Oral argument should be denied because (1) the facts and legal arguments are adequately presented in the briefs and record and (2) the decisional process would not be significantly aided by oral argument. Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(3).
The United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, through the United States Attorney for the Southern District Of Texas, files this brief in response to that of Defendant-Appellant ("Sealed Appellant 1").
This appeal is from the order entered by the district court on September 1, 1999, denying Sealed Appellant 1's motion to quash as moot (Record Excerpts ("RE") of Sealed Appellant 1 at tabs 6 and 7. Notice of appeal was filed timely on September 10, 1999 (RE of Sealed Appellant 1 at tab 3), thereby vesting this court with jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291.
Whether Sealed Appellant 1 has failed to demonstrate any First Amendment violation due to the district court's entry of a protective order pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §2705(b).
On June 16, 1999, the United States filed ex parte and under seal an application for disclosure order under 18 U.S.C. § 2703(c) and (d). This statute sets forth the requirements under which the United States may require the disclosure of records concerning electronic communication service or subscriber information that is in the possession of an Internet Service Provider (IPS). In particular, it requested that Sealed Appellant 1 supply certain information. It also requested, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §2705(b), that the application and order of the court be sealed, and that Sealed Appellant 1 be ordered not to disclose the existence or content of the order, except to the extent necessary to carry it out.
United States Magistrate Judge Marcia A. Crone granted the United States' application and its request to seal on June 16, 1999, the date it was filed. In particular, the court found (1) reasonable grounds to believe that the information sought is relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation, and that (2) disclosure of this investigation or the United States' application would seriously jeopardize the investigation (RE of Sealed Appellant at tab 4,p. 1). It ordered Sealed Appellant 1 to provide the above listed information within three (3) days of the order. Paragraph seven of the order directed Sealed Appellant not to disclose its existence or the existence of the investigation, except as necessary to carry out the order, until authorized to do so by the court (RE of Sealed Appellant 1 at tab 4, p.3).
Sealed Appellant 1 filed its response under seal on June 23, 1999, and moved to quash the order (RE of Sealed Appellant 1 at tab 8). In particular, Sealed Appellant 1 responded that there were three electronic postcards from its service to the identified address, but disclaimed any knowledge as to the sender.
Respondent does not have in its possession or control any records known to it and is not aware of any e-mail traffic from John Doe to [WITHHELD BY APOLLOMEDIA: GOVERNMENT RELEASES NAME OF ALLEGED VICTIM IN REDACTED BRIEF] at e-mail accountI [WITHHELD BY APOLLOMEDIA:GOVERNMENT RELEASES NAME OF ALLEGED VICTIM IN REDACTED BRIEF] or at any other e-mail address, from April 20, 1999, united the date the Order was signed, June 16, 1999. . . .
¶ 4. Respondent does not have subscribers. Anyone who can access the annoy.com web site can send a message and can do so anonymously or pseudonymously. John Doe does not have an e-mail account with Respondent or annoy.com. Respondent's log records do not identify John Doe. They show e-mail traffic to [identified address], which Respondent has reviewed and produced . . . .
(RE of Sealed Appellant 1 at tab 8).
Respondent regularly exercises its First Amendment rights to comment publicly on various issues. It is newsworthy, for example, that there is an investigation concerning the e-mail messages . . .; that some government entity is enlisting the aid of a federal court to issue secret orders and prior restraints and that the court is cooperating; that the United States is investigating e-mail messages allegedly communicated via annoy.com, notwithstanding its representations in ApolloMedia Corporation v. Reno; that the United States and the court are trying via the application for the order and the Order to silence Respondent; . . . that the government with the collaboration of the court is secretly attempting to invade the privacy of innocent users of the Internet and Respondent's web site. . . . The Order and it attendant prior restraint continually violate Respondent's First Amendment rights an the public's right to know about unconstitutional action, every minute that they are in effect.
The United States filed its reply to Sealed Appellant 1's response under seal (RE of Sealed Appellant 1 at tab 9). The United States accepted Sealed Appellant 1's response that it does not have any of the requested information and stated that Sealed Appellant 1r had complied with the court's order. Id. at p. I. It took the position that Sealed Appellant 1's motion to declare the order unconstitutional was moot in light of that compliance. Id. at 2. As to the portion of the order prohibiting disclosure, the United States pointed out that it was based on 18 U.S.C. § 2705(b), the statutory mechanism for delaying notification of the existence of a warrant, subpoena or court order. Id. at p.2.
Magistrate Judge Crone denied the motion to quash as moot on August 16, 1999 (RE of Sealed Appellant 1 at tab 5). Sealed Appellant 1 appealed to the district court, which affirmed with written order on September 1, 1999 (RE of Sealed Appellant at tab 6). The court summarily held that Sealed Appellant 1 could not answer the subpoena and move to quash it (RE of Sealed Appellant 1 at tab 7).
Sealed Appellant filed its notice of appeal to this court on September 10, 1999 (RE of Sealed Appellant 1 at tab 3). While its appeal was pending, Sealed Appellant requested the Magistrate Judge on October 1, 1999, to stay paragraph seven of the original order (i.e., "Sealed Appellant 1 its agents and affiliates, shall not disclose the existence of the United States' application or this order, or the existence of any investigation, to the listed subscriber or lessee or to any other person (except as necessary to carry out this order) until authorized to do so by this Court"), and requested the court to unseal the record. It claimed that the court's non-disclosure order infringed on its First Amendment right "to comment publicly on newsworthy events." (RE of United States at tab 3).
The United States filed its reply under seal on October 27, 1999, arguing, in part, that the application should remain under seal "until such time as the investigation has concluded or formal proceedings against the target of the investigation have been initiated, either through arrest of on a criminal complaint or though the issuance of an indictment," and that unsealing the application might alert the target to the existence of the investigation and provide the opportunity to conceal evidence; (2) that Sealed Appellant 1's motion for stay and to unseal was an attempt to relitigate issues finally resolved and that its remedy was in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals; (3) that Sealed Appellant 1 is not a representative of the "press" but rather a participant in the investigatory process because its web site was used as the vehicle to deliver a threat (RE of Sealed Appellee at tab 1). The United States offered to allow Sealed Appellant 1 to "print, publish, disseminate or post on the Internet a redacted version of Magistrate Crone's June 16, 1999, Order. Id. at pp. 5-6 and n.1. The only requirement would be that all references to the recipient of the threat contained within the e-mails from ANNOY.COM be deleted." Id. According to the United States' reply, Sealed Appellant 1 has indicated that it would be willing to accept this requirement. The Magistrate Judge denied Apollo Media motion to stay and unseal the record on October 28, 1999 (RE of United States at tab 2).
Sealed Appellant 1 also filed with this court a Motion for Stay Pending Appeal, or, in the Alternative, to Expedite Appeal and Motion to Unseal Record. In particular, Sealed Appellant 1 sought a stay of paragraph seven of the order entered by the district court on June 16, 1999 (RE of Sealed Appellant at tab 4, p.3). It also sought an order form this court directing the district court to unseal the entire record. Included with its application for a stay is the declaration by Sealed Appellant 1's president which includes that assertion that he is a privacy advocate and intends to not reveal the identity of the victim on a voluntary basis (RE of Sealed Appellant 1 at tab 10, Declaration at ¶15). On November 24, 1999, this court entered an order denying Sealed Appellant 1's stay pending appeal and his motion to unseal the record. It also ordered the appeal expedited.
Sealed Appellant 1 has failed to demonstrate a First Amendment violation due to the entry of a nondisclosure order in this case. Not all prior restraints on speech violate the First Amendment. Where information is obtained pursuant to a court order that both grants access to the information and places restraints on it, there is no First Amendment violation if the practice furthers an important government interest unrelated to the suppression of expression and the limitation on First Amendment freedoms is no greater than necessary or essential to the protection of that interest. Here, the nondisclosure order was designed to protect an ongoing criminal investigation, a substantial government interest. In addition, there is no common law right of access to information gained by the government at this stage of a criminal proceeding, that is, during the course of a criminal investigation and before formal charges are filed. Assuming arguendo, that the order should have been more narrowly drawn, the United States is not opposed to the court's order be unsealed, so long as any references to the victim and other identifying information concerning the investigation is redacted.
Sealed Appellant 1 its agents and affiliates, shall not disclose the existence of the United States' application or this order, or the existence of any investigation, to the listed subscriber or lessee or to any person (except as necessary to carry out this Order) until authorized to do so by this Court.
(RE of Sealed Appellant 1 at tab 4, p.3). It is this portion of the order that Sealed Appellant 1 challenges.
This court reviews a district court's decision on a motion to quash for abuse of discretion. See In re Grand Jury Proceedings, 115 F.3d 1240, 1243 (5th Cir. 1997). It reviews constitutional challenges de novo. United States v. Jennings, 195 F.3d 795, 800 (5th Cir. 1999).
A governmental entity acting under section 2703, when it is not required to notify the subscriber or customer under section 2703(b)(1), or to the extent that it may delay such notice pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, may apply to a court for an order commanding a provider of electronic communications service or remote computing service to whom a warrant, subpoena, or court order is directed, for such a period as the court deems appropriate, not to notify any other person of the existence of the warrant, subpoena, or court order. The court shall enter such an order if it determines that there is reason to believe that notification of the existence of the warrant, subpoena, or court order will result in ... otherwise seriously jeopardizing an investigation or unduly delaying a trial.
18 U.S.C. §2705(b) (emphasis added).
The United States acted under section 2703, that is, 2703(c)(1)(A), which requires a provider to disclose records or other information pertaining to subscribers that do not pertain to the contents of the communications. It did not act pursuant to §2703(b)(1), the procedure for obtaining the content of electronic communications, therefore it was not required to notify the subscriber or customer under that section and §2705(b) applied.
The district court, in it order, found "that disclosure of this investigation or the United States' application would seriously jeopardize the investigation." (RE of Sealed Appellant 1 at tab 4, p.1).
It is well established in this Circuit that district courts have an inherent power to receive in camera evidence and place such evidence under seal. See United States v. De Los Santos, 810 F.2d 1326, 1331-1333 (5th Cir. 1987). In the criminal context, we have recognized that the receipt of evidence ex parte permits the court to balance the interests of the Government in safeguarding its confidential informants and in ensuring the viability of its ongoing investigations against the interests of defendants in confronting adverse witnesses. See United States v. Singh, 922 F.2d 1169, 1172 (5th Cir. 1991) (holding that district court's in camera review was appropriate, and that furnishing the appellant with a copy of the transcript of that review "would defeat the very purpose of the in camera procedure."). ... Because courts routinely balance the interests of the Government in anonymity against that of civil litigants in full disclosure and have permitted the submission of evidence ex parte, see, e.g., Abell v. Potomac Insurance Co., 858 F.2d 1104, 1143 (5th Cir. 1988), vacated on other grounds, 492 U.S. 914, 109 S.Ct. 3236, 106 L.Ed.2d 584 (1989) (sealing the record of in camera discussions with FBI agent about attempts to bribe jury members); In re Grand Jury Witness, 835 F.2d 437, 441 (2d Cir. 1987) (permitting Government to file a sealed ex parte affidavit and to adjourn to chambers for ex parte discussion in closed civil contempt hearing), we find no abuse of discretion in the present case.
United States v. $9,041,598.68, 163 F.3d 238, 251 (5th Cir. 1998). In view of the United States' need for nondisclosure to protect its ongoing investigation, no abuse of discretion is demonstrated.
In addition, the legislative history of the ECPA reflects that Congress intended for its provisions to take into account the government's legitimate need for law enforcement activity. "While Congress acted to protect the privacy of electronic communications, the [Senate Judiciary Committee Report recommending passage of ECPA] ... indicates that Congress intended to strike 'a fair balance between the privacy expectations of American citizens and the legitimate needs of law enforcement agencies.'" Organization JD LTDA. v. U. S. Dept. of Justice, 124 F.3d 354, 360 (2d Cir. 1997) (quoting legislative history).
The critical question that this case presents is whether a litigant's freedom comprehends the right to disseminate information that he has obtained pursuant to a court order that both granted him access to that information and placed restraints on the way in which the information might be used. In addressing that question it is necessary to consider whether the "practice in question [furthers] an important or substantial governmental interest unrelated to the suppression of expression" and whether "the limitation of First Amendment freedoms [is] no greater than is necessary or essential to the protection of the particular governmental interest involved."
We believe that secrecy [of grand jury proceedings] is no less important to the process of investigating crime for the purpose of obtaining evidence to present to a grand jury. First, and most obviously, if the warrant proceeding itself were open to the public, there would be the obvious risk that the subject of the search warrant would learn of its existence and destroy evidence of criminal activity before the warrant could be executed. Additionally, if the proceeding remained closed but the supporting affidavits were made public when the investigation was still ongoing, persons identified as being under suspicion of criminal activity might destroy evidence, coordinate their stories before testifying, or even flee the jurisdiction.
Although the courts of this country recognize a general right to inspect and copy public records and documents, including judicial records and documents, that right is not absolute. Nixon v. Warner Communications, 435 U.S. 589, 597-98, 98 S.Ct. 1306, 1311-12 (1978). "Every court has supervisory power over its own records and files, and access has been denied where court files might have become a vehicle for improper purposes." Id. In addition, "[t]he First Amendment generally grants the press no right to information about a trial superior to that of the general public." Id. 435 at 609, 98 S.Ct. at 13.18.
"As a general rule, citizens have no first amendment right of access to traditionally nonpublic government information." McGehee v. Casey, 718 F.2d 1137, 1147 (D.C.Cir. 1983) (citations omitted). The First Amendment guarantees the press and public access to court proceedings, including documents, if such access has historically been available. United States v. El-Sayegh, 131 F.3d 158, 160 (D.C.Cir. 1997) (citing Press-Enterprise Co. v. Superior Court, 478 U.S. 1, 8, 106 S.Ct. 2735, 2740 (1986)). The stage of a criminal investigation that precedes formal charges is not traditionally one in which the public has a common law right of access.
Recognition of a right of access by the public and the press does not obliterate the differences between trial and pretrial, nor does it fix the judicial scales against closure beyond counterweight. Despite the categorical language of the first amendment, the rights it safeguards are not absolute. Like the freedom to speak, the freedom to publish, the freedom to exhibit movies, and other first amendment-protected rights, the right of courtroom access is limited by the constitutional right of defendants to a fair trial and "by the needs of the government to obtain just convictions and to preserve the confidentiality of sensitive information and the identity of informants."
United States v. Chara, 701 F.2d 354, 364 (5th Cir. 1983) (footnotes omitted, emphasis added). In view of the manner in which Sealed Appellant 1 received access to the information, the substantial government interest at stake and the absence of any public right of access to the information, no First Amendment violation is demonstrated.
Assuming, arguendo, that the court's order is not sufficiently narrow to accommodate any First Amendment rights that Sealed Appellant 1 might have, the United States is not opposed to a redacted version of the order being unsealed by the district court. Such a version should omit all reference to the victim and to the specifics of the investigation to avoid putting the subjects of the investigation on notice as to its existence.
For these reasons, the denial of Sealed Appellant 1's motion to quash should be affirmed. In the alternative, the case should be remanded to the district court with directions to unseal a redacted version of the order that keeps the victim's identity and other identifying information about the investigation confidential.


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Moms have turned to About Families, one of a small number of resources in the Coachella Valley dealing with postpartum depression, anxiety or fears.
Women struggling with the challenges of having a newborn find support from other moms.
It's Thursday morning and the moms are running late, although no one cares. They all know how it goes sometimes.
They file in one by one, walking up the outside stairs and into the cool second-floor lounge. All the way they carry diaper bags and car seats holding babies no bigger than cases of soda.
The women sit in a loose circle and at about 20 minutes past ten o'clock they get started. It's immediately clear that it will be another emotional meeting.
A young mom holding a daughter not even 3 months old is the first to share. She is happy to report that she — the mom — is sleeping better. Then her face changes and she starts to cry.
Other women nod and reassure her these feelings are not uncommon. Then they each get a turn to share a high point, a low point and a goal they're setting to look after themselves.
The moms say they are lucky to have found the support group at About Families, an Indio nonprofit and one of a small number of resources in the Coachella Valley for women dealing with postpartum depression, anxiety or fears.
As they continue to share, one mom talks about the competing emotions she's felt while celebrating her son's 9-month birthday and marking the anniversary of her father's death.
Another is stressed over being away from her daughter for the first time during an upcoming trip to Mexico. "I'm a working mom, and the truth is I hate it," she says.
A mother of two says she missed her goal of getting to bed by 11 p.m. each night. It's been 12:30 a.m. or later every night for the past week.
About Families founder Joanna Boles Whitlow steers the group's discussion toward the irrational and sometimes crippling paranoia that can consume new moms. Boles Whitlow knows about these fears firsthand. She struggled with them as a new mom and then finally when her child was about 9 months old, she heard another woman talk about feeling the same way. That woman couldn't shake the fear that a knife in the house would hurt her baby. And the woman had a term for those feelings: intrusive thoughts.
Boles Whitlow was relieved. Not only were other moms experiencing what she was going through, but it was common enough to have a name. "I totally felt like another person had lifted a 100-pound weight off of me," she tells the group.
Kelly Homans knows those feelings too. The La Quinta mother of two began going to the support group when her son was a month old, but she wishes she'd known about the group after her first child was born.
Homans and the other moms say the group has given them a rare opportunity to discuss the severe and unexpected emotions that follow having a baby. It was something they were not altogether prepared for and because there's so little public discussion of postpartum mental health, their spouses, family members, even other moms and their doctors were sometimes unsure how to best help.
Homans says her doctor and family's pediatrician have helped make her pregnancy and the first months after her son, Skyler, was born a breeze. But she expresses reluctance to open up about any mental health concerns while in a doctor's office. When she saw her doctor after giving birth, she says she was asked to fill out a questionnaire meant to screen for depression.
Research estimates on the prevalence of postpartum depression vary widely, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put it at about one in nine women.
Boles Whitlow, a trained doula and lactation consultant, thinks that low-balls the problem. She started About Families after moving to the Coachella Valley from Santa Barbara 12 years ago and noticing a lack of support services for struggling new moms and families.
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Her small agency offers the support group, yoga classes for new moms and babies, a weekly walk-in breastfeeding clinic and a co-op preschool where parents are heavily involved.
Part of the challenge expecting and new moms face, Bowles-Whitlow says, is the lack of attention given to the emotional and physical toll of motherhood. Instead, parents can easily find articles about the best car seat to buy or dive into a hole of nursery decor ideas posted to Pinterest.
The support group, which typically runs for six weeks at a time, is meant to be a place where moms can acknowledge their struggles and get help. Bowles-Whitlow says the most common issues that come up are lack of sleep, strain on relationships sometimes caused by financial problems or other stress, and new moms' feelings of isolation like when a husband goes back to work after a baby is born.
There are signs of a more public discussion on the emotional and physical needs of new moms. Recent national news stories have pointed out how poorly the U.S. compares in terms of fatalities among pregnant women and how the health of a new mom can become a low priority compared to the well-being of her baby.
Celebrities going public about depression and mental health struggles also pushes the conversation into homes. In March, the model Chrissy Teigen became the latest famous person to talk openly about postpartum depression when she wrote a personal essay published in Glamour.
Moves like that can make a difference, says Dr. Heather Gaedt, a clinic psychologist in Palm Desert who focuses on maternal issues and family counseling.
"If we're raised in a home where we don't really know what's OK and what's not OK, sometimes we can look to societal figures as role models," Gaedt says.
Someone struggling in isolation may not even know that what she's experiencing is a problem and that treatment could help, she says.
The exact reason one woman will develop postpartum depression and another won't aren't known, but Gaedt says dramatic life changes that come from being a parent can sometimes elevate minor pre-existing mental struggles into larger conditions.
Postpartum depression can also arise in men. Treatment is typically through counseling and medication.
Gaedt points to sleep deprivation as a problem that can lead to mental health struggles, saying there's no way for parents to know what any kind of long-term shortage of sleep will do to their minds.
"Why would you even want to prepare yourself for something like that?" she says.
In a sleep-deprived stupor, moms and dads are making constant choices that affect the health of their child. Just deciding what to feed a child is a series of small decisions deemed critically important by some. Where did this food come from? Does it matter if it's organic? Is this jar made from the kind of plastic I read could leach into food?
Feelings of guilt around not living up to expectations as a parent are common, Gaedt says. No matter if it's occasional self-doubt or prolonged feelings of inadequacy, everyone is helped by having someone to talk to, she says. For some people, she says putting those feeling into words by talking to a friend, spouse or other family member may be enough. Other people will need the help of a support group like the one at About Families or regular talks with a therapist in order to work through their feelings.
Within the last year, Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs began Healthy Beginnings, a program for expectant and new parents that includes monthly support group meetings. The program is open to anyone living in the area.
Lisa Martin, the nurse who runs the program, says the hospital screens new moms for depression using a well-known 10-question survey. Among the issues it asks about are whether the mother has been so unhappy she's had trouble sleeping or if she's thought about harming herself.
If the responses indicate a possible issue, the hospital will typically notify the woman's obstetrician who can then decide whether to proceed with a treatment like medication or therapy, Martin says.
At 23-weeks pregnant with her second child, Tiffany Page of Palm Desert developed preeclampsia, a potentially fatal complication characterized by high blood pressure and other changes to the mother's body. She was admitted to Desert Regional where doctors hoped to sustain her pregnancy until week 34. But at 26 weeks, Page gave birth to a 1.5-pound baby boy, Henry.
The hospital was able to handle much of his care, but Henry was transferred to the Kaiser Permanente hospital in Downey for heart surgery and stayed there for 10 days.
The baby came home on oxygen and needing regular follow-up visits with a pediatric pulmonologist in Garden Grove. Since the specialty isn't offered at any medical offices in the Coachella Valley, the family had to drive several hours for each appointment.
The medical needs of the roughly 400,000 people living in the Coachella Valley are such that anyone needing specialized care may be forced to drive to the Riverside area or into Los Angeles or Orange counties. For specialized pediatric care, the closest site is often Loma Linda University Children's Hospital, a 50-mile drive from Palm Springs.
These journeys can further complicate an already stressful time. Some help is expected to arrive later this year when Loma Linda University Children's Hospital opens a pediatric clinic in central Indio.
Some local moms say that after experiencing limited options for obstetric care during their pregnancies, they found the same thing was true when selecting a pediatrician. There are good doctors here, they say, but getting in to see them can be hard and long waits are common.
Part of the reason may be that obstetrics and pediatrics are not considered high-demand medical services for the area. Despite overall population gains, the number of babies born to women living in the Coachella Valley declined by more than 1,500 live births from 2007 to 2015, according to numbers tracked by Riverside County and the state. An analysis of the local health care market commissioned by the Desert Healthcare District and released in March found the area has more than enough hospital beds for obstetric and pediatric patients in order to meet what's considered optimal occupancy rates.
The same report found that only about 3 percent of deliveries of newborns not considered normal took place somewhere other than at one of the valley's three hospitals.
Locally, Desert Regional and JFK Memorial Hospital in Indio provider regular delivery services. When Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage closed its 14-bed birthing center in 2003, officials there pointed to declining delivery numbers and a patient population that was almost entirely over the age of 35.
Dr. Alan Coit, a pediatrician with an office on the Eisenhower campus, has been practicing in the valley for 40 years. Coit didn't weigh in on whether the region needs more pediatricians, but he noted that his office stays busy.
Coit, 70, dispelled any rumors that he was preparing for retirement. Instead, he's looking to relocate his office to a larger spot not far from the hospital and possibly bring in pediatric specialists, including a pediatric gastroenterologist.
Bowles-Whitlow said she perceives the valley as slowly adding more families and shedding some of its reputation as a community only for retirees.
When Page, whose child Henry was born premature, first moved to the desert, she used an app to meet other new moms. Most of them eventually moved away.
Dismayed, she created her own support network in a Facebook group called Real Moms of the Coachella Valley.
It's been less than a year and the group has more than 1,000 members, any of whom can post in the group's feed to share their struggles or plan play dates.
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"I felt like I needed a place to go and meet other moms for free," Page says. She's met close to 200 people through the group. Pictures of the gatherings are shared on Facebook and Instagram, often from local parks. Pace said finding locations for activities on sweltering summer days is a problem.
The group's name pokes fun at the Real Housewives reality TV shows but also the idea that the members are real moms working with all the real struggles of motherhood.
The full picture isn't usually how moms are portrayed.
Health reporter Barrett Newkirk can be reached at (760)778-4767, barrett.newkirk@desertsun.com or on Twitter @barrettnewkirk.


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North Dakota transgender women to flee US, form group to help others do the same
Rynn Willgohs and Zara Crystal, both transgender women who live in Fargo, are working to set up TRANSport, a nonprofit group that Willgohs envisioned to help other trans people in the U.S. emigrate to more hospitable countries.
Rynn Willgohs, left, sits with Zara Crystal on Nov. 18, 2022, at Willgohs' home in Fargo. Willgohs and Crystal are working to set up TRANSport, a nonprofit group that Willgohs envisioned to help other trans people in the U.S. emigrate to more hospitable countries.
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By Melissa Van Der Stad
FARGO — Rynn Willgohs, a 50-year-old transgender woman living in Fargo, plans to immigrate to Iceland to escape what she describes as a dangerous environment for trans people in the U.S.
Willgohs said, if needed, she will claim asylum upon her arrival in Iceland.
"I need to go somewhere where I know I'm going to be safe," Willgohs said, where "I know I'm going to be legally protected."
It was during a summer trip to Iceland that Willgohs realized she felt more at home in Icelandic society than she'd ever felt in the U.S. The fact that she was transgender was not an issue there, Willgohs said, while in the U.S. she always feels threatened or treated as an outsider.
"It's a whole different world over there," Willgohs said, explaining that it took some getting used to being seen as just another person.
Willgohs fears that things could get much worse in the U.S. for transgender people in the coming years, even though they've never been easy. She herself endured conversion therapy in 1987, something the American Psychological Association decries as a potentially harmful practice that is "not therapy."
A key factor in her decision to leave the U.S. is her fear that state and federal governments will roll back protections for trans people, including medical coverage and health care options. She said nationwide there's been a push for anti-transgender legislation .
Willgohs worries her "public existence will be made illegal," including her right to work and live peacefully.
"I just feel like I'm living in a (expletive) pressure cooker all the time," she said.
Willgohs isn't alone in her desire to leave the U.S.
Zara Crystal, a 20-year-old trans woman in Fargo, said she intends to seek asylum in Sweden.
Before leaving, however, both women are working to set up TRANSport , a nonprofit organization that Willgohs envisioned to help other trans people in the U.S. emigrate to more hospitable countries.
TRANSport will help trans people leave the U.S. by assisting with necessary paperwork, paying for associated costs and providing resettlement support.
The board of directors for the Pride Collective and Community Center , a Fargo nonprofit, voted to incorporate TRANSport under their 501c3 umbrella (Willgohs, who sits on the board, recused herself from the vote). All of TRANSport's donations will go through the Pride Collective, which will take a percentage of those funds to cover administrative costs.
Lillian Guetter, president of the Pride Collective, said TRANSport is absolutely needed given the political climate in the U.S., noting that she believes the dangers the LGBTQ community faces have grown worse in the last few years.
"The nightclub shooting is a prime example of why this is necessary," Guetter said of the Nov. 19 attack at a LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, that left five people dead and 25 injured.
"We had four years of a particular political party running a smear campaign against the trans community and the drag community," Guetter said. "(That) puts people in pretty serious danger."
In recent years far right aggression against the LGBTQ community has ramped up , according to a recent article by USA Today.
TRANSport will start working locally and take national clients on a case-by-case basis.
Guetter personally knows of three trans people in the Fargo-Moorhead area who are interested in using TRANSport's services. She said she would also consider using TRANSport's services.
"In comparison to some other countries it is safer (for trans people) in the United States," she said. "However if you look at Iceland or Norway, we are way behind."
Last year's transgender athlete bill in North Dakota is an example of legislation that adds to Guetter's perception of the U.S. as an unwelcoming place for trans people. The bill, which failed after a veto from Gov. Doug Burgum , would have restricted transgender students in K-12 sports in North Dakota from competing alongside athletes of their identifying gender.
"There is a reason I live on the Minnesota side (of the Red River)," Guetter said. Minnesota's decision to let people self-identify their gender on their driver's license is something that makes Guetter feel more welcomed in Minnesota.
Rynn Willgohs, seen Nov. 18, 2022, in Fargo, does research on countries that offer asylum and works on a Facebook page for TRANSport, a nonprofit group that aims to help trans people in the U.S. emigrate to other countries.
Now that TRANSport has the backing of the Pride Collective, organizers will start setting up TRANSport's all-volunteer staff and begin crafting a full vision for the group. A majority of TRANSport's board will consist of people who plan to stay in the U.S., Willgohs said.
When people first arrive in new countries, medical coverage won't always be available right away, something of particular importance to people who want to pursue medical transitions, Willgohs said. "We want to formulate a plan with people to make sure their medical stuff is going to be on track and that they pick a country that is going to fit their needs," Willgohs said.
TRANSport estimates it will cost the organization about $2,000 to help a trans person settle in a new country. Through donations, TRANSport hopes to help cover the cost of name changes, gender marker changes, hormone treatments, plane tickets and passport costs.
"This is not going to be something that everyone is going to want to do," Willgohs said, noting that the demand for TRANSport's services may grow as the U.S. political climate changes.
'Marginalized people'
While her experiences in Fargo have been largely positive, Willgohs said she's been targeted for being trans, including being stalked and threatened last summer. She believes her work for transgender rights in Fargo has made her more of a target.
Willgohs said her harassers found out where she lived and began showing up at places she was going. She believes people were getting this information off her Facebook page which prompted her to create a new one.
Willgohs said a man in his 40s once verbally attacked her in the Macy's at West Acres mall, but she fondly remembers a woman in her 70s who stood up for her and told him off.
In the past, she said, people have threatened to attack her with acid, cut off her breasts or sexually assault her.
"I just think that the culture of this country, especially in the rural areas and the red states, is just going to get so bad for marginalized people," Willgohs said.
Rynn Willgohs rides a horse in Iceland in the summer of 2022.
Willgohs, who plans to leave the country before the 2024 presidential election, said she and her wife are pursuing an agreed upon separation before the move. Her wife will be staying in the U.S.
Already, Willgohs has cashed out her retirement savings and purchased an apartment in Iceland. This week she is going back to Iceland for a few days to apply for a job, hopeful that she can avoid the need to claim asylum. She said she'd like to eventually have dual American-Icelandic citizenship.
'Island of inclusivity'
Crystal is eager to immigrate to Sweden in a couple of years "to be able to live in a country that I know cares about me as a citizen and about me as a person, not even disregarding my identity but acknowledging my identity as a part of who I am."
In fact, she hopes that the last thing she does in the U.S. before hopping on a plane will be to vote in the 2024 presidential election.
"I have a feeling that the moment I get off that plane I am going to feel like I am home," Crystal said.
Willgohs and Crystal said they intend to stay involved in TRANSport while abroad.
Crystal said she's faced many hardships in Fargo after moving here three years ago, but added that it's nothing compared to what she experienced in other areas.
"(Fargo) is an island of inclusivity in a sea of places where representation and inclusivity of this sort is not ever seen," Crystal said. "Right now, trans people can survive and we can thrive in a place like Fargo."
However, Crystal believes that the next few years will see these island havens disappearing across the U.S., and she wants to get out before that happens. She said TRANSport's services are needed even more now than in recent decades.
She said that just within the past two months someone has threatened to slit her throat and run her over with a car. She said she was sexually assaulted on a date, but did not file a police report because she had no faith authorities would do anything.
Zara Crystal is pictured on Nov. 18, 2022, in Fargo.
Transgender people are at a significant risk for violence in the U.S ., according to a 2021 report by the Human Rights Watch, a national human rights advocacy group.
The report documented how "persistent marginalization puts transgender people, particularly Black transgender women, at heightened risk of violence at the hands of strangers, partners, family members, and law enforcement."
"Even now it's dangerous, how much more dangerous is it going to be?" Crystal said.
While the amount of support definitely outweighs the hatred, Crystal said that hatred is a lot easier to focus on.
She is sad for the family and friends she will leave behind, but said she's more sad for the LGBTQ people who "aren't going to leave, or the people who will get trapped here."
Crystal said that despite her warnings, many people "shrug it off," and she fears that soon, U.S. safe havens won't be enough.
"I'm, like, begging whatever higher power there is that something will happen to change things for the better," she said.
The high rate of suicide among transgender people paired with the social stigma, fetishization and mistreatment of trans people are some of the reasons that Crystal is wanting to leave.
"We cannot trust anybody in this country," she said, "and the people we can trust come few and far in between."
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Does postmodernism in art criticism collapse into relativism? What's its merit?
Postmodernism rejects the idea of a universal truth and in context of literary art criticism it shifts the focus from the writer or the author to the audience and from constant meaning to unstable one - but then, what tools of art criticism does it provide the reader and the art critic? I mean, does it entail relativism so that 'anything goes'? Does postmodernism dismiss the entire idea of art criticism?!
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Good question. See for example "Postmodernism: Anomaly in Art-Critical Theory" by David K Holt, in the link: jstor.org/stable/3333520?seq=1
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I would not say that postmodernism is well-defined in any field and tends to resists such definition. I believe the first applications in criticism were in architecture and simply referred to the technical and aesthetic options available beyond "modernism," a specific period which was fairly well defined by, in a nutshell, "form following function," or at least an auspicious absence of ornamentation and representation.
So the "postmodern" in architecture might include Venturi's return to representation or drawing on historical aesthetics. Yes, in a sense "anything goes." Painting isn't as capital intensive as architecture, so the transition from the "high modernism" of Rothko or Klein through Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, or Warhol to "postmodern" has a lot more hybrid types. But once again, it dispenses with the "rules" against representation or mixed styles, say, along with the modernist idea of some sort of necessary progress or, as they say, "grand narrative."
A lack of overarching standards is rarely a problem for critics, and while I can't tell you what exactly might constitute a school of "postmodern" art criticism, I am sure there is plenty, drawing on a big grab bag of theories, from semiotics and Marxism to feminism. My guess is that this is all very liberating to criticism, since writing about political content, social criticism, painterly style, theories of representation, or the more philosophical approaches of Danto is all on the table.
So the style of criticism, like the styles of painting or architecture, is open to pitched battle in the so-called marketplace of ideas, including political and social critique. Uninteresting, irrelevant...those might be the most damning criticisms in this milieu. Again, the idea is that no larger sense of historical progress dictates the values and "critique" will therefore generally be internal to the aims and purposes of the work, not to some transcendent standard.
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It is very common to propose postmodernism as the new hegemonic metanarrative, come to replace the old one - but the approaches grouped under the term are opposed to that entire concept of methodology, at a core level. It is precisely not the point.
Many prototypical 'postmodernists' like Foucault, never accepted the term applied to themselves, never defined themselves by it, never felt it to be a cohesive school or movement. And, really, it isn't.
Postmodernism arose significantly through literary criticism. It is better understood as a toolbox, for trying to see the cognitive biases of candidate texts, and critiquing the non-explicit aims embodied by them. Foucault is frequently criticised as having no concept of truth separate from power - he absolutely did, but his focus & interest was on how implicit power plays are embodied in our ideas.
A great next step is understanding Kuhn. As a theorist of science as a whole, eg compared to Popper, he is really problematic. He has no methodology for truth, there is only culture, and 'combat' within the culture's rules, the new paradigm 'winning' the new hegemony and providing status and power to those who brought the paradigm shift about. But as part of a toolbox, he is saying, don't pretend scientists are 'free floating brains', they are part of culture too, science is culture, and though it is not fundamentally subjective (as, sadly, Kuhn did actually claim, in his hubris), we still do have to consider human needs for belonging and solidarity to understand how science progresses. See the replication crisis, & many other science scandals.
Baudrillard has a narrow focus on abstraction, how culture shifts to simulation and simulacra. Again, the tendency is to approach his methodology as the new metanarrative, but it's an area of attention, and set of tools for understanding the preconceptions and biases we have, inherit, and embody as culture.
I would relate postmodernism to art criticism as the shift from what art IS (implicitly a metanarrative, making a claim to be the dominant interpretation in cultural discourse), to what art DOES, for it's different audiences, for it's maker, considered in different contexts, in layers of abstraction and reference. Art as text.
This doesn't mean no argument is better than another, or there is no such thing as a better informed commentator. But, that the arbitration in a given context is by pursuasion. And crucially, always subject to revision. A perspective may be considered very compelling, definitive even, in one era, but be revealed later as relying on implicit assumptions - like European bias against Africa. Later generations just found that obvious, that pre-WW2 Europe could not see.
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Critic/s: please leave notes, I am no expert on postmodernism & would love references to where I'm wrong
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I would identify a pair of tendencies, seemingly opposed but often welded together: on the one hand I would submit the idea that we cannot confront the real without some kind of subjective dissolution, I.e., the truth is a matter of how much an individual can 'take' or accept the world, and that taken 'unvarnished' it would even be harmful, so that art is necessary to protect us from the truth (we could read this as a necessary prophylactic function of social fictions, enabling us to forget certain difficult things in order to enjoy ourselves; or on the other hand, aesthetic production as an endless series of masks in order not to die of boredom, banality and brutality of actually-existing society).
On the other hand, the idea that truth in itself doesn't exist, but is a matter of interpretation and creative selection, amid endless shifting perspectives reflecting culturally-specific embeddings. The reality that exists 'in between' perspectives is here the subject of aesthetics; there is not a single shared life world unifying all of society, but rather a universal emptiness that cuts across every existential order in the form of irrational antagonisms and hegemonic struggles for social control. The Cartesian subject who would still 'want' the truth in the postmodern situation is required to make an act, an 'ungrounded' decision as an embedded agent with insufficient norms and knowledge to guide them, in order to 'fill in' the gap of their subjectivity with the positive order of a cause that transcends them: to make a creative leap is always to dare to decide an undecidable situation, with necessarily insufficient grounds...
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There are times and spaces in many of our lives when our lack of conprehension, let alone of any potential for possessing the capability to understand 'life' becomes overwhelming. To shield our minds from this unimaginably frightening 'vortex', we conclude a devil's deal with our own fear. At this point we make allusion to the unobtainable nature of truth. Nietschze, for one clamored for us to challenge, engage, wrestle with and overcome our personal trauma and to plunge into the abyss, risk all, defeat our fear and thereby become free. (Abstracted from, 'Beyond Good and Evil' Chapter 1.)
To answer your question, postmodernism , MAY, simply be pointing the way towards a dissolution of the role of the 'critic' or so-called 'expert', thus inviting the individual to become the sole arbiter of what constitutes aesthetics and even art itself! As for the 'tools', as Spinoza maintained, all humans by virtue of being born possess an 'adequate' idea. This entails having the innate capacity to build on that 'understanding' by building chains of adequacy which will ultimately enable an individual to grasp the significance of both 'art' and 'truth'.
Downvoted: 1) Your post doesn't define postmodernism for the terms of your answer, the only philosophy/philosophy specified is Descartes, not exactly a postmodern..! 2) No attempt is made to address the specific context of 'art criticism' , even though that is the context of the question.
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(Why) is this negative outlook on the concept of philosophy misguided?
Why is postmodernism apparently so ill-perceived in philosophy of science?
Why in the academic fields of art and design, the philosophy taught or mentioned is often Continental philosophy?
Is postmodernism the historical source of epistemic relativism? And does epistemic relativism logically derive from postmodernism?
Need help with this paper on epistemic justice
In Dark Ecology, Morton says that causality is in the aesthetic dimension? could you please elaborate why causality and aesthetic are connected?


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She has grown so much as an artist and entertainer. Recalling her when she first come on tour now approaching a decade she came hard with her songs and hits. Today she does the same but incorporates so much foundation and roots reggae into her set, she now has the whole room vibing with her not just her loyal fans. She had a great set at the Hollywood Bowl a couple years ago opening for legend - Burning Spear. She definitely knows her "Roots" and is bringing it to the masses this summer. She is among the few to be picked to perform a set at Buju Banton's welcome home concert and she had an excellent set. We were there.


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Our Turn: Expanding vouchers is dangerous for Arizona
Educators: Arizona continues to divert public money away from public schools, hurting the students it promises to help.
Our Turn: Expanding vouchers is dangerous for Arizona Educators: Arizona continues to divert public money away from public schools, hurting the students it promises to help. Check out this story on azcentral.com: http://azc.cc/2hPUaS8
In a new poll of Arizona voters released by the public school advocacy group Stand for Children Arizona a majority of those surveyed said the state should spend more money on education — and more than half indicated they'd be willing to pay higher taxes to do so. Getty Images/Ingram Publishing
Arizonans willing to pay more for education, poll says
Te poll was conducted by Moore Information of 500 Arizona voters, doing live cellphone and landline phone interviews Dec. 5-7. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. Getty Images/iStockphoto
In the Moore Information poll, 77 percent indicated the state should spend more money on schools. Getty Images/moodboard RF
The poll also said that 61 percent indicated they would support a tax increase to provide additional funding for education. Getty Images/iStockphoto
Sixty-five percent of respondents to the poll also indicated they would support increasing the Prop. 301 sales tax, which funds education, to a full penny. That would bring in an estimated $400 million more a year. Getty Images/iStockphoto
In a new poll of Arizona voters released by the public school advocacy group Stand for Children Arizona a majority of those surveyed said the state should spend more money on education — and more than half indicated they'd be willing to pay higher taxes to do so.
Christine Marsh and Chad Wilson, AZ We See It Published 4:36 p.m. MT Jan. 3, 2017
Hundreds of readers responded via social media to a recent article about whether Arizona voters would support paying higher sales taxes to benefit education. Many posed questions about how funding works for classrooms like the one where Tamara Jackson teaches kindergarten at Sheely Farms Elementary School. Here, she helps Sophia Chavez, 5, in class Oct. 27, 2016.(Photo: Tom Tingle/The Republic)
Many issues have the potential to negatively impact public education in the State of Arizona, and it's hard to determine which issues need the most attention. Do we spend time, energy and money trying to stay ahead of the unfunded mandates in the Every Student Succeeds Act?
Try to fully fund all-day kindergarten? What about the proposed school rating systems for early childhood literacy (preschool)?
MY TURN: Fully funding all-day K should be our top priority
All of those issues are important and in most states they would be the battles we would want to fight, but not in Arizona. In Arizona, our battle must remain focused on adequately funding the schools that 80 percent of our children attend — the local district public schools.
As two people with very different political views, locations, organizations and roles, we are joined in the belief that the most pressing issue for Arizona's public education is the funneling of public monies into private hands.
We're tired of public schools getting short shrift
Unless we put a stop to vouchers (Empowerment Scholarship Accounts, or ESAs) and Student Tuition Organizations (STOs), anything productive we might accomplish in public education will be undone by the draining of public funds into the hands of private for-profit organizations that have virtually no regulations or oversight.
The Arizona School Boards Association produced an outstanding informational video that perfectly describes the issue with vouchers and STOs.
We are tired of taking one step forward and two steps back. We're tired of watching people's hard-earned tax dollars go into private schools that have no accountability. We're tired of watching our elected officials earn taxpayer dollars by owning and operating Student Tuition Organizations and private schools.
ALLHANDS: The simmering district vs. charter school war
We're tired of the unequal funding mechanisms that benefit private schools over traditional district public schools. We're tired of hearing about "school choice," which more often than not has the consequence of placing a majority of our poorest students at a further disadvantage.
We're tired of being forced to focus on making sure that things don't get worse for our students, rather than having the luxury of being able to focus on making things better for them.
What good is passing Proposition 123 if in the upcoming legislative session more voucher bills are passed and the limits on STOs are increased? It is estimated that the most recent Empowerment Scholarship Account expansion proposal would cost Arizona roughly $700 more per student than current funding for a student enrolled in our neighborhood public schools.
This could cost more, without helping schools
Think about that. Under the umbrella of choice, proposed legislation has the potential to cost the state millions of dollars more than what is spent now on K-12 education, and not a single dollar would go to the local neighborhood school.
ESA funding typically subsidizes private-school tuition, rather than covering it entirely. Those who would benefit from the ESA expansion must have the financial resources to pay additional dollars toward private-school tuition.
Don't be fooled — this is not an effort to help impoverished families. It is just one more step in a series of expansions designed to dismantle public education by commercializing/privatizing it.
MY TURN: School choice saves Arizona cash
MY TURN: Vouchers don't always save cash (or offer real choice)
Those of us who care deeply about public education and the future of our state must work together to focus on what impacts 80 percent of students in our state — stopping the expansion of vouchers and School Tuition Organizations.
We would like all education groups and all concerned citizens to take a unified stance and reject the commercialization of our public schools. To borrow a line from John L. Lewis, "If not us, then who? If not now, then when?"
Christine Marsh has taught at Chaparral High School for 24 years and is Arizona Educational Foundation's most recently recognized Teacher of the Year. Email her at chrimarsh@aol.com.Chad Wilson has been the superintendent of the Apache Junction Unified School District for eight years. Email him at cwilson@goaj.org.
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The following is the itinerary and agenda of our upcoming ARLIS/NA Ontario Chapter Spring Business Meeting in London, Ontario, March 8th, 2013.
Following one of the recommendations of the Membership Outreach Strategic Task Force to encourage membership participation, ARLIS/NA Ontario is pleased to announce that we are going to be introducing virtual conferencing via Skype for the Business portion of our Spring Meeting scheduled from 10:15-11:30 AM. If you are interested in participating remotely, please email Chapter Chair, Melissa Bruno, at Melissa.bruno@sympatico.ca, with your Skype account information by Thursday, March 7th. Please note that only an audio feed will be available, not video.
The Spring Business Meeting Agenda will be circulated shortly. Please email Melissa (contact information listed above) with any agenda items you would like to discuss.
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National Enquirer Records of Playboy Model Payout Subpoenaed as Investigators Zero in on Michael Cohen: Report
By Cody Fenwick, AlterNet
The president's ex-lawyer has been facing tough scrutiny from federal investigators, but no charges have been brought against him.
The publisher of the National Enquirer, an outlet that was exceptionally friendly to President Donald Trump during the campaign, has been subpoenaed for its records related to the payment of a playboy model Karen Dougal in relation to her story about an affair with the president, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
The subpoena is reportedly a part of the investigation of Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer who arranged for payments to women to keep them quiet about affairs with the president.
The Enquirer paid McDougal for her story about Trump before the election, but it never published her claims. Reports suggest that this decision may have been part of a "catch and kill strategy," in which outlets pay sources for stories in order to ensure that they stay secret.
If the Enquirer and Cohen engaged in such a scheme to kill the story for political purposes, the Journal reports, it could raise serious questions about campaign finance laws. The Journal notes:
Corporations are barred from making contributions to candidates under federal election law. If investigators find evidence that Mr. Cohen pressed American Media to buy Ms. McDougal's story to protect Mr. Trump's campaign, prosecutors could bring charges against Mr. Cohen, the company or both, legal experts said.
In such a case, prosecutors would have to prove Mr. Cohen coordinated with American Media to provide Mr. Trump something of value for the purpose of influencing the election, said Douglas Spencer, a professor of law and public policy at the University of Connecticut. Proving coordination would likely be the most difficult prong of such a case, he said.
Earlier on Wednesday, Cohen officially resigned from the Republican National Committee, where he served as deputy finance chair. Multiple outlets, including CNN, suggest that Cohen may be preparing to flip on the president if he faces charges from investigators.
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** Visit www.klaviation.com for even more great content! ** Holding is considered one of the most difficult things to learn when flying instruments. Any holding pattern includes the same four basic elements: Holding Fix Holding Course Outbound Heading Inbound / Outbound Ends Each element of the holding pattern is just a simple heading or course intercept, just like normal IFR flying. The holding fix is the point where the holding pattern begins and ends. A holding fix may be a VOR, NDB, intersection, GPS waypoint, or even a DME from a navigational aid. Your holding course is the course to the holding fix. For example, if we are holding on the 180 degree radial from the holding fix, our holding course would be 360, or the reciprocal. If you are holding at anything other than a VOR, the air traffic controller will give you a course "to" the holding fix (i.e. "hold on the 180 course to the anytown NDB") A holding pattern outbound heading is simply the reciprocal of the holding course. If your holding course is 360, the outbound heading is 180 in a no-wind scenario. The outbound heading is only a heading, and not a course to track or intercept. The outbound heading must be adjusted for wind to make sure that you do not fly outside of the "protected" are of the hold. The inbound end and outbound end of a holding pattern are standard rate turns in the direction of holding. A right turn hold will have standard rate right turns, a left turn hold will have standard rate left turns. There is no adjustment to bank angle or rate of turn. Each turn should be flown at a standard rate only. Additional points you need to be familiar with are the abeam point, and the holding/non-holding side of the hold. The abeam point is where your wing is directly 90 degrees to the holding fix on the outbound leg. This point may occur during your turn to the holding leg depending on wind. It is important to know when you are abeam the fix so that you can start your outbound time. The holding side of the pattern is also known as the "protected" side and is where you are making your turns and actually flying the pattern. The non-holding side or "non-protected" side is the area on the opposite side of the holding course. The non-holding side may not guarantee clearance from terrain, obstacles, or traffic, so it is very important to make sure that while flying the hold you stay on the holding side. Holds are normally timed to fly a 1 minute inbound leg. This means that from the time you roll wings level on the inbound leg, to crossing the holding fix, should be one minute. To ensure a one minute inbound leg, the outbound leg must be adjusted for wind. A strong headwind on the inbound leg would require a shorter outbound leg, and a strong tailwind inbound would require longer outbound leg. One minute is a goal, and it may take several turns in holding to come close. Don't worry if you don't always make it work, it's not a rule. Instead of time, a GPS waypoint hold or a DME hold will usually specify a distance you must fly instead of time. These distances will either be published on the chart or approach plate, or else assigned by atc. Now that you know the basics, you are ready to tackle the three holding entries: parallel, teardrop, and direct.


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From the Archives: Stop Loss
Filed under: Talking Movies — Fergal Casey @ 11:19 am
Tags: Abbie Cornish, Boys Don't Cry, Brian De Palma, Brick, Canada, Channing Tatum, Flags of Our Fathers, Iraq, JGL, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kimberly Pierce, Mysterious Skin, Redacted, Ryan Phillipe, Stop Loss, Talking Movies, Texas, The Look-Out, USA, Vietnam
Another dive into the pre-Talking Movies archives turns up a very under-rated Iraq war film featuring strong supporting turns from Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
The Iraq War has become a continuing nightmare for the United States military to set beside Vietnam. Surprisingly it's also become impossible terrain for American film-makers compared to the cinematic response to Vietnam. It falls to writer/director Kimberly Pierce to make the finest film about the Iraq War to date. This is her first feature since 1999's acclaimed Boys Don't Cry and Pierce has waited a long time to provide another absorbing and heartbreaking slice of small town Americana. The film opens with an action set-piece in Iraq that conveys tedium, paranoia, fear, bloodlust and chaos more effectively than the entirety of Brian De Palma's Redacted. The real focus of this film is the psychological battle on the home-front back in Texas.
There is no place for a warrior in a stable society. This is a melancholy truth that has found expression over and over again in fiction, if you set out to protect your home your violent deeds will unfit you for ever living there again. "I'm going to miss blowing shit up" laments Channing Tatum's Steve Shriver as he hands over his weapons for discharge from the army having served his required tours of duty. What exactly are these men going to do back in their small town? Jobs are scarce, they're adrenaline junkies and scarred by the savagery they've witnessed and been forced to commit in Iraq. The dilemma is best exemplified by the out of control Pt. Tommy Burgess. Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a supporting role as the violent alcoholic Tommy is as superb as his performances in Brick, The Look-Out and Mysterious Skin have led us to expect. Burgess and Shriver desperately need their commanding officer Brandon King to keep them in check. King is leaving the military…until he finds the President has signed an order keeping him in the army against his will.
Ryan Phillipe is impressively mature as the righteously indignant Staff Sergeant Brandon King who thinks he should not be asked to pointlessly lead more men to their deaths. Australian actress Abbie Cornish is a fine foil as Michelle, Shriver's neglected girlfriend who offers to drive King to Washington. There are echoes of Phillipe's previous role in Flags of Our Fathers. King is convinced that he can just take the matter up with his local Senator who welcomed him home but he quickly learns the harsh truth. You're a hero when you're fighting, but when the war finishes or you've gone AWOL from a Stop-Loss, they don't want to hear about you anymore. The shadow of Vietnam hangs heavy over this film as King suddenly realises his choices are return to Iraq or flee to Canada, start a new life there and never be able to return home again. This is never preachy, always compelling and emotionally taut. An absolute must see.
Tags: Adam Rodriguez, Alex Pettyfer, Cabaret, Channing Tatum, Cody Horn, In Time, Magic Mike, Matt Bomer, Matthew McConaughey, Nicolas Winding Refn, Steven Sodebergh, Stop Loss
Steven Sodebergh surely claims the crown of hardest working man in Hollywood by directing an odd and moody movie about male strippers, his third film in 10 months…
Channing Tatum's Mike styles himself an entrepreneur because of his auto detailing and custom furniture businesses. He encounters Adam (Alex Pettyfer) at yet another job, construction, where he has to teach the young slacker how to tile rooves, before running into him again at a nightclub. He uses Adam as a wingman as he entices girls back to Xquisite where, as 'Magic Mike', he actually makes his living as lead stripper. When one of the strippers passes out, from taking too much of the refined GHB they use to maintain their energy, Adam is quickly pressed into action and impresses both Mike and his boss Dallas (Matthew McConaughey). Adam's sister Brooke (Cody Horn) is less than impressed that her younger brother, who blew a football scholarship, is now stripping as 'The Kid' and Mike starts a charm campaign to win her over even as he mentors Adam in the business.
Tatum is a fine actor when called on, witness Stop Loss, and indeed one of his Stop Loss producers Reid Carolin scripted this version of Tatum's own chequered past for Nicolas Winding Refn to direct. Tatum's charismatic as Mike and delivers a tremendous put-down to a banker who refuses him a loan despite all the cash he earns from 'event management': "I read the papers. The only ones who are in distress are y'all." McConaughey is wonderfully sleazy as a riff on Cabaret's MC, and at one point puts Mike in his place under some harsh lighting which makes you think – as he gets older the menace of that Texan drawl will surely see him create an iconic villain this decade. Sadly Pettfyer fails to make you remotely care about Adam's fate, suggesting that loathsome villains like his In Time turn are a far better use of his talents than flawed heroes. Cody Horn is far more engaging, her unimpressed visage continually and wordlessly disapproving of Adam and Mike's antics.
There are odd moments when actors stumble over lines and performances start to fray at the edges towards the end of long takes, which might be attributable to Soderbergh's new '3 takes' rule, but this film is undone by the writing not the directing. There are some nicely choreographed sequences like the first "It's Raining Men" dance, but this is an oddly coy film about male stripping, indeed there's arguably more female nudity, so is this about the degradation of stripping? Brooke hates Adam stripping, but understands the adulation Mike receives is a powerful drug, while still disapproving of his job. Mike is involved with a psychologist (a typically abrasive Olivia Munn) studying the strippers who, especially Matt Bomer (White Collar) and Adam Rodriguez (CSI: Miami), are terrifyingly uncharacterised – a gesture to implicate the cinema audience as only interested in their physique, like the Xquisite audience? At times this feels like a male version of Showgirls or All About Eve. Mostly Showgirls. But mostly this feels like a blank record of excess. Its drug-addled decadence in yellow-filter Tampa rehashes scenes and arcs seen far too often before and is ultimately pointless.
Tatum is very likeable, and the relationship between Mike and Brooke convinces, but once the sense of drift sets in after the entertaining opening it becomes a riptide that strands Magic Mike drowning in inconsequence.


An archive of props, clothing, scripts and abandoned story lines from a TV series might not seem at first blush to embody the literary, cultural or artistic significance of the Gutenberg Bible, Frida Kahlo's "Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird" or any number of other holdings at the University of Texas' Harry Ransom Center.
But the "Mad Men" collection, an acquisition by the humanities research library and museum announced earlier this year, is a treasure trove in its own right, with drafts of every script for the show's 92 episodes, giving students and scholars rare insight into "one of television's most distinctive and influential programs from initial pitch to final edit," as the Ransom Center's film curator, Steve Wilson, put it.
Emails and other records obtained from UT by the American-Statesman under the Texas Public Information Act offer a kind of case study of how the archive came to be donated by Matthew Weiner, the show's creator and executive producer, and Lions Gate Television Inc., the production company.
The records reveal an exercise in generosity, appreciation, negotiating, explaining, gentle nudging, fine-tuning and lawyering that spanned more than two years. In a twist that was never announced publicly, the records show that the donation included, at the request of Ransom Center officials, $100,000 in cash from Lions Gate for processing and cataloging the archive.
"Mad Men," which ran from 2007 to 2015 on the AMC network, chronicled the professional and personal lives of fictional men and women in the advertising trenches of Madison Avenue during the 1960s. The series was critically acclaimed for its nuanced portraits of human frailty and ambition, as well as for the high bar it set for dialogue, story arc and period-correct props.
Weiner broached the notion of donating the materials in an October 2014 email to Wilson, writing that he was "blown away" by the Ransom Center's "Gone with the Wind" exhibit. "It's my new favorite place!" Weiner said of the Ransom Center.
Scores of emails ensued, with Weiner and his representatives, Lions Gate officials and Ransom Center officials working out myriad issues. The question of a tax deduction for the donation, the phrasing of legal agreements governing the gifts, whether any disputes would be settled in California courts or Texas courts, the contents and timing of a press release, the line-by-line list of materials being donated, shipping schedules — all this and more had to be hashed out.
"We want to be sure we get one of the iconic grey suits," Wilson told Weiner at one point, referring to attire worn by Don Draper, the show's main character, who was played by Jon Hamm. The Ransom Center got the suit.
The emails were friendly, professional, never gossipy. There is no mention of news reports in 2015 asserting that Hamm, while a UT student in 1990, allegedly participated in a violent hazing incident of a Sigma Nu pledge. A criminal charge against Hamm was dismissed and expunged a few years later under deferred adjudication, a lighter form of probation. Hamm left UT during his sophomore year and the fraternity was disbanded.
The minutiae of arranging the donation occupy hundreds of pages of records reviewed by the Statesman. But there are also passages that speak more broadly to what makes the Ransom Center's juices flow.
It's partly the treasure trove of artifacts — Betty Draper's medical file and pink nightgown; Ken Cosgrove's black eye patch; Peggy Olson's Rolodex; Stan Rizzo's sketch pad; Paul Kinsey's fully developed script for a make-believe "Star Trek" episode; concept boards for a Heinz baked beans ad campaign; Draper's copy of "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" and dozens more. Especially compelling from the Ransom Center's point of view are materials that show how the writers, designers and producers cooked up the characters, plot lines, sets and dialogue.
"The Ransom Center is a museum/archive and while we collect works of art like MOMA and cultural artifacts like the Smithsonian, our emphasis is on preserving and documenting the creative process," Wilson told Weiner in a November 2014 email, referring to the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Smithsonian Institution's museums. "While we do museum exhibits, our main focus is scholarship and access to our materials in our reading room and by long distance by students and scholars."
Working scripts are "very interesting" and stenographic records of story conferences are "extremely interesting," but "the holy grail for scholars is correspondence," Wilson wrote, asking Weiner to consider donating not just his emails but also his computer, whose operating system and software might be needed to open files.
In a rough analogy to the pitches that Draper made to compete for new advertising accounts, the Ransom Center asked the donors of the archive for money to underwrite the cost of cataloging, preserving and otherwise processing the archive.
Emails leave the impression that raising funds to cover those costs was essential for the Ransom Center to accept the archive.
In a January 2015 email to Weiner, Wilson noted that the policy of the Ransom Center's director, Stephen Enniss, on all new acquisitions "is that we have the necessary resources to make the collection accessible as quickly as possible." Wilson added, "I don't know if Lions Gate would be open to supplementing the donation with funds, or if you or others might be in a position to help us with the costs of taking this on."
Weiner's reply: "Lions Gate is, um, frugal. Let's get a number or a guess. I'm optimistic it can be surmounted."
Later that year, in an email to Lions Gate officials, Enniss mentioned the Ransom Center's proposal that the production company help out with funding. The company wound up donating $100,000, the amount budgeted by the Ransom Center for processing the archive.
An "acquisition agreement" between UT and a company called Dinosaur Robot Inc. essentially allowed UT to clean out Weiner's storage unit in Los Angeles. The California secretary of state's office lists Weiner as the CEO, chief financial officer and secretary of Dinosaur Robot, which is based in Encino.
The goods included scripts and drafts thereof; notes; set designs; costume designs; "look books" of period fashion and style; casting materials; magazines from the 1960s; characters' stationery and business cards; and about 5,000 DVDs with "born-digital" materials, screen tests, gag reels and trailers — all told, 145 banker boxes of materials. Weiner's emails and computer weren't included.
Under the agreement, any lawsuit between the parties must be filed in Travis County. And if the Ransom Center ever "deaccessions," or removes, an item from its holdings, the item is to be returned to Weiner.
A donation agreement between the university and Lions Gate lists dozens of props, knickknacks, clothing and other items that have been conveyed to the Ransom Center. A clause states that the donation is a charitable contribution and that UT will sign off on an Internal Revenue Service form confirming receipt.
UT officials emphasized that they aren't appraisers and can't give tax advice. But in one email marked "for internal record purposes only," Enniss wrote that, "based on my experience I would estimate that a qualified appraiser would assign a value in excess of $100,000 dollars on the recent Weiner donation of Mad Men production materials."
Discussions on how the agreements would be worded apparently stalled at times. Ransom Center officials cited "a log jam somewhere" in an April 2016 email to Lions Gate. Three weeks later, a company official replied, "Sorry for the delay in response," and offered wording for the legal agreement to make it clear that $100,000 would be donated.
Late last year, as Lions Gate was getting ready to ship its materials to UT, the Ransom Center's associate director for acquisitions and administration, Megan Barnard, invited the company to send "a 1-2 sentence quote from Lions Gate about how this gift will ensure the future study of this groundbreaking television series. We will send you a draft of the press release to review before we issue it."
Lions Gate didn't donate everything in its "Mad Men" holdings to UT. A sizable portion of paraphernalia from the show was put up for auction on screenbid.com, including Draper's dark red 1964 Imperial Crown Chrysler convertible from Season 4 and assorted manual typewriters.
Items still for sale in recent days included Draper's white-and-blue-checked shirt for $383.25, a rubber prop double to his roulette wheel cigarette holder for $546, and an empty can of period-correct B&M baked beans for $42.
Meanwhile, the materials donated to UT are being cataloged, and the collection likely will open for research in 2018, officials told the Statesman. Several boxes are already accessible for research in the Ransom Center's reading room. And some items are on view in the Ransom's galleries through July 16, including Draper's "conditions for employment" memo, make-believe ad campaign proposals for Hershey's and Philip Morris, and Weiner's production binder, including cast and crew lists, shooting schedules and correspondence, for the "Marriage of Figaro" episode, whose scenes include a child's birthday party with Mozart's opera playing in the background.


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I waited in line for 2 hours to watch all of Shia LaBeouf's movies with Shia LaBeouf
Jason Guerrasio
Shia LaBeouf watching the movies he starred in.
NewHive
The film community in New York City was floored on Tuesday when, out of nowhere, actor/artist/viral topic Shia LaBeouf took over one screen at the Angelika Film Center art-house theater and announced that he would be watching all 27 movies he's starred in (in reverse chronological order).
Described as a performance-art piece, titled "All My Movies" (stylized #ALLMYMOVIES), the project allowed anyone, free of charge, to come join LaBeouf in the theater to watch along. As a bonus, there's been live streaming video of LaBeouf watching the movies.
"All My Movies" ends Thursday, and while it had a slow start, people have since been flocking to the Angelika to be a part of it.
When I showed up on Wednesday, a line snaked down a street block to get into the theater with Shia LaBeouf. Here's what I experienced in the two hours I waited:
It was around 12:30 p.m. when I got to the theater and the line was already stretched down the sidewalk. Rumors of people waiting seven hours to get into the theater with Shia began to travel among folks in line.
Tracking down the manager of the theater to get information about the wait was no help. "I can't comment about any of this," he barked at me. But after 10 minutes in line, a theater employee casually walked the line like a TSA agent repeating the following ...
"You have unlimited time in the theater. Because of that, there is no estimation we can give you of how long you'll be waiting on line. Once people leave, we will let more of you in. When you get in, do not use your phone or take any pictures. Shia will not talk to you — he's in the artist zone."
After 20 minutes, I got to the front steps of the theater. Numerous people walked up to me and asked why I was in line. When I explained, some were puzzled, while others thought it was a fun idea but had better things to do that day and walked on.
A news crew showed up to report on the event.
An hour into my wait, I got by the ticket booth and saw only 20 or so people in front of me before getting to the hall that leads you to the theaters. I thought I was home free until I looked to the right.
The line went into the concession area, where it snaked around like the much slower-moving wait for a Disney park attraction.
People spent their time taking selfies next to the screen that showed the live stream of LaBeouf watching the movies. And I noticed something else.
The group inside (which had been waiting two to three hours — by now the mythical seven-hour wait possibly seemed like a hoax) had become close-knit. They passed around cardboard and made "Transformers" masks to wear when they got inside the theater.
Most of the people in line seemed to be in their 20s and weren't mad about the wait. "It just seemed like something fun to do today," said one woman who had come in from Hoboken, New Jersey. Another person in line said, "I just want to be in the theater when Shia snaps."
At the two-hour mark, I hit a wall ...
It dawned on me that sitting in a dark theater watching Shia LaBeouf movies with Shia LaBeouf couldn't compare to the cheerful people around me. I said my goodbyes to my line-mates, and wished them luck in their journey forward. Who knows? Maybe they would get to see LaBeouf take another nap in the theater.
@BrettRedacted I'm 6 and a half hours in #allmymovies pic.twitter.com/LgpgHg5OhN
— Dain McConnell (@invzimAUS) November 11, 2015
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Ramana Appearance
The following excerpts are from 'A Sadhu's Reminscences of Ramana Maharshi by Sadhu Arunachala (A.W. Chadwick),
Publisher: Sri Ramanasramam, Tiruvannamalai, 1961.
Alan Chadwick, a retired British military officer was one of the first European devotees of Ramana Maharshi. He came to his Guru in November of 1935 and stayed until Ramana's passing in 1950 (April 14, 1950 at 8:47 p.m.). He had the remarkable experience of being intimate with Ramana on a daily basis which gives this book it's unique insight into the day to day life of this great Sage of Inida.
Sadhu Arunachala passed away in April 1962.
Bhagavan was a very beautiful person; he shone with a visible light or aura. He had the most delicate hands. I have seen with which along he could express himself, one might almost say talk. His features were regular and the wonder of his eyes was famous. His forehead was high and the dome of his head the highest I have ever seen. As this in India is know as the dome of Wisdom it was only natural that it should be so. His body was well formed and of only medium height, but this was not apparent as his personality was so dominant that one looked upon him as tall. He had a great sense of humour and when talking a smile was never far from his face. He had many jokes in his repertoire and was a magnificent actor, he would always dramatize the protagonists of any story he related. When the recital was very pathetic he would be filled with emotion and unable to proceed. When people came to him with the family stoies he would laugh with the happy and at times shed tears with the bereaved.
Bhagavan always radiated tremendous peace, but on those occasions when crowds were attracted to the Ashram such as Jayanthi, Mahapooja, Deepam and such functions, this increased to an extraordinary degree. The numbers seemed to call up some reserve of hidden force, and it was a great experiene to sit with him at such times. His eyes took on a far-away look and he sat absolutely still as if unconscious of his surroundings, except for an occasional smile of recognition of some old devotee prostrated.
Bhagavan was never strong, at least not after about thirty years of age. this was no doubt owing to the strain he inflicted on his body in the early years in Tiruvannamalai. For yhears he suffered from asthma and photograph taken at Skandasraman shows him as little more than a skeleton. Suddenly after fifteen years, for not apparent reason, the asthma left him almost entirely, he told me. But he was always liable to bad colds and had frequent digestive trouble. Later he had more and more difficulty in walking. Innumerable oils were tired and he was massaged morning and evening, but with little effect.
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