What Keeps the Utility CEO Awake at Night?
If you are the CEO of any significant energy company or one of its suppliers you have a lot to worry about these days. A convergence of forces is bearing down on you from the impacts of the economic recession and recovery; the change in national direction under Obama leadership, geopolitics and the implications for energy security and reliability, on top of the usual market drivers back home. So what do you do?
One common approach is to gather your key managers together with some facilitation and take stock of where your company is today—the usual strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats and evaluate your current business strategy and goals against these four categories of opportunities and threats.
Another approach is to stress test your current business strategy and competitive position across alternative scenarios of the business future in the industry to assess your risk exposures and look for the sweet spots in the market that play to your advantage.
No matter what process you use, the result needs to be the same. Clarify your strategic vision and get your management team aligned around that strategy to assure a laser focus on execution of the plan. Easy, you say? Not so fast!
There is the pesky business of volatility and risk to deal with in updating your strategy and mapping out its execution. Scenario analysis is a powerful way of rehearsing your business strategy across alternative views of the business future, but quantifying the cash flow at risk in your portfolio and strategy gives you the most actionable insight about the trade-offs between options.
If your company has spent the big bucks installing an enterprise solution to manage all this data you produce, mobilize your geeks to slice and dice it creating a consistent, actionable foundation for action across your business lines. But what do you measure and what is it telling you about your business? And now that you have today's data how do you forecast it forward into the future? And which future?
I know it sounds corny, but the risk of unleashing your geeks is they will bury you in data all sliced and diced in perfect spreadsheet columns, but telling you nothing strategic—unless you guide them to keep it simple, stupid.
After all, the corporate strategy is what the CEO says it is, and very few really great strategies bubble up from the basement to the top floor wrapped in data. Really great strategies are the problem of the gut! They result from that most human of interactions between the ears—thinking! A CEO who surrounds himself with smart people who challenge conventional wisdom, think conceptually and play "what if" with abandon about disruptive ways to defeat the strategy he is building will fine tune your strategy with a significantly better chance of success. So surround yourself with people who will argue with you to your face!
What drives the business on your horizon?
For the typical utility CEO I would nominate a short list of ten factors that taken together are an effective stress test of any strategy. These factors expose risks both known and unknown. They force a quantification of desired end results. They challenge the 'but we've always done it that way' mentality of the herd. And when properly debated—I recommend a large bottle of your finest scotch to assist in this analysis with a little help from caffeine sipping geeks boiling all that data down into timely options and insights to lubricate the debate.
Energy Demand. How the recession affected demand and what do we anticipate in the recovery ahead? What permanent changes or impacts will result from the failure of businesses or other disruptions? How does this change in demand affect our competitive position and earnings potential? What can we do to improve our performance results?
Supply Adequacy, Security & the Need for New Capacity. When do we need to add new capacity to meet expected demand? If its sooner, how do we move faster and still stay cost competitive? If its later, how does that change our portfolio options and risks?
Regulatory Uncertainty. Will RPS standards go up? If they do can we meet them? What will Congress do on GHG emissions, national RPS and other cost drivers?
Portfolio Strategy Options and Risks for Resource Planning. Is our IRP now outdated by the economic events? What is the timeline for new submittals and how can we anticipate the regulatory changes we might face? What are the "game changers" for our portfolio or our suppliers and competitors and how do we evaluate them? Do we have opportunities to materially improve our competitive position in the midst of all this volatility? Conversely, what are risks that our portfolio foundation could be put at risk by that same volatility?
Access to Capital at Affordable Costs. Are we positioned to have access to the capital we need, when we need it, at a cost we can afford? If not, why not? And what can we do about it?
Fear of Inflation and Rising Taxes. How would inflation and rising taxes affect our strategy options and what can we do to mitigate or hedge these risks?
Earnings Recovery and Growth Potential. I need to protect the dividend and keep earning growth at consensus to keep my job. What will all this cost and how do I keep faith with investors and shareholders? If we have to control costs to realize these results how will we do that?
Ratepayer Pricing Impacts. I don't want an ugly fight over rate increases but I don't want to fall behind and undermine our strategy. We need competitive rates and satisfied customers. What's the plan for that?
Disruptive Technology. I want to use smart grid and these other emerging technologies to improve customer satisfaction, convenience and perception of value. I don't want to wait for these disruptive technologies to each our lunch. What is our plan to use this stuff to get better and meeting the needs of customers so they don't turn to someone else to do it for them!
Industry Transformational Change. I want our strategy to anticipate and plan for alternative business futures that include real-time pricing of energy, distributed generation, broad open access to transmission that makes new entrants possible, bundling of commodity energy into lifestyle and business segment bundles with other products and services. I want to think about new business models that include the utility as an information gateway providing last mile delivery solutions to many vendors and suppliers. I want to consider a business model that moves us toward being a distributed generation company with a million solar roofs, micro wind turbines, energy storage farm and efficiency broker. I want to beat those Silicon Valley IT geeks at their own game and transform the utility into the 'muther of all' digital labs to create an information utility that also delivers energy.
Taken together the conversation about these drivers or others like it will do more than inform the CEO and give him more to keep him up at night. It will give the utility management team "permission to think outside the box" to reinvent the business. To use technology rather than wait to be its victim. To harness the same creative energy those venture capital firms and geeks possess to do well by doing good for their company and their customers.
And it might even be more fun than one of those digital toys! Guitar Hero challenge anyone?
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This new format threw me for a loop. I guess I'm the first one on our board.
Since the old posts are not up, I will ask again. Did the NCAA change the rules on 2-a-days? The 2nd story on the front page made it seem like they did.
Wow this is really high tech. It looks good.
I believe that the NCAA did change the rules on 2-a-days to make it safer for the kids. I'm not for certain, but I believe it's due to the increase in player deaths on the practice field over the past few years in all divisions.
I really like the new format. It really looks top notch. Nice job!!!
Why should you go for it on 4th down?
Any other numbers from around the NCAC???
Its about time for weekly Pick-em....anyone doing it this year?
Can it be done in the same way in this format?
It looks like one can add a new topic on the North Region board for the pick 'em.
Very nice job with the upgrade to Pat and crew. This is awesome.
I don't drink with the enemy, and I don't drink lattes at all, with anyone.
job well done! Still, like that rental car, it feels a little different--for the first 100 miles.
Now that 'Bash is in camp, absolutely cannot wait for it all to get underway! Loads of experience on the L'il Giants, but some question marks.
Best of luck to all in the NCAC as you battle the heat (the 12-minute run in C-ville should be fun today) and prepare for the '05 season!
This is a good looking message board. Thanks to everyone at d3football who worked hard to get this updated.
Great photos on the website. Some guys look much different which hopefully means a great deal of hard work over the Summer. Anyone notice the 6'4" 300 kid from CA...maybe he can be another Joe Kearney (Woo)!!!
OL should be a strength with Millikan (6'3 295) & Hilts (6'6 280) as bookends with a lot of competition in the middle. Wideouts don't have flashy stats but are extremely deep and talented...Walker, Summers (#1 this season & healthy), Green, Russell, Banach, and big TEs too.
The D is "sick" all over. Speed kills.
Here's to a healthy camp.
Let me join in heaping the kudos on Pat and the other folks at D3...great upgrade. Thanks for the hard work.


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I heard that Recording Library now has a built-in SFTP for Windows so that we don't have to use the freeFTPd software. How do I configure that?
Please follow all steps IN ORDER! This is a step by step process. If you skip one step, it will not work!
Install Chronicall & Recording Library 3.10.2d or later.
Navigate to Recording Libraries in the settings menu and edit the settings for the recording library you want.
Click the ellipsis to the right of the "Recording Library FTP Server Configuration" setting.
Note: In this menu, you should also ensure that the Monitored Recording Directory is pointed to the Live folder, as the / on the Remote FTP Location will tell VMPRO to put the recordings into Limbo.
Also, change the Recording Library IP Address to its actual address, not 127.0.0.1 if it isn't already.
Check the "Enable Recording Library FTP Server" box. Then enter a username and password for the SFTP to use.
Restart the Recording Library service.
Replace Administrator and the IP with the username created in step 6 and the IP address of the recording library machine.
If you receive an error saying the key is invalid (as below), navigate to the known_hosts file at the location specified in the error. Remove any lines with the IP of the recording library server, save the file, then try the SFTP command again.
Open Voicemail Pro Client and log in.
Click the Administration option at the top of the screen, then go to Preferences, and then General.
FTP User Name: Username configured in step 6.
FTP Password: Password configured in step 6.
Remote FTP Host: IP Address of the recording library server.
Click test connection. If the connection is successful then you should be good to go. If the connection is not successful review the above steps and check the "Other Errors" section below.
You will need to schedule an after-hours reboot for the VMPro server to take effect.
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Q: SQL query to get users that do have events in their calendar I have the following database tables:
Users table:
| id  |  name |
| 1   |  bob  |
| 2   |  jane |
| 3   |  tim  |
| 4   |  rex  |

Events table:
| id  | user_id | date       |
| 1   |    1    | 12/05/2018 |
| 2   |    1    | 13/05/2018 |
| 2   |    2    | 15/05/2018 |
| 3   |    2    | 16/05/2018 |
| 4   |    3    | 27/05/2018 |

I would like to construct a SQL query that retrieves all users who DO have any events within the upcoming 7 days AND also returns a column for each of the 7 days with a count of how many events that user has booked for each of those days.
Ideally this is what I would like to achieve:
| user_id | 12/05/2018 | 13/11/2018 | 14/11/2018 | 15/11/2018 |
| 1       | 1          | 1          | 0          | 0          |
| 2       | 0          | 0          | 0          | 1          |

So far I've got this below as a starting point, but it's not working as it returns zero rows:
SELECT
    users.id,
    name
FROM
    `users`
    inner join bookings on `users`.`id` = bookings.teacher_id
WHERE
    bookings.`date` BETWEEN NOW() AND DATE_ADD( NOW(), INTERVAL 7 DAY )

Can anyone help me accomplish this? Is this even possible in 1 SQL query?

A: Actually here you need LEFT JOIN
This si because you want elements from table 'user' that have no links in table booking.
Using LEFT JOIN will return all elements in table user, wether it has a booking or not, then using a WHERE condition you filter and keep only those who do not have a booking (booking.id IS NULL)
SELECT
    u.id AS userId,
    u.name AS userName
FROM
    `user` AS u
    LEFT JOIN booking AS b ON (
            u.id = b.userId
            AND b.`date` BETWEEN NOW() AND DATE_ADD( NOW(), INTERVAL 7 DAY )
        )
WHERE
    ISNULL(b.id)

in sql convention is to have table name in singular ... in nosql it's the other way, just to confuse everything...

A: It is very hard to generate column names as strings of next dates (like '2018-11-01', '2018-11-02') without hardcoding.
But I could come with an answer which column names are named as d1..d7. Hope it is fine in your case. This might not be the optimal solution, but it works.
SELECT
  tt.user_id,
  SUM(tt.d1) AS d1,
  SUM(tt.d2) AS d2,
  SUM(tt.d3) AS d3,
  SUM(tt.d4) AS d4,
  SUM(tt.d5) AS d5,
  SUM(tt.d6) AS d6,
  SUM(tt.d7) AS d7
FROM
  (SELECT
   t.user_id,
   (CASE WHEN t.`date` = DATE(DATE_ADD(NOW(), INTERVAL 1 DAY)) THEN t.total ELSE 0
END) AS d1,
   (CASE WHEN t.`date` = DATE(DATE_ADD(NOW(), INTERVAL 2 DAY)) THEN t.total ELSE 0
END) AS d2,
   (CASE WHEN t.`date` = DATE(DATE_ADD(NOW(), INTERVAL 3 DAY)) THEN t.total ELSE 0
END) AS d3,
   (CASE WHEN t.`date` = DATE(DATE_ADD(NOW(), INTERVAL 4 DAY)) THEN t.total ELSE 0
END) AS d4,
   (CASE WHEN t.`date` = DATE(DATE_ADD(NOW(), INTERVAL 5 DAY)) THEN t.total ELSE 0
END) AS d5,
   (CASE WHEN t.`date` = DATE(DATE_ADD(NOW(), INTERVAL 6 DAY)) THEN t.total ELSE 0
END) AS d6,
   (CASE WHEN t.`date` = DATE(DATE_ADD(NOW(), INTERVAL 7 DAY)) THEN t.total ELSE 0
END) AS d7

  FROM
  (
    SELECT b.user_id, b.`date`, COUNT(*) as total
    FROM `bookings` b
    WHERE b.`date` BETWEEN NOW() AND DATE_ADD( NOW(), INTERVAL 7 DAY )
    GROUP BY b.user_id, b.`date`) t
  ) tt

 GROUP BY tt.user_id

This query gives me a result like this for a table like you given.
| user_id | d1 | d2 | d3 | d4 | d5 | d6 | d7 |
----------------------------------------------
|    1    | 1  | 0  | 0  | 0  | 0  | 0  | 0  |
|    2    | 0  | 1  | 1  | 0  | 0  | 0  | 0  |
|    3    | 0  | 0  | 0  | 0  | 1  | 0  | 0  |

Here d1 means, the next day. d2 means day after tomorrow, etc.
Also this solution gives column with all zeros as well (i.e. days without any events)

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Charles Manson is an infamous serial killer that was born in the State of Ohio in 1934. He is mostly known for his brutal assault of Sharon Tate, but the major problem with this personality lies in the fact that he was never found guilty of his killings. Nonetheless, the majority of American society that is acquainted with Manson's dealings believes that he is the personification of pure evil (Forbes, 2016). Charles Manson and his followers (also known as the Manson Family) had committed more than 30 homicides together.
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It is interesting, however, that they were merely tried in court due to the absence of adequate evidence or their existing life sentence. Charles Manson applied for parole twelve times, and he was denied parole at all times he attempted it (Guinn, 2014). This happened because he was perceived by forensic specialists as an unstable personality that is highly influenced by rejection and a developing psychic trauma. Manson believed that he deserved love and was keen on reaching some kind of status in society (Kessler et al., 2012). Several law enforcement agents described him as a person that has to be under interrupted surveillance due to Manson's major unpredictability.
Throughout the history of his wrongdoings, Manson was accused of pimping, smuggling cash checks, and numerous other crimes that were various in their nature and cause. While he was in prison, Manson learned to play guitar and developed his artistic talents (Prehn et al., 2012). The most interesting part about Manson was that he believed in Armageddon and perceived himself as the new Messiah who would be saved (together with his supporters) from a nuclear attack. Manson's visions developed the idea of the victory of blacks in the race war, and he believed that together with his followers he would guide the black community toward successful worldwide domination.
Numerous sources claim that Manson suffered from an antisocial personality disorder (Raine, 2014). This particular psychic ailment can be described by means of other personality disorders as well. On a bigger scale, according to Fox and Levin (2015), and antisocial personality disorder can be outlined as personal distress that is caused by painful personal experience. The latter ultimately translates into a certain type of behavior that relies on the expectations of the individual suffering from this disorder (Shi, Bureau, Easterbrooks, Zhao, & Lyons-Ruth, 2012).
The early signs of antisocial personality disorder can transpire during teenage years or early adulthood. The key characteristic of this disorder is disregarding the rights and freedoms of others and their recurrent violation (Shanafelt & Pino, 2015). Commonly, the individuals that are under 18 are not diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder unless there were certain warning signs that developed before the age of 15. Evidently, the severity of antisocial personality disorder can also vary based on the symptoms that are discovered in the individual (Sundram et al., 2012).
Psychopaths and sociopaths are usually described as dangerous and harmful owing to their vicious behavioral patterns. There is a very thin line between these two concepts. Sociopaths are usually seen as individuals with malfunctioning morality while psychopaths do not have the latter at all (Venables, Hall, & Patrick, 2013). The problems that are usually associated with this personality disorder are alcoholism and drug abuse. As can be seen from Manson and other serial killers' examples, it can also end with subsequent imprisonment.
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Fox, J. A., & Levin, J. (2015). Extreme killing: Understanding serial and mass murder. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Guinn, J. (2014). Manson: The life and times of Charles Manson. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
Kessler, F. H., Terra, M. B., Faller, S., Stolf, A. R., Peuker, A. C., Benzano, D., & Pechansky, F. (2012). Crack users show high rates of antisocial personality disorder, engagement in illegal activities and other psychosocial problems. The American Journal on Addictions, 21(4), 370-380. doi:10.1111/j.1521-0391.2012.00245.x.
Prehn, K., Schulze, L., Rossmann, S., Berger, C., Vohs, K., Fleischer, M.,… Herpertz, S. C. (2012). Effects of emotional stimuli on working memory processes in male criminal offenders with borderline and antisocial personality disorder. The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 14(1), 71-78. doi:10.3109/15622975.2011.584906.
Raine, A. (2014). Anatomy of violence – the biological roots of crime. London, UK: Penguin Books.
Shanafelt, R., & Pino, N. (2015). Rethinking serial murder, spree killing and atrocities: Beyond the usual distinctions. London, UK: Routledge.
Shi, Z., Bureau, J., Easterbrooks, M. A., Zhao, X., & Lyons-Ruth, K. (2012). Childhood maltreatment and prospectively observed quality of early care as predictors of antisocial personality disorder features. Infant Mental Health Journal, 33(1), 55-69. doi:10.1002/imhj.20295.
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Sundram, F., Deeley, Q., Sarkar, S., Daly, E., Latham, R., Craig, M.,… Murphy, D. G. (2012). White matter microstructural abnormalities in the frontal lobe of adults with antisocial personality disorder. Cortex, 48(2), 216-229. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2011.06.005.
Venables, N. C., Hall, J. R., & Patrick, C. J. (2013). Differentiating psychopathy from antisocial personality disorder: A triarchic model perspective. Psychological Medicine, 44(05), 1005-1013. doi:10.1017/s003329171300161x.
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Lastest News from Senator Bergstein
GREEENWICH – Today, State Senator Alex Bergstein (D-Greenwich) hosted a roundtable discussion on issues impacting seniors at Greenwich Town Hall with guest speakers with expertise on a range of issues including health care, prescription drug costs and long-term care.
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Joining Senator Alex to discuss these issues was state Senator Matt Lesser (D-Middletown), Dr. Claudia Gruss of the Connecticut Medical Society, Anna Doroghazi, AARP Connecticut's Associate State Director of Advocacy and Outreach, and Steven Hernandez, Executive Director of the Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity & Opportunity. In addition to addressing the rising cost of care, Senator Alex presented some good news for seniors.
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Back when the climate "crisis – emergency – catastrophe – existential threat" stuff emerged, the October 2018 IPCC report was routinely cited as the source, although that seems to have faded. But the standard milestones, like net zero by 2050 and 12 years for decisive action (to 2030), are from that report. The problem is that there is no support in that report for the crisis narrative, none at all. The so-called crisis is a gross misinterpretation.
The reality is that the IPCC was tasked with saying what difference the two Paris Accord targets make, which are 2.0 degrees versus 1.5 degrees of total warming. Predictably (because all warming is bad to these people) they found more damage at 2.0 degrees, but arguably not a lot more. (There is also damage at 1.5 degrees, just as there is today at 1.0 degrees.)
The IPCC also pointed out, correctly, that according to the models it would be a Herculean task to hold to 1.5 degrees. This is where the extreme policy measures are found. The IPCC said that extreme measures would be required to limit warming to 1.5 degrees, if that were desired. They did not say it was desirable to do this.
The more severe alarmists warped these modest findings into an emergency program to meet the 1.5 degree target. (Whether this is a matter of ignorance or deception is a big question.) Their claim is that this tiny warming (just 0.5 degrees of future warming) is some sort of threshold to catastrophe. This is simply false, even under alarmist science, that is studies based on models.
There is no scientific support for this crash program. The scientific literature is full of severe damages but these occur when models are pushed at 4 to 6 degrees of future warming, or even more. There is no support for making 1.5 degrees of total warming, which is just 0.5 degrees of future warming, a monster threshold of catastrophe. Scientifically this is absurd, but politically it is running amok.
Some prominent alarmists have tried to point out that the doomsday crisis narrative is way overblown. These include the head of the Word Meteorological Organization, which is co-owner of the IPCC. But the objections have been very muted, no doubt out of fear of retaliation from the extremists who now dominate the political stage.
Simply put, the "crisis" is either a cruel hoax or a tragic blunder. No science supports it.
I wrote a series of articles about the IPCC study, when it was in progress and the results were becoming obvious from the numerous studies reporting on the small differences between damages at 1.5 degrees and 2.0 degrees. The titles are perhaps illuminating. I refer to the 1.5 degree goal (which again is just 0.5 degrees of future warming) as "small warming."
"The UN goal of stopping small warming is ridiculous"
http://www.cfact.org/2018/03/26/the-un-goal-of-stopping-small-warming-is-ridiculous/
"IPCC struggles with small warming"
http://www.cfact.org/2018/03/22/ipcc-struggles-with-small-warming/
"1.5 degrees of climate madness"
http://www.cfact.org/2018/02/05/1-5-degrees-of-climate-madness/
My concern then was that the models clearly showed that the goal of limiting total warming to 1.5 degrees (actually just 0.5 degrees of future warming) was impossible. (Not that I believe the models, or that humans are even causing global warming, but that is another story.)
It never occurred to me that the extreme alarmists, including the Democrat presidential candidates, would adopt this impossible goal and declare a crisis because of that impossibility. This is truly climate madness.
This madness would be great fun if it were not so threatening. Invoking emergency powers to achieve an impossible (and pointless) goal is a clear prescription for disaster. And history is replete with cases just like this, where mindless zealotry seized power with disastrous consequences.
The threat of extreme climate change action is now far greater than the threat of climate change.
David Wojick
David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. For origins see http://www.stemed.info/engineer_tackles_confusion.html For over 100 prior articles for CFACT see http://www.cfact.org/author/david-wojick-ph-d/ Available for confidential research and consulting.


A group of hospitality professionals from Japan will touch down in New Zealand in December to master the art of Kiwi-style hospitality.
The ten-strong team are part of iki Espresso, a cutting-edge café with a distinctly Kiwi flavour nestled in the heart of East Tokyo. Owned by Queenstown residents Kim and Teru Harase, iki opened its doors two years ago, delivering a slice of New Zealand to Teru's hometown, and giving the pair an opportunity to celebrate their shared passion for our artisan food, wine and coffee.
A cool espresso cafe in traditional East Tokyo, iki has developed a cult following thanks to its trademark Kiwi fare, Kiwi-style coffee and relaxed service. The cafe showcases New Zealand products such as wine, beef, salmon and honey, and offers Kiwi picnics for customers to devour in the local park. Now Kim and Teru are bringing their team to Auckland and Queenstown to broaden their horizons and pick up some tips for delivering the very best Kiwi customer service.
While in Queenstown, the group will stay at the couple's new boutique accommodation offering iki Lodge, and they'll visit their favourite local cafes and wineries, including Akarua Wines & Kitchen by Artisan, Frank's Eatery, Bespoke Kitchen, the Chop Shop, Jack's Point Clubhouse, Yonder and the Sherwood. In Auckland, Takapuna Beach Café, Café Hanoi, Ugly Bagels, Ostro and Farro Fresh are on the list.
That's something the pair are working hard to change. They currently run a shared coffee roastery with Bonnie Coffee from Melbourne, just around the corner from the iki café. From here, iki's roasting team crafts the finest blend and single origins for the iki coffee brand, which is both served and sold in the iki Espresso café and enjoyed by a growing number of coffee partners.
After a few days spent soaking up the very best Queenstown and Auckland have to offer, Kim hopes her team will go back to Tokyo better equipped to share New Zealand's unique flavour with iki's customers.


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I said that Wuthering Heights was near the top of my list of books to reread on my sabbatical, with my eye on refreshing the titles in regular rotation in my 19th-Century Fiction classes. Because I have never enjoyed reading it, I started it this time a bit reluctantly, and for the most part it gave me no more pleasure than it has before. I still don't like it. But while liking or not liking a book may be, as Henry James put it, "that primitive, that ultimate, test" for us as readers, it really can't be the ultimate test for those of us who are also scholars, teachers, or students! So as I reread the novel, I tried not just to keep an open mind about it but to imagine as actively as I could what it would be like to teach it, including both its individual features and how it might shake up discussions of other books on the reading list. And guess what: I think I'm going to try it!
One reason is that it is impossible to deny the novel's emotional power. Its unrelenting, highly compressed intensity really does make it qualitatively unlike any of the other books I assign, and that difference alone is thought-provoking. Not only, as the introduction to my edition rightly notes, does "Emily Brontë [have] no interest in the moral response as a reason to soften her narrative," but the effects she is interested in are discomfiting, even disturbing. Passion, hatred, violence, revenge: these are the novel's animating forces, and while they are repellent, they are also grimly fascinating, with thematic (and, yes, moral) implications that are well worth discussing.
Another is that while Emily Brontë may have had no "interest in shaping her story morally," Wuthering Heights is a very complexly structured novel, with its multiple nested and embedded narratives. The many hours I've spent on other novels with multiple or unreliable narrators, such as The Moonstone or The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, have shown me what fun the interpretive work can be as you sort through who is saying what in particular, to whom and why and with what consequences for our reading of their words. I hadn't paid that much attention to this aspect of Wuthering Heights before, though I knew it was the subject of a lot of the critical discussion. This time I was more attuned to it and felt some genuine enthusiasm at the prospect of working on it with my students, even if most of the voices we'll be attending to are as unpleasant as young Catherine's spiteful words to Heathcliff in my epigraph to this post.
Yet another reason: the mental exercise will be good for me! Yes, I still don't like the novel: as I said on Twitter, it may be a masterpiece, but I can't imagine it becoming a personal favorite. That's exactly why I should work on it: learning to appreciate it will stretch and challenge me, intellectually and aesthetically. I will have to consider why it does the things I don't like, for instance, and how that instinctive dislike might be inhibiting my critical sensibility–what my taste keeps me from appreciating. I will also, quite simply, have to learn new things, and that is always beneficial to me as a teacher: it keeps me both alert and humble. What do I need to know to teach Wuthering Heights effectively? I am sure that I will enjoy figuring that out more than I enjoyed rereading the novel. At the end of the process, I will probably like Wuthering Heights better, too, but if I don't, that's OK.
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, recounting the doomed affair between sweet Cathy Earnshaw and the brutal outsider Heathcliff, has seen off Shakespeare, Gone With the Wind and everything by Barbara Cartland in a survey which shows the lasting power of classic works.
"Sweet" Cathy Earnshaw? Hmmm. Maybe these 2000 people (and the article's author) read a different version of Wuthering Heights than the one I know or Jane Smiley compared unfavorably to Justine. John Sutherland and Martin Kettle are also skeptical.
The more I think about this poll the odder the results seem. It seems as if, at least as far as Wuthering Heightsis concerned, we have three options: either most of these people have not read Emily Bronte's novel at all and are voting on the basis of some received idea about it; or they have read it and (dismal thought) really find its version of love (obsessive, possessive, selfish, destructive) romantic; or they have read it and completely misinterpreted it. Occasions like this (as the responses from Sutherland and Kettle already make clear) can certainly highlight the gap between "common" and expert readers (though in this case I'd like to think it does not take professional training to find Heathcliff and Cathy's relationship and behaviour at least somewhat troubling), but what's particularly interesting here is it's not a contest of values (it's not, for instance, more about Harry Potter vs "the classics") but a problem of misreading and thus misrepresenting a particular text. As Kingsbury says, it is "heartening" that readers still find these "long ago" stories compelling, but it's less heartening that they don't seem very clear on their content. It makes me think again about the question of readers' responsibilities–if not to the author, then to their reading (as I recall, Wayne Booth spends a fair amount of time on this issue in The Company We Keep; I'll have to go back and take another look).
I thought it was about time I re-read Wuthering Heights, not least because I am a little tired of teaching Jane Eyre in my 19th-century novels course and wanted to consider the obvious alternative. What a grim, unpleasant novel it is, though. The people in it are almost universally awful, and those that are not, like Edgar Linton, are weak and ineffectual, as if soft feelings just make you vulnerable. I remember at one time finding the passions of Heathcliff and Cathy romantic, but on this reading I found it impossible to associate either of them with any positive or sentimental feelings. The teacher (and critic) in me sees all kinds of stories to tell about the novel's structure and themes, but I wonder how much enthusiasm I could muster for lecturing on it without something (or somebody) in it to root for. I have often made the argument to my students that the disappointments we are left with in George Eliot's novels stimulate us to action: we wish for a realistic ending that is more satisfactory, for Maggie Tulliver, say, or Dorothea, and thus turn a critical eye on the real world that let them (and us) down. I can't see taking this approach to Wuthering Heights, though, because the novel's characters don't really seem to deserve better than they get. Still, there's no denying the raw power of the book, and its gloomy gravestones would certainly provide a contrast to the more conventional 'marriage plot' endings.


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A KNX In-Depth interview with an 'Entourage' star packed some serious heat Thursday.
Jeremy Piven joined In-Depth to discuss his upcoming stand-up debut, past roles, and career.
The conversation turned contentious after the actor, best known for his Golden Globe-winning role as viper-Hollywood agent, Ari Gold, tried to defend himself over past sexual misconduct allegations from numerous women.
Host Charles Feldman asked Piven about his pivot to stand-up and if he felt like a victim caught up in an overzealous #MeToo Movement?
"It's not right to put words in my mouth and I think we are living in a time where because of this movement there has been a lot of attention that has been paid to things that haven't been - like equal pay which wasn't focused on before," Piven said.
"Certain minority groups getting shots to get roles that they haven't. Women being in empowered. My sister is a great director and she's getting more shots than she ever has. There are more female directors out there. Now, I know that you asked that question for all the right reasons because you seem like a very decent person. In a lot of cases, the media needs to get clicks and that is a variable I know you guys will admit to and that is a huge thing. You need to get attention, you need to get clicks and there is a race to be first."
Pivin added that he believes there is a rush to judge people. "In certain cases in the court of public opinion, [we've> forgotten about any type of due process and there were people that were misusing their power.
"I have been a professional actor my whole life and was part of some collateral damage of that movement [#MeToo Movement>." He said, "in 2017 there was an article saying I did some things. None of them were accurate and we are basically going over old material."
Multiple women, including those who worked on the "Entourage" set, came forward in the past with allegations of sexual misconduct by the actor. HBO later said that there were no complaints about the actor while on the set of the show.
Piven said he didn't want to bore people with the past, but to talk about entertainment and his upcoming show.
"We don't need to go through this and we don't want to bore the public because we are here to talk entertainment and my show at the Brea Improv Friday and Saturday night," he said. "I had nothing to do with this and I had no choice but to take a lie detector and passed on every count and that's reality."
Piven said there is no "resurrection" of his career because not only is he working, but he is continuing his stand-up journey and working all the time, including upcoming movies.
"I believe our job in this life is to learn and grow and evolve," he said. "Here's the reality when I go and perform for these people no one knows what you guys brought up, they just simply don't know. I have a connection with them as a performer... I am incredibly lucky in the way that I get to perform for full houses all over the country and that's incredible and that's not lost on me."
Piven will headline upcoming stand-up comedy shows at Brea Improv this weekend.
"I'm so incredibly honored I get to tour and people show up and we have an incredible time and it's my job to make them laugh from beginning to end and it's my honor and I love it," Piven said.
He said part of his professional journey as an actor is sketch-comedy adding he started at Second City with Chris Farley.
"All roads lead to stand-up," Piven said. He said stand-up is a one-man show "complete and utterly" and it's "terrifying."
Piven recounted how he was at the Laugh Factory this week for a routine and recalled how he immediately started writing jokes and crafting jokes to use as material.
"You're never too old to start something new or to learn for sure," Piven said.
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Ranvir Sena threatens to kill Forward Press Hindi Editor
Supporters of Brahmeshwar Mukhiya continue to issue death threats to Naval Kishore Kumar over the phone and write expletive-filled comments on his Facebook page
By FP Desk एफपी डेस्‍क On May 31, 2018 No Comments इस लेख को हिंदी में पढ़ें
New Delhi: Naval Kishore Kumar, Hindi editor of Forward Press, has been constantly receiving death threats over telephone and on social media platforms. Those issuing the threats call themselves supporters of Barmesar, alias Brahmeshwar Mukhiya, the founder of Ranvir Sena. Complaints in the regard have been made to the Delhi Police Commissioner, the cyber cell of the Delhi police and to the Director General of Police, Bihar.
Ranvir Sena is planning to install a life-size statue of Brahmeshwar Mukhiya at his place of birth, Khopira, in Bhojpur district of Bihar on 1 June 2018. It was on this day in 2012 that Mukhiya was murdered. His murderers are yet to be identified. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is investigating the incident. Naval Kishore Kumar had posted this news on his Facebook wall on 27 May and had described the death of Brahmeshwar, an accused in the murder of more than 300 Dalits and OBCs, as a "dog's death".
Naval Kishore Kumar, editor (Hindi), Forward Press
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Naval lives in Delhi while his family members and relatives reside in Patna, Bihar. In his complaint to the police, he has mentioned the names of many supporters of Ranvir Sena and their expletive-ridden comments. He wrote, "Raushan Pandey, who lives in Patna, commenting on my Facebook post on 30 May 2018 at 9.08am, wrote, 'So many bullets will be pumped into your *** that *** your future generations will tremble with fear ***. The Bhumihar Ekta Manch takes the responsibility of liquidating you within the next 15 minutes." Another comment made by one Bipin Kumar Singh at 9.38 am on 31 May 2018 says, "So much steel will be nailed into your *** that your ten future generations will be born mute."
Naval Kishore Kumar, in his complaint, said: "On 31 May 2018, at 12.25 pm, a person called Roshan Sharma, sharing my number wrote, "7004975366 is the number of this ***, *** his …" This man's profile picture says 'Ranvir Sena'. At 9.45 am on 30 May 2018, Rishi Ranvir of Arrah shared a screenshot showing my WhatsApp number. I've also been receiving death threats on WhatsApp. Rajiv Kumar Singh and Manish Kumar are among those who have threatened to kill me and shoot my family members dead. On his Facebook page, Manish introduces himself as the former state president of Ranvir Sena."
In the emailed complaint, Naval said that the way the threats are being issued indicates, "A particular organization of a particular caste is behind it. I and my family members living in Patna are feeling terrorized by these threats".
'We will not be cowed down'
On these threats issued to his colleague Naval Kishore Kumar, Pramod Ranjan, managing editor, FORWARD Press, wrote on his Facebook page: "A leading journalist, who has long been observing and writing about the Ranvir Sena, Naval Kishore Kumar conducted the first comprehensive video interview of Brahmeshwar Mukhiya. The interview was published in the March 2012 issue of the FORWARD Press magazine and the video is available on FORWARD Press' YouTube channel."
Ranjan wrote: "On May 27 2018, Kumar posted a comment on Facebook opposing the installation of Brahmeshwar Mukhiya's statue in Khopira saying that the act is against humanity itself. In the post, he accused Brahmeshwar Mukhiya of the murder of more than 300 Dalits and OBCs, and called his death a 'dog's death'. Kumar also held the BJP-JDU government responsible for the growing morale of feudal forces."
The July 2012 issue of 'Forward Press'
Ranjan reminded readers: "This is the same Brahmeshwar Mukhiya who had instructed his followers not to even spare Dalit children during these massacres. 'They are snakelets who will eventually become Naxals,' he used to say. Ranvir Sena is responsible for butchering dozens of children, attacking even pregnant women and severing breasts of young women."
He clarified FORWARD Press' stand on the matter: 'Our stand against people like Brahmeshwar Mukhiya is very clear. The headline of the Forward Press cover story (July 2012) after his murder was titled "Whose 'Magic Bullets' Murdered 'BUTCHER OF BIHAR'?" In the same issue, famous Dalit thinker Kanwal Bharti had written an article titled, "Why mourn the death of a murderer?" Mukhiya has always been a murderer, a monster for us.'
At the time of writing this news, the threats and phone calls and expletive-filled comments on Nawal Kishore Kumar's Facebook page haven't abated. The police also haven't taken any action.
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The Case for Bahujan Literature
Mahishasur: A people's hero
Dalit Panthers: An Authoritative History
Mahishasur: Mithak wa Paramparayen
The Common Man Speaks Out
Jati ke Prashn Par Kabir
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Who Weeps for a Murderer?
The man who had formed the Ranvir Sena for oppressing the Dalit labourers, who had attacked their habitations and shot them, who had hurled infants into the air and riddled their bodies with bullets, who had slit open the wombs of pregnant women and hacked the foetuses with swords – only predators can mourn the death of such a fiend. Why should the Dalits feel sad?
हत्यारे की हत्या पर दुख कैसा?
जिस व्यक्ति ने दलित मजदूरों के दमन के लिए रणवीर सेना बनाई हो, उनकी बस्ती पर धावा बोल कर उन्हें गोलियों से भून दिया हो, दूधमुही बच्ची को हवा में उछाल कर उसे बन्दूक से उड़ा दिया हो और गर्भवती स्त्री का पेट फाड़ कर भ्रुण शिशु को तलवार से काट डाला हो, उस दरिन्दे की हत्या पर कोई दरिंदा ही शोक मना सकता है, दलित क्यों शोक मनाएंगे?
Whose 'Magic Bullets' Murdered "BUTCHER OF BIHAR"?
Bullets that go through a body and exit lose their velocity and are usually found around the scene of the shooting. Were these 'magic bullets' which flew out of the gun, went through and killed Mukhiya, and then just disappeared?
किसकी 'जादुर्ई गोलियों' ने ली 'बिहार के कसाई' की जान?
जो गोलियाँ शरीर के अंदर से होकर बाहर जाती हैं, उनमें कोई गति नहीं रहती और वे आमतौर पर घटनास्थल पर ही मिल जाती हैं। क्या जिन गोलियों ने मुखिया की जान ली, वे 'जादुर्ई' गोलियां थीं, जो बंदूक से निकलने के बाद मुखिया की हत्या करने के बाद गायब हो गईं?
UGC delists Forward Press and other progressive, anti-casteism journals and magazines
Among the delisted magazines and journals are those with poor content but there also those known for their highly creative and quality research. It is not a coincidence then that journals and magazines taking a progressive and anti-casteism stand have faced the axe
यूजीसी ने फारवर्ड प्रेस समेत प्रगतिशील व जातिवाद विरोधी कई पत्रिकाओं की मान्यता रद्द की
यूजीसी ने अपनी सूची से जहां कुछ कमजोर पत्रिकाओं को बाहर किया है, वहीं अनेक ऐसी पत्रिकाओं को भी बाहर का रास्ता दिखा दिया है, जो उच्च रचनात्मकता और गुणवत्ता पूर्ण शोध के लिए जानी जाती हैं। प्रगतिशील और जातिवाद विरोधी रूझान रखने वाली इन पत्रिकाओं को मान्यता प्राप्त सूची से बाहर करने का निर्णय महज संयोग नहीं है
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Crystal Clear Footage Of Alien Walking Inside UFO Goes VIRAL
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Stunning footage of an Alien walking inside a UFO has been captured by an amateur camera man as the jaw dropping footage has gone viral across social media.
The grainy footage reveals an object with blue lights behind some trees, but as the camera zooms in, a gray figure can be seen walking around inside it.
UFO fanatics, Blake and Brett Cousins posted the eerie footage as part of a live phone in, but little did they know that the video would explode across the UFO community with many followers claiming it was a Grey Alien.
One view said:
"You know how the ship looks like it's landed behind the tree, it looks like they were stationed there because the one walking by looks like it was wearing an orange space suit."
The Daily Star reports: Believer, Brett, likened it to something from famous alien movie Close Encounters, before claiming there is no CGI at play.
"It didn't even look like a human at all."
"It possibly might be something with the government but it's unexplainable."
"In my opinion these things come from another planet."
Another fan then called up offering a different explanation.
"I just watched this four times and this Alien Grey, he moves a lot like a human."
"He looks like he's wearing some sort of leggings or pants and his movements are very similar to a man's – it looks like he's working on the controls of the ship."
Not everyone was as convinced by the footage, however.
"Nothing but light and mirrors," one commented.
And another agreed, writing:
"Looks like someone camping and using fluorescent tube lanterns to light the camp site."
Meanwhile, a set of crop circles appearing in the English countryside has caused a stir.
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Hello! Amber Heard was attending the '3 Days To Kill' Los Angeles Premiere at ArcLight Cinemas yesterday night! She was perfect in a black amazing dress. I love her hair! She was with her fiancé Johnny Depp (you can see some pictures of a beautiful ring that looks like to be her engagement ring in the gallery), they were sweet together. You can find more than 300 pictures of this event.


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'Black Lives Matter is a Terrorist Organization' — The Cleveland Police Union's Ugly History With BLM
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At the tail end of a conversation in early June hosted by the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association between Black Lives Matter Cleveland co-founder Kareem Henton and Joseph Delguyd, an attorney for the Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association, the union lawyer offered Henton his cell phone number so the two sides could maintain an open dialogue between activists and police going forward.
The gesture came after an hour of mostly civil debate on what the momentous national movement toward police accountability in the wake of the George Floyd protests might mean locally, with Henton arguing that the union's steadfast and recalcitrant defense of officers accused of misconduct means they're "complicit in the aggressive police culture that exists," and Delguyd largely defending recent efforts to reform under the current Consent Decree but acknowledging, "If there is change coming and we can be part of that change, we'd like to be."
A week after, Scene asked Henton to reflect on the conversation. He had three main takeaways.
First, that Delguyd was only doing his job as a rep for the union shop.
Second, that the union agreed to be part of the conversation at all, and that the lawyer made the long-overdue gesture to open a dialogue, indicates just how powerful the groundswell of support for the Black Lives Matter movement has become.
"We go from the inflammatory talk that we would normally get from [Steve] Loomis or [Jeff] Follmer to him saying, 'I'd love to talk to you.' That means they're nervous," he said. "They're seeing us for who we really are — as folks that are trying to advocate for necessary change. There's legitimacy. And folks acknowledge the legitimacy of the protests. That's a heck of a message."
And third, that the union's longstanding efforts to defend Timothy Loehmann, among others, shows the CPPA hasn't strayed far from its origins.
"I think about the history of their inception and this all being business as usual," he said.
That history, Henton noted, is right there on CPPA's website, though it tells a false story with a string of mostly true sentences.
"Like much of the progress obtained in policing in America, the Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association was born out of the most tragic day in the history of the Cleveland Police Department," the site says. "On July 23, 1968, in the Glenville Section of the city, rioting militants murdered three of our own, and a fourth officer died years later as result of his injuries inflicted that day. While there was no shortage of valor, courage and relentless spirit among the officers that finally brought calm back to the city that day, there was an obvious shortage of necessary equipment which could have saved the lives of police officers as well as the brave civilians who attempted to save them."
"Under the guidance and assistance of the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association, the CPPA was formed in January 1969 and became the labor union for all non-supervisory Patrol Officers. Prior to the formation of our Association, our officers took their chances in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court to address any grievances. Through successful labor contracts, work hours, sick and vacation time off, and worker rights quickly replaced blanket mistreatment of patrol officers. Out of the tragedy of the Glenville Riots and due to the loud voices of the survivors who fought that day, street officers were soon issued portable radios which enabled citywide communications. Also, the fist Tactical Unit was formed, which trained and equipped specific officers to respond to especially dangerous situations such as riots and barricaded suspects. This valuable unit later became the modern-day Special Weapons and Tactics Unit, or SWAT."
The formation of the CPPA did come in response to the Glenville riots, and yes, the Boston police union, an outfit long noted for its surpassing dedication to racial equity, lent its support, but the cops' grievances weren't all about radios and sick time.
Police reform had topped Carl Stokes' mayoral campaign promises in 1967, and though he intended to correct a laundry list of problems that beset a police force nagged by corruption and violence, the relationship between the mostly white department and the city's Black citizens was paramount.
"All the police knew that few policeman faced charges or an appearance before the grand jury for shooting a Black man while on duty," Stokes said.
This did not make Stokes many friends in the rank and file, many of whom preferred to unleash violence on Cleveland's Black population with an immunity they'd grown comfortably accustomed to.
And when Glenville erupted, those white officers felt personally and deeply aggrieved when, instead of letting white cops parade through the rioting streets with high-powered rifles, Stokes, after convening a large City Hall meeting of only African-American leaders and officials, sidelined white officers from Glenville, allowing only Black officers and the National Guard to work to restore order. Stokes was also vocally critical of the role he felt Cleveland police had played in the violence, writing in his autobiography later that they had been "self-protective, corrupt and destructive."
"There was tension in the department," one Black female officer told the Plain Dealer. "The whites wanted to go out there and even things up."
"Tell Stokes to go piss on it. Fuck that n——r mayor," cops radioed each other, according to a federal report on the aftermath.
Fear gripped the city's mostly white west side; cops openly revolted against the police chief and mayor. Fliers were distributed in white neighborhoods warning that invading rioters were coming for their property, and their bodies. The relationship between Cleveland's Black community and police was further enflamed.
"We're like a British outpost in Africa," one patrolman told the Plain Dealer after Glenville, channeling some deep racist feelings.
"This had clearly been a fear all along, that a Black mayor would interfere with the police function of protecting the white community against black peril," Stokes wrote in his autobiography.
Roldo Bartimole, writing for The Nation in July of 1969, weighed how the conversation over police violence and race relations had evolved, or regressed, one year after the riots.
"The Civil Violence Center report concluded that the Glenville battle may have 'marked the beginning of a new pattern' away from black violence against property to 'violence aimed at personal injury.' Its failure, however, to put the same test to motivations and actions of white policemen at the outset of the conflict opens the report to criticisms of reaching the conclusions it set out to find, if not succumbing to a racist view of violence. This is suggested by its failure to examine the implications of escalating white violence, despite gory accounts of it in the report. The desire to measure the rise of black violence may produce a self-fulfilling theory as each new black-white confrontation is tested by the question, 'Is this an escalation of the black revolution?' Black violence may escalate, and if it does one may be sure that the state and the courts will not condone it. But with the results of the Ahmed Evans case before us, one cannot be so sure of the same opposition to white violence."
This was when the CPPA was born, and the question of Cleveland's appetite for opposition to white violence was clear in the ensuing years.
As the nascent union sought collective bargaining and battled for supremacy and membership against the Fraternal Order of Police, which many officers felt had done little to protect or better their interests (essentially meaning it was not staunch enough in its efforts to battle back reforms), Black bodies piled up in the streets and Black officers lamented the continued violence of those protected and defended by the CPPA and FOP.
As Kyle Swenson detailed in his rich history of Cleveland's police and racial issues of the early 1970s, a Black police sergeant in 1970 told the Call and Post he wondered whether Cleveland police had shown up to an apartment with local Black Panther Party members to "execute a search warrant or to execute any Blacks found there."
The Call and Post was also at that time running a recurring anonymous column by a Black Cleveland officer, Arthur X, that laid bare what was happening every day on the streets. "Black officers have spoken privately for some time on matters involving questionable police tactics and unequal application of the criminal justice system in Black communities. I saw seven or eight policemen without badges hitting some Black kids over the head for no apparent reason. It was as if they were trying to see how many they could get. If I, as a policeman, couldn't do anything about the police violence, then what the hell could the citizens do about it?"
The racial lines were clear, even as the CPPA paid lip service to diversity. One officer told the Plain Dealer at the time that as James Magas, the first president of the union, recruited members, "They came to me and said I was a fink and a n——r lover if I didn't join."
It was Us Against Them, as cops told the local papers, and the only way forward according to the union was to Ammo Up.
"What we need right now, right away, are armored vehicles. In the Glenville shootings, they were the victors, they were ambush victors," Magas told the paper.
As the union effort progressed, it became clear that not only was the war on, but that it should be fought with as little accountability as possible.
"Organizers insist that unionization means more pay, better grievance procedures, and a foothold in the political arena where, they claim, they have been buffeted by politicians for years," the Plain Dealer reported in 1969. "They claim, 'Every time something happens, it's the police or the police department. Every time there's a disorder and the police use as much force as necessary, it's brutality. 'We don't want more rights,' one organizer says. 'We want the same rights as other minority groups.'"
The force's own true minority members felt ostracized, and two years later, it wasn't the CPPA or FOP that fought a legal battle to make the city hire more minority officers, but the Black Shield, the African-American union.
(Magas did, however, in 1971 vouch full CPPA support and resources for five East Cleveland officers who shot and killed an unarmed Black Shaw high school teacher named Mose Wendell Mitchell, and that even after witnesses came forward to tell East Cleveland and the Plain Dealer that Mitchell did nothing to invite the bullets.
"The suspension of a police officer without pay to ease tension from pressure groups must be condemned," a CPPA statement read at the time.)
So, yeah, when you set out to open a belated dialogue between the union and Black Lives Matter — a pressure group, if you will — and all of that history is hard-baked into your DNA, and the same themes keep coming up, it's vital to talk about it.
"They were never going to let another Black mayor stop them from doing what they were going to do. They wanted to go into Glenville and kill people. They were so pissed they couldn't go in and eff people up," Henton said. "I think about that history and how now is business as usual, unconditionally supporting officers."
The CPPA union hall, with its Blue Lives Matter flag
To Henton, that the Black Shield has to exist to this day, and that it has to issue statements responding to things like the CPPA announcing a "solidarity moment" in the wake of the George Floyd BLM protests "for those suffering from the devastation being caused to our community and our law enforcement families," puts a fine point on how the union speaks, or fails to speak, for minority officers and residents.
("Demonstrations like this divide safety forces within their ranks and serve only to further marginalize and alienate community members. This demonstration will impede progress and redirect progressive narratives away from Constitutionally protected community voices attempting to enact critical reforms," the Black Shield said in response to the CPPA.)
Speaking on the panel in June, Henton told Delguyd that union officials, "say the most incendiary things and make brash and insensitive statements against the family members of victims of police violence."
Henton can see the through line from 1969 to today.
Where Cleveland union officials once declared that, "This country doesn't need a Black Panther Party. They have to be wiped out," union officials have in recent memory opined that, "Black Lives Matter is a domestic terrorist organization."
That's what Steve Loomis, who's traded the CPPA president slot with Jeff Follmer a couple times in the last decade, said not once but many times in 2016 and 2017 on Fox News and elsewhere as he gave full-throated support to Donald Trump's campaign and even took the historic step of calling a union vote to endorse his candidacy for president.
It's also what one Cleveland police dispatcher wrote on Facebook after the recent BLM protests. (Follmer told Cleveland.com that anything posted on Facebook should be considered protected by the First Amendment.)
The inflammatory gasbagging by Loomis wasn't an anomaly for the cop shop, which in every instance of horrifying violence against Black Clevelanders from Tamir Rice on forward has gone beyond the expected deployment of PR to antagonize and belittle the community members who have suffered losses or dared to take a public stand.
Follmer might be less physically and psychically dependent on the spotlight than Loomis, but his public statements are no less offensive simply because they appear less often. (Follmer did not respond to a request to be interviewed for this story.)
A recent history of the mouths of both men:
- When Browns' receiver Andrew Hawkins wore a shirt reading "Justice for Tamir Rice And John Crawford III" in 2014, Follmer responded by saying:
"It's pretty pathetic when athletes think they know the law. They should stick to what they know best on the field. The Cleveland Police protect and serve the Browns stadium and the Browns organization owes us an apology."
- Loomis, who was president-elect at the time, couldn't help but chime in:
"Entertainers should entertain and not dip into the world of politics. (A world in which MOST are incredibly under qualified to participate.) While we recognize and support 1st amendment rights of all citizens, there are a select and fortunate few that must be held to a higher standard. I have two words for them, Dixie Chicks. The group expressed their political views during concerts and single handily and very quickly destroyed their careers!
"The words and actions of sports and entertainment personalities carry a certain amount of weight no matter how uneducated, inciting, and false those opinions are. Entertainers expressing their political views should choose their words and actions wisely. Most of the folks that go to Browns/ Cavs games, (me included) go to support their team, the players, and community. We spend our hard earned money to enjoy time with friends and family and distract ourselves from the day to day grind of life. WE DO NOT go to these games to deal with the personal and political messages from players."
- In 2016 when the city reached a $6 million settlement in the wrongful death of Tamir Rice, Loomis went out of his way to issue a statement demanding that Samaria Rice donate a portion of the money toward, of all things, gun education. "Something positive must come from this tragic loss," he wrote.
- In 2016 when a dozen officers involved in the chase and 137-shot killing of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams were disciplined, Loomis invited the media to the union hall for a bombastic speech lambasting the "politically motivated and insane" decision by the City.
"I'm going to get beat up for saying bad guys, but dammit, that's what it is," Loomis said. "Those folks had a choice to make and those folks didn't make it. Continuously."
"Our goal is to get in front of an arbitrator who's not swayed by politics or any national discussion," Loomis said. "Politics in this city is absolutely appalling."
"Now Loomis is going to be the bad guy because I'm going to go get their jobs back," Loomis said. "And I promise these guys are going to get their jobs back."
- In 2017, as NFL players, including members of the Browns, took knees during the national anthem to protest police violence, Loomis issued a lengthy, rambling, insulting statement saying Cleveland police would, in a counter protest of sorts, refuse to show up to games to hold the American flag.
"We decided to pull out of the event after we learned Browns management 'supports their players freedom of expression' and that management and their coach knew of and apparently condoned this despicable display. We decided we will not support the hypocrisy of the Browns management and some of its obviously oppressed millionaire players.
"The fact the Browns management and ownership are unable or unwilling to control their employees negative and controversial actions may be demonstrative as to why the team performs so pitifully on the field year after year.
"There comes a point where a stand must be taken. There comes a point where tolerance is no longer taking 'the high road,' it is the easy road. We are way past that point with the Browns, the city administration, and the national false narrative against police and the law-abiding citizens that support us."
The police would protest, Loomis explained with little self-reflection, "not because we do not love our country or our flag, but because we do."
- After the city of Cleveland in 2017 reached a settlement to pay $50,000 to six people arrested during the protests following the acquittal of Michael Brelo in the Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams killings, Loomis said:
"The City of Cleveland continuously sends the wrong message by paying wrongdoers for their criminal activity. The men and women of the Cleveland Police Department and our chief did a great job in allowing peaceful protests while policing violent behavior. It is very unfortunate the city continues to reward dangerous and criminal behavior with large cash 'settlements' while ignoring the great work of the CDP, our dismal staffing levels, and the ever increasing violent crime rates in every neighborhood of the city."
Of course, through all of this, the union, under both Loomis and Follmer, has fought to win back the job of Timothy Loehmann, who was fired not for shooting and killing Tamir Rice but instead for lying on his job application.
George Floyd protest in downtown Cleveland/ Photo by Sam Allard
These conversations are bound to accelerate as we learn more about policing and unions and the movement continues.
As the New Yorker wrote in a recent story, "In a forthcoming study, Rob Gillezeau, a professor and researcher, concluded that, from the nineteen-fifties to the nineteen-eighties, the ability of police to collectively bargain led to a substantial rise in police killings of civilians, with a greater impact on people of color. 'With the caveat that this is very early work,' Gillezeau wrote on Twitter, on May 30th, 'it looks like collective bargaining rights are being used to protect the ability of officers to discriminate in the disproportionate use of force against the non-white population.'"
Cleveland's Consent Decree now extends into 2022. It's the second such agreement with the Department of Justice based on the department's pattern and practice of civil rights violations.
Between the two, the Plain Dealer documented dozens of police-involved shootings that went unpunished alongside a mountain of other use-of-force cases that resulted in the same outcome. For instance, "All of the 4,427 [use of force] investigations by supervisors from Jan. 1, 2003, through Sept. 9, 2006, ended in the officers' favor."
In 2012, the union was steadfast in its defense when presented with years of data.
"What gets lost in all of this is that the officers are not the initiators. They're the responders. They are responding to antisocial behavior. People don't realize what it is like to be a police officer. The real problem here is the criminal element," a union lawyer told the Plain Dealer that year in thinly veiled language. "The criminals have become more lawless. But we, as a society, focus on the officers who respond to the lawless element. We don't call out the people who initiate this conduct."
The city has meanwhile shelled out tens of millions in civil settlements for those use of-force cases both lethal and less so, and very few cops have lost their jobs.
"Two years ago, they felt like they were ahead in the propaganda war," Henton told Scene when asked how things have changed. "Now, what do we see? We're really showing the ugly side, and that it's not just about what an officer did to an unarmed victim. It's about tactics. It's about their attitudes. It's about critiquing the culture. We're all looking at the same picture now, and now words like qualified immunity and collective bargaining agreements, those words were not on the tips of most peoples' tongues before. And now people know what they mean.
"They're the same union," he said, "they're just now poised for a different approach for this battle because we have a lot more folks behind us now."
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Cleveland Man Dies While in Polk County Jail, LIVINGSTON, June 13, 2008 - On June 11, 2008, a Trooper with the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) arrested and charged 53 year old Leroy Clifton Johnson Jr. of Cleveland with Driving While Intoxicated (DWI). Johnson was taken to Livingston Memorial Hospital to have a blood sample drawn. At approximately 3:30 pm he was transported to Polk County Jail.
On June 12, 2008, at approximately 2:30 am, officers went to the visitation area to get Johnson in order to book him in when he was discovered deceased in his cell. Johnson was in the visitation area alone where he could be monitored at all times from the control office area due to him being intoxicated when he was brought to jail. Foul play is not suspected and the case is being investigated by Texas Ranger, Ron Duff.
Johnson was pronounced dead by Justice of the Peace Precinct 1, Darrell Longino and was transported to the Harris County Medical Examiners Office for an autopsy.


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Lexington, KY (November 29, 2016)—Home to the University of Kentucky's Kentucky Wildcats basketball team, Rupp Arena in Lexington, KY has been around for 40 years. For most of that time, an audio system nicknamed Big Bertha was used to cover the 24,000 seats, but as part of an ongoing $15-million renovation, that's been replaced by the largest L-Acoustics K2 sound system ever put into a fixed installation.
The new system was designed by Rupp Arena's technical staff—Rupp Arena technical services manager Bob Stoops and technical coordinator Steven Grant, with input from Lexington Center/Rupp Arena director of Facilities Administration Merrill Richardson—working with L-Acoustics' head of Integration Dan Palmer. The end result was installed by AV systems integrator Cincinnati-based Loud & Clear Inc.
The system consists of six K2 arrays: two 13-box K2 arrays covering the East and West sides of the venue, with four 12-box K2 arrays covering the corners. The corner arrays also have four K1-SB subwoofers flown behind each of them. In addition, 12 Arcs II enclosures are hung underneath a new video scoreboard to cover the court below, while another set of six Arcs II are used as delay speakers for the uppermost six rows of the arena. Finally, 38 ultra-compact 5XT speakers are used as under-balcony fills. The system is powered by a combined total of 40 LA8 and LA4X amplified controllers.
The new system has one more design aspect that further enhances Rupp Arena's marketability for event production. The speaker arrays and amplifiers, which are mounted in LA-RAKs on the catwalk above the floor, can be moved to allow the speakers to accommodate other types of events, such as concerts. Plenty of artists have played the Rupp Arena over the years, including the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Seger, Whitney Houston, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Billy Joel, Conway Twitty (a dozen times) and Garth Brooks, whose four concerts there in 2014 sold a record 70,500 tickets.


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Boris Vallejo (Lima, 8 de gener de 1941) és un dibuixant nascut al Perú. Boris va emigrar als Estats Units el 1964, on resideix actualment a Allentown, Pennsilvània. Amb freqüència treballa amb Julie Bell, la seva esposa, pintora i model.

Vallejo dibuixa gairebé exclusivament per als gèneres fantàstics i eròtics. Els seus dibuixos han il·lustrat la portada de dotzenes d'obres de ciència-ficció i han estat presentats en unes sèrie de calendaris que s'han convertit en best-sellers. Vallejo ha creat pòster per a pel·lícules, com Barbarian Queen and National Lampoon's Vacation. Vallejo té dos fills d'un matrimoni anterior, un dels quals, Dorian Vallejo, també ha treballat en el gènere de fantasia.

Els dibuixos de Vallejo mostren típicament a déus, monstres i/o musculats bàrbars (homes o dones) en plena batalla. Les seves últimes històries s'inclinen més cap al costat eròtic, encara que segueixen conservant els temes de fantasia.

Famoses són les seves portades per a The Savage Sword Conan, entre les quals destaquen els nombres 1 i 10.

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Molts llibres han recollit l'art de Vallejo, entre ells:

En espanyol
 Dreams: The Art of Boris Vallejo (1999) Norma Editorial
 Fantasía Digital (2003) amb Julie Bell Norma Editorial
 Imaginistix (2007) amb Julie Bell Norma Editorial

En anglès
 Mirage (1997)
 Fantasy Art Techniques (1985)
 The Fantastic Art of Boris Vallejo (1980)

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