced with Rule 36.4. Under Rule 36.4, a criminal defendant who wished to raise a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel had to do so in a motion for a new trial within thirty days of the date of the judgment. Appellant did not file such a motion, but sought habeas corpus relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 in federal court. The federal district court issued a conditional writ of habeas corpus that provided that a writ would issue within 120 days unless appellant was permitted to proceed under Rule 36.4 in state court. Pursuant to the order of the federal court, appellant filed a motion for a new trial in which he alleged that he did not receive effective assistance of counsel as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment. The trial court denied appellant's petition.
For his first point on appeal, appellant argues that counsel was ineffective for failing to preserve the sufficiency of the evidence for appellate review. We disagree.
[1-3] The criteria for assessing the effectiveness of counsel were enunciated by the Supreme Court in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984). Strickland provides that when a convicted defendant complains of ineffective assistance of counsel, he must show that counsel's representation fell below an objective standard of reasonableness and that counsel's deficient performance prejudiced his defense. Judicial review of counsel's performance must be highly deferential, and a fair assessment of counsel's performance under Strickland requires that every effort be made to eliminate the distorting effects of hindsight, to reconstruct the circumstances of counsel's conduct, and to evaluate the conduct from counsel's perspective at the time. Missildine v. State, 314 Ark. 500, 863 S.W.2d 813 (1993). A reviewing court must indulge a strong presumption that the conduct falls within the wide range of reasonable professional assistance. Id.
To prevail on any claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, the petitioner must show first that counsel's performance was deficient. Thomas v. State, 322 Ark. 670, 911 S.W.2d 259 (1995). This requires a showing that counsel made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as the "counsel" guaranteed the petitioner by the Sixth Amendment. Id. Secondly, the petitioner must show that the deficient performance prejudiced the defense, which requires a showing that counsel's errors were so serious as to deprive the petitioner of a fair trial. Id. Unless a petitioner makes both showings, it cannot be said that the conviction resulted from a breakdown in the adversarial process that renders the result unreliable. Id. The petitioner must show that there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's errors, the factfinder would have had a reasonable doubt respecting guilt in that the decision reached would have been different absent the errors. Id; Huls v. State, 301 Ark. 572, 785 S.W.2d 467 (1990). A reasonable probability is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome of the trial. Strickland, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674; Thomas, 322 Ark. 670, 911 S.W.2d 259.
[5, 6] Ineffective assistance of counsel cannot be established merely by showing that an error was made by counsel or by revealing that a failure to object prevented an issue from being addressed on appeal. Huls, 301 Ark. 572, 785 S.W.2d 467. In Huls, this court found that even if a timely objection at trial could have prevented the jury from hearing a witness's testimony, the testimony, when taken with the entire evidence presented at trial, did not lead to a conclusion that there was a reasonable probability that the jury would have acquitted petitioner if the witness had not testified. In making a determination on a claim of counsel's ineffectiveness, we must consider the totality of the evidence presented to the judge or jury. Id.
The record reveals that Danny Jordan, an accomplice to the murder, testified in great detail about the crime and the participation of appellant and appellant's father, Joe Kenneth Andrews (Joe). Jordan told of helping move a safe from a jewelry store to the home of the victim, James Robinson. He told Joe about the safe, and Joe expressed interest in stealing it. At one meeting where Joe, Jordan and appellant were present, appellant announced that he would get the safe even if the others would not do it. On February 19, 1990, the three went to Dardanelle State Park in Joe's father's green and white pickup truck to observe Robinson's house. Jordan said they stayed there all afternoon and planned to steal the safe which they would then bury in the Andrews' yard.
Jordan testified further that on the afternoon of February 20, he was at home visiting with his mother when Joe and appellant arrived in the green and white truck. When Jordan's mother left, at about 4:00 p.m., the three men drove to the park in the truck and watched Robinson's home. Around 5:30 p.m., a person hired by Mr. Robinson to work around the house left. At that point, Joe, Jordan and appellant decided to approach the victim's residence. Joe gave Jordan and appellant each a pair of white gloves to wear while taking the safe. They then drove to Robinson's home. Jordan stayed in the driveway with the truck while Joe and appellant went into a carport. Jordan then heard choking sounds. At that point, appellant waved to Jordan to come to the carport where Jordan saw Robinson lying atop an air conditioner.
Jordan said that when he and appellant attempted to enter a shop area to get the safe, they tripped a burglar alarm. As Jordan and appellant were running back to the truck, Jordan looked back and saw Joe with his hand on Robinson's chest, but he did not see a knife. Joe, who had blood on his hands, got in the truck and told Jordan and appellant that he had choked Robinson with a rope and stabbed him two or three times. They then drove to Delaware Park. Joe had the victim's wallet from which he gave Jordan $100.00, appellant $95.00, and he kept $95.00 for himself.
[7-10] Appellant contends that there was not sufficient corroborating evidence to support this accomplice testimony, and thus, counsel was ineffective for failing to preserve the issue. Arkansas law requires that the corroborative evidence tend to connect the defendant with the commission of the crime. Ark. Code Ann. § 16-89-111 (1987). Corroboration is not sufficient, if it merely shows that the crime was committed and the circumstances of the crime. Id. We have held that the "corroboration must be sufficient standing alone to establish the commission of the offense and to connect the defendant with it." Johnson v. State, 303 Ark. 12, 17, 792 S.W.2d 863, 865 (1990); David v. State, 295 Ark. 131, 140, 748 S.W.2d 117, 122 (1988). The corroborative evidence must be substantial evidence which is stronger evidence than that which merely raises a suspicion of guilt. Henderson v. State, 279 Ark. 435, 652 S.W.2d 16 (1983). Circumstantial evidence qualifies as corroborating evidence but it, too, must be substantial. See David v. State, supra. However, corroboration need not be so substantial in and of itself to sustain a conviction. See Rhodes v. State, 280 Ark. 156, 655 S.W.2d 421 (1983); Walker v. State, 277 Ark. 137, 639 S.W.2d 742 (1982). The presence of an accused in the proximity of a crime, opportunity, and association with a person involved in a crime in a manner suggestive of joint participation, are relevant factors in determining the connection of an accomplice with the crime. Ashley v. State, 22 Ark. App. 73, 732 S.W.2d 872 (1987). When two or more persons assist each other in the commission of a crime, each is an accomplice and criminally liable, ultimately, for his own conduct, but he cannot disclaim responsibility because he did not personally take part in every act that went to make up the crime as a whole. Phillips v. State, 17 Ark. App. 86, 703 S.W.2d 471 (1986).
In reviewing this issue, we eliminate the testimony given by Jordan, and we examine whether what remains of the State's evidence independently establishes the crime and tends to connect appellant with its commission.
Danny Jordan's mother, Wilma Jordan, testified that Danny Jordan and Joe Andrews were good friends. She was at Danny Jordan's home on the afternoon of February 20, when Joe and Scott Andrews pulled up in a green pickup truck. She left them there together at around 3:45 or 4:00 that afternoon.
James Warren testified that, on February 20, at 5:30 p.m., he saw three men in the park where he was jogging. The three were looking south toward Robinson's home. He also saw a green pickup truck near the men.
Sandra Rackley testified she saw her brother, Danny Jordan, and Joe Andrews together at 8:00 p.m. on February 20.
Carrie Payton testified that Scott Andrews came to the Gum Log area, on February 20, between 5:30 and 6:00 p.m., where her mother's and her grandmother's homes were. On cross-examination she stated it could have been 6:30 or 7:00 p.m. as she had said in an earlier statement to the police. She testified Scott told her he had almost $100.00. He offered to give her $5.00, and the following day he brought her a bottle of champagne, a dozen roses in separate vases, and a stuffed animal.
Carrie Payton's mother testified that, in addition to the items Carrie mentioned, Scott brought Carrie a small "promise ring" with a diamond in it.
Jean Andrews, wife of Joe, testified that appellant was unemployed and had been since November. Another witness testified that appellant had done odd jobs for her but that she had paid him no more than $50.00 the week prior to February 20.
Police officers testified that they arrested Scott on suspicion of having killed Robinson. When arrested, appellant was at an outdoor "beer party" where people under age were drinking. When the officers began looking through the crowd for appellant, he attempted to move toward the edge of the group, and when they approached him, he began to run but was tackled after taking about six strides. He was given a Miranda warning, told of the charges against him and placed in the officers' car. One officer asked the other if Carrie Payton was at the party, and appellant volunteered a statement that she was not involved in "this mess" and there was no reason for her to be.
Officers found a hole that had been recently dug in the backyard of the Andrew's residence. Also, officers recovered the victim's wallet in Paris where Jordan said that they had left it.
Here, the only issue raised by appellant with regard to corroboration focuses on appellant's connection with the murder of Mr. Robinson. When viewing the evidence submitted and excluding Jordan's testimony, the evidence tends to connect appellant with the murder of Mr. Robinson. Witnesses placed appellant with Jordan and Joe hours before the murder. Ms. Wilma Jordan also established that appellant and Joe were in a green pickup truck the day of the murder when they came to Jordan's residence. Mr. Warren viewed three men standing next to a green pickup truck at Dardanelle State Park, looking in the direction of the victim's home on the day of the murder. Appellant was also seen with Jordan and Joe at 8:00 p.m. that same evening. Carrie Payton established that appellant had $100.00 in cash the night of the crime, whereas, other evidence revealed that appellant had been unemployed for several months. Finally, appellant made a statement to police after he had been arrested and advised of the charges against him that Carrie Payton was not involved in "this mess". The officers also observed a recently dug hole in the backyard of the Andrew's residence and the victim's wallet was recovered in Paris.
The Rule 37 trial court found that there was ample corroborative evidence tending to connect appellant with the commission of the crime and that there was not a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's error, the result would have been different. The court concluded that appellant had failed to demonstrate any prejudice resulting from the alleged deficiency of his trial counsel. Under our standard of review and the evidence before us, we cannot say that the trial court's decision is clearly erroneous.
For his second point on appeal, appellant argues that counsel was ineffective for failing to object to extra-judicial statements by a non-testifying co-defendant that implicated appellant. Appellant cites to Bruton v. United States, 391 U.S. 123 (1969), in support of his argument.
Prior to appellant's trial, counsel filed a motion requesting that appellant's trial be severed from his father's trial. A hearing was held, and the court denied the request after it was determined that a conspiracy did not exist between appellant and his father, Joe, and that there was not a Bruton issue involved. At that time, it was agreed that the only incriminating statements that were involved would come from Jordan and not Joe, appellant's co-defendant. However, during Jordan's direct examination at appellant's trial, Jordan testified that Joe told him that appellant had dug a hole on the Andrews' property to be used as a "grave" for the safe they were going to steal from Mr. Robinson. Jordan also testified that while he was visiting Joe at the Andrews' property the morning of the murder, Joe said that "Scottie was out digging the grave." Finally, Jordan testified that on the night of February 20, after the murder, Joe said that "Scottie told me to cut his throat, but I didn't do it, I swear I didn't do it." On cross-examination, Jordan said that Joe told him that "Scottie told me to cut his throat." Counsel never objected to any of the above statements.
[12, 13] In Bruton v. United States, 391 U.S. 123 (1968), the Supreme Court held that a defendant's right of cross-examination secured by the confrontation clause of the sixth amendment is denied by the admission of incriminating statements made by a co-defendant. Assuming that the above statements admitted through Jordan fall within the category of statements covered by Bruton, counsel's failure to object would have denied appellant effective assistance of counsel. However, at the Rule 37 hearing, trial counsel testified with regard to this issue:
A. Now, the reason, you say, why wasn't a mistrial made or something like that. It's — you will remember that Scottie and I were trying to do two things. We were really trying to do one thing. We were trying to remove us from Delaware, the murder scene, and put us over where Carrie was, okay? To do that I needed to attack Jordan. And he gave me — when he said that, he gave me a piece of ammunition that I could use in cross-examination. If you can read the cross-examination you can see that it cast great doubt on anything Jordan says as it relates to Scottie because I had an inconsistency. Now, do you as a Defense counsel want an inconsistent statement, or do you want a continuance?
Q. I have — I —
A. You know I wanted an inconsistent statement and I had it.
Q. So, the only way to cross that — examine that is to put either of the two Defendants on the stand.
A. No. You use his [Jordan] own statement. Because, see, he had made a statement to Short. And Short had come in and narrowed it — cross-examination is in the record. You'll see that Short had asked him a specific question about that. And the guy had answered conclusively and completely, "No, nothing else was said." And you got that and the guy on the stand, and you're feeling good now.
Trial counsel's explanation of the tactical reason why he did not move for a mistrial or raise a Bruton issue at that point in the trial was not outside the range of professionally competent assistance.
Despite our finding that counsel was not ineffective for his tactical decision, appellant's challenge would still fail because he has not satisfied the second prong of Strickland, that is, but for trial counsel's deficient performance, the likely outcome of the trial would have been different.
In reviewing the evidence under the second prong of Strickland, we note that the Supreme Court has explained that a violation of the Bruton rule may be harmless error if there is overwhelming evidence of the defendant's guilt. See Harrington v. California, 395 U.S. 250, 253, 89 S.Ct. 1726, 23 L.Ed.2d 284 (1969) (explaining that the case against the defendant "was so overwhelming that we conclude this violation of Bruton was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt"). "In some cases the properly admitted evidence of guilt is so overwhelming, and the prejudicial effect of the codefendant's admission is so insignificant by comparison, that it is clear beyond a reasonable doubt that the improper use of the admission was harmless error." Schneble v. Florida, 405 U.S. 427, 430, 92 S.Ct. 1056, 31 L.Ed.2d 340 (1972).
In Delaware v. Van Arsdall, 475 U.S. 673, 106 S.Ct. 1431, 89 L.Ed.2d 674 (1986), the Supreme Court set forth the factors for determining whether a violation of the Confrontation Clause was harmless error. See id. at 684, 106 S.Ct. 1431. The Court explained as follows:
Whether such an error is harmless in a particular case depends upon a host of factors, all readily accessible to reviewing courts. These factors include the importance of the witness' testimony in the prosecution's case, whether the testimony was cumulative, the presence or absence of evidence corroborating or contradicting the testimony of the witness include the importance of the witness' testimony in the prosecution's case, whether the testimony was cumulative, the presence or absence of evidence corroborating or contradicting the testimony of the witness on material points, the extent of cross-examination otherwise permitted, and, of course, the overall strength of the prosecution's case. Cf. Harrington, 395 U.S., at 254; Schneble v. Florida, 405 U.S., at 432.
As noted in our disposition of appellant's first issue in this appeal, there was ample evidence to corroborate Jordan's testimony supporting appellant's conviction. Excluding those statements at issue here, the evidence indicates that appellant was with Jordan and Joe hours before the murder, appellant was at the victim's home at the time of the murder, Joe Andrews choked and stabbed the victim, Joe stole the victim's wallet and distributed $95.00 to appellant, appellant was seen with approximately $100.00 in his possession immediately after the murder, appellant tried to flee when the police approached him at a party, and after he was placed under arrest, appellant stated that Carrie Payton was not involved in "this mess." Because the evidence against appellant in this case was so strong, counsel's failure to object to the statements was harmless. Thus, the likely outcome of the trial would not have been different, and the trial court's finding that appellant had failed to demonstrate prejudice from his attorney's alleged deficiency is affirmed.
For his last assignment of error, appellant argues that he should be given a new trial because the state had exculpatory evidence that would have exonerated appellant. The state responds that this issue is not cognizable under Rule 36.4. Even if the state's position may have validity, we find that appellant's point is without merit.
Appellant contends that Margie Jones had exculpatory testimony that appellant was not one of the two men she observed parked looking in the direction of the victim's home on the day of the murder. He argues that the police, specifically Dan Short, were aware of this information and did not provide it to defense counsel.
At the Rule 37 hearing, appellant called Ms. Jones to the stand where she testified that a friend of appellant's had contacted her approximately four years after appellant's trial because this friend had heard that Ms. Jones may have seen something the day of the murder. She told this person that a police officer came to her home in 1990 to ask her some questions, and she told the officer what she had seen regarding the two men in a green truck. During her Rule 37 testimony, Ms. Jones admitted that she could not recall the officers name, and she could not be positive if Dan Short was the officer. In fact, the record indicates that Ms. Jones was not positive if a police officer was the one who came to her home in 1990:
No, it was a friend of Scott's that called me at first, somebody that was trying — or maybe he was a police. I don't really know. I didn't ask him. He asked me if he could talk to me about it, that's all, what I saw. And he come to the house and he come in. Now, this is seven years ago and I've lost two kids since then of my own.
So, my memory is not real good on what his name was because I didn't think it was significant at the time, really.
[17-19] The Supreme Court in Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 83 S.Ct. 1194, 10 L.Ed.2d 215 (1963) held that "the suppression by the prosecution of evidence favorable to an accused upon request violates due process where the evidence is material to guilt or punishment, irrespective of the good faith or bad faith of the prosecution." Id. In Strickler v. Greene, 527 U.S. 263, 119 S.Ct. 1936, 144 L.Ed.2d 286, (1999) the Court revisited Brady and explained its implications. It noted:
We have since [the decision in Brady] held that the duty to disclose such evidence is applicable even though there has been no request by the accused, and that the duty encompasses impeachment evidence as well as exculpatory evidence. Such evidence is material "if there is a reasonable probability that, had the evidence been disclosed to the defense, the result of the proceeding would have been different. "Moreover, the rule encompasses evidence" known only to police investigators and not to the prosecutor." In order to comply with Brady, therefore, "the individual prosecutor has a duty to learn of any favorable evidence known to the others acting on the government's behalf in this case, including the police."
Strickler, supra. (internal citations omitted). The Court, in Strickler, also outlined the three elements of a true Brady violation. These components include:
(1) The evidence at issue must be favorable to the accused, either because it is exculpatory, or because it is impeaching; (2) that evidence must have been suppressed by the State, either willfully or inadvertently; and (3) prejudice must have ensued.
Strickler, supra.
Applying this analysis to the case before us, we hold that the trial court correctly determined that there was no showing of prosecutorial misconduct or that the outcome of the trial would have been different had the testimony been presented. Officer Dan Short testified at the Rule 37 hearing that he did not recall speaking with Ms. Jones and that there were no notes or papers in the police file indicating that he had spoken to Ms. Jones in 1990. After reviewing this record, there is no credible evidence that the state suppressed Ms. Jones alleged statements in 1990. In fact, there is no credible evidence that the state was ever aware or in possession of such evidence. Thus, we cannot say that the Rule 37 trial court's decision that there was no showing of prosecutorial misconduct and that the outcome of the trial would not have been affected by the Ms. Jones testimony is clearly erroneous.
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World Intermediary Liability Map (WILMap)
Whether and when communications platforms like Google, Twitter and Facebook are liable for their users’ online activities is one of the key factors that affects innovation and free speech. Most creative expression today takes place over communications networks owned by private companies. Governments around the world increasingly press intermediaries to block their users’ undesirable online content in order to suppress dissent, hate speech, privacy violations and the like. One form of pressure is to make communications intermediaries legally responsible for what their users do and say. Liability regimes that put platform companies at legal risk for users’ online activity are a form of censorship-by-proxy, and thereby imperil both free expression and innovation, even as governments seek to resolve very real policy problems.
In the United States, the core doctrines of section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act have allowed these online intermediary platforms user generated content to flourish. But, immunities and safe harbors for intermediaries are under threat in the U.S. and globally as governments seek to deputize intermediaries to assist in law enforcement.
To contribute to this important policy debate, CIS studies international approaches to intermediary obligations concerning users’ copyright infringement, defamation, hate speech or other vicarious liabilities, immunities, or safe harbors; publishes a repository of information on international liability regimes and works with global platforms and free expression groups to advocate for policies that will protect innovation, freedom of expression, privacy and other user rights.
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Jennifer Granick fights for civil liberties in an age of massive surveillance and powerful digital technology. As the new surveillance and cybersecurity counsel with the ACLU's Speech, Privacy and Technology Project, she litigates, speaks, and writes about privacy, security, technology, and constitutional rights.
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The essay below serves as introduction to the Stanford Center for Internet and Society's Law, Borders, and Speech Conference Proceedings Volume. The conference brought together experts from around the world to discuss conflicting national laws governing online speech -- and how courts, Internet platforms, and public interest advocates should respond to increasing demands for these laws to be enforced on the global Internet.
Law, Borders, and Speech: Law Enforcement Access to User Data
By Albert Gidari on January 8, 2018 at 4:53 pm
The Law, Borders, and Speech conference at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society asked the important question: Which countries’ laws and values will govern Internet users’ online behavior, including their free expression rights? The conference used the landmark article written in 1996 by David G. Post and David R. Johnson to examine whether twenty years on their conclusions still held true. Post and Johnson had concluded that “[t]he rise of the global computer network is destroying the link between geographical location and: (1) the power of local governments to assert control over online behavior; (2) the effects of online behavior on individuals or things; (3) the legitimacy of the efforts of a local sovereign to enforce rules applicable to global phenomena; and (4) the ability of physical location to give notice of which sets of rules apply.” They proposed that national law must be reconciled with self-regulatory processes emerging from the network itself.
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Archive for the ‘Copp Brothers’ Tag
This 1981 view of the west side of Granville’s 1200 block shows Oak windshields and custom auto glass on the corner of Drake Street. Today it’s the wildlife thrift store, but it started life in 1917 as an auto garage, occupied initially by Dixon’s Motors, who sold Ford cars. The auto glass use was here in 1978, under a different business name, and we looked at that use more closely and at the building next door in an earlier post. It was built by Reinhart Hoffmeister in 1912, who probably also developed the next two buildings to the north (no longer standing today). He operated his electrical machinery and supplies company from 1271 Granville in the 1910s. In 1978 it was a piano store, and when the company moved here in the mid 1950s it was run by Elizabeth Williams, (listed for decades as ‘widow of W R Williams’).
The next 25 foot wide 2-storey building is a mystery in terms of it’s developer; in 1920 it was owned by W A Clark, who also owned and developed the next building north in 1911. We suspect he may also have built 1267 Granville as well. The three buildings were replaced in 2002 by Candela Place, a new non-market housing building designed by Burrowes Huggins Architects for the City of Vancouver, with 63 self-contained rooms managed by the Coast Foundation..
The more substantial 5-storey ‘brick apartment house’, designed by Parr and Fee and built by Peter Tardiff at a cost of $60,000 was developed by W A Clark. He was a real estate broker, who also built the Albany Rooms (the Regal Rooms today) on the 1000 block of Granville in 1910, with the same architect and builder. He was from Ontario, and was one of two William Clark’s involved in real estate in the city, which must have been confusing at times. In 1911 he lived with his wife, May, their five daughters, and a servant, Tanda Ishira, who was from Japan.
When it first opened this was the Newport Rooms, although more recently it became the Granville Hotel. Acquired by the City Of Vancouver in 2003 for $2.8m, it’s still run as an SRO Hotel, the Granville Residence. The city paid over $4m more to repair the building, including rebuilding the façade which was in a pretty poor state in the early 2000s. The room count reduced from 100 to 82, and each is now self-contained with bathrooms, small cooking areas and averaging 160 sq. ft. in area.
Image source: City of Vancouver Archives CVA 779-W00.09
Posted July 11, 2019 by ChangingCity in Downtown, Gone, Still Standing
Tagged with Copp Brothers, F T Andrews, Parr and Fee, Reinhart Hoffmeister, W A Clark
1295 Granville Street (1)
Here’s Dixon’s Motors Ltd in 1921. It was built in 1917, when it cost $7,000 to build. Copp Brothers both designed and built the structure, which the building permit says was for F T Anderson. We suspect that might be F T Andrews, who developed a number of other buildings on Granville Street (including another garage at Pacific), and lived nearby in the Palms Hotel, that he also owned. As with many other Downtown buildings that we’ve looked at, this was part of the city’s motoring concentration. As well as a group of businesses on Georgia, and on Burrard, there were several in this area of Granville. We saw another image of this building in an earlier post.
Dixon Motors Ltd were a Ford dealership offering the usual range of service, parts accessories and tires. This was a new company, managed by L A Dixon. They temporarily occupied premises on Howe Street. The Daily World, in reporting the move, noted the benefits of their new location being on a corner: “The frontage on Granville Street will be used for a spacious showroom and office. The entrance to the garage and service department will be from Drake Street, so that there will be no congestion of traffic on a crowded thoroughfare like Granville Street, and the danger of backing – out from the garage into street cars or jitneys will be eliminated.” We didn’t successfully identify F T Anderson – there were several possible candidates in the city at that time.
In 1925 Dixon’s were still in business, and Mutch’s tire store was at 1275 Granville, a building developed by Reinhart Hoffmeister. He also built the building next door for his electrical contracting business in 1912; (behind the car in this 1935 picture that we first posted in 2012). The Mutch Tire Co had moved next door, offering Goodrich Tires supplied by the B F Goodrich Company of Akron, Ohio (the B F stating for the founder, Benjamin Franklin Goodrich). The company started life in Hastings-on-Hudson in New York, but Akron paid Dr. Goodrich to relocate his business, no doubt to the eternal relief of Hastings-on-Hudson.
By the late 1920s the dealership had been taken over by Fordyce Motors, and the dealership switched briefly to being a Chrysler dealership. Fordyce moved to new premises on Burrard in the early 1930s, when we assume Mutch’s tire company moved next door. Their former premises remained vacant, but a year later Turnbull & Usher, auctioneers moved in, although Barnard Bevan (also an auctioneer) had his name on the façade. A year after that Bevan had moved a block north, and the Crescent Furniture Co. moved in. Tenants in the smaller retail unit changed many times until the mid 1940s, when Julius Shore Mail Order House, an upholstery dealer moved in, Mutch Tires stayed on. They were still here in 1950, but by 1955 had become BC Tire and household appliances, with a piano store next door at 1275 Granville.
Image sources: City of Vancouver Archives CVA 99-4806 and Trans N13
Posted March 28, 2016 by ChangingCity in Downtown, Still Standing
Tagged with Copp Brothers, Dixon Motor Ltd, Mutch Tire Co
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Rethinking Super Size Me: Is it a Big Whopper?
May 30, 2018 | By Dr. Ronald Hoffman
Most of us nutrition aficionados recall Morgan Spurlock’s landmark 2004 documentary, Super Size Me. The film offered a humorous and engaging take-down of fast food. In the spirit of Gonzo Journalism, Spurlock turned himself into a human guinea pig, subjecting himself to a 30-day orgy of McDonald’s meals. He underwent a startling transformation: He gained 24 pounds, his cholesterol soared, he experienced intense mood swings, he developed heart palpitations and the shakes, his libido vanished, and he looked awful. But most alarmingly, his liver function tests went through the roof, prompting his supervising physician—a gastroenterologist—to warn him he was in imminent danger of fulminant liver failure. The New York Times film review was cleverly headlined “You Want Liver Failure with This?”
The documentary was a huge commercial success, grossing millions of dollars at the box office, and garnering an award at the Cannes Film Festival as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Film.
Fast forward to 2017 and the “#MeToo” movement. It was revealed that Spurlock was a serial boundary-pusher, guilty of compulsive philandering and coercive sex. He issued a detailed mea culpa, “I Am Part of the Problem”.
While reflecting badly on Spurlock’s character, this admission does not necessarily disqualify him as an intrepid investigative journalist. But this line from his confession entirely negates the premise of his health reportage:
By way of rationalizing his erratic behavior, Spurlock admits “Or is it because I’ve consistently been drinking since the age of 13? I haven’t been sober for more than a week in 30 years…” Lately, he’s said to have undergone alcohol rehab.
The liver problem Spurlock experienced while on his McDonald’s binge is called NASH—non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. Commonly referred to as “fatty liver,” it’s a form of liver disease characterized by liver enlargement and fat deposition. It has been estimated to affect, at least to some degree, up to 40% of Americans. Unchecked, it can lead to cirrhosis and liver failure, necessitating liver transplantation.
NASH has superseded alcoholism as the number one cause of liver disease in the U.S. And it’s commonly acknowledged to be nutritional, which is why Super Size Me seemed so plausible.
But NASH is, by definition, the result of food, not booze, which undermines Spurlock’s claim that a mere 30 days of eating fast food in and of itself could produce such a radical transformation.
Super Size Me has been widely appropriated as an indictment of the evils of meat and saturated fat. In fact, in the wake of his experiment, Spurlock claims to have spent 14 months normalizing his weight and regaining his health under the tutelage of his then-girlfriend, a vegan health counselor.
But despite its moniker “fatty liver”, there’s some doubt that dietary fat is the sole, or even main culprit in NASH.
Spurlock’s documentary prompted a backlash. In an effort to refute Super Size Me, several lesser-known subsequent documentaries have attempted to exonerate meat and saturated fat. Soso Whorley recorded a 2007 Youtube chronicle of her 30-day McDonald’s immersion: Me and Mickey D. She lost weight, and even improved her cholesterol numbers.
But unlike Spurlock, who force-fed himself 5000 calories per day and eschewed exercise for a month, she kept herself to a moderate 2000 calories per day, and maintained a regimen of physical activity.
I recently interviewed Tom Naughton whose movie Fathead is a deliberate rebuttal to Spurlock’s Super Size Me, which Naughton feels mischaracterizes the problem with fast food: It’s not the saturated fat, it’s all the refined carbohydrates, including a massive assault from high fructose corn syrup.
And all this before any of Spurlock’s many critics had the benefit of knowing about his drinking problem!
So which is it? Does Spurlock’s boozing completely invalidate his conclusions about the adverse effects of excess fast food? Is saturated fat really off the hook as a trigger of hepatic problems? Will the current trend toward ultra low-carb and ketogenic diets stoke or stem the current U.S. epidemic of fatty liver?
I tackle some of these questions in a recent Clinical Focus podcast. I also interviewed Dr. Robert Rountree on strategies for combatting fatty liver.
Here are some highlights of what remains a hotly-contested nutritional debate: WebMD recently published an article luridly entitled “Even One High-Fat Meal Can Damage Your Liver”. The story references a study in which human subjects received a large oral challenge with saturated fat (palm oil), said to resemble the effects of ingestion of a meal rich in saturated fat, e.g., an 8-slice pepperoni pizza or a meal consisting of a 110 gram cheeseburger and a large portion of French fries; they experienced rapid and marked deterioration in their insulin sensitivity, a predictor of fat accumulation in the liver.
But other studies substantiate the benefits of very low carb or even ketogenic diets in staving off fatty liver. One pilot study, entitled “The effect of a low-carbohydrate, ketogenic diet on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease” demonstrated that “six months of a low-carbohydrate, ketogenic diet led to significant weight loss and histologic improvement of fatty liver disease.” Liver biopsies showed reductions in inflammation, fibrosis, and fat accumulation.
Another pilot study, “The Effect of the Spanish Ketogenic Mediterranean Diet on Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease”, showed a complete resolution of fatty liver in 21.4% of the patients, and an overall reduction in 92.86% of the patients.
Amidst the controversy, what conclusions can be drawn?
Don’t drink, especially if you’ve been diagnosed with fatty liver.
Avoid excess calories, whatever the source, be it fat, carbohydrates, or even protein.
Maintain optimal weight.
Exercise to mitigate the effects of diet.
Ditch the refined carbohydrates, especially soda beverages, which are loaded with high fructose corn syrup, a sugar that’s been strongly implicated with NASH.
Consume lots of fiber, which promotes a healthy microbiome.
Drink black coffee, which aids with liver detoxification.
Minimize dependency on medications that hamper hepatic metabolism.
Delete synthetic, chemicalized junk from your diet.
And maybe I should add: Be wary of dietary advice from a show-boating documentary filmmaker with a Fu Manchu!
Processed foods cause overeating and weight gain—DUH!
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The Jersay Sha craze ain’t ova yet!
Jon (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) likes to think of himself as the modern-day Don Juan, and with all of the game he’s got, how could he not?!?! Not only does he bed some of hottest women all of New Jersey has to offer, but he’s also got a pretty nice body, charming personality, well-off job as a bartender, sweet moves on the dance-floor, and cleans his house non-stop, as if it was his morning day ritual. Actually, what am I talking about? It is! However, thrown into the mix is his fair share of porn that he can’t stop watching and loving, all for the sake that it gives him the sort of “real” feeling he can’t get with actual, real-life sex. You know, with a normal human-being. But all that begins to change when he meets the girl of his dreams in the form of Barbara (Scarlett Johansson) and realizes that he needs to quit his addiction if he wants to settle down and get serious with this girl. But if you’ve spent most of your adult-life jackin’ it on the daily, it’s a little easier said then done.
I have to admit, as much as I am a whole-hearted fan of JGL’s, even I snickered a bit when I heard that he would not only be writing and directing a movie that’s practically about the modern-day version of Don Juan, but that he would be starring in that role! The guy doesn’t have the hottest looks out there, and it would seem almost too hard to take in the same kid from 3rd Rock as this total sex-machine that gets any girl he wants, when he wants, and how he wants it (sometimes). What my point is, is that it seemed like it was going to be too hard to buy into JGL being this sexy, stud-muffin, but he surprisingly made me think otherwise.
And not just because of his performance either (no matter how good it is); his direction and writing also have a little something to do with that as well.
It’s those ladies in red that always get you when you’re high-tailing it at the club.
What I liked so much about JGL’s direction is that he does tend to go for the flashiness of his material more than often, but that was fine because it showed that the dude had a way to convey whatever it was that he wanted about his story, and it could totally be understood by the audience. Certain audio-cues, visual-gags, and even lines will be repeated in a way that makes you see what he’s trying to do as a director, while also have you realize that the repetitive nature of the movie is done on purpose, almost, in a way, to show you how dull and meandering Jon’s life can be at times.
He goes, day in and day out, with the same old routine: He wakes up, jacks off, cleans his house, jacks off, goes to the gym, jacks off, gets dressed for a night out on the town, jacks off, picks up a sweet honey, takes her home, rightfully bangs her, but as soon as it’s over, he’s right back to jacking off. The only time that routine shows any signs of changing is on Sunday when he wakes up, jacks off, yells at the fellow drivers on the road, goes to church, asks to be resolved of his sins (which mostly concerns jacking off and pre-marital sex), goes back to his family’s house, argues with them, goes home, and jacks off some more, basically continuing the cycle he had once before.
While this may all seem like it gets boring after seeing it 10 times for the first 5 or 6 minutes, JGL finds a way to keep on spinning it in a way that’s interesting, as well as entertaining. Interesting, because it gives us a further glimpse into the character of Jon, all that he does, and how much of a waste his life seems to be, despite him not being able to notice; and entertaining, well, because the movie’s pretty damn funny when it wants to be, especially when it’s showing the more painful realities of sex, especially when somebody uses it more as recreation, rather than love, or to feel love. Basically, it was a bold choice on the part of JGL’s, but he shows us that he’s capable of making material work and be understood by its audience, even if he is doing the same thing over and over again. It has a point though, and I think that’s where I give most of the credit to JGL in terms of his writing and direction coming together.
Nice job, bud! Always knew you had it in ya!
However, after the middle act, it becomes abundantly clear to us that this is in fact JGL’s first movie behind the camera and typewriter, as it does get very, very messy towards the end as it begins to substitute laughs and jokes, for more melodrama and insight, despite it not really working out well. There’s something that happens about half-way through the movie that feels like it’s routine and generic, just so that JGL’s story can prove something known about how predictable rom-coms are, but it somehow doesn’t play-out that way. Can’t say what it is, but what I can say is that it’s a surprising step that he took with this material, and initially, made it very interesting. But then it begins to play itself out, lose some of its personality, and before you know it, you have a movie that doesn’t know how to end, what to say, or even what it’s whole product leading up to this final minute was supposed to mean to. We know what it’s supposed to mean to Jon, but what about to us? I don’t know, I feel like I’m treading some very thin ice here because I’m coming very close to giving away what the hell happens in the middle, but for the sake of my loyal readers out there, I just won’t. But when you do see this movie, you’ll understand and you may see my point. And if not, well, then I’m just an idiot. So be it.
Just look at him. So proud that he got Julianne Moore in his movie. Smug bastard.
But anyway, back to the good things that JGL actually pulls of with this movie, and the main one being is his performance as Jon. Like I said before, it seemed like a total ego trip coming from a guy who seemed like he had enough sense not to get too deep into his own head, but the dude shut me right up once I heard him talk and act. JGL totally becomes Don Jon, in every sense of the word: He’s in good-shape, tan, got that Jersay-accent going on, seems smooth and slick with the ladies, and makes you believe he could really pull these many ladies back to his crib, only to then start jerking the curtain behind their backs after he’s done with them. Yes, the “porno addiction”-angle does seem a bit far-fetched at times, but JGL makes enough sense of this flaw in Jon’s view-point that you can easily get past it all. All that matters is that JGl was able to make us believe him as a tuned-up, sexy mofo, and he succeeds. Good on his part. Once again, can’t believe I ever doubted him in the first place.
The rest of the cast seems as willing to go along with the material as JGL is, even if most of them have goofier, more over-the-top roles. Scarlett Johansson does well with the part of a spoiled, Jersey girl who’s so used to getting anything that she wants based on her looks, and provides us a nice foil for Jon’s character, making it interesting to see how they both play-out as a couple, rather than just two young, horny people that can’t get enough of one another’s good-looks. Not to mention, she looks insanely hot here, but you knew that already. Julianne Moore’s role as Edith, a woman who goes to night-classes with Jon may at first, seem like a lame role for an actress of her stature, but once the story gets going and we start to see more of her, we realize that she’s great in the movie, even if her character seems more like a contrivance, rather than actual living, breathing person. That’s enough of that, though, as I’m heading into some spoiler-ish material.
Also worth mentioning is everybody that plays Jon’s family: Tony Danza, Brie Larson, and Glenne Headly. Danza has never been funnier as the scuzzy, but charming dad that’s exactly like Jon in every which way, with the exception of the grey hair and saggy skin; Headly is a bunch of fun as the high-strung, overly needy mother; and Larson, who’s been having a stellar year so far, proves to us that she’s the most interesting character in a film, even when she only has one line in it. Can’t wait to see more from this girl, and if you want to know why, just read my Short Term 12 review. Please.
Consensus: Being that Don Jon is JGL’s directorial debut, you can excuse some of the messiness that occurs in the last 20 minutes or so, but instead take notice of just how funny, clever, and thoughtful the movie is way before that, showing that the guy has some serious skills behind the camera, as well as in front, even when he is playing against-type.
7 / 10 = Rental!!
“We da family!! Say cheeeeezzzzeee!”
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Benjamin Marlatt says:
Good review, Dan. The ending could’ve been wrapped up a bit better and JGL’s friends were a bit more cartoonish than they needed to be, but I still laughed a lot and it made me believe Gordon-Levitt’s got potential as a filmmaker. I totally agree with you on the family. I loved Danza and Headly as his parents. Larson was good, but I felt the gag with her had a predictable payoff I saw coming. I do agree though that she’s a terrific actress and I too look forward to more of her in the future.
CMrok93 says:
She’s great, but she was given “the Silent Bob role” here and it sort of worked, sort of didn’t. Same could be said for this movie, but more of the former.
Whit's Movie Reviews says:
I feel pretty bad for not going to the theaters forever (Okay like a week, but that feels like forever). Bummed this isn’t as great as it originally looked,but glad it’s somewhat good. Nice review Dan.
It’s good, but not great. A bit disappointed, but hey, I still look forward to the future. Thanks Whit!
FilmBuffDave says:
I really liked this movie. I just watched it for a second time last night and it is probably my favorite movie of the year so far. I know that might sound a bit weird but I was really into this movie and where it went.
Hey man, nothing weird at all. Different strokes, for very different folks. Also, you’re not alone, so no need to worry.
Really hyped up for this. Love the trailer. Sounds like JGL has a lot of ideas but doesn’t effectively communicate them all. Still, for a debut it sounds like he has a lot of potential.
For his debut, it’s impressive, however, a bit disappointing as well. Oh well, he’ll get better and better.
I wasn’t sure about this one but “rental” seems about right. Good review. 🙂
quirkybibliophile says:
Excellent review, Dan! I especially like your thoughtful discussion of JGL’s directorial style. This movie doesn’t really sound like my cup of tea, and one of the reasons I’ve always been a fan of JGL is that he didn’t seem to feel the need to play sexy stud roles. Oh well. 🙂 But even with JGL’s novice mistakes, it does sound worth checking out. I’ll take your advice and wait ’til it comes to rental.
velveetahead says:
There are plenty of ladies out there that would disagree about JGL being sexy. 🙂 Nice review! I still want to see it, but then I see most movies with him in it anyway.
Annie J says:
can’t wait to see this one now. it’s always fascinating to see really good actors try their hand at filmmaking!
sanclementejedi says:
Just watched this one last night and felt this was a decent directorial debut. I really liked some of the shots he created. Also enjoyed his sister txting all the time and Tony Danza was pretty great. Where the hell has he been? Nice write up Dan.
Mark Hobin says:
I was expecting more. It heavily relied on tired stereotypes. Too superficial. It would’ve made a funny skit, but not a feature length film.
Evan Crean says:
Good review Dan. I think if you’re having a hard time thinking of JGL a ladies man, then you probably don’t have enough female friends haha. All of mine think he’s dreamy. It’s a great directing debut from him though. Very funny and poignant with good messages about relationships (not just romantic ones). I love his confidence behind the camera and the very stream of consciousness feel that it has. Slightly reminiscent of Rules of Attraction. He takes some risks and not all of them work, but credit to him for putting himself out there. A lot of people go on about how it “fell apart” near the end. I don’t think it focused enough on his relationship with Moore, although I didn’t think the end blew it that bad. It wrapped things up without putting too neat of a bow on everything.
sohansurag says:
I agree with almost everything you’ve quoted here…to the point that some of the phrases I’ve used in What I Thought! ends up being the same.
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Boehm/Casement Papers
Abstract: This collection consists largely of letters from Roger Casement to Captain Hans Boehm, during Casement's stay in Germany in 1915, as well as some associated material (photographs, medals) relating to his first contact with the German authorities in November and December 1914 and the formation of the Irish Brigade in 1915.
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Handwritten statement by Mansfeldt de Cardonnel Findlay, H.B.M. Minister, British Legation at Christiania, Norway promising to pay Adler Christensen the sum of £5,000 for the provision of information that would lead to the capture of Roger Casement.
Typescript copy of the secret agreement made by Roger Casement with the German Foreign Office, concerning the formation of a brigade from Irish prisoners of war.
Formation of an Irish Brigade in Germany ; Manifesto of A Company of the Irish Brigade Handwritten summary by Roger Casement of the agreement with Germany; and manifesto of the Irish Brigade, handwritten by Roger Casement and copies printed by Limburger Vereinsdruckerei.
Letter from Roger Casement, Frankfurt to Captain Hans Boehm, consisting mainly of the German Government's declaration of good will in relation to any possible invasion of Ireland.
Letter from Roger Casement, Berlin to Captain Hans Boehm, expressing concern about the formation of the Irish Brigade.
Letter from Roger Casement, Berlin to Captain Hans Boehm, referring to the possibility of Boehm going to the camp at Limburg in person.
Letters from Roger Casement, Berlin to Captain Hans Boehm, referring to Irish corporals at the Limburg camp willing to form the Irish Brigade under certain conditions; they include a transcription of a letter by Joe McGarrity on Irish pro-German events in Philadelphia, USA.
Letter from Roger Casement, Berlin to Captain Hans Boehm, expressing his disappointment at the delays in the formation of the Irish Brigade.
Letter from Roger Casement to Captain Hans Boehm, saying that he is still without news.
Letter from Roger Casement (U.S. Consulate General, Munich) to Captain Hans Boehm, referring to enclosed letters from the three corporals at the Limburg camp.
Letter from Roger Casement (U.S. Consulate General, Munich) to Captain Hans Boehm, thanking him for his letter and for news of a messenger going to Ireland.
Letter from Roger Casement (U.S. Consulate General, Munich) to Captain Hans Boehm, referring to his decision to go to Berlin and visit the camp at Zossen.
Letter from Roger Casement (Hotel Baselerhof, Prannerstrasse 11, Munich) to Mrs. Boehm, thanking her for the cards and cuttings she sent him.
Letter from Roger Casement, Zossen to Mrs. Boehm, thanking her for her card and the news of her husband's safe arrival.
Postcards of Limburg and a photograph of the prison camp.
Photograph of Hans Boehm in day clothes.
Photograph of Hans Boehm in evening dress.
Photograph of Roger Casement.
Set of two commemorative bronze medals depicting Roger Casement and allegories of Irish independence / by B.H. Meyer of Pforzheim.
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The Boehm/Casement Papers consist largely of letters from Roger Casement to Captain Hans Boehm, during Casement's stay in Germany in 1915, as well as some associated material (photographs, medals) relating to his first contact with the German authorities in November and December 1914 and the formation of the Irish Brigade in 1915.
The collection is quite small and covers only a short period of Casement's life. However, it illustrates very well his feelings during this period, the knowledge and acceptance of the fact that he was committing treason; as well as his increasing disillusionment with the project and the German authorities. There is also some interesting material on the brigade such as the manifesto of A Company [P127/3] and the collection is notable for possibly containing the original of the Findlay letter [P127/1].
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This collection was deposited in UCD Archives in April 1995 by Karl Boehm-Tettelbach of Köln, Germany.
Listed and introduced by Caroline Brown, December 1995. Minor revisions by IVRLA project staff, 2008.
Roger Casement was born on 1 September 1864 in Sandycove, County Dublin, but moved in 1873, after the deaths of his parents, to live in County Antrim. His first employment was with a Liverpool based shipping line, but he soon became disillusioned with this and joined a group of volunteers working with Henry Stanley in the Congo in 1884. He later joined the British Foreign Service and in 1895 was appointed consul of Lourenco Marques in Portugese East Africa; then spent several years working in Africa and Putamayo, South America, earning a reputation for exposing the poor conditions under which the indigenous population was forced to work.
He was knighted in 1911, and returning to Ireland in 1913, he retired and became involved in Irish nationalism. In November 1913 he joined the Provisional Committee of the Irish Volunteers, actively recruited for the organisation and became convinced of the need for it to be armed. He was heavily involved in raising funds for this in Ireland and London and on 2 July 1914 he left for America to raise support among Irish Americans.
The outbreak of the First World War caused Casement to rethink his plans. His sympathies were with Germany and he was convinced that England's aim was to extend her empire rather than to help small nations such as Belgium. John Devoy's opinion was that supporters of Clan na Gael in Ireland were prepared to raise a rebellion but lacked arms and trained officers. Casement became convinced that, if Germany were to aid the rebels, it would be to their mutual advantage in diverting British troops from the continent to Ireland. After an encouraging meeting with Franz von Papen, the German military attaché in Washington, at which they discussed the possibility of Irish prisoners of war being persuaded to change allegiance, Casement decided to sail for Germany on 14 October 1914.
His route took him and his companion, Adler Christensen, a young Norwegian Casement had met in New York, via Christiania (now Oslo), Norway, where began a series of attempts by the British to use Christensen to capture Casement. This culminated in a written promise by Mansfeldt de Findlay to pay Christensen £5,000 in the event of Casement being captured as a result of information given by him [P127/1].
Casement's first two months in Germany were promising and led to an official German declaration of support for the Irish cause [P127/4], as well as a secret agreement concerning the aims of an Irish Brigade [P128/2]. Captured Irish troops in Germany were moved to a special camp at Limburg, near Frankfurt, for the purpose of forming them into a brigade, with the ultimate aim of landing them in Ireland with German assistance. The papers show that Casement was well aware of the treasonable nature and possible consequences of his actions [P127/5]. However, attempts to recruit men to the brigade were largely unsuccessful and Casement became increasingly depressed and physically ill. His letters to Captain Hans Boehm [P127/5-9] show his frustration at what he saw as inactivity by the Germans who refused to publish the secret treaty until 200 men had been recruited.
Eventually about 60 men were moved to another camp at Zossen, near Berlin, and a brigade was formed. The papers show that Casement continued to encounter problems; show how dispirited he had become and how he felt he had been abandoned by friends in America [P127/13].
Captain Hans Boehm was assigned by the German High Command to assist Casement while he was in Germany. Casement spoke no German and needed a translator and it was felt that Boehm, who was married to an American and had several Irish friends, would be suitable. The two met in Berlin at the end of February 1915 when Casement was still in the process of trying to form the brigade from the men at Limburg. The papers show how much, from this point, Casement came to rely on Boehm to help form the brigade [P127/6-8]. They continued to meet and correspond until Boehm was sent away (possibly to America) in September 1915 [P127/11, 14-16]. It is possible that Boehm was also used by the German authorities to deal with separatist groups in Italy. Early in 1917 he was arrested in British waters off Falmouth and interned.
The letters in the collection continue until December 1915. Casement was very ill during the Spring of 1916 and when he heard of the proposed Easter Rising he decided to go to Ireland with only two brigade members, Robert Monteith and David Bailey. They landed at Tralee Bay, County Kerry on 21 April 1916 where Casement was arrested. He was taken to London, tried, found guilty of treason and executed on 3 August 1916.
The collection is complemented by P128 [not scanned by IVRLA, as of September 2008], a collection of papers concerning Casement during the same period, written by Michael McKeogh, one of the members of the Irish Brigade.
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The items have been arranged in rough chronological order. They are subdivided into four series, A-D, corresponding to three different 'phases' of Casement's mission in Germany, with the last series consisting of photographs and medals.
Casement, Roger, Sir, 1864-1916 --Correspondence
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World War, 1914-1918--Detention facilities--German--Limburg an der Lahn (Germany)
World War, 1914-1918--Prisoners and prisons, Irish linked data (lcsh)
Ireland--History--Easter Rising, 1916--Causes linked data (lcsh)
Germany--Foreign relations--Ireland linked data (lcsh)
Ireland--Foreign relations--Germany linked data (lcsh)
UCD School of History and Archives. UCD Archives. Boehm/Casement Papers
Roger Casement, Germany and the world war : From British imperial consul to Irish republican envoy
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Metadata creation date: 1995-12 — Prepared by IVRLA project staff, UCD Library, University College Dublin. Finding aid encoded in EAD by the Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) - C.S., 9 September 2008.
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On January 27, 2017, Trump issued an Executive Order that suspends the entry of refugees to the United States for 120 days and deny entry/issuance of visas to citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries [Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Somalia, Libya, and Yemen]. See Trump EO: Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States, 1.27.2017
Below is a collection of documents from the State Department via Jason Leopold’s FOIA efforts. The documents illustrate the actions and confusion following the issuance of the Executive Order. In a normal administration where the motto is not “chaos everyday”, this EO would have gone through an internal process where overseas posts learn beforehand about the new policy, how it is interpreted for operational purposes, and are provided guidance on how to address the more complicated cases, and exceptions. In this case, the EO was released and overseas posts had no answers to relevant operational questions. The agreed guidance between DHS and State did not go out until January 30, 2017. Meanwhile, US Embassy Baghdad had to deal with the EO fallout from the Iraqi government and shocked Kurdish partners.
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September 25, 2017 By domani spero in Consular Work, Foreign Policy, Foreign Service, Functional Bureaus, Regulations, Security, State Department, Trends, Trump, Visas Tags: Bureau of Consular Affairs, Chad, E.O. 13780, enhanced vetting, Immigrant Visas, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Nonimmigrant Visas, North Korea, Somalia, State/CA, Syria, Trump EO, Venezuela, visa restrictions, Yemen
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President Trump issued E.O. 13780 on March 6 (Executive Order Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States). It revoked the January 27 order, and reissued the ban for the same six countries – Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, with Iraq excepted (see Trump Revokes Travel Ban EO, Reissues New Executive Order For Six Muslim Countries Minus Iraq).
As we’ve pointed out previously here, there’s something in EO 13780 that did not get as much attention as the travel ban. Section 2 (a) and (b) of the E.O. requires the review of immigration-related information sharing by foreign governments.
Sec. 2. Temporary Suspension of Entry for Nationals of Countries of Particular Concern During Review Period. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Director of National Intelligence, shall conduct a worldwide review to identify whether, and if so what, additional information will be needed from each foreign country to adjudicate an application by a national of that country for a visa, admission, or other benefit under the INA (adjudications) in order to determine that the individual is not a security or public-safety threat. The Secretary of Homeland Security may conclude that certain information is needed from particular countries even if it is not needed from every country.
(b) The Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Director of National Intelligence, shall submit to the President a report on the results of the worldwide review described in subsection (a) of this section, including the Secretary of Homeland Security’s determination of the information needed from each country for adjudications and a list of countries that do not provide adequate information, within 20 days of the effective date of this order. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide a copy of the report to the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Director of National Intelligence.
The report required under Section 2(b) was reportedly submitted in mid-July to the President. The State Department subsequently sent a guidance cable to all posts worldwide to help foreign governments understand the requirements and how they can start meeting them. We understand that posts were told to request a response from their host government counterparts to enable them to respond to the State Department by July 21.
On September 24, President Trump announced new security measures that establish minimum requirements for international cooperation to support U.S. visa and immigration vetting and new visa restrictions for eight countries. The announcement cites Section 2 of Executive Order 13780 — “if foreign countries do not meet the United States Government’s traveler vetting and information sharing requirements, their nationals may not be allowed to enter the United States or may face other travel restrictions, with certain exceptions.” Below are the country-specific restrictions per Fact Sheet: Proclamation on Enhancing Vetting Capabilities and Processes for Detecting Attempted Entry Into the United States by Terrorists or Other Public-Safety Threats:
Country-Specific Travel Restrictions:
The United States maintained, modified, or eased restriction on 5 of 6 countries currently designated by Executive Order 13780. Those countries are Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, and Somalia.
The United States lifted restrictions on 1 of 6 countries currently designated by Executive Order 13780: Sudan.
The United States added restrictions and/or additional vetting on 3 additional countries found to not meet baseline requirements, but that were not included in Executive Order 13780. These countries are: Chad, North Korea, and Venezuela.
The country specific restrictions are as follows:
Chad – Although it is an important partner, especially in the fight against terrorists, the government in Chad does not adequately share public-safety and terrorism-related information, and several terrorist groups are active within Chad or in the surrounding region, including elements of Boko Haram, ISIS-West Africa, and al-Qa’ida in the Islamic Maghreb. Accordingly, the entry into the United States of nationals of Chad, as immigrants, and as nonimmigrants on business (B-1), tourist (B-2), and business/tourist (B-1/B-2) visas, is suspended.
Iran – The government in Iran regularly fails to cooperate with the United States Government in identifying security risks; is the source of significant terrorist threats; is state sponsor of terrorism; and fails to receive its nationals subject to final orders of removal from the United States. Accordingly, the entry into the United States of nationals of Iran as immigrants and as nonimmigrants is suspended, except that entry by nationals of Iran under valid student (F and M) and exchange visitor (J) visas is not suspended, although such individuals will be subject to enhanced screening and vetting requirements.
Libya – Although it is an important partner, especially in the area of counterterrorism, the government in Libya faces significant challenges in sharing several types of information, including public-safety and terrorism-related information; has significant inadequacies in its identity-management protocols; has been assessed to be not fully cooperative with respect to receiving its nationals subject to final orders of removal from the United States; and has a substantial terrorist presence within its territory. Accordingly, the entry into the United States of nationals of Libya, as immigrants, and as nonimmigrants on business (B-1), tourist (B-2), and business/tourist (B-1/B-2) visas, is suspended.
North Korea – The government in North Korea does not cooperate with the United States Government in any respect and fails to satisfy all information-sharing requirements. Accordingly, the entry into the United States of nationals of North Korea as immigrants and nonimmigrants is suspended.
Somalia – Although it satisfies minimum U.S. information-sharing requirements, the government in Somalia still has significant identity-management deficiencies; is recognized as a terrorist safe haven; remains a destination for individuals attempting to join terrorist groups that threaten the national security of the United States; and struggles to govern its territory and to limit terrorists’ freedom of movement, access to resources, and capacity to operate. Accordingly, the entry into the United States of nationals of Somalia as immigrants is suspended, and nonimmigrants traveling to the United States will be subject to enhanced screening and vetting requirements.
Syria – The government in Syria regularly fails to cooperate with the U.S. Government in identifying security risks; is the source of significant terrorist threats; has been designated as a state sponsor of terrorism; has significant inadequacies in identity-management protocols; and fails to share public-safety and terrorism information. Accordingly, the entry into the United States of nationals of Syria as immigrants and nonimmigrants is suspended.
Venezuela – The government in Venezuela is uncooperative in verifying whether its citizens pose national security or public-safety threats; fails to share public-safety and terrorism-related information adequately; and has been assessed to be not fully cooperative with respect to receiving its nationals subject to final orders of removal from the United States. Accordingly, the entry into the United States of certain Venezuelan government officials and their immediate family members as nonimmigrants on business (B-1), tourist (B-2), and business/tourist (B-1/B-2) visas is suspended.
Yemen – Although it is an important partner, especially in the fight against terrorism, the government in Yemen faces significant identity-management challenges, which are amplified by the notable terrorist presence within its territory; fails to satisfy critical identity-management requirements; and does not share public-safety and terrorism-related information adequately. Accordingly, the entry into the United States of nationals of Yemen as immigrants, and as nonimmigrants on business (B-1), tourist (B-2), and business/tourist (B-1/B-2) visas, is suspended.
IRAQ: The Secretary of Homeland Security also assesses Iraq as inadequate according to the baseline criteria, but has determined that entry restrictions and limitations under a Presidential proclamation are not warranted because of the close cooperative relationship between the United States and the democratically elected government of Iraq, the strong United States diplomatic presence in Iraq, the significant presence of United States forces in Iraq, and Iraq’s commitment to combating the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
The Secretary recommends, however, that nationals of Iraq who seek to enter the United States be subject to additional scrutiny to determine if they pose risks to the national security or public safety of the United States.
The FAQ notes that these restrictions and limitations took effect at 3:30 p.m. eastern daylight time on September 24, 2017, for foreign nationals “who were subject to the suspension of entry under section 2 of E.O. 13780, and who lack a credible claim of a bonda fide relationship with a person or entity of the United States.” The restrictions and limitations take effect at 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on October 18, 2017, for all other foreign nationals subject to the suspension of entry under section 2 of E.O. 13780, and for nationals of Chad, North Korea, and Venezuela.
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US Ambassador Presents New President of Somalia with “Make Som Great Again” Hat
February 21, 2017 By domani spero in AF |Africa, Ambassadors, Foreign Service, FSOs, Social Media, Trump, U.S. Missions Tags: MAGA, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmaajo, MSGA, Somalia, Stephen Schwartz, Travel Ban, Trump EO, US Mission Somalia
On Friday, U.S. Mission to Somalia Ambassador Stephen Schwartz (see D/SecState Blinken Swears in Stephen Schwartz, First U.S.Ambassador to Somalia in 25 Years) had a meeting with the newly elected president of Somalia, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmaajo. Both apparently are from Buffalo, New York. But that’s not why they made news. The U.S. Mission to Somalia tweeted a photo of Ambassador Schwartz presenting President Farmaajo with a “MAKE SOM GREAT AGAIN” hat. The hat is not in Trump’s red signature hat and yes, but Somalia is one of the countries temporarily banned under the Trump EO issued in late January (see Trump Bars US Entry of Refugees, and Citizens, Green Card Holders From Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen).
What official message is the mission sending with its MSGA hat? That when Somalia is “great again” there’s no need for Somalis to immigrate to the United States? Or when Somalia is “great again” there won’t be Somali refugees asking for admission to the United States? Or when Somalia is “great again” the country won’t be included in the next Trump travel ban?
UK’s Ambassador to Somalia tweeted, “Hats off to my US counterpart Stephen Schwartz for finding a cap with such a great slogan for #Somalia‘s new President.” He’s serious, right? After the thumbs up/down comments, scroll down for the reactions in gifs, because, hey, why not?
US2SOM Amb Schwartz had a fruitful mtng w Pres Farmaajo 2day + presented the Pres with a cap "MAKE SOM GREAT AGAIN" https://t.co/rXHgpWFp pic.twitter.com/EWFdrRipv3
— U.S. Mission-Somalia (@US2SOMALIA) February 17, 2017
They know Somalia is on Trump's travel ban list, right? How utterly disrespectful. https://t.co/TQffoJyHKi
— Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) February 19, 2017
US Ambassador’s Gift to Somali Pres Leads to Confusion on Social Media https://t.co/13zdnEY0uc @lhammondsoas @SafiaNurAhmed @SomaliaNewsroom
— Harun Maruf (@HarunMaruf) February 19, 2017
Hats off to my US counterpart Stephen Schwartz for finding a cap with such a great slogan for #Somalia's new President @M_Farmaajo https://t.co/9XIbT9p0Mp
— David Concar (@DConcar) February 17, 2017
@US2SOMALIA pic.twitter.com/J7vD5ZPObG
— A.Demerise (@a_demerise) February 18, 2017
@US2SOMALIA: This slogan doesn't belong in Somalia!!! Somalia is moving forward from divisive politics. @aysanei @M_Farmaajo
— Safia Ahmed (@SafiaNurAhmed) February 18, 2017
US Ambassador Gives 'Make Somalia Great Again' Hat to Somali President Because America Has Become a Parody of Itself https://t.co/nvMkDGnfz3
— AEI African Inst. (@AfricaEnterpris) February 18, 2017
Trump's revised executive order on immigration is expected to keep the ban on #Somalia. But Farmaajo has a cool hat. https://t.co/kJ2uvZseum pic.twitter.com/4oDJqEijTe
— Somablog (@SomaliaNewsroom) February 18, 2017
You are banned from entering our country, but here's a shitty hat. #MuslimBan https://t.co/QCbH4KHrOH
— Amarnath Amarasingam (@AmarAmarasingam) February 20, 2017
Reaction gifs:
@SomaliaNewsroom @AliMohamoud posted this yesterday hahahah pic.twitter.com/w9ODf1SzbN
— Adam A. Omar (@adancabdulle) February 18, 2017
@US2SOMALIA pic.twitter.com/mKq8XYLCBd
— AP (@casapazzo) February 19, 2017
@US2SOMALIA pic.twitter.com/3t9wPllFxq
— Dame Cranon (@damecranon) February 18, 2017
@US2SOMALIA Don't do it Somalia! pic.twitter.com/ANDdO4k2vn
— curtis morrison (@curtisky) February 19, 2017
@basharyare @US2SOMALIA Let me know when you figure that one out. pic.twitter.com/kRrMTMhBg5
— Katrina Jørgensen (@Veribatim) February 19, 2017
White House Issues Clean-Up Memo For Trump Ban to Exempt Green Card Holders
February 2, 2017 By domani spero in Federal Agencies, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Service, Huh? News, Protests, Realities of the FS, Regulations, Social Media, Spectacular, State Department, Trends, Trump, U.S. Missions, US Presidents, Visas Tags: DHS, Donald F. McGahn II, green card holders, immigrant visa holders, IVs, Muslim Ban, Travel Ban, Trump EO, Trump Executive Order, Trump White House
On February 1, White Counsel Donald F. McGahn II released a memo intended to provide “Authoritative Guidance on Executive Order Entitled “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States” (Jan. 27, 2017).”
Section 3(c) of the Executive Order entitled “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States” (Jan. 27, 2017) suspends for 90 days the entry into the United States of certain aliens from countries referred to in section 217(a)(12) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1187(a)(12). Section 3(e) of the order directs the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to submit to the President a list of countries recommended for inclusion on a Presidential proclamation that would prohibit the entry of certain foreign nationals from countries that do not provide information needed to adjudicate visas, admissions, or other benefits under the INA.
I understand that there has been reasonable uncertainty about whether those provisions apply to lawful permanent residents of the United States. Accordingly, to remove any confusion, I now clarify that Sections 3(c) and 3(e) do not apply to such individuals. Please immediately convey this interpretive guidance to all individuals responsible for the administration and implementation of the Executive Order.
The EO clearly states “I hereby proclaim that the immigrant and nonimmigrant entry into the United States of aliens from countries referred to in section 217(a)(12) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1187(a)(12), would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, and I hereby suspend entry into the United States, as immigrants and nonimmigrants.” So the EO drafters had to idea what are green card holders? Or they just want to tame the blowback right now.
Here is Section 3 (c):
(c) To temporarily reduce investigative burdens on
relevant agencies during the review period described in
subsection (a) of this section, to ensure the proper review
and maximum utilization of available resources for the
screening of foreign nationals, and to ensure that adequate
standards are established to prevent infiltration by foreign
terrorists or criminals, pursuant to section 212(f) of the
INA, 8 U.S.C. 1182(f), I hereby proclaim that the immigrant
and nonimmigrant entry into the United States of aliens from
countries referred to in section 217(a)(12) of the INA, 8
U.S.C. 1187(a)(12), would be detrimental to the interests of
the United States, and I hereby suspend entry into the United
States, as immigrants and nonimmigrants, of such persons for
90 days from the date of this order (excluding those foreign
nationals traveling on diplomatic visas, North Atlantic Treaty
Organization visas, C-2 visas for travel to the United
Nations, and G-1, G-2, G-3, and G-4 visas).
Here is Section 3 (e)
(e) After the 60-day period described in subsection (d)
of this section expires, the Secretary of Homeland Security,
in consultation with the Secretary of State, shall submit to
the President a list of countries recommended for inclusion on
a Presidential proclamation that would prohibit the entry of
foreign nationals (excluding those foreign nationals traveling
on diplomatic visas, North Atlantic Treaty Organization visas,
C-2 visas for travel to the United Nations, and G-1, G-2, G-3,
and G-4 visas) from countries that do not provide the
information requested pursuant to subsection (d) of this
section until compliance occurs.
The full WH memo is here:
White House cleans-upTrump's travel ban to exempt green card holders https://t.co/ubESaGoSrm
— Diplopundit (@Diplopundit) February 2, 2017
Breaking News: After protests, the Trump administration seemed to scale back the president's immigration ban https://t.co/dAqRFoADUW
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 29, 2017
Bannon and Miller overruled DHS on applicability of travel ban to green card holders, per CNN https://t.co/Gg6RBMtj2p
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 29, 2017
Trump EO Results in Provisional Revocations of Valid Visas, Chaos For Dual Nationals
February 1, 2017 By domani spero in Consular Work, Controversies, Foreign Affairs, Functional Bureaus, Huh? News, Immigration, Realities of the FS, Regulations, State Department, Trends, Trump, U.S. Missions, Visas Tags: Canada, Donald J. Trump, Executive Order, Israel, Muslim Ban, provisional revocation, Travel Ban, Trump EO, Trump Executive Order, UK, US Embassy London, US Embassy Ottawa, US Embassy Tel Aviv, visa revocations
On January 27, President Trump signed an executive order suspending the entry of refugees to the United States for FY2017 for 120 days. The E.O also proclaimed the entry of certain aliens as “detrimental to the interests of the United States” and declared the suspension of their entry into the United States for 90 days. The aliens referred to are from countries cited under Section 217(a)(12) of the INA, 8 U.S.C.1187(a)(12) according to the executive order. These are the same countries cited under the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, or Yemen.
Urgent Notice
The State Department issued an urgent notice on January 27:
Per the Executive Order on Protecting the Nation from Terrorist Attacks by Foreign Nationals signed on January 27, 2017, visa issuance to nationals of the countries of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen has been suspended effective immediately until further notification. If you are a citizen of one of these countries, please do not schedule a visa appointment or pay any visa fees at this time. If you already have an appointment scheduled, please DO NOT ATTEND. You will not be permitted entry to the Embassy/Consulate. We will announce any other changes affecting travelers to the United States as soon as that information is available.
Provisional Revocations
It appears that not only has the U.S. Government suspended the entry and processing of visas for this seven Muslim-majority countries, it also made the State Department “provisionally revoked” (with exceptions) the valid visas issued to citizens from these seven countries. If the travel ban is lifted after 90 days, the rules allow for the reinstatement of visas, presumably with whatever “extreme vetting” the government will have in place by then.
Provisional revocation via the Federal Register:
In cases where the person subject to a provisional revocation is found to be eligible for the visa, the visa will be reinstated with no need for reapplication. However, with the exception of provisional revocations, an applicant whose visa has been revoked must apply for another visa, at which time his or her eligibility for the visa will be adjudicated.
And now visas are getting revoked. pic.twitter.com/Wl892MHiaM
— David E. Weekly 🤓🚁 (@dweekly) February 1, 2017
Questions for the State Department
We asked the State Department how the EO affects dual-nationals, green card holders and travelers from these seven countries. We also asked previously if travelers issued visas on the day the EO was issued now expect that those visas no longer have validity. We wanted to know if consular posts are canceling all visa appointments/refunding all visa application fees from applicants in the affected countries. We requested an estimate of how many applicants were in the pipeline when the ban took effect.
We get to ask our questions but we don’t always get the response we need. For travelers who are nationals/dual-nationals of the seven countries, a State Department official speaking on background offered the following:
Beginning January 27, 2017, travelers who have nationality or dual nationality of one of these countries [Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Somalia, Libya, and Yemen] will not be permitted for 90 days to enter the United States or be issued an immigrant or nonimmigrant visa.
Those nationals or dual nationals holding valid immigrant or nonimmigrant visas will not be permitted to enter the United States during this period. Visa interviews will generally not be scheduled for nationals of these countries during this period.
So the suspension affects not only the entry to the U.S. but also the issuance of immigrant (green card) and nonimmigrant (temporary) visas. An SBU cable reportedly went out to all posts last Saturday explaining the executive order. The State Department official says, “As we would for any operational change, we communicated instructions to our consulates in affected countries and around the world.”
The State Department official cites an exception to the ban on a “case-by-case” basis and when “in the national interest.”
The Department of Homeland Security and Department of State may, on a case-by-case basis, and when in the national interest, issue visas or allow entry to nationals of countries for which visas and entry are otherwise blocked under this Executive Order.
Asked specifically about dual-nationals, the State Department official only notes about dual-national Americans:
This Executive Order should not affect dual-nationality Americans at all. U.S. citizens (although they might also have another nationality) are required to use their U.S. passport when entering and departing the United States. They do not receive visas or enter the U.S. as a foreign national, so this Executive Order does not apply to them.
The EO clearly does not apply to American citizens but it appears to be a different story in our airport terminals:
Barius Elhalabi, the 19-year-old Lebanese man held with an American passport, said agents asked him, "Do you love your country?" pic.twitter.com/3Jly9zzit4
— Nader Issa (@NaderDIssa) January 29, 2017
Also heard from a lawyer at Dulles that US citizens with dual citizenship now being held. Not just defying but escalating https://t.co/LxUDxl1sY1
— Adam Blickstein (@AdamBlickstein) January 29, 2017
Kiana Karimi, a US citizen, writes about being detained at JFK yesterday: https://t.co/JYdCmTZKOe
— London Review (LRB) (@LRB) January 30, 2017
We also asked the State Department about third country dual nationals with the seven countries, for instance Canadian-Iranians or British-Iraqi citizens. The State Department directed us to check with Homeland Security. As of this writing, we have not heard a response. Meanwhile, the chaos continue.
Israeli Dual Nationals With Seven Restricted Countries
The US Embassy in Tel Aviv posted the following message which contradicts the information we received from the State Department on dual nationals:
Travelers with an existing valid visa in their Israeli passport may travel to the United States, even if they are also a national of or born in one of the seven restricted countries (Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen). Embassy Tel Aviv will continue to process visa applications and issue visas to eligible visa applicants who apply with an Israeli passport, even if born in, or a dual national of, one of the seven restricted countries. Final authorization to enter the United States is always determined at the port of entry.
UK Dual Nationals With Seven Restricted Countries
The US Embassy in London said that “Dual nationals of the United Kingdom and one of these countries are exempt from the Executive Order when travelling on a valid United Kingdom passport and U.S. visa.” But the UKFCO has additional guidelines that seems to indicate point of origin as a factor, too, which adds to more confusion:
the Presidential executive order only applies to individuals travelling from one of the 7 named countries
if you are travelling to the US from anywhere other than one of those countries (for instance, the UK) the executive order does not apply to you and you will experience no extra checks regardless of your nationality or your place of birth
if you are a UK national who happens to be travelling from one of those countries to the US, then the order does not apply to you – even if you were born in one of those countries
if you are a dual citizen of one of those countries travelling to the US from OUTSIDE those countries then the order does not apply to you
The only dual nationals who might have extra checks are those coming from one of the 7 countries themselves – for example a UK-Libya dual national coming from Libya to the US.
Statement on what the Presidential exec order on inbound migration to US means to Brit nationals/dual nationals. https://t.co/1vpjcXbZBg
— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) January 29, 2017
Canadian Dual Nationals With Seven Restricted Countries
Media reports citing DHS and the State Department says that dual nationals with the seven countries will be refused entry. This is the same thing we were told. Meanwhile, the Canadian Ambassador to the US said exactly the opposite. Canadian PM Justin Trudeau on Twitter also release a statement citing confirmation from NSA Mike Flynn that Canadian citizens including dual citizens will not be affected by the ban.
Welcome to big time confusion and chaos!
This is ludicrous. Homeland Security and the State Department both said dual citizens were banned. https://t.co/zi6m9YCsiD
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 29, 2017
US State Dept confirms Canadian dual citizens with the 7 banned countries WILL be refused from the US for the next 90 days
— Lorenda Reddekopp (@CBCLorenda) January 28, 2017
Canadian dual citizens – from 7 listed countries – not affected by ban. This was confirmed by National Security Advisor Flynn to @CanEmbUSA
— David MacNaughton (@AmbMacNaughton) January 29, 2017
#ACanadianIsACanadian pic.twitter.com/6cqitwZJhE
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) January 29, 2017
Trump EO: Executive Authority to Exclude Aliens and the Long Battle Ahead
January 30, 2017 By domani spero in Consular Work, Trends, Trump, Visas Tags: ACLU, CRS, Immigration Ban, Muslim Ban, Section 212(f) INA, Travel Ban, Trump EO, Trump Executive Order 2 Comments
Posted: 12:31 pm PT
On January 27, President Trump signed an executive order suspending the entry of refugees to the United States for FY2017 for 120 days. The E.O also proclaimed the entry of certain aliens as “detrimental to the interests of the United States” and declared the suspension of their entry into the United States for 90 days. The aliens referred to are from countries cited under Section 217(a)(12) of the INA, 8 U.S.C.1187(a)(12) according to the executive order. These are the same countries cited under the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, or Yemen. (see Trump Bars US Entry of Refugees, and Citizens, Green Card Holders From Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen).
On January 28, a federal court in New York granted a temporary injunction to the ACLU. Statement below:
A federal judge tonight granted the American Civil Liberties Union’s request for a nationwide temporary injunction that will block the deportation of all people stranded in U.S. airports under President Trump’s new Muslim ban. The ACLU and other legal organizations filed a lawsuit on behalf of individuals subject to President Trump’s Muslim ban. The lead plaintiffs have been detained by the U.S. government and threatened with deportation even though they have valid visas to enter the United States. Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project who argued the case, said:
“This ruling preserves the status quo and ensures that people who have been granted permission to be in this country are not illegally removed off U.S. soil.”
Four days before this executive order was signed, the Congressional Research Service issued a brief on this topic which explains the broad power of the President under the Immigration and Nationality Act. Excerpt from the brief:
The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) provides that individual aliens outside the United States are “inadmissible”—or barred from admission to the country—on health, criminal, security, and other grounds set forth in the INA. However, the INA also grants the Executive several broader authorities that could be used to exclude certain individual aliens or classes of aliens for reasons that are not specifically prescribed in the INA.
Section 212(f) of the INA is arguably the broadest and best known of these authorities. It provides, in relevant part, that:
Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.
The central statutory constraint imposed on Section 212(f)’s exclusionary power is that the President must have found that the entry of any alien or class of aliens would be “detrimental to the interests of the United States.”
The statute does not address:
(1) what factors should be considered in determining whether aliens’ entry is “detrimental” to U.S. interests;
(2) when and how proclamations suspending or restricting entry should be issued;
(3) what factors are to be considered in determining whether particular restrictions are “appropriate”; or
(4) how long any restrictions should last.
Congress, of course, can amend the INA to specifically address these factors. Sen Dianne Feinstein said on Twitter that she will introduce two bills with the first one to “immediately rescind” the executive order. She also said that the second bill “limits executive authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act.” We’ll have to see where this goes. A companion bill has to be introduced in the House, and both chambers have to agree to it and all its amendments, pass it before it gets to the White House to be signed into law. We doubt it would go very far given the GOP hold on both houses and the White House, but we’ll see.
The CRS report also points to two other sections of the INA:
Beyond Section 212(f), other provisions of the INA can also be seen to authorize the Executive to restrict aliens’ entry to the United States. Most notably, Section 214(a)(1) prescribes that the “admission of any alien to the United States as a nonimmigrant shall be for such time and under such conditions as [the Executive] may by regulations prescribe.” Section 215(a)(1) similarly provides that “it shall be unlawful for any alien” to enter or depart the United States “except under such reasonable rules, regulations, and orders, and subject to such limitations and exceptions as the President may prescribe.” For example, President Carter cited Section 215(a)— rather than Section 212(f)—when authorizing the revocation of immigrant and nonimmigrant visas issued to Iranian citizens during the Iran Hostage Crisis.
The CRS brief lists the categories of aliens excluded under INA 212(f) going back to President Reagan. There are about 50 such orders but from best we could tell, they are all narrowly constructed restrictions unlike the Trump EO. For example:
On October 10, 1985, Reagan issued Proclamation 5377 “Suspending the entry of specified classes of Cuban nationals as nonimmigrants (e.g., officers or employees of the Cuban government or the Communist Party of Cuba holding diplomatic or official passports).”
On Dec. 14, 1993, President Clinton issued Proclamation 6636 “Suspending the entry into the United States, as immigrants or nonimmigrants, of aliens who formulate, implement, or benefit from policies that impede Nigeria’s transition to democracy and their immediate family.”
On July 3, 2007, President George W. Bush issued Proclamation 8158 “Suspending the entry into the United States, as immigrants or nonimmigrants, of persons responsible for policies or actions that threaten Lebanon’s sovereignty and democracy (e.g., current or former Lebanese government officials and private persons who “deliberately undermine or harm Lebanon’s sovereignty”)”
On March 19, 2014, President Obama issued Executive Order 13661 “Suspending the entry into the United States, as immigrants or nonimmigrants, of aliens determined to have contributed to the situation in Ukraine in specified ways (e.g., officials of the government of the Russian Federation, or persons who operate in the arms or related materiel sector).”
The CRS brief includes a discussion of judicial constructions of Section 212 (f): Sale v. Haitian Centers Council, Inc. about the U.S. practice of interdicting persons fleeing Haiti outside U.S. territorial waters, and United States ex rel. Knauff v. Shaughnessy, where the Court rejected a challenge to the exclusion of a German “war bride.” In reviewing the court cases related to Section 212(f) INA, the CRS brief issued four days before the Trump EO was issued notes that “None of these decisions note any limitations upon the President’s power under Section 212(f). This silence could, however, be seen, in part, to reflect the arguably limited nature of the Executive’s use of its Section 212(f) authority to date.” Also this:
In no case to date, though, has the Executive purported to take certain types of action, such as barring all aliens from entering the United States for an extended period of time or explicitly distinguishing between categories of aliens based on their religion. Any such restrictions could potentially be seen to raise legal issues that were not raised by prior exclusions. For example, if the Executive were to seek to bar the entry of all aliens, as immigrants or nonimmigrants, for an extended time, questions could be raised about whether the President’s action was consistent with Congress’s intent in enacting statutes which prescribe criteria for the issuance of family- and employment-based immigrant and nonimmigrant visas and authorize the issuance of certain numbers of such visas each year.35 Similarly, if the President were to purport to exclude aliens based on their religion, an argument could potentially be made that this action is in tension with U.S. treaty obligations36 or the First Amendment.
No doubt this is just the beginning of a long battle in Congress and in U.S. courts. Of great interest perhaps to our readers is a legal look from Just Security’s David Cole‘s Why Trump’s Executive Order on Refugees Violates the Establishment Clause and Adam Cox‘s Why a Muslim Ban is Likely to be Held Unconstitutional: The Myth of Unconstrained Immigration Power
Our full statement: Federal Court Grants Stay in Challenge to Trump Immigration Ban https://t.co/LRKgbcpeGx
— ACLU National (@ACLU) January 29, 2017
Why Trump's admission that immig. exec. order designed to favor Christians dooms it https://t.co/p4zoEMP8yn via @just_security
— David Cole (@DavidColeACLU) January 28, 2017
Why a Muslim Ban is Likely tobe Held Unconstitutional:The Myth of Unconstrained Immigration Power https://t.co/RdV1Ew5ekg via @just_security
— Diplopundit (@Diplopundit) January 30, 2017
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Harper Cancer Research Institute open house scheduled for June 28
Author: William G. Gilroy
The University of Notre Dame’s Harper Cancer Research Institute will hold an open house from 4 to 6:30 p.m. June 28 (Tuesday) in Harper Hall. The event is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be provided.
Attendees will have an opportunity to tour the institute’s labs and to learn about cancer research being done in the South Bend community. A silent auction benefiting Notre Dame basketball coach Mike Brey’s Coaches vs. Cancer will take place. An online auction for those who cannot attend the open house can be accessed at www.harpercancer.wordpress.com/.
Todd Lyght, a member of the 1988 Notre Dame Football National Championship team and Super Bowl champion, and Reggie Brooks, a former Notre Dame All-American tailback and former Washington Redskins running back, also will be in attendance.
Refreshments provided by Crooked Ewe, Tapastrie and Fiddler’s Hearth will also be available at the open house at 1234 Notre Dame Ave., South Bend.
Contact: Jenna Bilinski, Harper Cancer Research Institute, 574-631-4100, Bilinski.9@nd.edu
Originally published by William G. Gilroy at news.nd.edu on June 21, 2016.
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Screening: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 2:30pm
Synopsis: ‘The Institute’ is a feature length documentary that examines a San Francisco based phenomenon, where thousands of unwitting residents fell down a rabbit hole and got more than they bargained for. Told from their perspective, the film looks over the precipice at an emergent new art form where the real world and fictional narratives merge to create unforeseen and often unsettling consequences. Examining counter culture, new religious movements and street art, this film takes the viewer on a journey into a secret underground organization teeming just beneath the surface of every day life.
What the Critics Are Saying:
“The film fascinates me, especially because, in all honesty, I’m not really the type of person who would’ve taken that initial step to play the game in the first place. Then again, based on watching the film, I may be playing right now.”
—Film Threat
“I struggled at first, wondering what was real and how the filmmakers even gained access in the first place. Then I gave in. I don’t care how much of it is real and how much is nonsense. It’s just a fun, clever film about looking at the world from a different angle. Whether it’s all real, all fake, or some combination of the two, that doesn’t change.”
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Education and innovation hubs being developed across Illinois
By Kevin Beese Staff reporter — September 3, 2018
University of Illinois president Timothy Killeen (center) talks to state senators about the benefits of the proposed Discovery Partners Institute, an education, research and innovation institute with hubs around the state. He said the institute would make a mark on more than just academia. Flanking Killeen are Edward Seidel (farthest from camera), U of I’s vice president for economic development and innovation, and Bill Sanders, interim director of DPI. (BlueRoomStream.com)
A joint education, research and innovation institute is hoped to curb the exodus of higher-education students from Illinois.
Discovery Partners Institute is a $500 million effort led by the University of Illinois with hubs already announced in Chicago, Springfield and Urbana, connecting scholars and students. It will include a statewide innovation network, linking businesses and public universities.
“It will be the university of tomorrow by being very modern … They will educate thousands of students, Illinois natives and others, in leading-edge, hands-on curricula that will nurture the innovators and entrepreneurs of tomorrow,” University of Illinois president Timothy Killeen said during an Aug. 28 state Senate Higher Education Committee hearing on the planned institute.
“These forward-looking programs will help us keep our best and brightest students here at home, upstate and downstate, rural and urban, and help stem a recent outmigration which has seen more top students leave the state for college and then stay in other states after they graduate.”
Killeen said the project is for the common good, helping generations of students. He foresees the institute not just making academic breakthroughs, but also making a mark on health care, the environment, population growth, and food and agriculture development.
Hans Zigmund, director of the state’s Office of Budget and Management, said that funding for the Discovery Partners project would come from Build Illinois bond funds, which are financed through sales tax receipts.
He said while only $146 million is currently available in the Build Illinois fund, only 10 to 20 percent of the $500 million price tag will likely be needed in the project’s first year.
“It is the hope that we can not only start working through the planning and development, but I think there are some other things the university wants to do — vertical construction, for example,” Zigmund said.
Senators questioned whether the $3 billion in deferred maintenance projects at public universities would be impacted by the DPI project. Zigmund said that the deferred maintenance work and the Discovery Partners project are two separate funds and one would not affect the other.
Hans Zigmund, director of the state’s Office of Budget and Management, tells state senators that money for the Discovery Partners Institute will come from Build Illinois funds, covered by sales tax receipts. (BlueRoomStream.com)
The director of the Office of Budget and Management added that there are 18 deferred maintenance projects for public universities, with an estimated cost of $57 million, which are ready to be bid out.
Killen said the U of I has yet to receive any money from the state for the Discovery Partners project.
“We will be working furiously to develop the grant application (for Build Illinois funds),” the university president said.
Bill Sanders, interim director of DPI, said he anticipates the first cohort of students to enter the institute in Fall 2019 and a campus facility up and running in Chicago’s South Loop by 2023.
Discovery Partners will also be linking with international partners, already signing on with Tel Aviv University in Israel.
State Sen. Scott Bennett (D-Champaign) expressed concerns that what was billed as a public-private partnership has only been a public endeavor so far.
“When are we going to be at the point that we go from ‘I can’t tell you yet. We’re really, really close’ to ‘We have big partners involved?’ When are we going to get to that point?” Bennett asked. “When the governor and the University of Illinois last October came (before us), we talked about it being a true public-private partnership. That has disappeared from this bill (proposing DPI funding). There’s not a matching element now.”
Edward Seidel, University of Illinois vice president for economic development and innovation, provided a gardening metaphor he used when growing an ivy patch. “First, it sleeps, then it creeps, then it leaps,” Seidel said. “That’s where we are: we’re passing from creeping into leaping; and, I’m telling you, you’re going to see lot of announcements.”
He said with the state’s allocation of $500 million to the project, company CEOs are ready to talk about being part of the partnership.
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12th Field Workshop of the Commission of the Chemistry of Volcanic Gases
The 12th Field Workshop of the Commission of the Chemistry of Volcanic Gases took place in November 2014 in northern Chile.
The 12th Field Workshop of the Commission of the Chemistry of Volcanic Gases (CCVG) took place 16-28 November 2014 in northern Chile. The meeting was supported by the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI)—of which CCVG is a special interest group—and the Deep Carbon Observatory. Almost 70 volcanologists from 18 countries participated in the meeting, which began with a two-day conference in Copiapó (17-18 November) before the group headed into the field to study gas emissions from the volcanoes of Lastarria and Lascar, and the geothermal field of El Tatio. The meeting also included the election of new CCVG committee members and discussion of future CCVG activities.
The main conference featured oral and poster presentations on many topics related to volcanic gas emissions, and a high standard of scholarship was evident throughout. Particularly of note was the wide array of measurement techniques and approaches being used by the CCVG community—many of whom are also participants in the DCO program DECADE, which seeks to better constrain global volcanic carbon emissions. Strong links are growing between the traditionally discrete direct sampling and remote sensing communities within CCVG, facilitating more complete perspectives to build up estimates of the emissions from volcanoes and volcanic regions worldwide. A highlight of the meeting was an entire session dedicated to volcanic carbon emissions, with new measurements reported from Costa Rica (Maarten de Moor, OVSICORI-UNA, Costa Rica), Nicaragua (Alessandro Aiuppa, INGV, Italy), and Sicily (Andrea Rizzo, INGV, Italy); these data partly arise from DECADE-funded field campaigns. Mike Burton (INGV, Italy) presented intriguing plume composition data from the continuing eruption of Holuhraun, Iceland. Burton noted how different magma sources lead to different volatile budgets and therefore different eruptions in Iceland will not necessarily have similar environmental impacts. Ulrich Platt (University of Heidelberg, Germany) and Robin Campion (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) summarised technical advances in volcanic plume remote sensing (and challenges which remain to be overcome), while Jean Battaglia (French National Centre for Scientific Research, France) and Vladimir Conde (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) explored the integration of volcanic degassing and seismicity. Fatima Viveiros (University of the Azores, Portugal) showed measurements of CO2 soil degassing in the Azores, reminding us that this potentially important component to volcanic volatile budgets remains poorly constrained in many locations. Emanuela Bagnato (University of Palermo, Italy) combined measurements of soil degassing of CO2 and mercury at La Solfatara, Italy.
The bulk of the field workshop took place at Lastarria volcano (21°10’08’’S-68°31’00’W; 5,697 m above sea level). Lastarria is extremely remote: basecamp lies 160 km along dirt roads from the Pan-American Highway. Fieldwork at Lastarria is highly challenging, particularly for those making direct measurements: the extreme altitude and high gas concentrations in the fumarole left many feeling light-headed after a day of gathering samples and data. The work went well, however, with several groups sampling or measuring the emissions from a pair of fumaroles for later inter-comparison, and multiple UV remote sensing instruments deployed on the volcano's flanks measuring SO2 emission rates.
After three days, the group drove north once more to a new basecamp, San Pedro de Atacama. Early the following morning, a second field campaign undertook sampling and measurements of the fumaroles and emissions from El Tatio geothermal field (22°20’00’’S, 68°01’00’’W; 4,290 m a.s.l.). This day concluded the main segment of the workshop, and ended with a group discussion of the future research directions of CCVG, including its important role within DCO-DECADE and the relationship between CCVG and its parent organisation IAVCEI. The group elected new members to the CCVG board: Franco Tassi (University of Florence, Italy) as the President, Nicole Bobrowski (Institute for Environmental Physics, Germany) as Vice President, Maarten de Moor (OVSICORI-UNA, Costa Rica) as Editor/Webmaster, and Taryn Lopez (University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA) as Secretary. The group also commended the outgoing committee of Giovanni Chiodini (INGV, Italy), Patrick Allard (IPGP, France), Felipe Aguilera (Universidad de Atacama, Chile), and Nicole Bobrowski (Institute for Environmental Physics, Germany) and thanked them for their work over the previous years.
While many participants headed for home, the workshop continued for a smaller group with a two-day expedition to Lascar volcano, located in the long chain of peaks extending north-south either side of San Pedro. The majority of measurements at Lascar were remote sensing, since the active fumaroles lie within a deep steep-sided crater and access is both difficult and dangerous. Nonetheless, the group attempted direct measurements by walking traverse along the spectacular crater rim. In common with the workshop as a whole, the Lascar segment was characterised by high spirits in the field, stimulating discussions among participants, and generosity on the part of the volcanological veterans in sharing their knowledge with the many younger scientists participating.
A welcome feature of this workshop was the large number of early career volcanologists able to attend, in no small part to the generous travel grants awarded by the DCO to several such young scientists. María Clara Lamberti (PhD Student at Universidad de Buenos Aires) wrote, “My experience in the 12th Gas Workshop was exceptional. I presented a preliminary version of my PhD work, and I received such positive feedback, new ideas on how to continue and a lot of motivation.” Philippe Robidoux (PhD student at INGV/Università di Palermo) said, “The 12th Gas Workshop in Northern Chile was important for me to attend because I wanted to explore multidisciplinary approaches for studying volcanic degassing. As a geologist and student member of DCO, especially, I was captivated by the different methods for studying CO2 which is considered as an excellent tracer of changes from the geochemistry of magmatic systems.” Kalina Malowany (M.Sc. Student, McGill University, Montreal) wrote, “The workshop provided an invaluable opportunity for the international community to come together and share research and techniques. The conference featured some of the new applications of gas geochemistry and remote sensing at volcanoes that were thought provoking and a good indication of the future of gas research.” Vladimir Conde (PhD student, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg) noted. “The workshop provides a great platform where future collaboration was discussed.” Matías Osorio Mirambell (Universidad de la República, Montevideo) wrote, “My job in the Applied Optics Group in Montevideo is the remote sensing of gas emissions using the DOAS technique. This was a perfect opportunity to understand the different kinds of problems and processes involved in making these measurements as a volcanologist.” All participants also spoke warmly of the friendships and camaraderie developed between the early career scientists as a consequence of their time spent together in the field. These connections are sure to serve us well in the years to come as we move through our careers.
Finally, the CCVG community would like to extend a heartfelt thanks to the organizers of the 12th workshop, in particular Felipe Aguilera (Universidad de Atacama), Ángelo Castruccio (Universidad de Chile), Francisco Gutierrez (Universidad de Chile), Diego Morata (Universidad de Chile), Cristian Tambley (Campoalto Operaciones) and other volunteers from the Universidad de Chile and the Universidad de Atacama. This workshop was logistically challenging and could not have been accomplished without their hard work.
Report and images contributed by Brendan McCormick (Smithsonian Institution, USA)
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The Who: The Kids Are Alright
Through rare concert performance footage and interviews, this 1979 documentary offers an in-depth look at the wildly successful career of classic rock group The Who -- from their initial formation to their first major hit. Highlights include footage from many of the band's early performances, capturing their zaniness and outrageous antics, plus an interview with drummer Keith Moon and footage from his last performance just prior to his death.
The Who, Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle, Keith Moon
Jeff Stein
Music & Musicals, Rockumentaries, Classic Rock, Rock & Pop
English: DTS 5.1 Surround, English: Dolby Digital 5.1, English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
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Tag Archives: Resistance
Announcing the Launch of Freedom on the Move
February 14, 2019 By Vanessa Holden in Announcements, Digital History, Slavery Tags: ads, advertisements, announcements, Digital History, education, enslaved, enslavers, fugative, Inspiration, newspapers, Public History, Rebellion, research, Resistance, self-liberation, Slavery 3 Comments
An ad placed in the Charleston Mercury, Charleston, SC, on July 11, 1829. Accessed via: Freedom on the Move
Thousands of enslaved African Americans emancipated themselves by taking flight and escaping their enslavers. One way that this form of resistance to slavery can be studied is through the advertisements that enslavers and jailers placed in newspapers in hopes of turning those who had run away back into “property.” The ads allow us a glimpse of both enslavers’ desires and the defiance of the enslaved. In them, it is possible to read pain and suffering in the record of scars and maimed bodies. The ads hold both the grief of separation from kin left behind and the relief of family mentioned at possible destinations. Historians have long used advertisements for fugitives from slavery to study the institution of slavery and the lives of enslaved people. But it can be difficult for the public to access them because the ads exist in multiple formats across multiple archives.
“The Runaway” Anti-slavery record. New York: Published by R.G. Williams, for the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1835-1837. Accessed via The Fels African Americana Image Project at Library Company of Philadelphia
Freedom on the Move (FOTM), an online project devoted to fugitives from slavery in North America, launches today, February 14, 2019. FOTM asks the public to help in creating a database that makes the stories and lives of fugitives from slavery in North America accessible. The website is designed for use by scholars, researchers, educators, students, genealogist, and the public. After quickly setting up an account, users can begin transcribing digitized versions of advertisements and recording important information included in each ad. Participants can even choose to work on ads from specific time periods or geographic locations. Users can also search for and browse through digitized ads.
Currently, FOTM has about 12,000 newspaper advertisements ready for crowdsourced transcription. The project will include additional ads soon and its organizers hope for future collaborations with additional scholars, archives, and organizations. FOTM promises to be an invaluable resource in the classroom and for researchers. But beyond the academic applications of the project, organizers hope that the site will facilitate greater access to members of the public outside of the academy. By transcribing and working with the advertisements, participants can both contribute to a growing database of searchable ads and engage with the rich history that each ad presents.
FOTM is a joint project between Cornell University’s Department of History and the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER). Ed Baptist of Cornell University and William Block (Director of CISER) serve as the principal investigators for FOTM. Lead historians on the project include Vanessa Holden of the University of Kentucky, Hasan Jeffries of Ohio State University, Mary Niall Mitchell of the University of New Orleans, and Joshua Rothman of the University of Alabama. The project has received major funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Archives.
To learn more about the project or to begin contributing to FOTM’s crowdsourcing, visit freedomonthemove.org
Review: Sharon Block, Colonial Complexions
June 20, 2018 By Vanessa Holden in Book Review, Recent Scholarship Tags: colonial newspapers, colonial slavery, Complexion, cultural history, History of Race, history of science, history of the body, indentured servitude, Resistance, runaway, Sharon Block, Slavery 1 Comment
Sharon Block, Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).
At the opening of Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America, Sharon Block poses two provocative questions: “What were the meanings of black, white, and red in the colonial eighteenth century; and how did Anglo-American colonists describe people’s appearance?” (1) To answer these queries Block presents a cultural history race in Britain’s 18th century American colonies. She makes a careful study of the descriptors advertisers and editors used in missing colonial persons adds for runaway African descent and their European and Native American servants. Continue reading →
Race, Riot, and Rebellion: A Bibliography
April 30, 2015 By Rachel Herrmann in Commentary Tags: American Revolution, Baltimore, ferguson, historiography, race, Rebellion, Resistance, Riots 16 Comments
This morning on the other side of the Atlantic, I woke up early in preparation for a seminar on William Otter, whose History of My Own Times closes the list of our readings in my Revolutionary America class. Essentially, Otter was a brawling, violent, white man in the 1800s, living variously in New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. He jumped from job to job while engaging in various aggressive “sprees” against African Americans, Irishmen, and anyone else who seemed a likely candidate before becoming a burgess of Emmitsburg, Maryland.[1] And instead of getting up to prep this morning, I remained in bed, glued to the #BaltimoreUprising and #BlackLivesMatter hashtag on Twitter, as, I’m sure, were many of you during the late hours of the night. During times like these, it’s part of our jobs as historians to acknowledge that different types of violence have specific meanings that change over time. And so Juntoists have compiled a bibliography for our mutual education. Continue reading →
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Home News Udoma Warns Against Interference As He Inaugurates NBS Board
Udoma Warns Against Interference As He Inaugurates NBS Board
Senator Udoma Udo Udoma Budget and National Planning Minister
The Federal Government on Thursday inaugurated the governing board of the National Bureau of Statistics.
The inauguration was done by the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udo Udoma.
Udoma told the board members that they should see their appointments as a call to national service, adding that the NBS was critical to the implementation of the Federal Government’s economic agenda.
He warned members of the board against interfering in the day-to-day operations of their respective agencies, adding that such task should be left to the chief executive of the NBS alone.
He urged the board members to come up with innovative policies that would support the mandate of the NBS in supporting the diversification of the economy.
The minister charged the new board to work in harmony with the management of the bureau to achieve its goals, especially considering the important role that the NBS plays in nation building
He pointed out that the roles and responsibilities of the Governing Boards of Parastatals and Agencies as provided in their respective establishment Acts were quite distinct from the day-to-day administration of parastatals and agencies under the leadership of chief executives who double as accounting officers.
The minister stated that strict adherence to statutory provisions by both parties would enhance harmonious relationship devoid of bickering and other unhealthy occurrences.
He said, “Considering the important roles that the NBS plays in nation building, the need for a supportive Governing Board cannot be over-emphasised.
“However, it is important to point out that your appointment is on a part-time basis. You are required to work with the management of the NBS to determine its mission and long-term strategy roles and responsibilities, and develop strategies to promote sustainable and cost-efficient activities of the bureau.
“Full details of your duties and responsibilities are prescribed in the enabling Act of the NBS, which will be handed over to you at the end of the inauguration ceremony. I urge you to become familiar with it.
“Let me restate that the roles and responsibilities of the Governing Boards of Parastatals and Agencies as provided in their respective establishment Acts are quite distinct from the day-to-day administration of Parastatals and Agencies under the leadership of chief executives who doubles as accounting officers.
“Strict adherence to statutory provisions by both parties will enhance harmonious relationship devoid of bickering and other unhealthy occurrences.”
The Chairman of the Board, Dr Kabiru Nakaura, commended the president for the appointment and appreciated the minister for the inauguration.
He pledged the willingness of the Board to discharge its responsibilities creditably.
The 15-member governing Board comprises six political appointees and nine institutional members. The Statistician-General of the Federation, Dr Yemi Kale, will serve as Secretary.
The other members are Prof Moses Momoh, Mr Adam Modu, Mr Akinola Bashiru, Chief Paul Chukwudi, and Mr Wallijoh Ahijoh.
The institutional members are Minister of Budget and National Planning, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Minister of Finance, Minister of Education, Minister of Agriculture, Group Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, President of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, President of the Nigeria Statistical Association and the Chief Executive Officer of the NBS.
NBS Governing Board
Senator Udo Udoma
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NYFF 2018: Main Slate of Films Announced
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The main slate of films has been announced for the 56th New York Film Festival, kicking off September 28 – October 14. This year’s lineup will feature 30 new films including Yorgos Lanthimos‘ The Favourite, Joel Coen & Ethan Coen‘s The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and Barry Jenkins‘ If Beale Street Could Talk.
Take a look below for the complete lineup and be sure to click over to the official site at https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2018/ for more information.
Dir. Yorgos Lanthimos, Ireland/UK/USA, 2018, 121m
In Yorgos Lanthimos’s wildly intricate and very darkly funny new film, Sarah Churchill, the Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Weisz), and her servant Abigail Hill (Emma Stone) engage in a sexually charged fight to the death for the body and soul of Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) at the height of the War of the Spanish Succession. This trio of truly brilliant performances is the dynamo that powers Lanthimos’s top-to-bottom reimagining of the costume epic, in which the visual pageantry of court life in 18th-century England becomes not just a lushly appointed backdrop but an ironically heightened counterpoint to the primal conflict unreeling behind closed doors. A Fox Searchlight Pictures release.
Dir. Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico/USA, 2018, 135m
In Alfonso Cuarón’s autobiographically inspired film, set in Mexico City in the early ’70s, we are placed within the physical and emotional terrain of a middle-class family whose center is quietly and unassumingly held by its beloved live-in nanny and housekeeper (Yalitza Aparicio). The cast is uniformly magnificent, but the real star of ROMA is the world itself, fully present and vibrantly alive, from sudden life-changing events to the slightest shifts in mood and atmosphere. Cuarón tells us an epic story of everyday life while also gently sweeping us into a vast cinematic experience, in which time and space breathe and majestically unfold. Shot in breathtaking black and white and featuring a sound design that represents something new in the medium, ROMA is a truly visionary work. A Netflix release.
At Eternity’s Gate
Dir. Julian Schnabel, USA/France, 2018, 106m
North American Premiere
Julian Schnabel’s ravishingly tactile and luminous new film takes a fresh look at the last days of Vincent van Gogh, and in the process revivifies our sense of the artist as a living, feeling human being. Schnabel; his co-writers Jean-Claude Carrière and Louise Kugelberg, also the film’s editor; and cinematographer Benoît Delhomme strip everything down to essentials, fusing the sensual, the emotional, and the spiritual. And the pulsing heart of At Eternity’s Gate is Willem Dafoe’s shattering performance: his Vincent is at once lucid, mad, brilliant, helpless, defeated, and, finally, triumphant. With Oscar Isaac as Gauguin, Rupert Friend as Theo, Mathieu Amalric as Dr. Gachet, Emmanuelle Seigner as Madame Ginoux, and Mads Mikkelsen as The Priest. A CBS Films release.
Dir. Jafar Panahi, Iran, 2018, 100m
U.S. Premiere
Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s fourth completed feature since he was officially banned from filmmaking is one of his very best. Panahi begins with a smartphone video shot by a young woman (Marziyeh Rezaei) who announces to the camera that her parents have forbidden her from realizing her dream of acting and then, by all appearances, takes her own life. The recipient of the video, Behnaz Jafari, as herself, asks Panahi, as himself, to drive her to the woman’s tiny home village near the Turkish border to investigate. From there, 3 Faces builds in narrative, thematic, and visual intricacy to put forth a grand expression of community and solidarity under the eye of oppression.
Dir. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Japan/France, 2018, 119m
A truly original Vertigo riff, based on a novel by Tomoka Shibasaki, Asako I & II is an enchanting, unnerving paean to the notion of love as a trance state. Asako (Erika Karata) and Baku (Masahiro Higashide) share an intense, all-consuming romance—but one day the moody Baku ups and vanishes. Two years later, having moved from Osaka to Tokyo, Asako meets Baku’s exact double. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, who gained plenty of attention for 2015’s five-hour-plus Happy Hour, has returned with a beguiling and mysterious film that traces the trajectory of a love—or, to be accurate, two loves—found, lost, displaced, and regained. A Grasshopper Film release.
Ash Is Purest White
Dir. Jia Zhangke, China, 2018, 142m
Jia Zhangke’s extraordinary body of work has doubled as a record of 21st-century China and its warp-speed transformations. A tragicomedy in the fullest sense, Ash Is Purest White is at once his funniest and saddest film, portraying the passage of time through narrative ellipses and, like his Mountains May Depart (NYFF53), a three-part structure. Despite its jianghu—criminal underworld—setting, Ash is less a gangster movie than a melodrama, beginning by following Qiao and her mobster boyfriend Bin as they stake out their turf against rivals and upstarts in 2001 postindustrial Datong before expanding out into an epic narrative of how abstract forces shape individual lives. As the formidable, quick-witted Qiao, a never better Zhao Tao has fashioned a heroine for the ages. A Cohen Media Group release.
Dir. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, USA, 2018, 128m
Here’s something new from the Coen Brothers—an anthology of short films based on a fictional book of “western tales,” featuring Tim Blake Nelson as a murderous, white-hatted singing cowboy; James Franco as a bad luck bank-robber; Liam Neeson as the impresario of a traveling medicine show with increasingly diminishing returns; Tom Waits as a die-hard gold prospector; Zoe Kazan and Bill Heck as two shy people who almost come together on the wagon trail; and Tyne Daly, Saul Rubinek, Brendan Gleeson, Chelcie Ross, and Jonjo O’Neill as a motley crew on a stagecoach to nowhere. Each story is distinct, but unified by the thematic thread of mortality. As a whole movie experience, Buster Scruggs is wildly entertaining, and, like all Coen films, endlessly surprising. An Annapurna Production and Netflix release.
Dir. Lee Chang-dong, South Korea, 2018, 148m
Expanded from Haruki Murakami’s short story “Barn Burning,” the sixth feature from Korean master Lee Chang-dong, known best in the U.S. for such searing, emotional dramas as Secret Sunshine (NYFF45) and Poetry (NYFF48), begins by tracing a romantic triangle of sorts: Jongsu (Yoo Ah-in), an aspiring writer, becomes involved with a woman he knew from childhood, Haemi (Jun Jong-seo), who is about to embark on a trip to Africa. She returns some weeks later with a fellow Korean, the Gatsby-esque Ben (Steven Yeun), who has a mysterious source of income and a very unusual hobby. A tense, haunting multiple-character study, the film accumulates a series of unanswered questions and unspoken motivations to conjure a totalizing mood of uncertainty and quietly bends the contours of the thriller genre to brilliant effect. A Well Go USA release.
Dir. Paweł Pawlikowski, Poland, 2018, 90m
Academy Award–winner Paweł Pawlikowski follows up his box-office sensation Ida with this bittersweet, exquisitely crafted tale of an impossible love. Set between the late 1940s and early 1960s, Cold War is, as the title implies, a Soviet-era drama, but it stringently and inventively avoids the clichés of many a classical-minded World War II art film, tracking the tempestuous love between pianist (Tomasz Kot) and singer (Joanna Kulig) as they navigate the realities of living in both Poland and Paris, in and outside of the Iron Curtain. Shot in crisp black-and-white and set to a bewitching jazzy score, Pawlikowski’s evocative film consummately depicts an uncompromising passion caught up in the gears of history. An Amazon Studios release.
A Faithful Man / L’Homme fidèle
Dir. Louis Garrel, France, 2018, 75m
Nine years after she left him for his best friend, journalist Abel (Louis Garrel) gets back together with his recently widowed old flame Marianne (Laetitia Casta). It seems to be a beautiful new beginning, but soon the hapless Abel finds himself embroiled in all sorts of dramas: the come-ons of a wily jeune femme (Lily-Rose Depp), the machinations of Marianne’s morbid young son, and some unsavory questions about what exactly happened to his girlfriend’s first husband. Shifting points of view as nimbly as its players switch partners, the sophomore feature from actor/director Louis Garrel—co-written with the legendary Jean-Claude Carrière—is at once a beguiling bedroom farce and a slippery inquiry into truth, subjectivity, and the elusive nature of romantic attraction.
A Family Tour
Dir. Ying Liang, Taiwan/Hong Kong/Singapore/Malaysia, 2018, 107m
Since his 2012 feature When Night Falls, a stinging critique of state power that the Chinese authorities attempted to suppress, the director Ying Liang has been forced to live in exile in Hong Kong. His return to feature filmmaking is a characteristically precise and powerful work, and, as inspired by his own precarious situation and based on a reunion with his in-laws, an autobiographical one. The film follows a Hong Kong–exiled director (Gong Zhe) as she travels to a film festival in Taiwan with her husband and toddler, while her ailing mother (Nai An) vacations there separately with a tour group. To avoid attracting attention, the family shadows the tour’s sightseeing itinerary, visiting each other during photo stops and mealtimes. An empathetic snapshot of a mother-daughter relationship, this brave, poised film is also a deeply moving testament to the inseparability of the personal and the political.
Dir. Mariano Llinás, Argentina, 2018, 807m
A decade in the making, Mariano Llinás’s follow-up to his 2008 cult classic Extraordinary Stories is an unrepeatable labor of love and madness that redefines the concept of binge viewing. The director himself appears at the start to preview the six disparate episodes that await, each starring the same four remarkable actresses: Elisa Carricajo, Valeria Correa, Pilar Gamboa, and Laura Paredes. Overflowing with nested subplots and whiplash digressions, La Flor shape-shifts from a B-movie to a musical to a spy thriller to a category-defying metafiction—all of them without endings—to a remake of a very well-known French classic and, finally, to an enigmatic period piece that lacks a beginning (granted, all notions of beginnings and endings become fuzzy after 14 hours). An adventure in scale and duration, La Flor is a marvelously entertaining exploration of the possibilities of fiction that lands somewhere close to its outer limits.
Dir. Hong Sangsoo, South Korea, 2018, 66m
Sitting in a café, typing on a laptop, Areum (Kim Min-hee) eavesdrops on three dramatic situations unfolding in her general vicinity: a young woman bound for Europe and a male friend who erupt in vitriolic accusations, a washed-up actor trying to sweet-talk his way into staying with an old friend, and a narcissistic actor-director (Jung Jin-young) trying to rope a young writer into his next project. Playing out largely in long-take two-shots, these conversations create a kind of never-ending theatrical performance, with Areum as the anchor. With its raw emotions and seeming formal simplicity masking a complex episodic approach, Grass finds Korean master Hong Sangsoo setting up a fascinating narrative problem for himself and solving it as only he can. A Cinema Guild release.
Happy as Lazzaro / Lazzaro felice
Dir. Alice Rohrwacher, Italy, 2018, 128m
In the transfiguring and transfixing third feature from Alice Rohrwacher (The Wonders, NYFF52), we find ourselves amid a throng of tobacco farmers living in a state of extreme deprivation on an estate known as Inviolata, with wide-eyed teenager Lazzaro (nonprofessional discovery Adriano Tardiolo) emerging as a focal point. Although this all seems to be taking place in the past (as implied by the warm grain of Hélène Louvart’s 16mm cinematography), a stunning mid-movie leap vaults the narrative squarely into the present day and into the realm of parable. In a fable touching on perennial class struggle with Christian overtones, Rohrwacher summons the spirit of Pasolini, while also nodding to Ermanno Olmi and Visconti. A Netflix release.
Dir. Alex Ross Perry, USA, 2018, 134m
The latest from Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Philip, NYFF52) traces the psychology of an unforgettable woman under the influence. Becky Something (Elisabeth Moss, in a powerhouse performance), the influential lead singer of a popular ’90s alt-rock outfit, struggles with her demons as friends, family, and bandmates alike behold her unraveling through a prism of horror, empathy, and resentment. Perry tracks Becky’s self-destruction—and potential creative redemption—through snaking long takes (arguably some of DP Sean Price Williams’s finest work) in claustrophobic backstage hallways, garishly lit dressing rooms, and recording studios, and the film’s ensemble cast (including Cara Delevingne, Ashley Benson, Amber Heard, Virginia Madsen, Dan Stevens, and Eric Stoltz) is impeccable in support of Moss’s rattling trip to the brink.
Dir. Claire Denis, Germany/France/USA/UK/Poland, 2018, 110m
Claire Denis’s latest film is set aboard a spacecraft piloted by death row prisoners on a decades-long suicide mission to enter and harness the power of a black hole. But as is always the case with this filmmaker, the actual structure seems to evolve organically through moods and uncanny spells, and the closest juxtapositions of violence and intimacy. High Life features some of the most unsettling passages Denis has ever filmed, as well as moments of the greatest delicacy and tenderness. With Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, André Benjamin, and Mia Goth.
Two tales intersect at a riverside hotel: an elderly poet (Ki Joo-bong), invited to stay there for free by the owner, summons his two estranged sons, sensing his life drawing to a close; and a young woman (Kim Min-hee) nursing a recently broken heart is visited by a friend who tries to console her. At times these threads overlap, at others they run tantalizingly close to each other. Using a stark black-and-white palette and handheld cinematography (with frequent DP Kim Hyung-ku), Hong crafts an affecting examination of family, mortality, and the ways in which we attempt to heal wounds old and fresh.
Dir. Barry Jenkins, USA, 2018
Barry Jenkins’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning Moonlight is a carefully wrought adaptation of James Baldwin’s penultimate novel, set in Harlem in the early 1970s. Fonny (Stephan James) and Tish (KiKi Layne) are childhood friends who fall in love as young adults. Tish becomes pregnant, and Fonny suffers a fate tragically common to young African-American men: he is arrested and convicted for a crime he didn’t commit. Jenkins’s deeply soulful film stays focused on the emotional currents between parents and children, couples and friends, all of whom spend their lives repairing and reinforcing the precious but fraying bonds of family and community in an unforgiving racist world. With Regina King, Colman Domingo, Teyonah Parris, Aunjanue Ellis, and Michael Beach. An Annapurna Pictures release.
The Image Book / Le Livre d’image
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland, 2018, 90m
Jean-Luc Godard’s “late period” probably began with 2001’s In Praise of Love, and since then he has been formulating and enacting a path toward an ending: the ending of individual films, the ending of engagement with cinema, and, now that he’s 87, the possible ending of his own existence. With The Image Book all barriers between the artist, his art, and his audience have dissolved. The film is structured in chapters and predominantly comprised of pre-existing images, many of which will be familiar from Godard’s previous work. The relationship between image and sound is, as always, intensely physical and sometimes jaw-dropping. And…isn’t it enough to say, simply, that this is the work of a master? And that you have to see it? A Kino Lorber release.
Dir. Ulrich Köhler, Germany, 2018, 119m
The fourth feature from German director Ulrich Köhler (Sleeping Sickness, NYFF49) takes a disarmingly realistic and restrained approach to a fantastical premise: the eternally popular fantasy of the last man on earth. Sad-sack, 40ish TV cameraman Armin (Hans Löw) has been summoned home by his father to help tend to his terminally ill grandmother, but awakens one morning to find the world around him entirely depopulated. Eventually, the film introduces a fellow survivor, an Eve (Elena Radonicich) to complicate the apparent contentment of its Adam. In My Room is a film of meticulous details and sly, subtle ironies, crafted by the skills, temperament, and philosophical inquiry of an emerging master. A Grasshopper Film release.
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Dir. Bi Gan, China/France, 2018, 133m
As proven by his knockout debut, Kaili Blues, Bi Gan is preoccupied with film’s potential to both materialize mental space and convey physical sensation. His cinematic ambitions are further crystallized, to say the least, in Long Day’s Journey Into Night, a noir-tinged film about a solitary man (Huang Jue) haunted by loss and regret, told in two parts: the first an achronological mosaic, the second a nocturnal dream. Again centering around his native province of Guizhou in southwest China, the director has created a film like nothing you’ve seen before, especially in the second half’s hour-long, gravity-defying 3D sequence shot, which plunges its protagonist—and us—through a labyrinthine cityscape.
Monrovia, Indiana
Dir. Frederick Wiseman, USA, 2018, 143m
Every new film from Frederick Wiseman, now 88 years old, seems more vigorous and acute than the last. His subject here is Monrovia, Indiana; population 1063, as of 2017; located deep in the American heartland. Wiseman alights on key activities: talk among friends over coffee at the diner, packaging meat at the supermarket, trucks loading with corn, expansion debates at town planning commission meetings, and, most intriguingly, a funeral. Monrovia, Indiana is a tough, piercing look at the rhythm and texture of life as it is lived in a wide swathe of this country. A Zipporah Films release.
Non-Fiction / Doubles vies
Dir. Olivier Assayas, France, 2018, 106m
Set within the world of publishing, Olivier Assayas’s new film finds two hopelessly intertwined couples—Guillaume Canet’s troubled book executive and Juliette Binoche’s weary actress; Vincent Macaigne’s boorish novelist and Nora Hamzawi’s straight-and-balanced political operative—obsessed with the state of things, and how (or when) it will (or might) change. Is print dying? Has blogging replaced writing? Is fiction over? But the divide between what these characters—and their friends, and their enemies, and everyone in between—talk about and what is actually happening between them, moment by moment, is what gives Non-Fiction its very particular charm, humor, and lifelike stabs of emotion. A Sundance Selects release.
Dir. Tamara Jenkins, USA, 2017, 123m
In Tamara Jenkins’s first film in ten years, Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti are achingly real as Rachel and Richard, a middle-aged New York couple caught in the desperation, frustration, and exhaustion of trying to have a child, whether by fertility treatments or adoption or surrogate motherhood. They find a willing partner in Sadie (the formidable Kayli Carter), Richard’s niece by marriage, who happily agrees to donate her eggs, and the three of them build their own little outcast family in the process. Private Life is a wonder, by turns hilarious and harrowing (sometimes at once), and a very carefully observed portrait of middle-class Bohemian Manhattanites. With John Carroll Lynch and Molly Shannon. A Netflix release.
Dir. Richard Billingham, UK, 2018, 107m
English photographer and visual artist Richard Billingham’s first feature is grounded in the visual and emotional textures of his family portraits, particularly those of his deeply dysfunctional parents, whose names give the film its title. Billingham builds astonishing and unflinching scenes with his principal actors—Ella Smith as Liz, Justin Salinger as Ray, Patrick Romer as the older Ray, Tony Way and Sam Gittins as neighbors, and Joshua Millard-Lloyd as the youngest child—that play out second by second as if by some new form of direct transmission from the artist’s memory bank. There is not a single second of this electrifying debut that doesn’t feel 100% rooted in personal experience.
Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan, 2018, 121m
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner is a heartrending glimpse into an often invisible segment of Japanese society: those struggling to stay afloat in the face of crushing poverty. On the the margins of Tokyo, a most unusual “family”—a collection of societal castoffs united by their shared outsiderhood and fierce loyalty to one another—survives by petty stealing and grifting. When they welcome into their fold a young girl who’s been abused by her parents, they risk exposing themselves to the authorities and upending their tenuous, below-the-radar existence. The director’s latest masterful, richly observed human drama makes the quietly radical case that it is love—not blood—that defines a family. A Magnolia Pictures release.
Sorry Angel
Dir. Christophe Honoré, France, 2018, 132m
The ever-unpredictable Christophe Honoré (Love Songs) returns with perhaps his most personal, emotionally rich work yet. At once an intimate chronicle of a romance and a sprawling portrait of gay life in early 1990s France, Sorry Angel follows the intertwining journeys of Jacques (Pierre Deladonchamps), a worldly, HIV-positive Parisian writer confronting his own mortality, and Arthur (Vincent Lacoste), a curious, carefree university student just beginning to live. Brought together by chance, the men find themselves navigating a casual fling that gradually deepens into a tender, transformative bond. Graced with vivid, complex characters and inspired flights of cinematic imagination, this is a vibrant, life-affirming celebration of love, friendship, and human connection. Released by Strand Releasing.
Too Late to Die Young
Dir. Dominga Sotomayor, Chile/Brazil/Argentina/Netherlands/Qatar, 2018, 110m
The year 1990 was when Chile transitioned to democracy, but all of that seems a world away for 16-year-old Sofia, who lives far off the grid in a mountain enclave of artists and bohemians. Too Late to Die Young takes place during the hot, languorous days between Christmas and New Year’s Day, when the troubling realities of the adult world—and the elemental forces of nature—begin to intrude on her teenage idyll. Shot in dreamily diaphanous, sun-splashed images and set to period-perfect pop, the second feature from one of Latin American cinema’s most artful and distinctive voices is at once nostalgic and piercing, a portrait of a young woman—and a country—on the cusp of exhilarating and terrifying change.
Dir. Christian Petzold, Germany/France, 2018, 101m
In Christian Petzold’s brilliant and haunting adaptation of German novelist Anna Seghers’s 1942 book Transit Visa, a hollowed-out European refugee (Franz Rogowski), who has escaped from two concentration camps, arrives in Marseille assuming the identity of a dead novelist whose papers he is carrying. There he enters the arid, threadbare world of the refugee community, and becomes enmeshed in the lives of a desperate young mother and son, and a mysterious woman named Marie (Paula Beer). Transit is a film told in two tenses: 1940 and right now, historic past and immediate present, like two translucent panes held up to the light and mysteriously contrasting and blending.
Dir. Paul Dano, USA, 2018, 104m
In the impressive directorial debut from actor Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood), a carefully wrought adaptation of Richard Ford’s 1990 novel, a family comes apart one loosely stitched seam at a time. We are in the lonely expanses of the American west in the mid-’60s. An affable man (Jake Gyllenhaal), down on his luck, runs off to fight the wildfires raging in the mountains. His wife (Carey Mulligan) strikes out blindly in search of security and finds herself running amok. It is left to their young adolescent son Joe (Ed Oxenbould) to hold the center. Co-written by Zoe Kazan, Wildlife is made with a sensitivity and at a level of craft that are increasingly rare in movies. An IFC Films release.
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Tag Archives: Vladimir Mashkov
September 7, 2013 by Rohit Jagadeesan
Divided We Fall ( Czech Republic, 2000) [ IMDB: 7.5, Rotten Tomatoes: 90%]
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAYjBHUIS7A
This acclaimed film is set in erstwhile Czechoslovakia during the Second World War. It deals with the issue of persecution of Jews under the Nazis, a theme done to death by Hollywood to the extent that you lose sympathy for the Jews. This film though, raises moral questions with shades of grey. The major actors on screen can be counted in one hand. There is nothing remarkable in the way the story is told but it has its twists and turns mostly because some of the steps taken by the actors cannot be anticipated in a normal moral framework. Extraordinary situations lead to extraordinary solutions.
The Thief (Russia, 1997) [IMDB; 7.5, Rotten Tomatoes: 88%]
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs7FGGvRQYU
Deception is the main theme in this Russian drama set during the rule of Stalin. A single mother and her son are drawn towards a soldier who is their only hope for escape from poverty. Things do not exactly turn out the way they are planned. It is a pleasure to watch this wonderfully shot movie but the emotion it deals with is the polar opposite of pleasure. The story is told through the eyes of a child. Circumstances force him to be on the wrong side of the law. It is difficult to forget his reaction when he sees his stepfather in the climax of the movie. Recommended.
Terms of Endearment (1983) [IMDB: 7.3, Rotten Tomatoes: 87%]
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsdDeh0M_nk
Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actress (for Shirey Maclaine), this movie tells the story of the relationship between a mother and daughter who love each other more than they themselves know. It is not an exceptional movie but the performances make it worth a watch. Debra Winger won many fans with her fine performance but it was Shirley Maclaine who upstaged her at the Oscars. The movie tends to be too sentimental towards the end but I can tell you that some of the scenes are really worth all those sentiments. The bedside scene with the kids towards the end will melt the hearts of even the emotion resistant folks. To add to all this, there is Jack Nicholson playing a former astronaut.
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) [ IMDB: 6.8, Rotten Tomatoes: 81%]
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Ehz_cAMGc
There are some movies with an endearing quality about them. This is one such film which works because of the thoughtful writing and the onscreen chemistry between Richard Gere and Debra Winger. A young man in the armed forces has his own demons to fight and personal battles to win. A factory girl enters his life. The story is how the relationship goes through testing times. It is a coming off age movie in the true sense. Richard Gere plays his most vulnerable character on screen but for me the star of the show is Debra Winger whose acting matches her beauty. A really good afternoon watch.
Chariots of Fire (1981) [ IMDB: 7.2, Rotten Tomatoes: 85%]
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWle59ZHPIM
If there is a movie which seals an Oscar for Best Music with the first few scenes, this is the one. The initial scene with the runners on the beach is one of the sensational sequences in cinema and all that is aided by the score by Vangelis. The story is about the British athletic team at the 1924 Olympics. It is no coincidence that the same theme music was played at all the medal presentation ceremonies at 2012 London Olympics. As for the movie, it loses steam midway but it is a joy to watch some of the sequences. If you are not British you may not enjoy it that much towards the end and I am not British.
We’re the Millers (2013) [ IMDB: 7.2, Rotten Tomatoes: 77%]
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vsy5KzsieQ
The summer blockbuster of 2013 is a crude comedy which is also testament to the fact that Jennifer Aniston is a bankable star who can still make people laugh. Frankly, the humour does get little out of control at times but there are some genuine laugh out loud moments. The one when Sudeikis goes to get a hair cut is one such scene. The story involves an out of luck drug dealer trying to put together a family from assorted characters so as to make his drug deal look more realistic. Only Aniston ( and maybe Sandra Bullock) can pull off scenes like the family prayer on the aircraft. A guilty pleasure.
The Bling Ring (2013) [ IMDB: 6.2, Rotten Tomatoes: 60%]
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4LzhgExvrc
Sofia Coppola drew attention with the understated gem ‘Lost in Translation’ but she suddenly fell from grace with a dud called ‘Marie Antoinette’. Then came ‘Somewhere’ in 2010 and she won a few awards for that. ‘Bling Ring’ is comparable to the quality of ‘Somewhere’ where she seems to be doing a decent job as a director but she never touches the highs she was able to achieve with ‘Lost in Translation’ . The film is inspired by real life events where celebrity obsessed teenagers broke into the houses of celebrities to steal high end branded merchandise. There is nothing that raises the movie from an average flick. The scenes get repetitive in the middle. Only Sofia Coppola knows the secret behind her fetish for stupid songs in the background. May interest the viewer who is interested in celebrities. Otherwise, who gives two hoots about what happens to Paris Hilton?
Satyagraha (India, 2013) [ IMDB: 6.6, Rotten Tomatoes: 35%]
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KXwGcZI13k
There is no sting in this tale. It is basically a screenplay stitched together by recent events in India. The problem with that is that the issue has received so much media exposure that there is hardly anything new to be said. Prakash Jha repeats the folly he made with ‘Arakshan’. Issues which look good in television debates don’t translate automatically into good cinema. In fact, it often makes for caricatures and plastic characters who don’t connect with the audiences. A poor attempt.
Grown Ups 2 (2013) [ IMDB: 5.2, Rotten Tomatoes: 7% by critics]
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhOWtVElqfw
I guess the first edition of this series made lot of money for the studios. There is no other reason why they would have gone for the sequel. I could not sit through the first edition and the sequel is a pain to watch. It is not funny, not even by the pathetic standards set by current Adam Sandler movies. Keep away.
Hot coffee (2011) [ IMDB: 7.6, Rotten Tomatoes: 86%]
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBKRjxeQnT4
An 81 year old lady wins 2.9 million USD in damages from McDonald’s after their coffee burns her body. This sets in motion a series of events culminating in major restrictions being passed on the rights of citizens in USA to sue companies. You don’t need to vote in elections because some corporations can buy the election for themselves. A thought provoking documentary.
Eagerly Waiting for: ‘Gravity’ because George Clooney and Sandra Bullock team up.
Did you know: Madonna changed costume 85 times for the film ‘Evita’.
Tagged Adam Sandler, Ajay Devgn, Amitabh Bachchan, An Officer and a Gentleman, Ben Cross, Bolek Polívka, Chariots of Fire, Chris Rock, Csongor Kassai, David Keith, Debra Winger, Divided We Fall, Emma Roberts, Emma Watson, Grown Ups 2, Hot Coffee, Ian Charleson, IMDB, Israel Broussard, Jack Nicholson, James L. Brooks, Jaroslav Dusek, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Joan Claybrook, Joanne Doroshow, Kareena Kapoor, Katie Chang, Kevin James, Mikhail Filipchuk, Musíme si pomáhat, Nicholas Farrell, Oliver Diaz, Pavel Chukhray, Prakash Jha, Richard Gere, Rotten Tomatoes, Satyagraha, Shirley MacLaine, Sofia Coppola, Terms of Endearment, The Bling Ring, Vangelis, Vladimir Mashkov, Vor, We're the Millers, Yekaterina Rednikova
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Matt Kaplan
Senior Vice President of Product
Matt Kaplan is the senior vice president of product at Acquia, where he is responsible for advancing Acquia’s portfolio of platform applications that power world-class digital experiences.
Matt joined Acquia from LogMeIn, where he served as chief product officer and general manager of emerging products. At LogMeIn, Kaplan led a team of more than 450 people globally and oversaw product strategy and management, design, and engineering for the company’s identity and access management, collaboration, and customer engagement product lines.
During Matt’s six-year tenure, LogMeIn’s revenue grew more than 800 percent and, following its merger with Citrix’s GoTo business, Kaplan was promoted to GM of emerging products. Prior to LogMeIn, Kaplan was integral to driving online product and customer solutions for KnowledgeVision, PermissionTV, AGENCY.COM, and The AdValue Network.
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Movie Poster Ethics: Is This Good Parody, Bad Taste, Blasphemy Or Religious Discrimination?
December 20, 2018 December 20, 2018 / Jack Marshall / 55 Comments
Well, it sure isn’t religious discrimination, but that’s what some of The Offended are claiming.
This is a poster for a holiday repackaging of “Deadpool 2,” the tongue-in-cheek sequel to the previous tongue-in-cheek Marvel superhero hit, “Deadpool,” featuring the hideously scarred, invulnerable, foul-mouthed and irreverent superhero who routinely breaks the fourth wall to crack jokes. The poster is a parody of the “The Second Coming,” a painting by Harry Anderson that is inexplicably popular among Mormons, and often hangs at meetings of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Here’s the poster’s inspiration:
Is “The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told” Being Produced By The Most Unethical Theater Company There Is?
April 19, 2017 April 19, 2017 / Jack Marshall / 185 Comments
Atlanta’s Out Front Theatre Company’s production of “The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told” opens on April 27, but Paul Rudnick’s 1998 silly comedy that recasts Bible stories with all gay characters is being protested as blasphemous. The outraged in this case is the conservative Catholic group America Needs Fatima, whose members are particularly offended by the spoof’s portrayal of the Virgin Mary as a lesbian. It has an online petition demanding that Out Front’s Artistic Director Paul Conroy cancel the production.
Sure. Like that’s going to happen.
“I fear God’s wrath will fall upon us if reparation is not made,” the hysterical screed concludes. Over 40,000 hysterics have signed it. Yes, I’m sure that God has nothing better to do than to punish humanity for a theatrical production of a 20 year-old comedy in Atlanta. The group then threatens to oppose the play “loudly, peacefully, and legally in as large a protest as we can help make possible” if the production goes forward. Idiocy, of course. Last I heard, nobody is forcing anyone to go to see the play, and the First Amendment is pretty clear about the ability of the law to censor performances based on content. The contention from the religious right in this case mirrors the Left’s fervent efforts at the moment to censor speakers they don’t agree with and “hate speech.”
If you don’t think that you will enjoy a play, the remedy is not to go see it. Simple as that. Trying to interfere with the production in any way, or to prevent those who want to see a production in which Adam and Eve become Adam and Steve, is unethical. It is also directly contrary to the principles the United States was founded to ensure.
Okay, that settles that.
Now about Out Front Theater Company….
“Piss Christ” and Garland
Ethics Alarms participant Other Bill raised “Piss Christ” on the comment thread to my post about the Garland, Texas attack, progressives’ and news media’s “hate speech isn’t free speech” confusion, and Geller’s supporters’ “gratuitously uncivil speech is laudable” delusion. He posted a column by George Parry, published under the heading “Think Tank” on a Philadelphia site. I’m grateful to Bill for raising the column, which he neither endorsed nor criticized. Titled Double Standard on Offending Christians and Muslims, Parry’s argument was…
“Christians objected to “Piss Christ” and the feces-covered Holy Virgin. And they rightfully wondered why their tax dollars had been used to promote these blasphemies. But their objections and questions were condescendingly dismissed by the secular left in the media and intelligentsia. …
“As if in one voice, the mainstream media and self-anointed intelligentsia argued that antiquated religious sensitivities must not be allowed to interfere with either an artist’s free expression or his right to government funding regardless of how offensive his work may be to Christians….”
“In Garland, Texas, on Sunday, two radical Muslims died trying to replicate the Charlie Hebdo massacre by mounting an armed attack on a “draw Mohammed” cartoon contest. We are not talking about drawings of Mohammed dunked in urine or smeared with animal dung. No, the gunmen apparently deemed the mere drawing of Mohammed to be an offense punishable by death…The overall media consensus has been to blame the intended murder victims for recklessly provoking the terrorists. Such provocation, we are told, is unacceptable and irresponsible behavior given the risk of retaliation by offended radical Muslims…”
“Better to question the wisdom of cartoonists exercising their rights than to acknowledge and vigorously confront and expose the elephant in the room, i.e., that there is a disturbingly large number of radical Muslims in this country who oppose our Constitution and who believe that murder is an appropriate sanction for those who offend Islam….”
“All of which leads to this question: Given their pusillanimous double standard, why should any reasonable or serious person believe, respect, or credit the self-serving mainstream media?”
That’s not the question. First of all, there is already no reason to believe, respect, or credit the mainstream media. Second, while Parry is correct that the analysis of the issues in the Garland attack have been largely incompetent and tainted by media dislike of Geller and journalism’s own cowardice (most news outlets were afraid to show the Charlie Hebdo cartoons, even though they were essential to reporting on the Paris massacre), his analogy with “Piss Christ” is no better.
The questions are… Continue reading →
The Garland, Texas Shooting, Free Speech and Ethics
Geller: Like it or not, the First Amendment was designed for her and people like her: infuriating people.
Last Sunday, two men opened fire outside uber-Islam-hater Pamela Geller’s “Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest” in Garland, Texas. Both gunmen were killed by police, a security guard was wounded. Since cartoons of the Prophet have sparked killings around the globe, this was a risk, if not an inevitability, of holding such an event. That was undoubtedly one of the reasons for it, in fact: to show defiance of those that would cow us into self-censorship.
Since the episode, commentators and pundits have engaged in various levels of confused ethical thought regarding the competition and the shooting, much of the confusion due to cognitive dissonance regarding Geller, who is beyond question an anti-Muslim bigot. So horrible is it to their delicate liberal sensibilities to have the principle of freedom of speech represented by Geller that rather than accept it, many would prefer to jettison freedom of speech itself. In this they seem to have forgotten that the reason for free speech is precisely to protect the most infuriating, inflammatory, controversial speakers, whether they be hateful fanatics like Geller, or Martin Luther King.
It really is remarkable that the First Amendment has survived so long, since those who discuss it in public the most frequently are journalists and politicians, neither of whom are consistently able to interpret it accurately.
Ethically, this isn’t hard, or shouldn’t be. In fact, not a single new issue is raised by the Texas shooting that was not thoroughly covered here five years ago:
1. No group, no matter how offended or righteous and no matter what its holy book says, is ethically entitled to threaten violence against those who say, or draw, things that they find offensive, including the offense of blasphemy.
2. Encouraging such groups to do this by self-censoring is cowardly and a threat to free speech. Thus South Park and Comedy Central breached their duties to the nation, the culture and free speech by censoring a satirical animated series after receiving radical Islamic threats. As I wrote here: Continue reading →
Comment of the Day: “Noah” Ethics
March 17, 2014 / Jack Marshall / 10 Comments
Patrice, the Ethics Alarms resident Catholic theologian (and a dear friend), weighs in on the “Noah” controversy, in the this Comment of the Day on the post, “Noah” Ethics:
My undergraduate theology degree is indisputably from a Catholic perspective, although many of the scholars we studied were not Catholic, nor even Christian. I was required to take only 4 semesters of biblical literature, but even those few academic hours of biblical studies taught me enough about biblical analysis to understand how “The Bible” (which, as I’m sure you know, is just a mutually-agreed upon canon of literature which omits as much as it includes) came to be. I often think that it is a shame that true knowledge about biblical literature mostly seems to reside only in academia. Unfortunately, most of the zealots out there would and probably do regard biblical scholarship as an attack on God. The battles over the centuries over biblical inerrancy/infallibility/literalism are merely unread footnotes to most people. Continue reading →
“Noah” Ethics
There is nothing unethical about “Noah,” the biblical spectacular that harkens back to the grand old days when Cecil B. DeMille reigned supreme. I haven’t seen the movie, and yet I can say that with absolute certainty. The reason I can say it that there is no way on earth that a movie about Noah and the Ark, in this day and age, could possibly be unethical. Even if the Old Testament were literal fact, which it is not, cannot be and in all likelihood was never intended to be, “Noah” couldn’t possibly be unethical, because it is a movie.
Never mind that of all the Biblical fables, with the possible exception of Adam and Eve, the tale of Noah is perhaps the most obviously impossible. The movie is art—of one kind or another—and does not represent itself as a documentary or make any factual assertions whatsoever. Thus it can be distinguished from a truly unethical film like Oliver Stone’s “JFK,” which intentionally misrepresented recent historical facts to “prove” a theory of the Kennedy assassination that was irresponsible and almost certainly false. Is “Noah” dishonest? It is impossible to be dishonest about a presumptively non-historical event about which there is no direct evidence whatsoever, and when there is no intention to deceive. Is it disrespectful? Art has no duty to be respectful. Is it fair? Fair to who? An artist’s stakeholders are those who appreciate his or her art. Does it do harm, or intend to? No. Continue reading →
An Important Post At Popehat: “A Year of Blasphemy”
October 17, 2012 October 17, 2012 / Jack Marshall / 1 Comment
Ban it?
Ken, the witty First Amendment champion who blogs at Popehat, had issued an important and meticulously researched review of how blasphemy has been punished around the world in the past 12 months. He introduces his survey, in part, by writing…
“The incendiary film “”The Innocence of Muslims” was merely an unconvincing pretext for a terrorist attack, not the true cause of the attack. Yet the film has spurred new discussions of American free speech exceptionalism, and led some to question whether we should hew to the First Amendment in the face of worldwide demands for an international ban on blasphemy… We should address such views, not ignore them. But as we consider them — as we evaluate whether anti-blasphemy laws will ever be consistent with the modern American values embodied in our First Amendment precedents — we should examine what the competing values truly are. What are the “other values” which other societies believe outweigh free speech? What sorts of things “inflame” people in those societies? If other societies understand free expression differently than we do, how do they understand it? What “international norms” are emerging on blasphemy?” Continue reading →
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DVD Review: Maigret Sets a Trap, Maigret and the St. Fiacre Affair, Maigret Sees Red
Renowned French film star’s Maigret trilogy.
Despite being largely unknown to English audiences, Jean Gabin was one of French cinema’s biggest stars. The son of music hall artistes, he initially had no interest in an acting career. After a period working as a labourer and warehouse clerk he was cajoled by his father to join the Folies Bergère. Graduating from bit-parts to a leading man, he demonstrated an ability to play a wide variety of roles. He started a screen career at the dawn of the talking picture era.
A commanding screen actor, he appeared in 95 films in a career that lasted over 40 years. Performances in Pepe Le Moko, La Grande Illusion, La Bete Humaine, Le Jour se leve, and Le Quai des brumes were critically acclaimed. One of the pre-war period’s biggest stars, his career’s trajectory was interrupted when hostilities erupted across the continent.
In stark contrast to Georges Simenon, Gabin refused to collaborate with the Nazi regime’s film industry. Relocating to Hollywood, he was offered a contract by Twentieth Century Fox and promoted as “The Spencer Tracy of French pictures.” An artistically fruitless period, he made Moontide for Fox and The Imposter for RKO. A third project, The Temptress, was canceled when he demanded that the producers cast Marlene Detrich as his co-star (Gabin and Dietrch were real-life lovers). Told that he would never again work in Hollywood, Gabin enlisted in the French liberation forces and fought against German troops in Africa.
At the end of the war, he returned to acting. No longer a matinee idol, he played a succession of everyman parts. Gabin and Simenon’s careers first intersected with the 1950 adaptation La Marie du port. A 1958 film En cas de malheur based on Simenon’s romans dur In Case of Emergency saw Gabin act alongside Brigitte Bardot. Also released in the same year was the first of Gabin’s three cinematic outings as Simenon’s pipe smoking Inspector Maigret.
Despite being maligned by the French new wave, Jean Delannoy directed a number of box-office hits and won the Palme d’Or for his 1960 film La Symphonie pastorale. He was made an officer of the Legion of Honor, a Commander of Arts and Letters and a Commander of the National Order of Merit. In 1986 he received an honorary César. Paying tribute to Delannoy, French President Nicolas Sarkozy described the director as “More than just a great artist, he was a man of great intelligence, alert, pertinent and faithful in friendship,”
By the late 1950s, Delannoy’s reputation had been tarnished by a string of sub-standard films and criticism by François Truffaut. Attuned to the cinematic possibilities of Maigret, the director had considered adapting a Simenon novel for several years before securing the cinematic rights to Maigret Sets a Trap. With a reputation for directing solid thrillers including Le garçon sauvage and La minute de vérité, he may have considered an adaptation as an opportunity to restore his box-office fortunes.
First published in 1955. The English translation of Maigret Sets a Trap was issued in 1965. The book has been adapted several times. A recent adaptation starring Rowan Atkinson was poorly received by critics. Delannoy’s version is the most satisfying adaptation.
Primarily known in English-speaking territories as Maigret Sets a Trap, prints were circulated with the alternate titles Inspector Maigret and Woman-Bait. The film and its two sequels were the last big screen outings for Simenon’s detective released prior to the character migrating to the small screen.
An atmospheric adaptation blessed with supreme production design. Indebted to Film Noir and aware of the urban environment’s importance in the Maigret novels, the director ensured the film made the story’s location the de facto star. An entire district was slavishly on a soundstage. The decision to shoot the majority of the action on a studio lot enabled the director to exercise total control over the environment.
Hybridising American and French approaches to crime films, Delannoy’s location sequences employ expressionistic camera angles favoured by Film Noir directors and attempts to document a city still scarred by war and in the throes of modernisation.
Claustrophobic, tightly coiled and utterly focused, it’s hard to see why Delannoy’s film isn’t better known in the English-speaking world. Maigret Sets a Trap is sensitive to the humanistic philosophy expressed in Simenon’s novels. The film has many reasons to recommend tracking down a copy; tight plotting, thematic complexity, a distinguished supporting cast. At it’s core is an electric portrayal from one of French cinema’s most popular actors. Stripping away the over reliance of props that had plagued previous attempts at filming Maigret, Gabin’s performance conveyed compassion and solidity. Simenon was pleased with Gabin’s interpretation and is alleged to have suggested that future Maigret novels might be influenced by the performance.
A box office hit in France, Maigret Sets a Trap was seen by more than 2,500,000 cinemagoers. It was nominated for a BAFTA and won an Edgar Allan Poe award. The film’s producers commissioned a sequel to satisfy a public clamouring for further cinematic adaptations. Released in 1959, Maigret and the St. Fiacre Affair is considered by critics to be a less successful film. Adapted from a novel first published in 1933, the film contains a number of elements that will delight Maigret enthusiasts and Simenonologists.
Leaving behind the first film’s urban environment, the sequel relocates to a small village. Maigret is visiting his childhood home at the request of the Duchess of Saint-Fiacre. She has recently received an anonymous letter stating that she will soon die. When she suffers a fatal heart attack during a religious service the local doctor pronounces she died of natural causes. Maigret is not satisfied with the diagnosis and is convinced the Duchess was murdered.
Tonally very different from its predecessor, the portrait of a once-great family in decline is indebted to Agatha Christie and Citizen Kane. Delannoy once again demonstrating a sympathy for themes present in the originating novel, effectively balances moments of joy and intensity.
Jean Gabin played Maigret one final time in the disappointing Maigret Sees Red. Jean Delannoy declined an offer to return to direct and was replaced by Gilles Grangier. Released in the UK shortly after the finale of the BBC’s highly-praised adaptation featuring Rupert Davies, Grangier’s film was largely ignored. Gabin’s performance is not enough to save the film. Not entirely unwatchable, it suffers from having a director too much in awe of American B-pictures and a lack of enthusiasm for the work of Georges Simenon. Jean Gabin’s Maigret deserved a better final investigation.
Maigret Sets a Trap is available to order from Amazon.
Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case is available to order from Amazon.
Maigret Sees Red is available to order from Amazon.
Author EuroButNotTrashPosted on September 24, 2016 February 24, 2019 Categories French Films, Georges Simenon, MaigretTags Jean Gabin, Maigret, Maigret and the St. Fiacre Affair, Maigret Sees Red, Maigret Sets a TrapLeave a comment on DVD Review: Maigret Sets a Trap, Maigret and the St. Fiacre Affair, Maigret Sees Red
Book Review and Interview: The Angels of Hammurabi by Max Seeck
Turbo-charged thriller.
The Finnish government is sent into a state of near-panic when a member of its diplomatic staff vanishes. The only clue to Jare Westerlund’s disappearance is a series of anonymous threats sent before he went on holiday.
Frustrated with the local police force’s lack of progress, the Finnish government dispatches armed forces specialist Daniel Kuisma and Foreign Affairs Ministry assistant Annika Lehto to Zagreb. Investigating the missing employee’s trail they uncover a tangled web of secrets.
Former peacekeeper, Daniel served in Croatia during the Yugoslav wars. As the investigation intensifies, dark secrets from his past impact upon the present. During the war he served in secret military campaigns. He soon learns that everyone who participated in the missions is in danger. Daniel is racing against time to discover who is murdering his former colleagues before he becomes the next victim.
Max Seeck’s debut novel is an atmospheric, intense, and cinematic thriller. Masterfully plotted, The Angels of Hammurabi plunges the reader into a dark world where nothing is what it seems. With curveballs hitting the reader at breakneck speed, the author ensures that the book’s ingenious conclusion is dazzling and unexpected. A promising start to a new Nordic thriller series.
Impressed with The Angels of Hammurabi I spoke to Max Seeck about the book and his future plans.
Did you always want to be a writer?
‘My initial dream job has been a movie director and / or screenplay writer. But I guess I’ve been driven by my personal need to tell a story, come up with interesting characters, events and plots and gather them into an experience. Make people react, feel and experience new things.’
What inspired you to write about a former peacekeeper investigating a missing person case in the Balkans?
‘Well, a former peacekeeper suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder is unique for one thing. The crime thriller scene has witnessed an alcoholic policeman, autistic female detective, hallucinating investigators just to name a few. They are all smart and ingenious in their own way. I wanted to create a protagonist with an original background. Also having experienced a battle combat means that he must have seen and experienced a lot of awful things – killing people – without being truly evil.’
History and sense of place is very important in The Angels of Hammurabi. How thoroughly did you research events and regions?
‘I began the writing process during a vacation in Croatia. Many events take place in locations I’ve personally been to. We also made a trip to Mostar, Bosnia and walked around the city with a tour guide. She told us about the war – how it was then and how it still affects thousands of lives in the region. However, many places, historical events and details were researched with the help of Google Maps and Wikipedia articles. I cannot even imagine how much more difficult doing a research for a book must have been 20 years ago.’
The Angels of Hammurabi feels very international in tone. Were you writing for a global audience?
‘As a matter of fact I was. I admire Nordic thriller novelists such as Jo Nesbo and Stieg Larsson – just to name a few – and I think they have done a wonderful job creating an atmosphere where nothing is too localized. You have people of different nationalities and places from all over the world. Also – if you want to make your living writing novels, you cannot rely too much on the relatively small population of Finland. Obviously the goal is to raise interest also in the surrounding countries and have the novel translated into many languages. Having an international tone doesn’t hurt here.’
How long did it take you to write the novel?
‘I started writing in 2013. The first two years I wrote whenever I had time – basically a few evenings a week. I had a few longer breaks – there was a time when I didn’t write for nine months. Most of the non-writing periods were due to my struggle with my own fears and frustration – what if nobody wants to publish this? Is the manuscript even any good? Am I wasting my time?’
Is there much of you in Daniel Kuisma?
‘Despite the things he has done in the past, Daniel is a good guy. And I’d like to see myself as a good guy too. I guess that’s pretty much it. Daniel – just like anybody else – is far from perfect. I hate characters that have no flaws. And I don’t trust people who are making a lot of effort to hide theirs. I think that there’s nothing as beautiful and genuine in a human being as one’s undisguised imperfection.’
Was Annika Lehto modeled on someone you know?
‘In the book she’s described as “young Cameron Diaz”. But on the other hand she looks a lot like someone who’s very close to me. However, her actions and thoughts have no real life source.’
Do you have any thoughts about Nordic crime fiction’s continued popularity all over the world?
‘I think Scandinavian authors and publishing houses have done an amazing job by elevating Nordic crime fiction as a household concept around the world. I think however, that the Nordic scene constantly needs new players to keep it fresh and on its toes. Now it’s time for Finnish authors to really join the club. Because despite of speaking and writing in a language nobody understands, we have amazing – and believe it or not – sometimes even darker stories to tell.’
Who are your favourite authors?
‘Am I being boring if I say there are so many? Within the crime thriller genre I admire authors such as Stieg Larsson, Jens Lapidus, Jo Nesbo and Dan Brown. The Swedish couple that goes by the name of Lars Kepler also writes great books. I’d also like to mention inspiring authors such as George Orwell, Mario Puzo and Kurt Vonnegut.’
Are you going to write a sequel to The Angels of Hammurabi?
‘Most definitely. I have started the writing process.’
What advice would you give to someone writing their first novel?
‘I’m not sure anyone should give advice after having one published novel. However, I can think of one thing that kept me writing even at times it felt desperate and pointless. Be determined. Once you have decided to write a book, don’t let any excuse or anybody else to stop you from doing so. You need to have the compelling need to finish what you started. Whether your book will be published or not, not finishing your manuscript will haunt you forever. Take your time and enjoy the process. It’s never fast or easy. Writing Angels of Hammurabi took me three years. And most of the time I just loved writing it.’
Thanks to Max Seeck and Elina Ahlbäck Literary Agency.
Max Seeck is published by Tammi.
Max Seeck is represented by Elina Ahlbäck Literary Agency.
Max Seeck
Author EuroButNotTrashPosted on September 17, 2016 September 12, 2018 Categories Crime Fiction, InterviewsTags Max Seeck, The Angels of HammurabiLeave a comment on Book Review and Interview: The Angels of Hammurabi by Max Seeck
Desert Island DVDs: David Swatling
Native New Yorker David Swatling studied theatre at Syracuse University. After graduation, he embarked on a career in the theatre. Over the course of a decade, he acted in numerous off-Broadway productions. His final acting role on American soil was an appearance in Madonna’s breakout feature film Desperately Seeking Susan.
Relocating to Amsterdam in 1985, he continued to work as an actor and produced arts and culture programming for Radio Netherlands. He has won multiple awards including the NLGJA Excellence in Journalism Award.
David’s first novel, Calvin’s Head, was published in 2010. A hugely entertaining suspense-filled mystery. The book is a refreshingly different take on the genre. Stream-of-consciousness prose, murder, romance, and a dog feature in a book which defies categorisation.
An incisive and enlightening speaker, David will once again be a panellist at Iceland Noir.
Taking time out from a return visit to his homeland, David talked about his castaway classics.
Don’t Look Now (UK, Italy, 1973)
‘No film has quite disturbed me more than Nicholas Roeg’s 1973 psychological thriller adapted from a short story by Daphne du Maurier. I remember leaving the London movie theatre where I saw it with a knot in my stomach that kept me awake all night. Brilliant performances by Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie, as a married couple who travel to Venice after the accidental drowning of their young daughter, combined with Roeg’s haunting images and fluid timeline, made an indelible impression on my twenty-one year old psyche. So much so that upon visiting Venice nearly forty years later, I kept catching glimpses of a small figure in a red raincoat disappearing around corners.’
Spoorloos (The Vanishing) (Netherlands, France, 1988)
‘Stanley Kubrick called Dutch director George Sluizer’s 1988 film the most terrifying thriller he’d ever seen. Based on a novel by Tim Krabbé, it’s the story of a young Dutch couple on vacation in France. Stopping at a rest area, the woman disappears and her frantic husband spends years trying to discover what happened to her. The viewer already knows but the suspense becomes unbearable when the husband meets the abductor, who offers a bizarre proposal. The unusual structure and philosophical tone of the film make it far superior to an American remake, which Sluizer also directed.’
La mala educación (Bad Education) (Spain, 2004)
‘Could I have a box-set of all Perdro Almodovar’s films, please? If not, I’ll choose this one—a stylized murder mystery with LGBT characters, combining my two favorite literary genres. The plot is multilayered and complex, including a story within a story, shifting identities, and another fluid timeline. Do you see a pattern emerging here? It’s all holds together with a powerful performance by Gael Garcia Bernal, who I wouldn’t mind accompanying me on that desert island.’
La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast) (France, 1946)
‘Jean Cocteau’s 1946 version of the classic 18th century fairy tale could also be considered a thriller. The dialogue is kept to a minimum and the visuals are magical, not to mention a beautifully haunting score by Georges Auric. The overall effect is dream-like, in the best and scariest ways.’
Cinema Paradiso (Italy, 1988)
‘I must admit, I had to look up the director’s name of this 1988 Acadamy Award winning film. Giuseppi Tornatore. A romantic love story to the movies—mostly told from a young boy’s point of view—it made me laugh, cry, and cheer at the end. Oh, that final montage! I could watch it over and over and over again. So I have to wonder, why has it been so long since I’ve seen this utterly delightful film?’
Thanks to David Swatling and Iceland Noir.
Iceland Noir booking information.
David Swatling is published by Bold Strokes Books.
Author EuroButNotTrashPosted on September 14, 2016 September 14, 2016 Categories Desert Island DVDsTags David Swatling, Iceland NoirLeave a comment on Desert Island DVDs: David Swatling
Desert Island DVDs – Susan Moody
Former chairperson of the Crime Writer’s Association, Susan Moody has also served as World President of the International Association of Crime Writers. Over the course of a remarkably productive career she has authored 29 novels. Her debut Penny Black is listed in the Crime Writers’ Association’s Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time. Six foot tall Penny is an amateur detective, globe-trotting photographer and the daughter of a UN Ambassador. Susan wrote seven novels featuring Penny Wanawake. Williams & Whiting has reissued all seven titles in the series.
In 1993 Susan Moody introduced readers to expert bridge player Cassie Swann. A feisty amateur sleuth, Cassie investigated murders in Oxford, the surrounding areas, and the village of Bellington.
After producing six outings for Swann, Susan Moody has written standalone crime fiction, historical novels, romance, the sequel to Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden, and Love Over Gold, a best-selling novel inspired by Nestle’s soap-opera style commercials.
Susan is a member of the prestigious Detection Club and co-founder of Kent based festival Deal Noir. A long-term supporter of Iceland Noir, she generously agreed to talk about her Desert Island DVDs.
The Bicycle Thieves (Italy, 1948)
‘In earlier years, when the cinema was only just beginning to be recognized as an art form, I spent a lot of time watching film. This examination of post-WW2 city life in Rome resonated and does so still. It still jerks tears, even just reading the title. Ricci, with a family to support, terrified of falling through the cracks, finally gets a job, only to have his bicycle, sole means of transport, stolen. What to do? Become a thief himself? Marvellous.’
Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (France, 1953)
‘How we loved this gentle film about an awkward and unassuming Frenchman going on holiday to the seaside. Comedy at its sweetest. No slapstick, just a series of small vignettes where inept Monsieur Hulot has to extricate himself from one slightly embarrassing situation after another.’
Jules et Jim (France, 1962)
‘Innovative, charming and sinister, this love triangle still captivates. Jeanne Moreau was gorgeous, caught between her two men. I’ve watched this so many times and it never fails to delight.’
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Sweden, 2009)
‘Edgy, ugly and utterly compelling. Lisbeth Salander, the female lead, is uncompromising, unforgiving and unforgettable. Deeply damaged, suffering from a form of Asperger’s, she is a gifted hacker and here finds herself teamed with a male journalist facing prison, in an attempt to resolve the disappearance of a young girl forty years ago. I could watch this again and again.’
Trapped (Iceland, 2015)
‘This TV series from Iceland, is truly gripping. Claustrophobic, complicated, it deals with an ugly crime in the north of the country cut off from the rest of the world by an avalanche, pack ice and a lot of snow. Absolutely brilliant in its depiction of a small community where ordinary people are trying to live ordinary lives but find themselves caught up in extraordinary events, rocked by corruption, betrayal, murder and sex-trafficking.’
Thanks to Susan Moody, Mike Linane, and Iceland Noir.
Susan Moody’s Penny Wanawake series is published by Williams & Whiting.
Author EuroButNotTrashPosted on September 9, 2016 September 9, 2016 Categories Desert Island DVDsTags Iceland Noir, Susan MoodyLeave a comment on Desert Island DVDs – Susan Moody
Desert Island DVDs – Michael Ridpath
Before becoming a writer, Michael Ridpath used to work as a bond trader in the City of London. After writing eight financial thrillers, which were published in over 30 languages, he began the “Fire and Ice” series, featuring the Icelandic detective Magnus Jonson. He has also written two spy novels set at the beginning of World War II. He is a frequent visitor to Iceland and an enthusiastic participator in Iceland Noir.
Borgen (Denmark, 2010 -13)
‘I don’t understand why I like Borgen. It’s about party politics in one of Europe’s dullest political systems, it’s about pig farming regulations and shifts in minor party coalitions. The female protagonist juggles her job with getting her kids’ homework in on time. A journalist can’t decide whether to take another job or not. How humdrum can you get? Yet for some reason, I absolutely loved Borgen.
The series follows the career of Birgitte Nyborg, the fictional first female prime minister of Denmark. It is superbly acted and written; there is something about the relatively clean and dull background of Danish politics that puts all the political shenanigans into stark relief. The characters seem much more realistic and easy to identify with than, say, The West Wing or House of Cards, excellent though both of those series are. Somehow this makes the viewer care more about them. “Borgen” is the nickname for Denmark’s Parliament building, by the way.’
Rams (Iceland, 2015)
‘This is a 2015 Icelandic film brilliantly directed by Grímur Hákonarson, who owns a nifty little flat cap. It concerns two grey-bearded brothers, Gummi and Kiddi, whose sheep farms are next door to each other, but who haven’t spoken for decades. They communicate by sheepdog messenger. When there is an outbreak of scrapie in their dale, the vet orders their ancestral flock to be destroyed and the brothers are almost forced to work together to save their sheep.
This is shot on a very low budget with actors who are so authentic that they look like amateurs, but aren’t. There are wonderful views of wide dales, and some great sheep scenes. The traditional Icelandic characteristics of hardiness, toughness, self reliance and unbending stubbornness are here in spades. It is Halldór Laxness’s Independent People for the twenty-first century. I was brought up in the Yorkshire dales and I like sheep, so I loved this film.’
Deutschland 83 (Germany, 2015)
‘This German series concerned two subjects I have considered writing novels about in the past: East Germany and the nuclear standoff in 1983, when the world was almost as close to blowing itself up as in 1963. Moritz Stamm is a 23 year old East German Stasi agent who travels to the west standing in for a murdered aide to a West German general. Deutschland 83 shows the startling differences between east and west at the time, and also the similar impulses of disgruntled youth on both sides of the iron curtain. It’s also really exciting as our hero uses the traditional techniques of creeping around offices at night and bonking secretaries to discover cruise missile secrets. I am surprised the producers allowed the writer to get away with the massive holes in the plot, for example the way Stamm can pass himself off as a graduate of West German military college yet not find his way around a western supermarket. But I’m glad they left the holes in, because it makes the series much more exciting.’
Pressa (Iceland, 2007 – 16)
‘I need an obscure Icelandic TV series (at least to non-Icelanders) and this is my choice. Pressa is a drama series about a tabloid newspaper in Iceland, which lurches from dodgy headline to dodgy headline. The heroine, Lara, is a single mother, desperate to keep her job on the paper and to fend off the unwelcome advances of her bosses. Pressa is fast paced and tense. The temptation to compete for the bottom in gutter journalism is universal, as is the corporate corruption. Pressa perfectly sums up how Reykjavík is a both a dull small town and also one of the most extraordinary cities on earth. It’s the kind of series that makes you wish that Hampstead Garden suburb (where I live) had its own little lava field. But it doesn’t. Which is why I write about Iceland instead. I bought my copy, in Icelandic with English subtitles, in a bookshop in Reykjavík.’
Yes Minister (UK, 1980 – 88)
‘I think I’m allowed one British choice. Or am I? After Brexit, does a British TV series from the 80s count as European? After Brexit, we all need to watch Yes Minister. It is a timeless comedy from the 1980s, where Sir Humphrey Appleby, a senior civil servant, spars with Jim Hacker, the Minister for Administrative Affairs, whose sporadic displays of eagerness to get things done, are cleverly disrupted by Sir Humphrey and the forces of inertia. It’s what I watch when my wife is out, I am feeling a bit glum and I am too tired to read. I suspect it is also being watched at the moment by today’s British civil servants as they seek inspiration to preserve the status quo in a country where – let’s be honest – nobody has a clue what they are doing. There is so much here for the rest of Europe to learn from us.’
Thanks to Michael Rodpath and Iceland Noir.
Michael Ridpath is published by Corvus
Author EuroButNotTrashPosted on September 8, 2016 May 7, 2017 Categories Desert Island DVDsTags Iceland Noir, Michael RidpathLeave a comment on Desert Island DVDs – Michael Ridpath
Desert Island DVDs – Leena Lehtolainen
Two-times winner of Finland’s Whodunit Society’s annual prize for the best crime novel, Leena Lehtolainen’s books have been translated into 29 languages.
Embarking on a literary career at a very young age, her first book was published when she was 12. She has been a professional author since 1993.
Best-known for the Inspector Maria Kallio novels, Leena Lehtolainen’s writing has been acclaimed in her homeland for introducing a female perspective to what had had previously been a male dominated genre.
Alongside the ongoing Maria Kallio series Leena Lehtolainen has also written a trilogy featuring bodyguard Hilja Ilveskero.
Regularly compared to Henning Mankel, Leena Lehtolainen’s novels are a regular fixture at the top of Finland’s bestseller charts. She has been nominated for the Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel.
Brideshead Revisited (UK, 1981)
‘I love Evelyn Waugh’s original novel, but it is amazing, how good the TV version is. It shows the complexity of the world it describes, and forces the watcher to ponder her relationship with faith. The cast is amazing, and I really enjoy the slow tempo of everything.’
Pride and Prejudice (UK, 1995)
‘I have been a die-hard Jane Austen fan since early teen years. This TV series has been classing from its premiere. It is humorous and entertaining, but the undercurrent is sarcastic and dark – money ruled society 200 years ago, as it does now. Jennifer Ehle has enough temperament for Elizabeth, and poor Colin Firth will always be THE Mr. Darcy for most of us.’
In Bruges (UK, 2008)
‘I like my humour dark, and this really satisfies my needs. The crazy story of the hit job gone wrong and two contract killers hiding in Bruges is hilarious in many ways. The poor Londoners Ray and Ken feel that they are in the middle of nowhere in idyllic Bruges, and Ralph Fiennes surprises us all in the final scenes. I really must visit Bruges one day.’
The Hunt (Denmark, 2012)
‘The Danish director Thomas Vinterberg shows us how the untruths and lies are constructed. In The Hunt, an innocent man is accused of being a paedophile, and even his nearest get against him. While sexually using kids is a disgusting crime, the witch-hunt which Lucas faces, is also very scary. I am from a small village myself and could imagine this happening here, too. Lucas is played by the marvellous Mads Mikkelsen, one of the greatest Nordic actors of our time.’
The Fencer (Finland, 2015)
‘This Finnish-Estonian-German co-operation is filmed mostly in Estonia and tells the true story of Endel Neelis, who escapes the Soviet police from Leningrad to Haapsalu, Estonia and starts teach fencing for the kids there. This movie is all about atmosphere and good acting, and the Estonian language spoken in the film is so beautiful and expressive. Big kudos to young Liisa Koppel, who plays Marta.’
Thanks to Leena Lehtolainen, Elina Ahlbäck Literary Agency, and Iceland Noir.
Leena Lehtolainen is published by Amazon Crossing
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Book Review: The Krull House by Georges Simenon (Trans by Howard Curtis)
Considered by Simenon to be one of his most significant novels, The Krull House was written in 1938 and first published in the UK as part of the 1955 collection A Sense of Guilt. Revisiting themes and incidents previously explored in the 1932 Maigret novel The Flemish House, the book is infused with many of the author’s recurrent preoccupations and draws heavily from Simenon’s experiences growing up in Liège.
As the events across the continent made war an inevitable reality Georges Simenon learned that he was to become a father for the first time. Contemplating raising a child in a conflict-ridden world may explain why Simenon’s non-Maigret output written during his wife’s pregnancy was divided into two strands; reflections on fatherhood (The Strangers in the House, The Family Lie), and narratives set in the author’s homeland (The Burgomaster of Furnes). The Krull House, originally published in the UK as Chez Krull, draws heavily from incidents and people Simenon knew in Belgium and features a motif recurrent in many Maigret novels, the withdrawn and submissive father figure.
A small canal town is the setting for a complex and unsettling examination of interwar prejudices and mob justice. An ostracised family is visited by their German cousin, Hans. The Krulls are foreigners in a close-knit community. Cornelius Krull settled in the area after the cessation of World War One’s hostilities. He is seemingly ineffectual and resigned to spending his days hidden from view in the workroom. Viewed with suspicion and contempt by their neighbours, Cornelius’ family owns a grocery shop that is heavily reliant on canal workers for trade. A fragile peace in the community and at home is shattered when Hans arrives to stay with his family.
The visitation of the Krull’s cousin, Hans, reminds the community of their ‘otherness’. Simenon’s narrative suggests people of German descent living in France in the interwar period were routinely subjected to racial abuse.
When the corpse of a young girl is fished from the local canal suspicion instantly falls on the new arrival. The Krull’s are believed to be harbouring a murderer. An entire township decides to administer justice.
Injustice and mob rule is a theme which is present in several of Simenon’s ‘Roman Durs’, most notably in Mr. Hire’s Engagement and Black Rain. In The Krull House, the family’s shop is besieged by an angry mob seeking vengeance. The author’s concerns about crowd justice and manhunts were sparked by an incident in 1919 when his newspaper editor instructed Simenon to report on a drunken brawl. A minor fight escalated into a witchhunt. One of the men fled from the scene and was chased onto the roof of a nearby hotel. Stumbling, the man clung onto the roof edge while a crowd shouted racist abuse and bayed for his death.
Variations of the incident recur throughout Simenon’s output possibly suggesting that the author was traumatized after witnessing a crowd being whipped into a state of hatred by gossip and lies. The Krull House’s representation of naked hatred is filled with chilling intensity. In a powerful sequence, the crowd seeks to avenge the death of a local girl by attacking the two people they believe to be responsible, Hans and his deviant cousin.
While The Krull House is superficially very similar to the Maigret novel The Flemish House, it would be foolish to dismiss the novel as a redrafting of the earlier text. Freed from the confines of a police procedural, Simenon reshaped the story’s core elements into a dark and disturbing account of paranoia still has the power to unsettle readers. Written on the eve of war it was and remains a potent and all too timely warning about the dangers of unfounded suspicion and hatred in a small community.
The Krull House is published by Penguin.
Author EuroButNotTrashPosted on June 25, 2018 July 1, 2018 Categories European Fiction, Georges SimenonTags Chez Krull, Georges Simenon, Roman Durs, The Krull House2 Comments on Book Review: The Krull House by Georges Simenon (Trans by Howard Curtis)
Book Review: The Venice Train by Georges Simenon (Trans by Alastair Hamilton)
Dark story of deception and anxiety.
Mid-level clerk, Julian Calmer’s life is thrown into disarray when a chance encounter on a train shatters any semblance of normality. Another example of Simenon employing an Everyman to explore the darker recesses of the human psyche. The Venice Train is a suspense-filled novella which analyses how a turning point in a life might compel an individual to walk away from a lifetime of conformity and discover their previously repressed true identity.
Julian Calmer’s life has previously been dominated by rigidity and routine. After a family holiday in Venice, he boards a train to Paris and sits across from a stranger unaware that soon his every waking moment will be filled with paranoia. Chatting with the stranger, Calmer is surprised that his fellow traveller is taking such a keen interest in the minutiae of his life. As the conversation draws to a close the stranger hands Calmer an attaché case and asks him to deliver it to an address in Lausanne.
Calmer’s decision to take possession of the case has jeopardised the safe and comfortable lifestyle he has spent years creating for his family. The stranger leaves the carriage promising to return in a moment but is never seen again. Curious about the case’s contents Calmer delivers it and discovers the lifeless body of a manicurist.
Fleeing the crime scene he returns to Paris. Opening the bag Calmer discovers a fortune in foreign currency. With a sum of money in his possession greater than what he might earn in a lifetime working for his current employer Calmer is torn between wanting to enjoy the benefits of his find and the desire to maintain the pretence of a normal lifestyle. Fearful that the criminal underworld will find him and exact some revenge for absconding with the funds he is determined to maintain a low profile until he is sure that the no evidence of a trail exists. He trawls Paris’ newspaper stands and purchases foreign publications hoping to find some information about the bag’s owner, the deceased manicurist, and current stages of the police’s investigation.
Adhering to Simenon’s template of an individual confronting a new self when faced with a change in circumstances, The Venice Train is a below-par novella from one of Europe’s most prolific writers. Barely concealed traces of the author’s misogyny are littered throughout the book. Tension and plausibility is tossed out of the window in a deeply unsatisfying final chapter which stretches credulity and reveals a tired writer going through the motions.
One for completists. Readers new to Simenon should avoid The Venice Train.
The Venice Train is currently out of print. Used copies are available to order from Amazon.
Author EuroButNotTrashPosted on September 24, 2017 July 1, 2018 Categories European Fiction, Georges SimenonTags Georges Simenon, Le train de Venise, Roman Durs, The Venice TrainLeave a comment on Book Review: The Venice Train by Georges Simenon (Trans by Alastair Hamilton)
Betty by Georges Simenon (Trans by Alastair Hamilton)
Lost soul’s facade conceals a dark past.
One of six books cited by Simenon to counter accusations of misogyny, Betty was reportedly inspired by a chance encounter with a drunken women in a Versaiiles bar. In the majority of his books Simenon’s mother is an ever-present figure. Men are represented as victims of symbolically castrating feminine forces. Temporarily jettisoning the recurrent mother motif, Betty features a traumatised woman who is a composite of Simenon and his second wife Denyse Ouime.
A twenty-eight-year-old alcoholic is seeking solace from the bottom of a glass in a bar on the Champs-Élysées. Trapped in a destructive cycle of exhibitionism and promiscuity, this depressed drunk has been cast out of the family home and denied access to her children. Potential salvation arrives when a doctor’s widow offers Betty a place to stay.
Confiding in her new found protector, Betty reveals a traumatic past. Loveless and hopeless, Simenon’s heroine is a war orphan, her father was murdered by German troops shortly before the cessation of hostilities. The irony of Simenon writing about the horrors of war and damage wrought upon survivors is not lost on Simenologists who have long been aware that he collaborated with the Vichy regime.
Betty is effectively an extended conversation with occasional flashbacks. The ending may fizzle out but this is fundamentally a book which reveals a great deal about Simenon’s neurosis and perversions. The inclusion of an incest subplot is particularly significant because during their conversation Swiss psychiatrist Dr Pierre Rentchnick noted that the author had a particular interest in familial abuse. This book certainly suggests he had entertained the notion of abuse.
Dark and unsettling, in this novel Betty reveals her trauma and comes close to exposing Simenon.
Betty is currently out of print. Used copies are available to order from Amazon.
Author EuroButNotTrashPosted on September 14, 2017 February 12, 2019 Categories European Fiction, Georges SimenonTags Betty, Georges Simenon, Roman DursLeave a comment on Betty by Georges Simenon (Trans by Alastair Hamilton)
Book Review: The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By by Georges Simenon (Trans by Siân Reynolds)
Madman on the run seeks refuge in Paris’ seedy underbelly.
A notorious frequenter of brothels, Simenon boasted of visiting thousands of sex workers. His experiences in houses of ill repute, cheap backstreet hotels, and conversations with prostitutes were mined for a credible recreation of a shadowy world filled with dawn police raids, jealous pimps, and treacherous friends. An ice cold naked city seen through the eyes of a man rapidly losing his grip on reality, The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By is a supreme novel that explores many of the writer’s recurrent preoccupations and asks if truth is absolute.
Everyman Kees Popinga’s life falls apart when he learns that his employer has gone bankrupt and is about to flee from his creditors. Popinga has lived a life of strict routine in the Dutch city Groningen. A respectable mid-level executive with a wife and two children, thirty-nine-year-old Popinga travels to Amsterdam and attempts to seduce his former boss’ mistress. Convinced that his previous life was a form of self-deception, he views the probable imminent loss of family and home as an opportunity to discover his true identity.
Feeling emasculated after his boss’s former mistress laughs at his request he strangles her and boards a train to Paris unaware that he has killed the woman.
Hiding in France he mingles with the criminal underworld and finds temporary refuge in prostitutes boudoirs. Shortly after his arrival newspapers print stories about the murder of his boss’ mistress. Enraged at innacurate reporting Popinga writes to the papers to correct the information they are presenting about him and his crime. Deliberately ambiguous, at least initially, Simenon plays with the reader suggesting that a similar transformation of fortunes could transform anyone into the person Popinga has become.
Swiss psychiatrist Dr Pierre Rentchnick interviewed Simenon and published a paper entitled Simenon sur le gril. The psychiatrist who had spent a day questioning the author would later state ‘We all thought he was schizoid but we did not want to write that.’ The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By is a study of psychosis and it is highly probable that Simenon was using the format of a thriller to dramatise his personal desires and torments. Rentchnick’s study revealed that Simenon was an exhibitionist seemingly trapped in a state of perpetual adolescence so writing a wish fulfillment novel is no less improbable than the author’s oft quoted claims to have slept with 10,000 women.
Powerfully evocative The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By contains details plucked from Simenon’s life. Popinga’s arrival at Gare du Nord and subsequent discovery of back streets filled with street walkers recalls a similar journey made by Simenon in 1922.
Supremely crafted this taut exploration of dark desire and insanity is one of Simenon’s greatest novels.
The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By is published by Penguin.
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Book Review: The Pitards by Georges Simenon (Trans by David Bellos)
Disappointing novel offers few glimpses of Simenon’s greatness.
Determined to retire his most famous creation Inspector Maigret, Simenon intended to focus on writing literary fiction. Simenon used the term ‘roman dur’ to refer to his portraits of deviance. Freed from the crime genre’s conventions he explored themes present in the Maigret novels without the restriction of having to include a police investigation and a tidy resolution.
The famously prolific author was determined that his literary reputation would be based solely on these studies of aberrant behaviour and psychological torment. Unflinching in their examination of moral, social, and sexual transgressions, the novels presented accounts of people transformed by a moment of crisis. Unremittingly pessimistic, the 171 roman durs suggest that in an unstable world a change of fortune can shatter the veneer of a normal existence and transform an individual into a murderer, thief, or a sexual deviant. In Simenon’s fictional universe the everyman has lived a repressed life and is finally set free once their basest desires are revealed to the world.
The extent to which Simenon succeeded in transforming his reputation from that of a producer of well-crafted pulp fiction to a master of literary novels is debatable. In purely commercial terms his legacy largely rests on the widely translated seventy-five Maigret novels.
Simenonlogists consider the roman durs to be the author’s most significant literary achievements. The critical breakthrough came with the publication of seafaring saga The Pitards. French newspaper Les Temps published a critical essay by André Thérive which declared ‘I believe I have just read a masterpiece in its pure state, in its basic state.’ The journalist conceded that Simenon’s productivity had previously prevented critics from taking his work seriously and suggested that if The Pitards had been his first novel ‘there would be great enthusiasm in the republic of letters.’
Significant for ensuring critics began taking Simenon seriously, The Pitards is nonetheless a minor work from a major author. Unevenly plotted, the patchy novel is a laborious read. The account of a marriage disintegrating during a voyage to Reykjavik is a muddled work which only comes alive during the final twenty pages. Simenon’s trademark atmospheric prose is not enough to lift a novel tries to simultaneously romanticize the seafaring life, settle old scores (Simenon’s mother is present in the form of the ship captain’s wife Mathilde), and offer commentary on the French class system. The text’s primary appeal is that Simenon consciously drew from his life experiences. A lesser work in comparison to the remainder of the roman durs canon, it is nonetheless a key novel to read in order to solve the mystery of Georges Simenon.
The Pitards is published by Penguin.
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Fiennes, John (DNB00)
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Fiennes, John
by Charles Harding Firth
Fiennes, Nathaniel→
1904 Errata appended.
824318Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 18
Fiennes, JohnCharles Harding Firth1889
FIENNES, JOHN (fl. 1657), parliamentarian, was the third son of William, first viscount Saye and Sele [q. v.] At the outbreak of the civil war he commanded a troop of horse in the army of the Earl of Essex (Peacock, Army Lists, p. 55, 2nd ed.) He took part with his brother Nathaniel in the unsuccessful attack on Worcester in September 1642, and in February 1643 was sent with him to garrison Bristol (A Full Declaration concerning the March of the Forces under Colonel Fiennes, 1643, p. 1). He was present at the surrender of that city in the following June, defended his brother's conduct in capitulating, and assaulted one of the witnesses against him for impugning it (Prynne, A True Relation of Colonel Fiennes, his Trial, Depositions, p. 12). Some time during the summer of 1643 he obtained a commission as colonel of a regiment of horse, and is henceforth prominent in the civil war in the district round Oxford. He besieged Banbury from 27 Aug. 1644 to 25 Oct. of the same year, when the siege was raised by the Earl of Northampton and Colonel Gage (Sanderson, Charles I, pp. 729, 730; Mercurius Aulicus, 20, 25 Oct. 1644). In April 1645 Fiennes was for a time under the command of Cromwell, who specially commends him in a letter to the committee of both kingdoms, 28 April 1645: ‘His diligence is great, and this I must testify, that I find no man more ready to all services than himself. … I find him a gentleman of that fidelity to you and so conscientious that he would all his troop were as religious and civil as any, and makes it a great part of his care to get them so’ (Carlyle, Cromwell, Appendix, No. 7). At the battle of Naseby he fought on the right wing, under the command of Cromwell, and was entrusted with the duty of conducting the royalist prisoners to London (Rushworth, vi. 32). He was elected M.P. for Morpeth in 1645. In 1657 Fiennes was summoned by Cromwell to his House of Lords. A republican pamphleteer describes him as ‘such a one as they call a sectary, but no great stickler,’ and adds that he was entirely under the influence of his brother Nathaniel (Harleian Miscellany, iii. 486). He survived the Restoration, and escaped all penalties for his political conduct. Fiennes married Susannah, daughter of Thomas Hobbs of Amwell Magna in Hertfordshire. Lawrence, his son by her, became in 1710 fifth Viscount Saye and Sele (Collins, Peerage, ed. Brydges, vii. 22, 24, 32). Fiennes's wife died at Bath 22 July 1715, aged 58, and was buried at Broughton.
[Authorities above mentioned; also Noble's House of Cromwell, i. 402.]
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Hagan v. Lucas/Opinion of the Court
< Hagan v. Lucas
Hagan v. Lucas
Opinion of the Court by John McLean
687701Hagan v. Lucas — Opinion of the Court
Case Syllabus
35 U.S. 400
This writ of error is prosecuted by the plaintiffs to reverse a judgment of the district court, vested with the powers of a circuit court, for the southern district of Alabama.
The record in the district court states, that on the 14th of December 1833, a judgment was entered in that court, in favour of John Hagan, against William D. Bynum and Alexander M'Dade, for the sum of 2972 dollars and 58 cents, besides costs; and that an execution was issued against the goods and chattels, lands and tenements of the defendants, which, on the 19th of February 1834, was levied on several slaves that were claimed by Charles F. Lucas, who gave bond to try the right of property. At the time of the levy, the slaves were in the possession of the claimant.
And the question as to the right of property being brought before the court, under a statute of the state; the claimant, Lucas, as stated in the bill of exceptions, gave in evidence three records, certified by the clerk of the circuit court of Montgomery county, Alabama, of three judgments rendered in that court, at September term, for various amounts, against the above defendants, Bynum and M'Dade: and upon which judgments, it was proved, executions had regularly issued to the sheriff of Montgomery county, which, on the 10th of October 1833, were levied on the same slaves taken in execution by the marshal, as above stated; and that the claimant filed his affidavit, on the 25th of November 1833, in the mode prescribed by the statute; setting forth that the slaves were not the property of the defendants in the execution, but were his property, and gave bond and security to the sheriff, as required by the statute, for the forthcoming of said property, if it should be found subject to said executions; and for all costs and charges for the delay, &c.
On the giving of this bond, the slaves were delivered to the possession of the claimant; and these proceedings were returned by the sheriff to the circuit court of Montgomery county. And the records showed, that at the March and November terms in 1834, the proceedings for the trial of the right of property were continued. The record was certified on the 4th of December 1834.
Upon this evidence the court instructed the jury, that if they believed that previously to the levy of the marshal, the slaves had been levied on by the sheriff of Montgomery county, and that they had been delivered to Lucas, on his making oath and giving bond, as required by the statute; and if they believed that the proceedings on said claim were still pending and undetermined in the circuit court: that the property was, in the opinion of the court, considered as in the custody of the law, and consequently not subject to be levied on by the marshal.
And the counsel for the defendant objected to the records from the circuit court of Montgomery, as showing the pendency of the suit in that court, respecting the right of property; as a term of the court had intervened, between the certification of the record and the time of using it in evidence. But the court overruled the objection, saying, the pendency of the suit was a matter of fact for the jury to determine; and that they might infer from the proof before them, that the suit was still pending; which presumption might be rebutted by the plaintiff in the execution, &c.
The statute of Alabama, under which this proceeding took place, was passed on the 24th of December 1812; and provides, that where any sheriff shall levy execution on property, claimed by any person not a party to such execution, such person may make oath to such property; on which the sale shall be postponed by the sheriff, until the next term of the court: and the court is required to make up an issue to try the right of property, &c., and the claimant is required to give bond, conditioned to pay the plaintiff all damages which the jury, on the trial of the right of property, may assess against him, &c.: and it is made the duty of the sheriff to return the property levied upon to the person out of whose possession it was taken, upon such person entering into bond, with security, to the plaintiff in execution, in double the amount of the debt and costs, conditioned for the delivery of the property to the sheriff, whenever the claim of the property so taken shall be determined by the court: and on failure to deliver the property, the bond, on being returned into the clerk's office, is to have the effect of a judgment.
The principal question in this case is, whether the slaves referred to were liable to be taken in execution, by the marshal, under the circumstances of the case.
Had the property remained in the possession of the sheriff, under the first levy, it is clear the marshal could not have taken it in execution; for the property could not be subject to two jurisdictions at the same time. The first levy, whether it were made under the federal or state authority, withdraws the property from the reach of the process of the other.
Under the state jurisdiction, a sheriff having execution in his hands, may levy on the same goods; and where there is no priority on the the sale of the goods, the proceeds should be applied in proportion to the sums named in the executions. And where a sheriff has made a levy, and afterwards receives executions against the same defendant, he may appropriate any surplus that shall remain, after satisfying the first levy, by the order of the court.
But the same rule does not govern where the executions, as in the present case, issue from different jurisdictions. The marshal may apply moneys, collected under several executions, the same as the sheriff. But this cannot be done as between the marshal and the sheriff.
A most injurious conflict of jurisdiction would be likely, often, to arise between the federal and the state courts; if the final process of the one could be levied on property which had been taken by the process of the other.
The marshal or the sheriff, as the case may be, by a levy, acquires a special property in the goods, and may maintain an action for them. But if the same goods may be taken in execution, at the same time by the marshal and the sheriff, does this special property vest in the one, or the other, or both of them?
No such case can exist: property once levied on, remains in the custody of the law, and it is not liable to be taken by another execution, in the hands of a different officer; and especially by an officer acting under a different jurisdiction.
But it is insisted in this case, that the bond is substituted for the property; and consequently that the property is released from the levy.
The law provides that the property shall be delivered into the possession of the claimant, on his giving bond and security in double the amount of the debt and costs, that he will return it to the sheriff, if it shall be found subject to the execution.
Is there no lien on property thus situated, either under the execution or the bond?
That this bond is not in the nature of a bond given to prosecute a writ of error, or on an appeal, is clear. The condition is, that the property shall be returned to the sheriff, if the right shall be adjudged against the claimant. Now it would seem that this bond cannot be considered as a substitute for the property, as the condition requires its return to the sheriff. The object of the legislature in requiring this bond, was to insure the safe keeping and faithful return of the property, to the sheriff, should its return be required. If, then, the property is required by the statute and the condition of the bond to be delivered to the sheriff on the contingency stated, can it be liable to be taken and sold on execution.
If the property be liable to execution, a levy must always produce a forfeiture of the condition of the bond. For a levy takes the property out of the possession of the claimant, and renders the performance of his bond impossible. Can a result so repugnant to equity and propriety as this, be sanctioned? Is the law so inconsistent as to authorize the means by which the discharge of a legal obligation is defeated, and at the same time exact a penalty for the failure. This would indeed be a reproach to the law and to justice. The mexim of the law is, that it injures no man, and can never produce injustice.
On the giving of the bond, the property is placed in the possession of the claimant. His custody is substituted for the custody of the sheriff. The property is not withdrawn from the custody of the law. In the hands of the claimant, under the bond for its delivery to the sheriff; the property is as free from the reach of other processes, as it would have been in the hands of the sheriff.
In Holt 643, and 1 Show. 174, it was resolved by Holt, chief justice, that goods being once seized and in custody of the law, they could not be seized again by the same or any other sheriff; nor can the sheriff take goods which have been distrained, pawned or gaged for debt; 4 Bac. Ab. 389; nor goods before seized on execution, unless the first execution was fraudulent, or the goods were not legally seized under it.
In Woodfall's Tenant's Law, 389, it is said: By the seizure under the execution, the goods were in the custody of the law, and were not, therefore, distrainable; for it is repugnant, ex vi termini, that it should be lawful to take the goods out of the custody of the law: and that cannot be a pledge which cannot be reduced into actual possession.
In 3 Mun. 417, the court decided that the lien, by virtue of a writ of fieri facias, upon the property of the debtor, is not released by his giving a forthcoming bond, but continues until such bond is forfeited.
In that case, the defendant's property having been levied on by an execution in the hands of the sheriff, was suffered to remain in his possession, on his giving a forthcoming bond for the delivery of the goods on the day of sale: but before the day of sale the defendant delivered the goods in satisfaction of another execution, and the question was made whether the forthcoming bond released the lien of the first execution.
In his opinion, Judge Roane draws the following distinctions between a forthcoming bond, and what is called a replevy bond, under the statute of Virginia. 1. A replevy bond under the act operated a release of the property. 2. Because the surety therein is to be approved by the creditor: a circumstance very material in a bond considered as a substitute for an execution, and wanting as to the sureties upon forthcoming bonds. 3. Because a replevy bond obtained the force of a judgment by the mere giving thereof; though its execution was suspended till the expiration of the three months, and did not owe its obligation, as a judgment, to the breach of the condition thereof, as is the case of forthcoming bonds.
The bond given by the claimant Lucas, bears a strong analogy to a forthcoming bond. By the latter, the goods were to be delivered to the sheriff on the day of sale: by the former, the goods were to be delivered to the sheriff, so soon as the right shall be determined against the claimant. In neither bond is the plaintiff in the execution consulted, as is done in a replevy bond, as to the sufficiency of the surety: nor do either of these bonds, like the replevy bond, operate as a judgment, until a breach of the condition. In fact, the bond under the Alabama statute is substantially a forthcoming bond.
In a late case, the supreme court of Alabama decided the same question which is made on this bond; on a bond given for the delivery of property under the attachment laws of that state. They decided that the giving of the bond did not release the goods from the lien of the attachment. A contrary decision had been given by the court in a case similar; but on further examination and more mature reflection, two of the three judges made the above decision. This adjudication being made on the construction of a statutory proceeding,and by the supreme court of the state, forms a rule for the decision of this court.
We think, that part of the charge to the jury by the district court which respected the pendency of the suit in the state court, and which was excepted to, was substantially correct: and we are of opinion, that on principle and authority, and also under the construction given to the statute by the supreme court of the state; the judgment of the district court must be affirmed.
This cause came on to be heard on the transcript of the record from the district court of the United States for the southern district of Alabama, and was argued by counsel; on consideration whereof, it is adjudged and ordered by this court, that the judgment of the said district court in this cause be, and the same is hereby affirmed, with costs.
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John Newton and William Cowper
The Olney Hymns were first published in February 1779 and are the combined work of curate John Newton and his poet friend, William Cowper. The hymns were written for use in Newton's rural parish, which was made up of relatively poor and uneducated followers. The Olney Hymns are an illustration of the potent ideologies of the Evangelical movement, to which both men belonged, present in many communities in England at the time.
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Olney HymnsJohn Newton and William Cowper
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Olney Hymns (1779), original edition
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This work was published before January 1, 1924, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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the manifold, diversified, imperfect world originated from the One, Unchangeable, and Perfect Being. They exaggerated the Platonic doctrine of matter to the point of maintaining that all evil, moral as well as physical, originates from a material source. At the same time, they ascribed to the spiritualized Ideas which they called Saliioves (spirits) all actuality, intel- ligence, and force in the whole universe. These intelli- gences were derived, they said, from the One by a process of emanation, which is akin to the "streaming forth" of light from the illuminating body. This sys- tem of metaphysics teaches, therefore, that the One, and intelligences derived from the One, are the only positive principles, while matter is the only negative principle of things. This is the system which was most widely accepted in pagan circles during the first cen- turies of the Christian era.
(3) Early Christian Philosophy. — ^The first heretics among the Christian thinkers were influenced in their philosophy by Neo-Platonism. For the most part, they adopted the Gnostic view (see Gno.sticism) that in the last appeal, the test of Christian truth is not the official teaching of the Church or the exoteric doctrine of the gospels, but a secret gnosis, a body of doctrine imparted by Christ to the chosen few. This body of doctrine was in reality a modified Neo-Platonism. Its most sahent point was the theory that evil is not a creation of God but the work of the devil. The prob- lem of evil thus came to occupy an important place in the philosophical systems of orthodox Christian think- ers down to the time of St. Augustine. Other prob- lems, too, claimed special attention, notably the question of the origin of the universe. From the theological controversies concerning the mysteries of the Trinity and the Incarnation, arose the discussion of the meaning of nature, substance, and person. From all these sources sprang the Christian Neo-Platonism of the great Alexandrian School, which included Clement and Origen, and the later phase of Christian Platonism exemplified by St. Augustine. In the phi- losophy of St. Augustine we have the greatest con- structive efi'ort of the Christian mind during the Patristic Era. It is a philosophy which centres in the problems arising from the nature of God, and the nature and destiny of the human soul. The most crucial of these problems is that of the existence of evil. How can evil exist in a world created and governed by a God, Who is at once supremely good and all-power- ful? Rejecting the Manichean theory that evil has an origin distinct from God, St. Augustine devotes all his efforts to showing, from the nature of evil, that it does not demand a direct efficient act on the part of God, but only a permissive act, and that this toleration of evil is justified by the gradation of beings which re- sults from the existence of imperfection, and which is essential to the harmony and variety of the universe in general. Another question which attains a good deal of prominence in St. Augustine's metaphysics is that of the origin of the world. All things, he teaches, were created at the beginning, material creatures as well as angels, and the subsequent appearance of plants, ani- mals, and men in a chronological series is merely the development in time of those "seeds of things" wliich were implanted in the material world at the beginning. However, St. Augustine is careful to make an excep- tion in the case of the individual human soul. He avoids the doctrine of pre-existence which Origen had taught, and maintains that the individual soul origi- nates at the same time as the body, although he is not prepared to decide definitively whether it originates by a distinct creative act or is derived from the souls of the child's parents (see Traduciamsm).
(4) Medirral Philosophy. — The first scholastic phil- osophers devoteil their attention to the discussion of logical problems arising out of the interpretation of the texts which were studied in the schools, such as Porphyry's " Isagoge ", and Boethius's translation of
portions of Aristotle's "Organon". From these dis- cussions they passed to problems of psychology, but it was not until the end of the twelfth century, when Aristotle's metaphysical treatise and his works on psychology became accessible in Latin, that scholastic metaphysics rose to the dignity and proportions of a system. By way of exception, John the Scot (see Eriugena), as early as the first half of the ninth century, developed a highly wrought system of meta- physical speculation characterized by idealism, pan- theism, and Neo-Platonic mysticism. In the eleventh century the school of Chartres, under the influence of Platonism, discussed in a metaphysical spirit the prob- lems of the nature of reahty and the origin of the universe.
The philosophy of the thirteenth century, repre- sented by Alexander of Hales, St. Bonaventure, Roger Bacon, Albert the Great, St. Thomas, and Duns Scotus, accorded to metaphysics its place as the science which completes and crowns the efforts of the mind to attain a knowledge of things human and di- vine. It acknowledged the importance of the relation which metaphysics bears, on the one hand, to the other portions of philosophy, anfl, on the other hand, to the science of theology. Fundamentally Aristote- lean in its conception of method and scope, the meta- physics of the golden age of scholasticism departed from Aristotle's teaching only to supply the defects and correct the faults which it detected in Aristotle's philosophy. Thus, it worked out on Aristotelean lines the problems of person and nature, substance and ac- cident, cause and effect; it took up and carried to higher systematic development St. Augustine's recon- ciliation of evil with the goodness of God; it elabo- rated in detail the question of the nature of matter and the origin of the universe by (!od's creative act. At the same time, the metaphysics of the schools was obliged to face new problems which were thrust on the attention of the schoolmen by the exegetical and edu- cational activity of the Arabians. Thus, it drew the line of distinction between Theism and Pantheism, dis- cussed the question of fatalism and free will, and re- jected the Arabian interpretation of Aristotle which jeopardized the doctrine of personal immortality. Towards the end of the scholastic period the appear- ance of the anti-metaphysical nominalism of Ockham, Durandus, and others had the effect of driving some of the later schoolmen to adopt an extreme a priorism in philosophy, which more than any other single cause contributed to bring about the antagonism between metaphysics and natural science, which marks the era of scientific discovery. This condition, though wide- spread, was not, however, universal. Men like Suarez and other great commentators continued down to the seventeenth century to present in their metaphysical treatises the best traditions of the scholasticism of the thirteenth century.
(5) Modern Philosophy. — At the beginning of the modern era we find a divergence of opinion concerning the scope and value of metaphysical speculation. On the one hand, Bacon, while himself retaining the name metaphysics to designate the science of the essential properties of bodies, is opposed to the metaphysical philosophy of the scholastics, and chiefly because that philosophy gave too much prominence to final causes and the study of the mind. On the other hand, Des- cartes, while declaring that " philosophy is a tree, which has metaphysics for its root", understands that the science of metaphysics is based exclusively on the data of the subjective consciousness. Spinoza ac- cepts this restriction, implicitly at least, although his explicit aim in philosophy is ethical, namely to pre- sent that view of reality which will lead to the deliver- ance of the soul from bondage. Leibniz takes a more objective view. He tries to adojit a definition of real- ity which will reconcile the idealism of Plato with the results of scientific re.searcb) and he aims at harmoniz.
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Asner in 1985
Yitzhak Edward Asner[1]
(1929-11-15) November 15, 1929 (age 89)
Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Wyandotte High School
Actor, voice actor
Nancy Sykes
Cindy Gilmore
21st President of the Screen Actors Guild
November 3, 1981 – June 20, 1985
William Schallert
Yitzhak Edward Asner[1] (/ˈæsnər/; born November 15, 1929) is an American actor, voice actor and a former president of the Screen Actors Guild. He is primarily known for his role as Lou Grant during the 1970s and early 1980s, on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series Lou Grant, making him one of the few television actors to portray the same leading character in both a comedy and a drama. He played John Wayne's adversary Bart Jason in the 1966 Western El Dorado. He is the most honored male performer in the history of the Primetime Emmy Awards, having won seven.[2]
He has played Santa Claus in several films, notably in 2003's Elf.[3] In 2009, he starred as the voice of Carl Fredricksen in Pixar's animated film Up, and made a guest appearance on CSI: NY in the episode "Yahrzeit". In early 2011, Asner returned to television as butcher Hank Greziak in Working Class, the first original sitcom on cable channel CMT. He starred in the Canadian television series Michael, Tuesdays and Thursdays, on CBC Television and has appeared in the 2013 television series The Glades. Asner guest-starred as Guy Redmayne, a homophobic billionaire who supports Alicia Florrick's campaign, in the sixth season of The Good Wife.
1 Early life and education
3 Activism
3.1 Political views
3.2 Charity work
3.3 September 11 attacks
3.4 Opposition to SAG–AFTRA merger
Early life and education[edit]
Asner was born on November 15, 1929, in Kansas City, Missouri and grew up in Kansas City, Kansas.[4][5] His Jewish Russian-born parents, Lizzie (née Seliger), a housewife, and Morris David Asner,[6][7] ran a second-hand shop and junkyard.[4] He was raised in an Orthodox Jewish family.[1][8]
Asner attended Wyandotte High School in Kansas City, Kansas, and the University of Chicago. He worked on the assembly line for General Motors.[9] Asner served with the U.S. Army Signal Corps and appeared in plays that toured Army camps in Europe.[10]
Career[edit]
Cast of The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970 – Asner is center back.
Following his military service, Asner joined the Playwrights Theatre Company in Chicago, but left for New York City before members of that company regrouped as the Compass Players in the mid-1950s. He later made guest appearances with the successor to Compass, The Second City, and is considered part of The Second City extended family.[citation needed] In New York City, Asner played Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum in the Off-Broadway revival of Threepenny Opera, scored his first Broadway role in Face of a Hero alongside Jack Lemmon in 1960, and began to make inroads as a television actor, having made his TV debut in 1957 on Studio One.[2] In two notable performances on television, Asner played Detective Sgt. Thomas Siroleo in the 1963 episode of The Outer Limits titled "It Crawled Out of the Woodwork" and the reprehensible ex-premier Brynov in the 1965 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episode "The Exile." He made his film debut in 1962, in the Elvis Presley vehicle Kid Galahad.[2]
Before he landed his role with Mary Tyler Moore, Asner guest-starred in television series including the syndicated crime drama Decoy, starring Beverly Garland, and the NBC western series The Outlaws and Route 66 in 1962 (the episode titled "Welcome to the Wedding") as Custody Officer Lincoln Peers. He was cast on Jack Lord's ABC drama series Stoney Burke and in the series finale of CBS's The Reporter, starring Harry Guardino. He also appeared on Mr. Novak, Mission: Impossible, The Outer Limits and The Invaders. Asner also played a minor character in children's television show W.I.T.C.H. (Napoleon – Cornelia's younger sister's cat).[11]
Asner is best known for his character Lou Grant, who was first introduced on The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970. In 1977, after the series, Asner's character was given his own show, Lou Grant (1977–82). In contrast to the Mary Tyler Moore series, a thirty-minute award-winning comedy about television journalism, the Lou Grant series was an hour-long award-winning drama about newspaper journalism. (For his role as Grant, Asner is one of only two actors to win an Emmy Award for a sitcom and a drama for the same role, with the second being Uzo Aduba.) In addition he made appearances as Lou Grant on two other shows: Rhoda and Roseanne.[12] Other television series starring Asner in regular roles include Thunder Alley, The Bronx Zoo and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. He also starred in one episode of the western series Dead Man's Gun (1997), as well as portraying art smuggler August March in an episode of the original Hawaii Five-O (1975) and reprised the role in the Hawaii Five-0 (2012) remake. He also appeared as a veteran streetwise officer in an episode of the 1973 version of Police Story.
Asner was acclaimed for his role in the ABC miniseries Roots, as Captain Davies, the morally conflicted captain of the Lord Ligonier, the slave ship that brought Kunta Kinte to America. The role earned Asner an Emmy Award, as did the similarly dark role of Axel Jordache in the miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man (1976). In contrast, he played a former pontiff in the lead role of Papa Giovanni: Ioannes XXIII (Pope John XXIII 2002), an Italian television film for RAI.
Asner has also had an extensive voice acting career. In 1987, he played the eponymous character, George F. Babbitt, in the L.A. Classic Theatre Works' radio theatre production of Sinclair Lewis's novel, Babbitt. He also provided the voices for Joshua on Joshua and the Battle of Jericho (1986) for Hanna-Barbera, J. Jonah Jameson on the 1990s animated television series Spider-Man (1994–98); Hoggish Greedly on Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990–95); Hudson on Gargoyles (1994–96); Jabba the Hutt on the radio version of Star Wars; Master Vrook from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and its sequel; Roland Daggett on Batman: The Animated Series (1992–94); Cosgrove on Freakazoid!; Ed Wuncler on The Boondocks (2005–14); and Granny Goodness in various DC Comics animated series. Asner provided the voice of famed American orator Edward Everett in the 2017 documentary film The Gettysburg Address.
Asner provided the voice of Carl Fredricksen in the Academy Award-winning Pixar film Up (2009). He received great critical praise for the role, with one critic going so far as to suggest "They should create a new category for this year's Academy Award for Best Vocal Acting in an Animated Film and name Asner as the first recipient."[13]
He appeared in the mid- to late-2000s decade in a recurring segment on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, entitled "Does This Impress Ed Asner?"[14][15]
He was cast in a Country Music Television comedy pilot, Regular Joe.[16]
In 2001, Asner was the recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.[17]
Asner has won more Emmy Awards for performing than any other male actor (seven, including five for the role of Lou Grant). In 1996, he was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame.[18][19]
In July 2010, Asner completed recording sessions for Shattered Hopes: The True Story of the Amityville Murders; a documentary on the 1974 DeFeo murders in Amityville, New York. Asner served as the narrator for the film, which covers a forensic analysis of the murders, the trial in which 23-year-old DeFeo son Ronald DeFeo Jr., was convicted of the killings, and the subsequent "haunting" story which is revealed to be a hoax.[20] Also in 2010, Asner played the title role in FDR, a stage production about the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt;[21] he has subsequently continued to tour the play throughout the country. In January 2011, Asner took a supporting role on CMT's first original sitcom Working Class. He made an appearance in the independent comedy feature Not Another B Movie, and had a small but pivotal[according to whom?] role as billionaire Warren Buffett in HBO's economic drama Too Big to Fail (2011).
Asner has also provided voice-over narration for many documentaries and films of social activism, including Tiger by the Tail, a documentary film detailing the efforts of the Campaign to Keep GM Van Nuys Open and the chair of the organization, Eric Mann, to keep General Motors' Van Nuys Assembly plant running.[22] He has also recorded for a public radio show and podcast, Playing On Air, appearing in Warren Leight's The Final Interrogation of Ceaucescu's Dog with Jesse Eisenberg, and Mike Reiss's New York Story.[23][24] Asner was the voice-over narrator for the 2016 documentary Behind the Fear: The Hidden Story of HIV, directed by Nicole Zwiren, a controversial study on the AIDS debate.[25]
In 2018, Asner was cast in the Netflix dark comedy, Dead to Me, which premiered on May 3, 2019. The series also stars Christina Applegate, Linda Cardellini and James Marsden.
Activism[edit]
Political views[edit]
Asner served two terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild, in which capacity during the 1980s he opposed US policy in Central America, working closely with the Alliance for Survival. He played a prominent role in the 1980 SAG strike.[26] He has also been active in a variety of other causes, such as the movement to free Mumia Abu-Jamal and the movement to establish California One Care, single-payer health care in California, for which he created a television advertisement. He endorsed Barack Obama during the 2008 United States presidential election. He was formerly a member of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC)[27] and is a member of DSOC's successor, the Democratic Socialists of America.[2]
The sudden cancellation of Lou Grant in 1982 was the subject of much controversy. The show had high ratings—the level of which should have justified its ongoing presence in primetime (it was in the ACNielsen top ten throughout its final month on the air). However, the CBS television network declined to renew it. It has been Asner's consistent position that his left-wing political views, as well as the publicity surrounding them, were the actual root causes for the show's cancellation.[26]
Asner endorsed Democratic candidate Marcy Winograd in the 2011 California 36th Congressional district special election.[28]
From 2011 to 2015, Asner worked with filmmaker Nicole Zwiren on the feature-length documentary Behind the Fear which promotes HIV/AIDS denialism. The film was released in 2016 with Asner as the narrator.[29][30]
Asner co-moderated a United States presidential debate for alternative candidates on October 25, 2016, at the University of Colorado at Boulder along with Christina Tobin.[31]
Charity work[edit]
Asner is on the Entertainment Board of Directors for The Survivor Mitzvah Project,[32] a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing direct emergency aid to elderly and impoverished Holocaust survivors in Eastern Europe.
Asner is a member of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, a free speech organization that is dedicated to protecting comic book creators and retailers from prosecutions based on content. He serves as an advisor to the Rosenberg Fund for Children, an organization founded by the children of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, which provides benefits for the children of political activists, and as a board member for the wildlife conservation organization Defenders of Wildlife. Asner also sits on the advisory board for Exceptional Minds, a non-profit school and a computer animation studio for young adults on the autism spectrum.[33]
Asner is also a member of the Honorary Board of Directors for the homeless respite service center Fresh Start WC in Walnut Creek, California.[citation needed]
Asner is a supporter of Humane Borders, an organization based in Tucson, Arizona, which maintains water stations in the Sonoran desert for use by undocumented migrants, with the goal of preventing deaths by dehydration and exposure. He was the master of ceremonies at that organization's volunteer dinner in fall 2017.[34]
September 11 attacks[edit]
Asner signed a statement released by the organization 9/11 Truth in 2004 that calls for a new investigation into the September 11 attacks.[35] A brief summary of the reasons for his position appears in a video available on YouTube.[36] Asner confirmed his support for the statement in 2009.[37] Asner also narrated the documentary film The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror.[38]
Asner served as the spokesman for 2004 Racism Watch. In April 2004, he wrote an open letter to "peace and justice leaders" encouraging them to demand "full 9-11 truth" through the organization 9-11 Visibility Project.[39] In 2011, Asner hosted the Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth documentary on the collapse of 7 World Trade Center that concludes that the building was taken down by controlled demolition.[40]
Opposition to SAG–AFTRA merger[edit]
Asner at the 2012 Phoenix Comicon
On March 30, 2012, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) completed a merger of equals, forming a new union SAG-AFTRA. Asner was adamantly opposed to such a merger, arguing that the planned merger would destroy the SAG's health plan and disempower actors.[41] Asner and a group of fellow actors and voice-actors, including Martin Sheen and Ed Harris, filed (but later dropped) a lawsuit against SAG president Ken Howard and several SAG vice presidents, seeking to have the merger overturned, and the two unions separated to their pre-merger organizations.[42] The lawsuit was formally dismissed on May 22, 2012.
Asner was married to Nancy Sykes from 1959 to 1988. They have three children: twins Matthew and Liza, and Kate. In 1987, he had a son named Charles with Carol Jean Vogelman.[43][44] Asner is a parent and a grandparent of a child with autism and is deeply involved with the autism nonprofit Autism Speaks.[45] He has also served as a board member and adviser for Aspiritech, a non-profit firm that trains high-functioning autistic persons to test software.[46][47]
Asner became engaged to producer Cindy Gilmore in 1991. They married on August 2, 1998. Gilmore filed for legal separation on November 7, 2007.[48] Asner filed for divorce in 2015.[49]
Main article: Ed Asner filmography
List of awards and nominations received by Ed Asner
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Carl Reiner (1957)
Tom Poston (1959)
Don Knotts (1961)
Werner Klemperer (1968)
Michael Constantine (1970)
Ted Knight (1973)
Rob Reiner (1974)
Gary Burghoff (1977)
Robert Guillaume (1979)
Harry Morgan (1980)
Danny DeVito (1981)
Pat Harrington Jr. (1984)
John Larroquette (1985)
Woody Harrelson (1989)
Alex Rocco (1990)
Jonathan Winters (1991)
Michael Jeter (1992)
Michael Richards (1993)
David Hyde Pierce (1995)
Rip Torn (1996)
Sean Hayes (2000)
Peter MacNicol (2001)
Brad Garrett (2002)
Jeremy Piven (2006)
Jon Cryer (2009)
Eric Stonestreet (2010)
Ty Burrell (2011)
Tony Hale (2013)
Louie Anderson (2016)
Alec Baldwin (2017)
Henry Winkler (2018)
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
James Brolin (1970)
McLean Stevenson (1973)
Harvey Korman (1974)
Edward Asner/Tim Conway (1975)
Norman Fell (1978)
Danny DeVito/Vic Tayback (1979)
Pat Harrington Jr./Vic Tayback (1980)
John Hillerman (1981)
Lionel Stander (1982)
Paul Le Mat (1984)
Edward James Olmos (1985)
Jan Niklas (1986)
Rutger Hauer (1987)
Barry Bostwick/John Gielgud (1988)
Dean Stockwell (1989)
Charles Durning (1990)
Louis Gossett, Jr. (1991)
Donald Sutherland (1995)
Ian McKellen (1996)
Don Cheadle/Gregory Peck (1998)
Jeffrey Wright (2003)
William Shatner (2004)
Tom Wilkinson (2008)
John Lithgow (2009)
Chris Colfer (2010)
Peter Dinklage (2011)
Ed Harris (2012)
Matt Bomer (2014)
Christian Slater (2015)
Alexander Skarsgård (2017)
Ben Whishaw (2018)
Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award
1962: Eddie Cantor
1963: Stan Laurel
1965: Bob Hope
1966: Barbara Stanwyck
1967: William Gargan
1968: James Stewart
1969: Edward G. Robinson
1970: Gregory Peck
1971: Charlton Heston
1972: Frank Sinatra
1973: Martha Raye
1974: Walter Pidgeon
1975: Rosalind Russell
1976: Pearl Bailey
1977: James Cagney
1978: Edgar Bergen
1979: Katharine Hepburn
1980: Leon Ames
1982: Danny Kaye
1983: Ralph Bellamy
1984: Iggie Wolfington
1985: Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
1986: Nanette Fabray
1987: Red Skelton
1988: Gene Kelly
1989: Jack Lemmon
1990: Brock Peters
1991: Burt Lancaster
1992: Audrey Hepburn
1993: Ricardo Montalbán
1994: George Burns
1995: Robert Redford
1996: Angela Lansbury
1997: Elizabeth Taylor
1998: Kirk Douglas
1999: Sidney Poitier
2000: Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee
2001: Ed Asner
2002: Clint Eastwood
2003: Karl Malden
2004: James Garner
2005: Shirley Temple
2006: Julie Andrews
2007: Charles Durning
2008: James Earl Jones
2009: Betty White
2010: Ernest Borgnine
2011: Mary Tyler Moore
2012: Dick Van Dyke
2013: Rita Moreno
2014: Debbie Reynolds
2015: Carol Burnett
2016: Lily Tomlin
2017: Morgan Freeman
2018: Alan Alda
Television Hall of Fame Class of 1996
Steven Bochco
Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner
Charles Kuralt
Lew Wasserman
Presidents of the Screen Actors Guild and SAG-AFTRA
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Eddie Cantor (1933)
Robert Montgomery (1935)
Edward Arnold (1940)
George Murphy (1944)
Ronald Reagan (1947)
Walter Pidgeon (1952)
Leon Ames (1957)
Howard Keel (1958)
George Chandler (1960)
Dana Andrews (1963)
John Gavin (1971)
Dennis Weaver (1973)
Kathleen Nolan (1975)
William Schallert (1979)
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Richard Masur (1995)
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This article is about neural pathways of the peripheral nervous system. For other uses, see Nerve (disambiguation).
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A nerve is an enclosed, cable-like bundle of nerve fibres called axons, in the peripheral nervous system. A nerve provides a common pathway for the electrochemical nerve impulses called action potentials that are transmitted along each of the axons to peripheral organs or, in the case of sensory nerves, from the periphery back to the central nervous system. Each axon within the nerve is an extension of an individual neuron, along with other supportive cells such as Schwann cells that coat the axons in myelin.
Within a nerve, each axon is surrounded by a layer of connective tissue called the endoneurium. The axons are bundled together into groups called fascicles, and each fascicle is wrapped in a layer of connective tissue called the perineurium. Finally, the entire nerve is wrapped in a layer of connective tissue called the epineurium.
In the central nervous system, the analogous structures are known as tracts.[1][2]
1.1 Categories
1.2 Terminology
2.1 Regeneration
3.1 Nervous system
4 Clinical significance
5 Other animals
Structure[edit]
Cross-section of a nerve
Each nerve is covered on the outside by a dense sheath of connective tissue, the epineurium. Beneath this is a layer of flat cells, the perineurium, which forms a complete sleeve around a bundle of axons. Perineurial septae extend into the nerve and subdivide it into several bundles of fibres. Surrounding each such fibre is the endoneurium. This forms an unbroken tube from the surface of the spinal cord to the level where the axon synapses with its muscle fibres, or ends in sensory receptors. The endoneurium consists of an inner sleeve of material called the glycocalyx and an outer, delicate, meshwork of collagen fibres.[2] Nerves are bundled and often travel along with blood vessels, since the neurons of a nerve have fairly high energy requirements.
Within the endoneurium, the individual nerve fibres are surrounded by a low-protein liquid called endoneurial fluid. This acts in a similar way to the cerebrospinal fluid in the central nervous system and constitutes a blood-nerve barrier similar to the blood-brain barrier.[3] Molecules are thereby prevented from crossing the blood into the endoneurial fluid. During the development of nerve edema from nerve irritation (or injury), the amount of endoneurial fluid may increase at the site of irritation. This increase in fluid can be visualized using magnetic resonance neurography, and thus MR neurography can identify nerve irritation and/or injury.
Categories[edit]
Nerves are categorized into three groups based on the direction that signals are conducted:
Afferent nerves conduct signals from sensory neurons to the central nervous system, for example from the mechanoreceptors in skin.
Efferent nerves conduct signals from the central nervous system along motor neurons to their target muscles and glands.
Mixed nerves contain both afferent and efferent axons, and thus conduct both incoming sensory information and outgoing muscle commands in the same bundle.
Nerves can be categorized into two groups based on where they connect to the central nervous system:
Spinal nerves innervate (distribute to/stimulate) much of the body, and connect through the vertebral column to the spinal cord and thus to the central nervous system. They are given letter-number designations according to the vertebra through which they connect to the spinal column.
Cranial nerves innervate parts of the head, and connect directly to the brain (especially to the brainstem). They are typically assigned Roman numerals from 1 to 12, although cranial nerve zero is sometimes included. In addition, cranial nerves have descriptive names.
Terminology[edit]
Main article: Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy
Specific terms are used to describe nerves and their actions. A nerve that supplies information to the brain from an area of the body, or controls an action of the body is said to "innervate" that section of the body or organ. Other terms relate to whether the nerve affects the same side ("ipsilateral") or opposite side ("contralateral") of the body, to the part of the brain that supplies it.
Development[edit]
Nerve growth normally ends in adolescence, but can be re-stimulated with a molecular mechanism known as "Notch signaling".[4]
Regeneration[edit]
If the axons of a neuron are damaged, as long as the cell body of the neuron is not damaged, the axons would regenerate and remake the synaptic connections with neurons with the help of guidepost cells. This is also referred to as neuroregeneration.[5]
The nerve begins the process by destroying the nerve distal to the site of injury allowing Schwann cells, basal lamina, and the neurilemma near the injury to begin producing a regeneration tube. Nerve growth factors are produced causing many nerve sprouts to bud. When one of the growth processes finds the regeneration tube, it begins to grow rapidly towards its original destination guided the entire time by the regeneration tube. Nerve regeneration is very slow and can take up to several months to complete. While this process does repair some nerves, there will still be some functional deficit as the repairs are not perfect.[6]
Function[edit]
A nerve conveys information in the form of electrochemical impulses (as nerve impulses known as action potentials) carried by the individual neurons that make up the nerve. These impulses are extremely fast, with some myelinated neurons conducting at speeds up to 120 m/s. The impulses travel from one neuron to another by crossing a synapse, the message is converted from electrical to chemical and then back to electrical.[2][7]
Nerves can be categorized into two groups based on function:
An afferent nerve fiber conducts sensory information from a sensory neuron to the central nervous system, where the information is then processed. Bundles of fibres or axons, in the peripheral nervous system are called nerves, and bundles of afferent fibers are known as sensory nerves.[1][2]
An efferent nerve fiber conducts signals from a motor neuron in the central nervous system to muscles. Bundles of these fibres are known as efferent nerves.
Nervous system[edit]
Main article: Nervous system
The nervous system is the part of an animal that coordinates its actions by transmitting signals to and from different parts of its body.[8] In vertebrates it consists of two main parts, the central nervous system (CNS) and the peripheral nervous system (PNS). The CNS consists of the brain and spinal cord. The PNS consists mainly of nerves, which are enclosed bundles of the long fibers or axons, that connect the CNS to every other part of the body.
Nerves that transmit signals from the brain are called motor or efferent nerves, while those nerves that transmit information from the body to the CNS are called sensory or afferent. Spinal nerves serve both functions and are called mixed nerves. The PNS is divided into three separate subsystems, the somatic, autonomic, and enteric nervous systems. Somatic nerves mediate voluntary movement.
The autonomic nervous system is further subdivided into the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nervous systems. The sympathetic nervous system is activated in cases of emergencies to mobilize energy, while the parasympathetic nervous system is activated when organisms are in a relaxed state. The enteric nervous system functions to control the gastrointestinal system. Both autonomic and enteric nervous systems function involuntarily. Nerves that exit from the cranium are called cranial nerves while those exiting from the spinal cord are called spinal nerves.
Clinical significance[edit]
Micrograph demonstrating perineural invasion of prostate cancer. H&E stain.
Cancer can spread by invading the spaces around nerves. This is particularly common in head and neck cancer, and prostate and colorectal cancer.
Nerves can be damaged by physical injury as well conditions like carpal tunnel syndrome and repetitive strain injury. Autoimmune diseases such as Guillain–Barré syndrome, neurodegenerative diseases, polyneuropathy, infection, neuritis, diabetes, or failure of the blood vessels surrounding the nerve all cause nerve damage, which can vary in severity.
Multiple sclerosis is a disease associated with extensive nerve damage. It occurs when the macrophages of an individual's own immune system damage the myelin sheaths that insulate the axon of the nerve.
A pinched nerve occurs when pressure is placed on a nerve, usually from swelling due to an injury, or pregnancy and can result in pain, weakness, numbness or paralysis, an example being carpal tunnel syndrome. Symptoms can be felt in areas far from the actual site of damage, a phenomenon called referred pain. Referred pain can happen when the damage causes altered signalling to other areas.
Neurologists usually diagnose disorders of the nerves by a physical examination, including the testing of reflexes, walking and other directed movements, muscle weakness, proprioception, and the sense of touch. This initial exam can be followed with tests such as nerve conduction study, electromyography (EMG), and computed tomography (CT).[9]
Other animals[edit]
A neuron is called identified if it has properties that distinguish it from every other neuron in the same animal—properties such as location, neurotransmitter, gene expression pattern, and connectivity—and if every individual organism belonging to the same species has exactly one neuron with the same set of properties.[10] In vertebrate nervous systems, very few neurons are "identified" in this sense. Researchers believe humans have none—but in simpler nervous systems, some or all neurons may be thus unique.[11]
In vertebrates, the best known identified neurons are the gigantic Mauthner cells of fish.[12] Every fish has two Mauthner cells, located in the bottom part of the brainstem, one on the left side and one on the right. Each Mauthner cell has an axon that crosses over, innervating (stimulating) neurons at the same brain level and then travelling down through the spinal cord, making numerous connections as it goes. The synapses generated by a Mauthner cell are so powerful that a single action potential gives rise to a major behavioral response: within milliseconds the fish curves its body into a C-shape, then straightens, thereby propelling itself rapidly forward. Functionally this is a fast escape response, triggered most easily by a strong sound wave or pressure wave impinging on the lateral line organ of the fish. Mauthner cells are not the only identified neurons in fish—there are about 20 more types, including pairs of "Mauthner cell analogs" in each spinal segmental nucleus. Although a Mauthner cell is capable of bringing about an escape response all by itself, in the context of ordinary behavior other types of cells usually contribute to shaping the amplitude and direction of the response.
Mauthner cells have been described as command neurons. A command neuron is a special type of identified neuron, defined as a neuron that is capable of driving a specific behavior all by itself.[13] Such neurons appear most commonly in the fast escape systems of various species—the squid giant axon and squid giant synapse, used for pioneering experiments in neurophysiology because of their enormous size, both participate in the fast escape circuit of the squid. The concept of a command neuron has, however, become controversial, because of studies showing that some neurons that initially appeared to fit the description were really only capable of evoking a response in a limited set of circumstances.[14]
In organisms of radial symmetry nerve nets serve for the nervous system. There is no brain or centralised head region, and instead there are interconnected neurons spread out in nerve nets. These are found in Cnidaria, Ctenophora and Echinodermata.
Further information: History of neurology and neurosurgery
Herophilos 335–280 BCE, described the optic nerve and the oculomotor nerve for sight and eye movement. Analysis of the nerves in the cranium allowed him to differentiate between blood vessels and nerves i.e. Ancient Greek: νεῦρον (neûron), “string (plant fiber), nerve”.
Connective tissue in the peripheral nervous system
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Quantitative trait locus
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DNA locus associated with variation in a quantitative trait
A quantitative trait locus (QTL) is a locus (section of DNA) which correlates with variation of a quantitative trait in the phenotype of a population of organisms.[1] QTLs are mapped by identifying which molecular markers (such as SNPs or AFLPs) correlate with an observed trait. This is often an early step in identifying and sequencing the actual genes that cause the trait variation.
3 Quantitative traits
3.1 Multifactorial traits in general
3.2 Heritable disease and multifactorial inheritance
4 QTL mapping
4.1 Analysis of variance
4.2 Interval mapping
4.3 Composite interval mapping (CIM)
4.4 Family-pedigree based mapping
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A quantitative trait locus (QTL) is a region of DNA which is associated with a particular phenotypic trait, which varies in degree and which can be attributed to polygenic effects, i.e., the product of two or more genes, and their environment.[2] These QTLs are often found on different chromosomes. The number of QTLs which explain variation in the phenotypic trait indicates the genetic architecture of a trait. It may indicate that plant height is controlled by many genes of small effect, or by a few genes of large effect.
Typically, QTLs underlie continuous traits (those traits which vary continuously, e.g. height) as opposed to discrete traits (traits that have two or several character values, e.g. red hair in humans, a recessive trait, or smooth vs. wrinkled peas used by Mendel in his experiments).
Moreover, a single phenotypic trait is usually determined by many genes. Consequently, many QTLs are associated with a single trait. Another use of QTLs is to identify candidate genes underlying a trait. Once a region of DNA is identified as contributing to a phenotype, it can be sequenced. The DNA sequence of any genes in this region can then be compared to a database of DNA for genes whose function is already known.[3]
Mendelian inheritance was rediscovered at the beginning of the 20th century. As Mendel's ideas spread, geneticists began to connect Mendel's rules of inheritance of single factors to Darwinian evolution. For early geneticists, it was not immediately clear that the smooth variation in traits like body size (i.e., Incomplete Dominance) was caused by the inheritance of single genetic factors. Although Darwin himself observed that inbred features of fancy pigeons were inherited in accordance with Mendel's laws (although Darwin didn't actually know about Mendel's ideas when he made the observation), it was not obvious that these features selected by fancy pigeon breeders can similarly explain quantitative variation in nature.[4]
An early attempt by William Ernest Castle to unify the laws of Mendelian inheritance with Darwin's theory of speciation invoked the idea that species become distinct from one another as one species or the other acquires a novel Mendelian factor.[5] Castle's conclusion was based on the observation that novel traits that could be studied in the lab and that show Mendelian inheritance patterns reflect a large deviation from the wild type, and Castle believed that acquisition of such features is the basis of "discontinuous variation" that characterizes speciation.[5] Darwin discussed the inheritance of similar mutant features but did not invoke them as a requirement of speciation.[4] Instead Darwin used the emergence of such features in breeding populations as evidence that mutation can occur at random within breeding populations, which is a central premise of his model of selection in nature.[4] Later in his career, Castle would refine his model for speciation to allow for small variation to contribute to speciation over time. He also was able to demonstrate this point by selectively breeding laboratory populations of rats to obtain a hooded phenotype over several generations.[6]
Castle's was perhaps the first attempt made in the scientific literature to direct evolution by artificial selection of a trait with continuous underlying variation, however the practice had previously been widely employed in the development of agriculture to obtain livestock or plants with favorable features from populations that show quantitative variation in traits like body size or grain yield.
Castle's work was among the first to attempt to unify the recently rediscovered laws of Mendelian inheritance with Darwin's theory of evolution. Still, it would be almost thirty years until the theoretical framework for evolution of complex traits would be widely formalized.[7] In an early summary of the theory of evolution of continuous variation, Sewall Wright, a graduate student who trained under Castle, summarized contemporary thinking about the genetic basis of quantitative natural variation: "As genetic studies continued, ever smaller differences were found to mendelize, and any character, sufficiently investigated, turned out to be affected by many factors."[7] Wright and others formalized population genetics theory that had been worked out over the preceding 30 years explaining how such traits can be inherited and create stably breeding populations with unique characteristics. Quantitative trait genetics today leverages Wright's observations about the statistical relationship between genotype and phenotype in families and populations to understand how certain genetic features can affect variation in natural and derived populations.
Quantitative traits[edit]
Polygenic inheritance refers to inheritance of a phenotypic characteristic (trait) that is attributable to two or more genes and can be measured quantitatively. Multifactorial inheritance refers to polygenic inheritance that also includes interactions with the environment. Unlike monogenic traits, polygenic traits do not follow patterns of Mendelian inheritance (discrete categories). Instead, their phenotypes typically vary along a continuous gradient depicted by a bell curve.[8]
An example of a polygenic trait is human skin color variation. Several genes factor into determining a person's natural skin color, so modifying only one of those genes can change skin color slightly or in some cases, such as for SLC24A5, moderately. Many disorders with genetic components are polygenic, including autism, cancer, diabetes and numerous others. Most phenotypic characteristics are the result of the interaction of multiple genes.
Examples of disease processes generally considered to be results of many contributing factors:
Congenital malformation
Cleft palate[9][10]
Congenital dislocation of the hip[11]
Pyloric stenosis
Adult onset diseases
Cancer[10]
Manic depression
Multifactorially inherited diseases are said to constitute the majority of genetic disorders affecting humans which will result in hospitalization or special care of some kind.[12][13]
Multifactorial traits in general[edit]
Traits controlled both by the environment and by genetic factors are called multifactorial. Usually, multifactorial traits outside of illness result in what we see as continuous characteristics in organisms, especially human organisms such as: height,[12] skin color, and body mass.[14] All of these phenotypes are complicated by a great deal of give-and-take between genes and environmental effects.[12] The continuous distribution of traits such as height and skin color described above, reflects the action of genes that do not manifest typical patterns of dominance and recessiveness. Instead the contributions of each involved locus are thought to be additive. Writers have distinguished this kind of inheritance as polygenic, or quantitative inheritance.[15]
Thus, due to the nature of polygenic traits, inheritance will not follow the same pattern as a simple monohybrid or dihybrid cross.[13] Polygenic inheritance can be explained as Mendelian inheritance at many loci,[12] resulting in a trait which is normally-distributed. If n is the number of involved loci, then the coefficients of the binomial expansion of (a + b)2n will give the frequency of distribution of all n allele combinations. For a sufficiently high values of n, this binomial distribution will begin to resemble a normal distribution. From this viewpoint, a disease state will become apparent at one of the tails of the distribution, past some threshold value. Disease states of increasing severity will be expected the further one goes past the threshold and away from the mean.[15]
Heritable disease and multifactorial inheritance[edit]
A mutation resulting in a disease state is often recessive, so both alleles must be mutant in order for the disease to be expressed phenotypically. A disease or syndrome may also be the result of the expression of mutant alleles at more than one locus. When more than one gene is involved, with or without the presence of environmental triggers, we say that the disease is the result of multifactorial inheritance.
The more genes involved in the cross, the more the distribution of the genotypes will resemble a normal, or Gaussian distribution.[12] This shows that multifactorial inheritance is polygenic, and genetic frequencies can be predicted by way of a polyhybrid Mendelian cross. Phenotypic frequencies are a different matter, especially if they are complicated by environmental factors.
The paradigm of polygenic inheritance as being used to define multifactorial disease has encountered much disagreement. Turnpenny (2004) discusses how simple polygenic inheritance cannot explain some diseases such as the onset of Type I diabetes mellitus, and that in cases such as these, not all genes are thought to make an equal contribution.[15]
The assumption of polygenic inheritance is that all involved loci make an equal contribution to the symptoms of the disease. This should result in a normal curve distribution of genotypes. When it does not, the idea of polygenetic inheritance cannot be supported for that illness.
Examples[edit]
The above are well-known examples of diseases having both genetic and environmental components. Other examples involve atopic diseases such as eczema or dermatitis;[12]spina bifida (open spine), and anencephaly (open skull).[9]
While schizophrenia is widely believed to be multifactorially genetic by biopsychiatrists, no characteristic genetic markers have been determined with any certainty.
If it is shown that the brothers and sisters of the patient have the disease, then there is a strong chance that the disease is genetic[citation needed] and that the patient will also be a genetic carrier. This is not quite enough as it also needs to be proven that the pattern of inheritance is non-Mendelian. This would require studying dozens, even hundreds of different family pedigrees before a conclusion of multifactorial inheritance is drawn. This often takes several years.
If multifactorial inheritance is indeed the case, then the chance of the patient contracting the disease is reduced only if cousins and more distant relatives have the disease.[9] It must be stated that while multifactorially-inherited diseases tend to run in families, inheritance will not follow the same pattern as a simple monohybrid or dihybrid cross.[13]
If a genetic cause is suspected and little else is known about the illness, then it remains to be seen exactly how many genes are involved in the phenotypic expression of the disease. Once that is determined, the question must be answered: if two people have the required genes, why are there differences in expression between them? Generally, what makes the two individuals different are likely to be environmental factors. Due to the involved nature of genetic investigations needed to determine such inheritance patterns, this is not usually the first avenue of investigation one would choose to determine etiology.[citation needed]
A QTL for osteoporosis on the human chromosome 20
QTL mapping[edit]
Example of a genome-wide scan for QTL of osteoporosis
For organisms whose genomes are known, one might now try to exclude genes in the identified region whose function is known with some certainty not to be connected with the trait in question. If the genome is not available, it may be an option to sequence the identified region and determine the putative functions of genes by their similarity to genes with known function, usually in other genomes. This can be done using BLAST, an online tool that allows users to enter a primary sequence and search for similar sequences within the BLAST database of genes from various organisms. It is often not the actual gene underlying the phenotypic trait, but rather a region of DNA that is closely linked with the gene[16].[citation needed]
Another interest of statistical geneticists using QTL mapping is to determine the complexity of the genetic architecture underlying a phenotypic trait. For example, they may be interested in knowing whether a phenotype is shaped by many independent loci, or by a few loci, and do those loci interact. This can provide information on how the phenotype may be evolving.[citation needed]
In a recent development, classical QTL analyses were combined with gene expression profiling i.e. by DNA microarrays. Such expression QTLs (eQTLs) describe cis- and trans-controlling elements for the expression of often disease-associated genes.[17] Observed epistatic effects have been found beneficial to identify the gene responsible by a cross-validation of genes within the interacting loci with metabolic pathway- and scientific literature databases.
Analysis of variance[edit]
The simplest method for QTL mapping is analysis of variance (ANOVA, sometimes called "marker regression") at the marker loci. In this method, in a backcross, one may calculate a t-statistic to compare the averages of the two marker genotype groups. For other types of crosses (such as the intercross), where there are more than two possible genotypes, one uses a more general form of ANOVA, which provides a so-called F-statistic. The ANOVA approach for QTL mapping has three important weaknesses. First, we do not receive separate estimates of QTL location and QTL effect. QTL location is indicated only by looking at which markers give the greatest differences between genotype group averages, and the apparent QTL effect at a marker will be smaller than the true QTL effect as a result of recombination between the marker and the QTL. Second, we must discard individuals whose genotypes are missing at the marker. Third, when the markers are widely spaced, the QTL may be quite far from all markers, and so the power for QTL detection will decrease.
Interval mapping[edit]
Lander and Botstein developed interval mapping, which overcomes the three disadvantages of analysis of variance at marker loci.[18] Interval mapping is currently the most popular approach for QTL mapping in experimental crosses. The method makes use of a genetic map of the typed markers, and, like analysis of variance, assumes the presence of a single QTL. In interval mapping, each locus is considered one at a time and the logarithm of the odds ratio (LOD score) is calculated for the model that the given locus is a true QTL. The odds ratio is related to the Pearson correlation coefficient between the phenotype and the marker genotype for each individual in the experimental cross.[19]
The term ‘interval mapping’ is used for estimating the position of a QTL within two markers (often indicated as ‘marker-bracket’). Interval mapping is originally based on the maximum likelihood but there are also very good approximations possible with simple regression.
The principle for QTL mapping is: 1) The Likelihood can be calculated for a given set of parameters (particularly QTL effect and QTL position) given the observed data on phenotypes and marker genotypes. 2) The estimates for the parameters are those where the likelihood are highest. 3) A significance threshold can be established by permutation testing.[20]
Conventional methods for the detection of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) are based on a comparison of single QTL models with a model assuming no QTL. For instance in the “interval mapping” method [21] the likelihood for a single putative QTL is assessed at each location on the genome. However, QTLs located elsewhere on the genome can have an interfering effect. As a consequence, the power of detection may be compromised, and the estimates of locations and effects of QTLs may be biased (Lander and Botstein 1989; Knapp 1991). Even nonexisting so-called “ghost” QTLs may appear (Haley and Knott 1992; Martinez and Curnow 1992). Therefore, multiple QTLs could be mapped more efficiently and more accurately by using multiple QTL models.[22] One popular approach to handle QTL mapping where multiple QTL contribute to a trait is to iteratively scan the genome and add known QTL to the regression model as QTLs are identified. This method, termed composite interval mapping determine both the location and effects size of QTL more accurately than single-QTL approaches, especially in small mapping populations where the effect of correlation between genotypes in the mapping population may be problematic.
Composite interval mapping (CIM)[edit]
In this method, one performs interval mapping using a subset of marker loci as covariates. These markers serve as proxies for other QTLs to increase the resolution of interval mapping, by accounting for linked QTLs and reducing the residual variation. The key problem with CIM concerns the choice of suitable marker loci to serve as covariates; once these have been chosen, CIM turns the model selection problem into a single-dimensional scan. The choice of marker covariates has not been solved, however. Not surprisingly, the appropriate markers are those closest to the true QTLs, and so if one could find these, the QTL mapping problem would be complete anyway.
Family-pedigree based mapping[edit]
Family based QTL mapping, or Family-pedigree based mapping (Linkage and association mapping), involves multiple families instead of a single family. Family based QTL mapping has been the only way for mapping of genes where experimental crosses are difficult to make. However, due to some advantages, now plant geneticists are attempting to incorporate some of the methods pioneered in human genetics.[23] Using family-pedigree based approach has been discussed (Bink et al. 2008). Family-based linkage and association has been successfully implemented (Rosyara et al. 2009)[24]
Association Mapping
Family based QTL mapping
Epistasis
Dominance (genetics)
Expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL)
Genetic predisposition
Nested Association Mapping
Oncogene
Genetic susceptibility
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QTL discussion forum
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Total USDA - Subsidies
Linn County, Iowa
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USDA subsidies in Linn County, Iowa totaled $330 million from 1995-2017.
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Burke County, North Dakota
Pick a county North Dakota State Total Adams County, North Dakota Barnes County, North Dakota Benson County, North Dakota Billings County, North Dakota Bottineau County, North Dakota Bowman County, North Dakota Burke County, North Dakota Burleigh County, North Dakota Cass County, North Dakota Cavalier County, North Dakota Dickey County, North Dakota Divide County, North Dakota Dunn County, North Dakota Eddy County, North Dakota Emmons County, North Dakota Foster County, North Dakota Golden Valley County, North Dakota Grand Forks County, North Dakota Grant County, North Dakota Griggs County, North Dakota Hettinger County, North Dakota Kidder County, North Dakota LaMoure County, North Dakota Logan County, North Dakota McHenry County, North Dakota McIntosh County, North Dakota McKenzie County, North Dakota McLean County, North Dakota Mercer County, North Dakota Morton County, North Dakota Mountrail County, North Dakota Nelson County, North Dakota Oliver County, North Dakota Pembina County, North Dakota Pierce County, North Dakota Ramsey County, North Dakota Ransom County, North Dakota Renville County, North Dakota Richland County, North Dakota Rolette County, North Dakota Sargent County, North Dakota Sheridan County, North Dakota Sioux County, North Dakota Slope County, North Dakota Stark County, North Dakota Steele County, North Dakota Stutsman County, North Dakota Towner County, North Dakota Traill County, North Dakota Walsh County, North Dakota Ward County, North Dakota Wells County, North Dakota Williams County, North Dakota North Dakota NRCS
Subtotal, Disaster Payments in Burke County, North Dakota totaled $34.6 million from 1995-2017.
Counties in Burke County, North Dakota Receiving Subtotal, Disaster Payments payments, 1995-2017
Pct of
1 Cavalier County, North Dakota $107,660,970 5.1% 5.1%
2 Bottineau County, North Dakota $76,021,653 3.6% 8.8%
3 Cass County, North Dakota $73,112,738 3.5% 12.3%
4 Stutsman County, North Dakota $64,751,623 3.1% 15.4%
5 Ward County, North Dakota $64,738,640 3.1% 18.4%
6 Ramsey County, North Dakota $64,076,444 3.1% 21.5%
7 Richland County, North Dakota $62,984,518 3.0% 24.5%
8 Grand Forks County, North Dakota $62,464,062 3.0% 27.5%
9 McLean County, North Dakota $58,372,465 2.8% 30.3%
10 Barnes County, North Dakota $53,953,352 2.6% 32.9%
11 Renville County, North Dakota $53,072,591 2.5% 35.4%
12 Pembina County, North Dakota $52,473,813 2.5% 37.9%
13 Walsh County, North Dakota $51,402,382 2.5% 40.4%
14 Dickey County, North Dakota $50,295,379 2.4% 42.8%
15 LaMoure County, North Dakota $49,838,440 2.4% 45.1%
16 Traill County, North Dakota $49,174,424 2.3% 47.5%
17 Williams County, North Dakota $48,892,610 2.3% 49.8%
18 Towner County, North Dakota $48,588,133 2.3% 52.1%
19 Mountrail County, North Dakota $47,987,593 2.3% 54.4%
20 Sargent County, North Dakota $45,733,569 2.2% 56.6%
21 Morton County, North Dakota $45,388,969 2.2% 58.8%
22 Benson County, North Dakota $42,872,270 2.0% 60.8%
23 Hettinger County, North Dakota $42,783,389 2.0% 62.9%
24 Grant County, North Dakota $38,771,253 1.9% 64.7%
25 McHenry County, North Dakota $38,414,478 1.8% 66.6%
26 Emmons County, North Dakota $37,683,525 1.8% 68.4%
27 Divide County, North Dakota $37,656,589 1.8% 70.2%
28 Nelson County, North Dakota $36,940,791 1.8% 71.9%
29 Steele County, North Dakota $36,081,922 1.7% 73.7%
30 Wells County, North Dakota $36,002,573 1.7% 75.4%
31 Stark County, North Dakota $36,002,083 1.7% 77.1%
32 Burke County, North Dakota $34,599,355 1.7% 78.7%
33 Dunn County, North Dakota $29,382,473 1.4% 80.2%
34 McKenzie County, North Dakota $28,704,196 1.4% 81.5%
35 Ransom County, North Dakota $28,278,187 1.4% 82.9%
36 Bowman County, North Dakota $25,739,335 1.2% 84.1%
37 Slope County, North Dakota $25,488,327 1.2% 85.3%
38 Griggs County, North Dakota $25,270,303 1.2% 86.5%
39 Pierce County, North Dakota $25,267,809 1.2% 87.7%
40 Adams County, North Dakota $24,478,331 1.2% 88.9%
41 Foster County, North Dakota $23,898,924 1.1% 90.0%
42 Rolette County, North Dakota $23,549,242 1.1% 91.2%
43 Logan County, North Dakota $23,489,787 1.1% 92.3%
44 Burleigh County, North Dakota $22,189,179 1.1% 93.3%
45 McIntosh County, North Dakota $20,631,236 1.0% 94.3%
46 Kidder County, North Dakota $19,191,315 0.9% 95.3%
47 Mercer County, North Dakota $18,241,968 0.9% 96.1%
48 Golden Valley County, North Dakota $15,436,712 0.7% 96.9%
49 Sioux County, North Dakota $15,358,308 0.7% 97.6%
50 Eddy County, North Dakota $14,959,206 0.7% 98.3%
51 Sheridan County, North Dakota $14,500,554 0.7% 99.0%
52 Oliver County, North Dakota $12,325,728 0.6% 99.6%
53 Billings County, North Dakota $8,591,541 0.4% 100.0%
Source: Environmental Working Group. Compiled from USDA data.
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Marriage and health
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Posted April 20, 2010 by Amanda Falciglia
Research increasingly points to significant health consequences of marital stress as well as the benefits of healthy marriages. A study involving more than 5,000 people in South Florida showed couples can learn skills to create and sustain healthy, happy, lasting marriages. Graphic: New York Times.
By Amanda Falciglia
For more than 150 years, policy-makers and researchers have known there’s a direct connection between marriage and health. Today, studies are increasingly identifying the specific aspects of marriage that promote wellness, healing, and increased life expectancy. This information provides a road map to strengthen couples, families and communities with significant medical, social, and economic benefits.
In a recent article, “Is marriage good for your health,” (New York Times, 4/12/10) Tara Parker Pope writes, “Contemporary studies, for instance, have shown that married people are less likely to get pneumonia, have surgery, develop cancer or have heart attacks. A group of Swedish researchers has found that being married or cohabiting at midlife is associated with a lower risk for dementia. A study of two dozen causes of death in the Netherlands found that in virtually every category, ranging from violent deaths like homicide and car accidents to certain forms of cancer, the unmarried were at far higher risk than the married. For many years, studies like these have influenced both politics and policy, fueling national marriage-promotion efforts, like the Healthy Marriage Initiative of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.”
Parker Pope goes on to examine current research that considers aspects of “healthy marriages,” as opposed to the institution of marriage generally, that improve mental and emotional health. Common effects of marital discord include:
wounds can take longer to heal
immune system weakens
herpes outbreaks may be triggered
increased risk of depression
increased risk of mood swings
elevated stress hormones
elevated risk of diabetes
elevated risk of heart disease
“While it’s clear that marriage is profoundly connected to health and well-being,” Parker Pope writes, “new research is increasingly presenting a more nuanced view of the so-called marriage advantage. Several new studies, for instance, show that the marriage advantage doesn’t extend to those in troubled relationships, which can leave a person far less healthy than if he or she had never married at all. One recent study suggests that a stressful marriage can be as bad for the heart as a regular smoking habit. And despite years of research suggesting that single people have poorer health than those who marry, a major study released last year concluded that single people who have never married have better health than those who married and then divorced.”
Linda J. Waite, a University of Chicago sociologist interviewed for the article, says, “I don’t think anyone would encourage people to stay in a marriage that is really making them miserable, but try harder to make it better. If you learn how to manage disagreement early, then you can avoid the decline in marital happiness that follows from the drip, drip of negative interactions.”
In 2006, PAIRS Foundation received a multi-year grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, to conduct a demonstration and research project in South Florida to deliver brief relationship skills training and marriage education to couples, singles and high school students. To date, more than 5,000 people have participated, including many on the verge of separation or divorce. PAIRS Foundation collaborated with Dr. Andrew Daire of the University of Central Florida’s Marriage and Family Research Institute to implement multi-year evaluation to understand the impact of PAIRS classes.
Follow-up assessments of participants in PAIRS Essentials classes have consistently demonstrated statistically, significant lasting improvements in relationship cohesion and stability, with enduring benefits that show up through decreased conflict and increased relationship pleasure. Results have been especially significant for both individuals and couples who enroll in the 9-12 hour classes with high levels of marital discord.
As research continues to expand our understanding of the emotional and physical health consequences of ongoing martial distress, knowing that couples from diverse socio-economic, cultural and religious backgrounds can achieve enduring benefits from brief educational programs should provide vital information to individuals contemplating marriage as well as those experiencing symptoms of relationship breakdown.
Amanda Falciglia directs the PAIRS Foundation’s research team,
including overseeing collection, follow-up and coordination of
academic analysis of data related to thousands of participants in
South Florida classes. Ms. Falciglia earned her Bachelor of Science degree at
the University of Central Florida, where she contributed to various
research projects and majored in Psychology.
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Alexander Graham Bell: Inventing the future
By the Rev. Dr. Ed Hird
Like many Canadians, Alexander Graham Bell moved to the United States to get his big break, but always longed to return to the beauty and peace of Canada. Both Alexander’s mom and wife had serious hearing impairments, a challenge that directly aided Alexander in his development of the first workable telephone. It was while Alexander served as a teacher of the hearing-impaired that he began to really understand the fundamental principles of communication and speech.
One of Bell’s most famous pupils was Helen Keller who came to him as a child unable to see, hear or speak. Helen Keller later said of Bell that he dedicated his life to the penetration of that ‘inhuman silence that separates and estranges.’ Dedicating her autobiography to Bell, she said: ‘You have always shown a father’s joy in my success and a father’s tenderness when things have not gone right.’
Like many millions of Canadians, Alexander Graham Bell was not born in Canada. Rather his family fled to Canada after the tuberculosis deaths of their two other sons in Edinburgh, Scotland. They naively believed that the pure air of Canada would save the life of Alexander who was also afflicted with tuberculosis. While Alexander did live until age 75, he was never that well and often suffered from severe headaches. But Alexander never let his problems hold him back from being creative.
Alexander had a pioneering mind and great vision. He defined an inventor as someone “who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees; he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea.” “We should not keep going forever”, said Alexander, “on the public road, going only where others have gone. We should leave the beaten track occasionally and enter the woods. Every time you do that, you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before.”
While Alexander became famous from his invention of the first workable telephone, his inventive genius reached much farther. He was the first in North America to show how x-rays could be used to treat cancers inside the body. He invented a probe that discovered where bullets were lodged inside people.
Through creative experimenting with kites, he built the first successful airplane in the British Empire. His Canadian airplane flew almost a kilometre at 64 kilometres per hour on February 23rd, 1909 at Beinn Bhreagh, Cape Breton. Alexander’s hydrofoil built in 1915 reached speeds of 70 mph (112 kph).
After the death of his son from weak lungs, Alexander invented the first respirator. To assist shipwrecked sailors, he created a machine that turned the moisture in air into drinking water. His endless inventions also included the first practical phonograph, the first flat-disk record, an iceberg-locating device, a water purifier that removed salt from seawater, an air conditioner, and an audiometer to test people’s hearing.
But it was Bell’s invention of the telephone that caused the greatest controversy. Some wrote Bell off as a mad scientist who was challenging the laws of nature. Others tried to argue that telephones were somehow of the devil and against the bible. There were widespread fears that telephones would spread disease and even insanity over the telephone wires. During an 18-year period, Bell faced and won over 600 lawsuits challenging his telephone patent.
The first business use of the telephone began in 1877. By 1888, there were over 150,000 users in North America. The cost of having a phone installed in 1888 was $10, the equivalent of a whole year’s wage for a servant. As of 2010, there are literally hundred of millions who might find it hard to imagine life without a phone.
When Bell’s body was buried in 1922 on top of a Cape Breton Island mountain, every telephone in North America observed a minute’s silence. Thomas Edison, a rival and friend, said at that time: ‘My late friend Alexander Graham Bell, whose world-famed invention annihilated time and space, and brought the human family in closer touch.’
The word ‘telephone’ means ‘sound over a long distance’. Bell brought good news to many through a physical device. May God use each of us as pioneers to bring the sound of good news throughout the world.
The Rev. Dr. Ed Hird, BSW, MDiv, DMin
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Microsoft Built a Cable Box Killer. Then They Killed It.
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Last month, Microsoft confirmed that Windows Media Center would not be included in Windows 10. It was not a surprise, because almost no one uses Windows Media Center (it was only available as a paid add-on in Windows 8). But it is a shame, because Windows Media Center might be the best DVR software out there. And it should’ve killed the cable box.
Cable boxes are, almost without exception, awful. They’re under-powed computers running very badly designed software. Their channel guides are slow, poorly laid out, and usually riddled with ads. Cable companies extort subscribers by “leasing” the box you need to get the channels and features you already pay for. Even the remotes are usually poorly designed.
Windows Media Center, developed for Windows XP and upgraded for Windows Vista and Windows 7, has an intuitive interface and a customizable and searchable channel guide. It’s easy to navigate your stored recordings and the built-in media player is responsive and quick. It does most of what every cable box does, but better. And it runs well on almost any machine. The only problem, upon its initial release, was getting it to work with cable TV.
But this wasn’t Media Center’s problem — it was a problem built into the way cable companies prefer to distribute their product.
Turn Your Computer Into A Cable Box
It’s been possible for years to use a PC to watch and record over-the-air television broadcasts, and unencrypted cable television tuners have been available almost as long. But for a long time, you could only watch copyright-protected channels with a cable company-leased box. In 2007, when AMD produced the ATI TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner, consumers could finally replace cable boxes with PCs and still watch and record all the cable channels in their subscriptions. And it’s only since 2009 that Microsoft allowed consumers to use CableCARD tuners with any PC, instead of restricting them to CableLabs-approved OEM hardware. As a result, we’ve had a few glorious years where a normal person might actually want to go to the trouble of setting up Media Center to work with encrypted cable.
During that time, Media Center has been the best digital cable DVR available in the United States. Unlike Kodi (formerly XBMC), MythTV, and every other DVR software package currently available for use on a PC, Windows Media Center can watch and record encrypted digital cable. A TiVo DVR – which can also be used to record encrypted channels – may cost less than a new Windows computer and CableCARD tuner, but their DVR service costs $15 a month, or $150 a year, or $500 for a lifetime subscription. Windows Media Center is free (at least, after your one-time purchase of Windows).
Millions of computers came preinstalled with a program that should’ve killed the cable box forever. Why did Microsoft abandon it?
The reason Media Center never took off beyond a small (but very dedicated) community of home theater PC diehards is that it took just a bit too much effort to set up. To watch encrypted cable — which is, for many cable companies, most channels, and all premium channels — you needed a PC running Windows Vista or 7, a CableCARD tuner, and a CableCARD. To get the CableCARD, you had to call your cable company. Plus, many cable companies require one of their technicians to install and activate the card, despite the fact that hardly any cable company technicians have much experience with non-TiVo CableCARD tuners and Windows Media Center. To watch copyright-protected cable on your television via your Media Center set-up, you also need an HDCP-compliant display connection from your PC. You’ll also probably want a media center remote, and a wireless mouse and keyboard. You’ll need plenty of storage as well, if you’re planning on taping a lot of HD content.
Here’s an example of the set-up process (and this is an example where everything works as it’s supposed to):
That looks more onerous than it actually is, but, like everything involving dealing with your cable company, it can take forever. It’s decidedly not as simple as just buying a box (or a dongle) and plugging it in. The fault isn’t entirely (or even mostly) with Microsoft. Copyright protection standards and cable company red tape are responsible for most of what makes the process such a pain in the ass.
The CableCARD Problem
It mostly comes back to that CableCARD. CableCARD is a specification created by the telecom industry in response to the (industry-supported) Telecommunications Act of 1996. The CableCARD standard was supposed to create a competitive marketplace, by allowing consumer electronics companies to make their own set-top boxes, freeing consumers from reliance on their cable company’s bad box. It didn’t work, at all, in large part because telecom companies delayed implementation of the standard as much as possible, and because Cable Labs, a telecom industry consortium, is the sole entity responsible for determining which devices and software meet the CableCARD standard. Obtaining certification requires a lot of hoop-jumping a quite a bit of money.
Still, by 2011 there were multiple CableCARD tuners on the market, at (mostly) reasonable prices, that allowed for recording multiple channels at once. This could’ve been the point at which Microsoft leveraged its expertise, its position, and its assets to create the competitive set-top box. But by then, Microsoft had already disbanded the team responsible for creating and developing Media Center. They apparently determined (perhaps correctly) that creating a plug-and-play, full-feature set-top box replacement — one cheaper than TiVo and not tied to any specific hardware — wasn’t worth the effort.
As for Media Center replacements, none of the existing open-source DVR projects are going to get CableLabs certification anytime soon. SiliconDust, a company that produces one of the best CableCARD tuners on the market, is working on its own media center software with CableCARD support, but SiliconDust is a small company with a modest user base. If Microsoft couldn’t popularize software that was automatically installed on every Windows PC and supported on every XBox 360, SiliconDust has its work cut out for it.
Waiting for January, 2020
For those of us still stupidly attached to live sports and Turner Classic Movies, we can take solace in the fact that Media Center will work for as long as Microsoft supports Windows 7 (which is, officially, until January 2020), and probably (if need be) beyond, with some sort of third-party guide data support. It won’t be updated, but it hasn’t really been updated since 2009 anyway. It’s stable. You could set it up right now and not worry about obsolescence for years.
In terms of video distribution technology, software, and standards, 2020 is a lifetime away. It’s impossible to predict what the premium television landscape will actually look like by then. Facebook will beam Vine stars directly to our Oculus Rift implants, probably. Or else we’ll just be watching the dust behind the war rig we’re following to Bullet Farm.
CableCARD successors have been proposed and debated almost since CableCARD was established. Cable (and satellite) companies have fought and will continue to fight every attempt to make it easier to watch, record and manipulate live TV without renting their boxes and using their proprietary systems. But whatever replaces CableCARD will be negotiated and instituted in a world where major tech companies have as much clout as telecoms.
There are a couple of companies with the resources to take on CableLabs and the desire to take over as many screens as possible. Ideally, in the future, you’ll just pay your cable company for the stream, which you’ll be able to watch and manipulate through whatever means on whatever devices you like. Their efforts in that direction haven’t been very impressive thus far, but Apple and Google could still figure out what Microsoft couldn’t.
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Top 10 Peruvian Foods
Posted by Sophia Guida | June 18, 2014 | Destinations, Peru, Practical Traveler, South America, World Food | 1 |
There are plenty of reasons to visit Peru, with Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca, and the Amazon Rainforest occupying top spots on the list. But what about the food?
Peruvian food has been making headlines recently. For the past two years, Peru has been named South America’s Best Culinary Destination at the World Travel Awards, and two Peru-based restaurants were named in San Pellegrino’s list of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants. But even if you don’t have the extra cash to spend at one of those establishments, you can still find delicious, reasonably-priced eats just about anywhere in Peru. Because of the wide variety of ingredients and culinary techniques and traditions, Peruvian cuisine has something for just about everyone. Here are 10 Peruvian foods to sample on your next trip to Peru.
Pan con Chicharron
Parihuela
Asado de Alpaca
Tacacho con Cecina
Trucha a la Plancha
Arroz con Mariscos
Rocoto Relleno
Aji de Gallina
For Dessert: El Clasico
Pan con chicharron is a hearty breakfast dish from the Andes.
This sandwich made of tender pieces of deep fried pork and sweet potato is often eaten at breakfast. It is most commonly found in the Andes but exists all over Peru. Don’t forget to add a bit of raw onion salad with chili, salt and lime for extra flavor.
A ceviche de pescado, served with crunchy corn, boiled corn and sweet potato.
One of the most recognizable Peruvian dishes, ceviche comes in many forms. It’s a raw seafood salad that is drenched in lime and chili, and sometimes other sauces. Sometime, as in the above image, it consists of chopped fish, while in other cases it’s a mix of seafood, including shrimp, squid, octopus and scallops. It’s perfect on a sunny afternoon with a cold beer.
Parihuela is a spicy seafood stew similar to the French bouillabaisse but with attitude.
If you prefer your seafood cooked, then parihuela is definitely a better bet. Originating from Peru’s northern coasts, this seafood stew is served piping hot in a spicy broth flavored with red chili. It’s a bit similar the French bouillabaisse, but with more intense flavors.
Asado de alpaca with raw onion and potatoes.
This roasted alpaca dish is flavored with just a bit of salt and pepper because the meat has a mild, subtle flavor. It’s like a steak, but a little more mellow, and also a lot more tender. You can usually find asado de alpaca in the Andes, often served with potatoes or rice, and a touch of raw onion on top.
Tacacho con Cecina, a typical dish from Peru’s Amazon region.
Cecina is dish from the Amazon region made with pork, or in some cases, tapir. It’s salty and deep-fried, like the best bacon, but without any chewy fat left behind. The accompanying yellow blob is called tacacho, which is mashed plantain that has been fried in the grease left behind from the cecina and then rolled into a ball. Try not to think about what all of this is doing to your cholesterol levels!
Trucha frita, or fried trout, served with just a simple garnish of lime and some carbs on the side.
Trucha a la Plancha, or grilled trout, is commonly found in the rural Andean regions. It’s a very simple, but very tasty meal where the fish is fileted and grilled with lime sprinkled on top. Some rice, potatoes and a token tomato round out this hearty meal.
This rice and seafood dish is flavored with a mild red chili and served with a seaweed garnish.
Another staple of coastal cuisine, rice with seafood is cooked a bit like a Spanish paella, but with different seasonings, namely the flavorful red chili aji panca. Some cooks also add peas and chopped up carrorts to go with the clams, mussels, shrimp, lobster, calamari and whatever else is on hand. In the southern coastal regions around Lima, arroz con mariscos is served with a handful of Parmesan cheese on top, with the creamy, salty cheese complementing the chili perfectly.
Rocoto relleno is a stuffed pepper from the southern region of Arequipa.
If you like really spicy food, then the rocoto relleno is for you. Don’t be fooled by that innocent-looking red pepper. Unlike the sweet peppers from back home, the rocoto is actually very spicy, even cooked and with the seeds removed. However, it’s a pleasant flavor, especially when filled with ground meat, raisins and olives, and then smothered in melted cheese. Though it’s available country-wide, this dish originated in southern Andean region of Arequipa.
Note: If you are longing for the sweet red peppers from home, they are called aji moron in Peru and are available in markets and some grocery stores.
Aji de Gallina, a mild chicken stew served with rice.
This mild chicken stew is flavored with a bit of yellow pepper (not spicy this time!), garlic, onions, ground walnuts and sometimes Parmesan cheese. It’s wonderful as a comfort-food, particularly on cold, misty nights during Lima’s winter months.
El Clasico, two sinfully sweet desserts in one.
Finally, for dessert we have El Clasico, a double-whammy of sugary bliss all in one bowl. The white part is arroz con leche, which is a rice pudding flavored with cinnamon. The other part is a pudding called mazamorra morada, which is made from purple corn, dried fruit, cinnamon and a touch of lime. The two puddings combine beautifully, with the slight sour taste of the purple pudding complementing the rich creaminess of the rice.
These are just a few of the delicious foods you can try in Peru. If you’ve been to Peru, what were some of your favorites? Share your recommendations in the comments below!
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Sophia Guida has been living in Lima, Peru off and on since the beginning of 2012, where she works as a freelance writer/photojournalist and takes every opportunity to explore the areas left out of the guidebooks. You can find her on Twitter, Instagram, and also on her photo blog, photosfromperu.tumblr.com.
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Chris on June 26, 2014 at 1:49 pm
Glad that Aji de Gallina made the list! It doesn’t look like much but I have never met a plate of it that I didn’t thoroughly enjoy. Maybe it’s too obvious, but the classic lomo saltado is also a must-try. And of course a plate of Tacu-Tacu at lunch is the best way to ensure a long and satisfying carb-hangover until the evening when you can start again!
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Oprah Winfrey to Receive 2018 Cecil B. DeMille Award at 75th Annual Golden Globes
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Oprah Winfrey will be honored with the 2018 Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 75th Annual Golden Globes.
Each year the recipient of the prestigious award is selected by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) board of directors and must be someone who has made “an incredible impact on the world of entertainment.” HFPA president Meher Tatna said Winfrey embodies this qualification for the generations she has “celebrated strong female characters on and off screen, and has been a role model for women and young girls for decades.”
“As a global media leader, philanthropist, producer and actress, she has created an unparalleled connection with people around the world, making her one of the most respected and admired figures today,” Tatna said in a statement. “Holding titles such as Chairman, CEO and Founder, Oprah is one of the most influential women of our time, and this honor is well deserved especially in this 75th anniversary year of the Golden Globe Awards.”
Chairman and CEO of her own cable network — OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network — Winfrey is currently an executive producer on series such as “Greenleaf,” “Queen Sugar” and “Oprah’s Master Class.” In 2017 she executive produced and starred in the Emmy nominated HBO original movie “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” and in 2018 she will appear in “A Wrinkle in Time” from Ava DuVernay. She is also the founder of O, The Oprah Magazine, and oversees Harpo Films.
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Perhaps best known as the host of her multi-award-winning talk show, “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” which came to an end in 2011, Winfrey is also the founder of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa, which provides education for “academically gifted” girls from disadvantaged backgrounds and is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year and celebrating the school’s seventh graduating class.
Winfrey has been celebrated by the HFPA before, with a Golden Globe Award nomination for her role in “The Color Purple” in 1986.
Morgan Freeman, who received the same award in 2012, announced Winfrey’s honoree status during the airing of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s (HFPA) “Golden Globe 75th Anniversary Special,” which aired on NBC.
In addition to Freeman, recent honorees include Audrey Hepburn, Barbra Streisand, Denzel Washington, George Clooney, Harrison Ford, Jodie Foster, Lucille Ball, Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Sidney Poitier, Sophia Loren and Steven Spielberg.
The 75th Annual Golden Globes will be hosted by Seth Meyers and air live coast-to-coast on Jan. 7, 2018 starting at 8pm ET/5pm PT on NBC.
Watch Freeman announce Winfrey as the 2018 Cecil B. DeMille Award recipient below:
Source: http://variety.com/2017/tv/awards/2018-cecil-b-demille-award-recipient-oprah-winfrey-1202640271/
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Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer Paula A. Price to Join Macy’s, Inc. as Chief Financial Officer
New Macy’s Chief Financial Officer Paula A. Price (photo via theshelbyreport.com)
According to businesswire.com, Macy’s, Inc. (NYSE:M) recently announced that Paula A. Price will be appointed the national department store’s Chief Financial Officer, effective July 9, 2018.
Price will be responsible for leading the company’s finance, accounting, investor relations and internal audit functions. She will report to Jeff Gennette, Macy’s, Inc. chairman and chief executive officer, and will be based in New York. Price will succeed Karen Hoguet, who plans to retire at the end of the 2018 fiscal year. Ms. Hoguet will remain with Macy’s, Inc. in an advisory role to support the company during a transition period until February 2, 2019.
“I’m excited to have Paula join Macy’s, Inc. at such an important time for our business. She is an accomplished financial executive with an impressive breadth and depth of retail experience and will be a great addition to the team. Having led finance in a variety of complex and dynamic retail organizations, Paula’s insights and experience will serve Macy’s, Inc. well,” said Gennette.
Price joins Macy’s, Inc. with 30 years of finance experience primarily in retail and consumer-facing businesses. She is currently a full-time senior lecturer in the accounting and management unit at Harvard Business School, a role she has held since 2014.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Price also serves as a director on the board of consulting firm Accenture PLC, where she chairs the audit committee and is a member of the compensation committee. She is a director on the boards of Western Digital Corp., Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and the Financial Guaranty Insurance Company. Ms. Price resigned from the board of Dollar General Corp. on May 17. Before her stint at Ahold U.S.A. as CFO, Ms. Price was controller and chief accounting officer at CVS Caremark Corp.
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Pew gap 2020: Thinking about Emma Green, sad Trump voters and woke wing of Democratic Party
As the 2020 White House race draws closer, I think I hear a familiar train a comin’. Or maybe it’s this slow train, coming up around the bend. I’ve already bought my new political t-shirt for the months ahead.
Whatever you want to call it, the train that’s coming is more and more coverage of Donald Trump and his white evangelical voters — both enthusiastic supporters and reluctant ones. It’s the same train that so many mainstream journalists spotted in 2016, but never took the time to understand (or were unwilling to make that effort, for some strange reason).
The bottom line: They thought the whole “81 percent” thing was a story about the Republican Party and the Republican Party, alone.
As for me, I keep thinking about all the church-goin’ people that I know who really, really, really do not want to vote for Trump. Yet they hear the train a comin’, since they remain worried about all those familiar issues linked to the First Amendment, abortion, the U.S. Supreme Court, etc. (Click here for my breakdown on the various evangelical voting camps in the Trump era.)
So what is happening on the Democratic Party side of this story?
That brings me to a short, but important, essay by Emma Green (she’s everywhere, these days) that ran at The Atlantic Monthly website with this headline: “Pete Buttigieg Takes Aim at Religious Hypocrisy.” It starts you know where:
On the debate stage, Buttigieg gave voice to a view that has become common among Democratic voters: Many of Trump’s policies, along with his conduct as president, do not reflect Christian values. “The Republican Party likes to cloak itself in the language of religion,” Buttigieg said. “We should call out hypocrisy when we see it.”
Many religious conservatives, of course, agree with that statement, that Trump’s conduct doesn’t “reflect Christian values.” His policies? That’s a bizarre, very mixed bag, for most religious conservatives that I know.
Back to Green:
This has been a theme throughout Buttigieg’s campaign. The mayor has spoken openly about his religious faith and rallied religious rhetoric to his advantage: This spring, he called out Mike Pence for his opposition to same-sex marriage, saying, “Your quarrel, sir, it is with my creator.”
This is a departure from the usual playbook for the Democratic Party.
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Pilgrimage: Normandy and Lourdes defy the stereotypes of France's ardent secularism
For such a secular country, there are certainly lots of religious symbols to be found in France and religious institutions and activities continue to make news.
The country and many of its citizens do pride themselves on the principle of laicite — French for secularism — but is there really an absence of religion in public life?
Not really. It’s true that Notre Dame, one of the biggest symbols of European Christianity for centuries, has been cordoned off for the past two months after a tragic fire, deemed accidental, destroyed the roof. The cathedral, which will undergo a major renovation, is off limits to tourists. Nonetheless, the towering house of worship remains a symbol of Paris and part of this beautiful city’s skyline. The city’s other churches worth a visit include the Church of Saint Sulpice and the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, known as Sacre-Coeur.
Outside Paris, God’s visibility is even more pronounced. Two very different sites — Lourdes, one of the holiest in the world for Roman Catholics, and the U.S. cemetery at Normandy — have the ability to bring visitors closer to God in very different ways. There are reminders everywhere of the country’s religious past and how that symbolism continues to play a part in the lives of millions, both visitors and residents, who visit them. As a result, it’s not so unusual for tour operators to include packages to visit both sites.
It is worth noting that this notion of secularism, as it pertains to French government policies, was the result of a law passed in 1905 calling for this strict separation of church and state. While true that religious symbols have been removed from French public life (a possible reason why so many Muslims have found integration so difficult), Lourdes and Normandy may be the two places where this very human law seems to not apply.
First stop on this countrywide pilgrimage is Lourdes. A six-hour train ride (fares range from $134 to $193 roundtrip) from Paris gets you to Lourdes, a southern trip through the French countryside until finally pulling into the foothills of the Pyrenees mountains. While many take trains into Lourdes to embark on their pilgrimage, many from across Europe (particularly those from neighboring Italy and Spain) board coach buses to get there.
Lourdes became a major pilgrimage site after a 14-year-old girl named Bernadette Soubirous claimed to see the Blessed Virgin Mary on Feb. 11, 1858 through a vision. Soubirous would see Mary another 17 times near a grotto over the course of five months. Unaware she was having a vision, Mary told the girl: “I am the Immaculate Conception.”
Tagged: Lourdes, secularism, France, Normandy, miracles, healing, prayer, Sacre-Coeur, Virgin Mary
Anglicanism, Business, Christianity, Church & State, Europe, International News, People, Social Issues, Terry Mattingly, Women
When the queen dies: What, precisely, will cause England to slide into grief?
I guess it is sort of strange to complain about a heavy emphasis on business and economics in a story published at BusinessInsider.com.
Nevertheless, I found myself wanting to know more after reading the recent feature that ran with this headline: "The death of Queen Elizabeth will be one of the most disruptive events in Britain in the past 70 years." Yes, I sense a religion ghost here.
I have read several reports about the planning that is going on behind the scenes, as British leaders brace themselves for this seismic shift in their culture. There are so many details to describe and, yes, lots of them are linked to economics and trade.
England's currency will need to change, along with all passports. God Save the Queen will, of course, return to God Save the King. Police uniforms will be tweaked. Old questions will resurface about the status of the monarchy and the British Commonwealth. The public events linked to her death will cost billions of pounds.
Check out this overture. It may even help to read it out loud, to get the reverent tone right:
Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God Queen of this Realm and of Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, is not going to live forever.
Since ascending to the throne in 1952, the monarch has seen 13 prime ministers serve Britain and lived through another 13 US presidents. She's now 92. At some point -- not for many years yet, we hope -- Queen Elizabeth II's reign will come to an end.
But what happens then? For at least 12 days -- between her passing, the funeral and beyond -- Britain will grind to a halt. The chaos will cost the UK economy billions in lost earnings. The stock markets and banks are likely to close. And both the funeral and the subsequent coronation will become formal national holidays, each with an estimated economic hit to gross domestic product of £1.2 billion to £6 billion($1.6 billion to $7.9 billion), to say nothing of organisational costs.
Yes, that's a lot of money and that's part of the story.
However, there are even larger issues lurking in the background that, frankly, have to do with history and national identity.
Tagged: Queen Elizabeth, BusinessInsider.com, Britain, England, grief, secularism, BREXIT, Defender of the Faith, Church of England
Academia, Catholicism, Christianity, Churches, Human Rights, ISIS, Journalism, Politics, Refugees, Religious Liberty, Terrorism, Terry Mattingly, Women, Church & State, International News, Islam-Muslims
More secular attacks on burkinis: The New York Times explains why this is not about religion
All week long, there has been a wave of news coverage about the burkini wars (earlier post here) in the very tense land that is postmodern France.
Part of the problem is that public officials are not sure what has been banned. One Muslim woman was sent home from the beach for wearing a long-sleeve T-shirt and pants, with a head scarf, according to The New York Times. Another got in trouble for wearing a "competition bathing suit" with a head cap. There appears to be confusion about whether it's illegal for Muslim women to take a stroll on a beach while wearing the hijab.
Meanwhile, one Muslim voice argued that it's progress that some Muslim women want to go to the beach at all, since a wet burkini still reveals the shape of their bodies. Progress!
In terms of journalism, the good news is that some reporters are beginning to explore what this story says about the links between French colonialism and the nation's aggressive approach to secularism -- which argues that all religious faiths must kneel before the powers of a superior French culture based on secularism, venerating modern saints such as Brigitte Bardot and Roger Vadim. I ticked off a few readers in an earlier post by suggesting this is a clash between Sharia law and a kind of secular Sharia law.
However, one still gets the impression that members of the college of cardinals in the Times newsroom are still clicking their heels together and chanting, "This is not about religion," "This is not about religion," "This is not about religion."
Well, it's hard not to sense a religion ghost in this haunted headline: "Fighting for the ‘Soul of France,’ More Towns Ban a Bathing Suit: The Burkini." The irony, of course, is that Prime Minister Manuel Valls and others have been placed in the uncomfortable position of arguing that their goal is to liberate women, by telling them what they can and cannot do.
Tagged: France, The New York Times, burkini, Prime Minister Manuel Valls, Brigitte Bardot, Roger Vadim, Marine Le Pen, laicite, secularism, Stephen Bates, hajib, veils
World Religions, Women, Terry Mattingly, Social Issues, Religious Liberty, Politics, International News, Islam-Muslims
Adventures in secular laws and faith: BBC takes shallow dip into Cannes burkini debates
If you were covering a radical Islamist government's decision to ban Western swimwear on the beaches in its territory (a) who would you interview and (b) would you include any information about the religious/legal beliefs that shaped the decision?
Of course you would focus on the religion angle in the story, probing to see precisely what kind of Islamic vision was at work in this decision. It's not enough to say that Sharia law was at work and leave it at that, because there are many different approaches to Islamic law and its enforcement in the Muslim world.
So what if you turned this equation around, as in the BBC report that ran under this headline: "Cannes bans burkinis over suspected link to radical Islamism." Here is the overture of this online report from the tense land of France:
The mayor of Cannes in southern France has banned full-body swimsuits known as "burkinis" from the beach, citing public order concerns.
David Lisnard said they are a "symbol of Islamic extremism" and might spark scuffles, as France is the target of Islamist attacks. ...
Anyone caught flouting the new rule could face a fine of €38 (£33). They will first be asked to change into another swimming costume or leave the beach.
Nobody has been apprehended for wearing a burkini in Cannes since the edict came into force at the end of July.
Ah, some readers might say, this action was not based on religion. It was the response of a secular government to religious symbols that it has decided are, in effect, threatening. As the BBC story quickly notes, in 2011 French officials banned both full-face Islamic burkas as well as hijabs that cover part of the face.
So the burkini wars are not a matter of religion, but of an anti-religion?
Tagged: CNN, BBC, Cannes, burkini, swimming, beaches, Sharia Law, secularism, France, The Daily Beast
Godbeat, Science, Journalism, Ira Rifkin, Social Issues, International News
Religion journalists: Why are the UN's ten 'happiest' nations all secular-oriented?
So, how are you today? Feel OK about your life? Are you happy?
Chances are you're more likely to answer those questions affirmatively -- while smiling broadly, no doubt -- if you reside in Denmark rather than, let's say, Burundi. Or if you live in Switzerland and not -- get ready for another shocker -- Syria or Afghanistan.
At least, so says the pretentiously named World Happiness Report produced for the United Nations by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, an international panel of economists, psychologists, public health experts and others.
Most of its conclusions seem beyond obvious. (You don't see many Danes or Swiss risking their lives, and those of their children, to illegally enter Burundi, Syria or Afghanistan, do you?) However, the report does contain a few surprises.
For example, Israelis -- who face knife attacks and other small-scale terrorist actions on a daily basis and who live with the Islamic State, Hizbollah and Hamas on their borders -- say they are happier as a nation than do Germans, Britons, the French and Italians. And even Americans. Israel was listed by the report as the 11th happiest nation on Earth, while the U.S. placed 13th.
Apparently humans prefer facing possible death on the streets than the endless drip-drip torture of presidential primary debates. I can relate.
But I jest. So let me get serious and suggest that the report has much to offer journalists. It's haunted by religion ghosts -- which is to say, there's a host of extractable story ideas in it for journalists inclined to explore the nature of human happiness today from a psychological, spiritual and religious perspective.
Religion writers; I'm looking at you.
Tagged: Pope Francis, Burundi, United States, Bhutan, spirituality, New York Times, Sustainable Development Solutions Network, World Happiness Report, secularism, Israel, New Zealand
Christianity, Evangelicals, Godbeat, Immigration, Jim Davis, Journalism, Politics, Social Issues, Social Media, LGBTQ, Scriptures, Islam-Muslims
Franklin Graham: Another Trump? Yes and no, RNS profile says
The Religion News Service takes a skeptical but fair-minded look at Franklin Graham -- his beliefs, his politics, his differences from his famed father, Billy Graham -- in a satisfyingly long profile rolled out for Super Tuesday week.
And no, that’s not a chance coincidence, as Godbeat veteran Cathy Lynn Grossman crafts the story:
While Donald Trump campaigns to "Make America great again," Franklin Graham, facing a nation where conservative believers are losing cultural clout, wants to make it Christian again. Week after week, he stands on winter-wind-swept statehouse steps and exhorts crowds like a biblical Nehemiah, warning people to repent to rebuild Jerusalem — with a gospel twist. He urges them to pray first and then vote for Bible-believing evangelical candidates.
But you can’t vote for him.
"No, no!" he is "absolutely not" running for office, said Graham, who tends to rat-a-tat-tat his points.
Instead, he exhorts his listeners to run themselves, starting with local city and county offices. Imagine, he says at every tour stop, the impact on society if "the majority of the school boards were controlled by evangelical Christians."
This sweeping, 2,200-word article is impressive, though not without a couple of issues. It tells of Franklin's rise in building the Samaritan's Purse charity, from a small medical mission into one of the largest disaster relief and development agencies in the U.S. And it adroitly parallels the presidential primary campaigns with Franklin's $10 million "Decision America" barnstorming tour, which often "takes him into town just ahead of a primary or caucus."
Tagged: Religion News Service, CBS News, Franklin Graham, LGBT, Muslims, Evangelicals, Billy Graham, Muslim, Islam, fundamentalists, Fundamentalism, Samaritan's Purse, secularism, Bible, Primaries, invocations, hate speech
Worship, World Religions, Terry Mattingly, Politics, People, Jews and Judaism
The New York Times probes (sort of) the heart of Bernie Sanders, a 'non-Jewish Jew'
Once again, it's time to talk about the media coverage of Bernie Sanders and his now you see it, now you don't approach to Judaism. The New York Times headline is pretty predictable: "Bernie Sanders Is Jewish, but He Doesn’t Like to Talk About It."
This new piece addresses all kinds of issues and answers a few questions that mainstream journalists missed in the past -- which kibbutz did he live in as a young man (a socialist one), what are his views on hot-button issues linked to Israel (he's with the Israeli left, seeking a two-state solution that backs Israel’s right to exist as well as a Palestinian homeland).
Nevertheless, as I read this piece I kept thinking about Jimmy Carter and the media storm in 1976 when the elite American press was forced to wrestle with the term "born again Christian." That's ordinary language in the Sunbelt and Middle America, but part of an unknown tongue in major chunks of the media-rich urban Northeast.
I understand that many journalists in New York City needed time to grasp the basics of evangelical Christianity. Hey, 40 years later lots of elite journalists are still wrestling with that.
However, is it really big news at The New York Times that there are million of people of Jewish heritage whose identity centers more on matters of culture than on the practice of the Jewish faith? I found it strange that this A1 Times piece basically let rabbis explain Sanders to America. Where are the quotes from articulate Jewish atheists and agnostics? Other than insights from his brother, Larry Sanders, where are the voices of the secular Jews?
Bernie Sanders is pretty normal, statistically speaking. He appears to be a secular, cultural Jew (not that there's anything wrong with that).
Tagged: Bernie Sanders, Pew Forum, The New York Times, Jimmy Carter, secularism
Academia, Africa, Anglicanism, Catholicism, Clergy, Godbeat, Immigration, Mainline, Social Issues, Terry Mattingly, Worship, Marriage & Family
Your weekend think piece: The Spectator does math, attempts Anglican time travel
Think of them as the three laws of spiritual physics when it comes to the demographics of faith. The bottom line is that religious groups thrive when:
* Believers have children.
* Believers pass their faith on to their children, the children retain that faith and some of these children even embrace vocations as clergy or workers with the faith.
* Believers reach out to others and spread the faith in service and evangelism.
As we like to say here at GetReligion: Demographics is destiny, and so is doctrine.
You could certainly see these factors at play in the recent "Global Catholicism: Trends & Forecasts"(.pdf copy here) conducted by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University.
The bottom line: Catholicism is on ice in Europe and on fire in Africa and Asia. You can read some of the details in my "On Religion" column this week, but here's the bottom line: It's hard for a faith to survive, let alone thrive, when it isn't producing children, clergy and new believers. Heed these thoughts from CARA's Mark Gray:
Tagged: CARA, Georgetown University, The Spectator, demographics, birth rates, secularism
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The Slocan Ramblers – Folk Roots Radio Interview
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Tagged with Adrian Gross, Alastair Whitehead, Chris Coole, Coffee Creek, Darryl Poulsen, Foggy Hogtown Boys, Frank Evans, River Run Centre, The Slocan Ramblers
Toronto bluegrass band The Slocan Ramblers have a reputation for producing some of the best live acoustic music out there – a refreshingly youthful and fiddle-free take on bluegrass featuring Adrian Gross on mandolin, Darryl Poulsen on guitar, Alastair Whitehead on bass and Frank Evans on three-finger and clawhammer banjo. They released their second album “Coffee Creek”, the follow up to their very well received 2012 debut “Shaking Down The Acorns”, in 2015. An album that explores the outer reaches of bluegrass while respecting its traditions, Coffee Creek was recorded live off the floor with Chris Coole (from the Foggy Hogtown Boys) at the controls and features a healthy dose of their own original material. The Slocan Ramblers will be appearing at the River Run Centre in Guelph on January 27, The Old Town Hall in Newmarket on March 25, The Registry Theatre in Kitchener on April 7, the Aurora Cultural Centre on May 12 and the Regent Theatre in Picton on May 20 alongside dates in Western Canada, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia. We caught up with banjo player Frank Evans in Toronto, to chat about their music. For more information visit slocanramblers.com. Music: The Slocan Ramblers “Pastures of Plenty / Honey Babe”, “Elk River”, “Coffee Creek” and “Call Me Long Gone” from “Coffee Creek” (2015, Self).
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The Drama of Jesus
Peter Milward
There’s no doubt about it. The life of Jesus is intensely dramatic. I doubt if there has been a more dramatic life in the history of man, whether in the real lives of Alexander and Julius Caesar or in the fictitious ones of Hamlet and King Lear. In the four gospels it has been told with dramatic intensity both in the narrative style of the first three and in the discursive style of the fourth. Shakespeare himself drew deep inspiration from these four sources, as appears in all his plays and particularly in his tragedies from Romeo and Juliet to King Lear.
There’s no doubt about it. The life of Jesus is intensely dramatic. I doubt if there has been a more dramatic life in the history of man, whether in the real lives of Alexander and Julius Caesar or in the fictitious ones of Hamlet and King Lear. In the four gospels it has been told with dramatic intensity both in the narrative style of the first three and in the discursive style of the fourth. Shakespeare himself drew deep inspiration from these four sources, as… (more)
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Scott Tips is the President and General Counsel for the FHR, and has been a proponent of better nutrition and health freedom since the late 1960s. Known for his many years of work on behalf of the our sister organization, The National Health Federation and health freedom at Codex Alimentarius meetings, and in editing Health Freedom News, Scott has also represented many dietary-supplement, herb, and homeopathic companies against the FDA and FTC. He has served on the Board of Governors for many years, compiled the pre-eminent health-freedom book on Codex (Codex Alimentarius – Global Food Imperialism), and made many presentations for NHF at public events and on radio. He has been the chief delegate for NHF at numerous Codex meetings, is known for his outspoken stance at such meetings, and has attended more such meetings than all other health-freedom activists combined.
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1527 S. Centinela Ave.
Cause: Strangled
Agency: Santa Monica PD
Times coverage: Santa Monica woman called police before she was strangled
Posted Dec. 8, 2010, 6:20 p.m.
Times coverage: Family of slain woman speaks to court about her alleged killer
Posted Nov. 3, 2010, 5:12 p.m.
Juliana Redding, 21
Posted March 16, 2008, 6 p.m.
Juliana Redding, 21, a white woman, was found dead inside her home at 1527 Centinela Ave. in Santa Monica about 6:10 p.m. Sunday, March 16.
According to Lt. Alex Padilla from the Santa Monica Police Department, Redding's mother had called police from Tucson, Ariz., Sunday evening and told police that she had been unable to reach her daughter at her home.
Officers were dispatched to the address and upon arrival discovered she had been killed during an assault. Anyone with information is asked to call Santa Monica police detectives at (310) 458-8451.
[Update Dec. 5, 2010: The Times has new details about allegations in the slaying of Redding:
As detectives pieced together the 2008 slaying of a young Santa Monica woman, they came to a chilling conclusion: She had been calling police for help when the killer snatched the phone from her hands and hung up.
Prosecutors unveiled the eerie account of the 911 call and other details from the March 2008 killing that has attracted national attention during secret grand jury proceedings against Kelly Soo Park, the woman arrested in June this year and accused of murder in the slaying of 21-year-old Juliana Redding. A transcript of the proceedings was obtained by The Times last week — its contents being made public for the first time.
Read more: Detectives say Santa Monica actress dialed 911 moments before she was killed
[June 3, 2013: After more than a week of deliberations a jury acquits Park of Redding's murder.
The verdict stunned Redding's friends who shouted "Murderer" "Go to hell!" and "This is a travesty of judgment" when the decision was read in court.
During closing arguments, her attorney George Buehler told jurors that Park's DNA could have been transferred from items she touched at the home of Marina del Rey physician, Dr. Munir Uwaydah, who employed Park and briefly dated Redding months before the killing. The killer, Buehler argued, could have used a rag or towel with Park's DNA to wipe down the crime scene. That, he said, would explain why Park's genetic material was at the scene.
Buehler said the verdict ended a three-year ordeal for his client, whom he described as "very relieved."
"She's had some hard years dealing with this, the fear of it and the anxiety of it," the attorney said. "She just wants to go and rest right now."
Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey released a statement saying that prosecutors disagree with the verdict but respect the justice system.
"We believed in our case and the strength of our evidence," the statement said. "We fought hard and fair in the court of law to obtain justice."
-- Jack Leonard
Top photo: Juliana Redding Credit: DMV
Bottom photo: Kelly Soo Park Credit: Santa Monica Police Department
Juliana Redding
Died: March 16, 2008
March 16, 2008 Jose Luis Villa, 30
March 16, 2008 Francisco Martinez, 47
Share a memory or thought about Juliana Redding
Great loss of life never met the young women but karma will catch the guilty and they will suffer believe in karma😀
— Nick Aug. 6, 2016 at 11:08 p.m.
Every now and then I click on to the Homicide report ( I usually do so at night whilst listening to live LA Police feed) and every time I find a story that haunts me, I know many of the stories now just by looking at the picture of the folks, and this is one of them, so young and such a beautiful young woman with so much to live for. I can only send my sincerest hope's and thoughts to her family, I hope you see justice soon..
I consider myself fortunate that I live in a fairly safe country (England) I honestly do not think I would want to raise a family anywhere near LA. For instance to think a person could be killed just for wearing a wrong colour is to me mind blowing.
— Jon April 23, 2016 at 12:22 p.m.
I was reading the news of the fraud case by non doctors.
Julianna's name was in the article
So I looked it up to see what had
I'm sorry for your loss. I hope that justice prevails in this case. I can't stand it when someone takes advantage of another human being. God bless you threw your struggles. George
— George Sept. 26, 2015 at 6:38 a.m.
This gets me so angry. What an ignorant jury!
— Maggie Jan. 29, 2015 at 8:14 a.m.
Found Not Guilty
— Watcher June 11, 2013 at 7:18 p.m.
Kelly soo park has been tried the jury is out, shes guilty as sin, but I think she will walk,,,next few days will tell...huge money involved in this case..
— fred May 23, 2013 at 9:31 p.m.
Sounds like a Dorner Copycat scenario.
— Rick April 3, 2013 at 10:25 a.m.
juliana is the best----justice for juliana ASAP!
SHE DIDNT HAVE A CLUE WHO KSOOPARK WAS NOR DID SHE EXPECT TO DIE at 21yrs old. JULI WAS NICE TO EVERYONE, LOVED LIFE. --KSOOPARK how dare u do this to her and her family. YOU TOOK THE LIFE OF AN INNOCENT YOUNG person
juliana = angel above <3
— justice Oct. 20, 2011 at 10:38 a.m.
A Google search for Munir Uwaydah turned up this article with a lot more info on the doctor who apparently masterminded Juliana's murder. He sounds like a disgusting human being who thinks he can do anything he wants because he's filthy rich. Saw somewhere else that the guy fled the country when Kelly Soo Park was released on bail.
http://www.adjuster.com/modules.php?mop=modload&name=News&func=article_view&adj_article_id=1372
— d Jan. 25, 2011 at 6:21 p.m.
Juliana's murder just took a very strange turn. The LA times has posted an article on the latest developments:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/06/new-twist-in-mysterious-slaying-of-aspiring-model-juliana-redding-in-santa-monica.html
I was very curious to find out the connection between Kelly Soo Park and Juliana Redding. If what the article states is true, it opens up about a dozen more questions.
If Juliana was the target of a contracted killing, why would someone use Kelly Soo Park as a hitman? If the doctor Park worked for (Dr. Munir Uwaydah), wanted to hurt his ex-business partner, (Juliana's father), why did he concoct this elaborate revenge fantasy? Was it worth $300K to see the Redding family suffer? What was their business deal that went sour about? Also, what is the Torrance police dept. connection in all of this? And finally, how did Juliana die? That has never been publicly confirmed. But with talk of contracted murder and charges of murder with special circumstances, I'm afraid Juliana died a very violent death.
— JB June 27, 2010 at 2:04 p.m.
A woman was just arrested in her killing.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/06/woman-charged-in-slaying-of-santa-monica-model.html
— dale June 22, 2010 at 10:26 a.m.
I thought of her pretty face when I heard the news last night!
Hope they talk and lead them to the others!
— YURI June 21, 2010 at 6:57 p.m.
Things are moving fast this morning. Two people have been arrested for her murder with possibly more arrests to come.
From CBS2: "Kelly Soo Park, 44, and Ronnie Wayne Case, 34, both of Camarillo, were arrested in the death of Juliana Maureen Redding.
Detectives worked "thousands of hours" on the case, in cooperation with law enforcement in Torrance and Oxnard and the FBI, Santa Monica police Sgt. Jay Trisler said."
I believe they were charged with conspiracy and murder with special circumstances.
— JB June 18, 2010 at 9:51 a.m.
So sad, Juliana was an awesome girl and would have never harmed a sole... some a hole will pay for this eventually... truly sad that no one has been able to make a break in this case and bring the person responsible to justice
— Dirk May 27, 2010 at 4:22 p.m.
JB any updates on this?
— YURI April 7, 2010 at 9:03 a.m.
The Santa Monica police appear to be covering something up. We need resolution on this case and they have sealed it? What's really going on?
— Healthy Guy March 9, 2010 at 9:51 a.m.
There's more details about Juliana Redding here:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/17/grace.coldcase.redding/index.html
Juliana was a very beautiful model/actress living in Santa Monica. She had a bit part in a movie and had done a couple of photos for Maxim's website as well.
As far as the murder itself, there is little to no information available. It's presumed she died during an assault but there hasn't been anything confirmed yet. It doesn't appear that her apartment was broken into. Could it be someone she knew? Who was she involved with at the time of her murder? Could someone have followed her home from work? There is still a lot of questions surrounding her murder. Hopefully someday they'll be answered.
RIP Juliana
— JB Feb. 13, 2010 at 7 p.m.
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The Journal Record
How do you teach kids about texting? Bring in the teenagers
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER
BC-EU--Growing Up Digital-The German Way,2nd Ld-Writethru
Martin Meissner, ASSOCIATED PRESS
ESSEN, Germany (AP) — How do you teach tech-savvy kids to safely navigate the digital world? In Germany, you bring in the teenagers.
On a recent day, 18-year-old Chantal Hueben stood in front of a group of fifth-graders and asked them to brainstorm about the messaging program Whatsapp, which most are using to participate in a group chat for their class. They spoke about themes like cyberbullying and what material is OK to post.
"Many are not really aware yet of the impact their messages can have on others," says Hueben, dressed all in black except for white sneakers. "We're teaching them not to post anything private on the class chat, not to send photos of others and not to insult anybody."
The session at the Gesamtschule Borbeck high school, in the western German city of Essen, is part of a large-scale program in which teenagers teach their younger schoolmates how to stay safe and sane online.
As they grow older, they also participate in workshops about media copyright issues or sexting, and, at the end of eighth grade, they take a test to get a laminated "mobile license" that allows them to use their smartphones at certain times at school.
The exam includes 10 multiple choice questions. One asks what to do when somebody sends an embarrassing Snapchat photo of a fellow student. The answer, of course, is to not forward the picture to others.
Over two-thirds of kids in Germany have smartphones by the age of 11 and, like children around the world, many are stressed by the huge number of messages they receive and don't know how to handle inappropriate and hurtful posts. With many parents and teachers lacking in digital skills and unable to relate to what it means to grow up with a smartphone, German authorities decided peer education was the best approach.
At Borbeck, which has about 1,000 students and is considered one of the most advanced schools in Germany when it comes to teaching digital skills, there are 32 students teaching in the "Medienscouts," or media scouts, program.
"We're also students, so we have this buddy and role model relationship with the younger kids that definitely motivates them to learn from us," Hueben says.
With the program, Germany is ahead of many other countries, where "media skills" are often taught by teachers and are more about how to read or watch news media rather than the personal impact.
It was founded in 2011 by public authorities in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia. In Germany, education is managed by the country's 16 separate states, and now 11 of them have established similar programs in hundreds of schools.
In North Rhine-Westphalia, 766 schools have so far participated in the media scout program. More than 3,120 high school students have been trained as scouts and around 1,500 teachers have acted as guidance counselors to help the kids grow up as mature cyber world citizens.
"It would be great if the media scouts would be established at every high school," said Sven Hulvershorn from the media authority agency for the western German state, who oversees the media scout program. "We're not there yet, but we're working on it."
Beyond teaching children how to deal with the daily stress of digital communications, experts in Germany agree there's a need to coach them in how to protect themselves from online bullying, sexual predators or fake news.
"We first had a complete ban on phones in our school," explained teacher Vera Servaty, who is the media scouts' guidance counselor at Borbeck high school. "But the reality is that media is a central aspect of the students' lives. If the school doesn't help them navigate the media and the parents aren't of any help either then how should the children learn responsible ways with the digital world?"
The program is more developed than in many other countries. In the United States, many schools have not fully embraced peer-to-peer tutoring in social media, says Liz Kolb, a professor of education technology at the University of Michigan.
U.S. schools are required by a federal program to teach appropriate online behavior, but that is done by teachers and while some schools offer peer-to-peer tutoring, it is not on the scale of what Germany is doing.
"Schools are pretty much figuring out their own way because there really is no strong mandate they have to have a certain curriculum or specific goals," Kolb said of the U.S. "It's definitely needed and schools are seeing that it's needed, they just don't know how to go about fitting it into the already tight curriculum they have."
At Borbeck high school, the media scouts spend several hours teaching the fifth graders how not to let WhatsApp take over their lives. Beyond practical tricks, like turning off the setting that lets the sender know if a message has been read, the older students also talk with the fifth-graders about learning how to take breaks from their smart phone.
After the end of Hueben's workshop, 11-year-old Simon Scharenberg looked relieved.
He said he often felt overwhelmed by the hundreds of WhatsApp messages he receives every day, most of them from schoolmates in the class group chat. He felt obliged to follow up on all of them out of fear of missing important information about homework or school activities.
After the WhatsApp workshop, Scharenberg said he felt more confident about taking a break from messaging.
"I will put down my phone in the kitchen when I come home from school," he said, explaining his new strategy. "Before I go to sleep, I will check all the messages. But I only reply if I really feel like it."
Michael Melia in Hartford, Connecticut, contributed to this report.
For more AP coverage of technology: https://apnews.com/apf-technology
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Howells’s “Editor’s Study” Columns from Harper’s New Monthly Magazine
Image files originally from Cornell’s Making of America Site and now at Hathi Trust.
Because of a change in the link addresses, this links on this page now refer to the “Editor’s Study” column for each month rather than to individual pieces. Since these are image files, they will take a little longer to load than text or HTML files. The columns are also available in .pdf (Adobe Acrobat), which is best for printing, and uncorrected text formats. The titles and page numbers given below are those listed in the index for each volume of Harper’s.
For a complete print version of the “Editor’s Study” columns, see James W. Simpson’s Editor’s Study by William Dean Howells (Troy, N. Y.: Whitston Press, 1983.)
To see what became of the “Editor’s Study” after Howells left it, read the columns by Charles Dudley Warner.
The volume numbers appear in parentheses.
January (72) January January January January January January
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“Dostoyevsky and the More Smiling Aspects of Life.” Harper’s 73 (1886): 641-42.
“False and Truthful Fiction.” Harper’s 74 (1887): 824-26
“Standards and Taste in Fiction.” Harper’s 75 (1887): 639-40.
“The Grasshopper: The Simple, the Natural, the Honest in Art.” Harper’s 76 (1887): 153-55.
“An Invitation to the Reader,” p. 321
“Some Recent Fiction,” p. 321-323 (Across the Chasm, Mary Murfree’s Prophet of Snowy Mountain, Weir Mitchell’s In War Time, Picard’s A Mission Flower and A Matter of Taste, Belle C. Greene’s A New England Conscience, Edgar Fawcett’sSocial Silhouettes)
“Literary Centres,” p. 324
“A Word about Americanisms,” p. 324 (Lowell and American slang in literature)
“Some Recent Illustrated Books” p. 325-326 ( Holmes’ poem “The Leaf,” Whittier’s Poems of Nature, Jean Ingelow’s Favorite Poems, George Boughton’s Sketching Rambles in Holland, Howells’s Tuscan Cities, Hamerton’s Old and Present Times, D’Amici’s Spain and the Spaniards, Howard Pyle’s Pepper and Salt)
February 1886:
“A Fairytale of Biography,” p. 481 (Life and Correspondence of Louis Agassiz, Agassiz’s accomplishments)
“Souvenirs of a Diplomat,” p. 482 (M. de Bacourt, experiences in America)
“Americanisms in Some Recent English Novels,” p. 484 (Robert Buchanan, Black’s White Heather, Grant Allen’s Babylon)
“Two Remarkable Examples of Sincerity in Fiction,” p. 485 (William Hale White’s Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, and Mark Rutherford’s Deliverance)
“Balzac’s Realism,” p. 486 (Balzac’s Le Pere Goriot, Cesar Birotteau, and Eugenie Grandet)
“Our Critics,” p. 486 (Critique of critics)
(annotations by Ashley Miller and Regan Lane; includes books mentioned but not reviewed)
List of books referred to in Volume 73.
(314)Mrs. Peixada (By Mr. Sidney Luska)
(314)Theatrical Conditions (Regarding Luska’s Mrs. Peixada)
(315)Our Comic Dramatist (Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Hoyt’s Rag Baby, Mr. Edward Harringtom’s “Dan’s Tribulations,” “Leather Patch”)
(317)Mr. Howard’s Play (Bronson Howard’s, “One of our Girls”)
(317)The larger Stage (Wolcott Balestier, “A Victorious Defeat”)
(318)Mr. Posnett’s Comparative Literature (Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett, T.S. Perry, “English Literature in the Eighteenth Century,” and “From Opitz to Lessing”)
(475)I. A consoling Reflection for the neglected Author
(476)II. Some notable Books without Literary Consciousness: “General Grant’s Memoirs”; Lieutenant Greely’s “Three Years of Arctic Service” (Volume 2, Pilgrim’s Progress, De Foe)
(477)III. Miss Woolson’s new Novel (East Angels)
(478)III.“Constance of Acadia” (Author Unknown)
(478)IV. Two recent Historical Books – Boyesen’s “Story of Norway,” and Royce’s “History of California” (found in Mr. Scudders “American Commonwealth Series”)
(639)I. Dostoievsky’s latest Novel (“Le Crime et le Châtiment”)(Tourgéneff and Tolsoï, Dostoïevsky’s Le Crime et le Châtiment, Les Humiliés et Offensés)
(641)II. The Story of Dostoievsky’s Life in the “Revue des Deux Mondes” (M. Eugene Melchoir de Vogue)(Revue des Deux Mondes, Poor People, The Crime and the Punishment, The Humiliated and the Wronged, The Bedeviled)
(641)III. Why American Fiction should be cheerful (The Smiling Aspects of Life, Hawthorne)
(642)IV. Vernon Lee’s “Baldwin”
(642)V. The Memoir of Mrs. Edward Livingston (by her great-niece, Mrs. Louise Livingston Hunt, Prue and I)
(643)VI. General Badeau’s “Aristocracy in England”
(801)I. The Bible of All Lovers, (Compiled by Professor Marco Antonio Canini)(Compiled by Canini, Il Libro dell’ Amore, Dizionario Etimologico di Vocaboli Italiani, Dizionario Etimologico di Vocaboli Italian, Amore e Dolore, Vingt Ans d’Exil, Solomon, King of Jerusalem, Soliman II the Magnificent, Sultan of the Turks and The Grand Mogul Shah Alam II, Paur’ Zizi, Bjornson, Tegnér, Oehlenschläger, Burns, Moore, Shelley, Byron, Tennyson, Browning, Barrett-Browning, G. Dante Rossetti, Swinburne, Hugo, Whitman, Longfellow, Lowell)
(803)II. Representative Poems of Living Poets (Jeannette L. Gilder) (by Miss L. Gilder, introduction by Mr. G.P. Lathrop, Tennyson, Aldrich’s “Identity,” “Sleep,” Mrs. Akers Allen’s “Among the Laurels,” Mr. Bunner’s “The Way to Arcady,” Mr. Cranch’s “Bobolinks,” Mr. Dobson’s “A Dead Letter, “Ballad of Prose and Rhyme,” Dr. Holmes’ “The Chambered Nautilus,” “The Last Leaf,” “Old Ironsides,” “The Voiceless,” “Mr. Lowell’s “Commemoration Ode,” “A Parable,” “The Present Crisis,” “What is so rare as a day in June?” “The Courtin’,” Mr. Lathrop’s “The Singing Wire,” Mrs. Piatt, Mr. Stoddard’s ode to “Abraham Lincoln,” “The Flight of Youth,” Mr. Maurice Thomson’s “Atlanta,” “A Prelude,” “Wild Honey,” Mr. Trowbridge’s “The Vagabonds,” Mr. Whittier’s “My Playmate”)
(804)The Decadence of Poetry (G.P. Lathrop)(Mr. Lathrop, Mademoiselle Bentzon, review of Mr. Stedman’s American Poets in Revue de Deux Mondes, Whitman)
(804-5) III. (Introductory essay on poetry by G.P. Lathrop)
(805)IV. A Terrible Criticism (G.P. Lathrop on Shakespeare)(Mr. Lathrop, Stedman, Posnett, Perry, Shakespeare)
(962)I. Thomas Hardy’s “The Mayor of Casterbridge,”(“Far from the Madding Crowd,” “Under the Greenwood Tree,” “A Pair of Blue Eyes”)
(962)II. Some recent Spanish Fiction: Valera’s “Pepita Ximenez” and “Dona Luz”III. Valdo’s :Marta y Maria” and “Jose,”(Valera’s Poetry and the Art of the Arabs in Spain and Sicily, Don Armando Palacio Valdés’ “Riverita”) (964)Verga’s “I Malavoglia”
(964)“Misfits and Remnants” (L.D. Ventura and S. Shovitch)(M. Ernest Dupuy, “Les Grands Maitres dela Litterature Russe,” M. Eugene-Melchior de Vogue, “La Roman Russe” (Messieurs LD Ventura and S. Shovich, Dupuy, Les Grands Maîtres de la Littérature Russe and La Roman Russe, by M. Eugène-Melchoir de Vogüé, Gogol, Tourguénief, Tolstoï, Dostoïevsky)
(965)IV. Two notable Biographies: Life of Judge Richard Reid; V. Autobiography of Cassius M. Clay,
(by Wife Elizabeth Jamseon Reid)
“Thanksgiving and Christmas” p. 155
“Comity in International Criticism,” p. 318
“Mark Twain’s New Wonder Book,” p. 319 (on A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court)
“Mr. Morse’s Franklin and Franklin’s Humor,” p. 321
“An American School Reader,” p. 322.
“A Curious Fact Concerning All the Arts,” p. 322
“Smaller, if not fewer, Books,” p. 480 (Boswell’s Life of Johnson)
“Some Excellent English Essays,” p. 481 (E. Hughes’s Some Aspects of Humanity)
“The Odd Number,” p. 482
“A Very Powerful Novel,” p. 482 (G. P. Lathrop’s Would You Kill Him?)
“A Very Suggestive Novel,” p. 483 (Charles Dudley Warner’s A Little Journey in the World)
“A New Sort of Political Economist,” p. 484 (Richard T. Ely’s Social Aspects of Christianity)
“A Pleasant Study of Literature,” p. 485
“A Diplomat Comes to Judgment of the Literary Life,” p. 642 (E. J. Phelps’s The Age of Words)
“His Charge to the Jury,” p. 643
“Some Modest Question of the Righteousness of his Sentence,” p. 644
“Why the Prisoner at the Bar thinks it ought not to have been pushed upon him,” p. 645
“The Prisoner’s Self-defense, Justification, and Glorification,” p. 646
“Some Contumely for Dead Dignities,” p. 647
“The Conclusion of the Whole Matter,” p. 647
“A New Interpretation,” p. 805 (Anonymous God in His World)
“Tennyson’s Latest Word,” p. 806 (Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “Demeter and Persephone”)
“Browning’s Last,” p. 807 (Robert Browning’s “Asolando”)
“A Humorist from Kansas,” p. 807 (Poetry by one named “Ironquill”)
“A Poet from New Zealand,” p. 809 (J. Glenny Wilson’s Themes and Variations)
“In the Garden of Dreams,” p. 809
“Between whiles,” p. 809
“Wyndham Towers,” p. 809 (Mr. Aldrich’s “Wyndham Towers”)
“Among Australian Cannibals,” p. 966 (Carl Lumholtz’s Autobiography)
“The Anglo-Saxon Strain of Homicide in Mississippi,” p. 967 (Reuben Davis’s Recollections of Mississippi and Mississippians)
“A Gilbert and Sullivan Plot in American History,” p. 968 (Henry Adams’s first volume of the history of the United States)
“Bigelow’s Life of Bryant,” p. 969 (John Bigelow’s contribution to Warner’s “American Men of Letters” series)
“The Dramatic Critics and the Dramatists,” p. 152
“The Tripartite Distrust,” p. 153
“Mr. Herne’s Play, Drifting Apart,” p. 154 (James A. Herne’s Drifting Apart)
“Mr. Howard’s Shenandoah,” p. 155 (Mr. Howard’s Shenandoah)
“The Senator,” p. 155 (Lloyd and Rosenfeld’s The Senator)
“A Made-up Play — A Play that makes American Plays seem like Playthings,” p. 156
“A Field-Day with Correspondents,” p. 314
“Humble-Pie for the Study,” p. 314
“Humbler Pie,” p. 315
“Not quite so humble, but still humble enough,” p. 315
“The Reward of Virtue,” p. 316
“Mr. Lowell on Idealism,” p. 317
“Canon Farrar’s Excellent Paper on Criticism,” p. 476 (Canon Farrar’s article in the May, 1890 Fortune)
“The Effect of Bad Criticism Not so Mischievous as its Intent,” p. 476
“Why Criticism Cannot Legislate for Literature,” p. 477
“The Abuse of Anonymity in all Branches of Journalism,” p 478
“Its Temptations,” p. 478
“Its Disastrous Consequences,” p. 479
“The Ideal Critic,” p. 479
“Why the Anonymous Critic Should Cease to Be,” p. 480
“Mr. John Hay’s Volume of Poetry,” p. 638 (Poems by John Hay)
“The Tragic Muse of Mr. Henry James,” p. 639
“The Life of Carmen Sylva,” p. 641
“The Autobiography of a Japanese Boy,” p. 641
“Balzac’s Sons of the Soil,” p. 642 (Honore de Balzac’s Sons of the Soil)
“Mr. Lafcadio Hearn’s Youma” p. 642
“Mr. George Pellew’s Life of Jay,” p. 642 (George Pellew’s Life of John Jay from the “American Men of Letters” Series)
“Mr. Harold Frederic’s Novels,” p. 800 (Harold Frederic’s In the Valley, Seth’s Brother’s Wife, and The Lawton Girl)
“Mr. Kipling’s Work, en passant,” p. 800
“The American Version of an Italian Masterpiece,” p. 801
“Tolstoi’s Mistake,” p. 802
“Mr. Henley’s Criticism,” p. 803
“Miss White’s Miss Brooks,” p. 804
“Mr. Isaac Taylor’s Origin of the Aryans,” p. 962 (Isaac Taylor’s Origin of the Aryans)
“An American’s Anticipation of his Theory,” p. 963
“Woman’s Place in a Prehistoric Society,” p. 964
“Reasons for Rejecting the Old Philological Theory of the Aryan Invasions,” p. 964
“Concluding Reflections,” p. 966
“A Christmas Dream,” p. 152
“The Ideal Commonwealth here at last: Festive Processions,” p. 152
“Dramatic Critics and Playwrights, Literary Critics and Creative Authors,” p. 153
“The Last of the Romanticists and the Anonymous Critic,” p. 153
“Foreign Authors and Perpetual Copyright,” p. 156
“Following the Guidon,” p. 316 (Elizabeth B. Custer’s Following the Guidon)
“Campaigning with Crook,” p. 316 (Elizabeth B. Custer’s Campaigning with Crook)
“The Spirit of the Army as in these and in Mr. Kipling’s Books,” p. 318 (Rudyard Kipling’s Departmental Ditties and Other Verses)
“The Strange Poems of Emily Dickinson,” p. 318 (Poetry by Dickinson edited by Mabel Loomis Todd) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31175010477191;view=1up;seq=339
“The Difficulty of Keeping Enemies,” p. 320 (James McNeill Whistler’s The Gentle Art of Making Enemies)
“The Latest if not the Last Word about Lincoln,” p. 478 (Nicolay and Hay’s biography of Abraham Lincoln)
“His National Proportions,” p. 480
“The Good Literature of Lincoln and his Contemporaries,” p. 481
“Messrs. Nicolay and Hay’s Method in History,” p. 481
“Two Notable Novels,” p. 482 (Bjornstjerne Bjornson’s In God’s Ways and Valdes’s Espuma)
“In the Footprints of Charles Lamb,” p. 640 (B.E. Martin’s In the Footprints of Charles Lamb)
“Walter Scott’s Journal,” p. 640 (Walter Scott’s Journal edited by David Douglas)
“Society as I have Found it,” p. 642 (Ward McAllister’s Society as I have Found It)
“Joseph Jefferson’s Autobiography,” p. 642 (Joseph Jefferson’s Autobiography)
“Curiosities of the American Stage,” p. 643 (Laurence Hutton’s Curiosities of the American Stage)
“A Sketch of Chester Harding,” p. 644 (Chester Harding’s Autobiography A Sketch of Chester Harding, Artist, drawn by his own Hand)
“London Letters,” p. 644 (G.W. Smalley’s London Letters)
“An American History of Greek Letters,” p. 802 (T.S. Perry’s History of Greek Literature)
“Scope and Influence of that Literature,” p. 802
“Modern Heirs of Alexandria rather than Athens,” p. 803
“The American Proficiency in one of the Fine Arts,” p. 804 (Comparing Sarah Orne Jewett’s Strangers and Wayfarers and Maupassant’s Tales by Francois Coppee)
“A Spanish Woman’s Mood,” p. 805 (Emilia Pardo Bazan Morrina)
“The Realistic View of Menials,” p. 806
“The Possibility of an Exhibition of Poetry,” p. 964
“Lyrics for a Lute,” p. 964 (Frank Dempster Sherman’s Lyrics for a Lute)
“The Inverted Torch,” p. 965 (Edith M. Thomas’s The Inverted Torch)
“Vagabond Verses,” p. 965 (Henry Austin’s Vagabond Verses)
“Rhymes of Childhood,” p. 965 (James Whitcomb Riley’s Rhymes of Childhood)
“A Little Book of Western Verse,” p. 966 (Eugene Field)
“The Sister’s Tragedy,” p. 966 (Aldrich’s The Sister’s Tragedy and Other Poems)
“Rose Brake,” p. 967 (Dankse Dandridge Rose Brake)
“The Grave of Wordsworth and other Poems,” p. 967 (William Watson’s Wordsworth’s Grave and Other Poems)
“Another Christmas Dream of Altruria,” p. 153
“Interview with the Christmas Boy,” p. 153
“Strange State of Things in Altruria concerning literary Property,” p. 154
“Tenure of Literary Property made the Norm throughout Altruria,” p. 155
“Popularity of this Solution,” p. 156
“A Handful of Poets,” p. 315 (Orrin Cedesman, Meredith Nelson, William Wilfred Campbell, Denton J. Snider, and J.P. Irving)
“Is the Poetic Centre shifting?” p. 317
“Possible Effects of Western Competition in Verse,” p. 318 (Poetry by Madison Cawein, Gertrude Hall, Lilla Cabot Perry, and William Sharp)
“Unity of all Times and Places in Poetry,” p. 319
“A Temptation to Prophesy resisted,” p. 320
“The Philadelphia Flavor in Fiction,” p. 478 (Thomas A. Janvier’s The Uncle of an Angel, and other Stories)
“The Work of a new Talent,” p. 478 (George A. Hibbard’s Iduna, and other Stories)
“The New Work of an Established Fame,” p. 479 (Rose Terry Cooke’s Huckleberries)
“An Indispensable Novelty,” p. 479 (W.M. Griswold’s Descriptive Lists of Novels)
“Some Steps toward a Sane Spelling,” p. 480 (Complimenting Mr. Griswold on his exceptional spelling)
“An Attempt at Reparation,” p. 480 (Thomas L. Harris’s Life of Laurence Oliphant)
“The Value of Dreams,” p. 481 (Du Maurier’s Peter Ibbetson)
“The Latest Version of the Divine Comedy,” p. 481 (Dr. Charles Eliot Norton’s prose version of the Divine Comedy)
“Magazine Unity and Departmental Variety,” p. 640 (Farewell writings by Howells)
“An Attempt to Impart the Open Secret of the Easy Chair’s Influence,” p. 641
“The Study’s Failure to Profit by a Good Example,” p. 642
“The Future of the Study,” p. 643
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You are at:Home»News»NAFDAC Raids Warehouse Stacked With Tramadol, Other Drugs
NAFDAC Raids Warehouse Stacked With Tramadol, Other Drugs
By Olabode Babayomi on 21/09/2018 News
The National Agency for Food and Drug, Administration and Control (NAFDAC), raided a warehouse in Lagos State, where banned and controlled pharmaceutical products were being stored.
In a statement issued on Thursday, NAFDAC’s Director General said the raid was carried out after the agency received information about nefarious activities going on in the area as well as a cartel involved in the illegal importation of drugs.
The statement said, “The Agency’s Operatives at about 1:00hrs on September 14, 2018, raided a transit warehouse at Ijora Ororo, Lagos State and discovered 187 cartons of assorted Tramadol (120mg, 200mg and 225mg respectively) and more than 49 cartons of Diazepam (a controlled drug) concealed amongst household items including but not limited to bicycle, used tyres and printers”.
According to the agency, the seized products were worth about N105,650,000 million.
The drugs have, however, been evacuated from the warehouse for further investigation.
NAFDAC advised the public to remain vigilant and not hesitate to report any suspicious activities within their environment.
Olabode Babayomi
Love news, smells news and give out accurate and reliable news.
Ifeanyi on 22/09/2018 1:27 PM
Too bad
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Thomas Patterson Bratney1
Thomas Patterson Bratney is the son of Walter Wesley Bratney and Suzanne Patterson.
[S1339] CA Birth Record.
John Walter "Jay" Patterson1
John Walter "Jay" Patterson is the son of Walter Wesley Bratney and Suzanne Patterson.
Gleb Alex Kalistratov1
M, b. 6 August 1924, d. 14 December 2000
Gleb Alex Kalistratov was born on 6 August 1924 at Latvia. He married Suzanne Patterson, daughter of John Duncan "Jack" Patterson and Myrtis Witherly, on 11 January 1958 at Monterey Co, CA.. He was a teacher of German and Russian at Fresno City College, Fresno, CA.. He died on 14 December 2000 at Fresno, CA., at age 76.
[S3614] Fresno City Directory ,1960.
Larkin W. Glazebrook Jr.1,2
M, b. 4 November 1896, d. 30 March 1974
Larkin W. Glazebrook Jr. was born on 4 November 1896 at Washington, D.C.. He was the son of Dr. Larkin White Glazebrook and Jane Threlkeld. He married Myrtis Witherly, daughter of Walter Woodbury Witherly and Nancy "Nannie" Rebecca Sinclair, on 5 November 1946 at Phoenix, Maricopa Co, AZ.. He died on 30 March 1974 at Stanislaus Co, CA., at age 77.
Jane Duncan Patterson1,2
F, b. 10 December 1926, d. 1 January 1946
Jane Duncan Patterson was born on 10 December 1926 at San Francisco, CA.. She was the daughter of John Duncan "Jack" Patterson and Myrtis Witherly. She died on 1 January 1946 at Berkeley, Alameda Co, CA., at age 19; killed in an automobile accident.
[S3740] 1940 Stanislaus Co, CA. Census, Patterson.
Thomas Wallace Patterson
M, b. 3 August 1859, d. 14 March 1914
Thomas Wallace Patterson was born on 3 August 1859 at Perry, NY.. He married Elizabeth Bernhard on 12 November 1892. He died on 14 March 1914 at San Francisco, CA., at age 54.
Child of Thomas Wallace Patterson and Elizabeth Bernhard
John Duncan "Jack" Patterson+ b. 5 Sep 1898, d. 7 Dec 1986
Edna E. Sample
Edna E. Sample was also known as Swartz. She was born in 1899. She married John Duncan "Jack" Patterson, son of Thomas Wallace Patterson and Elizabeth Bernhard, on 20 September 1959 at San Francisco, CA..1
[S1878] CA Marriage Record.
Elizabeth Bernhard
F, b. 11 February 1871, d. 25 August 1948
Elizabeth Bernhard was born on 11 February 1871 at CA. She married Thomas Wallace Patterson on 12 November 1892. She died on 25 August 1948 at San Francisco, CA., at age 77.
Child of Elizabeth Bernhard and Thomas Wallace Patterson
Nellie C. McCarthy1,2,3,4,5,6
Nellie C. McCarthy was born on 12 January 1882 at San Jose, CA.. She was the daughter of Michael Mccarthy and Margaret Fleming. She married Edward Henderson Tower in 1903. She was a telephone opearator from 1920 to 1930 at San Jose, CA.. She married Edward Harris Barnes circa 1926. She died on 4 January 1970 at Santa Clara Co, CA., at age 87.7
Children of Nellie C. McCarthy and Edward Henderson Tower
Edward H. Tower b. 26 Jun 1906, d. 23 Sep 1974
Marian Ellis Tower+ b. 17 Mar 1910, d. 10 Mar 1991
[S1892] 1910 Santa Clara Co, CA. Census, San Jose.
[S2668] San Jose Directory ,1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1919, 1920, 1922, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927.
Edward Henderson Tower1,2,3,4
M, b. 11 November 1874, d. 5 October 1918
Edward Henderson Tower was born on 11 November 1874 at CA. He married Nellie C. McCarthy, daughter of Michael Mccarthy and Margaret Fleming, in 1903. He was a candy maker foreman in 1910 at San Jose, CA.. He died on 5 October 1918 at San Jose, Santa Clara Co, CA., at age 43.
Children of Edward Henderson Tower and Nellie C. McCarthy
[S1088] Obituary ,Evening News, 7 Oct 1918.
[S2668] San Jose Directory ,1901, 1902, 1908, 1910, 1917, 1918, 1919.
George John Foehr1,2,3,4,5
M, b. 12 June 1882, d. September 1936
George Foehr
George John Foehr was born on 12 June 1882 at IL. He married May Helen McCarthy, daughter of John Joseph Mccarthy and Helena "Lena" Jackson, on 25 April 1909 at San Mateo Co, CA.. He was a street car conductor from 1910 to 1930. He died in September 1936 at San Francisco, CA., at age 54.6
Children of George John Foehr and May Helen McCarthy
John Fred Foehr b. 11 Feb 1910, d. 2 Mar 1993
Eugene W. Foehr b. 29 Nov 1911, d. 1 Jun 1912
Walter George Foehr+ b. 14 Apr 1914, d. 2 Nov 1981
[S1885] 1910 San Mateo Co, CA. Census, Milbrae.
[S1354] 1920 San Francisco, CA. Census.
[S3172] Mary Pack, e-mail to Howard Hickman, Feb 2010, photograph.
[S1888] Oakland Tribune ,10 Sep 1936.
John Fred Foehr1,2,3,4,5,6
M, b. 11 February 1910, d. 2 March 1993
John Fred Foehr was born on 11 February 1910 at San Mateo Co, CA.. He was the son of George John Foehr and May Helen McCarthy. He was a sheet metal worker in 1930. He married Rose Lillian Holsher. He died on 2 March 1993 at Sonoma Co, CA., at age 83.
John Amos Gaffigan Jr.1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
M, b. 31 August 1884, d. 23 August 1946
John Amos Gaffigan Jr. was born on 31 August 1884 at San Francisco, CA.. He was the son of John Amos Gaffigan and Margaret "Maggie" Keenan. He married Catherine Burke in 1906.10 He married Marguerite Mary McCarthy, daughter of John Joseph Mccarthy and Helena "Lena" Jackson. He worked in a sheet metal shop in 1910. He was owner of Gaffigan Sheet Metal Works at San Mateo, CA.. He died on 23 August 1946 at San Mateo, CA., at age 61.
Child of John Amos Gaffigan Jr. and Catherine Burke
Joseph Gaffigan b. 22 Apr 1908, d. 19 Feb 1962
Children of John Amos Gaffigan Jr. and Marguerite Mary McCarthy
Helena M. Gaffigan+ b. 14 Mar 1910, d. 9 Jun 1991
John A."Jack" Gaffigan b. 7 Apr 1911, d. 1 Feb 1961
Pearl Agnes Gaffigan b. 10 Oct 1913, d. 28 Jun 1983
Gladys M. Gaffigan+ b. 16 Apr 1918, d. 10 Jan 1963
William Ernest Gaffigan b. 7 Jul 1923, d. 21 May 1962
[S1887] History of San Mateo ,Vol 2, p. 284.
[S1889] 1920 San Mateo Co, CA. Census, San Mateo.
[S3652] 1940 San Maeo Co, CA. Census, San Mateo.
[S4618] San Mateo Directory ,1929, 1936, 1940, 1945.
[S2485] San Francisco Chronicle ,30 oct 1906.
Joseph Gaffigan1,2,3,4
M, b. 22 April 1908, d. 19 February 1962
Joseph Gaffigan was born on 22 April 1908 at San Mateo Co, CA.. He was the son of John Amos Gaffigan Jr. and Catherine Burke. He died on 19 February 1962 at San Francisco, CA., at age 53.
Helena M. Gaffigan1,2,3,4,5
F, b. 14 March 1910, d. 9 June 1991
Helena M. Gaffigan was born on 14 March 1910 at Santa Clara Co, CA.. She was the daughter of John Amos Gaffigan Jr. and Marguerite Mary McCarthy. She married Paul Wedseltoft on 8 December 1932 at NY.6 She lived in 1949 at Oconomowoc, WI.. She lived in 1961 at Belmont, CA.. She died on 9 June 1991 at Sonoma Co, CA., at age 81.
Children of Helena M. Gaffigan and Paul Wedseltoft
Margaret Helen "Gayle" Wedseltoft
Richard Thomas Wedseltoft+
[S3206] San Mateo Times ,7 MAr 1933.
John Amos Gaffigan1,2,3,4
M, b. circa 1859, d. 18 July 1938
John Amos Gaffigan was born circa 1859 at Paisley, Scotland. He immigrated in July 1867. He married Margaret "Maggie" Keenan. He died on 18 July 1938 at San Francisco, CA..5
Child of John Amos Gaffigan and Margaret "Maggie" Keenan
John Amos Gaffigan Jr.+ b. 31 Aug 1884, d. 23 Aug 1946
[S3306] Jim Carroll, e-mail to Howard Hickman, Sept 2010.
[S2485] San Francisco Chronicle ,19 Jul 1938.
John A."Jack" Gaffigan1,2,3,4,5
M, b. 7 April 1911, d. 1 February 1961
John A."Jack" Gaffigan was born on 7 April 1911 at Fresno Co, CA..6 He was the son of John Amos Gaffigan Jr. and Marguerite Mary McCarthy. He married Gladys Katherine Baldwin on 1 February 1940. He died on 1 February 1961 at San Mateo Co, CA., at age 49.
[S1088] Obituary ,The Times (San Mateo CA) 2 Feb 1961.
[S3206] San Mateo Times ,19 jun 1931, p.11.
Pearl Agnes Gaffigan1
F, b. 10 October 1913, d. 28 June 1983
Pearl Agnes Gaffigan was born on 10 October 1913 at San Mateo Co, CA..2 She was the daughter of John Amos Gaffigan Jr. and Marguerite Mary McCarthy. She married Oran Arms in September 1932.3 She married Nicholas L. Giordano before 1944. She lived in 1944 at San Leandro, CA.. She lived in 1949 at Windsor, CA.. She lived in 1961 at Wasco, CA.. She and Nicholas L. Giordano were divorced in 1972 at Napa Co, CA.. She died on 28 June 1983 at Contra Costa Co, CA., at age 69.
[S2485] San Francisco Chronicle ,22 sep 1932.
Gladys M. Gaffigan1,2,3,4
F, b. 16 April 1918, d. 10 January 1963
Gladys M. Gaffigan was born on 16 April 1918 at San Mateo Co, CA.. She was the daughter of John Amos Gaffigan Jr. and Marguerite Mary McCarthy. She was adopted. She married William C. Nunes in 1939 at Reno, NV..5 She lived between 1949 and 1961 at Hayward, CA.. She died on 10 January 1963 at Alameda Co, CA., at age 44.
Children of Gladys M. Gaffigan and William C. Nunes
Janelle Nunes
Judith Nunes
[S1088] Obituary ,Daily Review, Hayward, CA/, 11 Jan 1963.
[S3648] 1940 Alamdea Co, CA. Census, San Leandro.
[S3206] San Mateo Times ,23 dec 1939.
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Plus Ça Change: Florence B. Price in the #Blacklivesmatter Era
— by Douglas Shadle
“While more and more blacks are being driven into homelessness,” a classical music fan fumed, “Mostly Mozart is rewarded with government, corporate, and media support.” The problem? No black composers on the program—not even Mozart’s great contemporary, Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges.
We can easily imagine this critique as a sick Twitter burn from last summer, or last week. Calls to diversify classical music programs intensify regularly. But the sad truth is that many organizations are reluctant to pursue any path other than business as usual. (Others certainly aren’t.) Perhaps sadder still, the comment above dates from 1987. Mike Snell, a reader of Raoul Abdul’s music column in the New York-based Amsterdam News, wrote Abdul to eviscerate the media for not highlighting the systemic racism underpinning the lack of black representation on the concert stage.
Plus ça change.
Returning to the present: the music of one black composer, Florence B. Price, has experienced an extraordinary surge of public interest over the past year, mainly on the heels of extensive coverage of violinist Er-Gene Kahng’s world premiere recording of her two violin concertos in The New Yorker and The New York Times . Prominent U.S. orchestras, including the New Jersey Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, and Minnesota Orchestra, programmed Price’s music during their 2018–19 seasons. The Fort Smith Symphony Orchestra recently released the world premiere recording of her Fourth Symphony on Naxos Records. And more ensembles will likely take up the mantle, both in the United States and around the globe. The Chicago Symphony, for example, recently announced that it would perform Price’s Third Symphony in the 2019–20 season.
Given the longstanding historical exclusion of African American composers, Price’s sudden rise to stardom might raise a few eyebrows. Is the sudden widespread interest in Price’s music a convenient fad? Are predominantly white institutions exploiting her legacy for short-term gain—what Nancy Leong has called “racial capitalism” ? These are the right questions to ask. Their skeptical slant is justified when a major trade publication can obliviously describe women composers as “in vogue.” And it would be far from the first time that white musicians bolstered their careers on the musical labor of black women , or that black women’s musical accomplishments have faced unfair scrutiny upon entering white public consciousness.
We can only speculate about how Price’s resurgent presence on the concert stage might bring about deeper structural changes over the long term. But, if we listen carefully, her unique experiences as a composer and as a black woman present us with a more immediate opportunity to name and fight racial injustice today. Mike Snell’s complaints—and those of concerned musicians before and after him—show that time has refracted these injustices to the present.
Plus ça change, indeed.
Open Our Ears
The persistence of anti-black racism in classical music spaces stems largely from the white majority’s refusal to engage meaningfully with black voices—or even to listen. In a detailed critique of the new music communities in which he has participated, composer Anthony R. Green encourages us to “trust these voices. Be critical, but respectful. Engage in exchange. Be patient. When our work is blatantly ignored, disrespected, not studied, and not programmed, our voice is all we have.” White people, even those with anti-racist sympathies, often recoil at the suggestion that they have harmed people of color and shift the discussion to defend their motivations—a phenomenon multicultural education expert Robin DiAngelo calls “white fragility.” But the fact that Green’s observations are not new simply proves the point.
Green’s critiques revolve around the classical music industry’s propensity to pigeonhole black composers as “one-trick ponies.” This dehumanization, he argues, occurs when concert organizers think about music by black composers only during Black History Month or, in more recent years, for concerts with a social justice theme. “While this is not necessarily negative,” he adds, “the injustice arises when absolute music or music with non-social themes by black composers is overlooked.” Florence Price’s daughter, Florence Robinson, expressed similar frustrations after Price died in 1953. Artists were happy to perform Price’s arrangements of Negro spirituals, but she found no advocates for her mother’s symphonic compositions.
Once a black composer finds an advocate, however, another problem is that concert organizers do not always think through the implications of poor framing. Price’s Symphony in E Minor, which Frederick Stock and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra famously premiered in June 1933, appeared on a program ostensibly devoted to celebrating black musical achievement.
It featured tenor Roland Hayes and pianist Margaret Bonds as soloists in addition to pieces by Price and Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. But the opening number was an overture by John Powell, an avowed anti-black eugenicist. Powell’s presence was an acute indignity for Price and the other black performers, especially since Chicago’s black newspaper, the Defender, had publicly criticized Powell earlier that year.
This article was originally published on 2/20/2019 by NewMusicBox.org, an online magazine offering in-depth artist interviews, industry analysis, and multimedia coverage of new music in the USA. It is featured here with permission.
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Elshakry, Marwa
Contact me2335@columbia.edu
Update date 12:40 pm, January 16, 2019
Spring 2019: Wednesday noon-1 PM
Ph.D — Princeton University, 2003
M.A. — Princeton University, 1997
B.A. — Rutgers University, 1995
Marwa Elshakry, Associate Professor, specializes in the history of science, technology, and medicine in the modern Middle East. She received her M.A. (1997) and Ph.D. (2003) from Princeton. Her first book, entitled, Reading Darwin in Arabic is forthcoming in 2013 with University of Chicago Press.
Among her publications are 'When Science became Western: historiographical reflections', Isis, 101:1 (March 2010), 98-109, Elshakry and Sujit Sivasundaram, eds., Science, Race and Imperialism [Victorian Literature and Science series: vol. 6], [Pickering and Chatto, 2012], "The Exegesis of Science in Twentieth Century Arabic Interpretations of the Qur'an" in Jitse M. van der Meer and Scott Mandelbrote (eds),Interpreting Nature and Scripture: History of a Dialogue (2009), "Knowledge in Motion: The Cultural Politics of Modern Science Translations in Arabic", Isis, (December 2008), "Darwinian Conversions: Science and Translation in Egypt and the Levant" in Anne-Marie Moulin (ed.), Modernité et modernisation dans l’Empire ottoman du XIXe siècle à nos jours (2008), and "The Gospel of Science and American Evangelism in Late Ottoman Beirut", Past and Present, (August 2007).
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Brady: Winning A Division Title ‘Never Gets Old’
Filed Under:AFC East, Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots, NFL, Sports News, Tom Brady
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)
BOSTON (CBS) — The Patriots can clinch their sixth straight AFC East title with a win on Sunday, and though Bill Belichick said he won’t focus on it, Tom Brady said winning a division crown never gets old.
“Absolutely not. We’re trying to win every time we take the field. Winning never gets old, I know that,” Brady told reporters at his press conference Wednesday morning. “That feeling that we had the other night was a great feeling, and that’s what motivates you to win because you know the opposite side of that. We’ve got to do the things that help us win as opposed to do the things that make us lose games. It should be a fun week.
“You’re playing for a division championship, so it’s a very important game. We’ve worked really hard to get to this point. The guys have put a lot of work in over the whole offseason and to put ourselves in this position has been a lot of fun, but we’ve got to go out there and capitalize,” said Brady.
Brady, who has won 11 AFC East titles in his time with the Patriots, and his teammates are getting ready for their second meeting of the season with the Miami Dolphins, who got the best of New England in Week 1. In that game, New England jumped out to a 20-10 lead at halftime, but were shut out by Miami’s defense the rest of the way en route to a 33-20 loss.
While Week 1 may feel ages ago, the game is still fresh in the Patriots’ minds as they get ready for Sunday’s game at Gillette.
“Our execution was really poor,” Brady recalled of their second half performance. “I’m sure this game will be a little bit different, however it goes. We’ve got to be prepared to play for 60 minutes. I don’t think you can play 30 good minutes against this team and expect to win, so you’re going to have to go out there and play really well for the entire game.”
While the Patriots just went 5-1 on their recent stretch against some of the better teams in the league, putting together a complete game has been a problem. In Sunday night’s win over the San Diego Chargers, the New England defense picked up the slack for a lackluster offense.
Neither the offense or defense played well back in Week 1 in Miami, but Brady says a lot has changed for both teams since the season kicked off. The Patriots’ defense has become one of the best units in the NFL, and the offense now features a much more balanced attack. Brady threw the ball 56 times in Week 1, which you won’t see come Sunday afternoon.
Still, there are some valuable lessons to be learned from the game tape of their loss.
“We’re definitely watching that game. You end up watching all the games just because all of them can provide some insight. Certainly, that game can provide a lot of insight,” said Brady. “But our team is a little bit different now. There are going to be some new things that we do. I’m sure they’re going to have some new things. Ultimately, it comes down to how well we execute.
“They force you to do a lot of things really well, so it tests everything,” Brady said of Miami. “I think they blitz a lot, they cover well, they rush [well], they score points offensively, so we know we’re going to have to score a lot of points. But this team makes it tough. They’ve got some great edge rushers. They’ve got some great inside guys to stop the run, [they’re] good at safety. I know they’ve been banged up this year, but it looks like they’re all healthy now. We’re preparing for their best, and I’m sure we’ll get it, so we have to be prepared.”
Sunday’s game against the Dolphins is no rematch in the Patriots’ mind, just another opportunity against an AFC East foe.
“This is a division opponent, so I think there is always a great rivalry. I know we’ve had a lot of great games against them, and then losing to them earlier, that was a tough way to start the year. But this is a different game,” said Brady. “I think we have a lot of motivation for us. We’ve got to have a great week and that starts today, getting off to a good start in practice. There will be a lot of emotion and energy there. It’s a very competitive game. It’s a very competitive division. They’re a division rival, so everything is on the line.”
Tune in to Sunday’s Patriots-Dolphins game on WBZ-TV and 98.5 The Sports Hub — the flagship stations of the New England Patriots! Pregame coverage begins on 98.5FM at 10am, with coverage on WBZ-TV kicking off at 11:30am with Patriots GameDay. Following the game, stay tuned for three full hours of postgame coverage on the Hub, and for Patriots 5th Quarter on WBZ-TV!
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Brady is the man. He still has a few more years left in him.
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You are here: Home | News | November 2010 | Children’s Homes celebrates milestone
Children’s Homes celebrates milestone
November 18 2010 by J. Blake Ragsdale, BCH Communications
The arrival of nine-year-old Mary Presson at the Thomasville Baptist Orphanage on November 11, 1885, marked the official beginning of what is known today as the Baptist Children’s Homes of North Carolina (BCH).
Exactly 125 years later, current and former BCH residents, staff members, North Carolina Baptists and friends gathered in Thomasville to celebrate the ministry’s “Quasquicentennial” anniversary.
“I don’t use the word ‘awesome’ very often, but this is an awesome day,” said Michael C. Blackwell, BCH’s longest-tenured president at almost 28 years. “It’s a glorious celebration and a fitting conclusion to 125 years of helping children and families in North Carolina.”
BCH photo
BCH president Michael C. Blackwell and Quasquicentennial director Jim Edminson unveil the “Child of Hope” statue, the centerpiece of the Heritage Walk and Garden. See photo gallery.
Multiple events marked the day at Mills Home, named for BCH founder John Haymes Mills. The first was a luncheon program that included the opening of a time capsule buried during BCH’s Centennial celebration in 1985. Among the items included in the capsule were a letter from then United States president Ronald Reagan, a copy of the BCH Centennial history book, a wooden craft made by a child in care, and a letter written to BCH staff, residents and friends by Blackwell, who also presided over the agency’s Centennial celebration.
Afterwards, the sanctuary at Mills Home Baptist Church overflowed with nearly 700 guests for an anniversary worship service led by BCH alumnus Milton Bliss and Quasquicentennial director Jim Edminson. Baptist State Convention of North Carolina’s (BSC) Executive Director-Treasurer Milton A. Hollifield Jr. addressed the congregation during the service affirming North Carolina Baptists’ dedication to the BCH ministry as well as Blackwell’s leadership.
“The ministry of the Baptist Children’s Homes of North Carolina is the heart of God in action,” Hollifield proclaimed. “We affirm that after 125 years, the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina continues to be committed to this partnership.”
In his remarks, Hollifield included a special message for the children in BCH’s care. “North Carolina Baptists want you to know that God loves you. We want you to grow into that wonderful and joyous person that you were meant to be.”
Blackwell preached from 1 Corinthians 13.
“These three remain: faith and hope, but the greatest of these is love,” he said.
“In all the things I have learned in my 28 years here, the greatest of all of them is the gift of love. I can, if my eyes are open, see this kind of unconditional love exhibited every day at Baptist Children’s Homes.
“I have felt it today. I felt it on Monday (Nov. 8) at the Koury Convention Center during BCH’s presentation.
“And what this year has done for me more than anything else is that it has increased my capacity to love. That, for me, is a great gift.”
The final event was the dedication of the Heritage Walk and Garden, a monument in front of the campus church built by bricks inscribed with inspirational messages from BCH staff, alumni and friends. The centerpiece is a bronze statue of a girl affectionately referred to as the “Child of Hope,” her arms raised skyward in victory.
“Reaching this historic milestone is a victory for North Carolina Baptists, our many friends who have helped sustain this ministry and the children and families we humbly serve,” Blackwell said. “But the ultimate victory belongs to God who has always been at the heart and center of every life that has been changed and restored throughout these 125 years.”
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1 Bre Ladd’s Wiki, Age, Parents, Siblings, and Education
2 Bre Ladd’s Career
3 What is Bre Ladd’s Net Worth and Salary?
4 Happily married to Luke Walton, How many Kids the couple shared?
5 Bre Ladd’s Height and Weight
6 Bre Ladd on Social Sites
Bre Ladd is a former volleyball player of the University of Arizona. She is an amazing award winning player of her era.
Bre Ladd’s Wiki, Age, Parents, Siblings, and Education
Bre Ladd was born on April 19, 1984, in Tucson, Arizona, the United States of America. Currently, she is 35 years old. Her father’s name is Bob Ladd and mother’s name is Tammie Ladd. Furthermore, she also has a brother name, Josh Ladd. Bre holds an American nationality and belongs to white ethnicity.
She completed her school level from Canyon Del Oro High School. she was interested in sports from her childhood days. Ladd started playing volleyball during her school days.
Ladd won the number of player of the year awards including‘2001 Gatorade National High School Level player of the year‘. She completed her graduation from the University of Arizona in 2003. She did her bachelor degree by taking major in community and public health.
Bre Ladd’s Career
Bre Lad started her career as a volleyball player when she was in school. She was the captain of the high school team Arizona south 5A MVP. Bre held the first position in the volleyball magazine, Fab 50 in the year 2002.
After that, she was able to be a member of the USA Junior National Team along with Arizona teammates in 2001. They competed in women’s junior world championship. When she was in high school, she was a member of CDO honor roll as well.
Caption: Bre Ladd Playing Volleyball
She is not only a player but also a social worker who is serving as a mentor for deaf students. some sources also mentioned that she is very fluent in using sign languages. Bre is involved in many other charitable works along with her partner luke.
She won the ‘ 2001 Gatorade national high school player of the year ‘ during her high school. She also won the ‘Tucson citizen’ and the ‘Arizona Republic’ Arizona state player of the year.
What is Bre Ladd’s Net Worth and Salary?
The former Volleyball player has earned a decent amount of sum through her professional career. Bre Ladd estimated net worth is around $1 million in 2019. Her main source of income is ads and career earnings. However, she has not disclosed any information about her salary which she charges or gets.
Her husband Luke Walton estimated net worth $16 million. earned from his professional career and earns a huge amount of salary from LA Lakers.
They live in a lavish mansion in manhattan beach whose value is about $7.2 million. Moreover, they also have a lavish car.
Happily married to Luke Walton, How many Kids the couple shared?
Ladd was married to Luke Walton before their marriage, they dated for six years. Bre Ladd met luke when she was in Arizona in 2003. During that time, Luke was the coach of LA Lake. Bre was volleyball player whereas Luke was a basketball coach.
Both of them were the prominent players of their field and that time. They started dating each other from 2005. Finally, they decided to marry each other. Bre and Walton married in Aspen, Colorado on August 17, 2013. The wedding ceremony was held among their several NBA friends including Jordan hills, Solomon hill, chyanning fyre, and Stanley hill.
Caption: Bre Ladd with her husband
Though the couples were married in 2013 and still have not shared any child. So they are planning to have one soon. The couples are still having a very romantic married life and there are no rumors of their relationship.
Bre Ladd’s Height and Weight
Bre is about 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighs about 67kg. She is a beautiful lady with an attractive blue pair of eyes and blonde hair. Her body measurement is 38-30-37 inches. Likewise, her bra size is 36B and shoe size is 10.
Bre Ladd on Social Sites
ladd is not so active in case of social media. Though she has an account on Instagram which holds about 801 followers with 746 followings and just 7 posts.
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Geoffrey Grigson: Selected Poems
Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985) was for many years a vital figure in the literary life of Britain. A notoriously unsparing reviewer, he edited the magazine New Verse (which brought Auden and other writers of the 1930s to prominence) and found popularity with his writings about the countryside and several wonderful anthologies. For much of his life he was writing his own poetry too, but it was only when he was in his sixties that it attracted much attention, and since his death it has largely been overlooked.
This new Selected Poems ranges from his debut 1939 collection and the work of the 1940s and 1950s (long unavailable) through to the award-winning late volumes and the very last poem he wrote, in September 1985. Love lyrics, satires, landscapes, sketches of rural life, autobiographical pieces - these poems sharp, economical, by turnhave a freshness and clarity of focus rare among contemporary poets. They also amount to a fully rounded portrait of this controversial Cornishman: a seventh son, who lost all six brothers before he was middle-aged; who was married three times (finally to the cookery writer, Jane Grigson); who rubbed shoulders with the famous poets and artists of his day; who was quintessentially English, yet devoted to France and the idea of Europe; who lived through two world wars and many more purely literary feuds.
Now the smoke has had time to clear, what remains is Geoffrey Grigson's poetry - by turns lyrical or barbed, restlessly attentive to the physical world, its delights and its terrors.
John Greening is author of more than a dozen poetry collections including Hunts: Poems 1979-2013 (Greenwich Exchange,2009), To the War Poets (Carcanet, 2013) and Heath (with Penelope Shuttle, Nine Arches, 2016). He has written several books for Greenwich Exchange, notably Poets of the First World War, W,B. Yeats, Elizabethan Love Poets, Edward Thomas, Thomas Hardy, and Ted Hughes, along with the recent Poetry Masterclass. 2015 saw publication of his OUP edition of Edmund Blunden's Undertones of War, and of a classical music anthology, Accompanied Voices (Boydell). His memoir of two years spent in Upper Egypt, Threading a Dream, appeared in 2017 from Gatehouse, and his collected essays and reviews, Vapour Trails, are due from Eyewear Publishing in 2018. His awards include the Bridport Prize and a Cholmondeley. TLS reviewer and Eric Gregory judge, John Greening has just completed two years ats RLF Writing Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge.
Greenwich Exchange Category: Poetry
Other books by John Greening published by Greenwich Exchange:
The Poetry of Ted Hughes
Edward Thomas
Poems of 1912-13: Thomas Hardy
Poets of the First World War
Hunts: Poems 1979-2009 (Paperback Ed.)
Hunts: Poems 1979-2009 (Hardback Ed.)
Elizabethan Love Poets
Poetry Masterclass
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The Florida Department of Health in Duval County (DOH-Duval) initiated a new community health improvement process in 2016. Local public health system partners came together to complete the Duval County Community Health Assessment (CHA) and to oversee development and implementation of the 2017-2022 Duval County Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP). A CHIP is a strategic plan to address public health priorities in a community and defines how DOH-Duval and public health system partners will work together to improve the health of Duval County. Critical sectors invited to join the Healthy Jacksonville Committee included local hospitals and health care organizations, local government, community based organizations, social service organizations, and schools.
The Healthy Jacksonville Health Advisory Committee selected strategic health priorities based on local health data, research, and extensive community feedback. Committees were formed to address each strategic health priority included in Duval County’s CHIP. Our strategic health priorities are: Healthy Families and Healthy Babies, Healthiest Weight, Behavioral Health, and Access to Care.
The Healthy Jacksonville Health Advisory Committee meets regularly to review progress and to discuss emerging challenges and opportunities. As a member of the community, we welcome your feedback and collaboration to achieve the goals established in Duval County’s CHIP. To become involved, contact Healthy Jacksonville at 904-253-1489 or HealthyJax@flhealth.gov.
To protect and promote optimal health and well-being for all who live, work, learn, and play in Duval County.
Duval County will become one of the healthiest communities in the nation.
Quality health care and community services should be accessible and affordable to all.
Efforts will be informed by evidence, science, and innovation.
The local public health system will coordinate activities, share resources, and align efforts to improve community health outcomes.
A healthier community will be achieved by assuring every person has the opportunity to attain their full health potential.
A healthy community promotes healthy lifestyles and behaviors, provides health education, and ensures equal access to opportunities for physical activity, fresh produce, and health care.
All community members have the right to live, work, learn, and play in a safe environment.
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DOH-Duval initiated a community health improvement process that resulted in the development of the Duval County Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) 2012. Critical sectors that participated in this process included local hospitals and health care organizations, local government, community based organizations, and schools. Using NACCHO’s Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) framework, four strategic health priorities were identified: Access to Health Services, Access to Mental Health Services, Chronic Care Management, and Enhance Communication within the Local Public Health System.
The Duval County’s CHIP 2012 was revised based on community feedback, review of past accomplishments, and reprioritizing of efforts. The revisions are reflected in the Duval County CHIP Report Card 2014.
DOH-Duval partnered with local hospitals conducting CHNAs to identify, evaluate, prioritize, and address community health issues. The CHNA in Duval County resulted in 8 key informant interviews, 8 focus groups, and 4 town hall meetings that provided insight on a wide range of community health issues, including barriers to accessing health services, prevalence of health conditions, and health disparities faced by the residents of Duval County.
The Duval County CHIP 2012 was revised based on community feedback, review of past accomplishments, reprioritizing of efforts, and results from the CHNA conducted by local hospitals. The revisions are reflected in the Duval County CHIP 2012-2015. To address current health challenges facing Duval County, DOH-Duval began planning for a new iteration of the MAPP process.
DOH-Duval initiated a new community health improvement process in 2016. Local public health system partners joined forces to develop the Duval County CHIP 2017-2019. Utilizing the MAPP framework, the planning team engaged in a comprehensive community health assessment. Results from the assessment were used to identify the following strategic health priorities: Healthy Families and Healthy Babies, Healthiest Weight, Behavioral Health, and Access to Care.
The Duval County CHIP 2017-2019 was released in April 2017 and committees were formed to address each strategic health priority. The Healthy Jacksonville Health Advisory Committee meets regularly to review progress and to discuss emerging challenges and opportunities. As a living document, the Duval County CHIP 2017-2019 will be reviewed and revised annually based on ongoing assessment of the availability of resources and data, community readiness, current progress, and alignment with goals.
Because where we live, work, learn, and play significantly impacts our health and well-being, a place-based approach was adopted for implementation for Duval County’s CHIP. A place-based approach to chronic disease prevention and health promotion focuses on creating healthy neighborhoods so that all residents have the opportunity to reach their full health potential. In order to identify specific neighborhoods within Duval County for targeted health improvement efforts, data was compiled and reviewed at the sub-county level (e.g., zip code and census tract). The result of this process was the identification of two neighborhoods on the Westside of Jacksonville, Hillcrest (census tract 122) and Hyde Park (census tract 126.02), as areas for targeted health improvement efforts and initiatives.
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Halsey's cover of Justin Bieber's "Love Yourself" is exactly what we needed
Bren Lee
Justin Bieber’s “Love Yourself” is a powerful breakup anthem, but Halsey just made it even more impressive. She performed an even sexier (and not NSFW, so wait until you get home to listen!) version of his song on an Australian radio show and completely made it her own. Bieber who?!
She also stole our hearts in her interview with the hosts beforehand, explaining a little bit of her history with the Biebs.
“I have a song on his record, I do, I do, which is still a surprise to me. We performed the song together, actually for the first time ever, I was on stage in like, super baggy jeans and my short haircut and whatever else. So I’m singing on stage, and I’m thinking to myself, how cool is it that there are girls sitting at home watching the biggest male pop star in the world on stage with a girl who’s not necessarily traditionally feminine or traditionally beautiful? That was really, really cool for me. If I was that short-haired punk chick sitting at home who secretly loves Justin Bieber, I’d be like, ‘Yes! You go! You get that!'”
She was quick to add that she did not actually “get that” — let’s not start any rumors! You can watch the full performance below, but we highly recommend earbuds if you’re listening at work.
By Bren Lee
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Let's Get Political
What you need to know about the Super Tuesday results
Sundi Rose
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Super Tuesday is over, and now it’s just plain old Wednesday. But yesterday’s presidential primaries have given us a LOT to consider. At this point in the election year, there’s no real clear final winner, and we’re still not even done voting for the party nominations.
It’s called Super Tuesday, because unlike the single-state caucuses before it, (Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina), 11 states went to the polls yesterday to choose their party candidate.
If you live in Alaska, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Vermont, Georgia, Arkansas, Texas, Massachusetts, Alabama, Tennessee, or Virginia, chances are you went to the polls yesterday to pick your candidate for president. But what does your vote mean?
Here’s a breakdown of everything you need to know about Super Tuesday.
The thing about Super Tuesday is that, while candidates technically win individual states, we can only predict what will happen when the remaining states weigh in on March 15. So “winning” is a pretty limited idea.
That being said, the clear winners of the 11 states that voted yesterday are Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican candidate Donald Trump, with each of them winning 7 of the 11 states that participated in the primary, according to The New York Times election results.
#Delegate math as #SuperTuesday goes into Wednesday. GOP: https://t.co/4d62shDQXW Dems: https://t.co/WZEabreo8G pic.twitter.com/MNW74LXbyN
— First Coast News (@FCN2go) March 2, 2016
Clinton won 979 delegates compared to Sanders’ 382, while Trump won 280, with Cruz coming in a not-so-distant second with 178, and Rubio landing 98. Their performances in yesterdays primaries are strong indicators of how things will turn out in November, but in a race as unexpected as this one has been, you can’t rely on predictions.
Clinton and Trump are sitting pretty comfy at this point. They are the decided frontrunners for their parties, and probably don’t have too much to fret over. Maybe. Come March 15, Florida and Ohio voters will head to the primaries to cast their votes, and it’s Cruz and Sanders that need the wins the most. If they don’t get a significant amount of the votes in these two states, their general election fate looks bleak. Rubio only won one state in the Super Tuesday primaries, but he vowed to “never stop campaigning” in a speech in Florida last night, although he has very few delegates.
Thank you Minnesota for your support – I look forward to returning during the general election! pic.twitter.com/PtjliwRO0F — Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) March 2, 2016
What’s a delegate?
Every state is assigned a certain number of delegates, according to a very complicated nexus of factors — everything from congressional districts to voting history. When folks come out to the polls to vote for their candidates, those votes are tallied to determine a winner for the state, and then the delegates for that state cast their vote based on the results.
The Washington Post explains it like this, “Officially, candidates only become their party’s presidential nominee after a vote is taken by party delegates to the Republican or Democratic presidential nominating conventions later in the summer. These delegates are supposed to take their cue from the voters who cast ballots during their state’s primaries and caucuses.”
What happens if the voters and delegates disagree?
Here’s where the democratic process gets a little a little murky. Although we are actually casting our votes at the polls, it’s really the delegates that decide which candidate wins each state.
If there are discrepancies in the numbers, as in the delegates don’t want the same thing as the voters, then we’re faced with a brokered convention. This is the buzz around Trump’s victory as his popularity with the voting public rises yet plummets with the Republican establishment.
“@JoeNBC: Marco Rubio just criticized Ted Cruz for underperforming tonight. Wow. #SuperTuesday“
The Washington Post outlines a brokered convention like this, “When convention delegates fail to reach majority consensus on the first ballot, virtually every delegate becomes a free agent, with no obligation to serve their voters’ preferences. It’s called a brokered convention, and it hasn’t happened in the modern primary era.”
The 2016 election is promising to be one like we’ve never seen before. Between the possibility of a female president to the unprecedented antics of the Republican candidates, this race has been unexpected to say the least.
Although we’re in the home stretch, with only seven months until the general election, there’s still plenty of room for upset.
No matter what, though, you must get out there and vote. When conditions are this precarious, every single voice matters. USE YOURS!
By Sundi Rose
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67% Of Survey Respondents In The US Are Interested In Electric Cars
67% Of Survey Respondents In The US Are Interested In Electric Cars product 2016-06-05 12:02:38 https://insideevs.com/news/331219/67-of-survey-respondents-in-the-us-are-interested-in-electric-cars/ General, california, survey, featured
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Recently, a survey was conducted by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and Consumers Union.
The results of the survey show heavy interest in electric cars, with 67% of the respondents showing interest in electric vehicles.
Before diving into more survey results, here's some background on who was surveyed:
"The survey was conducted among 1,213 randomly selected adults in California and 9 Northeast states who were licensed to drive and had driven a vehicle in the past 12 months. The survey was carried out from April 1 to April 8. The margin of error is 4 percentage points at a 95 percent confidence level for questions asked of all respondents."
More than half (56%) of those surveyed want every automaker to make available at least one electric car option in their lineup of models.
But when we look just at the responses from residents of California, we see an even greater demand for electric cars:
"Plug-in electric vehicle sales in California today represent only 3 percent of the new vehicle market, with a little over 20 vehicle models available from manufacturers. The survey shows that the electric market has real potential for bigger growth."
"The survey results suggest how automakers may be able to turn interest into sales. More than 65 percent of Californians want to see automakers offer more electric options across a variety of classes, including sedans, SUVs and minivans..."
But perhaps the most promising discovery from the survey was the following:
"The survey also found that 44 percent of California households could use an electric vehicle with little or no change to their current driving habits and vehicle needs. Survey respondents met the criteria for using a typical plug-in hybrid EV available today if they have access to parking and an electrical outlet at home, need to carry 4 or fewer passengers, and do not need hauling or towing capability."
Meaning there's lot of room for more sales in California for sure. And across much of the rest of the U.S. too.
More details on the survey/results are included in the press release below and at this link.
In California, Survey Shows Strong Interest, Greater Potential for Electric Vehicles
New Survey Finds More Than Half of California Drivers Interested in Clean Vehicles OAKLAND, Calif. More than half of California drivers are likely to consider an electric vehicle (EV) in their next vehicle purchase or lease, and more than 65 percent are interested in electric vehicles generally, according to a new survey released by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and Consumers Union, the policy and advocacy arm of Consumer Reports.
“Many California consumers who might be looking for a new car this summer are primed and ready to purchase an electric vehicle,” said Don Anair, research and deputy director for the UCS Clean Vehicles Program. “These survey results should be encouraging news to automakers who are offering EVs or set to bring new vehicle models to market.”
“California's blend of car culture, technology incubation, and environmental consciousness create potential for huge growth in EV sales.” said Shannon Baker-Branstetter, policy counsel for Consumers Union. “There’s a real market opportunity for automakers to offer electric vehicles to the millions of California consumers who are ready to go electric.”
Plug-in electric vehicle sales in California today represent only 3 percent of the new vehicle market, with a little over 20 vehicle models available from manufacturers. The survey shows that the electric market has real potential for bigger growth.
The survey results suggest how automakers may be able to turn interest into sales. More than 65 percent of Californians want to see automakers offer more electric options across a variety of classes, including sedans, SUVs and minivans, and over half think that every automaker should offer a plug-in model for sale.
In addition to offering greater model choices, the survey also suggests that the availability of vehicles to test drive is critical to EV sales, as 86 percent of survey respondents said they wouldn’t buy a new vehicle without test-driving it first. Without a chance to test drive the vehicles, car buyers may not get a sense for why electric vehicles have some of the highest ownership satisfaction scores in Consumer Reports’ ratings (Tesla Model S at 97%, Chevy Volt at 82%, Nissan Leaf at 76%).
The survey also found that 44 percent of California households could use an electric vehicle with little or no change to their current driving habits and vehicle needs. Survey respondents met the criteria for using a typical plug-in hybrid EV available today if they have access to parking and an electrical outlet at home, need to carry 4 or fewer passengers, and do not need hauling or towing capability.
Automakers and state officials can also do a better job of letting drivers know about existing EV incentives. More than three quarters of California drivers didn’t know the state offers any plug-in electric vehicle incentives, and almost 80 percent weren’t aware of the federal EV tax credit. Together, these programs can lower the purchase price of a plug-in vehicle by over $10,000. Education about incentives is especially important as nearly 13 percent of respondents identified costs as a main barrier to purchasing an EV.
The survey was conducted among 1,213 randomly selected adults in California and 9 Northeast states who were licensed to drive and had driven a vehicle in the past 12 months. The survey was carried out from April 1 to April 8. The margin of error is 4 percentage points at a 95 percent confidence level for questions asked of all respondents.
View an infographic about the survey findings and more information on the survey results here.
The Union of Concerned Scientists puts rigorous, independent science to work to solve our planet's most pressing problems. Joining with citizens across the country, we combine technical analysis and effective advocacy to create innovative, practical solutions for a healthy, safe, and sustainable future.
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SEMPER OCCULTUS
OVER THE TOP SECRETS from SPY-CO-SOMATIX,
SPY 1099: PSYOP Explorations
Red, White & Black Ops Blues
by Iona Miller
"Darker than velvet, brighter than diamonds..."
"I rehabilitate Intelligence Agents and train human beings. I am the Spywhisperer."
Leutrell Osborne, Sr., 26-year CIA Spymaster; Anthony Sylvester
NEGATIVE LIBERTIES - TALES FROM THE DARK SIDE -
SPY 1099: OUTSOURCING INTELLIGENCE
OVER THE TOP SECRET
Top Secret America Video Intro http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/
Database of Private Spooks http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/search-through-top-secret-americas-network-of-private-spooks/
Military Intel Contractors http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/60589
CIA vs DoD Turf War http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/43840
FRONTLINE on Top Secret America http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/topsecretamerica/
SPIES R-US
The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work. The Washington Post claims there are more than 1,200 government organizations and 1,900 private companies working on intelligence, counterintelligence and homeland security in 10,000 locations. Over 854,000 people, one and a half times the population of Washington DC have top secret clearance. Some say that years after 9/11 the spy community has become outrageously expensive and unwieldy. Fallout includes an overload of applicants and a broken clearance system.
Spy In the Box
Efforts to prevent hostile intelligence organizations from gathering and collecting intelligence, whether against the United States, commercial or industrial activities, or information associated with national security. These tasks have been greatly complicated since 9/11 as emphasis has shifted from threats involving nation-states to extremist individuals and organizations.
Today's spies for hire can be found online. Independent contractors are the 'fast food' of Intelligence. Clients can order from their service menus. Traditionally, spies have always been outsourced, rather than official employees of intelligence agencies, such as Case Officers or "spy masters."
There are 16 official members of the Intelligence Community, an assemblage of separate agency intelligence organizations which gather, evaluate, and distribute information, most of which is secret. Made up of 16 organizations, its activities are controlled and coordinated by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), who reports to the President.
The DNI is charged primarily with developing the overall intelligence budget, designing procedures to govern large intelligence acquisitions, setting priorities and coordinating policies/activities for the 16 intelligence agencies, monitoring covert operations, setting policy for working with foreign intelligence services. DNI has authority to request information from nonintelligence agencies, and perform joint planning for counterterrorism operations for all 16 intelligence agencies. Also reporting to DNI are the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), which is staffed by terrorism experts from the CIA, FBI, and the Pentagon; the Privacy and Civil Liberties Board; and the National Counter Proliferation Center.
Minimize Risks; Maximize Payoffs
Now current and former Intelligence employees are outsourcing themselves and their private CIA-style security companies. Security is composed of highly trained former military, special operations, intelligence and law enforcement personnel as well as professional private security and investigative personnel.
In terms of "deep politics" war is fraud, a manipulated and lucrative commodity that intentionally perpetuates itself in the Long War. That includes "silent" or asymmetric war, drug war, terror war, oil war, economic war, corporate espionage and the myths of war that our culture lives and dies by. Even the classic Cold War is back, in economics rather than an arms race.
The head of the CIA, Leon Panetta, said the spending growth on intelligence likely is not sustainable and that he's at work on a five-year plan for the agency. "Particularly with these deficits, we're going to hit the wall. I want to be prepared for that," he told the Post. "Frankly, I think everyone in intelligence ought to be doing that."
Strategic Intelligence
Online security businesses deploy both Blue Badge (Govt.) and Green Badge (Civilian) personnel. Most security and intelligence jobs are now subcontracted to private security agencies, giving rise to the phenomenon of "SPY 1099," the Intelligence contractor. They are paid more for private sector work than government work to make the economy scream.
"NOAH" is one such [fictitious] intelligence-gathering and risk management firm providing companies with both information and analysis to enable them to identify, manage and mitigate risks that can arise either from the normal flow of business or from unanticipated contingencies. NOAH responds to threats posed by organized crime, and those directed toward critical infrastructure with emphasis on prevention as well as reaction. NOAH safeguards information security, market entry, critical assets, verifies investment theses, and develops critical acquisition data.
NOAH mitigates risk of reputation threat, ensures brand and intellectual property protection, and eliminates fraud and personnel issues. Other services include strategic crisis consulting, due diligence of complicated transactions, business intelligence, solutions to regulatory challenges, encryption, strategic crisis consulting, security and preparedness, investigations and forensics, as well as open-source and intelligence-based geopolitical risk assessment. Investigative capabilities include asset tracing, forensic auditing, forensic data recovery and analysis, audio forensics, handwriting analysis and psychological profiling.
The firm’s mission exercises the founders’ expertise, experience and network of relationships to provide clients with a higher standard of business intelligence and analysis, risk assessments and due diligence support for transactions, even in the most challenging emerging markets. NOAH consists of professionals drawn not only from the intelligence world, but also from value-added disciplines, such as the legal profession, financial regulation, investment banking, investigative journalism, diplomacy, forensic science and law enforcement. This well-rounded team is based in offices in Washington, DC, and Annapolis, MD. with continued worldwide growth.
OUTSOURCING CITIZENRY
The Citizen Corps Program engages citizens in personal preparedness, exercises, ongoing volunteer programs, and surge capacity response. Citizen Corps is FEMA's grassroots strategy to bring together government and community leaders to involve citizens in all-hazards emergency preparedness and resilience related to Homeland Security.
InfraGard is a private non-profit organization run as a public-private partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It is an information sharing and analysis effort serving the interests and combining the knowledge base of a wide range of members. At its most basic level, InfraGard is a partnership between the FBI and the private sector.
InfraGard is an association of businesses, academic institutions, state and local law enforcement agencies, and other participants dedicated to sharing information and intelligence to prevent hostile acts against the United States. All InfraGard members are associated with a local chapter. There is no 'National membership.' Protection of our nation’s infrastructure cannot be accomplished by the federal government alone. It requires coordinated action from numerous stakeholders – including government, the private sector, law enforcement, academia and concerned citizens. A fictionalized version could be called "IntraGuard."
More than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to collect and provide information on fellow Americans. In return, members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public, and at times before elected officials. “There is evidence that InfraGard may be closer to a corporate Total Information Awareness program (TIPS), turning private-sector corporations—some of which may be in a position to observe the activities of millions of individual customers—into surrogate eyes and ears for the FBI,” according to an ACLU report titled “The Surveillance-Industrial Complex: How the American Government Is Conscripting Businesses and Individuals in the Construction of a Surveillance Society.”
InfraGard, with members from 350 companies of the Fortune 500, started in Cleveland back in 1996, when the private sector there cooperated with the FBI to investigate cyber threats. “Then the FBI cloned it,” says Phyllis Schneck, chairman of the board of directors of the InfraGard National Members Alliance, and the prime mover behind the growth of InfraGard over the last several years. FBI Director Robert Mueller addressed an InfraGard convention on August 9, 2005. “To date, there are more than 11,000 members of InfraGard . . . from our perspective, that amounts to 11,000 contacts . . . and 11,000 partners in our mission to protect America.” He added a little later, “Those of you in the private sector are the first line of defense.”
Intel: Raw & Cooked
The government has outsourced everything from spy satellites to covert operations. They even outsource buildings. Outsourced contractors set up black sites, design programs and create mobile, hand held covert communications devices and the latest must-have spy-tech accessories. They also do data mining and intelligence analysis work.
Today, the ties between intelligence agencies and the private sector -- the "shadow intelligence community" -- are so close, it’s sometimes hard to tell the difference. After leaving government, these officials keep their high-level security clearances, which makes them extremely valuable to their new employers. “You can’t do any business without having the clearances,” says former Spy Master Jake Stockwell. “How else would you know about the contracts?” The most secretive contractors are the Intelligence Community's A-team. Even the military is gearing up to invade our daily lives through domestic deployment.
Re-Tooling Intelligence
Who are these guys; what are they up to and what do they do? A handful of government agencies require TS/SCI contractor access and really only two major intelligence agencies do so. One of them is located in Langley, Virginia a couple of miles from the eastern entrance to the Dulles Toll Road with satellite offices stretching to the west. The other is located in Ft. Meade, Maryland. So, one serves CIA and another NSA.
They have staff co-located at an Annapolis Junction Maryland facility. To the uninitiated, that means they contract with the CIA, work extensively with Army and Navy tier-one Special Forces Teams as well as Special Operations Command (SOCOM) with a little NSA thrown in. Geography tells the tale of who is working for whom.
Employees have experience working in hostile and denied areas and have immediate availability to deploy as part of a team or alone to ply their trade abroad or in the US. (Private domestic spying, anyone?) Go-bags packed, ready to deploy with teams raises the obvious follow up question: which teams?
They tag along along with Special Forces teams to foreign hostile or denied areas with comm equipment that has offensive and defensive capabilities --for ELINT and SIGINT collection. They set up in a house that happens to be in the path of a highly directional signal or on top of just the right cable. The metaphorical houses are probably in such friendly spots as Iran or wherever the yellow brick road of GWOT contracting leads.
They set up covert listening posts and surveillance. Teams stand ready, custom-designed high-tech gadgets in hand, for clandestine missions in enemy territory to covertly and remotely intercept foreign communications or penetrate information systems. This can be done independently or in conjunction with SEAL or Delta or other secret squirrel teams on behalf of SOCOM and the CIA.
Private CIA
CIA officials won't say how much of the agency’s work is done by private companies, but admit that outsourcing has increased substantially since 2001. Of the estimated $40 billion the United States is expected to spend on intelligence this year, experts say at least 50 percent will go to private contractors. An even bigger piece of the pie now goes to domestic security companies serving Fusion Centers.
Intelligence and law enforcement have merged and work together at home and abroad. Police departments across the country have created networks of databases called "fusion centers" in an effort to detect and prevent acts of terrorism. The ultimate objective is to create a nationwide reporting system of suspicious behaviors so that the authorities can "connect the dots" before an attack can occur.
Civil liberties groups claim these fusion centers are beset with legal and practical problems. One legal problem is that the police should not be opening files on people because they exercised their right to free speech, such as demonstrating against the foreign policies of the United States. One practical problem is that the police are gathering so much mundane information that practically anyone could end up on a list of "suspicious" persons because some official arbitrarily decided to fill out a tip sheet. Join us for a discussion of the pros and cons of this newly proposed system of policing.
Teams of military and law enforcement veterans and other motivated, capable Americans protect diplomats, provide training, and offer logistic services. They do those things in support of friendly nation peace operations around the world, including support of some of our Muslim allies.
Underworld to Overworld
These Ops are special and not necessarily accountable to anything but the bottom line. Operations range from the Underworld of black markets, black gold and money laundering to the Overworld of global controllers and Corpoglomerates. They know how things operate and how to get the job done while protecting the clients assets and secrets.
"Intelligence services" represent an unprecedented concentration of military expertise and force in the hands of private corporations. They evaluate clients through research and due diligence, to ensure they are legitimate actors who support freedom and security. They only take on work that is sanctioned by the U.S. government, or so they say.
Halliburton will probably never shake its bad reputation. Blackwater became so infamous, it changed its name to Xe, much like the maligned Whackenhut changed to "The GEO Group, Inc." GEO is now a world leader in the delivery of correctional and detention management, health and mental health, and other diversified services to federal, state and local government agencies around the globe. GEO offers a turnkey approach that includes design, construction, financing and operations. GEO represents government clients in the United States, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and Canada,
Substantive Deliverables
With mixed personnel, they circumvent the turf war between Police, CIA and the Pentagon. Services include Acquisitions, National and International Emergency Response, Think Tanks, Field Security, Action Teams, Fusion Analysis, Cyber Forensics, Network Security, Data Analysis, Transactional Auditing, Tutorial Assisstance and Systems Transformation.
Also, counter measures, anti-terrorism evaluation, technology and development training, theater-wide communications operations, intelligence liason, clandestine procedures and training, incident management and protective operations. Encryption methodologies and the design of secure communications networks within a defense environment. COMSEC, INFOSEC, and SIGSEC. EMF risk assessment and reduction.
* Counter-Intelligence Services
* All-Source Fusion Analysis Services
* Strategic Debriefing
* Translation Services
* Tactical Translation Services
* HUMINT Support
* Imagery Analysis Support
* Topographic Support
Intellipedians
The CIA has grown wise to the power of open-source collaboration, and Intellipedia—a classified version of Wikipedia—is humming with activity 3 years after its debut, Time reports. The site boasts 900,000 pages of content written by 100,000 identified intelligence professionals. Advocates cite the rapid treatment of questions as evidence of Intellipedia’s effectiveness.
For example, an agent posted a page asking how to collect evidence from a chlorine-based IED after coming across one in Iraq. "Twenty-three people at 18 or 19 locations around the world chimed in on this thing, and we got a perfectly serviceable set of instructions in two days," says one user. Some hardliners have questioned the site’s security, but other say a rapidly evolving database is exactly what the intelligence community needs to combat the ever-changing face of terrorism.
Moonlighting Intel
In the midst of two wars and the fight against Al Qaeda, the CIA is offering operatives a chance to peddle their expertise to private companies on the side -- a policy that gives financial firms and hedge funds access to the nation's top-level intelligence talent.
In one case, these active-duty officers moonlighted at a hedge-fund consulting firm that wanted to tap their expertise in "deception detection," the highly specialized art of telling when executives may be lying based on clues in a conversation.
But sources familiar with the CIA’s moonlighting policy defend it as a vital tool to prevent brain-drain at Langley, which has seen an exodus of highly trained, badly needed intelligence officers to the private sector, where they can easily double or even triple their government salaries. The policy gives agents a chance to earn more while still staying on the government payroll.
A government official familiar with the policy insists it doesn’t impede the CIA’s work on critical national security investigations. This official said CIA officers who want to participate in it must first submit a detailed explanation of the type of work involved and get permission from higher-ups within the agency.
If any officer requests permission for outside employment, those requests are reviewed not just for legality, but for propriety. There is much about the policy that is unclear, including how many officers have availed themselves of it, how long it has been in place and what types of outside employment have been allowed. The CIA declined to provide additional details.
Generally, federal employees across the vast government work force are allowed to moonlight in the private sector, but under tight guidelines, that can vary from agency to agency, according to the federal Office of Government Ethics.
“In general, for most nonpolitical employees, they may engage in outside employment, but there are some restrictions,” said Elaine Newton, an attorney at the Office of Government Ethics. She explained that agencies throughout the federal government set their own policies on outside employment, and that they all typically require that the employment not represent a conflict of interest with the employee’s federal job and that the employee have written approval before taking on the work.
But the close ties between active-duty and retired CIA officers at one consulting company show the degree to which CIA-style intelligence gathering techniques have been employed by hedge funds and financial institutions in the global economy.
The firm is called Business Intelligence Advisors, and it is based in Boston. BIA was founded and is staffed by a number of retired CIA officers, and it specializes in the arcane field of “deception detection.” BIA’s clients have included Goldman Sachs and the enormous hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors, according to spokesmen for both firms.
BIA has employed active-duty CIA officers in the past, although BIA president Cheryl Cook said that has “not been the case with BIA for some time.”
But the ties between BIA and the intelligence world run deep. The name itself was chosen as a play off CIA. And the presence of so many former CIA personnel on the payroll at BIA causes confusion as to whether the intelligence firm is actually an extension of the agency itself. As a result, BIA places a disclaimer in some of its corporate materials to clarify that it is not, in fact, controlled by Langley.
BIA’s clients can put the company on a retainer for as much as $400,000 to $800,000 a year. And in return, they receive access to a variety of services, from deception detection to other programs that feature the CIA intelligence techniques.
The tactics that BIA officials such as these teach hedge fund clients are based in a program it calls “Tactical Behavior Assessment."Unlike polygraph machines, the TBA technique allows examiners to work without hooking up their subject to a series of wires. The subject never knows he’s being scrutinized.
Polygraph machines work by measuring a person’s physical responses, such as heart rate, that indicate stress. Analysts using the machine need to sit with their subject for a long time. They have to establish a person’s physiological baseline, so they begin with a “control” conversation about neutral topics, before they can begin grilling the subject. Conducting an interview and doing a thorough analysis of polygraph results can take hours.
TBA focuses on the verbal and nonverbal cues that people convey when they aren’t telling the truth. Psychologists familiar with the method say it works because human beings just aren’t hard-wired to lie well. Holding two opposing ideas in your brain at the same time — as you have to do in order to tell a lie — causes a phenomenon they term “cognitive dissonance,” which creates actual physical discomfort. And when people are uncomfortable, they squirm. They fidget ever so slightly, they pick lint off their clothes, they shift their bodily positions.
Agents look for the physical indicators of lying. They watch for a person shifting anchor points. If the person is leaning forward on one elbow, does he switch to the other one? Interrogators watch for grooming gestures such as adjusting clothes, hair or eyeglasses. They look to see if the person picks at his fingernails or scratches himself. They watch for the person to clean his surroundings — does he straighten the paper clips on the table or line up the pens? If he does, he could be lying.
To obtain verbal clues, agents listen for several kinds of statements. They’ll listen for qualifying answers, phrases that begin with words like “honestly,” “frankly” or “basically.” The agents will be listening for detour phrases like “as I said before ...” They’ll want to hear if the person invokes religion — “I swear to God” — or attacks the questioner: “How dare you ask me something like that?”
Other red flags: Complaints —“How long is this going to take?” Selective memory —“To the best of my knowledge.” Overly courteous responses —“Yes, sir.”
BIA doesn’t just offer training, though. For a fee, its officers do the analysis themselves.
Read more: www.politico.com/news/stor...z0fpSZdMbN
NOC, NOC
HUMINT
Human intelligence. The collection of intelligence from human sources, including defectors, voluntary sources, spies recruited to betray their country or organization, prisoners, diplomats, information from allied or liaison intelligence services.
Who does HUMINT: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/network/#/overall/types-of-work/human-intelligence/
The US needs to reconfigure how it uses HUMINT tools by examining their effectiveness in the recruitment-centered model. When using this tool, the collecting agency finds a member of an adversarial group with access to important information. He then turn him or her into a spy by building a personal relationship and eventually popping the question, “Will you spy for me?”
Back pocket agents are nefarious agents or assets, loosely associated to the Company. The key is an "agent" has a narrow meaning and in the espionage business one ought not use words and terms that are loosey-goosey. An agent generally is paid and proven. An asset may not be paid nor in agreement with the nation state.
This model dominates since the Cold War, when spying followed fairly predictable guidelines. The organizational solution to the question of penetration was to rely on finding agents ‘in-place’ and to develop an approach in which agent recruitment played the fundamental role in HUMINT operations. However, even using ‘in-place’ sources had its difficulties. The normal process of developing and managing a HUMINT source consists of a cycle of Spotting, Assessing, Recruiting, Handling, and Terminating an asset In the Recruitment Cycle.
Driving this is an organizational culture that elevates recruiting in the hearts and minds of the Clandestine Service cadre. Career paths are driven by asset and agent recruiting, ‘hallway reputation,’ and ‘scalp-hunting,’ which measures performance for promotions. The highest value is given to recruiting and personality traits that facilitate it. In the Cold War that meant infiltrating the diplomatic scene of embassies and consulates under the guise of ‘official cover’ – cover where an officer’s affiliation with the US is not concealed, but his or her status as an intelligence officer is.
Intelligence liason in the War on Terror is necessarily more difficult, due to access to cultural groups, de-centralization of authority, and heavy need for collection on terrorist targets. Liason with foreign security units is crucial, actually better understood as a form of subcontracted intelligence collection based on barter.
Thus, liaison for the purpose of HUMINT collection is essentially “outsourc[ng the task of penetration,” an approach upon which the CIA appears to regularly lean when collecting on terrorists. Herein lies liaison’s greatest weakness - that we cannot control it. In a liaison partnership, HUMINT officers may be afforded access to a captured terrorist, or made aware of or allowed to participate in the partner service’s surveillance.
NOC, NOC, Who's There?
Only a small percentage of the CIA's employees (perhaps less than 10 percent of the agency's estimated 10,000 to 20,000 workers) are clandestine officers involved in operations—the traditional spy stuff that includes recruiting sources, executing covert missions, and gathering intelligence. The remaining 90 percent are analysts, managers, scientists, and support staff. Because of their various roles, CIA employees require different levels of protective cover:
No cover. Upper management, college recruiters, congressional liaisons, Director George Tenet: These men and women are publicly acknowledged CIA employees.
Light cover. Many of the CIA's analysts and scientists fall under this category. Their families and friends might know who they really work for, but publicly, they claim to be employed by some other innocuous government agency or group. One former intelligence officer described this as "the cover you use if your airplane gets hijacked": It's safe enough to use on a quick visit overseas, say to meet with intelligence counterparts in a friendly country, but insufficient cover for spies stationed abroad.
Official cover. Most CIA employees engaged in operations overseas are given official cover: a sham job in the U.S. embassy (or working for another government agency) that affords them diplomatic immunity. These spies work under varying degrees of secrecy—the CIA station chief in a major ally nation may be well-known on the diplomatic cocktail circuit, but his subordinates, who actually recruit new informants, may not be. Such spies probably confide in their immediate families, but otherwise are unlikely to reveal their true occupation. (Although some operatives working in allied nations are "declared" officers, which means the CIA informs the host government that they are spies.) The advantage of official cover is that if officers are caught, they enjoy the benefits of diplomatic protection; at worst, they'd be publicly outed and sent home in disgrace.
Nonofficial cover. NOCs (the word rhymes with "rocks") are the most covert CIA operatives. They typically work abroad without diplomatic protection (often they pretend to work for some commercial enterprise). If these spies are caught, there's no guarantee that the United States would admit their true identities. When using official cover could put a spy's life and work at risk, NOC is the only alternative.
A little-noticed provision in the public section of a mostly-classified Senate intelligence bill signals that the Central Intelligence Agency is more serious than ever about plans to expand its program of setting up cover jobs for CIA officers outside of the usual posts in the State Department and other government agencies. Some believe the CIA's non-official cover, or NOC (pronounced KNOCK), program is the likeliest way for the agency to penetrate terrorist organizations or even, say, the nuclear program of Kim Jong Il's closed regime in North Korea.
"With terrorism, counter-proliferation — the kinds of threats that we face — you have to be more inventive in the way you deploy people overseas," said a knowledgeable U.S. official. "So you are going to have a lot of people who are not under official cover." America's most famous NOC is Valerie Plame, the CIA operative exposed last summer after a columnist reported that Bush administration officials had said she was behind a 2002 trip by her husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson, to Africa to investigate claims that Saddam had sought to buy uranium from Niger.
NOCs have traditionally been a tough position to fill. Though not a complete solution to the CIA's problem of gathering human intelligence, the NOC program can help. It's extremely expensive and dangerous to build a credible non-official cover by planting someone in, say, a corporate executive post in Islamabad or as a cell phone salesman in Madrid — positions in which a CIA officer would have no diplomatic immunity from arrest by the host government and little protection from deadly retribution by terrorists. Worse, the CIA has faced major bureaucratic hurdles in setting up an infrastructure to ensure that an NOC appears to be paid by a cover employer while actually being paid a government salary but at the same time only liable for taxes on a — often much lower — CIA officer's wage.
The Senate intelligence committee quietly passed a measure early this month that would make it clear that the CIA can "pay salaries, allowances, retirement, insurance, and other benefits to CIA employees under non-official cover in a manner consistent with their cover." This also suggests that a NOC might be allowed to keep at least some of the larger salary that goes with their fake job.
Although some experts believe CIA Director George Tenet already has much if not all of this authority, this legislation would give the CIA additional flexibility. "This is intended to sort of cut through some of the paperwork," the U.S. official said. "There shouldn't be any excuse for not doing these kinds of things." Demonstrating the importance of non-official cover across the entire U.S. intelligence community, the Senate bill also makes permanent the authority for the Pentagon to use front companies in its intelligence gathering, an authority that until now has been subject to renewal.
CIA continues to expand its NOC program. Intelligence officials say several hundred NOCs are now in the field, and the number is growing. Senior officials from the agency's National Collections Branch have been quietly approaching businesses doing overseas work to ask if they will provide covers for CIA case officers. Energy companies, import-export firms, multinational concerns, banks with foreign branches and high-tech corporations are among those being approached. Usually the company president and perhaps another senior officer, such as the general counsel, are the only ones who know of the arrangement. ``The CEOs do it out of a sense of patriotism,'' says former deputy CIA Director Bobby Inman.
In effect, the companies get free executives. For the cover to be plausible, the CIA must recruit business-school graduates who can put in a productive day's work with the firm and then spy during their off-hours. The CIA has even begun experimenting with recruiting mid-level corporate executives who yearn for adventure, then placing them in overseas firms as ``NOCs of convenience'' to penetrate a target for several years.
When the mission is over, the execs return to the business world. But while they are NOC officers, the CIA pays them a government salary. The company pays them a corporate salary-- usually much larger--to keep up the cover, but that money is quietly returned to the company. In fact, the agency's Covert Tax Branch has a secret relationship with the IRS to resolve the two W-2 forms an officer gets each year.
NOCs are out in the cold. But the CIA believes NOCs are the best way to carry out many clandestine operations. A foreign-intelligence service usually has no trouble spotting CIA officers operating under an embassy's cover. Not so for NOCs. ``If you're working drugs, thugs or tech transfers, you're going to be in banks all the time looking at financial transactions''--jobs often better suited for an officer under corporate cover, says a CIA contractor. NOC officers also have had more luck spying on ``hard targets'' such as Iran, Iraq and North Korea, where the U.S. has no embassies in which to hide CIA operatives. In some countries, CIA is even experimenting with setting up two stations. One would be under the traditional embassy cover to serve as a decoy, while another much more secretive station would handle the NOCs.
CIA sources report NOCs sponsors overseas include: RJR Nabisco, Prentice-Hall, Ford Motor Co., Procter & Gamble, General Electric, IBM, Bank of America, Chase Manhattan Bank, Pan Am, Rockwell International, Campbell Soup, and Sears Roebuck. In some cases, flamboyant conservative businessmen like Ross Perot and the late Malcolm Forbes have actively cooperated with the CIA in stationing officers worldwide. In other cases, obscure U.S. companies doing business abroad--such as a tiny Texas firm that deals in spare tractor parts in Latin America, cited by a former CIA officer--have taken part in the NOC program. Shipping lines, mineral and oil exploration firms, and construction companies with international operations, like the Bechtel Corp., often house NOCs.
By joining the CIA in clandestine activities, a company tacitly accepts that some of its employees could routinely break the law in another country and, if exposed, embarrass the company and endanger its other overseas employees.
Unlike most CIA officers, who are stationed abroad disguised as State Department employees, military officials, or other U.S. government personnel attached to an American embassy, NOCs operate without any apparent links to the U.S. government. They are able to approach people who would not otherwise come into contact with a U.S. embassy official. The CIA's operations within terrorist, drug trafficking, and arms dealer networks often involve NOCs, who can move more easily in such circles without raising suspicion.
In recent years, according to several CIA sources, NOCs have increasingly turned their attention to economics. Using their business covers, they seek to recruit agents in foreign government economic ministries or gain intelligence about high-tech firms in computer, electronics, and aerospace industries. They also help track the development of critical technologies, both military and civilian.
NOCs frequently stay 5, 10, or more years in one place. During that time, the NOC is truly "out in the cold." Their contacts with control officers in the CIA station are strictly limited; they do not have access to embassy files; and they must report through secret communications channels and clandestine meetings.
"As a NOC officer you are truly alone," says John Quinn, who spent much of the 1980s as a NOC in Tokyo. "The sense of isolation and loneliness is difficult to describe to those who have never experienced it." Because NOCs do not have the diplomatic immunity that protects CIA officers operating under embassy cover, if they are exposed they are subject to arrest and imprisonment--and they can be executed as spies.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,638325,00.html#ixzz0gJUIS074
The Spy Who Billed Me
2007-(The Nation) This column was written by R.J. Hillhouse.
The unprecedented involvement of private corporations in the Iraq War has been well documented. Private soldiers working for Blackwater USA, Triple Canopy and others provide security services against military-level threats, and they regularly engage in combat. But what is not generally known is that the secret side of the Iraq War and the larger "war on terror" is also conducted by private corporations, fielding private spies. The reach of these corporations has extended into the Oval Office. Corporations are heavily involved in creating the analytical products that underlie the nation's most important and most sensitive national security document, the President's Daily Brief (PDB).
Over the past six years, a quiet revolution has occurred in the intelligence community toward wide-scale outsourcing to corporations and away from the long-established practice of keeping operations in U.S. government hands, with only select outsourcing of certain jobs to independently contracted experts. Key functions of intelligence agencies are now run by private corporations. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) revealed in May that 70 percent of the intelligence budget goes to contractors.
For all practical purposes, effective control of the NSA is with private corporations, which run its support and management functions. As the Washington Post's Walter Pincus reported last year, more than 70 percent of the staff of the Pentagon's newest intelligence unit, CIFA (Counterintelligence Field Activity), is made up of corporate contractors. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) lawyers revealed at a conference in May that contractors make up 51 percent of the staff in DIA offices. At the CIA, the situation is similar. Between 50 and 60 percent of the workforce of the CIA's most important directorate, the National Clandestine Service (NCS), responsible for the gathering of human intelligence, is composed of employees of for-profit corporations.
Employees of private corporations — "green badgers," in CIA parlance — provide sensitive services ranging from covert CIA operations in Iraq to recruiting and running spies. They also gather human intelligence on behalf of the CIA and analyze it, creating intelligence products used by the intelligence community and also shared with other branches of government.
Corporate intelligence professionals from companies such as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Booz Allen Hamilton, SAIC and others are thoroughly integrated into analytical divisions throughout the intelligence community, including the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. It is the ODNI that produces the final document of the President's Daily Brief.
The President's Daily Brief is an aggregate of the most critical analyses from the sixteen agencies that make up the intelligence community. Staff at the ODNI sift through reports to complete the PDB, which is presented to the President every day as the U.S. government's most accurate and most current assessment of priority national security issues. It was the PDB that warned on August 6, 2001, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."
It's true that the government pays for and signs off on the assessment, but much of the analysis and even some of the underlying intelligence-gathering is corporate. Knowledgeable members of the intelligence community tell me that corporations have so penetrated the intelligence community that it's impossible to distinguish their work from the government's. Although the President's Daily Brief has the seal of the ODNI, it is misleading. To be accurate, the PDB would look more like NASCAR with corporate logos plastered all over it.
Concerned members of the intelligence community have told me that if a corporation wanted to insert items favorable to itself or its clients into the PDB to influence the U.S. national security agenda, at this time it would be virtually undetectable. These companies have analysts and often intelligence collectors spread throughout the system and have the access to introduce intelligence into the system.
• Nearly 50% of contractors perform management and planning tasks, computer upgrades and maintenance functions or work as personnel or payroll officers.
• About a quarter of private contractors were employed to skirt federal hiring limits.
• Contractors are typically paid more than government employees.
• The discrepancy has caused some "talented individuals" to quit government jobs but has not caused a "mass exodus."
"Contractors allow us to expand quickly and contract quickly," Sanders said. "I don't believe we're overly reliant on contractors."
The survey, the first to attempt to account for intelligence contracting, was begun last year, in part because of concerns by intelligence service leaders that too many government workers were quitting to take private work.Last September, CIA Director Michael Hayden said his agency needed to guard against becoming a "farm system for contractors."A separate study of the impact of contracting at the CIA is continuing, spokesman Paul Gimigliano said.
Stephen Marrin, who teaches intelligence studies at Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pa., says hiring higher-paid contractors raises a "fairness issue" and can impact morale. Marrin, who worked as a CIA analyst for 2½ years in the mid-1990s, later returned to the agency as a contract analyst for about a 25% raise. Hiring contractors, he said, can save the federal government money on retirement benefits.
http://www.thespywhobilledme.com/about.html
There are nearly 1,300 government organizations and 2,000 private companies working in 10,000 locations across the country.
There are 854,000 people who have top-secret security clearances.
There are 33 building complexes for top-secret work that are under construction or have been built just in Washington, DC since 9/11... totaling 17 million square feet of space.
Analysts turn out 50,000 intelligence reports every year... you can bet many of them never get read.
And, at least 263 organizations have been created or reorganized as a response to 9/11... that of course means hiring lots and lots of people. But don't ask where Osama bin Laden is… nobody knows.
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Destinations & Travel Planning
Palazzo Colonna: A Hidden Palace in the Heart of Rome
The Palazzo Colonna is a luxurious house museum, noble residence, and oasis tucked into one of the busiest areas of central Rome.
Although I have spent years exploring Rome, I am often surprised by little things I have never noticed. A spider decoration above a door or a hidden flood marker on the side of a building can fill me with glee. “Ahhhh, how many others have noticed that?” I muse.
But on a recent tour with Context Travel I found that there are still several very big things in this city that I have overlooked, places that have been hiding in plain sight that I just hadn’t bothered to check out.
Context Travel invited me as a guest on their exclusive tour of Palazzo Colonna.
I had long heard that Palazzo Colonna, one of the house museums of Rome, was worth the visit. But given that the museum is only open on Saturday mornings (or “by appointment” – two words that intrigue me but usually stop me from taking action ), fitting a visit into my busy schedule was never easy. Luckily, a private tour on a Tuesday with a Context Travel guide and a group of about six other curious travelers solved that issue.
One of the reasons I was interested in visiting Palazzo Colonna was because I had assumed (incorrectly) that the palace was the site of a poignant scene from one of my favorite films, La Grande Bellezza.
There is a scene in the film where an aging princess returns home to the palace in which she grew up and visits the part of it which has been turned into a museum. She puts a coin in the slot next to the exhibit of her childhood bedroom and listens to the story of her young life told by an animatronic voice.
The above-mentioned scene from La Grande Bellezza was not shot in Palazzo Colonna. But I couldn’t help but think how this sad moment of reckoning must have resonated with the Colonna family, who still reside here after eight centuries of having continually inhabited this palace. In fact, the portion of the residence that we toured is primarily used for tours and events while the current family lives in a small, but presumably ample and luxurious, section of the estate.
A famous scene that was filmed in Palazzo Colonna was the final scene of classic film Roman Holiday.
Art in Palazzo Colonna
Another reason I wanted to visit the palace was because of its vast art collection.
There are Pinturicchio frescoes on the ceiling and works from Jan Brueghel the Elder, Bronzino, Guercino, Guido Reni, Peter Paul Rubens, Tintoretto, and Paolo Veronese. Gaspard Dughet, painter of large and vibrant landscape murals, has a room named after him in the Colonna apartments.
Meanwhile, the Colonna family collected nearly 40 small-scale landscape paintings of Rome and its countryside by Gaspar van Wittel. Seen all together, the Dutch painter’s works present a curious time capsule of Rome, a time before the Spanish Steps or the Via Ripetta river banks were constructed.
Annibale Carracci’s “The Bean Eater” is a highlight of Palazzo Colonna’s art collection
The most famous painting of the Colonna collection is Annibale Carracci’s The Bean Eater (Il Mangiafagioli). It is hard to overstate how out of place the painting of such a humble subject seems inside a gilded palace. Also difficult to explain is how this genre painting moved me more than all the other gold encrusted pomp.
Art historian Donald Posner said of the painting that “the composition has a “snapshot” effect which was utterly unprecedented in Western art.” The Bean Eater was thoroughly modern for its time, perhaps one of the first examples of the gentry looking to the common man as a source of artistic inspiration.
I wish I could have had more time to stand in Galleria Colonna and gaze at Carracci’s creation.
Inside Palazzo Colonna in Rome
Palazzo Colonna: Rome’s History Through One Family’s Eyes
Beyond the grand hall and the art collection, Piazza Colonna offers the visitor a chance to understand the history of Rome and Italy on a micro level through the lives of one very noble family.
The Colonna symbol, a single column topped with a crown, is visible in every room of the palace, from the marble floors and tapestries to the wrought iron patio chairs and radiator covers, turning a tour into a sort of scavenger hunt.
And of course, there is pleasure in visiting a grand palace that is mere steps away from the busiest Roman streets. The Palazzo Colonna is a quiet refuge in the heart of the center and well worth the detour, especially accompanied by an expert guide.
I was a guest of Context Travel for their Rome walk The Princess and the Palace. Click here to learn more about Rome tours from Context.
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stellalucentellc says:
Fantastic! Grazie mille for sharing these beautiful photos and the history of this unique place in Rome.
11 January 2017 at 6:29 am
thank you for sharing this beautiful place that i did not hear about 🙂
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APA touts the benefits of Video Games
From APA Press Release on November 25, 2013;
Video game play may provide learning, health, social benefits, review finds
Authors suggest balancing questions of harm with potential for positive impact
WASHINGTON – Playing video games, including violent shooter games, may boost children’s learning, health and social skills, according to a review of research on the positive effects of video game play to be published by the American Psychological Association.
The study comes out as debate continues among psychologists and other health professionals regarding the effects of violent media on youth. An APA task force is conducting a comprehensive review of research on violence in video games and interactive media and will release its findings in 2014.
“Important research has already been conducted for decades on the negative effects of gaming, including addiction, depression and aggression, and we are certainly not suggesting that this should be ignored,” said lead author Isabela Granic, PhD, of Radboud University Nijmegen in The Netherlands. “However, to understand the impact of video games on children’s and adolescents’ development, a more balanced perspective is needed.”
The article will be published in APA’s flagship journal, American Psychologist.
While one widely held view maintains playing video games is intellectually lazy, such play actually may strengthen a range of cognitive skills such as spatial navigation, reasoning, memory and perception, according to several studies reviewed in the article. This is particularly true for shooter video games that are often violent, the authors said. A 2013 meta-analysis found that playing shooter video games improved a player’s capacity to think about objects in three dimensions, just as well as academic courses to enhance these same skills, according to the study. “This has critical implications for education and career development, as previous research has established the power of spatial skills for achievement in science, technology, engineering and mathematics,” Granic said. This enhanced thinking was not found with playing other types of video games, such as puzzles or role-playing games.
Playing video games may also help children develop problem-solving skills, the authors said. The more adolescents reported playing strategic video games, such as role-playing games, the more they improved in problem solving and school grades the following year, according to a long-term study published in 2013. Children’s creativity was also enhanced by playing any kind of video game, including violent games, but not when the children used other forms of technology, such as a computer or cell phone, other research revealed.
Simple games that are easy to access and can be played quickly, such as “Angry Birds,” can improve players’ moods, promote relaxation and ward off anxiety, the study said. “If playing video games simply makes people happier, this seems to be a fundamental emotional benefit to consider,” said Granic. The authors also highlighted the possibility that video games are effective tools to learn resilience in the face of failure. By learning to cope with ongoing failures in games, the authors suggest that children build emotional resilience they can rely upon in their everyday lives.
Another stereotype the research challenges is the socially isolated gamer. More than 70 percent of gamers play with a friend and millions of people worldwide participate in massive virtual worlds through video games such as “Farmville” and “World of Warcraft,” the article noted. Multiplayer games become virtual social communities, where decisions need to be made quickly about whom to trust or reject and how to lead a group, the authors said. People who play video games, even if they are violent, that encourage cooperation are more likely to be helpful to others while gaming than those who play the same games competitively, a 2011 study found.
The article emphasized that educators are currently redesigning classroom experiences, integrating video games that can shift the way the next generation of teachers and students approach learning. Likewise, physicians have begun to use video games to motivate patients to improve their health, the authors said. In the video game “Re-Mission,” child cancer patients can control a tiny robot that shoots cancer cells, overcomes bacterial infections and manages nausea and other barriers to adhering to treatments. A 2008 international study in 34 medical centers found significantly greater adherence to treatment and cancer-related knowledge among children who played “Re-Mission” compared to children who played a different computer game.
“It is this same kind of transformation, based on the foundational principle of play, that we suggest has the potential to transform the field of mental health,” Granic said. “This is especially true because engaging children and youth is one of the most challenging tasks clinicians face.”
The authors recommended that teams of psychologists, clinicians and game designers work together to develop approaches to mental health care that integrate video game playing with traditional therapy.
Article: “The Benefits of Playing Video Games,” Isabela Granic, PhD, Adam Lobel, PhD, and Rutger C.M.E. Engels, PhD, Radboud University Nijmegen; Nijmegen, The Netherlands; American Psychologist, 2013.
Full text of the article is available from the APA Public Affairs Office.
Contact: Isabela Granic at i.granic@pwo.ru.nl, cell: 011.31.6.19.50.00.99 or work: 011.31.24.361.2142
The American Psychological Association, in Washington, D.C., is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States. APA’s membership includes more than 134,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants and students. Through its divisions in 54 subfields of psychology and affiliations with 60 state, territorial and Canadian provincial associations, APA works to advance the creation, communication and application of psychological knowledge to benefit society and improve people’s lives.
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deflowered my life in Pansy Division – jon ginoli
April 24, 2013 at 4:31 pm · Filed under A-D, Book Reviews (by title), G-H
(Not discussed by the group but written in a personal capacity.)
If you are interested in gay history, then this book is a must, even if you aren’t into rock music, because Pansy Division was, is, a phenomenon. They get a mention, though their music didn’t get played, in the iconic ‘Queer as Folk’.
Like many gay men, the author was a loner growing up in small town at a time when gender bending was in fashion but there were no but no out groups – so he ended up founding one. Like many, the only role models he saw were camp and he wasn’t like any of them. So, he thought, it must be a passing phase. Indeed, he didn’t have his first sexual encounter until the age of 21.
He likens high school graduation as leading to ‘the slaughter house that is adulthood’ and doesn’t want to attend his graduation ceremony. His taste for ‘outward signs’ is similar to the protestations of religious leaders such as Guru Nanak who didn’t want initiation.
Like so many teenagers who dream of being pop stars, and there are a few who make it. The author had his dream and had to risk a job he liked in order to make it. He succeeded. Risk is the name of the game: one member of the band wanted a more reliable income after he turned age forty.
Pansy Division is an important aspect of gay culture. With so many clubs of the time playing disco, especially high energy, it seemed like it was compulsory. This group offered something different.
There is also distaste for the ubiquitous Oasis with their ‘wholesale theft of riffs and melodies.’
Other stereotypes are busted too, such as guys who refuse to kiss.
There is a good account of the group’s search for a drummer and for someone actually wanting to be asked and having the guts to say so. This drummer is a proper trouper, having played the drums when injured after a van door trapped his hand.
It never ceases to surprise me how America can be less tolerant that the UK. That conservative student groups can manage to banish a gay group as recently as 1998.
Two annoyances: the book is repetitive in places, for example when we are told twice within two pages of each other than the group’s agent thought their tours were too long rather than promoting them. Also the irritating misspelling of the place name ‘Ghent’ as ‘Gent’.
I had to look up ‘cockamamie’. It sounds rude to me but is an American slang term for something ridiculous, incredible or implausible. It is believed to be a close relative of decal, a design prepared on special paper for transfer to another surface. The origin of both cockamamie and decal is the French décalcomanie, which was created in the early 1860s to refer to the craze for decorating objects with transfers
Do you know what ‘Alpine skiing’ refers to? (Clue: From the song by Pansy Division.”it takes 3 guys to do it right, (they’re gay, so could be 1 girl & 2 guys) 1 on the left and 1 on the right. ..just get your hands around two poles, move ’em up and down in a steady motion”
Salvation Army Abdellah Taïa
April 18, 2013 at 11:44 am · Filed under Book Reviews (by title), Q-T, S-T
Many books have been written about the gay underworld of Morocco but it is refreshing to read a book by a Moroccan. This is a beautiful, crisp book which starts with a detailed description of the author’s childhood in a big family living in one room (the other two are for the men of the house, his father and elder brother.)
Taïa knew he was different from a very early age. So did his family. His (much) elder brother is typical of those young men who will happily play around until they have an arranged marriage and settle down. Indeed the elder brother seems to be representative of some men Taïa met, loved and lost in later life.
He recalls the night a group of men came to his family home — three rooms for 11 people — and shouted at the windows: ‘Abdellah, come here, we want to fuck you.’ He was 11 going on 12 and lay in bed alongside his sisters and his mother, listening to the mob outside. ‘Everyone heard ‘not only my family but the whole neighborhood,’ he says. ‘What I saw clearly was that this is how society functions and that no one can protect you, not even your parents. That’s when I realized I had to hide who I am.’
Taïa always knew he was gay, but it took time to realize how it might be used against him. A young man in his neighborhood, Naim — ‘a very beautiful name that means, after a manner, soft’ — served as a harbinger of his own likely fate. In a culture where men and women are strictly separated, Naim was a vessel — and a victim — for young men in search of a substitute. ‘They made him just a sexual thing, someone that the frustrated Moroccan man can have sex with,’ says Taïa. ‘They killed him, in their way — they destroyed him…… If you go to Taïa’s impoverished neighborhood in the Moroccan port of Sal’ you may or may not find Naim, but you will find someone like him. ‘There is always one person, this man/boy, singled out,’ says Taïa. ‘Let’s just say I understood that I had to save myself from this fate, that I was the next generation after that guy.’
However, Taïa insists that this is not a gay book. Rather, it is a book which happens to be written by a gay man. Straight authors write about marriage but we don’t talk about a ‘straight book’. In an interview, he said, ‘I never hide. I never put that aspect of my personality aside. I know so many gay intellectuals or writers who say, “I am not going to talk about homosexuality because it doesn’t interest people.” But for me this makes no sense. It would be like a heterosexual who doesn’t present himself as a heterosexual….’Even now people tell me I should change the subject, that I’ll be ghettoized as a gay writer, but do we give this advice to heterosexual writers? Please stop writing about your heterosexuality? Homosexuality is part of me, but it’s not the only thing I write about. The problem is the way these people read my work. Their problem is that my sexuality is all they see.’
His credo, as he said in the interview, is ‘I believe that books help us to live. When you read a book or a poem it connects you to something new inside of you or it confirms some premonition you’ve had. Using my books as a cultural instrument in the fight for freedom, for individuality, is something I’m very happy to do. Since I come from a world where individuality doesn’t exist, where homosexuality is still considered a crime, where you don’t completely own your body, and where you can’t speak freely, it’s the least I can do.’
Asked whether this book is memoir or fiction, he said, ‘I don’t believe that my work is autobiographical or memoir, though it has been described like that. I write novels, texts. They are not expressions of my social self, they are expressions of something else. I don’t know what label we should put on them. Though the experiences and scenes are coming from my life, when I start to write there are so many things that come out and put themselves into the text. I have no idea about those things five minutes before I start writing. The fictionalized always comes out and puts itself into my writing. But I don’t agree with the definition of fiction. Is it something that has nothing to do with us, that is made up? I don’t believe in that. As human beings, in order to make our lives acceptable and not too sad, we imagine things. We do it all the time. How would you label that? Fiction? Not for me. What I invent, what I imagine, is part of something.’
There is an innocence about the author, who has a (too?) trusting nature. He contrasts his warm home world with the coldness of the West whose freedom results in fleeting encounters lacking depth, though this is obviously from his perspective. What did Jean think? What about his sisters? Is he interested in their struggle?
There is a strong atmosphere in his recounting an experience in Marrakech where the police seek to protect tourists and scorn the local ‘queers’. Many tourists are users but the locals can also be exploitative. ‘Everything was for sale’. This could equally describe Morocco, Geneva or Paris.
Some characters appear once only (like real life, I suppose, where many gay men have fleeing encounters) and some are introduced later, after you’ve wondered who they are
There are some memorable phrases, e.g. ‘I had a fit. In silence, obviously.’
It is rare to read a book in translation where it is uncontaminated by the translator yet this book is one such rarity. However, some better proofreading would have helped to root out Proof reading ‘busses’ for buses and ‘hbibe’ for habibe.
Our group loved this book. We want to meet the author.
“From drama to tragedy is a short step.”
“Sex, regardless of who we have it with, should never scare us.”
“Today, looking back, I tell myself that anything is possible.”
“True love, the kind that lasts and survives for years, is always full of passion and craziness.”
“Lose myself entirely, the better to find myself. To summon, one gray and very cold morning, an army for my own salvation”
“Is the person in love the one with all the rights?
Maybe the answer is no. But love, once it reaches such a rare and lived-in state, deserves our prayers and our indulgence.”
“He led me, in total silence, to this place I hadn’t discovered before, a place not far from la Placette: the public toilets. Once inside, I realized this place was all about something the rest of Geneva didn’t have: intense poetic sexuality.
A dozen men of all ages were lined up in front of the urinals and were lovingly looking at cock.”
“His name was Mohamed. And, like so many others, he dreamt about leaving Morocco some day, for France, Spain, Germany, it didn’t matter where, but his wildest dream was about going to the United States. He knew what he had to do, had even come up with a plan, a simple one, simple but effective: seduce a Western woman, offer himself to her, show her what a Moroccan man was capable of, in other words, fuck her like an animal, make her see stars in broad daylight, screw her nonstop, drive her wild, make her worthy of him, deserving of his cock.”
“I would always surrender myself, even among infidels. I don’t exist for myself anymore. I exist for him, belong to him. My life is not my own.”
“It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand everything. The important thing is that you keep moving, that you constantly keep reading a little bit more, a little bit more … And then one day, without even realising it, you’ll end up understanding everything.”
Dan Leo and the Limehouse Golem – Peter Ackroyd (US title: The Trial of Elizabeth Cree)
April 7, 2013 at 4:53 pm · Filed under A-B, A-D, Book Reviews (by title)
Many in our group enjoyed the author’s ‘Hawksmoor’. This novel was written nine years later and follows many of the same themes and fascinations, one might almost say obsessions.
This is a kaleidoscope of fragments which builds up the story by extracts from a (made up) diary, a trial transcript and the main character’s early history. It begins at both ends and works towards the solution in the middle. There are surprises at the end of chapters, little hints all along so you wonder why a suspected a murderer reads Tennyson to his wife, but it is not until you get to the end that they sink in so it maybe worth reading the book a second time to appreciate its clever crafting. No linear narrative here then, just like Ackroyd’s other London books.
These fragments come from all over the place and the author makes sense of them, just as we try to make sense out of the many events which make up out lives. One important fragment, woven into the story, is the main character, Lambeth Marsh Lizzie (Elizabeth Cree after her marriage) who is reminiscent of the title of W. Somerset Maugham’s novel, Liza of Lambeth. Maybe Ackroyd based his character on her because there are parallels: both are young women who have gone astray; both are the only child of a religious, hypocritical mother who mistreats them; both oppose their mother’s will; and both have lived all their childhood in poverty in Lambeth approximately in the same period. Both novels, deal with popular theatre influencing the lives and behaviour of the urban masses. Leno says, “We never do dirty – but double-entendres.”
Typically post-modern, the novel muses on the self. Who am I? Are we a consistent, integrated person or am I a series of different selves, reacting to the different people I meet, as it were a selection of stage personas. Poststructuralists tend to see the ‘self’ not as a fixed unity but more like a flux or a process which adapts to different situations and discourses it encounters. Elizabeth Cree does six acts a night, moving from theatre to theatre. She can be a girl, boy, man or woman. And Dan Leno “played so many parts that he hardly had time to be himself. And yet, somehow, he was always himself. He was the Indian squaw, the waiter, the milkmaid, or the train driver, but it was always Dan conjuring people out of thin air. …..suddenly he was the sour-faced spinster on the look-out for a man.” This Dan Leno is the master of masks and poses, “He is endless” (But the real Dan Leno had a mental breakdown – his character(s) disintegrated.)
Where do we and the people in the book get our ‘characters’ from? Dan Leno wished to “understand the conditions which had, in a sense, created him” He reads The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi as well as Thomas De Quincey’s essay on the famous clown, identified with him and saw parallels between Grimaldi’s and his own life. He, as it were, becomes him: when he lays sick and dying he repeats, word for word, Grimaldi’s farewell speech, “while those around his deathbed believed he was delirious.” So Ackroyd emphasizes that we are products of our culture, and no more than that. Our thoughts, dreams, and behaviour reflect our cultural and textual experience. We are what we read; everything we do or say has its complex origins in textual or cultural sources. “Sometimes I believe that I am made of ink and paper”, says Karl Marx.
Ackroyd’s interest in literary criticism is reflected here. Most of the characters are involved with texts, either reading, writing or stage acting. His characters read De Quincey’s essays. Karl Marx takes down from the shelf Dialogues of Three Templars on Political Economy by Thomas De Quincey, Dan Leno reads De Quincey’s essay on pantomime, ‘Laugh, Scream and Speech’. George Gissing writes his first public essay, ‘Romanticism and Crime’, and extols Thomas De Quincey’s impassionate prose. Most obviously, Thomas De Quincey’s essay “On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts”, an essay which evokes a sinister London, “a city of footsteps and flaring lights, of houses packed close together, of lacrymose alleys and false doors.” is surely where the author borrowed the crime plot, the ominous atmosphere of approaching doom; narrating from the murderer’s point of view, the access to the killer’s disturbed mind, the parallels between murder and acting, and the theatrical imagery which depicts the murderer very much like an artist in crime. Ackroyd even goes so far as to use the same setting (two houses on the Ratcliffe Highway, East London) and the same method of murder (the use of a mallet and a razor to crush the victims’ skulls and cut their throats).
The story, like the masks we wear in life, are all borrowed. John Cree plans to write a novel about urban poverty and “the crime and disease which it engendered” He does not go to the streets to collect his material but, instead, his first place of study is the Reading Room of the British Museum. “He had reserved a copy of Plumstead’s History of the London Poor and Molton’s A Few Sighs From Hell. Both books were concerned with the life of the indigent and the vagrant in the capital, and for that reason they were of especial interest to him.” So too, Ackroyd imitates the work of others: Dickens, Gaskell or George Gissing.
Where is integration to be found? The Reading Room of the British Museum becomes a place of almost mystical quality in this novel, the meeting point between various texts and discourses; this is where the roots of all the events in the book derive from; this is a giant library which can “be said to have affected the course of human history”. For George Gissing, who shares the author’s sense of place and identification of a spiritual home. Gissing lived ‘in the valley of the shadow of books’.
However, close to the centre of spirituality comes the occult, another of Ackroyd’s interests. Black and white go hand in hand. Occult shops are to be found near the British Museum. And Gissing wonders about the invention of the calculating machine that may be draining away life, with souls trapped within it, maybe prefiguring computers and the alternative ‘reality’ of the online persona in social networking sites as an evasion of ‘real life’?
For a gay author, there are only two gay characters, the detective and his engineer boyfriend.
There are some strange terms used to describe people, probably commonly use at that time: Romanist, Hebrew.
Elizabeth’s childhood was spent in a house where the wallpaper was pages from the bible. Her Bible references are accurate, like Dot Cotton in East Enders. Her death bed confession shows her feistiness: “And I will fry eternally? I am surprised at you, father, for such childish notions. I cannot think of hell as some fish-shop. ….A sole may be fried, too.”, but also her mixing up of reality with pretence. She regarded the Mass as ‘such fun’, rather like the music hall where she had spent most of her working life.
So everything about us is created. But we should beware what we create. It could be a Frankenstein or a golem.
The Less-Dead by April Lurie
April 2, 2013 at 11:01 am · Filed under Book Reviews (by title), I-L, K-L, Q-T
The less-dead are people whose deaths don’t seem to matter since they have no loved-ones to miss them. This is a detective story in which your friend might be your evenly and your enemy might be your friend. Who can you trust? What’s not to like?
The narrator is a straight teenager who, like most teenagers, is embarrassed by his father: with good reason since he is an evangelical preacher.
Someone who was formerly a member of the infamous ‘God hates fags’ Westboro’ Baptist church is suspected of being a serial murderer of gays. This unsettles the narrator’s father since he had tried to counsel this man. The narrator has invited a homeless gay teenager to his home and his father tries to help.
The hypocrisy of the ‘no sex before marriage’ rule is exposed – a convert says it is OK if he fornicates and then repents, and maybe repeats the process.
The failure of Exodus groups to change men’s sexual orientation and the misery such attempts cause is well portrayed.
In the back of her book, the author explains how the Bible’s ‘6 clobber texts’ against homosexuality are taken out of context and don’t mean what they appear, in the surface, to mean. However, scholarship as moved on and the evangelical understanding of these texts is much more nuanced but I did enjoy that prohibition against touching dead pig’s meat as meaning that football because it is an abomination! I also learned that Jerry Falwell, founder of the Moral Majority strove against Martin Luther King, claiming that racial integration was ‘the work of the devil that would destroy our race eventually.’
This female author has a lot of insight into the minds of teenage boys, both gay and straight. Her story should appeal to teenagers, though some American culture and background doesn’t appeal so much across the pond. evangelicals often speak of people ‘struggling with homosexuality’. At the back of this book there is a list of useful (American) websites for people ‘struggling with fundamentalism (and homophobia).’
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Wings by Mikhail Kuzmin
September 26, 2018 at 11:03 am · Filed under U-W, U-Z, Uncategorized
A key text in the history of gay literature, Wings was published in 1906 to the scandalized reaction of contemporary society and the generations which followed.
The novel deals with teenager Vanya Smurov’s attachment to his older, urbane mentor, Larion Stroop, a pederast who initiates him into the world of early Renaissance, Classical and Romantic art. At the close of the first part, Vanya is shocked to learn that the object of his admiration frequents a gay bathhouse. In order to sort out his feelings, Vanya withdraws into the Volga countryside, but his sickening experience with rural women, whose call on him to enjoy his youth turns out to be an awkward attempt at seduction, induces Vanya to accept his Classics teacher’s proposal and accompany him in a journey to Italy. In the last part of the novel, Vanya and Stroop, who is also in Italy, are seen enjoying the smiling climate and stunning artworks of Florence and Rome, while Prince Orsini mentors the delicate youth in the art of hedonism.
The novel, partly based on Kuzmin’s experience of travelling to Italy in 1897, is full of conversation in the Platonic vein; the title itself alludes to Phaedrus. Although the book was competently written in an elegant style all its own, its reputation has been dogged by scandal.
Kuzmin was one of the first writers in modern Europe to argue that homosexuality “was not immoral or ungodly, but morally distinctive, ethically sanctioned, and even at times spiritually superior, a matter not of decadent immoralism but the personal creation of values”.
The central theme of aestheticized sensuality has spawned comparisons of Wings with contemporary works by Oscar Wilde and André Gide.
Wings is in three parts, set respectively in St Petersburg, on the Volga and in Rome, and it is told in myriad episodic scenes of perhaps 2-3 pages in length: a curious and intriguing structure. In his Introduction, Hugh Aplin compares this structure to cinematic montage, which seems a fair approximation. These scenes, often thematically linked (e.g. death by suicide appears in parts 1 and 2, and the ‘death’ of an artist in part 3), are like dots that the reader must join together. It comes across as a series of brush strokes. Like Chekov, it addresses people by different versions of their name and you overhear seemingly isolated snatches of conversation.
“Wings”, is a metaphor threaded throughout the novel for a whole host of things: for the culture and friendships which allow us to soar, for what we acquire when we are open to beauty and courageous in our love, and as an allusion, in the final pages, to Icarus and his brothers.
Poignantly, many of the young men at the baths, including the one with the large penis, will soon be conscripted to war.
I found the “story” hard to follow. It is more allusive than narrative and is becalmed with philosophical soliloquies about love. Indeed, was the philosophising trying to justify homosexuality? Too didactic? Too much lecturing?
It’s misogynistic: ‘She’s only a vile female.’ (which may be inevitable from gay men of a certain type) and a callousness in their treatment. They are dismissed as worthless – relationships between men and women are portrayed as base and coarse.
Kuzmin was lucky to die of natural causes in 1936; just two years later other gay artists were rounded up with and shot.
Relevant today, given Putin’s current crackdown. In 1928, at the invitation of students of the Russian Institute of Literature, Kuzmin gave the final public reading of his life. He assumed the event would be poorly attended; the once-great writer had been largely silenced and, he worried, forgotten. The reading was not advertised to the public and only students with tickets were allowed entrance. The director of the Institute feared that any reading by Kuzmin would attract a large contingent of homosexuals and thus the attention of the authorities.
The director was right in his fear. On the night of the reading there came a crush at the doors, the ticket system broke down, and gays crowded in among the students. Kuzmin’s reading electrified the audience — no surprise, as he read his poem The Trout Breaks the Ice, a staggering work swirling with autobiography and cultural allusions that is also an ode to the triumph of desire, a poem that maintains its electricity through translation and time. An ovation followed the reading and the gays pushed to the front, showering Kuzmin with flowers, bouquet upon bouquet landing at his feet. The director and student organizers quaked — they knew they would be called before authorities to account for the scandal (they narrowly escaped punishment, pleading ignorance) — but Kuzmin beamed.
Nothing like Wings had ever been published; not in the West and not in Russia. As print runs sold out the book was immediately reissued. Also difficult to fathom is the relative ease with which gay artists were allowed to live their lives and envision their possibilities in prerevolutionary Russia. With the crumbling of the czarist empire, before Soviet repression took hold, we see a flowering of artistic daring and a measure of sexual freedom. But even so, Kuzmin’s daring humbles this writer, and ought to inspire us all.
He was in the Old Believer tradition – having spent some years in defiantly Old Believer guise, including cap, tight-fitting coat, boots and beard, he switched abruptly to the mannered dandyism of the Russian admirers of Aubrey Beardsley and Oscar Wilde
Old Believers are Eastern Orthodox Christians who maintain the liturgical and ritual practices of the Eastern Orthodox Church as they existed prior to the reforms of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow between 1652 and 1666. In 1652, Patriarch Nikon (1605–1681; Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church from 1652 to 1658) introduced a number of ritual and textual revisions with the aim of achieving uniformity between the practices of the Russian and Greek Orthodox churches. The main objectives of reformers in the 16th century, many from the secular “white” clergy, were to outlaw pagan rituals and beliefs and to standardise the liturgy throughout the Muscovite realm. Old Believers use two fingers while making the Sign of the Cross while new-style Orthodoxy uses three fingers for the sign of cross (three fingers (including the thumb). Is there a degree of sending up Tolstoy with his seeming primitism?
It is salutary to reflect that Wings was first published in Russia in 1906, when Kuzmin was in his thirties. He had at last come to terms with his homosexuality, as Vanya Smurov is beginning to do in the closing paragraph of the book. That he was openly gay in the final years of Tsarist rule and the opening decade_of Soviet Communism almost defies credibility, particularly when one thinks of the agonies of mind and body Tchaikovsky was forced to endure.
They are relatively little known outside their homeland
He was a eading figure of what was, arguably, Russia’s most brilliant and he began studying in 1891 at the St Petersburg Conservatory, where his tutors included RimskyKorsakov, but he remained there for only three years. Nonetheless, music was to continue to play a very significant role and enabled him to form ties
Wings brought about a genuine furore in Russia’s literary world, the success of ‘Alexandrian Songs’ enabled him to become closely involved with many of the most prominent figures of the then dominant Russian Symbolist movement but he had artistic independence and produced an -ism of his own, in Russian `klarizm’, from the Latin ‘clarus’, signifying clarity or transparency, and the ‘beautiful clarity’ that was its essential feature was one of 1 the abiding elements in all Kuzmin’s writing during his most successful, pre-revolutionary years
Our broad-=ranging discussion even mentioned the Bhagavad Gita.
Despite the glossary, I had to look up anacreontic = (of a poem) written in the style of the ancient Greek poet Anacreon, known for his celebrations of love and wine.
It does sometimes happen too, they say, that a woman loves a woman and a man a man … And it’s not hard to believe it, is it not possible for God to put that thorn too into the human heart, then? And it’s hard, Vanya, to go against what been put in, and perhaps it’s sinful too.
“Love, whatever its nature, can never be depraved except in the eyes of a cynic.”
“I was in that kind of terribly stupid but not unpleasant situation, when you know that both of you know something, but are keeping silent. He stared straight at me, motionless, with a kind of mermaid look, not quite drunkenly, not quite insanely, almost terrifyingly, but when he began to wash me there was no room for doubt.”
Eroticism there had been aplenty in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century texts, and gender questions, particularly the role of women in society, had been under discussion for more than half a century; but serious mainstream works with sex, let alone homosexuality, as their primary subject were almost unknown
The youthful hero, Vanya Smurov, is shown in three novel, unorthodox and increasingly exotic settings. Newly orphaned, he is vulnerable and susceptible as a series of mentors introduce him to various possible approaches to life, and other characters, through differing experiences or parallel situations, suggest the fates that potentially await him, depending on the decisions he makes.
It was considered stylistically careless ’all over the place, awkward phrases written any old how,’ commented Andrei Bely — and the mosaic-like structure, which may be a positive attraction to the modern reader accustomed to the frequent cutting of cinematic montage, was not deemed a success. Inevitably, however, it was the thematic nature of the work that drew most attention
the sense of the words, thinking how his mother had died, how the whole house had suddenly filled with old women of some sort who had previously been strangers and who now became extraordinarily close, recalling the fuss, the offices for the dead, the funeral and, after all of that, the sudden emptiness and desolation
the rotten smell of sour cabbage soup… mothballs…Stroop’s scent
think, Vanya,.how odd it is, that here you have another person entirely, and his legs are different, and skin, and his eyes — and he’s completely yours, completely, , you can look at, kiss and touch all of him; every le mark on his body, wherever it might be, the little golden hairs that grow on his arms, every little furrow and hollow of the skin that is loved much too much. And you know everything, the way he walks, eats, sleeps, the way the wrinkles spread across his face when he smiles, the way he thinks, the way his body smells. And then it’s as if you cease to be yourself, and it’s as though you and he are one and the same: your flesh, your skin cleaves to him, and in love, Vanya, there’s no greater happiness on earth, whereas without love it’s unbearable, unbearable! And what I would say, Vanya, is that it’s easier not to have while loving, than to have without loving. Marriage, marriage: the secret isn’t about the priest giving his blessing and children coming — look at a cat, it’s carrying as many as four times a year — but about a soul getting a burning desire to give itself to another and to take him completely, if only for a week, if only for a day, and if both of their souls are burning, then that means God has united them. It’s a sin to make love with a cold heart or for gain, but anyone who’s touched by the fiery finger, whatever he does, he remains pure before the Lord. Anyone who’s touched by the flaming spirit of love, whatever he’s done, it’s all forgiven him, because he’s no longer his own, in the spirit, in the rapture…’
`How are you to understand? I’ll say this: a husband lives with his wife, and a bachelor gets mixed up with a woman; someone might say that it’s all the same, but there’s a big difference. What is it, one asks?’
`I wouldn’t know,’ responded Sergei, all eyes.
`Imagination. The first thing,’ said Prokhor Nikitich, as though searching not only for words, but for ideas too, ‘the first thing is: the married man has dealings with one woman — that’s one thing: the next thing is — they live quietly, peacefully, they’re used to one another, and the husband loves his wife in just the same way as he eats his porridge or curses the bailiffs, but the ers have nonsense on their minds all the time, it’s all fun and es, there’s no constancy, no steadiness; and that’s why the thing is lawful, and the other — fornication. The sin isn’t in act but in the application, how the thing’s applied to what.’
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JAXON PLANS FOR DRILLING AT HAZELTON
Oct 11, 2017 Download PDF
Jaxon Mining Inc. (TSX.V: JAX) (Frankfurt: OU31) (“Jaxon” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it is in the final stages of generating a series of drill targets for its early winter 2017 drilling campaign at the Hazelton Project. The Hazelton Project covers more than 44,000 hectares, located in the Skeena Arch of northwestern British Columbia, 50 kilometres north by highway from the town of Smithers.
Extensive review of the preliminary 3D-IP (3-dimensional induced polarization) survey, completed by SJ Geophysics, prompted Jaxon to mobilize Bruce Ballantyne, Jaxon’s Project Manager to the Max area of the Hazelton Project to conduct additional ground-truthing at its recently generated IP targets. Jaxon expects the results from this IP target validation to present several high-priority drilling locations, which will be the focus of the Company’s upcoming Fall-Winter 2017 Phase 1 drilling campaign. The 3D targets are located coincident with highly-mineralised channel samples as well as highly anomalous soil and stream geochemistry, targeting high-grade silver-zinc-lead VMS-style mineralization. The 2012 airborne VTEM geophysical survey also generated numerous coincident anomalies in the Max target area at Hazelton Project. Jaxon will release the fully-integrated dataset shortly, once approved by the technical advisory board.
The Project Manager is presently engaging contractors to assist with Jaxon’s Fall-Winter 2017 1,500- to 2,000-metre Phase 1 drilling campaign. Field teams will be mobilized once the drill target review and planning phase is completed.
Bruce Ballantyne states, ”The current abundant availability of support services: drilling, helicopter and camp support, in conjunction with well-established, all-season trails for access, are expected to smoothly facilitate Jaxon’s planned upcoming drilling campaign.”
Jason Cubitt, Jaxon’s President and CEO, added, ”We expect this drilling to add considerable value to the project throughout the winter drilling season. Jaxon’s team is working steadily to refine a final series of Phase 1 drilling targets, which will promptly be followed up by mobilization of crews to the site. We are very pleased to be financed for a successful campaign, and anticipate an exciting season ahead.”
Technical information in this news release has been reviewed and approved by Derrick Strickland, P. Geo, a qualified person as defined in National Instrument 43-101. This property has not been the subject of a National Instrument 43-101 report.
Jaxon is a base and precious metals exploration company with a regional focus on Western Canada. The company is currently focused on advancing its Hazelton Project in north-central British Columbia and the More Creek Project (consolidating the Wishbone and Foremore properties) in BC’s Golden Triangle.
For further information regarding Jaxon Mining Inc., please contact Jason Cubitt at 604-608-0400
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China’s Last Imperial Dynasty was not ruled by the Han Chinese: Part 3 of 3
During the 19th century, the two Opium Wars started by Britain and France weakened the Qing Dynasty.
Besides the Opium Wars, there was also the Taiping Rebellion, which lasted more than a decade.
In 1900, the so-called Boxer Rebellion (known as “I-ho Chuan” or the “Righteous and Harmonious Fists”) was originally started to bring down the Manchu Qing Dynasty but the Qing government managed to redirect the rebellion against the foreigner invaders that had defeated China during the Opium Wars.
This ended in a worse defeat after the foreign powers formed an alliance and marched on Beijing slaughtering the rebels.
Back to the Qing Dynasty
How does a country innovate and prosper when it is fighting endless rebellions and wars. For a brief example, Business Insider estimates 25-million died during the Qing conquest of the Ming dynasty, a period of extreme political turmoil in China that lasted for sixty-five years. It is estimated that during the Taiping Rebellion 1850-1864, another 20-million died (some estimates allege the number was closer to 100-million). During the Dungan Revolt 1862-1877, another 10-million were killed. If you click this link, you will discover a list of thirty wars and revolts that the Qing Dynasty was involved in. Do you see any comparison to the United States since the end of World War II?
The driving force behind the revolution of 1911 that ended the Qing Dynasty was Dr. Sun Yat-sen, who had been educated in Hawaii when it was an American territory. This exposure to the U.S. Republic motivated Sun Yat-sen to build a Republic to China but one that would fit the Chinese culture.
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Lloyd Lofthouse is the award-winning author of My Splendid Concubine, Crazy is Normal, Running with the Enemy, and The Redemption of Don Juan Casanova.
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