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College of Labor and Employment Lawyers Newsletter - October2019
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LEADERSHIP FOR GREATER PURPOSE
The Treasurer's Take
College Program in New Orleans
24th Annual Induction Dinner
Thanks to College Fellows
2019 Law Student Writing Competition Winners
Applications Now Being Accepted for Class of 2020
7th Circuit Law Student Program
Regional Meetings and Welcome Receptions
Spotlight on Fellows
Fellows on the Move
In Memoriam – Susan Grody Ruben
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As I sat down to write this column, I first re-read the columns written on this topic by my fellow officers: John Runyan, David Borgen, and Alan Symonette. They are three of the greatest individuals with whom I've had the privilege of working. They have each described their particular reasons so eloquently and have provided many of the very same reasons why I too am grateful for being a Fellow of the College. So it is, quite frankly, a daunting task to explain my thoughts without repeating what they have already said
My induction into the College in 2005 was one of the highlights of my 40-year legal career. Not because my colleagues thought that I had the technical skills, but because my peers in the community acknowledged that I demonstrated professionalism, civility, and integrity. I value my reputation for being fair and a straight shooter more than any other aspect of my professional credentials, and my admission into the College confirmed what was most important to me.
But let's face it. Sometimes it's quite the challenge to live up to the ideals of the College in the face of difficult opposing counsel or clients who expect you to be overly zealous. Frankly, for some of us, it would just be easier not to have to meet the College's exacting standards of civility. I entered the profession when there were nowhere near as many women practicing law as we are fortunate to have today. Back then, many of the female lawyers were taught, directly or indirectly, that to succeed, women had to be even more aggressive than their male counterparts. I drank that Kool-Aid, and it was a lesson that was difficult to unlearn. However, being a College Fellow is a constant reminder of the core principles to which we must adhere, and that the old rules for how female lawyers should conduct themselves simply do not work today. On balance, I believe I am a better advocate, adversary, and counselor because I have the privilege of being a Fellow.
Through the relationships I've formed in the College, I have gotten to know the best minds and hearts in our chosen field. I've crossed paths again with many whom I knew at the start of my career. In working on the President's Book, I interviewed my very first boss, Harold Datz, who then headed the NLRB's Division of Advice. I also interviewed John Higgins, who in the late 70's was someone whom I respected from afar. Lynne Deitch and I reconnected after 20 years, and she mentored me throughout my tenure in the College. Maurice Wexler showed me enormous kindness and mentorship even before we got to know one another well. Although this list goes on and on, my point is that the College affords us all the unique opportunity to befriend colleagues from across the U.S. and Canada, and it has been rewarding beyond measure.
Being a Fellow also presents us the opportunity to recognize and reward talent. Every year, I try to nominate those who exemplify our core values. It is a unique way for me to pay it forward, in recognition of those who were generous enough to support my nomination years ago. Serving on a circuit credentials committee is a wonderful way to carry on our mission and to form lasting bonds with our fellow committee members. Sometimes the task is difficult, but the vetting process teaches us what is truly valued in the practice of labor and employment law. Our circuit committee chairs and their committees perform extraordinary service to the College.
There are several other projects in which I have been involved which have been both challenging and personally rewarding. The Strategic Plan was the work of numerous Fellows who approached the task with creativity, commitment, and a wicked sense of humor. It was a privilege to co-chair this effort with Lisa Moss, who became my partner-in-crime extraordinaire. Our Strategic Planning Committee devoted countless hours to setting the course for the future of the College. Ever since the Board approved the Strategic Plan, John Runyan and Board Regional Activities Committee Chair Homer Deakins have kept us on track to ensure that the Strategic Plan's goals and objectives become reality. As you have probably read countless times, the Strategic Plan's main focus is to ensure that the College stays true to its mission while increasing exponentially the opportunities for Fellow involvement.
Finally, none of this would ever happen without the tireless efforts and friendship of Susan Wan and Jen Motley. Their wisdom gets us through the most difficult situations, and I still cannot fathom how they keep track of all of us.
So even if it is a pain to be civil sometimes, I can't imagine what my career would have been like without the experience of belonging to the College and being involved in its activities and programming. If you haven't participated thus far, I urge you to do so. It can be an absolute blast. Looking forward to seeing you in November.
Arlene Switzer Steinfield
Don't forget to RSVP to attend Retrospectives on Labor and Employment Law which will take place in New Orleans, during the ABA Labor & Employment Law Section's Annual CLE Conference. Seating is limited. Details are shown in the invitation below.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LOCATION FOR THIS PROGRAM HAS CHANGED!
Join us for a fascinating journey of the past fifty years of Labor and Employment Law. Our tour guides are acclaimed veterans in the field, with almost 150 years of combined experience between them, each having been involved in critical and iconic developments that are still relevant today. Their enduring reputations are exceeded only by the scope of their achievements as trailblazers in the field of labor and employment law. Professor Cynthia Nance will moderate the discussion as tour guides Ted St. Antoine, Chai Feldblum and Peter Hurtgen share experiences and recollections gained in landmark cases, ground-breaking negotiations, and historic mediations which left an indelible mark on the field of labor and employment law.
Saturday, November 9th from 12:30 to 2:00 pm
at The Loews Hotel, 300 Poydras St, 10th Floor, New Orleans, LA (Note New Location)
RSVP is necessary for admission. Seating is limited.
Please contact Jennifer Motley at
Phone: (410) 972-4712 or Email: jmotley@laborandemploymentcollege.org
November 9, 2019 – New Orleans, LA
7:00 pm Cocktails, 8:00 pm Dinner
We are looking forward to seeing many of you at the College's 24th Annual Induction Dinner on Saturday, November 9th in New Orleans at the fabulous World War II Museum. There is still time to RSVP for those who have not yet done so. A copy of the invitation can be found here. Please keep in mind that if your plans change and you need to cancel your reservation, refunds can be made only if you cancel prior to Thursday, November 1.
Thanks to College Fellows for Their
Contributions to the Bloomberg Law
Workplace Harassment Law Treatise
Co-Editors-in-Chief Honorary Fellow and former EEOC Chair Gil Casellas (Class of 2019) and Michigan Fellow Diane Soubly (Butzel Long) thank the many Fellows of the College from "both sides of the aisle" for their dedicated and thoughtful contributions as chapter authors under significant time constraints to produce on-time publication of the second edition of the Bloomberg Law Workplace Harassment Treatise, including: Meg Carroll Alli (Clark Hill, MI); Lisa Banks (Marshall & Banks, WDC); Kathy Bogas (Bogas & Koncius, MI); Megan Bonanni (Class of 2019, Pitt, McGehee, Palmer & Rivers, MI); Dan Bretz (Clark Hill, MI); Steve Drew (Drew, Cooper and Anding, MI); Lori Ecker (Law Office of Lori D. Ecker, IL); Sue Ellen Eisenberg (Sue Ellen Eisenberg & Associates, MI); Gary Fealk (Bodman PLC, MI); Brenda Feis (Feis Goldy, IL); Jill Goldy (Class of 2019, Feis Goldy, IL); John Hancock (Butzel Long, MI); Pam Hemminger (Law Offices of Pamela L. Hemminger, CA); Barry Hartstein (Littler Mendelson, IL); Dick Hooker (Varnum, MI); Tim Howlett (Dickinson Wright, MI); David Kadue (Seyfarth Shaw, CA); Jean Powers Kamp (EEOC, Chicago District); David Kotzian (Gasiorek, Morgan, Greco, McCauley & Kotzian, MI); Lisa Krupicka (Burch Porter & Johnson, TN); Dick Moon (Verrill Dana, ME); Greg Murray (The Murray Law Group, MI); Megan Norris (Miller Canfield, MI); Kathleen Peratis (Class of 2019, Outten & Golden, NY); Beth Rivers (Pitt, McGehee, Palmer & Rivers, MI); Ted Rogers (Sullivan & Cromwell, NY); Jim Rosenfeld (Butzel Long, MI); Jen Salvatore (Salvatore Prescott & Porter, MI); Dan Tukel (Butzel Long, MI); and Maurice Wexler (retired partner, Baker Donelson, TN).
Published in the wake of the Weinstein allegations and the revival of #MeToo, the treatise collects new substantive and procedural developments in harassment law from 2012-August 2018, with new chapters on, among other topics: bullying and gender violence in the workplace; harassment based on gender non-conformity/stereotyping and sexual orientation, multiple-status or intersectionality, and association or third party status; bystander issues; federal investigation and enforcement efforts under Title IX; and arbitration and mediation of harassment claims.
An on-line update of the treatise (currently available in hard copy and on-line) is slated to be published in 2020, covering the period from the nomination of Justice Kavanaugh through 2019, with additional new chapters on human trafficking and on preemption of common-law claims.
2019 Writing Competition Winner
The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and the ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law are pleased to announce the winners of the 2018-2019 Writing Competition for Law Students. A distinguished panel of attorneys from around the country reviewed papers on current and cutting-edge labor and employment law topics.
Congratulations to Michael Iadevaia, the author of this year's first place submission - "Poach-No-More: Antitrust Considerations of Intra-Franchise No Poaching Agreements." Michael graduated from Cornell Law School in May 2019, where he was an Articles Editor of the Cornell Law Review. He received his B.S. from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University in 2016. During his time in law school, Michael focused his studies extensively on labor and employment law. He served as a Teaching Assistant for an undergraduate course in labor and employment law and as a Research Assistant for several labor and employment law faculty. He also worked for the Cornell Labor Law Clinic, where he helped represent individual workers and their unions. Presently, he is serving as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Robert D. Mariani, US District Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
Awards were also given for to second and third place winners. All papers can be found on the College website. https://www.laborandemploymentcollege.org/audiences/law-schools-students
Second Place – Robert Pannullo, Fordham University School of Law (2020), Fixing the Struggle for Labor Equality in Minor League Baseball: A Call for Unionization
Third Place – J. Andrew Morgan, University of Connecticut School of Law (2020), How to Close the Gender Pay Gap: Transparency in Data Regarding Compensation is the Key
Applications Are Now Being Accepted
for the Class of 2020
Although we haven't yet formally inducted members from the Class of 2019, the College is accepting nominations for the Class of 2020 now through Monday, February 3, 2020. The election of new Fellows is a very structured process and Fellows should make sure to submit completed and thorough packages. We are encouraging all Fellows to look across the table and nominate a worthy adversary, someone you consider to be civil and ethical in their professional behavior; someone who contributes to the profession through scholarship or mentoring.
Any Fellow who plans to nominate a candidate should review the instructions and related materials in their entirety. Click here for information on the process as well as the requisite forms that must be completed: Part A - Nominator Form and Part B - Nominee Form. If you are nominating a neutral, please use Part B - Neutral. If you are nominating a law professor, please use Part B – Law Professor. As always, don't hesitate to contact Susan Wan with any questions.
Continues to Be a Big Success
For the eighth year, the annual 7th Circuit Law Student Program drew large numbers of students from around the circuit. Led by Fellow Martin Malin, over twenty-five Fellows shared their time and expertise to engage with law students. A Friday evening reception hosted by Ogletree Deakins provided an opportunity for students and Fellows to casually connect over drinks and appetizers. Saturday's all-day program was held at Chicago Kent College of Law this year and started with opening remarks from Honorary Fellow Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer. The Hot Topics in Labor & Employment Law panels tackled issues such as the NLRB (New Directions Coming from the Trump-Appointed Board), recent developments in immigration and how they affect the workplace, EEO issues, employment and labor arbitration, and marijuana and the workplace.
Students enjoyed time with Fellows in small groups over lunch and, in the afternoon session, Pathways to Practice, they heard from a diverse group of practitioners who spoke about their practice area in the LEL field and shared advice on the do's and don'ts when applying for a job. Students expressed their appreciation at the end of the day, remarking that they found the presentations to be "informative," interesting" and "portrayed both sides of the aisle very well." Students also commented that Fellows were "inspiring," "insightful" and found the "practical advice helpful" while they "enjoyed the diversity in topics."
Thanks to the following Fellows for their participation, either on a panel, at the reception or during lunch : Melissa Auerbach, Gary Bailey, Barry Bennett, Howard Bernstein, Joe Burns, Jules Crystal, Tamara Cummings, Joshua Ditelberg, Lori Ecker, Gerald Golden, Jill Goldy, Richard Gonzalez, Kathryn Hartrick, Joshua Karsh, Marty Malin, Pete Meyers, Lisa Moss, Peter Ohr, Mark Olson, Hon. Rebecca Pallmeyer, Adele Rapport, Burt Reiter, John Roche, Rebecca Salawdeh, Joe Tilson, Sherrie Voyles and Marni Willenson.
If you are interested in organizing a similar program in your area, please contact Susan Wan.
Regional Meetings and
• 1st Circuit Fellows gathered on a stormy day in Boston on September 26th to welcome new Fellows Josh Davis and Rebecca Pontikes and discuss how they would like to implement the College's strategic plan as it relates to Regional Meetings. Thanks to committee members - Ellen Kearns, Jeff Hirsch, Joan Dolan, Lauren Irwin, Dick Moon, Joe Ambash and Nancy Richards-Stower – for their help in organizing the event and to Seyfarth Shaw for hosting. Thanks also to those who braved the weather and traffic to attend. It was a big success!
• 6th Circuit: At the first Fellows lunch held in Columbus, Ohio on October 10, 2019, in conjunction with the Ohio State Bar Federal Bench and Bar Conference, 6th Sixth Circuit Regional Activities Committee members Charles Warner and Diane Soubly welcomed the group to a delicious lunch and explained the emphasis on regional activities in the College's amended Strategic Plan, with the Committee's next goal to plan a joint Sixth and Seventh Circuit conference with the Seventh Circuit Regional Activities Committee. Fellow and Assistant Attorney General, US Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division Eric Dreiband (pictured above with Fellows) travelled from Washington DC to speak to the assembled Fellows about the Division's initiatives. Those initiatives include prosecuting perpetrators of violent hate crimes such as the deadly car attacks by an avowed neo-Nazi against anti-white supremacist protestors in Charlottesville and the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, pursuing hundreds of prosecutions for human trafficking with the help of international partners (especially Mexico), and ramping up efforts to combat sexual assault. The initiatives also include pursuing employer document abuse in violation of federal law by requiring more documents than US citizens are required to produce before hiring, seeking resolutions and settlements on behalf of disabled individuals kept in "sheltered workshops" that do not pass the Olmstead 3-part balancing test, and pursuing employers who refuse to hire American workers in favor of foreign workers present in the US on H2A visas (whom they provide lesser pay and benefits) without demonstrating that there are not enough American workers who can do the jobs.
• On October 15, Fellows of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers within the 6th Circuit welcomed newly elected Fellows of the College at an elegant reception held in the beautifully renovated Detroit Room of the Theodore Levin Federal Courthouse, sponsored by the College and four law firms: Pitt McGehee Palmer & Rivers PC (Royal Oak, MI); Gasiorek, Morgan, Greco, McCauley & Kotzian PC (Farmington Hills, MI); Butzel Long PC (Detroit); and Varnum LLP (Detroit). Fellows Kathleen Bogas (Bogas & Koncius, Bingham Farms), College President John Runyan (Nickelhoff & Widick, Detroit), and Sixth Circuit Regional Committee member Diane Soubly (Butzel Long) described the many accomplishments of the newly elected Sixth Circuit Fellows, pictured from left to right below, who attended the reception: Megan Bonanni (Pitt McGehee Palmer & Rivers, Royal Oak), John Gierak (Clark Hill, Birmingham), Margaret Lockhart (ProMedica, Toledo, OH), Jeff Donahue (White Schneider, Lansing), and Jennifer Sabourin (Miller Canfield, Detroit).
Photos by John Meiu, courtesy of Detroit Legal News Publishing LLC
• The 6th Circuit inaugural ethics workshop for government attorneys was held on October 16th at the same courthouse as the Welcome Reception for the new 6th Circuit Fellows the day before – the Theodore Levin Federal Courthouse in Detroit. A diverse group of government attorneys attended, including Assistant US Attorneys, EEOC and NLRB attorneys. Special thanks to Fellow John Runyan for organizing this event, and to Fellow Adele Rapport, who developed the prototype of this program in Chicago, and served as the program moderator. The first-time effort in Detroit will most definitely be replicated as future programs are planned. All attendees agreed was an excellent presentation.
Pictured left to right: Fellow Adele Rapport (DOE/OCR), Prof. Rachel Settlage (Wayne State University Law School), Kimberly Uhuru (Attorney Grievance Committee) and Andrew MacEachern (NLRB Region 7)
• 9th Circuit-South Fellows gathered at Southwestern Law School on October 2nd for a panel discussion - The Masters Talk Civility Ethics and Bias in Labor & Employment Law Advocacy. Speakers included experienced judges, neutrals and practitioners who discussed the types of attorney conduct that rankles them the most in labor and employment law litigation and arbitration and offered strategies on how to identify and correct these issues. Special thanks to Fellows Nancy Bornn, John LeCrone, Curt Surls and Nancy Abell who organized this event, and to co-sponsors Judicate West and Signature Resolutions for their support.
Pictured above (from right to left): Fellows John LeCrone, Laurence Zakson, and Gail Glick, along with Emilio Gonzalez (Davis Wright Tremaine), guest of John LeCrone.
Meetings are also planned in the following cities before the end of 2019 (or have just
recently taken place) - Denver, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City and Chicago.
• In May, Fellow Jeff Berman finished a week-long pizza class at Scuola Italiana Pizzaioli, Italy's oldest pizza school. Jeff was taught by Graziano Bertuzzo, a former World Pizza Champion. After completion of a standardized test, Jeff received a certificate to work as a pizzaiolo in Italy. Samples of his work are available upon request!
• Fellow Michael Green has been elected to the National Academy of Arbitrators. Professor Green, who teaches at Texas A&M University School of Law, is the Director of the Texas A&M Workplace Law Program and is also a member of the Aggie Dispute Resolution Program faculty.
• Fellow Bill Herbert had two articles published in Volume 36, No. 1 of the Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal. The first is an article about the late Jerry Lefkowitz, who was an important figure in New York's public sector labor history. The second article was written with New York State Public Employment Relations Board Chairperson John Wirenius and Indiana Education Employment Relations Board Executive Director Sarah Cudahy, which analyzes the Supreme Court's Janus decision in historical, legal, and public policy contexts.
• Fellow Cynthia N. Sass of the Sass Law Firm in Tampa and Fellow Don Slesnick of the Law Offices of Slesnick & Casey, PA in Coral Gables, were panelists on the topic First Amendment in Public Employment at the 45th Annual Public Employment Labor Relations Forum sponsored by the Labor and Employment Law Section and the City, County and Local Government Law Section of The Florida Bar.
• Fellow Bill Wahoff had an article published in the ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law's Volume 34, Number 1, 2019 titled "Industry Standards: How Does OSHA Use Them to Prove Its Case Under the General Duty Clause."
• Several Fellows participated in a national conference organized by Cornell ILR titled, Labor and the US Constitution: Past Present and Future. The conference, which was held in New York City on September 26-28, encouraged "creative thinking about the US Constitution as a source of workers' rights." Panelists, including Bill Herbert, Marty Malin, Joe Slater and Ruben Garcia were featured speakers, discussed "labor rights under the First and Thirteenth amendments." Honorary Fellow Judge Marsha Berzon was the keynote speaker. A link to conference website can be found here.
• The US Department of Labor's Hall of Honor ceremony, which took place on September 26th, included the induction of Fellow Emeritus Howard Jenkins, Jr. based on his work on the landmark Labor-Management Reporting Disclosure Act of 1959. Also inducted was Senator Robert Griffin. "The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act has brought greater transparency and openness to unions for 60 years," Acting Secretary of Labor Patrick Pizzella said. Mr. Jenkins was the first person interviewed as part of the College's illustrious Video History Project in July 2000.
The College acknowledges the following Fellows for their selection as
2020 Best Lawyers® in America
Richard Alfred, Megan Bonannni, Mark Casciari, Lawrence Casey, Keith Clouse, George Crisci, Tim Howlett, Randy Johnson, Ellen McLaughlin and Michelle Reinglass
The College also recognizes the following Fellows for their selection as 2019 Super Lawyers:
Keith Clouse, Wendi S. Lazar, and Kathleen Peratis
• In September, Fellow Gary Fealk joined Bodman PLC as a Member of the firm. He will practice in their Troy office as a part of the Workplace Law Practice Group. Gary has particular expertise in union/management relations including collective bargaining, labor arbitrations, administrative proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board and the Michigan Employment Relations Commission and in multi-employer benefit fund collection actions.
• Fellow Karen Jenson, who will be inducted as a member of the Class of 2019, was appointed Canada's first Equity Pay Commissioner, providing leadership and direction for the administration and enforcement of the new proactive legislation passed for the federal jurisdiction. More information on this historic appointment can be found here
The College mourns the October 13th passing of Fellow Susan Grody Ruben after a courageous battle with kidney cancer. Inducted into the College in 2011, Susan actually had an early career as a professional French horn musician. Ultimately, she became a successful labor and employment attorney before opening her own mediation and arbitration practice. She was inducted into the National Academy of Arbitrators and taught dispute resolution across the country. As a Fellow of the College, Susan served on the 6th Circuit Credentials Committee in 2017 and 2018. She is survived by her mother, three children, one grandchild and many siblings, nieces and nephews. The family welcomes contributions in celebration of Susan's life to the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland or the tzedakah/charity of your choice. Susan's full obituary can be found here.
Members of the College strive to promote achievement, advancement and excellence in the practice of labor and employment law. Ms. Ruben distinguished herself as a leader in the field, and the College was proud to have been able to call her a Fellow.
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Q&A Directory / What differentiates familial hemiplegic migraine from standard hemiplegic migraine?
What differentiates familial hemiplegic migraine from standard hemiplegic migraine?
Familial hemiplegic migraine is due to a genetic mutation that can be traced to two or more members of the same family, whereas someone with sporadic hemiplegic migraine has no other family member with the disease.
"Familial hemiplegic migraine is due to a mutation in one of at least three genes we know about now. That accounts for about 70% of patients. That means that we haven't discovered all of the genes that account for hemiplegic migraine. Familial hemiplegic migraine, you've got someone in the family, or you've got multiple members of the family who have hemiplegic migraine. So it's familial, and it's due to a mutation either that we can find by doing genetic testing, or we can't find even if we do genetic testing, because we haven't discovered the gene yet.
"Sporadic hemiplegic migraine is hemiplegic migraine in an individual with no family history. Nobody in the family has it ... Sometimes it's due to a mutation in one of these genes. You can develop a de novo mutation. You're the first one to actually get the mutation in that gene, even though nobody's had it in your family or maybe there are other genes that we just haven't discovered yet, where patients will develop a spontaneous, or de novo, mutation;, they're the first in the family and we just haven't discovered those genes yet. So there is sporadic hemiplegic migraine, familial hemiplegic migraine — the thing is they look the same, they sound the same, and they're treated the same."
Familial hemiplegic migraine is due to a genetic mutation that can be traced to two or more members of the same family. It can also occur in multiple members of the same family due to a mutation in a gene that has yet to be discovered. On the other hand, someone with sporadic hemiplegic migraine has no other family members with the disease. This occurs because the individual is the first one in the family to spontaneously develop a gene mutation, or de novo mutation. Both forms of hemiplegia, however, are treated in the same manner.
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Mayo Clinic, Arizona
David Dodick, M.D., FAAN, is a professor of neurology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science in Scottsdale, Arizona. He is the director of the headache program and the sports neurology and concussion program at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. He is an adjunct professor in the department of neurosciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Dr. Dodick is board certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN). He also holds United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties certification in headache medicine and ABPN certification in vascular neurology.
Dr. Dodick has authored more than 380 peer-reviewed publications and authored/edited 10 books. He is the chair of the American Migraine Foundation, chair of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Annual Program Concussion Committee, co-director of the American Registry of Migraine Research, chair of the International Registry for Migraine Research, chair of the International Headache Society Global Patient Advocacy Coalition, co-director of the Annual AAN Sports Concussion Conference, president-elect of the International Concussion Society, immediate past-president of the International Headache Society, former editor-in-chief of Cephalalgia, and past-president of the American Headache Society.
How do you differentiate the symptoms of hemiplegic migraine from a stroke?
What is Familial Hemiplegic Migraine?
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What new and developing genetic techniques are used to study familial hemiplegic migraine?
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In this science fiction manga collaboration between Australian comic book writer Andrew Archer and Philippines based artist NICE, we are introduced to five young women who have found themselves completely changed by something that happened to them as children. The Tokyo 5 examines genetic mutation and what can happen when forces outside of this world decide to change humankind. Through this first volume Archer reveals a secret battle taking place beneath the surface of Japan that has been shrouded in mystery for years.
Part 1 of The Tokyo 5 begins by introducing us to Furi, a young girl who has the power to destroy anything with the power of her mind. As a child a man she calls Papa has used her love for a tiger character to make her into his own personal weapon. During her introduction we learn that there are four other girls who are also being watched at this school and have their own purpose for this strange man. After this we jump forward in time and spend a majority of the story looking at Yama, a young woman who has been having terrible visions that relate to something Furi is involved with. While Yama was one of the original 5 she has blocked out so much of this part of her life that she can't seem to connect with any of the other women. We watch as she begins to understand not only who she is, but also who the others are and just what is going on in Japan under the guise of a war with China.
I really enjoyed this series and I found myself comparing it slightly to RWBY. The women all have their own skills and have created these personas for themselves after their time at the school. This section focuses predominantly on Yama and Furi, but through them we learn that while these 5 people were raised together that they have split in a variety of different ways. There is also a level of the supernatural mixed in with the intrusive actions of science and genetic mutation. Within this world are beings from another realm who have taken it upon themselves to become involved in the world and what happens to humans. The story is interesting and NICE's artwork compliments it remarkably well. If you are a fan of manga or anime you should definitely check out The Tokyo 5.


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Kim Shattuck Dies: Leader Of The Muffs And LA Music Stalwart Was 56
October 2, 2019 7:08pm
Kim Shattuck, who made an impact on the Los Angeles music scene with her band The Muffs and several other projects, died today after a two-year battle with ALS. She was 56 and her death was announced in an Instagram post by her husband, Kevin Sutherland.
"This morning the love of my life Kim passed peacefully in her sleep after a two year struggle with ALS," Sutherland said in the post. "I am the man I am today because of her. She will live with all of us through her music, our shared memories and in her fierce creative spirit. I love you always my Kimmy. Thank you for sharing your life with me."
The Muffs were planning to release their first album in five years, No Holiday, in two weeks.
"We are very sorry to announce the passing of our bandmate and dear friend Kim Shattuck," the Muffs' Ronnie Barnett and Roy McDonald said in a statement. "Besides being a brilliant songwriter, rocking guitarist and singer/screamer extrodinaire, Kim was a true force of nature. While battling ALS Kim produced our last album, overseeing every part of the record from tracking to artwork. She was our best friend and playing her songs was an honor. Goodbye Kimba. We love you more than we could ever say." The Muffs' next album No Holiday is set for an October 18 release.
Shattuck and best friend Melanie Vammen were members of the Pandoras, then moved to the Muffs after that act broke up. They issued a 1992 single on Sub Pop, I Need You, with their self-titled debut album released on Warner Bros. Records.
That major label stint led to the band's cover of Kim Wilde's Kids in America, which appeared on the Clueless soundtrack in 1995. After that, The Muffs issued four albums, going on hiatus after 2004's Really Really Happy.
Shattuck was also briefly a touring member of the Pixies following Kim Deal's departure from the band.
Following her departure from The Pixies, The Muffs came back and released 2014's Whoop Dee Do. Shattuck and Vammen also collaborated in a new band, The Coolies, which released an EP earlier this year titled Uh Oh! It's…The Coolies. Proceeds went to ALS research.
Melanie Vammen
The Muffs


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Southeast Asian Sojourn - 15 night cruise
Day 3 Ko Samui, Thailand
Koh Samui is the most popular tourist destination on the Western Gulf coast, which isn't surprising, considering the island's gorgeous beaches, perfect weather, and sparkling blue, almost turquoise, water. Koh Samui has seen rapid development since the 1990s, and you'll encounter hotels in all price ranges.Koh Samui is half the size of Phuket, so you could easily drive around it in a day. But Koh Samui is best appreciated by those who take a slower, more casual approach. Most people come for the sun and sea, so they head straight to their hotel and rarely venture beyond its beach. But it's worth exploring beyond your lodging. Every beach has its own character, and you might find the perfect one for you. One beach many visitors find to their liking is Chawaeng. On Koh Samui's east coast, this stretch of glistening white sand is divided into two main sections—Chawaeng Yai (yai means "big") and Chawaeng Noi (noi means "little"). You'll find the greatest variety of hotels, restaurants, and bars here. Despite the crowds, Chawaeng is no Pattaya or Patong—the mood is very laid-back. A rocky headland separates Chawaeng Lamai Beach, whose clear water and long stretch of sand were the first place on the island to attract developers. More budget accommodations are available here than in Chawaeng, and there are some happening nightclubs.On the west coast of Koh Samui, Na Thon is the island's primary port and the spot where ferries arrive from the mainland. It's home to the island's governmental offices, including the Tourism Authority of Thailand, and there are banks, foreign-exchange booths, travel agents, shops, restaurants, and cafés by the ferry pier. A few places rent rooms, but there's really no reason to stay here—nicer accommodations can be found a short songthaew ride away.To the north and east of Na Thon lie a few beaches worthy of exploration. Laem Yai, 5 km (3 miles) north, has great seafood. East of here, a small headland separates two low-key communities on the northern shore, Mae Nam and Bophut Beach. Mae Nam is also the departure point for boats bound for Koh Phangan and Koh Tao . Just south of the Samui's northeastern tip you'll find sandy Choengmon Beach, a good area for swimming that's not overdeveloped.
Day 4 Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok, also known as the City of Angels and Venice of the East thrills with energy. There's such a vast array of sightseeing, shopping, and eating possibilities that you'll have little time to rest. When you do find a moment, pamper yourself with spa treatments, skyline-view bars, luxurious hotels, and excellent restaurants. The city is a mesmerizing blend of old and new, East and West, and dizzying contradictions. Temples and red-light districts, languid canals and permanent gridlock, streetside vendors and chic upscale eateries, all make their home together, all at the same time. Bangkok rarely fails to make an impression, and yes, you might need to go spend a few days on the beach to recover from it all. Although Bangkok is not known for jaw-dropping tourist attractions, it does have an endless supply of worthwhile pilgrimages. The Grand Palace, Wat Phra Kaew, and the Emerald Buddha are tops on every visitor's itinerary, and lesser-known temples, such as Wat Benjamabophit, the golden stupa of Wat Sakhet, and Wat Suthat, are all worthy of a stop. Besides temples, there are plenty of other interesting niches and touring possibilities to fit just about every interest. Take in a venom extraction and python feeding show at the Queen Saowapha Snake Farm, or go to the nearby Jim Thompson House to learn all about the famed Thai silk industry. If architecture is your forte, there is the Suan Pakkard Palace with its antique teak house collection, and the even more astounding Vimanmek Palace, which contains the world's largest golden teak building. Bangkok's Chinatown merits at least a day on every travel itinerary—be sure to check out the sprawling labyrinthine Flower and Thieves markets. Thai food is unrivaled for spice, taste, and variation. From multicourse meals to small street vendors, the one constant here is fresh and delicious at every level. You can have superlative roast duck or wonton noodles on a street corner for lunch and then be dining on world-class chef creations in the Oriental or Shangri-La hotels for supper. It doesn't have to be all spicy Thai either, as Bangkok is home to excellent French, Italian, and other world cuisines, and you need a few years just to make a dent in all the options that are available. The Old City is a major destination for travelers, as it's home to opulent temples like Wat Po and Wat Phra Kaew. Across the river is Thonburi, a mostly residential neighborhood, where you can find Wat Arun. At the northern tip of the Old City is Banglamphu, one of Bangkok's older residential neighborhoods. It's best known now for Khao San Road, a backpacker hangout, though the neighborhood has much more to offer, especially when it comes to street food. North of Banglamphu is Dusit, the royal district since the days of Rama V. East of the Old City is Chinatown, a labyrinth of streets with restaurants, shops, and warehouses. Farther down the Chao Phraya River is bustling Silom Road, one of the city's major commercial districts. Patpong, the city's most famous of several red-light districts, is also here. Bang Rak is home to some of the city's leading hotels: the Mandarin Oriental, the Peninsula, the Royal Orchid Sheraton, and the Shangri-La. To the north of Rama IV Road is Bangkok's largest green area, Lumphini Park. Continue north and you reach Sukhumvit Road, once a residential area. More recently, Thong Lor, farther east along Sukhumvit, has become the "in" neighborhood for those want to see and be seen. The Nana and Asok areas of Sukhumvit are now home to the even busier red-light entertainment districts (Nana and Soi Cowboy) than Patpong.
Day 6 Kâmpóng Saôm, Cambodia
Sihanoukville is the premier beach destination in Cambodia for tourists and Cambodians alike, with golden white sands, tropical islands and mangrove jungles. A relatively new city, it sprang to life in 1955 with the construction of the only deep-sea port of a newly independent Cambodia. With the bay of Thailand surrounding it on three sides, Sihanoukville was named in honour of the former King Norodom Sihanouk in 1964. As Cambodia descended into civil war the town fell on hard times with the Khmer Rouge using the famous Independence Hotel for target practice. In 1993 peace returned to Cambodia and since then Sihanoukville has been slowly rebuilding itself. Today it attracts Asian Individual travellers, young students and back-packers but after decades of war and upheaval the town's infrastructure is still very much in its infancy. A visit to Ream National Park offers pristine mangrove forests rich in wildlife with miles of beaches unmarked by footprints.
Day 8 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Romantically referred to by the French as the Pearl of the Orient, Ho Chi Minh City today is a super-charged city of sensory overload. Motorbikes zoom day and night along the wide boulevards, through the narrow back alleys and past vendors pushing handcarts hawking goods of all descriptions. Still called Saigon by most residents, this is Vietnam's largest city and the engine driving the country's current economic resurgence, but despite its frenetic pace, it's a friendlier place than Hanoi and locals will tell you the food—simple, tasty, and incorporating many fresh herbs—is infinitely better than in the capital.This is a city full of surprises. The madness of the city's traffic—witness the oddball things that are transported on the back of motorcycles—is countered by tranquil pagodas, peaceful parks, quirky coffee shops, and whole neighborhoods hidden down tiny alleyways, although some of these quiet spots can be difficult to track down. Life in Ho Chi Minh City is lived in public: on the back of motorcycles, on the sidewalks, and in the parks. Even when its residents are at home, they're still on display. With many living rooms opening onto the street, grandmothers napping, babies being rocked, and food being prepared, are all in full view of passersby.Icons of the past endure in the midst of the city's headlong rush into capitalism. The Hotel Continental, immortalized in Graham Greene's The Quiet American, continues to stand on the corner of old Indochina's most famous thoroughfare, the rue Catinat, known to American G.I.s during the Vietnam War as Tu Do (Freedom) Street and renamed Dong Khoi (Uprising) Street by the Communists. The city still has its ornate opera house and its old French city hall, the Hôtel de Ville. The broad colonial boulevards leading to the Saigon River and the gracious stucco villas are other remnants of the French colonial presence. Grisly reminders of the more recent past can be seen at the city's war-related museums. Residents, however, prefer to look forward rather than back and are often perplexed by tourists' fascination with a war that ended 40 years ago.The Chinese influence on the country is still very much in evidence in the Cholon district, the city's Chinatown, but the modern office towers and international hotels that mark the skyline symbolize Vietnam's fixation on the future.
Day 10 Nha Trang, Vietnam
Day 11 Chan May, Vietnam
Hue (pronounced hway), bisected by the Perfume River and 13 km (8 mi) inland from the South China Sea, in the foothills of the Annamite Mountains (Truong Son Mountains), stands as a reminder of Vietnam's imperial past. The seat of 13 Nguyen-dynasty emperors between 1802 and 1945, Hue was once Vietnam's splendid Imperial City. Although it was devastated by the French in the 19th century and again by fighting between the Vietnamese Communists and the Americans in the 20th, the monument-speckled former capital has a war-ravaged beauty. One can still imagine its former splendor, despite gaping holes in its silhouette. Hue is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the city's gems are slowly being restored.
Day 12 Hanoi, Vietnam
Day 15 Hong Kong, Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Island skyline, with its ever-growing number of skyscrapers, speaks to ambition and money. Paris, London, even New York were centuries in the making, while Hong Kong's towers, bright lights, and glitzy shopping emporia weren't yet part of the urban scene when many of the young investment bankers who fuel one of the world's leading financial centers were born. Commerce is concentrated in the glittering high-rises of Central, tucked between Victoria Harbor and forested peaks on Hong Kong Island's north shore. While it's easy to think all the bright lights are the sum of today's Hong Kong, you need only walk or board a tram for the short jaunt west into Western to discover a side of Hong Kong that is more traditionally Chinese but no less high-energy. You'll discover the real Hong Kong to the east of Central, too, in Wan Chai, Causeway Bay, and beyond. Amid the residential towers are restaurants, shopping malls, bars, convention centers, a nice smattering of museums, and—depending on fate and the horse you wager on—one of Hong Kong's luckiest or unluckiest spots, the Happy Valley Racecourse. Kowloon sprawls across a generous swath of the Chinese mainland across Victoria Harbour from Central. Tsim Sha Tsui, at the tip of Kowloon peninsula, is packed with glitzy shops, first-rate museums, and eye-popping views of the skyline across the water. Just to the north are the teeming market streets of Mong Kok and in the dense residential neighborhoods beyond, two of Hong Kong's most enchanting spiritual sights, Wong Tai Sin Temple and Chi Lin Nunnery. As you navigate this huge metropolis (easy to do on the excellent transportation network), keep in mind that streets are usually numbered odd on one side, even on the other. There's no baseline for street numbers and no block-based numbering system, but street signs indicate building numbers for any given block.


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Members of the Hope Academy community service club show their goofy side. From left, Zaine Evans, Kaila Whitney, Chris Luijten, Abby Thielmann, Riley Corbin and Martha Leonard.
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"The club was formed after we held a school-wide fundraiser in the fall, Change for Good, where students collected change for charity," said teacher Martha Leonard, who coordinates the club along with Lauren Hogan.
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If you share your home with a cat, for sure you consider that cats are great companions and unknowingly offer therapy to us on many levels. Many studies show that cats can help reduce stress and they have a positive effect on our health. Researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences recently published a study that reveals that cats seek out contact with their owners after a long separation.
Generally is believed that cats are more independent pets than dogs. In this study, they investigated the effect of time left alone at home on cat behaviour before, during and after separation from their owner.
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Press Brake Tools and How to Choose One
by admin | Nov 28, 2019 | News
No matter whether it's a manual, hydraulic or CNC brake, a press brake always relies on top tools and bottom tools – Punches and dies. Press brakes are used for bending sheet metal into specific shapes using matching punch and dies and applying significant force. Here is a closer look at the different varieties of tools and how to determine which one is right for your application.
Press Brake Tooling Chart
Commonly Used Press Brake Dies
Dies are the bottom toolings of the press brake and some of the most commonly used varieties are:
Single Vee Dies
Multi-Vee Dies
Two-Way Self-Centring Vee Dies
Flattening & Hemming Dies
Quite self-explanatory, single vee dies consist of a single 'V' shape groove. They come in a variety of angles and allow the minimum joggle available without crushing the tool, which is why they are the most commonly used die.
Also quite self-explanatory, multi-vee dies consist of multiple different vees that are spread across their four sides. Although not always suitable for short flange bending, there is large variety and versatility when it comes to using multi-vee dies in terms of radii and material thickness.
Two-way self-centring vee dies have two successive grooves that are close to the edges of the die which allow shorter flange bending. Each groove is usually a different angle and/or width to the other one which aids in more efficient and productive operations, as there will be no need for retooling for different bends.
Best suited for acute angle bends and flattening, flattening and hemming dies are an essential solution for finishing.
Commonly Used Press Brake Punches
Punches are the top toolings of the press brake and some of the most commonly used varieties are:
The Standard Punch
The Narrow Punch
The Acute Angle Punch
The Swan Neck Punch
The most essential piece of kit is the standard punch, which can be used for nearly all everyday tasks and sheet metal fabrication operations. Versatile, strong and sturdy, standard punches are ideal for thick materials, long bending lines and mass production.
Even though it isn't used as often as the standard punch, the narrow punch is still crucial for finishing and final bends. It is narrow along its entire length meaning it can be used in limited spaces amongst material with multiple bends.
Quite self-explanatory, the acute angle punch is best suited to bend angles between 25° to 60°. More pointed at the tip compared to standard punches, they are solid and can handle large forces when paired with the correct die.
Mainly used for U-bend shaped brackets, the swan neck punch is shaped like a swan neck; unfortunately, this means that it is not as sturdy as some of the other punches. The structure of the punch is in order to avoid a collision between the leg and the tool.
How to Choose Press Brake Tools
Some major considerations you have to make when it comes to choosing press brake tools include:
What products you are manufacturing
Using the strongest tooling profile
The load limit of the tool and of the press brake at centre line; they should coincide
From all of the information above, we hope we have helped you decipher between the different press brake tools there are, and which one is most suited for your application.
At AW Precision, we are the leading manufacturer of punch and die products throughout Europe and the USA, so contact us today for any advice or if you have any questions.
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Building the Movement to Reclaim Democracy
Beverly Bell,
Diana Hicks of CWA Local 13500 phone banks in Pittsburgh ahead of the 2008 election. (Photo: aflcio / flickr)Larry Cohen has headed the 700,000-member Communications Workers of America (CWA), under the banner of "Fight Back," since 2005. Prior to that, he headed up CWA organizing for twenty years. He is also founder of Jobs with Justice. (Truthout staff belong to the CWA.) Other Worlds contributor Beverly Bell interviewed Cohen in honor of International Human Rights Day on December 10. Here's what he had to say.
Given the path we've been on in this country, the American dream is in tatters. Whether it's a voice on the job or our standard of living or health care or education, all are being destroyed on our watch. But we can stand up and fight back. Not only through the kind of spontaneous movement that people saw with Occupy, but a more sustained and broad-based movement that can work for constitutional change as well as protect people's houses; secure, sustainable jobs; health care; our retirement, whether it's social security or pensions; and on and on.
CWA members are involved because they know that if they want to maintain their collective bargaining and organizing rights, they have to reclaim democracy first. There's a direct link between the collapse of democracy, as it would be defined in most of the world, and the collapse of bargaining rights in the U.S. which are lower than in any other democracy except Colombia, if you call that a democracy. In CWA we focus increasingly on building a movement for democracy and economic justice.
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By democracy, first we mean getting the money out of politics. The U.S. spends more than any nation in the world on elections. In the 2012 federal elections alone, we spent about $7 billion, with each presidential candidate spending about $1.5 billion and the remaining $4 billion on the congressional elections. Campaign finance reform requires constitutional change. We need a constitutional amendment that money is not speech, and corporations are not people. This will require years of work and massive grassroots action.
Second, we need to push now to change the U.S. Senate rules [which currently operate so as to obstruct all Democratic or progressive legislation]. You have a senate that functions like the senate of ancient Rome, where unanimous consent was required to move forward. We are focused on changing the senate rules by a majority vote on the first day of the 2013 Congress. This is more of a grass-tops mobilization, led by national and community organizations working for economic justice and democracy. Fifty Democratic senators can change the rules in January and return to the talking filibuster of the 1960s and before. This is not radical change, it just allows the senate to begin to function and force debate.
The third issue is voter suppression, leading to a need for universal voter registration. We have the lowest voter registration, and therefore voter turn-out, of any democracy. Also, more than 30 states have recently passed voter suppression legislation. In most countries, citizens are registered [to vote automatically] by their governments and registration is virtually universal. And the whole notion of registration is this complicated process that, again, costs hundreds of millions of dollars in every election cycle. Universal voter registration will either require a constitutional amendment or it will have to be fought out in every state. Again, it will take time and a major organizing effort.
And finally, an entire generation of immigrants has no path to legalization, when only 80 years ago every immigrant who was here was legal. If they chose citizenship, getting it was easy. There is lots of momentum around the immigrants' rights fight, with DREAMER kids [undocumented youth trying to open a route to citizenship through passage of the DREAM Act] and hundreds of different groups around the country.
About one hundred groups will be meeting together on December 10, Human Rights Day, to build the coalition to reclaim democracy. Labor, greens, NAACP and other civil rights groups, Public Citizen, Common Cause, some legal activists like the Brennan Center, other think tanks, International People's Action, Center for Community Change, and coalitions of community groups will be part of it. We're still in the early stages [of working together] to achieve changes in this democracy.
We're also doing movement-building that is needed if we are really going to build a 21st century democracy and a real chance for economic justice. When we say movement-building, that goes beyond coalition-building. In a coalition, local, regional, or national leaders work together; it's grass-tops. The movement that we're talking about is where people blend together around something, so it looks more like the Arab spring than a coalition. Our view is that members of groups – not just of labor unions but community organizations, immigrant groups, greens, students – need to build structures and work together. It won't just be at the ballot box or pushing for constitutional change. It will be in the streets, and it will be difficult and at times messy. But it also needs to be easy for individuals and groups to get involved, to organize and to take action.
For example, we are working with Stand Up for Ohio which works for good jobs and strong communities across the state. Our local unions are involved but individual members can get involved, too, joining with others who have worked together locally and state-wide. We will have to build organizations like Stand Up across the country, uniting around democracy and economic justice issues. Again, for us at CWA, especially the critical issues of bargaining and organizing rights so working women and men have a meaningful voice.
We've needed to take Human Rights Day [as our own] and celebrate it. When it was started in 1948 with U.N. support [corresponding to the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights], Eleanor Roosevelt was speaking about it in terms of political and workplace democracy. The United States had Jim Crow laws then, but in other ways the U.S. was viewed as a frontline democratic post-World War II nation with the strongest labor movement in the world. Today, 65 years later, collective bargaining has gone from 35% of the private sector with bargaining coverage, to 6.8%, and political democracy is in shambles.
Playing by our current rules is like playing with loaded dice. Whether it's any of the issues I mentioned above, or climate change or stopping foreclosures…. We need to build movement and throw down together, standing up and fighting back.
Beverly Bell
Beverly Bell has worked for more than three decades as an advocate, organizer and writer in collaboration with social movements in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa and the US. Her focus areas are just economies, democratic participation and gender justice. Beverly currently serves as associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and coordinator of Other Worlds. She is author of Walking on Fire: Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance and of Fault Lines: Views Across Haiti's Divide. She is also a member of Truthout's Board of Advisers.
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Diana Wynne Jones is one of my hands-down favorite writers. Her books are consistently surprising, creative, intelligent, compassionate, and often very, very funny. I read this one when it was first published, but there is a sequel called Year of the Griffin that I've never read, and as I'm always delighted to have an excuse to reread one of her books, I brought this one home from the library to refresh my memory. And what a rollicking good time I had!
This book was written after her hilarious "nonfiction" book The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, which is a must-read for all lovers of high fantasy. It is written in the form of a guidebook, as though the reader were about to embark on a journey to a fantasy world, informing readers of such useful things as how to escape from goblins, the difference between an Amulet and a Talisman, and why high priests are always evil. It takes on all the stereotypes and cliches of fantasy fiction in an affectionate, hilarious way.
At any rate, this novel presents us with the actual fantasy world that a tourist might be visiting. And this fantasy world has had it with tourists! The premise is that Mr. Chesney, an incredibly rich and powerful (as in has-a-demon-to-do-his-bidding powerful) businessman from another world has set up a tourist industry on a planet that has magic. The inhabitants of the planet are fed up with the annual "pilgrim parties" of tourists who traipse through their world. Mr. Chesney has insisted they all play parts for the pilgrims, so every year one of the wizards has to be the Dark Lord and set up a creepy dark fortress, and there are battles to be fought (trampling the crops, of course), magical objects to be discovered, evil minions to "fight," and so on.
Desperate to change the situation, the High Chancellor consults the oracles. She is told that the first person she sees must be this year's Dark Lord. Unfortunately for the Wizard Derk, who would like nothing more than to putter about his peaceful domain, creating amazing magical animals such as griffins, flying pigs and winged horses, he is that person. Although no one tells him what the oracles have said. He is given a handbook on his responsibilities as Dark Lord that has instructions like "The Dark Lord's citadel must always be a black castle with a labyrinthine interior lit by baleful fire." Unfortunately, everything starts going wrong at once - and when Derk becomes wounded and is unable to continue with preparations, his family - including his griffin children - must step in to help out.
Aside from the constantly humorous inversion of fantasy stereotypes, the novel also tells an engaging and heartfelt story about family. It is a very complex novel, though, with an enormous cast of characters and a great many things happening at one, with much for a reader to keep track of as the plot unfolds. Although my library shelves this book in the teen section, I would say that it is equally appealing to adults, and perhaps even more appropriate for older readers - not because of any potentially objectionable content, but because it is so very complicated. I also find that it is easier to get teens to read books from the adult section than it is to get adults to read books from the YA shelves, and I'd hate for anyone to miss out on this funny, intelligent tale.
The Emir was flatly refusing to be the puppet king the lists said he should be. "I'll be anything else you choose," he told Derk, "but I will not have my mind enslaved to this tiara. I have seen Sheik Detroy. He is still walking like a zombie after last year. He drools. His valet has to feed him. It's disgusting! These magic objects are not safe."
Derk had seen Sheik Detroy, too. He felt the Emir had a point. "Then could you perhaps get one of your most devoted servants to wear the tiara for you?"
"And have him usurp my throne?" the Emir said. "I hope you joke."
They argued for several hours. At length Derk said desperately, "Well, can't you wear a copy of the tiara and act being enslaved to it?"
"What a good idea!" said the Emir. "I rather fancy myself as an actor. Very well."
Fyrefly's Book Blog: "I was also surprised with the depth of the story: hiding underneath the satire is actually a family story with a fair bit of heart."
Jenny's Books: "So it's equal parts funny (because of all the tropes that the tourists (us, in a way) expect to see, and that the people have to work incredibly hard to give the tourists), and distressing, because here they all are, destroying their entire world year after year."
You've not read Year of the Griffin? It's completely charming - Elda, the youngest griffin, goes off to school and makes all sorts of friends. I wouldn't have said it's my favorite of DWJ's books, but I think it is the one I go back to most often.
I love it when writers can tell a story a little differently and treat a genre in a new way. I do have a confession though, I have not read Wynne Jones (ducks). But I have seen the Miyazaki anime of Howl's Moving Castle which I really enjoyed. I definitely hope to read her work in the future.
Jenny - Can you believe it? I don't know how it escaped my notice (although it came out around the time my daughter was born, so I may have been a bit distracted at the time, LOL). I love Elda and am looking forward to reading it!
Mariel - You are in for such a treat! for me DWJ is a bit like Terry Pratchett - even when a particular book isn't my favorite, it's still always a rewarding read. I hope you'll have time to try one of her books soon!
This is the only of DWJ's books that I've read-read, although I've listened to two others. They actually (and sadly) don't work well in audiobook (for me, at least), because there's so much going on all the time that if I get distracted for ten seconds I wind up totally lost. More of her books are definitely on my list, though - starting with the sequel!
I started reading The Dark Lord of Derkholm a year or so ago, but it never caught my attention, so I ended up returning it to the library barely having read a word of it. I might try it out again one of these days, though!
I've never heard of The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, but I love stuff like that. On to the "to be read" list it goes!
I want that censorship button you had posted with the post.
Love the cover artwork. Lol! This sounds like a great book!
Fyrefly - I can see how it would be challenging to listen to one of her books. I often find myself having to flip back to previous parts to check on things, and that is really hard to do with audio!
Allegra - Timing is so important, isn't it? I'll be curious to hear what you think of The Tough Guide if you read it.
Virginia Gal - I'd like that button, too. I'd wear it at work!


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Emily Prescott
The Londoner: Jobseeker SpAds flood the market
ONE notable aspect of the recent reshuffle was the large number of special advisers who lost seemingly their jobs at the hands of chief No10 aide Dominic Cummings. So what will become of them?
A former No 10 SpAd, who worked under Cameron and May, told The Londoner that being sacked could be a relief as the job had been taking its toll. "There's the constant risk of losing your job — if your minister accidentally has a meeting with an Israeli leader on holiday or something like that. But the way Dom's going there's going to be a lot of SpAds on the market."
The former SpAd said that when Cameron resigned his first thought was for SpAds losing their jobs. "He said, 'I will personally find you a job, share contacts' etc. He followed through on that and no one was totally screwed. He later joked that he'd made an industry in Brexit."
Former PM Theresa May's SpAd Jimmy McLoughlin described reshuffles as "brutally efficient" in a recent blog post giving advice to SpAds leaving government.
"You'll have about 15 minutes to pack up your belongings," he wrote. "Somebody will pass you an envelope, 'gosh' you'll think, 'a leaving card, they got that organised quickly.' Although it is not a card, it's your P45. Somebody will tweet, 'spare a thought for the special advisers', but that is about the extent of public sympathy."
The Londoner spoke to a number of political communications firms, including Portland and Ranelagh. They indicated they were interested in recruiting SpAds and said communications could be a pleasantly stable job after frontline politics. A spokesperson for Freuds, which recently hired Laura Round, ex-SpAd to former Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt, said that previous careers in politics could give partners "a well-informed world view which helps us better advise our global clients".
But Ranelagh told us that it wouldn't necessarily influence your job application either way. "We wouldn't put someone at the top of the list because they'd been a SpAd but by the same token we wouldn't reject them because they'd been a SpAd." Not so special now.
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The Crooked Mile is an avant-garde musical set in Soho, London with music by Peter Greenwell to book and lyrics by Peter Wildeblood. The play premiered at the Cambridge Theatre, London, in 1959, directed by Kenneth Alwyn and starring Millicent Martin and Elisabeth Welch. The music was orchestrated by Gordon Langford.

The show ran for 164 performances, closing prematurely on 30 January 1960, despite continuing mainly positive reviews.

The music
The cast recording was made in August 1959 and released on Top Rank UK JKP 2035 1959	EP
Crooked Mile
Someone Else's Baby
If I Ever Fall In Love Again
Lollybye
Down To Earth
Meet The Family
Luigi

 Sarah Brightman revived "If I Ever Fall in Love Again" on The Songs That Got Away.

References

1959 musicals
British musicals
West End musicals

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The 1976 French Open was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. The tournament ran from 31 May until 14 June. It was the 80th staging of the French Open, and the second Grand Slam tennis event of 1976.

Final

Men's singles

 Adriano Panatta defeated  Harold Solomon, 6–1, 6–4, 4–6, 7–6(7–3)
It was Panatta's 1st (and only) career Grand Slam title.

Women's singles

 Sue Barker defeated  Renáta Tomanová, 6–2, 0–6, 6–2
It was Barker's 1st (and only) career Grand Slam title.

Men's doubles

 Frederick McNair /  Sherwood Stewart defeated  Brian Gottfried /  Raúl Ramírez, 7–6(8-6), 6–3, 6–1

Women's doubles

 Fiorella Bonicelli /  Gail Sherriff Chanfreau Lovera defeated  Kathleen Harter /  Helga Niessen Masthoff, 6–4, 1–6, 6–3

Mixed doubles

 Ilana Kloss /  Kim Warwick defeated  Delina Boshoff /  Colin Dowdeswell, 5–7, 7–6, 6–2

Prize money

References

External links
 French Open official website

1976 Grand Prix (tennis)
1976 in French tennis
1976 in Paris


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'The Photograph' Lacks Focus
I wish I liked The Photograph more than I did. It's by no means a bad film. The things it does well it does extremely well while the things it doesn't do well with flounders about aimlessly.
Stella Meghie who wrote and directed The Photograph excels at showing small intimate moments between her characters. It's the moments between the drag the movie down. The biggest problem is that it is a movie about four people falling in love, one in the past and the other in the present.
Watching them fall in love isn't the problem. It's the way their stories are intertwined. The story set in the past is gutted and chopped up in favor of the one in the present.
Mae (Issa Rae) works for an art gallery exhibiting her mother's work, a documentary photographer. Her mother has died of cancer and has left her two notes, one for her, and one for her father Louis (Courtney B. Vance). Her mother instructs Mae to read her letter first before delivering her father's letter.
Mae's letter from her mother Christina (Chante Adams) tells her about her life and first love Issac (Y'lan Noel) in a small Louisiana parish. She reads the letter while curating her mother's life's work while also meeting and falling for a journalist Michael (Lakeith Stanfield). We've met Michael at the beginning of the movie when he interviews an older Issac (Rob Morgan) a local fisherman and oil worker.
Issac has a photograph of Mae's mother, Christina, the one who got away. The photograph leads Michael to Mae. It becomes obvious as to how all the characters and plots connect even the cryptic reason as to why Mae is to read her letter first before delivering her father's.
The beginning of The Photograph was promising as Michael and Issac talked. Issac talks about how he is a third-generation fisherman and how when the oil company came down to Louisiana he trained to work on the oil rig. The oil spill has all but destroyed him and the community. The fish are gone and so are the oil jobs.
Indeed the conversations are where Meghie's talent comes alive. The way the characters talk demonstrate a keen ear for characterization. Take for example the discussion between Mae and Michael over dinner about their favorite musicians. The conversation isn't there just to reference popular artists but gives us an intimate peek inside the character's inner thoughts and feelings.
Rae lights up any scene she's with one of the most infectious smiles of our times. But if that was all she had Mae would not be as interesting as she is. Rae brings a quiet confidence and wary intelligence to the role.
For his part, Stanfield, who is already one of the more interesting actors of his generation, is allowed to play a charismatic and loving man who while wary of love can't help but fall for Mae. He has a way of looking at her like a man in love which sounds silly until you realize few men do this in film. It is integral to what makes so much of The Photograph work.
The parts that don't work is the meshing of the two timelines. Noel and Adams, like Stanfield and Rae, are both subtle and forthright in their desire for each other. But Meghie's script doesn't give Noel and Adams much to say.
The two share many meaningful looks indicating that the two feel a very real need and want for the other. But that's about it. I wasn't as invested as I was with Mae and Michael partly because Christine and Issac don't talk with each other much and partly because Meghie skips large swaths of time in favor of exposition.
But even with the narrative drag Mark Schwartzbard's camera manages to make The Photograph hum with desire few romantic movies achieve. Meghie and Schwartzbard stage the sex scene between Mae and Michael during the height if Hurricane Irene. Tastefully and emotionally charged, the scene is beautifully lit and put together. Sex scenes in movies often feel over protracted or exploitative bur Meghie and Schwartzbard strike a delicate and effective balance.
Meghie's confidence in her actors belies a major talent. Her characters have rich inner lives expressed in the faces of the subtle and expressive faces of its cast. The Photograph is a simmering love story but sometimes feels adrift in its own thoughts. Refreshing considering how many movies can't even muster up a single thought.
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On the Job by Anita Bruzzese: Psssttt....Can GenYers Keep a Secret?
Interesting point and perspective, Anita. I guess in a business setting, there really shouldn't be too many secrets, per se. We have had some issues with this one, expecially when someone happen to see some salary data. ouch!
Salaries continue to be a touchy point, as evidenced when I wrote about it earlier on this blog. Some GenYers wrote that they still did not like talking about what earn, which may show they do know how to keep some things private -- especially if it directly concerns them.
I don't think we have as big of an issue ask we might think.
Gen Y are also a generation that signs SLAs(service level agreement, we have to sign it in every job we take, since almost ever starting job are contract now.
We also tend switch more jobs/careers then the previous Gen, we are FORCED to know what can & can't be shared due to the SLA.
The big info and other critical leaks will less likely leak by Gen Y, since we signed for it. Although we might blog about the conditions or situations. (No, We won't throw out names or details) This might make it seem like that we are more likely to expose critical info, since we are more exposed.
Although it might be a good idea to remind us of the value of privacy so that we know what are the boundaries.
Weird...but my response to your comment didn't get posted, so I'm going to try this again!
I think you make a valid point about GenYers being exposed to SLAs, but there are still plenty of those who are not. I think it's a matter of careful training. Companies cannot assume that an employee will behave a certain way. So, whether the employee is 24 or 44, employers need to be very clear on the importance of confidentiality, and outline clearly what that means.
I work in an office with several young people, and I would have to say they have a terrible time not talking about things they shouldn't. They talk about client's business when other customers are around, but the boss doesn't seem to care. All he sees is that they can work a computer. I think it will cause terrible problems, especially when clients realize they don't care who hears.But I also think this is a problem that started in the home. Too many parents shared everything with their kids, and now the kids don't know how to be discreet.
I think I should go back to my point about training.
It's going to be critical in the coming years that employers do a better job of communicating to all employees that because of the increasing global competition, it's important that everyone work on being more careful about divulging client information. We can all compete on a level playing field such as technology, but it's innovation, creativity and new ideas that will make the difference. If an employee blabs about that, the game may be over.
I think with the use of camera phones employers are worried they might be posted on the Internet as the next horrible boss. Employees don't seem to care that they might get caught, because the instant fame they will get by posting will make them feel a temporary celebrity status, at least for a day and for some it is worth it. Some of the reality television programs encourage this type of behaviour. It seems everything goes. Who cares that the information is wrong or taken out of context. Once the damage is done it is hard to get the real truth.
Excellent point about the cellphones...I know some companies forbid them because they are worried confidential company information can be photographed and given to competitors. I never stopped to think about the YouTube craze and exposing boss behavior.