Broadcaster Leeann Tweeden accused Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) of groping her breasts and forcibly kissing her while the two were on a USO Tour in 2006.
Tweeden posted her account of what occurred on the KABC website, where she now works.
Tweeden said she and Franken - a comedian and former "SNL" performer - were performing for U.S. service members in Afghanistan in Dec. 2006 along with country music singers.
She said he performed a comedy routine for the mostly male audience which often included sexually suggestive jokes.
Tweeden said Franken wrote a skit in which he and Tweeden would kiss and insisted on rehearsing it off-stage.
On the flight home on a military cargo plane, Tweeden said she fell asleep and Franken groped her breasts over a Kevlar vest in front of military members.
He posed for a photo and smiled as he did it. Tweeden said she later saw the photo in a disc from the tour provided by a photographer.
Tweeden said she wanted to go public immediately, but stayed silent due to "potential backlash and damage going public might have on my career as a broadcaster."
"But that was then, this is now. I'm no longer afraid," she wrote.
In response, Franken said in a statement, "I certainly don't remember the rehearsal for the skit in the same way, but I send my sincerest apologies to Leeann. As to the photo, it was clearly intended to be funny but wasn't. I shouldn't have done it."
Tweeden, a model and sportscaster, said she was inspired to tell the story by another member of Congress, Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), who appeared recently on KABC's "McIntyre in the Morning" radio show.
"She told us her story of being sexually assaulted when she was a young Congressional aide," Tweeden wrote of Speier.
"She described how a powerful man in the office where she worked 'held her face, kissed her and stuck his tongue in her mouth.' At that moment, I thought to myself, Al Franken did that exact same thing to me."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and leading Senate Democrats called for an ethics investigation of Franken over Tweeden's claims.
"As with all credible allegations of sexual harassment or assault, I believe the Ethics Committee should review the matter. I hope the Democratic Leader will join me on this. Regardless of party, harassment and assault are completely unacceptable - in the workplace or anywhere else," McConnell said.
Franken backed the idea on Thursday and said he'd "gladly cooperate." The allegations by Tweeden predate Franken's Senate career. He was elected in 2008 and re-elected in 2014.
The allegations against Franken come amid the continuing controversy surrounding Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore.
The former judge has been accused of pursuing sexual relationships with several teen girls, one as young as 14, when he was in his early 30s.
Moore has steadfastly denied the allegations and resisted calls from Republican leaders to end his campaign.
On her show last night, Laura Ingraham interviewed a former Capitol Hill staffer who said she was blackballed after she complained about inappropriate behavior by a congressman.
Ingraham also called for an investigation of a little-known Congressional fund that has paid out $15.2 million to sexual harassment victims or accusers over the past few years.
UPDATE, 2:45pm ET: Tweeden spoke out on her allegations in an interview and news conference Thursday and responded to Franken's apology.
In an interview with Fox 11, Tweeden described how Franken insisted they practice a kiss during rehearsal.
"He came at me and before I even knew it, he put his hand on the back of my head and came towards me and mashed my face against my mouth and stuck his tongue in my mouth," Tweeden said. "I sort of pushed him back and I said, 'Don't ever do that to me again. I was so angry and I walked out of there."


MARK COLVIN: In China, talks between the Dalai Lama's representatives and the government of President Hu Jintao have been suspended.
The Chinese government blames the effort required to cope with the recent earthquake disaster.
But, on that front too, the Government has its hands full today.
They're trying to stop grieving parents from coming together to mark the one month anniversary with gatherings that could turn into protests at the quality of China's school construction.
China Correspondent Stephen McDonell joins me on the line from Sichaun Province.
Stephen, you were probably listening to that story about the Dalai Lama. Just tell us first of all, I know you've been trying to get into Tibet. Have journalists been able to get into Tibet at all in the last couple of months?
STEPHEN MCDONELL: No, I'm afraid that journalists have not been able to get into Tibet recently.
In fact the Chinese Foreign Ministry's spokesperson Chin Gung (phonetic) was asked a few days ago you know if this ban was still in place and he said that I think it's been in place since March and it's still the case that we still can't go to Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai et cetera. All the Tibetan areas as well as Tibet itself.
And the Foreign Ministry spokesman, Chin Gung responded that the conditions are not right for journalists to report in Tibet and other areas and will provide necessary assistance for you to report as the stability is restored in Tibet and other Tibetan areas.
'We are adopting measures to maintain social stability. Social order in Tibet is getting further restoration now. If you are trying to suggest that the Chinese Government is not capable of safeguarding tranquillity of a certain place within it's own territory, you are underestimating the Chinese Government and people'.
So it's still a very touchy subject and certainly we're not allowed back in there.
MARK COLVIN: And the reporter's view is just they want to go and see for themselves. What about the question of whether there's any thaw between the Chinese Government and the Dalai?
STEPHEN MCDONELL: No, in fact things have probably gone backwards recently. You mentioned just then that these talks which were actually supposed to be happening yesterday between the Dalai Lama's personal representatives and the Government of Hu Jintao have been postponed.
Now Chin Gung was also asked about this - why they have been postponed. And he said that right now, all Chinese departments were focusing on earthquake related relief and that we hope that the Dalai side can take concrete actions to create conditions for further contact.
So what tiny spark of dialogue there was has been completely petering out in recent times.
MARK COLVIN: You mentioned that Sichuan was one of the areas where you were banned from, after the Tibet uprising. But obviously the part of Sichuan where you are now isn't covered by that. What are you seeing now that you've gone back there after the earthquake?
STEPHEN MCDONELL: I mean in fact some of the areas that were affected by the earthquake are also those Tibetan areas but there are very remote and extremely hard to get to at the best of times.
And with the earthquake situation as it is, it's virtually impossible to reach anyway even if the Government would let us go there to see what's happening. The recent developments here have been that I'm afraid that whatever opening up or sort of goodwill towards the foreign media there was has also been petering out in recent weeks.
Especially today as the one month anniversary since the quake hit and the Government's been doing everything it can to not only stop these grieving parents from getting to the sites of schools that have collapsed but also stopping reporters from getting there to report on this.
And what they're worried about is that we've already seen a few cases where parents have been getting quite organised with tee-shirts, calling for retribution, there's been corruption which is why these schools collapsed and killed their children and this level of sort of organisation worries the Government.
And even though I supposed some people in the Government would feel sorry for the people who lost their children, they're not prepared to allow them to gather even on this day to mourn the death of their children. So the police presence we saw today was enormous. Busloads of police.
At one stage, near the Juyuan school, we saw soldiers standing 30 metres apart all the way along the road and you couldn't get anywhere near it, about, sort of an area of a kilometre around the school you couldn't approach it at all.
MARK COLVIN: Stephen McDonell thank you very much. Stephen is our China correspondent.


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If abuse is the problem, is empathy the cure? If we must declare culture war against psychopaths, can we solve their problem by putting each of them on a permanent empathy drip? If men are the problem, are women the solution? Will the world be a better, a kinder and gentler place if more women have more power?
This feminist solution to the nation's problems has been in force in America for decades now. How has it been working out? The wave of scandals about sexually abusive men, now including Leon Wieseltier, Knight Landesman, George H. W. Bush and John Halperin suggests that enhanced awareness about sexual abuse does not tamp down sexual abuse. One might even suggest that it aggravates the problem.
When you throw away the rules of courtship, courtesy and civility you end up with something resembling a free-for-all. In a free-for-all you had best have the balance of strength tipping in your favor.
Tarring one gender with every propensity for evil does not induce members of this gender to behave well. Declaring that members of the other gender to be angelic, to the point of being always truthful does not seem to advance anyone's cause.
One questions the way the notion of psychopath is defined in the current literature. We question it more strongly since it seems to be a way to defame men and especially to diminish their competitive spirit. I do not need to tell you that highly competitive men do not feel very much empathy for their opponents. They cannot function in competition if they are feeling the pain that they want to inflict on their opponents. Is this a psychopathic trait or are we criminalizing a desirable character?
If you belong to a team engaged in competition and you are actively empathizing with the opposition team—you feel badly for them because they are being beaten badly—will you be a better or worse teammate? Will you be undermining your own team because you do not want the other team to feel like losers?
If psychopathy is defined as antisocial behavior are we within our right to suggest that the teammate who feels for his opponents is being more prosocial or more antisocial?
Take the latest from the world of psycho research. It comes from the University of Plymouth, in England. Researchers address this question: if you are in a position of leadership and you want to save the lives of a multitude of people, but the only way you can do so is to sacrifice the life of one person, could you do it? And, what personality types are more likely to do so more effectively, with fewer guilt feelings.
Experiments of this sort have been conducted from time to time. We have discussed the issue in slightly different terms on this blog. If we go back to 1915 and suggest that the American president, namely Woodrow Wilson, could have forestalled the unmitigated calamity of the Great War by getting America involved sooner, even if that would have caused American casualties, should he have done it? When called upon to respond to the sinking of the Lusitania Wilson famously responded that he was "too proud to fight."
I would suggest that executives sometimes face such issues. We like to think that decisions are defined as good vs. bad. It is nice to sit on the sidelines and to want there to be no casualties at all, but executives do face situations where they need to decide on the least bad course of action.
The researchers from Plymouth ran a series of experiments to see what kind of personality would be more likely to be more decisive in certain defined circumstances. They were told that, in order, to save a large number of people, they would have to sacrifice one person. Of course, beyond applying this to difficult foreign policy decisions, we can also apply it to cultures that practice human sacrifice. Of course, in such practices, the connection is mythic, not real. Savages sacrifice human beings because they believe, by the terms of their mythology, that they will thereby be saving their community.
The researchers wanted to knowwhat kind of people would have been quicker to sacrifice the one to save the many and what kind of people would have been more reserved, more timid, weaker in their response.
The result: they discovered that people who have psychopathic tendencies were the most decisive and the strongest. By the terms of the problem—we are not allowed to offer up a third way approach that frees us from the responsibility of choosing— one group was better at taking decisive action than any other.
Doesn't this suggest that we should revise our definition of what it means to be competitive and decisive, what it means to be a competent executive… thus to relieve such people of the label of psychopath. One must assume that some of those who aced the test were abominable human beings and that some of those who were weaker and more timid were not the people you would want sharing your foxhole. Is that a reason to defame all people who have these decision-making skills?
Note the way the researchers famed the moral issue. They concluded that those who had more psychopathic tendencies were really making pragmatic choices for the greater good. If you are making the right decision to advance the greater good, should you be tarred with a defamatory diagnosis?
Jack Fisher said...
Without more of a context and with the question posed with parameters that are certain, these kinds of questions are meaningless. Unless you're shooting people yourself, you don't know that the "victim" will die or the multitudes will be saved.
Without any moral qualms, in the right circumstances, a senior officer should tell his lieutenant to hold a rearguard position while the rest of the formation escapes even knowing that the rearguards will be overrun and probably killed. Both officers understand this context, and the intention of the senior is not to kill the junior. In fact, if he leads the rearguard himself, the point does not change.
I believe it would have been morally indefensible for a civilian sheltering a Jew from ze Nazis to betray his trust under the threat of the murder of hostages. Either don't take on the job of protecting the persecuted or be prepared to accept the personal consequences if Hans Landa is pointing a Luger at you as well.
On the other hand, in slightly less dire situations, such as civil litigation, the point is to hurt (by forcing them to expend money, time and stress) the other side and keep hurting until they come to their senses and settle. It's just business.
Shaun F said...
It's a shame chivalry is something that no longer really exists. There used to be brave men of good character and good moral standing (say knowing the seven deadly sins or even the four cardinal virtues) - that weren't labelled as being benevolent psychopaths.
Ares Olympus said...
It certainly is easy to predict that people with psychopathic tendencies will find it easier to make decisions based on cold hard reason, and that reason could be either selfish (what's good for me now), or benevolent (what's good for everyone.)
And there's an issue of "who is everyone", so for instance, should a politician make the best decision for the country, or the best decision for the party? It is nice that sometimes someone elected to an executive position like president says "I don't represent those who voted for me. I represent all Americans." And he or she can go further and say "I represent all those who have died for our freedom." and "I represent all those who will yet be born." and when you represent people who can't communicate to you directly, that's a much higher responsibility since you have to try to guess what their interests are, and then try to put all those interests from all sides together and find some middle ground that best represents the whole.
But maybe the real power of the psychopath isn't in making quick decision, but not second guessing himself, or blaming himself for making a decision that ended badly. So the potential flaw of this is that a psychopath may be "unteachable" since he's not willing to look back at his past mistakes, he's more willing to keep making the same bad decisions over and over. So an ordinary person might get caught in one affair, and be forgiven, and take that as a sign he should reform, while a psychopath will take forgiveness as a sign all is well, and do the same thing tomorrow.
I recall Jesus tried to simplify justice and said there are only 2 commandments, Matthew 22:37-49, to love God with all your heart, soul and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself. Perhaps the golden rule comes out of that, and the golden rule can apply to competitive situations.
You can say "I'd not like my rivals to cheat, so I won't cheat." But a more competitive person doesn't think that way - he thinks "Everyone else is cheating, so I have to cheat just to keep up." Lance Armstrong said "What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day." So he tried to shame his doubting critics into silence.
So given both sorts of people exist, I guess what we're left with is Reagan's "Trust, but verify" and that's why we have referees and courts to rule on the psychopaths ability to put themselves above the law.

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Make Drinking Lemonade your Mission!
CSJ Lemonade is as a fundraising initiative for Motor Neuron Disease, a disease that unfortunately affected Claudia's father.
Claudia is the co-founder of CSJ Lemonade, an idea born from her 11-year old daughter wanting to make a difference in a big way.
CSJ Lemonade is as a fundraising initiative for Motor Neuron Disease, a disease that unfortunately affected Claudia's father. Driven from the heart to raise awareness and money to find a cure, Claudia, and her family started selling lemonade, with no prior business knowledge, at a stand in their local market.
The business was moving and they were learning, however Claudia noticed that she was having fears emerge around her success and the success of the business. She realised that as the custodian of her daughter's business, her behaviour and fears would carry on through her down to her daughter. Taking a stand for her daughter and the great cause they were chasing, Claudia knew she had a big enough reason to step up and face her fears head on.
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It's official: Windows 7 is a hit, and XP is finally in decline
Early Windows 7 adopters have now had a full year to stress-test Windows 7 and decide whether it's good enough to replace Windows XP. The verdict? Windows 7 has been a quiet success, maybe even a phenomenon. The question now isn't whether it will overtake XP, but when.
By Ed Bott for The Ed Bott Report | August 18, 2010 -- 15:53 GMT (08:53 PDT) | Topic: Enterprise Software
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Last year at this time, Microsoft was in the final stages of preparing Windows 7 for its worldwide launch. The new OS was finally available to the public—well, at least that segment of the public with a TechNet or MSDN subscription. Those early adopters had to wait a few weeks after the official release to manufacturing date but still got a head start on the general public.
Those demanding and skeptical Windows users have now had a full year to stress-test Windows 7 and decide whether it's good enough to replace Windows XP.
The verdict? Windows 7 has been a quiet success, maybe even a phenomenon. Last spring, a Microsoft executive told me that the company had sold 100 million Windows 7 licenses. As part of its quarterly earnings call in July, Microsoft announced that that number had risen to 175 million, and the company has projected that a total of 350 million Windows 7 licenses will have been sold by the end of this year. That's a run rate of roughly 30 million copies per month worldwide, and it represents a lot of Windows 7-powered PCs.
Despite the big numbers, Microsoft has been almost eerily silent about its success. I didn't hear a lot of bragging in advance of the Windows 7 launch, nor has there been much chest-thumping since.
The competition has been muted as well. When was the last time you saw one of Apple's infamous "Get a Mac" ads? Hint: the last three ads in Apple's campaign were released on October 23, 2009, the day after Windows 7 was launched to the public. With titles like Broken Promises and PC News, Apple's marketing executives were hoping for a Vista-style wave of complaints, but they were as disappointed as Windows 7 upgraders were relieved. And then John Hodgman and Justin Long went off to spend more time with their families.
Meanwhile, Windows 7 keeps selling and XP usage is dropping. That's certainly true at this site, where Windows 7 visitors now outnumber those using Windows XP and Vista usage has plunged in the past year. Here's a graphic representation of how Windows 7 usage has increased among visitors to this site since its first beta release back in January 2009.
Data source: Google Analytics data for all pages at Ed Bott's Microsoft Report. Samples cover 30-day periods ending in December 2008, August 2009, December 2009, and August 2010. Each sample consists of a minimum of 100,000 unique visitors. I asked ZDNet's editors to check sitewide stats for me. They report similar trends. Windows 7 usage increased from 22.2% in December 2009 (exactly the same as Windows Vista) to 35.6% in August 2010. Over the same period of time, XP usage among ZDNet visitors fell below the 50% mark, dropping 7 points to 46.6%. At that rate, Windows 7 will surpass XP among all ZDNet visitors well before the end of this year.
Vista users were clearly eager to upgrade, judging by these results, even to a beta release of Windows 7. But XP users are also converting at a steady clip, with XP diehards now under the 40% level here. These numbers include only Windows users, but I also found interesting results when I looked at the percentage of visitors using Mac OS X. As of this month, that number has returned to its December 2008 levels (slightly over 5%) after peaking above 8% a year ago this month, just before the launch of Windows 7.
So what's really going on? You can summarize the entire story in one simple sentence: Windows 7 is the anti-Vista. Reviews have been overwhelmingly positive. Every couple of months, some blogger or reporter tries to stir up a Windows 7-related controversy (remember the "Black Screen of Death" scare stories?), but nothing seems to stick. Most of the obvious annoyances of Vista are fixed—especially the misunderstood User Account Control feature—and there hasn't been a scandalous security or privacy issue or a killer bug. Word of mouth has been solid, too.
In fact, it's good enough to finally dislodge XP's stranglehold on corporate computing. Not overnight, but certainly by XP's end-of-life date in April 2014.
That's the conclusion I draw from a review of data covering Windows 7 adoption rates in corporations, which are notoriously conservative when it comes to OS upgrades. Although the rates of adoption are far slower than among consumers, there's evidence to suggest that corporations are migrating to Windows 7 at a much faster pace than they did for either XP in 2002-2003 or Vista in 2007-2008. According to a Forrester Research study, Windows 7 was "already powering approximately 7.4% of corporate PCs" in April 2010, six months after its release. Although that number might sound small, it represents about a 1.25% increase in Windows 7 usage per month—an impressive number considering how slowly most corporations move. It's also more than twice the adoption rate of Windows Vista at the same point in its release cycle (Vista usage in enterprises topped off at 12.6% after three years), and it's 50% greater than Windows XP after a similar period.
As Forrester analyst Benjamin Gray explained:
[M]ost mainstream enterprises typically don't embrace a new desktop OS until 12 to 18 months after its release […] We likely won't see mainstream enterprisewide adoption of Windows 7 until the middle of this year as IT managers continue developing their upgrade strategies, testing and remediating their application portfolios, and determining what role, if any, client virtualization will play in their next-generation computing strategies.
Today, roughly 70-75% of corporate desktops are still running Windows XP. If enterprise adoption rates for Windows 7 continue at the seemingly slow pace of 1.5% per month, Windows 7 will probably overtake XP in corporate installations by the end of 2011. If that rate picks up even slightly, as it appears to be doing, then there's a good chance that XP will hold a single-digit share of corporate desktops when it's officially retired in 2014.
Last year around this time, I looked at some bullish projections of Windows 7 adoption rates. One was from IDC analyst Al Gillen, who predicted that Windows 7 would account for 75% of units shipped in 2011 and nearly 90% of all Windows desktops sold in 2012. This week, I asked Gillen whether his outlook for Windows 7 was still optimistic, based on the last year's data. There's "no change" in that level of optimism, he told me. "We are still expecting Windows 7 to be very successful."
You can take that to the bank.
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11 Best Dog Breeds For Travel, So You Always Have An Adventure Buddy
By Brittany Bennett
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Traveling isn't only a thing you do once a year for two weeks. For some people, traveling is a lifestyle. Adventure vans are packed with climbing gear and road maps and sleeping bags for year round sight seeing. If you love to live this lifestyle and are looking to add a dog and all their toys to the mix, there are the best dog breeds for travel so you can always have an adventure buddy.
On first thought I assumed that small, compact dogs were the best travel companions. Because, well, they don't take up much space! However, size doesn't matter. A bigger dog with a love for sticking its head out the window will also travel with enthusiasm, and not take up too much room. Besides, it's not about what breed can fit into a travel carrier. It's about what breeds will hike by your side, jump into the lake, and have a bone while you enjoy a s'more by the campfire.
Whether you're day tripping to the mountains or taking a month to drive across the country, make room for Fido. Most dogs love a good ride in the car, but these dogs live for the adventure. Bon(e) voyage!
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The Dachshund may be small, but it has got a ginormous heart for adventuring. Pet Central refers to these beloved 'wiener' dogs as, "a friendly, inquisitive breed." They're likely to follow you wherever you go whether that's across the country or to the bathroom. Because of their compact size, they travel well in carriers on planes or in the front seat.
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This classic and loved breed will be friendly to all the new friends you make on the way of your ventures. And he'll be by your side as you swim in lakes and run up mountainous trails. The Labrador Retriever is gentle and active and will be a loving addition to your always-on-the-road family.
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Don't expect this little dog to stay on your lap. Norwich Terriers, as Pet Central explains, "like to stay busy." They're a pick-up-and-go kind of breed. If you're in love with exploring this wide world, the Norwich Terrier is the kind of breed to have by your side.
The proof is in the pudding, or in this case, the name. The Portuguese Water Dog does, in fact, love the water. If you're constantly traveling to the beach or the lake or the river or even just the swimming hole, the Portuguese Water Dog will be the first in the car.
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Pet Central says that the Brittany is, "A fun-loving sporting dog that's slightly smaller than other sporting breeds." Expect this dog to stick their head out the window and launch out of the back seat once you open the door. They'll be ready to do whatever you have on the itinerary.
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The Russell Terrier is a family dog. They're loving and playful and will make any travel 100 times more joyful. Travel wise, they're travel size, so it's easy to pick up and move from one place to the next.
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The Maltese may look like a high maintenance, prissy breed, but this adorable doggo is a fearless teacup sized pup ready to ride shotgun. According to Bark Post, this breed loves a good car ride and will be smiling the entire way to your destination.
Cocker Spaniels
The Cocker Spaniel is the perfect size. According to American Kennel Club, "They are big enough to be sporty, but compact enough to be portable." Meaning, they'll fit right into your adventure vehicle and hop out ready to play fetch. Be careful around the "w" word, this breed takes "walk" very seriously.
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Who can resist the sweetness of a Golden Retriever? Nobody. You just can't. If you're adding a Golden to your pack, you're in luck. This happy-go-lucky breed is sociable and really just wants to hold your paw as you drive into the sunset. They're up for car rides and wherever you're going, really.
Beagles love to be outside. But Bark Post cautions, "ensure Snoopy is VERY well trained with fantastic recall skills, because once he catches [a] scent, nothing else matters." Hound dogs through and through, this dog would love to come on a hike — and then follow that scent he picked up.
Sporty and smart, this dog needs to stay entertained. The American Kennel Club calls this breed "tireless", so if you're looking for a dog that can keep up with your constant activities and travel routes, this is the perfect breed for traveling.


The three Jersey boys of the amusing low-budget comedy "Calling Bobcat" make their first mistake by drinking a bottle of olive oil and their evening goes downhill from there.
From what I've seen of suburban New Jersey, there are basically two things to do — drink and drive. Which is no problem, figure the three dim bulbs in "Calling Bobcat," because you can imbibe all you want as long as you load up on olive oil first.
Written and directed by: Paul Kermizian.
Cast: Jayce Bartok, Rob King, Daniel Serafini-Sauli, Wendy Hoopes, Samantha Buck, Eric Dubowsky, Michael Arkin, Kristin Griffith, Raphael Nash Thompson.
"It's true," insists one of the fellas. "Before a heavy night of drinking you drink the olive oil and it kinda coats your stomach. Didn't you ever see the commercials for Pepto-Bismol?"
"That's ridiculous. Who told you that?"
"I don't know, I saw it in some movie."
"Some movie. The one with that guy."
I'm telling you right now, don't try the olive-oil trick. At least, it doesn't work out in a gastronomically acceptable fashion for this trio on the night in question.
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What does it mean to simulate the human brain?
30 January, 2013 / Pär Segerdahl / 0 Comments
Earlier this week the exciting news was released that the Human Brain Project is one of the two Flagship Initiatives launched by the European Commission.
The project is an international collaboration between more than 80 research institutions. It will create computer models of the human brain to help us better understand the brain and its diseases. It is hoped that the project also will have practical applicability in the form of new computing and robotic technologies.
At CRB we are especially happy and proud that Kathinka Evers is on board as one of the Division Leaders of the Ethics and Society Division. She will investigate the philosophical implications of the project for our understanding of mind, identity and consciousness.
A main question for Kathinka is what simulating a brain means. The brain evolved in an environment and works embedded in social contexts. What does this imply for the attempt to simulate the brain? How does embodiment and social context enter the simulation of the brain?
The mapping of the human genome led to a deeper understanding of the significant role the environment plays in the functioning of our genes. Will the Human Brain Project result in similar emphasis on the environment with which the brain interacts?
The Ethics Blog will follow Kathinka's work on this and other questions about the human brain with great interest.
(Here is an interview I made with Kathinka in June 2012.)
Athletes' feeling that doping is okay is socially created
Doping is often discussed as the individual athlete's own decision. The athlete wants to win and strategically chooses to take drugs to reach the goal.
When the cyclist Lance Armstrong recently confessed that he used performance enhancing drugs while he won Tour de France seven times, he personally took responsibility for his actions and presented doping as his own decision.
Simultaneously, he said in the interview with Oprah Winfrey that he didn't feel like a cheater while he was using the drugs. Doping was experienced as part of the job. It didn't feel wrong while it went on!
He suddenly spoke of doping not in terms of individuals making strategic choices, but as a doping culture to which he had belonged without reflecting or making conscious choices, and which he now wanted to change.
In a recent article in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, Ashkan Atry investigates, with Mats G. Hansson and Ulrik Kihlbom, this easily neglected collective origin of individual athletes' feelings of right and wrong.
Lance Armstrong confessed doping and took full responsibility for it as his own choice. It belongs to the dramaturgy of the responsible confession. But perhaps this dramaturgy presents doping in a misleadingly individualistic light?
Ashkan Atry thinks so. Doping is a culture, materially and emotionally. The phenomenon reaches beyond the individual athlete, and involves not only team-mates but also coaches, doctors, sponsors and fans (with their demands for superhuman performances).
The feeling that it is okay to dope is socially created. To successfully handle doping, we must avoid tempting individualistic perspectives and focus more on social processes and what Atry calls emotional cultures in sport.
I recommend the article as a refreshingly realistic approach to a phenomenon that otherwise easily evokes ineffective moralizing gestures.
Public ethics and human morality
Is ethics universally valid or can we act differently as moral individuals than as ethical representatives of public institutions?
I just read a well-argued article in Science Policy Forum, discussing whether patients should be paid for their tissue. As their point of departure, the authors cite the (by now) famous case of Henrietta Lacks.
Contrary to the many readers and reviewers of the bestseller who thought that Henrietta Lacks was exploited by the medical establishment, the authors arrive at the following conclusion. In cases similar to that of Henrietta Lacks, patients (or their families) are NOT entitled to payment for their tissue. – Why not?
First of all, there are no property rights for human bodies, people don't own the tissue they leave: no one has the right to demand payment for their tissue.
People should, however, be compensated for the effort of giving the tissue. But there is no such effort associated with patient samples, since the samples were taken for the sake of caring for the patients. There is no effort to compensate for.
But what about the revenue generated by the tissue? Can people make millions of dollars on patients' cells, as in the Henrietta Lacks case, without sharing the profits with the patients (or with their families)?
Once again, the authors argue convincingly that patients have no right to demand payment or part of revenue streams. The tissues are only raw material for developing cell lines. It is the intellectual work of the investigators that creates value. Moreover, since so few donors have tissue that can be used to generate profitable medical products, the end result of trying to be fair by sharing profits with these few lucky donors would be injustice vis-à-vis the majority of donors.
What interests me here is that although I consider the ethical policy proposed in the article as well-argued and right, I can still understand if a morally concerned individual saw injustice in a case like that of Henrietta Lacks and decided to donate money to her family.
Consider this passage from the article:
"Christoph Lengauer, a cancer drug developer and former Hopkins faculty member, articulated this sense of inequity when he reportedly told Lacks's daughter that he thought Hopkins had 'screwed up' by not sharing some of the proceeds from the HeLa cell line with the Lacks family."
The Science Policy Forum article demonstrates that this accusation is not as reasonable as it might seem.
Still, if a concerned individual (like Lengauer) saw injustice in a destiny like that of Henrietta Lacks and personally donated money to the family, I think I could see that as a perfect moral action and not necessarily as deluded.
Can one appreciate the ethical arguments for a policy not to pay patients for their tissue, and still, as an individual, experience injustice and personally donate money?
Unless we demand that human beings should be like representatives of public institutions through and through, I think we can admit such a possibility. It would even make me uncomfortable if we didn't acknowledge such freedom.
Human and animal: where is the frontline?
7 January, 2013 / Pär Segerdahl / 0 Comments
Yesterday I read Lars Hertzberg's thoughtful blog, Language is things we do. His latest post drew my attention to a militant humanist, Raymond Tallis (who resembles another militant humanist, Roger Scruton).
Tallis published Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity. He summarizes his book in this presentation on YouTube.
Tallis gesticulates violently. As if he were a Knight of the Human Kingdom, he defends humanity against an invasion of foreign neuroscientific and biological terms. Such bio-barbarian discourses reduce us to the same level of organic life as that of the brutes, living far away from civilization, in the rainforest and on the savannah.
Tallis promises to restore our former glory. Courageously, he states what every sane person must admit: WE are not like THEM.
Tallis is right that there is an intellectual invasion of biological discourses, led by generals like Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett. There is a need to defend one. – But how? Who would I be defending? Who am I, as a human? And where do I find the front line?
The notions of human life that Tallis defends are the ordinary ones belonging to everyday language. I have the impression, though, that Tallis fails to see the material practices involved in language use. Instead, he abstracts and reifies these notions as if they denoted a sublime and self-contained sphere: a uniquely human subjectivity; one that hopefully will be explained in the future, when the proper civilized terms of human intentionality are discovered. – We just have not found them yet.
Only a future genius of human subjectivity can reveal the truth about consciousness. Peace in the Human Kingdom will be restored, after the wars of modernity and bio-barbarism.
Here are two examples of how Tallis reifies the human world as a nature-transcendent sphere:
"We have stepped out of our organic body."
"The human world transcends the organism Homo sapiens as it was delivered by Darwinian evolution hundreds of thousands of years ago."
Once upon a time we were just animals. Then we discovered how to make a human world out of mere animal lives. – Is this a fairy tale?
Let us leave this fantasy and return to the forms of language use that Tallis abstracts and reifies. A striking fact immediately appears: Tallis is happy to use bio-barbarian discourse to describe animal lives, as if such terms literally applied to animals. He uncritically accepts that animal eating can be reduced to "exhibiting feeding behavior," while humans are said to "dine together."
The fact, then, is that Tallis does not see any need to pay closer attention to the lives of animals, or to defend animals against the bio-barbarism that he fights as a Knight of the Human Kingdom.
This may make you think that Tallis at least succeeds to restore human glory; that he fails only on the animal front (being, after all, a humanist). But he fails to pay attention also to what is human. Since he abstracts and reifies the notions of human life, his dualistic vision combines bio-barbarian jargon about animals with phantasmagoric reifications of what is human.
The front line is in language. It arises in a failure to speak attentively.
When talking about animals is taken as seriously as talking about humans, we foster forms of sensitivity to hum-animal relations that are crushed in Raymond Tallis' militant combination of bio-barbarian discourses for animals with fantasy-like elevations of a "uniquely human world."
The human/animal dichotomy does not reflect how the human world transcends the animal organism. It reflects how humanism fails to speak responsibly.


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Challenge to Censorship of Torture Testimony at Guantánamo Military Commission Trial
Last Update: March 27, 2013
The ACLU asked the Guantánamo Bay military commission to enforce the American public's First Amendment right to open trials in the most important terrorism case of our time. Our motion challenged the government's attempts to censor and hide from the public any statements by the 9/11 defendants about their torture and detention in CIA and military custody. The government's request was granted, and our appeal of that decision was denied.
The Guantánamo military commissions were created in part to hide the Bush administration's illegal and shameful use of torture while also permitting the use of information obtained through torture. The government contends that any testimony by the 9/11 defendants concerning their "exposure" to the CIA's unlawful torture, rendition, and detention program is classified as "sources, methods and activities" of the U.S. and can be withheld from the public.
In May 2012, the ACLU filed a motion asking the commission to deny the government's request to prevent the public from hearing all statements by the defendants about their torture and detention while in U.S. custody. On that basis, the motion asked the commission to bar a delayed audio feed of the proceedings, or, in the alternative, promptly release an uncensored transcript. A group of 14 press organizations also filed a motion arguing for the media's right to access all of the commission's proceedings. Oral argument at Guantánamo was held in October. In December, the judge granted the government's request, and in February 2013 the ACLU asked the U.S. Court of Military Commissions Review to reverse that decision. Our request was denied in March 2013.
U.S. v. Mohammad – Protective Order to Protect Against Disclosure of National Security Information
Challenge to Censorship of Torture Testimony at Guantánamo Military Commission TrialLegal Documents
U.S. v. Mohammad – Ruling on Government Motion to Protect Against Disclosure of National Security Information
U.S. v. Mohammad - ACLU Motion for Public Access at Guantanamo Bay Military Commission Trial – Transcript of Oral Argument Day 2
U.S. v. Mohammad - ACLU Response to Government's Supplemental Motion for Modified Order to Protect Against Disclosure of National Security Information
U.S. v. Mohammad - Government Supplemental Motion for Modified Order to Protect Against Disclosure of National Security Information
U.S. v. Mohammad - ACLU Reply Brief - Motion for Public Access at Guantánamo Bay Military Commission Trial
U.S. v. Mohammad - al Baluchi's Unclassified Response to Government Motion to Protect Against Disclosure of National Security Information
U.S. v. Mohammad - Response/Opposition by 14 News Organizations to Government's Motion to Protect Against Disclosure of National Security Information and Cross-Motion to Enforce Public Access Rights
U.S. v. Mohammad – Government Response to ACLU Motion for Public Access to Proceedings and Records
U.S. v. Mohammad - ACLU Motion for Public Access at Guantanamo Bay Military Commission Trial
U.S. v. Mohammad - Government Motion To Protect Against Disclosure of National Security Information
U.S. v. Mohammad – Denial of ACLU Petition for Writ of Mandamus
U.S. v. Mohammad – Denial of Press Petition for Writ of Mandamus
U.S. v. Mohammad – Petition for Writ of Mandamus – ACLU Reply Brief
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U.S. v. Mohammad – Petition for Writ of Mandamus – Government Response to ACLU
U.S. v. Mohammad – Petition for Writ of Mandamus – Government Response to Press
U.S. v. Mohammad - Appendix to Response to Petition for Writ of Mandamus
U.S. v. Mohammad – Petition for Writ of Mandamus – U.S. Court of Military Commissions Review
U.S. v. Mohammad – Petition for Writ of Mandamus (Press) – U.S. Court of Military Commissions Review
ACLU Appeals Decision Allowing Censorship of Torture Testimony at Guantánamo Military Commission
Judge Rules for Censorship of Torture Testimony at Guantánamo Military Commission
ACLU to Argue Next Week at Guantánamo Tribunal Against Censorship of Torture Testimony
ACLU Asks Guantánamo Tribunal Not to Censor 9/11 Defendants' Accounts of Torture
Censorship at Guántanamo: Thoughts and Memories Don't Belong to the Government
Guantánamo Dispatch: Arguing for the First Amendment
At Guantánamo Today: ACLU Asks Judge Not to Censor Torture Testimony
Guantánamo Dispatch: The Public's Right to Know
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Translation: Li Zhuang's "Trip to Feng County, Where Shackled Woman Remains Under Strict Guard"
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Translation: International Women's Day Banners and Artwork (3)
The third installation in CDT's series of international Women's Day protest art focuses on public banners and other artwork. Many of the banners come from college campuses, where some male students have invented a March 7...
Premier Li Keqiang Confirms He Will Step Down From Role At End of Term
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang quietly announced that he would step down from the premiership at the conclusion of his second term in March of 2023. His departure from the role is constitutionally mandated and does not preclude him...
Translation: International Women's Day Posters and Artwork (2)
The second in CDT's series of International Women's Day posters focuses on posters and artwork urging people to remember Xiaohuamei, the trafficked woman and mother of eight found shackled in a shed in Fengxian, Xuzhou, Jiangsu...
This year's March 8 United Nations International Women's Day theme was "Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow." Over time, the holiday for women—which has been celebrated in China as a half-day holiday since 1950—has...
On International Women's Day, Chinese Citizens Continue to Pressure PSB, Government Over Abuse and Trafficking of Women
On International Women's Day on March 8, Chinese citizens are continuing to draw attention to the everyday issues of women's rights and gender equality, as well as specific cases of criminal trafficking and abuse of women,...
Translation: Wailing Wall Comments on Xuzhou, Whistleblowers, Ukraine, War and Peace
Over two years after Dr. Li Wenliang's death from COVID-19, the "Wailing Wall" attached to his Weibo account continues to act as a repository for the thoughts, hopes, fears and opinions of countless Chinese citizens. CDT editors...
Dearth of Official Information on Xuzhou's Shackled Woman Spurs Citizen Journalists and Online Sleuths
Managing the outcry over the shackled woman in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, has proven to be a difficult task for China's censors. Weeks after video of the woman first showed her shackled by her neck and chained in a freezing shed,...
Four Conflicting Statements on Xuzhou's "Shackled Mother of Eight" Fail to Quell Public Outrage
The Xuzhou mother-of-eight who appeared in a viral video shackled and chained in a freezing shed now has a name and a hometown … or does she? On Thursday, the authorities in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, reported that the woman...
Netizen Voices: Video of Shackled, Mentally-Ill Mother of Eight Sparks Outrage, Prompts Police Investigation
A short viral video of a purportedly mentally-ill mother of eight kept chained in an outdoor shed has provoked outrage among Chinese citizens, prompted a criminal investigation, and brought renewed attention to the issues of...
Minitrue: Positively Publicize Our Achievements in Fujian
The following censorship instructions, issued by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Changle District People's Government Office [Fujian Province]: Recently, foreign reporters were in Fuqing...
State Department Watered Down Trafficking Report
The State Department is under fire for allegedly watering down a global report on human...
Minitrue: Manage Opinion on Abductee Turned Teacher
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
100 Vietnamese Brides Disappear from Hebei Village
China currently has a gender ratio of 117 men to 100 women, leading men in rural areas of China to...
Brides For Sale: Vietnamese Women Trafficked To China
While China grapples with the economic and demographic consequences of its family planning...
1,000+ Arrested for Trafficking Babies on the Internet
China's Ministry of Public Security announced on Thursday that more than 1000 people have...
Doc Gets Suspended Death Sentence for Selling Babies
In August, Shaanxi obstetrician Zhang Shuxia was accused of selling a newborn child after...


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Pensioner is robbed in Fishponds
A PENSIONER who has lived in Fishponds for 30 years was pushed to the ground and had her bag stolen as she walked along Lawn Road.
It happened at about 4pm on Wednesday January 17 when the suspect pushed her from behind, knocking her to the ground. He wrenched her shopping bag from her hand and ran off towards Downend Road.
The man was lost to sight behind the Cross Hands pub. The suspect was described as being about 5ft 8ins and slim, wearing a dark clothing with his hood up.
In the stolen bag was a purse containing a small amount of cash, loyalty cards and a bus pass. The purse was found by a member of the public in Radley Road on Monday January 22 and handed in.
Investigating officer PC 4766 Mel Furey said: "This lady has lived in the area for 30 years, but after this incident she no longer feels safe walking to the shops. She was left shaken and has some pain from the fall. I would urge anyone who saw the incident or who has any information which could help the enquiry to get in touch."
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Moseley Braun Says Opponent 'Strung Out On Crack'
Filed Under:Carol Moseley Braun, Chicago Mayoral Race, crack cocaine
Mayoral candidate Carol Moseley Braun. (Credit: CBS)
UPDATED 01/31/11 5:30 p.m.
CHICAGO (CBS) – A fiery exchange occurred Sunday between mayoral candidates Carol Moseley Braun and Patricia Van Pelt-Watkins, as allegations of drug use dominated a candidates forum.
When Watkins questioned where Braun had been for 20 years, the latter candidate fired back by saying Watkins had been using crack-cocaine.
"Patricia, the reason you didn't know where I was for the last 20 years is because you were strung out on crack," Braun, staring at Watkins, said at Trinity United Church of Christ on the South Side. "Now, you have admitted to that."
Watkins denied the charge before forum organizers cut her short. The community activist has admitted past drug use but says she has been sober for 25 years. She says she has never even seen crack.
"I believe I'm due an apology but I don't expect one to come," Watkins said at a news conference Monday. "I should be able to ask any person who's running for office where you been, and I should not be called a crack addict because I said that."
Braun, a former U.S. senator and ambassador, offered no apologies.
Their respective supporters also clashed Sunday. Watkins backers staged a noisy demonstration at a West Side church where Braun appeared. Braun's people were there, too, in a counter-demonstration.
A spokeswoman for Watkins said the group of supporters included some black leaders who say they were wrongly identified in Braun campaign literature as endorsers of Braun. The Braun camp denied that.
Braun spokeswoman Renee Ferguson said Watkins was acting as a "spoiler and really, really, really desperate."
Also attending the forum where the explosive remarks were made Sunday were mayoral candidates Gery Chico and Miguel del Valle.
Frontrunner Emanuel was not present for the debate. He declined to weigh in on Braun's outburst. When asked about it Monday, Mayor Daley would only say that everyone knows someone who has struggled with drug or alcohol abuse.
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Best Answer: Canada is definitely not part of the UK, but it is part of the Commonwealth of Nations (which is mainly comprised of former British colonies that are now independent states), as well as of the Commonwealth realm (countries that have retained the British monarch as their head of state).
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Maximizing the Minimalism or vice versa-
Musing on architecture and art (or the lack thereof)- an essay by Brian Keeler
From Bellini to Brutalism and from Raphael to robber-barons, a lot of ground is covered in this essay on some issues currently drawing attention. They may seem disparate, but they all relate to how art is displayed (the setting and context) or how architecture for art or architecture alone is regarded or destroyed.
As of late some issues in the aesthetic realm have been raising concerns in print (The New York Times) and (The New Yorker Magazine) and on social media. Considerations of beauty are also meshing with the pragmatics of housing and city planning. Most of these concerns are very pertinent, valid and engaging, as they confront issues of community, history and how art is viewed. This dovetailing of various categories may not come up on everyone's radar, so I thought I would share my impressions here. These issues are from publications and locales separated by location such as the Frick Museum in NYC and Ithaca, NY and my hometown, Wyalusing, PA.
The springboard or starting point for this essay is from the publicity documenting the temporary move the Frick Museum in NYC is making from their historic and ornate digs in the mansion of the erstwhile owner, Henry Clay Frick on Park Avenue. While the museum is undergoing major renovations the entire collection has now been moved to the former Whitney Museum a few blocks uptown on Madison Avenue. Therein lies the rub.
Rembrandt's masterful self portrait of 1658, when he was 52. This painting normally in the Frick will be moved to the austere, if not cold and industrial-like, former Whitney Museum.
This contrast of exhibition spaces could not be more stark. It may be of little concern to most who read this, but for museum goers it presents quite a conundrum. The two camps are locking down, but so far being respectful of opinions.
I love the Frick and have been going there for decades. Aside from the superb collection of some of the masterpieces of realistic painting and sculpture, there is of course the setting and context. It is a sumptuous museum that is quiet, not too big, and softly lit with skylights. There is also a rule of no photos allowed, which is wonderful as these days the hordes in some museums, like the Louvre and elsewhere can be positively aggressive and extremely disturbing. I recall this issue being bandied about in art magazines several years ago. And the argument in favor of allowing photos was that the guards were spending all their energies scolding visitors to stop with the selfies and other photos instead of protecting the art. Anyway I digress.
The former Whitney, which I used to visit on occasion too is what is now referred to as Brutalism in architecture. It is cold and industrial like on the outside and the same on the inside. Many modern museums are built in this same style. The Johnson Museum here in Ithaca, as is the East Wing at the NGA in DC and Everson Museum in Syracuse, all designed by the architect, I.M. Pei. One wag on a FB feed referred to the Johnson Museum as that "Singer Sewing Machine on the hill." There is a new wing also at the Clark Institute in Williamstown, MA that is equally as austere, featuring unfinished concrete, severe geometry and warehouse like interiors.
The cafe in the new wing of the Clark Institute in Williamstown, MA utilizes stark concrete walls and massive steel columns.
Here is an opinion expressed by Robert Salsberg, an avid art connoisseur and former radio host at the NPR affiliate, WVIA FM in Scranton, PA. Used here by permission.
"I have always found the atmosphere at the Frick one of superannuated nouveau-grandeur and reverent self-importance- in other words, oppressive, and I'm sure it's colored my ability to see the collection, which, with a few notable exceptions, has never appealed to me. I'm looking forward to seeing the work without its Margaret Dumont-esque trappings of post-robber baronial turgidity."
So Robert sums up the opinion of those who are in favor of the temporary Whitney backdrop to work from the Frick. Robert says further, that he is not trying to be a polemicist but merely expressing a viewpoint. Hmm, but still, I wonder how Robert could not be gobsmacked by the virtuosity of so many of the beautiful canvases there. For example the Holbein's, two pendant portraits, one of Thomas Cromwell and one of Thomas Moore. They show veracity in every stroke that surely would be hard to walk away from indifferent to or nonplussed.
I will have to admit however, that my nose was never out of joint about these modern buildings nor with the historic Frick or other mansions. The modern muesums were regarded as, just the way it is, and it was rather fun to traverse the interiors in an exploratory kind of way and marvel at the exteriors. For example, that extremely sharp triangular point at the East Wing of the NGA in DC has been appreciated close up by myself and many others, as the oil from thousands of hands caressing it has left a mark.
We also think of Frank Lloyd Wright's adventurous circular Guggenheim in NYC. Or the wildly and wonky Frank Gehry creation of the Bilbao Museum in Spain. Architects should be encouraged to be inventive and creative but also in finding a balance between form and function as well as a balance between the art within and without.
But alas, after reading these articles, I am now looking at these museums and wondering about this penchant for industrial chic. When we see raw concrete, left jagged and rough cut, we have to wonder about the aesthetics. We could look at other interiors as well, of say, any Wallmart or Target, with the ceilings left similarly open with pipes and ducts all exposed up to the metal roofs. Whatever happened to energy conservation and insulation, let alone clean lines?
I am recalling another concept in art that highlights process, and that would be "the non-finito." This approach was invented by Michelangelo with his late sculptures that were supposedly left semi-finished showing lots of chisel marks and rough stone. The same in painting too, where the process of brushwork is allowed to be part of the finished work. I am not sure that these pairings are fair - that is comparing Michelangelo and the architecture of museums to box stores, but still worth considering.
Other aspects of this unfinished nature in architecture are readily visible in Florence and elsewhere in Italy, like Urbino and Bologna where famous Renaissance churches have unfinished facades. San Lorenzo in Florence almost had an elaborate marble covering designed by Michelangelo but the project was scrapped. We see these major churches today with fortress-like façade left in rusticated form for centuries.
But now onto the lovely mansion-museums of which there are many along with artist's studios that have been made into museums. Not far from the Clark Institute, is the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, NY. This mansion was built to house the collection of the owner who made his money as lumber baron. It contains a famous portrait of Christ by Rembrandt and many other world-class paintings. The Frick is one of these too. A couple of others that come to mind are The Ca' Rezonico in Venice, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and the former Barnes Museum in Merion, PA. This last one, we know the transitional turmoil and fate, as it was fraught with controversy and a protracted legal battle.
Outside of the Sterling and Francine Clark Institute in Williamstown, MA. This wall is part of the new addition to this wonderful musuem. Could it be considered Brutalist architecture- a large slab of concrete and granit? Some may reasonably compare these walls to the giant core-ten rusted steel sculptures of Richard Sera. The new campus at the Clark also features a reflecting pool and other aspects similar to a Zen Garden in austerity. The campus unites a new Clark Center designed by Tadao Ando Architects with expansions to the Museum Building and renovations of the Manton Research Center, both designed by Selldorf Architects.
The experience of seeing great art in the context of a former collector who spent great sums of money is a unique opportunity, but more importantly, to view a collection assembled out of love and connoisseurship. We get to see a vision of times gone by when painting and sculpture were more central to the lives of many. At the Frick a few years back, they changed the color of the velvet walls in one room to a muted type of dusty rose. This one alteration received an entire page of commentary in the New York Times. So we can see how crucial the context of displaying art can be.
Bellini's San Zaccaria Altar paitning in Venice. The huge painitng features the pilasters in the painting matching the actual pilasters. The light in the painting corresponds to the actual light direction. It is an example of art "in situ" where context and devotional purpose is part of the art.
Speaking of context and setting, we can think of so many of the masterpieces of the Reniassance and medieval period paintings, entire altars and sculpture that are now in museums throughout the world. They are now removed from the setting, purpose and atmosphere they were designed for. Some of these paintings, for example the San Zaccaria Altar painting by Bellini in the Church of the same name in Venice was painted in such a way so as to duplicate the marble pillars around it, as well as the lighting conditions on a precise time of day. The shadows and light in the painting correspond to a late afternoon light during certain times of year.
Rome has two extraordinary examples of Mansion museums that I've visited several times, namely the Doria Pamphili Gallery and Gallery Farnese. Each opulent and lavish in accouterments with Caravaggios and Raphaels inside. Nothing to sneeze at.
Rome has some modernist controversy too with an I.M. Pei like glass and concrete structure covering and protecting the Ara Pacis of ancient Rome, right in the historic center of the city. This received a scathing review in the NY Times when it was first opened. It was referred to with disdain by the critic,Vittorio Sgrabi thusly:
"A Texas gas station in the very earth of one of the most important urban centres in the world."
Designed by the American architect, Richard Meirer, The Ara Pacis structure was the first architectural intervention into the historic center of Rome since Mussolini's aggressive leveling of historic areas in the 1930's. It is however another anomaly in Rome that I've enjoyed. It is a unique blend of having an ultra-modern housing around a precious vestige of Imperial Rome. It further underscores the palimpsest nature of Rome, which is to say, layer upon layer that each generation makes.
Outside of the Ara Pacis Museum in Rome, this unusual fountain, presumed to be designed by the Architect Richard Meier who created the museum structure. Two of our Italy tour particpants, Christine Shier and Linda Graves cooling their hands- ca 2009.
I mentioned above about artist's studios that are now museums and here we can really enter into the context of art. The first one that comes to mind is the Cezanne' Studio in Aix-en-Provence in France. What a wonderful treat to be there and see the work and accouterments of his creative life. I visited there years ago and traversed the same path he walked dozens of times to paint Mt. Saint Victorie, where I also did a small painting. We visited the studio of the Irish painter, Derek Hill in County Donegal a few years back and it too offered a unique experience – the docent was fantastic, as she explained with alacrity all about his work. Here in America there are the two homes and studios on opposite sides of the Hudson, The Thomas Cole Museum and Frederick Church's Olana. Two other amazing studios that I was fortunate enough to visit were the Fridha Kahlo home and her husband, Diego Rivera's modern studio in Mexico City. Art in a home, or art in a studio is a special way to view creativity and to understand how it can be integral.
Inside of the Thomas Cole House and museum in Catskill, NY we see art displayed in the context of a 19th century home.
So with all the labels and audio guides we have at our disposal in museums, they still cannot duplicate the devotional purpose or setting. So we see how those who visit the cold concrete halls at the former Whitney will feel some disdain. But still it is temporary and allows us to still avail ourselves of the Holbein portraits, the Piero Della Francesca fresco, the Turner paintings and so much more.
I want to touch on this intrusion of brutalism in architecture in a local aspect here and bring in political manifestation as well. Who would've thought that the philistine slug of a president, Donald Trump would wade into these waters? You may recall he had a brief foray into this area by trying to enact a policy of preventing any new intrusions of modern museum architecture in DC, say like the Hirshorn. Well, they say even a broken clock gets the time right twice a day. But this is coming from the same fellow who allowed raw sewage in our drinking water and so many more transgressions of civility. Does he even have a scintilla of taste or decorum? To undercut this so called urge of his to maintain beauty in public buildings, we need look no further than his desecration of former Post Office in DC that made this once beautiful building into a crass and glitzy Manhattan-like edifice similar to his Trump Tower. Then there is the thorny issue of the emoluments clauses of making money from such commercial endeavors while in office.
The massive cube on the inlet in Ithaca that has been drawing the ire of those who live nearby. It has all the charm of something from Soviet-era Moscow.
But here in Ithaca, there has been an assault of the Brutalists with the recent construction of a building along the inlet. It is a huge cube-like monstrosity. Some are justifiably calling it ugly. The mayor is reportedly countering, by asserting that beauty is subjective. Then a few years ago an entire row of historic buildings, old Victorian era homes, were leveled on East State Street to make way for a student housing project. Then we see the Commons transformed in recent years with a bevy of high rises. Hmm, one wonders how this could happen. Our Facebook friend, Terry Harbin regularly posts photos of magnificent mansions that were lost in Ithaca during the 1960's urban renewal campaign. The former Women's Community building on Seneca street was one such modern building that replaced a stately Victorian- and it too has been razed for yet another non-descript apartment building. There was a book published in Ithaca back in the 1980's (?) titled, "Then and Now" that documented these changes from Victorian splendor to 20th century banality.
Everywhere and every town has its examples of loss to the crass and commercial. My hometown, Wyalusing, PA is not exempt either and the obliteration continues today, as another historic building is about to be torn down- and by the borough council no less. A few years ago, members of the borough council spearheaded the destruction of an historic house on US Route 6. This was triply wrong- as it took a bank away from downtown, destroyed a beautiful old house and replaced it with a characterless modern structure. I've compiled a list of these historic losses in Wyalusing, and included as part of a slide show. Its amazing that a town of less than 600 could have seen 30 or so historic buildings razed in such a short amount of time.
In the heart of Wyalusing once stood this unique architectural gem, The Hotel Middendorf." It was razed in 1986. This pastel was created in 1984. The borogh council in Wyalusing is about to tear down another historic building, the former Dimmock's Hardware Store on Taylor Avenue.
Meanwhile in Wilkes- Barre, PA- On South Main Street, this once dignified building of the late 19th century has an obliterated facade. The newer commercial interest have not honored their history.
To conclude, I will mention a further complicating aspect of Henry Clay Frick and Andrew Carnegie and that is of their involvement in suppression of labor workers in the 1892 Homestead Strike. It was a violent suppression where strikers were gunned down. Not pretty. We could think of the Hyde Museum too, being assembled by the money earned from clear cutting original growth forest in New York. So the background for some museums, like the Carnegie Mellon and by extension the National Galley in DC have a fraught history sometimes.
In the end, I hope we can find a way to enjoy masterpieces of art and those from us mere mortals in many ways. With COVID 19 causing us to connect via zoom and social media more, we begin to pine for the times in front of the actual objects in situ. The Frick is rising to the occasion with a wonderful series of Youtube lectures on their collections. It is called "Cocktails with the Curator" and hosted by the chief curator, Xaviar F. Solomon. So if you're not ready to venture into the Big Apple yet, consider these wonderful lectures.
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Ernest Hemingway restoration centre opens in Cuba, where writer lived
By Nelson Acosta	Reuters
WATCH: A restoration centre named after Ernest Hemingway opened on Sunday in Cuba, where the writer lived in a tree-shaded, airy Spanish-style home, to preserve the work of the Nobel Prize laureate.
A restoration centre to preserve the work of Ernest Hemingway opened in Cuba on Saturday, highlighting an area of co-operation with the United States even as bilateral ties between the old Cold War foes have chilled again.
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Hemingway, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, wrote some of his greatest books during the 21 years he lived at Finca Vigia, or Lookout Farm, now a museum in San Francisco de Paula on the outskirts of Havana.
The restoration centre built by the Cuban National Cultural Heritage Council and Finca Vigia Foundation of the United States is located on the 15-acre (6-hectare) property where Hemingway lived in a tree-shaded, airy Spanish-style home.
"When we come together, when we work together, we can do positive and amazing things," Jim McGovern, a U.S. congressman for Massachusetts who wants better U.S.-Cuban relations, said at a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
McGovern said the project would have been much easier were it not for the decades-old U.S. trade embargo on Cuba, which President Donald Trump has tightened since coming to power.
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Hemingway moved to Finca Vigia in 1939, the year before For Whom the Bell Tolls was published, and wrote The Old Man and the Sea, A Moveable Feast and Islands in the Stream while he was there, according to local scholars.
He left Cuba in 1960, more than a year after the Cuban revolution and less than a year before he killed himself in Idaho at age 61 amid a struggle with depression.
The writer left thousands of documents in Cuba, ranging from manuscripts of some of his works to letters, photographs and annotated books.
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The restoration centre, which received financing from the Ford Foundation, American Express Philanthropy and the AT&T Foundation amongst others, includes laboratories and an air-conditioned vault.
The Cuban National Cultural Heritage Council and Finca Vigia Foundation had previously signed three co-operation agreements to conserve and disseminate the legacy of Hemingway.
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Q: Writing an R package: needing a package I don't explicitly call I'm working on an R package that uses the spTransform function in the sp package. The rub is that this function need rgdal loaded to work, or I get an error message:
Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : load package rgdal for spTransform methods

My Imports statement in the DESCRIPTION file includes the following:
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But I'm still getting the error. However, if I explcitly load rgdal (using library(rgdal)) before using the package, everything works fine. I'm guessing that when my package is loaded rgdal is not attached because none of my code uses it explcitly via :: etc.
So I think my question is: How can I make my package attach a package that I am not explicitly using?

A: As said by BondedDust, you need to import the required packages into your package NAMESPACE. To do so edit the file, adding a new line import(sp, rgdal). Further reading http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#Specifying-imports-and-exports

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New River CTC president and staff meet with congressional delegation in Washington, D.C.
New River Community and Technical College President Dr. Bonny Copenhaver met with Senator Joe Manchin, Senator Shelley Moore Capito, and Representative Carol Miller in Washington, D.C. last week. Executive Director of Institutional Advancement and the College Foundation Michael Green and Campus Director and Community Outreach Robby Queen also attended.
"Accessibility to education and training is essential to the future of West Virginia," explained Copenhaver. "New River CTC is working to establish new programs to meet the demand for qualified employees, and we want to ensure that our delegation in Washington understands the role New River CTC plays in the communities we serve; the need for reliable, accessible broadband in our region; and express our appreciation for funding through the COVID-19 economic relief funds."
New River CTC launched a new LPN to RN Bridge program earlier this year, and the college is developing an Aircraft Maintenance Technician School in partnership with the Raleigh County Memorial Airport and the New River Gorge Regional Development Authority. Additional program offerings in development include certified nursing assistant (CNA), heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), commercial driver's license (CDL) and a surgical technician program.
"We greatly appreciate the time Senators Manchin and Capito and Representative Miller took to meet with us. We look forward to continuing to work with them to showcase the great things happening at New River CTC," Copenhaver added.
Fall classes at New River CTC will begin August 16, with the college offering in-person classes on-campus, online and web enhanced face-to-face classes using Zoom video conferencing.
Top left: New River CTC Campus Director and Community Outreach Robby Queen, College President Dr. Bonny Copenhaver, Representative Carol Miller and New River CTC Executive Director of Institutional Advancement and the College Foundation Michael Green.
Top right: New River CTC staff Campus Director and Community Outreach Robby Queen, College President Dr. Bonny Copenhaver, Senator Shelley Moore Capito and New River CTC Executive Director of Institutional Advancement and the College Foundation Michael Green.
Bottom right: New River CTC Executive Director of Institutional Advancement and the College Foundation Michael Green, College President Dr. Bonny Copenhaver, Senator Joe Manchin, and New River CTC Campus Director and Community Outreach Robby Queen.