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Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker
I am not quite sure what to write as I finish this book – Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy.
We are in a space right now where her name is more controversial than ever amidst allegations of anti-Semitism (and I reject anti-Semitism). However, only recently aware of these allegations and having almost exclusively engaged with her lit (In Search of Our Mother's Garden and Living by the Word in non-fiction, The Colour Purple and The Temple of My Familiar in fiction, poetry Her Blue Body Everything We Know in poetry), she has always been (for me, especially as a woman of colour) an inspiring writer, for her own writing as well as for her role in unearthing another literary light Zora Neale Hurston (author of Their Eyes were watching God). Through her literature and her activism, Walker has been a strong womanist and feminist voice. As inspiring as she has been because of it, though, she has attracted her share of criticism over the years. The charges of anti-Semitism (which she denies, to the best of my knowledge) result from her support of Palestinian liberation, her criticism of Israel, and, causing things to blow up in late 2018, her endorsement or amplification (I'm not sure which) of someone who is seen as being anti-Semitic.
I was reading Possessing when the blow up happened … and continued reading.
I have decided to keep the focus on the book, while acknowledging that a number of people find her problematic, and I understand that.
Still, I can write that I was deeply affected by Possessing the Secret of Joy, a novel I have had for so long, unread, that it was falling apart by the time I finished it. A novel I was not ready to read when I got it, I think, though characters from the Pulitzer prize winning Purple walk across Temple and in to Possessing. Centrally, in the case of Possessing, that character is Tashi, a curious girl turned unapologetically unpleasant (some would say) woman of Olinka (made up African tribe) origin. I say some would say because she is clearly a woman in pain throughout much of the book and she thinks and does and says things that telegraph this pain and rage even when she can't speak it, which she can't for a large portion of her life and the book, to the discomfort of others. But, even silent, she doesn't suffer in silence.
The story jumps around from Africa to America to Europe, and back to Africa, and digs painfully in to the issue of female circumcision; but more thematically in to the subjugation of women and the role women are called to play in their subjugation (the ways in which women become some of the most ardent enforcers of the patriarchy), and perhaps more specifically still, in to the fear of a free and self-possessed woman.
Among the Olinka, circumcision is embraced as an anti-colonial act and it is for this reason that Tashi deliberately seeks it out though it destroys her life thereafter (as it destroyed the lives of many including her dead sister and the self-same Tsunga – another made up word – who performs the circumcision on her). Bouts of madness, depression, dispossession, a failure to find any kind of joy or peace or comfort in her own body or her own mind though married and a mother and sharp of mind and wit, follow.
It doesn't follow in a linear way. The book is character not plot driven in the most abstract of ways – it is a form I am grappling with with a current writing project so, knowing the challenge of this approach in a real way, I am even more impressed with the crafting of it, with the way the book, confusing at first, manages to bring itself clearly to a point, never losing the plot, even while seeming unconcerned with plotting. And the character voices are precise and interesting, as are the shifts when you meet these characters at different points in their lives. The use of different variations of the main character's name is reflective, I think, of where she is in her life, who she is to herself, at these points; and it's an interesting strategy, as a matter of craft, especially in light of said character's psychological issues.
An African-American woman taking on this deeply African – deeply personal, deeply cultural, deeply political – issue, protesting it in the writing of it, would, I imagine, have been controversial even in the pre-social media 1992, even without Walker herself being as controversial as she has become. In her post note, she acknowledges the research but also the creative license she took –making up African words, and as noted, a tribe whole cloth; and there are probably triggers (for the African reader) that I'm missing as an Afro-Caribbean reader. But I found it very engaging albeit triggering for other reasons.
I want to make clear that when I say triggering here, I'm not trying to make light of this term. I should say that personally though that when it comes to works of art, I prefer to dive in spoiler free and wade through whatever discomfort may come. And so it was with this.
You ever felt your whole body clench up and go weak, that's how I felt through most of the reading of this book. I felt reading this like it was happening to me – circumcision. It is graphic. It is visceral. It is painful to read and the vividness of it is coming back up on me like nothing has since the too long too brutal whipping of Patsey in 12 Years a Slave – a sequence that has made it difficult to impossible for me to see scenes of its like, slavery-era black pain, especially when used as a backdrop for someone else's story, black pain, black whippings, black torture as scenery. I feel it in my belly. For my ancestors, I feel it, and yet I know I can't have felt it the way they did – and I do believe, still, that if they endured it, it's not really asking me too much to look at it when their stories are re-constructed. But, yes, it is triggering.
And yet I am glad I went in to this book relatively unspoiled even as it dragged itself, like the feet of an Olinka woman after circumcision, to its sad end knowing that Walker wasn't going to pull a Jordan Peele (who changed the ending of his movie Get Out because he knew, given the climate of the country, that his audience, and black people especially, needed a happier ending). Something odd though is that the sad ending didn't sadden me. With the unfurling of a single banner of protest, I found hope that minds had been shifted, and that the sacrifice the book demanded of its main character would not be in vein. So maybe not a sad ending after all.
For its insights to cancerous colonialism and toxic tribalism, female subjugation and self-subjugation, relationships between Africa and Africa-descended people, home and tradition, protest and oppression, love and heartbreak, insanity as a coping mechanism, so many things plus the pure mastery of the crafting of it, Possessing the Secret of Joy leaves me like Purple and Familiar happy that I read it, in the way that one is happy after an operation while still healing, uncomfortably, and knowing that you will never quite be the same again.
ETA: Proving that this is a book that sticks with you, I've been thinking since writing this of another thing, mental health and how it illustrates that when it comes to treating people of African descent there will be short comings of understanding due to the doctor's absence of the cultural knowledge of the patient, the philosophies and anxieties of that culture that inform who the person has become. As an African-Caribbean person, this resonated with me, and it's not for nothing that the psychiatrists or psychologists who had some impact with her (the main character) were in the case of the white man familiar with and respectful of her culture, and in the case of the black woman legitimately curious about and open to it. In such things, it's not one size fits all and the book seems on some level to be criticizing western psychiatry (or psychology) for its hubris.
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'War Stories' Comic Now Tracks '73 Israeli Tank Crew
"War Stories" No. 4 from Avatar Press, wrap-around cover variant
In addition to more fantastic stories featuring such characters as Nick Fury and The Punisher , comic-book writer Garth Ennis has a long personal history of telling gritty, realistic, and fact-filled tales of war.
There are, for example, two four-issue mini-series with the title "War Stories," published by Vertigo in 2001 and 2003 . And there are more than eight collected volumes of his "Battlefields" series, published by Dynamite Entertainment starting in 2008—each comprising quirky, fact-filled stories about lesser-known aspects of history, driven by memorable characters.
In three of those "Battlefields" volumes, for example, appeared stories of British tank crews, each headed by a veteran sergeant whose Tyneside dialect was thicker than the armor that protected them.
Seriously, Sgt. Stiles's dialogue is harder to interpret than reading Shakespeare. But much more fun.
The crew appears in three series or volumes, each written by Ennis and drawn by Carlos Ezquerra:
"The Tankies" (Battlefields, Vol. 1) : Cpl. Stiles and his crew man a British Churchill tank during the battle for Normandy.
"The Firefly and His Majesty" (Battlefields, Vol. 5) : Sgt. Stiles and a new crew man a new Sherman Firefly—no longer always outgunned, but still not a match for the German King Tiger that lies in wait for the Allied advance.
"The Green Fields Beyond" (Battlefields, Vol. 10) : World War II veteran Stiles continues fights on in the Korean War, as part of a Centurion tank crew assigned to the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars.
The armored pedigree is important, insofar that it demonstrates not only that Ennis knows his way around a story, but that he knows his way around a tank as well. This is fiction, but fiction with a point—and the point is to illuminate history. Ennis aims toward realism, not sensationalism. These are not books for children.
"War Stories" No. 4, standard cover
Now arrives from Ennis a newly launched "War Stories" series, this time published by Avatar Press. In issue No. 4, on stands Jan. 7, starts "Children of Israel," a 3-part story of an Israeli tank crew on the Golan Heights in early October, 1973. The artist is Tomas Aira, who delivers serviceably expressive characters, along with technically appropriate military equipment. Nothing kills a war comic like in inaccurately rendered weapons.
The tank is again a Centurion, but its commander is a yet-unnamed sergeant who was a boy during World War II. The character remembers seeing the inside of a German tank—most likely a Panzer III—while living the Warsaw Ghetto, as well as being liberated by Soviet T-34s in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The first issue is heavy with exposition, but Ennis makes it all clank together nicely. The sergeant talks with his captain about the current strategic and political terrain. The latter has helpfully drawn a map in the sand for some visiting journalists. "You shouldn't talk to reporters, Captain," the sergeant advises. "It only encourages them."
The sergeant also talks about his crew, made up of reservists with no previous experience of war. In NCO staccato, he observes:
Chaim's the driver, a little bullet of a man from Nazareth. Not much seems to shake him [...] Gunner Daniel is a lethal shot, but lacks imagination. Independent action is beyond him. He'll never be promoted, never wonder why. The loader, Shlomo, is a nervous wreck.
Given the approachable ways that Ennis communicates military history, one hopes that he continues his armored march toward present day.
The "War Stories" series is currently only available in monthly issues. Check your local comic store, or on-line retailers. or digitally via Comixology. Note that there are multiple variant covers.
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Meet 3 Musicians – Part 3 Shaun Lee Chen
SHAUN LEE CHEN: A SHORT AND WINDING ROAD
Audrey Journal journalist Harriet Cunningham interviewed 3 classical musicians who will be performing at Riverside during Spring. In this 3 part blog series, we find out a little about each musician, part 3 features Shaun Lee Chen, who is performing in The Four Seasons this November.
As a teenager at high school, Shaun Lee Chen only had two priorities: basketball and rap music.
"I was terrible. I never practised," admits the concertmaster of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and soloist in Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, coming to the Riverside in November.
Shaun was brought up in Perth in a musical family and learned violin from a young age, but by his own reckoning, he wasn't an easy student to teach. He remembers one of his first teachers, the legendary Hungarian violinist Pal Eder, with affection and gratitude.
"He tried to set me straight but he couldn't. But he probably doesn't know how influenced I was by him and how much I admired him, even though I never showed it because I was, y'know, too cool."
Despite this rocky start, Shaun graduated from the University of Western Australia with a first class degree and went straight to the Australian National Academy of Music. Then he again hit a bumpy stretch when he was forced to stop playing the violin for 18 months.
"It was an injury and a bit of a burn out situation as well. It was nobody's fault. I think I just got a little bit too enthusiastic."
"It was a scary time," he recalls. "I was teaching a bit, not able to play much, enough to demonstrate. I gradually rehabilitated myself with the help of physios."
Then two unexpected things happened. First, a job in the Western Australian Symphony Orchestra (WASO) came up and he was asked to audition. He did, and they offered him the gig. Second, he entered the ABC Young Performers Competition and, much to his surprise, he won.
"To be honest, I never had any sort of aspirations to win competitions. I did the competition as part of my rehabilitation."
In the year following his win he juggled the WASO job with his Young Performer obligations, which included a number of solo appearances.
"It was a bit difficult because I had a job in the orchestra and it wasn't the right time to leave, but what path I wanted to pursue with the instrument was still up in the air…"
"[WASO] were so good to me. They let me go out and do things. They were really supportive of my career outside the orchestra. I was even a 50 per cent employee for a while, which is very rare in Australian orchestras."
And then, out of the blue, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra (ABO) came calling.
"They approached me and said, 'We know you play baroque violin. Would you like to come and play with us?' So I did."
From there it all happened very fast. Artistic director Paul Dyer was so impressed by Shaun that he asked him to play a concerto with the orchestra. After a successful tour as soloist in the fiendishly tricky first concerto by baroque virtuoso Pietro Locatelli, he was invited to record with the ABO, then to become concertmaster.
Which is how he has ended up here, at Riverside, leading the ABO and performing the four concertos which make up Vivaldi's evergreen favourite, The Four Seasons. He can't wait.
"In terms of my career, I see myself as very lucky. You can work your butt off but you've got to be in the right place at the right time. But in the same way, if you do work your butt off you will be in the right place at the right time.
"It's been an interesting ride. Looking back, it's been a weird, short ride."
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The Overseas Communication Series of "Precious Taste of Liaoning in Japan" Was Successfully Held in Tokyo, Japan
Information Office of Liaoning Provincial People's Government
SHENYANG, China, Nov. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- From November 18 to 23, the overseas communication series of "Precious Taste of Liaoning in Japan" co-sponsored by the Information Office of Liaoning Provincial People's Government and the News & Information Center of Xinhua News Agency was successfully held in Tokyo, Japan.
Famous Chinese and Japanese chefs demonstrating their skills at the event
As one of the activities of the "Precious Taste of Liaoning - the 2nd Northeast Asia Popular Cuisine Culture Exchange Week", the "Precious Taste of Liaoning" event was launched in Tokyo for the first time, which promoted the exchange and mutual appreciation of food culture between China and Japan as well as the Chinese food culture.
Food is a world language without borders. During the event, the Liaoning folk cuisine delegation, consisting of Chinese and Japanese friends, leaders of the catering industry and industry associations, held a series of activities with food as the carrier, such as "Dalian Seafood Cooking in Chinese and Japanese Styles", "Liaoning Dumplings Meet Japanese Sushi", and "Liaoning Cuisine Tasting". Chinese and Japanese guests from all walks of life carried out dialogues and exchanges around food, tourism and culture, building a bridge of friendship for cooperation between the two sides.
Li Wanpeng, Consul of the Chinese Embassy in Japan, and Liu Jingxian, Honorary Chairman of the China Hospitality Association, and Master of Chinese Cuisine, respectively sent video messages to the event.
In the future, the two sides will also carry out in-depth exchanges and cooperation in economy and trade, tourism, academia, culture and other fields.
Liaoning Province, China, a sea away from Japan, has granaries in the north, fish farms in the south, livestock in the west, and orchards in the east. The good natural environment provides a rich material basis for the diet of Liaoning people and creates the characteristics of Liaoning cuisine with a wide range of materials and careful selection of ingredients. As a new cuisine after the eight major cuisines, Liaoning cuisine has absorbed the essence of traditional techniques of court cuisine, royal cuisine, Beijing cuisine and Shandong cuisine, and become a regional cuisine with distinctive characteristics. In addition, Liaoning has a rich variety of famous snacks with a long history.
Caption: Famous Chinese and Japanese chefs demonstrating their skills at the event
Source: Information Office of Liaoning Provincial People's Government
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Is there a psychology of hate we need to understand better?
Orlando mass shooting spurs look at convergence of hate, mental illness and violence.
Is there a psychology of hate we need to understand better? Orlando mass shooting spurs look at convergence of hate, mental illness and violence. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/1trBKcQ
Maria Puente, USA TODAY Published 5:16 p.m. ET June 15, 2016 | Updated 1:30 p.m. ET June 18, 2016
A man pauses at a makeshift memorial for the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting June 14, 2016 in Orlando.(Photo: Drew Angerer, Getty Images)
The Orlando mass murderer was "full of hate," President Obama says. But lots of Americans are consumed by hate, so what makes one hater unleash violence on hundreds of innocent people in a gay nightclub?
The science of hate is complicated, and there's not a single definitive answer.
But psychologists, psychiatrists and sociologists think American culture is more permeated than ever by hate and hateful expression, and hate-inspired violence is more prevalent.
"We're seeing more of these kinds of mass attacks than in the past and it's usually not for just one reason, it's multi-dimensional," says Abby Ferber, a professor of sociology at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, who studies hate groups and has written about hate crime in America. "Psychological factors might be one factor but there are other cultural and sociological factors."
"Anger is always there because it's a human emotion," says Liza Gold, a psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University's medical school in Washington, D.C. "The issue is acting on it."
In fact, she says, most people filled with hate do not act on it. "They just quietly stew," she says. "There is interest in the psychology of people who commit violence but we have not yet identified the brain chemical that makes (science) say, 'This person has too much of neurochemical A.'"
We're talking about this, again, because of the deaths of 49 people enjoying Latino Night at Orlando's Pulse nightclub early Sunday, who were killed by a man using an assault-style weapon before he died in a shootout with police.
The inevitable debate that followed has devolved into a search for blame, stirring up a poisonous goulash of arguments over partisan politics, mental illness, gun control, Islamic bigotry and terrorism. But at the core of it all? Hate.
Orlando nightclub shooting: What we know Tuesday afternoon
"Our culture is much angrier, much more hate-filled than ever before, and our politics this year exemplifies that," says Ferber. "It's much more acceptable to express anger and act on it, and with access to the Internet, (haters) can find support and applause for their feelings."
Hate usually comes from "a deeply insecure place" in the human personality, says Harold Koplewicz, a leading child and adolescent psychiatrist and president of the Child Mind Institute in New York.
Hate, he says, can be a symptom of personality disorder most often found among young men in their 20s, an age when the brain's prefrontal cortex may not be completely developed. Such young men have higher suicide rates, he says. They tend to take risks rather than assess costs. They may be cut off from their families, unsuccessful at work or in school, and angry about it all.
"There is a certain percentage of young adults who feel alienated, who grab hold of a group of haters and say 'I am part of that group,' " Koplewicz says. "Haters like company — it makes them feel better, it justifies their hate. Haters rarely hate alone; they encourage others to hate along with them, they want peer validation."
Haters usually are people who feel victimized in some way, says Ferber. They feel their culture, religion or lifestyle are threatened. They feel anxious about their masculinity (most recent mass shootings were committed by males). They feel threatened by visible cultural change, such as growing acceptance of gay people. They feel victimized by economic insecurity.
What's different now, says Gold, is haters' ability to connect with others who share their views.
"Before social media, people had to work harder to find each other, now they don't," Gold says. "It's much easier to hold a bizarre idea if you see all these other people believe it, too. There is a mob psychology to this: Social media provides the crowd or the mob, and also validates your belief."
Officers may have shot Orlando club patrons
Can hate-turned-to-violence be predicted through brain science and thus prevented? Not yet. The human brain is not entirely known territory to neuroscientists.
Science has mapped anger and aggression and emotion to specific anatomic areas of the brain and biological processes, "but the way we identify these pathways is not sufficient (to indicate) who is going to be criminally violent as opposed to someone who is (merely) emotionally angry or passionate," says Jeffrey Lieberman, chairman of psychiatry at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, who has studied mass murderers.
Pulse patrons: Mateen hung out at the club 'for years'
Neuroscientists have made progress in understanding more about brain function through brain imagery but there's still a ways to go in understanding hate and violent anger, says Cameron Craddock, an engineer and director of imaging for the Center for the Developing Brain at the Child Mind Institute.
"We have not yet figured out what parts or structures of the brain are different in people who have a psychiatric disorder," says Craddock. Moreover, "hate is a brain function, so you can't see it in the brain when the brain is not functioning" due to death.
What Newtown and Orlando have in common
In one brain-scan experiment, people were asked to look at pictures of people they hate and pictures of people they don't hate, to see which areas of the brain were engaged. But looking at pictures and acting on hatred are not the same thing, nor is the response in the brain consistent for all people, he says.
"The problem is there are subtle differences between looking at an image and having hateful feelings at the moment," he says. "There's a lot of research going into being able to 'fingerprint' somebody based on brain activity, to come up with important factors such as do they have a disease or a susceptibility to a certain disease, or even personality traits." But it's not possible yet, he says.
What is possible? Ferber thinks better and more affordable mental-health care would help, but she says the culture has to change dramatically, especially in traditional notions of masculinity and attitudes toward seeking help for mental-health issues.
"There has to be a public campaign to try to change the image of therapy for men," she says. " 'Real' men sometimes need therapy... We have to broaden what it means to be men, of what it means to be more inclusive."
It may be the Orlando killer was motivated by hatred of gay people. Or rage about the state of his life. He might have been inspired by ISIS terrorism. He might have been mentally ill. More likely, it's a mix of all of the above.
"It's very hard to disentangle people's motives — it's a strange, extremely mixed picture" of what we know so far, says Mark Potok, senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has been monitoring American hate groups for decades.
Simply writing off the shooting and the shooter as insane or "evil," which is already happening in Orlando, is not enough, Potok says. "It's an abandonment of any attempt to explain motivations."
Besides, he says, not every hate-filled mass murderer is or was mentally ill — domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh, for instance, was not. He blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, killing 168 people in an act he methodically planned and executed, because he hated the government and thought bombing it would bring it down.
"McVeigh never showed any signs of mental illness, but he was mistaken in thinking he could start a war against government."
Orlando shooting victims
Juan Ramon Guerrero, left, 22, and Christopher Andrew Leinonen, 32. Christopher Andrew Leinonen, Facebook
Akyra Monet Murray, 18. Beulah Osueke
Jean Carlos Nives Rodriguez, 27. Jean Carlos Nieves Rodriguez, Facebook
Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz, 22, left, and Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez, 25. Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez, Sonia Cruz
Rodolfo Ayala-Ayala, 33. Rodolfo Ayala-Ayala, Facebook
Tevin Eugene Crosby, 25. Tevin Eugene Crosby, Facebook
Miguel Angel Honorato, 30. Jose Honorato
Angel L. Candelario-Padro, 28. Angel L. Candelario-Padro, Facebook
Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, 36. Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, Facebook
Jonathan Antonio Camuy Vega, 24. Jonathan Antonio Camuy Vega
Oscar A. Aracena-Montero, 26. Oscar A. Aracena-Montero, Facebook
Antonio Davon Brown, 29. Antonio Davon Brown, Facebook
Darryl Roman Burt II, 29. Darryl Roman Burt II, Facebook
Luis Daniel Conde, 39. Luis Daniel Conde, Facebook
Simon Adrian Carrillo Fernandez, 31. Simon Adrian Carrillo Fernandez, Facebook
Mercedez Marisol Flores, 26. Mercedez Marisol Flores, Facebook
Jason Benjamin Josaphat, 19. Jason Benjamin Josaphat, Facebook
Kimberly Morris, 37. Kimberly Morris, Facebook
Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo, 20. Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo, Facebook
Enrique L. Rios, Jr., 25. Enrique L. Rios, Jr., Facebook
Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado, 35. Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado, Facebook
Edward Sotomayor Jr., 34. Facebook
Shane Evan Tomlinson, 33. Shane Evan Tomlinson, Facebook
Juan P. Rivera Velazquez, 37. Juan P. Rivera Velazquez, Facebook
Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, 37. Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, Facebook
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Match Media Wins Tourism New Zealand's Media Account
Match Media has won all the Australian media for Tourism New Zealand (TNZ) with the deal effective from December 2016.
Kate Necklen, TNZ's general manager global marketing communications, said: "We were very impressed with Match's grasp of technology, digital and analytic insight as well as a strong understanding of the tourism market. We are very much looking forward to working with the new team. We have a glocal way of working hence it is important to improve the integration of creative and media to maximise responsiveness in our campaigns at a local and global level."
The Australasian market is hugely important to Tourism New Zealand, both in vicinity and volume of visitors and is therefore crucial to maximise return locally. Match will also be tasked with helping add value to the global Facebook and Google partnerships that TNZ manage globally.
The organisation's marketing work is largely digital in nature, and handled by Razorfish across the world (outside of Australia), Whybin TBWA manage the local branding activity with the 100% pure New Zealand Campaign.
James Simmons (pictured above), COO of Match said: "This is a wonderful win for Match, there are a lot of people at Match clamouring to have the chance to work on the TNZ account. It's an amazing brand and very digitally progressive, which is the perfect blend for Match. Add that to our opportunity to interact globally with Razorfish as part of the Publicis Groupe and it's a unique win for Match. "
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Alumnus Earns National Recognition
August 24, 2016 - Samueli School alumnus Salvatore Campione, who earned a doctorate in electrical and computer engineering in 2013, has been named the 2016 Outstanding Young Professional by the IEEE Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) honor society.
HKN selects one young professional, age 35 or younger, from a national pool of nominees each year. A senior member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., Campione was recognized for his contributions to electromagnetic modeling of complex systems and structures.
At Sandia, he works on electromagnetic theory, antennas, metamaterials, nanostructure plasmonics and optical devices for energy and optoelectronic applications. A member of numerous professional societies, he was also selected a 2013 Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholar and was one of the top-50 UC Irvine alumni honored last spring for their professional accomplishments, community impact and contributions to their fields.
Campione's accomplishments include more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, 80 conference papers, three provisional patents and two book chapters.
"Receiving this HKN Outstanding Young Professional Award is a great honor and confirms that my research is valuable to and recognized by great scholars," he said. "This recognition will help me continue to excel and strive to advance my research in this field."
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Music Publicist And Cannabis Advocate Taps 'Tiger King' Producer To Tell Harrowing Tale
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Jonathan Hay says it was cannabis that helped him cope with a brutal home invasion robbery on 4/20. Here's how he used the herb to help fuel his career after the attack.
Jonathan Hay, a music publicist turned multi-Billboard-charting producer and cannabis advocate, is launching a new television documentary, "House Invasion."
The venture is a partnership with JT Barnett, who co-produced the original "Joe Exotic – The Tiger King," a series that would later give birth to the record-breaking Netflix NFLX 6.04% docu-series.
Barnett also serves on the management team for Joe Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage. Exotic is currently in Fort Worth FMC (Federal Medical Facility).
Hay is a record industry veteran known for his work with Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Death Row Records, and multiple artists signed to Eminem's Shady Records.
"House Invasion" is a play on words. It focuses on a deeply disturbing event that leads to a new career in house music.
On April 20, 2017, Hay and his then 14-year-old daughter were attacked, pistol-whipped from behind, and forced into their home by gunmen.
For over two hours, they were assaulted and terrorized at gunpoint as the robbers ransacked the house looking for a safe.
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With his child knocked to the ground, Hay was then bound and duct-taped while the masked criminals kept going in and out of the house, filling up their car with Hay's valuables like they were on a shopping spree. Three men have pleaded guilty to the violent robbery and kidnapping charges. Two of those men are serving their plea deals, while the third — his former neighbor — awaits sentencing.
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While Hay was bound to a chair, he began to reflect on his life. He was certain he was going to die with his daughter that night. His thoughts turned to the violent nature of content such as music, film, and books that he had promoted for over a decade.
Luckily, both Hay and his daughter made it out alive that night. Hay threw himself into work, desperately trying to escape the severe trauma.
It was cannabis that helped him cope, he says.
"It's still pretty surreal to me that this attack happened on April 20 of all days," Hay tells Benzinga. "The term '420' has a more significant meaning to me as it represents empowerment and freedom. I'm excited about working with JT Barnett on this documentary with most of the filming taking place in Louisville, New York, Los Angeles and London."
Creating Positivity
Aided by the good herb and a renewed take on life, Hay started creating positive content that made an immediate impact in the jazz genre. He scored two songs that hit the No. 1 spot on Billboard's Contemporary Jazz charts, back-to-back, and produced an album where he reimagined Eric B. and Rakim's "Follow the Leader" as jazz.
"Follow the Leader" remained on the Billboard charts for 11 weeks straight, after putting an end to the 38-week reign of Michael Bublé's "Love."
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This led to a distribution deal with label Fat Beats, a collaborative project with Eric B. & Rakim themselves, and the creation of R.U.S.H Music, a new house and techno label co-founded with producer Sarah Rush.
Also from this new collaboration, House Invasion was born.
"It starts on the night of 4/20, then goes through the last three years of my life, leading up to my recent discovery of house music," Hay says. "The show's footage includes interviews, case files, reenactments, and more."
Rush considers "the opportunity to tell Jonathan's story and how he managed to turn his life around" a blessing.
"Working with the insanely talented JT Barnett adds to the magic, we couldn't have been given anyone finer to direct a project that means so much to Jonathan and myself," she said. "We are both honored and thrilled to deliver what is set to be a spell-binding tale of gut-wrenching pain, a beautiful and organic transformation and a phenomenal future."
This article was originally published on Benzinga.
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The 2018 iHeartRadio Music Awards Nominees Are Here!
Get ready for a huge night of music on Sunday, March 11, 2018! We just released the nominees for the 2018 iHeartRadio Music Awards — and with over 50 categories, you don't want to miss out!
For the fifth year in a row, we're celebrating the biggest songs and artists of 2017 heard on iHeartMedia radio stations nationwide and on iHeartRadio. This year the show will award winners across an expanded range of new categories, as well as classic categories such as Song of the Year and Collaboration of the Year.
Plus, don't forget: fan voting will determine this year's Best Fan Army winner presented by Taco Bell, as well as other awards, including Best Lyrics, Best Cover Song, Best Music Video, the Social Star Award, Best Solo Breakout and the first-ever Cutest Musician's Pet, Best Boy Band and Best Remix awards. Keep voting here through awards night because a live social media vote will determine the winners of the Best Performance and Best Dressed awards, which will be announced immediately after the event!
With Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Bruno Mars, Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee, Justin Bieber, DJ Khaled and The Chainsmokers all earning multiple nominations, we can't wait to see who will earn the night's biggest honors! Held at the historic, "Fabulous" Forum in Los Angeles, the event will simulcast live on TBS, TNT and truTV at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT, as well as on iHeartMedia radio stations nationwide and on iHeartRadio. TV subscribers can also watch the iHeartRadio Music Awards on the truTV, TNT and TBS apps.
For the first time ever, this year iHeartRadio will present seven awards in the seven nights leading up to the Sunday, March 11 telecast. Each night at 8 p.m. ET, an artist will be presented their award and give an acceptance speech.
Click here to grab your tickets to the event and vote to support your favorite artists so you can be part of music history!
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The owner of the hobby store sold me lot of airplane kits, and balsa wood but he said by law he can't sell me the glue. So mom had to make the trip.


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Call Buttafuoco & Associates today: 1-800-NOW-HURT.
While workers' compensation should cover any fall from a height suffered at your construction site, an additional legal claim might be applicable if the fall was preventable and due to another's negligence.
Your employer should plan ahead to complete the job safely. Planning includes budgeting for safety equipment and allocating time for training and safe set-up. Your employer should provide you with safety equipment compliant with OSHA and New York state safety standards. Finally, your employer should provide proper training on safety equipment use and safety standards on the construction site.
Skeletal injuries are one of the most common results of a fall from a height. Skull or head injuries can cause brain damage and lead to the end of your career due to cognitive impairment.
Spinal injuries can make returning to work impossible as they often cause paralysis or long-term disability.
Arms, legs, and ribs are also commonly at risk during a fall. Recovering from an injury to your arms, legs, or ribs can keep you out of work for weeks or even months.
When a fall from a height occurs at a construction site, you will be able to file a claim with your employer's workers' compensation insurance. This coverage works as long as you are on the clock and performing work-related duties.
The scaffolding company failed to anchor the base of the scaffolding, which collapsed under you.
A ladder company manufactured a faulty ladder whose locking hinge became loose while in use.
An architect who designed a platform without adequate braces for weight.
In most cases you are unable to file suit against your employer if he has workers' compensation insurance (i.e., he guarantees to pay your medical bills and a portion of your wages, you agree to not sue him); however, New York has an exception. The Scaffold Law allows you to sue your employer (or the property owner) if you are injured in a "gravity-related" accident. For more information about whether this law applies to your case, call the construction accident attorneys at Buttafuoco & Associates.
How do I get help filing my claim?
Seeking damages for injuries after a fall from a great height can be difficult, especially because those injuries are often catastrophic. Fortunately, you are not alone. A New York construction accident attorney can help you file a claim against a third party or simply ensure your employer gives you the compensation you need and deserve in a workers' compensation claim.
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Bindings is one of the key topics in the Einstein Analytics designer layer. On this page, I have collected different resources for you to become a binding hero.
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Age of Empires II's HD remaster continues to flourish on Steam, with a brand new expansion – the third for the remaster, and the fourth overall – now announced. Entitled Rise of the Rajas, the expansion takes players to the far east, adding four new civilisations and four new campaigns.
I've just learned that Age of Empires II isn't on our list of the best strategy games on PC, so I'm off to have a word with someone.
There are also a few bug fixes, five new random maps, five new special maps, five new real world maps, two new units (the battle elephant and the imperial skirmisher), and new environmental features, such as rainforests and shallows. This terrain is shown alongside the new civs in a series of truly luscious screenshots on Steam.
For fans of the original, it's an oddly thrilling thing to see this 90s classic treated with the games-as-service model and getting regular fresh content. Rise of the Rajas will release in just five days' time on December 19th. Pre-orders are not live at time of writing, but if it costs the same as previous expansions it'll be £6.99 ($9.99 US). Check out the Steam page for more.


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Discover your dream home with the Austin homes for sale below or read on to find out more about Southwest Austin real estate!
Perhaps one of the most desirable of the Southwest Austin real estate communities is Circle C, it was developed over 20 years ago and has gradually matured into a collection of established, comfortable homes on large lots and winding roads.
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They say a week is a long time in politics. Of more importance, a season is a hell of a long time in football. It might only be ten months since we were in the Championship, but it has changed a lot.
Wigan should soar into the 2018/19 Championship season full of confidence after vanquishing all comers in League One during the previous campaign.
On May 11th, 2013, Wigan Athletic beat Manchester City in the final to win the FA Cup for the first time in their history, but that glory was overshadowed when relegation to the second tier of English football was confirmed just three days later.


The Civic Museum "Attilio and Cleofe Gaffoglio Museum" offers to the public a view of valuable collections of jewellery, ivories, porcelain, porcelain, sculptures and paintings dating from the 14th to the 20th century, which has collected and Attilio Gaffoglio Museum at his home in arccolto ' over the past 40 years. His house soon becomes a kind of House Museum; in fact, he exhibits the works and objects of art for material and type; by his own admission, he thinks that should be exposed to the public and available to all. The donation to the city of Rapallo takes place early in the year 2000 and comprises 303 objects and works of art: ancient porcelains, ivories, ceramics, icons and a small nucleus of scultute paintings and other items of different matter. On 17 July 2000 Attilio Gaffoglio Museum dies suddenly leaving the city of rapallo, heir of the remaining works, more than 400 between porcelain, ivories, enamels, paintings and jewellery. Among the ivories, noteworthy are the splendid 15th century casket attributable to bottega degli Embriachi Venetian, the Crucifix of ' 600 runs in Flanders, the oval produced in Germany in the ' 600 in a fine frame and then the "tankard". mugs with lid carved ivory to relief and "scrimshaws", engravings on marine mammal bone. Among the porcelain, Italian, French, German and English the core pi? consistent and significant? consisting of those performed by the Meissen manufactory. Between jewellery, particularly valuable objects are executed in St. Petersburg by Faberg? during the reign of Tsar Nicholas II. After the death of Attilio Gaffoglio Museum,? the commune of rapallo had also a large number of paintings, almost all of landscape, authors of 800 and early ' 900, as Feng, Follini, Bagley, Raina and Delleani. The path begins in the upper room Museum that collects the silvers, the ivories, the Woods and ends in the Hall on the ground floor, where are the porcelains, paintings and sculptures.


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From the heart of Norwalk to Danbury Fair, a mixed bag on Black Friday
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Shoppers pass the "Santa HQ" at Danbury Fair in Danbury, Conn., on Friday, Nov. 26, 2021. The mall's parking lots were filling fast on the 2021 installment of Black Friday.
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Black Friday at the SoNo Collection, in Norwalk, Conn. Nov. 26, 2021.
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A boy gets a hug from Santa Claus on Black Friday at the Danbury Fair Mall, in Danbury, Conn. Nov. 26, 2021.
Black Friday at the Danbury Fair Mall, in Danbury, Conn. Nov. 26, 2021.
Customers wait in line outside a store on Black Friday at the Danbury Fair Mall, in Danbury, Conn. Nov. 26, 2021.
With a view from above of a crammed Black Friday parking lot at Danbury Fair, the vehicles kept coming as noon approached on a blustery day.
Not long after, the sun broke through for an hour or so — providing one more ray of light for the 2021 shopping season for retailers.
From the heart of Norwalk to Federal Road in Brookfield, Black Friday kicked off on the Route 7 corridor with mixed results. Walmart saw only sparse attendance at its 5 a.m. opening on Main Avenue in Norwalk near the Wilton line, but a sibling store on Connecticut Avenue near Darien was far busier.
The SoNo Collection in South Norwalk was also slow to ramp up after opening at 9 a.m., but the mall's general manager Matt Seebeck said he expects a strong weekend and holiday shopping season. The mall had only a portion of its stores open in its first holiday go-around in 2019, then the COVID-19 pandemic pushed many people to purchase gifts online last year.
"Starting two weeks before Christmas is where we see a lot of people return," Seebeck said Friday morning. "We're very pleased with how people have returned to in-person shopping."
Cargo port delays and other supply chain issues may prompt some people to grab what they can get right away in stores on Black Friday and soon after, rather than take a chance of items not arriving in time closer to Christmas.
While there was no line early into the noon hour for Santa Claus at Danbury Fair, several stores had lines of shoppers waiting their turn, including Apple, Aerie, Pacsun and Pandora. And against the backdrop of its centerpiece carousel, the mall's food court was virtually standing-room only, as shoppers grabbed whatever spot they could find to get a bite with bags stashed tableside.
Danbury Fair's marketing chief Pam Wiles said crowds had been building steadily since 10 a.m. despite the wet and windy weather outside, with many of the vehicles arriving off Interstate 84 with New York plates.
"It wasn't a surprise to see the parking lot as busy as it was," Wiles said Friday during the noon hour. "People are excited to be back shopping in person. I think they want the option to have things tangible again, the holiday presentation — they love that."
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Lead Hearst Connecticut writer on state economy and providing local business coverage for The Norwalk Hour and Danbury News-Times, also contributing to the Connecticut Post, New Haven Register, Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Time; and penning a monthly column on personal finance for Connecticut Magazine. Before joining Hearst Connecticut, I started up a growth economy website called Enterprise CT chronicling Connecticut startups. Before that, I spent six years with the Fairfield County Business Journal, and before that the Boston Business Journal, the Rochester Business Journal, Mass High Tech and InsuranceTimes in Boston. Maine native and served two-year enlistment in the U.S. Army (Fifth Infantry Division at Fort Polk, La.) before attending Connecticut College.


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The Society and Security Insights (SSI) is the official scientific periodical of the Association of Asian universities, the main professional platform for open communication of leading scientists in the field of transnational cooperation, publishing original articles in a broad range of issues relevant to public security, its forms and manifestations, considered from the social science perspective. It provides a forum for researchers and academics to debate internationally relevant issues that fall within the scope of social sciences, including but not limited to:
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Q: More efficient sed on huge input files I regularly have to reduce huge db sql dumps (more than 100gb) down to more manageable file sizes by removing unnecessary INSERT statements. I do that with the following script.
I'm concerned that my script involves iterating multiple times through the source file, which is obviously computationally expensive.
Is there a way to combine all my SED statements into one, so the source file only needs to be processed once, or can be processed in a more efficient way?
sed '/INSERT INTO `attendance_log`/d' input.sql | \
sed '/INSERT INTO `analytics_models_log`/d' | \
sed '/INSERT INTO `backup_logs`/d' | \
sed '/INSERT INTO `config_log`/d' | \
sed '/INSERT INTO `course_completion_log`/d' | \
sed '/INSERT INTO `errorlog`/d' | \
sed '/INSERT INTO `log`/d' | \
sed '/INSERT INTO `logstore_standard_log`/d' | \
sed '/INSERT INTO `mnet_log`/d' | \
sed '/INSERT INTO `portfolio_log`/d' | \
sed '/INSERT INTO `portfolio_log`/d' | \
sed '/INSERT INTO `prog_completion_log`/d' | \
sed '/INSERT INTO `local_amosdatasend_log_entry`/d' | \
sed '/INSERT INTO `totara_sync_log`/d' | \
sed '/INSERT INTO `prog_messagelog`/d' | \
sed '/INSERT INTO `stats_daily`/d' | \
sed '/INSERT INTO `course_modules_completion`/d' | \
sed '/INSERT INTO `question_attempt_step_data`/d' | \
sed '/INSERT INTO `scorm_scoes_track`/d' | \
sed '/INSERT INTO `question_attempts`/d' | \
sed '/INSERT INTO `grade_grades_history`/d' | \
sed '/INSERT INTO `task_log`/d' > reduced.sql

Is this idea going in the right direction?
cat input.sql | sed '/INSERT INTO `analytics_models_log`/d' | sed '/INSERT INTO `backup_logs`/d' | sed '/INSERT INTO `config_log`/d' | sed '/INSERT INTO `course_completion_log`/d' | sed '/INSERT INTO `errorlog`/d' | sed '/INSERT INTO `log`/d' | sed '/INSERT INTO `logstore_standard_log`/d' | sed '/INSERT INTO `mnet_log`/d' | sed '/INSERT INTO `portfolio_log`/d' | sed '/INSERT INTO `portfolio_log`/d' | sed '/INSERT INTO `prog_completion_log`/d' | sed '/INSERT INTO `local_amosdatasend_log_entry`/d' | sed '/INSERT INTO `totara_sync_log`/d' | sed '/INSERT INTO `prog_messagelog`/d' | sed '/INSERT INTO `stats_daily`/d' | sed '/INSERT INTO `course_modules_completion`/d' | sed '/INSERT INTO `question_attempt_step_data`/d' | sed '/INSERT INTO `scorm_scoes_track`/d' | sed '/INSERT INTO `question_attempts`/d' | sed '/INSERT INTO `grade_grades_history`/d' | sed '/INSERT INTO `task_log`/d' > reduced.sql

A: If you have multiple sed ... | sed ... you can combine them by writing sed -e ... -e ... or sed ...;.... But in this case there is an even more efficient method:
sed -E '/INSERT INTO `(attendance_log|analytics_models_log|...)`/d'

Alternatively, switch to grep which could be even faster:
grep -vE 'INSERT INTO `(attendance_log|analytics_models_log|...)`'

or
grep -vFf <(printf 'INSERT INTO `%s`\n' attendance_log analytics_models_log ...)

You could even try to replace all ..._log and logs with a regex, if this is what you want. With this, you only have to explicitly list the non-log files:
INSERT INTO `([^`]*logs?|local_amosdatasend_log_entry|stats_daily|...)`

A: For ease of maintenance it may make sense to have a list of tables (in a file) that awk can use to filter the SQL script.
List of the (database) tables to skip ...
$ cat table.list
attendance_log
analytics_models_log
backup_logs
config_log
course_completion_log

Sample SQL script:
$ cat sample.sql
INSERT INTO attendance_log ...
INSERT INTO bubblegum ...
INSERT INTO backup_logs ...
INSERT INTO more_nonsense ...

Let awk do the pruning for us:
$ awk 'FNR==NR {table[$1];next} /^INSERT INTO / && $3 in table{next}1' table.list sample.sql
INSERT INTO bubblegum ...
INSERT INTO more_nonsense ...

NOTES:

*

*this is based solely on the fact the question only mentions INSERT INTO commands

*I'm assuming the lines (of interest) start with INSERT INTO (otherwise remove the ^)

*this solution will need additional checks/coding to address other SQL statements OP wants to remove

A: For ease of maintenance it may make sense to have a list of INSERT INTO <table>/d commands (in a file) that sed can use to filter the SQL script.
Storing the sed commands in a file, eg:
$ cat sed.cmds
/INSERT INTO attendance_log/d
/INSERT INTO analytics_models_log/d
/INSERT INTO backup_logs/d
/INSERT INTO config_log/d
/INSERT INTO course_completion_log/d

Sample SQL script:
$ cat sample.sql
INSERT INTO attendance_log ...
INSERT INTO bubblegum ...
INSERT INTO backup_logs ...
INSERT INTO more_nonsense ...

Invoking the file of sed commands:
$ sed -f sed.cmds sample.sql
INSERT INTO bubblegum ...
INSERT INTO more_nonsense ...


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Part 1: Tension between emergency powers and individual rights & liberties
By Scott Smith and Matthew "Mal" Richardson, partners at Best Best & Krieger LLP
Irvine, CA, May 12, 2020 — The government's broad powers to protect the public during declared emergencies are well- established, but this power is not unfettered. Emergency powers exist against a backdrop of individual rights and liberties, many of which, such as First Amendment rights to assemble and worship and 14th Amendment rights to be free from discrimination, are sacrosanct and should be abridged only after careful and cautious consideration — even in emergencies, like the coronavirus pandemic.
The courts have noted that an "inherent tension exists between the exercise" of personal freedoms and rights "and the government's need to maintain order during a period of social strife," as stated in the 1994 California appellate court decision In re Juan C. The government's burden is to successfully navigate that tension by protecting the public health and safety, while preserving individual rights and liberties. "[T]he government must make every effort to avoid trammeling its citizens' constitutional rights. By the same token, those rights are not absolute. '[T]he Government's regulatory interest in community safety can, in appropriate circumstances, outweigh an individual's liberty interest,'" the court said. This tension was most recently manifest by U.S. Attorney General William Barr ordering all federal prosecutors to monitor coronavirus-related restrictions from state and local governments "that could be violating the constitutional rights and civil liberties of individual citizens."
Unfortunately for the government, there are no black-and-white answers to how much proscription of liberties and rights is too much. In fact, depending on the nature of the emergency, a justifiable short-term infringement may not be justified in the long-term. In general, courts are extremely deferential to governmental decision-making.
The purpose of this article is not to provide answers, but to describe the relevant questions and analysis to avoid liability arising from the exercise of emergency powers. Here is a brief overview of key issues to spot and questions to ask as local government continues to respond to the novel coronavirus pandemic:
Freedom of Assembly and Association
Protests: local agencies can regulate aspects of protests but must do so within the parameters of deferential constitutional and emergency powers case law.
Does the local agency have an up-to-date, constitutional ordinance regulating protests and similar free speech gatherings?
If there is no ordinance, is the proposed approach to regulating the event in line with case law?
Access to public spaces: limiting access to public spaces can violate rights to assemble and travel.
Do restrictions restrict public access more than necessary to protect the public's health and safety?
Do restrictions limit access only to residents? If so, such restrictions could violate rights to travel.
Do bans on large gatherings that prohibit holding worship services contain exceptions for other activities that could render the emergency order hostile to religious exercise and constitutionally suspect?
Equal Protection and Discrimination Issues
14th Amendment Equal Protection Rights
Do emergency orders treat different classes of people differently? For example, are certain at-risk populations (e.g., seniors) treated differently than others because of their status?
Age discrimination: Do orders not allow older residents to participate fully and equally? Are they singled out? Is the justification for any necessary disparate treatment well-substantiated in the record?
Disability discrimination: Do orders single out the sick or those with comorbidities?
Privacy Issues/HIPPA
Does testing/screening of employees or similar policies improperly expose an employee's health status?
Do policies requiring contact tracing or restricting the sick from certain activities improperly expose the sick individual's health status?
Preemption/Enforcement/Insurance
Many local agencies are grappling with how to act in response to state orders. Complicated issues of legal preemption are at play here.
If a local agency chooses to allow access to public spaces inconsistent with state orders, will that access expose people to a dangerous condition on city property (i.e., COVID-19)? Will insurers cover local agencies for claims arising from such exposure?
What are the liability consequences for leaving enforcement of state orders to the state and county?
Would a court reach a different conclusion applying California's Constitution as opposed to the U.S. Constitution, for example in the arena of public trust of natural resources?
In 1905, the U.S. Supreme Court wrote in Jacobsen v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts that "the liberty secured by the Constitution of the United States to every person . . . does not import an absolute right in each person to be, at all times and in all circumstances, wholly freed from restraint. There are manifold restraints to which every person is necessarily subject for the common good," .) But, as the California Court of Appeal noted in In re Juan C.: "government must make every effort to avoid trammeling its citizens' constitutional rights."
Resolving the tension between responding to an emergency and upholding individual rights and liberties is complicated. But there are answers. The trick to finding those answers is to spot the issues and ask the right questions.
In the coming weeks, we will explore each of these questions, and their potential answers, more closely.
Scott Smith is a partner at Best Best & Krieger LLP. Representing both businesses and public agencies, he advises on First Amendment issues at the intersection of public and private interests. He can be reached at scott.smith@bbklaw.com.
Matthew "Mal" Richardson is a partner at Best Best & Krieger LLP. He advises public and private clients on issues related to regulatory and land use law, with a focus on complex land transactions, the First Amendment, election and campaign law, and municipal governance. He can be reached at matthew.richardson@bbklaw.com.
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Anas Alkharboutli, a Syrian photographer working for dpa, has won the 27th Prix Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for War Correspondents' Young Reporter Trophy (Photo). His image of Kenana Yassin, a six-year-old girl receiving medical care after being injured in an airstrike in Idlib, is the first in his series, "The War in Syria", which won the award. The thirteen photographs show the lives of the people of Syria and their suffering during the civil war.
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Anas Alkharboutli, born in 1992, studied engineering at the University of Damascus. He began his career as a photojournalist in 2015 and soon became known for his sensitive images and videos of the Syrian civil war. Earlier this year, he was honoured for his work at the Pictures of the Year International (POYi).
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Bowe ha iniziato a dedicarsi all'attività sportiva all'età di 8 anni praticando il pattinaggio in linea, disciplina nella quale in seguito ha poi vinto 8 titoli mondiali e la medaglia d'oro nello sprint combinato ai Giochi panamericani di Rio de Janeiro 2007. Dopo i Mondiali del 2008 ha avuto anche una breve esperienza nella pallacanestro giocando nel ruolo di playmaker con i Florida Atlantic Owls, squadra nella quale ha militato per due anni prima di passare definitivamente al pattinaggio di velocità su ghiaccio.

Nel novembre 2015 Bowe stabilisce due record mondiali nel pattinaggio di velocità sulle distanze dei 1000 m e dei 1500 m.

Ha rappresentato gli  a tre edizioni consecutive dei Giochi olimpici invernali da  a , vincendo la medaglia di bronzo nell'inseguimento a squadre a  e nei 1000 m a . A quest'ultima edizione ha anche sfilato come alfiere della sua nazionale durante la cerimonia d'apertura, assieme al giocatore di curling John Shuster.

Palmarès

Pattinaggio di velocità

Olimpiadi
2 medaglie:
2 bronzi (inseguimento a squadre a ; 1000 m a ).

Mondiali distanza singola
 12 medaglie:
 4 ori (1000 m e 1500 m a Heerenveen 2015; 1000 m a Inzell 2019; 1000 m a Heerenveen 2021);
 3 argenti (500 m a Heerenveen 2015; 500 m a Kolomna 2016; 1500 m a Heerenveen 2021);
 5 bronzi (1000 m a Soči 2013; 1000 m e 1500 m a Kolomna 2016; 1500 m a Inzell 2019; inseguimento a squadre a Heerenveen 2023).

Mondiali sprint
 4 medaglie:
 2 ori (Astana 2015 e Seul 2016);
 1 argento (Changchun 2018);
 1 bronzo (Heerenveen 2019).

Coppa del Mondo
 Vincitrice della Grand World Cup nel 2016.
 Vincitrice della Coppa del Mondo 1000 m nel 2015 e nel 2016.
 Vincitrice della Coppa del Mondo 1500 m nel 2016.
 Miglior piazzamento nella Coppa del Mondo 500 m: 3ª nel 2016.
 Miglior piazzamento nella Coppa del Mondo mass start: 28ª nel 2015.
 45 podi (44 individuali, 1 a squadre):
 17 vittorie (tutte individuali);
 19 secondi posti (tutti individuali);
 9 terzi posti (8 individuali, 1 a squadre).

Coppa del Mondo - vittorie

Pattinaggio in linea

Mondiali
Su strada
 5 medaglie:
 4 ori (staffetta 5000 m ad Anyang 2006; 500 m e staffetta 5000 m a Cali 2007; staffetta 5000 m a Gijón 2008);
 1 bronzo (200 m a Cali 2007).

Su pista
 6 medaglie:
 4 ori (staffetta 3000 m ad Anyang 2006; staffetta 3000 m a Cali 2007; 300 m e staffetta 3000 m a Gijón 2008);
 1 argento (1000 m a Gijón 2008);
 1 bronzo (500 m a Gijón 2008).

Giochi panamericani
 1 medaglia:
 1 oro (sprint combinato a Rio de Janeiro 2007).

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