The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a series of critical and historic enforcement actions related to the sale and marketing of e-cigarettes to children. In the largest coordinated enforcement effort in the its history, the agency issued more than 1,300 warning letters and fines to retailers who illegally sold JUUL and other e-cigarette products to minors during a nationwide, undercover blitz of brick-and-mortar and online stores this summer. As a result of these violations of the law—and other indications that e-cigarette use among youth has hit epidemic proportions—FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, signaled that the agency intends to take new and significant steps to address this challenge in a speech at the agency's headquarters.
As part of the agency's Youth Tobacco Prevention Plan and ongoing work to protect youth from the dangers of tobacco products, the FDA has taken a series of actions over the past several months to more immediately target the illegal sales of e-cigarettes to youth, as well as the child-friendly marketing and appeal of these products.
The FDA is stepping up those efforts indefinitely. One aspect of the agency's plan will entail increased enforcement. The more than 1,300 warning letters and fines to retailers announced were part of a large-scale crack-down on the sale of e-cigarettes to minors at both brick-and-mortar and online retailers. The vast majority of the violations were for the illegal sale of five e-cigarette products—Vuse, Blu, JUUL, MarkTen XL, and Logic. These five brands currently comprise over 97% of the U.S. market for e-cigarettes.
In addition, the FDA also issued 12 warning letters to other online retailers who are selling misleadingly labeled and/or advertised e-liquids resembling child-friendly food products such as candy and cookies. These products were the subject of agency action in May and, subsequently, are no longer being sold with the offending labeling and advertising by the companies that received the May warning letters. However, the retailers receiving the warning letters today are still advertising and selling the violative products. Several of these retailers were also cited for illegally selling the products to minors.
In addition to these new actions, the FDA had previously issued more than 60 warning letters and fines to businesses that sold JUUL-brand products to minors stemming from another enforcement blitz this past spring. The agency also recently sent letters to JUUL Labs and several other companies requiring them to submit important documents to better understand the reportedly high rates of youth use and the particular youth appeal of their products. The FDA is currently investigating whether manufacturers introduced certain e-cigarette products to the market after August 8, 2016, and may be subject to enforcement for marketing those products without premarket authorization.
The agency also has issued more than 135 No-Tobacco-Sale Order Complaints, which can result in retailers being prohibited from selling tobacco products for specified periods.
The FDA now believes that youth use of e-cigarettes is reaching epidemic proportions. This belief is based on not just the results of the agency's enforcement actions, but also recent sales trends; news coverage; increased concerns among children, parents, and educators; as well as preliminary data that will be finalized and released in the coming months.
To address these trends, and as another part of the agency's effort, the FDA is reexamining its compliance policy dates for the submission of premarket tobacco applications to the FDA for certain e-cigarettes. Toward these goals, and recognizing the critical role manufacturers must play in curtailing youth use of their products, the FDA issued letters to the manufacturers of the five top-selling national brands. All of these brands—JUUL, Vuse, MarkTen XL, blu e-cigs, and Logic—made up a vast majority of the products illegally sold to minors as part of the blitz this summer. The agency is asking each company to submit to the FDA within 60 days plans describing how they will address the widespread youth access and use of their products. If they fail to do so, or if the plans do not appropriately address this issue, the FDA will consider whether it would be appropriate to revisit the current policy that results in these products remaining on the market without a marketing order from the agency. This could mean requiring these brands to remove some or all of their flavored products that may be contributing to the rise in youth use from the market until they receive premarket authorization and otherwise meet all of their obligations under the law.
As part of the FDA's comprehensive plan, the agency also continues to explore clear and meaningful measures to make tobacco products less toxic, appealing, and addictive, with an intense focus on youth. This could include measures on flavors/designs that appeal to youth, child-resistant packaging, and product labeling to prevent accidental child exposure to liquid nicotine. The FDA also issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking in March to seek public comment on the role that flavors in tobacco products play in attracting youth. Additionally, the agency plans to explore additional restrictions on the sale and promotion of ENDS to further reduce youth exposure and access to these products.
The FDA has also expanded "The Real Cost" public education campaign with messages focused on preventing youth use of e-cigarettes. The FDA will also launch a new, full-scale e-cigarette campaign targeted to youth.


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a. Model and data assimilation configuration
b. Radar velocity data of the evenly spaced thinning method (ESTM)
c. Experiment design and data description
3. Results of the case study—TC Mujigae
a. Case overview
b. SO characteristics of RSTM and ESTM
c. Track and intensity analysis and forecast
d. Analysis increments
e. Rainfall forecast after TC landfall
4. Performance of ESTM-EnKF and RSTM-EnKF with nine landfalling TCs
a. TC cases and experimental design
b. Track and intensity
c. Quantitative precipitation forecasting (QPF)
5. Conclusions and discussion
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Improved Prediction of Landfalling Tropical Cyclone in China Based on Assimilation of Radar Radial Winds with New Super-Observation Processing
Jianing Feng 1 , 2 , Yihong Duan 1 , Qilin Wan 3 , Hao Hu 1 , and Zhaoxia Pu 4
1 State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China
2 College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
3 Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology/Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Regional Numerical Weather Prediction, China Meteorological Administration, Guangzhou, China
This work explores the impact of assimilating radial winds from the Chinese coastal Doppler radar on track, intensity, and quantitative precipitation forecasts (QPF) of landfalling tropical cyclones (TCs) in a numerical weather prediction model, focusing mainly on two aspects: 1) developing a new coastal radar super-observation (SO) processing method, namely, an evenly spaced thinning method (ESTM) that is fit for landfalling TCs, and 2) evaluating the performance of the radar radial wind data assimilation in QPFs of landfalling TCs with multiple TC cases. Compared to a previous method of generating SOs (i.e., the radially spaced thinning method), in which the density of SOs is equal within the radial space of a radar scanning volume, the SOs created by ESTM are almost evenly distributed in the horizontal grids of the model background, resulting in more observations located in the TC inner-core region being involved in SOs. The use of SOs from ESTM leads to more cyclonic wind innovation, and larger analysis increments of height and horizontal wind in the lower level in an ensemble Kalman filter data assimilation experiment with TC Mujigae (2015). Overall, forecasts of a TC's landfalling position, intensity, and QPF are improved by radar data assimilation for all cases, including Mujigae and the other eight TCs that made landfall on the Chinese mainland in 2017. Specifically, through assimilation, TC landing position error and intensity error are reduced by 33% and 25%, respectively. The mean equitable threat score of extreme rainfall [>80 mm (3 h)−1] forecasts is doubled on average over all cases.
Corresponding author: Yihong Duan, duanyh@cma.gov.cn

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The suspect made the confession on the sidelines of a briefing by the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Mr Fatai Owoseni, on criminal activities in the state.
The suspect admitted being the mastermind of the alleged abduction of his boss's son.
Emmanuel, who claimed to be a trader at the Mandilas market, Lagos Island, was arrested along with one other, while on their way to collect a N5 million ransom demanded for the release of their victim.
The suspect claimed that he singlehandedly abducted the 10-year-old boy at Alafia area of Orile-Iganmu, on his way to school, as a way of paying his master back for refusing to settle him, after working for him for four years.
"I started staying with my Oga since 2013. He took me from my parents to stay with him so that I can learn how to sell clothes. In the agreement he had with my parents before he took me, he promised to settle me after four years.
"He started to count my apprenticeship from 2014. In 2016, when he was supposed to settle me, instead he opened another shop and asked me to be paying him N20, 000 monthly.
"I could not cope because of the recession in the country, so I asked him to settle me as agreed but he refused. Rather, he sent me back to the village.
. It was then that the idea of how to kidnap his son came to me. Last week Monday, around 7.30 a.m., I stayed along the route where his son normally passed to school at the Alafia area of orile.
"The boy emerged around 7.45 a.m. He came to me when I called him and I took him away," the suspect confessed.
for four days, until he was arrested around Apapa Road.
at Oyingbo. I called my Oga on phone the next day to pay N5 million into my account, if he hoped to see his son again. I sent him my account number.
"I was on my way to collect my ATM card from the bank along Apapa Road when I was arrested. I never knew that the police was on my trail," he added.
The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, while briefing newsmen on the arrest, said that the suspect, along with one other, kidnapped the 10-year old boy.
He said after kidnapping their victim, the suspects demanded for N5 million as ransom for the release of the boy.


My year in Viet Nam was unique in a few ways; first of all, it didn't last a full year. Secondly, I made three complete round trips between the U.S. and Nam… all of this within a 10-month period. Let me explain – I was in Nam during the waning days of the war. No one wanted to be there anymore, not even the officers. Some of our allies at that time were starting to pull out (or had already pulled out) and doing your R and R (Rest and Recuperation) in places like Sydney or Bangkok was no longer an option. It was either Hawaii or back home; of course I chose to go back home for 30 days!
In a way I didn't want to, knowing how extremely difficult it was going to be to come back to this God-forsaken place after 30 days in paradise, but maybe, just maybe God had a plan to keep me home. Perhaps the war would end while I was home and they would let me finish my days at Fort Ord or Fort Irwin, California. I would pray to that end. Besides, what is wrong with praying for the end of the war? Sister MacWilliams turned in her prayer request card every service with the same three requests: Pray for rain; Pray for Revival; Pray for the War to End! With me there as a rallying point for these prayers, we could do it, we could end the war! Jesus said, "If ye ask anything in my name, I will do it." So we would join our voices in prayer and we would get God to end this war, so that I could stay home where I belonged.
I was hopelessly lost! We had wandered down and around so many lanes and alleys…….it was over…….a group of thugs was preparing my demise at that very moment. What little I had would soon be divided between pimp-boy and his nefarious cohorts (whom I expected to be waiting behind the next tin-roofed shed).
And with that, the measuring and bargaining began; me and Jesus on one side and pimp-boy and his uncle Lee on the other…..it was a night to remember!
My first Sunday back at the Lighthouse was truly when I felt like I was home. Being with mom and dad and sleeping in my own bed were nice, but it wasn't until I heard the organ and piano pounding out the familiar strains of "When we all get to Heaven…" and Brother Mac's rough baritone, growling out the chorus….."…what a day of rejoicing that will be!" did I really feel like I was HOME! Yes, this was home. This is where my life had begun; at least my spiritual life, and what else mattered? Here we were all "with one accord and in one place"; together with those who loved me and loved God. All of my friends were happy to see me and the girls…….the girls were all beautiful! They all had 'round' eyes! Something I hadn't seen in six months. Six months that seemed like 6 years. I had forgotten how beautiful American girls were. Some that were just girls when I had left for basic training, 18 months earlier, had blossomed into young ladies (if you catch my meaning). I was the toast of the town (of course we only toasted with Pepsi) for those 30 days. I would tell war stories at the Sunday night service and then have my pick of young lovelies to take out to Loop's Restaurant afterward - A nice BLT sandwich followed by an hour of 'parking' down at Surfer's Point (famous for its long-curling breakers for surfing and also for its totally dark and desolate parking area – for making out). Before my R&R was finished I would be re-united with my childhood sweetheart. She was all grown up now and had graduated High School. It was time we started thinking about our future together.
Life was good – Life was REAL GOOD! I didn't want it to end. My Pastor wanted me home; my Mother wanted me home; my Girlfriend wanted me home. I shouldn't have to go back to war!
O.K. God, let's make it happen. Let's see what we can do about keeping me here where I belong. I know it's your will; it has to be your will. Everything is falling into place. God is in control, Hallelujah!!
And with that, I drifted off to sleep; safe and sound in my own bed in Ventura, California. The war was a million miles away and thoughts of my sweetheart danced in my head.


Free parking, Driveway, Garden, Up and downstairs to yourselves, 2 Toilets, 1 Bathroom, 2 Double Bedrooms, 1 Large Kitchen, 1 Living room, Front Shed and loft for storage, free parking for visitors, Close to shops, schools and public transport. Private Road. If you received Housing Benefit toward your rent, then the £ 198 shouldn't be a problem. Seriously about swapping please, no time waster. New Kitchen, New toilets and New Bathroom, just fitted in 2019. THE ENTIRE HOUSE HAS BEEN PAINTED WHITE. NEWLY DECORATED.


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Alex Cruz: British Airways CEO on Tech, Innovation And The Future Of Flying
June 16, 2019 The LatestTravel
This past week I sat down with Alex Cruz, British Airways Chairman & CEO, in a place we're both all too comfortable and familiar: a seat on a long haul flight at 33,000 feet.
The reason for our chat was very simple. He was there to hear five ideas on the future of travel and technology during "Pitch On A Plane", a British Airways sponsored event in partnership with Founders Forum, a community of the most elite minds in technology and the start up world.
Via in-flight Wifi, the panel, including Alex Cruz and other IAG executives, heard live pitches from the ground, narrowing five travel start-up finalists down to three, while asking live questions to the start-up founders ahead of London Tech Week.
The event was part of a new initiative titled "BA2119", a programme focused on fuels, customer experience and careers of the future with a £6.5 billion investment designed to take British Airways to 2020 and beyond using futurologists, bespoke research and competitions like this.
As to "why this event?" Mr. Cruz was very clear: technology is the future of almost everything in the airline industry and it's a vital component of his business.
Recalling his days at Click Airlines, an airline he founded during the early days of online booking, Mr. Cruz noted that at times, the airline felt like a technology company that happened to fly planes – and not the other way around. In a perfect world, British Airways would become the same.
But ultimately, you – the person reading this – don't care about soundbites or multi billion dollar investment figures that airlines love to tote in front of customers, or the media. You care about your air journey through a microscopic and selfish lens because travel is precious, often expensive and limited to your very limited free time. There's nothing wrong with being selfish here, and like all airlines British Airways has plenty of room to improve.
You want minimal queues, you want your flight to take off on time, your luggage to disembark swiftly and you'd like to stay connected to the ones you love while on board. In a perfect world, you'd love to have speedy and actionable assistance when travel plans don't go as planned too. You'd also like a nimble mobile app that can solve most of your problems without speaking to anyone. It's in the realm of this discussion that my ears perked up during this mid air conversation.
Moving from soundbites to why this matters to you, Alex Cruz offered a two headed focus.
Technology will help the airline…
1) Give customers what they want and expect more consistently, and react more efficiently when they can't, due to unavoidable issues like… weather.
2) Unlock opportunities to delight customers with fewer "pain points" in every step of the travel process, from booking to boarding to baggage claim. This is where future innovation comes in.
In short: technology will help the airline to get things wrong less often, learn from it faster when they do, and innovate and iterate in future opportunities to do things which customers might not expect that improve their journey.
For this reason, it comes as no surprise that the airline has invested heavily in the San Francisco Bay and Silicon Valley tech communities, including the "Pitch On A Plane" x Founders Forum contest. The groups members include the founder of Pandora, WeTransfer and minds behind HDTV, the Ultrasound and more, and there's obvious benefit to an ear to the ground approach with travel start-ups.
Diving deeper, I asked Alex Cruz for specifics on Hangar 51, the International Airlines Group (IAG) innovation and incubation arm which was clearly named to inspire feelings of Area 51, the mysterious "classified" base in America's West, rumoured to have space technology – and perhaps, aliens too. If you doubt his passion for technology, you should understand that this is a man who will ask you what type of mobile phone you use, to gauge your level of detail to shifting trends. I like my Google Pixel 2 XL very much, thank you very much.
Hangar 51 assists start-ups with ten weeks of access to airlines like British Airways, with a hands on ability to trial select products on real customers while gaining access to crucial BA data and support, with the aim of furthering their big airline innovation idea. It all sounds great, but I wanted to know if it actually accomplishes anything, or has already? Short answer: yes.
I asked Mr. Cruz for a Hangar 51 project which has or will lead to genuine innovation to be enjoyed by BA, and perhaps no other airline. Mr. Cruz responded with a technology the airline has long incubated which effectively uses cameras in an augmented reality sort of way, reminiscent only of video games or the hit futurist film "Minority Report". Utilising the "smart" video feed, the airline is able to track and identify each and every gate process digitally, thus creating a goldmine of data behind every event.
What does that actually mean?
It means the airline will know the precise time between the moment the parking brakes stop at the gate and when the jet bridge is connected for passengers to disembark. It means cameras can track each cargo door, noting what's coming in and out, when, and exactly how long it's taking. Via the data gained, the airline can figure out areas that are slowing things down, or doing really well.
Furthermore, the tech is *apparently* on the cusp of being able to visually recognise each passengers individual checked bag, much like biometric boarding, which would allow the airline to send a push notification that said bag has been safely loaded – and hopefully not that it wasn't.
And there were others too: like a virtual airport queue system, which would allow people to reserve their place in bag drop lanes before actually arriving at the airport, much the way Disney's FastPASS allows eager riders to register their interest in a ride long before they actually plan to get on board. Many of the best restaurants in Hong Kong offer a similar virtual queue system, which – side note – has completely ruined my dining expectations elsewhere in the world.
Data from the virtual queue requests could then help the airline better estimate peak staffing needs, which would reduce pesky pain points like waiting in line. No one likes to wait for anything, anywhere – so why should the airport be any different?
But What About Now?
British Airways is all over the grading spectrum when it comes to present tech implementation, but new initiatives seem to be accelerating, at least in part due to Alex Cruz's obsession with technology.
For now, the airline suffers from a second rate mobile app, a website that lags most others and a fleet with room for a refresh, without guaranteed wifi on all flights. A nimble, reliable mobile app is priceless ground for airlines, with the ability to push helpful notifications, track bags, learn about fare sales and offer last minute flight upgrades. BA is batting about 2/5 on these issues at the moment.
To the counter point, actual operational efficiency has increased to a level where British Airways ranks in the 10 most punctual of all major airlines, thanks at least in part to the airlines obsession with data mining. It's no secret that airline customers number one factor for satisfaction is an on time arrival.
In conversation with Alex Cruz, it was clear that using data can do everything from tell a ground crew how many bottles of champagne to load on a long haul flight, to better organise where each plane parks at Heathrow to assist passengers with tight connections. Why make a person jump through three terminals if you can park next door?
In addition, the airline was the first to introduce remote controlled electric "Mototok" gate tows, which are emissions free and replaced troublesome diesel vehicles. In addition, electric vehicles were commissioned for tarmac transfers and other futuristic efficiencies.
The launch of the airlines first Airbus A350-1000's this summer will mark a significant breakthrough in many regards, with latest generation wifi, an industry leading business class seat and improved fuel efficiency. And to be fair, being late to wifi was kind of like being late to a new iPhone launch. Many early systems have already been replaced due to sub par speeds, and the new systems installed on BA jets are amongst the fastest in the skies.
British Airways has also been an early adaptor of Biometric Boarding processes, which allow multiple passengers to pass through boarding gates simultaneously, without reaching for a passport thanks to facial recognition.
In trials, Airbus A380's have been fully boarded in under 25 minutes, and eliminating the need to pull documents out has proven popular, at least with most travellers who realise that privacy is a thing of the past in the modern world. As an early adaptor, the airline will be in the drivers seat as this tech expands to all gates and reduces the boarding time, even in outposts around the world.
There are few things I loath as much as boarding an 8PM flight at 7PM and sitting for an hour. If everyone could board swiftly at 7:35, it would create 35 minutes of productivity and potential for fresh air that passengers don't currently enjoy. That's highly valuable time.
What will the future hold for flying and travel booking in general?
As to what precisely the future will hold, Alex Cruz was a bit more coy.
When asked about innovation in the booking process, a la the way the internet revolutionised ticket sales less than two decades ago, Cruz proclaimed that he had a definitive idea of where things were going, but didn't want to elaborate further. The same way he judged my phone, I'd say he felt as if he knew something too good to share. We can only hope. But then again, on a plane full of Silicon Valley tech wizards, perhaps he was just protecting a concept.
Will British Airways one day operate flying cars?
Who knows, we didn't speak about it, but one of the three finalists selected via the Pitch On A Plane contest on board this BOAC 747-400 from San Francisco to London was Reynolds Aero, a group of propulsions wiz kids who believe they've cracked the key to vertical take off and landing flights. If an airline were to take part in future trials, one could only assume BA would be in early doors. There's a lot of benefit in that.
It's abundantly clear that Alex Cruz is playing the long game by focusing on future tech while shoring up early day operational needs, some of which are just now being felt at British Airways two years into his tenure. After all, operational change at this scale often takes years, not days.
As the potential fruits of previous long bets in tech come to the forefront of your actual journeys in todays travel world, we'll have more to go by in our judgement of British Airways as a premier airline on the world stage. One thing is for certain: future innovation is a key focus of today with Mr. Cruz. Numbers don't lie, and we know the enigmatic CEO will be looking at them, along with teams, plural, of data scientists.
If the airline can make the numbers work for everyone, in ways we experiences either hands on or behind the scenes to make things on our flights work the way we hope more often, there's reason for optimism in British Airways future.
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June 16, 2019 GavT Reply
Will technology help them delivery a properly stocked bar in First Class and have enough LPGS to satiate a handful of passengers??? Probably not…
June 16, 2019 Myles D Reply
It's all sounds marvelous , but if you cannot charge a mobile phone on a decrepit aircraft on a leisure flight , then to some it's simply all hot air, not all of us are Gold card holderswho fly on expense accounts who skip the meals because they need some sleep . Some of us are holiday passengers paying hard cash for a flight, and just want to have a good flight, when you pay some £90 to reserve a seat in club, you do have high expectations.
June 17, 2019 Lindsay Reply
You hit the nail right on the head…… get basics right and loyalty will follow, stop being greedy and loyalty will follow….all the whiz bang tech in the world won't impress those who work damn hard for their flights…..
June 16, 2019 Georges Reply
As long as they hide behind technicalities to avoid compensating first class paying customers and lack the decency to reply to emails, I'm not so confident about their future.
They may have saved a few hundreds £ on a £6k ticket but I'm certainly avoiding them from now on on long haul flights.
June 16, 2019 journeyingjohn Reply
Wonderful distraction but I wish they'd get the basics right consistently before this kind of frippery. Cabins still dirty, food still unreliable, IFE still a gamble esp on 777-200 &747s and in 2019 WiFi still patchy and then the most costly in the sky when it's both available and working.
Sounds like lots of exciting ideas but also that Cruz is so far detached from the reality of enduring a BA flight that he simply doesn't get how much needs to be fixed before these future projects.
June 16, 2019 Harry Hv Reply
Garbage PR not worth reprinting even on a slow news day. Remember that
a) BA's punctuality technology is too backward to handle latecomers, so BA has the most spiteful anti-customer policy ("Conformance") = not letting its customers airside of security from 35 minutes ahead of schedule – even if the aircraft hasnt yet arrived at the gate
b) BA's catering technology has an accidental or more likely deliberate bug, making it all but impossible for all F passengers to get their first choice of meals and drinks through the flight
c) and as this is supposed to be about loyalty programs, BA is distinguished by having the most stinking-colossal egregious award fees in the industry.
Next time you get a press release from BA I suggest you put it straight in the bin
June 17, 2019 Gilbert Ott Reply
That's just absolutely false in every way. It's slander and if you weren't a massive tool hiding behind an anonymous moniker on the internet without a working email address I'd sue you for slander.
The original article was never updated, and was pasted in plenty of places which would clearly identify that. The person in question responded, and then I responded and then the issue was buried for two years until a recent content piece. You continue to try to hurt me personally on a daily basis without fact or merit and you should be ashamed of your place in the world.
There would be, but he/she has never relented to giving an email address so that we could start a discussion on what has gone wrong in their life. It's just a spineless, nameless troll on the internet without fact or basis.
June 17, 2019 Lady London Reply
I'm still waiting. "In conversation with Alex Cruz, it was clear that using data can do everything from tell a ground crew how many bottles of champagne to load on a long haul flight". Really? How about loading enough meals, and enough selection so people can get the meal they prefer. From reports that's not even happening in F right now and not in J.
The tenor of most of the posters' comments here is "get the basics right at the customer facing end – particfularly budget and logistics for sufficient food and drink and a reasonable level of meal choice on planes" and then we can talk about your technology working.
If everyone can only use an app during irrops, actually the privileged ones will be those with a number to call.
I accept maintaining a good level of cooperation with BA is a good thing for any blogger with a British audience. However would like to see more content and reality coming from British Airways and not just hear from them how efficiently our data is being mined by BA.
Here's what I have to say here: in many ways you're totally right and I agree with you. But also, there's no "cooperation". I asked questions, I got answers and I shared them. I have no horse in the race, I am just a person who loves travel and wants to see airlines deliver.
I think I tried to address the main gripe you mention, (which I and others share) in the article, with the section stating that ultimately you don't care about any soundbites or ideas if it doesn't contribute to your personal journey. If it's not right, it's not right.
The point, which at least I derived from this was that BA is trying to do better at these basic things so that it gets things right more often. They see data and new technologies which learn on the job as a key way to do that. In affecting change in a massive corporation, I find that these sort of solutions tend not to be like flicking the lights on or restarting a phone. It's not an excuse, nor would I ever give an airline one – but it's important to always look at how these things evolve.
I can only hope they get better and that the things discussed are actioned. I don't have a horse in the race, I just want all airlines to give passengers what they promise, and more often.


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Source Love, Betty.Fort Leonard Wood 's Lieber Heights Project. 14 August 1960. Springfield News-Leader Collection. News-Leader, Springfield, Missouri.
Description An outside look at the newly constructed Lieber Heights section of Fort Leonard Wood. Similar images published in the News & Leader on August 14, 1960.


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John (Johan) August Ericsson, född 6 april 1907 i Kinna församling, Älvsborgs län, död där 25 december 1977, var en svensk socialdemokratisk politiker, ofta kallad enbart "Kinna-Ericsson" eftersom han kom från Kinna.

Ericssons föräldrar var fabrikssnickaren Johan och Alma Eriksson. Han anställdes 1920 som textilarbetare vid AB Claes Håkanssons fabriker, sedermera Kinnasand, i Kinna. Efter att ha innehaft olika förtroendeuppdrag i Svenska textilarbetareförbundet och lokalt i Socialdemokratiska arbetarepartiet blev han ledamot av riksdagens andra kammare från 1937.

Ericsson var konsultativt statsråd 1945–1948 ("bränsleminister"), handelsminister 1948–1955, folkhushållningsminister 1949–1950 socialminister 1955–1957, ledamot av Socialdemokratiska arbetarepartiets partistyrelse 1940–1960, VD för Vin- & Spritcentralen 1957–1973, riksdagsledamot 1937–1970.

John Ericsson var gift med Anna Ingeborg Karlström sedan 1928 och far till två döttrar samt svärfar till Lennart Daléus. Brodern Gustav Ericsson var kommun- och landstingspolitiker (S) i Marks kommun respektive Älvsborgs län.

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Marcello De Cicco, M.D.; Mira Matovic, M.D.; Roberto Bortolussi, M.D.; Franco Coran, M.D.; Dario Fantin, M.D.; et al Fabio Fabiani, M.D.; Maria Caserta, M.D.; Cristina Santantonio, M.D.; Augusto Fracasso, M.D.
* Associate Professor, † Staff Anesthesiologist, Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy, ‡ Staff Radiologist, Department of Radiology.
Received from the Departments of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy, and Radiology, National Cancer Institute, Aviano, Italy.
The present study, which stems from a prior investigation of our group, 4 was conducted to retrospectively evaluate the patterns of neurolytic spread in patients with cancer or therapy-related anatomic distortions of the celiac area, as judged by computed tomography (CT). The patterns of injectate spread in relation to the anatomic distortions and analgesic results according to the different patterns of injectate spread are analyzed and discussed.
Between 1989 and 1996, after obtaining approval from the Institutional Review Board at the National Cancer Institute, Aviano, Italy, 177 cancer patients with upper abdominal pain, regarded as of celiac ganglion origin and for which pharmacologic treatment proved either ineffective or limited by side effects, underwent CT-guided single-needle NCPB via an anterior approach. All patients gave written informed consent before the procedure. The hospital charts of these patients were reviewed, and a radiologist who was blinded to the aim of the study selected 105 patients whose celiac area was compressed or infiltrated by tumor or distorted by previous surgery or radiation therapy. Preblock patient characteristics, diseases, and therapies are shown in table 1.
The block technique was performed as previously described. 4 In addition, when a large anatomic alteration of the celiac area was present, the needle path was chosen to reach the part of the celiac area free from alteration. CT scans were taken during all phases of the block. In particular, after needle withdrawal, serial CT scans were obtained above and below the injection site up to the lower and upper limits of neurolytic solution (30 ml mixed with contrast) spread. Alcohol spread evaluation was based on the presence of the contrast medium around the anterolateral wall of the aorta, anterior to the crura of the diaphragm, from above the celiac artery to the superior mesenteric artery. To evaluate CT patterns of neurolytic spread, this area (celiac area) was divided, on the frontal plane, into four nearly equal quadrants: upper right and left and lower right and left, defined by a horizontal line passing just caudad to the root of the celiac artery and by a vertical line at the midline of the central wall of the aorta (fig. 1). Results were expressed as the number of quadrants into which the contrast spread, i.e. , four quadrants with contrast (fig. 2); three quadrants with contrast; two quadrants with contrast, both superior or inferior, or both unilateral, right or left quadrants (fig. 3); and one quadrant with contrast. The same four-quadrant scheme was adopted to evaluate CT patterns of anatomic distortion. The patterns of contrast spread according to the number of quadrants with anatomic distortion were analyzed.
Fig. 1. The division of the celiac area into four quadrants: two upper (quadrants 1 and 2) and two lower (quadrants 3 and 4) in relation to the celiac artery (see text).
Fig. 2. Computed tomographic scans show (A ) the needle tip (arrow) between the celiac and the superior mesenteric arteries and the right side of the celiac area (quadrant 3 of fig. 1) compressed by liver (asterisks); (B ) the preaortic bilateral contrast spread cephalad and (C ) caudad to the celiac artery. This pattern is consistent with four quadrants with contrast (quadrants 1, 2, 3, and 4 of fig. 1).
Fig. 3. Computed tomographic scans show (A ) the needle tip (arrow) cephalad to the celiac artery and (B ) the preaortic unilateral contrast spread cephalad and (C ) caudad to the celiac artery. The left side of the celiac area (quadrant 2 and 4 of fig. 1) is compressed–infiltrated by a tumor mass (asterisk). This pattern is consistent with two quadrants with contrast (quadrants 1 and 3 of fig. 1).
Patients assessments by visual analog scale (VAS), obtained 24 h before and 30 days after block, were reviewed to evaluate the pain degree. Criteria for VAS scores evaluation were as previously reported. 4 Because the mean preblock VAS value was 8 (table 2), we judged the pain relief after block as good when the score on the VAS was less than 5 and poor when it was 5 or more. Pain relief still good 30 days after block was judged as long-lasting. Pain relief at 30 days after block according to the number of quadrants with contrast was analyzed. The evaluation of pain relief was completed up until 30 days after block because complete medical records of all patients were available only until that time.
The chi-square test and Fisher exact test were used for comparison of proportions in independent groups. Spearman rank correlation was used to evaluate differences between ranked groups (Spearman's rank correlation coefficient = rs). 10 Data shown as mean values ± SD were analyzed by the Student t test. 10 A significant difference was accepted at P < 0.05.
The anatomic alterations of the celiac area caused by primary or metastatic cancer were as follows: a regional infiltration or compression in 58 (55%) and in 20 (19%) patients, respectively. In the remaining 27 patients, the regional distortions were a consequence of a cephalopancreaticoduodenectomy in 13 (12%) instances, of a cephalopancreaticoduodenectomy plus radiotherapy in 9 (9%), and of radiotherapy alone in 5 (5%) patients. The patterns of contrast spread expressed as the number of quadrants with contrast are shown in figure 4. Overall, four, three, two, and one quadrants with contrast were observed in 9 (8%), 21 (20%), 49 (47%), and 26 (25%) patients, respectively. In only 9 of 105 patients (8%) did the contrast enter the quadrant with anatomic alteration (fig. 4). A significant inverse correlation was observed between the number of quadrants with anatomic alterations and the number of quadrants with contrast (P < 0.001;table 3). In 16 of 105 patients (15%), the contrast did not enter the quadrants free from anatomic distortion (fig. 4).
Fig. 4. Patterns of contrast spread in the celiac area (see fig. 1) of the 105 patients with regional anatomic alterations.
Table 2shows VAS pain scores according to the number of quadrants with contrast. Thirty days after block, significant differences in VAS scores, depending on number of quadrants with contrast, were observed (table 2). A significant difference in long-lasting pain relief was noted between patients with contrast in four quadrants (9 of 9, 100%; 95% confidence interval, 66–100) and those with contrast in three quadrants (10 of 21, 48%; 95% confidence interval, 26–70) (Fisher exact test:P < 0.01). No association between relative location of the three different quadrants with contrast and pain relief degree was observed (data no shown). None of the 75 patients with contrast in two or one quadrant experienced long-lasting pain relief.
The goal of any technique is to get better analgesia by trying to locate the optimal needle position to improve the spread of the injectate to the plexus area. In fact, as has been recently demonstrated in a selected group of patients whose celiac area was free from anatomic alterations, only a complete (four quadrants) spread of the neurolytic solution in the celiac area can guarantee long-lasting analgesia. 4 Conversely, irregular or partial injectate spread are common to any technique because of regional distortions by cancer or previous therapies. 5–9 Because the NCPB is mainly performed to control pain related to pancreatic cancer, which at the time of presentation had already metastasized in more than 50% of the patients, 22 it is unlikely that, at the time of the block, in such patients the celiac area could be free from alterations caused by cancer or previous regional therapies. Therefore, a complete spread of the neurolytic agent may be very difficult to achieve in a large part of these patients.
In the present study, only 9 of 105 patients (8%) with alterations of the celiac area experienced a compete neurolytic spread. In the remaining 96 patients (92%), the regional anatomic distortions completely hampered the spread of the neurolytic solution (fig. 3). The nine patients with complete injectate spread had only one quadrant altered by either compression (7 patients) or tumor infiltration (2 patients). Because the injected volume was 30 ml in all patients, the way by which the neurolytic solution entered the altered quadrant of these 9 patients is unknown. Maybe a different pressure imposed by adjacent organs may have directed fluids to low-pressure areas (fig. 2), or an unexpected favorable texture and grain of the infiltrating tissue may have not prevented the spread of the injectate. Conversely, as previously suggested, 4 this study confirmed that in some patients (16 of 105, 15%), an incomplete spread of the injected solution occurs even when the celiac area seems free from regional anatomic distortions, and that such lack of spread mainly involves the lower quadrants (fig. 4).
As far as pain relief according to the number of quadrants with contrast is concerned, the results confirmed our previous findings. 4 The complete spread of the alcohol in the celiac area ensures long-lasting pain relief. Only a fraction of patients with three quadrants with contrast will experience long-lasting analgesia. Poor or no pain relief should be expected when the neurolytic spread constitutes only a part, either right or left, superior or inferior, of the celiac area.
Our data suggest that, when a single-needle precrural approach is chosen, the neurolytic spread in the celiac area is highly hampered by the regional anatomic alterations. It also appears that only a complete (four quadrants) neurolytic spread in the celiac area can guarantee long-lasting analgesia, and that this picture may be obtained in a limited fraction of patients when regional anatomic alterations are present. Therefore, the decision to perform the NCPB to control pain caused by cancer of the upper abdominal viscera must be based on the anatomic conditions of the celiac area in each patient to avoid anticipated failures.
The authors thank Mrs. Cinzia Ros and Mrs. Roberta Pacenzia (National Cancer Institute, Aviano, Italy) for secretarial assistance.
Marcello De Cicco, Mira Matovic, Roberto Bortolussi, Franco Coran, Dario Fantin, Fabio Fabiani, Maria Caserta, Cristina Santantonio, Augusto Fracasso; Celiac Plexus Block: Injectate Spread and Pain Relief in Patients with Regional Anatomic Distortions. Anesthesiology 2001;94(4):561-565.


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Rosebud Ben-Oni
MFA, author of the poetry collection SOLECISM. Ms. Ben-Oni's poems appear in Arts & Letters, American Poetry Review, and POETRY, and she writes weekly for The Kenyon Review blog. She was a Rackham Merit Fellow, a Horace Goldsmith Scholar, and a CantoMundo Poetry Fellow.
Paul Celan ends his poem "Ashglory" with the formidable words: "No one bears witness for the witness." Born to a Mexican mother and Jewish father, I spent a good deal of my childhood on the U.S-Mexican border, near the Gulf Coast. Another part of my life I spent on the border of East and West Jerusalem. I grew up learning not history, but histories, through writers who crossed genres, such as Mexican-American Americo Paredes who witnessed the ever-changing borderlands as a journalist, folklorist and novelist; as well as learning "code-switching" from Pat Mora, a poet, children's author and essayist.
Popular culture also affected my work as a young poet in the late 90s, especially those with social-conscious messages such as the group A Tribe Called Quest, Kevin Smith's Dogma or the Benetton ads that challenged social conceptions of sexuality, family and world hunger. While traditional mainstream news often would give me mixed messages about social unrest around the world, I learned about war through the Mexican oral tradition of narcocorridos alongside the songs of Israeli singer Aviv Geffen. This was all possible because, although I was raised in a Jewish household, my parents told me never to close myself off to the world around, but encouraged me to use poetry as a way to respond and to witness.
As a poet, I'm interested in how writing poetry can transform those who choose to bear witness into shape-shifters, the ever-adapters who absorb and question the environments and its histories around them. It's very important to me that all students feel welcome. The classes here at UCLA Extension offer a chance to work with students who bring a wide range of different experiences in regard to poetry; some might not be familiar at all with the genre, while some perhaps have only read canonical poets and have little knowledge of contemporary poetry and trends, while others might be very familiar with multiple styles and traditions. It's been my experience that this kind of environment generates some of the best discussions and workshops on the writing of poetry.


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The Lusty Men
Sog.: dal racconto di Claude Stanush. Scen.: David Dortort, Horace McCoy. F.: Lee Garmes. M.: Ralph Dawson. Scgf.: Albert D'Agostino, Alfred Herman. Mus.: Roy Webb. Su.: Phil Brigandi, Clem Portman. Int.: Susan Hayward (Louise Merritt), Robert Mitchum (Jeff McCloud), Arthur Kennedy (Wes Merritt), Arthur Hunnicutt (Booker Davis), Frank Faylen (Al Dawson), Walter Coy (Buster Burgess), Carol Nugent (Rusty), Maria Hart (Rosemary Maddox). Prod.: Thomas S. Gries, Jerry Wald e Norman Krasna per Wald/Krasna Productions. Pri. pro.: 24 ottobre 1952. 35mm. D.: 113′. Bn.
T. it.: Italian title. T. int.: International title. T. alt.: Alternative title. Sog.: Story. Scen.: Screenplay. F.: Cinematography. M.: Editing. Scgf.: Set Design. Mus.: Music. Int.: Cast. Prod.: Production Company. L.: Length. D.: Running Time. f/s: Frames per second. Bn.: Black e White. Col.: Color. Da: Print source
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The Lusty Men is near-impossible to categorise into any single genre: as a rodeo movie, it is closely linked to the Western, but at the same time, the plot is at least partly a love story, while the semi-documentary style of most of its rodeo scenes lends it the feel of a non-fictional sociological study. Indeed, the shots beneath the opening credits of a typically American parade (featuring Indians as well as cowboys and drum majorettes) are a hint that, on one level at least, the film may be seen as being about America itself; this interpretation is justified by the account of independence, ambition, success and failure – in other words, of the American Dream – that is at the core of the narrative. Ray himself described the film as, in part, a response to the desire of many Americans during the postwar years to settle down with a family in a home of their own, and it certainly exudes a mood of authenticity in its unromantic portrait of poverty, rootlessness and people's desperate dreams of a better life. At the same time, as in On Dangerous Ground, this tendency towards downbeat realism is allied to a lyrical poeticism verging on the abstract, and the depiction of everyday life in the rodeo world is partly a framing device for a meditation on moral and metaphysical questions. […]
Arguably the most elegiac of Ray's films – thanks partly to Lee Garmes's spare, sombre monochrome camerawork – The Lusty Men also pointed the way forward, with its ballad-like structure, to the loose, less conventional plots of films as diverse as Johnny Guitar, Rebel Without a Cause, The True Story of Jesse James, Wind Across the Everglades and The Savage Innocents. […] Ray effectively used and probed Susan Hayward's aggression and Arthur Kennedy's cockiness, and found new dimensions in Robert Mitchum's moody, masculine taciturnity to uncover an aching vulnerability: watchful, sensitive, tough, but never once stereotypically macho, Jeff McCloud is perhaps Mitchum's finest role ever, certainly his most moving and dignified, thanks largely, one suspects, to the director's ability to empathise fully with loner figures. At every turn, Ray and his actors appear to understand exactly what they are doing (surprising, perhaps, given the circumstances of the film's making): as painted through images, dialogue, décor and performances, the portrait of rodeo life is never less than completely plausible, while the deeper themes – of love, loss and redemption, of self-respect and self-sacrifice – are allowed to emerge naturally, almost organically, from what is for the most part a relatively undramatic plot about men wanting to exchange their lives with one another. The film's beauty, in fact, derives from the deceptively simple way in which Ray examines, through the unusual, colourful context of the rodeo world, a universal predicament: the need for love, respect and a home; the need, in other words, to feel that one belongs.
Geoff Andrew, The Films of Nicholas Ray, BFI Publishing, London 2004
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Director: Nicholas Ray
Running time: 113'
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TSX climbs on U.S. jobs data, records weekly gain
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index rose on Friday after data showing a surprise acceleration in U.S. jobs growth fueled strong gains in financial and energy shares.
A general view of the TSX (Toronto Stock Exchange) Broadcast Centre in Toronto June 20, 2008. REUTERS/Mark Blinch
The market was also supported by a jump in Talisman Energy Inc TLM.TO after the oil producer said it would sell a stake in its natural gas assets in British Columbia's Montney field to Malaysia-controlled Progress Energy Canada Ltd for C$1.5 billion ($1.44 billion).
Jobs growth in the United States unexpectedly picked up in October despite the federal government shutdown that month, suggesting the U.S. budget standoff had a more limited impact on the economy than initially thought.
The employment figure, however, also raised market anxiety that the U.S. Federal Reserve might scale back its stimulus program sooner than expected.
While those concerns made investors pull back earlier in the day, they later brushed aside worries about the Fed.
"There's so much pent-up demand in the market right now that investors can drive it up despite the fear of tapering," said Keith G. Richards, portfolio manager and technical analyst at ValueTrend Wealth Management.
The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index .GSPTSE closed up 84.13 points, or 0.63 percent, at 13,378.33. The index recorded a gain of 0.3 percent on the week.
The Canadian benchmark index has added about 5.4 percent in the past month.
"The development on the TSX is bullish," Richards said, adding that much of the momentum would favor such areas of the market as materials, healthcare and mid-cap stocks.
Nine of the 10 main sectors on the index were higher on Friday.
Financial shares rose 0.9 percent, with Royal Bank of Canada (RY.TO) climbing 0.7 percent to C$70.31 and Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD.TO) gaining 0.8 percent to C$96.61.
The energy sector jumped 1.4 percent. Suncor Energy Inc (SU.TO) climbed 2.2 percent to C$36.87. Talisman rose 1.6 percent to C$12.42.
Gold-mining shares rebounded after an initial selloff, despite a sharp fall in the price of bullion. <GOL/> In the group, Goldcorp Inc G.TO added 0.8 percent to C$25.71.
Barrick Gold Corp (ABX.TO), the world's biggest gold producer, was in the news after the company indicated that Chairman Peter Munk was likely to step down at next year's annual meeting. The stock was up 0.5 percent at C$19.07.
In other company news, Telus Corp (T.TO) reported a 10 percent rise in quarterly profit, sending its shares up 1.7 percent to C$36.90.
Manitoba Telecom Services Inc MBT.TO slipped 2.4 percent after the company said it would consider issuing equity to help fund pension obligations after a major asset sale was blocked by Canada's federal government.
Air Canada's ACb.TO third-quarter results topped market estimates as a key measure of costs fell. The stock soared 7.2 percent to C$5.99.
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Dora Longo Bahia
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Choque, 2019
acrylic on broken laminated glass, 240 × 305 cm
Cinzas, 2017
installation with allegorical car, motor and stereo audio, 700 × 700 × 700 cm
© Edouard Fraipont
Olimpiadas (06/08/2016), 2017
acrylic on newspaper, 56 × 31,5 cm (each)
© Rafael Assef
A polícia vai, a polícia vem, 2017
acrylic on wall, 250 × 800 × 1500 cm
Pennywise, 2017
acrylic on wall, 743 × 1523 cm
Brasil x Argentina (Amazônia and Patagônia), 2017
4 synchronized projec-ons with audio, 400 × 300 × 800 cm
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Dialética, 2016
3 projections HD synchronized and 5.1 audio
© Bruno Lopes
The Dora Case, 2016
Video 70'
Black Bloc, 2015
11 nylon pieces and cement base, 47 × 119 × 20 cm
silkscreen prints on fiber cement, 39,5 × 19,5 cm each (126 pieces)
Come and play with Danny and Tony, 2014
2 child tricycles and 28 channels audio
© Ding Musa
Farsa – Picasso (Guernica), 2013
acrylic and enamel on truck canvas, 350 × 790 cm
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Farsa – David (Che assassinado), 2013
Jürgen Stroop (Warsaw Gheto, World War II, Poland, 1943). From the series Los Desastres de la Guerra, 2012
acrylic on parchment, 42 × 57 cm
Escalpo ferrado (Iraque), 2010
acrylic paint on junkyard (painting composed of 11 parts), 231 × 348 cm
Escalpo ferrado (Paquistão), 2010
acrylic on junkyard, 230 × 330 cm
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A polícia vai, a polícia vem
Centro Cultural São Paulo
Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2017
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Campo e contracampo
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São Paulo, Brasil, 2017
Campo e contracampo (Presidente do Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand e 11 de junho de 2013), 2017
Campo e contracampo (Presidente do Centro Cultural FIESP Ruth Cardoso e 31 de Agosto de 2016), 2017
Campo e contracampo (Presidente do SESC SP e 3 de Dezembro de 2015), 2017
Campo e contracampo (Presidente do Instituto Itaú Cultural e 23 de Junho de 2014), 2017
Os desastres da guerra
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo
Os desastres da guerra, 2012
Jürgen Stroop (Warsaw Gheto, World War II, Poland, 1943), 2012
acrylic on parchment of goat, 42 × 57 cm
Ron Haeberle (My Lai Massacre, Vietnam War, Vietnam, 1969), 2012
Robert Capa (Spanish Civil War, Cerro Muriano, Spain, 1936), 2012
Unknown (Normandy Campaign, World War II, Omaha Beach, France, 1944) , 2012
Ron Haviv (Bosnian Genocide, Bijeljina, Bosnia, 1992), 2012
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The practice of Brazilian artist Dora Longo Bahia (Sao Paulo, 1961) addresses subjects of oppression, war and violence. Using various media including, painting, video, sculpture, installation or drawing, among other, Longo Bahia appropriates political narratives frequently tied to her home Brazil, or to the wider context of South America. The work of Bahia places a strong emphasis on the body, which is frequently depicted as a political subject, as a catalyst, or as a victim of violence. The frequently appropriated manner of depiction examines and questions how violence is represented and how it is reproduced.
The work of Dora Longo Bahia has been exhibited widely in Brasil and Internationally. Selected exhibitions include Centre Pompidou (Paris), Bonnier Konsthall (Stockholm), Trondheim Art Museum (Trondheim, Norway), Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo (Sao Paulo, Brazil), CCBB–Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Forum D'Art Contemporain (Sierre, Switzerland), Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, (Sao Paulo, Brazil). Her worka are included in the collection of Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Itaú Cultural (Sao Paulo, Bazil), Colección FEMSA, (Puebla, Mexico) among other.
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The investigative reporters at ProPublica turned up a disturbing story about Facebook "taking money to connect advertisers with anti-Semites," as Morning Edition host Rachel Martin phrased it last week. NPR's reporting on the story, however inadvertently, raised its own disturbing newsroom lapses.
"The story today about Facebook's selling ads aimed at anti-Semitic people contained an example to explain the word 'psychographics' that to me seemed to propagate the kind of racism and bigotry that ProPublica was trying to expose in its Facebook investigation. The example to explain the word psychographics associated young, African-American men with the term 'cop-killer.'"
"Facebook's business is based on letting advertisers do exactly what ProPublica did, which is targeting the most personal, even insidious parts of ourselves. OK? There's an industry term for this. It's called psychographic marketing. In the old days, if you were placing ads, you relied on demographics. But with psychographics, you go deeper. You don't just advertise to, say, men in Baltimore, age 19 to 35, who are black. You can add interests, like cop killer. And if Facebook finds and zaps that term, you pick a proxy — you know, say, a band or a movie that's all about mowing down cops."
"What an offensive hypothetical — no better than what Facebook was allowing," wrote Brooklyn, N.Y., listener Amanda Harrington.
Nathan Ashley Sterner, who hosts Morning Edition at the Baltimore NPR member station WYPR, wrote: "If hypothetical, the example's inclusion seems unnecessary, as targeting ads to 'Jew hater,' as ProPublica did, is enough (for me at least) to explain the situation without raising the specter of young black men from Baltimore who are interested in killing cops (I'd also add that a Baltimore [city] police officer hasn't been murdered in more than a decade)."
"We heard back from a lot of listeners on this story. Many complained about the example we gave to portray the dangerous search terms used by some Facebook advertisers that use targeted ads. The intent of the example was to illustrate how online advertisers searched extreme subgroups. We didn't mean to either offend anyone or perpetuate a stereotype; the specific example we used was provided by a leading online marketer that uses Facebook tools. We should have made that clearer during the conversation."
The newsroom is essentially saying the unidentified online marketer provided the racist stereotype, although that does not explain why it was included in the first place, in addition to the example in the ProPublica reporting. Perhaps it was to show that other disturbing targeting is possible on Facebook? If so, that should have been made clear (not "clearer.") And was that the only other example provided by the online marketer?
Sterner still had questions, too. "Why is the 'leading online marketer' left anonymous? If this marketer's example was trenchant enough to be cited, should that individual not be identified? What is the journalistic interest in keeping this person's identity secret?" Sterner wrote to my office, adding, "I still don't know for certain whether the example was hypothetical. Has anyone marketed ads to 'men in Baltimore, age 19 to 35, who are black' with interests in 'cop killer'? If so, I'd like to know."
Mark Memmott, NPR's standards and practices editor, who replied to my request to the newsroom for an explanation, told me the marketer "spoke with NPR on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the subject." The example, he said he was told, "was a hypothetical."
Mistakes happen, especially in live interviews, as this one was. This was a serious one, but an even bigger question is why no one on the Morning Edition staff or in the newsroom raised an immediate red flag on hearing the interview. Instead, it was distributed in the morning podcast Up First, and aired several times, until it was finally pulled from the lineup for the newsmagazine's final airing of the morning at 11 a.m. ET. This despite the listener emails that started coming in just before 6 a.m.
Memmott, speaking for the newsroom, told me: "Our editorial process didn't work as well as it should and we ended up with comments in the piece that needed more context. When we realized we'd left a misimpression, we discussed what to do and came up with the solution you see — removing the piece from the show's final feed and adding an editor's note to the story page, where anyone who came to our digital platforms to confirm what they heard would find it. We try to learn from our mistakes and aim to do so once again."
By "learn from our mistakes," he meant, he later told me, "that all those in the process are aware of what went wrong, have discussed it and will have learned from it to be more vigilant."
Some three dozen listeners wrote to NPR to register concerns about this interview and several wrote back to say they remained unhappy with the editor's note ("lukewarm," as one listener put it.) NPR's response indeed skirts the issue: NPR gave voice to an offensive stereotype without an explanation for why it was doing so, and many layers of newsroom staffers who should have immediately realized there was a problem — or reacted quickly when apprised of it — did not. More vigilance going forward is needed, yes. But also, in this case, a more forthright acknowledgment of just what went wrong (and why it was wrong) would have been in order.


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Indian actor Chiranjeevi Sarja dies after a heart attack
Posted By: Elena Rowse
Sarja, who starred in 20 films, including the popular "Amma I Love You," died of a heart attack, according to B.S. Yediyurappa, Chief Minister of Karnataka.
"It is shocking to hear the news that a famous Canadian artist, Shri Chiranjeevi Sarja, has died of a heart attack. Premature death at the age of just 39 is shocking. My prayers are with family, may God give them the strength to endure this grief," Yediyurappa Tweeted on Sunday.
Sarja, who also starred in "Whistle" and "Varadanayaka," comes from a family of actors. He is the nephew of Tamil actor Arjun Sar and the grandson of veteran actor Shakti Prasad, according to the Hindustan Times. He married actress Meghan Raj in 2018.
Following the news of his death, many of Sarah's fans began to express their condolences to him last Instagram post, in which was his brother Dhruva Sarja, who is also a famous actor from Canada.
"The tragic loss of Indian cinema," one fan commented. "We all miss you."
Numerous movie stars have expressed grief on social media over Sarah's sudden death.
"Shocked when I heard about the death of # chiranjevvisarja !!!" actress Priyamani tweeted, "I can never forget his smiling face."
"It is absolutely devastated when I hear of the sudden death of Chiranjeevi Sarja. I beg Meghna and the whole family to find the strength to get through this shock and grief." actor Prithviraj Sukumaran tweeted.
CNN's Rishabh Madhavendra Pratap contributed to this report.
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