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In 'Columbus,' John Cho Reckons With His Own First-Generation Culture Clash
Fresh Air | By Ann Marie Baldonado
John Cho's film credits include Harold in the raunchy Harold and Kumar comedies and Sulu in Star Trek Beyond.
John Cho sometimes has a hard time taking life in Hollywood seriously. The actor was born in South Korea but grew up in the United States, and he says his experiences are vastly different from the deprivation his father saw as a child in what is now North Korea.
"My dad tried to eat [tree] bark, he was so hungry," Cho says. "Whenever I'm on my way to a premiere or something, I always have a good laugh in the car ... because it's all so absurd — I'm one generation removed from starvation."
Cho's new film, Columbus, explores the cultural chasms that exist between different generations of immigrant families. His character, Jin, travels from Seoul, South Korea, to Columbus, Ind., after his estranged father falls into a coma there. Jin feels obligated to come to his father's bedside, despite the fact that they haven't spoken in years.
Cho says he's close to his family, but he understands how complicated issues of family and obligation can be. He says the film "felt like it was an unwelcome reflection of my own life. Immigrant children have to deal with this clash of cultures, what's expected from their parents [and] from this culture that they didn't grow up in."
On moving from South Korea to the U.S. as a child
I remember it. I was young enough ... where I could learn the language pretty quickly. And as a kid you're very adaptable, but I remember being traumatized going to that first day of school and not knowing the language. I mean, it's just crazy to think about now because I have children of my own and thinking about dropping my kid off at a school where he didn't know how to communicate with anyone, he couldn't tell if he was hurt, he wouldn't be able to express that. On the other hand, I learned how to swim, that's for sure.
On how absorbing American culture led to clashes with his parents
I remember reading, as a kid, a Judy Blume book, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, and I remember reading Peter, the main character, was told, "Go to your room!" by his parents. And he said, "Be glad to!" and stormed off to his room. And I thought, Wow. That was cool!
And I was told that by Korean immigrant parents — "Go to your room!" — one night, and I pulled that out of my hat and said, "Be glad to!" and promptly received a thrashin', a full-on beat down. ... I've been thinking about that in some form, this cultural disconnect between parent and child, all my life.
On how his family's frequent moves helped prepare him for acting
I've often reflected that ... the trauma that I'm trying to master by being an actor is this central trauma of being a new kid, being unable to speak. ... The scariest thing is to go into a new situation for myself, and yet I have a job where I do that every few months, meet a hundred new people and then have to perform in a very highly pressurized environment. And why would I do that to myself? You'd think I would avoid it. But I think I'm trying to probably master it by leading this nomadic, itinerant lifestyle. Essentially, I'm moving and going to new schools every few months.
On what his parents thought of him pursuing a career in the arts
I think my parents were surprisingly cool with me entering the arts. Although, I think they thought it was going to be a phase and they didn't expect me to actually stick with it, and rightfully so. They were concerned whether I could afford groceries, being an actor.
But I've said this before: I feel like immigrants sometimes — they're such risk-takers. Because I can't imagine moving to another country. They're pioneers; they're cowboys. And yet they often encourage really conservative choices from their children, which makes sense.
And then on the other hand, I sometimes wish immigrant parents would talk about happiness more with their children, and the pursuit thereof, because they're guilty of pursuing happiness as well. I think that's the problem: They feel guilty about pursuing their happiness, so they frame it in terms of duty and obligation. And they said, "We came here for your education," which I'm sure is true, but I think it's also true they wanted to be happy elsewhere.
On avoiding projects in which Asian characters are the butt of the jokes
Early on I just started saying, "I don't want to go in for those." And I had no right to [say that] — I had no experience, had no standing in the business, as it were, but it struck me as not worth it to do that. So I just tried to say no to those auditions. ...
But I remember very early on — I can't remember what job it was — being asked to do something that I was slightly uncomfortable with politically in that sense. ... I think it was laughing at an accent or something like that. ... But what people don't really see is when you perform that, particularly back in the day, there are no other people of color on set. It was all white men laughing at this joke about Asians. And I remember thinking, This feels terrible. This feels wrong and I don't ever want to feel this again. And so I've tried my best to avoid those situations.
On the first time he read the script forHarold and Kumar Go to White Castle
It was really funny, really clever, really raunchy, but really funny and smart, and it said things about race that were funny to me and that were insightful. It was very insightful and it pushed back against certain stereotypes, and I liked that. ...
A little tidbit: There was stuff in the movie that didn't quite make the cut. [The directors] had written in more verbiage about being Korean and being Indian. They wrote that stuff with a heavy hand, because they were afraid that an executive at some point would try ... to change the characters' race to white. And so they felt, as a defensive measure, that it would be wise to put as much cultural data in the script as possible, so people wouldn't get that idea.
Lauren Krenzel and Therese Madden produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Nicole Cohen adapted it for the Web.
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Ann Marie Baldonado is an interview contributor and long-time producer at Fresh Air with Terry Gross. She is currently Fresh Air's Director of Talent Development. She got her start in radio in 1997 as a production assistant at WHYY and joined Fresh Air in 1998. For over 20 years, she has focused on the show's TV and film interviews. She became a contributing interviewer in 2015, talking with comedians, actors, directors and musicians like Ali Wong, Kumail Nanjiani, John Cho and Jeff Tweedy. In 2020, Baldonado hosted the limited-run podcast Parent Trapped, about the struggles of parenting during the pandemic. She talked to Julie Andrews about encouraging creativity in your kids, and comedian W. Kamau Bell about what to watch with them.
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Executive Insight: Timing Is Everything
How to market emerging tech interfaces and not scare consumers
Jason Cottrell, Founder and CEO of Myplanet ⋅ Published: November 25, 2020 ⋅ Updated: November 30, 2020
As unpredictable as it has been, we can say one thing for 2020: the upheaval of this year has cemented the need for a seismic shift to digital solutions. Organizations that began the transition to digital before the pandemic hit navigated through it far better than those operating with more traditional approaches alone, and across industries and verticals there has been a pivot in operations to find more flexible, tech-enabled solutions to how to do business.
Jason Cottrell, Founder and CEO, Myplanet
Because of this, businesses are seeing in real time how shifts in operations can offer long-term benefits. But while organizations everywhere are being won over by what a full digital transformation has to offer, consumer buy-in is the hook on which the success of these initiatives hangs. How can your business get customers on board with the upgrading and updating that will ensure efficient, effective operations going forward? Read on to find out.
Prioritize Customer Value
One factor often overlooked when calculating the business value of a tech change is how the perceived value of that change for your customers. If it's not helping them accomplish a goal, overcome their pain point, or meet their needs, they'll resist it, and your business will suffer. You cannot improve your business without improving things for your customers, and to do that you need two things:
1) Understand the value the change offers them
2) Understand what they'll be trading off to gain that value
Our twice-annual Robots Among Us survey measuring consumer comfort with new and emerging technologies has shown that how we frame a new implementation has a significant impact on consumer readiness for it.
In some instances, the value of the whole experience helps paint a more desirable picture for consumers than the individual elements convey on their own. Geofencing and video tracking, the technologies that enable checkoutless shopping, make consumers wary, but they are interested in the convenience checkoutless shopping offers. Because the stakes here are everyday inconveniences being faced regularly and not life or death, seeing the whole picture is encouraging instead of daunting.
In other settings, however, the whole experience can be too much to take in. Fully autonomous vehicles are met with a lot of resistance—for most people, driving doesn't pose a high enough level of perceived inconvenience, so putting their lives solely in the hands of robots is too much. That's where introducing smaller pieces of the experience to build up to the whole can be helpful. Lane and parking assistance are quickly becoming part of the expected driving experience, and as consumer mindsets warm up to the capabilities of AI-powered driving, more autonomous functions will be added.
On the surface, these seem like opposite findings. Checkoutless shopping showcases the whole experience whereas self-driving cars are currently only showcasing a part. But in reality, both are rooted in understanding what is and isn't providing value for the consumer. It all comes back to those essential questions outlined above: what goals, pains, and needs are being addressed, and how important are they to consumers versus what's being lost. Framing is everything.
Include the Employee Experience
Another key factor in ensuring a new implementation is successful is the employee experience. As important as customer buy-in is, a workforce that can make use of the new tools and feel empowered by them is just as important to the success of a new implementation—especially when it comes to selling the experience to the world.
Employee and customer experiences are inextricably linked, which means a big part of winning customers over to new experiences is having vocal support from your internal users. Again, it's important to look at the goals, needs, and pains of the people being impacted by these changes—in this case, employees—but in addition to that, you need to align your overall vision with that of the individuals.
Bringing staff on board with the changes isn't just about ensuring they can do their jobs. It's about making them feel like part of the transition and helping them understand the benefits of these changes, so they become ambassadors and champions of this new experience. If you can turn your internal team into passionate advocates, they'll encourage customers to embrace the new mode of operation as well. And what's more, when you encounter the inevitable bumps and challenges new systems bring, they'll help smooth things over with uncertain customers who balk in the face of change.
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Keep Humans and Bots Distinct
One final thing we've learned very clearly from our Robots Among Us survey is that in nearly all circumstances and use cases, consumers do not like when a robot is made to seem too human. The uncanny valley effect is real, and it plays out on how consumers interpret and accept new technology.
Take, for example, package delivery. When shown a robot with no specific human characteristics, respondents were tentatively on board. But when asked about a bipedal, upright, human-like robot, people immediately bristled and rejected the concept. (They bristled at robots that looked like dogs too, though not quite as much.)
It happens across the board, in almost every category. Humanoid robot-nurses and helpers are reviled (67% and 55% discomfort, respectively). Smart speakers are welcome, but smart assistants with faces and more human-like characteristics are given the cold shoulder (51% discomfort). Even robot hotel concierges faced a more than 50% rate of dislike. The long and the short of it is this: If you're implementing a new technology that could have human-like characteristics, best not to. People want their robots to be robots and their humans to be humans. Too close for comfort, and the masses go running.
Whether your industry has historically been at the forefront of tech or lagging far behind, the winds of change have been blowing for a long time, and the pandemic came in like a tempest to speed things along. In five to ten years, every industry will have been reshaped by upheaval that started before COVID hit and will continue long after it. The only question remains: how are you addressing the changes?
Jason Cottrell is Founder and CEO of Myplanet, a software studio that provides solutions to companies such as Uber, Google, Delta, Salesforce, and more.
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Cha Cha Hut in Roxbury destroyed by fire
By Lissa Harris, Wed, 5/26/2010 - 3:46 pm
The rear of the building at 2310 Bridge Street that housed the Cha Cha Hut was gutted by fire early this morning.
Just opened in January, the Cha Cha Hut in Roxbury was already well on its way to becoming a beloved local institution. But around 2am this morning, the little BBQ restaurant on Bridge Street went up in flames – along with all the future plans of its owners, Frank and Cherie Davis.
Reached at their home in Roxbury earlier today, the Davises were despondent. Around midnight, Cherie said, she shut the smoker down for the night and left the restaurant. Three hours later, they got a call telling them the building was in flames.
"It was pretty much out by the time we got there," said Frank. "I've pretty much been in a depressive coma since then."
Neighbor Bill Buccheri, who lives across the street, said he was the first to call 911. When he saw smoke coming from the building, he said, he wasn't alarmed at first. "I thought they were smoking meat for Memorial Day weekend," he said. But by 2am, the fire had begun to consume the building. "I heard a whoosh – that was apparently the windows blowing out. At that point the rear of the building was fully involved."
The formerly bright and cheerful counter of the Cha Cha Hut.
Today, with the fire extinguished, the rear of the building was a mass of charred timbers. Inside, the walls and kitchen were warped and blackened with smoke. The building next door, which holds the Public Lounge and a small office space, appeared undamaged except for a broken window.
Allen Hinkley, chief of the Roxbury Volunteer Fire Department, said the cause of the fire had not yet been determined.
"It's still under investigation. The insurance inspectors are looking into it," he said. "We do know it started in the rear of the building."
It was too soon to say whether or not they would try to reopen the Cha Cha Hut, the Davises said.
"We would love to reopen at some point," Cherie said. But without their commercial kitchen, and without their specially ordered BBQ smokers – which, she said, take a minimum of ten weeks to commission – they have few options. "We're basically down for the summer, unless the small smoker can be saved."
"The problem is, if they don't want to rebuild that space, we've got nowhere to go," Frank added.
The Davises had leased the building from the Roxbury Bridge Street L.L.C., an enterprise with several owners. (The Watershed Post has not yet been able to reach manager Joe Piasek.) Frank said the couple, who had built the fledgling business largely with sweat equity, had lost everything in the fire.
The facade is relatively unscathed.
"It's not like we were sitting on a pile of cash. We were operating month to month. We were making enough to pay the bills. Everything was razor thin," he said. "We basically have no money, except what will come in from the insurance."
The Davises had been planning to host a benefit for the Roxbury Fire Department this Sunday, with live music and a party at their riverfront picnic tables.
"The irony of that is not lost on us," said Frank.
Smoke damage on the wall inside the restaurant.
Though hardly a day has elapsed since the fire, the community is already rallying around the Davises. The restaurant's Facebook page is rapidly filling up with offers of help from friends.
"It's always sad to see a business go down. We need all the businesses we can get in the community. Hopefully they'll get back up and running," said Hinkley.
Peg Ellsworth, director of the MARK project, said there was an effort afoot to reorganize the planned Sunday event with the Roxbury Fire Department as a benefit for the Davises.
Greg Henderson, who owns the nearby Roxbury Motel with his partner Joseph Massa, offered his sympathy.
"We're obviously upset, and it's very tragic. We're concerned for Frank and Cherie," he said. "We lost our house to fire, and we know how devastating that can be."
Update: The Roxbury Arts Group will host a joint benefit for both the Cha Cha Hut and the Roxbury Fire Department this Sunday, from 1:30pm to 4:30pm, in the Hilt Kelly Hall at the corner of Route 30 and Vega Mountain Road. Featuring music by the Horseshoe Lounge Playboys; bring donations and/or a dish to pass potluck style.
Note: This post was updated with additional reporting at 10:15pm on May 26.
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Lighting the night brings holiday cheer for passers-by
Samantha McDaniel-Ogletree, smcdaniel@myjournalcourier.com
Published 4:46 am CST, Wednesday, December 25, 2019
Keith McNeece
Photo: Samantha McDaniel-Ogletree | Journal-Courier
Keith McNeece admits he has an addiction to Christmas lights — an addiction that has helped him bring joy to drivers and children passing by his South Church Street residence.
"I have upwards of 20,000 lights at the current moment," McNeece said.
Of those 20,000-plus lights, he has between 12,000 and 15,000 decorating his house and yard at 636 S. Church St.
"When I started this year, I had more, but some didn't work," he said.
McNeece was the winner of the Journal-Courier's Light Up the Night Christmas display contest, selected by online voters.
While honored that he was picked by readers, McNeece said he doesn't create the display for the recognition.
"When I get out here at night and people start stopping and you see the smiles on their faces, or the kids' faces as they see Santa on his sleigh, that is what we do it for," McNeece said. "It's something we enjoy doing."
From a Christmas tree made of lights atop his porch roof to Mickey Mouse, Santa and Rudolph, McNeece's yard has a little bit of everything.
McNeece has been taking the time each year for the past two decades — at least — to decorate his home or his parent's home in Christmas lights and displays.
"It's grown more and more each year," he said.
McNeece said his display is usually something he plans throughout the year and, with the help of his family, crafts and develops in time to light up the night throughout December. This year it took McNeece and his family just more than a month to put up the display.
"It's an all-year thing for me," McNeece said. "I am constantly thinking, 'Where can I hang lights?' 'Where can I put this?' My wife helps and I get her opinion on things and she'll tell me yes or no if she thinks it'll work."
While crafting the displays, he sometimes doesn't know how it'll turn out, he said.
"I could sit down and plan it out but, when I'm out here, it just depends on how I feel as it comes out," he said.
McNeece said his display will be up through mid-January so people can continue to enjoy the lights if they have been unable to drive by before now.
Though the display is big this year, McNeece hopes to expand his display and use it to help collect toys next year, he said. McNeece's cousin helps with Operation Christmas Hope and McNeece hopes to put out a box next year to collect toys for the program, he said.
He intends to continue to do his displays each year, he said.
"Some people like to go to the movies when the weather is cold; I like to be out here putting Christmas lights up," he said.


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On 30th April, the trailer was released for the new live-action animated superhero comedy movie called Sonic the Hedgehog, directed by Jeff Fowler (writer and director of Gopher Broke, a computer-animated short film) and starring Ben Schwartz, best known for portraying the fictional character Jean-Ralphio Saperstein on Parks and Recreation, as the titular hedgehog; Jim Carrey as a scientist called Dr Ivo Robotnik who is determined on world domination at all costs; and James Paul Marsden playing as a local sheriff who becomes a friend to Sonic.
The live-action film is set to debut on 8 November 2019, and it's going to place the animated Sonic character in the real world. Notably, it's the first big studio feature for Jim Carrey since Dumb and Dumber 2, which was released in 2014 by Universal. The Canadian-American actor has since made an appearance in indie projects such as Showtime's Kidding, Dark Crimes (a detective drama film that was released in 2016) and The Bad Batch, a black comedy thriller film released in theatres on 2017 by Neon.
About Sonic the Hedgehog Character
It's the title character as well as the protagonist Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog game series plus many animations, spin-off comics and other media. The blue anthropomorphic hedgehog can run at supersonic speeds, then curl into a ball to attack enemies. The allies of Sonic the Hedgehog include Amy (fast and strong and has a natural ability for weaponised hammers), Knuckles (a powerful echidna who has spiked hands) and Tails (a 2-tailed fox with flying capabilities),
The main antagonist in the series is Dr Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik who uses robotic inventions to try to dominate the world (he does this by trying to use Chaos Emeralds, 7 emeralds that have mystical powers). GameDaily, a popular villain, ranked him in the first position in their Top Twenty-Five Evil Masterminds of All Time list. IGN, which was formerly Imagine Games Network, included this character in their list of Top Ten Most Memorable Villains.
About Sonic the Film
It's a joint venture between an American and Japanese company, distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation, an American film studio located in Hollywood, California. In 2013, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) had acquired the rights of producing as well as distributing a film based around Sonic, and in 2014, they announced a joint venture with Marza Animation Planet, a Japan-based computer-generated imagery animation studio that makes full-length feature films. Paramount Pictures Corporation had acquired the rights of the film with little sudden change in the production plans were already existing.
Paramount Pictures is hoping that this film will be successful and fund a range of related films for this year's Thanksgiving season. The initial reception of the film at CinemaCon and also elsewhere had been somehow spotty for the alteration of Sonic's appearance in the film when compared to the real appearance in the video games. For instance, he was given photorealistic fur. Paramount Pictures has a stacked film that's slate this fall, with Terminator: Dark Fate (1st November), sci-fi Gemini Man (starring Will Smith to be released on 11th October), and Blake Lively's The Rhythm Section (22nd November) also appearing this fall.
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Hm, this is a tough one. It's an ep that will not be played very often in this household but I don't want to tear it down either. I mean, the fact that this is a genre I don't really listen to (or like), doesn't make this a bad album, on the contrary. Besides, the opening track is pure genius, a potential smash hit that will get this band on loads and loads of main stages in the near future. For a reviewer, it's difficult to write about these albums, but I'm going to anyway.
Fallen Eight is a French band, formed in 2011. One year later, they started playing this material on several stages in France and now they seem ready to take their music abroad. In that, I can only agree. It's music for live performances, music with a lot of energy, dynamics and aggression. I can easily see audiences far and wide go nuts on this and perhaps I'd be nuts about it too when I hear it live.
So, you might ask, what is my problem with it? Well, to be honest, I'm not into metalcore and the metalcore influences definitely shine through on most of the tracks. 'Come From The Sky' and 'Final Shot' are harsh, aggressive pieces of work, enhanced by an alternation of clean vocals and brutal screams. I know, there's more to this than metalcore. I'm often reminded of plenty of bands in the metal scene, including Machine Head, Slipknot and Linkin Park.
Like I said earlier, 'Reborn' is an absolute killer, a masterpiece of melodic metal and certainly my favorite track on this ep. 'Light' comes very close and closer 'Worst Nightmare' could be the entrance theme for a wrestling superstar. Yes, Fallen Eight have a very modern style, often even reminding me of the methodical industrial approach of Fear Factory, mainly in the drums. That's obviously a huge plus.
The verdict? Well, I'm going to go ahead and recommend this album anyway, mainly to the metalcore adepts and young metal fans out there. After all, Fallen Eight are pretty damn good at what they do, showing a well-attuned band that can 'Rise & Grow' extremely fast from now on. However, if you check it out, do me and the band a favor and don't just pluck this from the internet in awful MP3 sound. Buy the physical release at a show, support your scene and show some respect.
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too much ice cream shoved in to too small a cone was always going to be trouble. the proprietor pointed out the crack in the cornet before handing it over. then he saw esther struggling so brought her a little tub to put it in to. but the tub was too small so he then brought a plate and a spoon. that's what happens when you are generous to start with. you have to follow it up with more generosity or the whole thing back fires.
let that be a lesson to al of us.
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Mental Madness Project encourages Gunnison Valley to share their mental health stories, shred stigmas
by Brian Wagenaar | May 20, 2022 | Features | 0 comments
Skate night, summer 2021. Photo: Anna Coburn
Back in her late teens and into her early 20s, Maddie McCarthy remembers feeling like something was off: she had bouts of depression that could span weeks, even months, making her life seem more difficult relative to her peers.
"I was always struggling silently," she adds. "I told my partner, but other than that I didn't tell anybody. And I was always looking around at other people being like 'what is going on? Why are these people able to do all these things and they all seem okay and I'm just struggling?"' remembers McCarthy, who has lived in the Gunnison Valley for nearly a decade.
"Growing up, I didn't get the education on mental health that I should have. Like most millennials, I was always anxious…I didn't even know what that word meant [at the time]," she adds, noting that after a while, she turned to a series of more nontraditional, "hippy" solutions in lieu of more conventional mental health treatments, citing a stigma around professional medicine and a desire to heal herself.
She tried exercise, nutrition, blood testing, naturopathy, herbs, supplements, and more, with varying degrees of effectiveness.
"That never was enough, but there were stages where I would feel way better…then I'd always crash," McCarthy recalls. "That went on for about seven years before I got professional help."
McCarthy's experience, and delay in seeking professional care, is not uncommon. Academic studies into mental health have found that the average time lapse between the onset of mental health symptoms and the first contact with professional providers is about 11 years, and some, sadly, will never see a professional.
For McCarthy, she sought help because she was on the verge of losing a job she loved, and her romantic partner of seven years. So she turned to professional care providers, and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
She began counseling with a professional therapist, as well as prescription medication. "My life has drastically changed, and it feels worth living now," she says.
"All those things I did on the natural route, I learned a lot of things that are helpful and help the medication and help with therapy…the big thing is that the medicine made such a big difference in my life."
When McCarthy was suffering in silence, she recalls reading people's stories about their mental health journeys online, and watching them on YouTube.
"People who had the same struggles as me, but they're doing better now. And I was always like 'someday—when I have things figured out—I want to do my part and be another person out there who can show [people] that things can be okay if you work at it and get help,"' she remembers.
That idea first came to fruition with an initial print of t-shirts that read "Mental Health Matters" in the fall of 2020. Since then, the Mental Madness Project has expanded, and now includes a website with links to local and national mental health resources, Maddie's story (and a link for others to share theirs), and an online store selling mental health awareness gear, with a new line of t-shirts coming in next month.
McCarthy says the store's proceeds support the group's events, primarily a weekly skate night on Tuesdays at the Gunnison Skate Park at 6 p.m.
McCarthy at the Gunnison Skate Park. Photo: Jacob Spetzler
"I got really into skating—roller skating and skateboarding—last spring, summer, and fall. We got together every Tuesday, a group of us, and we skated [together] and I would bring mental health resources," says McCarthy of the event's origins.
The skate meetups will now alternate weekly between the Gunnison and CB skate parks. At the last meetup, a live band showed up. "The Gunni park was full with people attending the Mental Madness meet up and to our surprise some friends showed up with amps, drums, guitars, microphones and serenaded us while we skated," says McCarthy.
The group also held a larger event last summer at the Gunnison skate park, complete with music and yoga, that McCarthy plans to bring back this summer.
For McCarthy, the skate nights are a restorative space, an easy way to bring her community together at the same time and place each week.
Left to right: Nanni Richardson, Bailey Stewart, and McCarthy. Photo: Ron Graham
"It's good to be around other people, it's good to get your body moving, and it's good to be outside. Learning new things is [also] good for creating new neural pathways," McCarthy notes, adding that the skate park atmosphere is an open space to all.
Looking ahead, the growing Mental Madness Project is eyeing two big public education projects, the installation of large, trailhead-esque signs at the skate parks and hopefully around town in partnership with other organizations.
McCarthy envisions that the signs can serve as both artistic pieces and information hubs, doling out tips about seeking professional help for mental health, locally available resources, and guidance for supporting community members.
She also envisions an artistic tent installation which would serve as both a welcoming shelter and cozy space for outdoor events, as well as a display for mental health themed canvas art. One of the tent's walls would host a patchwork canvas sewn together in a show of community support.
McCarthy is also excited about the project's Share Your Story campaign, where individuals in the valley can voice their own struggles with mental health in an effort to destigmatize mental health problems and create a more open, welcoming community.
From the project's website:
"Share at any point of your journey. Share if you're just awakening to your problems, in the depth of the darkness, or you've found some balance. We all have something to teach one another no matter where we are. Share as much or little as you like. Share what works for you & what doesn't… Your vulnerability will give others a chance to relate, share suggestions & possibly save someone's life."
McCarthy adds: "We all have a story to share, and you can learn so much from someone and create solidarity and just be an inspiration [to others]…We want our Instagram and our Facebook just full of people's faces with their stories and videos of people talking about mental health."
For McCarthy, a pivotal point in her journey with the Mental Madness Project was meeting her future project partner Bailey Stewart. The two were introduced by a friend when they were both planning similar skate nights in the spring of 2021, McCarthy for Mental Madness, and Stewart for a group of local women. They chose to combine the events, and hit it off right away.
"I feel like I was instantly connected to her, and she connected to the project. Ever since then, she has been extremely supportive," says McCarthy of Stewart, who creates much of the artwork for Mental Madness that you see on the website.
For Maddie, who goes by "Mental Maddie" on the website, the feedback she has gotten on the project has been incredibly affirming, and helps her combat the occasional feeling that her work is not having the desired impact.
"I've heard some stories of people getting on medication and going to therapy, and it's been life-changing [for them]," says McCarthy.
To learn more about the Mental Madness project, you can check out their website, where you can shop their store, share your story, learn more about Maddie and Bailey, and delve into (and donate to) their upcoming education projects.
They are also on Instagram and Facebook, and have a linktree with additional resources. You can find Bailey's art on her Instagram.


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What You Need To Know About Negative Interest Rate Policy
The world's central bankers are continuing to look for a way out of the global debt morass that continues to slow economic growth. Their latest iteration? You guessed it, NIRP, or Negative Interest Rate Policy. Central banks may want to continue looking because this is not likely the way out.
What is NIRP? At the risk of making one's head hurt, it is essentially when central banks (CBs) CHARGE DEPOSITORS, their member banks, for the PRIVILEGE of holding their deposits. WOW! By enacting such a policy, CBs aim to discourage the hoarding of safe assets (bank deposits) and to encourage these funds be lent out into the economy to be spent or invested thereby creating aggregate demand that propels the economy forward. Japan was the latest developed nation to institute NIRP in an effort to combat deflationary pressures. And this effort to suppress interest rates can be seen in government bond markets. Bloomberg reports that today 29% of the developed world's sovereign debt, totaling $7 TRILLION, yields less than nothing. Global investors are now willing to PAY governments for the right to LOAN THEM MONEY.
NIRP may not be the magical elixir CBs believe it to be. One of the unintended consequences of this policy has been to hamper the profitability of the banking system by reducing net interest margins. This challenging environment, coupled with the fact that many of the European banks were not recapitalized to the extent the U.S. banks were after the Great Financial Crisis, creates significant pressure on these institutions. And this pressure in turn causes investors to become skittish about buying or holding the stock or bonds of these institutions, further exacerbating the situation.
But extraordinary monetary policy often leads to even more extraordinary policy. The thought being, if it hasn't worked yet, it's because we haven't done enough of it. Now discussions are turning to banning certain denominations of currency units, for instance the 500 Euro note. Why? The following excerpt from a Financial Times article by Gillian Tett entitled "The Benefits of Scrapping Cash" will explain.
"As rates turn negative, central bankers in places like Switzerland are scrambling to prevent consumers dashing into cash as this not only makes financial transactions less efficient but also makes monetary policy less effective. After all, if people hold physical cash, which, unlike a bank account, is not directly affected by negative rates, the central bankers have less control."
And control is the heart of the matter. In these uncertain times, one thing appears fairly certain. CBs will not relent in their efforts until they achieve their ultimate goal, inflation. Let's all hope they are not too successful.


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Appeal Court okays National Assembly's move to reorder 2019 elections
By Bridget Chiedu Onochie, Azimazi Momoh Jimoh, Oludare Richards (Abuja) and Joseph Onyekwere (Lagos)
• Lawyers hail verdict,accuse FG of impunity
• Tension over 'plot' to reconvene Senate
The Court of Appeal has given the National Assembly the go-ahead with a bill seeking to reorder the sequence of the planned 2019 general elections.In a judgment delivered yesterday, the appellate court invalidated the verdict of the Federal High Court which, in April, stopped the National Assembly from legislating on the sequence of election.
In the unanimous verdict delivered by the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa, it was held that the case of the Accord Party (AP), which led to the judgment of the High Court, was premature at the time it was filed.The appellate court further held that the decision of the High Court in entertaining the suit by the AP amounted to a breach of the doctrine of separation of powers as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Appeal Court consequently nullified the judgment of the lower court.Justice Bulkachuwa described the AP's suit challenging the legality of the powers of the National Assembly on election reordering as an academic exercise, declaring that the party had no power to have instituted the action in the first instance.
Specifically, the Court of Appeal president said the AP failed to establish how its rights and obligations were adversely affected by the election reordering bill of the National Assembly higher than that of the general interest.
The judge further stated that a bill has no legal effect to expose it to being challenged in court on the basis of the violation of the constitution of the country until it has been passed by the two chambers of the National Assembly and assented to by the appropriate authority.
"The constitution does not envisage that a suit would be filed to challenge a bill at the embryonic stage of legislation because it has no binding effect until it has been assented to," Justice Bulkachuwa said.
The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) had written a letter to the Appeal Court, informing it that the move to reorder the election sequence had been stopped by the National Assembly, and thus the appeal overtaken by the action. But the appellate court disagreed that the matter was overtaken by event because the appeal case has life in itself.
Justice Bulkachuwa, therefore, upheld the powers of the National Assembly to legislate on election reordering, and dismissed the appeal of the AP, AGF and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The AP, through its counsel, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), had dragged the National Assembly before the Federal High Court, Abuja, challenging the legality of the powers of the two chambers of the National Assembly to legislate on election reordering for INEC.
Justice Ahmed Mohammed had in his judgment delivered on April 25, prohibited the National Assembly from legislating on election sequence for INEC.The trial court held that INEC, having been established by law, has powers to decide on sequence in which elections in the country are to be conducted.The appeal against the High Court judgment, filed by Joseph Daudu (SAN), has led to the upturning of the lower court's decision by the appellate court.
In separate reactions, some lawyers hailed the judgement.Lagos-based advocate, Chris Okeke, said: "This is a good one. Even when I have not had the privilege of reading the judgment proper, yet it is safe to say that the power of the courts is over acts of the National Assembly and not bills of the National Assembly. "What this means is that only laws passed by the National Assembly and assented to by the president in the exercise of his constitutional powers can attract the attention of the courts. Anything outside of this will mean courts exercising powers that they don't have."
Another Lagos-based lawyer, Dayo Ogunjebe, said the decision had vindicated his insistence that the National Assembly has the powers to reorder election sequence."Yes I maintain that the NASS has the power but we will await the Supreme Court judgment on this. It is indeed a good news. The Federal Government is clearly a government of impunity."
While the verdict was being delivered yesterday, the political atmosphere in the National Assembly became charged following rumour that some All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers were set to forcefully reconvene the Senate.It all began in the morning when some senators, including the Majority Leader, Ahmed Lawan, Hope Uzodinma (APC, Imo) and Yusuf Yusuf (APC, Taraba) were seen gathered in front of the Senate building.
The rumour of plot to forcefully reconvene the senate was peddled last week following a declaration by the presidency that the two-month recess embarked upon by the two chambers of the National Assembly had become a threat to some presidential requests pending before the lawmakers.
But Lawan and the other two senators drove to the Presidential Villa in a bus after about ten minutes of stay at the Senate.It was learnt that one of the issues for which the APC lawmakers are seeking to get the Senate to reconvene is the proposed N242 billion budget for the conduct of the 2019 elections.According to the Standing Rule, only the president of the Senate has powers to reconvene the upper chamber if it becomes necessary to sit on a date different from the date it had earlier adjourned to.
It reads: "Whenever the Senate stands adjourned either to a date fixed by the rule of the Senate or to a date determined in accordance with paragraph (1) of his Rule and it is represented by the leaders of the political parties in the Senate to the President of the Senate that the public interest requires that the Senate should meet on an earlier or a later date or time than that on which it stands adjourned, the president of the Senate may give notice accordingly, and the Senate shall meet on the date and at the time stated in the notice."
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The Clipper Tries: Everett Coffee Crawl
The Clipper features Everett's small-business coffee shops.
Sydney Jackson, Managing Editor of Content|January 13, 2021
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Inside The Loft.
Owning a small business in 2020 was challenging, with pandemic hurdles around every corner. Many business owners hemorrhaged money out of their own pockets to keep their companies afloat while brainstorming ways to take care of their staff and customers. Running a business became increasingly political as Gov. Jay Inslee pushed out mandates that polarized views on the way owners could and should serve their communities.
Thankfully 2021 is here, and widespread COVID-19 vaccination is on the horizon. The Clipper thinks it's a good time to celebrate some of the small businesses that survived the year and provide readers with a local's guide to Everett's coffee shops. Cheers!
Paesano's
2707 Colby Ave | (425) 374-8059 | M-F 6:30-4:30p
Formerly Silver Cup, the community staple and favorite of neighboring Key Bank employees relaunched as Paesano's in August of 2020 after the company acquired the shop a year prior. They serve Vista Clara Coffee, a roastery on Bickford Avenue in Snohomish. The roast profile is medium to dark, with Paesano's signature Milano Blend on the darker end.
Paesano's coffee menu is fairly standard, ranging from americanos to white mochas. They also serve pastries, sandwiches and snack items. When sit-in dining is approved, they have an interior decorator who will make the shop cozy and inviting for guests.
Currently, Paesano's offers take-out and limited outdoor seating.
Nadine's
2908 Wetmore Ave | (425) 263-9090 | M-Sat 8-3:30p
Less than a year old, Nadine's is a coffee shop attempting to beat the odds. Jake Ort, founder and owner, named Nadine's after his late grandmother. "She wanted everyone to belong. Her home was a safe space."
The shop is very personal to Ort. He built many of the features by hand, with the help of his father and grandfather. "That table over there, we built it," Ort said.
Nadine's currently serves a relatively small but creative menu with light roasted coffee from Colibri, a small family-owned roastery in Everett. They have also worked with Velton's, another Everett roastery, and Theory in Redding, California. They've kept the rest of their menu local with Snohomish's Everything Tea and pastries from Everett's Delite Bakery.
Contrary to COVID-19 guidelines, Nadine's offers sit-in dining and masks aren't required, including workers. They also offer take-out.
"I'm not forcing anyone to be here," Ort says on the matter. "People want to be here, and I have several people thanking me every day for providing a space for them to be."
Narrative Coffee
2927 Wetmore Ave | (425) 322-4648 | M-Sun 8-3p
Josh Modisette, manager at Narrative Coffee, is dedicated to the shop's values of quality and hospitality. (Sydney Jackson)
"Quality offered humbly is one of our values, and I think we really stick to that," says Josh Modisette, manager at Narrative Coffee. Narrative opened in 2017 and quickly became a hotspot for coffee lovers, boasting a simple, light roasted coffee menu and chef-crafted seasonal food offerings.
Narrative is a multi-roaster cafe, which means the coffee they serve changes bi-monthly. "We have blind tastings of coffee from all over the world and we collectively decide what coffee to serve."
Product shelves sport coffee gear, merch from local artists and an array of hand-picked bottles of wine. An accessible mini-fridge holds prepared to-go foods from their kitchen, including rolls of their popular chocolate chip cookie dough.
Narrative currently offers take-out, online ordering, curbside pick-up and delivery through Uber Eats.
Cafe Makario
2625 Colby Ave | (425) 439-9596 | M-Sat 8-3p
David Jung opened Cafe Makario over three years ago and has worked nonstop ever since. This tiny shop packs a punch with a vast menu of unique coffee and tea creations and personal touch. Jung roasts his own coffee and caters to every taste from specialty light roast, single origin pour-overs to Nutella lattes.
The cafe's specialty is Dutch coffee, the result of a twelve-hour cold brew method. They use their Dutch coffee in various creative lattes and also sell it as a concentrate.
Cafe Makario offers take-out, curbside pick-up, delivery through Doordash and limited outdoor seating.
The Loft Coffee Bar
1309 Hewitt Ave | (425) 212-9271 | M-Sat 7-3p Sun 8-3p
EvCC student Sjersten Gunn manages The Loft, her family's coffee shop, with her sister, Kayla. "The Loft is our second family," she says. They have served Everett since December 2016.
The Loft is a welcoming space with rustic decor and plenty of room to meet friends or curl up with a good book (when COVID-19 restrictions lift, of course). They serve medium to dark roasted coffee from Fidalgo, a roastery in Burlington, with a standard coffee menu. They also serve smoothies, pastries and various snacks.
Currently, The Loft offers take-out and two outdoor tables for seating.
Bargreen's
2821 Rucker Avenue | (425) 252-3161 | M-F 7:30-4:30p Sat 10-2p
Roasting coffee since 1898, family-owned Bargreen's has served Everett for 120 years. Three Bargreen generations have operated the flagship store and roastery. They also have espresso stands on campus at EvCC and WSU Everett.
"I've been in the coffee business a long time, and this is something special and hard to find," says Kris Maxwell, Bargreen's district manager. "Coffee looked a lot different 120 years ago. There's been a complete evolution, and Bargreens has been through it all."
Over the years the shop has displayed various relics of the past, such as a coffee delivery bicycle. "Coffee is a craft, and we try to stick with traditional, manual operations," Maxwell says. Bargreen's serves a sundry of roasts, from light to dark, and their standard espresso blend is on the darker side.
Bargreen's offers pick-up, delivery through Uber Eats and outside seating.
Bargreen's Coffee Co. has served Everett for 120 years. (Sydney Jackson)
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Did Hedge Funds Drop The Ball On SBA Communications Corporation (SBAC) ?
Published on June 10, 2019 at 8:41 am by Nina Todic in Hedge Funds,News
The latest 13F reporting period has come and gone, and Insider Monkey is again at the forefront when it comes to making use of this gold mine of data. We have processed the filings of the more than 700 world-class investment firms that we track and now have access to the collective wisdom contained in these filings, which are based on their March 31 holdings, data that is available nowhere else. Should you consider SBA Communications Corporation (NASDAQ:SBAC) for your portfolio? We'll look to this invaluable collective wisdom for the answer.
Is SBA Communications Corporation (NASDAQ:SBAC) going to take off soon? Prominent investors are getting less bullish. The number of bullish hedge fund positions retreated by 3 recently. Our calculations also showed that sbac isn't among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
So, why do we pay attention to hedge fund sentiment before making any investment decisions? Our research has shown that hedge funds' small-cap stock picks managed to beat the market by double digits annually between 1999 and 2016, but the margin of outperformance has been declining in recent years. Nevertheless, we were still able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that outperformed the market by 40 percentage points since May 2014 through May 30, 2019 (see the details here). We were also able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that underperformed the market by 10 percentage points annually between 2006 and 2017. Interestingly the margin of underperformance of these stocks has been increasing in recent years. Investors who are long the market and short these stocks would have returned more than 27% annually between 2015 and 2017. We have been tracking and sharing the list of these stocks since February 2017 in our quarterly newsletter. Even if you aren't comfortable with shorting stocks, you should at least avoid initiating long positions in our short portfolio.
We're going to take a look at the fresh hedge fund action surrounding SBA Communications Corporation (NASDAQ:SBAC).
Hedge fund activity in SBA Communications Corporation (NASDAQ:SBAC)
Heading into the second quarter of 2019, a total of 29 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were bullish on this stock, a change of -9% from one quarter earlier. On the other hand, there were a total of 42 hedge funds with a bullish position in SBAC a year ago. So, let's review which hedge funds were among the top holders of the stock and which hedge funds were making big moves.
The largest stake in SBA Communications Corporation (NASDAQ:SBAC) was held by Akre Capital Management, which reported holding $492.2 million worth of stock at the end of March. It was followed by Renaissance Technologies with a $358.3 million position. Other investors bullish on the company included Two Sigma Advisors, Millennium Management, and D E Shaw.
Due to the fact that SBA Communications Corporation (NASDAQ:SBAC) has experienced declining sentiment from the aggregate hedge fund industry, it's safe to say that there lies a certain "tier" of hedgies that slashed their full holdings in the third quarter. At the top of the heap, Matthew Hulsizer's PEAK6 Capital Management said goodbye to the biggest position of all the hedgies watched by Insider Monkey, comprising an estimated $8.1 million in stock, and Eduardo Abush's Waterfront Capital Partners was right behind this move, as the fund dropped about $7.9 million worth. These transactions are important to note, as total hedge fund interest was cut by 3 funds in the third quarter.
Let's also examine hedge fund activity in other stocks – not necessarily in the same industry as SBA Communications Corporation (NASDAQ:SBAC) but similarly valued. These stocks are McKesson Corporation (NYSE:MCK), Realty Income Corporation (NYSE:O), Concho Resources Inc. (NYSE:CXO), and TELUS Corporation (NYSE:TU). This group of stocks' market values match SBAC's market value.
MCK 32 1989051 -12
O 15 175737 -3
CXO 26 530505 -9
TU 13 336110 2
Average 21.5 757851 -5.5
As you can see these stocks had an average of 21.5 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $758 million. That figure was $1659 million in SBAC's case. McKesson Corporation (NYSE:MCK) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand TELUS Corporation (NYSE:TU) is the least popular one with only 13 bullish hedge fund positions. SBA Communications Corporation (NASDAQ:SBAC) is not the most popular stock in this group but hedge fund interest is still above average. Our calculations showed that top 20 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 1.9% in Q2 through May 30th and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by more than 3 percentage points. Hedge funds were also right about betting on SBAC as the stock returned 6.5% during the same period and outperformed the market by an even larger margin. Hedge funds were rewarded for their relative bullishness.
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Scholarship and Public Responsibility
Posted by Gary Herstein in Critical Thinking, Logic, On Bullshit, Public Philosophy
academia, Critical Thinking, Public Philosophy
The title addresses scholarship in general, but I will direct my remarks specifically toward philosophy, as that is the scholarship I am most familiar with.
Certainly it is the case that being a public person is a kind of exposure that is often uncomfortable for everyone. But the issue here is not what makes you cozy, but what fulfills your responsibilities.
In a recent essay in The Guardian, James Mulholland offers what I find to be a deeply flawed argument against the idea of academics taking serious steps to make their work accessible to the broader public. Within my general academic area, this is known as "Public Philosophy." Mulholland insists that, "It is time for us to reassess what we mean by public scholarship. We must recognise the value of the esoteric knowledge, technical vocabulary and expert histories that academics produce." This is in the context of a world where, Mulholland tells us, "Academics are constantly encouraged to engage with the public more often," advice which he rejects because, he insists, "this advice ignores the way that specialised knowledge already affects civic life. Specialisation has social importance, but often only after decades of work."
Hearkening back to a quip by Heinlein, I might also add that, "Specialization is for insects."
Mulholland is setting up a pure "straw man" claim, at best, and arguably no more than a "hollow man" argument. A straw man fallacy is where a person misrepresents the claims of another, and then "refutes" that misrepresentation, never genuinely dealing with the claims which the other actually made. The "hollow man" fallacy has yet to make it into the lists of fallacies taught in Critical Thinking classes, and is due to John Casey, over at The Nonsequitur. This involves, "completely inventing an opponent and an opponent's argument, and then attacking that and claiming victory." As Mulholland provides no citations about who these "others" are that are making the claims he says they are making, it is unclear which kind of fallacy Mulholland is making. But it is clear he is making at least one.
Thus, Mulholland goes on to tell us that, "This attitude (held anonymously by unnamed and uncited persons) towards public engagement presents it as an intrinsic virtue, while perpetuating the idea that professors are brainy introverts unable or afraid to talk to people outside their sphere of expertise. In fact, the opposite is true. The work of an academic is to talk about ideas – in lectures, class discussions, academic conferences and student meetings." (My emphasis.) The last sentence is evidently intended to refute the assumptions in the first part, but clearly nothing of the kind is achieved. Perhaps the backdoor out of the fallacy which Mulholland has given himself is in the the italicized phrase, where he mentions talking TO rather than speaking WITH people. Most of the examples Mulholland offers are, indeed, of talking TO people, and not WITH them. The one exception is when the academic is at a professional conference in which the other people there are engaged as peers with a common, well established, and high level of shared scholarship. So none of what Mulholland offers here undermines the impression of academics as, " brainy introverts unable or afraid to talk (with) people outside their sphere of expertise." That said, it should be added that this entire presentation of the matter is itself highly dubious, since no evidence is actually offered to establish the credibility of the initial hypothesis. So Mulholland fails to refute an assumption of persons who are never identified, and which we've no reason to believe in the first place.
Citing as an example of scholarship which served the public by being sequestered from the public, Mulholland talks about sex studies and how, "Queer theory emerged in the 1980s with the goal of overturning the 1986 US supreme court decision in Bowers v Hardwick, which upheld the criminalisation of sodomy." Mulholland goes on to point out how these studies ultimately contributed to the 2003 reversal of the earlier Supreme court decision, and tells us that, "It would have been difficult to know in 1986 what effect publicity would have on academic debates about the "homo-hetero binary" or the gay subcultures of early-20th-century New York."
Mulholland offers us no reason to believe that this "difficulty" was in any way a real one. In point of fact, we have seen that it is the making public of alternative sexual choices and gender identifications which has made these matters not only subjects of public discussion, but issues with which an increasing number of people are perfectly comfortable with! The question Mulholland ought to be asking is, "How many years did keeping these studies safely hidden from public view did it cost LGBTQ equality?" Even if there is no more basis for answering this question than the question which Mulholland elected to pose, the second question clearly has as much standing as Mulholland's. It is, perhaps, a clue, that the conservative forces who would continue to enforce their vicious bigotries, often do so under the heading that LGBTQ persons should variously "stay in the closet." Keeping the studies private and exclusively "professional," is one way to ensure such enduring closeting.
All of this is to defend a thesis which Mulholland never bothers to make explicit, but is clearly the driving concern of his argument: that there is as strict and exclusive dichotomy between public (and therefore "superficial") scholarship, and private (and therefore "substantial") scholarship. One would be hard-pressed to find a more blatant example of the "either/or" or "false dilemma" fallacy. Mulholland declines to say as much in so many words, but he clearly takes it for granted that one cannot do serious scholarship AND communicate that scholarship to the public. One phrase that comes to mind here is, "stuff and nonsense." Other phrases also come to mind, but they are rather less charitable.
It must surely be perfectly obvious that no such wall between doing BOTH high-end research AND serious public outreach exists? One example that leaps to my mind is that of Stephen Hawking. While I have the profoundest disputes with both his "scientific" conclusions (his mathematics is impeccable, his "science" is empirically vacuous) and his philosophical fantasizations, it remains the case that his mathematical work remained top-notch long after he began popularizing his "scientific" claims. It is a lesson worth taking to heart, not because Hawking is right (he isn't) but it shows how the physicists, and their triumphalist gate-keepers, have "seized the high ground" when it comes to public engagement. Regarding his own scholarly projects, Mulholland acknowledges that, "can't predict which, if any, of these themes will be influential in the coming decades." This, of course, is true for all of us, not just scholars. A couple decides to have a child; should that decision be withdrawn because they cannot predict how this decision will be influential in the coming decades? Studies in the mathematical theory of chaos have demonstrated that infinitesimal movements, well below any measurable presence, can amplify in a non-linear fashion so as to have dramatic and macroscopic results in surprisingly short time-frames: a butterfly flaps its wings in Peking and as a result there is a thunderstorm in New York a month later. Shall I decline to have that second cup of tea, because I cannot predict the (butterfly) effects it will have a month or a century later?
Mulholland concedes that, "Engaging the public is important, but we should not assume that what will be integral to future society is the same as what can be made popular or immediately understandable now." That's true enough, and it might even be interesting if it was in the littlest, little way relevant. Mulholland wants to be relieved of the responsibility of being a public person, because he cannot predict the long, or even short, term consequences of such engagement. As a university professor, Mulholland has voluntarily placed himself as a public person. That is a responsibility, the same as grading your students' papers. The absence of predictable results cuts both ways, and as such is an argument for neither side – it is, in fact, just another version of the argumentum ad ignorantiam. We don't know, therefore we must not act?
BULLSHIT! (A formal, philosophical term.)
We don't know, so the only thing left is to act, and act in a manner that is informed by the best inquiries available to us. The speciously false dilemma between public and private scholarship simply does not exist.
3 thoughts on "Scholarship and Public Responsibility"
(1) John Dewey. A McDermott-ism, as I remember it: "Dewey uses terminology that can be understood by anyone who can read the NY Times". His writing is awkward partly because he did not write and re-write, but also because he uses less jargon. Rather than "jargon_x", he will describe the thing meant by "jargon_x".
(2) James, Royce (the lectures that became "Phil Loyalty" and "Problem of Christianity"…)
(3) Isaac Asimov, implied in first volume of "Foundation": if you cannot explain a bit of technology, then it might as well be magic. It has vanished into a magic fog. I used that for more than 30 years in The Industry: I would repeat what I thought someone had meant to say about a business process or a tech component. If the person could not explain it without using the same jargon, then they did not understand.
(4) Long ago ('87?), Russell Jacoby shocked and awed academics in "The Last Intellectuals". Claimed that "public intellectuals" had declined and that this decline was a bad thing. Jacoby pointed back to the people who wrote for and read Partisan Review, New Republic, The Nation. I was at the Socialist Scholars' Conference that year and attended the session on Jacoby's book. The reaction: "Russell, you just said that I'm not an intellectual". Is Mulholland's essay a reply to Jacoby? A bit late?
(5) The example of research on LGBT issues seems wacky. It suggests something like the good old Leninist model of social process: (a) an elite writes up "doctrine" which is embodied in the correct line. Then (b) the masses "are won" to the correct line. Why should we think that "value-neutral" specialists developed theory that the Supreme Court upheld? Perhaps the specialists did the research because so many people came out? (Which, I think, is what you say. It just seems crackers to say anything else)
(6) Long ago, I tried to make sense of Marxism as it appeared in the US around 1968. Not just the idiotic stuff from Maoists and Stalinists and dogmatic Trotskyists, but all the nifty varieties that followed from George Lukacs ("History and Class Consciousness"). In the middle of an argument about how to "win the workers to socialism" or "a socialist program" or "class consciousness"…meaning "how to bring Marx to "the workers"…I remembered that the working class of England and France made marx into a Marxist. He'd have been any other follower of Hegel except that people had caused such an uproar that even a German student had to notice. No Chartism -> no Marxism. Does Mulholland have a Leninist idea of how ideas do their work?
"(3) Isaac Asimov, implied in first volume of "Foundation": if you cannot explain a bit of technology, then it might as well be magic." — I recall that as Arthur C. Clarke: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
"(4) … Is Mulholland's essay a reply to Jacoby? A bit late?" — Well, even *I* am not reckless enough to presume to speak for J.M. (An irony about the Mulholland name that I'll not go into here, other than to say I feel uncomfortable taking it in vain.) These threads run deep and wide (tedious metaphor). But there was a time when we were public intellectuals first; "academics" did not happen until the advent of the contemporary (not even "modern") university, maybe 200 years ago in Germany.
"(5) The example of research on LGBT issues seems wacky." — "Wacky," like "bullshit," is a technical, philosophical term. Yeah, I found the example profoundly constrained and artificial.
"(6) … Does Mulholland have a Leninist idea of how ideas do their work?" — Not even the littlest particle of a clue on my part. I wouldn't even want to ask the question, except directly to M. What I perceived as the poor reasoning in his article suggests to me that he may not have taken the time or trouble to drill that deep or that subtly into his own argument and reasonings. But perhaps I'm simply being narrow minded.
Thanks for your very careful and thoughtful comments. Sorry I've nothing more to offer than, "IdunnOH"
Incidentally, I thought of both Clarke and Asimov. Yep, I meant to hint at Clarke in the reference to Asimov.


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Thursday, May 12 2005
ISU-developed virtual reality tool works on Apples
VR Juggler, an ISU-developed software tool that makes it easier to build virtual reality systems, now works on Apple computers.
Researchers working on technology to detect WMDs
Robert Lipert has developed a technology that can detect a single spore of simulated anthrax or a single bacterium cell of simulated plague. Now the trick will be to figure out a way to capture and detect a spore or cell in something as big as a city's water supply.
Bloedel will step down from vice provost post
Dr. James Bloedel, who has been Iowa State's vice provost for research since 2000, will leave that position Sept. 1 to return to the professorate and continue his research in the area of motor learning and motor control.
Farmers' markets help economy
Farmers' markets generate an estimated $20.8 million annually in sales and more than 325 jobs for the Iowa economy.
Ahmanson's charge to graduates
"It's up to you to decide where you will dig, how deep and lasting your well will be," writer and philanthropist Roberta Green Ahmanson told gradutes at the May 7 commencement ceremony.
Commencement address.
ISU graduates first doctorate in human computer interaction
Melinda Cerney is the first Iowa State student to graduate with a doctorate in human computer interaction. Iowa State is one of three American universities offering a doctorate in human computer interaction, a program that trains students to understand how humans and computers interact in various environments.
Actuarial tools helps predict sexual offenders' recidivism
Several states are using an Iowa State professor's actuarial tool to help predict whether sexual offenders will relapse into more criminal behavior.
Fire safety goes high-tech
A new fire safety program will use Iowa State's virtual reality facilites to put children in a computer-generated fire. The exercise will be realistic and safe.
New dairy farm plans OKed
Final plans for Iowa State's new dairy farm got the greenlight from the Board of Regents May 5. When completed, the new farm is expected to be among the premiere dairy education and research facilities in the nation.
New facility will be dedicated to academic success
Iowa State students will soon have a new facility dedicated to improving academic achievement and increasing student retention and graduation rates. Donors committed $10 million to establish the center.
71 on promotion, tenure list
The Board of Regents approved tenure, promotions or both for 71 Iowa State faculty on May 5. Twenty-nine faculty were promoted to the rank of professor, 39 were promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure, and three faculty were tenured without promotion.
2005-06 P&T list.
Associate director of teacher ed program named
Veronica Stalker has been named associate director of Iowa State's teacher education program.
Big 12 'Wheel of Fortune'
Tune in to watch Iowa State University student Nicole Clement on "Wheel of Fortune" Thursday, May 19. Clement, a junior majoring in communication studies, is a contestant on the show's Big 12 College Week. "Wheel of Fortune" airs at 6:30 p.m. on WHO-TV (NBC) in central Iowa.
Brand practice
Jay Newell, assistant professor in ISU's Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, says product placement in the movies dates back to 1896, and it's been a part of television from the beginning. "There was never a line between art and commerce," Newell says.
See article.
Not so funny
Baltimore Sun, Orlando Sentinel
Are kids picking up the bad habits they see on TV sitcoms and cartoons? Doug Gentile, assistant professor of psychology at Iowa State, comments
Popability
Retired ISU agronomist and popcorn expert Ken Ziegler says the outer layer of the popcorn kernel (the pericarp) is the key to good popping.
Softball scholars
Cyclones fill 9 spots on Academic All-Big 12 teams, more than any other school.
News story.


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PLAY ON! Power Pop Heroes
By Raspbernie,
September 27, 2014 in Go All The Way
• Milton, DE
"I think the essence of power pop is its transcendent ability to put a smile on your face and make the hair on your arms stand up—That's what it's always done for me." --Eric Carmen
FIRST VOLUME OF KEN SHARP'S "PLAY ON! POWER POP HEROES" SERIES RELEASED
Whether its Raspberries' naughty testosterone-fueled epic "Go All the Way," most recently prominently featured in Guardians of the Galaxy or Badfinger's "Baby Blue," which scored the climactic final scene in the series finale of "Breaking Bad," power pop is feel-good music whose sonic reverberations continue to make an indelible impact on the culture.
In Play On! Power Pop Heroes: Volume One (Jetfighter/$39.97), the just-released first installment of a three-volume series, Ken Sharp honors the musical innovators who built the genre's foundation.
Back in '67, in describing their new single "I Can See for Miles," the Who's Pete Townshend coined the term "power pop," not knowing that the genre would come to take its name from his offhand description. "A Hard Days Night"..."You Really Got Me"..."Glad All Over"..."Feel A Whole Lot Better"..."Pictures of Lily"..."She's Not There"..."Carrie-Anne"..."Walk Away Renee"..."Tin Soldier"..."Happy Together"..."Lies"..."Do Ya"..."Open My Eyes"..."Go All the Way"..."No Matter What"..."September Gurls"...these classic songs share one common thread: they contain all the ingredients that make up a musical form known as "power pop."
From the '60s to present day, power pop music has gone on to mean different things to different people. For some, the term conjures the guitar crunch of Badfinger and Cheap Trick; for some, it's the intricate orchestrated melodicism of the Beach Boys, the Zombies or Jellyfish; while for others it epitomizes the quirky jagged pop tread by acts like Squeeze, XTC and Fountains of Wayne. But the stylistic glue that welds it all together into one thrilling two-to-three-minute musical joyride is a collective reverence for a picture-perfect melody that will take your breath away and a supersonic hook, the size of the Empire State Building, that's near impossible to forget.
Featuring a foreword by Eric Carmen of Raspberries, the 480-page book culls exclusive extended interviews with 20 artists that defined the genre, including members of the Beatles, the Who, the Kinks, the Beach Boys, the Byrds, the Hollies, the Dave Clark Five, the Zombies, Bee Gees, the Turtles, the Left Banke, Small Faces, the Move, Jeff Lynne and others. Also covered in this volume are representatives of the first generation of dedicated acolytes who followed the progenitors' trail: Badfinger, Raspberries, Big Star and Emitt Rhodes.
Track-by track commentary is provided about seminal albums including Pet Sounds (the Beach Boys), There Are But Four Small Faces (Small Faces), The Nazz (Nazz), Side 3 (Raspberries) and Emitt Rhodes (Emitt Rhodes) plus select artist commentary about classic recordings from members of The Zombies, The Turtles, The Hollies, The Knickerbockers and Badfinger.. Illuminating conversations with renowned producers George Martin (the Beatles), Shel Talmy (the Who) and John Fry (Big Star), engineers Geoff Emerick and Ken Scott (the Beatles), and songwriters Tony Asher (the Beach Boys), Graham Gouldman (the Hollies) and Garry Bonner (the Turtles) add to the inside story of this influential genre.
Two additional volumes will be published in 2015.
Acts featured in Volume One:
The Knickerbockers
Jeff Lynne
The Nazz
Emitt Rhodes
Ken Sharp is a New York Times best-selling author who has penned more than 15 music books, contributes to a variety of national music magazines, works on music documentaries and has done liner notes for releases by Elvis Presley, Sly and the Family Stone, Janis Joplin, Small Faces, Santana, Cheap Trick, Raspberries, Eric Carmen, KISS, Hall and Oates, Heart and others. In addition to the Play On! Power Pop Heroes series, his books include Starting Over: The Making of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy, Elvis: Vegas '69, Nothin' to Lose: the Making of KISS (1972-1975), Elvis Presley: Writing for the King, Sound Explosion: Inside LA's Studio Factory with the Wrecking Crew, Overnight Sensation: The Story of the Raspberries, Reputation is a Fragile Thing: The Story of Cheap Trick, Kooks, Queen Bitches and Andy Warhol: The Making of David Bowie's Hunky Dory.
• New Orleans
• Camarillo, Ca.
I'm sure it will be another great read from Ken Sharp!
Ordered mine yesterday - don't forget to order, tick tock kids!!
• Syracuse, NY
The book includes a forward by Eric Carmen. That is a nice writing credit.
• Gotham City
Too bad they couldn't get all those acts together for one of those PBS specials where each group comes onstage and performs one or two of their best hits.
Received my volume one yesterday.
pg. 438 - GATW...conceived on piano and not guitar as most of us here already know...
Eric:
"...Wally Bryson is a brilliant guitarist, a fine singer and wonderful songwriter. His work speaks for itself. He played that incredible intro better than anyone else could have, because I conceived it knowing he was going to play it! And now, he is forever the guitarist that played that magnificent intro on the top five million-selling hit "Go All The Way." To me, that beats Brian Jones' rhythm guitar on "Satisfaction." And that's not too shabby." Very nice, Eric.
Your Foreward mentions power pop's ability to put a smile on your face. You've helped to make me smile for 45 years and that's a rare quality indeed.
Also, I heard Marv's Raspberries - Reflections may be donated to the Cleveland HOF. Can anyone verify that information?
• Hanover, Pa.
Dear c-girl,
Awww, what a sweet post re: "Power Pop" That's a terrific question about Marv's "R's Reflections". I thoroughly enjoyed reading it! Do remember talk of it being donated to the HOF....


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List of Health Benefits From Drinking Natural Juices Extracted From Raw Food
By Paula Martinac
Paula Martinac
Paula Martinac is a nutrition educator, writer and coach. She holds a Master's of Science in Health and Nutrition Education and is Board Certified in Holistic Nutrition. Her areas of research interest include stress and weight management and women's health.
Juicing raw vegetables and fruits can be a valuable addition to an already healthy diet. As with all foods, however, natural juices aren't miracle cures for any medical condition, and the American Cancer Society reports there's no scientific evidence that natural juices are any healthier for you than whole foods. In some cases, you may get more health benefits from eating the whole foods instead of liquefying and drinking them.
Fresh juices can be a healthful addition to your diet.
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Juices Give Your Digestive System a Rest
The benefits derived from drinking natural juices depend, in part, on the type of equipment used to make the juice. Centrifugal-force juicers -- the traditional kind sold in many stores -- remove virtually all of the fiber from the raw foods. Fiber is an important nutrient for digestive health that many Americans already consume too little of. However, this type of juicing may have health benefits for people with impaired digestion. Drinking juices made with traditional juicers gives your GI system a timeout while still providing all the vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients of fresh produce, says Dr. Sears Wellness Institute.
Blended Juices Deliver Fiber
Fresh juice made using a high-speed blender retains most of the fiber of its raw-food ingredients. Because of the fiber content, blended juices provide a slow release of nutrients into your bloodstream and can help you feel full longer. This may assist with your weight-loss efforts, reducing the number of calories you eat overall. It can also help you manage your blood sugar levels, preventing spikes and crashes that can affect your mood and energy.
Juice Ups Produce Intake
Increasing your vegetable and fruit consumption can reduce your risk of high blood pressure, heart disease and cancer. However, only 27 percent of Americans meet the daily recommendation of three or more servings of vegetables, and only a third eat the recommended two servings of fruit per day, according to a 2009 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Juicing helps you consume more vegetables and fruits in a convenient, drinkable form. This boosts your intake of micronutrients and phytonutrients, helping to strengthen your immune system and ward off chronic illness.
Considerations About Natural Juices
If you decide to add natural juices to your regimen, drink the fresh juices directly after they are made for the best health benefits. Natural juices are subject to both bacterial growth and rapid nutrient loss, reports CNCA Health. In addition, fresh juices made primarily from fruit are high in sugar and calories and may defeat your health goals. CNCA Health also warns that juicing too much of certain vegetables, like oxalate-rich leafy greens, can impair kidney health. Eat fresh raw and cooked produce in addition to juicing -- your body absorbs some nutrients, like the beta carotene in carrots, better when the veggies are cooked and not raw.
American Cancer Society: Juicing
Dr. Sears Wellness Institute: Juicing Versus Blending
Fruit and Veggies -- More Matters: Top 10 Reasons to Eat More Fruits and Vegetables
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Majority of Americans Not Meeting Recommendations for Fruit and Vegetable Consumption
CNCA Health: The Real Health Benefits of Juicing
European Journal of Nutrition: Beta-carotene Bioavailability From Differently Processed Carrot Meals in Human Ileostomy Volunteers
How to Juice for Health for the Pancreas
Does Fruit Lose Its Nutritional Value When It's Blended?
Is Juicing Raw Vegetables Good for You?
Can Juicing Cause Diarrhea?
How to Use a Blender as a Juicer
Does Juicing Vegetables Give You the Same Nutrition?


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Warner Bros. Pictures Marks New Studio Record For Fastest Rise To $1 Billion At The International Box Office, Division Crosses Threshold For 12th Consecutive Year
(May 15, 2012 – Burbank, CA) – On the heels of its strong overseas opening of "Dark Shadows" and the momentum of its first quarter releases, Warner Bros. Pictures has surpassed the $1 billion threshold in overseas box office in less than five months, surpassing its 2010 Studio record by ten days. This marks the twelfth consecutive year the Division has grossed over $1 billion overseas, beginning in 2001. The announcement was made today by Veronika Kwan Vandenberg, President, International Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures. The Studio hits this high water mark as it gears up for a full slate of highly anticipated titles later in the year, including Adam Shankman's "Rock of Ages," Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight Rises," Ben Affleck's "Argo," and Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey." The Division enjoyed a strong start early in the year with the continued overseas success of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, which grossed $257 million in 2012 ($357 million total international box office). This was followed by impressive grosses on the 2D and 3D releases of Journey 2: The Mysterious Island ($222 million) and Wrath of the Titans ($218.3 million). Released in some territories day-and-date with the U.S., Dark Shadows has already grossed $37.3 million, with many markets yet to open. Earnings from 3D venues reached $324 million, representing nearly a third of the Division's cumulative gross for 2012. "Our success thus far this year would not be possible without the ingenuity of our filmmakers, and the hard work and dedication of our teams around the world," Kwan Vandenberg said. "These remarkable results demonstrate the continued strength of the international business, particularly in rapidly expanding overseas markets and in 3D." Warner Bros Pictures International has been the market leader in six of the previous 11 years. The Studio has surpassed $1 billion at the international box office a total of 15 times, with four of those years exceeding $2 billion, including 2011. The studio earned $2.87 billion internationally last year, and was the number one studio in Europe. ###


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Home Punjab SAD demands Rs 20,000 per acre relief package for crisis hit potato...
SAD demands Rs 20,000 per acre relief package for crisis hit potato farmers
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today demanded a relief package of Rs 20,000 per acre for distressed potato growers as well as immediate procurement of potatoes for State welfare schemes to save farmers from ruin.In a statement here, former minister Bikram Singh Majithia said the government should give a relief package of Rs 20,000 per acre to potato growers who were experiencing huge losses for the second consecutive year. He said alongside this potatoes could be procured for the mid day meal scheme and included in the aata daal scheme which would ensure a remunerative price to the crisis hit farmers. "Simultaneously the government should direct Markfed and Punjab Agro to procure potatoes as it had been doing in the past".Stating that all these steps needed to be taken immediately without any delay, Mr Majithia the Finance Minister had announced a Price Stabilisation Fund in the last assembly session but now when the time had come to pitch in to stabilise potato prices the government was not lifting a finger. He said besides this the government could give freight subsidy and storage subsidy on the pattern of West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh governments. Mr Majithia said seed potato could also be exported to Pakistan, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka. "If all these steps are are not taken the government alone will be responsible for driving farmers to suicide in despair ", he added.Asserting that the State was staring at a farm crisis, the Akali leader said potato prices had hit a rock bottom of Rs 3 per kilogram. He said in such a situation farmers were unable to recover the cost of production which came to between Rs 6 to Rs 8 per kg after adding harvesting and packing costs. "Many farmers are even putting off harvesting of their crop due to this reason", he added.The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today demanded a relief package of Rs 20,000 per acre for distressed potato growers as well as immediate procurement of potatoes for State welfare schemes to save farmers from ruin.In a statement here, former minister Bikram Singh Majithia said the government should give a relief package of Rs 20,000 per acre to potato growers who were experiencing huge losses for the second consecutive year. He said alongside this potatoes could be procured for the mid day meal scheme and included in the aata daal scheme which would ensure a remunerative price to the crisis hit farmers. "Simultaneously the government should direct Markfed and Punjab Agro to procure potatoes as it had been doing in the past".Stating that all these steps needed to be taken immediately without any delay, Mr Majithia the Finance Minister had announced a Price Stabilisation Fund in the last assembly session but now when the time had come to pitch in to stabilise potato prices the government was not lifting a finger. He said besides this the government could give freight subsidy and storage subsidy on the pattern of West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh governments. Mr Majithia said seed potato could also be exported to Pakistan, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka. "If all these steps are are not taken the government alone will be responsible for driving farmers to suicide in despair ", he added.Asserting that the State was staring at a farm crisis, the Akali leader said potato prices had hit a rock bottom of Rs 3 per kilogram. He said in such a situation farmers were unable to recover the cost of production which came to between Rs 6 to Rs 8 per kg after adding harvesting and packing costs. "Many farmers are even putting off harvesting of their crop due to this reason", he added.
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