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Dr. Brian Bressler
MD, MS, FRCPC
Dr. Bressler received his MD from the University of British Columbia and completed his residency in internal medicine and gastroenterology at the University of Toronto. He received an MSc in epidemiology from the Harvard Public School of Health and completed an advanced fellowship in IBD at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. In addition to his work at the IBD Centre of BC, Dr. Bressler is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology at the University of British Columbia's Department of Medicine. He is the founder of The IBD Centre of BC, the Director of UBC's Advanced IBD training program and a world-recognized expert in inflammatory bowel disease.
For more than 20 years, Dr. Bressler has dedicated himself to advancing research and care for British Columbians with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. With the creation of The IBD Centre of BC, Dr. Bressler and other specialists are carrying out his dream of providing IBD patients with timely, province-wide access to a multidisciplinary team of health-care professionals, advancing IBD research and providing world-class IBD education.
Meet Dr. Brian Bressler
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Dr. P. Terry Phang
MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS, FABCRS
Dr. Phang is a Professor of Surgery at the University of British Columbia where he has taught many surgeons in British Columbia and Canada on rectal cancer and laparoscopic colon surgery, and many medical students and family physicians on colorectal diseases. His medical training was received at the University of Toronto. He received surgical training at Memorial University of Newfoundland and specialized colorectal surgery training at the University of Minnesota. He holds American Board certification for Surgery and Colorectal Surgery. He has a Masters of Science degree in biochemistry and clinical research training in critical illness and colorectal surgery with a research fellowship in rectal cancer at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
Dr. Phang's current research includes diagnostic imaging of rectal cancer, advanced techniques of rectal cancer surgery including laparoscopy, sphincter-preserving rectal cancer resection, and transanal microsurgery endoscopic resection.
Dr. Carl J. Brown
M.D., M.Sc., F.R.C.S.C.
Dr. Carl Brown is a colorectal surgeon and the current Chair of the Section of Colorectal Surgery at the University of British Columbia. His primary clinical interest is the diagnosis and treatment of colorectal cancer.
He is also the Provincial Lead for Surgical Oncology at BC Cancer. Dr. Brown completed medical school at McMaster University in 1998. He completed general surgery training at the University of Calgary in 2003 and subsequently worked as a general surgeon at the Peter Lougheed Centre in Calgary. In 2004, he moved to Toronto to train as a subspecialist in Colorectal Surgery. Concurrent with his fellowship, Dr. Brown completed his master's degree in clinical research at the University of Toronto. In 2006, Dr. Brown was recruited to St. Paul's Hospital and the University of British Columbia.
Dr. Amandeep Ghuman
MD, MPH, FRCSC
Dr. Ghuman is a specialist in colon and rectal surgery at St. Paul's Hospital and a clinical instructor at the University of British Columbia, Department of Surgery. She is also the incoming Discipline-Specific Site Leader for the General Surgery Clerkship rotation of UBC undergraduate medical students. Dr. Ghuman graduated from medical school at UBC, where she finished her residency in General Surgery, completed her Master's in Public Health in Clinical Effectiveness at Harvard University and completed subspecialty fellowship training in Colon and Rectal Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Florida.
Within the field of colorectal surgery, Dr. Ghuman has a particular interest in minimally invasive/laparoscopic surgery, colorectal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, including pelvic pouch procedures, colonoscopy and anorectal diseases. Her goal is to build a broad collaborative network of surgeons to continue identifying areas where surgical patient safety and care can be improved.
Dr. Kevan Jacobson
MBBCh, FRCPC, FCP, AGAF
Dr. Jacobson is a pediatric gastroenterologist with a specialty in inflammatory bowel disease. He has been studying and treating kids with IBD for over 20 years. He began his training as an internist in South Africa and completed his internal medicine studies in Canada, followed by training in adult and pediatric gastroenterology and a research fellowship in IBD. Before moving to BC in 1999, he practiced at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. In addition to his clinical practice and his work with the IBD Centre of BC Young Adult Clinic, Dr. Jacobson is Division Head of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition in the Department of Pediatrics at BC Children's Hospital, and has a research laboratory where he studies the biology of IBD and looks for ways to improve treatment.
Meet Dr. Kevan Jacobson
Body mass index and risk of IBD: A systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of cohort studies of over a million participants
Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Among South Asians Living in British Columbia, Canada: A Distinct Clinical Phenotype
Severe COVID-19 Infection and Pediatric Comorbidities: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Dr. Elisabet Joa
MD, FRCSC, Obstetrician
Dr. Elisabet Joa is a practicing obstetrician who completed her medical training at the University of British Columbia and her OB/GYNE residency at the University of Alberta. Dr. Joa is a Clinical Professor in Gynecology & Obstetrics at St. Paul's Hospital and the Post Graduate Program Director for the UBC obstetrics and gynecology program. She is the previous chair of the Renal/Obstetrics Committee at St. Paul's, where she pioneered minimally invasive surgery in gynecology. From the beginning of her career, Dr. Joa has had a special interest in pregnant patients with IBD and since residency training has advocated for combined clinics such as The IBD Centre of BC, where the care is patient- focused.
Dr. Ahmer A. Karimuddin
MD, MAEd, FRCSC
Dr. Karimuddin is a colorectal surgeon at St. Paul's Hospital and Co-Director of the General Surgery Residency Training Program and an Associate Professor (Clinical) at the University of British Columbia. He received his MD from the University of Western Ontario, completed a Master's in Adult Education at the University of Saskatchewan with a focus on surgical education and CanMEDS, and completed a fellowship in Colon and Rectal Surgery at the University of Toronto, with research focusing on clinical outcomes of early rectal cancer.
Dr. Karimuddin has special expertise in the management of cancer of the colon and rectum, inflammatory bowel disease and proctology. President of the British Columbia Surgical Society, his research interests include patient outcomes (clinical and PROs) in laparoscopic colorectal surgery, colorectal cancer, colonoscopy, inflammatory bowel disease and the pelvic pouch procedure, and improvements in patient care, with a focus on quality improvement of outcomes and optimizing patient care and recovery through Enhanced Recovery After Surgery. He is an active member of the Colorectal Cancer Tumour Group, and has participated in development of Clinical Guidelines for Colorectal Cancer at the BC Cancer Agency.
Dr. Yvette Leung
MD, FRCPC, Gastroenterologist
Dr. Leung attended medical school at the University of Calgary followed by a residency at the University of British Columbia, a Gastroenterology Fellowship at the University of Calgary and an Advanced IBD Fellowship at the University of Chicago. She is also an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Calgary and an Associate Clinical Professor, Division of Gastroenterology in the Department of Medicine at UBC. A gastroenterologist at The IBD Centre of BC since 2016, Dr. Leung has been researching pregnancy and IBD for more than a decade with a special focus on the effects of biologics on pregnancy. She is the founder of The IBD Pregnancy Clinic & Registry.
Meet Dr. Yvette Leung
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Dr. Julia Raudzus
MD, FRCPC, Consulting Psychiatrist
Dr. Raudzus completed her medical training at the University of British Columbia and has worked at St. Paul's Hospital since 2008. Dr. Raudzus has a special interest in both eating disorders and psychiatric illness in the medically ill. She is the medical director of the Provincial Adult Eating Disorder Program at St. Paul's Hospital and the hospital's physician lead of the Consult Liaison Psychiatry Service.
Prevalence of Anxiety and Depression in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Dr. Manoj J. Raval
MD, MSc, FRCSC
Dr. Raval is a specialist in colon and rectal surgery at St. Paul's Hospital and Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of British Columbia. He graduated from medical school at the University of British Columbia and finished his residency in General Surgery at the University of Calgary before completing his subspecialty fellowship training in Colon and Rectal Surgery and MSc in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Toronto.
Working closely with radiation and medical oncologists at the BC Cancer Agency (BCCA), Dr. Raval is the Chair of the Colorectal Surgery Tumour Group, whose mandate is to promote excellence in the surgical treatment of colorectal cancer for British Columbians. He has headed a number of initiatives through the BCCA, including development of Colorectal Cancer Care Pathway maps for patients and management guidelines for colorectal cancer for physicians.
Dr. Greg Rosenfeld
MD, MHSc, FRCPC, CCFP
Dr. Rosenfeld was a family physician for 15 years before taking the step of pursuing a residency in gastroenterology with a focus on IBD at the University of British Columbia under the supervision of Dr. Brian Bressler. In fact, Dr. Rosenfeld was the first fellow to complete UBC's IBD Fellowship and was also able to complete a Master's degree in clinical epidemiology. The impetus to take on this massive academic commitment came from Dr. Rosenfeld's deep desire to provide long-term care and make a measurable difference in patients' lives. Today, Dr. Rosenfeld leads strategy, development, communications and more at The IBD Centre of BC, where he hopes to leave a lasting professional legacy.
Meet Dr. Greg Rosenfeld
Gina Almasan
Registered Dietitian, UBC Clinical Instructor
Gina is currently the Registered Dietitian for The IBD Centre of BC. She is a food and nutrition enthusiast who loves experimenting in the kitchen and helping patients meet their nutrition goals. Gina graduated from the University of British Columbia with a BSc in Dietetics and completed her internship with Vancouver Coastal Health. She has worked in a variety of practice settings ranging from acute medical hospital units to long-term care. Gina is passionate about digestive health, and she loves teaching people about how diet can relieve symptoms and help with disease management.
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Mariana Gutierrez
Mariana is a registered clinical counsellor running the group therapy program for The IBD Centre of BC. She graduated from Adler University in 2020 and is trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), trauma, and somatic and body-based interventions. For over 15 years, Mariana has been working with clients of different ages, and with diverse mental health presentations.
Melody Chavarria
RN, BScN
Melody Chavarria graduated from the University of British Columbia with a BSc in Nursing in 2018. Since then, she has worked as a registered nurse in several hospital units including acute medicine, surgical, patient assessment and transition (PATH), and then in 2020, began working exclusively in the Covid-19 designated units. In 2021, she became an Endoscopy Nurse at Pacific Gastroenterology Associates which further ignited her interest in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, ultimately leading to her current role as a Clinical IBD Nurse at the IBD Centre of BC.
Kaity McLaughlin
Registered Dietitian
Kaity is currently the Registered Dietitian for The IBD Centre of BC. She holds a Masters of Public Health and has experience in a wide range of health care settings including clinical, research, administrative and operational. She's interested in program management, epidemiology and public policy.
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Christina Pears
Christina is a registered nurse who completed her BSc in Nursing at the University of British Columbia in 2006. She has worked in various areas of healthcare including medicine, cardiology and gastroenterology. In 2010, Christina joined Pacific Gastroenterology Associates, where she helped develop the role of the clinical IBD nurse. As the clinic expanded and the role of the nurse evolved, she has remained a part of the team at The IBD Centre of BC.
Amanda Swain
Amanda Swain graduated from John Abbott College in Montreal, Quebec in 1994 with a Diploma in Nursing. She worked as a Registered Nurse in the USA and England before moving to Vancouver to complete her BScN at UBC, graduating with honours in 2000. Since that time she has worked in a variety of specialties ranging from working on an HIV/AIDS inpatient unit and outpatient clinic at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London, England to the Neurology Unit at BC Children's Hospital. In 2012 she took a position at Pacific Gastroenterology Associates in the endoscopy suite and infusion clinic, which then led to her current role as Clinical IBD Nurse at The IBD Centre of BC.
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Practicing gastroenterologist; world-recognized expert in IBD; Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at UBC Department of Medicine.
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Chartered accountant; Vice President of Abacus Private Equity and Hillcore Group, responsible for analysis for broad initiatives such as new business models, acquisition models and new debt and equity financing.
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Diplomate American Board of Gastroenterology; Clinical Professor Emeritus, UBC; Former Head of Gastroenterology, Providence Health Care.
Kevan Jacobson, MBBCh, FRCPC, FCP, AGAF
Pediatric gastroenterologist; Clinical Professor and Head of the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition and the Pediatric IBD program at BC Children's Hospital.
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Former Chairman, Vancouver Coastal Health.
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Palestine Pulse
Loss, fragmentation on display at the Palestinian Museum
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Ahmad Melhem June 19, 2019
"Intimate Terrains," the current exhibition at the Palestinian Museum, displays works by artists from different generations united in their sense of longing, loss and nostalgia.
Ahmad Melhem
Manal Mahamid's sculpture of a gazelle with an amputated leg is shown at the exhibition "Intimate Terrains: Representations of a Disappearing Landscape," Birzeit, West Bank.
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Six long skeletal objects — thin, dark and dried up — hang from the ceiling in a small room plastered with maps of Palestine. These dried pieces of cactus, strung together and hung by thick black thread, cast dark shadows on the maps. The dark, shadowy and slightly eerie installation by Rana Bishara, aptly called "The Roadmap of Elimination," is part of "Intimate Terrains: Representations of a Disappearing Landscape," the current exhibition at the Palestinian Museum, in Birzeit.
"The cactus has always been part of the natural landscape in Palestine," Bishara told Al-Monitor. "[It] has been used to fence our agricultural lands and villages for decades."
Bishara further explained that after the Nakba – "the catastrophe," the dispossession of the Palestinians with the establishment of Israel in 1948 — the cactus became a symbol of the Palestinians' destroyed and abandoned villages — a "witness of the destruction and suffering" — as well as a symbol of Palestinians' steadfastness in trying to hold on to their homeland.
Bishara said the dried cactus also represents the visual and psychological distortions that Palestine has experienced. For example, she pointed out, the separation wall and the settlements have eliminated all sorts of social and geographical bonds.
The work, with its many messages, also expresses the artist's discontent with the peace process between the Palestinians and Israelis. According to Bishara, this process has, as evidenced by the maps — drafted by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights — has led to the dispersal, fragmentation and transformation of Palestinian land into cantons. The fragments of dried cactus interwoven with dark threads, Bishara said, are an expression of trying to hold thee cantons together through heritage and culture at the least.
"The Roadmap of Elimination," an installation by Rana Bishara, consists of maps of Palestine and hanging dried cactus, a symbol of loss, Palestinian Museum, Birzeit (Photo by Ahmad Melhem)
Bishara's work is among more than 100 artworks exhibited in "Intimate Terrains," which opened this spring and runs through December 31.
The exhibition, one of the largest ever presented in Palestine, includes several generations of artists, most of whom tackle issues like motherland, nostalgia and the sense of belonging, fragmentation, archaeology and changing natural landscapes.
Lama Takruri, assistant curator of "Intimate Terrains," told Al-Monitor that the exhibition is inspired by the tremendous amount of changes that have taken place in Palestine over the years due to Israeli policies and as a result of the expansion of Palestinian cities.
Three oil paintings by Tawfiq Jawharieh from 1930 are the oldest works in the exhibition. Their idyllic landscapes of natural beauty, featuring lakes, cypress trees and the sea, probably only existed in the imagination of the artist, created by longing. The depiction of clear lakes and the sea reflecting moonlight show the influence of Western landscape painting on Jawhariya's style, Takruri explained.
"Drought," by Sliman Mansour, dominates a wall of the museum. The colorless mosaic consists of hundreds of pieces of dry mud affixed to iron wires in the shape of a human figure, possibly a self-portrait. The huge work, embodies "fragmentation and erosion of the Palestinian landscape," said Takruri.
"The Palestinian Gazelle," by Manal Mahamid, is one of the most photographed works on display. The large gazelle, made of fiberglass, has an amputated leg.
"In the Israeli zoo, Mahamid saw what Israel claimed were 'Israeli gazelles,' and many of them had amputated legs due to what they said was a disease that affected their limbs," Takruri explained, "This sculpture symbolizes the Palestinians, … who lack liberty, freedom of movement."
Tina Sherwell, an artist and historian, spent two years curating the exhibition, including research on artists' perceptions of the land and the Palestinian landscape. After having selected artists and works to exhibit, gathering the pieces was a time-consuming endeavor, Takruri said, due to Palestine's complicated situation. In the Glass Gallery, visitors can find information on the politics that contributed to the creation of the artworks and conceptualization of the exhibition, including a collection of publications, wall text, charts and a chronology of events.
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Ahmad Melhem is a Palestinian journalist and photographer based in Ramallah for Al-Watan News. He writes for a number of Arabic outlets.
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Brief outline: David had always experienced depression but when he was in his early 40s his depression got much worse and he had a breakdown. He was admitted to hospital and was offered ECT, age 43. David had 20 ECT treatments which lifted the depression in a way that antidepressants never had. He is however still looking for work.
Background: David lives by himself, is currently unemployed and describes his ethnic background as White British.
David Z had coped with his mental illness from childhood and only sought help much later in life when his depression was "longer and deeper", "very dark" and he felt "very, very suicidal".
David spent most of his life feeling depressed. When he wasn't depressed he said things felt "artificial".
David Z felt very calm when he planned to end his life.
When David Z was discharged from hospital he had support from social workers, a mental health care worker and a medical team.
Although David Z didn't think ECT would work he decided to "go for it and see". He wasn't frightened by it, and it was just one more thing to try.
David Z didn't get any great relief from antidepressants and found that ECT gave him a lift, which the tablets didn't. He finds he is able to manage his moods better by himself than with tablets.
David lives by himself, is currently unemployed and describes his ethnic background as White British.
I guess my story is that I'd suffered from mental health issues most of my life since I was about a teenager, since I was about 12, and I coped quite well with them, most of my teenage and working life. Up until I got to about 38-39, and they started to get progressively worse. My depression would get longer and deeper. And that went on for a couple of years until I got to my early 40s where I got, I really had a bit of a breakdown, I would say, and the depression got very, very deep and very, very dark and very very suicidal. And at that point I'd been referred to a consultant psychiatrist and it was agreed that I would then move into hospital at that point.
I think in truth I've probably been depressed most of my life. It's been kind of a cyclical depression. You get some relief, then it comes back, and its back for longer and it's back for deeper the older I got. And, as I say, my 30, late 30s, 40s, it just didn't seem to go away. So I would be more depressed than I would be normal, as it were.
Yes, yes. And I suppose that you're kind of almost saying that there's not a time, can you remember not being depressed?
No, I've been, that's, yes, that's true. I can't think of a time, or if I have felt not depressed I've felt that's very artificial. And I'm a bit frightened of when I'm not depressed because it feels a bit alien.
If, do you mind if I ask you about the time when you were suicidal and how that felt?
It felt quite comforting, I guess. Because when you, you want to exit this life and you've made plans to do so, it feels very natural and very calm. So it's very kind of, yes, it, it felt kind of c-, normal for me at that point in my life. It wasn't frenzied, it wasn't driven by sheer emotion, it was just very calm and very calculated. And I think that's what concerned the, the consultant psychiatrist.
And you said you're quite an independent person. Did you have any support around you at the time?
I had support, but any decisions that were getting taken I was making on my own. So I wasn't referring to anybody, "Do you think I should do this or not do this?" I was making my own decisions.
And do you have a kind of wider support network that you could…?
I mean I did, but I wasn't accessing it at the time in hospital. In fact if anything I was quite content just to be just on my own, to be honest.
Okay. And you said you had twenty?
I had twenty sessions over a ten-week period, yes.
And how did you feel when that was complete?
I was a bit worried actually because a) you get used to it and it becomes part of your routine in hospital. But I was worried about when it ended. What would this mean? Would I slide? Would it maybe come back? What, you know, what would happen? And there was a bit of a slide, to be honest. But then about three or four weeks later I was discharged from hospital, so I was dealing with that as well. So it was hard to say. But I was worried about what would happen if they stopped them, you know.
What kind of support did you get in terms of, you know, moving out of hospital for example is quite significant.
Well, there was good support. I mean it was all new to me. I had a social worker appointed to me and I had a mental health care worker appointed and they kind of took me through the whole process of coming back out.
So actually I felt the support networks were quite good, I felt quite supported. And the medical teams were very good. So I guess my whole experience from what should have been or could have been quite a negative thing was actually quite positive.
I mean I was offered ECT in my first consultation as an inpatient and at that point a lot of what they were saying to me was very, it was very new. They were trying to get a handle on the diagnosis for myself and give it some labels. And I knew I wasn't comfortable with that. So when they offered me ECT in the first week it wasn't I didn't care about it, but in a sense I didn't. You know, it was just one more thing they were offering me and I didn't feel resistant to it or I didn't feel frightened about it. I guess it felt a little strange because, you know, "What is this?" But I guess there was also part of me, a small part of me was a bit intrigued. So there was probably a little bit of an interest there to see exactly what this was. So I guess I felt quite, quite okay with it. I wasn't, wasn't nervous and I wasn't fearful of it, you know.
That's a fascinating word to use that you were intrigued by it. So there was a kind of curiosity?
Yes, because you, you'd heard so much about it on the TV and you'd seen it in documentaries and you'd think, "Oh, actually what is this?" And I guess I didn't believe it would work, to be honest, because nothing else had worked, you know, the psychotherapy, the antidepressant tablets. ECT, it was just like one more thing in a long list of things and, no, I didn't really think it would work, to be honest.
I mean I don't have much faith in antidepressants, rightly or wrongly. To me they don't work really. They always tell me about what would it be like if I wasn't on them, which is fair enough, but I don't feel any great relief with antidepressants, I don't feel any up. I, I kind of manage my moods better myself rather than from the tablets. But the one thing the ECT did give you that lift. When you came to you did notice a difference. And you don't get that difference if you're on tablets.
David had struggled with mental health problems for a lot of his life. However, in his early 40s he had a breakdown when his depression became 'very, very deep' and he felt suicidal. David made a plan to end his life and said it felt 'very natural and very calm'. At the time he wouldn't have classified what he experienced as an 'illness' but now he says that he does accept it was an illness.
After he was referred to a consultant psychiatrist, it was agreed that he should be admitted to hospital. Although hospital seemed an alien environment at first, David didn't find it frightening. He felt that the antidepressant medication he had been taking hadn't really worked and was offered ECT. At the time he didn't think much about ECT because he wasn't in a fit state to understand the information he was being given. Before ECT was offered to him, he only had images of ECT from TV and things he had read. David didn't believe that ECT would work as nothing had worked before (such as psychotherapy or antidepressants). He made the decision to have ECT by himself.
David said that the first ECT treatment was a 'bit alien' because he wasn't sure what was going on. However he said everyone was nice and the procedure was 'very calm'. He said that there was a separate suite where the ECT took place and the nurse was very good. The nurse told him what to expect, talked him through the procedure and got his consent before each ECT treatment. David had 20 separate ECT sessions over a period of 10 weeks, and said that by the end of the treatments it became a normal thing to do twice a week. He found that he did lose his memory slightly at the time, and still struggles to recall things. However his long term memory wasn't affected and he got 'instant relief' from the depression after having ECT. David didn't find out too much detail about how the ECT worked, but he was just happy that it worked.
When the ECT course finished David, was a bit worried because it had become part of his routine in hospital and worried that the depression would come back. David was given a social worker and a mental health care worker who helped him through the process of being discharged from hospital. David found that for him recovery was a process of 'getting out and about' and felt that he needed to work. David said that if ever became that seriously depressed again he would much rather have ECT, as he didn't have much faith in antidepressants. Although he had had depression for most of his life, the depression got worse with age. David would like to go back to work but to a job that was less pressured than before.
David recommends that people try ECT and that it should give them relief. He found staff involved in ECT treatment highly knowledgeable and the treatment only took five minutes.


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A privileged container is a container that has all the capabilities of the host machine. It removes all the limitations regular containers have. Substantially, this means that privileged containers can do almost every action that can be performed directly on the host. Attackers who gain access to a privileged container have permissions to create a new privileged container (by using the compromised pod's service account. For Instance, they can get access to the host's resources.
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Role-based access control (RBAC) is a crucial security feature in Kubernetes. RBAC can restrict the allowed actions of the various identities in the cluster. Cluster-admin is a built-in high privileged role in Kubernetes. Attackers who have permissions to create bindings and cluster-bindings in the cluster can create a binding to the cluster-admin ClusterRole or to other elevated privileges roles.
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hostPath mount can be used by attackers to get access to the underlying host and thus break from the container to the host.
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If the Kubernetes cluster is deployed in the cloud, in some cases attackers can leverage their access to a single container in order to get access to other cloud resources outside the cluster. For example, in AKS each node contains service principal credential that is stored in /etc/kubernetes/azure.json. AKS uses this service principal to create and manage Azure resources that are needed for the cluster operation.
By default, the service principal has contributor permissions in the cluster's Resource Group. Attackers who get access to this service principal file (by hostPath mount, for example) can use its credentials to access or modify the cloud resources.


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MPD Chief Alfonso Morales Demoted to Captain
Alfonso Morales
Alfonso Morales is no longer the chief of the police for the Milwaukee Police Department effective immediately. The decision was announced by the Fire and Police Commission on the evening of Thursday, Aug. 6.
The commission demoted Morales to captain. The vote which cemented his fate was unanimous as was the vote that named Michael Brunson as the current standing chief, following the department's chain-of-command.
According to the Journal Sentinel, Morales and his attorney, Franklyn Gimbel, will be looking at his options in the coming days. The Journal Sentinel also reported that Morales will not rule out suing the city to get his job back. Morales was only at the beginning of his four-year term, with less than a year in after being reappointed by the commission in 2019.
The meeting was led by Steven DeVougas, the chairman of the board. It should be noted that Commissioner Nelson Soler, the vice chair of the board, was named as the chairman of the board.
During the meeting, DeVougas gave each of the commissioners an opportunity to speak on Morales. Soler noted that when Morales was appointed last year in December, his position came with some conditions.
According to Soler, the conditions included being accessible to the commissioners through an open-door policy, working with the community to be inclusive and being transparent with the board.
"It should be no surprise, that I personally don't feel you have worked with us," Soler said.
He added that Morales failed to comply to the conditions which he had accepted when he took on the position.
Commissioner Ann Wilson also took the opportunity to speak to express her disappointment over Morales' perceived actions. Wilson called out Morales for not following through on his promises.
"To just not do what you said you wanted to do really makes me sad," Wilson said.
Commissioner Everett Cocroft echoed Wilson's statements.
Commissioner Raymond Robakowski also spoke.
"A series of offensive actions have occurred under the leadership of Alfonso Morales that are intolerable from any leader who holds a position of trust," Robakowski said. "His conduct is unbecoming, filled with ethical lapses and flawed decisions."
Morales has intentionally lied to the public, through his press conferences, YouTube videos and press releases, Robakowski said. He lied to commissioners and failed to provide the board with his COVID-19 action plan.
"As a new commissioner if I had known back in December 2019 what I know now I never would have seconded the meeting for his reappointment and I never would have cast my vote in support," he said.
Robakowski continued, "Mr. Morales has failed the men and women of the Milwaukee Police Department, the people of the city of Milwaukee and he has misled me. And none of this is acceptable."
Robakowski filed the motion to demote Morales.
Mayor Tom Barrett held a press conference following the meeting. Barrett noted that the previous day he had sent a letter to the commission asking for an orderly review on the directives they had issued to Morales.
Barrett was upset that the board did not follow through on this process that the it had outlined and believed that Morales should have been given an opportunity to respond to those directives.
"The discussion surrounding this decision tonight was completely lacking in transparency," Barrett said.
Barrett said he was angry with the way things played out and that he is committed to bringing transparency back to the process.
"We need a police department that will keep us all safe, that's what Milwaukeeans deserve," Barrett said, later adding, "We need a Fire and Police Commission that is respected by our citizens and we need a police department that is respected by our citizens."
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Kristian Nairn, who played the gentle giant Hodor in the epic fantasy series Game of Thrones, says he is looking forward to the proposed spin-offs of the HBO show. now that GOT is headed towards its finale, Nairn believes not going in for the continuation of the world of Westeros would be an opportunity lost.
"I just think it's a good thing. Obviously Game of Thrones has created this complete alternative universe, and Westeros, just to lose that at the end of this year, or this season, would be crazy, after all these incredibly well-developed characters and places, they almost feel real. It would be crazy not to do something else with it," Nairn told Digital Spy.
The actor's character was last seen in the sixth season of the show. GOT creator George RR Martin has confirmed that as of now scripts for five spin-offs, most probably prequels, are in development. One of the spin-offs is titled The Long Night. Martin has also written a lengthy history of the Targaryen dynasty called Fire and Blood. GOT returns for one last time on April.


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(Continued from other side) Wilberforce University, the nation's oldest private historically African American institution of higher education, was founded at Tawana Springs in 1856. Tawana House, the resort's hotel, was remodeled for recitation rooms and other school activities, and the cottages were utilized as dormatories. Several reasons have been suggested for choosing Tawana Springs as the site for Wilberforce University. Foremost, perhaps, is the large number of African Americans that settled in Greene County as the result of the migration patterns of freed slaves before the Civil War and the Underground Railroad, which passed through the area. It is also suggested that Tawana's natural beauty and readily available structures enhanced the selection. With the Civil War causing a decline in student enrollment, the first university failed in 1862. The following year Bishop Daniel A. Payne purchased the property on behalf of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Payne became the first president of Wilberforce and the first African American to lead a university.


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Anciens noms: Dructelingas (995), Drutheringa (1121), Dedelenges (1299), Dedelinga (1306 & 1319), Dedelanges (1327), Dedlingen (1470), Dedeling (1474), Dedelinger bann (1537), Dedling (1756 & 1801), Dedeling (1793).

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Le , la commune de Dédeling est rattachée à celle de Château-Voué sous le régime de la fusion-association. Le , le rattachement de Dédeling à Château-Voué est transformé en fusion simple.

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 Ferme pédagogique.

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Ancienne commune en Moselle
Commune disparue au XXe siècle
Ancienne commune associée en France

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May 20, 2015 May 20, 2015 Uncategorized Leave a comment CBSConan O'BrienDavid LettermanGeorge ClooneyJay Lenolate late showLate NightLate ShowLettermanNBCTonight ShowTop Ten
Everybody Has a Top Ten Today
(I consider this an addendum to my thoughts on the death of the "old" late night television and the departure from late night of my favourite host Craig Ferguson, which I made in December. So read that if you want a full preamble.
For a briefer preamble: In it, I wrote "Yes, historically speaking, David Letterman's retirement next year is probably more important (than Ferguson's last show) since he probably is more responsible for the 12:35am aesthetic than he's comfortable admitting as a man who wanted to desperately be (Johnny) Carson's spiritual successor instead." That's a big part of why David Letterman is important.)
We live in an age where we have a list for everything. However, David Letterman was doing Top Tens before Top Tens became a well-worn cliché. So we (the "we" in this case is "the Internet") can be forgiven for all blithely throwing up a Top Ten list to commemorate David Letterman's 4,263rd episode of Late Show, 6,082nd late night program overall (minus guest hosting duties) and final late night gig of all.
So here's my Top Ten Favourite David Letterman moments. They're arguably not the best and it's nowhere near comprehensive because I cut my late night fandom teeth on his Late Night successor. Nonetheless, here they are:
AN HONOURABLE MENTION: You'll note that none of Dave's more infamously confrontational interviews are included; my humour scale tends not to respond to the embarrasment factor. But it's worth mentioning that their value was at their highest when Dave either thought the guest took themselves too seriously or he had little respect for the guest's "accomplishments." It's a peek into Letterman's insight when Paris Hilton told him she didn't want to talk about her time in jail and how he responded. People (rightly) pilloring Letterman for his faults could produce just as much humour.
10 – "Did You Bring Any Mace?," May 14, 2015, The Late Show
In the interest of acknowledging there's a recency bias, I'll put this on the list but leave it at ten. Late night TV works great when you have some sort of motley combination of folks: having gravelly-voiced Tom Waits as guest with an American mainstream sweetheart, George Clooney, standing by works for this reason, while it also serves the purposes of watching three entertainment vets have a chuckle. Clooney handcuffed himself to Dave in an earlier segment in a gag designed to express his disappointment with Letterman's retirement ("You're not going anywhere!"). To their credit, they saw the gag through to the episode's end. Watching Clooney's delayed reaction to Waits' tire business joke tickles my pun-loving funny bone.
9 – "It Seems to Me Like You're Changing Your Style a Bit…," , Late Night, October 2, 1986
The first of three '86 moments on this list, this features one of Letterman's most celebrated featured players from his NBC days impersonating Dave's most frequent NBC guest in a bit that demonstrates Dave's most frequently celebrated quality: the "anti talk show" approach. Chris Elliott pokes fun at all of Jay Leno's predictable delivery points but Dave is quick to immediately deconstruct the bit on the spot and somehow only adds to its humour. Elliott would return two weeks later with Leno himself to deliver a great callback punchline to the routine.
8 – "My Favourite Band Playing My Favourite Song…," February 21, 2000, Late Show
It's a strange entry for me to put a musical performance on here because a) it's not Dave doing anything and b) I could really take or leave the Foo Fighters after their first couple of albums (and this was recorded right as their plunge into mediocrity was already in tilt). But anyone that was in high school/college in the late-90s remembers the power-pop-rock perfection that was The Colour and The Shape, and obviously Letterman loved the signature single.
Letterman was #2 (or 3) in the ratings from 1995 on, but there was a gravitas to Dave that made his coming back from heart surgery in 2000 a much bigger deal than if it had been anyone else. What makes this stand out is that the band didn't just fly back from South America to play it…they played the hell out of it. For all of the times Letterman was (and is) a jerk where his rivals weren't, those that did feel warm feelings about him were 100% sincere about it and it came through in their performances. I still kind of get a little goosebump when the synth kicks in and Grohl says, like a giddy eight-year old, "Paul Schaffer!"
7 – "You Need a Ride to the Airport?," September 24, 2008, The Late Show
Right-wingers say Dave went downhill when "he got political" and believe it or not, I actually agree. Not because of any leanings on my behalf, but because I don't think Dave did partisan humour well (especially given what his successor was doing in the same timeslot on cable). But what Dave did do well, when he was on, was make fun of the general absurdity of the power politics of everyday life (also see #4). Which is why his takedown of John McCain was a return to form.
We've probably all been stood up for a false reason at some point in our life (many of us are also probably guilty of same). What's interesting about this clip is that Dave really gets across over the course of the show how much his initial admiration of McCain informs his disappointment when John bails on him that way. The fact that noted left-wing pundit Keith Olbermann just so happens to be Dave's substitute for McCain as the Couric interview is unfolding is like an extra layer of delicious wickedness.
6 – "As You Can Tell, Andy Kaufman's is Here, Sorta…," July 29, 1982, Late Night
This is a "my favourite" list, not "best," and since I'm a wrestling fan, I'm biased and this makes the list. Jerry Lawler and Kaufman decided to go "off page," as it were, in one of the most important moments in pro wrestling history and shockingly enough, a formative moment in Letterman's career. I think it would have been memorable TV regardless of the host but Dave handled it with a coolhanded flippancy that surpasses how any of his contemporaries would have. Also, his little quip at 14:55 (that doesn't even draw a huge laugh in and of itself) is maybe my favourite Dave one-liner, giving you a clever reference to late night history to that point…
5 – "How Did You Get This Job, By the Way…?," February 28, 1994, Late Night
I wish the whole appearance was on the webs right now but it isn't. But I'm a big Conan O'Brien fan and anyone born before 1985 probably remembers the reaction to him getting the job to succeed Letterman on NBC's Late Night: "Who the hell is this guy, why's he so nervous and when is he going to get funny?" But a lot of our generation thought there was potential, and getting Dave's blessing was an enormous step forward. Given that Letterman's production company was already planning a rival program, he didn't have to do that, but typically Dave wasn't good at hiding things that he hated– or things he liked. (A lesser remembered appearance is here— with another quick Dave'esque zinger at 0:49 and an oddly prescient statement about Conan's future).
4 – "This is Gonna Be Fun to Work with These People, Isn't It?…," April 8, 1986, Late Night
If you want to know why Dave "jumped the shark" in the late 90s or early 2000s, it was most notably because he stopped doing remotes. And this one was hands down the most intentionally and unintentionally genius one that he ever did. When he delivered a fruit basket to the headquarters of new NBC owner General Electric, he all at once poked fun at the general hassles of bureaucracy, at how conglomeration created bosses and owners isolated from their employees, and at his own "bite the hand" mentality that would ultimately cost him The Tonight Show. Not like it was the last time he'd do this. And certainly not the first…
3 – "…and I'm Not Wearing Pants," August 19, 1985, Late Night/Today Show
#2 is Dave at his "elder statesmen" best. This is Dave at his "voice of the young comic generation" best. (He was my age at the time, so I may be trying to overinterpret 38 as young– wishful thinking?). Anyone that made a point to stay up to watch the "hip" Letterman probably also considered The Today Show as overhyped anathema and Dave capitalized on it all too well. It's probably also no coincidence in Dave's mind that just as NBC would repeat itself in his universe with seemingly absurd TV-think, they would be equally redundant handling their morning flagship.
2 – "Don't Blame Conan," January 19, 2010, Late Show
Mix Letterman's blessing of O'Brien as his successor in #5, his proclivity for poking fun at invisible network bosses in #4/#3 and his sourness at losing his dream job to the comedian cited in #9 and…voila! If you can forgive the excessive Paul Schaffer interventions in this desk bit, you'll recognize it as a pivotal moment in Dave's status as late night's elder statesman.
It's impossible to mention Letterman's careers without also referencing Jay Leno's. By all accounts, more people watched Leno and we should like Leno better: a faithful husband with gentle comedy and a kind exterior. Still, there was always something…off…about Jay to those that considered themselves more seasoned comedy fans. You felt like for better or worse, you knew Dave, but you didn't really know Jay.
Dave works that to his advantage here and again does what he does best: deconstruction. The furor over NBC trying to elbow Jay Leno back into 11:35pm, and Leno's apparent overwillingness to surrender to the corporate structure that drove Dave crazy, kicked off a glorious (if not also redundant) week of high-level Letterman bitching about Jay and NBC. What makes the bit brillant is that Dave doesn't focus on Jay's alleged selfishness, he instead focuses on a seemingly innocuous statement ("don't blame Conan"), dissects its absurdity and divulges what he sees as the personality flaw that informs that statement. Dave would be the cranky old man before and after this, but this was one of the times he was a particularly astute cranky old man.
1 – "The Arbitration," June 27, 1986, The Tonight Show
Yes, I'm being ironic by making the number one entry something from the show that got away from Dave…but most times when people praise Letterman, it's for his anti-humour-humour, his diffusing of normal celebrity sycophantism, general curmudgeonry and his widespread influence.
But this is just straight-up clever and funny Dave: bantering with his late-night idol and delivering a hilarious comedy premise that works on YouTube today, worked on television in the 80s and would have easily worked on radio in the 30s (or the stage in any era). Tonight's Late Show may mark the end of a run for a TV host that was of his time, but there was certainly a spark there that carried beyond his years.
I'm sure he'll enjoy his retirement like anyone of his vintage should: with a big, big bottle of alka seltzer.
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It's a Bittersweet Day in America, Everybody
It's hard to imagine how unbelievably worked up America got almost five years ago when NBC attempted to rearrange its late night television universe and Conan O'Brien stiffly rebuked its suits. Especially when you consider one of O'Brien's public rationales for doing it.
Conan didn't technically get kicked off of The Tonight Show (though it's often remembered that way). Instead, he walked away because he essentially didn't feel like hosting a show any time other than 11:30(ish) PM was the gig he signed up for. In other words, he still really valued the concept of The Tonight Show.
It was almost enough to make entertainers in the minority opinion (at least at the time) want to shake Conan and say what Jerry Seinfeld said not too long after: "'There is no tradition! (After 16 years), you should get it: there are no shows! It's all made up!.'" Seinfeld's sentiment was echoed by David Letterman's former producer Peter Lassally in the early 1990s. Lassally is quoted in the legendary 1990s book The Late Shift as having to verbally browbeat into David Letterman's head that Johnny Carson's ubitquious Tonight Show didn't exist anymore.
Even transferable titles like The Tonight Show, The Late Show and so on seem arbitrary and a pandering attempt to create a simulacra of transferrable tradition where no transferability exists. Yet they are oddly enforced in our consciousness: Seth Meyers is presented as "the fourth host of NBC's Late Night" despite no retention of bits between the show's four hosts. Seinfeld would later say he didn't see himself (as a guest) doing these shows but just "doing Jimmy's show, Jay's show" and so on and so on. And moreover, isn't the TV audience of the future timeshifting everything anyway?.**
**Full disclosure: I consider myself a Conan O'Brien fan. Still, I don't feel like his show is a "late night thing" to me. It can be if I so choose to be. However, there's nothing about watching Clueless Gamer (which is outright hysterical, by the way) that evokes a sense of time, even if it entertains me. Funnily enough, Conan's early earnest, though often fumbling attempts on NBC did evoke the late night feeling much more, at least for me.
Yet people have fought about, written about, and argued about the legacy of late night network television as though it was something important. As Louis Menand wrote for The New Yorker in 2010 (referring to Carter's Late Shift followup), reading about the "late night wars" "can sometimes feel we are reading about the Battle of Stalingrad."
Hey everybody, remember Greg Kinnear?
This isn't important either, but it's just an aesthetic opinion: I feel like the last true network "late night" show airs tonight. Not at the coveted 11:35p slot but at 12:35a.
Why It's a Bittersweet Day in America (If You Like Late Night Talk Shows, That Is)
Tonight, the last episode of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (with Lassally serving as Executive Producer since 2009 and with Leno as Craig's final guest) airs. And yes, that marks the death of late-night television for me. Or that is to say, the death of late night as I knew it.
Let me first clarify that this is not meant as a disparaging comment towards any current crop of late night hosts, be they major network or otherwise. Each has their own talents. Yet, as stated above about O'Brien, their shows seems like the same time-shiftable material any variety program would offer. Craig Ferguson, in all of his glorious, semi-improvised Scottish splendour, was the last to feel like his show was genuinely meant to be late night. His was a show you were supposed to stumble into after a late-night of trivia at the bar (or an early night at the bar for anything else, I suppose).
I came upon Ferguson's version of The Late Late Show several years after its inauspicious start. By complete happenstance, as I laid my head down on the pillow at 12:35AM (roughly), I flipped to CBS and saw this. It was, suffice to say, quite random and quite absurd.
It was….well, it was almost 1 in the morning and it felt that way.
Thus the great irony in the tagline that Craig Ferguson would regularly drop in his monologues on The Late Late Show: "It's a great day in America, everybody!" (emphasis all mine). The irony being this: If any late-night talk show host still lives up to being a late night talk show host in terms of aesthetic (if nothing else), Craig Ferguson is it. "It's a great late night in America" would have been a more fitting salutation, even if every late night talk show is filmed in the day (something that Craig didn't mind reminding you about…a lot). We've come through an age where viewers upped their time-shifting massively. Only now, they're gradually being swayed back to being more time-intensive viewers by fear of being spoiled by social media.** But talk shows (not celebrated as a "high social" form of viewing anymore) may just be immune to the tidal shift back because there's not too much to spoil, unless a talk show host has an incredibly au courant level of social confession to make.
*Flying back to Canada on Wednesday night, this Survivor watcher needed to avoid Twitter for awhile until he could get caught up on the Season 9 finale
Full disclosure #2: Yes, I'm being a fanboy with this blog entry because some stuff will be written about Ferguson's exit, but not nearly as much as the usual 11:35pm dramas. Yes, historically speaking, David Letterman's retirement next year is probably more important since he probably is more responsible for the 12:35am aesthetic than he's comfortable admitting as a man who wanted to desperately be Carson's spiritual successor instead. And yes, last night's overly-celeb-stuffed exit by Stephen Colbert before he succeeds Letterman probably underscores the grandiosity of that timeslot. But folks, Craig Ferguson is, and soon-to-be-was, a helluva late night talk show host.
Ferguson has all the redundancies of catchphrases and repetitive "oh my show is so cheap" self-depreciation, but buried within that was more distinct and original comedy than anyone else. Most late night talk show hosts essentially recycle the same monologue for 4-5 nights in a row, just changing the wording about each item they plan to joke about. Craig Ferguson delivers a completely different monologue on a completely different subject each night he hosts. He reads emails and Tweets from his viewers every night: the same "sketch" but because the viewers are different, he can change his riffs as he pleases. So there's just general talent on display.
But there's also an undeniable feeling that his show belongs in your queue as the last stop before you sleep. I've always been fascinated by late night talk show hosts, but not so much late night talk show guests: especially when it was obvious they'd rehearsed "bits" masquerading as interviews or were simply plugging the usual project. Craig Ferguson had the raw audacity to just…chat…with his guests. So charming was he at just disarming his guests to forget about plugging and just talk, that to look up "Craig Ferguson flirts", which seemed to result from nothing more than Ferguson actually displaying some level of interest in the person rather than the actress/etc., yields a plethora of YouTube compilations.**
**Lest you think this informality only lent itself to the frivolous…who'da thunk a late night talk show host would pull this Peabody winning performance off.
Late night talk shows always struck me as the metaphorical greasy spoon diners of television: if it's too fancy, you're doing it wrong. When I first saw Craig's show, I thought "this man is interviewing big celebs and is probably paid millions, but this doesn't seem too fancy. This is what I want right now."
To be fair, Ferguson (or perhaps more accurately, his producers) always flirted with the dangers of success in a way that threatened to deprive his show of its diner'esque charm. I used to use his show as an example to my GSTV students of how you can accomplish a lot in a small studio space…then his studio got bigger. His was the last late night show to go HD…it was long overdue but could have felt like a betrayal of the "oh, this late at night we can't be fancy. He decided to counteract this with the best possible cold open for a "this ain't Letterman's budget even though Letterman's company pays me" show. When his robotic sidekick Geoff began to develop more than a ten-word vocabulary, it seemed to counter what his invention was meant to deconstruct (how the role of late-night sidekick could theoretically be reduced to monosyllabic metaphorical bootlicking that "even a robot" could do)…instead, it ended up reaffirming the character as a sidekick that was, in fact, genuinely hilarious.
Even his theme song seemed like it should stay primitive rather than epic…but I never stopped singing along even when its recording got shinier.
He also brought a pathos to his show that seemed oddly fitting for his timeslot also. Again, emotional confessions and sober second thoughts are hardly the private reserve of the night hours, but something about when Ferguson got serious evoked that late-night diner chat you had with an old friend that was "getting real with you for a second" over that last cup of coffee you shouldn't have ordered. Rather than take the day off or take a moment and move on regarding his parents' passings, he memorably eulogized each of them. You felt like you were the last one Craig was speaking to after all of the funeral services.
In many ways, I feel sad to have missed out on the first airing of arguably the absolute highlight on the serious side of the ledger: a memorable explanation of why he wouldn't joke about Britney Spears' public troubles in 2007. He managed to come across self-effacing, life-affirming and completely non-judgmental in his "getting real" moment about struggling with addiction. But it did prompt me to immediately turn to him for the sober second thought (even as his audience was laughing) about Charlie Sheen in 2011.
So in synopsis:
– When Craig Ferguson talked to his guests (and his audience), it didn't feel canned. It felt like a postbar chat with his chums.
– His actual brand of comedy, particularly to open the show, had an upscale cable access aesthetic simultaneously contradicting his stature yet fitting his timeslot.
– He managed to capture this aesthetic while being the host most blatantly lampshading when his episodes are actually recorded.
– He was using puppets, costumed characters, a "lesbian row", and for gosh sake's, he gave his timeslot "rival" kittens as a Christmas present…
– His show enders…the best 'last call' concept for a TV show you could want (no offense to Carson Daly), even their odd anticlimaticism befit the genre.
That's why it's a bittersweet day in America, everybody. There are many talented comedians whose shows happen to air late at night, but really it's all a DVR webfest for me.** The old late night is dead. Dave, turn the lights off when you leave the room, K?
**The irony of commemorating Ferguson's timestamp value by linking online footage…not even remotely lost on me. They're entertaining any time of day but best enjoyed between the hours of 12:35a-3:35am…just one man's opinion.
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We Failed Domestic Violence Victims- Preemptive Strategies and Losing (or Finding) Jian Ghomeshi
(***TRIGGER WARNING***: Several links here and throughout this post refer to descriptions of violence that may be triggering for survivors. My previous entry, prior to the revelations of additional claims and Lucy DeCoutere and Reva Seth's coming forward, is here).
(UPDATE #2 (10/31): The digital age is ripe to be exploited for misinformation, but this case now appears to provide a compelling case for how one ripple in the digital world can lead to the disclosure we wish for but do not often volunteer. A detailed story published by the Toronto Star indicates that Ghomeshi may have inadvertently sped up the investigation on himself by reacting in paranoia to the Twitter account, Big Ears Teddy, which only posted tweets from April 9-11. An official investigation is finally underway).
(UPDATE #1 (10/31): Apologies that I missed this item before submitting this, but Navigator has dropped Jian Ghomeshi as a client).
If you only click on and read one link in this entire post, make it this one. This summarizes the tremendous frustration about the terrible events that make the story right now.
On Tuesday night and Wednesday morning (while packing and preparing for #collegemedia14), I did something of which I'm not sure I'm horribly ashamed, but of which I certainly know I'm anything but proud.
I went on a Jian Ghomeshi listening/watching binge (and no, I'm not linking any of it).
I listened to the podcast of his last Q episode from start-to-finish. I listened to several interviews of him from his book tour of 2012. I listened to bunch of his "audio essays." I listened to some of his best & in some cases (Howie Mandel) poignant interviews as a radio host. And I listened, in a state of surreal shock, to his Gamergate interviews—in which women detailed to him the horrors of cyberstalking and death threats they were experiencing—which were conducted only ten days ago.
I think, somehow, I knew— as Robyn Urback wrote today— the dam was about to break. And I theorized in conversations that there was any number of reasons why I found myself compelled to go on my listening binge before it did. Those reasons including:
— The natural temptation to see if there was any clues in the public persona that had been staring us in the face all along. Oh sure, he was smarmy…but how many smarmy media personalities are there out there? Are they all this horrible?
— Similarly listening for the clues in his book tour interviews: the descriptions of a life as an outsider due to Persian background and the seemingly strong connection to his recently deceased father. How could someone who claimed to work so hard to make his dad proud be something so much different?
— The surreal feeling of listening to a person's last known photograph. Somehow the public Jian Ghomeshi feels…not so much like he was never real. But like he was killed by the private Jian Ghomeshi. And that man took his time doing it. And he physically abused and emotionally scarred possibly countless women- real, very real, very non-fictitious people- along the way.
— The cruel fate that his last two episodes would encompass Gamergate conversations, the Ottawa shootings and the subjects of depression and suicide with Clint Malarchuk. (Malarchuk, not knowing what was to unfold, tweeted this afterwards).
And finally, listening to a historical archive of a man being a voice of reason for the nation…and slowly realizing something dark and sinister. And something that, quite frankly as someone who advises student journalists and radio hosts for a living, is downright haunting:
If Jian Ghomeshi the radio host was a different person than Jian Ghomeshi today, he'd be the first person most of Canada would have turned to for commentary on this story.
Not any of the women. Not any of the women who knew the women. Not any of the friends that tried to provide shelter to the women. You can very easily surmise the first voice on the matter on a Monday morning would have been Jian's, ever so calmly starting with his signature "Hi there," ostensibly presenting his "word of radio god."
And even just that one realization tells you right there: we failed. We failed the women of Canada, the women of the world. We keep failing, and I'm right there with all of us.
One of my students wrote a powerful story for The Signal earlier this semester on why sexual assaults go underreported and that story doesn't lead all that differently from this one that I linked above, the most important story of all. My students' story was accompanied by a staff editorial, which was well-intentioned and, quite frankly, strongly reasoned.
But still, more often than not, we do not report. Oftentimes, it's up to the good journalists, it's up to the Toronto Star muckrakers we've seen in action, to wrangle up as much as earthly possible in a story to uncover the truth. Why? As "Melissa" from Nothing From Winnipeg wrote: "Do you know about Jian?" That's why.
Those horrible feelings that something is not right, with enough people feeling the same thing all around you, with enough people whispering terrible things but somehow no one ever really being able to point to the person that can corroborate it in a way that everyone can know… even though…they know. I don't have any close friends near the situation, but many have moved to various places across Canada and have heard from those who know about Jian. Some of them bit their lip because they felt it might not be ever possible to prove.
When the dam bursts, it becomes impossible to deny. Oh sure, we still have not an ounce more of physical evidence than we had on Monday when many of us tried to hold our feelings on the matter at bay. But now we have people putting names to their accusations. Now we have people offering vivid descriptions. Now we have a conspiracy theory of Ghoeshi's (lawyers') imagination so vast that moon landing conspiracy theorists would state "I'm sorry, that's a stretch."
But why do we have to let the dam reach the breaking point? Why do so many assaults go unreported (or underreported)? Why did it take not one assault by Ghomeshi to merit a journalistic investigation but a virtual plethora of them? Much of it stems from how we take our the principle of the presumption of innocence to a rather twisted end.
I described Ghomeshi's approach in his Facebook statement as a "a multi-pronged reduction of offensiveness approach: bolstering (reminding everyone of his work as a 'good (CBC) solider'), minimization ('we're not talking about assault, we're talking about consensual BDSM') and attacking the accuser (insinuating this is the "campaign" of 'jilted ex-lover')."
But others were much more to the point and accurate: his team was trying to pull a David Letterman. Furthermore, It was only logical that this was the only aim because winning the accompanying lawsuit was swiftly judged as pragmatically impossible.
We've logically come to a very quick conclusion about the Letterman strategy: it failed. There are two reasons for this.
The minimization effect worked for Letterman because the blackmail attempt was a much easier story to believe. The most Ghomeshi could hope for was that the accusations towards him would remain as vague as they did on Monday so that his conspiracy theory could hold water. That didn't even remain a reality for 24 hours. By Wednesday morning, the accusations were so varied, descriptive, and from differing social circles with no real compelling interest to defame Ghomeshi seeming obvious. On the other hand, Letterman's story was easy to believe right away and thus his infidelities were immediately minimized against what was perceived as a greater crime, that of trying to blackmail him.
Second, Letterman's story stopped unfolding. He didn't just get ahead of it. He stopped it. There was no danger of Letterman being arrested. His infidelity may have been reprehensible but it posed no danger of arrest nor did any suggestions it would lead to assault take hold. Letterman was deemed by some to be "merely" reprehensible, Ghomeshi is now understood to be dangerous.
And that second difference is why we're all kicking ourselves now. The law indicates Ghomeshi is "innocent until proven guilty" and we carry that so far so as to not even begin or demand a police investigation now after this many allegations. In the police's case, possibly out of respect of victims' fears of vengeance of a perpetrator before a sentence can be laid out. In the public's case, because of a false equivalency between a rush to investigate and a rush to judgement.
I write all of this not to pin blame on a specific person other than Jian Ghomeshi. Any assaults committed by him, however many they be, are his responsibility and his to be punished for. But that doesn't mean that we as a collective haven't failed. Because Ghomeshi's story hasn't stopped, more come forward. Yet still we do not do enough. We try to walk the delicate line of respecting victims, respecting the justice system but yearning to take assault allegations seriously, despite the overwhelming evidence we collectively don't.
And after everything I've written, I have few solutions. Here's two starting points, though:
– You don't have to believe every single rape or assault allegation you hear. But you should never disbelieve it until it can be soundly disproven. The mythological "pot of gold" that a false rape accuser gets still eludes us all- the sensible ones of all, that is. Hateful, sexist dialog towards accusers of people you want to stick up for is inexcusable, no matter how good of a friend, ally or figure that might be. The consequences of stigmatizing an accuser, no matter how frivulous a charge may seem, is far greater than the consequences of giving an accusation a chance to be investigated.
– Here are some resources. Get familiar:
http://www.cwhn.ca/
http://www.canadianwomen.org/facts-about-violence
http://www.nrcdv.org/
http://www.dvrc-or.org/
http://www.thehotline.org/
http://www.ncadv.org/
One last thought,
Jian Ghomeshi said something in one of those many "Q essays" (again, not linking it) and it seems like he was oblivious to it. "Journalism is not a crime." We tell our students, "you the student are subject to the same journalism that you practice on the students you write about." Perhaps there are people who think they are media figures think they get immunity. They don't.
After all of this, it remains as true, and in as dark of terms as possible, as when I first wrote it: something very sad has happened. Not just at CBC, but across Canada.
October 27, 2014 October 31, 2014 Canada, CBC, media industries, media industry, media studies, Q, rape culture 3 Comments
Something Very Sad Has Happened at CBC
Resources for victims of domestic violence can be found here.
(UPDATE #3 (10/29/14): **TRIGGER WARNINGS**, This following links contains either written or audio descriptions of violence which may be triggering to survivors. An anonymous woman claims abuse at the hands of Ghomeshi, citing the incidents as just over a decade ago, on the CBC radio program As It Happens. And the first woman to come forward publicly did so shortly thereafter, actress Lucy DeCoutere, to the Toronto Star).
(UPDATE #2 (10/28/14) Even more relevant to my world is this reflection on the furor and what it says about the power of radio from Paula Simons at the Edmonton Journal).
(UPDATE (10/28/14): Since I posted this, there have been a couple of excellent stories on the various angles of this situation. Brenda Cossman offers an excellent legal analysis for The Globe and Mail. Soraya Nadia McDonald writes for The Washington Post about the suspicions from many in the kink community of Ghomeshi's public statement).
It's no secret that due to my job description, history with the station and genuine affinity for it and its content, I usually find myself listening to Album 88 during my morning commute. But there are sometimes exceptions to the rule. Being a big sports fan, I may occasionally check out the local sports stations for my favorite teams. Or I'll check in with college radio stations from my past.
And I'll sometimes check in on my hometown and nation by accessing the Sydney feed of CBC radio. Which means that I occasionally find myself listening to the national radio show Q.
By any reasonable standard, Q is an excellent public radio program featuring a wide range of guests on a wide range of subjects and some of that credit, at least, must go to its now-former host, Jian Ghomeshi. You might love his smooth delivery, ability to make interviewees feel at ease (well, most interviewees…) and ask questions beyond the usual drivel of "tell me about your latest album/movie and is it the greatest thing you've ever done?" On the other hand, you might find him to be a "typical public radio host," in the perjorative sense of the word, who's too much in love with the sound of his voice. This is something that was rather expertly parodied several times on This Hour Has 22 Minutes (the 50 Shades references hit closer to home now, don't they?). It's fitting that his last Q "essay" introduction came on the heels of the tragic events on Parliament Hill in Ottawa last week. If you like Ghomeshi, it serves as a great parable for a gravitas well-earned. If you hate him, it serves a great parable for self-appointed pomposity.
It's hard to recap what led to Jian's departure/dismissal from the show this weekend, and no one web source provides a tidy timeline. But this is CBC's version of events, this is Jian's version of events and this is the version of events from the one publication that claims to have been investigating sexual abuse allegations against Ghomeshi for a long while.
The public relations war has already begun (when we're dealing with a $55 million lawsuit, how can a PR war not happen?). Ghomeshi has hired a high profile firm to defend him. He (and they) are employing a multi-pronged reduction of offensiveness approach: bolstering (reminding everyone of his work as a "good (CBC) solider"), minimization ("we're not talking about assault, we're talking about consensual BDSM") and attacking the accuser (insinuating this is the "campaign" of "jilted ex-lover").
Of course, the Twitterverse is weighing in along with all other forms of social media (especially the multiple comments sections). And I find myself incredibly saddened by the situation, which provides no sunny interpretation, and the public response so far.
On the one hand, I feel as though there is a lot of presumption of guilt from critics who don't have a lot of the facts of the case in front of them. Going back to last year, when a xojane contributor made thinly veiled allegations presumed to be about Ghomeshi, there has been a rush from some to immediately castigate the radio host for something only whispered about and not proven beyond the faintest of "he said, she said" terms. It is entirely possible that Ghomeshi, as he is suggesting, simply has a right to a private sex life, that includes kinks and fetishes the public may dislike, without it affecting his job. It's not an inconceivable blackmail scenario and many who get riled by the telling of a story without first evaluating its truth value are likely to be riled up.
But on the other hand,
The rhetoric of those rushing to have the host reinstated also rings painfully hollow with me. It seems that his defenders have taken his statement of "I was fired because CBC was embarrassed by what this blackmail attempt will reveal about me" at face value. It's interesting that his defenders talk of being innocent until proven guilty: Ghomeshi isn't the defendant in the lawsuit, CBC is. Until proven otherwise, the trite principle actually suggests we must assume CBC had a perfectly good reason for letting Ghomeshi go.
There is a level of star-crossed worship at play here. In one of the many facets of "adult life mimics high school life," I've often found that those inclined to find themselves in the arts community will deride celebrity-worship, particularly of athletes. This is very au courant because mounting testimonials and evidence suggests that if you're watching the NFL (which I freely admit I do), you're likely watching a lot of wife-beaters in action– which is a horrible reality to contemplate.
Being someone who was as likely to be found at the game as he was at the local indy show was always something of an awkward situation for me…and still is. The suggestion of many "anti-jock" types was that the popular kids and meathead jocks were the sexist bastards of the universe, unjustly glorified for "just being able to put a ______ in a _____ on a (insert playing surface)," elevated to the status of gods and thus far more susceptible to perpetuating rape culture.
However, there's an observable discomfort when people we assume to be intellectually, culturally or socially "refined" or "superior" in some way face similar allegations. It's why cultural critics (moderate, right-wing or otherwise) often call out the (perceived, at least) left for too hastily defending auteurs like Woody Allen and Roman Polanski despite their crimes. Huffington Post contributor Justin Beach hits to the heart of this in a fine op-ed piece: many people are rushing to Ghomeshi's defense simply because he seems too good a cultural archetype to be guilty of this sort of behavior.
But this doesn't hold up to any reasonable scrutiny. Gamergate and alt-lit disputes, for example, demonstrate that any culture that leads to adulation can foster rape culture and that adulation need not be on a mass scale. Furthermore, the castigation of accusers before details can be gathered can have a chilling effect. If it comes out that CBC fired or dismissed Jian not because they thought he was guilty of a crime, but because they found having a morning radio host that was into BDSM distasteful? That's on CBC, not anyone who's accused Ghomeshi of assault, harrassment or sexual misconduct.
Any statements or public reaction that discourage victims of sexual assault from coming forward are beyond the pale of disheartening, they're sinister- whether unconsciously or otherwise. If Ghomeshi is the victim of a disaffected ex, that's a terrible thing for him. But let's not kid ourselves, victims of sexual assault and domestic abuse suffer slings and arrows that $55 million lawsuits cannot deflect.
So, it might be best not to conclusively rule on anything other than to say that we're definitely faced with a coin flip that is terrible either way.
On the more trivial side, either a public figure many of us admired was much less than we thought he was or we were deprived of an excellent radio host for no tangibly good reason. On the less trivial side, either the state (the CBC in this case) has placed itself in the bedrooms of the nation or Jian Ghomeshi got away with deplorable things due in no small part to a culture that turned the other way from his behaviour. And least trivial of all, either a select number of people have suffered battery and/or abuse or they have diminished these very serious types of crimes with false allegations.
Either way, something very sad has happened at the CBC.
June 18, 2013 Atlanta, Canadian government, college media, Communication Studies, student journalism, student media Leave a comment 1995birthdaycollegecollege freshmen
I Turn 36 Today
It's not a long blog entry today because it's my birthday.
Normally the most notable birthdays and anniversaries are the ones meeting five-year increments. In the university world, I think 36 is an exception.
University students used to make jumpdrive mixes for each other in this form
I turned 18 on Father's Day of 1995. It was notable in Nova Scotia because the G7 Summit had wrapped up the day before in Halifax– the event even had a website! Jean Chretien was wrestling with Quebec sovereignty issues while Bill Clinton was wrestling a Republican Congress over budget issues. An absolutely horrible song topped the charts on both sides of the border and Batman Forever was crushing it in its opening box office weekend.
Nine days later, I walked the aisle of CBC Recreation Center to receive my Riverview high school diploma, which is why I think that my 36th birthday is somewhat notable. Everyone born on my 18th birthday is receiving their high school diplomas now. Meaning they are the freshman students I will encounter in the fall.
Our nostalgia for the present is such that 1995 seems like yesterday and not just for late 30-somethings like me who like to pretend that it really was just yesterday. "18 years ago" in 1995 was 1977 and you didn't have a mass amount of 1977 movies, news and (oh, to laugh) websites at your disposal back then. I can far more readily access TV news reports about Elvis Presley's death now than I could when I was a teenager. In some ways, the year of birth feels closer to me now because of it. Of course, 1977 felt like forever ago then.
I can also look up Elvis death hoax conspiracies. And laugh at Geraldo's haircut
The landscape that my college freshman self and the freshmen I'll end up advising bear a lot of differences and similarities.
I didn't live in an Internet-capable household when I graduated high school. No word of lie, the first time I experienced this wacky "Internet" was in a UCCB lab. In America, the number of Internet users was pegged between 20-30 million at the time. Much of my college classroom experience
was spent discussing how we were going to refashion our way of life around it. Now the use of the Internet in the classroom itself is perhaps not ubiquitous, but darn close (then again, if cyberslacking counts, then yes, it is ubiquitous).
Optimistic outlooks back then cast a digital divide that would be much smaller, but really that's not the case. 1995 Bryce probably thought that the Internet would allow his small town and other small towns to grow as they utilized the digital tools to reach out into the world. 2013 Bryce lives in Atlanta: a city with a metro population over a million people more than it was ten years ago. I was told that one day I'd have to move to the big city as a college student. Here at GSU, I advise people that already took up that advice coming out of high school.
Tuition is always a problem. We bailed on classes in my senior year at RHS to attend information sessions with federal government representatives to address the rising costs of postsecondary education. We were nervous about how much it would cost us, but today's student will tell me I got a bargain. It goes up and up back home, but stateside doesn't tell a better story. Even accounting for inflation, my 1995 tuition dollars wouldn't go as far. Whatever we told those representatives didn't work, I guess.
I attended a small university slash college but there was a persistent desire to present a more consolidated vision. It would take years and years before the University College of Cape Breton became Cape Breton University but it was a march to the inevitable. The idea behind such a name change– besides optics– was (and is) to foster a belief (and develop programs towards that belief) discouraging students from using CBU as a "stopping point" before transferring to a bigger university. I met several students like that when I set foot on UCCB campus. I wasn't one of them…no one else in Atlantic Canada offered a B.A. in Communication.
I was at the tailend of Generation X and we were being told as we headed to college that it was gonna be rough. Rick Mercer was an emerging Canadian comedian and he was wondering when the baby boom job clog was ever going to clear up. 18 years later, we're still wondering. Today, I'm telling my media students that there's a job market out there, but you best be careful because it's constantly reinventing itself in the name of mobility.
Mercer had to get older to pull his snark out of a black & white haze
The university professional living in Georgia, USA, 2013 is witnessing this manifest in the seeming death of the two-year school. I get transfers volunteering for GSTV and The Signal all the time but many smaller Georgia schools are consolidating under institutional umbrellas to develop four year programs. Witness the new University of North Georgia (an amalgamation of two North Georgia College State and two Gainesville State College campuses) of and Middle Georgia State College soon-to-be "Middle Georgia University" (a merger of Macon State College and Middle Georgia College). Perhaps the middle Georgian freshmen born in 1995 will elude me and stick to their roots?
Pontifications and questions that will have to wait for another day. For now, I'll enjoy my birthday mix and wish good luck to the Class of '17. After you get your tassle, you're invited to my 40th birthday party.


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Kansas Postgame Notes
Recap | Final Stats | Quotes
Postgame Notes
Kansas 85, Texas A&M Corpus Christi 44
-Kansas has started the season 2-0 for four straight seasons. The last time they suffered a loss in their second game of the season was during the 2006-07 season.
-KU is now 1-0 all-time Vs TAMCC.
-Bonnie Henrickson is now 256-157 over-all as a collegiate head coach and 98-95 at Kansas.
-KU has won four straight games at Allen Fieldhouse dating back to last season's win over Prairie View A&M in the opening round of the WNIT.
-Kansas scored their first points of the game just five seconds into the contest.
-KU has won nine of their last 10 non-conference games.
-44 points was the lowest Kansas has held an opponent to since December 10, 2008 against Western Illinois who scored 43 in a 66-43 loss.
-The 41-point margin of victory was the largest for the Jayhawks since their 42-point victory against New Mexico State on January 4, 2009 at Allen Fieldhouse, 91-49.
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-Marisha Brown tied her career high in points with eight.
-CeCe Harper and Keena Mays both netted their first career three pointers.
-Harper had a career high six points surpassing her previous best of two.
-Mays also had a career high in points with her game total of seven. Her previous best was five.


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I recieved this wonderful award from Heather at Gofita's Pages. Thanks so much! I really should pass this along to my designer, Leelou – but I think I will keep it myself!
This award is meant as a pat on the back to those paying particular attention to their blog presentation, and goodness knows some of them look awesome! Of course none of them are pretty empty shells, so there's no shame to mention how nice their blogs are!
Thanks! I'm amused but touched. It's been a pleasure sharing book thoughts with you.
Well I really appreciate you thinking of my blog and passing this on to me. I like the new look on my blog, it is just too bad I've decided to stop posting at my book blog and combine my two blogs into one.


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