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G’psgolox Totem Pole
A First Nations totem pole which was removed from Canada under controversial circumstances and eventually repatriated from Sweden. It is the first Canadian totem pole repatriated from Europe. The Haisla are a Canadian Indigenous group based out of the Kitimaat area of the North Coast of British Columbia with an approximate membership of 1500 people (Haisla First Nation n.d.). The modern Haisla...
Maithuna from Atru
Two 9th/10th century reliefs stolen from a temple in Rajasthan in 2009 and returned from the United States in early 2014.
Machaquilá Stela 2
Maya sculpture looted from Guatemala and smuggled into the U.S. resulting in a ground-breaking court decision.
Stele of Adad-nerari III
Syrian stele offered for sale in Christie’s and Bonhams...
Paracas Mantle returned from National Gallery of Australia
Stolen from Peru’s national museum, the textile was purchased by Australia’s national museum and was returned in 1989 after several years of Peruvian demands.
Peruvian Antiquities Seized at Dulles Airport (1981)
Dealer pleaded guilty to falsely declaring the value of freshly-looted Peruvian antiquities that he attempted to bring into the US...
Uma Maheshwar from Nepal
A 12th century Hindu sculpture stolen from Nepal in 1982 and returned from a Berlin museum in 2000.
Garland Sarcophagus
Second century Roman piece looted from Turkey and returned in a deal that included a tax write off for the buyer.
Ixkun Stela 5
In 1972 looters heated this Maya monument and doused it in water, causing it to break into easily-transportable fragments.
Las Limas Monument 1
Well-known Olmec greenstone statue stolen from a Mexican museum and abandoned in a Texas hotel room after traffickers were unable to sell it.
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* ''[[The Gathering]]'' #1–4
* ''[[The Ascending]]'' #1–4
* ''[[Prime Directives]]'' #1–4 (with [[Chris Ryall]])
* ''[[Prime Directive (IDW)| Prime Directive (Movie Prequel)]]'' #1–4 (with [[Chris Ryall]])
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* [[Transformers (Titan Magazine)|''Transformers'' UK magazine]] #1–Present
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If even Swoop's toy is tiny next to Simon Furman, what chance, then, do we have?
Probably the most well-known of all Transformers comics writers, Simon Christopher Francis Furman was editor and author for much of the Marvel UK run, and began writing for the Marvel US comic after writer Bob Budiansky left.
Since then, Furman has also written Transformers comics for Dreamwave Productions, IDW Publishing, and 3H, and scripted the final episode of the Beast Wars cartoon, "Nemesis Part 2".
He has also written and created many non-Transformers characters, including Death's Head with Geoff Senior and "Brute Force" with Jose Delbo. He is an editor at Titan Books, which publishes collections of Transformers comics, among other material.
Furman is a highly prolific writer, and well-regarded in the fandom. As a result he is often the first, last, and occasionally only resort in penning Transformers literature, with a deep involvement in a wide variety of product. Notably, he penned Transformers: The Ultimate Guide, a book which described the background of several continuities of which he was not particularly involved in crafting. This book has seen significant criticism for being biased towards comic canon (particularly that which he penned) and in places, inventing continuity wholecloth without any precedent in prior fiction. In such instances it has since been assumed that Furman was filling in neglected areas of the (at the time underdeveloped) Dreamwave continuity.
Contrary to the popular opinion that he is an outspoken critic of the Generation 1 animated series, Furman has stated in an interview that he loves the series, and explained that when he was involved with the Marvel comic books as a twenty-something year old writer, he thought the show was pitched a little young, stories were simplistic and had huge logic flaws, but conceded that he saw them from a different perspective than the generation that grew up watching the cartoon and buying the toys as kids, and so he concentrated on his work which he believed was more 'adult' in tone. He added that in hindsight he went back to watch the series and now really enjoys it, particularly Season 2's strong character stories. When he wrote for Marvel comics, he was averse to episodes that dealt with the character back-stories because they clashed with his own back-stories, and also caused him to worry that he wasn't presenting the characters as intended. But now he has the freedom to take the series as a viewer and admire the way they were building upon their own mythos.
In the same interview, he thought the the animated movie was 'fantastic', and one of his stated reasons was that 'characters died'. [1]
Not surprisingly, Furman enjoys drinking Corona and killing off hordes of background characters.
Alternate mode
When Furman became the editor of the UK Transformers comic, it opened up a dilemma, as Marvel policy, enforced by Marvel US editor-in-chief Tom DeFalco, frowned on editors serving as their own writers. To circumvent this problem, it was agreed that senior editor (and frequent Transformers letterer) Richard Starkings would serve in an advisory capacity on Furman's own strips.[2] When an editorial credit for the comic as a whole was required, Furman used the credit "Chris Francis", derived from his middle names.[3]
Unicron Trilogy continuity
The flesh creature known as Simon Furman pleases Unicron with his accurate depiction of Unicron's omnipotent magnificence. The End
Note: In the final issue of Dreamwave's Armada comic, Unicron used his ability to gaze across parallel dimensions into a world where he was only a comic-book character, and answer letters from readers. He was apparently unaware this issue ended with his defeat.
According to Starscream, Furman is a Maximal disguised as a "strategically shaved ape. Especially on his head." Transformers Comic issue 7
Comic bibliography
Marvel UK #13–21, 29–32, 45–50, 59–65, 74–88, 96–104, 113–120, 125, 130–138, 146–153, 160–161, 164–173, 182–189, 198–205, 213–332
Marvel US #56–80
Generation 2 #1–12
The War Within vol.1 #1–6, vol.2 #1–6, vol.3 #1–3 (#4–6 unreleased)
Armada #6–18
Energon #19–30 (#31–36 unreleased)
"Perspective", from the Dreamwave Summer Special
Infiltration #0–6
Spotlight #1–6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14 (#15 not yet released)
Stormbringer #1–4
Escalation #1–6
Devastation #1–6
Revelation (#1–4 not yet released)
Maximum Dinobots (not yet released)
The Gathering #1–4
The Ascending #1–4
Prime Directive (Movie Prequel) #1–4 (with Chris Ryall)
Transformers UK magazine #1–Present
↑ Simon Furman's interview on Madman Entertainment's Beast Wars Season 3 DVD set
↑ Starkings, Richard "Prophetic Words" in Dark Designs [Trade paperback] (London; Titan Books, 2002), page 4.
↑ Unknown author "Transformers UK" in Second Generation [Trade paperback] (London; Titan Books, 2004), page 6.
Retrieved from "https://transformers.fandom.com/wiki/Simon_Furman?oldid=205457"
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(Erik Madigan Heck / AMC)
Network: AMC.
Episodes: 10 (hour).
Seasons: One.
TV show dates: June 4, 2018 — July 30, 2018.
Series status: Cancelled.
Performers include: Joy Nash, Julianna Margulies, Robin Weigert, Adam Rothenberg, Tamara Tunie, Erin Darke, Rowena King, Will Seefried, Ricardo Davila, Tramel Tillman, Campbell Scott, Alanna Ubach, Kelly Hu, Marc Blucas, Ami Sheth, and Jen Ponton.
A dark dramedy from creator Marti Noxon, the Dietland TV show centers on Plum Kettle (Nash), a ghostwriter at a top New York fashion magazine. The satirical series follows Plum on her twisted road to self-discovery. While she is on this journey, men who have been accused of sexual abuse and assault have been disappearing, only to turn up dead — by means of violent foul play.
Plum’s lonely, little life in Brooklyn and job at Daisy Chain seem to have been fairly unremarkable — at least until now. After a lifelong battle with her weight, Plum has been saving the money she earns ghost writing the “Dear Kitty” advice column, for weight loss surgery. Once her existence is turned on its head, she finds herself torn between two worlds.
Glamorous Kitty Montgomery (Margulies) is a senior executive at Daisy Chain‘s publisher, Austen Media. As shallow as she is ambitious, Kitty believes she has a special connection with her “girls,” ie. her readers, and is certain she’s helping them improve their lives. When an unidentified group starts targeting people in her circle, Kitty has to find a new way to play the game, rules be damned.
Kitty hires Dominic (Rothenberg), an NYPD detective, to investigate a hack at Daisy Chain. He seems to take an interest in Plum, but she is not sure of his motives.
On the other hand, there’s Brooklyn bakery owner Steven (Tillman), who is Plum’s best friend. When things spiral out of control, he’s the one person from the “other side” she still keeps in touch with. Sweet, slightly servile Ben (Seefried) works at the bakery, and he has never met anyone like Plum, before.
Author of the anti-dieting book, Dietland, body-positive therapist Verena Baptist (Weigert) outed her own family for running a weight-loss program pyramid scheme. A feminist activist, Verena is on a mission: “to be assertive and bold in fighting all forms of misogyny and gender inequality.”
Calliope House is the collective Verena runs for marginalized women. She spots something in Plum and reaches out to her, in order to help her expand her worldview. Verena has always been a principled advocate of peaceful protest, but that history is called into question, when covert vigilantes start a campaign against the patriarchy.
Then there’s fast-talking Julia (Tunie), who manages an underground beauty product warehouse called, “the closet.” Although at first season seems warm and welcoming, she has controlling tendencies. She keenly wants to change women’s understanding of beauty. She tries to recruit Plum to her cause, in order to get contact information on “Kitty’s Girls.”
A Julia-loyalist, Leeta (Darke) marches to the beat of her own drummer. She quickly grows to like Plum and wants to help her learn to be more positive about herself.
TV news journalist Cheryl Crane-Murphy (King) is covering the string of murders. As someone who delves deep into her work, Cheryl has a hard time dealing with these strange events.
Finally there’s Eladio (Dávila), Kitty’s close confidant and personal assistant. While he is rather over the top, he has a good sense of humor. It’s just not clear whose side he is on — other than his own, that is.
Amidst all these people, Plum is soon torn between two sides. One side could be responsible for the attacks, while the other is fighting to empower women. Meanwhile, Plum is just trying to make sense in this world and figure out where she belongs.
Episode #10 — Bedwomb
Plum delves deeper into the fractured, perilous world of Jennifer; her new mission is threatened by a sudden change of circumstance.
First aired: July 30, 2018.
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No question that this show should be renewed, revived, and re-appreciated!!!
I Loved Dietland! It dealt with issues rarely addressed in mainstream media, in an entertaining and compelling way. We need more television like this!
FINALLY, a show that truly represents the plethora of issues involving the dangers of living as a woman! Fat or not, we all have to deal with the brutal judgements of men, other women and OURSELVES! And no matter what we look like, what state of health and fitness, what monetary or social background (etc., etc., etc.), we struggle with perceptions and how others treat us (and how we react) based on those perceptions and the behavior that follows. This show, in it’s very short 10 episodes, has SO MUCH more to offer! I really hope the decision-makers at AMC… Read more »
I was so looking forward to season two. Just love Dietland and the whole cast. You will not find anything like it on television. Shame on you AMC.
I need to see more. I need to see how this evolves.
Cat Smith
INTERESTING SHOW. KEEPS ME COMING BACK FOR MORE.
I feel this show is well acted, with all great actors, and riveting. I’m not a feminist but I do believe in equal rights which I imagine will be a struggle for more centuries to come. But this show really rocks the boat, for the networks I imagine, but also might make some men uncomfortable. Too bad. This shows contents is long overdue and I hope the big wigs (men?) won’t decide to kick it to the curb. We’re watching you…LOL.
Wanting equal rights for men and women IS being a feminist, Pam! 😉
MELANIE L SCHNEITER
I’ve really like the show. Hope it gets picked up again. The chance to see a little taste of radical feminism in the mainstream.
Kathy Sullivan
This is the slowest moving show on TV kept waiting for them to get to the point but it was like pulling teeth sorry for the if canceled won’t be missed and if that pretty young woman gets another show give her something to say !!!!!!
DrFAZ
Great show! Hope they keep it going!
Enjoying this show…definitely renew
very interesting show…pretty good so far
Jean Selby
So excited about this show. Have told all my friends and coworkers to check it out. Time slot may be difficult but I will make it work. So looking forward to Plum’s journey and can’t wait to find out more about Jennifer. On a different note, so excited to see Tamara Tunie in another terrific role. I so loved her in The Red Road, and am still incensed that it was cancelled after one season. Fingers crossed that Dietland will thrive and continue to grow!
I watch it on google play so time slot shouldn’t concern anyone anymore.
This is the greatest show to come around since The X Files. It has it all including some references and scenes that make me cringe a little but it still baits me along into the mysterious plot. It would make a good daily soap opera too.
That a cool idea, John!
I hate soaps! I was addicted to most ABC’s (General Hospital, mostly) from pre-teen through young adult and had a really difficult time extracting myself from those ridiculous story-lines!
However, it would’ve been REALLY awesome and helpful to have THIS show as a daily soap at those ages!
What kind of crap I could’ve avoided and helped others through had I had the training/demonstrations that this kind of show provides.
If this was a daily soap, I think my DVR would be full pretty fast! 🙂
I, luckily, have a DVR. A few networks are really great about leaving their shows on OnDemand. AMC does have some issues with keeping their shows up for the length of the season, though.
Netfilx seems to have their episodes up, forever, though.
I hope you find a better venue to keep up with your shows, Jean! 🙂
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Episodes: 75 (half-hour)
Seasons: Five
TV show dates: February 26, 2016 — present
Series status: Ending
Performers include: Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin, Andrea Barber, Michael Campion, Elias Harger, Soni Nicole Bringas, and Dashiell and Fox Messitt.
Set in San Francisco, this family sitcom is a follow-up to the Full House sitcom which ran for eight seasons and 192 episodes on ABC.
D.J. Tanner-Fuller (Candace Cameron Bure) is a recently widowed veterinarian and mother to three young sons — 13-year-old Jackson (Michael Campion), 7-year-old Max (Elias Harger), and infant Tommy Junior (Dashiell and Fox Messitt). DJ’s husband, Tommy Fuller, died as a firefighter. A single working mom, DJ’s feeling overwhelmed and scared about what lies ahead.
Her father, Danny Tanner (Bob Saget), is set to move to Los Angeles with his wife Teri (Eva LaRue), brother-in-law Jesse Katsopolis (John Stamos) and Jesse’s wife, Rebecca (Lori Loughlin). Danny and Rebecca are set to host a morning program called Wake Up USA while Jesse will be composing music for General Hospital. Jesse and Becky’s grown twin sons, Nicky and Alex (Blake and Dylan Tuomy-Wilhoit) are in college and plan to open a fish taco truck together.
Danny had planned to sell the family house but instead decides to let DJ and her family live there.
“Uncle” Joey Gladstone (Dave Coulier) works and lives in Las Vegas as a comedian. Youngest Tanner sister Michelle (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in the original series) now owns a fashion empire in New York.
Sister Stephanie Tanner has been working as a travelling disc jockey in London but decides to move back into her old home in San Francisco, to help her sister raise her kids.
DJ’s wacky childhood friend, Kimmy Gibbler (Andrea Barber), is now a party planner and is the divorced mother of a 13-year-old daughter named Ramona (Soni Nicole Bringas). Kimmy also decides to move in to help DJ raise her boys and the Tanner sisters reluctantly agree.
DJ’s former boyfriend, Steve Hale (Scott Weinger), is now divorced and hopes to rekindle his relationship with her. Her fellow vet Matt Harmon (John Brotherton) is very interested in her as well.
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Crystal Sweet
Renew the show! It’s good comedy!
VICTOR M NAVEDO
I thoroughly enjoy Fuller House, I grew up watching Full House and this brings back memories of the good old days of TV shows. Please Renew!!!
RENEW THE SHOW, IT’S ENTERTAINING!!!!!!!
RENEW FULLER HOUSE SAVE FULLER HOUSE MOVE TO HULU OR DISNEY* MOVE TO A BETTER RATINGS NETWORK NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SERIOUSLY SAVE FULLER HOUSE
Brenda Tynan
My Granddaughter and i love watching fuller house. I love everyone on the show. I wish it wasn’t being cancelled! It’s sad that its ending.
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Developers transform East Village garages into luxury condos
Jan.January 10, 2014 04:00 PM
Instead of tearing down old parking garages for new developments, a handful of firms are taking advantage of their industrial architecture and transforming them into luxury condominiums.
Among them are Rigby Asset Management, which plans to build an apartment on each floor and a duplex penthouse at the top of an East Village garage at 17 East 12th Street, according to the New York Daily News. Rigby bought the 49,257-square-foot building in August for $50.2 million, according to StreetEasy. The firm has been gutting old buildings to convert into condos for two decades — garages are just par for the course.
“The idea was to keep the space open to park more cars,” Peter Armstrong, managing director of Rigby, told the Daily News. “Turns out that’s good for parking people, too.”
And there’s a market. Leonardo DiCaprio recently checked out a conversion with a crystalline triplex that, in a former life, was an eight-story brick Hertz garage at 12 East 13th Street, according to the Daily News. The top unit is listed for $31.5 million and is now under construction.
The garages offer a couple perks. They were built before areas of New York City set limits for the construction of buildings to a maximum height, meaning some top floors will get unobstructed views. Moreover, keeping a few bottom floors of the garages allows New Yorkers ample parking space. [NYDN] — Angela Hunt
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SeXXXy, Complicated Love Vol. Prince
May 12, 2016 by SistaSuga in It's Complicated, Music, SeXXXy Love and tagged it's complicated, Live Concerts, love hurts, Love Music, Music, music mix, Prince Tribute, R&B, SeXXXy, SeXXXy Love, Sista Suga, Soul Music, The blues
What I am about to say may shock some of you but I was not a big fan of Prince, however, I always respected him as an artist. There, I said it! The songs played on the radio were catchy and I had my favorites like Adore, Kiss, Purple Rain and When Doves Cry. I purchased one of Prince’s album and that was Diamonds and Pearls because I loved Rosie Gaines’nvoice on the title track. I also loved Gett Off and Insatiable. Not until he passed, I had no idea he published 39 albums and wrote popular songs for a host of other artists.
Nevertheless, I was a nervous wreck when I heard on the radio that there was a dead body in his home They hadn’t confirmed who it was, and I was pissed they were playing Prince’s music like he was already gone. Minutes later the news came that is was indeed his body. Tears welled up in my eyes. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. Like everyone else, I was in total shock. Since his passing, I have immersed myself in videos of his live performances because I never had the experience of seeing him in concert, although I had all intentions the next time he came to town. Viewing his live concert videos is like I’m right there in the audience—it’s the next best thing to being there at this point! Yes, I know, I missed out big time!
On another note, being a member of the Valentine’s Day, Cupid’s Hunt Collaboration has made me feel like a family member and I am ecstatic my Sista Jolene “called my name” to request a SeXXXy Love mix featuring Prince! It’s good to know that my music mixes are reaching people! Thank you, Jolene, for testing me; I surprised myself by rising to the occasion so quickly!
In my search for tracks to include in the mix, I was surprised to find so much of Prince’s music in my library, I didn’t even realize I had. I totally slept on this music other than what the radio played. I can say that within the past three months or so, 1000 x’s and o’s has been in constant rotation on New York’s WBLS, and I instantly fell in love with it! I knew his voice sounded familiar but didn’t know it was him until I Shazammed the song—it all made perfect sense, and I was mad at myself for not figuring it was him.
A couple of the tracks I selected have the blues written all over them while also taking on a nice nasty, sweet and spicy kinda feel along with a bit of good ole soul and gospel! I was pleased to find such beautiful songs I hadn’t heard before. Thanks to my other son, Marques I included The Greatest Romance Ever Sold, The Neptunes Remix which hit me in the right spot and had to add it. I don’t usually select songs for my mixes that are regularly played on radio programs unless they fit into my theme or I really love them. Therefore, I chose a specific selection to showcase SeXXXy Love and It’s Complicated because all of the songs are SeXXXy and some of the lyrics in certain tracks involve complicated situations. It was really good to find these tracks, as I love a good and undercover nasty love song that has a funky and soulful beat to it.
Here’s an emotional read from my other Cupid’s Hunt Podcast Collaboration Sista, Calandra’s reaction to Prince’s death.
Do enjoy and let me know what you think!
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FILE – In this Aug. 9, 2011 file photo, U.S. musician Prince performs during his concert at the Sziget Festival on the Shipyard Island, northern Budapest, Hungary. The enigmatic star flew into London on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, at the start of a still-evolving string of dates in support of forthcoming album “Plectrum Electrum,” recorded with all-female trio 3RDEYEGIRL. (AP Photo/MTI, Balazs Mohai, File) HUNGARY OUT
LOS ANGELES, CA – JUNE 27: Musician Prince performs onstage at the 2006 BET Awards at the Shrine Auditorium on June 27, 2006 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
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Destination Discount: Save on tickets to the Hollywood Bowl
by Chloe Rodriguez , August 12, 2013
The Hollywood Bowl on a warm summer night. Photo by Chloe Rodriguez/Metro.
The Hollywood Bowl is synonymous with the atmosphere, ambience and activity of summer. You can listen to great music ranging from classical to jazz to rock and enjoy a delicious picnic with a loved one. This season, artists such as Yoyo Ma, Diana Ross, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Vampire Weekend, and The xx will take the stage to play concerts under the stars.
Sounds like a great night, right? But there’s only one problem: parking. Instead of paying for parking, ride the Metro Red Line to the Hollywood/Highland Station and take a free shuttle to the concert.
Not only that, Metro is offering a 20% discount on most Tuesday and Thursday classical concerts all summer. Just show your valid TAP card at the box office or enter code METRO2013 when purchasing tickets online. The exclusive discount is part of Metro’s Destination Discounts program. Go Metro to participating locations and events and you’ll save on admission, get discounts on meals, and receive free gifts.
To plan the route that’s best for you, use the Trip Planner.
Categories: Destination Discounts, Go Metro
Tagged as: Destination Discounts, Go Metro, Hollywood & Highland, Hollywood Bowl
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Merritt D. Mullen says:
Better yet, instead of the bus from the Highland station, why not take the Red Line directly to the Hollywood Bowl? The Red Line runs directly under the Bowl. Oops, one little problem, no station at the Bowl. Solution, build one!
Steven White (@StevenMWhite) says:
@Merritt
It actually doesn’t run under the Bowl… Even at Hollywood/Highland, it’s already west of the Bowl, then extends west a bit further before turning towards Universal.
It was originally planned to be much closer to the Bowl, but that was based on the original route that had the Red Line extending further west down Wilshire before heading north and then back west through Hollywood.
Once the route was changed to go up Vermont and east down Hollywood Blvd. to a stop at Hollywood/Highland, the subway was no longer in position for a stop at the Bowl.
There were plenty of other issues, such as it being forecast to have the lowest ridership of any station on the system (and then having to deal with a major crush of people at event times).
For a GREAT history of the Hollywood Bowl station idea, see the Metro Library post here:
http://metroprimaryresources.info/future-stations-of-the-past-whatever-happened-to-early-plans-for-a-metro-rail-stop-at-the-hollywood-bowl/1697/
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New DHS Scanner Knows What You’ve Eaten, If You’re High, & What’s in Your Purse From 164 Feet Away
With this technology, the molecular-level scanner called a Picosecond Programmable Laser can detect traces of drugs, chemicals, weapons, and food in one-trillionth of a second, or a picosecond.
The lasers will be in use in airports and other high-risk areas within one to two years, according to an unnamed undersecretary from Homeland Security. The company that has acquired 30 patents relating to these particular types of scanners, Genia Photonics, says the Picosecond Programmable Laser scanner can ‘penetrate clothing and many other organic materials and offers spectroscopic information, especially for materials that impact safety such as explosives and pharmacological substances.’
In-Q-Tel, a technology company playing middleman between DHS and Genia Photonics, states that “an important benefit of Genia Photonics’ implementation as compared to existing solutions is that the entire synchronized laser system is comprised in a single, robust and alignment-free unit that may be easily transported for use in many environments… This compact and robust laser has the ability to rapidly sweep wavelengths in any pattern and sequence.” [PDF]
The scanner is capable of detecting substances and processing the data from 164 feet away. It is ten million times faster and one million times more sensitive than any other existing security technology that is available. How widespread could the use of this technology become? Could there eventually be scanners in movie theaters, temples and churches, grocery stores, night clubs, and schools? Will we be scanned without even knowing it? Will our fourth amendment once again be ignored and disregarded?
Because it is such a small device, I can see it being put into police vehicles, as a Huffington Post article from July points out. Could this laser play a part in the legalization of marijuana? One dilemma with legalizing the drug is the hazard of irresponsible people driving under the influence, and the lack of technology to test if a person is high on marijuana at the time of a traffic stop. This new fourth amendment-crushing monstrosity, the Picosecond Programmable Laser, could solve that problem…and probably create three hundred new problems in the process. Current methods of testing for marijuana can show the drug in a person’s system even if the person has not used it in a month. Could this device aid in convincing the government and the public that marijuana should be legalized? What will we be giving up by allowing the use of these scanners? What opportunities for further abuse of power would this technology provide?
Sources: The Secret Government Laser That Instantly Knows Everything About You [Privacy] (gizmodo.com)
Homeland Security buys ‘big brother’ laser scanner that can tell if you are high, what you are carrying and even what you had for breakfast… from 50 meters away (The Daily Mail)
New Homeland Security Laser Scanner Reads People At Molecular Level (washington.cbslocal.com)
The DHS’s Latest Investment: Terahertz Laser Scanners (hardware.slashdot.org)
Laser pat-down: Invisible scanners to secretly search people (rt.com)
Tags: airport scanners, airport security, fourth amendment, Genia Photonics, Homeland Security, illegal search and seizure, Picosecond Programmable Laser, scanner can tell if you're high, TSA
Categories Police State, Surveillance Society, The Fading Fourth Amendment, TSA Traitors, Uncategorized
Couple handcuffed, jailed for dancing on subway platform: lawsuit – New York Post
Picture from dailymail.com
New York Post –
First smoking, then soda — now there’s no dancing in New York City.
Caroline Stern, 55, and her boyfriend George Hess, 54, claim they were handcuffed for having happy feet on the platform of the Columbus Circle subway station — and spent 23 hours in custody as a result.
“I’m a dentist, and I’m 55, and I got arrested for dancing,” Stern told The Post. “It was absolutely ridiculous that this happened.”
It was nearly midnight when Stern and Hess, a film-industry prop master, headed home last July from Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night’s Swing. As they waited for the train, a musician started playing steel drums on the nearly empty platform and Stern and Hess began to feel the beat.
“We were doing the Charleston,” Stern said. That’s when two police officers approached and pulled a “Footloose.”
“They said, ‘What are you doing?’ and we said, ‘We’re dancing,’ ” she recalled. “And they said, ‘You can’t do that on the platform.’ ”
The cops asked for ID, but when Stern could only produce a credit card, the officers ordered the couple to go with them — even though the credit card had the dentist’s picture and signature.
When Hess began trying to film the encounter, things got ugly, Stern said.
“We brought out the camera, and that’s when they called backup,” she said. “That’s when eight ninja cops came from out of nowhere.”
Hess was allegedly tackled to the platform floor, and cuffs were slapped on both of them. The initial charge, according to Stern, was disorderly conduct for “impeding the flow of traffic.”
“There was nobody on the platform. There were, like, three people,” she said.
The charges, including resisting arrest, were later dropped. The couple has filed a Manhattan federal court suit against the city for unspecified damages.
“If you are surrounded by good musicians, that’s going to make you want to dance,” Stern said. “The musician who is playing is legal, but . . . we’re illegal?”
The avid hoofers frequently go out on the town to boogie.
“When you’re waiting for the subway late at night, there’s not much to do but dance and celebrate life,” she said.
The city Law Department is reviewing the court papers, a spokeswoman said.
via Caroline Stern and George Hess arrested for dancing on New York City subway platform | Mail Online.
Couple Arrested for Dancing While Waiting for the NYC Subway (foxnewsinsider.com)
Arrested For Spitting, Is this Singapore or the U.S.A.? Neither (And other ways we’re screwed) (thetimetimes.com)
Austin Police Dept Corruption Exposed (thetimetimes.com)
Police Handcuff and Detain Forty Bank Robbery Bystanders; Story Details Change Without Note By CBS (thetimetimes.com)
Tags: authoritarian, corrupt government, dancing in public, first amendment, fourth amendment, Nazi cops, news, police quotas, police state, stupid laws, unlawful arrest
Categories Backwards Is Forwards, Police State, The Fading Fourth Amendment, War on America
Austin Police Dept Corruption Exposed
If you don’t know the Antonio Buehler story, I have posted some information below this new video of Antonio Buehler addressing Austin officials. Make sure to see his credentials at the bottom. He’s a CEO, a teacher, a war veteran, a Stanford and West Point graduate with accolades and he works with disadvantaged children. The Austin Police Department’s lies are helping no one. Their denial of any wrongdoing and refusal to release the dash cam video will only continue to encourage an antagonistic relationship between the community and the police. The more animosity and resentment the public feels towards the cops, the more danger police put themselves in.
The original news report.
You may not be a fan of Alex Jones, but the following is the most comprehensive interview.
After midnight on New Years of this year, war veteran Antonio Buehler witnessed Austin police officers being unnecessarily rough with a female at a gas station.
The police had pulled over a car containing two females and began to question the driver. The passenger yelled to her friend that she did not have to take a sobriety test. The police claimed the passenger’s right to free speech was an interference. One of the two cops, Oborski, ripped the female out of the car, eliciting a scream from the victim. She was then cuffed and held by both cops in a “pain compliance” move that reminds me of strappado, a medieval Inquisition torture technique that was used in torture chambers.
Note: A form of strappado was used by abusive U.S. military personnel at Abu Ghraib, but was referred to as a “Palestinian Hanging.” It resulted in the death of Manadel al-Jamadi in 2003. This technique not only has potential to dislocate shoulders, causing long-term tendon, ligament, and nerve damage, but in some forms of the technique, the victim also risks having their shoulders broken.
Wikipedia describes strappado as:
A form of torture in which the victim’s hands are first tied behind his or her back and suspended in the air by means of a rope attached to wrists, which most likely dislocates both arms. Weights may be added to the body to intensify the effect and increase the pain.
Photo by Antonio Buehler
Photo of female being mistreated by aggressive cops on New Years Day, a little after midnight. Photo by Antonio Buehler.
When Antonio saw this happening, he pulled out his mobile phone and began taking photos.
“We pull out our cameras and try to take pictures with our cell phones,” he said. “She sees me taking pictures and says, ‘please, take pictures and videos.’
“I asked the cop, ‘why are you hurting her, she didn’t do anything wrong, stop hurting her.’
“They pick her up and walk her right past us. Oborski then turns around walks back towards me.”
“’He said, ‘who do you think you are?’
Tags: Antonio Buehler, Austin Police Department, Austin Texas, first amendment, fourth amendment, Harvard Business School, news, Oborski, police abuse, police corruption, police lies, right to film police, Stanford Graduate School of Business, United States Military Academy, video
Categories Backwards Is Forwards, Police Brutality, Police State, The Fading First Amendment, The Fading Fourth Amendment, Uncategorized, Video, War on America, War on Drugs
New TSA Policy: Ordering Travelers To “Freeze” On Command? – Infowars.com
English: TSA Passenger Screening (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
New TSA Policy: Ordering Travelers To “Freeze” On Command?
Bizarre power trip behavior of federal agency reaches new level of craziness
If you thought the bizarre power trip behavior of the TSA couldn’t get any crazier – think again. According to a friend of political commentator Lew Rockwell, the federal agency is now ordering travelers passing through security to “freeze” on command.
Explaining how he had arranged with his family to split up as they were passing through airport security, the correspondent, whose story is posted at LewRockwell.com, explains how he heard a commotion from a different security lane.
“We heard a “freeze, freeze” or something like this coming from the output side of (false) security (where my wife was), followed by further barking of commands. From where I was, I couldn’t see much.”
“It turns out they were doing a new drill. They want all passengers to freeze on command. My wife told me later that she didn’t follow this order fast enough, so the subsequent barks I heard were directed at her.”
TSA supervisors expressed little other than disinterest when the man’s wife complained at being ordered around in such an overbearing manner.
“I think back to when I was a child, playing and wrestling in the back of the station wagon on long trips – no seatbelts or child seats. Now we get yelled at in the airport. I don’t feel safer,” the post concludes.
If accurate, the new policy represents yet another pointless exercise of power that seems designed to achieve little else than harassing travelers and treating them like prisoners by aggressively demanding immediate subservience.
As we reported yesterday, the TSA is now demanding the right to test drinks purchased by passengers after they have already passed through airport security. The new policy serves only to further inconvenience travelers who have already gone through humiliating grope downs and body scanners.
In a subsequent response, the federal agency argued that the bizarre measure was important because “unpredictable measure(s)” are necessary to snare would be criminals and terrorists.
Presumably, these “unpredictable measures” now also include barking degrading orders at travelers as if they were misbehaving middle school children on a class trip.
As a TSA whistleblower told Infowars last month, far from just performing the role of screeners at the security gate, the TSA is now empowering its employees to fulfill all manner of invasive tasks.
“We’re doing patrols in the parking lot with dogs, we’re even going as far out to the train station because the train station is connected to the airport here and we have guys walking around the train station, walking around the rental cars, we’re inspecting cars coming into the parking garage, I mean we’ve fully expanded – we’re no longer just at the gate and just at the security checkpoint,” the whistleblower said.
We have contacted the TSA to ascertain whether the order for travelers to “freeze” on command was a one off incident, what its purpose was, and whether such behavior will now form part of the TSA’s security procedures.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.
via Infowars » New TSA Policy: Ordering Travelers To “Freeze” On Command? » Print.
New TSA Policy: Ordering Travelers To “Freeze” On Command? (askmarion.wordpress.com)
Where Do the TSA’s Lechers Hang Out After ‘Work’? Hooter’s, Of Course ” LewRockwell.com Blog (thetimetimes.com)
Tags: end the TSA, LewRockwell, police state, prisoner conditioning, Security checkpoint, Transportation Security Administration, TSA, TSA abuse, TSA is pointless, TSA is worthless, TSA perverts, TSA power trips, TSA Traitors, TSA yells "Freeze", War on America
Categories Backwards Is Forwards, Police State, The Fading First Amendment, The Fading Fourth Amendment, TSA Traitors, War on America, War on Terror
Where Do the TSA’s Lechers Hang Out After ‘Work’? Hooter’s, Of Course « LewRockwell.com Blog
Where Do the TSA‘s Lechers Hang Out After ‘Work’? Hooter’s, Of Course
Posted by Becky Akers on July 1, 2012 08:21 PM
The TSA has apparently decided to woo Americans on the warpath against it by pretending that its problems aren’t systemic and intractable but simply the fault of a few bad apples. To that end, it’s been on a firing spree. Fine by me! Let’s hope it dispatches every last one of its goons and perverts. But I doubt it owns even a fraction of the modicum of sense so obvious a move requires.
Ergo, it recently sacked eight gropers at Newark Airport (yes, I know its middle name is “Liberty,” but I will not sully that divine word with application to Leviathan’s gulag) for sleeping when they should have been gate-raping. Judge the utter evil of an agency that considers an innocent nap offensive but sexual assault a job. And in Florida a few weeks ago, the TSA gave 5 employees the heave-ho while “suspending “another 38 “after an internal investigation found they failed to perform random screenings last year.” We wouldn’t want Granny boarding without a deviant “randomly” inspecting her Depends, now, would we?
But the newest heads to fall belonged to some “air marshals” — you know, the guys who can’t shoot straight but who nonetheless babysit flights full of passengers. And, what the heck, who kill one every now and then to secure the ole Homeland.
Seems 8 of these murderous thugs were “drinking on duty at a Hooter’s bar near LaGuardia Airport.” Hooter’s: don’t you love it? But that wasn’t all: Our lecherous leeches also “ask[ed] for a law enforcement discount to reduce the tab.” Law enforcement! Priceless! But here’s the clincher: The TSA learned of this bibulous behavior because another marshal snitched on his fellows.
Hey, if you see something, say something.
via Where Do the TSA’s Lechers Hang Out After ‘Work’? Hooter’s, Of Course « LewRockwell.com Blog.
Tags: big government, end the TSA, Hooters, LaGuardia Airport, the fourth amendment, TSA, TSA corruption, TSA criminals, TSA drinking on duty, TSA fires employees, TSA is not law enforcement, TSA perverts
Categories Police State, The Fading Fourth Amendment, TSA Traitors, Uncategorized, War on America, War on Terror
My mail opened & inspected, one package was ‘The New World Order’ by Wells; “FBI Task Force” listed in wifi networks. Is it real?
One of the packages that was ripped open by the government before I received it just happened to be H.G. Wells New World Order. Seriously.
One night I ordered over sixty books on Amazon.com that could very well be banned in ten years. I chose a lot of H.G. Wells, Huxley, Zbigniew, Kissinger, Woodward, Kagan, Bernays, and many, many more. I even got the actual Agenda 21 manual, which is put together in a hard cover book. When my orders started arriving, I noticed two packages had been opened and marked with bright orange stickers. One of the packages contained the book The New World Order by H.G. Wells.
This is one of the packages that was opened by grubby fed paws. They obviously wanted me to know.
Wow, was the person who did this 8 years old? Nice skills, boot-licker, did you finally graduate kindergarten?
Tags: authoritarianism, censorship, due process, fourth amendment, fusion centers, government monitoring, government surveillance, H.G. Wells, new world order, NSA, Obama is a Dictator, police state, spying, Surveillance society
Categories Caught in the World Wide Web, Police State, Surveillance Society, The Fading Fourth Amendment, War on America
R.I.P. Rodney King 1965-2012
R.I.P. Rodney King. We won’t forget you.
AP Photo/Matt Sayles
Rodney King Dead: Face Of LA Riots Dies At Age 47 _ HuffingtonPost.com
Rodney King, the man who was at the center of the infamous Los Angeles riots, was found dead this morning, TMZ has reported. He was 47.
According to TMZ, King’s fiancée, Cynthia Kelly, found him dead at the bottom of a swimming pool. CNN has confirmed his passing.
King recently marked the twentieth anniversary of the Los Angeles riots — the mayhem that took place after four police officers were acquitted of beating King in 1991. The beating, which was caught on camera, sparked national outrage and put King at the center of heated debate about the state of race relations in America.
CBS Los Angeles has released a radio interview with Rialto, California police Captain Randy De Anda, who says that King may have had some verbal contact with his fiancée, at which time she went outside and found him at the bottom of the pool.
“Rialto police officers responded to the location and removed him from inside of the pool and began CPR. The Rialto Fire Department paramedics responded and transported Mr. King to the Arrowhead Regional Medical Center where he was later pronounced dead at 6:11 a.m. this morning,” De Anda said.
Preliminary information showed no signs of foul play, he added.
In his memoir, “The Riot Within: My Journey From Rebellion to Redemption,” published earlier this year, King detailed the high-speed chase that led up to his beating on March 3, 1991 and how he went on to receive a $3.8 million settlement from the city of Los Angeles. Most of the money was lost, however, to bad investments, including a hip-hop record label he founded.
More From AP:
The 1992 riots, which were set off by the acquittals of the officers who beat King, lasted three days and left 55 people dead, more than 2,000 injured and swaths of Los Angeles on fire. At the height of the violence, King pleaded on television: “Can we all get along?”
In the two decades after he became the central figure in the riots, King was arrested several times, mostly for alcohol-related crimes. He later became a record company executive and a reality TV star, appearing on shows such as “Celebrity Rehab.”
In an interview earlier this year with The Associated Press, King said he was a happy man.
“America’s been good to me after I paid the price and stayed alive through it all,” he says. “This part of my life is the easy part now.”
Tags: 1992 Los Angeles Riots, abuse of power, Los Angeles, martial law, militarization of police, Operation Hammer, police beating, police brutality, posse comitatus, racial prejudice, racism, Rodney King
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The Irishman: The Grand Eulogy of the American Crime Picture
Posted on November 15, 2019 by Calvin Kemph
Some movies are events. Some movies are events in movie history. Martin Scorsese’s pairing with Netflix will prove all but historic here. We have seen the successes before, sure, but for the first time, one of history’s great filmmakers has been reignited with the energy of his prime, where Made for Streaming can be emphatically declared as a prestige label. The way we have collectively heralded Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) as the end of the traditional Western, The Irishman also signals the closure of the American Crime genre. All the work has been done and with one epic, sweeping final document; the master of the genre itself has announced its permanent closure as a fixture of American filmmaking.
The Irishman. Dir. Martin Scorsese.
Scorsese’s septuagenarian feature shows no sign of his age. It is as spry and effusively passionate as any film he has made. It’s no great wonder that a man of his age can convincingly captivate an audience for three-and-a-half hours. The Irishman is a very long film. It also does not waste any of those minutes or anything that appears on-screen. It’s still shot with the grand regency and respect for the subject that scores Scorsese’s masterpieces. We cannot worry about the time the movie needs. Longtime exclusive editor Thelma Schoonmaker ensures the essence of every frame benefits the production. It’s as lively as Goodfellas (1990), just the major players have aged and have different concerns.
The Irishman is a momentous reunion for three greats of the gangster picture: Robert De Niro; Joe Pesci; and Al Pacino. Netflix has guaranteed serious awards attention. De Niro is spellbinding once again, poetically returned to his youth with de-aging technology, for small parts of the long runtime. Humorously, he once again plays an Irishman – like with Goodfellas – despite being outwardly Italian and having no significant Irish tells. And it works brilliantly. The legendary Joe Pesci returns from semi-retirement performing with the effortless aplomb of a man made for the roles he inhabits. Scorsese finds the best in them time and time again. There is a supreme comfort in the fact that this has not changed in 2019. Perhaps unbelievably, The Irishman also marks the first time Scorsese has worked with Pacino, and immediately finds the center of what sparks his greatest on-screen characters. Those around them do not get to do nearly as much, considering the time allotted we may genuinely hope for other breakthroughs, but our three stars shine as brightly as they ever have, whether they’re uncanny and computerized or giving dramatically humanistic performances.
The Irishman utilizes its aging stars gracefully. While celebrating the conclusion of these storied careers, it finds spaces and silences to examine the nature of aging before the audience. De Niro begins within a nursing home. Once a great hitman for the mob, he’s been reduced to the same end-of-days comfort we all must face. Here, he shares the story of the mafia, the teamsters, and Jimmy Hoffa. It’s an exuberant and winding story fit with cornerstone moments of Scorsese’s career. There are elaborate gliding shots, the smoothest and loveliest moments put to film this year. Sometimes it’s just De Niro driving down an alley in a signature black car. It’s the way the director is in love with the moving image. How his eye tracks it better than anyone, can predict the right lensing of wildly inventive set pieces and shoot outs. How he can escalate the tension so easily, from the turning of a car key – is the car wired to blow? – to the ease of getting tense conversations just so, unfurling ever-so-artfully. While his straight suspense films have not surmised the bulk of his work’s attention, all of his films operate on certain suspense motivated by Catholic guilt. And with The Irishman, it’s more lovely and grand than it has been in many years.
If The Irishman is a graceful swan song for a group of contemporaries, it is a perfect grace note. Encapsulating a shifting sense of time and place, it explores most fully the fantastical careers of its actors. When Scorsese says something is not cinema, we realize very carefully, exactly, how much time he has spent thinking about cinema. He has a tangible one-on-one relationship with its history, its restoration, and diversifying of the field. All of his historical context for the form shows up right on-screen in The Irishman. It is the culmination of his grandest cinematic achievements. Purely, The Irishman is cinema. It’s cinema in every sense the word entails. It does not prevent anything else from being cinema. Instead, it is an emphatic marker of perspective, of meticulously learned and studied habits all paying off cohesively. An artful meditation of aging with grace, The Irishman is one of our greatest living directors’ masterworks, made from the experiences of another generation, for the benefit of cinema history.
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Martin Kukuk
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martin.kukuk@vgu.edu.vn,martin.kukuk@uni-wuerzburg.de
"Vietnamese-German University, Lecturer in Finance and Accounting (2016)
Full Prof. of Econometrics, Dept. of Economics, University of Würzburg, Germany (Sept 2002 - present)
Assoc. Prof. of Empirical Research in Business Management, University of Magdeburg, Germany (Apr.-Sept. 2002)
Habilitation in Econometrics and Statistics from University of Tübingen, Germany (2000)
University of Tübingen, Akademischer Rat (equivalent to Assist. Prof. in Economics) (1996-2002)
Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany, Senior Researcher, (1994-1996)
University of Konstanz, Post Doc (1993)
Feodor-Lynen scholarship of the A.-v.-Humboldt Foundation (Jan.-Dec. 1992)
Visiting Assist. Prof., Dept. of Economics at McMaster University, Hamilton/Ont., Canada (Jan.-Dec. 1992)
University of Konstanz, Research Assistant (1988-1991)
Dr. rer. pol. (equivalent to PhD in Economics) from University of Konstanz, Germany (1991)
Dipl.-Volkswirt (equivalent to MSc in Economics) from University of Konstanz, Germany (1988)"
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Small and medium enterprises need own specific tax policies
Chairwoman of the Viet Nam Tax Consultancy Association (VTCA) Nguyen Thi Cuc told Hai quan (Customs) newspaper about shortcomings of the tax regulations for small-and-medium sized enterprises.
What do you think about current tax policies for small-and-medium sized enterprises (SMEs)?
Tax reforms have offered few incentives to SMEs. For example, while the corporate income tax rate is 22 per cent, the rate of 20 per cent is for enterprises that have yearly revenue of less than VND20 billion (US$896,300) and they can submit tax declarations and pay taxes quarterly. However, tax agencies pay improper attention to examine and oversee accounting activities at SMEs. Moreover, tax agencies are not empowered to inspect and fine enterprises if they detect accounting violations.
SMEs have not attached much importance to accounting. This is evidenced by the shortage of accounting staff and chief accountants or the chief accountants fail to meet requirements by law. Accounting problems lead to the lack of financial transparency and difficulty to access funding to expand business. The problems also make the Government unable to collect the tax which should have been paid by enterprises.
The Government would be hard or unable to make right policies for SMEs because of inexact accounting reports.
Is it necessary to have tax policies, tax management mechanisms and accounting standards tailored to SMEs?
Despite the Government's efforts to simplify administrative procedures, the number of hours spent on taxation is much more than in other countries. Other countries' experience shows that specific tax policies for SMEs help Governments manage tax payment.
The policies are usually simple, easy for the Government to oversee and easy for taxpayers to follow.
I think that besides administration reforms, Viet Nam's Finance Ministry and Taxation Department should concentrate on speeding the application of information and technology and building a national database of taxpayers and tax payments to avoid tax evasion.
Currently, in Viet Nam, tax management is mostly based on invoices and paper documents, which costs time and are ineffective, risky because of illegal trade of invoices. So, it is needed to find a new management method to better detect violations.
I also think that it should have specific accounting standards for SMEs.
Do you think we should encourage SMEs to use accounting services and tax agents?
In other countries, SMEs usually use tax agents or tax accounting agents. In Korea and Japan, 96 per cent of their SMEs use tax agents' services. Meanwhile, Vietnamese SMEs are not interested in tax agents as the agents don't offer tax accounting service because there is no legal basis.
Those who are recognised to work as tax agents should be allowed to do accounting and related work. — VNS
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Ligand-induced structural changes in adenosine 5′-phosphosulfate kinase from Penicillium chrysogenum
Eric B. Lansdon, Irwin H. Segel, Andrew J Fisher
Adenosine 5′-phosphosulfate (APS) kinase catalyzes the second reaction in the two-step, ATP-dependent conversion of inorganic sulfate to 3'-phosphoadenosine 5′-phosphosulfate (PAPS). PAPS serves as the sulfuryl donor for the biosynthesis of all sulfate esters and also as a precursor of reduced sulfur biomolecules in many organisms. Previously, we determined the crystal structure of ligand-free APS kinase from the filamentous fungus, Penicillium chrysogenum [MacRae et al. (2000) Biochemistry 39, 1613-1621]. That structure contained a protease-susceptible disordered region ("mobile lid"; residues 145-170). Addition of MgADP and APS, which together promote the formation of a nonproductive "dead-end" ternary complex, protected the lid from trypsin. This report presents the 1.43 Å resolution crystal structure of APS kinase with both ADP and APS bound at the active site and the 2.0 Å resolution structure of the enzyme with ADP alone bound. The mobile lid is ordered in both complexes and is shown to provide part of the binding site for APS. That site is formed primarily by the highly conserved Arg 66, Arg 80, and Phe 75 from the protein core and Phe 165 from the mobile lid. The two Phe residues straddle the adenine ring of bound APS. Arg 148, a completely conserved residue, is the only residue in the mobile lid that interacts directly with bound ADP. Ser 34, located in the apex of the P-loop, hydrogen-bonds to the 3'-OH of APS, the phosphoryl transfer target. The structure of the binary E·ADP complex revealed further changes in the active site and N-terminal helix that occur upon the binding/release of (P)APS.
https://doi.org/10.1021/bi026556b
adenylylsulfate kinase
Adenosine Phosphosulfate
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Lansdon, E. B., Segel, I. H., & Fisher, A. J. (2002). Ligand-induced structural changes in adenosine 5′-phosphosulfate kinase from Penicillium chrysogenum. Biochemistry, 41(46), 13672-13680. https://doi.org/10.1021/bi026556b
Ligand-induced structural changes in adenosine 5′-phosphosulfate kinase from Penicillium chrysogenum. / Lansdon, Eric B.; Segel, Irwin H.; Fisher, Andrew J.
In: Biochemistry, Vol. 41, No. 46, 19.11.2002, p. 13672-13680.
Lansdon, EB, Segel, IH & Fisher, AJ 2002, 'Ligand-induced structural changes in adenosine 5′-phosphosulfate kinase from Penicillium chrysogenum', Biochemistry, vol. 41, no. 46, pp. 13672-13680. https://doi.org/10.1021/bi026556b
Lansdon EB, Segel IH, Fisher AJ. Ligand-induced structural changes in adenosine 5′-phosphosulfate kinase from Penicillium chrysogenum. Biochemistry. 2002 Nov 19;41(46):13672-13680. https://doi.org/10.1021/bi026556b
Lansdon, Eric B. ; Segel, Irwin H. ; Fisher, Andrew J. / Ligand-induced structural changes in adenosine 5′-phosphosulfate kinase from Penicillium chrysogenum. In: Biochemistry. 2002 ; Vol. 41, No. 46. pp. 13672-13680.
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When it comes to the casino software sector in the UK, there are a handful of dominant players accounting for the bulk of the market. Between them, Playtech, Microgaming and NetEnt serve the majority of top tier casino providers, in addition to holding strong representations in other verticals. So how are these companies faring in 2017 so far, and with 2018 right around the corner, how are they positioned to take account of the new emerging challenges in this market?
Playtech have been enjoying rapid growth since 2010, fuelled by an ambitious acquisition strategy spanning right across the broader gaming industry. In 2015, the company best known for its slots products started broadening its horizons in financials, ramping up the pace of their M&A activity. In 2017 so far, Playtech can lay claim to two successful acquisitions – that of Australian developer Eyecon, famous for their Fluffy Favourites slot, amongst others, and more recently, the acquisition of UK-based broker Alpha, in a deal worth £117 million.
Analysts view their strategy as an attempt to consolidate their position ahead of the pack, and by branching out into multiple different verticals, Playtech are not shy about throwing their weight around. In part, this is a defensive move from the company, helping fend off the rise of credible challengers in an environment that becomes increasingly competitive with each passing year. However, it also leaves them potentially vulnerable to bigger downturns – the bigger they are, the harder they can fall.
Nevertheless, the position today means Playtech are arguably the most dominant force in slots and online casino games, not to mention their relentless grip on the big sports betting brands. Interestingly, Playtech stick to insisting on exclusivity amongst their licensees, in a move designed to crowd out the market for other competitors. When you consider Playtech can boast big wins such as a £6.2 million win on Beach Life in 2012, and £4.5 million more recently through one of their bingo sites, it’s clear they have the clout to pull off this kind of strategy.
So are the others taking heed, or blazing their own trail through 2017 and beyond?
Microgaming has had a busy year in 2017 so far, with plenty of licensing deals, big wins, new game releases and corporate developments along the way. By revenue, Microgaming remains one of the big three players in the casino software market, but have now chosen to adjust their strategy as far as licensees are concerned. Traditionally, Microgaming operated in an environment where licensees were free to use their software in conjunction with other licensed providers, a move that was designed to help them capture market share against more established competitors. But with the release of their Quickfire platform, which allows easier, speedier gaming in-browser, Microgaming have started to follow the same path as Playtech, in terms of insisting operators exclusively rely on their software.
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Additionally, this year has seen Microgaming open their new headquarters in the Isle of Man, cementing their shift in focus away from specifically Scandinavian markets to serve a much broader client base.
Formerly focused almost exclusively on the Scandinavian markets, NetEnt saw their opportunity to expand worldwide and took it. Today the company competes directly with Playtech and Microgaming in the slots space, as well as its ventures into live gaming with the NetEnt Live platform. NetEnt differ from the other two in the sense, that they do not (yet?) insist on signing exclusive agreements with their licensees – perhaps a shrewd position amidst competition increasingly looking to lock up the market.
NetEnt is growing quickly from its rather more humble beginnings, and it’s expected to play an increasingly prominent role in shaping the future of the industry, with innovations in VR, for example, already making their market in 2016-17. This includes their core casino business, but also verticals like bingo, with NetEnt having already reached an agreement with 888 to provide these services across some of their key national markets.
Shares in NetEnt have performed well on the year, up from 68.00 in May to 75.60 in September 2017. With 2018 fast approaching, NetEnt will look to capitalise on these developments, by continuing to release new games on a regular basis, while pushing for broader hookups with gaming operators worldwide.
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As far as Playtech is concerned, the flurry of acquisition activity over the last few years is just getting started. The company intends to conclude more deals in 2017, in a bid to position themselves even more firmly in the driving seat in this industry come 2018. But given the pace of acquisition and the rapidly growing nature of the company, Playtech will need to ensure they are maximising the value of their assets if they want to leverage their new position in the market.
As for Microgaming, 2018 is expected to look more towards tying up Quickfire integrations, as it plays market catch-up against the bigger fish that is now Playtech. Microgaming are already signalling intent, with the release of newly licensed games like Halloween continuing to expand on their slots catalogue. Microgaming have also made waves in VR gaming, although the sector still seems some way short of realising its potential, it’s a statement of intent for a company that continues to innovate and experiment with new concepts across its verticals.
NetEnt will look to continue their growth in international markets, bringing new games on stream for licensees while seeking to establish a greater number of tie-ups with operators. While the lack of an exclusivity strategy could be problematic for the company over the coming twelve months, particularly if operators flock to competing offers come renewal time, the risk of remaining open to cooperation with other providers could well help NetEnt establish a stronger foothold internationally, beyond their current key markets.
One emerging threat to their dominance is the rise of smaller boutique software companies, most notably Yggdrasil Gaming, who consistently get the nod industry-wide for producing some of the most engaging and entertaining slots games. A key battleground for each of these companies, slots remain the key driver of growth for casinos, and their most popular game type by far. With Yggdrasil and others producing games that are of a quality far beyond those on offer from the big three, it will be worth paying attention to this upstart company as it aims to replicate the success of the more established names in the industry.
With new game releases planned across the industry, and an increasing trend towards brand licensing deals, the market for casino software providers is only hotting up. While the front three have a significant hold of the market already, with licenses spanning the full breadth of the industry across the UK and beyond, others are hot on their heels, determined to carve their own growing niche in this lucrative market.
Whatever the future holds, one thing is for certain – this is a market that does anything other than stay still. Casino software providers must continue to push the boundaries of the possible, and drive forward with innovations that make the gaming experience even better for their licensees, and in turn, for players. While it’s impossible to predict where the chips will fall in a year, three years, ten years time, it’s clear that only by striving for excellence – both in their software and commercially – can these companies remain at the forefront of this industry.
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The home of the NFL’s Detroit Lions and host of other major venues like concerts, NCAA basketball games, trade shows – including Electro-Matic’s annual Manufacturing in America event, and high school football games, to name a few.
Ford Field was having trouble effectively communicating when box office tickets were announced, on sale, and sold out with walk-up customers and fans. Electro-Matic Visual provided a simple solution that effectively communicates to customers in a cost-effective, simple manner.
Ford Field needed a better way to effectively communicate with fans and customers outside of their ticket office. The ticket office was having trouble communicating when tickets were sold out, causing longer wait time and confusion.
The original system that was being used at Ford Field’s ticket offices was laminated paper signs.
Ford Field wanted to utilize new technology to better communicate with their guests and provide an overall better experience for them. They also wanted to reduce the confusion and wait times for sports fans and concert-goers.
Electro-Matic Visual took a look at the situation and suggested 40 4U2SEE displays that will help eliminate confusion and improve communication to fans and customers.
Employees have been able to save time by not having to explain what can be done at their window, making transaction times quicker and smoother. The 4U2SEE displays provide a highly visible display and color coordinate with the Lion’s team color, Honolulu Blue. Ford Field is also able to have several options in regards with how their message can be displayed (static, scrolling, etc.), this way they’re not limited to a maximum number of characters on the LED Display.
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Report on Etna (Italy) — January 1986
Scientific Event Alert Network Bulletin, vol. 11, no. 1 (January 1986)
Etna (Italy) Strong flank seismicity
Global Volcanism Program, 1986. Report on Etna (Italy) (McClelland, L., ed.). Scientific Event Alert Network Bulletin, 11:1. Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.GVP.SEAN198601-211060.
37.748°N, 14.999°E; summit elev. 3295 m
Seismicity has continued since Etna's SE-flank fissure eruption in late December. The following is from R. Romano. "Beginning 1 February, a series of shocks occurred on all ... flanks (table 2). The most energetic events occurred 1 and 2 February ~ 15 km SE of the summit (in the Dagala zone, in the area of Santa Venerina and Linera), with magnitudes between 3.0 and 3.6 and depths within 1 km. During the week, 50 shocks were also recorded by instruments, mainly on the E flank."
Table 2. Largest of a series of earthquakes on Etna's flanks, February 1986.
Date Location Distance from summit Magnitude Depth
3 Feb 1986 E of S. Pizzuta -- 3.0 1 km
4 Feb 1986 Between Linera and Guardia Mangano 16 km SE 2.5 1 km
5 Feb 1986 E of Mt. Pomiciaro 15 km NE 3.2 16 km
6 Feb 1986 N flank, E of Malvagna -- 3.1 4 km
7 Feb 1986 Between Mt. Pomiciaro and Linguaglossa 15 km NE 3.0 16 km
Geologic Background. Mount Etna, towering above Catania, Sicily's second largest city, has one of the world's longest documented records of historical volcanism, dating back to 1500 BCE. Historical lava flows of basaltic composition cover much of the surface of this massive volcano, whose edifice is the highest and most voluminous in Italy. The Mongibello stratovolcano, truncated by several small calderas, was constructed during the late Pleistocene and Holocene over an older shield volcano. The most prominent morphological feature of Etna is the Valle del Bove, a 5 x 10 km horseshoe-shaped caldera open to the east. Two styles of eruptive activity typically occur, sometimes simultaneously. Persistent explosive eruptions, sometimes with minor lava emissions, take place from one or more summit craters. Flank vents, typically with higher effusion rates, are less frequently active and originate from fissures that open progressively downward from near the summit (usually accompanied by Strombolian eruptions at the upper end). Cinder cones are commonly constructed over the vents of lower-flank lava flows. Lava flows extend to the foot of the volcano on all sides and have reached the sea over a broad area on the SE flank.
Information Contacts: R. Romano, IIV.
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Roots and Groove
SMOOTH OPERATOR — Romane
Most people in the United States have never heard of Romane (Patrick Leguidecoq), a classically-trained, Gypsy-Jazz and Parisian-style guitarist of the highest caliber. Romane is totally suave…as in GQ You Can’t Touch This suave. He was actually the first modern Gypsy-Jazz player I became interested in after a friend laid the Ombre CD on me 10-12 years ago. The music was a revelation! I still love the CD and have acquired a bunch of Romane product since then, including the two CDs featured in the right column where he partners up with another GJ master, Stochelo Rosenberg. (Of course you gotta be really good if you are going to play with Stochelo) Not only can Romane play with the best of them, for my money he is easily one of the best writers of this style. He’s not a guy to do a CD with 6 Django Reinhardt covers on it even though he can burn or make his guitar sing on any song that is thrown his way. I wish he would play the East Coast in the near future. He is on the list of people I would really like to see. Here he is with Stochelo playing Stochelo’s Double Jeu.
What fired me up when I heard Romane is how the music— the outrageous chords, sophisticated runs and blistering picking— doesn’t sound like anything this country has ever produced. It’s Jazz, but it isn’t, and because of the acoustic WHOOMPH! the music never sounds like that laid back, noodling stuff that many people think of when someone says the dreaded J-Word. What makes Romane so suave is that he never sacrifices melody and good musical sense for relentless chops and “out” playing that doesn’t seem to go anywhere. You probably wouldn’t want to throw his music on at your next classic-rock barbeque, but it certainly works for many other settings and occasions. You would certainly get the attention of any musicians present because not only are the songs and playing awesome, the music ALWAYS swings. It’s the hallmark of the style and it’s an infectious thing for sure.
There is a great variety of mood and intensity on Ombre and Acoustic Spirit. Romane can dazzle you with unbelievable stuff like Legendé, Gypsy Fire or the funky country twang-influenced Paris Nashville, and then cool you out with really mellow stuff like Selene or the every easy bolero, Monticello, which is built off of the following E7M9/13 chord. Give it a whirl on your axe and feel the magic. I can’t get enough of that sound. (The numbers are “open” “6th fret” “7th fret”. You can bar the “6” group with your first finger and play the “7” group with your 2nd finger as a bar or any combination of your remaining fingers).
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So… like what you’re hearing so far? Intrigued? Already trying to learn Gypsy Jazz and hungry for more? Not interested in playing Gypsy Jazz but perhaps thinking some of those licks and runs are pretty cool? Well you could buy this DVD…it’s chock full of info and demonstration and even though Romane does not speak English, the DVD does have subtitles in three languages and a small booklet showing the important stuff. I think he either did two versions of this instructional DVD or there was extra footage because it is packaged under different names at a few different locations. Some of the clips from this DVD are on You Tube, HERE. The embed option has been disabled so I can’t show them. This is not the whole DVD, but follow the You Tube links for the 3 chapters. The second set can be shown here but it has no subtitles. If you can follow along there is some more free learning to be had!
What I really like about Romane and all of the Gypsy players is that they are very generous with their knowledge and because they know so much, they are excellent teachers. The Acoustic Spirit CD shown above ships with the CD for listening and another CD that contains tabs and rhythm play-a-longs!! Who else does that? Seriously! And when I bought it at Virgin it was $14 or something. A total steal of a deal. If you are the ambitious sort you might want to add Romane’s L’Espirit Manouche to your collection. This awesome book contains every theoretical gem of an idea that you will ever need to be a pro guitar player in this style, or any style really. Though it offers no help with the very important picking technique, it does explore music theory and harmony in great detail while providing 14 of Romane’s songs as exercises and illustrations to the lessons. I do have to qualify this gushing with one criticism though and I really hate to do that but — There should have been a better translator brought on-board to help put Romane’s knowledge into English. The book is for an English audience and Romane has a virtual set of Encyclopedia Britannicas of musical knowledge in his brain. I am getting through it (a long off and on process) but there are sections that really try the patience of anyone attempting to figure out the major revelation that is supposed to be happening because the English phrasing just doesn’t make sense. Sometimes it takes 2-3 goes or I skip the writing and just work on the songs. I’m still glad I bought the book and the more I learn from it and other sources, the more comfortable I am with it because I can ignore the writing and focus on the music.
Romane is at home in pretty much any situation as these last two clips illustrate. Above, he is playing with a big band on his really cool composition Opus De Clignancourt. In the midst of some great playing he breaks a string and hilarity ensues. The one below is from his new CD/DVD, Roots and Groove and features his composition, For Wes. There is a stripped-down duet of Romane doing this song with Stochelo on You Tube and the whole 35 minute show can be found on the Gypsy Jazz Masters CD/DVD that is reviewed at the top of the right column on my blog. Of course anything that Romane and Stochelo do is brilliant, but the Roots and Groove band turns this song into a whole other thing and it’s really smokin’ in my opinion. Romane is using a Stimer style pick-up which is a good move with the band he has with him in this situation. They are hot! The club is obviously really hot too…they are working up a sweat!
While Romane is always attempting new things, like many GJ artists he has a strong connection to TRADITION. His father was a very accomplished guitar player and so is his son, Richard Manetti. {HERE is a clip of father and son playing together…talk about bonding!} Aside from the familial, there is also a connection to the culture of the Manouche and the history of jazz, two branches of music and culture that have been intimately intertwined for the past 70+ years. It’s impossible for me to watch Romane, Stochelo or any of the others and not think that they create an environment that gets real close to the original guitar hero, Django Reinhardt and The Quintet of the Hot Club of France, or even people from a much earlier time who have propelled this musical lineage forward through many generations. I hear that in much of Romane’s music and while it is always interesting and sometimes thrilling to hear or see A TOTALLY NEW THING, there is something comfortable and life-sustaining in music and art that doesn’t disregard and pays homage to the vibrant sound and caravan spirit that has entertained people for generations.
Posted in Players and tagged Acoustic Spirit, Django Reinhardt, Florin Niculescu, Gypsy Jazz, Ombre, Richard Manetti, Romane, Roots and Groove, STOCHELO Rosenberg on September 11, 2011 by theguitarcave. 2 Comments
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Bush Was Right On Stem Cell Research After All
January 14th, 2010 MacAoidh
From California comes an interesting bit of news on the Bush-era controversy surrounding embryonic stem cell research.
Remember stem cells? That was a red-hot issue in the previous decade, as it had all the hallmarks of the classic left-wing meme; the Luddite Christians standing in the way of a glorious scientific revolution due to their quaint and obsolete notions on abortion and their overheated morality.
The facts were inconvenient pebbles in the road of that discussion, as the Bush administration spent more money on stem cell research than all its predecessors combined; the president objected on moral grounds to the widespread use of embryonic stem cells, however, and asked that the focus of federally-funded stem cell research be on adult stem cells. Bush was pilloried as absolutist and neanderthal by the pro-abortion Left for his stance. Things got so bad that in the 2004 election that Democrat vice presidential candidate, recurring National Enquirer poster boy and general obnoxious cad John Edwards made the breathtaking accusation that but for Bush’s intransigence, paralyzed actor Christopher Reeve (since deceased) would walk again.
According to an Investors Business Daily piece this week, the former president had science, as well as morality, on his side.
While Bush was blocking federal National Institutes of Health funds from fueling embryonic stem cell research, an initiative in California – Proposition 71, otherwise known as the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative – was passed by a 59-41 referendum in 2004. Prop 71 established a massive $3 billion California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to push embryonic stem cell research. The plan had the backing of most of Silicon Valley, Hollywood and the new governor Arnold Schwarzenegger; it was opposed by the Catholic Church and the Christian Right – including that nutty Mel Gibson – and the usual pro-life groups decried as mouth-breathers by the Left.
Five-plus years later, the results are in. Adult stem cells can produce results, while embryonic stem cell research is a dead end. As the IBD article states:
Supporters of the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative, passed in 2004, held out hopes of imminent medical miracles that were being held up only by President Bush’s policy of not allowing federal funding of embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) beyond existing stem cell lines and which involved the destruction of embryos created for that purpose.
Five years later, ESCR has failed to deliver and backers of Prop 71 are admitting failure. The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the state agency created to, as some have put it, restore science to its rightful place, is diverting funds from ESCR to research that has produced actual therapies and treatments: adult stem cell research. It not only has treated real people with real results; it also does not come with the moral baggage ESCR does.
Prop 71 had a 10-year mandate and by 2008, as miracle cures looked increasingly unlikely, a director was hired for the agency with a track record of bringing discoveries from the lab to the clinic. “If we went 10 years and had no clinical treatments, it would be a failure,” says the institute’s director, Alan Trounson, a stem cell pioneer from Australia. “We need to demonstrate that we are starting a whole new medical revolution.”
The institute is attempting to do that by funding adult stem cell research. Nearly $230 million was handed out this past October to 14 research teams. Notably, only four of those projects involve embryonic stem cells.
Another example of the forward progress with adult stem cells compared to the dead end with the embryonic variety came from yesterday’s Baton Rouge Advocate – TCA Cellular Therapy, LLC, a Covington-based firm, has won FDA approval for a clinical trial using adult stem cells to treat Lou Gehrig’s Disease. It’s one of 73 treatments currently being tested or utilized involving adult stem cells; at present there are none using the embryonic variety.
Going even further than the IBD article is Joe Carter at the First Things Blog, who essentially characterizes advocates of embryonic stem cell research as kissing cousins with the anthropogenic global warming crowd:
Advocates of ESCR preyed on the scientific and ethical illiteracy of the general public to support the massive funding of this speculative research. The complexity of the issue and the peculiar terminology used often prevented many citizens from developing a fully informed opinion on the matter. They relied on the “experts” and the ESCR supporters took full advantage of this trust by making claims that had no basis in reality. As Ronald D.G. McKay, a stem cell researcher at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, said in 2004 about the claims that ESCR could lead to cures for Alzheimer’s, “To start with, people need a fairy tale. Maybe that’s unfair, but they need a story line that’s relatively simple to understand.”
The lesson here is that taxpayer dollars get wasted and the political culture is poisoned when hucksterism is disguised as science – and then presented as the government-sponsored path to a Brave New World if only the religious or otherwise conservative crowd would shut up. It happened with embryonic stem cell research, it happened with anthropogenic global warming, it’s happened countless times before and it will happen again.
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House panel votes to limit use of restraints on pregnant border detainees
By Niv Elis - 07/25/18 05:04 PM EDT
The House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday approved an amendment that would limit the use of shackles on pregnant women detained by immigration and border patrol.
“ICE has recently reported it has detained more than 500 pregnant women since December, and they are using shackling of pregnant women,” said Rep. Katherine Clark Katherine Marlea ClarkSanders, Warren battle for progressive endorsements Democrats ramp up calls for war powers vote after Iran strike Nearly all Democrats expected to back articles of impeachment MORE (D-Mass.), the amendment’s sponsor.
The American Medical Association, she continued, recommends against shackling pregnant women in their second or third trimester because it can increase chances of harming the fetus.
The practice of shackling women was uncommon until the Trump administration imposed its zero-tolerance border crossing policy, Clark said, in part because women were not regularly detained prior to that.
The amendment would still allow the use of shackling in extreme circumstances, such as for women who pose a clear flight risk or a danger to themselves or others.
The committee adopted the amendment to the Homeland Security Appropriations bill by a voice vote with no opposition. The bill is expected to advance later in the evening.
The committee also adopted an amendment from Clark that would prevent ICE from destroying records related to potential sexual assault or other forms of abuse of individuals in ICE custody.
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Category: The Woman Eater 1958
Queen B’s of 1950s Science Fiction & Horror 🎃
This Halloween season I’m covering those fierce women who graced the 1950s Science Fiction & Fantasy/Horror screen with their beauty, brawn and bravado! Like years past–I pay tribute to the Scream Queens of the 1930s & 1940s
MonsterGirl’s Halloween 🎃 2015 special feature! the Heroines, Scream Queens & Sirens of 30s Horror Cinema!
Heroines & Scream Queens of Classic Horror: the 1940s! A very special Last Drive In Hall🎃ween treat
We’ve arrived at the 1950s decade’s deliriously dynamic dames… Who had to deal with mad scientists, gigantism, alien invasions and much more menace & mayhem!
Of course I plan on doing the 1960s and 1970s in the next year–and you’ll notice that I am listing some of our Queen B’s future films & television appearances of a supernatural or science fiction nature, and even a few scattered exploitation films that fit the bill. Added are a few photos to fill out the framework of their contribution to the genre. I’ve included honorable mentions to those who starred in at least one film and perhaps a few science fiction & horror anthology shows on television.
And I guess I should be super clear about this, so no one gets their hackles standing on end, not one actress who wound up only getting an honorable mention, (be it one of your favorites and believe me their are a few of mine on that smaller list), by any means does it imply that I think they have a less substantial participation in the decade’s genre.
All these actresses have performed in other types of films-other genres and dramatic roles and enjoyed a full career that transcends the science fiction & horror films they appeared in.
Allied together they created the fabric of the 1950s decade, colored by their unique and valuable presence to ensure that science fiction & horror/fantasy will live on to entertain and enamor a whole new generation of fans and aficionados.
Collectively and Individually these women are fantastic , and I feel very passionate about having put this wonderful collection together as a tribute!
I can’t begin to describe the admiration I’ve developed over the past several years, by delving into Beverly Garland’s long impressive career as a popular cult actress. All I can think of saying– seems crude– but it’s what truly comes to mind… Beverly Garland kicks some serious ass!!!
From historian/writer Tom Weaver-“For most fans of 50s horror there are just no two ways about it. Beverly Garland is the exploitation film heroine of the period. A principal member of Roger Corman’s early stock company, she was the attractive, feisty leading lady in such Corman quickies as It Conquered the World, Gunslinger, Naked Paradise, and Not of this Earth. In between Corman assignments she braved the perils of the Amazon River on writer-director Curt Siodmak’s Curucu, Beast of the Amazon, and a less harrowing Hollywood backlot swamp in Fox’s the Alligator People. Her 1960s film work included Pretty Poison, The Mad Room and the multi-storied Twice Told Tales with Vincent Price. Overall, this list of titles is unmatched by any other ’50s genre actress.”
The diverse, dynamic and uniquely sexy Beverly Garland was born in Santa Cruz, California. She studied with dramatics teacher Anita Arliss, sister to Hollywood actor George Arliss. Garland also worked in radio actually appeared semi-clothed in various racy shorts, until she made her first feature debut supporting role in the taut noir thriller D.O.A (1949) starring Edmund O’Brien. Beverly started out doing small parts in science fiction/horror films such as The Neanderthal Man 1955 and The Rocket Man 1954. But her cult/exploitation status was forged when she signed onto to work with legendary filmmaker Roger Corman, the first film takes place in Louisiana called Swamp Women. In 1983 Beverly Garland received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She worked right up until 2004 and sadly passed away in 2008.
There are so many credits Beverly Garland has under her belt, I can only list the few that are memorable for me, but here she is linked to her massive IMDb list of credits for you to peruse. One of the roles that stands out for me is her groundbreaking role in the late 1950s as Casey Jones a policewoman for NYC in the series called Decoy (1957) Garland finds herself in diverging & dangerous situations where she not only uses her sexy good looks but her smarts and her instincts to trap criminals from all walks of life. It’s a fabulous show and it shows not only how diverse Beverly Garland is but the show was a historical first for a woman starring in a dramatic television series.
Beverly Garland has performed in drama’s including a musical with Frank Sinatra directed by Charles Vidor The Joker is Wild (1957) Film Noir (The Miami Story 1954, New Orleans Uncensored 1955, Sudden Danger 1955, The Steel Jungle 1956, Chicago Confidential 1957, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Adventure, Exploitation, Westerns and Crime dramas & Thrillers like Pretty Poison 1968. For the purposes of The Last Drive In tribute to this magnetic actress, here are those performances in the genre I’m featuring both film & television series!
“The Memories of working with Roger Corman are pleasant because I got along with him very well. He was fun to be around and work with. We always did these films on a cheap budget, and people were always mad at Roger because he’d hardly feed us! And no matter what happened to you, your worked regardless… You could be dead and Roger would prop you up in a chair!”-Beverly Garland
From Beverly Garland’s Interview in “Interviews with B Science Fiction and Horror Movie Makers: Writers, Producers, Directors, Actors, Moguls and Makeup” by Tom Weaver (McFarland 1988).
In The Mad Room (1969) her character was pregnant–so was she at the time, with her son James.
[referring to her 1950s Roger Corman cult films] “It’s funny today because it’s so ridiculous. But at the time, it was very serious! We were just actors doing our best, I think. None of us overacted. I’m not saying we weren’t good. We didn’t do it tongue-in-cheek. We really meant it. We gave our all. We were serious, good actors and we played it seriously.”-Beverly Garland
“Maybe I do come on strong, and people sense in me a strength and a positiveness . . . It’s really the way I look and act, not the way I am . . . Once you cut through the protective coating, I’m strictly molasses.”-Beverly Garland
Audrey Dalton– “I noticed you wrote a bit about Beverly Garland. She was such a dear friend of mine. She was in Pretty Poison with Noel Black who just passed away last year. Bev died years ago and even though she remained active in the Scarecrow and Mrs King for so long, she loved acting in “B” films the most.”
Waitress Nola Mason in The Neanderthal man 1954, Ludine in The Rocket Man 1954, Vera in Swamp Women 1956, Claire Anderson in It Conquered the World 1956, Dr. Andrea Romar in Curucu the Beast of the Amazon, Nadine Storey in Not of this Earth 1957, Joyce Webster in The Alligator People 1959, Ellen Winslow in Stark Fear 1962, as Alice Pyncheon in Twice-Told Tales (1963) Mrs. Stepanek in Pretty Poison 1968, Mrs. Racine in The Mad Room 1969, Science Fiction Theatre (TV Series) Katherine Kerston / Sally Torens– The Other Side of the Moon (1956) … Katherine Kerston– The Negative Man (1955) … Sally Torens, The Twilight Zone (TV Series) Maggie- The Four of Us Are Dying (1960) , Thriller (TV Series) Ruth Kenton– Knock Three-One-Two (1960)
Tom Weaver – “In your Corman movies you yourself generally played plucky, strong willed, sometimes two-fisted types.”
Beverly Garland- “I think that was really what the scripts called for. In most all the movies I did for Roger my character was kind of a tough person. Allison Hayes always played the beautiful, sophisticated “heavy” and I played the gutsy girl who wanted to manage it all, take things into her own hands. I never considered myself much of a passive kind of actress-I never was very comfortable in love scenes, never comfortable playing a sweet, lovable lady. Maybe if the script wasn’t written that way, then probably a lot of it I brought to the role myself. I felt I did that better than playing a passive part.”
Swamp Women (1956) An undercover policewoman helps three female convicts escape from prison so that they can lead her to a stash of stolen diamonds hidden in a swamp. Co-stars Marie Windsor, Carole Mathews, Mike Connors, Susan Cummings and Ed Nelson!
Also in Swamp Women 1956, Garland was expected to do her own stunts, even dropping out of a 20 foot tree. Roger Corman told her “When you’re killed you have to drop” Roger planted three guys underneath the tree to catch Beverly when she let’s go. “And when they killed me I just fell-dead weight on these three poor guys!” Roger told her “You’re really one of the best stuntwomen I have ever worked with.”
Even after breaking her ankle in Gunslinger 1956, Beverly was a trooper, she did all her fight scenes and worked to finish the film for Roger Corman, even though she couldn’t walk for weeks after that!
As Ellen Winslow, Garland takes a courageous role as a non-victim of abuse and assault, she pushes back head on against the grain instead of wilting from the trauma she prevails. The film showcases the gutsy quality Garland herself tried to portray in all her performances. in the darkly psychological Stark Fear (1962) A sadistic husband mentally tortures his wife, while eventually planning to murder her. Although no one believes her, she gets help from an unexpected source.
Beverly Garland recalls making Swamp Women co-starring Marie Windsor with Tom Weaver-“Swamp Women! Ooh that was a terrible thing! Roger put us up in this old abandoned hotel while we were on location in Louisiana- I mean it was really abandoned! Roger certainly had a way of doing things back in those days-I’m surprised the hotel had running water! I remember that we each had a room with an iron bed. Our first night there, I went to bed and I heard this tremendous crash! I went screaming into Marie Windsor’s room, and there she was with the bed on top of her-the whole bed had collapsed! Well, we started laughing because everything was so awful in this hotel. just incredibly terrible, and we became good friends.”
Carole Mathews, Marie Windsor and Beverly Garland in Swamp Women
Beverly Garland not only exuded a gutsy streak in every role she took, she shared the notable distinction of starring in one of Boris Karloff’s THRILLER episodes called Knock-Three-One-Two co-starring with the wonderful character actor Joe Maross who has a gambling problem and will be beaten to a pulp if he doesn’t pay his bookie. So he enlists the help of a psychopathic lady killer to murder his wife Beverly for her tightly held purse and large savings account!
Tom Weaver asks Beverly Garland if she enjoyed working on Twice-Told Tales (1963) — “Oh, I love it because I loved Vincent Price. He is the most wonderful sweet, adorable man! I don’t remember much about the movie, I just remember working with Vinnie and how wonderful he was.”
Tom Drake, Bill Elliott, and Beverly Garland in Sudden Danger (1955)
On working with Roger Corman on Gunslinger (1956) after Allison Hayes another seasoned actress and a bloomin’ trooper who broke her arm during filming. The working conditions were dismal but Beverly Garland isn’t a woman you can keep down. “I always wondered if Allison broke her arm just to get off the picture and out of the rain. It poured constantly. But what I adored about Roger was he never said, ‘This can’t be done.’ Pouring rain, trudging through the mud and heat, getting ptomaine poisoning, sick as a dog–didn’t matter. Never say die. Never say can’t Never say quit. I learned to be a trooper with Roger. I could kid him sarcastically about these conditions and laugh. That’s why we got along so well. On Gunslinger, I was supposed to run down the saloon stairs, jump on my horse and ride out of town. Now we never had stunt people in low-budget films. Riding, stunts, fights–we all did it ourselves and we all expected it, and we all just said it was marvelously grand. I told myself just to think tall. So my first take I thought tall and sailed right over the saddle and landed on the other side of the horse. The second take I twisted my ankle running down the stairs– a bad twist.”
Beverly Garland and Allison Hayes in Roger Corman’s western Gunslinger (1956)
Directed by Noel Black Beverly plays Mrs Stepanek the mother of sociopathic Sue Ann Stepanek played by Tuesday Weld. Anthony Perkins is Dennis Pitt a mentally disturbed young man with delusions, released from an institution only to stumble into Folie à deux with someone who is more violent and disturbed than he is!
Beverly Garland plays feisty nurse Nadine Storey in Roger Corman’s creepy alien invasion film Not of this Earth 1957 co-starring the white eyed vampiric villain Paul Birch as Paul Johnson-why not smith?
About working with Roy del Ruth on The Alligator People–“He was sweetheart of a guy and a good director. The Alligator People was a fast picture, but he really tried to do something good with it. And I think that shows in the film. It’s not something that was just slapped together. It as such a ridiculous. story…).. I felt when I read the script and when I saw the film, which was a long time ago, that it ended very abruptly. It all happened too fast; it was kind of a cop out. But there really was no way to end it. What were they going to do-were they going to have us live happily ever after and raise baby alligators?”
Beverly Garland having fun on the set of The Alligator People
Beverly Garland with Lon Chaney Jr. in Roy del Ruth’s The Alligator People
Directed by Roy Del Ruth-Beverly stars as Joyce Webster a woman who while under hypnosis recalls a horrific story She went in search of her husband who has gone missing. He is part of a secret experimentation with on men and alligators. Co-stars Bruce Bennett
Directed by Curt Siodmak Curucu Beast of the Amazon 1956 stars Beverly Garland as Dr. Andrea Romar and John Bromfield as Rock Dean who venture up the Amazon River to find the reason why the plantation workers are fleeing from a mysterious monster!
On first seeing the cucumber creature that Paul Blaisdell designed for It Conquered the World–“I remember the first time I saw the It Conquered the World Monster. I went out to the caves where we’d be shooting and got my first look at the thing. I said to Roger, ‘That isn’t the monster…! That little thing over there is not the monster, is it?’ He smiled back at me , “Yeah, Looks pretty good, doesn’t it?’ I said, ‘Roger! I could bop that monster over the head with my handbag!’ This thing is no monster, it was a terrible ornament!’ He said, ‘Well don’t worry about it because we’re gonna show you, and then we’ll show the monster, back and forth.’ ‘Well, don’t ever show us together, because if you do everybody’ll know that I could step on this little creature! Eventually I think they did do some extra work on the monster: I think they resprayed it so it would look a little scarier, and made it a good bit taller. When we actually filmed, they shot it in shadow and never showed the two of us together.”
Beverly Garland as Clair talking on the radio to IT– “I hate your living guts for what you‘ve done to my husband and my world, and I’m going to kill you! Do you hear that? I’m going to kill you!”…) “So that’s what you look like, you’re ugly…) You think you’re gonna make a slave of the world… I’ll see you in hell first!“
It Conquered the Wold (1956) is yet another Roger Corman campy gem that features my favorite cucumber monster created by Paul Blaisdell. Beverly stars as Claire Anderson married to Dr. Tom Anderson played by Lee Van Cleef who communicates with an alien life from who claims he comes in peace. Co-stars Peter Graves and Sally Fraser
Tom Weaver asks —“Do you ever look back on your B movies and feel that maybe you were too closely associated with them? That they might have kept you from bigger and better things?
Beverly Garland —“No, I really don’t think so. I think that it was my getting into television; Decoy represented a big turn in my life. Everybody did B movies, but at least they were movies, so it was okay. In the early days, we who did TV weren’t considered actors; we were just horrible people that were doing this ‘television’ which was so sickening, so awful, and which was certainly going to disappear off the face of the earth. Now, without TV, nobody would be working. No-bod-y. But I think that was where my black eye came from; I don’t think it came from the B movies at all.”
Tom Weaver-“Which of your many horror and science fiction roles did you consider your most challenging?”
Beverly Garland–“Pretty Poison. It was a small part, but it had so much to say that you understood why Tuesday Weld killed her mother. I worked hard to make that understood not a surface one, but tried to give you the lady above and beyond what you would see in a short time.”
Beverly Garland as policewoman Casey Jones in the stirring television series Decoy broadcast from October 14, 1957, to July 7, 1958
The bewitchingly beautiful Audrey Dalton was born in Dublin, Ireland who maintains the most delicately embroidered lilt of Gaelic tones became an American actress of film in the heyday of Hollywood and the Golden Age of television. Knowing from early on that she wanted to be an actress while studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts was discovered by a Paramount Studio executive in London, thus beginning her notable career starring in classic drama, comedy, film noir, science fiction, campy cult classic horror and dramatic television hits!
Since then I’ve had the incredible honor of chatting with this very special lady whom I consider not only one of THE most ethereal beauties of the silver screen, Audrey Dalton is a versatile actress, and an extremely gracious and kind person.
Read More about this lovely actress Here: MonsterGirl Listens: Reflections with Great Actress Audrey Dalton!
Audrey Dalton’s made a monumental contribution to one of the biggest beloved 1950s ‘B’ Sci-Fi treasures and she deserves to be honored for her legacy as the heroine in distress, pursued by a giant bunny killing Mollusk “That monster was enormous!” –Audrey commented in her interview with USA Today.
Gail MacKenzie in The Monster that Challenged the World 1957, Baroness Maude Sardonicus in William Castle’s Mr. Sardonicus 1961 Boris Karloff’s Thriller (1960-1962)- Norine Burton in The Prediction, Meg O’Danagh Wheeler in The Hollow Watcher and Nesta Roberts in Hay-Fork and Bill-Hook.
Audrey Dalton plays Meg O’Danagh who is haunted by local prejudice and the rural boogeyman that is The Hollow Watcher
Audrey Dalton in Hay-Fork and Bill-Hook shown here with Doris Lloyd as Mother Evans. There’s witchcraft afoot in the Welsh moors.
William Castle’s Mr. Sardonicus 1961 stars Audrey Dalton as Baroness Maude Sardonicus who is a prisoner to her husband’s madness driven to fury because his face has been stuck in a horrifying grimace when he found his father was buried alive. Co-stars Guy Rolfe as Sardonicus and Ronald Lewis
Barbara Rush and Marlon Brando in The Young Lions 1958-Twentieth Century Fox
Barbara Rush and Harry Townes in Strategy of Terror (1969)
Frank Sinatra and Barbara Rush in Come Blow Your Horn (1963)
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Richard Bakalyan, Victor Buono, and Barbara Rush in Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)
Barbara Rush appeared in director Martin Ritt’s turbulent suburban drama No Down Payment 1957 with ex-husband Jeffrey Hunter though they weren’t married to each other in the film.
Jeffrey Hunter, Pat Hingle, Patricia Owens, and Barbara Rush in Martin Ritt’s No Down Payment (1957) co-stars Joanne Woodward, Sheree North, Tony Randall.
Barbara Rush, Possesses a transcendent gracefulness. She moves with a poise like a dancer, a beautiful gazelle stirring in the gentle quiet spaces like silent woods. When I see Barbara Rush, I see beauty personified by elegance and decency. Barbara Rush will always remain in my eyes, one of the most gentle of souls on the screen, no matter what role she is inhabiting. She brings a certain kind of class that is not learned, it’s inherent.
She was born in Denver, Colorado in 1927 and began at University of California. Then she joined the University Players, taking acting classes at the Pasadena Playhouse. Paramount scooped Barbara up and signed her to a contract in 1950. She debuted with The Goldbergs (1950) as Debby Sherman acting with Gertrude Berg as Molly Goldberg -a popular television program that follows the warm, human story of famous Jewish Bronx radio & TV family the Goldbergs, and their everyday problems. Co-starring David Opatoshu and Eduard Franz.
Before joining the Goldbergs she met the strikingly handsome actor Jeffrey Hunter who eventually became a hot commodity over at 20th Century Fox. Barbara Rush and Jeffrey Hunter fell in love and were married in December of 1950. They became Hollywood’s most gorgeous couple, and the camera seemed to adore them. Their son Christopher was born in 1952.
During her time at Paramount, Barbara Rush appeared in the science fiction catastrophic end of the world thriller directed by Rudolph Maté —When World’s Collide 1951 co-starring Richard Derr, Peter Hansen and John Hoyt.
As time went on Barbara Rush co-starred with some of the most desirable actors in Hollywood, James Mason, Monty Clift, Marlon Brando, Paul Newman , Richard Burton and Kirk Douglas. Her roles ran the gamut from disenchanted wives, scheming other women or pretty socialites
Though Barbara Rush is capable of a range of acting, the one great role of a lifetime never seemed to surface for her, though what ever she appeared in was elevated to a higher level because of her presence.
Television became a wonderful avenue for Barbara Rush’s talent, she appeared in guest parts in many popular tv series of the 1960s and 1970s. She also co-starred in tv movies. One enjoyable character she played was a guest villain on the 1966 television series Batman as femme fatale ‘Nora Clavicle” Barbara Rush also played Marsha Russell on the popular television drama Peyton Place 1968-69
Barbara Rush also turned to work on the stage. She garnered the Sarah Siddons Award for her starring role in Forty Carats. Making her Broadway debut in the one woman showcase, “A Woman of Independent Means” which also subsequently earned her the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award during its tour. Other showcases included “Private Lives”, “Same Time, Next Year”, “The Night of the Iguana” and “Steel Magnolias”.
Barbara Rush still possesses that transcendent beauty, poise and grace. She will always be someone special someone memorable.
INTERVIEW QUESTIONS:
Joey Q: Did you ever imagine Jack Arnold’s “It Came from Outer Space” (1953) with you (in that black dress by Rosemary Odell) aiming that laser beam would become so iconic, and leave such a lasting impression on fans and film historians after all these years?
Barbara Rush: A: I’d never think that anybody who saw it needed to see it again, but if it left an impression, that’s fine. I loved the chiffon dress. It was too weird that these people that came from other space were too frightening to look at, so they took the form of regular humans. What I thought was interesting that these creatures didn’t actually want to be there and weren’t vicious at all. They were just trying to fix their ship and get it together. I remember thinking that with a lot of science fiction films; we were so afraid these creatures, but they were just trying to get away and weren’t threatening at all.
Joey Q: Is there a role you would have liked to play — let’s say in a Gothic thriller? Or was there ever a script for one that you turned down that you regret now? Were there any other high quality A-picture science fiction film scripts sent to you after “When Worlds Collide” (1951) and “It Came from Outer Space” (1953)?
Barbara Rush A: I don’t remember anything that was given to me to do other than those two pictures. That was all just orders from the studio. The science fiction film I admired the most was the picture E. T. – I just love that film and it is my favourite, but I never thought it was something I wanted to be in myself.
Joey Q: “The Outer Limits” is one of the most extraordinary anthology television shows of the 1960s. It was clearly ahead of its time, beautifully crafted and though-provoking. You star as the tortured Leonora in the episode “The Forms of Things Unknown” which is perhaps one of THE finest of the series written by Joseph Stefano, all due to the cinematography, lighting, and particularly the ensemble acting. Do you have any lasting impressions or thoughts about that role and/or working with Vera Miles, Cedric Hardwicke, David McCallum, and Scott Marlowe?
Barbara Rush A: I loved doing that show and loved Vera Miles. She was just the most wonderful person to work with. She was so funny. There was a scene where she had to run after me in the forest in the rain. After that miserable experience she told me:”Barbara, I promise you I’ll never chase after you in the rain, in the forest, ever again.” I thought the episode was very interesting, though.
Joey Q: In that same high calibre of dramatic television series, were you ever approached by William Frye, Doug Benton, or Maxwell Shane from Boris Karloff’s “Thriller” series or by Alfred Hitchcock for his anthology series? You would have been extraordinary in either television program! These shows were remarkably well-written and directed and I’m certain there would have been a perfect role for your wonderful acting style. Did you ever receive a script or were you ever interested in appearing on either of those shows?
Barbara Rush A: Unfortunately they didn’t really seem to want me. They never got in touch with me about anything. I would have loved to work for Hitchcock – I liked his films.
Joey Q: It seems that the early 70’s found you a niche in the macabre. Perhaps this is because you are such a consummate actress and the contrast of your gentility works well with the darker subject matter. In 1971 you co-starred with Henry Darrow in a short piece on Rod Serling’s “Night Gallery” – “Cool Air.” It was a Gothic romantic tale based on H.P. Lovecraft’s story about a woman who falls in love with a man who must remain in a refrigerated apartment dare something dreadful occur. Then, in 1972 you appeared in “The Eyes of Charles Sands” as Katherine Winslow co-starring Peter Haskell and Joan Bennett, a film about ESP and solving a murder. Then came “Moon of the Wolf” where you co-starred with David Janssen and Bradford Dillman, two very handsome leading men. Did you enjoy venturing into these uncanny story lines?
Barbara Rush A: I particularly enjoyed working with Bradford Dillman, who was a dear friend of mine. We more or less grew up together, in Santa Barbara. In one of these he played a werewolf and he’d have these hairy mittens as part of his costume and he’d come trampling in all the time – as a werewolf! I have a tendency to get very hysterical about how funny people can be, and he’d just make me crack up. We were shooting – I think in New Orleans or Mississippi, somewhere in the south – on location, so it was very hot. Poor Brad who had to walk around in those mittens.
IMDb trivia -Along with Leonard Nimoy, David McCallum, Cliff Robertson and Peter Breck, she is one of only five actors to appear in both The Outer Limits (1963) and The Outer Limits (1995) and the only woman to do so. She played Leonora Edmond in The Outer Limits: The Forms of Things Unknown (1964) and Barbara Matheson in The Outer Limits: Balance of Nature (1998).
Attended and graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1948). She graduated from the Pasadena Playhouse School for Performing Arts in Pasadena, California.
Is mentioned in the movie Shampoo (1975), when hairdresser Warren Beatty says “I do Barbara Rush’s hair”.
Was separated from second husband Warren Cowan in 1969 at the time she learned of first husband Jeffrey Hunter’s sudden death following brain surgery after falling down a flight of stairs.
Appears in No Down Payment (1957) with ex-husband Jeffrey Hunter, they both portraying married characters, but not married to each other.
She is one of five actors to have played “Special Guest Villains” on Batman (1966) who are still alive, the others being Julie Newmar, John Astin, Joan Collins and Glynis Johns.
“I can safely say that every movie role I was ever offered that had any real quality went to someone else.”-Barbara Rush
As Joyce Hendron in When Worlds Collide 1951, as Ellen Fields in It Came from Outer Space 1953 Night Gallery episode as Agatha Howard in ‘Cool Air’ released on December 8, 1971 based on a story by H.P. Lovecraft and The Outer Limits as Leonora Edmond in episode The Form of Things Unknown written by Joseph Stefano released on May 4, 1964, as Karen Lownes in Kraft Suspense Theatre tv series ‘In Darkness, Waiting (1965), as Nora Clavicle and The Ladies’ Crime Club Batman Series 1966, Moon of the Wolf (TV Movie) 1972
as Louise Rodanthe, as Katherine Winslow in The Eyes of Charles Sand (1972), The Bionic Woman (TV Series) – Jaime’s Mother (1976) … Ann Sommers / Chris Stuart, 1979 Death Car on the Freeway (TV Movie) as Rosemary
Jack Arnold, Richard Carlson, Charles Drake, Russell Johnson, and Barbara Rush in It Came from Outer Space (1953)
Everybody wants to know about Barbara Rush’s fabulous clothes in It Came From Outer Space, in particular this lovely black gown.. so here it is–designed by Rosemary Odell…
COOL AIR. First aired on December 8, 1971 Paintings for the opening of each episode were done by artist Tom Wright
The classy fashionable villainess Barbara Rush as Nora Clavicle and The Ladies’ Crime Club Batman Series 1966
Vera Miles as Kasha and Barbara Rush as Leonora pushed to the limit of all they can bare poison Scott Marlowe a sadistic blackmailer and leave him in the trunk of their car. As they flee the scene they stumble upon an Old Dark House where the servant Ralph Richardson takes care of Tone Hobart played by David McCallum a solitary sad young man, an introvert who tinkers with clocks, an inventor who is able to tip the balance of time and bring back the past and ultimately the dead. Barbara Rush conveys a depth of sadness and vulnerability that is tragic and beautifully pieced together for this macabre story written by Joseph Stefano. The lighting traps each player in the shadows of their own machinations. It is a brilliant little morality play.
Barbara Rush and Vera Miles on the set of The Outer Limits television series episode The Form of Things Unknown
The cinematography by Conrad L. Hall is extraordinarily moody and dark in this psychological supernatural story by Joseph Stefano.
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The Classic Movie History Project Blogathon 2016! 🚀 “Keep watching the skies!” Science Fiction cinema of the 1950s
“I bring you a warning. Every one of you listening to my voice. Tell the world… Tell this to everybody wherever they are. Watch the Skies! Everywhere. Keep looking. Keep watching the skies!–
Ned ‘Scotty’ Scott — The Thing From Another World (1951)
It’s that time of year once again when Movies Silently, Silver Screenings & One Upon a Screen host a momentous event…. The Classic Movie History Project Blogathon 2016 which will begin August 5th -10th, 2016.
Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes and extraterrestrial life. Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a “literature of ideas. –Wikipedia definition of Science Fiction
This event always promises to be an epic endeavor as there are so many interesting themes and subjects to cover. I am excited to be participating once again with these fabulous hosts who make it possible for all of us to contribute to a wealth of classic film history goodies to devour. Now listen folks, don’t get frightened off! You cast of exciting unknown readers… This has become a real project for me, a work in progress that will unfold over the next several weeks. For the purpose of The Classic Movie History Project Blogathon 2016, I offer an overview that will be a lead in for the entire decade of 1950s science fiction cinema conquering it year by year in separate articles. As I started delving into this project, it began to grow larger and larger as if Jack Arnold and Bert I. Gordon themselves compelled me to GO BIG!
In order to review an entire genre of such an influential decade and do the treatment it so rightly deserves, I realized that I needed to spread it out as a series. Re-visiting these beloved movies that inspired my childhood with wonder and sometimes tapped into my own authentic fears, I fell in love all over again. And though I tend to gravitate towards the classical Gothic horrors that are steeped in mythology, the supernatural and the uncanny, I can’t help but feel my mind expanding by the iconic themes that emerged from 1950s science fiction! So I’ll be publishing each year as individual posts or chapters from 1952 on… over the next several week or so instead of all at once. Talking about all the films I mentioned here and so many more films & things to come!
It’s a collection–a decade of the sci-fi genre, sub-genres and it’s hybrids– some eternally satisfying because of their remarkable ability to continuously shine a light on fascinating & mesmerizing fantasy stories. Well written and adapted as visual narratives and surreal stories by beloved visionaries who set out to reach inward and outward through all of us dreamers and thinkers.
There are also those lovable Sci-fi films that are charming and wonderfully kitsch. And some… are just downright so, so, soooo awful their… awesome!
That’s what makes so many of these diverging films cut through the cross-sections to become cinematic jewels & memorable cult favorites!
There are many films that I’ll cover more in depth, some are the more highly polished masterpieces that have lingered for decades with us as adult children who grew up watching them on a rainy afternoon on televisions with knobs that only had 9 channels and if you were lucky you didn’t snap the knob off every 6 months! Growing up in New York I had Chiller Theater, on local channel 11 or Creature Features on Channel 5, or Fright Night on Channel 9. That’s how I fell in love, and got my fill of the treasures of films & television anthology series that was lurking out there destined to leave long lasting impressions on so many of us!
Chiller Theater
Fright Night WOR
Or back in the day, you went to the Drive-In theater to explore in the back seat of your pop’s Chevy Impala any double feature, and it was an invigorating and entertaining experience and you didn’t even have to get out of your pajamas.
You could spend all day in a musty theater festooned with captivating promotional lobby cards and colorful posters. Too bad, I wasn’t of the age to witness William Castle’s ballyhoo he strategically placed at certain theaters for that interactive live experience , EMERGO, PERCEPTO! You could take in a bunch of the latest scary films, sometimes double & triple features, while sitting on sticky red velvet seats that smelled like hot buttered popcorn and week old spilled Pepsi. A box of Milk Duds in hand and the faint wiff of air conditioner freon at your back. You’d enter the movie theater in the bright light of a sunny Saturday afternoon only to exit into the dark of night, tired and filled with wonder, awe and okay maybe looking over your shoulder a few times. Some films were big budget productions, that contained serious acting by studio contract players, terrific writing that blended deep thoughts and simple escapism pulled from some of the best science fiction, fantasy & horror literature and adapted screenplays, scares and witty dialogue besides and cinematography that still captivates us to this day.
Well… sure some were B movies that have now sustained that Cult film charm and cheesiness, and some… are just downright pitiful, laughable guilty pleasures… and a bunch even came with really neat 3D glasses!
SOME ICONIC GEMS FOR THE AGES THAT I’LL BE COVERING!
THEM! (1954)*INVADERS FROM MARS (1953) *DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951)*FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956) *THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (1951)*EARTH VS THE FLYING SAUCERS (1956) *THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (1957) *INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956) *WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953) * CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954) * IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (1953)* IT, THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE (1958) *EARTH VS THE SPIDER (1958) *THE CRAWLING EYE (1958) *THE GIANT BEHEMOTH (1959) *IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA (1955) *TARANTULA (1955) *FIEND WITHOUT A FACE (1958) *THE MONOLITH MONSTERS (1957)* THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN (1957) * THE ANGRY RED PLANET (1959)*KRONOS (1957)* THE CREEPING UNKNOWN (1956)*X-THE UNKNOWN (1956
I’LL ALSO BE TALKING ABOUT SOME GUILTY PLEASURES!
Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)
Paul Birch is the alien vampire Paul Johnson in Roger Corman’s Not of This Earth 1957
The Brain from Planet Arous 1957* Attack of the Crab Monsters 1957* The Killer Shrews 1959* The Giant Claw 1957 *Beast From Haunted Cave 1959 *The Monster from Piedras Blancas 1959 *Invasion of the Saucer Men 1957 *The Monster that Challenged the World 1957 *Not of this Earth 1957* The She-Creature 1956* The Man Who Turned to Stone 1958* Invisible Invaders 1959* Attack of the 50 Foot Woman 1958* The Hideous Sun Demon (1959) * Monster on the Campus 1958* The Unknown Terror 1957* Creature with The Atom Brain 1955 * The Unearthly 1955 * From Hell it Came 1957,
It’s also important to mention some of the ubiquitous actors who graced both the great & guilty pleasure flicks, you’ll be seeing a lot of in the following chapters like John Carradine * Ed Nelson *Allison Hayes *Paul Birch *John Agar *Hugh Marlowe*Peter Graves *Richard Denning *Richard Carlson *Faith Domergue *Mara Corday *Les Tremayne *Marie Windsor *Morris Ankrum * Arthur Franz *Kenneth Tobey* John Hoyt * Whit Bissell and of course Beverly (kicks-ass!) Garland!
One thing is for certain, each film is relevant and all have a place in the 50s decade of Sci-fi / Horror & Fantasy!
So come back and read a little at a time and get some thrills even while you’re sitting under the hair dryer… Do people still do that today? I need to get out more…
This 1955 hair dryer is just begging to be a space-age helmet!
It all started with Georges Méliès 1903 fantasy A Trip to the Moon
Le Voyage Dans La Lune 1902 – Georges Méliès
As early as 1920 there was the German expressionist film dealing with the arrival of a menacing alien visitor from the planet Algol giveing actor Emil Jannings a machine that awards him unlimited powers. ALGOL aka POWER 1920 directed by Hans Werckmeister —
“That which you believe becomes your world.”
–Richard Matheson from ‘What Dreams May Come’
Science Fiction emerged out of the “Age of Reason” literature reflected a merging of myth and historical fact. Stories filled with an imagination that had no boundaries. While Science Fiction is a literary movement that can be a separate study all it’s own, story tellers who grasped the concepts of science fiction who questioned the endless possibilities, the far reaching machinations of brilliant minds, this project if focused on the history of 1950s science fiction cinematic and all it reveals. Science Fiction cinema flirted blatantly with ideas and images of a world that reached beyond the known, and contemplated aloud, fantastic stories as early as the silent era. Consider Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, re-envisioned time and time again.
John Barrymore lifts the dark conflicting tale of the inward monsters off the pages of Stevenson’s book. Barrymore so fluently moved through the silent stage, reveals that we all just might be harboring in our sub-conscious hidden dark and primal desires. Unleashed by a concoction, a seduction of science creates a fiend! Dr Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1920)
The odd yet visually stunning Russian spectacle Aelita Queen of Mars (1924) aka Revolt of the Robots.e
There were a few early visions of fantasy, magic & Science Fiction films from all around the world- At 3:25 aka The Crazy Ray (1924) Directed by Rene Clair-a scientist invents a ray that makes people fall asleep where they stand! The German film Master of the World (1934) (Der Herr der Welt) where a German scientist wants to create an army of Robots to do the dangerous work of laborers so, when he is told it’s too risky he goes mad and it’s too late the machine has a mind of it’s own. It features really cool electronic chambers and more!
And Transatlantic Tunnel (1935) Scientists construct a tunnel under the ocean-stars Richard Dix, Leslie Banks and C. Aubrey Smith.
Metropolis 1927 the dystopian masterpiece by director Fritz Lang was the beginning of the fascination with exploring the fantastic and our unbounded imaginations on film, it’s remarkable set design, imagery and narrative sparked the Science Fiction genre in a big way— spanning decade upon decade, in particular revived in the 1950s!
The first influential science fiction film by Fritz Lang created a dystopian societ in Metropolis 1927. It’s influence has maintained it’s powerful thrust for decades. An inspiration for Ridley Scott’s neo-noir sci-fi masterpiece Blade Runner (1982)
“Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him”-H.G.Wells
Charles Laughton is superb as H.G. Wells‘ Dr. Moreau a sociopathic sadist/scientist with a god complex whose profane experiments on animals and humans tortures them in the ‘house of pain’ trying to create a hybrid race he can hold sway over on his private island hell! Science has never been more evil! Island of Lost Souls (1932)
Then there was the 1936 adaptation of H.G. Wells’ Things To Come (1936) directed by William Cameron Menzies and starring Raymond Massey as Oswald Cabal, Ralph Richardson as The Boss, Margaretta Scott as Roxanna/Rowena and Cedric Hardwicke as Theotocopulos.
“What is this progress? Progress is not living. It should only be the preparation for living.”
Flash Gordon and similar serials provided super heroes for generations of young people in the 30s & 40s, planting the seeds for the future that would give us the Star Wars legacy.
Audiences between the World Wars preferred horrors of a Gothic nature– James Whale’s Frankenstein 1931 & Bride of Frankenstein 1935, as they helped exercise demons conjured up from the 19th & early 20th century.
The electrical secrets of heaven, the lighting, the elaborate sets designed by genius Kenneth Strickfaden with his lights throbbing gizmos flashing and zapping, the creepy atmosphere of murky tones. The consummate Universal monster movie with iconic scenes introducing a new face, Boris Karloff who would become the great father of terror stories …
What’s on that slab?, “It’s Alive, It’s Alive!…” those monumental words that remain ingrained in our consciousness. Colin Clive becomes hysterical as he has creates life from death, but that life would become a whole new ethical, moral and imposing dilemma for Dr.Frankenstein. A horror film with strong science fiction/fantasy tropes. And the laboratory as gorgeous set pieces would become a staple of the science fiction realm.
The 1950s Science Fiction genre took root with it’s profouns contribution to our collective consciousness AS a genre its vision & breadth possessed quintessential & ever-lasting sociological and psychological metaphors, iconic tropes and striking imagery.
The splitting of the atom, ushering in the atomic age and the collective anxiety most definitely was the catalyst for the many of the movie fantasy stories known as the 1950s Sci-Fi film.
“But no matter what else it might be, what makes a science fiction film science fiction is the fact that it is, in some sense, about science—and not only science but futuristic science. By that I mean that science fiction movies deal with scientific possibilities and technologies that do not exist yet but that might exist someday. Science fiction is the realm of the not-yet.” — “Cult Science Fiction Films” by Welch Everman
Ridley Scott – (Alien 1979, Blade Runner 1982) “When you come to the second World War You’ve got a very specific enemy. You know what that enemy is, It’s there for all the wrong reasons and it should be prevented…. Then you got the next phase which is The Cold War again which is to do with paranoia . But I think real, it’s real. Movies started to dip into that.”
“The Splitting of the atom…. forces that can only be explained to us by these guys in white coats… All of a sudden the guys in white coats became these simultaneously kind of rock stars and the most evil thing you could imagine.”
In a scene from The Atomic City 1952– The mother’s child sitting at the kitchen table with his breakfast “If I grow up do you know what I’m gonna do?” The mother turns to him, leaving her scrambled eggs on the stove and corrects him nervously, “It’s when you grow up, not if…”
The Atomic City 1952 trailer
Duck & Cover 1951 classic propaganda film
From the short instructional film Duck and Cover “But no matter where they go or what they do they always try to remember what to do if the atom bomb explodes right then!” (the kids suddenly fall into the brick wall. The narrator says ) It’s a bomb DUCK & COVER!
James Cameron – “All of our fate as human beings, our destiny seems bound up in our technology and our technology is frightening. It’s Terrifying!”
Steven Spielberg- “So there was a great deal of anxiety in the air. It was not just fear of being beaten up by the local bully. But the fear was being NUKED!… But we almost pushed a button on each other during The Cuban Missile Crisis…… I was absolutely prepared for Armageddon and these movies from the 1950s and early 60s played on those fears. And these movies were all metaphors for those fears. ”
George Lucas- “I would say that there was a certain amount of anxiety about that I mean I grew up right in the very heat of that. DUCK & COVER drills all the time… We were always hearing about the fall out shelter. About the end of the world, issues that were always going on about how many bombs were being built. The Cold War was always in the media.”
From The Twilight Zone “The Shelter” season 3 episode 3
1950s Sci-Fi films represented a conservatism or ‘reactionary wing’ that seems consumed by a motive to emphasize the values of 1950s America post WWII, in the midst of a McCarthy era witch hunt that prevailed fueling our fears that seeped into many of the Sci-Fi narratives on screen and in literature. Reflecting the growing internal struggles within American society and the developing mistrust about Soviet aggression and anyone and anything perceived as subversive.
“Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist party?”
Some films that reflected the paranoia of the period were well regaled by a Hollywood studio system that was itself at the center of the controversial House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) targeting screenwriters and actors as ‘communist sympathizers’ and no one could be trusted. -Just like Invaders from Mars 1953, Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956, X the Unknown 1956, The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957, and I Married a Monster From Outer Space 1958.
In 1947, in Roswell New Mexico the military reports that they have a UFO in their possession. The phenomena of sightings of UFOs would continue throughout the 1950s, though agencies were fully prepared to explain away the reports. Yet the public had a hunger to and fascination with the possibility of extra-terrestrials.
As Phil Hardy’s insightful take on the genre, all this manifested in a way that the Science Fiction films of the 1950s ‘supplanted horror as the genre that dealt with fear and paranoia.” The films expressed a very realistic look at science within the atomic age, and shed the shadows and expressionism of the earlier Gothic horrors and while not all scientific fact, tried to embrace a world of possibility.
The Flying Saucer 1950 begins the momentum for the decade of Science Fiction cinema’s love affair with unidentified objects and begins to round the edges of space crafts from other worlds that aren’t our American sharp and phallus shaped rockets!
DESTINATION MOON 1950 was featured in COLOR BY TECHNICOLOR. Being hailed the 2001, Space Odyssey of it’s time, it attempts to portray a realism trip to the moon. Phil Hardy calls Destination Moon 1950 ‘a sober celebration of man’s imminent conquest of space that dominated the decade.’
Destination Moon did attempt to accurately portray a trip to the moon given the technology and knowledge that was stuck in 1950.
Then we shot past the moon in cinema and went straight to the red planet with Flight to Mars 1951!
Themes and metaphors that emerged from anxiety about the atom bomb, radiation fallout, the advent of modernity, the space race and the wanderlust to conquer outer space, interplanetary warfare, military vs. science hubris, science meddling with nature, fear of science and technology, invasion anxiety, continued fear of otherness, deviant (in terms of counter-culture not exclusively moral judgement) subversion and xenophobic nightmares.
Sometimes we were even married to a monster from outer space and didn’t even notice much of a difference except for the lack of small talk! Here’s Tom Tryon and Gloria Talbott in I Married a Monster from Outer Space 1958.
Director Howard Hawk and screenplay by Charles Lederer, created a striking science fiction masterpiece of film noir ambience with it’s chilling back lit set pieces- The Thing From Another World 1951, adapted from John W. Campbell’s story ‘Who Goes There?’, other films that followed the path of paranoia — Invaders from Mars 1953, War of the Worlds 1953, It Came from Outer Space 1953, It Conquered the World 1956 & Invasion of the body snatchers 1956.
There were also science fiction films that rang the warning bell about cosmic calamity and catastrophic world coming to an end, annihilation fantasies like When Worlds Collide 1951.
War of the Worlds 1953 and When Worlds Collide 1951 had as Phil Hardy states, ‘religious dimensions’ that accused us of bringing about catastrophic punishment because of our misdeeds and transgressions.
H.G. Well’s view of Martian invaders created for the public consciousness the idea of destructive beings from another world. It was a great reflexive move for those science fiction films to portray aliens that were sympathetic, yet non-humanoid in appearance. Most Sci-Fi films show aliens as menacing, not only destructive but dangerous because they also wanted to keep us as captives, zap our resources and colonize our planet, sometimes even take our women, oh god no unhand Faith Domergue you pants wearing Mutant!
“Is that a fireball or something?”
Hollywood saw a trend later on in the 50s with Destination Moon 1950 when they came upon a story written by Harry Bates called The Return of the Master this became Robert Wise’s The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 which has remained one of the best regarded science fiction films of all time. This is one of the rare occasions when the alien Klaatu played beautifully like an intricate clock by the chiseled face, tranquil speaking Michael Rennie is benevolent, bringing with him a sincere and dire warning about earth people’s course and the future of their civilization if they don’t relent about the proliferation of atomic weapons. There were several well intended alien visitors who were met with hostilities as with, Klaatu (Michael Rennie ) in Day the Earth Stood Still 1951, and The Man From Planet X 1951.
Many films, even the low budget excursions dealt with our primal fears of alienation, estrangement & loss of identity i.e.,(communism at it’s core, the ramifications of otherness) nothing hits home more than Invaders from Mars 1953, and the quintessential loss of self and individualism in Don Siegels’ Invasion of the Body Snatchers!
“They would change into people who hate you!”
Steven Spielberg talks about the impact of Invaders from Mars 1953, “It certainly touched a nerve among all the young kids like myself who saw that movie at a very young age. That you would come home and that you would not recognize your mom and dad they would have changed into people who hate you!”
I can attest to the persuasion these films could have over the burgeoning imagination of a child, especially one like me who felt very much like an outsider as a kid. One night, as sure as my name is MonsterGirl, I went home, looked at my parents, decided they had been switched by aliens and ran out of the house, walking around the block for at least an hour before I convinced myself that I was being ridiculous. Or was I? These themes did have a not so subtle impact on a young impressionable mind who could easily question the world around them. Who could you trust? Would would believe you anyway?
There is the outsider narrative, diminishing human forms as in Bert I. Gordon’s Attack of the Puppet People 1958 where obsessed and lonely puppet maker John Hoyt loses his marbles. Although mad -bad science has shrunk down people before the 1950s in The Devil Doll 1936 and in the hands of crazed Albert Dekker in Dr. Cyclops 1940.
There is the quintessential existential crisis, the beautifully thought provoking film by director Jack Arnold starring the eternally transcending man Grant Williams in, The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957.
And of course there is the matter of GIGANTISM!
Giant insects, sea creatures and people who ran around half crazed and scantily dressed were a by-product of the atomic age!
George Lucas —“Out of that fear came I think a lot the monsters which you mess around with stuff and you’re gonna unleash this unknown monster!… it’s making tangible the unknown… A lot of that has to do with the mystery of this silent death that comes along with it that nobody knows exactly what it is or where it came from or can’t see it, can’t touch it. Well let’s make it easier to deal with by making it a giant monster.”
Some films show the ascension from violence & hyper-masculinity, Women as professionals & bold heroines who didn’t shrink as hysterical victims. Female dominated civilizations (Cat- Women of the Moon 1953, Queen of Outer Space 1958, Missile to the Moon 1958, Fire Maidens from Outer Space 1956, that threatened to maniacally seduce & subsume male voyagers, dressed by 5th avenue they are outré chic. Wanton warriors & nubile space maidens who often never saw the male species before or wanted to destroy them altogether!
A tagline reads “SEE-Astounding she-beasts of Venus!”
In Queen of Outer Space 1958 the masked disfigured Queen Yilana (Zsa Zsa Gabor) imprisons the men who crash land on her planet, intending to annihilate the earth with her beta disintegrator, though her beautiful subjects revolt in the name of love.
Mark Hamill –“We sometimes imagined other planets as paradises…. with girls!!! they looked more Hollywood starlets than space aliens, anyway they were eager to please. Their dancing their music their leotards were so Moderne! like Greenwich Village in outer space.” referring to Cat-Women of the Moon 1953.
“May we serve you earth men?”
“You’re the first man I’ve ever seen!” Carol Brewster as Alpha is mesmerized
“Step on it, and don’t spare the atoms!” from Abbott & Costello Go to Mars (1953)
“Their dance, their music, their leotards were so Moderne!”
Missile to the Moon 1958
There’s nothing worse than a space Queen–The Lido (K.T. Stevens ) and one of her maidens in distress…
Mark Hamill who narrates the wonderful documentary written and directed by Richard Schickel Watch the Skies! Sci-Fi , the 1950s and Us presented by Turner Classic Movies also reminds us that “50s science fiction may have shot at the stars but the dialogue often remained earth bound tied up with the battle of the sexes.” Many prevailing sub-texts were also love stories, soap operas involving relationships between men and women.They would create love stories in space!
Project Moonbase 1953 Donna Martell as Colonel Briteis (bright eyes?)
Rocketship X-M (1950) starring Lloyd Bridges and Ossa Massen
Cameron Mitchell plays Steve Abbott in Flight to Mars 1953, who tells Marguerite Chapman as Alita a fellow scientist/astronaut, “I think you’re a prize package and very feminine.”
There is always time for romance in outer space!
There were menaces from without, menaces from within. The ordinary world transformed into the monstrous. There were warnings from benevolent aliens and aggressive attacks by aliens who wanted to colonize our planet.
Sometimes the warnings or threats came from disembodied heads and brains, like Donovan’s Brain 1953, Fiend Without a Face 1958 and The Brain from Planet Arous 1957.
The indie filmmakers introducing teenagers as both heroes & monsters. Many films were horror/sci-fi hybridizations. And by the end of the decade we were left a legacy of impressive productions that remain timeless masterpieces, the cult grade- B Sci-Fi picture with their indelible charm and kitsch emblems, and the true stinkers that are so bad there too good not to appreciate. Sublime, thrilling, provocative & yes campy!
There were collections of stylized works by Jack Arnold, Bert I. Gordon, Edward L. Cahn and one indie auteur who showed us how to make a memorable movie on a shoe string budget who also launched many a career, the inimitable and grand Roger Corman. And of course those guys at American International Pictures (AIP)
Within the 50s decade shedding the Gothic themes of the 30s & 40s, the poetic shadow plays of Val Lewton,1950s Sci-Fi films had a pre-occupation with the modern world and mostly all the central menaces were transformed into non-human threats that we not only couldn’t empathize with but were revolted against as dangerous, vicious, insidious and potentially nihilistic in vision, they were seen as only a threat to our humanity and ultimately would lead to our destruction.
Within Sci-Fi there are so many films which are complex hybridizations of horror/science fiction /fantasy and have become too insurmountable to dissect or decipher all the nuances between the various free-floating genres. Writer critic historian Robin Wood in his Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan.—wagers that “the horror film’s radical potential lies in the fact that ‘the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that our civilization represses or oppresses’ Jancovich states that the monster “must therefor be seen as a profoundly ambiguous figures which challenges social norms and so reveals society’s repressive monstrosity.”
Killers from Space 1954
This theme is attached to McCarthyism that showed up as coded narratives in the more highly produced Sci-Fi films- “the myth of Communism as total dehumanization—accounts for the prevalence of this kind of monster in that period” -Mark Jancovich -Rational Fears- American Horror in the 1950s.
We can’t forget contributions made by the maestros in the visual effects department, direction, art direction and cinematography from George Pal, William Cameron Menzies and Ray Harryhausen.
20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) Ray Harryhausen’s Ymir from Venus
It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) Ray Harryhausen’s The Kraken
Cinematographers who brought these visual narratives & landscapes to life- just to name a few!
Clifford Stine (It Came from Outer Space 1953,This Island Earth 1955, Imitation of Life 1959,Spartacus 1960) Sidney Hickox (Them! 1954, The Big Sleep 1946,Dark Passage 1947,White Heat 1949), John F. Seitz (Invaders from Mars 1953, Sullivan’s Travel’s 1941m Double Indemnity 1944, Sunset Boulevard 1950), Russell Harlan ( The Thing from Another World 1951, Red River 1948, Witness for the Prosecution 1959 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962) George Barnes (War of the Worlds 1953, Rebecca 1940, Spellbound 1945) Leo Tover (The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951, Hold Back the Dawn 1941,The Snake Pit 1948, The Woman on the Beach 1947,The Heiress 1949, Journey to the Center of the Earth 1959) Ellsworth Fredericks (Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956, Hold Back the Night 1956,The Stripper 1963, Mister Buddwing 1966)
And just as key to the atmosphere and attitude of the films were the musical contributions which defined that certain feel of chills and excitement, screwball antics and off-beat perscussion that filled up your head with pulsing visions of laser beams and other-worldly noises that ran up your spine like a finely coiled wire resonating the confluent sounds of the cosmos! Geesh that was a mouthful!
There were composers who masterfully underscored some of the BEST films and even the worst!, Dimitri Tiomkin * Bronislau Kaper * Bernard Herrmann *Hans J. Salter and Henry Mancini to name a few.
Instrumentalist Clara Rockmore mastered the Theremin which had a cosmic, universal vibe that was, well out of this world!
The Theremin is an electronic musical instrument created by Russian inventor , Léon Theremin controlled by the performing thereminist who makes the dulcet eerie tones by manipulating the two metal antennas that respond to the hand movements which influence the oscillations or frequency with one hand and effecting the volume with the other hand.
Popular were the films that dealt with the hubris of science that ultimately manifested monsters. There were even pants monsters, yes! pants monsters…! The burning sun turned him into a hideous fiend, but he still had time to put on those Haggars casual men’s trousers!
THE HIDEOUS SUN DEMON, Robert Clarke (in doorway), Patricia Manning (second from right), 1959
There was a running sentiment —the notion of us against them, and even at times when not working together to fight a common enemy- you’d see the military vs science… And sometimes, though almost always male hero driven, there emerged some anti-damsels, all-powerful women who broke the cliched mold of the helpless hysterical female and arose as smart, intellectual (a socially constructed gendered male quality), mindful and fearlessly driven woman with guts and composure even if it was to hold off from laughing at Paul Blaisdell inside that cucumber monster from Venus.
Roger Corman’s It Conquered the World (1956) The Venusian cucumber
Just look at Julie Adams as Kay Lawrence in Creature from the Black Lagoon 1954, Joan Weldon as Dr. Patricia Medford in Them! 1954, Beverly Garland as Dr. Andrea Romar in Curucu, Beast of the Amazon 1956 & and her gutsy Clair Anderson in It Conquered the World 1956, Tina Carver as Dr. Terry Mason in From Hell It Came 1957 and Faith Domergue as Dr. Ruth Adams in This Island Earth 1955 & Prof. Lesley Joyce in It Came from Beneath the Sea 1955, and Lola Albright as Cathy Barrett in The Monolith Monsters 1957 .
Some sci-fi films were visually surreal landscapes or existential masterpiece such as William Cameron Menzies Invaders From Mars 1953 or Ib Melchior’s The Angry Red Planet 1959 and Jack Arnold’s magnificent adaptation of Richard Matheson’s The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957.
The Angry Red Planet (1959) The Rat Bat Spider puppet monster!
Grant Williams sails into the radioactive mist in The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957
Invaders from Mars (1953) Jimmy Hunt awakens to a UFO crashing into the sand dunes
“To sleep perchance to dream”-Hamlet-William Shakespeare
This dream-scape is a visual masterpiece, with the appearance of the sublimely brilliant Finnish painter Hugo Simberg, ( I happen to get permission from The National Museum of Finland to use Simberg’s ‘At The Crossroads’ as the cover of my album Fools & Orphans) thanks to the art design by visionary William Cameron Menzies!
A scene from Invaders from Mars (1953)
It is absolutely true about one thing— that it’s wholly complex to begin dissecting what makes a film solely and definitively Science Fiction and what constitutes it being a hybridization of horror & fantasy. There are way too many that fall right on the gray line that either exists in the middle or transects both themes at once.
Vincent Price can’t get that pesky Tingler off his arm in William Castle’s terrific horror/sci-fi extravaganza equip with buzzing chairs-The Tingler (1959)
For example, I am covering William Castle’s The Tingler 1959, because, while the central terror surrounds a monstrous ‘horror movie themed monster’ a creeping fiend that lives inside us all and grips our spines the moment we are in abject fear, it is discovered by scientific and medical research. One could say the film is also a crime drama. There are too many nuances and parameters that intersect. James Whale’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 1931 is called a Monster movie by Universal and by fans of all generations. But it falls into the deep well of hybridization as so much of it focuses on the very philosophical questions around scientific hubris, the creation of human life and the question of god, ownership of one’s identity, and what is monstrous?
“A lot of science fiction films are also horror films in which monsters are spawned by scientific experiments, but not all horror films are science fiction, because science fiction does not deal in the supernatural. Science fiction takes place in the realm of the not-yet; supernatural horror films operate in the realm of the impossible.” — “Cult Science Fiction Films” by Welch Everman
The enormous influence that Science Fiction cinema had long-lasting effects on the advent of television. Just look at Rod Serling’s Fantasy/Sci-Fi anthology series which aired on CBS from 1959-1964. The show came in on the end of the decade. Stories that were infused by the themes of the 50s and set the tone for future decades to come. The Twilight Zone was groundbreaking and thought-provoking, dealing with issues of war, class, race, it was a socially conscious program that constantly tried to remind us of our humanity. The decade of 1950s Science Fiction also bled into the mindfulness of my favorite early 60s science fiction anthology series The Outer Limits.
The Zanti Misfits-one of the many fabulous Outer Limits monsters!
—There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to – The Orwellian Control Voice from The Outer Limits anthology television series aired from 1963-1965.
Mark Jancovich writes “Again and again, the threats which distinguish 1950s horror
do not come from the past or even from the actions of a lone individual , but are associated with the processes of social development and modernization. In this period, it is the process of rationalization which is the threat, and in this way horror texts were at least as concerned with developments within American society as they were with threats from without… Here rationalization is understood as the process through which scientific – technical rationality is applied to the management of social, economic and cultural life…
… this new system of organization was seen by many as inherently totalitarian system which both created conformity and repressed dissent.”
Vincent Price fights off zombies from a plague that wiped out most of the human race in Richard Matheson’s adapted screenplay from his story I Am Legen- The Last Man on Earth (1964)
The outsider narratives– were illustrated as contrasting and conflicting to accepted norms, we see this with Richard Matheson’s writing (I Am Legend which became Vincent Price’s agonizing journey as The Last Man on Earth 1964, and later The Omega Man 1971 and Jack Arnold’s films involving “the reoccurring preoccupation with alienation, isolation and estrangement” -Jancovich- seen in Creature From the Black Lagoon 1954 and The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957.
Grant Williams protagonist Scott Carey becomes engulfed in a glittery mist of atomic dust particles in The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957 the film exudes anxiety of his diminishing masculinity by not only losing his literal size, his physical height but he loses his maleness as a husband and as a regular man. This estrangement become a journey of his eternal soul and it’s place in the vast unknown other-world.
Grant Williams is feeling ‘literally’ like such a small man.
There would be films that embrace the dystopia narratives, and curiosity with technical advancements like robots!
Fritz Lang’s iconic robot in Metropolis (1927)
Robby the Robot and Walter Pidgeon as Morbius in George Pal’s take on William Shakespeare’s The Tempest as Forbidden Planet 1956
These Science Fiction/Fantasy films have left a deep and abiding impression on so many of us. Whether you grew up actually seeing them for the very first time, or becoming a new fan who is excited to embrace the heart and soul of a genre that made you think beyond what if? Either way, Science Fiction is an exploration of our imaginations, both glorious and often terrifying but it’s a genre that is here to stay, and the 1950s in particular truly rang the alarm bell that is still reverberating today!
Added to the mix in many of these film favorites was the essential mechanism of ‘not being believed’ added to the fear and paranoia of the moment!
The Face of Paranoia
Invasion Anxiety
FEAR OF THE ATOMIC BOMB! The Atomic City 1952 trailer
I see you with my million eyes!
Hey big fella got a light!
The theremin ‘the dulcet tones’ that wavered throughout sci-fi and beyond!
‘The modern world’
It’s intermission time! Head out to the snack bar for some 50s refreshments!
LOST WORLDS AND SPACE TRAVEL
Destination Moon
Directed by Irving Pichel and producer George Pal along with a screenplay by Robert Heinlein took a very documentary approach to the narrative and the landscapes. The film stars John Archer as Jim Barnes, Warner Anderson as Dr. Charles Cargraves, with Tom Powers and Dick Wesson. The film was a critical success an revived the Sci-Fi genre.
Destination Moon 1950 was an attempt to show a serious technical side to space travel. based on what science actually knew at the time. Actually it was in response to a spread that ran in Collier’s Magazine of series of paintings done by artist Chesley Bonastell of gleaming space craft.
Steven Spielberg had said of the picture, “DESTINATION MOON is a scientific attempt to create suspense based on no bad guys no villains and no aliens.
Similar to almost Apollo 13 (1995) or Marooned 1969)
George Lucas says “At the time it was a very provocative idea because nobody had ever seen anyone go to the moon.”
Though it’s been called the precursor to 2001 Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick never admitted to having seen the movie. Which is highly possible, and given his genius we’ll take his word for it.
In the midst of the Cold War, the film reflects America’s desire to conquer, and according to the generals in Destination Moon, the moon would be the ideal location for a strategic military base of operations. And thus the race for America to get there first. There’s also a conflict seen as there were those who would embrace the new technologies and those who saw the impending modernity as a threat or a ‘bad thing’.
Pichel and Pal wanted to situate this film farther away from the fantastical science fiction ‘soap opera’ serials of the 1930s. Physicists and astronomers were consulted in order to stay true to the realistic view Heinlein, Pichel and Pal desired as their vision of the future. They also used striking paintings by Chesley Bonestell to imagine the gorgeous lunar landscapes along with designer Ernest Fegte who create the realistic cratered look of the Moon.
The film features the first lunar landing that was envisioned as realistic and not melodramatic or surreal. The crew led by actor John Archer manage to land on the Moon but they run out of fuel, that they seem doomed to be stranded. They lose all the excess weight in order to get the ship space worthy again, but till they are over the weight limit. In a noble act of courage and sacrifice Dick Wesson (Tom Powers) figures that he can remove his cumbersome pressure suit and re-enter the ship a lighter and better man in order to save the rest of the crew…
Dr. Charles Cargraves: You can’t buck public opinion; I’ve tried. Have you seen this?
[Newspaper headline: MASS MEETING PROTESTS RADIOACTIVE ROCKET]
General Thayer: That isn’t public opinion – it’s a job of propaganda!
Jim Barnes: You’re almighty right it is. Manufactured and organized – with money and brains. Somebody’s out to get us.
The Flying Saucer
Directed by Mikel Conrad, stars Mikel Conrad as Mike Trent, Pat Garrison as Vee Langley, Hantz von Teuffen as Hans, Lester Sharpeas Col. Marikoff Roy Engel as Dr. Carl Lawton and Denver Pile as Turner! Because we feared the Russians in the early 1950s much of the paranoia around UFO sightings were connected to those pesky Reds! When CIA secret agent Mike Trent tracks a flying saucer to Alaska he finds out that it is a ship built by scientist Dr. Carl Lawton who hopes to sell it to the Americans!
Pat Garrison and Mikel Conrad-50s cool!
Col. Marikoff: Mr. Trent, you’re giving us a great deal of trouble. Why didn’t you stay in New York with your drunken friends of the night club?
Mike Trent: I sobered up.
Prehistoric Women
Laurette Luez as Tigri
Prehistoric Women would find a resurgence in the 60s! Here’s British actress Martine Beswick in the 1966 movie with the same title!
Prehistoric Women (1950)
Directed by Gregg C. Tallas
Shown from left: Jo Carroll Dennison, Joan Shawlee, Laurette Luez, Kerry Vaughn, Mara Lynn
(bending over), Judy Landon
Directed by Gregg C. Tallas, (Siren of Atlantas 1949) offers an adventure sci-fi fantasy film. Prehistoric Women stars Laurette Luez as Tigri, Allan Nixon as (Mesa of Lost Women 1953, Pickup 1951) Engor, Joan Shawlee as Lotee, Judy Landon as Eras, Mary Lynn as Arva, Jo Carroll Dennison as Nika, Kerry Vaughn as Tulie, Tony Devlin as Rulg, James Summers as Adh, Jeanne Sorel as Tana, and Janet Scott as Wise Old Lady.
As Bill Warren puts it in his wonderful series Keep Watching the Skies published by the awesome McFarland Press-Prehistoric Women “Were this picture not so naive, it would seem more sleazy than it does. It’s not good in any way, but has a certain daffy charm because of it’s unsophisticated unbelieveability.”
The Commentator: “And Engor called it Firee, which was his word for Fire.”
The film is narrated documentary style because the cast are primitives who Amazonian cave-women and had little to no dialogue, it just adds to the laughable style and god awful Cinecolor production. I’d like to know how they got a turkey vulture to wear a mask poor thing, the film is so blurring it’s hard to tell what the hell is flying up in the prehistoric blue sky… scourge of the skies indeed! Still, prehistoric films, though considered mostly adventure stories seems to be included in books on the Sci-Fi genre. Though it could also easily be branded as a very cheap sexist exploitation romp!
Look it’s a flying dragon the scourge of the skies!
Bill Warren cites a review from the Monthly Film Bulletin: “They assert feminine superiority ruthlessly, setting their captives to hard labour, clubbing them intermittently and cutting off their escape… {Engor-} (the intelligent troglodyte who invents fire) uses a flaming torch to destroy a giant winged dragon (a disguised turkey vulture they must have tortured off set by putting fake ears and beak on it) that threatens their encampment {and}the girls are stunned with fear and admiration and surrender unconditionally.”
Tigri and her clan hate men but realize that they are sort of needed for some things, so they capture a bunch of fellas and try to force them to become their mates. But when Engor, escapes and discovers fire gets re-captured and not only slays the “flying dragon the scourge of the skies” but uses the fire to fight off the ugly brute who threatens their lives Tigri has a change of heart and all is right with the primitive world again. The women start running around panicked and screaming hysterically and the men are once again in charge… it’s ludicrous.
This giant is a real 9 foot giant… named Guadi in the film is Johann Petursson The Viking Giant was the Tallest Man From Iceland and traveled with Ringling Bros. Circus!
The Commentator: “Strangely enough, the swan dive was invented before the swan.“
Rocketship-X-M
GASP AT THE DARING COURAGE… AS THEY THUNDER BETWEEN PLANETS ON A RUNAWAY ROCKET!
Directed by science fiction story aficionado Kurt Neumann ( Secret of the Blue Room 1933, Half a Sinner 1934, Island of Lost Men 1939, a slew of Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan pictures, She Devil 1957, the outstanding Kronos 1957, and The Fly 1958 ) Rocketship X-M stars Lloyd Bridges as Col. Floyd Graham, Osa Massen as Dr. Lisa Van Horn, John Emory as Dr. Karl Eckstrom, Noah Beery Jr. as Maj. William Corrigan, Hugh O’ Brian as Harry Chamberlain, Morris Ankrum as Dr. Ralph Fleming, and Sherry Morland as the Martian girl.
Cinematographer Karl Struss (Sunrise 1927, The Great Dictator, 1940, Limelight 1952, The Fly 1958) and art direction by Theobold Holsopple create at times a sublime and beautifully desolate landscape using matte paintings, miniatures among the technical effects. For all the scenes on Mars, the film is tinted a pinkish sepia tone (filmed partly in The Mojave desert). Struss lenses an landscape that is eerie and atmospheric.
Rocketship X-M was a B picture designed to beat DESTINATION MOON in the movie theaters, and even with it’s grim ending, it actually did better at the box office. Director James Cameron called it an ‘Anodyne answer to Destination Moon 1950.’ It was a cautionary tale about how we will not be able to control this new technology. It’s a warning about too much hubris surrounding this powerful technology that sometimes ‘precedes a tragic fall’-Mark Hamill.
The crew finds the remnants of a Martian Civilization that was destroyed by it’s own technology much like the revelation in Ridley Scott’s Alien 1979.
The film though with it’s bleak message is quite a surprisingly interesting science fiction tale about a trip to the moon, by way of Mars that is interesting because of it’s earnestness and visual style. And to be honest a lot more interesting and characters more full of life than with it’s predecessor in 1950 Destination Moon.
Rocketship XM
Staffing Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen, John Emery, Noah Berry Jr.
You heard this year’s Oscar Winner for Best Actor credit his father for his acting career. Well here he is folks. Third from the left: Lloyd Bridges.
German director Neumann came to Hollywood in 1925 and became best known for his work on The Fly. (1958) Rocketship X-M is a sober and beautifully filmed piece of science fiction realism blended with romance and crisis. Like Destination Moon ,it features the first manned rocket-ship to the Moon that winds up knocked off course winding up on Mars, stranded on the bleak landscape where the crew led by Dr. Karl Eckstrom stumble upon a dome-shaped structure and an odd metallic mask. They deduce from all the radioactivity that there must have been a superior race of intelligent beings who had once inhabited the planet but fell victim to some kind of atomic catastrophe, leaving only a few mutant savages to forage the bones of the now desolate planet.
These crazy looking bald Martians sort of remind me of Pluto in The Hills Have Eyes 1977
The crew is eventually besieged upon by the remains of that once thriving Martian race, which in a shocking reveal shows Sherry Moreland the Martian girl to have a lifeless stare as she is blind. The Martian trogldyte attackers kill Dr.Eckstrom, and Maj. Corrigan, wounding Chamberlain. Col. Floyd Graham and Dr. Lisa Van Horn make it back to the ship, but don’t have enough fuel to get back home. In a very intense and poignant scene as the two hold each other and embrace their inevitable fate with a transcendent fatalistic sense of hope, much like Grant Williams at the end of The Incredible Shrinking Man, the lovers watch through the view finder as they plunge toward Earth to their deaths, in a darker film ending– as they crash. Rocketship X-M seems to have brought the warning not to earth in the form of Klaatu the benevolent, but has placed us on a hostile planet much like Planet of the Apes that gravely warns us that our future could very well wind up the same way if we pursue atomic weapons.
Lloyd Bridges holds Osa Massen It ends badly for everyone. As they look out the porthole “it’s only seconds now, try not to be afraid” She clings to him-Suddenly she is not afraid anymore. She feels like something is lifting them up and holding them right before they crash…
Osa Massen sees her tragic end as a new beginning she sheds her fears and finds a courageous way to embrace their impending death. It’s a rather poetic scene when they hold each other and look out at the view finder and watch as life rapidly escapes them. It’s a very dark ending.
Doomed to crash and burn Floyd and Lisa cannot control the technology. There is a conflict with the machines and mechanisms we build that can either annihilate us or set us free to explore and thrive.
‘Their last desperate hope is for transcendence”
ROCKETSHIP X-M — Director John Cameron calls it a ‘dualistic dance’ with technology -referring to the end being so nihilistic potentially– then the head of the program says they’ll start construction tomorrow.
Already on Earth they are planning another mission called Rocketship X-M2!
PROGRESS MARCHES ON-“No gentlemen the X-M was not a failure tomorrow we start on the construction of the X-M2”
Floyd: I’ve been wondering, how did a girl like you get mixed up in a thing like this in the first place.
Dr. Lisa Van Horn: I suppose you think that women should only cook and sew and bear children.
Floyd: Isn’t that enough?
[Floyd and Lisa comfort Eckstrom, who was mortally wounded by a Martian’s axe]
Floyd: Murdering savages!
Dr. Eckstrom: No Floyd. Poor fear-crazed despairing wretches. Pity them. Pity them!
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Virgins, Venuses, Miniskirts, Sorcerers, Pretty Poison, Peeping Toms & WomanEaters
A scene from David Cronenbergs The Brood 1979
It’s a psycho-sexual smorgasbord of cinematic thrills & filmic frissons! As women are in peril and perilous are some women!
RACHEL, RACHEL 1968 directed by Paul Newman
Rachel Cameron: “I’m exactly in the middle of my life. This is my last… ascending summer. Everything else from now on is just rolling downhill into my grave.”
Joanne Woodward is the dowdy looking emotional time bomb Rachel a 35 year old school teacher who lives with her mother and needs to either break free or break down. Kate Harrington is fabulous as her mother, James Olson who was often cast as the male figure of desire in 60s & early 70s psycho-sexual thrillers plays her lover Nick. The marvelous Estelle Parsons is her well intentioned by misguided friend Calla who has a budding lesbian attraction for her and Donald Moffat plays her dad.
I almost included this film with my compendium of cult films, though it is more melodrama than a crossing of noir, or psycho-sexual horror. The film works on the underlying premise that establishment culture has become like a sort of imprisonment to Rachel, reinforcing a repressive landscape and marginalizing the character of Rachel thus creating her own counter-culture reflecting the eroding of the American Dream and crumbling Idealism. (source American Cinema of the 1960s Themes and Variations Edited by Barry Keith Grant)
Rachel is the archetype of the repressed New England girl form a small town. Where everyone knows your business and it becomes impossible to breathe. One reviewer on IMDb called it “deep-level collective cultural phantoms” I particularly like that phrase. A suffocating lifestyle or stasis of life more aptly, Rachel is trapped by caring for her overbearing mother. and pulled to one side by the desire she has for Nick. Haunted by memories and collected damage over the years, she carries her emotional baggage til it is too heavy to bear.
Kate Harrington in Rachel, Rachel
A few very memorable scenes come to mind. Of course when Calla has the awkward revelation that she is in love with Rachel. But there is the bizarre church scene, and several flashbacks that allude to her childhood trauma.
Will Rachel decide to free herself from the shackles of stifling conformity and become a liberated individual
The film also co-stars the great Geraldine Fitzgerald as Rev. Wood.
Who was she? Sometimes she was a child skipping rope. Sometimes she was a woman with a passionate hunger. And one day the woman and the child came together..
who cares about a 35 year old virgin?
Joanne Woodward and James Olson in Rachel Rachel 1968
VENUS IN FURS 1969 directed by Jesús Franco
In Istanbul a jazz trumpeter Jimmy Logan (James Darren) finds the corpse of a beautiful woman named Wanda Reed (Maria Rohm–House of 1,000 Dolls 1967. The Blood of Fu Manchu 1968, Eugenie… Her Story into Perversion 1970, Count Dracula 1970) washed up on the beach.
Jimmy remembers her from the night before, when he saw her at a party and then later as she was assaulted by the party’s host and two of his friends.
He winds up in Rio where he hooks up with Rita, played by Barbara McNair a singer who invites him to live with her and help him shake the nightmare off and stop thinking of Wanda.
Jimmy Logan: “She was beautiful, even though she was dead.”
Suddenly a woman appears who looks exactly like Wanda. Jimmy becomes obsessed and pursues her trying to get to the bottom of this mysterious woman.
The woman returns from the dead to take revenge on the group of wealthy sadists responsible for her death. The film also stars Margaret Lee, Dennis Price and Klaus Kinski
Frenzied, dream like colorful excursion into the psycho-sexual mind of Jess Franco.
The coat that covered paradise, uncovered hell!
A Masterpiece of supernatural sex!
THE MINI SKIRT MOB 1968 directed by Maury Dexter
Driven by jealousy, Diane McBain plays Shayne the jilted leader of a female motorcycle gang who’s socio-pathic and ruthless nature instigates a sadistic reign of terror against her ex-lover Rodeo Cowboy Jeff Logan and his new bride Connie (Sherry Jackson)
Stars Jeremy Slate, Diane McBain, Sherry Jackson, Patty McCormack and Harry Dean Stanton.
Diane McBain plays Shayne the head of The Mini Skirt Mob Patty McCormack plays her little sis… and the ruthless Shayne only has eyes for Jeff Logan (Ross Hagen)
They’re hog straddling female animals on the prowl.
Patty McCormack not beating a little boy to death with her tap shoe
THE SORCERERS 1967 directed and screenplay by Michael Reeves (Castle of the Living Dead 1964, Witchfinder General 1968)
Set in the atmosphere of the mod 60s of London —Boris Karloff is a subtly imposing looking more time worn elderly Professor Marcus Monserrat scientist and hypnotist extraordinaire who has discovered the secret of mind control, and the ability to become empathic with the object of their desire.
Monserrat and his wife Estelle (Catherine Lacey-stage actress who was a regular performer with the Old Vic Company from 1951-went on to play eccentric spinsters-) can literally share sensations, thoughts and feelings of the subjects they wish to control.
Ian Ogilvy is the shady swinger Mike Roscoe who falls into their trap and allows them the excitement of experiencing what he does, virtually enjoying the self-indulgence of being young again. But as usual power corrupts and greedy Estelle begins to crave devouring Roscoe and the pleasure it gives her. Roscoe begins to lose control of himself, mind and body as the battle of wills ensues with the power hungry old bird trying to experience ‘kicks’ vicariously through the unlucky chap. Co-stars Elizabeth Ercy and Susan George.
Boris Karloff He Turns Them On…He Turns Them Off…to live…love…die or KILL!
PRETTY POISON 1968 directed by Noel Black
When a mentally disturbed young man Dennis Pitt (Anthony Perkins) tells a pretty girl that he’s a secret agent, she believes him, and murder and mayhem ensue. Anthony Perkins character of Dennis Pitt is every bit more an emotional enigma as the young man with the pathological imagination who is an outlier of society. Released from an institution he gets a regular job at a lumber yard. But he meets the All American Cheerleader squeaky clean blonde apple pie Sue Ann Stepaneck (Tuesday Weld) who just might be even more disturbed than Dennis. He informs her that he’s working undercover for the CIA and enlists her in helping him on his case. Dennis cannot help live in his fantasy world, and Sue Ann is as aggressive as a giant creek carp, if you ever seen one of those canoeing you’ll know what I mean.
As she manipulates his vulnerabilities into committing acts of dangerous vandalism and eventually murder, she is in control of this Folie à deux
Co-stars Beverly Garland as Sue Ann’s Mama.
She’s such a sweet girl. He’s such a nice boy. They’ll scare the hell out of you.
Did you ever see two kids like Dennis and Sue Ann? We think not…
…Wait till you see what they did to his aunt – the night watchman – to her mother.
What brought a nice kid like Sue Ann to a shocking moment like this?
PEEPING TOM 1960– directed by Michael Powell–
Powell had been known for his very barbed visual style.
The background story behind Mark Lewis’ madness/murder compulsion.
Mark Lewis-focus puller on Arthur Baden’s new film The Walls Are Closing In-he also moonlights as a photographer of racy pictures on the West End. He is smitten with 21 year old Helen Stephens (Anna Massey) and they are carrying on a very civil and sweet courtship. Almost child-like which is probably what kept Helen safe from Mark’s darker side.
What Helen doesn’t know is that Mark, has a blade hidden in the armature of his tripod, and stabs the object of his desire, filming their deaths, as a surrogate to his past abuse. When he was a young boy his father, a biologist researching the effects of fear on children, ‘the physiology of fear’ used to film Mark continuously like a mouse in a maze, through out his childhood, subjecting him to various fear inducing incidents as his experimentation.
Voyeurism and psycho-sexual compulsion drive this very startling horror/suspense film starring Karl Böhm, as Mark Lewis who works as a camera-man at a British film studio. His fetish is to kill women with his camera tripod while filming their death. It’s not hard to envision that the tripod is a surrogate for his phallus, and the act of stabbing them with it is his act of penetration. A mirror is fixed to the tripod so that the women can see the expression of their own faces right before death, to witness their own fear.
Unfortunately in the way Psycho with its subversive themes propelled Hitchcock’s status to auteur, the controversial Peeping Tom ended Michael Powell’s career with all the reviled reviews.
Nothing, nothing nothing… has left me with such a feeling of nausea and depression as I got this week while sitting through a new British film called Peeping Tom… Mr Michael Powell (Who once made such outstanding films as Black Narcissus and A Matter of Life and Death) produced and directed Peeping Tom and I think he ought to be ashamed of himself. The acting is good. The photography is fine. But what is the result? Sadism, sex and the exploitation of human degradation- Daily Express
Mark has had a very traumatic upbringing by his father who used his own son in experiments of the effects of fear and self loathing. Well, they produced a son who is a sexual sadist who makes his female victims watch their own deaths-specifically the expression of terror on their faces right before death. Co-stars Moira Shearer, Anna Massey and Brenda Bruce as Dora. Absolutely chilling for 1960. Bohm’s Mark Lewis almost elicits sympathy due to his childhood psycho-trauma. Much like Anthony Perkins’ Norman Bates and his fateful childhood.
The gist of why this film shook up the British film industry in a time when they were trying to tone it down was the idea of this gruesome ‘snuff’ film maker getting off on sublimating his own sexual impotence by finding victims to penetrate with his camera or gaze. The way Otto Heller sets up our participation as voyeurs makes it doubly uncomfortable to watch the killings. For example. Mark takes a red bloused prostitute up to her room. His camera it’s several lens eyes like an insect about to prey is concealed, the whirring is cloaked inside his duffel bag. See they even had kill bags back then. As she leads him upstairs he throws an empty box of Kodak film in the garbage. Not cigarettes, or a box of condoms, but still the very sexual instrument in his mode of arousal + fixtion+ object / spectacle +gaze =murder. Also turning their own destroyed images back on themselves is quite disturbing–It’s a kinky and interesting little detail. Otto Heller also added a wonderful detail to the film as Mark’s private ‘viewing room’ was bathed in a sanguinary red tone.
Director of Photography was Otto Heller, Art Director- Arthur Lawson, Editor Noreen Ackland.
Anna Massey plays Helen Stephens, Maxine Audley is Helen’s mother Mrs Stephens who while blind senses that there is something off about Mark, Moira Shearer is Vivian, Nigel Davenport is Sergeant Miller.
Can you see yourself in this picture? Can you imagine yourself facing the terror of a diabolical killer? Can you guess how you’d look? You’ll live that kind of excitement, suspense, horror, when you watch “Peeping Tom”.
Karl Böhm and Anna Massey in the skin crawling thriller Peeping Tom 1960 directed by Michael Powell
THE WOMAN EATER 1958 directed by Charles Saunders
Oh those silly Colonialist white dudes get to have all the fun — feeding young native girls to those flesh eating plants!
A mad scientist Doctor Moran (George Coulouris) captures women and feeds them to his carnivorous tree with tentacle like branches that only has a taste for the ladies preferably young ones, this in turn gives him a serum that helps bring the dead back to life.
Because the tree gets fed it’s nourishment, it provides the evil doctor with a liquid that restores life to the dead. So naturally the first woman you would want resuscitated would be a good housekeeper right! No… She goes all Rochester’s crazy wife Bertha on the place, you know the violently insane first wife of Edward Rochester; moved to Thornfield and locked in the attic and eventually commits suicide after setting fire to Thornfield Hall in Jane Eyre., that sort of way! and ruins everything….
It’s really just a silly B movie from the 50s that finds unique ways to destroy beautiful women by way of mad science or mad obsession.
The film also stars Robert MacKenzie, Norman Claridge, Marpessa Dawn as a ‘native’ girl. Jimmy Vaughn as Tanga, Sarah Leighton as Susan Curtis and Vera Day as Sally.
Vera Day in The Woman Eater 1958
“No Beautiful Woman is Safe!
See the nerve-shattering Dance of Death!
See the Woman Eater ensnare the beauties of two continents!
See the hideous arms devour them in a death-embrace?”
Your Everlovin’ MonsterGirl saying hope you stay on the good side of the camera and watch out for those strange large plants at Home Depot!
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Capsules: October 2019 (Halloween Edition)
October 30, 2019 October 31, 2019 / Duncan Gray / Leave a comment
Capsules is a monthly diary of older movies either seen for the first time or revisited after many years. This one goes out to new and old films watched for Halloween, including a movie night of Dawn of the Dead—maybe the most unaccountably hard-to-find film of its type and class.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992)
Think of the baroque imagery of Apocalypse Now. The chiaroscuro lighting. The superimpositions. The plumes of smoke. Wouldn’t it be sumptuously perfect for silent-style gothic horror? It is, though neither the plot nor the passion is lucid, despite the voiceover’s best efforts. A British accent is beyond Keanu’s reach, Winona is strangely affectless for a character in thrall to lust, and at a certain point the plot gives up on sensible causality. But it’s ravishingly excessive: it dredges up all the subtext and overindulges in every old-school camera trick in the book. As a cinephile experience, the 130 minutes are like a giant bag of chocolates you eat all at once. Which, ill-advised or not, is certainly a Halloween tradition.
Cape Fear (J. Lee Thompson, 1962)
The 1991 Scorsese remake is more thrilling, more thematically complex, and somehow less enduring. One can’t deny the sordid power of telling this story in a setting that could still feign innocence, where a truly disturbing thriller can tap into bourgeois America’s worst fears of its own underclass, and where the dark triumph is making a censor-approved, law-abiding finale feel so very bloodthirsty. A final word, paraphrasing David Thomson: “Robert De Niro is a great actor, but Robert Mitchum is The Beast.”
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The Others (Alejandro Amenábar, 2001)
The verities can still work in the right hands: a spooky house, spookier children, and an eerie control of lighting and sound design. The initial hook of The Others is that every character in its triangle is immediately creepy/insane/unreliable enough that this could all go in any number of directions. The one it picks drifts so much from logic that you become sure a twist is on its way. And though the twist is far from unique, it’s grounded nicely in a theme of spiritual uncertainty—another verity, and the one that powers all the rest. The Others came out during a zeitgeist of movies that aimed to blow your mind. I hope that in retrospect, we see how the best ones also aimed for the heart.
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Dawn of the Dead (George Romero, 1978)
Not the most subtle classic—if you’re ever in doubt that the zombie apocalypse is a metaphor for consumerism, a character will look straight in the camera and tell you. But it’s still the definitive version for doing what so few genre films manage: thinking through its concept and fleshing it out as fully as possible. It’s also a case study in incongruous elements. There’s no logical reason that a cream-pie-to-the-face gag should exist in the same set-piece as intestinal gore, but this rebound is part of its midnight movie legend. Moving between slapstick and shock, the silly and the grim, the juvenile and the perceptive, it maintains quixotic faith that a horror film can have something to say. And that even if the apocalypse is here, there’s still something to hang on to.
Häxan (Benjamin Christensen, 1922)
How famous can a film get before it loses its status as esoterica? Wherever that line is, Häxan hasn’t crossed it yet: this doc about “witchcraft through the ages”, spanning medieval rituals to early 20th century psychiatry, is still singular. One doesn’t usually see fantasy/horror sequences worked into a documentary, just as one doesn’t expect a silent era period piece with such good production values to have such an irreverent streak. As a piece of horror cinema, it provides an early, direct, and cerebral link between cult appeal and literal sacrilege. As a work of analytic non-fiction, its shrewd understanding that any modern age will someday look insane keeps it evergreen.
Body Bags (John Carpenter & Tobe Hooper, 1993)
Somewhere between good and bad, trying and not trying, creativity and cliche lies Body Bags, in which two “masters of horror” water down their act for a defunct cable pilot salvaged as an anthology film. Hooper’s completists will be more satisfied than Carpenter’s—the final chapter by Hooper is the film’s tightest, densest, and most visually grabbing schlock. And if the whole experience isn’t really satisfying, except maybe by the standards of intentionally bad taste, how could the cult value not be fun? John Carpenter as a prop-comic crypt-keeper? Sam Raimi as a corpse? Debbie Harry as the oversexed nurse at a hair transplant clinic? Mark Hamill as a cornpone evangelical with a literal evil eye? Roger Corman as the only sane doctor? The flash of realization that it’s the guy from American Werewolf? Categorically better than Twilight Zone: The Movie.
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THE ROUND-UP: Spring and Summer (Part 1)
The Round-Up is a collection of capsule reviews for new releases that filled up my notebook but never got a full dive. Noteworthy recaps of 2019 moviegoing begin now…
Us (Jordan Peele)
Us may indeed qualify as a sophomore slump, but it’s one from a smart filmmaker upping his craft. Viscerally freakier than Get Out but less fully-fleshed, this spooky allegory for materialism makes you accrue at least a little heart for both the consumers and their “evil” twins. It’s about class, certainly, and it’s shrewdly about race insofar as class makes race less of an issue. The problem is how it trips over its mythology. The demented details of Get Out all gloriously added up; here, you get a twist that oscillates between making kind-of sense and no sense at all the harder you think about it. Part of me wants to feel cheated at any sucker punch that raises more questions than it answers. Another part of me knows that any movie that can sustain this balance for two hours—humor and frights, unpretentious genre kicks and on-target satire—is a genuine tonic. Sobering sidenote: it’s currently the only film in the top 10 grossers of 2019 that isn’t a sequel, a comic book adaptation, or a Disney live-action remake.
Transit (Christian Petzold)
A risky, daft, and ultimately rewarding concept: the script for a World War II thriller transposed to our own not-too-distant present, allowing old-fashioned story tropes, 21st century politics, incipient fascism, and narrative incongruity to nag away at you. The plot—about escaping Europe as stormtroopers descend, needing letters of transit, and choosing between romantic love and greater principles—finds its most obvious parallel in Casablanca. But doing it as a period piece would have a sense of removal, no matter how urgent the subtext. In telling this type of story straight in what is empathetically not a period setting, nor a logical 2019, Petzold’s film reconstitutes a vein of cinematic myth into a modern faceless anxiety. (When two people walk through the background of one scene, you wonder if they’re extras in a movie about the Terror, or simply a couple that happened to be passing by during the shoot). As always, Petzold is a solid storyteller. His weakness, as in his last film Phoenix, is formal blandness. The dystopia-is-now spirit of Transit cries out for a more uncanny treatment. Godard visited Alphaville with less.
The Dead Don’t Die (Jim Jarmusch)
Presaged by a midnight movie trailer with the easiest jokes of Jim Jarmusch’s career, this all-star zombie parody shambled into the summer under the question of whether it would actually be as fun or as shallow as advertised. The answer, happily, is “sort of” to the former because “no” to the latter. Its po-mo goofs are indeed too easy, not to mention protracted, and like a good hipster it comes with a willfully half-assed posture to undercut how it has serious ideas on its mind. But the ideas are there, and even when it goes for laughs, its vision of apocalypse Americana isn’t so easily brushed off. In this context, the indulgences and indie comedy readymades—deadpan reactions, pop culture expertise, celebrity meta gags—register as paralysis in the face of rapid decay. “This isn’t going to end well” goes the movie’s dry refrain, as narrative threads keep getting killed off before they can go anywhere. Well before the end, it’s stopped feeling like a joke.
Toy Story 4 (Josh Cooley)
Toy Story 4 would have to do a lot to justify its existence after the perfect finality of Toy Story 3, and if it doesn’t, it’s at least a fun, lively, sufficiently thoughtful use of two hours. There’s something poetic as well as merchandisable in its view of mundane objects animated by emotional fetishism. And this time around, the franchise’s running metaphor of facing up to change feels aimed at adult issues more than children’s. But fatigue, dispersion, and dramatic wonkiness have set in when the new finality is both the series’ most drastic and its least convincing. Not that you can fully trust them to stick to finality, now or ever.
Greta (Neil Jordan)
Guilty pleasure? If your reason for doubling back and renting a movie is to see Isabelle Huppert as a psychotic manipulative bitch-queen, you have nothing to feel guilty about. What’s guilty is psychodrama with such laziness towards both psychology and drama: too bland to be camp, too silly to be anything else, and utterly reliant on hack thriller stings. Porting Madame Huppert’s appeal to the American multiplex is a nobly fiendish idea, but she seems shockingly adrift in a role tailor-made for her. But then, so does everyone else. And the line “I’m like chewing gum” is the definitely least spine-tingling stalker threat in many a moon.
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Domino (Brian De Palma)
A test: how many virtues can a movie lack and still have auteurism draw you in? Domino is by no means a successful film. In fact, of the twenty-plus De Palma films I’ve seen, I’d venture this is his worst. The cast looks undirected. The leads need more charisma. The story has holes punched out. The geopolitical context feels tacky. And the staging can be awkward, sluggish, or downright careless, which is odd, because even when he’s not winning over critics with tastefulness or coherence, De Palma can usually be relied on for brilliantly orchestrated set-pieces. But if it doesn’t deserve blanket defense from the faithful, it doesn’t deserve knives out either—and certainly not any of the despondent cinephiles wishing for retirement. Instead, look at the De Palma staples and the way they’ve shifted in the 21st century: the technocratic voyeurism, the games with an audience’s sympathy, and the reawakened leftist concerns of an unreconstructed baby-boomer. After a troubled production, Domino essentially went straight to video, and I can’t imagine that the original cut, reportedly about an hour longer, would fix it. But I’ve returned to it in my mind a lot more than a great many more polished and sensible new releases. Which means I failed the test—or passed, as the case may be.
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
A wealth of potential meaning(s) here, in spite of the shambling structure. It makes sense that Tarantino’s latest spawned a hot summer’s worth of hot takes, since it’s nothing if not two hours and forty minutes of thinkpiece material; you could say “problematic”, “tender”, “reactionary”, “indulgent”, “self-aware”, or “but then again…” depending on what you focus on and for how long. In addition to a western about westerns and a nostalgia piece about nostalgia, it’s an attempt to answer a question: how do you do a love letter to a town and an industry with so much to be cynical about? The film’s details are emotionally attuned to what Hollywood gives and takes from its inhabitants, what it offers its fans and requires them to believe. The mode may mutate. John Wayne will give way to Clint Eastwood. Movies like Valley of the Dolls will fall into style and then out of it. Innumerable bits of pop arcana will be forgotten by everyone except insiders and obsessives. But Hollywood will always be here, beautiful and ugly. Did Tarantino grow up? Never. But even people who don’t grow up can’t help but grow old.
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Volume 10, Issue suppl 1
Smokers' beliefs about “Light” and “Ultra Light” cigarettes
Saul Shiffman*,a,
Janine L Pillitterib,
Steven L Burtonc,
Jeffrey M Rohaya,
Joe G Gitchelld
aPinney Associates and *University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, bPinney Associates, Seattle, Washington, USA, cGlaxoSmithKline, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, dPinney Associates, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Saul Shiffman, PhD, Pinney Associates, 201 North Craig Street, Suite 320, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USAshiffman{at}pinneyassociates.com
OBJECTIVE To assess beliefs about the tar and nicotine delivery characteristics and health benefits of Light and Ultra Light cigarettes among cigarette smokers.
DESIGN Random digit dialed telephone survey conducted in September 1999.
SUBJECTS Daily smokers (n = 2120) of Regular (46%), Light (39%), and Ultra Light (15%) cigarettes in the USA. The sample was weighted to match the US smoker population on age, sex, and ethnicity.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Beliefs about Light and Ultra Light cigarettes were summarised on three dimensions: Safety (reduced health risk), Delivery (lowered tar and nicotine delivery), and Sensation (less harsh).
RESULTS Most smokers believed Lights and Ultra Lights were less harsh and delivered less tar and nicotine. On average, smokers believed that Lights afforded a 25% reduction in risk, and Ultra Lights a 33% reduction in risk. Light and Ultra Light cigarette smokers evaluated the risks of their own cigarette types more favourably. Light smokers had greater interest in quitting than Ultra Light smokers. Quitting intention was modestly related to beliefs about these cigarettes. Believing that Lights and Ultra Lights delivered less tar and nicotine and that they were less harsh each independently contributed to the belief that these cigarettes were safer.
CONCLUSIONS Many Light and Ultra Light smokers believe that smoking these cigarettes impart a substantial health benefit, due in part to their experience that these cigarettes are less harsh and the belief that these cigarettes deliver less tar.
smokers' beliefs
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tc.10.suppl_1.i17
The use of “Light” and “Ultra Light” cigarettes has increased dramatically since the introduction of these brands in the 1950s and 1960s.1 2 The majority of cigarettes currently sold in the USA are those designated as Light and Ultra Light, and these brands now constitute approximately 82% of the market share.3 In the UK, over one third of all smokers report smoking Light, Mild, or Ultralight cigarettes.4
Historically, and continuing to the present time, Light and Ultra Light cigarettes (hereafter referred to as L/UL) were marketed to appeal to health concerned smokers5 and positioned as an alternative to quitting.6 These cigarettes were thought to yield substantial reductions in toxin exposure and pose less health risks to smokers. However, the purported health benefits and risk reduction from smoking L/UL cigarettes has not been realised. Epidemiological data indicate that smoking L/ULs has little or no health benefit.7 When lung cancer, cardiovascular disease, and mortality rates are compared over time between smokers of L/UL and Regular cigarettes, little if any differences are found.8 9
As noted by Kozlowski and Pillitteri,10 research has previously shown that smokers are not well informed about the health risks of L/UL cigarettes. In fact, many smokers harbour misperceptions about the health risks of these brands, and these misperceptions may deter cessation. A national survey by Kozlowski and colleagues11 showed that when asked the reasons for smoking L/UL cigarettes rather than Regular cigarettes, a substantial number of smokers gave health related responses based on misperceptions about these cigarettes (for example, L/ULs give you less tar, give you less nicotine, are less risky, and are a step toward quitting). In the same survey, less than 10% of the sample knew that one Light cigarette can be equivalent to one Regular cigarette in terms of tar yield. Similarly, a survey of adult smokers in the UK found that 28% of smokers thought that L/ULs were less harmful than Regular cigarettes.4 Information about nominal tar and nicotine levels is not only not informative, but may be misleading. Cohen12 used a 1994 survey to assess how smokers process and make inferences from published tar and nicotine delivery figures. The results suggested that the majority of smokers could not correctly judge the relative tar levels of cigarettes; the tar levels of smokers' own brands were often underestimated because of descriptors such as “light” and “mild” that imply lower tar delivery; and smokers were misinformed about the true meaning of tar yield numbers.
In the present study, we sought to update knowledge about attitudes and beliefs about L/UL cigarettes to assess whether smokers continue to harbour misperceptions about these cigarettes. In a large, nationally representative sample, we assessed current beliefs about the health benefits of L/UL cigarettes, relating these to smoker characteristics and to interest in quitting smoking. We additionally assessed other dimensions of attitudes and beliefs about L/ULs, such as beliefs about their sensory characteristics, which were considered potentially important in motivating and maintaining smoking of L/UL brands. Finally, we explored whether misconceptions about L/ULs were equally common among subgroups such as young adult smokers (ages 18–25), who appear likely to be the next battleground in smoking control as prevention efforts, legal restrictions, and settlement agreements impact those under 18 years of age.
Subjects and methods
A total of 2205 adult smokers, aged 18 years and over, consented to and completed a telephone interview. Eighty five respondents (4%) were excluded from the analyses because they indicated that they did not smoke daily, resulting in a sample of 2120 smokers. The resulting data were weighted by sex, age, and ethnicity to represent US smokers, as characterised in the 1997 National Health Interview Survey. This same sample was also analysed for a separate report on Light and Ultra Light smokers who had switched brands.
Telephone calls were made to randomly selected telephone numbers from a list of US households provided by Survey Sampling Inc. Regional quotas were assigned based on the state-by-state prevalence of cigarette smoking (from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System13) to ensure a nationally representative sample.
Interviews were conducted by 206 interviewers between 23 September and 6 October 1999. Most calls were made Sunday through Thursday evenings from 5:00 pm to 9:30 pm; some were made during the day on Saturday and Sunday to reach respondents who might be unavailable at other times. If a randomly selected household could not be reached, it was called three times at least two hours apart over at least two days. If no one was reached after this, the next listed number was called. If that number did not result in a completed interview, the caller returned to the first number, and then back to the second, before proceeding to more numbers. This was meant to maximise the chances that interviews were completed with the initially selected numbers. When a household was reached, the caller asked at random for the youngest/oldest male/female adult (18 or older) in the household (that is, it was not assumed that the person answering the phone was a randomly selected or representative member of the household). If the randomly chosen adult was not a smoker, the interviewer identified any adult smokers in the household, selecting one for interview using the random schedule for youngest/oldest male/female adult.
After eliminating disconnected numbers, fax machines, and businesses (29% of numbers), 14 081 numbers were tried: 13% were not reached and 25% refused or aborted the interview, resulting in a response rate of 62%. Among respondents who consented to be interviewed, 75% were from non-smoking households, and the remaining 25% completed interviews.
Subjects were classified as Regular, Light, or Ultra Light smokers based on self reported responses to this question, which are known to be accurate.14 Smoking history questions were included in the telephone interview (for example, number of cigarettes smoked per day, number of years smoking, number of previous quit attempts, and the Fagerstrom test for nicotine dependence (FTND)15). Beliefs about L/ULs and questions on interest in quitting were also included.
Beliefs about Light and Ultra Light cigarettes
Respondents were asked to assess the truth of a series of statements about the health risks of L/ULs cigarettes in comparison to Regulars (five point scale ranging from 1 = “definitely not true” to 5 = “definitely true”). Composite variables were constructed to reflect beliefs about L/ULs, based on an examination of the item intercorrelations. Three composites were formed, as follows: beliefs that L/ULs are healthier or safer (hereafter referred to as “Safety”) was composed of ratings indicating that L/ULs are “safer”, “healthier”, and “less likely to cause cancer” (Cronbach's α = 0.84); beliefs indicating that L/ULs deliver less tar or nicotine (“Delivery”) consisted of ratings that L/ULs give you “less tar” and “less nicotine” (α = 0.76); a score indexing sensations related to L/ULs (“Sensations”) averaged ratings indicating that “you cough less smoking Lights”, “Lights feel smoother on your throat”, and “Lights feel easier on your chest” (α = 0.83). Two other constructs were assessed by single items: “Light cigarettes are less addictive” (“Less addictive”) and “Smoking Light cigarettes makes it easier to quit smoking completely” (“Help quit”). (Other items related to beliefs about L/ULs were administered but were not analysed because they overlapped with those presented and did not cleanly load on any one composite score.) On all of these items, smokers of Regular and Light brands were asked about Light cigarettes; smokers of Ultra Light brands were asked about Ultra Light cigarettes.
Additionally, following Kozlowski and colleagues,11respondents were asked to estimate the number of Light and Ultra Light cigarettes, respectively, someone would have to smoke to get the same amount of tar in one Regular cigarette. Respondents were also asked to estimate the risk of smoking Lights and Ultra Lights, respectively, relative to the risk of not smoking (designated “0”) and the risk of smoking Regulars (designated “10”).
Interest in quitting
Quitting interest was assessed by five different questions. (1) A 0–10 scale asked about overall interest in quitting smoking (0 = “not at all interested” to 10 = “very interested”). (2) Smokers were also asked a variation of the Contemplation Ladder16in which they placed themselves in one of five categories: “I have no thoughts of quitting”, “I think I need to consider quitting someday”, “I think I should quit but I'm not quite ready”, “I'm starting to think about how to change my smoking patterns”, or “I'm taking action to quit such as cutting down or enrolling in a program”. (3) Smokers also rated the probability they would quit within the next year (five point scale ranging from 1 = “very unlikely” to 5 = “very likely”). Finally, smokers stated (4) whether they were “seriously considering quitting in the next six months” (yes/no) and (5) whether they were “planning to quit smoking in the next 30 days” (yes/no). The last two items are the critical factors in defining the Contemplation and Preparation stages of Prochaska and DiClemente's17 Stages of Change. (The full definition of stages also includes quit attempts in the past year. Since exposure to messages obviously could not affect past behaviour, we only included future intentions in the measure.)
Using the five different interest in quitting items described above, a composite “quit index” was created and scored as follows: 6 = planning to quit in the next 30 days; 5 = thinking of quitting in the next six months; 4 = likely to quit in the next year (⩾ 3 on five point scale); 3 = some interest in quitting (⩾ 5 on 0–10 scale); 2 = at least feel the need to quit someday (⩾ 2 on the contemplation ladder); 1 = no expectation of or interest in quitting (score of 1 on the contemplation ladder). Subjects were assigned the highest score for which they were eligible. This composite correlated well with the individual items included in the composite (averager = 0.81), and captured much of the variance in the individual items (canonical correlation = 0.94).
Characteristics, beliefs, and quitting intentions were contrasted in the three types of smokers (Regular, Light, and Ultra Light) using two tailed pairwise independent t tests for continuous level variables, and χ2 statistics for categorical variables. To account for complex sampling and weighting, all analyses were conducted using SUDAAN18 which adjusts variance estimates for weighting and/or complex sampling designs.
DEMOGRAPHICS AND SMOKING HISTORY
Table 1 depicts the demographic and smoking characteristics of the sample. Smokers of Regular, Light, and Ultra Light cigarettes differed in several respects. In comparison to Regular cigarette smokers, Light and Ultra Light smokers were more likely to be women (odds ratio (OR) = 1.71 for Lights; OR = 2.56 for Ultra Lights; p = 0.0001). Ultra Light smokers differed from the other two groups in several other ways—they were significantly older, smoked fewer cigarettes per day, had been smoking longer, and were less nicotine dependent, as assessed by the FTND (table 1). Light cigarette smokers were also significantly less dependent than Regular smokers. All groups of smokers were equally likely to have previously tried to quit smoking. Of the sample, 71.0% had made at least one quit attempt, but Light smokers tended to report more prior quit attempts than Regular smokers. Ultra Light smokers, however, did not report more prior quit attempts than Regular smokers.
Demographic and smoking characteristics of subjects by type of smoker
Health risks of Light and Ultra Light cigarettes (0–10 scale)
All smokers evaluated the risk of Light and Ultra Light cigarettes, respectively, on a 0–10 scale, where 0 designated the risk of not smoking at all and 10 designated the risk equal to that of a Regular cigarette. As fig 1 shows, Ultra Lights were consistently regarded as safer than Lights. Light cigarette smokers estimated the risk of both Light (p = 0.03) and Ultra Light (p = 0.004) cigarettes lower than Regular smokers did. Ultra Light smokers, in turn, estimated the risks of both cigarette types lower than Lights smokers did (p = 0.006 and p = 0.002, respectively)—in other words, even though they did not smoke them, Ultra Light smokers thought Light cigarettes were safer than Light smokers did. Smoking Lights (mean (SE) score 7.6 (0.06)) or Ultra Lights (6.8 (0.07)) was thought to impart lower risk than smoking Regulars (both means were significantly less than 10, the risk of smoking a Regular cigarette; p < 0.0001). All three types of smokers believed that Ultra Light cigarettes were less hazardous than Lights (mean difference 0.78, p < 0.0001). Although most smokers thought that smoking Lights or Ultra Lights was closer in risk to smoking Regulars than to not smoking at all, 8.7% thought that Light cigarettes were closer in risk to not smoking (< 5 on 0–10 scale), while 20.9% believed the risk of Ultra Light cigarettes was closer to that of not smoking. Among Ultra Light smokers, 27.1% believed the risk of smoking Ultra Lights was closer to that of not smoking at all than to smoking Regulars (rating < 5); this was also true of 22.1% of the Light smokers.
Perceived risk of smoking Light and Ultra Light cigarettes in comparison to regular cigarettes.
Perceived tar delivery of Light and Ultra Light cigarettes in comparison to Regular cigarettes
Table 2 shows the number of Light or Ultra Light cigarettes respondents thought were needed to equal the tar and nicotine delivery of one Regular cigarette. On average, half of all smokers thought that it was necessary to smoke two Light cigarettes and three Ultra Light cigarettes to get as much tar as from a single Regular cigarette. Although research indicates that L/ULs can deliver as much tar and nicotine as Regular cigarettes, only 19.3% of all smokers said that one Light cigarette is equivalent in tar delivery to one Regular cigarette; almost half thought that one Light delivered approximately half the tar of a Regular, and about one third thought they could smoke three or more Lights before being exposed to the amount of tar in one Regular cigarette. Similarly, table 2 shows that only 12.9% of all smokers reported that one Ultra Light cigarette delivers the same amount of tar as one Regular cigarette. Among Ultra Light smokers, only 6.4% thought one Ultra Light cigarette was equal to one Regular cigarette. Almost three quarters of Ultra Light smokers thought they could smoke three or more Ultra Lights before incurring the tar exposure of one Regular.
Smokers' beliefs about the number of Light or Ultra Light cigarettes equivalent to one Regular cigarette in terms of tar delivery
Smokers of Light and Regular cigarettes did not differ from each other in how they evaluated the delivery of either kind of cigarette (p = 0.09 for Light cigarettes; p = 0.49 for Ultra Light cigarettes). However, smokers of Ultra Light brands were more favourable than Light smokers in their evaluation of Light cigarette brands—that is, they thought it would take more Lights to equal the delivery of one Regular cigarette (p = 0.002; table 2).
Beliefs about Light and Ultra Light cigarettes in comparison to Regular cigarettes (composite variables)
When asked a series of questions about whether L/ULs were safer in comparison to Regulars, smokers tended to express doubt about the safety advantages of L/ULs (table 3). On average, respondents rated statements about safety at 2.0, equivalent to “probably not true”. However, 15.9% of smokers found the claims credible (that is, scored above the midpoint of 3). Statements about reduced delivery were more credible, with the mean rating falling between “probably true” and “might or might not be true”; more than half found the claims credible. Statements about milder sensations of L/ULs fared similarly, with the mean rating favouring the statements, and the majority endorsing them. Smokers were doubtful that L/ULs were less addictive or would promote quitting (table 3).
Mean ratings for beliefs about Light and Ultra Light cigarettes by type of smoker (1–5 scale)
There were substantial differences in beliefs about L/ULs by type of smoker (table 3). We first compared beliefs about Light cigarettes among Regular and Light smokers. Though still showing doubt about these benefits, Light smokers (compared to smokers of Regulars) believed Lights were safer (p < 0.0001), delivered less tar and nicotine (p < 0.0001), and produced milder sensations (p < 0.0001). Light and Regular smokers did not differ in their view of their addictiveness (p = 0.17) nor their utility for quitting (p = 0.09). These results were confirmed in a multivariate analysis (MANOVA) assessing the impact of type of smoker (p < 0.0001).
We then examined the beliefs of Ultra Light smokers about Ultra Light cigarettes, comparing them to the beliefs of Light smokers about Light cigarettes. As shown in table 3, smokers of Ultra Light cigarettes believed their cigarettes were safer (p < 0.0001), delivered less tar and nicotine (p < 0.0001), produced lighter sensations (p < 0.0001), were less addictive (p < 0.0001), and more helpful for quitting (p < 0.0001).
The different dimensions of beliefs about L/UL cigarettes were correlated: beliefs that they were safer, delivered less tar and nicotine, and produced milder sensations all correlated with each other (rs = 0.49). In a multiple regression equation, beliefs about delivery and sensations each made independent and roughly equal contributions to predicting the belief that L/ULs were safer (βDelivery = 0.31, p < 0.0001; βSensory = 0.27, p < 0.0001).
Overall quitting interest was modest, with the average smoker expressing some interest in quitting, but not reporting being likely to quit in the next year. Less than one out of 10 smokers was planning to quit in the next 30 days (9.7% of Regular smokers, 9.4% of Light smokers, and 6.9% of Ultra Light smokers), though one out of three smokers were contemplating quitting within six months (35.9% of Regular smokers, 39.5% of Light smokers, and 33.9% of Ultra Light smokers).
The mean (SE) quit index score was 3.6 (0.04). Based on the mean quit index scores, Light smokers had the greatest interest in quitting (3.7 (0.06)), significantly greater than that of Ultra Light smokers (3.4 (0.10); p = 0.002). Regular smokers achieved an intermediate quit index score (3.5 (0.06)) that was significantly different from Light smokers (p = 0.005) but not Ultra Light smokers (p = 0.32).
ASSOCIATION OF BELIEFS AND INTEREST IN QUITTING
For the Light and Ultra Light smokers, correlations were computed between interest in quitting and beliefs about their cigarettes. If believing that one's current cigarette is safe serves to reduce motivation for quitting, then such beliefs should be associated with low interest in quitting (that is, a negative correlation should be observed). The quit index correlated −0.15, −0.12, and −0.07 with the Safety, Delivery, and Sensation indices, respectively (p < 0.001 for Safety and Delivery; p = 0.11 for Sensation). Light and Ultra Light smokers who believed their cigarettes were safer, milder, or delivered less tar and nicotine were currently less interested in quitting, but only very slightly so. Among smokers of L/UL brands, beliefs about sensation also demonstrated a curvilinear relationship with the quit index (p < 0.05): interest in quitting was lowest among those who either denied or strongly endorsed the belief that L/UL cigarettes were less harsh.
The majority of smokers in this national sample smoke cigarettes with nominally reduced yields, so called Light and Ultra Light cigarettes. Consistent with prior research,11 19 the data demonstrate that many smokers of L/ULs continue to harbour misconceptions about these cigarettes. Despite evidence that the health benefits are modest or negligible,8 9 smokers' estimate that Lights provide a 25% reduction in risk and that Ultra Lights provide a 33% reduction in risk, compared to Regular brands. Similarly, although research shows that L/UL cigarettes often deliver as much tar as Regular cigarettes,20 few smokers understand this, and many believe that L/ULs very substantially reduce tar yield by factors of 2 (Lights) or 3 (Ultra Lights). Reductions of this magnitude are not consistently shown, even in the estimates derived from smoking machine tests using the FTC method,7which are generally recognised to mislead smokers and to underestimate actual human exposures.21 22
Smokers' misconceptions about the delivery characteristics and safety of L/ULs do not appear to be accidental. Tobacco industry documents6 indicate that these brands and their marketing campaigns were intended to achieve exactly this result. Thus, the marketing of L/UL cigarettes continues to deceive substantial numbers of smokers. Over the years, the US government was inadvertently complicit in this deception, promoting the FTC test for tar and nicotine yields even when it became clear that the test results were unrelated to actual exposure to tobacco derived toxins.10 23 Recently, the FTC itself has repudiated the meaningfulness of these numbers and the underlying assays method (http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/smokealrt.htm). However, many smokers continue to be misled.
Analysis of smokers' beliefs about L/UL cigarettes suggests that beliefs about their safety are fed both by the idea that these brands deliver less tar and nicotine and by the sense that these brands are less harsh to smoke. Many smokers report smoking L/ULs because of their perceived mildness. Smokers' perceptions of harshness were associated with beliefs about safety even when beliefs about tar and nicotine delivery were factored out, and were especially important among those who did not believe that L/ULs actually reduced these deliveries. Beliefs based on these sensory impressions may be psychologically important because they provide a particularly fundamental basis for belief in the health benefit of L/ULs. Research on interpretation of somatic states and sensations suggests that they often influence behaviour even when they are not actually biologically relevant.24 In this case, smokers' experience that L/ULs seem less harsh when smoked may confirm their belief that these cigarettes are less harmful, and their belief that they are taking appropriate steps to protect their health. Such beliefs, confirmed as they are by personal sensory experience that dovetails with smokers' implicit theories of how smoking causes harm,25 may be hard to displace through provision of abstract scientific data. Research with teen smokers suggests that interventions intended to modify these beliefs can influence smoking.26 Strategies for influencing smokers' beliefs by directly addressing these sensory experiences may have incremental utility in unmasking and uprooting smokers' misconceptions about L/ULs and influencing these smokers to give up the false “safe harbour” of L/ULs and move towards quitting instead. Such strategies warrant empirical test.27
The cross sectional survey did not allow us to evaluate the impact of L/ULs on interest in quitting or actual quitting, since we studied self selected groups of smokers long after they had adopted these brands. We found that smokers of Light brands were more interested in quitting than smokers of Ultra Lights; smokers of Regular brands were intermediate. It is not clear how this relates to the idea that L/UL smokers adopt these brands as a way to manage their discomfort with smoking and its health hazards. In particular, the fact that interest in quitting does not line up with nominal delivery of the preferred brand suggests that there are particular segments smoking L/UL cigarettes, and that these brands cannot be regarded as being simply on a continuum of delivery. In our sample, current beliefs about the health benefits of L/ULs were only slightly associated with lower interest in quitting; a stronger correlation would have supported the link between perceived risk and interest in quitting. Note that we did not assess perceived absolute risk, but only comparative risk across cigarette types; this may have failed to capture important variance in perceived risk. In any case, adoption of L/ULs may have kept smokers of these brands smoking in the past when they might otherwise have quit.
The study's limitations include the lack of longitudinal data that might better sort out the relation between brand choices, risk perceptions, attempts to quit, and actual cessation. Our study was also limited to self report—brand type was characterised by the smoker, and no behavioural measures of quitting were obtained. At the same time, the study benefited from a large and representative sample of US smokers and from reliable measures of key constructs. The study also relied primarily on closed ended quantitative queries: qualitative inquiry and cognitive analysis may help deepen our understanding of smokers' thinking about reduced yield claims and L/UL brands and uncover the cognitive processes that underlie their decision making about L/UL cigarettes.
The finding that substantial minorities believe they accrue health benefits from smoking L/UL brands supports the contention that smokers have been misled and deceived by cigarette manufacturers' advertising.22 Extrapolating from the observations in this sample to the US population of 47 million smokers,28 we estimate that 15 million smokers believe that Lights deliver 33% less toxins than Regular brands; twice as many believe this about Ultra Lights. In addition, over one million US smokers believe that Lights are essentially safe to smoke (90–100% risk reductionv Regulars), and almost two million believe this about Ultra Lights.
Regulatory oversight is needed to remediate the harm caused by this continuing deception. The introduction of new regulatory frameworks is the underlying focus of several research and policy initiatives. For example, the European Union released a proposed directive in November 1999 that would continue the trend to reduce further the machine measured tar levels of cigarettes.29 This could conceivably perpetuate the message that reductions in machine measured yields are medically meaningful. At the same time, the proposed directive calls for the elimination of descriptors such as “Light” and “low tar” in the European Union,29 30 which could ameliorate the false impression promulgated by these promotional terms.
Attention to these regulatory challenges is made more urgent by the prospect that the tobacco industry will soon be marketing novel “reduced risk” cigarettes.31 The recent announcements by tobacco companies, including RJ Reynolds, Brown & Williamson, and Star Scientific, indicating their intention to market products that claim to reduce toxicity, evoke uncomfortable echoes of the marketing of L/ULs. Without regulatory oversight of such claims, based on independent, scientific evaluation both of the relevant toxicology and the psychology of these products and their marketing, we risk repeating the experience of “Lights”, which has helped perpetuate the massive morbidity and mortality caused by tobacco.
This research was funded by GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare. Dr Shiffman and Dr Pillitteri, Mr Rohay, and Mr Gitchell serve as consultants for GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare in the areas of smoking cessation and tobacco control, and received compensation for their participation in this research. Mr Burton is Director of Smoking Control, Strategic Development and Medical Promotion in the USA for GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare.
The authors gratefully acknowledge Drs Karen Gerlach, Richard Hurt, and Ann McNeill for their comments on earlier drafts of this manuscript, as well as Mr Robert Moorman and Ms Mindy Tegay for their contributions in developing the messages (results not reported in this paper).
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Chapter 386 Despicable Guesses
“Cough! Nothing big! It’s just that saying it out loud makes people intimidated.” The chief of the attraction, who was wearing spectacles, said, “A week ago, our workers in charge of taking care of the water lilies realized many water lilies in the pool were touched by somebody, and there was mild damage!
“We thought it may have been some tourists, so we wanted to find out who through the surveillance footage. Who knows, when we went through the surveillance video, we found out that footage during the time frame has been removed!
“We were worried if there was something wrong, so we filed a police report!” The chief creased his eyebrows as he said, “But we looked all over the attraction and found nothing missing! You tell me, isn’t this weird?”
“I came here today for this matter.” One of the policemen said, “The technician that brought the surveillance hard drive back for inspection said that it was a brand new hard drive and it didn’t belong to the attraction! In other words, someone changed the hard drive! They intentionally removed that part of the surveillance video!”
“Although it didn’t seriously affect anyone, it seemed a bit fishy. So,” the other policeman continued, “we came over today to investigate further.” He looked towards the chief of the attraction and said, “Is there any internal problem? Fight, robber, or any other situation? Otherwise, who would remove surveillance video out of the blue? And the record stated that there were people on duty in the surveillance control room!”
“Aiya, Officer, that’s quite impossible. If there is something wrong with our staff, how could we not report it? Regarding this, we have thought about it too, and we asked around, there was no problem!” the chief said. “Yes, there are supposed to be guards on duty every night, alternating in patrolling the attraction and guarding the surveillance video room. But, as we know, besides the water lilies in the lotus pond which are worth some money, what else would the thieves want? So”
“Sothey went to sleep? No one patrolling and no one in the surveillance video room?” Zhao Yu suddenly cut him off. The chief’s face flushed from embarrassment.
“From what I see, there must be someone behind this!” Zhao Yu said solemnly. “Out of nowhere, why would they change the hard drive to remove the surveillance video?”
“Theoretically, yes!” The chief of attraction pushed up his spectacles and said, “But we really checked, and there was nothing missing! Not even one water lily! Sothere’s no pointandpolice detectives” The chief thought Zhao Yu and Liang Huan came for that reason, so it seemed unreasonable.
Zhao Yu and Liang Huan exchanged a glance, and Liang Huan seemed not to be too bothered but Zhao Yu was different.
“A week ago, the surveillance video hard disk in Golden Buddha Temple was swapped. Why swapped? They didn’t want anyone to know what happened in the Golden Buddha Temple,” Zhao Yu thought. “During the day, there were tourists so it must have happened during the night! Sowhat would have happened? The staff stole something? Was there a fight? Or they were trying to hide something? Maybeis it related to the case that I am investigating?” Zhao Yu knew that the thought was unconvincing, but because he had gotten the “Gen” hexagram” that day, he didn’t want to give up the chance! He was willing to try any line of thought.
Zhao Yu took out his police badge again, and told the chief of the attraction, “We are here today not to investigate such a small matter. We are here to investigate a big crime case, so I need you to cooperate with me!”
“Big crime case?! What crime?” The chief was confused and the two local policemen were puzzled too.
“Comrade, what you mean is, regarding the hard drive, there are other reasons behind it Then” The other policeman’s eyes opened wide, and he looked extremely curious.
“Alright, it’s none of your business!” Zhao Yu said impolitely. “We are investigating a highly classified case. You know the rules, please cooperate!”
“You!” The two policemen were unhappy but they dared not stop the detectives from investigating. In the end, they could only step back from the case.
“Zhao Yu” Liang Huan seized the chance to pull Zhao Yu aside and awkwardly ask, “Youwhat are you trying to do?”
Zhao Yu didn’t bother with him but ordered the chief of the attraction, “Hurry up, call the two guards that were on duty and the worker that found there was something wrong here. I have questions!” Zhao Yu was very rude. The chief was shocked by Zhao Yu and quickly ran to call the people, his head dripping with sweat.
“Hey, Zhao, what are you thinking of? You can’t think that this is related to the Ancient Tomb Case, can you?” When he left, Liang Huan quickly shook his head and objected, “How could it be possible? Don’t waste any time on this, okay?”
Zhao Yu didn’t bother with Liang Huan but raised his head to look around. He took a careful look at the situation around. In the attraction, there were woods surround it, and the environment was tranquil and peaceful. Via the stone pathway in the middle, they could see the Hall of Sakyamuni in the Golden Buddha Temple and the pagoda on its right.
He heard that although the Golden Buddha Temple had been rebuilt later, they hired experts to design it according to the authentic appearance of the Golden Buddha Temple during construction. The pagoda by the side maintained its original name, but as it was passed down orally, it became known as the Golden Buddha Pagoda! The ancient lotus pond was right below the Golden Buddha Pagoda. It was said in the entire Golden Buddha Temple, only the ancient lotus pond was the real historical site.
“Alright, Zhao Yu, let’s relax and not take this seriously!” Liang Huan was still trying to persuade him. “How about this, let me tell you what happened to the surveillance video!”
“What? You know?” Zhao Yu looked at Liang Huan suspiciously.
“One night, a couple was looking for excitement and climbed over to have sex near the ancient lotus pond. In the end, the guard found them. When they were trying to escape, they fell into the pond and damaged the water lilies!” Liang Huan said confidently, “Then they were caught by the guards, and the guards wanted to send them to the police! However, the couple spent a lot of money to buy them off, so the guards released them. They even made the guard change the surveillance hard drive. The process was that simple!”
“The f*ck, like that’s true!” Zhao Yu said with disdain. ” Is itthe man who had sex in public was you, right? and the girl was not sis-in-law, right?”
“F*ck f*ck f*ck” Laing Huan smiled. “Only guards can enter the surveillance video room, so the hard drive definitely removed by them!”
“Not necessarily,” Zhao Yu refuted. “You knew that there was a camera, and you decided to have sex in front of the camera.”
“Thenmaybe the guards were the ones who were having sex in public!” Liang Huan guessed. “He found a woman randomly and did it at the lotus pond. Then, to destroy the evidence, he removed the video!”
“Liang, I would have never have guessed that your thoughts are even more despicable than mine.” Zhao Yu shook his head. “If it was the guards, they could have turned the camera off for a while. And, did they need to do it in the lotus pond? Are they sick?”
“Possibly. Some people have those kinds of fetishes.” Liang Huan argued. “Why don’t we place a bet! Wait and see, it’s definitely something small. So, we’d better not waste time here!”
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The Role of Philanthropy in Resuscitating Local Journalism
Publish on October 18, 2019 By Turner Halvorson
(bell tolls) – [Announcer] This is Duke University. – Well welcome all of you
all and now a special welcome to Julie Sandorf. Julie has had the good
fortune for working for a number of non-profits, leading them. I think I first me Julie
when she was working at the Ford Foundation
and was a prime mentee of Mike Spierdoff who was
really one of the great foundation program
officers in the country. Now, he was the vice
president for National Affairs at the Ford Foundation. He was the person who started
God knows how many non-profits in the United States and
supported them over many years. Very creative guy from New
Haven, Connecticut who, I think, didn’t go to college. He worked his way up
through the Labor Movement. – [Julie] He didn’t even
graduate high school. – He didn’t even graduate
high school, but he went on to head the Commission of Human
Services in New York City. He was one of the architects of the War on Poverty in Washington. And, Julie had the good
fortune of working with him for many years. And then, she proceeded
to go out on her own and spread her wings and
establish an organization called the Corporation
for Supportive Housing. Supportive Housing she
really invented, supported the idea of Supportive Housing. The idea of housing for infirm poor people that provided services that they needed. And, it wasn’t just a
place to live, to sleep it was a place that gave
them medical services, counseling, psychological
counseling, food, what else, everything, right? – All you need so that you can be stable and be part of community life. – So, she started that
organization and ran it for 10 years. And then decided that it was time for her to take a change. She has a philosophy to
not sto stay in any place for more than 10 years. And, she was then recruited
to run an organization called Next Book, which
was founded by a foundation that focuses on Jewish
culture and was in charge. Next Book was a program
that commissioned books of Jewish interest, has
everything from prize fighters to King David, which runs
the span in any event. And they, how many books did you publish when you were there? – Close to 20 and we had
programs in 250 libraries all over the country. – So, a really wonderful program
– Jewish culture and literature.
– That still exists. Coming in the door now is one of our local entrepreneurs, Ben Abraham. (laughs) And finally, Julie was then
recruited by a head hunter to be the president of the the Revson, the Charles Revson Foundation. She’s talking about a
very interesting subject that’s topical and one
that desperately needs some creative cures. And so Julie, welcome,
good to have you here back. Julie sat in to my class this
morning which was dealing with governance of
non-profit organizations and had a number of very practical things to say to the students in
response to their ideas because they were all
challenged to remark, think that they were Czars
of the non-profit sector and gonna fix everything. – And, they might some day. – They might, let’s hope. – I hope they will. We’ve a lot fix in our world right now. Well, thank you all and I
will admit to two things. One, I am not a journalist. I am a complete journalist
junky and groupie. I believe great journalists
are not only the most important storytellers and keepers
of the flame of Democracy in our country but they
are also among the most important chroniclers of
history in the moment. And so, I’ve come to
this work with great love and admiration for the
practice of journalism. I will also say I am
completely intimidated and cowed by this group
and want to ask you to ask the hardest questions, force me to think in different ways. And, I would be very,
very grateful for that ’cause I know I’m sitting
here in the company of a whole lot of smart
and talented people. So, first I just wanna start by thanking Professor Fleishmann. Joel and I have been
good friends for, gosh, 25, 20 something years and
I’m very lucky for that. Lisa Buckley who organizes all of this. Pam Ladd.
(applauds) (applauds) Pam Ladd, Tony Pershio
who is a senior fellow at the center and is the
author of Out of Print, the Case for Philanthropic
Support for Local Journalism in a Time of Market Upheaval. And, if you haven’t received
a copy of Tony’s paper I urge you to get one
and I urge you to read it because it’s really an
important timely piece of work. Two seconds on the Revson
Foundation, it was established in 1976 from the estate
of Charles H. Revson, the founder of Revlon Cosmetics. Mister Revson was quite philanthropic in his life and he left a
very open mandate to innovate. And, the executor of his
estate, Judge Simon Rivken, looked at what the giving
he did during his life and created four program
areas: urban affairs, education, biomedical
research, and Jewish life. And, I’m so pleased Imam Antepli is here because one of our most important projects at the foundation is the
Muslim Leadership initiative which is co-directed by Imam
Antepli and Yossi Klein Halevi at the Shalom Hartmean Institute. And, I urge you to just look it up. It’s, I think, one of the most important efforts to create strong,
Muslim Jewish relationships in America that exist. The foundation has had
a very long standing interest in media. In our early years under
the first leaders son of Durham, Eli Evans, who
many of you probably know Eli had a very strong
interest in the power of media to tell stories, create culture, change culture, some of the earliest was Abba Eban’s Civilization History
and the Jew series on PBS, bringing Sesame Street to
Israel, public television series such as Bill Moyers
Genesis, and documentaries that Lisa Goldberg initiated
who was the second president, such as Makers: Women Who Make the World. The foundation is relatively small. We have an endowment
of 177 million dollars. Our focus is in New York
City other than our Jewish Life Portfolio, it is
focused in New York City. And, over the past 10
years our Urban Affairs and Education programs
have been focused on providing access to information
in two primary ways, revitalization of branch
libraries in New York City and investment in local journalism. And, the first question
I think someone would ask is given all the competing
demands on very limited philanthropic resources and
in a foundation our size in a city as large as New
York why should journalism, which for centuries has been
the province of profit making and quite profitable businesses
be an issue of concern and worthy recipient of philanthropy. And, that’s what we’re
talking about this afternoon. And, I just wanna start
with sort of some basic premises and assumptions. First and foremost I argue
that rigorous, robust, authoritative journalism is the life blood of our civic infrastructure. It has functioned and I will
argue continues to function as our society’s civic connector. It supplies information
both momentous and routine, holding institutions of power accountable, institutions both in the public
sector and private sector. It provides an account
of day-to-day events in our communities. And, by doing that it
provides a platform for public discourse, for opinion,
a base for common knowledge, and a public square for dissenting voices. It is a public good,
it is a public service. As the Washington Post’s
mission statement says, “Democracy dies in darkness.” What’s happened? The digital revolution
has completely transformed how news is created, how it’s distributed, how it’s displayed, and how it’s shared. And, the internet has literally
opened the world to us and at the same time it has
totally upended a longstanding profitable business model that
enabled news organizations to literally cross
subsidize the cost of this public service, public affairs
journalism with profits earned from advertising
and circulation sales. And, as those markets were
advertising and the technology for distributing consuming
information are totally upended in wave after wave of
disruption the news workforce has suffered mightily
everywhere and at every level since the financial crises
and the recession of 2008. And, the downsizing of
local journalism has been steep and widespread. In short, the news
industry has experienced a total market failure. A market failure, but
a total market failure with it’s biggest
casualty being local news. As digital revenue continues
to make up increasingly larger and larger portions
of news industry income there is huge pressure to report stories that will earn as many
eyeballs and as many clicks as humanly possible. And so, for local newspapers with very circumscribed
geographic boundaries those eyeballs and
clicks are very limited. And so, limited geographic
scope means less eyeballs, means less clicks, and it
means almost no revenue. Secondly, the once great sources
of revenue for local news, classified ads, local retail
ads, have largely migrated with their revenues to Craig’s
List, Google, and Facebook. In 2017, Google and Facebook
alone took in more than 60% of all digital ad spending the US. And, in New York City, the
media capital of the world, consider these statistics,
well over 90% of the digital subscribers to the New
York Times live outside of New York City. The New York Times is
not a hometown paper. It is national and increasingly an international news operation. So, it’s not surprising
that the New York Times metro staff has been reduced by over 50%. In 2001, the paper produced 153 metro stories a week, in 2009, 102 metro stories, and by January of 2017 48 metro stories. The Daily News, which
has historically been New York’s hometown paper
has closed all of it’s borough news desks. It’s investigative team
is down from six reporters to one reporter. Gone are the days of
eight reporters covering municipal government out of city hall. They’re down to one bureau
chief and one reporter. (laughs) The Daily News’ post World
War II print circulation was over 2.4 million. It’s now less than 300,000. And, while their digital
circulation is impressive, at over 25 million viewers less
than 18% are from New York. The News was recently sold
to Tronc for a dollar. – [Joel] Do you know what Tronc is? – Do you guys know what Tronc is? It’s a news that’s sort
of a news organization that was the Tribune company
and they had renamed it this God awful name, but
also see themselves as a national platform focusing
much more on celebrity and entertainment news. Don’t know if you’ve
covered the recent scandals at the LA Times. They own the LA Times,
the publisher’s on leave for sexual harassment charges. The editor was just fired last week. The Daily News is literally
a shadow of its former self. And, the chances are we’ll
never return, even remotely, to where it was at its height. The Wall Street Journal’s
greater New York section that was created in 2010 to great fanfare. Great, let’s bring on the
competition to the New York Times. Six years later section’s
folded into the national paper, reduced to one page five days a week. The staff’s been reduced by half. The reporting is literally
kind of go to the press conference report what
the mayor said yesterday. There’s not a single
news operation covering courthouses in New York City,
a city of nine million people. The Village Voice, which
was the independent, take no prisoners, investigative
alternative newspaper is barely a shadow of its glory days. It is only digital. The great reporters of
years gone by are no more. The new owner is planning
another round of staff cuts and is steering the paper to
celebrity and entertainment news. In early November GNA
Info Gothamist, which was, we had all hoped sort of
the savior for community hyper local news was
unprofitable and shut down by its owner. Totally pulled the plug in November. El Diario, the oldest
Spanish newspaper in America is a shadow of its former self. In 2016, their staff was
reduced from 35 to 13 and they run at a loss
of two million a year. We’d say, “So, does this matter? “The big stories consuming,”
some argue, would say, “The big stories consuming
us are at the national level. “They’re not at the local level. “Why should we care if
these things just sort of “slowly go into a drip, drip
slow motion death march?” I think actually, Tip
O’Neill said it the best which is, “All politics is local.” And, that local news, if
we’re not informed locally how do we understand the
story at the national level? We don’t because local news
is proximate, it’s most relatable, it’s recognizable,
and it’s susceptible to direct civic action. It invites local communities
to draw and act on connections between local
acts of public institutions and the real quality of
life they see around them. They can directly connect to it. Secondly, the lack of a
steady diet of local civic information research
shows both depresses local voter turn out and leads
to less informed voting. Awareness of local news has been shown to increase civic engagement. And, as Tony Pershio cites
in his report the shrinkage in local reporting might be
creating a vicious cycle. Fewer local stories leading
to less informed readership which then grows less
interest in local news thus furthering the disincentives
to report local stories. The decline in information contributes to a corresponding drop in civic engagement and an increase in political rancor. As more and more of the
coverage and commentary in local affairs is left
to fringe activist media and ideologically oriented outlets. And thirdly, and this
brings us back to why should philanthropy care is the
evisceration of local public affairs journalism
has a profound impact on philanthropic efforts
to advance public policy, to help motivate social
change, and to help motivate civic engagement. For foundations and the
non-profits they support local news media is the
amplifier of new ideas, of policy solutions, of
advocacy on behalf of those who are increasingly rendered
voiceless in a community. Good journalism remains
among the most powerful tools for creating public policy impact. And quite frankly, our
best insurance policy for the investments we make
by holding institutions in power accountable
for both their actions and their inactions. And, as an anecdote I was
sitting in a room several months ago with a group of foundation
presidents who were talking about how their foundations
engage civically. And, they mention two things,
everyone around the table, we work to place op-eds in newspapers. And then secondly, we really
encourage our grantees to create relationships
with local journalists so that they can get their stories out. And, I’m sitting there
saying, “Don’t say anything, “don’t say anything until it’s my turn.” And then, I said to all
of them around the room, “Guys, the next call you
make nobody’s going to be “at the other end of the phone. “This is your construct
for civic engagement, “but unless you support this institution, “these institutions who now
serve the public interests “they’re no longer going to exist.” And, it was sort of a bracing
wake up call because it has been this slow, slow drip
death march, quite honestly. So, how did we get involved in
this, in this giant problem, in this giant city that
is the media capital, the news media capital of
the world, a foundation that is making on average between seven and nine million dollars
a year in grants in total in the four program areas. So, in 2008 we saw the first
signs of this downward spiral. And, it was evidenced
in a wave of reductions in legacy news reporting
at the local level, the demise of smaller publications
like the New York Sun, Blade, Hoy, and Ming Pow
disappeared entirely. And for us, with our decades
long interest in media funding and also with decades long
support for public policy organizations working to
hold government institutions accountable to the public
concern about the diminishment of a strong and
authoritative fourth estate was just naturally aligned
with our longstanding interests and concerns. And so, we began by funding
the Columbia journalism school to commission former Washington
Post editor Len Downey to produce a report that
fundamental, on the state of local public affairs
journalism that predicted a the continued erosion
of local journalism. And, he proposed a number
of remedies including hybrid models that would
foster commercial non-profit and university partnerships,
a deeper investment in the expansion of newsroom capacity, and particularly a deeper
expansion in newsroom capacity in what was at that point
one of the few financially sustainable business models in journalism, which was local public radio. And so, we entered this field, mindful of first and foremost that we
by no means had the resources to reproduce the range and
depth of reporting made possible by journalism’s golden
age of profitability. That was not ever going to be. Secondly, but what we did both recognize and identify
an opportunity to help build what we called the
scaffolding of an emerging infrastructure of news outlets, all of them non-profit, that
both were content providers, distributors, megaphones,
community based, citywide, and investigative that
perhaps, but in aggregate, could constitute a
framework of a resurgence in local journalism. A wildly audacious goal. Thirdly, we invested over
from 2010 to the present day about 4.5 million dollars
in helping to recreate this news ecosystem that could
start filling in the gaps. We made a total of 27
grants to 11 organizations with individual grants
ranging in size from $5,000 to well over a million to
expand content, distribution, and sustainability of both beat
and investigative reporting. Included in that portfolio
was our largest investment which was to help build out the news room of WNYC which was New York’s local radio station, which prior to 2009 was basically a tiny news operation, fundamentally reading the front
page of the New York Times. And, our first grant of a
million dollars helped them start building out a
serious local newsroom. We’ve invested a total of
2.3 million dollars in WNYC. Since then they’ve grown
their newsroom from 30 to 72 people, and have
grown their membership base from 120,000 to 200,000. We provided cooperating
support and we also supported the creation of their
data journalism operation and their mobile technologies. The thinking behind this
was when we looked at all the business models in
2009 both commercial and non-profit media WNYC through its extremely diverse base of support from individual memberships,
corporate sponsorships, foundation giving, and
individual giving had a business model that had the
most promise, quite frankly. They had a much better business model than the New York Times in 2009, quite frankly. And so, we placed that bet. We then went on to help
establish the first local news desk for Propublica,
which is a national investigative news reporting. We twisted their arm
and they created their first local news desk in
New York, which I’m very proud to say in 2016 won
the Pulitzer Prize for their partnership with the Daily News. The Pulitzer Prize in
Public Service for an extraordinary series they
did on nuisance abatements, which was the New York
City Police Department were basically evicting
people without cause for what they considered, “nuisance.” And, the result of that is that law has been completely upended. There is no longer an ability to evict for nuisance abatement anymore
in the city of New York. We also invested in the Marshall Project which is also a national
non-profit news operation focusing on criminal
justice on a very innovative video journalism project
called We Are Witnesses where they took everyone
who had touched the criminal justice system and did many videos from the court clerks
to the bail bonds people to the parents of perpetrators
to the parents of the victims to the judges, you name it, 80 people. And, did this and then
gave it to the New Yorker and it’s been a very
successful sort of new way to produce local journalism
by a national organization. We then funded very kind
of community based efforts. City Limits, which is a
community based news operation doing investigative
reporting on public housing, public libraries, the rezoning
of New York neighborhoods. CUNY Journalism school, and
created an investigative reporting unit there
where seasoned journalists work with students to produce
terrific investigative news that is picked up by
mainstream distribution outlets like WNYC, The Daily News,
New York Times, and so on. We also, I’d say, the
most challenging piece of this portfolio is we
invested probably close to a half a million dollars
in trying to strengthen both the editorial capacity
and the fiscal capacity of the 250 ethnic
newspapers in New York City because for many, for a city
where three million residents are immigrants the ethnic
newspapers are their first read. And, that has proven to be,
I think, the most challenging piece of our work because
these papers are also staffed by one or two people. They are hugely reliant on a
hyper local advertising base. And, they are very resistant to taking on controversial issues. (laughs) And so, to kind of strengthen
their editorial capacity and their fiscal capacity has been a challenge. One bright spot in that is
we funded a report by the now Dean of CUNY Journalism
School, Sarah Bartlett, that showed the city was
spending close to $20 million in buying ads, but they
were spending it in the four main papers. And, that constituted
about 94% of their ad buy and if they just moved
10% of those ad buys to buying advertisements
in the local community and ethnic press it would
make an enormous difference in the sustainability of these papers. And, to their credit the
De Blasio administration has started to do that. So, what have we learned? Well, I think we’ve learned a few things. And, I think that the first is that the most sustainable business
model for local journalism is going to be non-profit. To think that you are
going to create rigorous, sustaining coverage of
the affairs in a city the size of New York
purely by commercial means is a pipe dream, pure and simple. And, I think that how you can create a sustainable model of
non-profit journalism is through creating as
diverse a funding base as humanly possible. Which means individual
subscriptions and memberships, corporate sponsorships,
civic minded individuals of means contributing,
foundations contributing, and that is going to be how
this is going to be done until somebody comes up with
a commercially viable model. And, I don’t see that happening
anytime in the future. I wanna quote a colleague
of mine who was the founder, the first investor in what
is the most successful local non-profit news
operation in the country, The Texas Tribune in Austin. And, two days ago John Thornton,
who’s a venture capitalist, who saw this crises coming in Texas put up the first $2.5 million
to create the Texas Tribune, which now has an annual
budget of $10 million, 40% of which is from corporate sponsorship and events revenue. John Thornton said to me,
“Would the New York City Ballet “be a world class
performing arts organization “if they relied solely
on their ticket sales?” And, I thought that captured it all. That to me was, “Of course not.” And, that we accept as a
culture that first rate performing arts is a
philanthropic activity, is a public good, is a public service. Why are we not asking the same question of what is an essential
public good and public service that effects everyone’s
lives on a daily basis and that is, quality, civic
affairs local journalism. I’d also argue that the
Texas Tribune is a model to look at and be reckoned
with because they have passed what Mike Spierdoff or my
mentor, Joel’s dear friend, would call the philanthropic market test. They started with one donor and went to about 30 different
corporations asking for very, kind of, low cost sponsorship,
low five figure sponsorship because they wanted a
broad base of support. They delivered a product
of such high quality that it became the
authoritative paper of record covering the state house
and started to attract more and more both national
and local foundation support and individual funder support. And, they did it, they
were able to attract donors from the left and from the right. T. Boone Pickens is a
donor to the Texas Tribune and foundations and individuals
who people would consider on the left are donors
to the Texas Tribune. That’s where you wanna be,
that’s where you wanna be. So, I will argue strenuously
that there is no magic bullet in ad revenues and
we can see this even in the large digital operations
like Buzzfeed and Mashable. Buzzfeed, its revenue projections are 25% lower than expected. It does not look pretty out there. I’d also argue that organic
partnerships, that partnerships are very important because
we don’t have the luxury of news operations being
competitive with each anymore on the local level. But, what we’ve seen
is that they happen on a story by story basis. And, what they are based
on is developing trusting relationships between the
different news operations and an insistence on quality journalism. You’re not going to get the
New York Times metro section to take a piece from
a journalism operation that they’ve gotta spend
unending hours editing. It’s not going to happen. They don’t have the
editorial staff anymore. I’d also argue that the
biggest, by far, gap in local journalism is sustained coverage. Beats are dead. The time it takes to
cover an issue and to stay with an issue and to develop
relationships with sources and to develop enough
credibility to actually time in and time out
report on an issue is gone. And, what that means is our civic, cultural, economic lives
in our communities, we’re not informed of them. I’ll give you just a couple of examples the past couple of weeks in New York. So, there are three million
immigrants in the city of New York. There is no beat in the
city of New York in any news operation that covers immigration or immigrants, not one. I just received information
from the mayor’s office of Immigration Affairs
last week at a meeting that between September of 2016 and the
inauguration of Donald Trump 59 immigrants who don’t
have criminal records were arrested by ICE. From inauguration until
the end of August 2017 615 people without criminal records have been arrested by ICE. Was this in any newspaper, any
news operation in New York? No, it wasn’t. New York City’s
infrastructure is collapsing. The former editor-in-chief
of The Daily News has just stepped down, retired
in December, Arthur Brown said to me, “Had we had
our full reporting team “covering the metropolitan
transit authority “for the past five years there is no way “this mayor or this
governor would have ever “gotten away with allowing
for the vast deterioration “of the transit system,” which effects six million people a day. No one is doing sustained
reporting on the impact of the tax bill on New York
State or New York City. I think we can reimagine a
newsroom for the digital age and we can create efficiencies
but I will also argue that you cannot replace
experienced and expert journalists and the shoe leather it takes to deliver quality journalism. That’s needs to be paid
for, it is a pubic service, it is a public good, and
philanthropy needs to step up. I do not believe that
contributor content models, where people basically
get paid for the number of clicks they have, is a viable model to deliver quality journalism. And, I truly don’t believe,
this was another fascinating anecdote that was somebody
I know who invests in media. I asked him, I said, “Can
you tell me if there’s any “viable commercial model.” And, he said, “Yes, there
are viable models where “you pay underemployed
young starving journalists “on a per article basis. “You don’t pay their benefits. “You don’t pay for any
healthcare, you pay for nothing. “You just give ’em $100 for an article “and then you can make
money in local journalism.” And I said, “That’s immoral,
we’re not doing that.” But, that’s the commercial
model and that does exist. Patch, that’s how Patch survives. That’s not a viable model. Success also depends on civic engagement. You’ve gotta involve consumers
of news, in local events, in social media. You’ve gotta encourage their participation in the collection of data. And, you’ve gotta seek their opinions on the pressing issue of the day. You’ve gotta buy loyal customers. They’ll pay if they’re loyal customers. And success, first and
foremost, means pursuing important stories, providing
information the people want and can’t get elsewhere. And, to succeed as a
civic connector local news needs to be rigorous, authoritative, and it has to capture the
attention of the public and powers that be. Success is not measured
on we got five million page views this month. It really, first and foremost,
when you’re starting out is measured on who’s reading
this and are the actions of institutions of power
changing as a result? As Evan Smith, who’s the editor
of the Texas Tribune said, “They know we’re watching
them and their behavior “has changed accordingly.” In 2011 report on the status
of public access to information resources the former FCC
commissioner, Steve Waldman, summarized the indicators of what he calls the information health of a community. And, it includes, these
indicators are the level of resources invested, and
the number of reporters, the number of news outlets,
and the public access to those outlets, the
diversity of those outlets, and the healthy competition
for news consumers. By these measures what the
Revson Foundation has done far more resembles Hans
Brinker putting his finger in the dike to save his
country than the resuscitation of a critical public
good and public service. I will fully admit that. The patient isn’t dead
yet, but it’s gonna take a much larger cross section
of philanthropic resources from civic minded
individuals, from businesses, as well as from foundations
recognizing that our civic culture
absolutely depends on it. Now wait, I think I may
have one more thing to say and then I’m going to be quiet. What could be done, how
could I forget that. What could be done? (laughs) Well, I have two thoughts. One is I do think we have
to establish new models of local news production and delivery. I think we can learn. There are a handful of
success stories out there, far too few. Texas Tribune being by far, I think, the best model so far. I think we can enlist the talent offered by journalism schools to
assist professional journalists in expanding the number
and diversity of stories. We’ve seen that in New York. And then, I have this
wildly audacious idea which is could philanthropy
at the local level create funds for local
journalism both by investing in a fund that would
have very clear criteria for the kinds of news they would like to invest in and sustain
and build the capacity of. But, I have an even
more audacious idea that I will fully admit will
probably won’t catch on which is certainly in New
York and I think this is true in many other communities, foundations do a certain level of tithing. We make grants to the Foundation Center, to the Regional Association
of Grant Makers, to several membership organizations. Here’s the thought, if
foundations are investing in the health and welfare,
it could be education, it could be healthcare,
it could be housing, it could be any topic, immigrant services, any topic, if they are
investing in the health and welfare and future
of their communities perhaps they oughta be taking
2% of their grant making and putting that into the
fund for local journalism, because the one hand isn’t
going to work without the other. And, most likely in may
communities it will be a variety of answers. I don’t think there will be any community where there will be just one
answer and one silver bullet to solve this problem. I don’t believe that journalism can depend on commercial subsidies for
existence at the local level. It is a public service and
it’s where philanthropy must step in in the public
interest and for their own selfish sakes of advancing
their missions and really for the sake of our civic culture. I think this is a national
crisis that is playing out at the local level every single day. I, honestly, cannot
imagine a more compelling philanthropic call at this point. Thank you very much.
– Thank you, Julie. (crowd applauds) So, I wanna thank Julie for coming. (applause drowns out dialog)
(crowd applauds) (crowd applauds) – Thank you all for being here. (crowd applauds)
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Sometimes it takes a little time away from something that you love to realize the integral role that it plays in your life. Irish senior Mike Pfeffer understood the impact lacrosse had played in his life while spending the 1998-99 school year studying in Rome, Italy as part of Notre Dame’s Architectural Program.
Despite taking full advantage and making the most of all the opportunities that his experience had to offer, (from traveling around Europe to enjoying the fine cuisine), Pfeffer missed the companionship and competition of being a member of the Irish lacrosse team.
He experienced a certain void in his life. For the first time since he was a youngster, he was away from the sport that had been so much a part of his existence. Lacrosse had always provided a release for Pfeffer, practice was a way to escape from the demands and pressure of studying.
Although he looked for outlets, conditions in Rome made it difficult for him sometimes to even work out.
“Going running was even a problem sometimes,” Pfeffer recalls. “Many people smoke and there is a lot of pollution in the city. A couple of times, I went running around the Circus Maximus. I ran around eight times because that was how long the chariot races used to be.”
Without a daily release, Pfeffer took advantage of his extra time, enjoying the culture and his surroundings. After adjusting to life in a different country during the first semester, he fell into a routine the second half of the year, living the life of a typical Italian.
Experiencing a different lifestyle distracted Pfeffer from missing lacrosse, but the sticks in the corner of his room were always a reminder of what he had to look forward to upon his return to Notre Dame. “I knew lacrosse would still be there when I came back,” he says. “I knew I still wanted to play.”
Upon his return in the fall, Pfeffer admits to feeling some apprehension about rejoining his team. He also questioned somewhat what his mental and phsycial stamina would be. The summer he returned home to Wilton, Conn. served as a buffer between his experience studying abroad and returning to school. Being at home for a couple of months amongst his friends and family prepared Pfeffer for the new season and allowed him to readjust to the American way of life. Seeing former high school teammates helped ease the transition as well.
Pfeffer returned to Notre Dame eager to reunite the two parts of his life that had always restored balance: lacrosse and architecture. “For me, architecture and lacrosse have always fit together really well,” Pfeffer says. “Architecture alone is great, but I don’t think I could do it without lacrosse. Lacrosse is the perfect outlet for the stress that builds up. Strange pair, those two. “I always have a lot on my plate,” he adds with a smile.
Despite having a six-credit class that conflicts with practice three times a week, Pfeffer has learned to bargain with both his professors and his coach in order to strike a balance that works for all involved. The willingness to make up missed class time after practice allows him to continue to pursue his two passions.
Adding to his pressures, Pfeffer also has switched to a new position. He has gone from being a long-stick middie to strictly a defensive specialist, a postion he hasn’t focused solely on since his high school playing days.
While the period of adjustment has been a bit longer than he anticipated, being back as a member of the Irish team has been the most important aspect of his return. His teammates and coaches welcomed him back as if he never left.
“I am really proud and excited to be part of this lacrosse team again,” Pfeffer says. “Nothing has really changed. One of the best things about this year’s team is that we’re all so close. Whether you’re a starter or reserve is irrelevant, the most important aspect of the whole experience is being part of the team.”
Pfeffer already is looking forward to joining the team again next year. Because he did not play his junior year while studying abroad, he has another year of athletic eligibility which he will likely be granted while finishing up on his undergraduate studies in the five-year architectural program.
Although anxious to play again next season, he’s not, however, looking ahead to next year as there is plenty more lacrosse to play for this Notre Dame squad.
While few student-athletes have had the opportunities to enjoy the full gamut of experiences that Notre Dame has to offer them, for Mike Pfeffer, it’s just been part of the game.
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A Black Woman Takes Us Into the Swirl of Bipolar Disorder in New Memoir, I’m Telling the Truth, But I’m Lying
Bassey Ikpi’s I’m Telling The Truth, But I’m Lying, the 43-year-old’s journey into her mental health struggle, is not a traditionally written memoir—neither in its structure nor in its nonchronological narrative. It is poetic, it is revelatory, it is distressing; it is, at times, exhausting. It is a literal entree into the mind of someone in deep emotional distress. It is sometimes a rough read because Ikpi put words to the all-encompassing despair that so many face and how that can sabotage, or at least strain, those relationships closest to us.
Alas, psychic pain is never pretty. And the newly minted New York Times bestselling author did an amazing job in bringing us into this swirling dervish of the mind; she, a young black woman living in Brooklyn in the throes of manic depression (or Bipolar II), a diagnosis the Nigerian-American poet and writer has been dealing with for a very long time.
Ikpi says the way she wrote the book was the only way she could be true to her story.
“A couple of years ago, when I was toying with the idea of writing a book, the kinds of books that I had read with people documenting either their mental health or traumas were written in ways that didn’t feel true to my experience—they were very clinical and filled with facts and statistics and very academic language to describe things themselves they were going through and nothing really encapsulated or brought you into what that full experience was,” she says.
Ikpi clarifies that the book she sold was self-help but that her process felt very “dishonest on many levels”; the first iteration of the book did not even begin to scratch the surface of her lived experience as a Nigerian-American woman with a serious brain illness.
“So much of [Bipolar II disorders are] nonlinear, is gaps and stops and huge sections that aren’t clear, factual, historical, chronological…it’s these very intense emotional memories, and the only way I could be realistic about that was to take the most unconventional road to get there,” Ikpi explains. “I wasn’t trying to go too far left into like writing emojis and memes and what have you; I wanted to make it as realistic as possible while taking in the fact that people reading may not know anything about the experience, and I didn’t want them to get lost and frustrated.”
There was, however, one chapter in particular, “This Is What Happens,” where Ikpi says she wanted to frustrate the reader so that they might get an inkling of what just one night of mania might feel like. Her editors wanted to cut some of it or edit it out completely, but Ikpi was insistent. The deeply disturbing, heartbreaking, powerful chapter remained.
“My editors wanted to cut it, people wanted to completely edit it out because it was four or five pages, and I said either it all stays or it all leaves. There’s no editing this. The reason I wrote it like this was to show how painstakingly frustrating and uncomfortable and exhausting a night like this [can be]. Now imagine having nights like this for weeks and months on end, so by the time people get to that 3 a.m. they’re like, ‘Oh My God, I’m so tired of this.’ You’re supposed to be tired. It is exhausting. This is what it feels like. This is the frustration. You can’t really escape it. You have to just keep going until it decides to subside and you can continue on with what you can fashion out of a normal day. People were frustrated, they wanted to stop reading it. Good.”
Ikpi says that she laid herself bare so that others going through it know that they’re not alone, and those who love them might understand just how difficult the journey is.
“It was for people to see themselves, and have a connection to another person who may feel the same way and I am just lucky enough just to have been able to write it down and put it in a book. It was also an explanation and an apology to the people in my life. I keep talking about 2016, but 2016 was the most difficult year of my life. And I was ready to go. I was done. I was tired,” she says. “I knew people in my life who had taken their own lives and their letters always felt so insufficient, like I didn’t think the people around them understood how hard they tried and how much work everyday living was for them. I tried so hard, and I still can’t do this and I need you to understand. This is how hard I’ve been trying.”
The good news is that Ikpi is a survivor; she made it through that year and says she’s now the healthiest she’s ever been, through a combination of intense therapy and medication.
“What I went through in my past and knowing how difficult it was, and knowing it was in the past, it was an amazing feeling. Looking back, if I were ever to fall into a depressive episode or manic episode or high anxiety episode is that I survived it. That I made it.”
Ikpi also wanted to note that in this age of “cancel culture,” that she didn’t want people to walk away with ill feelings towards the people she writes about, her mother, her lovers, her friends and family. It is that nuance, that grace, that is perhaps one her illness’ greatest gifts to her.
“I’m very protective of the people that I write about it, and I don’t want people to walk away with ‘This person was abusive’; I don’t want that. I want to as much as possible to juxtapose how one undiagnosed person runs up into another undiagnosed person and the kind of friction or toxicity that creates. I think it’s too easy, especially now, where people know all the academic jargon and they know all of the words that they use them so freely, so for instance, ‘ghosting’…but if you decide that you need to separate from somebody, then it’s self-care,” she says.
“And I want people to really look at the fact that there’s never black or white. It’s so complicated and I want people to understand that this book is about how complicated life is period, but how much more it is when you’re trying to battle your brain for space and time and all of these other things. I just want people to be very kind to people, not just the people you love but those you can’t stand; the kind of empathy that where nobody is a victim and everything is more than what we see.”
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27/09/2016 by Anna Smith.
When Anna Smith arrives at Waiheke Island it is raining, but the weather doesn’t deter her as she reveals her exclusive Waiheke Island guide.
There’s always been something magical about Waiheke – even in the rain, which is pit-pattering on the ferry windows as we glide into the small port 35 minutes from Auckland. The lush, green island on the Hauraki Gulf is home to many artists as well as farmers, vineyard owners and wealthy reclusive types who helicopter into their holiday retreats. With acres of barely-inhabited land and numerous quiet beaches, you really can get away from it all here – but there’s no shortage of culture, either. It’s the kind of place you dream about retiring to.
What to do on Waiheke Island
The first town to greets you from the ferry is Oneroa, small by most standards but the main centre of Waiheke, with a line of shops, restaurants and bars. Come here if you fancy browsing classy boutiques for hand crafted goods or an upscale souvenir. Oneroa is also home to the Waiheke Community Art Gallery – this being an artists’ colony, there’s plenty of talent on display in the realm of ceramics, glass and sculpture as well as painting – and there’s no shortage of inspiration for more traditional landscape artists.
I’m a big fan of community run cinemas so I love the characterful Waiheke Cinema, which shows new releases in a cosy, characterful environment: think quirky donated sofas and volunteer staff. They also screen locally made short documentaries before the main features, so a visit here gives you a good feel for local life.
If you’re keen to get close to nature, hire a car to drive around the island (some people even hire backpackers to drive them round, we’re told). There are some gorgeous guided walks and outdoor tours as well as horse riding and cycling activities that will take you along the beautiful beaches – see here for a list of tours. Kite surfing, kayaking, stand-up-paddle boarding and all manner of boating options are available.
Where to eat and drink on Waiheke Island
Most of the eateries enjoy stunning views of the sea: The Oyster Inn in Oneroa is a popular choice with both locals and visitors, serving up tremendous steaks as well as their trademark Oysters – they recently won Metro’s Restaurant Of The Year award. Naturally, they have a great selection of wines and the staff are super cheery and helpful.
The Mudbrick Vineyard & Restaurant enjoys legendary local status, but there are plenty of other vineyard worth visiting: we pop into Passage Rock for a tasting with cheerful host Charity, who plies us with an impressive selection of award-winning wines – make sure you leave some room in your suitcase for a take-home, although you can of course also ship them home. Their Reserve Syrah is the island’s most awarded wine, having bagged over 18 gold medals and six trophies.
Where to stay in Waiheke Island
Alongside its restaurant, The Oyster Inn offers comfortable boutique accommodation in its colonial-style building, with crisp white decor, well stocked bedrooms and roomy bathrooms. Rates start at NZ$195 a night and include ferry transfers and a hearty breakfast with locally sourced produce.
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Cathay Pacific now offers a choice of three routes between the UK to Hong Kong, and onwards to Auckland: fly from London Heathrow, Manchester Airport or Gatwick Airport. Economy return fares from £729, Premium economy from £2,019, Business from £3,639. Call 0208 834 8888.
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It's summer time and everyone's switching to beach-inspired looks for their gear. So while Gucci has some of the most expensive and sought-after slides and sandals worn by stars like Trippie Redd, what if you can make your own version for about 5 percent of the price? Speedy asks Complex staffers what is the better deal in this toes out edition of Don't Believe The Hype.
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Looks like nowadays Supreme is collaborating with everyone. Supreme this, Supreme that. But what happens when they try to bring back the iconic sunglasses that established one of the best rappers of all time, Notorious B.I.G. Are people feeling them or is this just another item that is hyped, Speedy finds out on this episode what Complex staffers think.
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Snack Bar anyone?
Posted on September 15, 2017 by Williams 68 Web Team
John Stickney ‘68, writing in the travel section of The New York Times in 2003, described the Williams College snack bar to his readership: “This breakfast or lunch standby, open to the public, has wooden-beam ceilings and a broad semicircle of tall windows. A motherly counter staff serves up comfort-food favorites like curly French fries …, frosts …, grilled honey buns …, tuna pockets with fresh tomato …, and a vegetarian garden burger ….”
The snack bar was aptly described as “the most beloved spot on campus” in an article published in The Williams Record in 2004. It observed that this iconic institution’s success “is visible every night of the week, when long lines trail out the door and an empty seat is hard to find”. Professor Johnson, Williams ’59, noted that it “was a success from the beginning”. In an interview, Dean Roseman said, “The Snack Bar is the greatest space, there’s no question about that. I think that’s due to the amount of light, all the windows and the food. Cook it and they will come.” But there was something more about it: it was a welcoming meeting place that had a real soul of its own.
Old buildings go (Baxter Hall, RIP 2004), and replacement buildings come (Paresky Center, born 2007), but Williams would cease to be Williams without a snack bar that had curving walls, wooden beams, and big windows, and served as a comfortable cross-roads for the entire campus. The planners of Paresky knew this, and they wisely designed it accordingly. So, in this regard at least, we have something reasonably recognizable to return to, and essentially in the same location, in Paresky.
Of course, those of us still who remain emotionally attached to the atmospheric Baxter Hall snack bar, given the personal experiences of our undergraduate years, will always think of the Baxter version as more echt Williams. We did not mind that Baxter resembled a paddlewheel steamboat, or contained lounges that did not seem to function well, since it had the snack bar as its crowning jewel.
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When Winter Carnival was King
Posted on February 21, 2017 by Williams 68 Web Team
We had no reason to know it (then), but Winter Carnival during our undergraduate years (and into the 1970’s) was in its heyday—not to be matched again in the recent past. Buying tickets to musical events, scrambling to arrange dates, constructing ice sculptures and organizing parties were all part of the most magical three-day blowout on the calendar.
It inspired the design of colorful silk screen posters for the occasion. Dartmouth, Middlebury, and other schools competed with the Williams teams organized by the Outing Club in four alpine events: jumping, downhill, slalom and cross-country.
The legendary Ralph Townsend, a member of the 1948 Nordic Team at the Olympics in St. Biarritz, was the coach. Dave Rikert won the Skimeister crown for several years running.
So what happened to this Williams tradition dating back to 1915?
Unbeknownst to some of us, the spectacular jumping competition was eliminated from the intercollegiate games in the late seventies, and the demise of the also exciting downhill occurred then as well. Dropping these signature events from the intercollegiate ski circuit removed much of the drama and excitement surrounding the weekend. Sadly, a Williams Record article in 2011 was entitled “Reviving Winter Carnival”. Enough said. For us, Winter Carnival affirmed our identity as Mountain Men, whether we were all decent skiers or not. Competing with students at other schools who came to our woodland wonderland to test their skills against ours only served to validate our good judgment in choosing a College where the temperature at night occasionally reached 30 degrees below zero Fahrenheit in the wintertime.
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OJ Simpson sues Cosmopolitan for defamation
Posted: Nov 7, 2019 / 10:24 PM PST / Updated: Nov 7, 2019 / 11:18 PM PST
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — OJ Simpson is taking the Cosmopolitan to court. Simpson says the hotel has painted him in a false light and subjected him to defamation.
The lawsuit stems from an incident in 2017, where Simpson was issued a notice for trespassing at the Cosmopolitan.
In court documents obtained by 8 News Now, Simpson’s attorney Malcolm LaVergne paints the night as a normal night out between Simpson and some friends. After eating at STK Steakhouse and spending time at the Clique lounge, Simpson and company left without incident. They were then confronted by security in the parking garage where the notice of trespass was issued to Simpson.
This incident happened just months after Simpson’s parole hearing, where he was released from prison.
Simpson’s attorney says no rationale was ever provided by the Cosmo for the trespassing notice, other than claiming it was “private” property the night of the issuance of the trespass notice.
The court documents also state that a TMZ article about the incident led Simpson’s parole officer to investigate if he had broken parole in the incident. The officer found the Cosmopolitan’s accusations to be false and that he had not violated his probation.
Simpson is looking to be paid for false light and defamation damages — each in excess of $15,000, along with costs of the lawsuit and other damages.
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Police want to stress this did not involve an active shooter, and the community is safe tonight.
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Venice is divided into sestiere (districts). The heart of the city is Piazza San Marco in San Marco sestiere, with many representative buildings like the Basilica of St. Mark or the Doge’s Palace.
Piazza San Marco, which is the most crowded place in Venice, for centuries has been a witness of many events. To the east, the square is closed by the Basilica of St. Mark. The beginnings of the basilica date back to 829, when the doge Giustignano Partecipazio decided to build it in order to give a dignified shelter to the remains of St. Mark the Evangelist. In the tenth century, the basilica was destroyed by a terrible fire. Later, in the years 1043-1071, it was rebuilt in today’s shape. The original monumental severity of the basilica over time was filled with magnificent mosaics and marble ornaments, creating a synthesis of various styles, from Byzantine, through Gothic, to Renaissance.
The Doge’s Palace (Palazzo Ducale), which stands next to the basilica, from the ninth century was the residence of the next doges and the seat of the authorities of the Republic. It was originally a fortified castle. Several times destroyed by fire, it obtained today’s form as a result of works carried out in the 14th and early 15th centuries, becoming a masterpiece of Venetian floral Gothic style. The facade covered with white and pink marble from Verona is beautifully decorated with ground floor arcade and first floor loggias made of Istrian marble. Above the main portal there is a symbolic sculpture of the doge kneeling in front of the winged lion.
St. Mark’s bell-tower was initially a watchtower and a lighthouse. Its construction began in the ninth century, but rebuilt many times over the centuries it gained the present shape in the 16th century. On July 14, 1902, it suddenly collapsed. The reconstruction started almost immediately ‘exactly as and where it was’. In 1912 on St. Mark Day (April 25) Venetians officially celebrated reopening of the Campanile. Measuring 98.6 m it is the highest building in Venice.
The Renaissance clock tower (Torre dell’Orologio), built in the 15th century, in the lower part is a gate leading to Mercerie. On top of it there are bronze figures called Moors (Mori), which for five centuries have been ringing the bells and striking the hours. In the middle part of the tower there is a clock with a gold plated and enamelled shield, which was placed on the tower at the end of the 15th century. It shows not only the hours but also phases of the moon, signs of the zodiac and even the seasons.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Two toddlers died early Thursday in Chicago after a woman believed to be their mother stabbed a 70-year-old man, left one of the children in a bathtub and threw the other child out an 11th-floor apartment before jumping herself, police said.
Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said investigators were trying to determine exactly what happened and confirm the relationships. He said the man who was found with severe stab wounds in the apartment on the city’s South Side was believed to be the woman’s grandfather.
Guglielmi said both adults were in critical condition, and the man was undergoing surgery.
Officers were dispatched to the scene shortly before 2 a.m. Thursday after someone called 911 to report seeing a severely injured person on the street.
Before he and the woman were rushed to the University of Chicago Medical Center, the man told officers that the woman had stabbed him before she threw one toddler out the window, Guglielmi said.
Guglielmi said that the positions of the body suggest that a 1-year-old boy was thrown out of the window before the woman jumped herself. He said that it is unclear why she survived, saying that perhaps something broke her fall.
Officers rushed up to the apartment after being directed there by building security and found the body of a 2-year-old boy in a bathtub. He said the boy had suffered severe lacerations and was badly burned by scalding water.
Both children were pronounced dead at Comer Children’s Hospital.
The 70-year-old man was found inside the apartment, bleeding profusely from cuts to his face and body. There were initial reports that the man was the father of the woman, who is believed to be in her 30s, but Guglielmi said Thursday morning that based on the ages of the two and what the man told police, investigators believe he is the woman’s grandfather. Guglielmi also said he did not know if a weapon had been recovered.
Guglielmi said that police have not determined a motive for what appears to be a murder-attempted suicide by the woman. He said there were no calls made to police about any disturbance at the apartment in the hours before the 911 call.
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team 4 ather alert. a severe thunderstorm watch out for parts of the area. >> right now you can see a few storms popping up on the radar,e but threat lasts until 10:00 at least. > and we're helping you stay ahead of the storms kicking off three hours of team coverage. doug and amelia are inthe storm center. guys, no repeat of yesterday at this hour, so where are storms right now? >> the storms right now are off to the west and that's where we expect them to be throughout the nd into the afternoon the evening hours. that's where the severe threat is. then they move into d.c. metro area potentially later ts vening. >> we could still see heavy rain even into the later evening and overnight hours. it's just s o humidut there tonight. the severe threat is until 8:00. loud know,ts and poo the west. it does not include d.c. we're not going to see much in the way of severe weather. it is all i the western zone. we have a severe thunderstorm warning forer fredck county
virginia, virginia and into clerk county virginia. this is until 4:30. this storm rht over winchester. right through downtown. this had a ton of lightning associated with it. we have seen it weaken just a bit. tracking this storm as itmakes its way off to the noh and east. heads up. numerous storms off to the west as well. so this area will only be enhanced by some of these storms moving on in. once again, we do have that threat as we move on through the rest of the evening hours. much more on what to expect tonight and the wrekend. we'alking about the potential for a little bit of a washout one day. we'll talk about that coming up. >> all right. e day, not two days. >> probably sunday is the day that we're looking at. a litt bit better day tomorrow. can't rule out a shower. sunday, we'll talk about that as well. >> thanks, doug. you can s severe weather with the nbc washington app. you'll be notified when bad weather is coming your way. to montgomery county where a judge has sentenced a teenager
to prison time in connection with gang activity. cell phone video captured the moments where the teen waved a machete at another person in a parking lot. newsroom alez in t with the details. >> this is part of a wider effort in montry county where police and prosecutors are working to crack down on gang violence. the judge today sentencing 19-year-old luis martinez to 10 years for threatening a man with aachete. this all unfolded in a festival shopping center in gaithersburg. the victim using the cell phone to try to capture so of these moments. martinez holds the machete in one hand. you saw him there flashing a gang symbol for ms 13 with the other. we're told the victim pulled out a pocket knife and t gang member ran off. >> i mean, this is a guy who did brandi a 2 foot long machete in a parking lot of ary busy shopping center at around 5:00 in the afternoon on an august
afternoon. amean, this is not something we should tolerate a community. >> so another gang member involved in this attack hasr aldy been sentenced to prison. prosecutors say the gangs are recruiting new members in middle and high school levels. pat and leon, back over to you. >> thank you, erika. a localteacher has been charged with getting drunk at school. deputies arrested the teacher at mill run elementary in loudon county yesterday. northern virginia bureau reporter david culver is live in ashburn. we know you've been doing some digging. this happened several times before with other teachers? >> reporter: the news 4 i-team, i'm going to walk you through the list they've compiled. irst i want you to hear the surprise for parents when they learned about this arrest. headed he for th weekend. mill run elementary school students leaving happy and full of energy. parents not feeling the same
joy. >> i think of my daughter every day at around this time, so it ally surprised me today. >> i think ther areachers like this. >> reporter: she is referring to special education teacher brian chamer, arrested the middle of the day on thursday. >> they found this individual had alcoholic beverage on his eath so it appeared he was under the influence of alcohol. then in the subsequent check of his personal belongings, we found he also had vodka on him. s reporter: loudon county public schoolsid he began working there in 2012 as a substitute. he then served as a teacher assistant. then a special education teacher in 2016. he joined mill run twoears ago. tonight he is on administrative leave. >> it's actually happened before. it's not like this is the first time. >> the i-team covering the recent incident. april 2017 a sterling middle school teacher charged with, dur dui and possession of alcohol.
a few months later at t same school a teacher arrived intoxicated accused of drinking in the classroom. the same year three arlington teachers fromlo tayelementary zpl zpl dismissed. in all those cases, the educators have their virginia teaching licenses revoked. this most recent arrest could end the same way. >> it's concerning. certainly concerning for us. i think it was rely -- the prin pal w principal was on the ball and let us know what was going on. >> we're out here working on this story toda pat. we noticed a parent drive by, a dad who said i don't want to go on camera, but i want you to er know that teaas a good person and a dedicated teacher, specifically pointing out how he handled teachers with special needs. he's got a range of emotions. >> a disturbing case, david.nk thaou so much. news 4 has learned there is a plea deal in the works of
sending a racy photond soliciting sex. allison briel is expected to plead guilty monday to contributing to the delinquency of three minors.ll she'et a suspended three year sentence. she was the school's marketing teacher. she's been on leave without pay since november. so many tof you callis worrying about this scene down by the jefferson memorial earlier today. black smoke billowing from ohio drive. it turns out it wasar a c fire. these are new pictures of that car fully engulfed in one of the parking lots. turns out one person was injured. right now we don't know exactly what started that fire. we told you about another atm e robberyly yesterday morning, this time in slver springs. we've got new video just in to news 4. two suspects wen into the 7/7 on tech road and forced the store employees to the floor. a third person rammed a pckkup truhrough the front of the store. they loaded up the atm and took off. thankfully no one was injured. the suspects'r wetold wore
black hoodies and covered their faces. in recent weeks several atms have bee targeted for thefts. police in several jurisdictions are looking to see if the cases are connected. they hired ake careta with nearly 50 years of experience to watch their infant. now a local family's nanny is going to go to prison forhat child's murder. today in court the nanny begged the judge to send her home to heramily instead of sending her off to prison. news 4 tracee wilkins was there in the courtroom and she joins us now live with a heartbreaking end to a family's painful journey. >> reporter: there were a lot of tears in this courtroom, high emotions on both sides. ad ple who were sitting in nothing to do with the case found themselves crying when they heard people talking about how this has impacted their lives. one point the defendant got on her knees and asked the judge for mercy. this nanny is taking a 7unce
bottle of formula and feeding it to this 8 month old. we're not showing what happens next, but according to state prosecutors, she feeds the child so forcefully that the infant suffocates. the nanny then force feeds the 8 month old water according to prosecutors. the once vibrant 8 month old playing in her walker just moments earlier passes out andd s. >> she should have known that her actions could have caused serious bodily harm and in this case death. >> reporter: she called the ath an accident. prosecutors say she was not honest with theher about what she did. they only found out after testing the nanny cam video. >> she's taken care of children her whole life about the last 5e s. never been any problem. i think that's why she was so emotional. she doesn't want it to be thought that she wanted any harm to come to that child. >> reedrter: the judge sentenc her to 15 years in prison on
child abuse and fifth degree murder charges. >> i don't be if she'll make it through a 15 year sentence quite honestly. >> reporter: lots of concerns about her being 73 years old and her health and be ng inprison. on the other hand, you have a family who has lost their little one. at the end of the day, the judge said the nanny should have known better. tracee wilkins, back to you all in the studio. >> just breaks your heart. thank you, tracee. a church pastor says he's ng thankiod there wasn't more damage done after a fire. it started in the steepl of the new life worship center. pastor juan wilder says the flames made it into the second floor nursery but not into the main sanctuary. they heard a loud bang and smelled smoke. someone called 91 and the fi department arrived quickly and the pastor said it saved the church. >> there was an angel riding by. called in right on time. my faith has been renewed.
it's on 100 now to know that god, you know what, i was worried for a moment, but you ill get the glory for this. >> the cause of this fire still under investigation. some sad news from one of our area's largest companies. marriott's ceo has been r.agnosed with can the company says sorenson has stage two pancreaticancer. the cancer was caught early and he doesn't appear to have a case that spread. he's planning to continue working while receiving treatment. he'll begin that treatment next week and may have to under surgery before the end of the year. we wish him well. >> definitely. may the 4th with you. that's "star wars." but this year will be marked without a favorite character. peter mayhew, the actor who played chewbacca. >> mayhew died tuesday from a
heart attack. he was 74. he was working as a hospital ord orderly when he was discovered by george lucas. >> he played in the original "star wars." he was a consultant on the last jedi to help guide his success r into the role. amazing work to put character into an 8 foot tall figure covered in hair. >> an actor who won't be fo gotten. tomorrow local students are going to be celebrating the " >> tommy mcfly has more on the event as he looks ahead and some fun ideas for your weekend. plus new video of deadly flooding in the midwest. we're getting an update on the recovery under way as one river threatens again to spill banks. storm team 4 tracking rain and more storms. notice where these are. all off to the west. nothing around the d.c. metro area. we don't expect anything the rest of the afterno it's all in the western zone. also into western portions of maryland. a severe thunderstorm warning
still foric freder county, virginia and clark county. now a new flash flood watch in effect for parts of the area. what we
. ibaka with a -- back with a weather alert for you. doug says some of these have potential to be severe. on> a drone's eye view reveals clear devastatin iowa. >> towns along the mississippi river watching as the waters are washing out roads and swallowing up yards along the way. at least three deaths blamed on the storm that pushed the river tser ibanks. >> jay gray explains what's next for victims of the flood. >> catastrophic flooding continues across the midwest. >> this was the worst that i've seen >>it. iolent storms spawning tornadoes, hail and driving rains in areas already soaked pushing creek, lakes and rivers past their banks. crews and residents scramble to build concrete barriers, but the water is still forcing its w in. >> you can't seal it up completely. they've got pumps running 24 hours a day. >> repchter: there is too mu water to pump in many places, roadways and neighborhoods are t
flooded fromexas to michigan. in some areas the water coming in so fast the only way out is by boat.ay >> i'd 3 to 4 feet within less than ten minutes. >> less than that zb >> reporter: davenport, iowa,s habeen swallows by the misssippi river. out.own has been washed forecasters say the storms will continu cause problems as they move through the northeast whilthe cleanup now begins in places they've already been. jay gray, nbc news. you really have to feeolfor those fs. a lot of them go through this every year or so. >> but not like this. they really do. flooding is prone to this time of year for sure, but this is something they haven't seen in a long time.o of our producers lives in the omaha area. he said this isworse than 1993 which was one of the worst years offlooding ever, so therere
ally going through it in parts of the midwest. we'll have more coming up. for it's all about the storms in our area. a flew threat we've got out there. we've got the severe thunderstorm watch. that's for areas in the pink. frederickcounty, maryland, loudon, fauquier and points to the north and west, so again, most of northern virginia west of i-95 and then just about the enre state of west virginia and then western portions of maryland. the strongest storms are in west virginia. this storm right here no longer severe. they've dropped the severe thunderstorm warning. it has weakened a little bit. a news storm just to the south of winchester. other storms have formed into parts of the panhandle. heads up into berkeley county, jefferson viunty, mo right in towards jefferson county. as we widen out, you see what's happening. ather back into west virginia. we're going to see this whole mess right in here. all of this just going to move
our way into a fairly unstable atmosphere and give us that chance for severe weather. the other threat that we have n toht, the flash flood threat. this is until midnight. this includes the panhandle of mest virginia, westernyland all the way over to frederick, and frederick county, virginia, and clark county, virginia. up to 3 inches of rain possible. pockets of very heavy rain. remember, turn arou don't drown. we do not want tody see anybo have any problems. you do not need to be rescued. make sure you turn aroundhen you see that waterer going ov any roadways. in and around the d.c. metro area, not bad. we've got sunshine and cloud cover. clouds to the nort sun to the south. winds out of the northeast at 14 miles an hour. i went for a high temperature today of 85. here's what's happening. same thing that happened the other day. that northeaste look at the numbers. 69 in baltimore. 87 in fredericksburg. a 20 degree temperature
difference. even in d.c. 76 here. pla nas sas at 85. having a tough time doing so with the northeast flow. tonight we've got the showers, we've got the thundunstorms. ar 6:00, one possibly around the loudon county area movio int montgomery and fading out. by 10:00 here comes the storms through frederick county, maryland. then right on down i-81 eventually into the d.c.metro area. right around 11:00, 12:00. if you're going out late night, you may need the umbrella this evening. i tomorrow we're clear tomorror clear. not expecting much in the way of rain. saturd mostlyry. here's 1:00, but watch what happens during the afternoon. a couple of showers.a uple of storms on your friday. most of friday will be dry. sunday is the day i expect a lot of rain. let's talk about that. high temperature of only 73. a.m. rain if not shower activity throughout the afternoon. that's something we'll track for you. monday.
82 on tuesday. more on the weekend forecast. join us in about 25 minutes. amelia joins me in the webster. >> those numbers looking nd more southern like. >>e> with m thator in remind, wn the community helping you stretch your summer travel budget. >> molette green and photographer irene get away from the big city bustle on a single tank ofgas. >> we took a one tank trip to paradise. >> see how molette does. ystersg the local then what's your breast cancer risk? surgeons offer new mammogram screening guidelines based on your individl history. it's known as the boat that helps win the war. you get up close and personal. i'm tommy mcfly with what's on tap for yourheeekend. t higgins landing boat makes
its way tohe nationalall of fame museum to help commemorate the 75th anniversary of d-day. you check it out for yourself nd the man who invented it andrew higgins will be inducted into the hall of fame. belmont ridge middle schoo youngfans of comics, the art and "star wars" are in for quite a treat at river con. it is may the 4th be with you. "star wars" day. the man who plays bobafet will be there answering fans questions. n the grounds of the national cathedral today and tomorrow, it's the annual flower march. way more than gorgeous blossoms. fun, food. really cool artisan gifts you can only get at the flower mart. you can find out how the national cathedral has a mig of
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died. the fda says there is not enough idence to have aan but they will investigate. a story guaranteed to make you smile. beautiful beach, breath taking views and all the seafood you can eat. >> we're lucky enough to have h all that wit a drive of where we sit. molette green and her photographer made the trip t virginia's eastern shore on just one tank of gas. >> on one tank of gas we drove three hours to land at the flit facility. nasa's only launch range. the site of important missions to the moon and beyond. we're almost clauose enough to able to touch one of three launch pads. >> you can come down to the eastern shore of virginia and be able to see space activity, be able to see nature. >> nine miles down the road, a ride into serenity. though we ditched our car for a bright yellow california ford
roadster to enjoy a wind in your face ride around town.ca lo welcomed us, including a d.c. native who moved away from the hustle of city life decades uo. >> when crossed the bridge coming in here, you'll see the marsh on the side. there's certain times when that marsh, people think it stinks, but it's a wonderful smell to me. >> living here on an island known forng protecti wild horses and ponies. they roam free here. not far away, s andy paradise at the beac all inside the wildlife refuge. oysters and clams fresh out of the water. there's one road in and one road off the island.
and we did it all on one tank os g i'm molette green for news 4. >> i guess the miles in that car don't count. >> riding in style. cono, they don'tt. the oysters that she was talking about will be on full display a the p51st annual festival. >> it's happening tomorrow from 00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at tom's cove park. if you leave at 7:00 a.m., you should be in good shape. >> sounds good. from the beach to the racetrack. tommy mcfly is getting us ready for the derby, kentucky derby, that is. he's got the mint julep recipe. storm team 4 has issued a weather alert for parts of our area. b doug and amck with the rnpact. plus a wang about a scary am. susan hogan joins us soon with a consumer alert about a one-ri
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game mber. this is a store video of yesterday's atm theft at a 7/11 in silver spring. two robbers forced employees to the floor while a third thief backed the pickup truck through the front of that building. you see the busted out windower thon the side of your loscreen. the up the atm and took off with it. the employees thankfully were not iured. news 4 has learned of a plea deal with the loudon county high school teacher accused of sending a racy photo to some of her students. allison briel will plead guilty to contributing to the delinquencyof a minor monday and receive a three year suspended sentence. storm team 4 radar declares a weather alert for the possibility oftrong to severe storms. our team is all over this for y. right look at the radar now. many of us will be uer are sevehunderstorm watch until 10:00 tonight. doug and amelia have got their eyes on that. back over to you. let's get a quick update on
thegh forecast rinow. >> chief meteorologist doug kammerer standing by in the storm center. i know you have now warnings up? >> yah. remember, this is not for the d.c. area today. i think tonight we have a chance for some rain, but this is all back to the western zones. frederick county,[6.róñ loudon, fauquier county, points to the west under that severe thunderstorm watch unti0. 10:0 right now tracking two storms. this one was severe, but no longer. it's weakened moving into jefferson county, west virginia. this is the new warning. this is right around steven city. the new warningincludes parts of frederick county, virginia, as well as clark county andrr wa county. shenandoah kocounty as well. this is strasburg right here. watch out in this area. strasburg t around this area, some hail reported in this storm just south of steven city right along i-81. this one moving off to the east only at 15 miles an hour, meaning very heavy rainat associ with that. more storminess throughout the night. you see where the warnings or the watches are once this syste
moves. much more on this, more on what it means to your weekend. we're back in a few minutes. now to the power struggle between president trump and democrats in congress. it comes amid continued turmoil over theueller report and word of an hour long conversation between president trump and russian president vladimir putin. suz susan mcginnis is on capitol hill on a day where that news overshadows some pretty strong >> that's right, pat. the day started out bright. really good numbers from the job frontwere out. he could have spent the day enjoying th numbers. then we got wind of the hour long phone call with russian president vladimir putin which stole the headlines. president trump talked to russian leader vladimir putin bd phone tay. among many issues they d cussed, the conclusion of the mueller report. >> he said something to the effect that it started off as a mountain and it ended up being a
mouse, but he knew that because he knew there was no collusion. >> whey they did not discuss, the focus of mueller's report, russian election meddling. >> did you ask him if he muddled in the election? >> didn't discuss that. >> russia grabbing the spotlight again on a day when the president was basking in some of the strongest job numbers in a generation. the ecomy added more jobs than spec'd last month. the jobless rate fell to the ev lowest since 1969. more evidence that decade long recovery continues. >> our country is doing well. it never probably has done as well itself it's doing right now economically. >> president trump be'eves that were just getting started in cris economy. >> meanwhile deats feel they are just getting started in their battle with the white house and attorney general william barr. today house judiciary chairman jerryr nadle wrote barr setting a monday morning deadline to give lawmakers access to more of the mueller report with a threat to hold barr in contempt. >> to see the attorney general
of the united states withhold the facts, misrepresent the facts and lie to the congress of the united states and doing so he's lieg ying to the american people. >> democrats not backing down from what they call their oversight responsibility. the head of the senate judiciary committee, senator lin ey graham extended an offer to testify before the congress. no tlling yet if mueller will testify. >> and everybody in this town can't wait to find out whether he will. thanks, susan. we'll see what happens down the r have a good weekend. the measles outbreak has caused a court fight in a new york suburb. rockland county issued a state of emergency after more than 200 cases have popped up since last year. it happens to be home to many jewish communities which rarely vaccinate their children. the city is offering summons for
those not following requirements. they're also closing down jewisw schoolsre the students were attending classes. closer to hom they win the round. they did not. but two local contestants did make the top ten in this year's miss usa pageant. >> eun yang joins us next with more about the standout young women. and we're in 24 weather alert mode with counts in pink including frederick county in maryland and virginia, loudon and fauquier counties under severe thunderstorm watch until. 10:00 10:00 we'll have the latest t it hasn't always been easy, has it? ♪ there have been days when you doubted yourself. ♪ and days when you were ready to quit.♪
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a different woman is nowng wearhe crown this afternoon. >> the annual miss usa pageant took place last night in nevada. eun yang has aow look at h some of our local csntestants did a well. >> there is a new miss usa. miss north carolina was crowned last night. attorney ryst is a and holds a masters in business administration. beautiful and smart at 27 years old, she is the oldest waman ever n miss usa. this is district of columbia. rwe shared he incredible story with you earlier this year. she was once in foster care and now works for the d.c. child and familye services y. miss maryland also made the top ten. she is a university sudent.
miss usa will go off to compete in miss universe later this year. >> the locals didn't win but they certainly did represent. you would never have known it, but kelly clark son wson wa pain when she was hosting the billboard music awards. clarkson wowed the crowd but now she's conrming she was battling a pen -- i broke down in tears after the show from pain. showu baew back right after the and had her appendix removed on wednesday morning. >> okay. i have much more respect for her now. that was a heck of a performance. >> it takes a lot of strength to get through something like that. speaking of awesome, if the weather cooperates accident we're in for a different kind of show this weekend. >> amelia is here for the different kind of show.
ameteor shower and how you see it. >> let's cross our fingers that the weather cooperates for just a little bit so we have the meteor shower happening out there this weekend on into monday. technically peaks the 5th, on sunday. but you can still go out tomorrow morning before dawn, sunday morning beforeawn and monday morning before dawn and actually i think your best bet is either going to be tomorrow morning or monday morning based on the weather forecast to maybe catch a few meteors out there streaking through the sky. now, if you're in the southern hemisphere, you're getting in on a fantastic showing of the shower, but we can still make out here not too bad. we can see potentially about 10 to 20 meteors per hour. if you do go out and watch, give yourself a little bit of time. you want to be away for bright lights. allow your eyes to gets adjusted. you can just look up. you don'tneed to look anywhere specific to try to catch a meteor. this meteor shower comes from
debris left behind haley's com met. doug and i have more on the weekend forecast coming up. >> thanks, amelia. our other big weather story today, storm team 4 monitoring chances for strong thunderstorms tonight. a severe thunderstorm watch up right now for parts of the area. doug and amelia back in minutes with the impact on the rekt of the wed. the wed. and i'm susan hogan. sch gardens is s ding you... er the edge! scream and swing 80 feet high in the air! save $12 on a single day ticket. only at busch gardens.
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consumer reporter susan hogan if working you with a consumer alert about the latest scam. >> as if robocalls aren't annoyie' enough, now w getting them in the middle of the night. it's got so baden in rweeks that today the fcc issued a new warning. the fcc says this is what's known as a m.e ring phone s the scammers let the phone ring once or twice, then theyang up hoping you call back. these numbers are usually like the 1-900 numbers here in the u.s. where you pay an extra fee per minute for that call. well, of course that money goes directly to the scammers, so here are four thing you can do right now to protect yourself from illegal robocalls. don't answer or return any of those calls fom numbers you don't recognize. if you don't make international calls, ask your carrier to block outgoing international calls on your line so you don't accidentally dial one. use a robocall detection app to
help filter out the unwanted if you're still billed for a call you made, ask your phone company to reverse the charges for you. if they don't, you can file a complaint with the fcc.ou of e, we have a link for you right now on our nbc wasngton app. you can also turn the phone off. one thing we don't want turned off is doug's radar. it is hopping. >> it is to thewest of me. if you're in d.c. or to the south of washington where reesterday there was an aa that was really hit hard. we saw a lot of trees down, a lot of heavyn. rai today it's all well north and west, areas that did not see much in thea way of yesterday are getting it today with the severe thunderstorm watch.ha and we a severe thunderstorm warning going on for parts of frederick county, virginia, clark county, and aarren county. there's the wh as well. notice it does not include d.c. or areas to the south and east. nothing around baltimore, fredericksburg, down toward parts ofouthern maryland. it does include points to the
west. you see a lot of heavy rain in through parts of west virginia ecluding the panhandlof west virginia. this was a severe storm. it's really dying off. this right here is the storm that we're watching now. thiss just to the south of winchester, right around steven city. you see here anytime we see this pink, that is hail. we did see dime size hail. thank you for that report. we've got another one just south of steven city making its way to the north and east, in towards northern portions of warren y. count let's zoom in one more time. i want to show you exactly where this storm is. this is stephens city right along 11 coming into 277 in about the next 15 to 20 minutes. heads up for that area. not moving fast which mea very heavy rainfall. the potential is there for flooding. the watch extends through most rginia. watching this line, this line right here is also going to intersect with t unstable atmosphere in ouron regi that's why we think more storms
are likely and why we also see some in the d.c. metarea. flash flood watch. another concern for foolao fling, everybody to the north and west until midnight tonight. amelia, we're tracking this next stem that comes in tomorrow night and into sunday. that could bring heavy rain too. >> absolutely, doug. fo pretty much theame areas that we're talking about tonight. north and west of the d.c. metro area. frederick county and maryland and virginia,loudon, fauquier counties, areas farther back, you have the best chance for again tomorrow night. but we could see that in the d.c. metro area as well. let's time it out. future weather, 3:00 p.m. on saturday, some pea of sunshine, maybe an isolated shower or stray storm, but most of saturday day completely dry. we hit 7:00 p.m., notice we're tracking hit and miss showers, maybe a rumble of thunder. then we move toward midnight. this is what'soving into the area. notice this heavy rain in northern virginia, the panhandle
of west virginia and western maryland as well. a 4:00. in the morning, you're a slight sleeper, you may be woken up by heavy rainfall eoving through the area. you can't rul out isolated flooding, but for the most part you'll be waking up to damp sidewalking and driveways. 9:00 a.m. future weather has us mainly drive. otherwise plenty of clouds. a fewi showers are posse during the day on sunday. it's not a washout. we're going to have dry time. saturday versus sunday i'm seeing much more dry time out there on saturday compared to sunday. also a big temperature difference from 81 on saturday down to 73 on sunday. still a bit humid out there. inhint of humidity out the the forecast. we think rain is likely overnight tomorrow between about midnight and 4:00 a.m. >> after the dnight, a nice pattern on monday and tuesday. really nice weather. wednesday a littf ifbut still have it dry for now. chance of storms move back in on thursday and friday.
notice temperatures on the mild until next weekend. next weekend, right now it looks like we could go below average. bel below average still around the upper 60s. another un settled weather patt wn late nextk as well. >> thank you, doug. there is a new favorite to win the derby tomorrow. game winner with a 9-2 odds. omaha beach had to dropout. >> but a favorhete at t watch party, snow down is going to be the traditional mint julep drink. ne4's tommy mcfly got a chance to get advice on how to make yours. >> we're all excited for the kentucky derby toow right here on nbc 4, but the mint julep, the famed drink of the derby had some d.c. roots. we're with morgan, the whisk key adviser. what is the d.c. connection? >> it was brought to the round robin bar at the willard hotel. >> you have an at-home recipe if
you'reu watching and nt to participate by yourself. how do you make it happen? >> definitely. i like to elevate mine just a little bit, so i do 4 to 6 dropr ofose water which you can get aost anywhere. it's really not hard to procure. we do 8 to 10 mint leaves depending on the size of your mint leaves. nice little sprigs here. i'm doing probably more on the 10 side because i like mine a little mintier. depending on your sweetness, you catw do anywhere been a quarter ounce and half ounce of simple syrup. i do abo 1/3 of an ounce. don't want to rip up the mint. >> and it gets the flavor of the mint. >> exactly. helps fuse the simple syrup with the mint. about 2 ouncesfur n here. then woor going e're going to p ice in here. >> if you don't have the fancy glass, you do grass at home?
>> absolutely. at church hill downs they serve it in an acrylic glass. >> they have thousands they go through. >> 120,0 julep. >> how many do you do here? >> off the top of my head, i don't know, but probably about a third of that. >> more than you would think. >> we are wall to wall of people. it's a lot ofun. it's a really great party. what i just did there, i tapped some mint on the back of my hand, kind of wake that mint uye at it a little bit, shove it right in there. it's rael pretty. then that extra little bit powdered sugar on top. >> look at that. rose water, simple syrup, bourbon mint. if you're enjoying the kentucky derby tomorrow or anything in the summertime, morgan, thank you very much. if you join us on the nbc washington app, she'll give you more exotic recipes with tumeric
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The Trial of Lee Baca
Day of Reckoning: The Strange and Memorable Afternoon When Former LA County Sheriff Lee Baca Pleaded Guilty to a Felony
by Celeste Fremon
Written by Celeste Fremon
BACA GOES TO COURT
On Wednesday afternoon, around five minutes before the 2:30 p.m. plea hearing was to begin in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson, former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca and his attorney, Michael Zweiback, walked down the left aisle of the courtroom, through the waist-high swinging door, to the defendant’s table where Baca carefully folded his lanky frame into a chair.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Brandon Fox, who is chief of the federal district’s public corruption and civil rights section, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Lizabeth Rhodes, chief of general crimes, were already seated on the other side of the room at the prosecution’s table.
The purpose of the hearing was for Baca to formally plead guilty to one felony count of lying to federal authorities when they questioned him in the course of a wide-ranging investigation into “corruption and civil rights violations” in the department he’d led for fifteen years.
Specifically, Baca admitted that he lied to the FBI and members of the U.S. Attorney’s Office during a round of questioning on April 12, 2013. At that time, among other denials by Baca, the former sheriff falsely claimed ignorance of the fact that, in 2011, two LASD sergeants were going to approach FBI special agent, Leah Marx, and threaten her with arrest, hoping to get information about the feds’ rapidly expanding investigation into brutality by deputies in the county’s large jail system.
In fact, Baca has now admitted, he gave instructions that the officers “should do everything but put handcuffs on her.” Her being Agent Marx.
Now the act of pleading guilty in open court was the next step in the process of executing the plea agreement with the feds that Baca signed on Monday in lieu of facing a federal indictment for his alleged part in obstructing the government’s probe into LASD wrongdoing.
The idea of a plea was reportedly floated by Baca’s attorneys months ago, according to members of the U.S. Attorney’s office. But it was only in the last few days that the final language of the deal had been nailed down in a flurry of negotiations.
Baca was arraigned on the single charge on Wednesday morning, then at noon U.S. Attorney Eileen Decker held a hastily arranged press conference to announce the existence of the deal, an event that had the LA press corps scrambling wildly to get to the downtown federal building and up to the 7th floor conference room on time to report on what was about to become a national story.
And now, finally, there was the hearing. Now the man who had, for most of his fifteen years in office, arguably been California’s most popular elected official, would publicly plead to a felony, that in all likelihood would lead to time in a federal prison, albeit probably for no more than six months.
The plea hearing was originally randomly assigned to U.S. District Court Judge John Kronstadt, but most people who had been following the multiple federal trials involving members of the LA Sheriff’s Department assumed that Judge Percy Anderson would manage to wrestle the proceeding into his own court room.
Anderson had been the jurist to preside over all three previous obstruction of justice trials, pertaining to the hiding of FBI informant and convicted bank robber Anthony Brown in what has come to be known as Operation Pandora’s Box, an ill-considered strategy that was, it seems, directed from the department’s highest levels, and that has, to date, resulted in the conviction of seven former LASD members, with accompanying prison sentences ranging from 18 to 41 months. (These cases are all on appeal with the Nineth Circuit Court of Appeals). One more department member, former captain Tom Carey, was indicted last year pertaining to Pandora’s Box, but he too has made a deal, in his case, in exchange for truthful testimony at the upcoming trial of his fellow indictee. That is, of course, Paul Tanaka, the once powerful former LASD undersheriff who, even with a potential federal indictment looming, came in second in the 2014 race for LA County Sheriff.
Tanaka’s trial, scheduled to begin jury selection on March 22, was also originally assigned to another judge. But exactly no one was surprised when the highly intelligent and decidedly quirky Anderson managed to arm wrestle the sure-to-be-theatrical Tanaka proceedings into his courtroom.
THE PLEA
For the occasion of his plea hearing, Lee Baca wore a highly-tailored dark brown suit, a pale shirt, a gold and brown striped tie, and a melon pink silk handkerchief carefully arranged in his left breast pocket.
Both of Baca’s parents struggled with impoverished circumstances, but according to the former sheriff, his father always somehow managed to be a snappy dresser and Baca too came to find pleasure in nice clothing. On Wednesday, in addition to the good suit, he’d fastened a small decorative pin to his left lapel. The shiny thing was smaller than a quarter, but shaped like the bright LASD sheriff’s star he’d worn for 49 years, 15 of those years as the Los Angeles County Sheriff.
As Baca and everyone else sat waiting for Judge Anderson to make his appearance, the former sheriff’s expression was one of enforced calm that appeared as if it could easily fracture. As the minutes passed, he seemed less and less sure what to do with his hands, which he finally laid half-clasped on the table in front of him, the tips of his long fingers touching, as if he was gently holding a thin glass ball the size of a navel orange between his palms.
At 2:33 p.m., Judge Anderson arrived, and the formal hearing began. Making a plea of this sort is a highly ritualized affair in which the judge asks a series of questions, and the defendant replies briefly. For the next 30 plus minutes, Anderson performed his side of the ritual, making programmed inquiries that allowed his honor to determined that Baca was not presently drunk, or on drugs, or suffering from a mental illness, reacting to threats or coercion, or anything else that might keep him from understanding and freely making the decision at hand.
Judge Anderson explained that the plea would not be finalized until sentencing, which would take place a few months hence. Between then and now, Baca would meet with a representative from probation, who would then submit a report that recommended a sentence within the federal guidelines—specifically from 0 to 6 months in a federal prison– for the crime to which he was pleading. Once in receipt of the probation report, the prosecution would make its own recommendation that could be higher or lower than whatever probation suggested, but that—according to the terms of the plea deal—would remain within the 0-6 month parameter.
Only then would the judge make his decision as to what sentence he intended to impose.
But, Anderson said, leaning slightly forward for emphasis, according to the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, the court “is not bound by advisory guidelines,” but is able to impose a sentence that “could be greater or lessor than the guideline range,” up to a maximum of five years in prison, plus three years of post-prison oversight, and a cash fine of up to $250,000. Anderson’s words were pro forma but his tone and bird-of-prey posture communicated an additional message. The 0-6 sentence was not a done deal. He would look at a multiplicity of factors before making his decision. And if he determined the six month ceiling was too low, he could and would spike the plea deal.
All the participants were quite aware that, according to the terms of the agreement signed Monday, if the judge’s sentence strayed from the 0-6 guidelines, it would, in fact, nullify the painstakingly hammered out deal if either of the parties wished it.
Moreover, in the course of the hearing, prosecutor Brandon Fox made it clear that, if at any point in the process Baca was to bail from the deal, the government was fully prepared to proceed to a grand jury in order to indict the sheriff, and that the charges that came with an indictment—that the feds maintained they fully believed they could prove—would likely be more extensive than the single count to which he was now about to plead.
Toward the hearing’s end, Anderson recited some of the privileges Baca would lose, either temporarily or permanently, as a convicted felon: the right to vote, the right to serve on a jury, the right to own, carry or use a firearm…and more.
In response to the ongoing questions and statements, Baca and his attorney occasionally conferred when the former sheriff looked unsure, but in the end Baca acknowledged that he understood all that had been said, and the decision he was making.
Finally Judge Anderson asked the main question: How do you plead…?
In return, Lee Baca recited the necessary words: Guilty, your honor.
Despite the dark storms of scandal unleashed by Baca and Tanaka in recent years, it was an oddly unsettling phrase to hear coming out of the former sheriff’s mouth.
A date of May 16 was set for the sentencing hearing at which point, if all went well, Baca’s plea would be finalized and a sentence imposed.
And that was that.
FACING THE CAMERAS
After the courtroom emptied, a mass of reporters, photographers and TV camera people waited on the east side of the federal courthouse for Baca, his wife, and his lawyer to emerge, along with a couple of supportive personal friends. Baca had planned to read a short statement and then leave while his lawyer stayed to answer reporters’ questions. But before an increasingly grim looking Baca could read his prepared words, reporters closed in and some began shouting agressive questions at him featuring words like “corruption” and “disgraced.”
Evidently the noisy questioners hoped to provoke a soundbite, but instead Baca’s face began to collapse, and he yanked himself away from press and lawyers and all but ran to a waiting car, his friends and wife racing beside him.
Once Baca was gone, attorney Michael Zweiback answered questions, as promised: Was he worried about his client’s safety? asked one reporter.
“I leave that to the Board of Federal Prisons,” Zweiback replied.
He and his co-counsel, Zweiback told reporters, were hoping to persuade the court that Baca “does not deserve prison time, that he is currently involved in many, many projects in the community that are doing a lot of good…”
ABC7’s Lisa Bartley asked Zweiback to “explain the difference” between his client and the “other members of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s department” who were sentenced to multiple years in prison, ostensibly for following the orders of the former sheriff and the former undersheriff.
“I’ll let the U.S. Attorney’s Office speak to that,” said Zweiback smoothly. “I’m only responsible for representing the interest of my client. And he’s accepted responsibility for [the things for which] he needs to accept responsibility.” (Zweiback is, by the way, a former assistant U.S. attorney.)
Baca’s lawyer also reiterated that if Judge Anderson decided to hand down a sentence that was longer than what is specified in the guidelines, “that would nullify the plea agreement,” and the parties would go back to square one, which likely meant proceeding to trial.
In addition, Zweiback noted that, , as part of the sentencing process, Baca would do what is known as a plea colloquy, a public statement “to explain his side and to express is remorse for what he’s done. I do expect him to do that,” said the attorney.
Finally Zweiback handed out copies of the one page “statement” Baca had originally intended to deliver himself, prior to the shouting and fleeing. It consisted of two sentences written in what looked like 25 pt type:
I made a mistake and accept being held accountable.
I will always love the men and women of the Sheriff Department and serve human life no matter where and who they are.
It was signed with a looping signature: Lee Baca Retired Sheriff.
Bandwagon says:
No Sheriff Baca. You did not make a mistake, you destroyed a once great and proud law enforcement agency. As a result, we are being stripped of our identity and forged into a remake of LAPD. Thnx, we could not have done it without you. That will be your legacy!
History Repeated says:
No different than Nixon and Watergate.
Where is justice? says:
Why should James Sexton serve 18 months for spilling the beans on Baca? Baca could get 0-6 months? So there is a potential he could serve no jail time? If the anointed one Mercy Percy decides to give him more than the agreed sentence the deal is off the table? Well if you are in court pleading guilty then stupid Baca hasn’t a chance to say he isn’t guilty. Baca needs to serve life in prison for all the lives he has ruined. If this is the only charge the Feds could come up with on Baca then they are also pathetic and stupid. This man is a con artist!!! Roll Tide let justice prevail and let Sexton sentence be reversed!!!
Just a cop says:
Hypocrite!!!!
John R. Stites II says:
The department isn’t destroyed unless the members let it be destroyed. Deputies have always found an excuse to be victims. Stand up on your own two feet and decide the direction the department goes. If your unions are doing nothing to protect you, vote their Boards out and get someone who will. Apathy is your only enemy. Unlike the FBI, we used to recognize that you don’t break the law to enforce the law. In this BS issue Baca’s mistake was not immediately isolating Brown, filling criminal charges in Superior Court against the involved FBI agents who smuggled in the phone and taking it all to the media to expose the Feds conduct. US Attorneys are nothing but political appointees. Federal Law enforcement uses our jurisdiction, our informants, our manpower to achieve their own political goals. Frank them, they are crooks. The LAPD style of leadership in heavy negative discipline. Always has been. NOw many of you help elect your Sheriff and you bitch about the returns. Next election, unelect his behind. He should have never been there.
Friend of Sexton says:
@ 3. Thank ALADS for giving James Sexton the “Shamma Lamma”. This whole scenario would have been done a long time ago. Roll Tide!
The Dark Side says:
Baca has the stones to wear a LASD pin. Are you kidding me!!!
Ownership says:
Stites…. You’ve been gone for how long!!!! Save it and go far away!!! Don’t come on here and fucking patronize us!! You have no clue what you’re talking about.
Jack Dawson says:
Again, Baca never ceases to amaze me with his pathetic pageantry. You ACCEPT being held responsible?!?!?! You avoided and asked people to sacrifice their careers and lives while you ignored your responsibilities as A LEADER IN THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY SHERIFF’s DEPARTMENT. You committed yourself to yourself.
I haven’t forgotten the poison you fed us and made us recite in your glory…. I had to recite it to you in person one time.
It is not about you; you disingenuous lying tyrant. You disowned your own people and encouraged others to kick them while they were down for your own political gain. You manipulated and lied to your closest friends.
Jesus forgives, but we won’t forget. You got a few more of these coming brother.
Stuff says:
#8 You beat me to the punch! “Deputies have always found an excuse to be victims?” Stites you are a piece of work. Why is it the pathetic, and weak always seem to bark the loudest?
Into The Storm says:
@5 – Stites – you’re a Baca/Waldie sellout. We all know what you are really about – and that is “you”. You’ve never been anything but a mouthpiece for the corrupt leadership. As president of POPA, you sold out so many ethical employees, with your back door “deals”, when you should have done the right thing and fought for the rights of the LASD employees you represented, against the LASD corruption. But you didn’t have the fortitude. Go Away! You’re kind is extinct in 2016.
@1,3,4,6,7,8,9, & 10 – You all are spot on. The convict – Baca (Inmate number to be assigned in May 2016) – never truly cared about anything or anyone but himself. His legacy will reflect that, and correctly so! He proved that he didn’t have the courage to do his job honorably, to serve the public of Los Angeles County, to serve those who elected him.
MR~GOOEY says:
Lee can I have my 18 years back I wasted under your reign of shame!
Oh Well says:
Was Jimmy Hellmold in the courtroom today when Baca said “Guilty your honor”? If he was, did Hellmold nod his head approvingly like he did at practically every word his hero and mentor uttered at his retirement press conference?
Pathetic. Putrid.
Nogoodmillennials says:
My encounters with ex-Dep Sexton, he was always arrogant from day 1, trying to run things his own way, always riding on the coat-tails of his Chief daddy that Baca brought in and knew nothing about being a Chief of a large department. He would run to daddy for every little thing that he felt he didnt have to nor want to do. I have little doubt that he did the things he was accused of, trying to protect Baca and his dad. He got what he deserved for getting caught up in the shenanigans.
A Fine Mess... says:
What is and isn’t surprising Is how self-centered, egotistical, hypocritical leaders of organizations always leave a path of destruction in their wake. It’s typical for the disgraced ex-leader to be to old and decrepit for the system to want blood. Mr. Baca is old, frail and a member of the pathetic, to be pittied set. His legacy will be far reaching. How do you instill faith and confidence in subordinates when the past has shown the leadership so willing to sell you out without a second thought. A very sad day for LASD, it’s future and the many honest, hardworking and dedicated employees. A word to the wise…don’t put all your faith in the current leadership either…but I’m sure everyone knows that already.
CrackerJack says:
Stites is absolutely right about this case. Contempt of the FBI and stupid behavior shouldn’t be criminalized. After years of investigation, this is all the Feds have? I’m not a Baca apologist. I encouraged everybody I knew in 1998 to vote for the dead guy (Sherman)because I got a taste of his arrogance a few times. However, Baca was forced to resign in disgrace and is a broken man. How much more do you want to do to this old man? Kicking somebody when they’re down is wrong. Isn’t that what caused the jail scandal to begin with?
L0CkeDUp says:
Is that Asian looking woman his wife and or ex-wife in the background? As I recall, wasn’t a local agency sent to his home to squash certain domestic issues. Why Stites on here GTFO dude, no one cares what you have to say. We the current line staff and we are dealing with the issues that are now presented. Baca goes down in flames just like Sheriff Carona of OCSD.
JUST SIMPLE, PLAIN, DISGUST says:
So does he have to give up his Sheriff’s pension?
Live off his Chief’s pension?
Or, do we tax payers just continue to get our pockets fleeced for all his white collar crime?
He’s involved in community good works. Whatever….the good works (counseling incest victims and seeking to decriminalize the crime and keep the family (abuser) together) will still be there after he (what should happen) serves a substantial sentence for his CRIME(S). Hopefully the judge will slam him with justice and send him to trial if he doesn’t blink and accept just cause at the tune of 5 to 10 years.
He always loved giving supervisors more discipline then any deputy involved, because they were the SUPERVISOR, not because they did anything extra wrong (most the time they didn’t do anything but be the unfortunate one to respond to the deputies actions that weren’t the best because he gutted training and no one was receiving any Continual Professional training, increasing the mistakes being made by good mind in heart deputies as they tried.
And its just as disgusting that McDonnell just picked up Bacas emperors robe of no clothes, with the one FINE alteration of brass buttons, and wrapped himself up in it. What an Organizational Leadership-less COWARD!
Baca and McDonnell are just a double whopper DISGUST burger, served with salty fries.
Hey #16 CrackerJack,
Here’s the deal. Baca was old ( late 60’s ) back when he was instructing his subordinates to do the shit that ended up drawing them prison sentences. He was old when he decided to let his arrogance and ego get in the way of what little good sense he had, and decided to show the feds who was boss, even after being told to back off. So guess what? Now he suffers the consequences when he’s old.
I’ve said since day one that this was ALL about EGOS. No deputy needed to go prison over it. Anthony Brown didn’t suffer any injury from what they did. None of these guys are a danger to society. But you know what? That isn’t how it worked out. Subordinates were found guilty and sentenced to prison for this stupid ass clusterfuck. If they suffered that fate, it’s only fair and just that those who gave them the orders suffer that fate. That Baca ONLY got six months shows that the feds didn’t want to hammer his ass. Do you think those two Sgts. think they deserve multiple year sentences, while Baca gets six months? Do you think any of the deputies family members think the sentence is too harsh for Baca?
Here’s my opinion. Baca deserved to be disgraced and convicted of a crime for the bullshit he pulled with Bishop Turner and Michael Yamaki. That was straight up bribery. He put them on the payroll and paid them over $100,000 a year, county cars, etc., just so they would tell their peep to vote for him and solicit campaign donations for him. Their salaries were paid for with taxpayer money. Connect the dots. He squashed a narco investigation re: Turner. He gave badges and guns to celebrities and campaign donors so he could curry favor with them and be the fucking big shot. One of the first things he did when took over was to squash the Asian Crime Task Force. Why?
I’m not going to shed a tear for Leroy Baca. He deserved to go prison for ALL the shit that I mentioned above. If it’s this stupid ass clusterfuck ego based bullshit caper that caused him to retire in disgrace, then be convicted of a felony and face a VERY SHORT prison sentence, I don’t feel one bit sorry for his “old, to be pitied” ass. You go ahead and feel sorry for him. I say good riddance for a crooked, arrogant asshole who got his in the end.
Then there’s the point others have made above about him being so in love with his precious Core Values. You know, trying to show the whole world what an upstanding, forthright individual he was. He couldn’t wait to let the media know that he made the recruits recite the Core Values every day. He couldn’t wait to tell the media how he would make sure supervisors could recite them from memory when asked. All the while he was scandalous as hell. So there’s that!
And you feel pity for him? Not me. Not on his best day.
Ironside says:
LASD should be back on track by year 2020.
LATBG says:
CrackerJack, I’ve known Stites through the years, and he’s made a name for himself for being on the wrong side of history on just about every issue. I have to disagree with your statement: “However, Baca was forced to resign in disgrace and is a broken man. How much more do you want to do to this old man? Kicking somebody when they’re down is wrong.” For starters, with a pension in excess of $300K, I doubt he’s a broken man. The punishment needs to fit the crime, and six months for the damage he did not just to the department as a whole, but the thousands of promising careers he destroyed, which altered the lives of so many hard working members of the LASD and their families, cannot be swept under the rug under the rubric of “he’s an old man.” Bernie Madoff is someone who comes to mind, and he’s doing hard time for all that he destroyed in his greed.
#14, you know how I know you don’t know younger sexton? You got your timeline very wrong.
Little Sexton’s numbers were significantly lower than chief Sexton’s and….. You were speaking completely outside the dynamic of their relationship.
Is he a confident and focused shit that probably bucked you at every turn? Yep that’s the guy I know. My dealings with him reflect what most say about him: hard worker, tough, and trying to step out of the shadows of his father.
You weren’t there when we watched him SUE Baca, tell his father not to come out here, fight corruption, and take the gravity of a second trial better than any personnel written about to date.
Not tears, no fear, and told his wife it will be ok. It was significant enough and deviation from those before him and after him that the LA Times and others noticed. The point is he isn’t a wanna be tough guy. He is a different dude and he knows more than most how polarizing he is. Thanks for your opinion as we need on trull, but don’t be surprised to see him places you think are impossible today. It’s called moxy and only a few can wear it everyday. He probably told you with his crooked grin, “this ain’t my first rodeo” and you thought cause he a boot deputy he was talking about something he didn’t know about. Crazy thing is you didn’t know how much time he studied and worked at being a deputy.
As you were sir/ma’am, I bet you got a beef or two with one his best friends who helped you get a new job down by CEN STA. I don’t mean as a patrol Dep either.
Enjoy pill call and monitored escorts. Try not to self medicate either with your crazy self and tell EP aka your daddy to spring you out too… Oh yea; Roll Tide Roll.
FYI says:
Per Rademacher @ LACERA, Baca keeps his pension.
#21….. Spot on, especially your comparison with Madoff…Well said
nail on head says:
#14 is right.
I was there and listened to Sexton brag about the smoke and mirrors plan he came up with. It really irritates me when people put these OSJ guys to be victims. Those idiots, especially Smith and Manzo thought they were the SEB of custody because they were in the car with Tanaka and Thompson. Manzo would continuously brag about the 10-30 stuff he was incvolved in with this whole Anthony Brown fiasco, and now he wants to play victim?!?! Manzo and smith were the biggest back stabbers and kiss asses I’ve ever met. Personally, what happened to these guys was bound to happen.
@CrackerJack: Yes, he is an old and broken man. He is also responsible for his own behavior and subsequent consequences. Stites: I joined LASD due to its unique history and traditions. I did not join LAPD. Those traditions and history are our identity. Something the new sheriff has chosen to ignore.
IStandWithTheSeven says:
This is likely the end of the road for the case against the seven deputies convicted of obstruction of justice in 2014. It’s been nearly two years since the trial, it’s still under appeal, will be for awhile yet, and I don’t recall seeing any coverage of anyone actually going to prison despite the sentences handed down back in 2014. It’s easy to see why. The one in charge who sent them into harm’s way pleads guilty and likely won’t end up with any prison time at all, compared to up to 41 months for those who were under the understanding they were following lawful orders. This is terribly unjust on its face, and won’t stand higher court scrutiny.
“OC SHERIFF’S UNION SUES DEPARTMENT OVER UNSAFE JAIL CONDITIONS”
Would ALADS ever take a real stand like this?
@Frank Murphy; ALADS and PPOA have yet to ever take on LASD management or the Sheriff for anything. As our Union, as “the voice of the membership,” they have never done Jack Shit for anyone but themselves, collecting photographs with politicians and letters from the same to publish in their monthly rags of self promotion. Proof in point, did either union at anytime EVER stand up to Tanaka when he was screwing good people for sport? As good folks had their careers destroyed, all you would hear, “Nothing we can do.”
To quote a line from Goodfellas, when Tanaka would say, “Now go home and get your fuckin’ shine box,” they did! And that’s how Tanaka always had that ELA shine, both unions kept him buffed up, they were in his pocket for future favors. And nothing has changed, has it? Any words from either unions about low morale and the same faces in the same seats from the “Reform Sheriff,” McDonnell? Zip, zero, nada. So will the unions ever take a stand as bold as their counterparts in OC? Don’t hold your breath, just watch for those smiling trophy pictures in the publications, that’s about all you will get for your money.
“Baca is…a broken man”. Not a true statement. What Baca is, is the very picture of what a person looks like, who has been caught and exposed for their bad deeds. In other words, he is the very picture of a guilty man.
I feel sincere sorrow for the many employee victims of the Baca/Tanaka “Retaliation Machine”. It was those employees who stood up, and did the right thing, only to be destroyed. It is those employees who put their career and very lives on the line, to do what was right. And they were destroyed for it. Where are they now? I can tell you where they are not, they are not holding well paying positions in the executive ranks of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Sign of Times says:
@ 28. Are you kidding me. ALADS would never take a stand. They only take our money.
Oh Well, LATBG, and anybody who writes more than two sentences, please stop. Nobody reads your nonsense. Get a life.
Shad 49 says:
@ Argus: It is a known fact that Floyd Hayhurst was a coin holder, compliments of Tanakapoleon himself. This Shad 49 is all facts. Hayhurst tried to play it real cool, when ALADS Political Committee announced voted that they would not initially endorse any candidate. Afterwrds Floyd convinced his “Lackey” Steck to hold off for backing McDonnell. During the press conference and photo shoot, Floyd was no where near Cupania Circle. Floyd treated Steck like his beyatch.
TheRealDeputy says:
#32, Here are your two sentences. Baca your convicted, Tanaka don’t drop the soap, McDonnell your over your head an a fool…
@31 That’s right ALADS is just a TAX write off……
Questions says:
Celeste: Where’s the cell phone? What was on it? In this agreement with the AG and Baca so Baca doesn’t have to testify-that won’t apply to Tanaka calling him (Baca) to the stand? Baca can plead the 5th but he can still be called?
Celeste Fremon says:
I’m fairly sure the feds have the phone, but to be honest, I don’t remember. (Easy enough to find out.) But details of the phone’s use are all public record due to the various obstruction trials.
As for what was on the phone, it was mostly records of AB’s contacting the feds. I seem to remember there were also some photos and odds and ends, but I’d need to go back into my piles of notes for the specifics. But nothing to write home about. The feds let AB let his cellie call home, which was likely less than ideal without monitoring. And that’s on the phone.
As for Baca testifying, he’s not compelled to, according to be agreement. Nor, obviously, is he prohibited.
But if his sentencing isn’t complete before the Tanaka trial, which it won’t be unless the trial is delayed by the defense (which could happen), he would be unwise to testify because he would be legally exposed. So he will take the 5th if called.
To be honest, even if the trial was delayed so he could be called after sentencing, I’m fairly certain his attorney will advise him to claim his 5th amendment rights since, while the risk is somewhat lessened, it arguably doesn’t disappear.
I just read Baca’s initialed and signed plea agreement. I am surprised that it does not contain the same verbiage as Tom Carey’s plea, compelling him to cooperate in all (if I remember correctly) Federal, State investigations as well as all “administrative investigations,” as in IA interviews. My information is the Feds are convinced they know who the real puppet master in Pandora’s Box was AND the root of ALL evil inside LASD, and it’s not Baca. They know Via Carey and (as suggested to me) others who have decided to cooperate, the exact roles Baca and Tanaka took in this caper. The Feds know who really was driving the train but that will come out in court. Let the chips fall.
Dulce,
Now that your patron is sunk and will soon be pleading guilty, how does that cuervo taste? Will you be changing your screen name to amarga?
Deputy @ Large says:
I encourage “All” deputies to call ALADS Office and inquire as to the steps and due date to drop them. The accountability factor to the membership is zilch. You’re pretty much on your own anyway. More so even with the current LASD administration, you will definitely need legal representation. Protect your job and career. The process for reform is not happening. That invludes ALADS If you can’t beat them, leave them.
Argus….Bullseye. Granted and obviously Baca had his role, however the enforcer had to be Paul.
Shot-caller > Baca.
Enforcer > Tanaka.
Victims > all hard working and ethical deputies in LASD
really says:
JOIN LASPA MULTIPLE LAWYERS AND NOT CLICKED UP WITH THE DEPARTMENT. YOU CAN ALSO GET A REFUND FROM ALADS REGARDING YOUR DUES. DOING THIS WOULD PUT PRESSURE ON ALADS TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT!
cops4trump.com says:
Let’s close the chapter on this guy and work to make LASD Great Again! Time to move on. http://www.cops4trump.com
Time to make LASD Great Again!
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Cognistator says:
#42: LASPA’s website
http://www.laspa.org/
Check out its list of attorneys. Some really good people there.
*MR-GOOEY* says:
Alads PPOA both both no good! Drop cards sounds good right now!!!
Celeste: How terribly horribly ironic(in a sarcastic way) that all this happened and nothing was on the phone. No abuse, no misconduct, nothing! How sad but yet poetic justice.
I don’t think the judge will continue the trial and either way Baca will be called. I would think that Tanaka needs some one (or others)to blame?
Last, Baca, Stonich, Waldie and Tanaka ruined hundreds of lives and careers.
Could you list the charges against Tanaka?
Celeste & @47 – “The Phone”(EV 1 of ?) – It has puzzled me from the very start why so much effort was put forward by Baca/Tanaka to thwart this FBI investigation. Could it have been that Baca/Tanaka were concerned that “something big” had been discovered, and that the “something big” was something that they were both involved in – something that might have cost them both, dearly? Wonder what that might have been….what were they really trying to protect. Maybe it will be revealed at Tanaka’s Federal Criminal trial in a few weeks.
48: Yes, I have thought that also. They had the phone and Baca/Tanaka saw what was on it and pursued the worse option possible. Consciousness of guilt!! We will never know the crimes that were committed and note they all knew!
C: Do Baca, Tanaka, Waldie and Stonich all have their retirement credentials?
@Storm, it has been speculated that One of them went into an absolute panic, a piss your pants panic, when it was discovered the FBI was deep inside of MCJ with an inmate who was holding an FBI cellphone. There had been damning testimony against Tanaka during the Jail Commision hearings by a Commander, Lieutenant and Sergeant about unbelievable acts of insubordination towards supervision and managers by rogue deputies in addition to a pattern of inmate abuse and managerial misconduct and coverup. It was ALL laid at the feet of Tanaka himself. Then, there was Tanaka’s own testimony before the same Commission where he had his ass handed to him in a paper bag based on his incredulous and arrogant testimony. And then Baca had his turn, oh boy was that brutal to watch. I was not in attendance as I had real work to do, but I watched their testimony a few days later on the BOS website. One would have to be brain dead to not know the FBI was soon to take some kind of roll in all of this. If this were happening in my patrol station at the time, I would have called my staff in and told them to stand-by and assume any cluckhead, wino or ding wearing wing tips is probably and FBI agent and get ready. So who really panicked and created this mess called Pandora’s Box? You can figure it out.
I’m told the OG probationers and just off probation “old heads” at MCJ just carried on with their business because Paul had their back, he said so while smoking cigars with them while discussing his campaign strategy with them regarding his run for Sheriff. And then the phone was found and the panic started followed by complete irrational thinking. Orders were given, orders were followed and the rest, as they say, is history. When you believe, think or know the FBI has targeted you for being the puppet master of an alleged string of inmate Civil Rights violations, your mind don’t quite be operating appropriately and the face begins to look a little haggard from the lack of sleep. They will get their bite at the apple of due process, they are owed that much. Let’s hear the evidence, the facts and the truth, if at all possible. And let the chips fall.
Soon, I will leave my car keys on the desk, shut off the lights and quietly close the door to start a new life. Can’t say the same for others. Well, it will be a new life for them, but nothing they ever imagined.
#45 @Cognistator LASPA’d up years ago. Argus, can I follow you out the door? I don’t think I can’t, I have go another 10 at least. I’d like to go in 5 but the numbers don’t fall in my favor. And to those new Deps with less than 4 years, lateral, before it’s too late. I loved my job,my department, for the opportunities it provided. However, today I regret what you all face which was once a job where you were given a choice to make a decision. Now, just call a supervisor, it’s easier than to deal with the great old question, “Why didn’t you call a supervisor?” 20+ years on LASD…..peace out
Secret Squirrel says:
A lot of good (not abusive, not ‘in the car’, but just good’) deputies are talking openly about lateraling out these days…from an agency that can’t fill its ranks and won’t let others lateral in. Ha….
Boyd Zumwalt says:
I am retired. Lucky me. Many of you know me. Regarding ALADS membership. I was at a Alads meeting 26 years ago where a previous under sheriff said the reason the county has a budget problem is because deputy sheriffs are paid 40% more than they should be. Personally I think he was FOS and would have cut his pay. But if you did not have ALADS you would be living with thdat pay cut from 1990. Regarding LASPA membership. That organization is a joke. When Deputy March, a laspa member was murdered they ponied up zero as far as a reward and zero effort as far as help. Emblematic is their founder Alex Villanueva. Ask people from when he worked east la about his policing skills. Whatever. No organization to bargain for you and by law the sheriff will be your bargaining agent. Do not be a fool. Don’t like the administrators of Alads? Get involved and take their place. Personally I think George will do a good job. Nothing is perfect.
Bill Hutton says:
I have but one thing to say: I am very proud of our modern day warriors who keep the peace and play a major role in keeping our community safe. The military protects us from international terrorists while law enforcement protects us from domestic terrorists.
The “grunts” on the street are the real heroes and I ask that God protect each and everyone of them. I was in the trenches with LASD for over 35 years and saw the commitment and professionalism of our protectors. I have nothing to add in regards to those above the rank of Sergeant.
Most people, especially you idiots from the press and the federal government, have no clue about what it is like to work in or be incarcerated in jail. When you step through the sally port at the County it is the equivalent of stepping out of a spaceship on to the surface of Mars. Your rules and laws outside do not work or apply inside. I would like to see the agents that are patting themselves on the back for this case work the old side jail for a week straight. The video would make great comedy. They could not do it.
Regarding Alads. Look up and check out the FBI retirement system.
C: where’s a copy of the indictment?
Gottcha says:
Have no idea who you are Boyd, but obviously you bleed ALADS. If you want to talk about presidents, not sure if you would like hearing about one of ALADS past president that when he was in the field, any report that had his name on it was rejected by the D.A. His arrests were for chicken s*** stuff. He was a nightmare for the detectives.
Also, you and I are from a different time, last I worked the jails was 30+ years ago. It is different now. Times have moved on with what society wants, and if you do not want to move with them, go to the bar and reminisce with your buddies on “how it was”. And be glad you are retired.
Boomerang says:
Boyd: Save the paid announcements and rhetoric for another association.
Truth Be Told says:
@ 67. WeHo Station
John O'Brien says:
Well said, Bill. I’ll book for you anytime.
Except for the last part, Hutton.
C: The tread, at times, goes completely off topic. I’ve read the indictment and I’m going to wait.
An Axigent Circumstance says:
What about the deputies who’s lives were ruined by these adam henry’s?
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One founder urges stressed, successful women not to opt out of their careers when they become mothers but to try entrepreneurship instead.
By Sramana Mitra (Founder, One Million by One Million)
Five years ago, a good friend of mine hanged herself.
I had coffee with her the day before.
She was married to a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur who ran a couple of major companies and had a brilliant career. She did not work. But on the surface, they had everything.
I knew both of them well. It was a deeply disturbing incident that shook us all up.
Five years have passed. I have observed society around us closely. And today, I am writing this with lingering sadness.
One of the greatest defeats of the feminist movement in America has been the phenomenon of women in their 30s quitting the workforce. Many of them are highly educated, and just as they acquire sufficient experience to take on more substantial roles, the body clock sets off an alarm.
Time to have babies.
Many women are programmed to want to have children. There is no point in denying or defying biology. Whatever it is that the feminists want women to do, asking them not to have children isn’t something that will gain any traction.
And if you have children, those children need to be raised.
Unlike societies like India where the extended family is deeply integrated into the fabric of society, and where domestic help is affordable and abundant, Western societies tend to consist of more nuclear families. Help is limited. Childcare is expensive.
Faced with a complex juggling challenge, women, often, abandon their professional lives and become full-time mothers. Paying for childcare, feeling guilty about not being there for the children, peer pressure from other women who are full-time moms – all eventually catch up with them. They quit their jobs in search of a less stressful existence.
In some cases, and this situation is particularly prevalent in places like Silicon Valley and Wall Street where wealth flows abundantly, women quit because there is no real pressure to earn money. Their partner earns enough. The family can afford childcare, but that doesn’t put a stop to the hostile glares from other full-time moms. Even supposedly high-powered women like Sheryl Sandberg have been known to succumb to this kind of peer pressure and feel guilty. Once again, many women quit in response.
Also, some families do not believe in outsourced childcare. Especially, immigrant families who want to impart the culture of another country have to invest time and energy in doing so, personally. Add to that the notion of cross-cultural families where there are already two different cultures to navigate. If the nanny introduces a third culture, kids can get utterly confused.
There is the option of a stay-at-home dad, of course. However, a large percentage of women are not drawn to the dynamic of a male partner not working. This is a bias that both nature and society have developed from the stone ages. Men are supposed to hunt. Now, in the twenty first century, it is okay for women to hunt, but my observation is that men who just gather do not turn on most women. It is important to be turned on by your mate.
In short, raising children while maintaining a serious career is and will continue to be complex for women. The temptation to quit will always beckon.
What happens if you do?
My friend Renee Fields worked in Wall Street. In her 30s, she married and supported the dreams of a man who has since become a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Now in her 50s, Renee has raised four children, and along the way, gave up her professional career. She says that she has regretted giving up her career and staying at home, driving the kids around all day long, feeling intellectually starved. By the time her husband comes home from an exhausting day at work, Renee is longing for adult company, stimulation, and engagement. But her husband wants to chill.
The most telling observation from Renee’s experience is the identity crisis that she has experienced. “From a Wall Street trading desk to this domestic swirl has been mind-numbing,” she says. While most women are unwilling to admit to their regrets, Renee speaks of them candidly: “Going to lunch with other bored housewives is just not interesting to me.”
It offers a window into the large-scale identity crisis that a generation of women is going through. They have made the choice to quit. They have raised children. In the process, they have lost one of the most fundamental secrets of human happiness: the sense-of-self.
My friend who killed herself had no sense-of-self left.
She did not do anything with her talents. She had raised two great kids.
Once they left, she had no identity of her own.
A few months ago, I met Jana Francis, founder and CEO of online daily deals site Steals.com. Her story is one that I find both inspiring and instructional to those women who have, perhaps, already made the choice of quitting, or are contemplating doing so.
The motivation for Steals.com came to Jana Francis right after she had a daughter, her third child, when she had to head back to work at the end of her maternity leave. She realized she was a smart, capable woman who could work from home. Once she started thinking along those lines, the ideas started to flow.
Jana was always the one you could count on for online shopping deals – her friends called her the dotcom princess. But when it came to online shopping in the baby space, she was disappointed. There was no website that would tell you the story of the product, why you would want it, what problem it would solve for you, and offer great deals. She developed a burning desire to create a new kind of website that would launch new deals every day – a steep 40% to 80% discount on premium baby products.
With a full-time career and three kids, one of which was a newborn, Jana took 18 months to go from concept to creation. She partnered with Rett Clevenger to launch Steals.com in April 2008. BabySTEALS.com was the first site to be launched and as the business became profitable, more sites were launched.
The revenue in 2012 was $16.4 million.
Jana now has over 70 full-time employees. Her Webmaster was a former colleague who had left the company after her maternity leave. About 70% of her employees are women and about 25% of them have had a baby in the past two years.
Being a completely bootstrapped company, Steals.com cannot offer its team the best possible pay. But for most of them the flexibility the company provides means a lot. Most of the customer service staff is able to work from home for 30 hours a week.
Jana says, “For me it is very rewarding to know that the situation I dreamed of for myself is being provided for so many moms.”
What I like about Jana’s story is that she has been able to have a flexible, but fully engaging career by moving over to the entrepreneurship side. Additionally, she has leveraged her understanding of women’s need for flexibility and desire to work, and created a uniquely appealing culture in her company that is allowing many other women to continue working, while raising children.
So my suggestion to all you talented women facing the same dilemma: Do not quit. Become an entrepreneur. Do not risk losing your sense-of-self.
Work is not just for livelihood. It is as much a source of fundamental life force.
*Excerpt from Feminine Feminism by Sramana Mitra. Image credit: suyensedai via Flickr.
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Pick of the day’s news – Monday 15 October 2012
ACL compiles a daily media monitoring service of stories of interest to the Christian constituency relating to children, family, drugs and alcohol, marriage, human rights, religious freedom etc. Visit the ACL’s website each day to see what’s of interest in the news. Please note that selection of the articles does not represent ACL endorsement of the content.
Royal at abortion protest
Nine MSN
A member of the British Royal family was among thousands of campaigners at an anti-abortion march in the Melbourne CBD today.
Pro-choice activists disrupt anti-abortion march
Stephen Cauchi - The Age
An anti-abortion march in the heart of the city has passed mostly without incident despite being disrupted by pro-abortion activists. Upper House state parliamentarian Bernie Finn, an organiser of the march, said "about 4000" pro-life supporters took part. He estimated there were 50 to 60 pro-choice activists present.
Pro-abortion protesters storm church chanting, ‘If Mary had aborted, we wouldn’t have this nonsense’
Peter Baklinski - Life Site News
A Quebec pro-life conference was interrupted last weekend when about a dozen pro-abortion protesters stormed the evangelical church in which it was held and began chanting blasphemous slogans in front of the barricaded doors of the conference hall. Police had to bring in reinforcements to remove the protesters.
Disabled 'sterilised illegally'
Michael Inman - Canberra Times
Parents and carers of the disabled are regularly doctor shopping and going abroad to have their children sterilised illegally, according to the Australian Human Rights Commission. Under Australian law, only the Family Court or a guardianship tribunal can authorise the irreversible medical procedure.
Dad's gentle touch goes a long way
Lisa Power - The Daily Telegraph
It is the gentle touch that can echo throughout a child's life and his own. Research shows a father's bond with his child can have significant impacts on his health, happiness and family life.
Industry revolts as federal health agency proposes ban on discount booze
Natasha Bita - News Ltd
Cheap wine will be banned under a federal health agency's plan to make drinkers pay at least $8-$10 for a bottle of booze. The Federal Government's Australian National Preventative Health Agency will advise this week that a "floor price" and new taxes be calculated as a way to make alcohol dearer.
Police raids net $19m in marijuana
Nino Bucci - The Age
Victoria Police has seized marijuana valued at $19 million in an operation involving raids on at least one property each day for almost seven weeks. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in hydroponic equipment was found in houses capable of producing $500,000 worth of marijuana every three months in new outer-suburban estates. Vietnamese crime families are believed to have spent millions of dollars buying many of the 47 houses that were raided.
Man charged with illegal ephedrine imports
Rebecca Richardson - SMH
A man charged with illegally importing up to 15 kilograms of ephedrine into Australia has been refused bail at Parramatta Bail Court. Fifty-year-old Hai Ngoc arrived at Sydney international airport yesterday with his pregnant wife and six-month-old baby on a flight from Vietnam.
Liquid nitrogen cocktails too risky for local licencees after UK woman loses stomach
Brad Crouch - Sunday Mail (SA)
South Australian nightclubs and restaurants have been banned from serving liquid nitrogen in cocktails. The move comes after the horrific case in Britain during last week, where an 18-year-old girl had her stomach removed after drinking the deadly liquid.
Schools go man hunting as male teacher numbers sink to all-time low
Yasmine Phillips - The Sunday Times
Salaries of up to $99,000, 12 weeks holiday and the chance to shape the next generation: they're the selling points that will be put to WA students to boost the number of men taking up teaching. In the wake of new lows in male teacher numbers, Education Minister Peter Collier met the heads of the Catholic and public primary school principal bodies this week to map out a plan to stem the exodus.
Schools paying iPod bribes to stop truancy
Bruce McDonald - The Daily Telegraph
Truants are being bribed to attend classes with prizes such as iPods, barbecue lunches and canteen vouchers. The rewards are part of a stick-and-carrot approach being used by schools that also includes SMS messages to parents when children fail to turn up. Improving attendance rates - which are as low as 60 or 70 per cent in some areas - has become a critical factor in lifting the academic performance across the state, particularly in some poorer areas.
Global warming stopped 16 years ago
David Rose - The Daily Mail
The world stopped getting warmer almost 16 years ago, according to new data released last week. The figures, which have triggered debate among climate scientists, reveal that from the beginning of 1997 until August 2012, there was no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures. This means that the ‘plateau’ or ‘pause’ in global warming has now lasted for about the same time as the previous period when temperatures rose, 1980 to 1996.
'There were days in my life that even now make me shudder'
Damien Murphy - SMH
The swimmer Ian Thorpe, one of the most popular and successful sportsmen in Australian history, has spent much of his life battling crippling depression. In a book about to be published, Thorpe revealed that his illness was so severe he considered suicide and planned specific places and ways to kill himself. He also confessed to drinking huge quantities of alcohol to rid his head of terrible thoughts and to manage his moods.
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More than two million Australians in poverty
The federal government is being urged to increase Newstart payments after a damning new report revealed more than 2.26 million people are living in poverty. That’s an increase on the poverty rates recorded in 2003 - evidence that successive mining booms and sustained economic growth have done nothing to improve the lives of the nation’s poorest.
A new form of radical centrist politics is needed to tackle inequality without hurting economic growth
Does inequality really need to be tackled? The twin forces of globalisation and technical innovation have actually narrowed inequality globally, as poorer countries catch up with richer ones. But within many countries income gaps have widened. More than two-thirds of the world’s people live in countries where income disparities have risen since 1980, often to a startling degree. In America the share of national income going to the top 0.01% (some 16,000 families) has risen from just over 1% in 1980 to almost 5% now—an even bigger slice than the top 0.01% got in the Gilded Age.
Canberrans answering the call
Phillip Thmson - The Canberra Times
Every day in overseas countries, Canberrans such as 26-year-old Eliza Percival work under the looming threat of kidnap, bomb attacks and robbery. Living thousands of kilometres away from the safety of her home town, Percival is part of a growing number of Australians needed to work in dangerous countries and willing to be called upon. ''You watch your back all the time,'' she says. ''In a way you have to become a little immune, otherwise you could spend your life in fear.'' The Australian government will deploy more than 1000 volunteers to developing countries overseas in 2012-13, the largest number ever, according to AusAID.
Religious Freedom & Persecution
Iran launching massive arrests of evangelicals
Stefan J. Bos - BosNewsLife
Massive arrests of evangelical Protestant Christians, including many former Muslims, are reported in Iran, with men and women being dragged to prisons across the Islamic nation. "We have learned that at least 100, but perhaps as many as 400 people, have been detained over the last 10 days," said Firouz Khandjani, a council member of the 'Church of Iran' house church movement.
Five Iranian Christian converts receive trial date
Mohabat News
Following a long wait and much uncertainty and after the judicial authorities rejected their appeal to be released on bail, five Christian converts in Shiraz officially received a trial date. They spent eight months after their arrest in prison with their fate unknown. The report received by Mohabat News indicates, these Christian converts are charged with "creating illegal groups", "participating in house church service", "propagation against the Islamic regime" and "defaming Islamic holy figures through Christian evangelizing".
Christians a target for Syrian rebels we back
Angela Shanahan - The Australian
One might think the recent reports of Australians recruited as jihadist fighters for the rebel cause in Syria would have been given front-page coverage and top billing on the nightly news bulletins. It is cause for alarm about fanaticism in our midst - much more alarm than the actions of an unruly mob a few weeks ago.
Cleric granted bail in Pakistan blasphemy case
A Pakistani cleric who accused a young Christian girl of blasphemy has been released on bail after being accused of framing evidence. The girl, Rimsha Masih, spent three weeks in an adult jail after she was arrested on August 16 for allegedly burning pages from the Koran. The case prompted worldwide condemnation following a medical report that said she was 14.
525 asylum seekers arrive amid protests
More than 500 asylum seekers have arrived in Australia over the weekend amid protests among detainees on Nauru and Christmas Island. Six boats carrying 525 asylum seekers arrived in Australia over the weekend. The biggest was carrying 188 people and was helped by two Navy ships near Christmas Island.
Asylum seekers self-harm at Nauru processing centre
There are concerns for the mental health of asylum seekers detained on Nauru's processing centre, after three men harmed themselves in the facility in as many days. An Iranian man attempted self-harm on Thursday, while another two Iranians did the same on Saturday, an Immigration Department spokesman said.
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Fatal crash closes Las Vegas Blvd at Warm Springs
Tyson Fury survives scare against Otto Wallin
Posted: Sep 14, 2019 / 10:18 PM PDT / Updated: Sep 14, 2019 / 10:18 PM PDT
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — His trunks were covered in blood, the ring was covered in blood and even the referees shirt was covered in blood, but still Tyson Fury walked away still undefeated. Fury knocked off Otto Wallin in 12 rounds by unanimous decision.
Unanimous decision win for @Tyson_Fury over @OttoWallin #TysonFury #8NN pic.twitter.com/iow7hZ1fNP
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Wallin went straight to his game plan from the get-go, working Fury’s body and trying to pile up body shots early, but his strongest connection was a hard left-hand in the third round ended with a large cut above Fury’s eye. It set the tone for the rest of the fight.
Fury battled through the blood to turn the tide mid-way through the fight. He landed 127 power punches throughout the match, to Wallin’s 84.
Fury said he couldn’t see for the majority of the fight, but battled through it. He also praised Wallin for his persistence, saying he was a great competitor.
But now, all eyes — including Fury’s bloodied one — turn to what’s next on the schedule. The Gypsy King closed out his night by saying this:
“Deontay Wilder I want you next!”
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BOSTON (AP) -- David Krejci scored with 7:42 left to rally the Boston Bruins past the Vegas Golden Knights 3-2.
Jake DeBrusk had a tying goal for Boston early in the third period, and Krejci also assisted on Jeremy Lauzon's first goal of the season. Jaroslav Halak stopped 27 shots as Boston entered the All-Star break with a win following a 1-2-1 stretch.
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) -- As the official casino sponsor of the NFL, Caesars Entertainment will be very busy for the 85th NFL Draft. They will be hosting the draft main stage, where the draft selections will be announced and daily performances by headlining acts will dazzle the crowd.
The NFL Draft Experience will also be hosted by Caesars Entertainment. The three-day football festival's planned location is adjacent to the main stage and will be free.
by Joe Moeller / Jan 21, 2020
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) -- The countdown is on to one of the biggest events in Las Vegas history, and that's certainly saying a lot! The Strip will take center stage for the NFL Draft in April, with players making their grand entrance on the Bellagio lake.
As you can imagine, much of the Strip will be closed for several days.
Video: Police’s previous encounter with suspect that killed 2 Honolulu officers, burned 7 homes
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For the Juniors
10 Days to D Day
Follow 10 characters, including Dacre Smyth, a 21-year-old Australian Gunnery Control Officer, through the dramatic 10-day countdown to D-Day and the beginning of the end of World War II.
Academy, The
This observational five-part documentary follows the lives of students during their training at Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra.
While the Vietnam War raged, senior political leader Charles Tran Van Lam recorded his family's domestic life on his Super 8 camera.
Andrew Denton's Gallipoli: Brothers in Arms
This story is the result of a visit by Andrew Denton to Gallipoli in 2006 for ANZAC Day, 25 April.
Anzac Day March (Past Years)
The Anzac Day marches from past years may be ordered on DVD for each capital city upon request as 'a lasting memento' of each year's significant commemorations.
Australian Story - The Blue Beret (Matina Jewell)
Part One of this episode focuses on a young Australian Army Major, marked out for great things in the military.
Australian Story - Show of Force (Afghanistan)
Australia has a proud history of entertainers visiting war zones to lift the morale of our troops. On the face of it, a tour of Afghanistan and Iraq would not appeal to everyone.
Casualties of War
Casualties of War follows the personal journey of 28 year-old Chris as he adjusts to civilian life after serving in the army for 11 years with the elite special forces in East Timor.
Centenary of the Australian Army Parade
Coverage from the Australian War Memorial of the celebrations held in honour of the Australian Army on the occasion of their hundred year anniversary in 2001
Compass - Embracing the Enemy
At Gallipoli the Turks shot at our diggers but today they walk side by side with Australian ex-servicemen men and women in Anzac marches around the country.
Compass - Plagued by Memories
Dementia is a sleeping giant for aged Australians. In this program we focus on a specific group of elderly people - survivors of the Holocaust living in Australia.
Compass - Story of the Salvos
This story of music, faith and heroism focuses on the Brunswick Salvation Army Band whose fate in World War II is one of the most tragic and little told episodes of Australia's wartime history.
Compass - Walking Wounded
Walking Wounded is a moving story about ageing WWII veterans who fought as very young men, only to spend the rest of their lives suffering the consequent trauma in silence.
Compass - Windows to Sandakan
For 62 years Philip Handel's stained glass windows have graced churches and cathedrals around Australia. Now he's completing the final stage of his last and most difficult commission yet.
Fall of Singapore, The
Companion piece to `The Burma Railway' from the same production team, dealing with the prior event of the fall of Singapore to the Japanese in February 1942, during WWII.
Four Corners - ANZACS
From Iraq to Solomon Islands and Afghanistan to East Timor, Australia's Army is stretched tight.
Four Corners - About Woomera
To its backers, Woomera detention centre played a humane yet crucial role in housing the growing numbers of boat people landing on Australia's shores.
Four Corners - Flying Blind
For more than 30 years Australia has rested its security on the seemingly ageless wings of its F-111 fighter fleet. But in aviation circles these days there are doubts and rumblings.
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Talk to any major western leader and they will tell you Pakistan is a key ally in the war on terror.
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Encounter at Whately Diner
Let me tell you a little story about the peculiar and fantastic encounter I had tonight. Read on for the full story.
The dance was amazing, to begin with. Not as spectacular as the preceding night (Green Street takes the cake (mmm cake)), but about equivalent in wonderfulness to Friday night. I do like George Marshall’s calling, and, like Green Street, Swallowtail finished with Brenda Stubberts’. Coincidental and superb.
But to the point: ultimately, the expedition to the Whately Diner comprised merely myself and one other car, that of Leah and her two friends from Brown, John and Maddie. After driving about 30mph down 91 due to the impressive volume of snow, we arrived at the diner. I was in a splendid mood by this point because of happy convergences of successful humor, fine music, and great dance partners, so I was prepped for a good time. And a time was to be had, for sure…
We went in, sat down, made our orders, and set about to wait. I believe as our food was arriving (I got an egg & cheese bagel sandwich and a chocolate milkshake), two gentlemen entered the diner and sad down two booths away from us, in the corner. There were no other customers on our side of the diner besides them.
Let me pause and say that Leah’s friends are super cool. John does all sorts of crazy math and computer science stuff, as well as fiddle. And he juggles, a bit. He graduated the same year as Leah and I. Maddie is class of ’10 and wants to do Ethnobotany, and also studies Chinese. Good folk.
So back to the action. Before long into our eating, our neighbors interrupted us to inquire about our ages. Supposedly they had a bet (for their waffle) about whether our average age was closer to 15 or 21. Clear winner there, as the average was 21.75. The winner, a fellow by the name of Rio, was the more vocal of our two neighbors. He began lamenting in a rambling, humorous fashion how young and naive we were, and how when we reached his age of somewhere in the 30s, our hairlines would not be so straight. Yes, our hairlines. This was the recurring theme throughout nearly the entirety of our 1.75-hour conversation with this gentleman. Apparently, John and I (who both have quite impressively straight hairlines) may keep our hair for the next few years, but after that, we’ll bald like crazy. I should also note that Rio, as well as his friend, certainly appeared to have as full heads of hair as most anyone else. That point appeared to be irrelevant.
Anyway, they had just come from an expedition of their own, ranging from the top of Mt. Tom (recall the snow, though I didn’t get the impression they were skiing) to the Montague Bookmill, where they were cut off after 8 beers or so, and where they couldn’t get a waffle at midnight or thereabouts. Thus, their arrival at the Whately Diner to entertain and embarrass us. Oh, but we were up for the challenge.
One of the most exciting moments of the conversation was when Rio started asking John about what John did with himself, and John explained about the vector calculus he was teaching high school students. I believe it was John who first mentioned Stokes’ Theorem, but the wonderful part was that Rio began rattling off more math jargon than I could follow, including other sub-theorems or some such. All while being assuredly drunker than a Conn hockey player on a Thursday night. Okay, maybe not that drunk.
Rio and his friend made many more (warm-hearted) inquiries into who we were and what we were doing there, all while their waffle was waiting to arrive. And let me tell you, the service there is generally decent, but their waffle took a LONG time to arrive.
John suggested that we start talking about them loud enough for them to hear, but our pitiful attempts at matching Rio’s entertainment value fell hard and pathetic. I offered the lame suggestion that Rio looked a bit like John Belushi from Animal House, but that was stupid.
Their waffle came, and we had long finished our food, but we had had such a splendidly entertaining time, regaled by Rio’s meanderings, and even though it was nearly 2am, we were loath to leave before finding out more about them. It actually reminded me quite a bit of my encounter with this old man on a train in Italy that I had when I was abroad, but that’s another story (one that I apparently did not blog about back then, so sorry, no link for you). Being quite fond of asking questions to find out about people, I asked the usual barrage of questions and got this information:
Rio graduated from Harvard, his friend (whose name I sadly forget, but he didn’t talk much at all, so it’s okay) from Georgetown.
They live in New York City, but were up here for some quiet on the long weekend. Here instead of the Adirondacks because it’s less crowded with New Yorkers here.
Rio runs a startup with a few friends, a web startup called MyJambi.com. It’s a site where you can find local services based on what friends recommend. Or something. I’m skeptical as to its worth, sounds pretty dot-com-bubble-ish, but who am I to talk, turns out John himself, Leah’s friend, is on the site for Math and Fiddle tutoring. Maybe it’s big. Go Rio.
After gathering that information and saying our goodbyes to our newfound acquaintances, and putting an extra dollar on the table for our friendly but apparently annoyed waiter, we departed to travel our distances back home.
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What a week.
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Jon Cannon says:
You forgot to mention how much of this conversation was carried on loudly behind our backs! Whenever we went back to our food and chitchat, Rio continued talking about our hairlines with his friend. It made conversation amongst ourselves difficult, but also extremely entertaining.
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Canada farmers intending to plant more wheat and barley, less canola and soybeans
Canada farmers intending to plant more wheat and barley, less canola and soybeans April 24, 2019
Canadian farmers anticipate planting more acres of wheat, corn, dry peas and oats in 2019 compared with 2018, while seeding intentions for canola, soybeans and lentils have declined relative to the previous year.
Planting intentions may have been influenced by ongoing issues, including lower prices for some crops as a result of global supply, tariffs and decreased foreign demand due to ongoing trade issues.
Data on actual seeded area, to be released in June, may differ from current intentions depending on these and other factors, including weather or natural disasters such as flooding.
Given the intention of farmers to plant a greater area of wheat, corn, and dry field peas, there is an expected increase in seeded area for grains, pulse and special crops, while oilseeds are anticipated to decrease given lower seeded area of canola and soybeans.
Canadian farmers intended to plant 25.7 million acres of wheat in 2019, up 3.8% from 2018. Seeding intentions indicate that area allotted to spring wheat will increase 12.0% to 19.4 million acres compared with the previous year, while durum wheat acreage is expected to decrease 18.8% to 5.0 million acres. The anticipated decline in durum wheat area is the largest since 2010, when seeded area declined by more than 2.5 million acres.
Farmers in Alberta anticipate planting 7.6 million acres of wheat, up 1.7% year over year, while the seeded area of spring wheat is expected to rise 7.9% to 6.8 million acres.
In Saskatchewan, producers expect total wheat area to increase 2.7% to 13.3 million acres in 2019. Spring wheat is expected to rise 14.7% compared with the previous year, to 9.0 million acres. The gain in spring wheat area is expected to be offset by a 15.4% decrease in durum wheat to 4.2 million acres.
Manitoba farmers anticipate planting 3.3 million acres of wheat in 2019, up 12.7% from 2018.
Nationally, farmers expect to plant 6.6% less acres of canola, to 21.3 million acres in 2019 compared with the previous year. If seeding intentions are realized, this would represent the lowest seeded area of canola since 2016 and 1.6% lower than the five-year average of 21.7 million acres.
Record high year-end stocks for the 2018 calendar year, coupled with concerns regarding limited access to China's canola market, possibly affected anticipated seeding area. These factors have contributed to lower than average prices, which may have some farmers considering seeding fewer acres of canola or other crops. However, resolution of trade concerns or increased canola prices could alter final seeding decisions.
Saskatchewan farmers reported expecting to plant 11.7 million acres of canola in 2019, down from 12.4 million acres in 2018.
Alberta farmers lead the expected decline in seeded area of canola, reporting 6.1 million acres, down 724,700 acres (-10.6%) from 2018.
Producers in Manitoba also anticipate seeding fewer acres of canola, with expected seeded area declining from 3.4 million acres in 2018 to 3.3 million acres in 2019.
Nationally, farmers in Canada expect to seed 5.6 million acres of soybeans in 2019, down 10.7% from 6.3 million acres in 2018. Dry conditions over the past two years in Western Canada contributed to lower yields, which may have contributed to some farmers deciding to decrease seeded area of soybeans.
Manitoba was the main contributor to the decrease in expected soybean area, with farmers expecting to plant 319,000 fewer acres from the previous year, at 1.6 million acres. This is the second consecutive year that farmers expect to plant less soybeans in the province, falling to the smallest area since 2015.
Meanwhile, farmers in Ontario expect seeded area to decline 3.8% from 2018 to 2.9 million acres.
Quebec farmers expect to plant 845,700 acres in 2019, down 7.6% from the previous year and the lowest soybean area since 2013.
Barley and oats
At the national level, farmers expect to seed more acres of barley compared with 2018. Larger expected seeded area in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta could push total anticipated area up 10.2% to 7.2 million acres in 2019.
Similarly, producers anticipate seeding 7.8% more acres of oats compared with the previous year, to 3.3 million acres in 2019. The expected increase is led by Saskatchewan, up 175,400 acres (+12.5%) compared with 2018.
Corn for grain
Nationwide, farmers anticipate planting 3.8 million acres of corn for grain, up 4.6% from 2018.
In Ontario, producers expect to plant a record 2.2 million acres of corn for grain, up 3.3% year over year, while Quebec farmers expect to plant 992,200 acres, up 4.1%.
Conversely, Manitoba farmers expect to plant 1.7% fewer acres of corn for grain, at 413,700 acres.
Lentils and peas
Canadian farmers expect to plant 9.6% fewer acres of lentils from the previous year, at 3.4 million acres in 2019. The anticipated decline is led by Saskatchewan farmers, who expect a 7.9% decrease in lentil area to 3.1 million acres.
An anticipated decrease in lentil area is likely influenced by ongoing tariffs on Canadian crops from major importers such as India, which has led to high Canadian lentil stocks and lower prices over the past year.
Meanwhile, producers expect to plant 11.6% more acres of dry field peas, rising from 3.6 million acres in 2018 to 4.0 million acres in 2019. The increase in anticipated area is driven by Saskatchewan (+12.0%) and Alberta (+12.3%).
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Dec. 6, 2019 Canada. Production of principal field crops - StatCan
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May 7, 2019 Canada. Stocks of principal field crops, Mar 31 - StatsCan
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Agropur Acquires Agrifoods’ Interest in Ultima Foods
Longueuil, PQ and Burnaby, BC, August 31, 2017
Agropur Cooperative and Agrifoods International Cooperative Ltd. – two of Canada’s leading dairy cooperatives – announced today that they have concluded an agreement pursuant to which Agropur will become the sole owner of Ultima Foods Inc.
Ultima Foods was a 50-50 joint venture by two of Canada’s leading cooperatives; Agrifoods and Agropur. With more than 40 years of expertise in the yogurt business, Ultima Foods has been a consistent success in terms of market share and is known as a major innovator in the yogurt category. Today, Ultima Foods is renowned for its iögo and Olympic brands, which registered industry-leading growth in 2016.
Both cooperatives are very pleased with the transaction and excited for what lies ahead:
“I am very pleased with this transaction. Our partnership with Agrifoods has been exceptional and I want to thank our partner for its historical commitment in jointly developing Ultima Foods. This transaction continues along the course we have charted and will support our long-term development in the yogurt category,” said René Moreau, President of Agropur. “We are always very proud when we are able to keep processing assets in the hands of Canadian dairy farmers.”
“We are proud that our successful partnership with Agropur resulted in Ultima Foods becoming an industry leader with brands enjoyed by Canadians from coast to coast,” said Tim Hofstra, President and Chair of Agrifoods. “This is a very positive transaction as it will create the optimal condition for Ultima Foods’ development and will enable the company to remain in the hands of Canadian dairy producers.”
“Our business relationship with Agrifoods has been very fruitful. Among other things, it led to the creation of the iögo brand, a launch that is considered a milestone in the history of Canada’s food industry, and more recently the rebranding of Olympic. This transaction is a unique opportunity to develop and optimize our business model,” said Robert Coallier, CEO of Agropur.
“Agrifoods is proud to have been a partner in the successful creation of iögo and re-brand of Olympic,” said Maheb Nathoo, CEO of Agrifoods Cooperative. “And we want to express our sincerest thanks and appreciation to all of the staff and management at Ultima Foods whose continued hard work and dedication made this a reality.”
Ultima Foods employs approximately 660 people in Canada and operates two plants, in Granby, Quebec and Delta, B.C. The acquired business has total annual sales of more than $300 million. The transaction will augment Agropur’s range of products in the fresh dairy market and Ultima Foods will continue to be the only national Canadian-owned yogurt-maker.
“Moving forward from today’s transaction, Agrifoods is excited to enhance our focus on innovating and nurturing our family of brands and continuing our leadership role in the health and wellness industry in Canada,” said Hofstra.
This transaction is subject to obtaining the usual authorizations, including those of the Competition Bureau.
About Agropur
Agropur Cooperative is a North American dairy industry leader founded in 1938. With sales of $6.0 billion in 2016, the Cooperative is a source of pride to its 3,345 members and 8,000 employees. Agropur processes more than 5.9 billion litres of milk per year at its 39 plants across North America and boasts an impressive roster of brands and products including Natrel, Québon, OKA, Farmers, Agropur Signature, Agropur Grand Cheddar, Island Farms, and biPro. Agropur’s Quebec head office is certified LEED Silver. www.agropur.com
About Agrifoods
Agrifoods International Cooperative Ltd. has proudly been in business for over a century and has grown to become one of Canada’s leading cooperatives with over 2,400 members. The traditional values upon which Agrifoods was founded underlie its commitment for continual innovation in order to serve its valued customers’ and consumers’ changing needs. Agrifoods’ brands – Organic Meadow, Meadowfresh, Earth’s Own and Happy Planet – employ over 300 people and have become leaders in the health and wellness industry, producing a wide range of premium, on-trend, wholesome foods and beverages available from coast to coast. www.agrifoods.ca
Véronique Boileau
Vice President, Communications
Agropur Cooperative
Ursula Klein
Manager, Member Services
Agrifoods International Cooperative
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MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 2019-- Apogee Enterprises, Inc. (Nasdaq: APOG) is scheduled to present at Baird’s 2019 Global Industrial Conference on Tuesday, November 5, 2019. Joseph F. Puishys, Apogee’s Chief Executive Officer, is scheduled to speak to investors at 12:00 p.m. Central Time on November 5.
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Monmouth has NJ's best basketball atmosphere right now
With an enthusiastic, overflow crowd on an NFL Sunday, Monmouth proved how hot they are right now in a win over Wagner
Monmouth has NJ's best basketball atmosphere right now With an enthusiastic, overflow crowd on an NFL Sunday, Monmouth proved how hot they are right now in a win over Wagner Check out this story on app.com: https://on.app.com/1Ydr227
Stephen Edelson, @steveedelsonAPP Published 5:35 p.m. ET Dec. 13, 2015 | Updated 11:39 a.m. ET Dec. 14, 2015
Monmouth fans react as Chris Brady grabs a second half rebound against Wagner on Sunday.(Photo: Jason Towlen/Staff Photographer)Buy Photo
WEST LONG BRANCH – There was the overflow crowd inside the Multipurpose Activities Center, including jam-packed student sections at either end for a non-Power Five conference opponent, on a beautiful afternoon with key NFL games on television.
On the court, there was Monmouth, which received votes in the national top-25 poll earlier this season, beating Wagner, 73-54.
And afterward, there was the long line of kids waiting for the Hawks’ players to sign everything from jerseys to posters.
In short, Monmouth has the best college basketball atmosphere in New Jersey right now.
``I would bet it’s one of the better environments in the Northeast,’’ said Monmouth athletic director Dr. Marilyn McNeil. ``This is turning into something really, really special.’’
Sellout crowd sees Monmouth beat Wagner in home-opener
It began building with their season-opening win at UCLA, picked up steam when they beat No. 17 Notre Dame, while the national exposure the bench mob's gotten pushed the whole thing over the edge.
And what you got on Sunday was the most important afternoon of basketball for the program since the MAC opened in 2009.
Monmouth fans cheer for the Hawks during their 73-54 win over Wagner Sunday, (Photo: Jason Towlen/Staff Photographer)
They’ve had crowds of this size or close in the past, officially going down as the fifth sellout for the building. But in those games Monmouth was either losing to the likes of Villanova or Seton Hall, or they were retiring Miles Austin’s number at halftime, or something like that.
Before university president Paul Brown came from Lehigh in 2013, people would say to him `you’re the school that beat Duke,’’ referencing the Engineers stunning NCAA Tournament upset.
Now Monmouth’s building a little national reputation of its own.
``Those wins matter. This team matters. The bench matters, and all of this matters,’’ said Brown as he surveyed the scene at halftime. ``It think there is a cache to all this. It’s great for the team, it’s great for the students, it’s great for the school and it’s great for the community. (Coach) King Rice is doing a great job.’’
The Monmouth bench reacts to a second half play during the Hawks home-opener against Wagner on Sunday. (Photo: Jason Towlen/Staff Photographer)
You’d have to go back to the program’s last run of success under coach Dave Calloway, when the Hawks went to the NCAA Tournament three times in six seasons between 2001 and 2006 playing in Boylan Gym, to find moments like these.
Calloway was back at the MAC this weekend for the Hall of Fame induction of the 1995-96 team, serving as an assistant coach on the school’s first NCAA Tournament team.
As they watched from a luxury box, making their way to the court for a halftime ceremony, members of the 1995-96 team couldn’t help but be impressed with what they saw. And they know what excitement this program can generate for home games, like their win over Rider in the NEC final on Quincy Lee’s free throws with four seconds to play.
They showed a nice video montage of that season on the scoreboard during a first-half media timeout.
``I couldn’t be happier for the school,’’ said Corey Albano, the Toms River native and Monmouth’s fourth-leading scorer all-time in Div. I. ``It feels like we’re a part of something great again.’’
What this day proved more than anything is that if Monmouth wins, fans will come. And if they continue to play like they have through the first portion of their schedule, they’ll come in large numbers.
Because right now, there’s no better place to see a college basketball game in the state than the MAC.
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Any resident of Alabama whose address on record with the IRS falls within one of these FEMA-designated areas is automatically eligible for the tax relief, which postpones various tax filing and payment deadlines falling on or after March 3, 2019. Affected individuals and businesses now have until July 31 of this year to file their returns and pay any taxes that are originally due during the relief period, including quarterly estimated income tax payments, returns for calendar-year tax-exempt organizations and quarterly payroll and excise tax returns. Further, penalties on payroll and excise tax deposits due on or between March 3, 2019 and March 18, 2019, will be abated as long as the deposits are made by the latter date. To confirm eligibility for the tax relief, visit: www.irs.gov/newsroom/tax-relief-in-disaster-situations.
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EB-1 visa for Indian, Chinese nationals to retrogress to January 1, 2010
By AB Wire July 18, 2016 1:18 pm
Visa is meant for exceptionally skilled immigrants.
AB Wire
The EB-1 visa, which is for exceptionally skilled professionals and has been the best bet for those seeking quick permanent residency or a Green Card, is going to retrogress soon for Indian and Chinese nationals.
The US State Department has announced through its immigration bulletin that from August 1, 2016, the priority date for EB-1 visa would retrogress for Indian and Chinese applicants to January 1, 2010.
This effectively means that those Indian and Chinese nationals who are working on a EB-1 visa, file for a Green card by July 31, 2016, they would get a Green Card almost immediately, as the priority dates are current till the end of July. But those who file from August 1 onwards, it could be wait for a few months or years depending on how soon the priority dates move forward.
However, this would pertain to only the Indian and Chinese nationals. The priority date for nationals from elsewhere globally, the EB-1 visa date would remain current.
The EB-1 is for immigrants of extraordinary ability, outstanding professors or researchers, and certain executives at multinational companies.
A total of 12,253 Indians and 6,239 Chinese were granted EB-1 visas in 2015. It’s not known, how many applicants from that pool applied for permanent residency.
Retrogression, the term used by Department of Homeland Security to push the date backwards for filing for a Green Card, has been few and far apart. Since 1991, the priority date for EB-1 has retrogressed from “current” for India three times and for China six times.
The good news for EB-1 applicants is that new allocations for filing for a Green Card begins on October 1, 2016. It’s likely that the priority date for Indian and Chinese nationals would move forward closer.
In the EB-2 category, the new priority date, as per the August bulletin, has been set at February 1, 2014, with a predicted return to current in October, 2016. The cutoff date for India in the EB-2 category advanced by two weeks from November 1, 2004 to November 15, 2004.
In the EB-3 category, worldwide chargeability, along with El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico, advanced two weeks from March 1, 2016 to March 15, 2016. The cutoff date for India advanced from October 22, 2004 to November 8, 2004, while the cutoff date for the Philippines advanced by three months from February 15, 2009 to May 15, 2009.
In the EB-4 category, the State Department imposed a cutoff date for India of January 1, 2010. The Department notes that the EB-4 category for India will become current in October, 2016.
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Another Priceless Spanish Artwork Falls Victim to Well-Intentioned Restorer
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It’s happened again. Another medieval artwork has fallen victim to an amateur restoration project in a Spanish church, leaving experts and community leaders furious.
A local handicraft teacher was commissioned to restore the 16th century statue of St George inside a church in the town of Navarre – but the finished product has been compared to a ‘fairground carousel figure’, ‘a lead soldier’ and blasted as ‘barely recognisable’.
This is what it looked like originally:
And what it looks like now:
The statue of St George and the Dragon takes pride of place in the church of San Miguel de Estella in Navarre. It is believed to date back at least 500 years and shows the saint in his armour mounted on horseback with the dragon below him.
The statue was originally decorated in an ancient style known as ‘polychrome’ in which different colours are used but needed urgent restoration because of its advanced deterioration.
Conservationists say the restoration should have been tackled by an expert but was apparently undertaken by a small art school at the request of the local priest.
The result has caused outrage both in Navarra and further afield, with people asking what has happened to the sculpture.
The mayor of Navarro Koldo Leoz tweeted his anger at the botched job. He said: ‘Today #Estella #Lizarra is not news for its spectacular historical, artistic, architectural and cultural heritage in general, it is for an unfortunate performance in a carving of St. George of the sixteenth century that is in one of the imposing religious temples of the city.’
The controversy is such that it has been likened to the ‘Ecce Homo’ saga which catapulted the small village of Burgos to international fame when an 80-year-old disastrously tried to give the religious painting a facelift.
The village hit the headlines in 2012 when its cherished ‘Ecce Homo’ (‘Beyond the Man’) painting was renamed ‘Ecce Mono’ (‘Beyond the Monkey’) because of its very strange facelift. Octogenerian Cecilia Gimenez had the best of intentions when she tried to restore and repair damage to the portrait of Christ, which is nearly a century old.
Unfortunately, the work by the amateur painter didn’t go exactly to plan. The spectacularly bad results garnered worldwide attention and was dubbed one of ‘the worst art restoration projects of all time’.
‘Ecce Homo’ by Elias Garcia Martinez had held pride of place in the Sanctuary of Mercy Church since 1930. Critics said the face of Christ had been turned into a ‘hairy monkey’ in an ill-fitting tunic. Since the farce, however, Borja has become a mecca for tourists who want to see the treasure for themselves. It is visited by hundreds of thousands of visitors every year who are now contributing to the church’s swelling coffers. The painting has never been changed and remains as Cecilia intended. The image has even appeared on lottery tickets.
It’s not sure what will happen to the newly botched St George statue. Koldo Leoz, the Mayor of Estella, admitted that the “restoration has left a lot to be desired as it is an artwork from the 16th Century and, if nothing else, care should have been taken of the materials used for the restoration.” He said that the priest, named Jose Miguel, should have asked for permission first from the city council and a specialist would then have been assigned to oversee the restoration.
“That did not happen and now the original statue, which had some faded colours, has been completely covered by the new paint” the Mayor said. “If they had involved us, our heritage department would have liaised with the regional government and got advice over the best way of handling the restoration.”
The mayor also complained that there was in general a “lack of control over the Church’s heritage, which should be in the hands of public administration.” He added that churches received money from the public and that there was a need for greater control to ensure “something like this never happens again.”
Carmen Usua, who works for art restoration company ArtUs, shared details of the vandalism of the statue on social networks and claimed that “it looks like a ‘ninot’ (a cardboard sculpture typical of the Fallas festival in Valencia). She said the restoration had involved covering any cracks in the statue using plaster and then painting it with a totally new colour scheme that bore no resemblance to the original subtle colouring of the 16th-Century artist.
She added: “The livery of the horse was originally coloured silver with subtle gold lines and although dirty, it was not lost and could have been recovered with careful restoration. Instead everything has been covered in red paint in an act of vandalism that defies belief.”
Miguel Zuza, a member of the Navarre Council of Culture, told local media that “this statue had the typical characteristics of a gentleman of the 15th or early 16th Century. Now it has been butchered and looks like a carousel figure.”
Social media users flooded the internet with comparisons to the botched statue. Many compared the statue to children’s cartoon characters.
Fernando Segovia tweeted: “Do not be fooled, San Jorge de Estella is Stingy de Lazy Town.”
Another likened the statue to Marty Feldman’s Igor in Young Frankenstein.
A further joker compared the statue to Herge’s famed comic book journalist Tintin.
Finally one also likened the restoration to a character from Disney’s the Sword in the Stone.
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We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king.
Kings, President, Our Society
All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.
President, Rail, Turf
"Hearst" Newspaper Column, October 15, 2003.
You cannot have a democracy without an informed people.
People, Democracy
"Veteran White House Correspondent Helen Thomas On Bush and the State of the Media". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. April 8, 2004.
I'm not anti-Jewish; I'm anti-Zionist.
"‘I’m anti-Zionist,’ Helen Thomas declared, in twilight of long career" by Philip Weiss, mondoweiss.net. July 21, 2013.
You didn't tell a lie, you just left a big hole in the truth.
Truth, Lying, Holes
Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what's far out and what's reality. And they have no dedication to truth.
Reality, Thinking, Dedication
This is the worst President ever. He [George W. Bush] is the worst President in all of American history.
Usa, President, Literature
"CBS’s Smith: ‘Legendary’ Helen Thomas Has Done ‘Extraordinary Work’" by Kyle Drennen, www.newsbusters.org. August 14, 2008.
We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed.
Believe, People, Democracy
Congress, the White House and Hollywood, Wall Street are owned by the Zionists.
Wall, White, House
"Helen Thomas' school scraps award over 'Zionists' remark". www.cnn.com. December 5, 2010.
We are owned by propagandists against the Arabs. There's no question about that. Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists. No question in my opinion. They put their money where their mouth is...We're being pushed into a wrong direction in every way.
Wall, White, Racism
If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.
Children, Needs, Generations
I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive.
Country, Israel, Criticize
"Helen Thomas: 'Baloney. I've Never Been Anti-Semitic. I'm a Semite'" by Noel Sheppard, www.newsbusters.org. October 12, 2010.
I respect the office of the presidency, but I never worship at the shrines of our public servants...The Washington press corps has the privilege of asking the president of the United States what he is doing and why.
Office, President, Privilege
I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon.
Regret, Party, Heart
"Helen Thomas 'Retires' After Anti-Israeli Jew Remarks". "The Two-way", www.npr.org. June 7, 2010.
In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president.
Nice, Past, Men
Try to reject war and give peace a chance. Question the powers that be and find out why they make the dubious decisions they do that send young people to war.
War, People, Giving
Presidential power was overruled by the high bench in July 1974, when President Nixon was ordered to turn over some audio tapes of his White House conversations, including the 'smoking gun' tape of June 23, 1972, that revealing the Watergate cover up.
Gun, White, June
Everybody is in the pocket of the Israeli lobbies.
Pockets, Israeli
I think that presidents deserve to be questioned. Maybe irreverently, most of the time. Bring 'em down a size. You see a president, ask a question. You have one chance in the barrel. Don't blow it.
Blow, Thinking, President
"Thank You, Mr. President: Helen Thomas at the White House" by Ray Richmond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 14, 2008.
I never thought about heaven per se. I think when you're dead, you're dead. If anything happens after that, you just hope you don't go to hell.
Success, Thinking, Heaven
I'm of Arab background.
"Written by a former editor of the Wall Street Journal: 'The propagandists for the Israel Lobby, who occupy the Wall Street Journal editorial page while pretending to be journalists, are determined to remove Helen Thomas from the annals of journalism.'", rebrn.com. June 16, 2010.
Tony Snow
William Randolph Hearst
Dana Perino
Scott McClellan
Tony Snow Former White House Press Secretary
William Randolph Hearst Publisher
Edward Thomas Poet
Ari Fleischer Former White House Press Secretary
Robert Gibbs Former White House Press Secretary
Dana Perino Former White House Press Secretary
Scott McClellan Former White House Press Secretary
Sam Donaldson Journalist
Rick Sanchez Journalist
Walter Cronkite Journalist
Mark Morford Columnist
George W. Bush 43rd U.S. President
Karl Rove Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff
John McCain United States Senator
Brit Hume Journalist
Timothy J. Russert Journalist
Hillary Clinton Former United States Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice Former United States Secretary of State
Donald Rumsfeld Former U.S. Secretary of Defense
Dennis Hastert Former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
Died: July 20, 2013
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Trey Herr
Director, Cyber Statecraft Initiative
Cybersecurity Digital Policy
Cyber Statecraft Initiative
Atlantic Council press call: What will follow the US strike on Major General Soleimani?
This development will influence US engagement with Iran and partners in the region and its knock-on effects may very well manifest in the cyber domain. What type of de-escalatory engagement should we expect between the US and Iran following the assassination of Soleimani? What types of responses, both kinetic and cyber, can we expect from Iran, a country in need of appearing powerful to its allies and adversaries?
Press and Members Call by Atlantic Council
Cybersecurity Iran
Fri, Jan 3, 2020
Herr quoted in Cheddar on Iranian threat to U.S. grid
In the News by Atlantic Council
Cybersecurity Disinformation
Wed, Sep 18, 2019
A transatlantic agenda for the new European Commission
The new European Commission will take office on November 1, 2019, at a time of intensifying great power competition and new strain for transatlantic relations. This memo gathers the contributions of several Atlantic Council experts on a variety of issues such as defense, foreign policy, trade, and energy policy
Issue Brief by Benjamin Haddad and Jörn Fleck (Eds)
Cybersecurity Economy & Business
Dr. Trey Herr is the Director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative under the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council. His team works on the role of the technology industry in geopolitics, cyber conflict, the security of the internet, cyber safety, and growing a more capable cybersecurity policy workforce. Previously, he was a Senior Security Strategist with Microsoft handling cloud computing and supply chain security policy as well as a fellow with the Belfer Cybersecurity Project at Harvard Kennedy School and a non-resident fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He holds a PhD in Political Science and BS in Musical Theatre and Political Science.
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The Philosophy Book
Big Ideas Simply Explained
著者： DK
ナレーター： Jason Culp
再生時間： 16 時間 22 分
An essential introduction to the history, concepts, and thinking behind philosophy that demystifies what can often be daunting subject matter, laid out in DK's signature style.
シリーズ： Big Ideas Simply Explained
言語： 英語
著者： David Schwartz
Millions of people around the world have improved their lives through the timeless advice David Schwartz offers in The Magic of Thinking Big. In this best-selling audiobook, Schwartz proves you don't need innate talent to become successful, but you do need to understand the habit of thinking and behaving in ways that will get you there.
著者： Joseph Murphy
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind introduces and explains the mind-focusing techniques that remove the subconscious obstacles that prevent us from achieving the success we want - and deserve.
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
著者： John J. Mearsheimer, Stephen M. Walt
再生時間： 20 時間
"The Israel Lobby" by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt was one of the most controversial articles in recent memory. Now in a work of major importance, Mearsheimer and Walt deepen and expand their argument and confront recent developments in Lebanon and Iran. They describe the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the United States provides to Israel and argues that this support cannot be fully explained on either strategic or moral grounds.
The Efficiency Paradox
What Big Data Can't Do
著者： Edward Tenner
Melding the long-term history of technology with the latest headlines and findings of computer science and social science, The Efficiency Paradox questions our ingrained assumptions about efficiency, persuasively showing how relying on the algorithms of digital platforms can in fact lead to wasted efforts, missed opportunities, and above all an inability to break out of established patterns. Edward Tenner offers a smarter way of thinking about efficiency, revealing what we and our institutions can learn from the random and unexpected.
Kane and Abel
著者： Jeffrey Archer
Kane & Abel for a new generation!!
They had only one thing in common - William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless Polish immigrant. Two men born on the same day on opposite sides of the world, their paths were destined to cross in the ruthless struggle to build a fortune.
The marvellous story, spanning 60 years, of two powerful men linked by an all-consuming hatred, brought together by fate to save - and finally destroy - each other.
シリーズ： Kane & Abel
5 out of 5 stars 2件のカスタマーレビュー
著者： Rob Hart
ナレーター： Emily Woo Zeller, Jason Culp, Karissa Vacker
再生時間： 13 時間 8 分
Paxton never thought he’d be working for Cloud, the giant tech company that’s eaten much of the American economy. Much less that he’d be moving into one of the company’s sprawling live-work facilities. But compared to what’s left outside, Cloud’s bland chainstore life of gleaming entertainment halls, open-plan offices, and vast warehouses...well, it doesn’t seem so bad. It’s more than anyone else is offering.
See You in the Cosmos
著者： Jack Cheng
ナレーター： Brittany Pressley, Graham Halstead, Jason Culp, 、その他
All 11-year old Alex wants is to launch his iPod into space. With a series of audio recordings, he will show other lifeforms out in the cosmos what life on Earth, his Earth, is really like. But for a boy with a long-dead dad, a troubled mum, and a mostly-not-around brother, Alex struggles with the big questions. Where do I come from? Who's out there? And, above all, how can I be brave?
ナレーター： Brittany Pressley, Graham Halstead, Jason Culp, Kivlighan de Montebello, Michael Crouch, Therese Plummer, Susan Bennett, Dan Bittner, Pete Larkin, Courtney Shaw
The Content Trap
A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change
著者： Bharat Anand
Companies everywhere face two major challenges today: getting noticed and getting paid. To confront these obstacles, Bharat Anand examines a range of businesses around the world, from The New York Times to The Economist, from Chinese Internet giant Tencent to Scandinavian digital trailblazer Schibsted, and from talent management to the future of education.
Possible Minds
Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI
著者： John Brockman - editor
ナレーター： Kathleen McInerney, Will Damron, Jason Culp, 、その他
The fruit of the long history of John Brockman's profound engagement with the most important scientific minds who have been thinking about AI - from Alison Gopnik and David Deutsch to Frank Wilczek and Stephen Wolfram - Possible Minds is an ideal introduction to the landscape of crucial issues AI presents. The collision between opposing perspectives is salutary and exhilarating; some of these figures are deeply concerned with the threat of AI, including the existential one, while others have a very different view.
ナレーター： Kathleen McInerney, Will Damron, Jason Culp, Rob Shapiro, Vikas Adam
The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State are Leaving Communities Behind
著者： Raghuram Rajan
ナレーター： Jason Culp, Raghuram Rajan
Raghuram Rajan, author of the 2010 FT & Goldman-Sachs Book of the Year Fault Lines, has an unparalleled vantage point onto the social and economic consequences of globalization and their ultimate effect on politics and society. In The Third Pillar he offers up a magnificent big-picture framework for understanding how three key forces - the economy, society, and the state - interact, why things begin to break down and how we can find our way back to a more secure and stable plane.
The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935
著者： Willie Drye
In 1934, hundreds of jobless World War I veterans were sent to the remote Florida Keys to build a highway from Miami to Key West. The Roosevelt Administration was making a genuine effort to help these down-and-out vets. But the attempt to help them turned into a tragedy. The supervisors in charge of the veterans misunderstood the danger posed by hurricanes in the low-lying Florida Keys. The hurricane that struck the Upper Florida Keys on the evening of September 2, 1935, is still the most powerful hurricane to make landfall in the US.
The Invisible Brand
Marketing in the Age of Automation, Big Data, and Machine Learning
著者： William Ammerman
The world of marketing is undergoing major change. Sophisticated algorithms can test billions of marketing messages and measure results, and shift the weight of campaigns - all in real time. What’s next? A complete transformation of marketing as we know it, where machines themselves design and implement customized advertising tactics at virtually every point of digital contact.
Wolf Totem
著者： Jiang Rong
Beijing intellectual Chen Zhen volunteers to live in a remote settlement on the border of Inner and Outer Mongolia, where he discovers a life of apparent idyllic simplicity amongst the nomads and the wild wolves who roam the plains.
Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States
著者： Tony Platt
Beyond These Walls is an ambitious and far-ranging exploration that tracks the legacy of crime and imprisonment in the United States, from the historical roots of the American criminal justice system to our modern state of over-incarceration, and offers a bold vision for a new future. Author Tony Platt, a recognized authority in the field of criminal justice, challenges the way we think about how and why millions of people are tracked, arrested, incarcerated, catalogued, and regulated in the United States.
著者： Danielle Steel
再生時間： 6 時間 9 分
Danielle Steel tells the compelling story of a woman who must struggle to overcome a shattering betrayal and the cruelest kind of malice. At 17, the night of her mother's funeral, Grace Adams is attacked. It is not the first time, and a brutal crime ensues.
A Crisis Wasted
Barack Obama's Defining Decisions
著者： Reed Hundt
This book is the compelling story of President Obama’s domestic policy decisions made between September 2008 and his inauguration on January 20, 2009. Unlike all other presidents except Abraham Lincoln - who decided not to allow slavery to expand westward before he was sworn in - Barack Obama determined the fate of his presidency before he took office. The results of these fateful decisions led to Donald Trump taking his place eight years later. This book describes how and why these decisions were made, and discusses whether the outcomes could have been different.
The Secret Life of Clams
The Mysteries and Magic of Our Favorite Shellfish
著者： Anthony Fredericks
Get up close and personal with an amazing creature that has invaded our lexicon as well as our restaurants. It breathes with tubes, it has no head or brain, it feeds through a filter, and it is the source of dozens of familiar proverbs ("happy as a clam!"). Clams, it turns out, have been worshipped (by the Moche people of ancient Peru), used as money (by the Algonquin Indians), and consumed by people for thousands of years.
The Spy's Son
The True Story of the Highest-Ranking CIA Officer Ever Convicted of Espionage and the Son He Trained to Spy for Russia
著者： Bryan Denson
Jim Nicholson was one of the CIA's top veteran case officers. By day he taught spycraft at the CIA's clandestine training center, The Farm. By night he was a minivan-driving single father racing home to have dinner with his kids. But Nicholson led a double life. For more than two years, he had met covertly with agents of Russia's foreign intelligence service and turned over troves of classified documents. In 1997 Nicholson became the highest-ranking CIA officer ever convicted of espionage.
The Mastersinger from Minsk
An Inspector Herman Preiss Mystery
著者： Morley Torgov
It is late March 1868. In Munich, composer Richard Wagner is completing his new opera Die Meistersinger von Nuremberg. It has been a difficult few years for him, and much depends upon the success of this new work. Following the tense auditions, an anonymous note warns Wagner that the premiere will be the date of his ruination.
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Matt Turner Book 3
By: Michael Siemsen
Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
Matt Turner's psychic ability has granted him a window into the entirety of Earth's intelligent beings - past and present - but this gift has also been his heaviest burden. A talent like Matt's can only be kept secret for so long, and ruthless individuals desiring lost and rare items viewed him only as a prized tool.
Best in series so far
By Colin on 22-01-16
Excellent story
Reviewed: 29-10-19
This was another excellent story featuring Matt Turner. It was fast paced and had lots of twists and turns right to the end. When is the next book out?
The Secret Runners of New York
By: Matthew Reilly
Narrated by: Norma Butikofer
When Skye Rogers and her twin brother, Red, move to Manhattan, rumours of a coming global apocalypse are building. But this does not stop the young elite of New York from partying without a care. And then suddenly Skye is invited to join an exclusive gang known as the Secret Runners of New York. But this is no ordinary clique - they have access to an underground portal that can transport them into the future. And what Skye discovers in the future is horrifying....
A good read.
By Scott on 13-04-19
Another great tale from Matthew Reilly
I wasn't too sure about this story as the subject was very different from Matthew Reilly's usual stories which I really enjoy listening to. However, this was a great story and well read, from start to end it had me wondering through the twists in the tale.
The Cleric’s Vault
Lost Chambers Series, Book 2
By: Ernest Dempsey
Narrated by: John Glouchevitch
Decades ago, a mysterious treasure vanished in the middle of the night. But the secrets it held were worth more than gold. The thrilling follow-up to The Secret of the Stones sends former government agent Sean Wyatt and his sidekick Tommy Schultz from the deserts of the American southwest to the hills and jungles of Ecuador in a race to find the mysterious lost treasure. The treasure is somehow linked to the legendary Lost Chambers of Gold that has remained hidden for thousands of years. But the chambers hold a deeper secret, one on which an evil mastermind has his sights set.
Enjoyable story
By Tegan's mum on 13-05-19
Enjoyed this story which was the second part. I look forward to listening to the next installment.
The Relic Hunters
The Relic Hunters Series, Book 1
By: David Leadbeater
Narrated by: Pete Simonelli
Relic smuggler and expert thief Guy Bodie is a tough man in a dangerous world, loyal only to his elite team of five. But when one of them betrays him, landing Guy in a hellish Mexican prison, he finds himself making a bargain with the most unlikely new ally: the CIA. There is a catch. In return for being released from jail, Guy must help the CIA solve the most audacious heist in history. As Guy knows, six of the Seven Wonders of the World have long been lost. But with the help of the CIA, he learns that the destroyed Statue of Zeus still exists - and it’s in the hands of a powerful secret society.
Great story, mediocre narrator
By Paul R on 05-02-19
Good story,
This was a good story, funny in parts, easy to follow and we'll narrated. Looking forward to next instalment
Cormoran Strike, Book 4
By: Robert Galbraith
Narrated by: Robert Glenister
When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic.
The most epic Galbraith/Rowling novel yet
By Mikey on 19-09-18
Another great Comoran Strike investigation
I've really enjoyed all the Cormoran Strike books including this one. The narrator reads the audiobooks really well. I can't wait for the next story.
Alex Hunter, Book 7
By: Greig Beck
Narrated by: Sean Mangan
Something has travelled for a billion years to find us - and now it has. In space, Commander Mitch Granger and his crew are nearing the end of their scientific mission - along with their covert satellite photography for the military. As they prepare for reentry, an unknown object emerges from the void: the name given to deep, dark space. The object proves impossible to evade. The crew have one option left - to bring the fragment aboard....
Great series and the narrator is perfect for these
By Alistair on 19-01-19
Another excellent story which had me shouting at times especially in the tense moments. I can't wait for the next story.
In Search of the Lost World
A journey into the deepest, darkest jungles of the Venezuelan Amazon...and a primeval place and time that mankind was never meant to exist in. Ben Cartwright, former soldier, home to mourn the loss of his father, stumbles upon cryptic letters from the past between author Arthur Conan Doyle and his great-great-grandfather who vanished while exploring the Amazon jungle in 1908. Amazingly, these letters lead Ben to believe that his ancestor’s expedition was the basis for Doyle’s fantastical tale of a lost world inhabited by long-extinct creatures.
Subprime Ordinary
By Simon on 02-07-18
Excellent story well read
Gripping story, well read and kept me entertained to the very end. Now I've got to wait for part 2.
By: Jeremy Robinson
The Galahad, a faster-than-light spacecraft, carries 50 scientists and engineers on a mission to prepare Kepler 452b, Earth's nearest habitable neighbor at 1400 light years away. With Earth no longer habitable and the Mars colony slowly failing, they are humanity's best hope. After 10 years in a failed cryogenic bed - body asleep, mind awake - William Chanokh's torture comes to an end as the fog clears, the hatch opens, and his friend and fellow hacker, Tom, greets him...by stabbing a screwdriver into his heart. This is the first time William dies.
Terrible sci-fi
By James on 02-11-17
Loved this story and didn't see the ending coming. Well read and escapism at its best.
The Restless Dead
David Hunter 5
By: Simon Beckett
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
Composed of over 60 per cent water itself, a human body isn't naturally buoyant. It will float only for as long as there is air in its lungs before gradually sinking to the bottom as the air seeps out. If the water is very cold or deep, it will remain there, undergoing a slow, dark dissolution that can take years. But if the water is warm enough for bacteria to feed and multiply, then it will continue to decompose. Gases will build up in the intestines, increasing the body's buoyancy until it floats again. And the dead will literally rise....
Enjoyable with good twist
By I Cogley on 07-07-17
Excellent story that was really well read. Kept me guessing to the end. Can't wait for the next story.
The Immortality Curse
What would you give for eternal life? An impossibly old man, a family gruesomely murdered and a woman whose collection of mythological artefacts defies belief: Professor Matt Kearns knows they are connected. These ancient clues bring Matt out of his self-imposed solitude to seek the fabled Fountain of Youth. This brings on a perilous odyssey across deserts and oceans and into the heart of a mountain, and Matt must overcome horrifying adversaries and creatures of legend and also unravel a 5,000-year-old mystery.
Great story - great characters
By Andy Hill on 10-07-17
Excellent as expected
Great story narrated brilliantly. Thoroughly enjoyable tale. Can't wait for the next story by Greig Beck.
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Cyclone Yasi Forces Whitsunday Resort Evacuations
Attractions / Environment / Safety / Tourism /
Cyclone Yasi is heading towards an area between Innisfail and Mackay, threatening the Whitsunday Island and low-lying areas with a combination of Category 4 winds and a powerful storm surge.
The storm is expected to cross the coast between 10pm tonight and 4am Thursday.
It is understood compulsory evacuations could be enacted by Queensland Emergency authorities who fear that a high tide and ferocious winds will push sea waters into vulnerable coastal locations.
Whitsunday Island resorts have been evacuated and ports closed as Queensland Premier Anna Bligh warned of the "serious threat to our coast."
Yasi is another episode in a devastating summer of heartbreaking weather. It follows Cyclone Anthony which passed without major incident.
As well as flash flooding in coast communities, Premier Bligh said they could not rule out inundation in Emerald and Condamine already devastated by recent floods.
The Whitsundays tourism authority is advising people to leave the area if they don't feel safe while Hamilton Island spokeswoman Susan Sullivan stated "in the 25-year history of Hamilton Island it's unlike anything we've ever seen."
In anticipation of the what was predicted to be the Queensland's worst cyclone season in 40 years, Tourism Queensland ran a series of workshops to help tourism operators develop crisis management plans.
The seminars ran in November last year.
For more information go to www.tq.com.au/weatherproofyourbusiness
22nd October 2010 - HELPING QUEENSLAND TOURISM WEATHER THE STORM
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10 ways to be a tourist in Calhoun County
As the Calhoun County Tourism Ambassador Program launches its program to promote the area to visitors, here are 10 ways you can try being a tourist around the county.
10 ways to be a tourist in Calhoun County As the Calhoun County Tourism Ambassador Program launches its program to promote the area to visitors, here are 10 ways you can try being a tourist around the county. Check out this story on battlecreekenquirer.com: http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/news/local/2017/12/29/10-ways-tourist-calhoun-county/988094001/
Annie J. Kelley, Battle Creek Enquirer Published 12:38 p.m. ET Dec. 29, 2017
Magician Ron Carnell performs for a group of Olivet College students at the American Museum of Magic Wednesday while a CBS Sunday Morning crew records him.(Photo: Andy Fitzpatrick/The Enquirer)
As the Calhoun County Tourism Ambassador Program launches its program to promote the area to visitors, here are 10 ways you can try being a tourist around the county:
American Museum of Magic
As seen on CBS Sunday Morning News, the museum keeps the history of magic alive through artifacts, from "The Discoverie of Witchcraft" to Penn and Teller's suits. Magicians have also been known to put on shows in downtown Marshall, at the Franke Center for the Arts. Address: 107 E. Michigan Ave., Marshall. Hours: Check back again in April. Info: www.americanmuseumofmagic.org.
Bohm Theatre
Bohm Theater in Albion. Stephanie Parshall/For The Enquirer (Photo: Stephanie Parshall)
Linda Freybler, CEO of Calhoun County Visitors Bureau, recommended the Bohm Theatre in Albion. The restored theater, located at 201 S. Superior St., is a sumptuous way to catch the latest movies. They also have a classic movie series on Friday mornings with a $3 price, and once-a-month Monday night blues concerts. For more information, go to bohmtheatre.org or call 517-343-2116. If you dig the historic theater, there are walking guides for historic spots around Albion, including information about the Purple Gang and local architecture. Go to the Albion Chamber of Commerce at 310 S Superior St.
Color the Creek
Werc Alvarez from Brooklyn in New York works on a mural at 69 Calhoun St., near the Charitable Union, as part of the street art festival "Color the Creek" on Thursday. (Photo: Al Lassen/For the Enquirer)
This annual festival brings mural artists to Battle Creek to add some color around town. Tour the professional murals with a map provided at www.facebook.com/colorthecreek. Founders Brewing Co. of Grand Rapids encouraged fans to stop in Battle Creek to check out the mural partly inspired by their breakfast stout, which can be found on Calhoun Street, near the Charitable Union.
Critchlow’s Alligator Sanctuary
David Critchlow, owner/operator of Critchlow Alligator Sanctuary shows one of his American Alligator at his business in Athens (Photo: Al Lassen/For the Enquirer)
Sometimes people find that having a pet alligator isn't as fun as they thought, and that's where Critchlow’s Alligator Sanctuary comes in. Founded by Dave Critchlow, the sanctuary takes care of alligators with nowhere else to go. It's open to visitors looking for an animal encounter experience. Address: 1698 M-66, Athens. Winter hours: Noon to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Cost: $7.95. Info: www.alligatorsanctuary.com; 729-4802.
Go to a festival
Alainey Dugan, 12, begins her descent down the hill during the cardboard sled race Saturday for the Battle Creek Metropolitan Area Moustache Society's Festivus 2016 event at Leila Arboretum. (Photo: Stephanie Parshall/For The Enquirer)
If you're looking for affordable fun and lots of people, you can't go wrong with a festival. The season for it doesn't really start until June, but February has two very different events: Festivus is 10 years old on Feb. 3. Even if you don't have a cardboard sled, Leila Arboretum will have music and refreshments and activities from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Admission is free. The Ice, Wine, Beer and Blues Festival is in downtown Marshall Feb. 2-3. Friday night there will be ice carving and tasting of beer and wine ($25 for tasting only, $35 for tasting and a collectible goblet). On Saturday, the Franke Center will host a barbecue dinner with the Big Boss Band and a mainstage concert with the Jake Kershaw band and Harper and Midwest Kind. Dinner is $10, the main concert is $26 in advance, $28 at the door.
Food with personality
Dark Horse Brewing Co. in Marshall. (Photo: Enquirer file)
Marshall has two tourist destinations that can still be fun even if you've known them all your life. Cornwell’s Turkeyville, 18935 15 1/2 Mile Road, does a lot. There's the gift shop, dinner theater, RV campground, ice cream parlor, bike night, craft shows, Civil War re-enactments and more. But what will always make it special is a menu that is 100 percent turkey, from the traditional platter to the burgers and grilled cheese. Dark Horse Brewing Co., 511 S. Kalamazoo Ave., might have made the national spotlight with a reality TV show, but people in Michigan have always known that it's a great place for beer. If you like outdoor dining, then the beer garden is the place to be in the summer, with music in the evenings and a funky sensibility.
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Albion College has invested in a big indoor equestrian center. It's used for the college equestrian team, along with events for younger riders. Freybler suggested checking out a horse show at the center. There's a collegiate event scheduled for Feb. 10.
Legend has it that “Crying Mary” sheds tears at midnight each Sunday. The statue, pictured here in 2009, is one of the most popular sites at Oak Hill Cemetery. (Photo: Enquirer file)
If it's been a while since you visited Oak Hill Cemetery in elementary school to learn about local history, the cemetery is worth another visit. There's the big names from Battle Creek history, including Sojourner Truth, the Kellogg brothers, C.W. Post, Seventh Day Adventist founders Ellen and James White, Underground Railroad conductor Erastus Hussey and musician Junior Walker. And, of course, there's "Crying Mary," a statue that doesn't cry or represents a Mary, but that never stops a good urban legend. Address: 255 South Ave. Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Did you know Michigan Audubon has two sanctuaries in Calhoun County? The Bernard W. Baker Sanctuary, accessible from 15 Mile Road between T Drive North and Q Drive North, is home to Sandhill Cranes. While you probably aren't going to run into any cranes right now, the sanctuary is open for cross-country skiing. The Voorhees Sanctuary, 24 Mile Road at O Drive in Marshall, is 35 acres of woods with a trail. Info: www.michiganaudubon.org.
Walk a trail
Twisty thoughts for a twisty path on the Calhoun County Trailway. (Photo: Annie J. Kelley/The Enquirer)
There are two trails to be found in Battle Creek that will take you through woods and city. Walk, run or ride a bicycle. Linear Park is 26 miles of paved pathway that will take you through parks or along rivers. It cuts through downtown Battle Creek. For a map, go to www.bcparks.org/134/Linear-Park. If you want to hike the Calhoun County Trailway, Historic Bridge Park — located at 14930 9 Mile Road — is a good place to start. For a map, go to www.westmichigantrails.com/Calhoun-County-Trailway-74.php.
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The Beatles’ songs – complete A-Z list!
Written by: Lennon-McCartney
Recorded: 25-27 February 1964
Producer: George Martin
Engineer: Norman Smith
Released: 10 July 1964 (UK), 26 June 1964 (US)
Paul McCartney: vocals, bass
John Lennon: acoustic rhythm guitar
George Harrison: acoustic lead guitar, claves
Ringo Starr: congas
A Hard Day’s Night
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And I Love Her was one of Paul McCartney’s major contributions to the A Hard Day’s Night album, along with Things We Said Today and Can’t Buy Me Love.
It was the first ballad I impressed myself with. It’s got nice chords in it, ‘Bright are the stars that shine, dark is the sky…’ I like the imagery of the stars and the sky. It was a love song really. The ‘And’ in the title was an important thing. ‘And I Love Her,’ it came right out of left field, you were right up to speed the minute you heard it. The title comes in the second verse and it doesn’t repeat. You would often go to town on the title, but this was almost an aside, ‘Oh… and I love you.’ It still holds up and George played really good guitar on it. It worked very well.
Many Years From Now, Barry Miles
And I Love Her was written in the music room in the basement of the house in Wimpole Street, London, which belonged to Jane Asher’s parents. Lennon and McCartney wrote many of their mid-period songs together in the room.
And I Love Her is Paul again. I consider it his first Yesterday. You know, the big ballad in A Hard Day’s Night. The middle eight, I helped with that.
John Lennon, 1980
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It is likely that Asher was the inspiration behind the song. Although John Lennon claimed to have helped with the writing, although it is likely that McCartney composed the majority of it alone.
I’m not sure if John worked on that at all… The middle eight is mine. I would say that John probably helped with the middle eight, but he can’t say ‘It’s mine’. I wrote this on my own. I can actually see Margaret Asher’s upstairs drawing room. I remember playing it there, not writing it necessarily.
And I Love Her was one of the songs featured in The Beatles first film, A Hard Day’s Night. The group played it during the ‘studio performance’ sequence, which was filmed on 31 March 1964 at the Scala Theatre, London.
Although it became one of The Beatles’ most admired recordings following its release, the group only performed it once outside Abbey Road. On 14 July 1964 they played it for the BBC’s Top Gear radio show. The session took place at Broadcasting House in London, and was first broadcast two days later.
The Beatles began recording the song on 25 February 1964. They recorded two takes that day, with a full electric line-up, but it was evidently not the sound they were after. The second take was later released on Anthology 1.
They returned to it the next day, recording 16 takes and changing the song’s arrangement as they went along. They weren’t happy with the results, however, and it was completed on 27 February in just two takes.
The success of the song owes much to the simplicity of its lyrics, and to the effectiveness of Harrison’s acoustic guitar solo, for which the song’s key switches from F# minor to G minor. The middle section, meanwhile, came about in the studio, as music publisher Dick James later recalled.
They were laying down the tracks and doing the melody lines of the song And I Love Her. It was a very simple song and quite repetitive. George Martin and I looked at each other and the same thought sparked off in both of our minds. It was proving to be, although plain and a warm and sympathetic song, just too repetitive, with the same phrase of repeating. George Martin told the boys, ‘Both Dick and I feel that the song is just lacking the middle. It’s too repetitive, and it needs something to break it up.’ I think it was John who shouted, ‘OK, let’s have a tea break’, and John and Paul went to the piano and, while Mal Evans was getting tea and some sandwiches, the boys worked at the piano. Within half an hour they wrote, there before our very eyes, a very constructive middle to a very commercial song. Although we know it isn’t long, it’s only a four bar middle, nevertheless it was just the right ingredients to break up the over repetitive effect of the original melody.
Chart success
And I Love Her was released as a US single on 20 July 1964. Its b-side was If I Fell. It entered the top 40 on 8 August, spent seven weeks inside, and peaked at number 12.
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SD Saturday 11 July 2009
This is a good example for one of the many mistakes Ian MacDonald has in his book (it’s a shame that everyone relies on this source, he has done such little research, rather nothing). For the correct instrumentation you have to know how the released version was recorded:
At first they recorded the two basic tracks (at the same time):
1. John’s acoustic guitar, Paul’s bass and Ringo’s bongos
2. Paul’s lead vocal, George’s claves(!)
Then overdubs were made for the two remaining tracks, these were:
3. Paul’s second vocal
4. George’s RamÃrez classical lead guitar part
(Ringo couldn’t do both, claves and bongos, because they were recorded at the same time).
Joe Sunday 12 July 2009
I think the confusion over the bongos and claves stems from Mark Lewisohn’s Sessions book, in which he says (26 Feb 1964): “And I Love Her was quite problematic however. Ringo swapped his drums for bongos and claves midway through the session but the sound was still not quite right.” How do you know for sure that the bongos and claves were recorded together, and that George played the latter?
SD Monday 13 July 2009
It’s possible that Ringo played claves on February 26, but the released version was recorded a day later with George on claves. Source: Walter Everett: “The Beatles as Musicians”, he gave a lot of detailed information about the recordings.
salviandres Sunday 25 May 2014
if you see the footage of the session, you can seen that the basis track was:
Paul:Voice,Bass
John:Acoustic Guitar
George:Acoustic Guitar (Electric In The Beggining)
Ringo: Bongos (Drums In Beggining)
Steve Friday 12 February 2016
What footage ?
Razor Wednesday 30 December 2009
George’s guitar work here is beautiful.
Julio Sanchez Tuesday 18 October 2011
I love how Paul finally starts acknowledge George’s musical contributuions to his songs in the new film “Living in the Material World”. He says that George came up with the main riff to this song, which I feel is such a major part of the song that he should have recieved songwriting credit.
lemperayam Sunday 8 April 2012
Just to be clear, not the main riff, but that signature melodic acoustic guitar lines accompanying the verse chords. Sure it’s a major part of the song, arrangement wise, but surely it doesn’t warrant co-writing credit.
I don’t find Paul’s acknowledgment strange at all — he always gives a credit when it’s due. The problem is people can’t seem to accept when Paul claims what’s his, like the middle eight of this song, for example.
Joseph Brush Tuesday 15 January 2013
Apparently you haven’t read Dick James’ comments about this song on this page.
Harvey Wednesday 14 February 2018
Yeah to himself
ForgetScowl Friday 24 October 2014
George consistently provided tasteful to the moment pastiche guitar work that shored up the bulwark of their sound which is repeated in this day by such artist’s as Lana Del Rey within the production of “West Coast”.
jennifur Sun Wednesday 23 December 2015
isn’t it though. i’ve heard that song since George died and it just doesn’t sound the same. wonder if anyone out there can tell me if the rumor i have heard, that the Beautiful Rick 12 string he is playing was stolen later on. if it hadn’t been for that song and that movie we may never have heard of Roger M and the Byrds.
Slipper of the Yard Monday 15 January 2018
Sorry ? Rick 12 string on ‘And I love Her’ ? News to me.
Robert Saturday 10 December 2016
Yes, beautiful song, very tender; and exquisite guitar work by George.
dgw28 Monday 9 October 2017
Not only did George play the acoustic intro, Paul acknowledged that George composed it and that it made the song. High praise from Paul.
Gustavo Monday 21 June 2010
I agree with you. I keep saying that McDonald is not accurate, but like you said, people relies on this source.
In “Drive my car” page I asked about your sources (here you quote Everett’s, who by the way is an excelent book), about the piano on that song.
Joe Tuesday 22 June 2010
Please don’t take everything Walter Everett wrote as gospel – his books aren’t perfect either. I think without having been there (and we all know memory can fail too) it takes a certain degree of guesswork to say precisely who played what, and while Everett seems to have given a great deal of thought to the matter, I’m not sure he’s correct every time.
For example, he claims that George Harrison added a bass guitar overdub to I Want To Hold Your Hand. He offers no clarification that it was a bass, and that George played it, yet it’s repeated as a fact elsewhere in the first book. It sounds more like a guitar line to me. Guesswork, you see.
Gustavo Tuesday 22 June 2010
Is not gospel, buy is more accurate than McDonald. That´s all.
I don´t know the book by Russell (1982). Dolwding (1989) quotes this book as his principal source, but is pretty inaccuratte. Then, it seems to me that McDonald just reproduce Dowlding, with some new research (not always quoted) but with the same inaccuracies.
Richard Thursday 13 August 2009
And I Love Her,…This is my favorite Beatle song! The sheer majestic simplicity and beauty of this song in ‘A Hard Days Night’ made the movie romantically and poetically memorable for all time! This was the best song on the album and in the movie. The lighting at the end of the video, wow!!
Matt Saturday 22 August 2009
I’m reasonably certain that quote by Dick James refers to the “A love like ours…” bridge, not the key change.
Mathew Friday 25 May 2012
I know the vocal is double-tracked by Paul, but at times (to me) it sounds like both John and Paul singing, as opposed to just Pau.
Mathew Monday 1 October 2012
I’m of the same opinion. I wonder if it’s something they toyed with before recording?
carlos gutman Tuesday 18 September 2012
Claves could have been played by George Martin, who used to assist them with different instruments on those days.Or any recording assistant (Mal Evans, Neil Aspinall, Norm Smith, etc,), after all it´s not such a difficult instrument to play
Nate Monday 17 December 2012
When watching the Live at the BBC version on YouTube, I’m pretty sure John says “I like that one, it’s one of my favorites” just before the song starts.
It’s either John or Ringo.
Jay Monday 17 February 2014
Is there any mention, report or information about the bass set-up of Paul McCartney on this song?
I think Paul tuned the 4th open E-string of his Hofner bass to drop LOW open C# or Db to get that distinctive low Db sound.
Their experiments on those early records like this including on instrument tuning really produced a very good full sound which contributes to the overall uniqueness of this song ‘And I Love Her’ as the tecnique(drop tuning) is rarely done by any other bands during those times.
Chris, St. Charles, MO, USA Tuesday 3 June 2014
George’s guitar-playing on this song sounds Spanish-influenced. I would love to find out more about the musical influence for this song.
Gary Friday 24 October 2014
George claimed Segovia as one of his early influences. It is quite possible that he was channeling Segovia on this one.
BeatleBug Wednesday 4 February 2015
I’ve heard it a million times, played it a thousand, butchered it 5 billion times, and I still swoon when I hear it. WHAT A SONG!!!! It’s magic.
And Paul is right– that riff is absolutely iconic. Four notes; terribly simple and terribly effective.
Gwendolyn Saturday 7 March 2015
Another one if my all time favorites me and my dad sing it in the car all the time. Never gets old. Only it is old…….
Golden Slumber Friday 2 October 2015
The songwriting credit on this one should be McCartney/Lennon/Harrison, IMO. Harrison’s contribution is vital to the song.
Just to clarify, Lennon didn’t say ‘It’s mine’ about the middle eight, he said: ‘The middle eight, I HELPED with that’.
MikeP Monday 14 January 2019
That’s silly. Adding to the arrangement is not co-writing the song. The SONG is the melody and lyrics.
Even a full-fledged arranger – someone who puts the song into performable / recordable shape does not get co-writing credit.
The song, the arrangement, and the recording are three separate things.
Graham Paterson Thursday 8 October 2015
Lovely Paul McCartney song. A real highlight of the album and film “A Hard Days Night”. As others have said brilliant guitar by George Harrison.
Mikey59 Sunday 18 September 2016
This song sounds easy, but deceptively so. It starts in E major, but on the ii chord. Then it quickly uses that ii chord as the sub dominant (iv)for the new key of the verse, C#minor. Then it deftly goes back to E major by way of A and B, resolving to E( IV V I).
It toggles between the relative major & minor keys throughout the song, including after the modulation, when it toggles from d minor to F major. Then it ends with a Picardy Third, D major, to make it even trickier! Pretty sophisticated and more so due to it sounding simple if you listen without analyzing it.
Just to be clear, the song is never in F# or G, as stated above. It modulates from E/c#min to F/d min at the solo. Just for a correct analysis!
Matt Sunday 22 October 2017
There is a song (no idea which one off-hand) on the BBC album, The Honeymoon Song, where George plays a VERY similar guitar line to what he plays on And I Love Her. I can only presume he was thinking of this on the day they recorded the song as it seems too close to be a coincidence.
I listened to it again and there is definitely a very similar sounding guitar figure that I imagine George plays. I’d be more specific but it’s so obvious what I’m talking about when you hear it. What does anyone else think?
RingoDrums64 Wednesday 4 July 2018
Wait did George actually play the claves or was that Ringo?
hearhear Sunday 9 September 2018
I saw Paul in concert about a year ago in the US for his One on One Tour, and I was hoping he would perform this song- and he did! It was awesome. Funny pre-song antics though- a hot looking lady in the audience was holding up a sign that said ”Paul, please sign my butt”. Well, Paul zeroed in on her and read that sign out loud to the audience. Everyone started cracking up while Paul looked at her, halfway considering doing it. He didn’t of course. Well when everyone calmed down he started singing “And I Love Her”. Very magical. Once in a while during the song, though, Paul would turn around like he was slow dancing and wiggle his butt to the audience. Again, everyone started cracking up because it was in reference to that lady holding the sign, who by this point must have been dying of embarrassment.
Magical times I’ll never forget. Thank you Sir Paul.
N Friday 1 March 2019
There really should be a section on song pages describing mixing differences between mono and stereo versions; the mono version is almost completely single-track vocals while the stereo is fully double tracked. I’d consider such a difference pretty noteworthy, but I dunno.
Jay Saturday 23 March 2019
I know they overdubbed the vocals, and they are good, but I wish it was John on backing. As a matter of fact, they should have backed each other on everything. Their voices are magic together
Donna R Kordes Monday 27 May 2019
Any idea if a 45RPM has the same song pressed on both A & B sides is worth anything? I have “And I Love Her/If I Fell with only one song pressed on both sides, the matrix runoffs are the same on both sides with the only difference being one number.
Andrew Sunday 9 June 2019
When did they play it outside abbey road? Like were they just standing on the sidewalk singing it?
Mary Biles Friday 29 November 2019
“I’m not sure if John worked on that at all… I would say that John probably helped with the middle eight, but he can’t say ‘It’s mine’. ”
John didn’t say that, and you’re contradicting yourself.
MikeP Wednesday 15 January 2020
Get off it. You have no idea how the writer presented the question to Paul. As far as contradition…it’s a quote from Paul. Obviously he’s thinking it through – and remembering details – as he speaks. Big deal.
This Paul vs. John thing in nothing short of silly and more than a bit childish.
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Angelica Marie Cecora: “Oscar De La Hoya threw a depraved, cross-dressing, drug-driven orgy”
A lawsuit has claimed that the retired boxer Oscar De La Hoya threw a depraved, cross-dressing, drug-driven orgy at New York’s Ritz Carlton Hotel.
New York model Angelica Marie Cecora, 25, says Oscar De La Hoya cavorted around in women’s underwear and went crazy with cocaine and sex toys, intimidating her and her friend when they tried to leave.
This is the second time Oscar De La Hoya has been accused of wearing women’s underwear.
The first woman to do so, Milana Dravnel, was rumoured to have been paid $20 million to go away in 2008.
New York model Angelica Marie Cecora, 25, says Oscar De La Hoya cavorted around in women’s underwear and went crazy with cocaine and sex toys, intimidating her and her friend when they tried to leave
Oscar De La Hoya contacted Angelica Marie Cecora in March, through her modelling website, according to the suit.
The sportsman said he had just come back from a trip to Iraq, where he had been visiting the troops, and wanted to relax, following the stint “without alcohol or women”, the suit claims.
Angelica Marie Cecora says Oscar De la Hoya told her his name was Thomas Crown, like the millionaire art thief played by Pierce Brosnan in the 1999 film “The Thomas Crown Affair”.
She only discovered his real name during dinner, when she saw his credit card, she said.
Back up in his room Oscar De La Hoya revealed his cross-dressing fetish, she claims.
“He started to put my stuff on, my underwear. I had a skirt with me. He put that on,” Angelica Marie Cecora said.
“It was beyond kinky,” she told The New York Post.
“Things that I don’t even know how to explain were done with him.”
Angelica Marie Cecora told the New York Post that Oscar De La Hoya was tiny and fit into her underwear perfectly.
They had sex and Oscar De La Hoya ordered drugs to the room, she claims.
The retired boxer told the model that he loved Charlie Sheen and kept shouting the actor’s catchphrase “Winning!”
Angelica Marie Cecora later summoned her Russian roommate, to join them, she claimed.
A lawsuit has claimed that the retired boxer Oscar De La Hoya threw a depraved, cross-dressing, drug-driven orgy at New York’s Ritz Carlton Hotel (photo from 2007)
At Oscar De La Hoya’s suggestion, the other woman, a dancer, brought sex toys to the romp.
But when the girls grew tired and tried to sleep he allegedly became persistent.
“We locked him out of his own room and made him sleep in the living room,” Angelica Marie Cecora said.
“He came in the room about four times, trying to crawl in bed with us, to the point that me and her screamed at him, <<Go away, Oscar. Otherwise we’re leaving, and it’s not going to be pretty>>.”
In the morning, Oscar De La Hoya was gone but the girls were stuck with a bill for nearly $1,500.
They left without paying but Oscar De La Hoya’s manager later tried to settle the bill with her.
The lawsuit alleges emotional distress, false imprisonment, assault and battery,
Two months after their night of passion, Oscar De La Hoya went to rehab for substance abuse.
Angelica Marie Cecora’s lawyer, Tony Evans, called the case “a sad example of abuse of power”.
Tony Evans told the New York Post: “Clearly, my client was intimidated and abused by Mr De La Hoya’s abuse of his celebrity power, his monetary power and his tremendous physical power and presence.
“It’s never OK to dehumanize and intimidate people, as was done here.”
A lawyer for Oscar De La Hoya, Judd Burstein, told the New York Post he had been “unable to reach my client for comment”.
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Get every day off to a healthy start by avoiding these bad-for-you breakfast foods
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When it comes to weekday mornings, it’s easy to go on autopilot and not think about what you’re eating. But making healthy choices in the morning can set the tone for how you feel the rest of the day. Not only that, but eating a healthy breakfast every day can reduce your risk for diseases like diabetes and cancer.
We talked to Jean LaMantia, registered dietitian and author of the Essential Cancer Treatment and Nutrition Guide Cookbook to get the scoop on which breakfast foods to avoid.
Bacon, ham and sausage
“Processed meat has nitrates that are linked with colorectal cancer,” says LaMantia. “In fact, the American Institute for Cancer Research published a list of the top 10 things you can do to reduce your risk of cancer. Avoiding nitrates is one of them.”
What does that mean for morning meat lovers? It’s time to find a different breakfast option.
Sugary cereals
How can you tell the difference between a bad-for-you sugary cereal and a good one?
“Some cereals are full of carbohydrates and sugar,” says LaMantia. “When you eat them, your blood sugar will spike and then bottom out.”
Since you probably don’t want your energy to crash at the beginning of the day, it’s best to avoid those cereals. Instead, “choose cereals with higher protein and fibre,” she says.
Another option? “Add walnuts or ground flaxseed for more fibre and protein.”
Toaster pastries, doughnuts and danishes
“Not only are these pastries made with refined white flour, but there’s sugar added,” says LaMantia.
Sugar is the worst way the fuel your morning, because it “results in a rapid rise in blood sugar.”
That means you’ll be hungry sooner, and increase your chances of high blood sugar, obesity and diabetes.
If all those health risks aren’t enough to put you off pastries, there’s another way they’re detrimental to your health. “Many scientists believe sugar and cancer are linked,” says LaMantia.
Packaged pancakes with artificial maple syrup
While natural maple syrup is a healthier sweetener, there are many artificial syrups on the market that are full of high-fructose corn syrup. The sweetener, which is derived from corn, is also present in most packaged and processed foods.
“High fructose corn syrup can lead to more abdominal obesity and visceral fat-which is stored between the organs,” says LaMantia. That’s the fat that leads to cancer.”
A recent study in the journal Global Public Health also linked high-fructose corn syrup consumption to Type-2 diabetes.
What should you eat for breakfast?
“In general, it’s best to look for whole grain spelt with protein,” says LaMantia.
She recommends oatmeal with flaxseed, walnuts, cinnamon, soy beverage (or skim milk) and fruit.
Her personal favourite breakfast?
“I usually have half a pumpernickel bagel with crunchy (natural) almond butter and chili jam, with lots of cinnamon,” she says. “Pumpernickel is a whole grain, almond butter is high in vitamin E and protein, and cinnamon has shown to help lower insulin resistance.”
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By Shane Whitaker
To optimize floor space at its Chelsea, MA, bakery, Signature Breads, Inc. installed a new WP/Kemper Evolution roll line in April. While the best use of the plant’s floor space played a major role in the company’s decision to purchase this new line, improved product quality has been a key benefit, according to Kevin Helman, director of supply chain operations, Signature Breads.
“One of the most important features that attracted us to the Evolution line was the Softstar divider,” he said. “The low-stress divider/rounder allows us to work with high-absorption dough, which, in turn, produces higher-quality products and increases yields.”
The artisan bread bakery raised dough hydration by approximately 3% using the Evolution line because the equipment it replaced was unable to effectively process such wet and sticky dough, Mr. Helman said.
The Evolution line is gentle on the dough during the dividing and rounding process, allowing bakers to increase water absorption without changing a product’s characteristics, noted Pat Kennedy, president of WP Bakery Group/Kemper Bakery Systems Ltd., Shelton, CT.
INCREASING THE EFFICIENCY.
Signature Breads replaced two lines with the Evolution. “We had three different manufacturing areas in our facility, and we wanted to use just one of them,” Mr. Helman said.
The bakery puts the Evolution line to work making rolls and petit pan. These products are all 6 oz or less, so the company selected the Evolution line specifically designed for manufacturing breads and rolls of this size, Mr. Helman said. “The line fits in well with what we are doing because of the weight ranges that you can achieve on this divider,” he added.
Kemper offers a standard version of the Softstar capable of producing four to eight rows with an hourly capacity of up to 20,000 pieces and Softstar Plus with up to 16 rows and 48,000 pieces per hour. Signature Breads chose a 10-row Softstar Plus, which can produce up to 30,000 rolls per hour.
As its name suggests, the Evolution line can evolve with a company. With its modular construction, a bakery can modify its production line easily to accommodate changes in the market. “For example, a line purchased for round or long moulded products today can be fit with modules to increase proof time or to add stamped products such as Kaisers, slit rolls or a moulding station,” Ms. Kennedy said.
Modular construction also reduces installation times, according to Jim Souza, WP/Kemper’s vice-president and director of industrial sales, who noted that it typically takes only three to four days from “crate to dough.”
For bakeries that require precise dough control, Ms. Kennedy pointed out that the Evolution line provides the best option. “The Kemper Evolution line has corrective devices designed in key areas throughout the system to eliminate cripples,” she said.
Even though Signature Breads hasn’t yet completely optimized production on the new line, the company has increased throughput 10 to 15% compared with that of its previous lines, according to Mr. Helman.
LIMITING ACCESS.
To prevent too many deviations in the process, Signature Breads added the optional Kemper Key when it purchased the Evolution line. “Every line operator seems to have a different tweak to a recipe when their shift starts, and the Kemper Key helped us standardize what the recipe or settings would be for each SKU,” Mr. Helman noted.
The Kemper Key offers a level of security beyond the password-protection systems on the lines it replaced, he said. It’s actually a physical key needed to make changes to processes or formulations at the line’s control system, and it provides four levels of security protection for the control system and recipe programming, according to Ms. Kennedy. While level No. 1 access is for line operators, level No. 2 is for line managers. Level No. 3 is for engineering, and level No. 4 provides all function access.
“Operators can make a certain level of changes based on their authority,” Mr. Helman said. “Obviously, our head baker has a master key, and he would be the one to make changes after consulting with quality assurance.”
While Signature’s previous lines’ controls were password-protected, Mr. Helman said, “Somehow those passwords seemed to make it to all operators.”
When changes were made on those lines, those altered settings would remain in place until adjusted by the next operator. Now, when an operator makes formulation changes using the Kemper Key, those modifications are not saved to the main recipe. Therefore, the next time the line runs that product, the system reverts back to the master recipe.
Six months since its installation, the Evolution line is running smoothly, Mr. Helman said. “It has been what we expected, and we have seen plenty of positive results at this point,” he concluded. ??????????
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Joseph Rose: Trying to make sense of Oregon's hit-and-run epidemic
Friday, November 01 2013 @ 06:24 PM GMT
By Joseph Rose, Oregonian
"It really is a very selfish crime," Portland Police traffic Sgt. Todd Davis told me as he sifted through this week's two-inch stack of reported hit-and-runs.
Selfish. Immoral. Rampant.
In Portland alone, police take reports on more than 5,200 hit-and-run crashes, from fender benders to serious injuries and fatalities, each year. That's 100 a week; that's mind-boggling.
Without the resources to investigate them all, the police have to perform triage. Still, in a typical year, only about half of Oregon cases where a driver leaves the scene without rendering aid to an injured or dying person end in an arrest, court records show.
So, maybe it's time state lawmakers diverted some of their tough-on-traffic-crime efforts away from distracted driving to slow what is becoming a social epidemic.
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Our Say: As Pittman takes office today, these changes could be coming
By Capital Gazette Editorial Board
Dec 03, 2018 | 5:00 AM
County Executive elect Steuart Pittman discusses inauguration and priorities.
Whether your candidate won or lost in November, today should be a joyous day. The inauguration of a new county executive, county council and a range of other public officials signify that democracy works.
The voters of Anne Arundel County decided they wanted a change and chose Steuart Pittman as the person to lead them toward it. When he takes the oath of office at Maryland Hall this morning, he can be expected to offer thanks as well as an indication of where he will go first.
In a conversation with editors and reporters from The Capital, Pittman was open about some of the changes coming with his new administration and coy about others.
But he was clear about one subject, the handoff from outgoing County Executive Steve Schuh has been professional and helpful. Schuh may not have won a second term, but he can leave office knowing the county is a better place thanks to his service. We wish him well in whatever comes next.
The new county executive has the benefit of a well-led transition team and a corps of appointments coming with him to the Arundel Center. Some are new names, others are familiar.
As county residents look to see how the changes Pittman promised will play out, we foresee these developments as the ones to watch.
Pittman makes no bones about his plans to maximize revenue under the tax cap. Several Republican administrations have chosen to leave money on the table — or in taxpayers’ pockets depending on how you see it — that could be used to improve services.
And the Davidsonville Democrat was not shy about the likelihood that development fees will go up, reflecting his view that the Schuh administration tipped the scales too far toward growth.
Voters should watch for signs that Pittman will decide to seek an income tax during his first budget, providing revenues to fund salary increases for the public safety and education employees who so strongly supported his campaign.
Anne Arundel does have one of the lowest tax rates in the state, and even though it has always been called “tax adverse” the new Democratic majority on the County Council has a set of goals that match Pittman’s.
Some key appointments are likely soon. Police Chief Tim Altomare and Fire Chief Alan Graves both appear to be interested in staying. But Pittman is listening to union leaders unhappy with the status quo.
He is wisely mulling two ways to deal with this, improve the relationship between the unions and the administration or change the leadership. We think both men should stay, but Pittman’s should be able to pick his own public safety chiefs.
The executive-elect has made much of transparency in government, and improvements could come quickly. Ben Birge, the incoming chief administrative officer, has begun discussions on ways to bring the open government ideas he helped build at the CountyStat office and the Transforming Neighborhoods program in Prince George’s County.
Finally, while Pittman wouldn’t say what his first piece of legislation would be, he is seeking a closer partnership with the council than his predecessor. We expect to see legislation granting the county auditor, who works for the council, among the first submitted on behalf of the executive.
The first day of any new venture is often the most exciting. All of the problems are still challenges and all the unforeseen hurdles remain neatly just over the horizon.
Pittman brings enthusiasm and a firm grasp on what he hopes to accomplish in this job. We wish him the best.
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Wizards get smart and get tough
DAVID STEELETHE BALTIMORE SUN
WASHINGTON - How could you tell that the NBA playoffs had come to the nation's capital? Not so much by the din raised by 20,173 towel-waving die-hards wedged into MCI Center yesterday, who had waited eight years for the privilege and 17 years in the hopes of seeing an actual win by any version of the franchise.
No, you could tell most by the sight of the Chicago Bulls' Andres Nocioni curled up near midcourt clutching his unmentionables in pain, rendered immobile by Larry Hughes' inadvertent knee.
Two and a half minutes into the second half of Game 3 of their first-round series, with the score tied at 62, Nocioni, the D.C. crowd's designated villain, had leaped to deliver a pass. Hughes had risen with him, arms and legs flailing, to make it tougher for Nocioni than the Wizards had made it for the Bulls in falling behind in the series 0-2.
That was the goal for this game. Stop making everything so easy for them, the Wizards decided: driving, rebounding, shooting, scoring. As Gilbert Arenas later put it, "The first two games, we were all laid back, and they essentially slapped us in our faces."
Yesterday, in response, the Wizards kneed them in their groins.
Among other indignities, such at swarming the Bulls every time they came close to the basket, fighting them for every rebound, bolting into the passing lanes, diving to the floor or into the courtside seats for loose balls, leaping in front of them to draw charges, chasing shooters and thrusting hands, forearms and elbows into their faces and wherever else they might feel it.
It wasn't Wizards basketball as we've known it this season, with Hughes, Arenas and Antawn Jamison outgunning the opposition.
It was Etan Thomas and Michael Ruffin, a little Brendan Haywood and an occasional Jared Jeffries doing things that don't show up in box scores (Ruffin tapping missed shots to teammates, Jeffries taking the charge that fouled out Tyson Chandler) and things that do show up (Thomas' 20 points, all of them the hard way).
What it was, was playoff basketball.
The Wizards started playing it two games late, but they proved that it was worth trying at least once.
"We definitely felt we had a lot of things to prove," said Thomas, who led the effort to change the tenor of the series. "[Between games 2 and 3] we kept our confidence up, we didn't get down on ourselves as a team and we definitely made adjustments and played better defense."
None of the Wizards wanted to admit to all the factors that left them with something to prove. In their defense, an 0-2 deficit is more than enough motivation, and they seemed more aware of the realities of the playoffs than did many of the observers who said, privately and publicly, that a four-game sweep was in the air.
"Some people take it for granted how important home court is," said Jamison, speaking both of how 2-0 leads by the team with home court are almost meaningless and of how teams as young as the Wizards and Bulls live off home courts more than do their experienced brethren.
That said, Jamison continued, "We knew exactly why we didn't win those first two games, and we were definitely disappointed and frustrated in how we lost those games."
The Wizards returned the favor and made the Bulls wilt in the heat the way they and the fans at United Center had made the Wizards wilt.
That was evident by 39 percent Bulls shooting (including 7- for-26 on threes), two key players fouling out and one - cagey, playoff-tested veteran Antonio Davis - blowing a gasket on his sixth foul and getting kicked out, as well.
This time, the crowd wore different colors, hollered and screamed, created a white-cloth blizzard, booed and taunted Nocioni and others mercilessly, and roared for every hard pick, big rejection and floor burn.
In that atmosphere, the shots that fell so easily in Chicago didn't fall yesterday - not for Ben "Not Jordan" Gordon, not for Kirk Hinrich, not for the loathed Nocioni, not for Game 2 heroes Adrian Griffin and Jannero Pargo.
Instead, the Bulls found themselves face down or on their backsides, and out of anything close to a flow.
It seriously annoyed Scott Skiles, the Bulls' pepper pot of a coach (to borrow an old Howard Cosell phrase). Teeth clenched, a scowl furrowing his brow, Skiles corrected an observation that the Wizards had played more physically: "I would simply say we were less physical."
For the record, Nocioni did get up and later returned to play. But the Bulls never tied or led the game again.
After making their fans wait all those years for playoff basketball, the Wizards gave it to them. In every way.
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Media Violence and its Effect on Aggression: Assessing the Scientific Evidence
by Jonathan L. FreedmanJonathan L. Freedman
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The scientific evidence does not support the notion that TV and film violence cause aggression in children or in anyone else. So argues Jonathan Freedman, based on his findings that far fewer than half of the scientific studies have found a causal connection between exposure to media violence and aggression or crime. In fact, Freedman believes that, taken to a more controversial extreme, the research could be interpreted as showing that there is no causal effect of media violence at all.
Media Violence and its Effect on Aggression offers a provocative challenge to the accepted norms in media studies and psychology. Freedman begins with a comprehensive review of all the research on the effect of violent movies and television on aggression and crime. Having shown the lack of scientific support for the prevailing belief that media violence is connected to violent behaviour, he then explains why something that seems so intuitive and even obvious might be incorrect and goes on to provide plausible reasons why media violence might not have bad effects on children. He contrasts the supposed effects of TV violence on crime with the known effects of poverty and other social factors, and discusses the difference between television advertising, which, he argues, does have an effect, and violent programs, which do not.
Freedman concludes by noting that in recent years television and films have been as violent as ever and violent video games have become more and more popular, yet during this period there has been a dramatic decrease in violent crime. He argues that this makes it highly implausible that media violence causes aggression or crime.
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Jonathan L. Freedman is Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto.
The considerable research that has been undertaken does not demonstrate that exposure to media violence causes aggression, concludes Freedman (U. of Toronto). He discusses each study in detail, though the reports of laboratory studies do not provide the same level of detail as other kinds of study. His research was supported by the Motion Picture Association of America, he guesses because its officials had been pleased with conclusions he had drawn in earlier studies, but he insists they had no input. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Pop-Out Girl
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While being stalked by a toxically jealous ex-boyfriend, a Las Vegas showgirl learns her real father was the victim of a drive-by shooting. Did her ex pull the trigger? Were the bullets really meant for her new boyfriend? Fasten your seatbelts... "Pop-Out Girl" has plenty of twists and turns.
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The Mock Trial team at Barnstable High School is a Gateway program that participates in interscholastic competition. Students in grades 8 - 12 may participate in rehearsals, but only students in grades 9 - 12 may participate in competitions. The Mock Trial program is run by the Massachusetts Bar Association, and provides high school students with the opportunity to “test their skills as lawyers and witnesses in a simulated courtroom competition.” Through the program, students learn about the American judicial system and how it relates to their lives. In addition to working with the two BHS coaches (Bruce Colwell and Andrew Vince), students also get to work with a lawyer from the community who donates their time pro bono. The team meets twice per week from late October (when the case is released) through early February (the end of the first round of competition), although the season could extend until the third week of March, if the team advances through several rounds of competition to reach the state championship. During the off-season, meetings take place approximately every other week. The first round of interscholastic competition takes place in the Barnstable County Courthouse, where a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association presides as a judge over the simulated hearing.
Please contact Mr. Colwell or Mr. Vince to learn more!
Mock Trial is offered by the Massachusetts Bar Association with support from the Barnstable Gateway Program at the high school level.
Mock Trial competes at Barnstable District Court! For more information about Mock Trial at Barnstable High School, please contact Bruce Colwell, colwell_bruce@mybps.us or Andrew Vince vince_andrew@mybps.us.
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Ranking 10 Possible Prospect 'Super Teams' In 2019
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (Photo by Brian Westerholt/Four Seam)
By Josh Norris
The minor league season is still more than a month away, but it's clear from simple intuition that there will be more than a few super teams assembled to open the year. Some come from the top farm systems in the game. Others come from clubs that happen to have most of their top-end talent clustered at one level.
The obvious example to open 2018 was the New Hampshire Fisher Cats, who boasted a roster that included Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Bo Bichette, Cavan Biggio, Lourdes Gurriel Jr., Max Pentecost and Sean Reid-Foley. One of those players is the No. 1 prospect in baseball, two have made their big league debuts, and one has graduated from prospecthood.
Projecting the Fisher Cats as a super team was easy, but few people would have expected the low Class A Bowling Green Hot Rods to turn into one of the most prospect-laden clubs in the minors. The gem of their Opening Day roster was obviously two-way talent Brendan McKay, who bullied his way out of the Midwest League in short order.
Sure, the team featured seven of the Rays' Top 30, but only McKay ranked among the BA's Top 100 prospects. A year later, two more of those prospects have blossomed into Top 100 talents. That list includes McKay at No. 47, Ronaldo Hernandez at No. 56 and infielder Vidal Brujan at No. 64.
For the prospect hounds out there, here are the teams we project to open the year with the most talented rosters. The obvious caveat, of course, is that we don't have any rosters in hand and there will be surprise assignments and injuries that could put a damper on what could have been an enviable collection of players. And in some cases, teams will hold a player or two back at the start of the season to keep them from playing in the coldest days of April.
1. Triple-A Round Rock (Astros)
The (Potential) Prospects: RHP Forrest Whitley, OF Kyle Tucker, 1B Yordan Alvarez, RHP Corbin Martin
Projecting Whitley to Triple-A after just eight starts at Double-A Corpus Christi might be a stretch, but the righthander showed such special stuff in the Arizona Fall League that some evaluators joked that he wouldn't have been out of place on the Astros' postseason roster instead of carving up hitters across the desert. He's BA's top-ranked pitching prospect and has the most spectacular array of pitches in the minors. He's likely to be joined by Tucker, who appeared overwhelmed in his big league debut toward the end of 2018. With Triple-A Fresno, however, Tucker showed the same combination of power and patience that has been his hallmark throughout the minors. Alvarez, who was good but not great in his Triple-A debut, will return to the level in the hopes of proving his power and plate discipline will play at the last step before the big leagues.
2. Double-A Pensacola (Twins)
The (Potential) Prospects: SS Royce Lewis, OF Alex Kirilloff, RHP Brusdar Graterol, 1B Brent Rooker, 2B Luis Arraez, RHP Jorge Alcala
Even if you stopped at three prospects, this team has monster potential. Once Vladimir Guerrero Jr. gets the call to Toronto, Lewis and Kirilloff instantly become the most high-powered prospect duo in the minors. Lewis, the No. 1 overall pick in 2017, was excellent at low Class A Cedar Rapids and held his own in the Florida State League. That's especially true considering 2018 was his first full season as a professional. Kirilloff, after missing a year with Tommy John surgery, led the minor leagues in extra-base hits and had a case for the best overall season in the minors behind Guerrero. Graterol showed high-octane stuff once he got to Fort Myers and has the makings of a top-end starter, while Rooker and Alcala should provide the Blue Wahoos even more punch in their first season as a Twins affiliate.
3. High Class A Wilmington (Royals)
The (Potential) Prospects: RHP Brady Singer, RHP Jackson Kowar, LHP Daniel Lynch, C M.J. Melendez, 1B Nick Pratto, OF Seuly Matias, OF Kyle Isbel, RHP Yefri Del Rosario
Even if the Royals had leaned more toward high school prospects in last year's draft, the Wilmington roster would have looked fantastic. It would have featured the best parts of South Atlantic League-champion Lexington, which would have been tantalizing enough. Add in three talented arms from the top of the draft, however, and you're looking at one of the best rosters in the country. Singer's college workload kept him from making his pro debut, but his arsenal and pedigree were more than enough to land him atop the system's Top 30 ranking. Lynch and Kowar each aided Lexington down the stretch, and should benefit further from the extremely pitcher-friendly environment at Wilmington's Frawley Stadium. Melendez's development will be significantly aided by catching such a talented pitching staff, and his blend of skills on both sides of the ball will be even louder if he can continue in Wilmington. Matias was on pace to challenge for the minor league home run crown before a broken thumb cost him the last month of the season, and it will be fascinating to see if he can duplicate the production at the next level while also working to cut down on his nearly 35 percent strikeout rate.
4. Low Class A Bowling Green (Rays)
The (Potential) Prospects: SS Wander Franco, LHP Shane McClanahan, RHP Shane Baz, OF Nick Schnell, OF/RHP Tanner Dodson
Franco alone would be worth the cost of Hot Rods season tickets, but the Rays are likely to surround him with young, high-end talent on the mound and in the field. First, though, let's gush once more over Franco. He blew away the Rookie-level Appalachian League in 2018 with numbers that dwarfed what Vladimir Guerrero Jr. produced in the league at the same age. He made tons of loud contact while swinging and missing at a preposterously low rate and vaulting himself to No. 4 overall in BA's Top 100. McClanahan and Baz each provide high-velocity heat with potentially plus or better offspeed pitches. Schnell and Dodson each bring intriguing tool sets (Dodson showed well on the mound and at the plate at short-season Hudson Valley) out of the 2018 draft.
5. Triple-A Buffalo (Blue Jays)
The (Potential) Prospects: 3B Vladimir Guerrero Jr., SS Bo Bichette, 2B/OF Cavan Biggio, C Max Pentecost, RHP Sean Reid-Foley
Sure, this roster will take a hit once Guerrero has, ahem, ironed out his defensive issues enough to join the big club, but Buffalo's Opening Day roster should be special. Once he leaves, the infield will be headlined by Bichette, who ranks No. 8 on BA's Top 100 entering the season and helped the Fisher Cats sweep the Double-A Eastern League playoffs en route to a championship. He'll be flanked by Biggio, whose 26 home runs led the EL, as well as Reid-Foley, who impressed enough to earn seven big league starts down the stretch.
6. Triple-A Gwinnett (Braves)
The (Potential) Prospects: RHP Mike Soroka, RHP Touki Toussaint, RHP Kyle Wright, RHP Bryse Wilson, LHP Luiz Gohara, LHP Kolby Allard, 3B Austin Riley, RHP Patrick Weigel, RHP Chad Sobotka
As far as Triple-A rotations go, the Stripers could be cooking up something special to start the season. Because it's Triple-A, however, there's a whole mess of uncertainty baked in. All of the pitching prospects above except Weigel have big league experience, and any combination of them could show well in spring training and make the big club out of the gate. It's highly unlikely that all of them will be Braves on Opening Day, however, so the Stripers will have an impressive array of arms no matter what happens in Kissimmee in March. Their lineup will be fronted by Riley, the team's top overall prospect and the No. 22 prospect on BA's Top 100. The addition of Josh Donaldson gives Riley time to further develop in the minors, but the long-term job at the hot corner likely belongs to Riley.
7. Triple-A El Paso (Padres)
The (Potential) Prospects: SS Fernando Tatis Jr., RHP Chris Paddack, LHP Logan Allen, 1B Josh Naylor, RHP Cal Quantrill
Balance is one of the hallmarks of a great farm system. There should high-end prospects sprinkled—or clustered, if the system is truly elite—throughout the upper and lower levels. That's the case with the Padres, who are the lone organization to land two teams on this list. The Chihuahuas' roster will obviously be fronted by Tatis, the No. 2 prospect in the game, but his supporting cast is pretty special, too. The roster as a whole showcases San Diego's savvy trading skills over the last few years. Tatis was acquired straight-up for James Shields, Paddack was pried from Miami for Fernando Rodney, Naylor came from the Marlins as part of a seven-player trade in 2016, and Allen was part of the four-player haul that San Diego got from Boston for closer Craig Kimbrel. The lone homegrown prospect on this list is Quantrill, whom the Padres drafted out of Stanford in 2016. If this prediction comes true, half of the Padres' Top 10 prospects will start the year in El Paso.
8. High Class A Lake Elsinore (Padres)
The (Potential) Prospects: LHP MacKenzie Gore, RHP Luis Patino, RHP Anderson Espinoza, OF Tirso Ornelas, OF Jeisson Rosario, C Luis Campusano, 2B Esteury Ruiz, SS Gabriel Arias, LHP Osvaldo Hernandez.
The Padres have the best farm system in baseball, so it was extremely likely that one of their squads would qualify as a super team. Low Class A Fort Wayne was bursting with uber-young talent in 2018, so it stands to figure that Lake Elsinore would be next in line to receive those riches. Because most of the prospects were extremely young for the Midwest League in 2018, it's not out of the question that some of those players could return to the level in 2019 for further seasoning. The group is highlighted by Gore, one of the highest-upside arm talents in the minors whose season was scuttled only by a series of blisters that kept him on the sideline. With those out of the way, Gore could shine brighter than the California League sun. The wild card in all of this is Anderson Espinoza, who hasn't pitched since Barack Obama was in the White House (look it up!). If he returns to form, he has the pure stuff to remind people why he was valued so highly in the first place.
9. Triple-A Indianapolis (Pirates)
The (Potential) Prospects: RHP Mitch Keller, 3B Ke'Bryan Hayes, OF Bryan Reynolds, SS Cole Tucker, 2B Kevin Kramer, 1B Will Craig
With Keller and Hayes seemingly destined to begin the year in Indianapolis, the Indians will boast two Top 50 prospects, including one of the biggest risers from last season. Keller still holds two plus or better pitches in his fastball and curveball, but needs to make strides with his changeup before he's ready to make his big league debut. Hayes entered 2018 needing to improve his power numbers to profile at third base—where his defense is among the best in the minors—and he bettered his career totals in doubles, triples and homers over the course of 117 games with Double-A Altoona. Tucker and Kramer will form the keystone combination in Indianapolis, with the latter coming off a very strong performance in the Arizona Fall League. Reynolds shows classic fourth-outfielder skills, while Craig needs to show he can hit for both average and power at the same time.
10. Double-A Birmingham (White Sox)
The (Potential) Prospects: RHP Dane Dunning, RHP Dylan Cease, 2B Nick Madrigal, OF Luis Robert, OF Blake Rutherford, OF Luis Gonzalez, 1B Gavin Sheets
This ranking hinges a bit on the assignments of Cease and Robert. If the White Sox decide that 52.1 innings at Double-A in 2018 was enough to bump Cease up to Triple-A Charlotte to start the year, then the roster obviously takes a hit. If not, it will house the system's top hitting and pitching prospects once Eloy Jimenez gets the bump to the big leagues. Cease (No. 38 on the Top 100) would form an impressive one-two punch at the top of their rotation. Madrigal's first full season as a pro will be fascinating to watch to see how much time he gets at shortstop (having manager Omar Vizquel by his side will certainly aid his development in that regard) and to see if he can make adjustments at the plate to show a bit more power than he's produced as both an amateur and during his brief time as a pro. Robert showed standout tools between injuries both in the regular season and the AFL, and Rutherford and Gonzalez were steady forces on a stacked roster at high Class A Winston-Salem club.
OTHERS TO WATCH: Triple-A Syracuse (Mets), Double-A Mississippi (Braves), Double-A Erie (Tigers), Triple-A Oklahoma City (Dodgers), Double-A Jacksonville (Marlins), Triple-A San Antonio (Brewers), Triple-A Las Vegas (A's), High Class A Charlotte (Rays)
Projected Top Prospect Teams By League
International League: Buffalo (Blue Jays), Gwinnett (Braves), Indianapolis (Pirates), Syracuse (Mets)
Pacific Coast League: Round Rock (Astros), El Paso (Padres), Oklahoma City (Dodgers), San Antonio (Brewers), Las Vegas (A's)
Southern League: Birmingham (White Sox), Pensacola (Twins), Mississippi (Braves), Jacksonville (Marlins)
Florida State League: Charlotte (Rays)
Carolina League: Wilmington (Royals)
California League: Lake Elsinore (Padres)
Midwest League: Bowling Green (Rays)
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Discovery and exploration
Travel in literature
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Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World
by Stephen Greenblatt
Cloth: 978-0-226-30651-3 | Paper: 978-0-226-30652-0 | eISBN: 978-0-226-30657-5
Library of Congress Classification E121.G74 1991
Dewey Decimal Classification 970.015
Marvelous Possessions is a study of the ways in which Europeans of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period represented non-European peoples and took possession of their lands, in particular the New World.
In a series of innovative readings of travel narratives, judicial documents, and official reports, Stephen Greenblatt shows that the experience of the marvelous, central to both art and philosophy, was cunningly yoked by Columbus and others to the service of colonial appropriation. He argues that the traditional symbolic actions and legal rituals through which European sovereignty was asserted were strained to the breaking point by the unprecedented nature of the discovery of the New World. But the book also shows that the experience of the marvelous is not necessarily an agent of empire: in writers as different as Herodotus, Jean de Léry, and Montaigne—and notably in Mandeville's Travels, the most popular travel book of the Middle Ages—wonder is a sign of a remarkably tolerant recognition of cultural difference.
Marvelous Possession is not only a collection of the odd and exotic through which Stephen Greenblatt powerfully conveys a sense of the marvelous, but also a highly original extension of his thinking on a subject that has occupied him throughout his career. The book reaches back to the ancient Greeks and forward to the present to ask how it is possible, in a time of disorientation, hatred of the other, and possessiveness, to keep the capacity for wonder from being poisoned?
"A marvellous book. It is also a compelling and a powerful one. Nothing so original has ever been written on European responses to 'The wonder of the New World.'"—Anthony Pagden, Times Literary Supplement
"By far the most intellectually gripping and penetrating discussion of the relationship between intruders and natives is provided by Stephen Greenblatt's Marvelous Possessions."—Simon Schama, The New Republic
"For the most engaging and illuminating perspective of all, read Marvelous Possessions."—Laura Shapiro, Newsweek
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LP Food at work announce us as charity partner
We’re delighted to be announced as LP Food at Work’s Charity of the Year 2019.
After a staff vote LP Food at Work, an independent catering company formed in 2001, is partnering with us to raise funds for the charity and increase awareness of the UK’s second biggest cancer killer.
Luke Squires, Director of Fundraising at Bowel Cancer UK, said: “We are absolutely delighted to be chosen as LP Food at Work’s charity partner. Bowel cancer is the UK’s second biggest cancer killer, but because of the support of amazing organisations like LP Food at Work we can continue to save lives and improve the quality of life of everyone affected by bowel cancer.”
Chris Pilkington, Co-founder of LP Food at Work, said: “As part of LP Food at Work’s supporting the Community action we are partnering with Bowel Cancer UK during 2019 by raising money through a range of fundraising initiatives. We had written to all staff in November last year asking them to choose a charity they wished LP Food at Work to support this year. Bowel Cancer UK had the most nominations by far. Both Richard Leeming and I also have a good mate who is currently suffering with this cancer so we are both delighted to be working with this charity."
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Now in its 5th year, APRES was created by Loughborough University with funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, and extensive support from a number of industry partners.
The aim of APRES is to develop an action programme to deliver responsible sourcing in the UK construction industry. The APRES network, of over 100 businesses, acts as a ‘centre’ for knowledge-sharing and dissemination of RS practices, forging new research ideas and relationships and providing guidance directly to the industry.
Professor of Architecture and Sustainable Construction and founder of APRES, Jacqui Glass, said ‘We are very pleased that BRE is taking APRES to the next level. They will build on the great legacy we have achieved to date. We now have a strong and growing community, and the issue of responsible sourcing continues to increase in importance. I envisage a prosperous and influential future for APRES, with support from such an important global body like BRE.’
BRE Group Business DevelopmentDirector, Dr Miles Watkins, said ‘APRES has made a significant contribution to the responsible sourcing agenda in the past five years however our industry still has a long way to go to meet best practice. Our mission is to increase the membership, extend the influence, and reach and ultimately make ethical and sustainable construction a prerequisite for business success.’
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The Roots of Distress: The Relationship Between Trichotillomania and Anxiety Disorders
January 19, 2016, Elisabet KvarnstromBridges to Recovery
What is Trichotillomania?
The Link Between Trichotillomania and Anxiety
Recovering Through Co-Occurring Treatment
Anita worked at a fast food restaurant. She was 17 years old, months from graduating high school, and any waking moment that wasn’t devoted to school or sleep she spent at the drive-thru window, handing out milkshakes and hamburgers, converting the hours to dollars in her head. While her friends spent their money on clothes, concert tickets, books, movies, and meals out with friends, Anita squirreled away every penny she earned. It wasn’t that she was thrifty or a naturally good saver; when she was younger she had spent every bit of babysitting money she’d ever laid her hands on, every birthday check from her grandparents, every $20 bill her mom gave her to “go have fun.” But now Anita had bigger concerns than the perfect jeans or seeing her favorite band. “All I wanted was to buy a wig,” she tells me.
The previous year, Anita had become consumed by the unstoppable desire to pull out her own hair. At first it was slow, just a few strands at a time, but soon she devoted hours to the meticulous plucking of individual hairs, quickly leaving her head covered in bald patches. She had taken the minimum wage job at the restaurant in hopes of paying for a high-end wig that would allow her to enter college looking like a “normal” 18-year-old. There were better-paying jobs out there, but she had chosen this one specifically because the uniform included wearing a hat with which she could cover her bare scalp and keep her disorder hidden.
Trichotillomania was the deciding factor in most things at that time. I wore elaborate head coverings and never had a boyfriend because there was a risk someone might try to run their fingers through my hair. I was so deeply ashamed and so good at disguising myself that even my parents didn’t know that I was nearly bald. But college presented a whole new set of concerns and I lived in absolute terror of having to live with strangers and share showers and be constantly watched. Hiding wouldn’t be as easy there.
She did end up buying the wig and, through meticulous planning, successfully kept her trichotillomania hidden for several more years, even as she sank deeper into distress. “I tried to stop pulling many times. I joined online support groups for people with trich and even went to counseling for a brief time, but I always started again,” she says. “It wasn’t until I was diagnosed with anxiety while in grad school that things really started to fall into place.”
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Trichotillomania is an impulse control disorder in which you feel compelled to pull out your hair. The most common hair pulling site is the scalp, but some pull out eyelashes, eyebrows, pubic hair, or any other body hair. For some, the pulling is contained to one location, while others pull out hair from multiple body parts. Once thought to be rare, trichotillomania now affects an estimated 2-4% of the population and typically emerges in childhood; the disorder is seven times more common in children than in adults, although many continue pulling throughout their lives. Symptoms include:
Noticeable self-induced hair loss
Increasing feelings of tension prior to pulling
Feelings of pleasure or relief while pulling hair
Close examination of pulled hair, such as inspecting the roots
Specific hair-pulling preferences or patterns of pulling behavior
Playing with, biting, chewing, or eating hair
For many people with trichotillomania, hair pulling is a deliberate, enjoyable, and ritualistic process, for others, the pulling is unconscious, and some engage in both intentional and unintentional pulling. Despite the emotional distress and functional impairment that commonly arise as the result of the hair loss, the satisfying nature of hair pulling often keeps you trapped in a cycle of buildup, release, and regret that mirrors other forms of addiction. Mackensie Freeman, who started pulling out her eyebrows in the fifth grade, told Cosmopolitan Magazine, “I like pulling hair and it’s a big barrier to overcome the pleasure of doing it. It’s calming. In the moment, I act on it, it feels good, but then I regret later.”
The exact cause of trichotillomania is not known. In fact, the disorder may have no singular genesis, but, rather, a collection of potential triggers, both nebulous and concrete. What is known is that trichotillomania often develops in concert with anxiety disorders and many experts now understand trich as a maladaptive attempt to cope with overwhelming psychological distress. In 2012, Alexandra Heather Foss, an abuse survivor who suffered from crippling anxiety, wrote a stirring personal essay for The New York Times about her own history of hair pulling:
The way I coped with circumstances outside my control was to grab onto something — my body, more specifically, my hair. I tried to marginalize my pain and dissatisfaction by uprooting the bad things that were making me anxious with tweezers, my fingers, nail clippers, safety pins, whatever tools were available during the desperate hours of my suffering. I would pull and pick and the destructive vortex of emotion that was threatening inside to sweep me away from life would stall, would recede, and for a while I could be calm, safe, even though that safety came at a painful price.
In moments of acute emotional pain, the sense of calmness imbued by hair pulling can be profoundly relieving and offer a path out of the suffering. Foss even credits her trichotillomania with saving her life in times when she had no other escape from her pain. However, this relief is short-lived; not only does the urge to pull return and often grow stronger with time, but your behavior and altered physical appearance can further fuel your anxiety and impair your ability to live a healthy and productive life. Often, trichotillomania creates new and specific sources of fearfulness that augment your pre-existing emotional pain; you may feel so ashamed of how you look that you self-isolate, withdrawing from family and friends, and it can impede your ability to attend school or work, removing you from the vital social supports you need to heal. For some, this can lead to the development of depression, as you are left vulnerable to ever-deepening emotional instability.
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If you suffer from trichotillomania and a co-occurring anxiety disorder, concurrent treatment of both disorders is critical to alleviating psychological suffering and creating long-term behavioral health. Without addressing the underlying causes of your trichotillomania, it is unlikely that you will be able to stop the compulsive urge to pull, as the trigger remains present. Anita knows this all too well. “My hair pulling was a symptom,” she says. “The techniques I learned to stop pulling were completely ineffectual as long as that layer of anxiety was still there. I needed to learn how to heal myself from within and create positive change. That goes beyond just stopping ‘bad’ behavior.”
Anxiety disorders and trichotillomania share much in common when it comes to treatment, and both benefit from a holistic, interdisciplinary approach that allows you to explore both your conscious and subconscious thoughts, beliefs, and experiences while giving you concrete skills to replace damaging coping mechanisms with healthy alternatives. However, for many who struggle with these disorders, recovery requires not just clinically sound care, but immersion in a nurturing environment that supports your whole self. “We want nourishment, not only for our bodies but for our souls,” Foss writes. “That is what we need to flourish, to feel less anxious. Environments that are safe, loving, relationships that are honest and nurturing.”
At Bridges to Recovery, we create a warm, inviting community of compassion, love, and acceptance that gives you the strength to move forward with inner tranquility, confidence, and purpose. Our experienced, multidisciplinary clinical team offers a diverse array of therapeutic modalities that help people find true and lasting relief from the psychological pain of anxiety and trichotillomania, including intensive psychodynamic therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, specialized therapy groups, and holistic therapies that invite your mind, body, and spirit to engage in a process of profound healing. With the support of our expert clinicians and empathetic peers, you can find real escape from psychological pain and create a brighter, more joyful future.
Bridges to Recovery offers comprehensive residential mental health treatment for people living with trichotillomania, anxiety disorders, and other co-occurring psychiatric disorders. Contact us to learn more about how we can help you or your loved one experience relief from suffering and start the journey toward recovery.
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Đi thì không có đường về
Bomb Craters
Coconut Production
On dirt roads, across wood plank bridges, my cousin Anh Ba Phát drove me, on his motorbike, to the place where my mother's childhood home once stood.
Originally built over a hundred years ago, my mother's home was also a store in the bustling village market. Both house and village were burned down twice: first by the occupying French Army, later by the Việt Minh forces.
The land on which the house once stood, sheltering her family, has since been reclaimed by the Mỹ Long River.
Sáu Thị Nguyễn in 1965. Video footage of rain falling on lotus, cultivated in a bomb crater pond, in her home village of Mỹ Long in 2018. Photo by Constance Mensh for Asian Arts Initiative.
Installation view. Photo by Constance Mensh for Asian Arts Initiative.
Untitled, 2018, Life after Death: in and near bomb crater ponds
Untitled, 2018, Life after Death: in and near bomb crater ponds series
In loving memory of Sáu Thị Nguyễn. 1931 - 2019. Image courtesy of Phil Cho and Asian Arts Initiative
For Đi thì không có đường về (Leave, then there is no way home), I use photography, observational video, sound and storytelling to create an immersive installation about migration, memory, agency, and transformation in my parents’ home villages in Vietnam and in South Philadelphia, the neighborhood where I grew up and is today home to immigrants of all generations and diverse backgrounds. Tracing the cultural and spiritual affinities between communities half the world apart, the installation renders visible the richness of their social life and collective history. This work was commissioned by the Asian Arts Initiative, with original funding from the Pew Center for Art and Heritage, Philadelphia. It was on exhibit May 2018, at the SEAMAAC Community Outreach Office in South Philadelphia, as part of the (ex)CHANGE: History Place Presence project.
Copyright © 2012-2020 Boone Nguyen
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Deputy Michael Scott Boyington was wounded.AP
NEW ORLEANS — At least some of the seven people arrested in a fatal shootout with Louisiana deputies have been linked to violent anarchists on the FBI's domestic terrorism watch lists.
Detectives had been monitoring the group before Thursday's shootout in Laplace, La., in which two deputies were killed and two more wounded, DeSoto Parish Sheriff Rodney Arbuckle said Saturday.
His detectives and other law enforcement discovered the suspects were heavily armed adherents to an ideology known as the ''sovereign citizens'' movement.
The FBI has classified sovereign citizens as people who believe they are free from all duties of a US citizen, like paying taxes.
The FBI considers the group's members a danger for making threats to judges and law enforcement, using fake currency, and impersonating police officers.
The seven suspects have been charged in the shooting of Deputy Michael Scott Boyington, who survived. But authorities have said murder charges are pending.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it was investigating the killings but declined to comment Saturday.
Arrested were the group's apparent leader, 44-year-old Terry Smith, his wife, Chanel Skains, 37, and his two sons, Derrick Smith, 22, and Brian Lyn Smith, 24. Also arrested were Brittney Keith, the girlfriend of Brian Smith; Kyle David Joekel, 28, and a woman living with him, 21-year-old Teniecha Bright.
Brian Smith was charged with attempted first-degree murder and the others with related charges.
Detectives in Tennessee, Nebraska, and Louisiana have sketched a portrait of an outlaw gang led by Terry Smith, an accused molester who has a criminal record dating to 1984 in Morehouse Parish, the Times-Picayune reported Saturday.
Morehouse Parish Sheriff Mike Stubbs said the Smith family was notorious.
Arbuckle, reached by telephone, said his deputies had the group under surveillance and considered them armed and dangerous before they suddenly left his parish about two months ago.
He said they had set up camp at a mobile home park.
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TSA seized record number of guns at US airports last year, report says
TSA says it found 4,432 guns in carry-on bags or on passengers, up five percent from 2018. (Source: CNN)
(CNN) - The Transportation Security Administration says it seized a record high number of guns at airport checkpoints across the U.S. in 2019.
TSA officers found 4,432 guns in carry-on bags or on passengers. The guns represent a 5% increase from 2018. Eighty-seven percent of the guns were loaded.
In a press release, TSA administrator, David Pekoske, said that the increase is troubling and guns should be unloaded.
Guns should be packed in a hard-sided locked case and taken to the airline check-in counter to be declared and checked.
The top five airports TSA officers found guns at in 2019 were Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International, Dallas/Fort Worth International, Denver International, George Bush Intercontinental, and Phoenix Sky Harbor International.
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BlueJeans Network
Subscription Plan-Specific Terms (Channel)
These Subscription Plan-Specific Terms apply to orders for licenses of BlueJeans Services purchased from an authorized BlueJeans channel partner (“Partner”). For licenses/plans purchased directly from BlueJeans, the Terms on the Order Form between Customer and BlueJeans apply.
In addition to the Terms and Conditions governing each Customer End User’s access to and use of the BlueJeans Services, the terms and other provisions of these Blue Jeans Subscription Plan-Specific Terms shall apply with respect to the specific Services Plan licensed. This document sets forth those terms and provisions (in addition to the Terms and Conditions) specific to the Services Plan licensed. These provisions are subject to change in Blue Jeans sole discretion; your continued access and/or use of the Services following any changes or updates constitutes your agreement to the same.
BlueJeans Meetings: My Company Named Host Plan
BlueJeans Meetings: My Company Corporate Access Plan
BlueJeans Meetings: My Company Concurrent Connections Plan
BlueJeans Meetings: My Company Active Host Enterprise (Employee) Plan
BlueJeans Meetings: My Company Active Host Group/Department Plan
BlueJeans Meetings: Smart Meetings – Highlights Plan
BlueJeans Gateway Service for Microsoft Teams- Named Host Plan
BlueJeans Gateway Service for Microsoft Teams-Concurrent Connections Plan
BlueJeans Gateway Service for Microsoft Teams – Enterprise License Plan
BlueJeans Gateway Service for Microsoft Teams – Special Offering
BlueJeans Events: Per Event Plan
BlueJeans Events: Unlimited Non Concurrent License Plan
BlueJeans Rooms as a Service with Dolby Voice Plan
BlueJeans Rooms as a Service with Dolby Voice Pro Plan
BlueJeans Network Rooms License / BlueJeans Network Room License with Dolby License
Premium Calling Feature (including Call Me)
Premium Calling with Global Audio Annual Subscription Plan
BlueJeans Premium Calling US Toll Free and US Call Me Per User Plan
Premium Access China
Meeting Assist Plan
Event Assist Plan
BlueJeans Direct Connect Plan
BlueJeans Rooms as a Service and Meetings Starter Pack
BlueJeans Platform Starter Pack
BlueJeans Rooms as a Service Add on Pack to the Platform Starter Pack
BlueJeans Rooms as a Service and Gateway for Microsoft Teams Concurrent Connection Pack Plan
1. General Terms & Conditions: Applicable to all BlueJeans Service Plans
The following terms apply to each Blue Jeans Service (including related features):
BlueJeans Services (the “Service(s)”) refers to those hosted video conferencing services which Customer has licensed through a Partner. BlueJeans provides the Services across multiple platforms through its website located at: http://www.bluejeans.com.
Applicable Terms and Conditions: http://bluejeans.com/site/terms-and-conditions
Applicable Acceptable Use Policy: http://bluejeans.com/site/acceptable-use-policy
Customer in these Terms refers to the entity identified on the Order Form which has purchased licenses for use of the BlueJeans Services from an authorized BlueJeans channel partner.
Order Form in these Terms refers to the document signed between Customer and the Partner which identifies the types and quantities of Service licenses purchased.
License Term in these Terms refers to the period of time identified on the Order Form for which Customer has a paid subscription to use the Services.
The BlueJeans Service combines video, audio, and web-conferencing in one platform; it is not generally intended to be used solely for audio-only purposes. If Customer’s use indicates that it is using the Service predominantly as an audio-only bridge, and if BlueJeans requests, Customer agrees to work with BlueJeans in good faith to help better utilize and leverage all aspects and features of the Services.
-The Services may be used in connection with third party hardware, services, applications, code, or products (“Third Party Products”). Customer is solely responsible for obtaining such Third Party Products, and agrees that (a) BlueJeans makes no representations and disclaims all warranties, express or implied, regarding Third Party Products, (b) BlueJeans is not responsible and shall have no liability for Third Party Products or the unavailability of Third Party Products, (c) if Third Party Products are provided under a separate license or other agreement, such terms govern with respect to such Third Party Products, (d) Customer may be required to pay additional fees to the provider(s) of Third Party Products, and (e) Customer is solely responsible and liable for its use of Third Party Products.
If BlueJeans provides Customer with, and/or provides Customer with access to, any information relating to the Attendees of a Meeting or Event, Customer agrees it will (a) only use such information to contact the Attendees in connection with such Meeting or Event, (b) not share such information with any third parties, and (c) comply with all applicable laws in the processing and use of such information.
If Customer’s license includes access to the BlueJeans Streaming feature, the following terms only apply in the event that Customer uses the BlueJeans Streaming feature:
Customer will use the Services via or in connection with Facebook; BlueJeans does not control what Customer posts to Facebook.
Each BlueJeans Streaming Meeting may be limited in duration and/or by number of end points based on Facebook restrictions.
If Customer requires testing before an BlueJeans Streaming Meeting and/or assistance during an BlueJeans Streaming Meeting, Meeting Assist Services may be purchased for additional fees, and must be scheduled at least 7 days in advance. Purchase of Meeting Assist Services does not guarantee any result.
Customer is responsible to understand and comply with Facebook's requirements and standards, and must review and agree to all of Facebook's policies, including Facebook’s Terms and Policies (which include Facebook’s Community Standards, Data Policy, and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities) prior to streaming or posting content via Facebook.
Customer may display, perform, publish, stream, upload and store files, recordings, sound, music, graphics, trademarks, names, likenesses, photos, and/or images in connection with its use of the Services (“Content”). Customer represents and warrants that it owns, or has the necessary rights or permissions to use and authorize the use of its Content. Customer grants BlueJeans and its subcontractors a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, paid-up, transferable right and license to host, cache, copy, store, publish and display Customer’s Content in connection with providing the Services. Customer acknowledges and agrees that, (a) BlueJeans is not responsible in any manner for Customer’s Content, (b) Customer is solely responsible to retain adequate back-ups of its Content, (c) Customer assumes all risk associated with its Content and the transmission of its Content, (d) Customer has sole responsibility for the accuracy, quality, integrity, legality, reliability and appropriateness of its Content and (e) Customer is solely liable for any and all claims, damages, penalties, losses, and the like that arise from its Content.
2. BlueJeans Meetings: My Company Named Host Plan
A Named Host plan allows Customer to provision or assign up to the number of Named Hosts licensed on the Order Form to its employees; each employee provisioned with a Named Host may host BlueJeans Meetings during the applicable License Term.
Except as otherwise stated, the maximum number of endpoints in a meeting is 100.
Named Hosts may be assigned to individual employees of Customer only.
Named Hosts may not be shared or used by anyone other than the individual employee assigned.
Generic naming conventions for Named Hosts are prohibited.
Simultaneous meetings/video conferences by a Named Host are prohibited.
Any sale, resale, license, sublicense, rent, timeshare or transfer of Named Hosts is prohibited.
Customer may not utilize more than the number of Named Hosts licensed as set forth on the Order Form.
3. BlueJeans Meetings: My Company Corporate Access Plan
With this Plan, Customer is entitled to provision a Named Host to each Employee, such that each Employee may host BlueJeans Meetings during the applicable Term.
Service may only be provisioned to individual Employees of Customer.
Any sale, resale, license, sublicense, rent, timeshare or transfer of Named Hosts/licenses is prohibited.
Customer shall certify to BlueJeans the actual number of Employees in Customer’s Enterprise (“Employee Count”) (a) concurrent with execution of this Order Form, and (b) thirty (30) days prior to each anniversary of the first day of the License Term. For the certification concurrent with the execution of this Order Form, Customer must certify to BlueJeans the Employee Count on the Order Form. For each additional certification, an officer or other authorized employee of Customer must certify the Employee Count to BlueJeans via email. BlueJeans may verify Customer’s Employee Count via third party sources. If the number of Employees has increased by 10% or more at any time due to organic growth, an acquisition (whether of an entity, operating division, assets and/or operations of a company or entity, or otherwise), a merger, or other corporate event, Customer shall promptly report such increase to BlueJeans and Partner, but no later than thirty (30) days after such occurrence, and Customer may be required to execute a new Order Form reflecting an increase in fees for the remainder of the License Term.
“Employee” means a unique person employed by or in Customer’s Enterprise, whether or not given access to the Services, and a unique person otherwise paid by or acting on behalf of Customer’s Enterprise who is given access to the Services.
“Enterprise” means (a) Customer and (b) any legal entity that Customer owns or has under Customer’s common control by a factor of fifty percent (50%) or more to the extent Customer intends to allow any such entity (or such entity’s employees) to utilize the Service. “Enterprise” will include any new entity Customer acquires by virtue of merger or acquisition, or any entity which acquires Customer, during the License Term, provided that Customer has provided notice to BlueJeans and Partner as required above and such entity’s employees are thereafter included in Employee Count and Customer may be required to execute a new Order Form reflecting an increase in fees for the remainder of the License Term. “Enterprise” will not include any entity that, at any time, is sold, spun off, liquidated, or that otherwise ceases to satisfy the elements of the definition of Enterprise set forth herein.
Customer may not provision the Services to any other entity or person (including affiliates or contractors) without BlueJeans’ prior express, written approval (such approval at BlueJeans’ sole discretion), at which time (assuming BlueJeans’ approval) such other entity shall be included in the definition of Enterprise for purposes of determining Employee Count.
To the extent Enterprise includes any person or entity other than Customer as provided for above, Customer agrees to be fully responsible and liable for the activity of such person or entity, including such person’s or entity’s use and/or misuse of the Services.
4. BlueJeans Meetings: My Company Concurrent Connections Plan
The Concurrent Connection (Ports) plan is based on the number of concurrent connections to the Service that occur during Customer’s meetings each Day. For the purposes of this Plan, a Day is the 24-hour period from midnight to 11:59pm Pacific Time. At any one time (across all Customer’s meetings that are occurring at such time), Customer (and the participants to its meetings) may only utilize up to the number of committed connections to connect to the Service.
A concurrent connection is any endpoint that connects to the Service, and includes connections via web, applications, phone, room systems, and any other means utilized to connect to the Service. Each Call Me call qualifies as a concurrent connection, as does each Toll, Toll Free and International call. Please note that one participant in a meeting may utilize more than one concurrent connection – for example, paired endpoints (if a participant has both called in as well as joined the meeting via the web) are considered different concurrent connections.
Overage Fees apply per concurrent connection, per Day, based on the maximum concurrency of concurrent connection used by Customer and its meeting participants above the committed connections quantity at a rate set by Partner per concurrent connection per Day. This overage fee will be invoiced to Customer by Partner according to the terms and prices agreed between Customer and Partner.
Customer must begin and be an active participant in every meeting.
Any sale, resale, license, sublicense, rent, timeshare or transfer of concurrent connections licensed is prohibited.
Except as otherwise stated, the maximum number of participants or participant endpoints in a meeting is 100.
5. BlueJeans Meetings: My Company Active Host Enterprise Plan
The Active Host Enterprise Plan provides Customer with a license to use the Meetings Service where Customer pays for the number of Hosts that are used by Customer’s Employees (i.e., that are “Active”) as calculated for each Subscription Period (subject to certain minimums described below).
Hosts and Active Hosts: The Active Host Plan requires Customer to provision a Host account to each Employee and make the Service available to each Employee to host a Meeting. A Host is a unique identifier for an individual Employee, it may not be generically named, and may not be shared or used by anyone other than the individual Employee assigned. Each Employee provisioned with a Host account may host BlueJeans Meetings during the applicable License Term. Each Host which hosts at least one Meeting during a monthly billing cycle is an “Active Host.” The number of Active Hosts in a monthly billing cycle is the “Monthly Active Host Count”.
Hosts may be assigned to Employees only. Customer may not provision the Services to any other entity or person (including affiliates or contractors) without BlueJeans’ prior express, written approval (such approval at BlueJeans’ sole discretion), at which time (assuming BlueJeans’ approval) such other entity shall be included in the Enterprise for purposes of determining Employee Count and Customer may be required to execute a new Order Form reflecting an increase in fees for the remainder of the License Term. To the extent Enterprise includes any person or entity other than Customer, Customer agrees to be fully responsible and liable for the activity of such person or entity, including such person’s or entity’s use and/or misuse of the Services.
Subscription Period and Fees: The length of the Subscription Period is set forth in Customer’s order documents with the Partner. There may be multiple Subscription Periods in each License Term. Fees are calculated for each Subscription Period as follows:
For the first Subscription Period, Customer will pay for a quantity of Active Hosts equal to the Base Percentage of its Employee Count (defined below)
For subsequent Subscription Periods, Customer will pay for a quantity of Active Hosts equal to the greater of (a) the Base Percentage of its Employee Count, (b) the number billed in the immediately preceding Subscription Period, and (c) the Average Active Host Count in the immediate preceding Subscription Period.
Average Active Host Count: In the final week of the then-current Subscription Period, BlueJeans will calculate the Average Monthly Active Host Count by determining the monthly average Active Hosts used in the prior 3 monthly billing cycles (e.g., months 3, 4 and 5 for a 6-month Subscription Period). BlueJeans will contact Partner to confirm Customer’s current Average Active Host Count and whether Customer’s base subscription fees will be increased for the upcoming Subscription Period.
Employee Count: Customer’s Employee Count is the actual number of Employees in Customer’s Enterprise. “Employee” means a unique person employed by or in Customer’s Enterprise, and a unique person otherwise paid by or acting on behalf of Customer’s Enterprise who is given access to the Services. “Enterprise” means (a) Customer and (b) any legal entity that Customer owns or has under Customer’s common control by a factor of fifty percent (50%) or more to the extent Customer intends to allow any such entity (or such entity’s employees) to utilize the Service. “Enterprise” will include any new entity Customer acquires by virtue of merger or acquisition if such entity’s employees are thereafter included in Employee Count (and pricing is adjusted) for the remainder of the then current License Term and any renewals. Customer may be required to execute a new Order Form reflecting an increase in fees for the remainder of the License Term. “Enterprise” will not include any entity that, at any time, is sold, spun off, liquidated, or that otherwise ceases to satisfy the elements of the definition of Enterprise set forth above.
Employee Count Certification: Customer shall certify its Employee Count: (a) concurrent with execution of this Order Form, and (b) thirty (30) days prior to each anniversary of the first day of the License Term. For the certification concurrent with the execution of this Order Form, Customer certifies to BlueJeans the Employee Count set forth on the Order Form. For each additional certification, Customer must certify to BlueJeans the Employee Count to BlueJeans via email. BlueJeans may verify the number of Customer’s Employees via publicly available third party sources.
Increase in Employee Count: If Customer’s Employee Count increases by 10% or more due to organic growth, an acquisition (whether of an entity, operating division, assets and/or operations of a company or entity, or otherwise), a merger, or other corporate event, Customer shall promptly report such increase to BlueJeans, but no later than thirty (30) days after such occurrence, and Customer may be required to execute a new Order Form reflecting an increase in fees for the remainder of the License Term.
Termination Fee: If Customer’s License Term ends and there is no second Subscription Period, then BlueJeans will determine the peak number of monthly Active Hosts that Customer has utilized during the License Term. To the extent the number of peak Active Hosts is greater than the Purchased Active Hosts set forth above, BlueJeans will communicate such findings to Partner. Customer may be required by Partner to pay for additional Active Hosts up to the number of peak Active Hosts for the entirety of the License Term at the same per license base subscription fee as the Purchased Active Hosts.
Simultaneous meetings/video conferences by a Host are prohibited.
Any sale, resale, license, sublicense, rent, timeshare or transfer of Hosts is prohibited.
6. BlueJeans Meetings: Active Host Group/Department Plan:
The Active Host Group Plan provides Customer with a license to use the Meetings Service where Customer pays for the number of Hosts that are used by Customer’s Employees in a specifically defined department (i.e., that are “Active”) as calculated for each Subscription Period (subject to certain minimums described below).
Hosts may be assigned to Employees only. Customer may not provision the Services to any other entity or person (including affiliates, contractors, or employees of Customer in a department outside of the Group) without BlueJeans’ prior express, written approval (such approval at BlueJeans’ sole discretion), at which time (assuming BlueJeans’ approval) such other entity and/or department shall be included in the Customer Group for purposes of determining Employee Count and Customer may be required to execute a new Order Form reflecting an increase in fees for the remainder of the License Term. To the extent Enterprise includes any person or entity other than Customer, Customer agrees to be fully responsible and liable for the activity of such person or entity, including such person’s or entity’s use and/or misuse of the Services.
For the first Subscription Period, Customer will pay for a quantity of Active Hosts equal to the Base Percentage of its Employee Count (defined below);
Employee Count: Customer’s Employee Count is the actual number of Employees in Customer’s Department. “Employee” means a unique person employed by Customer Department, and a unique person otherwise paid by or acting on behalf of Customer Department who is given access to the Services, in each case where such person is a member of, or working in or for, the Department. “Department” means a verifiable specifically identified and delineated department within the legal entity that is authorized to execute and administer this Order Form (e.g., Customer’s Finance or Sales department). “Department” will not include any new additions due to a new entity Customer acquires by virtue of merger or acquisition unless and until such entity’s employees are thereafter included in Employee Count (and pricing is adjusted) for the remainder of the then current License Term and renewals. Customer may be required to execute a new Order Form reflecting an increase in fees for the remainder of the License Term.
Employee Count Certification: Customer shall certify its Employee Count to BlueJeans: (a) concurrent with execution of this Order Form, and (b) thirty (30) days prior to each anniversary of the first day of the License Term. For the certification concurrent with the execution of this Order Form, Customer certifies the Employee Count set forth on the Order Form. For each additional certification, Customer must certify the Employee Count to BlueJeans via email. BlueJeans may verify the number of Customer’s Employees via publicly available third party sources.
Except as otherwise stated herein, the maximum number of endpoints in a meeting is 100.
7. BlueJeans Meetings: Smart Meetings – Highlights Plan
The Smart Meetings Highlights feature is only available for use by BlueJeans Meetings Hosts and Participants who join a Meeting utilizing BlueJeans Desktop App version 2.16.1 or higher.
Customer must have a Smart Meetings Highlights license for each individual host license to which Customer has access in connection with its BlueJeans Meetings plan (whether Named Host, Corporate Access License, or Active Host); any increase in the number of Meetings host licenses to which Customer has access will include an increase in fees relating to the Smart Meetings Highlights feature.
8. BlueJeans Gateway Service for Microsoft Teams – Named Host Plan
The BlueJeans Gateway Service enables Microsoft Teams meetings initiated by an authorized Microsoft Teams user (“Teams User”) with a BlueJeans Gateway Service license to include qualifying third-party room systems as connected participants to a Teams meeting.
A Gateway Named Host is a Teams User who is provisioned an account to use the BlueJeans Gateway Service when hosting Teams meetings.
With a Gateway Named Host subscription to the BlueJeans Gateway Service, Customer may provision or assign Gateway Named Host licenses to its employees up to the number of Gateway Named Hosts licensed on the Order Form. Customer may not utilize more than the number of Gateway Named Hosts licensed as set forth on the Order Form.
Gateway Named Hosts may be assigned to individual employees of Customer only.
Gateway Named Hosts may not be shared or used by anyone other than the individual employee provisioned.
Generic naming conventions for Gateway Named Hosts are prohibited.
Simultaneous meetings/video conferences by a Gateway Named Host are prohibited.
Any sale, resale, license, sublicense, rent, timeshare or transfer of Gateway Named Hosts is prohibited.
With BlueJeans Gateway, Customer will use the Services via or in connection with Microsoft Teams. Customer understands and agrees that BlueJeans does not control how Customer uses Microsoft Teams and does not have any responsibility for the Microsoft Teams service. Customer understands and agrees that it is responsible to understand and comply with Microsoft’s requirements and standards, and it must review and agree to all of Microsoft’s license terms and policies, including Microsoft’s Privacy Statement, prior to using BlueJeans Gateway with Microsoft Teams.
9. BlueJeans Gateway Service for Microsoft Teams-Concurrent Connections Plan
The BlueJeans Gateway Service enables Customer’s qualifying third-party room systems to connect as participants to Customer’s authorized Microsoft Teams meetings.
A “Concurrent Connection” is an H.323 or SIP room system that uses the Gateway Service to connect to a Teams meeting across all Customer’s meetings that are occurring at such time.
With a Gateway Concurrent Connections subscription to the BlueJeans Gateway Service, Customer may simultaneously utilize up to the number of committed Concurrent Connections to connect to Customer’s authorized Teams meetings.
Overage Fees apply per Concurrent Connection, per Day, based on the maximum concurrency of connections used by Customer and its meeting participants above the committed Concurrent Connection quantity at a rate set by Partner per concurrent connection per Day. This overage fee will be invoiced to Customer by Partner according to the terms and prices agreed between Customer and Partner.
10. BlueJeans Gateway Service for Microsoft Teams – Enterprise License Plan
With this Enterprise License Plan subscription to the BlueJeans Gateway Service, Customer may provision a Gateway Named Host to each Teams User in its Enterprise.
Customer shall certify to BlueJeans and Partner the actual number of Microsoft Teams accounts which Customer is entitled to provision pursuant to its license agreement with Microsoft (“Enterprise Count”) (a) concurrent with execution of this Order Form, and (b) thirty (30) days prior to each anniversary of the first day of the License Term. The Enterprise Count includes all Teams licenses Customer may provision, regardless of Customer’s actual number of provisioned Teams Users.
For the certification concurrent with the execution of this Order Form, Customer must certify to BlueJeans and Partner the Enterprise Count on the Order Form. For each additional certification, an officer or other authorized employee of Customer must certify the Enterprise Count to BlueJeans and Partner via email. BlueJeans and Partner may verify Customer’s Enterprise Count via third party sources.
If Customer increases its Enterprise Count by 10% or more at any time due to organic growth, an acquisition (whether of an entity, operating division, assets and/or operations of a company or entity, or otherwise), a merger, or other corporate event, Customer shall promptly report such increase to BlueJeans and Partner, but no later than thirty (30) days after such occurrence, and Customer may be required to execute a new Order Form reflecting an increase in fees for the remainder of the License Term.
If Customer licenses Microsoft Teams on a company-wide basis, Customer’s Enterprise Count is the actual number of Customer’s Employees. “Employee” means a unique person employed by or in Customer’s Enterprise, and a unique person otherwise paid by or acting on behalf of Customer who is given access to the Services.
“Enterprise” means (a) Customer and (b) any legal entity that Customer owns or has under Customer’s common control by a factor of fifty percent (50%) or more to the extent Customer intends to allow any such entity (or such entity’s employees) to utilize the Service. “Enterprise” will include any new entity Customer acquires by virtue of merger or acquisition, or any entity which acquires Customer, during the License Term, provided that Customer has provided notice to BlueJeans and Partner as required above and such entity’s employees are thereafter included in Enterprise Count and Customer may be required to execute a new Order Form reflecting an increase in fees for the remainder of the License Term. “Enterprise” will not include any entity that, at any time, is sold, spun off, liquidated, or that otherwise ceases to satisfy the elements of the definition of Enterprise set forth herein.
Customer may not provision the Services to any other entity or person (including affiliates or contractors) without BlueJeans’ prior express, written approval (such approval at BlueJeans’ sole discretion), at which time (assuming BlueJeans’ approval) such other entity shall be included in the definition of Enterprise for purposes of determining the Enterprise Count.
11. BlueJeans Gateway Service for Microsoft Teams – Special Offering
BlueJeans Gateway for Microsoft Teams Special Offer – 2 Concurrent Connections
The BlueJeans Cloud Interop for Microsoft Teams Promotional Offer (“Promotional Offer”) provides select entities with access to up to 2 concurrent connections to the BlueJeans Gateway for Microsoft Teams service for a period of 12 months subject to the terms herein. To be eligible, the entity must (1) not be a current BlueJeans customer, either directly or through a BlueJeans reseller or distributor, (2) have fully and accurately completed the applicable form requesting access to the Promotional Offer, and (3) agree to all BlueJeans standard Terms and Conditions for use of the BlueJeans Gateway for Microsoft Teams.
Entities taking part in this Promotional Offer are required to sign this Order Form. Promotional Offer valid only for use of 2 concurrent connections to the BlueJeans Gateway for Microsoft Teams service for a period of 12 months beginning the date the BlueJeans Order Form is signed. Promotional Offer may not be renewed or extended. Promotional Offer does not apply retroactively to any previous BlueJeans Services or Orders, is not redeemable for cash or credits, and may not be substituted for or applied to any other goods, services or discounts.
The Promotional Offer does not provide access to all features of the BlueJeans Gateway for Microsoft Teams service, including for example, the one-touch or BlueJeans Relay feature; some features require Customer to pay certain fees should it wish to use them.
The Promotional Offer only provides for 2 concurrent connections; to the extent more concurrent connections are used, BlueJeans will contact you to ensure you no longer exceed such concurrent connection restriction and/or apply a fee for any continued use in excess of the 2 concurrent connections.
Promotional Offer is not assignable or transferrable, and may not be combined with any other promotion, offer or discount. Limit one per company, including its divisions, subsidiaries and affiliates.
Use of BlueJeans Services is subject to all standard BlueJeans terms and conditions, including all terms on and in this BlueJeans Order Form. BlueJeans reserves the right in its sole discretion to discontinue, suspend and/or modify the Promotional Offer at any time. Promotional Offer void where prohibited.
The BlueJeans Cloud Interop for Microsoft Teams Promotional Offer (“Promotional Offer”) provides select entities with access to up to 5 concurrent connections to the BlueJeans Gateway for Microsoft Teams service for a period of 12 months subject to the terms herein. To be eligible, the entity must (1) not be a current BlueJeans customer, either directly or through a BlueJeans reseller or distributor, (2) have fully and accurately completed the applicable form requesting access to the Promotional Offer, (3) agree to all BlueJeans standard Terms and Conditions for use of the BlueJeans Gateway for Microsoft Teams, and (4) have at least 1,000 employees.
12. BlueJeans Events: Per Event Plan
With this plan, Customer may utilize the BlueJeans Event Service in order to conduct the number of Events set forth on the Order Form within the applicable License Term, subject to the Attendee and other restrictions herein, in the Order Form and the Terms and Conditions.
The Events must be used during the applicable License Term; any unused Events at the end of the applicable License Term expire and do not carry over into future License Terms.
The maximum number of Attendees per Event is based on the Plan set forth on the Order Form.
An Attendee is defined as an end point which joins or connects to the Event, whether by desktop, mobile, room system, PSTN or otherwise. Attendees in an Event include all Presenter endpoints, but not any Moderator endpoints.
There is a limit of 100 combined Moderator and Presenter endpoints per Event.
The maximum duration for each Event is two hours.
Overage Fees: Customer will be charged overage fees at a rate set by Partner on a per Event basis to the extent it exceeds either the maximum number Attendees and/or maximum duration, as follows:
Attendee Overage Fees: On a per Event basis, Customer will be charged at a rate set by Partner
Duration Overage Fees: On a per Event basis, Customer will be charged at a rate set by Partner. Overage fees will be invoiced to Customer by Partner according to the terms and prices agreed between Customer and Partner.
13. BlueJeans Events: Event Unlimited Non Concurrent License Plan
With this plan, each internal department for which Customer purchases a license may utilize the BlueJeans Event Service for an unlimited number of Events within the applicable License Term, subject to the Attendee and other restrictions herein, in the Order Form and the Terms and Conditions.
The number of Events that may occur simultaneously is limited to the number of licenses set forth on the Order Form. For example, if Customer has purchased two licenses, Customer may only have up to two Events occurring at the same time.
The maximum number of Attendees per Event is based on the Plan set forth on the Order Form. There is a limit of 100 combined Moderator and Presenter endpoints per Event.
An Attendee is defined as an endpoint which joins or connects to the Event, whether by desktop, mobile, room system, PSTN or otherwise. Attendees in an Event include all Presenter endpoints, but not any Moderator endpoints.
The maximum duration for each Event is eight hours.
Overage Fees: Customer will be charged overage fees on a per Event basis at a rate set by Partner to the extent an Event exceeds the maximum number Attendees and/or maximum duration, as follows:
Attendee Overage Fees: On a per Event basis, Customer will be charged at a rate set by Partner.
Duration Overage Fees: On a per Event basis, Customer will be charged at a rate set by Partner. Overage fees will be invoiced to Customer by Partner according to the terms and prices agreed between Customer and Partner
14. BlueJeans Rooms as a Service with Dolby Voice Plan
BlueJeans Rooms as a Service (“RaaS”) is a subscription service that allows a customer to pay one fee for use of certain hardware, software, and support during the applicable Term. It generally includes Calendar Integration and certain Dolby hardware for use with an out-of-box BlueJeans experience
“Supplied Products” means any hardware, peripherals and other equipment specifically provided under the RaaS license, including any non-BlueJeans software which is included with or embedded in such equipment.
Supplied Products may only be shipped to and utilized in the United States of America; Customer may not ship or install any Supplied Products outside of the United States of America.
BlueJeans or an agent of BlueJeans will ship all Supplied Products set forth on accepted Order Forms via standard ground shipping directly to Customer’s address within the United States of America as specified in the document Customer receives for shipping purposes.
Customer does not own, nor does it gain any title to or ownership interest in, any Supplied Products. Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (“Dolby”) is and shall remain the owner of all Supplied Products. Dolby has the right to recover the Supplied Products from Customer, including if BlueJeans-Dolby agreement is terminated or BlueJeans, the authorized partner through which Customer has ordered the RaaS Service (“Partner”) or the Customer ceases to operate in the ordinary course of business. Dolby is a third party beneficiary to the Agreement Customer has for RaaS with respect to Dolby’s ownership interest in the Supplied Products, including for the purpose of exercising Dolby’s rights above.
Customer agrees that it (i) does not acquire any title or ownership interest in the Supplied Products, (ii) may not pledge or encumber the Supplied Products, (iii) may not make any changes or modifications to the Supplied Products unless authorized to do so by Dolby or an authorized agent of Dolby, and (iv) may not violate any laws with respect to the Supplied Products, including any export regulations and consumer protection and safety laws. Once Customer has used a Supplied Product for 4 years, BlueJeans will provide a replacement Supplied Product. At that time BlueJeans will also provide a pre-paid shipping box for customer to return the already used Supplied Product. That Supplied Product must be returned within 30 days of receiving the replacement unit. Customer will be billed a fee to the extent Customer does not return the original Supplied Product.
The Supplied Products provided to Customer may be refurbished to a like-new standard; nothing guarantees that the Supplied Product will be new product.
BlueJeans reserves the right to discontinue the Service if required by law, rule, regulation, or if BlueJeans’ agreements regarding the supply and provision of Supplied Products are terminated.
The Supplied Products may be varied at any time and in any manner, including the design, features, model numbers, technical specifications, configurations, or packaging, provided that any variation will not materially decrease the functionality of the Supplied Products unless such variation is required by applicable law or regulation.
BlueJeans may withdraw one or more Supplied Products if such withdrawal is required by applicable law or regulation.
Loss/Damage to Supplied Product. Customer will not bear the risk of loss until the Supplied Product is delivered to the Customer address specified on the document provided for shipping purposes. Upon delivery of the Supplied Product to the Customer address as so specified, and until the Supplied Product has been returned to BlueJeans, Dolby or an agent of Dolby (as instructed by BlueJeans or a Partner), Customer bears all risk of loss, damage, theft, or destruction of the Supplied Product, and no such loss, damage, theft, or destruction will relieve Customer of any of its obligations, provided that any such loss, damage, theft or destruction is not directly caused by or due to BlueJeans, Dolby or an authorized agent of BlueJeans or Dolby.
Product Replacement Request (Warranty). If Customer requests a replacement of a Supplied Product during the Term due to damage caused by Dolby or an agent of Dolby or if the Supplied Product does not conform to the Limited Product Warranty located at www.bluejeans.com/raas-limited-warranty, Customer may receive a warranty replacement as set forth in the Limited Product Warranty located at www.bluejeans.com/raas-limited-warranty.
Customer must return the original Supplied Product to BueJeans, Dolby or an authorized agent (as instructed by BlueJeans). If the original Supplied Product is not returned to permit an evaluation of the Supplied Product, or if when returned it is determined that the original Supplied Product does not meet the requirements for the warranty replacement, then Partner will bill Customer for the replacement product.
Product Replacement Request (Non-warranty). If Customer requests a replacement of a Supplied Product during a Term, and the need for such replacement is not covered by the Limited Product Warranty located at www.bluejeans.com/raas-limited-warranty nor necessitated by damage caused by BlueJeans or a BlueJeans authorized agent, BlueJeans will promptly send a replacement Supplied Product and Partner will bill Customer a replacement fee.
Subject to Customer’s compliance with these terms and Customer’s RaaS-related Agreement, BlueJeans will extend to Customer warranty coverage on Supplied Products in the Territory during the respective Terms as set forth in the Limited Product Warranty located at www.bluejeans.com/raas-limited-warranty. Customer must contact BlueJeans to request any warranty service.
No Other Warranties. EXCEPT FOR THE REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN THE LIMITED WARRANTY PROVISION BELOW, NEITHER BLUEJEANS NOR ANY OF ITS AGENTS, PARTNERS OR AFFILIATED ENTITIES MAKE ANY OTHER REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AND BLUEJEANS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
At the expiration or termination of the Term, Customer must return all Supplied Products as directed by BlueJeans or the Partner. Customer will receive a Return Merchandise Authorization (“RMA”) and (if requested) a return shipping box for all Supplied Products to be returned, and within 30 days of obtaining each such RMA and applicable return shipping box, Customer will return such Supplied Product to BlueJeans, Dolby or an agent of either (as directed by BlueJeans or the Partner) in substantially the same condition as when such Supplied Product was shipped to Customer, excepting ordinary wear. For each Supplied Product that is not returned as set forth herein, or if the returned Supplied Product is not returned in the same condition as when it was originally shipped to Customer, Partner will bill customer a fee.
If Customer is a United States government entity, all software distributed with or embedded in the Supplied Products are subject to the applicable end user license agreements accompanying such Supplied Products; are commercial computer software developed exclusively at private expense; are provided to the United States government only as commercial computer software (with Restricted Rights, as applicable); that use, duplication, and disclosure by civilian agencies of the United States government shall be in accordance with the terms of such end user license agreements and FAR 52.227-19(b), or its current equivalent; and that use, duplication, and disclosure by Department of Defense agencies is subject solely to the terms of the applicable end user license agreements as consistent with DFARS 227.7202 or its current equivalent.
Any sale, resale, license, sublicense, rent, timeshare or transfer of Rooms as a Service License is prohibited.
To utilize the Rooms as a Service Services, Customer must have a Meetings or Events license. The Room license does not have a unique identifier required to host the Services.
The Room license may only be assigned to a specific Customer-owned conference or meeting room. A license may not be shared or used other than as the account for that particular conference or meeting room.
UK, France, Germany and Netherlands Orders
Notwithstanding the above, a Customer located in the UK, France, Germany or Netherlands (“Territory”) may, in its order form, contract with BlueJeans (or an authorized distributor or reseller of BlueJeans) in order to ship Supplied Products into the Territory. In such specific circumstances, in addition to the terms set forth above (including the referenced links), the following also apply:
Supplied Products may only be shipped to and utilized in the Territory; Customer may not ship or install any Supplied Products outside the Territory
BlueJeans or an agent of BlueJeans will ship all Supplied Products set forth on accepted Order Forms via standard ground shipping directly to Customer’s address within the Territory as specified in the Order Form or such other document that BlueJeans may provide for shipping purposes. BlueJeans will invoice for the RaaS service on the first shipment date of the Supplied Products. Any taxes charged to Customer for the RaaS service will be based upon the shipped-to location, and will be estimated on the Order Form.
In addition, with respect to the Warranty referenced above and at the applicable link above, in the RMA (defined in the Warranty) process, BJN or its authorized agent will send a postage-paid shipping box for the return of the Supplied Product from within the Territory.
15. BlueJeans Rooms as a Service featuring Dolby Voice Room Pro Plan
“Supplied Products” means any hardware, peripherals and other equipment specifically provided under this RaaS license, including any non-BlueJeans software which is included with or embedded in such equipment.
BlueJeans or an agent of BlueJeans will ship all Supplied Products set forth on accepted Order Forms via standard ground shipping directly to Customer’s address within the United States of America as specified in the Order Form or such other document that BlueJeans may provide for shipping purposes. BlueJeans will invoice for the RaaS service on the first shipment date of the Supplied Products. Any taxes charged to Customer for the RaaS service will be based upon the shipped-to location, and will be estimated on the Order Form.
Customer does not own, nor does it gain any title to or ownership interest in, any Supplied Products. Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (“Dolby”) is and shall remain the owner of all Supplied Products. Dolby has the right to recover the Supplied Products from Customer, including if BlueJeans-Dolby agreement is terminated or either BlueJeans or the Customer ceases to operate in the ordinary course of business. Dolby is a third party beneficiary to this Agreement with respect to Dolby’s ownership interest in the Supplied Products, including for the purpose of exercising Dolby’s rights above.
The Supplied Products provided to Customer under this Order may be refurbished to a like-new standard; nothing guarantees that the Supplied Product will be new product.
Loss/Damage to Supplied Product. BlueJeans will bear the risk of loss until the Supplied Product is delivered to the Customer address specified on the document that BlueJeans provides for shipping purposes. Upon delivery of the Supplied Product to the Customer address as so specified, and until the Supplied Product has been returned to BlueJeans, Dolby or an agent of Dolby (as instructed by BlueJeans), Customer bears all risk of loss, damage, theft, or destruction of the Supplied Product, and no such loss, damage, theft, or destruction will relieve Customer of any of its obligations, provided that any such loss, damage, theft or destruction is not directly caused by or due to BlueJeans, Dolby or an authorized agent of BlueJeans or Dolby.
Customer must return the original Supplied Product to BueJeans, Dolby or an authorized agent (as instructed by BlueJeans). If the original Supplied Product is not returned to permit an evaluation of the Supplied Product, or if when returned it is determined that the original Supplied Product does not meet the requirements for the warranty replacement, then BlueJeans will invoice Customer and Customer agrees to pay $6000 for the replacement product.
Product Replacement Request (Non-warranty). If Customer requests a replacement of a Supplied Product during a Term, and the need for such replacement is not covered by the Limited Product Warranty located at www.bluejeans.com/raas-limited-warranty nor necessitated by damage caused by BlueJeans or a BlueJeans authorized agent, BlueJeans will promptly send a replacement Supplied Product and will invoice Customer and Customer agrees to pay a replacement fee of a minimum of $6000.
Subject to compliance with this Agreement, BlueJeans will extend to Customer warranty coverage on Supplied Products in the Territory during the respective Terms as set forth in the Limited Product Warranty located at www.bluejeans.com/raas-limited-warranty. Customer must contact BlueJeans to request any warranty service.
At the expiration or termination of the Term, Customer must return all Supplied Products as directed by BlueJeans. Customer will receive a Return Merchandise Authorization (“RMA”) and (if requested) a return shipping box for all Supplied Products to be returned, and within 30 days of obtaining each such RMA and applicable return shipping box, Customer will return such Supplied Product to BlueJeans, Dolby or an agent of either (as directed by BlueJeans) in substantially the same condition as when such Supplied Product was shipped to Customer, excepting ordinary wear. For each Supplied Product that is not returned as set forth herein, or if the returned Supplied Product is not returned in the same condition as when it was originally shipped to Customer, BlueJeans will invoice Customer and Customer agrees to pay a fee of $6000.00
UK, France, Germany or Netherlands Orders
In addition, with respect to the Warranty referenced above and at the applicable link above, in the RMA (defined in the Warranty) process, BJN or its authorized agent will send a postage-paid shipping box for the return of the Supplied Product from within the Territory
16. BlueJeans Network Room License / BlueJeans Network Room License with Dolby License
The BlueJeans Network Room license makes available to Customer certain BlueJeans features and functionality, which generally includes the BlueJeans Rooms software application, certain one-touch connection features, and the ability to connect to supported enterprise calendaring systems to assist with scheduling meetings within the particular conference or meeting room system.
Any sale, resale, license, sublicense, rent, timeshare or transfer of Network Room License is prohibited.
To utilize the Network Room Services, Customer must have a Meetings or Events license. The Room license does not have a unique identifier required to host the Services.
The Network Room license may only be assigned to a specific Customer-owned conference or meeting room. A license may not be shared or used other than as the account for that particular conference or meeting room.
17. Premium Calling Feature (including Call Me)
Enablement of the Premium Calling feature allows Customer’s meeting participants to (a) dial into Customer’s Meetings and/or Events from an expanded set of phone numbers and (b) use the BlueJeans Call Me functionality during Meetings and/or Events.
The list of Premium Calling phone numbers and Call Me-eligible country codes is available at bluejeans.com/premium-numbers.
While there is no upfront subscription fee or minimum monthly charge for use of the Premium Calling feature, Customer agrees to pay the per minute costs incurred when participants use the number(s) in the identified countries. The rates for use of the number(s) are located here: https://drive.bluejeans.com/file/premium-numbers-data-sheet or as otherwise made available by BlueJeans. Service countries and rates are subject to change in BlueJeans’ sole discretion and any such changes are effective upon release of such changes by BlueJeans.
Customer acknowledges it is responsible for managing its participants’ use of the Premium Calling feature. An administrative user of Customer may contact BlueJeans Support to disable individual numbers and/or country codes. Customer is solely responsible for, as applicable, collecting any required consent to contact phone numbers provided by participants for use of the Call Me feature.
The BlueJeans rates do not include carrier fees. Participants who use Premium Calling may incur applicable roaming, international or other fees from their telephone service provider and/or wireless carrier.
In addition to the above charges, BlueJeans reserves the right to charge Customer fees to the extent Customer (or its meeting participants) use the Call Me Feature to dial international, (900), or other premium rate phone numbers.
For the avoidance of doubt, each use of the Call Me feature counts as an endpoint connection such that Customer may be liable for overages if Customer’s use exceeds its plan limitations or restrictions. If applicable, the participants’ Use of the Call Me Feature applies towards any PSTN limitations or restrictions in Customer’s Order Form and/or Agreement.
All Terms & Conditions set forth on Customer’s active Order Form shall remain the same unless otherwise expressly specified to the contrary in this Order Form. Access to the Premium Calling feature terminates upon termination of the Services, unless otherwise determined by BlueJeans and/or Customer.
18. Premium Calling with Global Premium Audio Annual Subscription Plan
If Customer has previously signed an Order Form for Premium Calling, this Order Form supersedes and replaces the current Term for that prior Premium Calling Order Form.
The list of Premium Calling phone numbers and Call Me-eligible country codes is available at bluejeans.com/premium-numbers. Service countries are subject to change in BlueJeans’ sole discretion and any such changes are effective upon release of such changes by BlueJeans.
With a subscription to this feature of the BlueJeans Service, Partner will apply certain discounts and reductions to the invoiced fees Customer accrues for its use of Premium Calling.
The annual fee for the Premium Global Numbers Audio Subscription (“PGNAS”) in this order form will be spread equally across each billing cycle during the Initial Term and again during each Renewal Term (such monthly billing cycle amount is referred to herein as the “Monthly Fee”).
Partner will apply the following to the gross value of Partner’s invoices for fees incurred due to Customer’s use of the Premium Calling Service during the Term: (a) a percentage discount (“Premium Discount”) communicated to Customer by Partner, and (b) a fee deduction (“Deduction”) in an amount up to the value of the Monthly Fee.
For purposes of clarification, unless otherwise stated by Partner, the Deduction is not assignable, transferable, or otherwise redeemable. Regardless of the value of the Deduction applied, no Monthly Fee value shall roll over, in whole or in part, to prior or subsequent monthly billing cycle invoices and/or Terms.
Participants who use Premium Calling may incur applicable roaming, international or other fees from their telephone service provider and/or wireless carrier.
Customer may be responsible for additional fees to the extent Customer (or its meeting participants) use the Call Me Feature to dial international, (900), or other premium rate phone numbers.
All Terms & Conditions set forth on Customer’s active Order Form shall remain the same unless otherwise expressly specified to the contrary in this Order Form. Access to the Premium Calling feature terminates upon termination of the Services, unless otherwise determined by BlueJeans.
19. Premium Calling US Toll Free and US Call Me – Per User Feature Plan
Premium Calling US Toll Free and US Call Me – Per User Feature allows Customer’s Meeting participants to (a) dial into Customer’s Meetings from a US Toll Free number provided by BlueJeans, and (b) use the Call Me functionality for US-based numbers only, in each case without incurring per minute usage fees for such use.
This Feature is only available to Customer if Customer has an active Corporate Access/Enterprise Wide Meetings License (“CAL Plan”). Pricing for this Feature is based on the accurate certification by Customer of its number of Employees (as defined in the CAL Plan terms) in connection with the CAL Plan. To the extent Customer’s number of Employees grows as set forth in the terms for the CAL Plan, Customer’s fees for this Feature will increase.
If it desires, Customer may also access the more general BlueJeans Premium Calling Feature, either by requesting BlueJeans support to enable the feature, or enabling the feature itself. Once enabled, the BlueJeans Premium Calling Feature allows Customer’s meeting participants to (i) dial into Customer Meetings and/or Events from an expanded set of phone numbers, and (ii) use the BlueJeans Call Me functionality internationally during Meetings and/or Events. BlueJeans will invoice Customer and Customer agrees to pay the per minute costs incurred when hosts and/or participants use the Premium Calling Feature.
IMPORTANT: if Customer does not want to be billed the per minute fees for use of the general Premium Numbers Feature, Customer must not enable it. Customer acknowledges it is responsible for managing its participants’ use of the Premium Calling feature. The rates for use of the number(s) are located here: https://drive.bluejeans.com/file/premium-numbers-data-sheet or as otherwise made available by BlueJeans. Service countries and rates are subject to change in BlueJeans’ sole discretion and any such changes are effective upon release of such changes by BlueJeans.
The BlueJeans rates do not include carrier fees. Participants may incur applicable roaming, international or other fees from their telephone service provider and/or wireless carrier.
Customer is solely responsible for, as applicable, collecting any required consent to contact phone numbers provided by participants for use of the Call Me feature.
All Terms & Conditions set forth on Customer’s other active Order Form(s) shall remain the same unless otherwise expressly specified to the contrary in this Order Form.
20. Premium Access China
Any sale, resale, license, sublicense, rent, timeshare or transfer of Premium Access China plan connections is prohibited.
BlueJeans and/or Partner may cancel Customer’s access to the Premium Access China connections upon notice to Customer at any time due to termination of BlueJeans’ access to such connections, a change in law, rule, statute, regulation or decree, or changes in market conditions or other circumstances which result in BlueJeans’s inability to offer the Premium Access China Plan in a commercially reasonable manner, in BlueJeans’s sole discretion.
Premium Access China connection overage fees may apply at a rate set by Partner if Customer’s usage of the connections exceeds the quantity stated in the Order Form.
21. Meeting Assist Plan
A Meeting Assist must be at least one hour in length.
The Meeting Assist Service must be scheduled 2 days in advance of Meeting date by opening up a support case or filling out the web form located here: http://bluejeans.com/support/meeting-assist-service.
The Meeting Assist Service does not guarantee any result of or for Customer’s meetings.
22. Event Assist Plan
An Event Assist must be at least two hours in length.
The Event Assist Service must be scheduled 7 days in advance of the Event date by opening up a support case or filling out the web form located here: http://bluejeans.com/support/event-assist-service
The Event Assist Service does not guarantee any result of or for Customer’s Events.]
23. Direct Connect Plan
The BlueJeans Direct Connect service allows a customer to connect directly into the BlueJeans infrastructure in connection with BlueJeans Meetings and Events services.
Customer is responsible for ensuring that it has all hardware, routers, switches, bandwidth, optics, connectivity, architecture and processes required to enable and utilize this service.
Customer may be required to provide documentation to BlueJeans and/or the applicable data center authorizing all activity necessary to provide the connection(s) for this Service.
This Service is only offered in a limited number of locations; Customer must confirm with BlueJeans that the location desired can be accommodated.
The number of locations through which Customer may have a connection is limited by the plan licensed on this Order Form as follows.
Premium: one location
Premium Plus: up to three locations
Premium Global: all available BlueJeans locations where Service is offered
Any additional locations require an additional Order Form and will be subject to additional fees.
The amount of peak traffic per location to which Customer may have access is limited by the plan licensed on this Order Form as follows:
Premium and Premium Plus: up to 1Gbps peak traffic per location
Premium Global: up to 10 Gbps peak traffic per location
BlueJeans may institute certain additional limitations on the amount of peak traffic and traffic generally that flows through the Direct Connect service at any time as may be required in its discretion.
Customer may not change the location(s) of the connection(s) without BlueJeans’ written consent.
24. BlueJeans Rooms as a Service and Meetings Start Pack
The BlueJeans Rooms as a Service and Meetings Starter pack provides Customer with access to the number of Named Host license and Rooms as a Service licenses specified in the bundle plan description line item. Additional terms and restrictions relating to the Named Hosts and RaaS licenses are set forth below.
This is a specific bundle for certain BlueJeans plans and Services; the various components may not be sold separately, whether to a single customer or to multiple customers.
BlueJeans Rooms as a Service with Dolby Voice
25. BlueJeans Platform Starter Pack
The Blue Jeans Platform Starter Pack provides Customer with access to (a) the number of Active Host licenses specified in the bundle plan description line item (b) one (1) Events Unlimited Non-Concurrent 500 attendee License, and (c) ten (10) BlueJeans Rooms licenses. Additional terms and restrictions relating to the Active Hosts, Events and Rooms licenses are set forth below.
BlueJeans Meetings: Active Host Group/Department Plan:
BlueJeans Events: Event Unlimited Non Concurrent License Plan
BlueJeans Network Room License / BlueJeans Network Room License with Dolby License
26. BlueJeans Rooms as a Service Add on Pack to the BlueJeans Platform Starter Pack
The BlueJeans Rooms as a Service Add On Pack to the BlueJeans Platform Starter Pack provides Customer with access to ten (10) Rooms as a Service Licenses.
27. BlueJeans Rooms as a Service and Gateway for Microsoft Teams Concurrent Connection Plan
The BlueJeans Rooms as a Service and Gateway for Microsoft Teams Concurrent Connection Plan provides Customer with access to one (1) Rooms as a Service License and one (1) Microsoft Teams Concurrent Connection License.
At the expiration or termination of the Term, Customer must return all Supplied Products as directed by BlueJeans. Customer will receive a Return Merchandise Authorization (“RMA”) and (if requested) a return shipping box for all Supplied Products to be returned, and within 30 days of obtaining each such RMA and applicable return shipping box, Customer will return such Supplied Product to BlueJeans, Dolby or an agent of either (as directed by BlueJeans) in substantially the same condition as when such Supplied Product was shipped to Customer, excepting ordinary wear. For each Supplied Product that is not returned as set forth herein, or if the returned Supplied Product is not returned in the same condition as when it was originally shipped to Customer, BlueJeans will invoice Customer and Customer agrees to pay a fee of $4500
BlueJeans Gateway Service for Microsoft Teams – Concurrent Connections Plan
Overage Fees apply per Concurrent Connection, per Day, based on the maximum concurrency of connections used by Customer and its meeting participants above the committed Concurrent Connection quantity at a rate of US$75 per concurrent connection per Day. For purposes of the Overage Fee calculation, a Day is the 24-hour period from midnight to 11:59pm Pacific Time.
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Europeana‘s Today’s Memory
Richard Mead’s birthday
Originally shared by Europeana
English physician, Richard Mead, was born #OnThisDay in 1673.
After completing his education at the University of Utrecht, Mead started his medical practice in London, where soon he became a very popular doctor. Among his many prominent patients were Isaac Newton and king George II.
Mead was a strong supporter of variolation: infecting an individual with weak form of a smallpox to immunise against its fatal version. By insisting on this method he managed to save over 200 children from the Foundling Hospital. His most famous work, “A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Method to be used to prevent it”, was of historic importance in the understanding of transmissible diseases.
To read Mead’s works and letters, go to Europeana: http://bit.ly/1JSGEoN
Image: Dr Richard Mead, print after Allan Ramsay. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek – Austrian National Library, Public Domain
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Richard Mead’s birthday!
After completing his education at the University of Utrecht, Mead started his medical practice in London,
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Salute. He had a great idea its being used today
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NRC, CAA unnecessary, wasteful exercises: 106 former civil servants to govt
The retired bureaucrats said there was no need for the National Population Register (NPR) and the National Register of Indian Citizens
Press Trust of India | New Delhi Last Updated at January 9, 2020 19:49 IST
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Citing grave reservations about the constitutional validity of the CAA, as many as 106 retired bureaucrats on Thursday wrote an open letter to people saying both the NPR and the NRIC were "unnecessary and wasteful exercises", which will cause hardships to the public.
The former bureaucrats, including former Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Najeeb Jung, the then Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar and former Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah urged fellow citizens to insist the Union government to repeal relevant sections of Citizenship Act, 1955, pertaining to the issue of national identity cards.
"We have our grave reservations about the Constitutional validity of the CAA provisions, which we also consider to be morally indefensible. We would like to emphasise that a statute that consciously excludes the Muslim religion from its purview is bound to give rise to apprehensions in what is a very large segment of India's population," said the letter, titled "India does not need the CAA-NPR-NRIC".
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's statement at a public meeting in Delhi on December 22 that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and the National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC) are not linked contradicts the averments of his home minister (Amit Shah) on repeated occasions in various fora, it said.
"At a time when the economic situation in the country warrants the closest attention of the government, India can ill afford a situation where the citizenry and the government enter into confrontation on the roads," said the letter.
"Nor is it desirable to have a situation where the majority of State Governments are not inclined to implement the NPR/NRIC, leading to an impasse in centre-state relations, so crucial in a federal set up like India," it added.
Above all, it said, "We see a situation developing where India is in danger of losing international goodwill and alienating its immediate neighbours, with adverse consequences for the security set-up in the sub-continent".
The retired bureaucrats said there was no need for the National Population Register (NPR) and the National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC).
"Our group of former civil servants, with many years of service in the public sphere, is firmly of the view that both the NPR and the NRIC are unnecessary and wasteful exercises, which will cause hardship to the public at large and will also entail public expenditure that is better spent on schemes benefiting the poor and disadvantaged sections of society," the letter said.
They also constitute an invasion of the citizens' right to privacy, since a lot of information, including Aadhaar, mobile numbers and voter IDs will be listed in a document, with scope for misuse, it said.
"We are apprehensive that the vast powers to include or exclude a person from the Local Register of Indian Citizens that is going to be vested in the bureaucracy at a fairly junior level has the scope to be employed in an arbitrary and discriminatory manner, subject to local pressures and to meet specific political objectives, not to mention the unbridled scope for large-scale corruption," said the letter.
The former civil servants said that worrying reports are already coming in of people in different parts of India rushing in panic to obtain the necessary birth documents.
"The problem is magnified in a country where the maintenance of birth records is poor, coupled with highly inefficient birth registration systems," they said.
The provisions of the CAA, coupled with rather aggressive statements over the last few years from the highest levels of this government, have rightly caused deep unease among the country's Muslims, who have already faced discrimination and attacks on issues ranging from allegations of 'love jihad' to cattle smuggling and beef consumption, the letter said.
"That the Muslim community has had to face the brunt of police action in recent days only in those states where the local police is controlled by the party in power at the centre only adds credence to the widespread feeling that the NPR-NRIC exercise could be used for selective targeting of specific communities and individuals," it said.
The former bureaucrats asked people to urge the government to withdraw the Foreigners (Tribunals) Amendment Order, 2019 and withdraw all instructions for construction of detention camps, besides repealing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019, according to the letter.
They also questioned the widespread setting up of Foreigners' Tribunals and detention camps under the Foreigners (Tribunals) Amendment Order, 2019.
"While the central government may contend that there is no such intention, it was surely impolitic, given the prevailing atmosphere in Assam and elsewhere, to issue such blanket orders delegating powers for constituting Foreigners' Tribunals. The experience with Foreigners' Tribunals in Assam has been, to put it bluntly, traumatic for those at the receiving end," the letter said.
It said, after running the gamut of gathering documents and answering objections to their citizenship claims, "doubtful citizens" have also had to contend with these tribunals, the composition and functioning of which were highly discretionary and arbitrary.
"Consequently, a number of citizens lost their lives in the quest for affirming citizenship or have had to suffer the indignity of incarceration in detention camps," the letter said.
Read our full coverage on NRC
First Published: Thu, January 09 2020. 19:40 IST
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What Does Lena Dunham's "Sick" Tattoo Mean? It's Her Most Personal Ink Yet
By Amy Sciarretto
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This is so much more than a new tattoo. Actor and writer Lena Dunham got a "Sick" neck tattoo, and it appears to be her most personal and powerful ink yet. Dunham revealed the tattoo and its significance via a photo in an Instagram post, shouting out those who live with chronic illness and voicing her solidarity.
Dunham has expanded her already copious tattoo collection with the word "Sick" spelled out in a rope font across the back of her neck. She offered some semi-cryptic insight about what the word, concept, and tattoo mean to her in the caption of an Instagram photo of the ink, writing, "Sometimes the thing you're most scared of being called is the best thing you can call yourself. Thank you @havenstudiobk for labeling me... and to my sisters in this dizzying but starry slog — I am lasso'd to you!"
Those of you who have been following Dunham's journey will likely interpret her caption as a reference to her endometriosis, which the Mayo Clinic describes as "an often painful disorder in which tissue that normally lines the inside of your uterus — the endometrium — grows outside your uterus."
The former Girls star has always been open about her health, documenting her surgeries, which have included a hysterectomy and ovary removal, her scars, and her recovery processes on her Instagram.
Ultimately, Dunham's new tattoo is a testament to having resilience while living with a chronic illness.
Her caption suggests that she is reclaiming the power from the word "sick" and that her brand new ink further connects her to other people who are diagnosed and living with similar illnesses. It also helps explain the importance of the unusual font that she chose.
Dunham's followers were all about her latest body art and let her know in the comments that flooded the post. Users who also have endometriosis and other chronic conditions shared how her ink impacted them. This user was quite moved, posting, "You're great. The tattoo is great, and inspires me to keep tackling my health issues."
Another user loved that Dunham was taking ownership, writing, "Many of us with chronic illnesses (Crohn's in my case) spend so much time and energy pretending we are fine for everyone else — I would love to tell the next person who asks how I am that 'I'M SICK, that's how I am!'"
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This user applauded Dunham's art, writing, "That's SICK in the most awesome, most beautiful way possible. Sending all the positive vibes your way to show others that it's not just a word, it's a feeling, and your journey can make you feel like yourself again. And this time, the journey is SICK. Here's to living the best, SICKEST life we can."
Lastly, these two followers noted how Dunham's ink captured the power of tattoos and words in general. One wrote, "Keep expressing yourself how ever you see fit — that's the fun of tattoos, they're for you to enjoy and no one else." Another praised Dunham, writing, "I think it's great you are taking control over your own label and your fears. It's hard to do. That's empowerment."
Dunham's tattoo looks incredibly cool and clearly means something to her. It turns out to have meant something special to her Instagram community, as well.
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Best and worst blockchain stocks for 2018
Industries besides financial such as healthcare and technology are using blockchain development to provide fraud prevention, security, faster transmission confirmation and cost savings. Blockchain’s reach extends so far it has been predicted that its platforms will store 10% of global GDP within the next decade.
To help users make the right choice when investing in blockchain, the Blockchain Score™ ranking methodology utilizes seven factors, and now the top blockchain-related companies for 2018 have been ranked for user ease.
The top five Blockchain Stocks to Consider:
1. NASDAQ
While Nasdaq is best known for traditional investing practices, it is also an industry leader in developing innovative securities transaction methods since 2013, and an early adopter of blockchain technology into its applications. The Nasdaq Private Market was launched in 2013 to facilitate secondary transactions for private corporations. In 2015 Nasdaq announced its first private securities transactions using blockchain. Chain.com was the first client to use Nasdaq’s own Linq Blockchain ledger platform.
IBM, the company behind Watson is already harnessing a blockchain service for over 400 clients in multiple industries. IBM estimates that its blockchain offering will reduce financial service transaction disputes from $100 million each year to $30 million, and speed up overall resolution time by 77%. For more information on IBM and blockchain, check out our article dedicated to the topic.
3. Hitachi
Hitachi has been researching blockchain technology since the early 2000s, predating the 2008 invention of Bitcoin. Five years earlier, Hitachi had already obtained its first blockchain-related Japanese patent in 2003. Hitachi’s Financial Innovation Laboratory (FIL) continually works to broaden the application of blockchain using a a three-phase approach.
Phase 1 is to establish a specialty for financial processes specifically, then Phase 2 is to expand across industries, and finally Phase 3 involves creating a fully functioning, automatic process across systems using new blockchain innovations like smart contracts. Recently, Hitachi incorporated a cryptocurrency and blockchain platform to support its supply chain management and operational strategy service.
4. Daimler AG
In partnership with LBBW, Daimler launched a €100 million 1-year corporate loan instrument, known as a Schuldschein which is underwritten by blockchain. The entire loan process, from origination and execution of the agreement to the confirmation of repayment and of interest payments is wholly carried out through blockchain technology.
Daimler’s Treasury Vice-PresidentKurt Schäfer stated “Blockchain can affect nearly the entire value chain. That’s why we, as a leading automaker, want to play an active role in the global blockchain community and help shape the cross-sector blockchain standards. We want to do this in all the areas of application that are important to us: customer relations, sales and marketing, supplier management, digital services, and financial services.”
5. Hive Blockchain Technologies
Based in Canada, Hive Blockchain is bridging the gap between blockchain innovation and capital markets by owning multiple cryptocurrency mining farms in strategic locations. Hive recently announced it had secured both a large-scale bitcoin mining facility and $100 million worth of private financing.
Hive was the first publicly traded stock dedicated solely to cryptocurrency mining when it joined the Canadian TSX venture exchange in September 2017. Hive operates multiple cryptocurrency facilities and mines 8 forms cryptocurrency including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin.
Four So-Called Blockchain Stocks To Avoid For Now:
Due to the buzz surrounding blockchain many businesses are trying to ride the bandwagon but are not sound investments. Beware of these four.
1. XNET
Xunlei is a Chinese video-streaming service that announced in October its plan to launch OneCoin, a blockchain-based cryptocurrency now called LinkToken. From October through November 2017, XNET’s stock price surged from $4 to $25 but then sharply declined. Worse still, the company is involved in at least 2 class-action lawsuits. Plaintiffs allege that XNET made false or misleading statements in violation of federal securities laws.
Investors who believed the announcement of OneCoin to be an initial coin offering (ICO), were met with contradictory statements claiming LinkToken was actually an initial mining offering. China’s central bank banned ICOs in September and investors can only wait as the litigation continues.
2. Long Island Blockchain
Previously Long Island Ice Tea Corp., Long Island blockchain doesn’t produce alcoholic beverages nor does it actually seem to use blockchain. The name change alone led to its stock price increase of more than 250%. We have discussed why one should be deeply suspicious (at best) of this company in a previous, in depth article.
3. Riot Blockchain
Bioptix Inc. changed its name to Riot Blockchain last October to reflect its new focus. Last fall, the penny stock nearly doubled in value but dropped 20% by December. Now they are in the process of selling remaining biotech related patents, as it pivots to bitcoin mining and blockchain software. This quick level of change and shifting focuses make this company unreliable for now.
4. Kodak
Yep, they’re still around and recently launched KodakCoin, a blockchain-powered token to help with copyright issues. Although the stock price tripled in value after the announcement, it remains to be seen if Kodak can augment its business model with blockchain capabilities. Kodak’s KashMiner’ mining rig can support licensing partnerships, but may be the extent of the implementation of blockchain.
Worse still, KodakCoin announced a delay to its initial coin offering (ICO) by several weeks. The company’s statement in January cautioned against fraudulent KodakCoin ICO pages online which is also kinda suspicious.
So while blockchain is the way of the future and worth investing in, do your research before investing any money.
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These Ballet Dancers Get To Bring Their Dogs To Work And It's Seriously Cute
Pointe shoes and puppies. OMG.
Posted on March 02, 2016, 17:08 GMT
Leticia Miranda
BuzzFeed News Reporter
When you think of pointe shoes, you may not think of puppies. But that's what's been going on behind the studio walls of the American Ballet Theatre since the 1980s, company spokesperson Kelly Ryan told BuzzFeed News.
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Boylston said the company has always been dog-friendly. She said the dog-friendly culture is an outgrowth of the long performance tours dancers took in the 80s. The company invited dog owners to bring their dogs with them instead of paying for boarding.
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Ryan estimates there are about 18 dogs that belong to dancers and at least two cats. Staff at the company have about seven to 10 dogs that they bring to work as well.
Dogs even play a part in the ballet, Giselle. The dogs accompany a noble hunting party who visit Giselle’s village which sparks a chain of tragic events.
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Ryan said the dancers begin their days at 10:15 a.m. and often don't end their days until 7 p.m. She said having their dogs nearby gives the dancers one less thing to worry about.
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"They work such a long days," said Ryan. "They can feel comfortable that [their dogs] are nearby and taken care of."
The dogs often come to class and hang out around the studio. Ryan said they are very well-behaved.
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They even join the dancers during physical therapy.
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They even go to the gym.
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Most of the dogs are on the smaller side, but a few of them are big.
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Some dancers even bring in their cats to watch their person work.
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Ryan said the dogs and cats add to the company's "family-like atmosphere."
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"It really just adds to the warmth and humanity of this atmophsere, of being in the arts and working toward a goal," she said. "Everyone is together and supports one another, and the dogs support the dancers, their owners, just by being here."
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2015 four CD set. Brad Mehldau's 10 Years Solo Live is culled from 19 live recordings made over a decade of the pianist's European solo concerts and is divided into four thematic subsets of four sides each: Dark/Light, The Concert, Intermezzo/Rückblick, and E Minor/E Major.
Of the Dark/Light theme, he says, "In concerts, I find that I contrast dark and light emotional energies and highlight the way they depend on each other. Sides 1-4 focus on this dichotomy in pairs, beginning with the dark energy of Jeff Buckley's 'Dream Brother,' which is followed by the grace of Lennon/McCartney's 'Blackbird.'" He further says, "Although the songs on Sides 5-8 (The Concert) come from different concerts, on this set, I arranged them in a sequence similar to that I would perform in a single concert in 2010-11," he continues. "The third set could be thought of as Intermezzo and Rückblick-like in character. I'm thinking of the penultimate movement of Brahms's Third Piano Sonata with that title. Rückblick means a look backward, perhaps a reappraisal. Brahms's Intermezzo movement was a look back at what had taken place in his Sonata before moving to the final movement.
Here, the listener is invited to look back to music that was recorded 10 or more years ago, in 2004 and 2005." Mehldau explains that his approach to the sequence of the fourth set "is to focus on the rub between the keys of E minor and E major. I return to the theme of dark and light from the first set, now allowing the listener to focus on how 'dark' and 'light' might manifest in tonality."
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Knowing Where You Live
by Reinventing Home
Here’s the sad thing about daily life. There’s no “there” there anymore.
Americans now come of age in “a vague landscape sculpted in part by corporations,” says the Kentucky poet, philosopher and essayist, Wendell Berry. And we are suffering from a loss of identity as well as a loss of place. “Part of manners used to be to say to somebody you just met, Where you from?” Berry adds. “And I quit asking it, because so many people say they’re from everywhere or nowhere.”
The architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable described the changes in our towns in the 1960s with a single phrase: “Hello, Hamburger, Goodbye History.” In the 90s, NPR’s Prairie Home Companion fed our longing for steady and unchanging home with Lake Wobegone Days, a fictional place where things happen at a nearly hypnotizing pace: Florian Krebsbach drives a ’66 Chevy with only 42,00 miles on it. Each turn of his life is taken in slow motion. This deliberate pace seems to satisfy him for when he looks at Main Street and at his wife, “he sees them brand-new like his car.” Life doesn’t come in fits and starts, it flows like an underground stream. It’s not just place, but pace, that’s different.
Berry is the bard of rural America, of the disappearing fields and furrows, of the kind of farming that was done by hand with an almost arcane knowledge of the local soil. “In the old days you didn’t go to school to study agriculture,” he says. “You knew that every nook and cranny of a field was different, and so you spent a lifetime trying to get to know a single farm.”
But it’s not just the farmland that’s disappearing. It’s our understanding of each other. “Where are you from?” is just like asking “Who do you love and what do you value?” It’s a question that tells us a lot about who you are and what you care about.
“Where are you from?” is a question that makes you consider your youth, your first love, your sense of home, your deep affection for some portion of this world.
The problem is that America became a nation long before it had the change to know itself as a land. Even so, Berry reminds that every town or region once has its own unique spirit—and we’ve lost so much of that by turning our open spaces into strip malls and parking lots.
In a recent interview with Amanda Petrusich for The New Yorker, Berry tells us we can go back home again. How? Unplug your devices, look around, and get to know your neighbors. Learn the history of your region and find out what grows there.
This heartfelt conversation is a primer in how to reclaim our sense of home. Print it out and keep it by your bedside so you’ll wake up each morning, appreciating where you live. For an extended elegy on our relation to the land, read Berry’s Collected Poems. “The way I go/is marriage to this place/grace beyond chance,/love’s braided dance/covering the world.”
Deep Dive: If you care about the food your region produces, read about The Berry Center’s Whole Horse approach to farming that “takes nature as its measure, consults the genius of the place, and accepts no harm to the ecosphere.”
Reinventing Homehttps://reinventinghome.org/
Reinventing Home is an online magazine exploring how home shapes our culture, creativity, and character. Isabel Allende calls this publication Brain Pickings for the Home—a thinking person’s guide to the well-lived life. Our contributors explore home as a personal sanctuary and interactive hive, and how home contributes to our health, happiness, and productivity. Valerie Andrews, Chief Storyteller calls her own features “a mindful approach to home with a Jungian twist” and considers everything from the secret lives of our possessions to how the dust underneath your bed is related to the creation of the cosmos. Reinventing Home is nonprofit journalism at its best—a virtual living room for an enlightened conversation about the way we feel about our nests and the bigger issues that are shaping home today, from technology to climate change. Read more at www.reinventinghome.org
Larry Tyler
I absolutely Love this. I grew up on a farm and I relate to every word of this.
Noemi Zarb
Your article is more than a swan song about rural America because it resonates with the EU’s obsession for a borderless, totally anonymous Europe. Also, nefarious globalisation which corporate America foisted on most of the globe. Furthermore, today it’s hype to be a digital nomad and shun home-making. Knowing and loving your roots is so vital to feel whole and comfortable in your skin. Thank you for a great share.
Your article is more than a swansong for rural America for it also resonates with the EU’s obsession with a borderless and anonymous Europe. Also, nefarious globalisation which corporate America has foisted on most of the globe. today it is also hip to be a digital nomad and shun home-making. Yet somehow I still hope that once a sense of void strikes, seeking, knowing and loving one’s roots will lead to feeling whole and comfortable in one’s skin. Thank you for a great share.
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All posts tagged: Tim Clark
Who’s looking at the family now?
2019 marks a quarter of a century since Val Williams’ curated her seminal exhibition, Who’s looking at the family? at the Barbican in London. In photography, a lot has changed over 25 years, including the introduction of new technologies that have reshaped the way in which we make and consume images, and the changing definitions of what constitutes a photographer.
“On the one hand I thought it might be interesting to speculatively chart that development, but also to rethink notions of the family at the same time,” says Tim Clark, editor of 1000 words magazine and curator of this year’s Photo50 exhibition at London Art Fair. “The idea seemed to chime with a lot of people. I think that’s the key point about family, it’s a great unifying subject. Everyone can relate to it.”
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FORMAT Festival returns to Derby, UK from 15 March-14 April
Derby is a small British city but once every two years it hosts a big event – the FORMAT Festival. Directed by the well-respected photography specialist Louise Fedotov-Clements and running since 2004, FORMAT has established a firm reputation for interesting international work, and FORMAT19 looks set to continue the good work with exhibitions spread across both Derby and another neighbouring city, Nottingham. Taking place next spring, FORMAT19 is themed FOREVER/NOW and takes on an interesting contemporary question – the role of documentary photography.
“In 2007, while the photography world was still grappling with the idea of photography as an interpretive, non-narrative, non-representational medium, writer Lucy Soutter wrote about the ‘expressive’ versus the ‘straight’ documentary photograph, insightfully characterising the then two sides of the debate,” runs the FORMAT19 press material.
“Since then photography has grown to encompass many manifestations of the ‘crooked’ image through hybrid forms and visual practises and no longer worries about narrative versus abstraction, expressive versus objective. The new generation of photographic artists rush towards the new, embracing the rapid transformation that technology and cultural exchanges bring to it.”
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Rebecca Fertinel wins the Unseen Dummy Award
Brussels-based photographer Rebecca Fertinel has won the Unseen Dummy Award with her book Ubuntu. The book was shot in a Congolese community in Belgium, which Fertinel first visited in August 2015, when she was invited to a wedding by a friend. Whilst there she was introduced to a warm and friendly society, and the concept of “ubuntu” – the idea that “you become a human being by connecting with everything and everyone”.
The judges were particularly impressed with the editing of Fertinel’s book proposal which, they say, “transforms documentary photography into an unexpected narrative flow of community events”. The images move from one party to another party to a funeral, for example, the latter creating “a kind of breaking point” in the middle of the book, creating “a kind of dance where you don’t know what comes after”, and thereby summing up something about life.
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Unseen Dummy Award shortlist announced
Unseen Amsterdam has announced the 34 photobook dummies shortlisted for the Unseen Dummy Award 2018. Picked out from 212 submissions by a five-strong committee, the shortlist respects “a degree of rawness, including an ‘unfinished’ look and feel’, in keeping with the prize’s ethos of celebrating books-in-progress. The winner will be announced on 21 September at Unseen Amsterdam, after being picked out by an international jury including: Paul van Mameren, managing director of the award’s sponsor Lecturis; Sarah Allen, assistant curator, Tate Modern; Tim Clark, editor-in-chief and director, 1000 Words; Russet Lederman, co-founder, 10×10 Photobooks; and Małgorzata Stankiewicz, winner of the Unseen Dummy Award 2017. Stankiewicz’s winning book dummy, cry of an echo, was published by Lecturis in May. Showing the Białowieża Forest, the last remaining primeval forest in Poland, Stankiewicz used several unusual interventions when processing her images – including masking, uneven development, and even bleaching – to protest against the intensive logging which has been allowed in the forest by new legislation passed in 2016. Unseen Amsterdam takes place from 21-23 September at Westergasfabriek https://unseenamsterdam.com
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1000 Words 10 Years – the respected online photography magazine goes into print
Back in 2008, Facebook was just four years old, Twitter was just two years old, and the iphone had just been released. Instagram had not yet been invented. A decade is a long time in internet years, and yet one online photography magazine launched into this unpromising landscape has survived and thrived – 1000 Words. Set up and still run by editor-in-chief, Tim Clark, it includes long-form essays, interviews, and reviews, and has included contributors such as David Campany, Susan Bright, Gerry Badger, Charlotte Cotton, Wolfgang Tillmans, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Vanessa Winship and Lieko Shiga. Now, to celebrate its 10th anniversary, Clark is publishing a special print edition, 1000 Words 10 Years, designed by respected photography and art specialist Sarah Boris and featuring newly-commissioned content. The annual will be 200 pages long, and will feature 10 portfolios from influential artists such as Jose Pedro Cortes, Laia Abril, Edmund Clark, and Esther Teichmann, as well as a series of photo-centric city guides, profiles on curators and collectors, opinion pieces on the art of photobook publishing, and reflections on a decade’s changes in photography. It will also include a selection of memorable and talked-about articles from the 1000 Words back catalogue.
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Lua Ribeira, Sam Laughlin, and Alejandra Carles-Tolra show new work in Jerwood/Photoworks Awards
Inspired by personal identity, the natural world, and the fear of dying, the three young artists in this year’s Jerwood/Photoworks Awards exhibition are presenting very different work. Picked out as winners in January 2017, all three have received a year of mentoring on their work from industry specialists such as photographer Mitch Epstein, publisher Michael Mack, and gallerist Maureen Paley. They each also received a bursary of £5000 and access to a production fund of another £5000, to make new work which goes on show in London’s Jerwood Space from 17 January-11 March then tours to Bradford and Belfast.
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Festivals: Photo Oxford returns, with a new team and big ambitions
Gemma Padley
Think of Oxford and it’s the world-famous university that will probably spring to mind first; the ancient city is not necessarily one you would immediately associate with photography. But that may be about to change with the debut of a new fortnight-long “celebration of photography” from 08-24 September, curated by Tim Clark and Greg Hobson. With a focus on the medium’s “potential to conceal and reveal”, the programme is small but convincing, with work carefully matched to specific venues in the city centre. For example, Oxford’s old fire station, now a thriving public arts space, will host an exhibition of photographs devoted to Russian prison tattoos.
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Show: Peter Watkins’ The Unforgetting at the Webber Gallery
Susanna D'Aliesio
“It’s a story that starts at its end, in death. We have an evocation of a life which has been lost, which then becomes another kind of life, one whose presence or absence is conjured up in various states of remembrance.” So says Tim Clark, editor-in-chief of the online magazine 1000 Words, who has curated an exhibition of Peter Watkins’ series The Unforgetting at Webber Gallery. It’s a highly autobiographical piece of work, showcasing photographs and sculptures produced after a long inner exploration of a traumatic loss. On the 15th of February 1993, Watkins’ mother walked from Zandvoort beach into the North Sea, to her death. The heart of the artist’s project is his reconciliation to that loss, through an examination of their shared German heritage. “This is a work that explores the machinations of memory in relation to the experience of trauma,” says Watkins. “The culmination of several years work, The Unforgetting is a series made up of remnants, as well as the associated notions of time, recollection and impermanence, all bound up in the objects, places, photographs, and narrative structures …
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Awards: Five finalists for the ING Unseen Talent Award 2017
The ING Unseen Talent Award is one of the most generous prizes out there for young photographers, with a €10,000 fund to make new work up for grabs, plus mentoring from Nadav Kander and a group show at Unseen Amsterdam for all the finalists. This year, the five shortlisted artists are: Alexandra Lethbridge (b. 1987, UK); Tom Callemin (b. 1991, Belgium); Andrea Grützner (b. 1984, Germany); Robin Lopvet (b. 1990, France); and Stefanie Moshammer (b. 1988, Austria).
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The feuding, feral cats of HMC Dockyard — and the ex-sailor who nurtures them
Retired sailor Pierre Filiatreault spends his mornings feeding the 20 or so feral cats who call Halifax's naval base home.
'All animals deserve a chance to live,' says Pierre Filiatreault who cares for the dockyard strays
Aly Thomson · The Canadian Press · Posted: Jun 28, 2017 9:59 AM AT | Last Updated: June 28, 2017
Black Chin, one of the cats under the care of Pierre's Alley Cats Society, rests in the shade at the Halifax Dockyard. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press)
Pierre Filiatreault looked out his office window at Halifax's naval base 12 years ago and saw two tiny kittens playing together in a narrow alleyway.
The kittens — one with fluffy orange and white fur and one all black — appeared malnourished and without a mother, so Filiatreault began feeding them.
He fashioned a small makeshift shelter out of Plexiglas and other scrap materials. The pair could often be seen cuddled together inside the enclosure, resting their heads on each other's back paws, their bellies touching.
Eventually the naval officer took them to the SPCA, where they were adopted. But the two kittens were not the only felines roaming the base in search of food and shelter.
Feral cats are a common sight at HMC Dockyard — home to Canada's East Coast navy, including frigates and the submarine HMCS Windsor.
Pierre Filiatreault of Pierre's Alley Cats Society at the Halifax Dockyard is seen in one of the cat shelters. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press)
'They're part of the family'
Filiatreault retired in 2009 as a petty officer first class after serving 31 years in the navy, but he still visits the base near downtown Halifax every day to feed the roughly 20 stray cats that call it home.
"The cats are part of my life now. As you feed animals, you get attached to them," said Filiatreault in front of a cat shelter dubbed "Saraphyna" that's nestled into a ledge that overlooks the Halifax harbour.
"It's not work anymore. They're part of the family."
Binoo, one of the cats under the care of Pierre's Alley Cats Society, heads to a plate of food at the Halifax Dockyard. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press)
Filiatreault, also known as the Catman, has special permission from the Defence Department to maintain several cat shelters at the yard and enter the base each day to feed what have become known locally as the "dockyard cats."
In 2005 he started to trap, neuter and return the cats to help control the population. Kittens have not been born at the base in roughly nine years, and the oldest cat is now around 14. Feral cats usually only live two or three years.
'City' and 'country' cats
Each has a name — like Binoo and Black Chin — and will come to Filiatreault when called. They respond to three languages, given Filiatreault is French and his wife Paola — who helps with the feeding — is Italian, and both speak English.
There are two cat colonies at the dockyard, referred to as the "city" and "country" cats.
On the south end, a contingent of black and white cats roam a concrete jungle-of-sorts amidst the bustle of Canada's Atlantic naval fleet.
They can be seen scampering up wooden planks Filiatreault has attached to the side of buildings, allowing them to navigate from an upper roadway to an oceanside docking and loading area.
The Catty Shack is one of the shelters maintained by Pierre's Alley Cats Society. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press)
The four-legged furballs sometimes trot along the wharf alongside uniformed officers and snooze in the shade under row boats stored on racks.
The city cats eat inside the "Catty Shack" shelter — a white barn-style shed with a cat door that sits in the shadow of the Macdonald Bridge and is nestled among shipping containers and the base's post office. Around back is one of Filiatreault's first shelters he built in 2005 from an old fridge.
The Catty Shack is heated with light bulbs, keeping it at about 10 C, and inside are cubbies equipped with cat beds and an endless supply of dry food.
'My wife spoils them'
It's the first stop on the daily run — when Filiatreault or his wife check on their feline friends, give them deworming and anti-flea medications and bring more desirable edibles.
"They love treats. My wife spoils them — chicken, ground beef, steak or ham, depending on the season," said Filiatreault, scooping out wet cat food onto a dish and mixing it with vitamins.
"They're friendly, but they are feral cats so you cannot touch them."
Placid, one of the cats under the care of Pierre's Alley Cats Society, rests in the shade at the Halifax Dockyard. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press)
Meanwhile, the north end cats are happy trotting through tall grass or napping inside an old boat — dubbed "the Ark" — which sits in a small green space and is covered by wood framing and Plexiglas for added protection from the elements. Cina, who has long orange fur, can often be found sleeping inside.
Placid, a short-haired white cat that has undergone three knee surgeries, is the local boss. He often perches on a retaining wall that overlooks the Saraphyna Shelter and Ark below.
Multi-coloured Cleo has also proven to be somewhat of a chieftain of her clan. She recently defended their territory when another cat — Benny from the city colony — wandered in.
"She was quite adamant that they did not want him there," he said. "It's like street gangs. It works the same way with feral cats. They all have their own section of the dockyard."
Sponsoring the gang
Navy officers will sometimes come visit the country colony on their lunch break, bringing treats.
There are only a couple dozen cats now living at the dockyard, but that number was once closer to 100 in the 1990s, before Filiatreault took an interest.
He raises money to keep the dockyard program running under Pierre's Alley Cat Society, which is in its 10th year. Cats can be sponsored on a monthly or yearly basis, which pays for their food and any vet visits.
Filiatreault said the Defence Department has always been supportive of his initiative and has even provided funding and manpower when the shelters were first constructed. There was a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of the Catty Shack.
He said he will continue the dockyard program until its natural conclusion — when the remaining residents live out their lives.
"All animals deserve a chance to live," said Filiatreault. "It could be another two years or it could be five years, but I'm in it for the long haul."
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Construction Update for CBP Facility at Rouses Point, N.Y.
ROUSES POINT, N.Y. – The U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspection facility at Rouses Point border crossing will be operating on a limited basis from May 24 to June 10. On-going construction activities require all commercial and oversized vehicles, including vehicles towing a boat or trailer, to use an alternate crossing route.
U.S. Border Crossing at Rouses Point
“We expect normal processing to resume at Rouses Point border crossing on June 10,” said Acting Port Director Steven Bronson. “We require all commercial and oversized vehicles, including vehicles towing a boat or trailer, to use an alternate route to avoid any unnecessary delay during this final stage of construction. We thank the public for their cooperation and understanding as we work to improve the facility at this location," Bronson said.
Drivers of commercial vehicles can enter the U.S. at the Champlain Port of Entry further west by taking Quebec 202 west to Route 15 south.
Oversized vehicles and vehicles with something in tow may use the Overton Corners and Champlain ports of entry. Overton Corners is 1.5 miles away from Rouses Point and is the closest alternative. When approaching Rouses Point from Canada on Quebec 223, travelers can head west on Quebec 202, then south on Quebec 221 to arrive at the Overton Corners Port of Entry.
CBP will provide another update when the construction project is complete.
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Welcome to HFCville!
Explore where HFCs are commonly used and where lower GWP substances and alternative technologies are readily available. Click on the pins to discover where HFCs can be replaced to reduce emissions and overall impact on climate.
Developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in support of the partnership with the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC)
ENTER THE VILLAGE
Reducing HFCs in Everyday Applications
About HFCville
Global Warming Potentials
Hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, are man-made greenhouse gases that are used as replacements to ozone depleting substances (ODS) in a variety of commonplace applications such as refrigeration and air conditioning. These chemicals have global warming potentials (GWPs) that are approximately 100 to 4,500 times greater than carbon dioxide (CO2). Although HFCs currently represent a small portion of total greenhouse gases (i.e., less than one percent), their emissions are rapidly increasing in response to the continued phaseout of ODS and the increasing demand for products that have traditionally relied on ODS, particularly in developing nations. Left unabated, emissions of HFCs are projected to increase nearly twentyfold in the next three decades. 1
HFCville is an interactive application that illustrates where HFCs are commonly used and where lower GWP substances and alternative technologies are readily available. Click on items in HFCville to learn more about where HFCs can be replaced to reduce emissions and overall impact on climate. Hover over the icons in the pop-up boxes for each substance to find information on the use of the substance, the U.S. EPA SNAP program status, and the GWP.
1 U.S. EPA. 2014. Recent International Developments Under the Montreal Protocol: 2014 North American Amendment Proposal to Address HFCs under the Montreal Protocol. Available at http://www.epa.gov/ozone/intpol/mpagreement.html
Aqueous Cleaning A not-in-kind technology that involves a multi-staged process of washing with a water-based cleaning solution and specialty designed equipment to remove contaminants.
Available An agent or technology is defined as available if its use is technically feasible. Although technically feasible, some low-GWP options may not be economically or legally available in some regions.
Cascade System A type of multiplex rack system consisting of two independent refrigeration systems that share a common cascade heat exchanger.
Centralized Direct Expansion System A type of multiplex rack system in which the compressor racks are located in a central location such as machine room.
Charge size The quantity of refrigerant in a system.
Chiller A type of air conditioning system that removes heat from water which is then used to remove heat from the cooling air.
Cold Storage Refrigerated warehouses and cold store rooms used to store meat, produce, dairy products, and other perishable goods.
Condensing Unit System A type of [remote system]79) that consists of one or two compressors, one condenser, and one receiver assembled into a single system, which is linked to remotely-located cases and coolers through a piping network.
Cryogenic System A refrigerated system, also referred to as an "open-loop" system, used in refrigerated transport applications that cools cargo by injection of stored liquid carbon dioxide or nitrogen to the cargo space or evaporator.
Dehumidifier A type of refrigerated appliance used to remove water vapor from ambient air.
Distribution Direct Expansion System A type of multiplex rack system in which the compressor racks are located close to the cases and coolers that they serve.
Dry Powder Inhaler A non-pressurized, small, portable delivery system that contains a micronized dry powder and drug agent, which is inhaled by and deposited in the lungs of patients suffering from asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Electronics Cleaning The process of removing contaminants such as flux residue and handling soils and particulates from electronics or circuit boards after a soldering operation.
Eutectic Plates A refrigeration technology used in refrigerated transport applications that uses a frozen salt solution to remove heat from the environment as it melts.
Extruded Polystyrene Boardstock A type of extruded polystyrene foam, it is one of the most common kinds of rigid boardstock foams, used primarily for floor, wall, and roof insulation due to its moisture-resistant properties.
Foam A material consisting of either discrete or connected cells (i.e., bubbles) that is used in insulating applications (e.g., refrigerated appliances and buildings) or non-insulating applications (e.g., life vests, buoys furniture, and shoes), respectively.
Foam Blowing Agent A substance used in chemical or physical processes to generate gas expansion in a solid substance in order to produce foam.
Global Warming Potential A measure of the total energy that a gas absorbs over a particular period of time (usually 100 years), compared to carbon dioxide. The larger the GWP, the more warming the gas causes.
Hermetic/Semi-Hermetic Vapor Compression System A type of system used in refrigerated transport applications that uses a hermetic (i.e., welded shut) or semi-hermetic (i.e., sealed but not welded) compressor.
Industrial Process Refrigeration Complex, customized refrigeration systems used in the chemical, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, and manufacturing industries.
Intermodal container A refrigerated container that allows for uninterrupted storage in refrigerated transport applications, including railways, road trucks, and ships.
Metal Cleaning The process of removing contaminants such as cutting oils, grease, or metal filings from metal parts.
Metered-Dose Inhaler A pharmaceutical aerosol device that contains a drug agent and a propellant, the latter of which delivers the drug into the lungs of patients suffering from asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Motor Vehicle Air Conditioning (MVAC) System An air conditioning system that provides comfort cooling to the passenger compartment in a moving vehicle.
Multiplex Rack System A type of remote refrigeration system that consists of racks of multiple compressors and other components, which are linked to remotely-located cases and coolers through a piping network.
No Clean Technology A not-in-kind technology that involves low-solids solder fluxes or pastes and controlled inert atmospheres, negating the need for the cleaning of electronic assemblies.
Non-Metered-Dose Inhaler Aerosol Propellant Appliances that use liquefied or compressed gas to propel active ingredients in liquid, paste, or powder form in precise spray patterns with controlled droplet sizes and amounts.
Not-In-Kind Technologies, processes, or substances that can achieve the same product objective without the use of ozone depleting substances or greenhouse gases, typically by using an alternative approach or unconventional technique.
Polyurethane Boardstock A type of rigid foam that is applied as a layer spanning across a surface for wall, roof, or floor insulation in commercial or industrial buildings.
Polyurethane Continuous Panel A type of rigid foam formed by a continuous process that uses a horizontal laminator to create pre-fabricated foam panels. Typically used as roof and wall insulation, cladding of commercial and industrial buildings, and applications requiring constant temperatures and hygienic environments.
Polyurethane Pipe-in-Pipe A type of rigid foam that is produced in-situ, between a steel pipe and outer casing for insulation.
Polyurethane Spray Foam A type of foam used for insulation that is propelled into cavities through the use of portable application devices; typically used to retrofit roofs or to provide insulation to irregular surfaces.
Precision Cleaning An essential process of cleaning to a specific grade of cleanliness in order for products to maintain their value in technical application and for safe operation in applications such as aircraft production, maintenance, and repair.
Propellant A pressurized liquid used in aerosol products to propel active ingredients in liquid, paste, or powder form in precise spray patterns with controlled droplet sizes and amounts.
Reach-in Freezer and Refrigerator A type of self-contained system whose purpose it is to hold refrigerated or frozen food products.
Refrigerant A substance capable of absorbing heat from one area and rejecting it to another, usually through evaporation and condensation, respectively.
Refrigerated Appliance A piece of equipment designed to store perishable goods at a desired temperature.
Refrigerated Transport Refrigerated ship holds, truck trailers, railway freight cars, and other shipping containers used to move products from one place to another while maintaining necessary temperatures.
Refrigerated Vending Machine A type of self-contained system that is used to hold and dispense goods that must be kept cold or frozen.
Remote System A type of refrigeration system in which the compressor and condenser are located away from the evaporator and/or other parts of the system.
Secondary Loop System A type of multiplex rack system that uses a primary refrigerant to cool a secondary fluid, which is then used to indirectly remove heat from remotely-located cases and coolers.
Self-contained System A type of refrigeration system that integrates all components within its structure.
Semi-Aqueous Cleaning A not-in-kind technology that uses a cleaning solution, often a hydrocarbon/surfactant combination, followed by a water wash and rinse and specialty designed equipment to remove contaminants.
Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) Program A U.S. EPA program established in 1994 to evaluate and regulate substitutes for ozone-depleting substances in accordance with Section 612(c) of the Clean Air Act.
Solvent A liquid substance that is used to dissolve another substance.
Sterilant A substance that kills microorganisms on medical equipment and devices.
Streaming Application The use of a fire extinguishing agent in portable fire extinguishers.
Total Flooding System A system that applies a fire extinguishing agent to an enclosed space, automatically dispersing the agent at a specific concentration to extinguish the fire.
Transcritical System A type of multiplex rack system that uses CO2 as the primary refrigerant and operates at a high pressure to accommodate the low critical temperature of CO2.
UNIDO United Nations Industrial Development Organization
Unitary Air Conditioner A type of air conditioning system that normally includes an evaporator or cooling coil and a compressor and condenser combination.
Water Cooler A type of self-contained system that chills water for drinking.
Window Unit A type of unitary air conditioner that is small, self-contained, and window-mounted.
The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) uses the concept of the global warming potential (GWP) to compare the ability of different gases to trap heat in the The table and GWP spectrum below list all substances referred to within HFCville and shows the GWPs. Hover over a substance in the table to see where it is on the GWP spectrum relative to other substances.4 Alternatively, hover over an item in the spectrum to see which substance it corresponds to. GWPs are also available throughout HFCville where is found.atmosphere relative to carbon dioxide. The higher the GWP, the more effective the substance is at trapping infrared radiation in the atmosphere. HFCville distinguishes high GWP substances and lower GWP alternatives based on the GWP measurement over a 100-year time period, as provided in the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report (AR4).1 For emerging alternatives, blends, and other substances not listed in AR4, HFCville defers to values listed by literature from the U.S. EPA SNAP program,2 and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) 2010 Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion.3
The table and GWP spectrum below list all substances referred to within HFCville and shows the GWPs. Hover over a substance in the table to see where it is on the GWP spectrum relative to other substances.4 Alternatively, hover over an item in the spectrum to see which substance it corresponds to. GWPs are also available throughout HFCville where is found.
Substancea
Ammonia (R-717) 0b
H2O (Water) 0
Water Mist 0b
Steam (Water) 0
Compressed Gases 0-1
Inert Gases 0-1
2-BTP <1b
Fluorinated Ketone <1c
CO2 (R-744) 1
Dimethyl Ether 1
Inert Gas Generators 1
Ethylene Oxide (EtO) 1b
Ethylene Oxide (EtO)/CO2 1b
Propylene (R-1270) 1.8b
Methylal <3b
R-600a 3b
R-290 3.3b
R-441A 3.4b
HFO-1234yf 4b
HFO-1233zd(E) 4.7 - 7b
Perfluorobutyl Iodide (PFBI) <5b
HFO-1234ze 6b
HFO-1336mzz(Z) 9.4b
Cyclopentane <25b
Hydrocarbons <25b
Hydrocarbons/Oxygenated Solvents <25b
Methyl Formate <25b
Pentane <25b
HFE-7200 59
HCFC-123 77
HCFC-225ca 122
HFC-152a 124
HFO-1243zf/R-32/R-134a <150b
HFE-7100 297
HFE-7000 (347mcc3) 575
HFE-347pcf2 580
HCFC-225cb 595
R-450A 604
HCFC-124 609
HFC-32 675
HCFC-141b 725
HFC-365mfc 794
HFC-245fa 1,030
Formic Acid in Blends with HFC-134a <1,430
HFC-134a 1,430
Halon 2402 1,640
HFC-43-10mee 1,640
R-407Cd 1.774
HCFC-22 1,810
R-407Fd 1825
R-410Ad 2088
R-407Ad 2.107
HCFC-142b 2,310
R-422Bd 2.526
HFC-227ea 3,220
HFC-125 3,500
R-404A 3.922
R-507Ae 3.985
R-502e 4,657b
CFC-11 4,750
PFC-5-1-14 9,300
CFC-12 10,900
1 IPCC. 2007. Climate Change 2007: Working Group I: The Physical Science Basis. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M. Tignor and H.L. Miller (eds.) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA. Available at www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch2s2-10-2.html
2 U.S. EPA. 2014. Global Warming Potentials and Ozone Depletion Potentials of Some Ozone-Depleting Substances and Alternatives Listed by the SNAP Program. Available at www.epa.gov/ozone/snap/subsgwps.html. Factsheets, and other resources (e.g., SNAP regulations) also used as a source for GWPs if the compound is not available in AR4.
3 World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2010. Global Ozone Research and Monitoring Project-Report No. 52. Available at www.wmo.int/pages/prog/arep/gaw/ozone_2010/documents/Ozone-Assessment-2010-complete.pdf
4 The GWP spectrum has limited functionality in Internet Explorer 10. Please use a different browser to use the GWP spectrum.
a The nomenclature 'R' is typically used to designate chemical compounds and chemical compound blends used as a refrigerant. For example, R-22 is synonymous with the use of HCFC-22 as a refrigerant and R-142b with the use of HCFC-142b as a refrigerant.
b Source: U.S. EPA 2014.
c Source: WMO 2014.
d A refrigerant blend composed of one or more HFC.
e A refrigerant blend composed of an HCFC and HFC.
GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL DATA (not to scale)
Alternatives to HFCs General Resources | Technical Assessments on Alternatives to HFCs | Declarations and Proposed Amendments
Alternatives to HFCs General Resources
Alternatives to HFCs Fact Sheet, Climate and Clean Air Coalition CCAC 2014 http://www.unep.org/ccac/Portals/50162/PartnersArea/pdf/CCAC%20FACT%20SHEET-HFCs-EN-LR.pdf
Low-GWP Alternatives in Commercial Refrigeration: Propane, CO2 and HFO Case Studies, CCAC 2014 http://www.unep.org/ccac/portals/50162/docs/Low-GWP_Alternatives_in_Commercial_Refrigeration-Case_Studies-Final.pdf
Time to Act to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants, CCAC 2013 http://www.unep.org/ccac/Portals/50162/docs/publications/Time_To_Act/SLCP_TimeToAct_lores.pdf
HFCs: A Critical Link in Protecting Climate and the Ozone Layer, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 2011 http://www.unep.org/dewa/portals/67/pdf/HFC_report.pdf
Guidance on the Process for Selecting Alternatives to HCFCs in Foams, UNEP 2010 http://www.unep.fr/ozonaction/information/mmcfiles/7435-e-foam__.pdf
Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) Appendix 8.A: Lifetimes, Radiative Efficiencies and Metric Values, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2013 https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg1/WG1AR5_Chapter08_FINAL.pdf
Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) Direct Global Warming Potentials, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch2s2-10-2.html
Guidelines for National GHG Inventories: Chapter 7: Emissions of Fluorinated Substitutes for ODS, IPCC 2006 http://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/pdf/3_Volume3/V3_7_Ch7_ODS_Substitutes.pdf
Compendium of Policies Governing HFCs, United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) 2014 http://conf.montreal-protocol.org/meeting/workshops/hfc_management-02/presession/Background%20Documents%20are%20available%20in%20English%20only/OEWG-34-INF4-Add2.pdf
HFC Policy Analysis Report, U.S. EPA 2014 http://conf.montreal-protocol.org/meeting/workshops/hfc_management-02/presession/Background%20Documents%20are%20available%20in%20English%20only/OEWG-34-INF4-Add1.pdf
Fact Sheets on Transitioning to Low-GWP Alternatives, U.S. EPA 2010 http://www.epa.gov/ozone/intpol/mpagreement.html
Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) Program, U.S. EPA NA http://www.epa.gov/Ozone/snap/index.html
Global Mitigation of Non-CO2 GHGs: 2010-2030, U.S. EPA 2013 http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/Downloads/EPAactivities/MAC_Report_2013.pdf
Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion, World Meteorological Organization (WMO) 2010 http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/arep/gaw/ozone_2010/documents/Ozone-Assessment-2010-complete.pdf
Technical Assessments on Alternatives to HFCs
TEAP Report: Decision XXIV/7 Task Force Report September 2013, UNEP 2013 http://ozone.unep.org/Assessment_Panels/TEAP/Reports/TEAP_Reports/TEAP_TaskForce%20XXIV-7-September2013.pdf
Report of the Refrigeration, Air Conditioning, and Heat Pumps Technical Operations Committee (RTOC): 2010 Assessment, UNEP 2010 http://ozone.unep.org/Assessment_Panels/TEAP/Reports/RTOC/RTOC-Assessment-report-2010.pdf
Report of the Halons Technical Options Committee (HTOC): 2010 Assessment, UNEP 2010 http://ozone.unep.org/Assessment_Panels/TEAP/Reports/HTOC/HTOC-Assessment-Report-2010.pdf
Rigid and Flexible Foams Report (FTOC): 2010 Assessment, UNEP 2010 http://ozone.unep.org/Assessment_Panels/TEAP/Reports/FTOC/FTOC-2010-Assessment-Report.pdf
Chemical Technical Options Committee (CTOC): 2010 Assessment, UNEP 2010 http://ozone.unep.org/Assessment_Panels/TEAP/Reports/CTOC/CTOC-Assesssment-Report-2010.pdf
Medical Technical Options Committee (MTOC): 2010 Assessment, UNEP 2010 http://ozone.unep.org/Assessment_Panels/TEAP/Reports/MTOC/MTOC-Assessment-Report-2010.pdf
Special Report: Safeguarding the Ozone Layer and the Global Climate System, IPCC and the Montreal Protocol's Technology and Economic Assessment Panel (TEAP) 2005 http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/special-reports/sroc/sroc_full.pdf
Declarations and Proposed Amendments
Handbook for the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, UNEP 2012 http://ozone.unep.org/Publications/MP_Handbook/MP-Handbook-2012.pdf
Proposed Amendment to the Montreal Protocol submitted by Canada, Mexico and the U.S., UNEP 2015 http://conf.montreal-protocol.org/meeting/oewg/oewg-35/presession/English/OEWG-35-3E.pdf
Proposed Amendment to the Montreal Protocol submitted by the Federated States of Micronesia, UNEP 2015 http://conf.montreal-protocol.org/meeting/oewg/oewg-36/presession/English/OEWG-36-6E.pdf
Kiruna Declaration, Arctic Council Secretariat 2013 http://www.arctic-council.org/index.php/en/document-archive/category/5-declarations?download=2231:all-arctic-council-declarations-1996-2013
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