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A close-up of Elizabeth Dolan's working sketch of a prairie woman. (Image courtesy of the Nebraska Capitol Collections.)
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There are over 250 museums in Nebraska, and they all tell a slightly different story about our history. In Lincoln, 12 museums collaborated to tell that story together – using art, sculpture, quilts, and even owl skulls. This story is part of a series "When Things Speak" featuring curators and their stories about objects they chose for the Things Speak exhibit at the Sheldon Museum of Art.
Elizabeth Dolan is well known for the huge mural she painted in the Law Library at the Nebraska State Capitol, titled "The Spirit of the Prairie." The mural features a pioneer woman overlooking vast grasslands. Karen Wagner, the Capitol's archivist, has a rough draft of Dolan's mural, called a maquette, that shows Dolan playing with the theme of the prairie woman before and after painting the Statehouse mural.
Music used in this piece is "Once Tomorrow (Instrumental Version)" by Josh Woodward / CC BY 3.0
At top, Elizabeth Dolan's maquette and, at bottom, Dolan's mural at the Nebraska State Capitol's Law Library. (Images courtesy of the Nebraska Capitol Collections.)
You can also find Elizabeth Dolan's art at Morrill Hall, Bennett Martin Public Library, and the Museum of Nebraska Art.
The thing I really love about this maquette is that it came to us totally by chance.
The artist who had the studio next to Elizabeth Dolan's at the time of her death happened to come by as there were women in her studio cleaning up. And he found the maquette laying on the trash pile. And he saved it.
He knew what the maquette was, he preserved it, his daughters knew what it was. Later, we were contacted by his daughters. They said, "We have this, do you want it?"
And we were very excited to take this in! We went and we visited with them, we interviewed them about what they remembered, and they had this great handwritten documentation from their father, Herman Rumpeltes. it was sitting in his studio their whole life. He added a frame at some point but other than that, he did very little to it. It's great.
The Things Speak Exhibit at the Sheldon Museum of Art is a collaborative exhibit featuring storied objects from 12 museums in Lincoln. Things Speak is open until February 8. After February 8, all objects in the exhibit will return to their home collections. (Photo courtesy Sheldon Museum of Art.)
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Elizabeth Dolan contacted the Capitol Commission and wanted to make a gift to the people of the state of Nebraska. She offered to do this mural in exchange for her costs. So the state paid for the paints and the supplies that she needed to create the mural, and they provided scaffolding for her to work on. But the mural itself was free. She donated it.
You can look at the maquette, and it really is a maquette — a model, a mockup — of what she worked on and you can see that she worked with it past our mural, that she cut out pieces and rearranged them and repainted it and reworked it. She continued to work with the idea of this prairie mother-theme past the "Spirit of the Prairie" mural, and she certainly produced other prairie woman-themed paintings. There's one at the Museum of Nebraska Art.
In the mural that her skirt is billowing out to the right and that there was a boy and a dog down to her left. And in the maquette, this is actually craft paper that's mounted on a masonite product, and you can see where the craft paper has been torn away and she's painted directly on the masonite to reshape the skirt. And then down here on the left you can see a silhouette where there was once a boy and a dog. And she took the boy out and then moved the dog to the right side of the painting.
This composition is not the same as our mural. Nor is it the same as the piece at the Museum of Nebraska Art. She obviously reworked this, at least once but my speculation is more than once, and repainted it and replayed with the idea until she really got what she was looking for.
I would love to find the piece that has the layout of our current maquette, but I've never been able to find evidence that there was one. I just keep thinking if she reworked it this way, she must have had a plan.
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Canadian nurses look forward to helping health minister implement framework to improve palliative care
Ottawa, December 5, 2018 – Claire Betker, president of the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA), and Julia Johnston, president of the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Nurses Group (CHPCNG), issued the following joint statement on the new federal Framework on Palliative Care in Canada. The framework was tabled on December 4 by Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor and set out a vision for improving access to palliative care in Canada:
"Our national organizations commend the health minister for tabling the new framework. CNA and CHPCNG have been anticipating this day for quite some time. We appreciated the opportunity to be part of the face-to-face meeting of stakeholders that took place in September 2018.
"We're pleased that the new framework sets out the federal government's plan for improving access to palliative care across Canada. The framework builds on the seminal work of Marilyn Gladu, the shadow health minister and Conservative MP who sponsored Bill C-277, An Act Providing for the Development of a Framework on Palliative Care in Canada. Gladu's private member's bill was first tabled in the House of Commons in May 2016 and passed into law in December 2017.
"We're delighted to see that the framework sets out the creation of the federal office of palliative care to 'provide high level coordination of activities going forward.' The office, which will connect with stakeholders to ensure consistency of standards in palliative care, is consistent with one of CNA's key recommendations — that the health minister re-establish the secretariat on palliative and end-of-life care.
"CNA was also pleased to see that the framework acknowledges several best practices, including the importance of obtaining CNA certification in hospice palliative care.
"We encourage the federal government to provide targeted investments for new and existing programs to improve and standardize palliative care. We also anticipate that provincial and territorial governments will provide new investments as a result of bilateral agreements with the federal government.
"The federal government and opposition parties have a unique opportunity to act on the new framework. New funding is required to support the development of palliative care competencies for all health-care providers, including nurses, and associated practice standards."
In September 2018, CNA CEO Mike Villeneuve, in collaboration with CHPCNG, appeared before the House of Commons standing committee on finance for its pre-budget consultation hearing to inform the committee of two key recommendations to improve access to palliative care. Read CNA's submission [PDF, 172.9 KB].
In 2017, prior to the passage and royal assent of Bill C-277, CNA appeared before two parliamentary committees:
March 9, 2017 — read our submission [PDF, 244.5 KB] to the House of Commons standing committee on health
October 19, 2017 — read our submission [PDF, 185.3 KB] to the Senate standing committee on social affairs, science and technology
The Canadian Nurses Association is the national and global professional voice of Canadian nursing, representing over 139,000 registered nurses and nurse practitioners in Canada. CNA advances the practice and profession of nursing to improve health outcomes and strengthen Canada's publicly funded, not-for-profit health system.
The Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Nurses Group represents hospice palliative care nurses from across Canada and shares ideas, strategies and solutions, proposals, assessment tools, research findings, educational opportunities, etc., with other nurses across the country who integrate a palliative approach to care with their patient populations.
David Granovsky
Lead, Government Relations
Tel: 613-237-2159, ext. 525
Email: dgranovsky@cna-aiic.ca

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Toni Margarita Plummer: Writing Her Way Home in The Bolero of Andi Rowe
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Posted on March 3, 2014 December 5, 2017
With hardly any traffic, she was soon at the Santa Anita exit. She drove over the bridge bordered by chain-link fences, the signs of the Ramada, Mobil, and Burger King growing from their stems, until the car reached the crest, and she eased her foot off the gas pedal, coasting into the outstretched street.
—"All the Sex Is West," The Bolero of Andi Rowe by Toni Margarita Plummer
Thousands of books and movies have been set in the Los Angeles landscape, but only a handful of works—including those of Salvador Plascencia and Michael Jaime-Becerra—take place in El Monte. The Bolero of Andi Rowe, a collection of interconnected short stories by Toni Margarita Plummer, is another example, but it zooms in even closer to South El Monte, less than a third of the square mileage of El Monte, incorporated nearly 50 years later in 1958.
South El Monte: A Crossroads of People and Places
The Bolero of Andi Rowe opens with a story that never leaves the front yard of a house in South El Monte – it's a story of a Mexican American college girl, Andi, questioning whether she will return home after graduating. During most of the story, she is talking with her neighbor Rosa—an older woman—who has been there as long as she can remember. But Rosa will soon be moving away, and Andi realizes that her hometown has changed as much as she has changed.
Throughout the book, Plummer's stories traverse South El Monte, San Gabriel Valley, the greater Los Angeles area and even Mexico. By the time you finish the first tale and move on to the second story, you've travelled back in time; the story now told from Andi's mother's point of view as a young girl. As the book continues, Andi's story weaves through memories conveyed by family, friends, and neighbors.
But no matter who is telling the story, if you grew up in South El Monte – or even the San Gabriel Valley – the stories become your own, whether you still live there, or you left long ago. With references to the Rose Parade, the pool hall behind the Jack in the Box on Durfee, the Easter Passion play (in Spanish, of course) at the equestrian center in Industry Hills, Greenleaf Avenue in Uptown Whittier, the Quiet Cannon in Montebello, and King Taco on Garvey, you can't help feeling like you're right there, too.
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Toni says that she sees South El Monte as a very suburban type of place, and that's what she was trying to capture through the stories. Although it's often lumped into the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, only a thirteen-mile drive from the heart of downtown L.A., it's a sleepier, less exciting place. While it may not appear to be the white-picket fence suburbia of Leave It To Beaver, it's not quite urban either. To Plummer, they seemed like very separate worlds.
"It's where families live," she says. "There's not a lot to do at night. So you just hang around in people's yards, and you go to McDonald's. Or Golfland, when it was open."
One of the stories, "Forces" takes place in the pool hall behind the Jack in the Box on Durfee—The Golden Cue. Although it was a run down place, playing pool was a cheap thing to do, and it was the perfect place for Plummer and her friends to hang out in real life—they went there very frequently.
In the fictional version, Andi describes the pool hall as an "old hangout." In the story, Andi reunites with several of her friends there after having been away in New York. She tells them about going to a pool hall once in New York, but that "it wasn't like this"—it was stylish place where young people mingled.
There was nothing stylish about the real life or fictional version of The Golden Cue —it was frequented by middle-aged to elderly drunk Mexican men, and the walls were mostly bare. But to Andi, it was a familiar and comfortable place. Or at least, it used to be. By the end of the story, she finds herself trying to hang on to her old memory of the place, where the owner would call her a sweetheart. Now, it was slipping away, with friends moving on to new lives without her.
The Real Life "Andi Rowe"
Toni Margarita Plummer grew up in South El Monte and lived in the same house her entire life until she left for college. Her mom still lives in that house, five blocks away from Epiphany Catholic School where she went to school from first through eighth grade. Plummer and her two younger sisters, Shelley and Michelle, walked home after school every day.
It's no coincidence that the main character throughout the book is Andi Rowe – not a guy, but a girl. Andi, like Toni, has a boy-like name and a Spanish middle name "Lourdes" (Toni's middle name is "Margarita"), and she looks more like her Mexican, dark-haired mother than her fair-skinned Irish father. She has a younger sister who is blonde-haired and blue-eyed (of the same parents).
"Sometimes you'd hear some comments [in school]," says Plummer. "But for us, it was very natural, we all grew up together, and we would visit both sides of the family. So it was just normal for us—when it appeared to other people to be kind of odd. But that wasn't too intrusive. I felt pretty much like I fit in and belonged. We basically got along and went to school, and nothing [out of the ordinary] happened."
Yet, as much as Plummer felt a strong connection to her roots in South El Monte, she still had a desire to experience life in other places.
"I did have this idea I would go far away for college and get out of California," explains Plummer. "And I'd go somewhere where it snows, and I'd have a whole different experience, and that's what I did. I went to Indiana, to Notre Dame."
For Plummer, becoming a writer wasn't a conscious decision. It was something that came naturally to her – something she was propelled to do. Her first memory of writing is around the end of middle school, beginning of junior high. At Epiphany Catholic School, which was a first through eighth-grade school, which would have been the end of sixth grade and beginning of seventh grade.
"I would have an idea for a poem, so I'd spend a few hours working on it, and I would share it with some friends, and that was it," says Plummer. "I also remember filling up a journal with some kind of novel about girls and their cats, and I just wrote until the journal was filled up, and then that was the end of that story."
Plummer and her two younger sisters also had a lot of pen pals – in other states and other countries, and this was before the era of email. At the time, letter writing was a more intimate form of art, and Plummer and her pen pals got to know each other. Some connections were stronger than others, and she ended up visiting one of them in Ohio several times, going to the pen pal's family's place for Thanksgiving. So the "writers" that Toni knew were far outside of South El Monte.
In high school, Plummer started writing poetry, mostly as a way to share experiences with her friends. It wasn't until college that she got into fiction. She enrolled in a creative writing class and wrote her first "official" short story.
At Notre Dame, Plummer majored in philosophy but didn't want to continue studying it by the time she graduated. Although she didn't seriously consider writing as a career, she knew she wanted to write a book and be published.
"Going away to college to a place where there were a limited number of Latinos—and [an even more] limited number of Mexican Americans from California—I started to appreciate South El Monte more," says Plummer.
After leaving Notre Dame, Plummer was accepted into to the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Southern California (USC). She returned to live at home with her mother in South El Monte during her graduate studies. As part of the program, Plummer had to write a thesis, which consisted of either a novel or a collection of short stories.
Her thesis began as a novel, but she explains that it never really worked out that way. As her piece developed, it became fragmented. Her short story collection, The Bolero of Andi Rowe, which was published in 2011, evolved from that graduate thesis. Even though the genre of her work transformed, she was determined about the subject matter from the beginning.
"It was very important that it be about this place [South El Monte] and these characters, because I wanted to convey that to everyone, because to me it was very special," says Plummer.
"What I wanted to do with the book was to share the idea that there are these Mexican American young people, and they're not necessarily who you would expect them to be," she adds. "They're very immersed in American culture, but there's also this Mexican influence. So I wanted to convey that. There are these people who exist here, who are very much a part of the U.S."
Many writers who write about their childhood homes usually put time or distance—and sometimes both—between themselves and their subject matter. But Plummer was living in the middle of the place she had been writing about, and she was in the process of refining her thesis into a book, while in graduate school.
"It was two years of just focusing on writing, which is pretty amazing, and just hanging out in South El Monte with my friends," says Plummer. "I probably took it too far a few times—trying to write down exactly what my friends were saying, how they would talk, to copy their speech. Some of my friends have this very colorful way of speaking that I liked. It was very tempting to just write that down."
Plummer graduated from the USC program in creative writing in 2003, but it would be another eight years before her book was published. She felt that part of the reason for the delay was that her stories were so much based on her life. During that time, she revised and reworked her book a great deal.
"It was so personal, I think I was overwhelmed by trying to deal with it, and I worried about what people would think," says Plummer. "When I was finally able to break away and fictionalize more, I felt better about it and more excited about it. It's wonderfully freeing when you can get past that, and just think about the story, and telling the best story."
In 2008, Plummer won the Miguel Marmol prize, for a first work of fiction by a Latino author, from the renowned independent publisher Curbstone Press. But plans for its publication were delayed after the death of Curbstone's director, Sandy Taylor. Curbstone was then acquired by Northwestern University Press in 2009, and The Bolero of Andi Rowe was finally published in 2011.
The Latino/a Identity
"I never heard from anyone that it was a problem that my name was Plummer," explains Toni. "I did make the decision to use my middle name because I wanted it to be clear that I was a woman. I also wanted to have the Spanish in there. And that is my full, legal name. And I thought it sounded prettier, more lyrical."
But Plummer says that she did see herself as a Latina author – and that's definitely what a big part of her book is about: the Mexican American Catholic culture.
In the story, "Happy Hour," the character Maura explains how her sister, Andi, looks Mexican, a lot like their mother, while she somewhat resembles her father.
"I didn't really look like anybody, but I had blond hair and blue eyes," says Maura. "It was always the people I liked most who could see similarities between us. In our expressions and our voices."
Maura says that the only indication of anything Spanish about her is her middle name, Guadalupe. "I think I'II think I'll be Lupe when I go to South America for a semester next year," she says.
In another of the stories, "The Bolero of Andi Rowe," the main character Pete Villegas talks about taking his girlfriend Beth, with a fair complexion, to a ranchera club in Pico Rivera. The reader assumes that Beth is not Mexican, but she seems to comfortably weave in and out of Pete's world of mariachi music and eccentric Mexican uncles.
The Catholic religion is a recurring theme throughout the stories in the book, especially in "The Body," "To Visit the Cemetery," and "What Would Mary Do: A Christmas Story." Catholicism is a strong element in Mexican American culture, and Epiphany Catholic parish is a central part of the community in South El Monte, where almost everyone at one point has likely volunteered to help out with a mass or participated in a posada or Easter play.
"There's actually a funny story about the cover," she admits. "I wanted a contemporary picture of a girl playing off the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe. I wanted the virgin's image evoked in a subtle, playful way. So they send me the cover, and there's Our Lady of Guadalupe."
Plummer wasn't happy at first because she felt that was the obvious thing to do—to just put Our Lady of Guadalupe on the cover as a stamp saying: this is a book for Latinos. She felt the cover didn't reflect the nuances in her contemporary stories set in the United States. Although there was an Irish American culture in the background of her main character, Plummer admits she heavily focuses on the Mexican American culture.
"But it's a pretty cover, and I reconciled with that," says Plummer. "I was not expecting that, even though it's probably what I should have been expecting."
Ultimately, the Latino stamp on her book has turned out to be a good thing. She has been able to sell her book to a Latina audience who seeks out stories like the ones she tells. In the end, it makes it easier for her potential readers to connect with her book—they can immediately relate. That connection isn't necessarily there for non-Latinos/as.
Beyond the First Book
Plummer recently got married and now goes by the name of Toni M. Kirkpatrick. She has been living in New York since she moved there after finishing her graduate studies at the University of Southern California (USC). She works at St. Martin's Press, where she has been an editor for the last nine years.
Even though Plummer feels very settled in New York, and she has no plans to move back, her connection to South El Monte remains strong. After publishing The Bolero of Andi Rowe, she did an event at La Historia Society Museum.
"It's still a base for me," says Plummer. "I go back and visit. My mom has mentioned possibly one day selling the house, but I say, don't sell the house—because I think of it is as my childhood home, and I like going back there."
Although a small group of people, Plummer is part of what is known as the South El Monte/El Monte diaspora, people who left for one reason or another. But there is just something about such a place—that was once the home of a lion farm, that inspired Frank Zappa to write a song, that is historically known as the end of the Santa Fe trail—that never leaves your heart.
Alexandra M. Landeros was born in East Los Angeles and spent most of her childhood in South El Monte, with frequent time spent in Aguascalientes, Mexico. In 1994, she left Southern California to attend college at Carnegie Mellon University. Instead of returning home, she moved to Austin, Texas, where she has been living since 1998. In 2004 she graduated from Texas State University with an MFA in Creative Writing. She currently works as a freelance writer and local food activist.
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The Baker's Dozen Returns to Hilton Head
Yale's Baker's Dozen, an all-male a cappella singing group known for their fun, energetic performances, will be spending a few nights on Hilton Head Island on their Spring Tour this year. And they're making stops at five Lowrey Group restaurants while they're here.
On Wednesday, March 21st, the Baker's Dozen will perform at the Ocean Grille at 6:30 p.m., the Old Fort Pub at 7:15 and the Boathouse at 8:00. On Thursday, March 22nd, they will sing at Antonio's at 6:45 p.m. and CQ's at 7:30.
"I'm excited that we'll be in Hilton Head for two nights," said Tour Manager, Bryan Bibler. In previous years, the group spent only one night in the Lowcountry. This year's tour also includes stops in Toronto, Chicago, Cincinnati, Vero Beach, St. Augustine, Gainesville and Washington D.C. The group will drive the whole tour and spend a night or two at each stop.
"This year I made the executive decision to spend more time in each city," said Bibler, who's pleased to be headed south for part of the tour. "Coming from New Haven, it's always nice to spend some time in warmer climates, and we're hoping to have some time to go to the beach and do other things while we're there."
The Baker's Dozen was founded in 1947 when a group of eight Yalies and one guy from Harvard broke into song at a party. That night, they entertained everyone at the gathering, dubbing themselves the "Noxious Nine." Later, the group dropped their Harvard friend, added five more Yale peers, and the Baker's Dozen was born. This year they're celebrating their 60th anniversary, making them one of the oldest a cappella singing groups in the nation.
The Baker's Dozen serenades audiences with a mix of contemporary and traditional songs, and according to Bibler, they always try to mix comedy and other dynamic forms of entertainment into their performances. They have performed all over the country in a diverse array of venues, ranging from school auditoriums to the White House. Last December, the group released their latest album, Tally Up, which features a mix of live and studio recordings from their spring 2006 tour. Their history of camaraderie and love of music makes the Baker's Dozen a Yale tradition.
"We're an entertaining and fun group of college guys that can sing well," said Bibler.
If you are interested in booking the Baker's Dozen for a private performance during their Hilton Head stay, contact Bryan Bibler at (513) 602-9133.
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Phone Hacking: Murdoch Apologises to Hugh Grant and Duchess of York
By Tom Porter
Rupert Murdoch's News International has apologised in court to many victims of its journalists' phone hacking, including celebrities, priests and politicians.
A total of 144 phone hacking victims have received "sincere" contrition and "substantial" damages from the company, with the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, actors Hugh Grant and Christopher Eccleston, and the Catholic parish priest of singer Charlotte Church, Father Richard Reardon, among the 17 who opted for a courtroom apology.
Colin Stagg, who was wrongly accused of the murder of Rachel Nickell, was awarded damages of £15,500, one of few sums disclosed.
Victims who arranged an entirely private settlement included: Cherie Blair QC, the wife of the former prime minister; UKIP leader Nigel Farage; TV presenters Jamie Theakston and Chris Tarrant; Ted Beckham, the father of the former England football captain David; former Tory minister Lord Blencathra; actor James Nesbitt; footballer Wayne Rooney; and BBC reporter Tom Mangold.
However, some did not settle. About 20 people are expected to reach an agreement in the coming weeks and others may deny News International its wish to draw a line under the affair by pushing for a full trial, according to legal sources who spoke to The Independent.
Hugh Tomlinson, QC, who is representing many of the victims, said that more victims were still being identified by police, and that there could be a wave of up to 100 new complainants.
Those yet to settle their privacy actions with News Group Newspapers, a subsidiary of News International, include: Princess Diana's former butler, Paul Burrell; Chris Eubank; politician Tommy Sheridan; Tara Palmer Tomkinson; entrepreneur Simon Jordan; TV producer Nigel Lythgoe; and former union boss Tony Woodley.
Though the settlement deals have not been made public, lawyers believe that they are will be similar to the £30,000 awarded to MP Chris Bryant and the £50,000 awarded to John Prescott last year in their privacy actions against the newspaper group.
Murdoch's News International plans to separate the tainted newspaper wing of the organisation and create a new company.
Libel law restrictions prevented Hugh Grant from bringing his case to full trial, he tweeted after the hearing, and announced he was donating his settlement to the Hacked Off charity, which campaigns for tighter press regulation.
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Gareth Jones obtained a B.Eng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Bristol in 1989 and a PhD examining the Application of Linguistic Models in Continuous Speech Recognition in 1994 from the same institution. From 1993-96 he was a member of the Speech, Vision and Robotics Group, Department of Engineering and Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, working as a Research Associate on the Video Mail Retrieval using Voice (VMR) project. From 1996-2003 he was a Lecturer in Media Computing in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Exeter. From 1997-98 he was a Toshiba Fellow and engineer at the Toshiba Corporation Research and Development Centre in Kawasaki, Japan. In 2002 he was a Visiting Scientist to the Informedia project at Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. and a JSPS Visiting Fellow at the National Institute of Informatics, Toyko, Japan. In 2003 he was appointed as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing at Dublin City University.
He regularly serves on the programme committees of the leading international conferences and specialist workshops in information retrieval, natural language processing and human-computer interaction. He was IR Track chair of ACM CIKM 2010, programme co-Chair of ECIR 2011 and will be general co-Chair of ACM SIGIR 2013.
Topics in information access: information retrieval, speech recognition, applied natural language processing, visual processing, multilingual information retrieval, context-aware amd mobile search, affective computing, human-computer interaction.
I have authored and co-authored more than 200 research publications and given a number of presentations describing this work.
Copies of many recent papers are available from the DCU DORAS Repository.


After a page or so on the events of 1984 that we all know, this essay focuses on some terms and concepts that are critical to the issue and are not yet a part of our lexicon or conversation. So bear with me.
Humans are not the only species with a moral sense but perhaps no other species has such an exquisitely honed ethical take on what they will or will not do.
No other species spends billions every year around the world to prevent cruelty to other species; on the other hand, none can outdo mankind in devising systems to destroy others as effectively either. The "other" in this could even be one of our own; we show little loyalty to our own species. In this our behavior can be glorious or gory to the extreme; we can climb the heights of divinity and also plumb the depths of cannibalism and cruelty.
A brief prelude to the precarious situation of Sikhs in India today is necessary. Sikhs are a small minority less than 2 percent – about 25 million of India's over a billion people. A young religion barely 500 years old; its way of life clearly rejects the bulk of Indian mythology including the rigidly defined caste system, and teaches of an equal place for women in society. Sikhi does not insist on exclusivity of dogma or doctrine and speaks of one Creator common to all creation regardless of nationality, gender, race, class, caste or religious label.
Because of the clarity of their message this small minority has carved a special niche in the Indian nation and its history. During the defining struggle for India's independence from the British in the mid 20th century, more than two-thirds of all Indians who were sentenced to life imprisonment or death by the British were Sikh. At the same time, the most decorated soldiers of the British Indian Army were Sikhs, and the cemeteries of Italy. Belgium and France bear ample testimony of their valor. Of course, today, Sikhs are a worldwide presence.
The Punjabi (largely Sikh) farmer has been mainly responsible for rescuing India from its yearly famines and also for its integrity during its many wars with its neighbors.
Yet soon after independence from the British the political vision of the nominally democratic, new nation, India, was bent to the new realities of a numerically dominant Hindu majority. And Sikhs lost their place as a forceful and independent voice. The Constitution of the new nation defined Sikhs as Hindus for legal purposes — an anomaly that persists today after 68 years and despite strong protests.
This is not the place for all of the political-economic issues that could have been easily resolved given a modicum of commonsense and a view of belonging together as members of the same secular nation. The majoritarian structure found it more convenient instead to brand Sikhs as anti-India and reframe our differences as treason. Their tools: vilification and historical amnesia.
I concede that my very brief summary does no justice at all to the Sikh grievances or the Indian government's handling of them over the years but that is not my mandate today. Readers can explore the events in excruciatingly painful detail at many Internet sites, particularly Sikhnet.com, Sikhchic.com, Ensaaf, Sikh for Justice, and many others.
I dwell instead on how the crisis was managed and what it means to us today.
In a clearly political strategy, Sikhs were sidelined as antinational. In 1984 the Indian Army attacked the premier Sikh place of worship, the Golden Temple, on a high holy day, killed thousands of men, women and children, arrested uncounted numbers without trial and sealed the state of Punjab from the rest of the country. Five months later in retaliation of this high handedness, the Prime Minister (Indira Gandhi) was shot dead by two Sikhs.
That led immediately to a time of utter darkness that speaks to the realities in India then and lies at the heart of a festering issue today 31 years later.
Within six hours of the death of Indira Gandhi truckloads of armed Hindu mobs appeared in Sikh neighborhoods of India's capital city, Delhi, and several other cities of India. They systematically and selectively looted Sikh businesses and houses, burned, raped and murdered thousands of unarmed innocent civilians.
The mayhem continued for three days. The police was not there or stood by, even egging on the killers. The military sat it out in the barracks — not deployed. The political leadership never once appealed for calm; instead it provoked more killings.
Absolutely no one was arrested during that time; no police cases registered.
Remember that 32 years ago we were living in pre-Google times. There was no way to download lists of Sikh owned houses and businesses at the click of a mouse; yet, the mobs carried such lists. Trucks and petrol were not freely available nor were arms and guns – they had to be registered. Yet, the mobs came in trucks with guns, machetes, and kerosene within six hours in many cities across the vast country at the same time.
They did what they were assigned to do and two days later the murderous frenzy stopped as if at the behest of an unseen hand of the Commander.
Neither India's civilian bureaucracy nor its massive army has ever shown such precise organizational competence and management skills before or since 1984.
And the government supported by the press and state owned television instantly labeled the killings "riots." That is a deliberate debasement of language. "Riots" are marked by spontaneity and a lack of organizational structure. The killings of Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims in 1947 were riots; the killings of Sikhs in 1984 were not.
Some truths must be acknowledged.
Many Sikhs survived because of the kindness of their non-Sikh – primarily Hindu – neighbors. The first glimmerings of truth emerged in the face of governmental denials because of largely non-Sikh – Hindu – judicial scholars and citizens.
If these were not "riots" how best do we label this massacre?
There have been pogroms and programmed killings in history; the list is endless. Let's focus on the 20th century that has been dominated by murders perpetrated by states and non-state forces – death squads, paramilitary groups and guerrillas, etc. Perhaps the most evil occurs when states are responsible.
Some killings are rightly labeled genocide, a term first used by Lemkin, a Polish Jew, during the Second World War and widely used during the Nuremberg Trials. These crimes against humanity are prohibited in the Hague Convention of 1907. Initially these covered acts only during wars. Subsequently it was broadened to cover acts during both peace and war.
Early instances of genocide include the ethnic cleansing of Greeks and Armenians by the Turks in 1912 to 1923. The intractable attitudes towards such matters are clear from a remarkable irony: In Turkey mentioning that the Armenian genocide occurred would be a crime while in France suggesting that it did not happen would be prosecutable.
A noted scholar Helen Fein notes that genocides have been reported on every continent — 13 to 20 cases have been documented. Genocides and state political killings have taken the lives of over four times the number of people killed in war between 1900 and 1987.
A problem in documentation stems from the definition of terms. Scholars look for fine differences between genocide, democide, politicide and related terms. I leave such fine parsing to academicians. Suffice it to say that one scholar, Rummel, estimates the number of victims in the 20th century to surpass the population of all but the five largest nation-states in the world.
Although the Genocide Convention has been international law since 1951, due to domestic political opposition the United States only signed the treaty in 1988.
There is nothing in the Genocide Convention that can identify "Genocide in the Making." There is no numeric threshold of killings that would mandate preventive action.
Also, to me, a non-lawyer, it seems that recognition of genocide depends on nation-states, the victims cannot invoke action.
Yes, we remember Santayana's warning that those who do not remember their history are condemned to repeat it, but we overlook the truism that just remembering history does not lead in itself to not repeating it.
I have heard it said that "The fact that 1984 happened, the fact that we had to deal with these massive challenges, made us a better community, a bigger community and a more successful community." I hope and pray that it is so.
George Orwell, the India born British author of the classic novel "1984," would have been awed by how fully India transformed his fiction into real life.
I sincerely acknowledge the generous assistance of Chapman University for providing the platform to foster a conversation and discussion on these critical issues from a global perspective.
A well laid and articulated facts by IJS.
We, the Sikhs diaspora and the next generation must appreciate the fact and the hurt that our small comminity had to face the genocide not only in 1984 but all throughout the Mougul Dinesty. Yet ironically, the Sikhs are referred as an example to many societies, reflected as the most progressive comminity around the world. We should thank the Spirit of our Gurus in engineering what we are today.
Walking through the generation, we have been marginalized, snatched of our freedom to have our own nation, of which the Sikh could have been proud of today; looted of our kingdom that extended from Delhi to Afganistan; destroyed our youth and nullified an era that could link our glorious history to the presence; deprived of the language growth; marginalise the peotry of the highest order inscribed in our SGGS when referrence are made of the Ragas within the musical fraternity.
Inspite of all this, we have excelled around the world, with due recognition, majority of it given by governances out of India. To our Sikh Diaspora, keep up with our spirit and sincerity. The next coming generation of the Sikhs are the one who would strive even harder to make the lines like "Sarbat Da Bhalla" and "Chadthi Kala" more prominent and make this small comminity proud of its existance on this planet earth.


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Hello commanders, I've been playing this game ever since War hawk event and now realize that the game has come very far. I'm trying to reminiscence about each meta and what units where the ones involved in it. I'm having trouble after FAVs came out. Does anyone know what metas came after FAVs up till SF era?
The FAV spam meta used a lot back then and was more devastating and lag-inducing than the Phalanx we have today. and it was ended by releasing the Enforcer and the Elite Rifleman.
Elite Mega Tank & ERM: Mega-Riflemen combo was one of the popular tactics to flatten bases back in the day of Mortars & MGs, and the release of their Elite status made that combo even deadlier in attacks and more effective in defense vs uniques and FAVs.
Valkyrie spam meta: suiciding micro-healed Valks on turrets and Watchtowers. was ended by a CPU tech for snipers that suppresses suicide dives.
Spectre meta : AKA the one unit to rule them all. No base was safe from that unit, but it was ended by Stingers and custom Valks.
Havoc-E.Hellstorm meta: using the shield-sword tactic to pick bases apart. I think it was ended by KIX releasing veteran levels on Stingers and Flak tanks.
Elite Hover Tank meta: spiral in around the base while firing a continuous stream of Hellfire missiles at walls and turrets. was ended by the red tanks like Scorchers and Torches, then SF.
Titan meta: this is one of the few units that's not limited to a single era. it has its own meta when first released, then again when it got the Elite upgrade, and is still useful and relevant with its Omega upgrade to this day. KIX tried to kill the Titan and the whole idea of drone shield by releasing the Viral turret that no one ever asked for.
Elite Vanquisher meta: spread them out and spam any base with RUBI on. was ended by ION damage that can penetrate and deplete shields, and by KIX intentionally leaving the inactive-shield bug in the game without attempting to fix.
WingXBanshee meta: was a very popular brute-force attack. and a lot of players were still using those even after the SF days.
Javelin-Ronin meta: mostly used in defense and was very powerful!. Ended by newer generations of SF that replaced the Ronin.
Hellfire-Hellstorm: this was probably one of the best eras in the game. it required high levels of strategic thinking, calculating range, choosing the right angles, and using multi-baits\meat-shields.
Wingdrones meta: there was a time when this was popular among low-med levels. basically you just spam the base\Thor deposit with a large group of drones then head back to base and repair them in pairs or one by one, it was like a plague! and KIX had to put an end to that by changing the rules of air platoon repairs. after that, players were no longer able to heal air units individually or control the queue of repairs.
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Putting in the Extra Hours: The Spike in Mass. Department of Public Health Overtime Pay during COVID-19
June 3, 2021 /in Blog, Blog: Transparency, COVID Economy, COVID Transparency, Internships /by Jack Landsiedel
During the heat of the COVID-19 pandemic, Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) payroll data presented a 29.09% increase in the average employee's overtime pay from the previous year. Pioneer wanted to dig deeper into the Department's compensation trends to put the $5M bump in 2020 DPH overtime pay into perspective.
Looking at information compiled into Pioneer's government transparency data bank MassOpenBooks, DPH OT jumped by 26.22%, increasing from $14.3 to $19.4M between 2019 and 2020. Across all departments, state employees' overtime pay only increased by 7.39% while DPH base pay increased by 4.62%. In addition to extra hours compensation, DPH's base pay bump was higher than in recent years when it increased by 3.07% in both 2018 and 2019 – perhaps in response to the new pandemic workload.
Below, Figure 1 details the data behind base, overtime, average overtime, and total pay in DPH between 2016 and 2020 taking into account respective annual changes.
Figure 1: Massachusetts Department of Public Health Employee Payroll Trends, 2016-2020
Source: MassOpenBooks State Payroll Data
But what is the root cause of this 2020 spike, especially when compared to the lower change in average state-wide overtime? This year, understandably, DPH allocated a significant amount of resources in response to COVID-19, when employees took on the task of informing the public about the disease, compiling and releasing case and testing data, and coordinating the vaccination effort. In addition to these and normal operations tasks, employees across DPH's eighteen bureaus and offices also took on a new oversight role in supporting county and municipal health departments in their local fights against COVID.
Here, Figure 2 compares the steady annual increases in total base pay to the spike in total overtime pay side-by-side for a better frame of reference:
The Department of Public Health's increase in overtime pay is not as severe as the chart above may suggest, as OT amounted to 7.57% of total payroll in 2020 – up from 6.04% in 2019 and 5.87% in 2018. One important metric is the number of employees making significant overtime, where 236 of DPH's 3,434 staff members made at least $25,000 in extra hours – up from 170 in 2019 and 156 in 2018. In each year, those employees receiving over $25,000 made up just over half of the total overtime payroll. Apart from how many employees are making OT, there is another influential outlier explaining the change in mean overtime payment by 29.09% in 2020: five staff members who made OT ranging between $100,234 and $127,563 each. These employees include four Tier II RNs whose overtime pay exceeds base pay by 36%, 22%, 4%, and -8%, respectively; and one Epidemiologist who was paid 18% more in OT than base pay at a Tier II level, then promoted to Tier III where that statistic was 15%.
Of DPH's 3,434 employees in 2020, 32 earned more than $200,000 including five earning more than $300,000. Between the increase in overtime earners and existing top salaries, average total pay at DPH increased from $62,437 in 2019 to $70,244 in 2020.
Jack Landsiedel is a Roger Perry Government Transparency Intern at the Pioneer Institute for Summer 2021. He is a rising junior at the University of Maryland, College Park with a major in Government & Politics and minors in Public Leadership and Sustainability Studies.
Tags: COVID-19, Department of Public Health, government transparency, overtime, payroll
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Let Scotland go and compete. Everyone would win.
Given that his father's family moved from Scotland to Australia this could just be sentimentality, however if Murdoch did decide to back Salmond in the referendum, it could all get very interesting. The Scottish Sun swung behind the SNP at the last Scottish elections, just four years after saying a vote for them would be putting Scotland's head in a noose.


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5 keys to Oakland's sweep over Smyrna
Oakland took a pair of basketball victories at Smyrna Friday night.
5 keys to Oakland's sweep over Smyrna Oakland took a pair of basketball victories at Smyrna Friday night. Check out this story on dnj.com: http://on.dnj.com/2kaBxGN
kenneth schott, For The DNJ Published 10:15 p.m. CT Jan. 20, 2017
Oakland sophomore guard Keishawn Davidson is averaging 13.1 points, 4.3 assists, 2.8 rebounds and two steals a game.(Photo: File / DNJ)Buy Photo
Oakland's girls captured a come-from-behind 58-43 win over Smyrna Friday night to remain in third place (4-2) in District 7-AAA.
In the boys game, Oakland routed Smyrna 49-18 to remain unbeaten in league play and tied for first in the district with Blackman.
The Blaze and Patriots battle Monday at Blackman in a make-up of a postponed game from Jan. 6.
Here are five keys to Oakland's sweep over Smyrna:
Strong second for Cook
Belmont commitment Maddie Cook didn't score a point in the first quarter and Oakland struggled to score, only managing four first-quarter points.
Cook came on strong in the second quarter, however, driving to the basket, scoring layups and drawing fouls.
She had 11 second-quarter points and 13 in the second half, tallying 24 overall points to lead all scorers. The Lady Bulldogs couldn't contain her.
"I was just really pumped up," Cook said. "It was my teammates. They got the ball to me real fast. I made all of those points because of them."
"Maddie's got a lot of ability, and I thought tonight she was extremely effective," said Oakland coach Jennifer Grandstaff. "When she's effective it makes our game a whole lot easier."
Lady Bulldogs hit the boards early
In the first quarter Smyrna built a 14-4 lead and increased it to 25-11 midway through the second quarter.
The Lady Patriots were 1-of-14 in the first quarter and most of their possessions were one-and-out as the Lady Bulldogs outrebounded Oakland in the early going 17-9.
Diamond Forrest had eight rebounds in the game, and Kesha Brady and Tyra Hughes each had seven.
"I thought we were getting outplayed in every area of the game," said Grandstaff. "We put ourselves in a hole."
Lady Patriots overcome 14-point deficit
Smyrna's 25-11 lead dissipated down to six as Oakland went on an 8-0 run to end the first half, making it 25-19. Cook had six of the eight points.
Oakland tied the game up at 29-all in the third quarter. To start the fourth quarter, Oakland went on a 14-2 run to give the Lady Patriots a commanding 44-34 lead.
Setting up the showdown
The Patriots improved to 6-0 in District 7-AAA. They play a make-up game against Blackman Monday night, in a battle of the two undefeated first-place teams.
The winner will take over sole possession of first in the district.
Bulldogs can't overcome slow start
For the second consecutive game, the Bulldogs only managed seven points in the first half. The Patriots outscored the Bulldogs 20-5 in the second quarter to take a commanding 26-7 lead.
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'Littlejohn Tower House' Offers the Finest in Craftsmanship and Detailing
The new Joe Waltman-designed home is an all-custom Maine coast classic.
SPONSORED BY David Banks of RE/MAX By The Bay
Photos by Seawolf Creative
LITTLEJOHN ISLAND, YARMOUTH – It took more than a year to plan and build this cedar-shingled beauty, but the thought behind the new home goes back a couple of decades or more, when architectural designer Joe Waltman began to envision what a home on this elevated site should look like.
A Downeast Maine native and a longtime resident of neighboring Cousins Island, Waltman brought to this project a deep affinity for the coastal environment, and a decades-long history of creating some of Maine's finest homes. Here is the most recent.
"The Littlejohn Tower House" is in perfect harmony with its surroundings, rising gracefully from a stone foundation, amid the encircling evergreens and birches. The shingle-style home incorporating Gothic elements has a wealth of windows, many with transoms, and is sited for maximum light (all rooms have both southern and northern exposure) and oneness with the natural world. There are glimpses of Casco Bay, a few hundred feet away, and of the Chebeague Island shoreline.
The 3,637-square-foot, three-bedroom, four-bath interior provides four levels of living, with floor-plan flexibility; e.g. the first-floor study, office, library, etc. Floors are 4-inch red birch; most woodwork is top-grade pine, exquisitely crafted and wonderfully aromatic.
The living room, which soars three levels, has a classic brick, wood-burning fireplace; there are gas fireplaces in the adjacent dining room / sitting room (note its barrel ceiling and window seat); and in the family room of the finished, daylight ground level, whose bedroom, full bath, media/multipurpose room and potential kitchenette, all together constitute an ideal guest suite. The well-appointed master suite, for its part, is nicely private, having the upstairs south wing all to itself.
The gourmet's kitchen – honed granite counters, stainless appliances including a five-burner gas range with hood – flows into a bow-of-windows sun room / dining nook that accesses the patio and granite fire pit. At the other end of the house, the lofty tower room is a haven for relaxation and reflection, and an inspired and inspiring feature.
Connected to the mainland via a causeway, and therefore very convenient to Yarmouth's village center, I-295, and to downtown Portland, Littlejohn is an island by name, and in the character of the quiet community. The home is an easy stroll to town-owned trails; the oceanfront, 23-acre Littlejohn Island Preserve is a 15-minute walk away. Note, too, that the property's applied-for mooring is expected to be available soon.
The home at 276 Littlejohn Road, Littlejohn Island, Yarmouth, is listed for sale at $987,500 by David Banks of RE/MAX By The Bay in Portland. Please contact David at 773-2345 or at [email protected] Please visit davidbanksteam.com/property/littlejohn-tower-house and waltmanarchitecturaldesign.com.
Five-Bedroom Colonial Sits in a Convenient Oceanfront Neighborhood
Updated Beach-Neighborhood Ranch Provides Easy Maine-Coast Lifestyle


(from left to right) Scott Lively of Abiding Truth Ministries, "Ex-gay counselor" Caleb Brundidge and Don Schmierer from Exodus International, Richard Cohen, who's book Coming Our Straight was used in Uganda as proof homosexuality is a choice, Pastor Rick Warren of the California based Saddleback mega church and Lou Engel of revival group The Call.
Imagine what would happen if people like us were forced to hide in our homes for fear of being arrested, beaten or killed for simply trying to live our lives.
Well, in Uganda today our LGBT brothers and sisters are in hiding and living in fear for their lives because of a successful campaign of hate with roots right here in America.
These men (pictured left) and other Americans created a firestorm of hate that has led to the creation of the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill that was signed into law on Feb. 24, 2014.
Under the new law, any Ugandan convicted of "Aggravated Homosexuality" will spend their life in prison, that is if they are not beaten or killed by angry mobs first.
Jane Mayer was on "UP with Chris Hayes" yesterday talking about her latest article in The New Yorker The Voter Fraud Myth.
Bryan Fischer's departure from Idaho in the summer of 2009 was cause for celebration among progressives and conservatives alike throughout our small red state. After 29 years of bigotry, hate and racism, Fischer was finally gone!
Out-of-state when Fischer made the announcement he would be leaving Idaho, I was tending to my seriously ill 74-year-old mother. Sitting by her bedside in a California hospital room, exhausted, grateful and relieved Mom had just made it through surgery, I got the call.
Honored to be a guest on the The Michelangelo Signorile Show Friday October 21, we discussed the Southern Poverty Law Center Report: "THE PROPAGANDISTS: Bryan Fischer, the American Family Association & the Demonization of LGBT People," detailing Fischer's radical extremism, and how he spent almost three decades in Idaho.
In "THE PROPAGANDIST," my co-author, Jill Kuraitis and I revealed Fischer's rise to the national spotlight. This in-depth investigative piece on Fischer's history in Idaho shows how mainstream Idahoans jump-started his controversial career.
Michelangelo Signorile served as editor-at-large and columnist at The Advocate, and was a columnist for OUT magazine. He was a co-founding editor of the headline-making news magazine OutWeek, which was at the center of the debates over "outing" in the 1990s. Signorile has authored several bestselling books, including the groundbreaking study of the gay "closet," Queer in America, which firebrand playwright and gay activist Larry Kramer called "one of the most important books of the 20th century." Signorile's third book, Life Outside, was a 1998 finalist for the prestigious New York Public Library Book Award for Excellence in Journalism.
Signorile's show is heard on SiriusXM OutQ 108. As the only nationwide broadcasting service to serve the LGBT Community, thousands of people from all across the country tune in at any moment for breaking news, provocative discussion on current events and a great mix of entertainment programming.
I have been invited to be a guest on the The Michelangelo Signorile Show to discuss the Southern Poverty Law Center Report: "THE PROPAGANDISTS: Bryan Fischer, the American Family Association & the Demonization of LGBT People," and the article I co-authored by my colleague Jill Kuraitis, detailing the rise of Bryan Fischer.
The show airs weekdays from 2-6pm ET our discussion is expected to exclusively SiriusXM Satellite Radio Channel 108. I will be joining the show at about: 12:30pm Pacific / 1:30pm Mountain / 2:30pm Central / 3:30pm Eastern If you are Not already a subscriber, you can go to Signorile.com for a 3-day FREE trial.