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Exciting new March Madness campaign launched
Fishos wetting a line in the Top End next month will have the chance to double their winnings as part of a new Million Dollar Fish campaign dubbed March Madness.
The competition's underwriter, SportsBet, unveiled the campaign for the final month of Season 6 which will see the first registered fisho who hooks a Season 6 prize-tagged barra during March double their money – excluding the Million Dollar Fish.
For example, a red-tagged $10,000 barra would be worth $20,000. A purple-tagged $5,000 Charity Fish would be worth $10,000, with $5,000 awarded to the fisho and $5,000 awarded to the winners' Million Dollar Fish affiliated charity of choice.
Million Dollar Fish NT-based charities include Cancer Council, Star Ball through Starlight Children's Foundation, and the Shimano Junior Indigenous Guide Program.
This season's new $15,000 Double Tag Barra would be worth $20,000 to the fisho, and $10,000 to their mate of choice.
Northern Territory Major Events Company CEO Tim Watsford said the new Million Dollar Fish March Madness campaign is a great initiative which will hopefully see more fishos win big.
"Season 6 got off to a tremendous start with 10 fish caught in the first three months. Let's see if we can crank it up for the final stretch," he said.
"The Top End is home to so many incredible fishing locations and this campaign gives locals and visitors yet another reason to get out there and explore the best the Territory has to offer."
SportsBet External Affairs Manager Brad Fanning said SportsBet was thrilled to be involved in the March Madness campaign.
"We had a record-breaking start to the competition, and we're hoping this campaign will encourage more fishos to hit the water and catch prize-tagged fish so we can finish Season 6 on a high," he said.
There are still 123 prize-tagged barra to be caught as part of the Million Dollar Fish competition, including seven worth $1 million. Once the first Million Dollar Fish is caught, the remaining six become $10,000 prizes.
A total of $95,000 has been given away as part of Season 6 so far, with 10 barra caught across the Top End by local and interstate anglers.
Season 6 of the Million Dollar Fish competition runs from 1 October 2020 to 31 March 2021. To be in the running to win, you must be registered at www.milliondollarfish.com.au.


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Weak economy expected to impact holiday travel
DOUG STALEY
Falling gas prices aren't expected to give travel much of a boost this weekend.
AAA is predicting fewer motorists will hit the highways over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend than a year ago. An estimated 41 million Americans – including 1.57 million Ohioans – are expected to travel 50 miles or more from home this weekend.
That's a decrease of 600,000 travelers, or 1.4 percent, over last year, according to Bevi Powell, director of communications for AAA East Central. It's only the second time since 2002 that Thanksgiving holiday travel is expected to decline.
"It's the economy," Powell said. "This follows the trend of all the other holidays."
Overall, AAA is predicting 33.2 million people will travel by car, 4.5 million by plane and 3.26 million by train or bus. In Ohio, 1.33 million travelers are planning to drive while 118,000 will journey through air.
Gas prices have dipped more than a $1 since AAA conducted its survey, but the drop is not expected to lift travel much.
"Some people may decide to travel, but what we are seeing is that most people book in advance," Powell said.
Jeff Bushman, manager of the Massillon AAA, said the national travel forecast should hold true locally.
"My gut tells me travel will be down compared to previous years," said Bushman. "There's a whole lot of economic factors out there besides gas prices that go into determining whether a family travels. ... We are probably down a little bit as far as our office traffic."
According to Powell, 66 percent of those surveyed indicated they will be staying with family next weekend. However, travelers will find bargains at hotels. Rates at AAA Three Diamond hotels are down an average of 10 percent compared to last year, Powell said.
Nationwide, air travel is forecast to dip 10 to 12 percent this year, but officials at the Akron-Canton Airport expect traffic to remain steady at the Green facility.
An estimated 3,500 passengers are expected to depart the airport daily Wednesday through Sunday, according to Kristie Van Auken, the airport's marketing director. About 40 percent of the airport's passengers will be flying Air Tran Airways.
"We have slightly more seats than last year so our capacity is up," Van Auken said. "We just really worked with our carriers and we were able to maintain the same number of seats."
The airport is projecting a record number of passengers will pass through its turnstiles this year, Van Auken said. The airport is on pace for 1.5 million passengers, which would eclipse the previous record of 1.43 million in 2006, she said.
Van Auken recommended travelers arrive at least an hour and a half before their flight departure. She also said passengers should familiarize themselves with gate security procedures by visiting the National Transportation and Safety Administration's Web site at www.ntsb.gov.
Meanwhile, the airport's Web site, www.akroncantonairport.com, offers real time arrival and departure information, Van Auken said.
Just in time for Thanksgiving, the airport unveiled its new Fast Pass feature this week. Fast Pass links to pre-authorized credit cards and allows travelers to enter and exit parking lots through designated lanes. Customers can wave the card in front of a card reader, which then charges the cost to a credit card. Customers can sign up for Fast Pass at the airport's Web site.
"The more you know before you leave, the more relaxing your trip will be," Van Auken said.

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If '400 Blows' were female and Iranian, it would be the sharply observed 'Ava'
Arts & Entertainment // Movies
G. Allen Johnson July 12, 2018 Updated: July 12, 2018 1:53 p.m.
Mahour Jabbari plays the title role in "Ava," the first feature film from Iranian director Sadaf Foroughi.
Photo: Grasshopper Film 2017
Ava is a 17-year-old high school student in Iran. When her mother tells her, "You can't just play your own tune in life," she is not just talking about her daughter's desire to pursue the impractical career of violinist, but also about an entire societal structure designed to virtually imprison young women, be it in a strict school for girls or, eventually, marriage.
In watching "Ava," a visually inviting and sharp portrait of teenage life in Iran, one must admire how writer-director Sadaf Foroughi was able to play her own tune in life. Born in Tehran but now based in Canada, she has made a career of exploring the struggles of Iranian women.
Her 2007 documentary "Féminin, masculin," for example, was about Tehran's first female bus driver — in a culture where women sit at the back of the bus. "Ava" is Foroughi's feature debut and is based on her own adolescent experiences.
Ava (an excellent Mahour Jabbari) is a typical teenage girl, it would seem. She and her friends talk about boys, they swear, she likes volleyball and especially music.
Drama. With Mahour Jabbari. Directed by Sadaf Foroughi. In Farsi with subtitles. (Not rated. 102 minutes.)
Her home life is something less comfortable. Dad (Vahid Aghapour) is pretty cool, but his architecture and design work has him traveling a lot. Mom (Bahar Nouhian) is not so cool — so worried that her child will draw outside the lines that she has an ongoing campaign to gaslight Ava into thinking practically every normal human impulse is morally wrong.
At one point, she takes Ava for a gynecological exam to make sure she is still a virgin.
Ava, along with her classmates, is hounded by the school administrator, a Ms. Dehkoda (Leili Rashidi), who at one point, in relating a story about a student in the district who "brought a certain circumstance upon herself," lectures the class, reminding them "you will be watched" and that "your mind is already polluted. … Anyone who succumbs to those animalistic desires will be punished."
For a film that largely takes place in small rooms and interiors, Foroughi and cinematographer Sina Kermanizadeh's compositions are lushly beautiful. Foroughi often frames her shots from doorways or even just outside the doorway, creating a feeling of Ava being constantly watched and examined for any slip-up.
Ava is a layered, complex character, and one that anyone who was ever a teenager can identify with. Her spiritual brother, cinematically speaking, is the Antoine Doinel of "The 400 Blows." Adulthood might be the only way to escape, and it can't come fast enough.
G. Allen Johnson is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: ajohnson@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @BRfilmsAllen
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Tim Burton's fairytale worlds
Tim Burton's worlds
Assistant Curator Kate Warren explores Tim Burton's affinity with the darker, subversive re-imaginings of traditional fairy tale and fable storytelling.
"There's a naughtiness in Tim that's similar to Roald Dahl. A little bit of wickedness, a little bit of teasing, a subversiveness. Both of them never lost the gift of knowing what it's like to be a child - a very rare gift..." - Felicity 'Liccy' Dahl
The best children's stories are ones from which parents can derive as much pleasure and enjoyment as the children that they read them to. These are stories that speak on multiple levels to their audience; the childhood books that readers can return to in adulthood to discover all the hidden meanings. The same can be said of films that target youthful viewers; the timeless children's classics of cinema reach across generations, rewarding both the young and the young at heart.
Such qualities are present in many of Tim Burton's films and while much focus has been placed on Burton's visual creative process it is also pertinent to remember his fascination with literary sources. Whether bringing to life his own literary creations such as The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) or The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories (1997), or adapting popular works with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) or Alice in Wonderland (2010), Burton has a unique ability to integrate the broad appeal of these texts with his own distinctive cinematic style, offering delightful and resonant subversions of childhood favourites.
Burton's films are characterised by a rich visual imagination coupled with simple, pared back methods of storytelling. These features point strongly to Burton's affinity with literary traditions of fairy tales and fables. The enduring popularity and universal appeal of fairy tales lie in the recurrent plot components, archetypal characters and common narrative functions found across different stories (2). Fairy tales allow a form of escapism into worlds of fantasy and the supernatural, while often remaining grounded by particular morals and lessons. Although Burton acknowledges that as a child he "wasn't a very literary person" (3), his films share many sensibilities with these storytelling traditions. Burton has built his career upon re-interpreting his formative childhood experiences and obsessions. While film and television have been particularly strong influences, some of Burton's most important and recurring inspirations have also come from (children's) books.
Nowadays fairy tales are most commonly associated with children's literature, however the violent and graphic nature of certain fairy tales (4) is often overlooked in contemporary culture (5). Burton, however, embraces the dark elements, describing the fairy tale tradition as "about as disturbing as it gets" (6). This might explain some of his frustration when working as an apprentice animator at Walt Disney Studios, whose approach to adapting fairy tales tends to understate the more sinister elements. Burton has of course continued to work with Disney through such successful projects as The Nightmare Before Christmas (as producer) and Alice in Wonderland. However, when the studio allowed Burton to make his first project as an apprentice, he produced something diametrically opposite to the more light-hearted productions he had been working on.
The result was Burton's six-minute stop-motion film Vincent (1982), a tribute to actor Vincent Price and author Edgar Allan Poe, two key childhood influences. Burton was not simply inspired by the creative and artistic value of such figures, he related deeply and personally to them: "[They] spoke to me," says Burton (7). He has likened growing up in Burbank, California, to the sense of suffocation and isolation felt in Poe's explorations of being buried alive, with stories such as The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) and The Cask of Amontillado (1846).8 As with many of his films, these references are not simple homages or cinematic allusions, they are embedded in the profound connections that Burton makes with such texts. These interests are embodied in the film's protagonist Vincent Malloy, a seven-year-old boy who fantasises about enacting Poe's Gothic tales in his suburban house, and dreams of being a "tortured soul" like Price. In this way, Vincent anticipates many of the common themes and influences that Burton has continued to explore through his cinematic and artistic projects.
Burton enlisted Vincent Price to provide the film's voice-over narration, which in its use of rhyming verse reflects another of Burton's singular inspirations, Dr. Seuss. Burton explains his attraction to the children's author: "I grew up loving Dr. Seuss.[His] books were perfect: right number of words, the right rhythms, great subversive stories" (9). Burton again returns to this inspiration in The Nightmare Before Christmas, which was based upon a three-page poem and original drawings that he created while working at Disney. Also inspired by the well-known poem The Night Before Christmas (1823) (10), it is another example of Burton's predilection for taking familiar and recognisable stories and interpreting them with a characteristically dark and subversive twist - "German Expressionism combined with Dr. Seuss" (11). Burton also emulated Dr. Seuss as a teenager with his unpublished manuscript The Giant Zlig (1976), however with Nightmare he succeeded in creating an iconic and gentle horror story in a similar vein to his idol, which continues to find new audiences while maintaining a devoted fan base.
In 1997, Burton published a collection of twenty-three illustrated short stories, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories. Written in verse, the stories feature a collection of strange and disfigured children - with names such as Voodoo Girl and Roy, the Toxic Boy - who are often isolated and rejected by family and society. The collection's final story, 'Oyster Boy Steps Out' is a mere ten words long:
For Halloween,
Oyster Boy decided to go as a human
- Tim Burton on 'Oyster Boy Steps Out' (12)
This remarkably simple piece is emblematic of the way that Burton's films, art and literary projects speak to audiences through a combination of narrative simplicity and emotional complexity. Despite being only two lines it engages with a context beyond its own fictional world, succinctly touching upon emotions and experiences common to children, teenagers and adults alike. His partner, Helena Bonham Carter explains: "Tim resonates with the young because.he has kept in touch with the child he once was" (13). Audiences of all ages can relate to the emotional resonance that he instills in his characters and stories, most of which are tied strongly to Burton's own experiences. As David Breskin shrewdly notes in an interview with Burton, "the more personal you make something, if it's true, if it's pure, the more universal it is" (14).
These short stories also recall Dr. Seuss. However, in their politically incorrect renderings of ugly and unwanted children they complement another like-minded literary influence. In the timeless children's novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964), Roald Dahl includes a series of rhyming songs which mischievously exult the unfortunate fates met by four ungrateful children. Most of Burton's children also meet tragic ends - Stick Boy is burned alive, Oyster Boy is eaten by his father - albeit in a rather sympathetic and melancholy mode. Dahl's poems are even more caustic and pointed in the punishments dished out to his nasty little monsters:
A hundred knives go slice, slice, slice;
We add some sugar, cream, and spice;
We boil him for a minute more,
Until we're absolutely sure.
- Roald Dahl on Augustus Gloop from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (15)
We very much regret that we
Shall simply have to wait and see
If we can get him back his height.
But if we can't - it serves him right
- Roald Dahl on Mike Teevee from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (15)
These delightfully wicked treats are some of the notable elements that Burton includes in his 2005 adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, with the assistance of composer Danny Elfman. Dahl's novel is a children's classic that continues to capture generations of young fans; it is truly a book that readers can re-visit as adults with similar enjoyment. The story is also known through Mel Stuart's film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), which was a relative failure at the box office but has subsequently gained a cult following (16). Neither Dahl nor Burton were fans of the earlier film (17), which departed from the novel in its tone and narrative content. For example, Charlie was forced to "prove" his virtue through his encounters with Arthur Slugworth, a marginal character in Dahl's novel whose role was expanded in the film. By re-approaching this tale, Burton set out to return squarely to Dahl's text as inspiration (18) and "reclaim a children's classic" (19).
With the backlog of nostalgic connotations and childhood memories surrounding Charlie, a new cinematic adaptation required a director with an affinity for Dahl's sensibilities, but also with their own personal vision. Burton was an ideal fit in the opinion of Dahl's widow, Liccy, who appreciated the shared sentiment between the director and her late husband, as the quote at the beginning of this essay reveals-a dark subversiveness coupled with youthful enthusiasm. The result is a film that retains Dahl's anarchic spirit, while containing characteristically Burtonesque elements.
Although Dahl's novel contains complex prose and verse, its story development is deceptively simple. Describing Charlie as a "modern fable" (20), Burton remains faithful to its narrative structure, not over-complicating it with additional sub-plots or scenarios. The film does not portray Charlie as exceptional or special; he is an ordinary boy who, as Wonka says, is "just lucky to be here." Burton resists the classical Hollywood imperative to "test" the central character by introducing numerous obstacles to overcome. At the same time, he creates further depth and appeal by elaborating on some of the more fantastical elements of Dahl's story. The highly choreographed Oompa-Loompa musical sequences and Wonka's previous journeys to Loompaland and India are visual feasts. The tour group's roller coaster-like boat journey down Wonka's chocolate river and, of course, the downfalls of the other four children are gleefully humorous yet slightly sinister.
The most significant change that Burton and screenwriter John August made was to delve deeper into the character of Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp), adding a back-story that is typically Burtonesque. Wonka is portrayed as a creative genius who has a fractured relationship with his overbearing father, which has caused him to retreat from the outside world. In the novel Wonka's eccentricity is present but unexplained. For Burton, the idea of adding context was crucial in order for audiences to connect with the character (21). It also affords the film a final resolution which is neither simplistic nor overly "happily ever after," which Liccy Dahl thinks her husband would have enjoyed (22).
The level of intertextuality in Burton's Charlie indicates that the film was made not simply for children, but also for adults who grew up savouring the novel. It is an increasing trend in contemporary cinema - films based on children's texts that cater to a now grown-up fan base (23). Recent examples include Wes Anderson's adaptation of another Roald Dahl novel, Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) (24) and Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are (2009) (25). However, Burton remains one of the forerunners, continuing this tendency with Alice in Wonderland.
If the weight of previous interpretations hung over Burton's Charlie, then it is amplified exponentially with Alice. Lewis Carroll's characters and stories are part of the modern cultural fabric; they are so ubiquitous that it is near impossible to separate the original texts from the myriad of interpretations and references. With this in mind, Burton's latest film is not an adaptation, it is more akin to a sequel that draws upon the two novels of the series, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1872). Carroll's foremost innovation in these texts was to use verse and prose in a form of literary nonsense, creating otherworldly environments and entirely fanciful creatures. The strength of his writing evokes a visual iconography powerfully embedded in popular consciousness.
When creating Alice, Burton was inspired by the enduring visual resonance of Carroll's novels and in particular by their dreamlike structures. In Burton's film Alice Kingsley is a nineteen-year-old who once visited Wonderland as a child. Apart from a recurring childhood dream she does not remember her youthful adventures, and her return journey is experienced as if in a dream state, evoking a sense of déjà vu and rediscovery. While this narrative construction is entirely new, it allows Burton's film to expand upon the surreal and dreamlike nature of the original texts. Carroll's novels are episodic and without a clear construction of "beginning, middle, end," meaning they don't translate easily into linear film-making (26). Rather than trying to adapt the stories literally, Burton and screenwriter Linda Woolverton have made use of this fragmented form, producing a film that taps into the sense of wonder and the uncanny that characterises Carroll's books.
Much like the logic of dreams - which draw from and conflate various experiences in a way that only truly makes sense while the dreamer is asleep - Burton's Alice takes iconic characters and fragmented elements from Carroll's texts and merges them into a profoundly original interpretation. Helena Bonham Carter's character of the Red Queen is an amalgam of two of Carroll's creations, the Queen of Hearts and the Red Queen. Under her despotic rule, Wonderland is in dark disarray, far removed from the colourful and cartoonish world of previous interpretations. The role of the Mad Hatter (27), portrayed by Johnny Depp, has been expanded and developed as a tragic figure. The Red Queen and the Mad Hatter have been conceived and designed to achieve maximum visual impact - due largely to Burton's work with key collaborators such as costume designer Colleen Atwood-which contributes to the creative re-imagining of these figures.
Accentuated by the use of 3D technology, Burton's Alice offers a reinvention of Wonderland that is ominous, psychedelic and haunting. Instead of recreating a prior vision, Burton's film references previous interpretations through its stark difference, which producer Jennifer Todd describes as "darker and a little more adult" (28). It links into something that Burton has always understood throughout his career, that children enjoy being scared (29). Halloween, nightmares and scary movies are childhood rites of passage, as is finding out that "happy endings" are not always possible.
Alice in Wonderland continues Burton's fascination with the dark and politically incorrect currents in children's literature, so often the elements that endow such texts with lasting appeal. Burton has been called "the classic fairytale [sic] filmmaker of our time" (30). But more importantly, he understands that fairy tales have never been static entities. For centuries they have been re-told and re-scripted by different storytellers and for different purposes. Tim Burton's latest incarnation of Alice in Wonderland maintains this tradition, offering an original and unmistakable version of a modern-day classic.
1 Liccy Dahl, executive producer of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) and widow of author Roald Dahl. Quoted in Leah Gallo, The Art of Tim Burton, Steeles Publishing, Los Angeles, 2009, 225.
2 These common and recurrent structures of fairy tales have been analysed extensively, notably by Russian formalist scholar Vladimir Propp (1895-1970) in his seminal text Morphology of the Folktale, trans Laurence Scott, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1968.
3 Tim Burton, quoted in Geoff Boucher, "Tim Burton talks about Johnny Depp, 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'The Dark Knight,'" Los Angeles Times, October 15, 2008, http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2008/10/tim-burton-talk.html (accessed January 13, 2010).
4 Charles Perrault's Bluebeard (1697) is a particularly disturbing example.
5 Jack Zipes, "Spells of Enchantment: An Overview of the History of Fairy Tales," When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition, Routledge, New York and London, 1999, 1-29.
6 Tim Burton, quoted in David Breskin, "Tim Burton" in Tim Burton Interviews, ed Kristian Fraga, University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 2005, 70.
7 Tim Burton, Burton on Burton, ed Mark Salisbury, Faber and Faber, London, 2006, 16.
8 Kristine McKenna, "Playboy Interview: Tim Burton" in Tim Burton Interviews, ed Kristian Fraga, University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 2005, 166-7.
9 Tim Burton, Burton on Burton, 19.
10 This poem is also known as A Visit from St Nicholas and Twas the Night Before Christmas. Its authorship is commonly attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, but has also been claimed for Major Henry Livingston, Jr.. Don Foster, "Yes, Virginia, There Was a Santa Claus," Author Unknown: On The Trail of Anonymous, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2000, 221-75.
11 Tim Burton, quoted in Edwin Page, Gothic Fantasy: The Films of Tim Burton, Marion Boyars, London and New York, 2007, 114.
12 Tim Burton, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories, HarperCollins, New York, 1997, 112-3.
13 Helena Bonham Carter, quoted in Leah Gallo, The Art of Tim Burton, Steeles Publishing, Los Angeles, 2009, 153.
14 David Breskin, Tim Burton Interviews, 68.
15 Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, George Allen and Unwin, London, 1979, 69 and 116.
16 Edwin Page, Gothic Fantasy: The Films of Tim Burton, 210.
17 John Horn, "A Nuttier 'Chocolate,'" Los Angeles Times, February 6, 2005, http://articles.latimes.com/2005/feb/06/entertainment/ca-chocolate6 (accessed January 28, 2010).
18 Tim Burton, Burton on Burton, pp. 225-6.
19 Geoff Boucher, Los Angeles Times.
20 Tim Burton, Burton on Burton, 223.
21 Chris Nashawaty, "The Truth About 'Charlie,'" Entertainment Weekly, July 1, 2005, www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1073574,00.html (accessed January 21, 2010).
22 David Gritten, "The Fantastically Adaptable Mr Dahl," The Daily Telegraph, September 8, 2006, www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/3655137/The-fantastically-adaptable-Mr-Dahl.html (accessed January 13, 2010).
23 Stephanie Bunbury, "Super Furry Animals," Sydney Morning Herald, December 26, 2009, www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/film/super-furry-animals/2009/12/23/1261243887562.html (accessed January 15, 2010).
24 Roald Dahl's novel Fantastic Mr. Fox was first published in 1970.
25 Based upon Maurice Sendak's picture book Where the Wild Things Are, first published in 1963.
26 Mark Salisbury, Alice in Wonderland: A Visual Companion, Disney Editions, New York, 2010, 14.
27 In Carroll's texts the character is simply referred to as the Hatter.
28 Jennifer Todd, quoted in Mark Salisbury, Alice in Wonderland: A Visual Companion, 65.
29 "Tim Burton-Burton Upset About Politically Correct Parents," Daily Express, August 1, 2009, www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/117663/Burton-upset-about-politically-correct-parents (accessed January 20, 2010).
30 Suzanne Todd, quoted in Mark Salisbury, Alice in Wonderland: A Visual Companion, 26.
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The directors who fascinate us


Judge Jack Toomey grew up in Smithtown, Long Island, and was drafted into the Army in 1966. After Basic Training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, he deployed to Vietnam in March, 1967. His first night in combat was March 31 to April 1, 1967 during the Battle of Ap Gu, part of Operation Junction City, in which 609 Viet Cong were killed. A rifleman at Ap Gu, he eventually transitioned into being an ammo bearer, assistant gunner, and gunner for the M-60 machine gun before becoming a squad leader in the Weapons Platoon. After returning from Vietnam, he became a lawyer, eventually serving as a judge in Suffolk County, New York. In this interview, Judge Toomey talks about his childhood, his military training, and his tour in Vietnam. He describes, in detail, his first time in combat during the Battle of Ap Gu, and seeing Lieutenant Colonel Al Haig the morning after the battle. He explains the differences between operations in various types of terrain, and about how he led his new Soldiers. Finally, he talks about his legal career. In particular, he discusses the Suffolk County Veterans Court, where he serves as the judge, and how volunteer mentors help veterans get their lives together after running afoul of the law.


Sara Azmeh Rasmussen receives a free speech award from the Fritt Ord Foundation earlier this year (Photo: Fredrik Varfjell/NTB Scanpix).
A Norwegian writer and commentator of Syrian origin has published a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad on her blog in what she said was a show of support for freedom of speech.
The drawing posted by Sara Mats Azmeh Rasmussen shows a bearded man standing next to three people, including two women who are almost entirely veiled, with the caption: "If you do not like to be drawn, cover yourself, Prophet."
The writer, who describes herself as "an author and human rights activist with a Muslim background", said on her blog that she wanted to show her solidarity with satirical French weekly Charlie Hebdo, which last month stoked controversy by publishing cartoons showing the prophet naked.
The French newspaper's cartoon added to anger in the Muslim world, where often violent protests erupted last month over a crudely-made American anti-Islam film "The Innocence of Muslims".
"It is not only necessary to explain and defend freedom of speech and expression, but there is definitely a need for even more cartoons of the Islamic Prophet drawn by Muslims, so the point becomes clearer: it is not a conflict between East and West or Muslims and Christians," Rasmussen wrote.
"It is rather a conflict between dogma and democratic spirit and culture. This conflict exists inside the Islamic world."
A staunch supporter of gay rights, Rasmussen previously hit the headlines in 2009 when she burnt a hijab in public on International Women's Day.


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The South San Francisco company that pioneered the idea of using algae to make biofuels, Solazyme, said today that it has raised $52 million in Series D financing. New investor Morgan Stanley and Braemar Energy Ventures led the round, which also included all of the company's major existing investors—CTTV Investments, Harris and Harris Group, Lightspeed Venture Partners, the Roda Group, San-Ei Gen, VantagePoint Venture Partners, and Zygote Ventures. As Xconomy's Luke Timmerman reported in a recent profile of Solazyme, the 90-employee company uses molecular biology techniques to engineer strains of algae that convert high-cellulose materials such as sugarcane into different varieties of oil inside large fermentation tanks.


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Choudary arrested
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Join Date: 22 Nov 06
And not before time
By Michael Holden
LONDON (Reuters) - British police arrested nine men as part of an operation into Islamist-related militancy on Thursday, with media reporting the country's most high-profile radical Muslim preacher was among those held.
Britain last month raised its international threat level to the second-highest classification of "severe", meaning an attack is considered highly likely, and Prime Minister David Cameron has said the Islamic State group battling for territory in Syria and Iraq poses the country's greatest ever security risk.
Police said the arrests were not in response to any immediate threat but that the men were held on suspicion of encouraging terrorism and belonging to and supporting a banned organisation.
"These arrests and searches are part of an ongoing investigation into Islamist-related terrorism," police said in a statement.
The BBC and Sky News reported that one of the men held was Anjem Choudary, the former head of the now banned organisation al-Muhajiroun. It gained notoriety for staging events to commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States with leaflets that referred to the hijackers as "the Magnificent 19".
Police declined to confirm if Choudary, who has recently spoken out against the West's intervention against Islamic State, had been held or to give further details. There was no answer from his mobile phone when contacted by Reuters.
The men, aged between 22 and 51, were in custody at police stations in central London while 19 properties across the capital and in Stoke-on-Trent in central England were being searched.
Choudary's followers have been linked to a number of militant plots in the past, and one of the men who hacked a British soldier to death on a London street in May last year had attended demonstrations the preacher had organised.
Choudary has never been charged with any terrorism-related crimes.
In 2011 his home and a community centre in east London where he used to teach were raided by counter-terrorism police. He told Reuters at the time that he had done nothing illegal.
"The definition of terrorism is more suitable for the US/UK policy in Muslim lands than those who are removing their oppressive regimes," Choudary said in a tweet he wrote hours before the police arrests.
"The war being waged by the US/UK & co is a war against Islam & Muslims. The objective is to take Muslims away from the Shari'ah (Islamic law)"
Al-Muhajiroun's Syrian-born founder Omar Bakri was banished from Britain in 2005.
(Reporting by Michael Holden; editing by Guy Faulconbridge and John Stonestreet)
To keep the balance from tilting in favor of the extremists, extra judicial measures needs to be adopted at times.
Encounter killings by police
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Originally posted by Oracle View Post
Here's an idea, you can have police death squads, we'll keep civilization & rule of law. Its worked pretty well for us so far.
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Apart from the fact that this is morally wrong (what if someone like Anjem Chaudhary decided who the targets should be), fake encounters are bound to be highlighted and escalated by today's proactive media. And that is a good thing
Originally posted by Bigfella View Post
Who is "we" and "you" in this?
I'd also like to keep civilization and I always favor rule of law. Having said that, these are the guys whose preachings radicalize thousands of young Muslims worldwide. There probably would be no ISIS or the support it garnered, had there been no Anjem Chaudhary to begin with. I probably am biased since I grew up amongst militancy. And I know I'm mixing issues, my point is the preachings of hatred. The best way to deal with a snake is to cut it's head off, the body falls silent. And I advocate the same thing for the 10s of militant groups in my part of the world. Not exactly a death squad, but lending a helping hand to meet their makers. They IMV do not contribute to society in any way.
Originally posted by antimony View Post
Never thought I could be a target too, selected by someone else. You and BF are correct, I get it.
So more paper work, free food and lodging for the likes of Anjem now.
Easy: "we" are the people who don't want police death squads deciding who lives & who dies without recourse to the judiciary. "You" are anyone who thinks giving police a license to murder anyone they deem unfit to live is a good idea. Simple as that.
I'd also like to keep civilization and I always favor rule of law.
A good start.
Having said that, these are the guys whose preachings radicalize thousands of young Muslims worldwide. There probably would be no ISIS or the support it garnered, had there been no Anjem Chaudhary to begin with.
Sorry, that's bollocks. Chaudhary is a nobody to people like ISIS. A useful idiot at best. What created groups like ISIS is generations of secular (and less often religious) dictatorships and wars in Nth Africa, the Middle East & further afield. Chaudhary is a publicity hound. Seen him popping up in an actual combat zone recently?
I'm happy enough to see him banged up if he has committed a crime, but killing him would achieve nothing & most likely do more harm than good.
I probably am biased since I grew up amongst militancy. And I know I'm mixing issues, my point is the preachings of hatred. The best way to deal with a snake is to cut it's head off, the body falls silent. And I advocate the same thing for the 10s of militant groups in my part of the world. Not exactly a death squad, but lending a helping hand to meet their makers. They IMV do not contribute to society in any way.
I'm biased because I grew up in a period when police acting perfectly lawfully had a 'shoot first' policy and in a place where police corruption was both entrenched & endemic.
Police in Australia have improved a lot in the past 20 years, but a shitload more people have died at the hands of police in Australia than have ever been killed by terrorists. Most of them should never have died. many of them weren't even 'criminal' in any meaningful sense. Worse, I can think of plenty of police from the past 40 years who were WAY scarier than any wannbe terrorist. Police have enough power as it is.
I understand your fear. I live a few minutes by car from the sites of two of Australia's worst massacres (both in the mid-80s) and the last death as a result of an act of terrorism in Australia (2001ish). people have been arrested in my city planning (if only speculatively) acts of terrorism at places I visit frequently (such as the MCG during a football game). We might all be targets.
There are dangerous people in our societies, but death squads aren't the answer. Ultimately they will create larger problems than they solve. I think you know that.
Fair enough, but it seems that you think that "you" have figured it out. I would like to point out that police brutality is a problem across the world. The developing nations have it the worst, but police brutality and excessive use of force (sometimes deadly) happens in all places.
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For the record, what Oracle is referring to is not necessarily death squads, but armed police teams (which, like in other commonwealth countries, are a rarity in India) tracking down known gang members. The fact that they were armed with modern weapons instead of those SMLEs and a "take no prisoners" attitude led to several undesirable consequences because some idiot gang member decided to reach for his gun. Did fake encounters sometimes happen, I am sure they did, but that is not the crux of he problem.
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Join Date: 16 Dec 13
I agree with Big Fella about the rule of law and acting civilized and giving everyone a fair shot.
Before killing them, if that is what is needed.
Some of the posts here are borderline closet Islamophobic and it troubles me greatly that it comes from the so called secularists.
Both native and foreign.
It was clear from the link he posted that some of those police went actively looking for opportunities to kill people, while others actually killed suspects in custody & then staged 'incidents'. Its waddling & quacking.
Originally posted by sated buddha View Post
Can someone please stage an online 'encounter killing' of the troll. Its stupidity has ceased to amuse & its transparent trolling has become tiresome.
Bandaid
Oh come on mate, no one has exhibited any traits of Islamophobia here.
All they have done is call a terrorist a terrorist.
Cheers!...on the rocks!!
Originally posted by lemontree View Post
I'm not sure if he can even tell if he is trolling or not any more.


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A bill to provide access to counsel for unaccompanied alien children.
A bill to improve border security and to provide conditional provision residence to certain long-term residents who entered the United States as children.
To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide that the United States district court for the District of Columbia shall have exclusive jurisdiction over actions arising under the immigration laws, and for other purposes.
To amend section 412(a)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to require ratification of a plan with respect to a refugee by the legislature of a State before the refugee may be initially placed or resettled in the State, and for other purposes.
To block the implementation of certain presidential actions that restrict individuals from certain countries from entering the United States.
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Comparative Analysis of the E-Hailing Mobility Services in Selected Cities In West, East and Southern Africa
EP-2019-MAC-08, Professor Samuel Gbadebo Odewumi
Mobility and Access in sub-Saharan Africa is perennially challenged. Many solutions have been thrown at it but the problem keeps escalating. Emerging recently and spreading widely, is the shared mobility solution, taking advantage of the boom in ICT; bringing under its umbrella many of the existing informal modes like Car-taxi, Tricycle, Motorcycle, Bicycle variously called "Okada","Boda-boda" and "Keke" in many sub-Saharan African countries. In Nigeria, all these are termed "e-hailing" services.
However, there has been very little known study of this emerging business model. Is the rapid growth an indication of its acceptability or limited choices for the users? What are the challenges, opportunities and threats facing it? What is the role of government in it?
We are therefore motivated to undertake an exploratory research into this emerging business model and compare it across the west, east and southern Africa as represented by Lagos, Nairobi and Johannesburg. It is an investigation into types, coverage and operations of the e-hailing services. We seek to identify the source and feature of the applications; reveal the demographic characteristics and the attitude of the operators of the services; their competitors and relevant governments' official to e-hailing business. We will compare the travel time and travel costs of the e-hailing with the traditional equivalents.
For data collection and analysis, our methods shall include participant observer whereby field enumerators will take at least 40 rides on each mode while obtaining information of routes, time and cost with the GPS. Data Extraction, using Map-source will be used to chart the trips, time and costs; accompanied with structured and unstructured questionnaire for demographic and opinion survey of the stakeholders. To aid our analysis we descriptive statistics is adopted to summarize and classify the quantitative data, utilizing Microsoft office tools for graphical presentations.
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See also the Interview with Professor Odewumi (July 2020 Newsletter)


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Study: Wisconsin groundwater contaminated by coal ash
Written By Kari Lydersen November 18, 2014
The "beneficial reuse" of coal ash, often touted as a way to keep the material out of landfills, is potentially causing serious contamination of drinking water in southeast Wisconsin and possibly across the state, according to a report released Tuesday by Clean Wisconsin.
By classifying coal ash as an "industrial byproduct," as report author Tyson Cook says, companies are able to place contaminant-laden coal ash in the ground — as structural fill in and below roads, trails, parking lots, buildings, and bridges — with no lining or monitoring.
About 85 percent of Wisconsin's coal ash is reused, compared to about 50 percent nationwide. Congress has even called Wisconsin the "gold standard" on this front.
Clean Wisconsin's study of test results from almost 1,000 wells found that there is evidence such coal ash is contaminating groundwater that provides drinking water for thousands of residents.
At a Racine area elementary school, Clean Wisconsin's own testing found molybdenum levels at more than twice the state's enforcement standard.
Clean Wisconsin's analysis of state test results also found that molybdenum contamination is significantly higher in close proximity to coal ash structural fill sites — ash layered below roads, buildings and the like to create level ground and fill spaces. Higher molybdenum levels also corresponded to the flow of groundwater in relation to known coal ash reuse sites, the study found.
Molybdenum itself is a serious concern, linked to developmental and reproductive problems and other health issues. And molybdenum could signal the presence of other toxic elements from coal ash, potentially including boron, arsenic, chromium, cadmium, mercury, lead and selenium. The study also found arsenic levels higher in closer proximity to coal ash reuse sites.
Clean Wisconsin is a member of RE-AMP, which publishes Midwest Energy News.
'Just the tip of the iceberg'
In southeast Wisconsin, a major source of the coal ash is We Energies' Oak Creek plant near Milwaukee. Clean Wisconsin was able to do the study because of well testing sparked by a long history of contamination problems in the area. Meanwhile the snapshot in southeast Wisconsin is likely indicative of problems across the state, the group says.
"This just happens to be where we focused because we had this information," Cook said. "And even here it's just the tip of the iceberg."
Clean Wisconsin mapped known locations where coal ash has been reused in southeast Wisconsin (click to enlarge)
Companies have to file reports with the federal government regarding how they dispose of coal ash. But there is no uniform way to find out where that coal ash ends up.
For example in 2011, We Energies reported using more than 800,000 tons of coal ash off-site. But poring through government records, Clean Wisconsin researchers were able to find records accounting for only about three percent of that material. Going back to 1988 they found records regarding 1.6 million tons of coal ash, and they were able to map the reuse of about one million tons.
We Energies spokesman Brian Manthey said that coal ash reuse information is included in annual, publicly available reports that companies file with the state Department of Natural Resources. But Cook said those reports do not provide adequate information.
"We were put in a room with a giant conference table piled high with boxes of loose-leaf paper that we sorted through to find what records we could," said Cook. "We know those records are incomplete. And even the records that are there are not easily accessible to the public. If you're a family living in Racine County, there's no way you're going to know that they're putting thousands of tons of coal ash next door to you."
Drinking water at risk
A coal plant produces up to four types of coal waste, with different attributes. Lightweight fly ash rises with exhaust gases, heavier bottom ash accumulates in boilers; boiler slag is a crystalline material produced when waste is quenched with liquid; and plants with scrubbers to remove sulfur dioxide also create flue gas desulfurization ("FGD") sludge, whitish in color. All of these compounds fall under the heading of coal ash for disposal and reuse purposes.
Manthey said that We Energies reuses 90 to 100 percent of the 500,000 to 600,000 tons of coal ash that it produces each year in southeast Wisconsin, with fly ash being used for concrete, asphalt recycling and soil stabilization, and bottom ash being used for structural fill.
"Types of vendors we coordinate with include ready mix contractors, construction firms, manufacturers, road builders and research and development consultants," Manthey said.
When coal ash is used as an ingredient in concrete or otherwise combined with binding materials, there is little or no concern about contamination. But other reuses leave coal ash exposed to groundwater, air and soil.
"The majority of records we found were for structural fill, and there were also records for spreading it on park paths and roadways, even spreading gypsum [ash from scrubbers] on farm fields" as fertilizer, Cook said. "We're less concerned about fly ash being used in place of cement in concrete, it's not going to leach out. But when you use it as fill and pour it underneath a building, there's nothing separating it from the groundwater."
Molybdenum contamination of groundwater around the town of Caledonia prompted the testing of private wells by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources in years past. Using isotope analysis, that testing did not link the contamination to We Energies' coal ash impoundments.
Darker triangles on this map indicate molybdenum levels that exceed accepted health thresholds. (Click to enlarge)
In fact, molybdenum – a naturally occurring element – was found in other areas of southeastern Wisconsin, said Manthey. "Recent tests show no wells near the plant are above the state health advisory standard for molybdenum."
Clean Wisconsin analyzed 976 of those results and also did its own testing of wells around Yorkville Elementary School near Racine, where there had been past reports of high molybdenum levels.
Clean Wisconsin found that one in five of the wells tested by the state had levels of molybdenum above the state health department's advisory level, 90 parts per billion (ppb). Additionally, the average molybdenum concentration across all the wells was 60 ppb, which is above the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources' enforcement standard of 50 ppb.
The study notes that the U.S. EPA says no child should drink water with more than 80 ppb molybdenum for even one day, and the World Health Organization sets the bar for concern at 70 ppb. Around the elementary school, they found levels of up to 138 ppb molybdenum.
Clean Wisconsin's analysis showed higher molybdenum levels closer to known coal ash reuse sites and higher concentrations along groundwater flows from coal ash reuse sites. So, the study authors believe the coal ash is responsible for contamination.
Coal ash has been used as structural fill in the region since at least the 1950s. The bluff which collapsed sending coal ash into Lake Michigan in October 2011 from We Energies' Oak Creek plant was itself constructed of coal ash in that era. Manthey noted that was before the institution of state solid waste rules that now prohibit such practices.
Cook said that millions of tons of coal ash spread over the state for half a century or more could still be causing contamination. As evidence of the long-lasting potential of coal ash contamination, Clean Wisconsin points to contamination found more recently near a four-decade-old coal ash landfill near Highway 59 in Waukesha.
Wisconsin notoriety
The U.S. EPA and private studies have shown more than 100 sites of groundwater contamination from coal ash impoundments in at least 37 states, including 13 in Wisconsin and several in Illinois.
For years the U.S. EPA has been carrying out a highly contentious process to essentially decide whether to label coal ash a hazardous waste. Companies with coal-fired power plants and their allies have railed against the idea, saying that the designation would unfairly stigmatize a raw material that is safe and inert for "encapsulated" uses such as concrete.
While the EPA has not proposed banning such uses, industry proponents feel a hazardous waste designation would make other industries wary of using coal ash for public relations reasons. Curbing the ability of power plants to market coal ash would be a blow to the already challenged economics of coal-fired power plants.
"We oppose the designation of coal ash as a hazardous waste," said Manthey. "The designation would impair the beneficial use of coal combustion products which could result in increased need for landfills and much higher customer energy costs."
Without federal regulations specifically governing coal ash disposal and reuse, it is up to states to deal with the issue. This means a regulatory patchwork where states have varying standards and some have no standards at all.
Wisconsin regulates coal ash, but coal ash that is reused is exempt from waste disposal mandates. That creates the incentive for extensive reuse, the Clean Wisconsin study suggests. Wisconsin is also a state that relies heavily on coal-fired power, creating about 1.8 million tons of coal ash per year.
Wisconsin classifies coal ash reuse into five categories, based on tests of its potential for leaching certain contaminants. The study calls Wisconsin's testing and classification system "fatally flawed."
The U.S. EPA has also denounced the testing method used, which essentially involves shaking coal ash in water and seeing what chemicals leach out over the course of 24 hours. Critics say this does not adequately mimic real-world conditions.
More importantly, when coal ash is used as structural fill below roads or buildings, there is no requirement in Wisconsin to test for leaching of certain elements including lead, molybdenum and arsenic.
"These are things that we know can be a problem and can leach out of coal ash in high quantities, but they don't have to test for if they're putting it under a building," said Cook.
Demanding change
Clean Wisconsin calls for the state to require more reporting, monitoring and research around coal ash reuse, and stricter requirements for testing, using and storing coal ash.
The group says companies should be forced to do more rigorous testing to see how different types of coal ash will leach contaminants, and that records must be publicly available showing where coal ash is used.
Clean Wisconsin says liners and groundwater monitoring should be required when coal ash is used as fill below parking lots or buildings, and calls for a moratorium on the reuse of coal ash until the risks are better understood and there are protective regulations in place.
The authors note that North Carolina, site of a major coal ash spill earlier this year, has taken both steps.
Clean Wisconsin also demands research into the specific contamination potential and health risks posed by coal ash, and for widespread testing for contamination across southeast Wisconsin.
Finally the group calls for officially designating coal ash a hazardous waste.
While calling on both the state and federal government to take a stronger stance on coal ash reuse, Clean Wisconsin is also enlisting the public to find out where coal ash may already have caused contamination. They are asking people to share test results from their own wells statewide.
"There's no reason to think this is the only area in which this is a problem," said Cook. "We want to get together and find out where else this could be happening in the state."
About Kari Lydersen
Kari has written for Midwest Energy News since January 2011. She is an author and journalist who worked for the Washington Post's Midwest bureau from 1997 through 2009. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, Chicago News Cooperative, Chicago Reader and other publications. Kari covers Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana as well as environmental justice topics.
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Great post Heather Beather! Thanks for the shoutout!!
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Reviewing the Review: June 11 2006
Levi Asher • June 11th, 2006
History News Politics
Rory Stewart's chronicle of a journey through wartime Afghanistan gets a rave review from Tom Bissell on the front cover of today's New York Times Book Review. The book sounds intriguing, though I wish the reviewer didn't spend so much column space on speculative tangents like this:
Pity the contemporary travel writer: routinely viewed as a kind of overstuffed guidebook author, struggling to explain what he or she does. Specialists pounce on the tiniest "mistakes" and ideologues condemn the whole enterprise as colonialism with a guidebook.
Actually, that pretty much describes how many of us treat and feel about the New York Times Book Review. Luckily, this week's issue is better than average, by which I mean that several articles are worth reading. Stephen Metcalf provides a thoughtful consideration of Michel Houellebecq's futuristic satire The Possibility of an Island that aptly references Plato's Republic and concludes that Houellebecq's sinister sense of libertinism is more banal than shocking in today's hedonistic world. This is a good, solid article that develops a clear, relevant and coherent argument (and has only one clunker line, an obligatory joke about french writing and french toast, which somebody should have simply excised). Still, it's a good piece.
Mark Costello gives us an appealingly brief and informative summary of the career of British essayist Will Self and enthusiastically recommends his new Junk Mail, and Daniel Swift argues convincingly that there's not much substance to Richard Davenport-Hines' Proust at the Majestic, about a legendary 1922 dinner party where Igor Stravinsky, Marcel Proust, Sergei Diaghilev, James Joyce and Pablo Picasso famously met for a dull evening ("Proust ... made a dramatic entrance in white gloves and a fur coat, and tried to engage Stravinsky in conversation about Beethoven, to which the composer snapped back, 'I detest Beethoven.' Joyce arrived drunk, and either fell asleep at the table or pretended to.")
It's a pleasure to read Garrison Keillor's thoughts about Harper Lee and her new biography, Mockingbird by Charles J. Shields, even if he ignores the book to write his own one-page consideration of this newly-talked-about Alabama recluse. I guess big-shot reviewers don't actually need to write book reviews, as long as they show up. In this particular case, I really didn't mind.
I was sorry Claire Dederer didn't oblige my hopes with a favorable review of Matthew Pearl's The Poe Shadow, since I enjoyed Pearl's The Dante Club and would like to look forward to Pearl on Poe. She informs us that the book's a dud, which is a shame if it's true (and possibly more of a shame if it's not -- I'll let you know).
Troy Patterson is similarly dismissive of E. Lynn Harris's I Say A Little Prayer, though his reasoning isn't very convincing, and I have to gripe about his sideswiping comparison to John O'Hara, who he characterizes as a "famously clueless brand-name-dropper". Not so fast, there ... O'Hara's literary reputation is currently nowhere, but then so was Harper Lee's until recently; O'Hara was a superb writer and there is nothing clueless about his best books and stories.
There's more excitement in today's Letter section, as John O'Connor, co-author of the recent A G-Man's Life with Mark "Deep Throat" Felt, dukes it out with John Dean, who recently described the O'Connor/Felt book as "riddled with errors" even though a comparison with the historical record turns up no errors at all (thanks, by the way, to GalleyCat's Ron Hogan for acknowledging that I had this scoop a month before the Daily News). Both men have privileged access to Watergate history: O'Connor is a long-time friend of Mark Felt, and Dean is the former White House counsel who directly managed the Watergate cover-up for Nixon in 1972 and early 1973. Both men show up in today's Letters section to toss facts around, appealing to "informed sources" to support their arguments.
Well, gentlemen, I'd like to volunteer myself as an informed source, since it just so happens I'm an obsessive Watergate buff the way some people are obsessive Civil War buffs. The fact that I own all these books doesn't make me an expert:
But the fact that I've read them all at least twice, I think, does. So here's my verdict: John O'Connor is right and John Dean is wrong. Example: Felt and O'Connor wrote in the book that John Dean had influenced the choice of a new F.B.I. chief after L. Patrick Gray's disastrous confirmation hearings, and John Dean mocked this as an error. The historical record proves Felt and O'Connor right, and so in today's letter to the Book Review Dean tries to explain his position by pinpointing a single incident in which the succession was discussed, and explaining that he could not have been influential during this particular discussion because he was already out of the White House inner circle at the time this discussion took place.
However, the selection process for Gray's successor was not limited to this one single discussion. The selection process, naturally, began as soon as it became clear that the Senate was not going to approve Gray for the position. This was earlier in April, when Dean was still the active White House counsel, and still on reasonably good terms with the President. Dean's rejoinder cannot withstand any scrutiny at all; it's simply a desparate attempt to squirm out of a mistake.
I'm sorry to have to beat up on John Dean like this, since he is generally one of my favorite Watergate figures (he's no Bob Haldeman, of course, but who is?). I respect Dean's books Blind Ambition and Worse Than Watergate, and I'm disappointed to see him turning out this kind of performance in public. He was supposedly one of the sharpest lawyers in Washington D. C. when he worked for the White House. Well, defense is obviously not his strong point. Come to think of it, it wasn't his strong point in 1973 either.
This article is part of the series Reviewing the New York Times Book Review. The next post in the series is Reviewing the Review: June 18 2006. The previous post in the series is Reviewing the Review: June 4 2006.
8 Responses to "Reviewing the Review: June 11 2006"
by Stokey on Sunday, June 11, 2006 01:52 pm
One could argue (even with an expert) that if Werner Heisenberg saved the world by not giving Hitler the atomic bomb, then John Dean similarly saved America by not allowing Nixon the laurel wreath of Caesar. To be clear here (as clear as Nathan Jessup, in A Few Good Men) Heisenberg could've given Hitler the bomb; and Nixon's intent was to eradicate democracy in America. (Perhaps that's already been done, as Robert Kennedy Jr. suggests -- he who controls the Ohio voting machines determines elections.) But at a point in time, the Nixonites were about seizing and holding power, forever, and by any means necessary. According to the movie "Nixon" Kennedy Jr.'s father was a removable impediment. (Well, somebody removed him anyway.) But one man, and one man alone stood up and stopped the Nixonites. And that was John Dean. I'm grateful to Heisenberg; and to Dean. (Would that Colin Powell were similarly chosen to stand up.)
by warrenweappa on Sunday, June 11, 2006 07:11 pm
Voltaire's Quote"History's a pack of lies."I remember hearing the same things about the FBI on the Discovery channel.All this was over thirty years ago and even then, I don't know if what people in other buildings were doing in D.C.As for Garrison Keillor phoning in his review: no one can ever rest on their laurels.The attraction of the travel book genre, just like reality TV, must be explained to me.
by brooklyn on Sunday, June 11, 2006 07:43 pm
Stokey -- interesting comments, though I have to say I see it differently. We all hold onto our own versions of the Watergate story, and to this day nobody knows the full truth. In my interpretation, even Richard Nixon himself was just a single player in this incredible ensemble drama, and did not play the sinister central role that popular history seems to have bestowed on him.According to the interpretation I tend to agree with, the "quiet revolution" of Watergate (a successful Presidential administration was overturned, which does qualify the event as a revolution) was a necessary step due to a basic political disconnection between the American people and the bureaucracy that had come to dominate the government (a bureaucracy well characterized by the expression "military-industrial complex"). The United States Government was committed to continuing an aggressive and excruciating war in Vietnam, and the American public was largely against it (both sides were vocal, of course, but America clearly wanted peace). It wasn't just the Republican party that was committed to the Vietnam war -- in fact Nixon inherited the mess from the Kennedy and LBJ administrations.Despite the fact that the American public was increasingly against the Vietnam war, the US governmental bureaucracy was inextricably committed and could not find a way out. A coup d'etat was necessary, and Woodward and Bernstein provided the spark when they caught the Nixon administration in a petty election-year crime.That's my interpretation of Watergate -- I believe it makes no sense to discuss Watergate outside the larger context of the Vietnam war, which was a terrible American crisis during that time. I think this is a fascinating topic -- and an especially relevant one today, when perhaps a quiet revolution is needed again.
Check out the Wikipedia version of "Watergate" or "All the President's Men." Historical fact is always subject to opinion; but this is such a critical part of American history..."petty" just isn't right. The concept "America" deserves better than that.
by Nasdijj on Monday, June 12, 2006 12:56 am
How Many of Us Feel...I fell under my desk laughing. "How many of us feel about the NYTBR." That one sentence says it all. My soul has been released. I never have to read the NYTBR ever again. I never realized what my problem was with the NYTBR until reading this. It has no humor. Not even tongue in cheek. It takes itself too seriously. Even the French hedonists have become passe. It hasn't one whit the wit of: "Actually, that's how many of us feel." Indeed, we do.
by brooklyn on Monday, June 12, 2006 10:02 am
I can agree that the Watergate burglary was more than "petty", but I also think it falls short of "sinister". A close look at Nixon's electoral ethics shows him to be an old-school dirty-trick-playing mud-slinger hard campaigner. But then, so was Lyndon Johnson. The development of the Nixon administration "covert actions" team (headed by the hilariously incompetent G. Gordon Liddy, the Dwight Schroot of 1972) was undoubtedly a response to the leak of the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg, which Nixon's right-wing critics considered an embarrassing sign that the Nixon administration was not playing hardball well enough. So they created the "Plumbers", they hired Donald Segretti and G. Gordon Liddy, and they planned a few "operations", like the Watergate burglary, to prove that they knew how to pull off the covert stuff. In a way, the Watergate burglary was a "proof of concept" for an administration that was worried it couldn't compete with opposing spy/infiltration operations. The fact that they did such a terrible job of the burglary reinforces the fact that they were beginners at this type of activity.
by shamatha on Monday, June 12, 2006 12:37 pm
I knowWatergate is important, but I don't know much about it beyond the basics, and I can't bring myself to get interested in it. It's enough trying to keep my head wrapped around what's going on right now. I thought you were against the NYTBR getting all political, anyways.I sympathize with Tom Bissell, as the internet has allowed a universe of pedants to ply their craft, and I can imagine it gets frustrating. But in the end it sounds like Bissell was using a "review" of someone else's book as a forum for personal vendettas. I know he's written a travel book himself, so I imagine he's writing from experience. But his comments make him sound like a bit of a whiner, because what he's essentially saying is that people shouldn't point out his mistakes. Of course, there are big mistakes and little mistakes, and the pedant's folly is not being able to distinguish between a big mistake and a smaller one that has no real relevance to the larger work, like say the writer chooses a colloquial spelling of a word in the regional dialect rather than a more universally accepted one. That kind of stuff would piss me off too.
by brooklyn on Monday, June 12, 2006 07:07 pm
Hey Shamatha -- good to see you again. I definitely don't expect anybody to share my enthusiasm for the topic of Watergate. But when somebody gives me an opening, I take it, and the Book Review gave me an opening. About politics in general, well ... I have complained when I felt the Book Review was becoming an arm of the News desk. But I do think of literature as having a political element, in the analytic or theoretical sense. I'm always up for discussing substantive issues of global policy or historical interpretation, when the issues come up. I'm not actually sure if John Dean vs. John O'Connor counts as substantive anything ... but like I said, if somebody gives me an opening ...
E. Howard Hunt, Novelist
by Levi Asher Tuesday, January 23, 2007 08:02 pm
E. Howard Hunt, pulp novelist and key Watergate operative, has died.
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Philosophy Weekend: Why Occupy and the Tea Party Should Protest Together
by Levi Asher Friday, December 2, 2011 10:53 am
Tea Partiers and Occupiers often look at each other as opponents -- a ridiculous idea, since we are all protesting the same injustices and mistakes, and we all seek the same basic goals.
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Philosophy Weekend: When Cognitive Bias Gets Scary
by Levi Asher Saturday, November 10, 2012 08:23 am
This image is a real screenshot from a real website -- the victory website that went live after the polls closed on USA election day 2012, because apparently, stunningly, incredibly ... Mitt Romney's staff was that sure that they would win. They had given unconditional orders -- unconditional! -- to launch the website when the election ended.
Three days after the election, the revelation that not only Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan but their entire entourage and staff were sure they would win is still rocking the world. It turned out that Romney spent the evening of election day stewing in his hotel room with his yes-man entourage, doing nothing but smoothing out the final draft of his acceptance speech. The prior evidence that they would lose was, of course, rather overwhelming. Nate Silver, the most influential poll analyst in the world, a nonpartisan observer who in the past had correctly predicted Republican victories as well as Democratic ones, had already announced that in the New York Times that polling numbers strongly favored President Obama. The Obama administration knew it would win, and said so. I knew Obama would win. Even Bob Dylan knew Obama would win.
Philosophy Weekend: Military Spending and the Camouflage Curtain
by Levi Asher Thursday, February 28, 2013 10:45 pm
I've been trying to develop a theory on this blog -- a theory that I'm finding difficult to explain because the basic idea is so obvious that it barely merits the lofty term 'theory'. And yet it must be a theory, because its implications are important, and stand in surprising contrast to the way we tend to think about global conflicts ...
Philosophy Weekend: Stuck In An Elevator With Rand Paul and John McCain
by Levi Asher Saturday, March 16, 2013 03:45 pm
A few months ago, we discussed the disturbing suggestion that there could ever be a rulebook for drone warfare. Most of us are horrified by the fact that remote-control killer aircraft is now a "thing", and we should be ...
Thomas Mallon's Comedy of Watergate
by Levi Asher Tuesday, March 26, 2013 11:08 pm
Most books about Watergate aim for Shakespearean tragedy, but Thomas Mallon's novel aims for Shakespearean comedy.
Why Watergate Happened: The Awkward Truth About the Mysterious Motive
by Levi Asher Monday, April 1, 2013 11:16 pm
What was the real motive for the Watergate break-in that destroyed the Nixon presidency, and what does this scandal have in common with the George W. Bush administration?
Philosophy Weekend: If You Care About Privacy, Be A Pacifist
by Levi Asher Saturday, June 8, 2013 11:05 am
If you care about your personal privacy, and if you don't like the government snooping into your phone records and Internet activities, you ought to be a pacifist. The culture of militarism will never be consistent with a culture of privacy.
Gettysburg 150: Impressions of a Battlefield
by Levi Asher Thursday, July 4, 2013 09:12 am
The happy chaos of a large family vacation to a historical battlefield town doesn't leave much time for the kind of reflection I like to put into a Litkicks blog post. It does, however, lend itself to good jokes ...
Katharine Graham, the Heroine of the Washington Post
by Levi Asher Monday, August 5, 2013 09:30 pm
"Personal History" by newspaper publisher Katharine Graham is one of the most stunning and inspiring autobiographies I've ever read.
Philosophy Weekend: Hope in Syria
by Levi Asher Sunday, September 1, 2013 07:55 am
This is an image of a sculpture found in ancient Syria around 5000 B.C. It's a reminder of how glorious a land is today a scene of misery, genocide and fear, as the civil war against the Assad regime worsens and the world contemplates the possibility of a USA missile strike that nobody believes will help the government's victims ...
It's Time to Talk About Spiro Agnew
by Levi Asher Monday, October 7, 2013 09:01 am
Why has the United States of America chosen to forget everything about Spiro Agnew? I believe there may be a conspiracy of shame. We know that his prosecution and resignation do not stand the light of examination, and we cannot tell his story without admitting a deeply uncomfortable truth.
Three Books About the Rise and Fall of Spiro Agnew
by Levi Asher Tuesday, October 8, 2013 04:40 pm
Three books about Spiro Agnew, the Vice President who resigned in disgrace on Oct 10, 1973
History Weekend: Ending Sixty Years of Bad Karma With Iran
by Levi Asher Sunday, November 24, 2013 07:53 am
Every once in a while, a pacifist blogger gets to yell "stop the presses" ...
Philosophy Weekend: Nelson Mandela and F. W. de Klerk
by Levi Asher Saturday, December 7, 2013 07:48 pm
It's easy to praise Nelson Mandela, but let's also remember his less apparently heroic partner in peace, F. W. de Klerk, the last white President of South Africa, who helped Mandela to save their country's soul.


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Georgia Landlord Evicted Tenant For Having Black Guests Over: ACLU Lawsuit
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The landlords of a north Georgia home are accused of evicting a white tenant for having her black co-worker and his 5-year-old son over to her home, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union.
The woman, Victoria Sutton, says in the federal discrimination suit that her landlords, Allen and Patricia McCoy, used racial slurs and physically threatened her, including by telling her she had to move out of the Adairsville, Georgia, home.
"Maybe you like black dogs, but I don't. So just get your stuff and get out," Patricia McCoy allegedly said in a conversation Sutton claims she recorded. The lawsuit also details multiple alleged uses of the N-word by both McCoys, and a physical threat from Patricia McCoy to "stomp the shit out" of Sutton.
The suit alleges Sutton was given an eviction notice in October and ultimately left in December out of concern for her family's safety.
The McCoys denied all allegations to WSB-TV's Nicole Carr. "Some of the best friends I got is colored," Allen McCoy said.
"If the allegations of this lawsuit prove true, then it provides a window into the types of pernicious racial discrimination that continues to this day," Sean Young, legal director of the ACLU of Georgia and an attorney on the case, told HuffPost.
Sutton is also represented by attorneys from the law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC.
See the lawsuit below (story continues after):
Sutton's complaint says she began inviting her co-worker and his son over to her home beginning in September 2018 for play dates with her children. But in late September, the suit alleges, Sutton received a knock on her door from her landlord, Allen McCoy.
McCoy allegedly used the N-word multiple times and threatened to arrest Sutton's co-worker if he came over again. He also threatened to call Child Protective Services and gave Sutton two weeks to move out, she says.
Sutton claims to have recorded a subsequent call with Patricia McCoy, during which McCoy allegedly made a physical threat and said, "I don't want them in my property," referring to black people.
McCoy allegedly threatened to double Sutton's rent before saying she would give her an eviction notice.
Sutton says that notice came the next day, on Oct. 1, 2018. At an eviction hearing, the McCoys claimed Sutton had damaged the property, though Sutton provided pictures that she said showed otherwise.
The McCoys told media outlets, including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, that the eviction was the result of property damage.
"We believe that those statements are entirely false in light of the recorded statements made by Ms. McCoy that the only reason that she was evicting Ms. Sutton and her family was because she had invited an African American family to her home," Brian Corman, a Cohen Milstein attorney representing Sutton, told HuffPost.
"There's almost always a pretext given for racial discrimination," Young said.
After being given a 60-day notice in mid-October, Sutton moved out in December 2018. Sutton says she "experienced extreme emotional distress" over fears for her family's safety.


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Q: Approach for adding posts to a blog type website I've created a blog style website using html, CSS and bootstrap. I've recently started learning Javascript.
I want to be able to add/delete posts etc to the blog website. Is Javascript the technology I should be using to do to this? I also thought I could use SQL or something to create a database and somehow have posts be loaded onto the site from the database.
I'm pretty new to all this so I'm not too sure.
Help appreciated.

A: What you need is some sort of storing the objects on a server. You can choose from plethora of solutions, naming php and nodejs as most popular ones in web world. On the server you (most of the times) make a connection to the database (sql - mysql, mariadb etc or nosql like mongodb for example) in order to get or set or remove some objects (posts). You can as well store it in files or whatever you want, but database is just created to serve this purpose. Has numerous advantages over another solutions.
And now to the Javascript; you can use it to send the data asynchronously (read about ajax / xhr request) but its completely optional. It's definetely not the core of the proces and it's completely ommitable.
You can build anything from scratch, and such experiments are sometimes beneficial, but most of the times you just want to use some de-facto standard technology that has most of the pitfalls covered and offers you good development experience as well as security benefits (wordpress - cms, symfony frsmework).

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Care2 Healthy Living | What's the Optimal Daily Vinegar Dose?
Many cultures have taken advantage of this fact by mixing vinegar with high glycemic foods. For example, in Japan, they use vinegar in rice to make sushi, and, in the Mediterranean, they dip bread into balsamic vinegar. Throughout Europe, a variety of sourdough breads can lower both blood sugar and insulin spikes.
You can get the same effect by adding vinegar to boiled white potatoes then cooling them to make potato salad. Adding vinegar to white bread doesn't just lower blood sugar and insulin responses, it increases satiety, or the feeling of being full after a meal. A study found that if you eat three slices of white bread, it may fill you up a little, but in less than two hours, you're hungrier than when you began eating. If you eat that same amount of bread with some vinegar, though, you feel twice as full and, even two hours later, still feel nearly just as full as if you had just eaten the three pieces of bread plain.
But this remarkable increase and prolongation of satiety took nearly two tablespoons of vinegar. That's a lot of vinegar. What's the right amount? It turns out that even just two teaspoons of vinegar with a meal can significantly decrease the blood sugar spike of a refined carb meal, a bagel and juice, for instance. You could easily add two teaspoons of vinaigrette to a little side salad or two teaspoons of vinegar to some tea with lemon. Or you could scrap the bagel with juice and just have some oatmeal with berries instead.
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This Southern-style entrée is a one-pan dish that's sure to impress guests. The homemade bourbon-peach sauce perfectly complements the pan-seared pork chops. Serve with steamed asparagus to round out the meal.
Sprinkle pork with salt and peppers. Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Coat pan with cooking spray. Add pork to pan; cook 2 1/2 minutes on each side or until browned. Remove pork from pan; keep warm.
Add shallots and garlic to pan; sauté 30 seconds. Add peaches and broth to pan; sauté 2 minutes. Add sugar and thyme to pan; cook 1 minute. Add bourbon and butter to pan; cook 4 1/2 minutes or until butter melts and sauce is slightly thickened. Discard thyme sprigs. Serve with pork.
This recipe is so good! I love making this and it is on my dinner rotation menu. Its something that is quick and easy, that has a taste of Southern without the guilt. My husband and I just love this. I prefer to use fresh peaches over the frozen just because I get alot more juice and flavor that mixes well with the bourbon.
My family really liked this recipe. I served it with oven roasted asparagus and rice. It was an easy weeknight meal to make and I will be making it again.
Wonderful and so easy!! Used fresh peaches but definitely will make with frozen if fresh aren't available. Serve with CL Squash-Rice Casserole. Perfect combo and all you need. Delicious light meal.
It was delicious. Of course, I made a few changes based on the ingredients I had. I left out shallots (DH can't eat them. I used dried thyme, canned peaches and brandy for the bourbon. It was really good and my picky eaters liked it! I'll make this again.
Used fresh peaches which resulted in a compote rather than a "sauce", but the flavor is outstanding! Like another reviewer, I used fresh thyme leaves instead of putting in the sprigs--more flavor.
This was good...Pork Marsala with a southern twist. I doubled the amount of sauce per the other reviewers' suggestions, and it actually seemed a bit much. The only other change (well plus using sirloin chops) was adding a few pinches of dried thyme rather than the sprigs (and of course leaving them in), and I served it with roasted broccoli. I like this even better than CL Grilled Peaches and Pork (2005) and this will be my new go-to peach-and-pork recipe.