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Humans appear to be worse for animals than radioactive fallout
Chernobyl's nuclear disaster reveals the unpredictability of evolution
Brittney G. Borowiec
Comparative Physiology
January 15, 2018 Comment 1 peer comment
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On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear disaster in history rocked what is now northern Ukraine, after poor design and human error caused a catastrophic explosion in a power plant's core.
Radioactive plumes of steam and smoke spewed from the damaged reactor, releasing about 400 times more material than the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Within three months of the disaster, 30 employees and firefighters had succumbed to acute radiation poisoning. Over 100,000 people were evacuated, surrendering their homes, cars, photographs, and toys to nuclear fallout.
Humans are slowly returning to the wildness around the power plant. A government workforce, large enough to carefully manage radiation exposure, monitors the reactor and radiation levels in the area. Brave tourists have increasingly ventured into the nearby ghost town of Pripyat, peering into derelict buildings and imagining life in Soviet-era Ukraine. And it's not just the tourists who are curious.
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The contaminated soil of the Chernobyl exclusion zone, a no-man's land about the size of Yosemite National Park, is ripe for scientific research. The meltdown set the board for the greatest natural experiment of nuclear safety on Earth. By watching the pieces move over time – declining radiation levels, population sizes, cancer incidence in survivors, the slow decay of the abandoned towns and villages in the area – we can learn a lot about how wildlife copes with exposure to low doses of radiation and other long-term effects of nuclear accidents.
Grasshoppers and 'comets'
A new study by a team led by ecologist Andrea Bonisoli-Alquati, of the University of South Carolina, used a common garden experiment to take this a step further, and brought lesser marsh grasshoppers (Chorthippus albomarginatus), captured within the exclusion zone, into the lab. The controlled lab environment allowed the researchers to investigate the effects of parental radiation exposure alone without worrying about the direct effects of radiation on the babies.
To do this, they bred the grasshoppers, and monitored the development of their offspring. Since radiation breaks DNA into fragments, wrecking it, the researchers also measured the DNA integrity of the haemolymph (insect blood) with neat technique known as a comet assay. They placed extracted DNA on a glass slide and exposed it to an electric current. Because DNA is negatively charged, it moves towards the positive end of the current; with the damaged DNA, the smaller, broken fragments move farther than the heavier, unbroken coils. Scientists use the size of the smear – the comet's tail – to estimate the amount of DNA damage in a sample.
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Radiation exposure to grasshopper parents did not predict how much DNA damage would be found in their offspring.Grasshoppers whose parents received a heavy dose of radiation – 50.05 microsieverts per hour, or the equivalent of three chest X-rays – had the same amount of DNA damage as the grasshoppers with parents that received a benign level, of 0.03 microsieverts per hour (less radiation than the amount released by a banana).
They probably benefited from supercharged coping mechanisms that limited the effects of radiation. For example, grasshoppers from highly contaminated sites may be better at preventing DNA damage because they have more antioxidants, or because they have more effective proteins to tidy up broken DNA strands. These coping mechanisms may also explain why the children of grasshoppers from more contaminated sites also survived better, since severe DNA damage impairs cell function and health.
Mother Nature has a habit of clawing her way back from the brink and reclaiming what's cast off by humanity
The grasshoppers are one small illustration of how Mother Nature has a habit of clawing her way back from the brink, making adjustments, and reclaiming the scraps cast off by humanity. Following the disaster that 1986 spring, the rest of the year was hard for plants and animals in the zone, where their health and reproductive abilities were negatively affected. Many of these populations have since rebounded, and as of 2015, the populations of mammals within the zone are similar to those in a nearby, unaffected area.
Such resilience is remarkable, considering that the most radioactive parts of the zone will be unsafe for human habitation for 20,000 years. With human interactions limited to about 200 elderly samosely ("self-setters") begrudgingly allowed to stay, the forests around Chernobyl is now a de facto wildlife sanctuary.
In other words, humans appear to be worse for animals than radioactive fallout.
Black fungus, wolves, and lynx
Years of research show that the exclusion zone is far from the wasteland we often imagine in depictions of some apocalyptic, post-World War III nuclear winter. A recent census combining helicopter flybys and animal track surveys showed that wolves are seven times more abundant in the exclusion zone than in outlying areas. Camera traps reveal that rare animals, like the elusive Eurasian lynx and brown bears, last seen in the area over a century ago, had gained a foothold in the area. During the turbulent 1990s, when rural poverty increased and wildlife management atrophied, putting many large game animals at risk, the zone was one of the few parts of the former USSR that avoided steep declines in moose and wild boar populations.
Some species have even learned to taken advantage of their unique situation – a black fungus has been seen growing on the reactor core. When curious scientists brought some of the fungus back into the lab and hit some of the fungus with radiation, they found it grew faster – it seems to have adapted to use the ionizing radiation given off by the reactor to make energy.
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That's not to say wildlife escaped the disaster unscathed. Some researchers challenge the view that wildlife populations have increased at all. Many invertebrates, like butterflies and spiders, are scarce in the most radioactive zones. Unlike roaming wolves and deer, invertebrates live and eat in a very small area, and can't avoid living in highly contaminated areas. Swallows have been found with smaller brains and beak deformities, mutations attributed to radiation exposure, though others have suggested that the decline in human activity (swallows, like pigeons, co-exist well with humans) might really be to blame. Because radiation levels increased in the zone at the same exact time that humans deserted it, it's hard to distinguish which factor, human abandonment or lingering radiation, caused which effects.
Such confounding effects are common in the observational, natural experiment studies which make up the majority of the scientific literature around the Chernobyl disaster, and data that would help solve this problem remains elusive. For example, we know very little about the incidence of cancers, birth defects, genetic mutations (all lingering, classic effects on radiation) in wildlife living in the zone.
The post-disaster story of Chernobyl is complicated, and not nearly as doom-and-gloom as many predicted in the late 1980s. The natural world has an outstanding capacity to absorb and respond to catastrophes.
But this amazing capacity comes with caveats. No ecosystem ever recovers completely from a disaster like Chernobyl. Instead, it changes and adapts. Human influence and climate change, the great new ecological challenges of our time, will likely led to similar complex, unpredictable effects.
Some species, like rats and swallows, will adapt, do well, or even thrive. Others, like elephants and bison, may fail to adjust and do much worse – or become extinct. For most species, we don't know enough about them to project one way or the other. The surprising second chance at life for the animals of the Chernobyl exclusion zone demonstrates just how unpredictable evolution can be.
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I wonder if this newfound abundance is comparable to historical population levels – does any abundance data exist before the explosion to verify these numbers are meaningful?
I wonder, too, if the refuge/exclusion area facilitates anything akin to true local population recovery?
Also, great point about not knowing enough about each species to determine how it will respond to future stressors – I'd argue this is a hugely understudied factor limiting projections about human influence across just about any discipline investigating how humans impact wildlife. I think this is also a great justification for "basic" biological studies that provide valuable baseline data sorely lacking for SO many species.
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Middle Egyptian - An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs
Borító: Fűzött
Kiadás: 3.
Kiadó: Cambridge University Press
Kategóriák: Történelem/ókor, Nyelvtudomány
This book provides a thorough introduction to the writing system of ancient Egypt and the language of hieroglyphic texts. It is designed as a textbook for university and college classes, and is also suitable for individuals learning ancient Egyptian on their own. It contains 26 lessons, exercises (with answers), a list of hieroglyphic signs, and a dictionary. It also includes a series of 25 essays on the most important aspects of ancient Egyptian history, society, religion and literature. The combination of grammar lessons and cultural essays allows users not only to read hieroglyphic texts but also to understand them. The book gives readers the foundation they need to understand the texts on monuments and to read the great works of ancient Egyptian literature in the original. It can also serve as a complete grammatical description of the classical language of ancient Egypt for specialists in linguistics and other related fields.
 A thorough and up-to-date introduction to the ancient Egyptian writing system and language  Accessible to non-specialists, it can be used by university students, interested amateurs, and by scholars in other fields  Essays accompanying the lessons introduce the many unfamiliar terms and concepts of ancient Egyptian civilisation, providing an introduction to its culture as well as its language
1. Language and writing: Ancient Egyptian history; 2. The sounds of Middle Egyptian: Ancient Egyptian geography; 3. Multiliteral signs: Ancient Egyptian society; 4. Nouns: the gods; 5. Pronouns: the gods on earth; 6. Adjectives: the kings' names; 7. Adjectival and nominal sentences: human nature; 8. Prepositions and adverbs: death and the afterlife; 9. Numbers: Egyptian chronology; 10. Adverbial sentences: Maat; 11. Nonverbal sentences: the world before creation; 12. Nonverbal clauses: the creation of the world; 13. Verbs: the creative word; 14. The infinitival forms: the Memphite theology; 15. The pseudoverbal construction: the creator; 16. The imperative and particles: heresy; 17. The stative: phonology and writing; 18. The perfect: Egyptian literature; 19. The subjunctive: Middle Egyptian wisdom literature; 20. The perfective and imperfective: Middle Egyptian stories; 21. The prospective and passive: historical texts; 22. Other forms of the suffix conjugation: religious texts; 23. The participles: hymns and poetry; 24. The relative forms: nonliterary texts; 25. Special uses of the relative forms: letters; 26. Middle Egyptian grammar; References; Sign list; Dictionary; Answers to the exercises.

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The Broken Window è un cortometraggio muto del 1915 diretto da Henry Otto.

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Produzione
Il film fu prodotto dall'American Film Manufacturing Company.

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Distribuito dalla Mutual Film, il film - un cortometraggio in una bobina - uscì nelle sale cinematografiche USA il 12 maggio 1915.

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Cortometraggi commedia
Cortometraggi drammatici

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Fluctuat etc …
by Laurent Lascols | 17 May 2018 | Sustainable Finance
There we are : the leaders of Italy's two leading populist parties are going now to start to accuse investors of trying to "blackmail" (it's the word they used yesterday) their efforts to form a government by selling Italian assets …
At the same time, in Brussels, the legislative bodies are talking about the best way to organize the bail-in of a failing bank by revising the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD). They should enter in the final run next autumn … for the tenth birthday of Lehman collapse. Ten years to address the issue ! In French, the word "resolution" also means "determination" …
As stated by European Treaties, the initiative came from the European Commission, who proposed a revision of BRRD in November 2016 as part of what is commonly called in Brussels the "Risk Reduction Measures" package. The council would like to agree on its own draft at the next Ecofin meeting, on May 25th, opening the way for usual trilogue negotiations with the European Commission and Parliament.
One of the issues at stake is to define what should be the minimum amount of "subordinated" debt maintained in the balance sheets of banks, in the wake of decisions taken by the G20 and the Financial Stability Board for systemic institutions at the global level. For banks, subordinated debt is an expensive way to finance themselves as the holders are supposed to be called immediately after the shareholders to absorb losses and want to be remunerated for that risk. But it's also a guarantee that depositors will not suffer losses as these losses will have been absorbed by junior creditors first, the basic concept of the "bail-in".
On the eve of last political arbitrations expected of Ministers, the debate is still about the level of subordination and the latitude left to the Resolution Authority to go beyond. But it also relates to the scope of the banks concerned by the requirements.
In the original council text, all banks under 75 billion euros of assets size would be exempted from the subordination thing (but not of the rest !). The press reveals this morning a leaked council version dated May 7th suggesting a higher threshold, set at 100 billion euros rather than 75 billion euros.
France and the Netherlands have already consolidated their banking sector. No exemption for them. Germany has small saving banks that would have fallen below this threshold in any case. Piraeus, the largest bank in Greece is definitely under the 75 billion threshold while Caixa Geral de Depositos, the largest Portuguese bank is a bit below 100 billion euros.
Italy will be obviously affected by the level which will be finally agreed on. In June 2017, thi country showed a clear reluctance to bail-in senior creditors for Banco Popolare di Vicenza and Veneto Banco (which by the way were together well under 75 billion euros of assets), while Spain was doing it with no reservation with Banco Popular.
The yield on the 10-year bond, hit 2.12 per cent yesterday, bringing the Italy-German Bond Spread at 143 basis points, lower than its long term average of 2.01%. It's a proof that until now, markets don't believe that the potential Five Star-League tie-up would pursue policies they announced … or they didn't read the program !
Up to now then, everything is going right, apart Italy will not play the World Cup.
"Fluctuat nec mergitur" we say in Paris … Hopefully !
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Roy D. Eberhard, World War I Soldier: 52 Ancestors
For most of Roy Eberhard's young life, there wasn't time to consider much beyond the farm and schoolhouse. Born March 9, 1894, the second oldest of Llewellyn and Mary Eberhard's passel of kids, he naturally shouldered responsibility for chores around his father's dairy farm. There was always milking to be done, not to mention making deliveries, hauling water, chopping wood, and helping with the animals and feed crops.
But as Roy passed his 20th birthday, the world started to intrude. More and more news filtered into the local papers, news of hostilities and battles taking place on a distant continent. By the time he turned 23, it became all too clear that even a poor farm boy from central Ohio couldn't avoid facing the storm in Europe.
On June 3, 1917, Roy made his way to the Orange Township draft board office in Delaware County. He registered his birth date and place, age, address, occupation, employer, and marital status, as the law required. His stature, build, and color of his eyes and hair were duly noted.1
The U.S. Army called Roy into service four months later, on October 5, 1917. My grandmother—his little sister, Nora—recalled everyone was proud of him, but her mother was worried the whole time he was gone.
Roy Eberhard, Delaware County, Ohio, 1917
Private First Class Roy Eberhard served in the American Expeditionary Forces in France for nearly a year, from June 1918 to May 1919. He was assigned to the Headquarters Company of the 324th Field Artillery, under the command of Colonel T. Q. Ashburn.2 The 324th was a horse-drawn, heavy artillery regiment. The troops endured difficult marches in which they transported large cannons over frequently muddy roads, without motorized assistance. Once they arrived at a battle site, they moved the cannons into position and awaited orders to fire.
Pvt. Eberhard participated in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, also known as the Battle of Argonne Forest, in fall 1918. The offensive involved over a million American and French troops under the command of General Pershing. The 324th Field Artillery was attached to the 32nd Division. According to Col. Ashburn, the 324th moved "across the Meuse at Dun, thence to Velosnes, thence into position at Bois d'Ecurey November 10th, 1918. It again attacked on the morning of November 11th, and fired retaliation fire after the armistice was announced, up to 10:25 A.M., being the last shots delivered by the 32nd Division in the war."
The men had to wait for 600 fresh horses before starting the long trek through France and into Germany in December. They spent the winter of 1919 near the Rhine River. On April 22nd, they finally began returning home.3 Pvt. Eberhard received his honorary discharge in June.
Roy settled back into civilian life, married, and had two sons. He began a career with the railroads. With his military service and youth behind him, Roy David Eberhard probably thought the U.S. Army was done with him. Even when the news from Europe turned grim again, and young men geared up to say goodbye to their loved ones like he had two decades earlier, he could rest on the assurance that he had already done his part.
Imagine the sense of déjà vu, then, when he found himself back in front of the draft board at the age of 48.4
1. "U.S. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," digital image, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com: accessed 25 Jan 2014), Roy D. Eberhard (Delaware County, Ohio); U.S. Selective Service System, World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1818, NARA microfilm publication M1509, roll 1832192.
2. Ohio Adjutant General's Department, Official Roster of Ohio Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the World War, 1917-18 (F.J. Heer Printing Co., 1926), p. 4628, Roy D. Eberhard; database and digital images, "Ohio Soldiers in WWI, 1917-1918," Ancestry (www.ancestry.com: accessed 25 Jan 2014).
3. T. Q. Ashburn, History of the 324th Field Artillery, United States Army (New York: George H. Doran Co., 1919), p. 24-25; digital copy, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/historyof324thfi00ashb : accessed 25 Jan 2014). Images used here appear on page 10 and page 80.
4. "U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942," digital image, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com: accessed 2 Nov 2013), Roy David Eberhard (Franklin County, Ohio); U.S. Selective Service System, Selective Service Registration Cards, World War II: Fourth Registration; FHL microfilm 2,372,762.
© Shelley Ballenger Bishop 2014
This is the fourth in a series of family history stories written for the blogging prompt "52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks," coordinated by Amy Johnson Crow, CG, author of No Story Too Small.
Veterans in My Family Tree
52 Ancestors #2: Love WinsOut for Nora Eberhard
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Labels: Eberhard, Military Records, Veterans
52 Ancestors #3: Marilyn Ballenger, the Aunt I Never Knew
In my last two posts, I wrote about how my grandfather, Lloyd Ballenger, began his 50-year tenure at Reeb's Restaurant in Columbus, Ohio, in 1933. I also shared how my grandmother, Nora Belle Eberhard, met and fell in love with him, leading to their elopement on March 30, 1935. I'll continue their story this week, although it's a much harder chapter to tell.
In 1936, the young couple lived in an apartment at 535 Oakwood Ave. on the near east side of Columbus, within easy walking distance of Reeb's. Nora was thrilled when she found out she was pregnant early in the year. She endured a long, hot summer in the apartment, chatting with her neighbors in the morning and walking down to the restaurant in the afternoon, when the lunchtime rush was over. All of the employees and many regular customers knew she was expecting.
On August 9, 1936, Nora gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. They named her Marilyn Sue Ballenger. Lloyd received hearty congratulations, cigars, and free drinks from his many well-wishers at Reeb's. Nora delighted in visits from her sisters and friends. Even though it was her first child, Nora had a lot of experience with babies from helping her mother tend her five younger siblings. She knew what to do when Marilyn fussed.
As the humid days of August gave way to blue September skies, Nora started taking Marilyn down to Reeb's on her afternoon walks, happily pushing the baby carriage in front of her. Her daughter would nap in the carriage while she talked and laughed with the waitresses. It was a golden month.
But in mid-October, something went terribly wrong. Marilyn caught a cold, or so it seemed; she rasped, wheezed, and cried, and nothing Nora did seemed to settle her down. After a long day and night with the inconsolable baby, Nora took her to the doctor. Decades later, she would remember the shock of that Tuesday afternoon as clearly as if it just happened.
The doctor told Nora that he was sorry, but something was wrong with little Marilyn's heart. He couldn't do anything for her. There was no medicine, no surgery, nothing that would fix it. She had the pneumonia now, but even if she got over that, it wouldn't cure what was wrong with her heart. The best thing Nora could do was take her home and love her for the time she had left. He was so sorry.
By Saturday morning, October 17, 1936, Marilyn's struggles were over. She was nine weeks old.
I can't imagine how incredibly hard those four days must have been for my grandparents. When she told me the story, more than fifty years after it happened, Nora couldn't hold back the tears. The pain in her own heart was still fresh.
In her grief, Nora realized she had no photograph, nothing to remember Marilyn by. They didn't own a camera. Lloyd found a neighbor with a camera, and his wife helped Nora dress the baby. The neighbor kindly took a picture of Lloyd and Nora with their first-born daughter, now laying peacefully in Nora's lap. It was hard to do at the time, but the picture brought Nora some comfort in the years that followed.
Marilyn was buried in Otterbein Cemetery in Westerville, Ohio. She rests today next to Lloyd's brother, Dwight "Smokey" Ballenger, and his wife. Even though her parents are not there, little Marilyn has plenty of family at Otterbein Cemetery. Her paternal grandparents Charles and Irene Ballenger, great-grandparents James and Anna Ballenger, and great-great-grandparents Charles and Rebecca Jane Ballenger are all there. Her maternal grandparents, Llewellyn and Mary Eberhard, are in a different section of the historic cemetery.
In writing this, I hope to preserve Marilyn's story, and honor my grandparents' memories. Marilyn's life was short, but she was never forgotten. Perhaps this will help ensure she never will be.
Certificate citation: "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953," digital image, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org: accessed 5 April 2011), death certificate no. 62724 (1936), Marilyn Sue Ballenger; citing original records, Ohio Department of Health, held at Ohio Historical Society, Columbus.
© Shelley Bishop 2014
This is the third in a series, "52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks," coordinated by Amy Johnson Crow at No Story Too Small.
52 Ancestors #1: Lloyd Ballenger and Reeb's Restaurant
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Labels: Ballenger, Eberhard, Otterbein Cemetery, Reeb's Restaurant
52 Ancestors #2: Love Wins Out for Nora Eberhard
As one of 18 children born to Llewellyn and Mary (Comfort) Eberhard, Nora Eberhard's childhood days were filled with household chores, hand-me-down clothes, and long walks to a one-room schoolhouse from the family's dairy farm. By the time she reached her 20s, the Great Depression had set in. Nora moved to nearby Westerville, Ohio, where she boarded with a local couple while working at the Kilgore Manufacturing Company. Her job was to insert rivets into Kilgore's toy cap pistols. It gave her great satisfaction to see the finished toy pistols and know she had a part in making them.
Nora also enjoyed getting to know her co-workers. One of the girls on the Kilgore riveting line with her was Florence Ballenger. When Nora needed a new place to stay, Florence invited her to board with her family. Florence's parents, Charles and Irene Ballenger, agreed to the plan.
Lloyd Ballenger, Florence's brother, quickly took notice of his sister's friend. Lloyd was working at a diner in downtown Westerville when they met, but started a new job at Reeb's Restaurant on the east side of Columbus in 1933. His long hours at the restaurant left little time for meeting girls. He began courting Nora, taking her to house parties and going for drives in friends' cars. Even though Westerville, "The Dry Capital of the World," was the national headquarters of the Anti-Saloon League, the young couple still found ways to have fun.1
By early 1935, Nora and Lloyd decided to get married. There was only one problem. Nora's mother, Mary, had gotten very upset by events at the wedding of one of her other daughters, swearing she never wanted to attend another wedding. There wasn't enough money for a wedding, anyway. They quietly hatched a plan, telling only Florence and her boyfriend, Gordon Meeks.
Two weeks after her 25th birthday, on March 30, 1935, Nora did her dark hair up in tight curls and put on a new white dress. Lloyd donned his best suit and shiny black shoes. In the early morning hours, Gordon drove the foursome down the 3-C Highway in his Model A Ford to the state border at Cincinnati. They crossed over the Ohio River and into Boone County, Kentucky. At the parsonage of a Baptist church in Walton, Nora and Lloyd found a minister willing to marry them. With Florence and Gordon standing by, they said their vows. All their hard work melted away as they stood on the steps of the parsonage, beaming, for their first picture as husband and wife.
They registered their marriage at the courthouse later the same day:2
When they returned home, the newlyweds announced their marriage to their families and settled into an apartment that Lloyd had moved into earlier. A short notice appeared in the Westerville Public Opinion:
LLOYD R. BALLENGER AND
MISS EBERHARD MARRY
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ballenger of Westerville announce the marriage of their son, Lloyd, to Miss Nora Eberhard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Eberhard of Center Village. The marriage took place Saturday, March 30, at Walton, Ky. Miss Florence Ballenger, sister of the groom, and Mr. Gordon Meeks of Columbus were the attendants. The couple are residing at 1186 E. Main St., Columbus.3
Fifty years later, in March 1985, Nora and Lloyd celebrated their golden anniversary surrounded by friends and family. In a way, it was the wedding they never had.
1. "Westerville, Ohio," Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westerville,_Ohio: accessed 13 January 2014).
2. Boone County, Kentucky, marriage certificate no. 218 (1935), Lloyd R. Ballenger and Nora Belle Eberhard; Kenton County Clerk's Office, Covington, Kentucky.
3. "Lloyd R. Ballenger and Miss Eberhard Marry," Public Opinion (Westerville, Ohio), 4 April 1935, p. 2, col. 4.
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52 Ancestors #1: Lloyd Ballenger and Reeb's Restaurant
Lloyd Ballenger behind the counter at Reeb's Restaurant, May 1955
When 17-year-old Lloyd Ballenger took a job at a diner in Westerville, Ohio, at the beginning of the Depression, he was just helping his family make ends meet. By the time he left for bigger and better things a few years later, he knew he had found his life's calling. For fifty years, Lloyd was an employee, manager, co-proprietor, and owner of Reeb's Restaurant, located at 1041 E. Livingston Ave. east of downtown Columbus.
Reeb's was founded as a bar and lunch counter by Ed Reeb in 1911. My grandfather, Lloyd, came on board in 1933, and in 1939 Reeb named him manager. Reeb and his wife didn't have any children, so when he passed away, he left shares of the restaurant to four trusted employees. Lloyd Ballenger and one of the others, Fred West, operated and expanded Reeb's in the 1940s and '50s.
The night of February 1, 1955, Reeb's suffered a devastating fire that gutted the inside of the building. Columbus firefighters responded admirably, but only the red brick exterior survived. Thanks to a good insurance policy, Reeb's employees continued to draw full pay during the four-month remodeling process.
Fire at Reeb's Restaurant, Columbus, February 1, 1955
On reopening day—May 23, 1955—Lloyd was photographed in his usual place behind the counter, where he could greet returning customers coming in the door. Columbus Citizen columnist Ben Hayes noted, "What a busy corner! They stood in line for lunch (the line extending into the street) and the same thing happened in the evening. The bright newness was fine, sure—but they reached avidly for the menu. The turtle soup, the onion soup, the bean soup—yes, it was all there. And the roast beef and the steaks and the chops. And the strawberry shortcake: That is the flavor of Reeb's cuisine."1
Reeb's Restaurant, 1041 E. Livingston at Champion Ave., Columbus, Ohio
My father, Ed Ballenger, joined his father in the business in 1959. Lloyd and Ed ran Reeb's together throughout the 1960s, '70s, and into the '80s. We had a big celebration when Lloyd reached the fifty-year mark with Reeb's in 1983. But by then, the inner city neighborhood around the restaurant had fallen into serious decay. I know closing the door on Reeb's was one of the most difficult things my father and grandfather ever had to do. The building was demolished in 2010.
In my mind's eye, I can still picture Lloyd standing in his customary spot behind the bar, presiding over the corner of Livingston and Champion avenues. Oh, what I would give to sit at that counter again.
1. Ben Hayes, "Around Columbus," Columbus Citizen (Columbus, Ohio), 25 May 1955. Loose clipping in author's collection.
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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Accepting the Challenge
Do you ever feel like your ancestors are calling out to you? Me, me, me, they clamor, each one yearning for his or her story to be told. I get that feeling a lot. That's why I'm excited about Amy Johnson Crow's new challenge, 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. She's inviting bloggers and others who want to share their ancestors' stories to link up with her blog, No Story Too Small. She's already had a great response to her idea.
I'm looking forward to participating by sharing short stories, photos, records, traditions, and snippets of family history throughout 2014. Because I could spend a lot of time just debating which ancestors to feature, I've decided to start at the beginning of my pedigree chart and more or less work my way through. Of course, I might take a detour here and there to highlight a more distant uncle, aunt, or cousin, but that's part of the fun.
I'm getting ready to share my first story, about my paternal grandfather and the restaurant he operated for half a century, with you tomorrow. I hope you'll like this new series. Stay tuned…
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The lobby has a warm, luxury lodge feel with soaring ceilings, wood details, and a massive stone fireplace. Guest rooms feel more elegant and traditional, with lavish textures and verdant floor-to-ceiling views. Every room has a 42-inch HDTV, complimentary Wi-Fi, a Keurig coffeemaker, and terrycloth bathrobes. (There are 67 concierge-level rooms that include daily continental breakfast, after-dinner sweets and cordials, plus additional services.) For the nature-minded, there's a mile-long walking trail around the serene property.
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This is a very relaxing place to stay that's still right in the middle of the action near the Galleria mall. It sits on 18 acres of wooded land and has three resort-style pools, a walking trail, a full-scale fitness center and spa. The rates are reasonable for the level of service that you get here.
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This resort is located in the middle of the city, but you'd never know it, as it's surrounded by 18 acres of pine forest. Parts of the property are more like a hunting lodge than a hotel, like the Great Room, which is jazzed up with flags and coats of arms. Rooms are cushy and understated, and the staff is happy to help put some romance into your stay, whether you want to surprise your loved one with a bottle of bubbly or a rose petal bath. Live music every Thursday evening in the lounge also adds to the romance in the air here.


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Q: Sending and receiving data to serialport I have a Magellan scanner/scale. It is connected to my pc through rs232. When i send the command "S11" on ComTestSerial programm, i receive the weight. However, with my vb.net code i cannot receive a response. As a result i get a TimeoutException.
The file that sends the command:
Dim yy() As Byte = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("S11" & vbLf)
Me.Port.Send(yy)
Dim input = Me.Port.Receive
Return Me.ExtractMeasurement(input)

The file that writes and reads from serialport:
public void Send(byte b)
    {
        byte[] bytes = new byte[1] { b };
        this.Send(bytes);
    }

    public void Send(byte[] bytes)
    {
        this.Send(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
    }

    public void Send(byte[] bytes, int offset, int count)
    {
        this._port.Write(bytes, offset, count);
    }

    public byte[] Receive()
    {
        int attempts = 1;
        Boolean dataReceived;

        try
        {
            while (!this.DataReceived && this._port.BytesToRead == 0 && attempts < 15)
            {
                System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(100);
                attempts++;
            }
        }
        finally
        {
            dataReceived = this.DataReceived;
            this.DataReceived = false;
        }

        if (!dataReceived && this._port.BytesToRead == 0) throw new TimeoutException();

        byte[] bytes = new byte[this._port.BytesToRead];
        this._port.Read(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);

        return bytes;
    }

I can't understand why BytesToRead and BytesToWrite stays 0 after this._port.Write(bytes, offset, count);
Here is the serialportconfig.xml file
<PortName>COM3:</PortName>
<BaudRate>Baud_9600</BaudRate>
<DataBits>Eight</DataBits>
<Parity>None</Parity>
<StopBits>One</StopBits>
<FlowCtrl>CtsRts</FlowCtrl>

Update: i figure out that if i send vbCr instead of vbLf i sometimes get the right response back. But the problem is SOMETIMES. I sometimes get a TimeoutException and sometimes get the response. I am using an adaptor from RS232 to usb. Could this be the problem?
Here is all the code related to the serial:
public class SerialPortAdapter
{
    #region Private Members

    private System.IO.Ports.SerialPort _port;

    private Object _dataReceivedLock = new Object();
    private Boolean _dataReceived;

    #endregion

    #region Constructor/Destructor

    public SerialPortAdapter(SerialCnfg config)
    {
        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(config.PortName))
        {
            this._port = new System.IO.Ports.SerialPort();
        }
        else
        {
            string portName = config.PortName.TrimEnd(':');
            this._port = new System.IO.Ports.SerialPort(portName);
        }

        this._port.WriteTimeout = 2000;
        this._port.ReadTimeout = 2000;
        this._port.SetBaudRate(config.BaudRate);
        this._port.SetDataBits(config.DataBits);
        this._port.SetStopBits(config.StopBits);
        this._port.SetHandshake(config.FlowCtrl);
        this._port.SetParity(config.Parity);
    }

    ~SerialPortAdapter()
    {
        this.Close();
        this._port = null;
    }

    #endregion

    #region Public Properties

    public Boolean IsOpen
    {
        get { return this._port.IsOpen; }
    }

    public System.Text.Encoding Encoding
    {
        get { return this._port.Encoding; }
        set { this._port.Encoding = value; }
    }

    #endregion

    #region Public Methods

    public void Open()
    {
        if (this.IsOpen) return;

        this.DataReceived = false;
        this.AttachPortHandlers();
        this._port.Open();
    }

    public void Close()
    {
        if (!this.IsOpen) return;

        this._port.Close();
        this.DetachPortHandlers();
        this.DataReceived = false;
    }

    public void Send(byte b)
    {
        byte[] bytes = new byte[1] { b };
        this.Send(bytes);
    }

    public void Send(byte[] bytes)
    {
        this.Send(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
    }

    public void Send(byte[] bytes, int offset, int count)
    {
        this._port.Write(bytes, offset, count);
    }

    public byte[] Receive()
    {
        int attempts = 1;
        Boolean dataReceived;

        try
        {
            while (!this.DataReceived && this._port.BytesToRead == 0 && attempts < 15)
            {
                System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(100);
                attempts++;
            }
        }
        finally
        {
            dataReceived = this.DataReceived;
            this.DataReceived = false;
        }

        if (!dataReceived && this._port.BytesToRead == 0) throw new TimeoutException();

        byte[] bytes = new byte[this._port.BytesToRead];
        this._port.Read(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);

        return bytes;
    }

    #endregion

    #region Private Properties

    private Boolean DataReceived
    {
        get
        {
            lock (this._dataReceivedLock)
            {
                return this._dataReceived;
            }
        }
        set
        {
            lock (this._dataReceivedLock)
            {
                this._dataReceived = value;
            }
        }
    }

    #endregion

    #region Initialization/Finalization

    private void AttachPortHandlers()
    {
        this._port.DataReceived += new System.IO.Ports.SerialDataReceivedEventHandler(this.OnDataReceived);
    }

    private void DetachPortHandlers()
    {
        this._port.DataReceived -= new System.IO.Ports.SerialDataReceivedEventHandler(this.OnDataReceived);
    }

    #endregion

    #region Event Handlers

    private void OnDataReceived(Object sender, System.IO.Ports.SerialDataReceivedEventArgs e)
    {
        this.DataReceived = true;
    }

    #endregion
}

A: Based on the code you posted, you are attempting to handle your own timeout exception. SerialPort class has its own built in timeout (ie, ReadTimeout, WriteTimeout) which you set in the constructor. Therefore you do not need the other methods to handle the timeout as it would be redundant. Moreover, stay away from the System.Threading.Sleep method as it can be a huge waste of resources Why is Thread.Sleep so harmful.
I suggest that you refactor your code a bit to get rid of the self imposed Throw TimeoutException.
Here is just a suggestion:
public byte[] Receive()
{

    try
    {
        byte[] bytes = new byte[]{};

        while(_port.BytesToRead > 0)
        {
            bytes = new byte[this._port.BytesToRead];
            this._port.Read(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
        }
    }
    catch (TimeoutException ex)
    {
       Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
    }
    finally
    {
        this.DataReceived = false;
    }

    return bytes;
}

A: It appears that Magellan can work if you resend the command to request the weight(S11). So the solution for me was whenever i have _port.bytesToRead=0 after this._port.Write(bytes, offset, count) , then i resend the command S11. Eventually, it will response the right result.

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Racist Meme With Joe Biden Leads To SAG-AFTRA Philadelphia Board Member's Resignation
By David Robb
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Actor John R. Mitchell has resigned from SAG-AFTRA's local board of directors in Philadelphia amid growing outrage about a meme he posted that depicts President Joe Biden with stereotypical, caricatured Asian features and text that reads, "Introducing Our 46th President: Sum Dum Fuk."
In a statement on his resignation, SAG-AFTRA called it "hate speech," but Mitchell defended the meme in a Facebook post, saying that it was political speech and "not meant to be against anyone other than this administration." Previous posts show that he is an outspoken supporter of former President Donald Trump, who resigned from the union earlier this month as the union was moving to expel him in the wake of the failed insurrection on January 6. Mitchell could not be reached for comment.
Donald Trump Banned From Ever Rejoining SAG-AFTRA
"It is with much regret that we have recently been receiving complaints concerning a social media post found on a Philadelphia Local Board member's social media page," said Sam Clover, president of the Philadelphia Local, in a statement. "We do not condone any conduct that fosters discrimination and intolerance. As a board, we value diversity and inclusion and condemn any action contrary to these principles."
SAG-AFTRA did not mention Mitchell by name but said in a statement "on local board member's racist meme and subsequent resignation," said: "We are horrified and revolted by any and all racist speech, particularly so when it comes from within our ranks," SAG-AFTRA said in a statement. "Let us be crystal clear: We do not condone this. We do not accept this. We will not tolerate this. Unions are democratic organizations and this individual was elected by his local members to serve on the local board. This does not excuse his behavior and we have secured his resignation from that position as a result of this misconduct. SAG-AFTRA rejects this hate speech and will continue to do everything in our power to bring it to an end, and will continue our efforts to advance non-discrimination and secure equal opportunity for all our members."
In July, the union unveiled a PSA featuring SAG-AFTRA members calling on all Americans to stand against the stigma, xenophobia and harassment so many Asian Americans are still experiencing related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The Spartans faced an uphill battle to begin with, traveling to the school of the Fox Valley Association's #1 ranked boys' basketball team. And while they scored more points than the Rockets in the second half, the game nevertheless ended in an 81-67 victory for the Rockets, with increased spectator attendance resulting in minor parking difficulties.
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Q: Reading sections of a txt file in C# I have a bunch of Powershell scripts which are executed and the full transcript is saved in a .log file in a specific location. I can read the .log file using:
string[] text = System.IO.File.ReadAllLines(@"D:\install.log");
foreach (string line in text)
{
    Console.WriteLine(line);
}

In this .log file, there is a lot of text and what I am trying to do is read specific sections of the .log file and do operations based on those. So for example the .log file contains something like this:
Executing script no. 1
#####LOTS OF POWERSHELL OUTPUT LINES HERE#####
Executing script no. 2
#####LOTS OF POWERSHELL OUTPUT LINES HERE#####

What I want to be able to do is read the text from Executing script no. 1 and up until Executing script no. 2 and then do some operations accordingly. And then move on to script no. 2 and then so on.
Also, something to note here is that the .log file is being updated as the Powershell scripts are being executed. So when I start reading the .log file, it continues being updated until all the scripts have been executed and I see: Transcript ended at the end of the .log file.
How can I read the .log file in sections here?

A: You can approach your problem with this pattern
List<string> section = new List<string>();
foreach (string line in System.IO.File.ReadLines(@"D:\install.log"))
{
    if (line.StartsWith("Executing script no"))
    {
        ProcessSection(section);
        section = new List<string>();
    }
    section.Add(line);

}

// Process the last section....
ProcessSection(section);

First, do not load all lines together in memory but read one by one accumulating them in a List of strings that represents the content of a section.
Then when you find the line that start the section pass everything to your processing code and restart with a new section data
void ProcessSection(List<string> sectionData)
{
    if(sectionData.Count == 0)
       return;

    // now you can loop over the strings in sectionData or
    // rejoin everything with
    // string.Join(Environment.NewLine,sectionData);
}

But, from your comment below, it seems that another process is writing to the file while you try to read it. In this context, File.ReadLines could fail because it will try to lock the file making impossible to the other process the write operation. (Or failing itself because it cannot lock the file).
In this context your need to read line by line in a different way
using (var fs = new FileStream("D:\\install.log", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite, 0x1000, FileOptions.SequentialScan))
using (var sr = new StreamReader(fs, Encoding.UTF8))
{
    string line;
    while ((line = sr.ReadLine()) != null)
    {
        // as above
    }
}

A: you can use the IndexOf() fucntion to get the starting point of your scripts and extract the part from inbetween
string[] text = System.IO.File.ReadAllLines(@"D:\install.log");
int start = text.IndexOf("Executing script no. 1")
int end   = text.IndexOf("Executing script no. 2")
string scriptOneOutput = text.Substring(start , end-start);
//now scriptOneOutput  should only contain the output from script one and you can process it


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Tag Archives: Rolling Stones
Music of the 60s, Rolling Stones
Rolling Stones Meet Ed Sullivan
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but first, Dean Martin's Hollywood Palace
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The Stones appeared on Dean Martin's Hollywood Palace on June 3, 1964 at the start of their first American tour (June 5 > June 20) promoting the release of their first album, The Rolling Stones, England's Newest Hitmakers.
The band would do eleven shows in total. While not the kind of success that the Beatles met, the tour did give the Stones enough visibility and radio-play to keep them amongst the many British musicians dominating the charts.
You can easily hear how so-called established musicians thought these visitors were a temporary fad and one easily made fun of. Certainly Martin's writers thought so.
True to their roots, the Stones played Willie Dixon's "I Just Want to Make Love to You."
After meeting Dean Martin
It had been 259 days since THE night. That is, 259 days since John, Paul, George, and Ringo changed the way we Americans listened to music and what music we listened to.
For three weeks in a row we sat in our Sunday evening seats–likely a living room–in front of the TV–likely a black and white–and smiled at our group. Not our parents' group.
The Beatles dominated the charts. By October 1964 they'd had five #1 songs and three #1 albums. In fact, the A Hard Day's Night soundtrack album had just dropped out of the #1 spot on October 24 after 14 weeks!
Of course, it wasn't just the Beatles. The flood gates had opened and British performer after British performer saturated the top ten airwaves:
Billy J Kramer
Gerry & the Pacemakers
Herman's Hermits
And here came the Rolling Stones. Now their second American tour of 1964. This one from October 24 thru November 15, 1964. On this tour, the band supported their second album 12 X 5. There first chart hit would not come until "Time Is On My Side" which reached a high point of #6 on Billboard on November 7 that year.
They performed on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time on October 25. Still true to their roots, their first song was Chuck Berry's "Around and Around." Their second song, also a cover was "Time On My Side" written by record producer extraordinaire, Jerry Ragovoy.
The audience, mainly teenage girls, screamed over their song, an occurrence now familiar to viewers. Ed Sullivan, as he'd done with the Beatles, gushed over their performance while some critics felt that the Beatles, formally not very clean-cut, appeared dapper compared to the "unkempt" Stones. Such it would be. One critic sent a telegram calling the act "trash."
The Rolling Stones returned to the Sullivan show the following spring and eventually went on to make 6 appearances. Here's the list.
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Stones Come On Chuck Berry
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"Come On" is a straight-forward tune written by the straight-forward rock n' roll icon Chuck Berry. The Rolling Stones were searching for the "right" first song to release as a single and "Come On" met the criteria.
Chuck Berry, one of their favorite composers and one of British youths favorites as well. It's about frustrated love, broken cars, and wrong numbers. A fine recipe.
The Stones released the song on June 7, 1963, nine months after their friends, The Beatles, had released their inaugural single, "Love Me Do," on October 5 , 1962 [a song without cars, phone calls, or by Chuck Berry, but it did have frustrated love].
Not quite Chuck
According to an All Music review, the Stones's song differs from Berry original in several ways:
the Rolling Stones quickened the tempo
they put more emphasis on off-beat guitar chording and wailing harmonica
the rhythm came close to reggae
on the chorus, Mick Jagger was backed up by high harmonies
they changed one of the lyrics substituting "some stupid guy" for the "some stupid jerk"
an upward key change was thrown in for the last verse
I would have never noticed, but some do and find the differences important. You can listen and decide for yourself.
Willie Dixon
The Stones' B-side of "Come On" was "I Want to Be Loved" by Willie Dixon. It was written in 1955 and reflects the Rolling Stones's love of American blues roots.
Here's their version:
This song's theme has frustrated love, frustrated dancing, and frustrated attention.
The single did well, but did not catapult them into stardom.
1963 touring
In July, they played their first gig away from London in Middlesbrough, England. They shared the bill with The Hollies.
In the autumn of 1963, they toured the United Kingdom and opened for Little Richard, Bo Diddley and The Everly Brothers.
Second single
They also released their second single, "I Wanna Be Your Man." The title may sound familiar and it should. The song was written by those upcoming Beatles, John Lennon and Paul McCartney. The single reached #12 on the UK singles chart.
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Rolling Stones Circus 1968
December 11, 2015 Woodstock Whisperer	Leave a comment
Rolling Stones Circus
Almost Woodstock
Less than nine months before the Woodstock Music and Art Fair and its 130-plus performers, the Rolling Stone Circus came to town.
Organized by the Rolling Stones just after their release of Beggars Banquet, they were looking for a way to promote the album in a fun way. Why not a Rock and Roll Circus?
They filmed it on December 11, 1968. As well as clowns and acrobats, John Lennon and Yoko Ono performed as part of a super group called The Dirty Mac which included Eric Clapton and Mitch Mitchell, and Keith Richards. The Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, and Jethro Tull also performed. It was originally meant to be aired on BBC, but the Rolling Stones withheld it because they were unhappy with their performance. A film was eventually released in 1996.
Here's the Lennon clip with some wonderful conversation between Mick and John before "Yer Blues." Two mates having some fun.
"You Can't Always Get What You Want" with Woodstock Music and Art Fair alum Nicky Hopkins on piano (he sat in with the Jefferson Airplane for their sunrise serenade).
Sadly, this also marked the final appearance of Brian Jones, who died within six months of filming the special.
The Ultimate Classic Rock site says, For all the controversy and mystery surrounding it..'The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus' now comes across as a quaint time capsule of the last days of Swingin' London. And as strange as the idea of combining a rock concert and a circus may be, it manages to work, even if the only person who wasn't stoned was the guy who ate fire.
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In Brief: There's censorship, and then there's the Iranian government's treatment of director Jafar Panahi. Despite a 20-year ban on making films or writing screenplays, Panahi has continued to work and rack up festival awards, smuggling his films out of the country in defiance of all efforts to silence him. Winner of the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival Golden Bear award, Taxi, is a case in point, a direct act of artistic protest against a repressive regime. Think classier Michael Moore with more cogent content, as Taxi is a slightly fictionalized account of Panahi, playing a taxi driver while barred from his true calling and still under house arrest, driving around Tehran and commenting on his own situation while interacting with what appear to be everyday citizens. Funny, disarming and audacious, Taxi is the right kind of statement to make in response to fascistic dictatorships hellbent on controlling their own narrative.
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Genre: Documentary Comedy
Starring: Jafar Panahi
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In Australia, costs rising in payouts to abuse survivors
Cardinal George Pell arrives at the County Court in Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 27, 2019. A clergy abuse compensation plan devised by the cardinal in 1996 to pay people who had been sexually abused by clergy was designed to limit financial damage to the church, but the Melbourne Archdiocese has paid an additional $11 million to increase survivors' claims. (CNS photo/Daniel Pockett, AAP images via Reuters)
By Michael Sainsbury • Catholic News Service • Posted May 28, 2019
MELBOURNE, Australia (CNS) — The Melbourne Archdiocese compensation plan, devised by Cardinal George Pell in 1996 to pay people who had been sexually abused by clergy, was designed to limit financial damage to the church by having survivors sign away their rights to sue the church.
The Melbourne Response, as it is known, initially capped payments for abuse survivors at $50,000 — just under US$35,000 at today's exchange rates. That figure that was later raised to $75,000 and was doubled in 2016 to $150,000 by Cardinal Pell's successor, Archbishop Denis Hart.
"The archdiocese, without relying on previous releases, has provided additional redress payments totaling $11.07 million based on a cap of $150,000 to 233 survivors of child sexual abuse with claims accepted by the Melbourne Response and who received compensation under previous caps," said a spokesman for the Melbourne Archdiocese.
But that number could increase. The government of the state of Victoria, of which Melbourne is the capital, is considering following the states of Queensland and Western Australia in providing blanket relief to survivors who have signed so-called releases from liability for the church; such relief allows the survivors to sue for further damages. This would see payouts from the archdiocese climb considerably higher; observers noted that in some other states, such payments have increased one hundred-fold.
When the Melbourne Response was instituted, it was widely seen as onerous and legalistic. It has been run separately from Towards Healing, a plan created by the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference and Catholic Religious Australia for the rest of the country's church.
Both the Melbourne Response and Towards Healing continue to operate, despite last year's institution of the federal government-run National Redress Scheme in response to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses into Child Sex Abuse, which operated 2013-2107. The Melbourne Archdiocese — and other dioceses and church groups — may be forced to pay many millions more in compensation as recommendations for changes to the National Redress Scheme are considered by Australia's newly elected parliament.
The National Redress Scheme is backed by Australia's six states and two territories and funded by governments, religious and secular organizations, including every Catholic diocese, most religious orders and a raft of Catholic charities, whose clerics, nuns and other officials had been found to be responsible for child sexual abuse.
The Royal Commission recommended a maximum payout of $200,000. The National Redress Scheme currently limits payouts to $150,000, but a parliamentary inquiry has recommended this be changed to $200,000.
The Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference backed the $200,000 figure in its submission to the parliamentary inquiry.
The Melbourne Response has been estimated to have saved the church $62 million, but its costs have run into multi-millions of dollars, including employing a full-time senior lawyer for more than two decades. Senior laypeople involved with implementing church reforms have called for it and Towards Healing to be shut down in light of the formation of the National Redress Scheme.
The Melbourne spokesman said the archdiocese continues "to receive and deal with claims under the Melbourne Response as well as civil claims and notification of applications to the National Redress Scheme." He added that individuals wishing to bring claims "appreciate that they have a choice available to them. In relation to claims seeking to set aside past releases, the archdiocese deals with each claim on its merits."
The parliamentary inquiry's report, "Getting the National Redress Scheme right: an overdue step towards justice," also recommended a raft of changes promoted by abuse survivors and support groups related to their primary concerns about long delays in accessing the plan and counseling, the onerous application process that was re-traumatizing survivors, and the simplification of compensation.
A spokesman for the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference told Catholic News Service the redress scheme was "an important pathway for survivors of institutional abuse, and we believe it will be an important option for many individuals." He said others would still wish to pursue civil litigation as their preferred legal avenue of seeking redress.
"Whichever avenue an individual chooses, we are committed to working with survivors to reach some place of healing and justice," he said. He also added that Towards Healing remained in place and there were no plans to disband it.
As of July 1, 2018, someone wishing to make a complaint that relates to an allegation of sexual abuse of a person who was under 18 at the time of the offense has options: They can report it to the police, which is the preferred option; they can enter the Towards Healing path; or they can make a claim via the National Redress Scheme.
Still, many lawyers are concerned that the National Redress Scheme is being used by institutions guilty of abuse as a cheaper alternative to the Australian justice system.
In a submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry, Melbourne's Shine Lawyers, a firm that has successfully represented a string of abuse survivors from a range of institutions, said: "We are concerned that institutions are becoming less collaborative and conciliatory, essentially forcing survivors of child sexual abuse through the redress scheme. It has always been the case that the redress scheme ought to be an alternative and not a replacement for civil litigation. Many survivors will be best served by a remedy at civil law."
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Biden Semi-Fascist Speech Aftermath: Two Pundits, Two Ethics Alarms
September 8, 2022 / Jack Marshall / 4 Comments
One of which is busted beyond repair; the other is just malfunctioning.
Two of the New York Times' more prominent opinion columnists reacted to President Biden's "Half the Nation is an Existential Menace" speech, one of the greatest blunders in U.S. political history. One of them, Bret Stephens, is perhaps the closest thing to a conservative in the Times stable (though he has advocated the repeal of the Second Amendment); the other pundit was Charles M. Blow, who is not only an unshakeable progressive but an anti-white bigot and a sufferer from extreme Trump Derangement.
Guess which one loved the speech…
Here's Blow in "Biden Shouldn't Apologize to Republicans":
Republicans who voted for Donald Trump deserve to be called out for their actions. Trump has consistently exhibited fascist tendencies and espoused racism, misogyny and white nationalism. Republicans supported him, defended him and voted for him. They've been actively courting this condemnation.
Note that Blow doesn't bother to give any specifics; he's writing to Times readers who just accept "resistance"/Democrat/mainstream media narratives dating back sic years or more. What racism? What white nationalism? (If pressed, I assume Blow would use the deceitful "very fine people" quote…or perhaps cite wanting to enforce immigration laws). Trump is a sexist (like Bill Clinton, Jack Kennedy and Biden, among others), but what policy of his could be called "misogynist"? Oh, right! I forgot: not believing that women should have carte blanch to kill nascent human life whenever they feel like it is misogyny. Continue reading →
RETRACTED And Revised: "Scared Yet? Twitter Censors A Times Op-Ed Columnist For Calling Anti-White Racism What It Is"
July 1, 2021 July 1, 2021 / Jack Marshall / 10 Comments
This is the revised part. The retraction is that despite the headline and what I wrote below, Twitter didn't suspend New York Times columnist Bret Stephens account for violating Twitter's rules with his recent op-ed calling anti-white measures showing up in the Biden Administration and elsewhere what they are: racism. The Daily Wire, a conservative website that was founded by right wing gadfly Ben Shapiro, wrote the post based on "a Twitter user" as its source," and I foolishly assumed that the site would have checked out the claim before posting on it. It turns out the Stephens' account says it's "suspended" because he suspended it himself, in 2019.
Thus I am made an accomplice to this confirmation bias chain reaction, and I resent it. This is the kind of crap I experienced more than once from Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit, both of which are no longer cited as sources on Ethics Alarms, and whose stories I will not believe unless I find a credible source that independently confirmed it. Now I'm adding the Daily Wire to that black list. There are plenty of left-leaning sites on that list as well, but since it is virtually impossible to ensure that a story that reflects poorly on the allies of progressive propaganda hasn't been obscured or deliberately distorted by the mainstream media, conservative media has to be trustworthy and professional, and far too often, it just isn't. Situations like this make it easier for the mainstream media to call every report they wish would disappear "conservative disinformation."
Meanwhile, The Daily Wire just notes (a few minutes after I've posted relying on its fabricated story) that the post had been "corrected." It was originally titled, "Twitter Suspends NY Times' Columnist's Account After He Denounces Equity as 'Racism." NOW it is headlined "NY Times Columnist Denounces Equity as 'Racism'" which is both inaccurate and not news, since Stephens' column is three days old. He also never called "equity"racism. That's like something they would say on MSNBC to distort what was written. I thought the phrasing was strange and sloppy in the first version, but since the topic was Twitter's censorship, I didn't bother with it. Now, the misrepresentation is the subject of the whole post. Then, in the body of the piece, it now says, "On June 30, a Twitter reader erroneously claimed that Twitter had suspended Bret Stephens' Twitter account." What it should have said is "On June 30, a Twitter reader erroneously claimed that Twitter had suspended Bret Stephens' Twitter account, and we, because we were looking for another reason to bash Twitter, believed him without checking. We apologize to our readers and any other websites, commentators or blogs who were misled due to our mistake."
But I DO apologize (and thank to JutGory for the prompt alert). Confirmation bias also played a part in my gullibility: I do not trust Twitter, and what was represented is just a bit beyond what Jack Dorsey's arrogant cyber-creature has done already. The last line of the post is still valid, though the rest was built on garbage: "Boy, am I glad I quit Twitter. But I'm ashamed that I didn't do it sooner"
Like Bret Stephens.
The rest of what follows, except for that last part, is retracted.
I didn't see this one coming, because I am an idiot.
Two days ago, I wrote in the morning warm-up, (Item #2),
"Today [The New York Times] allowed Bret Stephens , one of the endangered species in their op-ed stable, a conservative, to write an anti-antiwhite racism piece under the Times' main editorial gaslighting those who see Critical Race Theory for what it is. (On the opposite page, one of the Times' usual far-left shills has another op-ed defending the teaching of Critical Race Theory in the schools, so the Times makes sure that Stephens is shouted down by his own paper, 2-1.) Stephens' op-ed is called "The New Racism Won't Solve the Old Racism," which one would think is self-evident, but in the Year of the Great Stupid, it certainly is not. His "money quote" comes at the very end:
"Thoughtful liberals who think this is much ado about nothing should spend some time pondering how perfectly people like [ Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who has announced that she won't be interviewed by white journalists] are now playing into right-wing stereotypes. They should also spend time wondering whether the ideal for which they have long fought — a society that, if not colorblind, can at least see past color — is being jeopardized by progressives who apparently can see only color. Whichever way, it shouldn't be hard to see that trying to solve the old racism with the new racism will produce only more racism. Justice is never achieved by turning tables."
Obviously, he's racist, or so the totalitarianism-enabling censors at Twitter decided. Yesterday, Twitter suspended Stephens' Twitter account which now just says, "Account suspended." His opinion, you see, violates Twitter rules, primarily the unwritten one that holds that any statements that in any way undermine the credibility and effectiveness of the Left's efforts to undermine the Constitution and core American values will be censored so as few citizens get to ponder non-conforming arguments as possible.
Morning Ethics Warm-Up, 6/29/21: Beautiful Morning, Ugly Ethics
June 29, 2021 July 1, 2021 / Jack Marshall / 7 Comments
This date in 1972 witnessed one of the more egregious examples of liberal judges using political ideology and capriciously-applied ethics to avoid following the law. In Furman v. Georgia,the remnants of the Warren Court, now under conservative Chief Justice Warren Burger, who dissented, prevailed in a narrow 5-4 decision that ruled the death penalty to be "cruel and unusual" under the Eighth Amendment. This was about as far away from "originalism" as the Court could get, since the Founders obviously did not regard executions as unusual at all, and cruelty has always been a subjective concept. But the Court left the metaphorical door open for new Congressional legislation that could make death sentences constitutional again if it included standardized guidelines for juries that would ameliorate "arbitrary" applications of capital punishment. Four years later SCOTUS reinstated the death penalty, which was overwhelmingly supported by the public, and in 1977, Gary Gilmore, a career criminal who cruelly and unusually murdered an elderly couple who refused to give him their car, faced a firing squad in Utah, a fate he definitely deserved.
1. I wish I had the time and fortitude to detail just how bad this New York Times Magazine article is, but I don't, and maybe nobody with a life does. So I'll just leave it to you to read it: "What if American Democracy Fails the Climate Crisis?" in the New York Times "Climate Issue." Despicably, the Times handed the article over to openly and egregiously Left-biased journalist Ezra Klein, the founder of Vox and a dedicated practitioner of journalism as progressive propaganda. This means that only one point of view pervades the exercise, differing only in degrees and minor details. Even the title is loaded with assumptions that poison fair discourse, and I hope I will not be spoiling the suspense by pointing out that the "solution" Klein and his of-one-mind panelists (including one of the authors of the risible so-called "Green New Deal") is a Leftist take-over of the U.S. and preferably capitulation to world government. I was going to list the most outrageous and dishonest quotes, but that would have taken up the whole post. The "I mentally checked out here" moment was in the introduction, in which Klein writes, being "hopeful," "A rising generation understands the urgency of the moment, even if their elders do not." That rising generation understands nothing about climate science, much like their "elders," but have been indoctrinated into thinking they do. That's "hopeful" for a nascent totalitarian like Klein. The rest of the issue is substantially deceit and propaganda, like the article about how climate change is already ravaging islands like the Bahamas, focusing on Hurricane Dorian as if there is any way to trace its origins to the topic of the issue.
Unethical—Or Maybe Head-Exploding—Quote Of The Month: New York Times Media Writer Ben Smith
February 17, 2021 February 17, 2021 / Jack Marshall / 8 Comments
"But the paper needs to figure out how to resolve these issues more clearly: Is The Times the leading newspaper for like-minded, left-leaning Americans? Or is it trying to hold what seems to be a disappearing center in a deeply divided country? Is it Elizabeth Warren or Joe Biden?"
—-Ben Smith, the New York Times' media writer, regarding the "moral " dilemma [ "Postcard From Peru: Why the Morality Plays Inside The Times Won't Stop" ] revealed by the controversy over the Times forcing out its top science writer for saying "nigger" in Peru instead of "n-word".
Hold the center? HOLD THE CENTER?? HOLD THE CENTER????? Oh, God, I can't…oh no ..ARGHHHH!
What a mess! I'm so, so sorry.
And that's just one paragraph! Since my head has already been shattered beyond hope, here's another one:
This intense attention, combined with a thriving digital subscription business that makes the company more beholden to the views of left-leaning subscribers, may yet push it into a narrower and more left-wing political lane as a kind of American version of The Guardian — the opposite of its stated, broader strategy.
Is Smith gaslighting us? Is the Times really that lacking in self-awareness? This outrageous piece was featured on the front page! "Gee, I wonder if we're too biased…"
The New York Times drove one of its veteran journalists out of the paper for speaking the specific word he was discussing in the context of a student question about racist and sexist language, because some woke high school students said they were offended, and the Times' staff censors of color demanded their pound of flesh. The Times editor then made the ridiculous and untrue statement that 'intent' didn't matter, which was correctly condemned by a Times op-ed writer in a column that was censored by the paper.
Comment Of The Day: "Ethical Quote Of The Month: Bret Stephens' Critical Column About New York Times Cowardice And Hypocrisy That The Times Tried To Censor"
February 12, 2021 / Jack Marshall / 3 Comments
Comment of the Day auteur Glenn Logan (one of many at EA) has helpful thoughts about the intertwined issue of speech control/ racial epithets/ intent and political correctness. I'm behind on COTDs again, but jumped Glenn's ahead in line because the blog has been active on related topics today.
Here is Glenn Logan's Comment of the Day on Bret Stephens' discarded op-ed and the post, "Ethical Quote Of The Month: Bret Stephens' Critical Column About New York Times Cowardice And Hypocrisy That The Times Tried To Censor':
This is an excellent inquiry into the current state of political culture. The left has discovered one of the things it has historically eschewed — the concept of strict liability, and the power it brings them to redefine the English language in America, and by extension, the political environment. For years, liberals have found crimes which didn't consider intent offensive, and for good reason. Alas, it seems that is no longer the case.
At the risk of being pedantic, strict liability — for those who may not be aware — is a type of crime or regulatory violation where intent does not matter. The quintessential strict liability crime example is statutory rape, where violation of the statute requires no general or specific intent. Regardless of whether the violator knew, had reason to know, or intended to have sexual relations with a minor person, the fact he/she/xe/them did is all that matters.The word "nigger" has now become, in the world of the Left, a strict liability offense when uttered in any form and for any reason. More and more, this is also becoming true of descriptive constructions like "n-word, " "n*****," "n—–," or "n_____."
The recent incident with the Times shows just how successful this effort has become, and is sure to become a model for other words considered to be offensive at some fundamental level. There is no reason to believe the proponents of this new morality will be circumspect in this expansion, either.Using the power of the mob, the Left has found that they can circumvent the First Amendment by ginning up social outrage and placing pressure on companies to do what the law cannot — punish speech.
Ethical Quote Of The Month: Bret Stephens' Critical Column About New York Times Cowardice And Hypocrisy That The Times Tried To Censor
February 11, 2021 / Jack Marshall / 21 Comments
Ethics Alarms is temporarily parting with its usual practice by publishing Times columnist Bret Stephens' suppressed column in full. Normally, I regard doing this as unethical: the publication that pays for an essay deserves to have the benefit of the links and the views. But this was published not by Stephen's employer, whom he serves as house conservative with varying effectiveness, but by a competitor, the New York Post, to which the piece was leaked. As a leaked document, it is fair for Ethics Alarms to publish, and as an important piece of evidence further proving the corruption of American journalism, I believe that Stephens' spiked op-ed needs to be widely read. I doubt that the mainstream media can be trusted to give it the circulation it needs.
Stephens wrote his column in response to this incident, where his paper fired a respected journalist after its investigation of his reportedly using the word "nigger" in a discussion with students indicated that none of his remarks had been, I wrote, "sexist or racist, but that he had used words employed by sexists or racists to talk about sexism or racism, rather than using the approved poopy/ pee-pee/woo-woo baby talk codes (n-word, b-word, c-word) demanded by language censors." "Initially, the Times' editor, Dean Baquet, tried to be fair and to uphold what the Times is supposed to respect—the Bill of Rights," I continued,"but eventually capitulated to his woke and anti-free speech staff, as he has before."
Stephens told colleagues the column was killed by Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger. The piece the Times didn't want the public to see circulated among Times staffers and others until someone sent it to the New York Post.
I will say at the outset that Stephens should quit, just as Glenn Greenwald quit his own organization when it blocked publication of his piece about the Hunter Biden story embargo .I don't know if there are enough journalists of integrity and honesty who are concerned about the ruinous abdication of their profession from its crucial obligations to democracy to prevent the death spiral into totalitarianism. But the few there are need to step up.
Here is Bret Stephens' column:
Ethics Quote Of The Month: Time Op-Ed Writer Bret Stephens
October 22, 2020 / Jack Marshall / 11 Comments
"It's a compromise that is fatal to liberalism. It reintroduces a concept of blasphemy into the liberal social order. It gives the prospectively insulted a de facto veto over what other people might say. It accustoms the public to an ever-narrower range of permissible speech and acceptable thought. And… it slowly but surely turns writers, editors and publishers into cowards."
—Bret Stephens, intermittently conservative New York Times columnist, in an op-ed condemning the acceptance of censorship and self-censorship as norms by the modern Left.
Stephens is certainly on a roll lately. His previous column (effectively and accurately) condemning the pet Times race propaganda "1619 Project" for what it is (that is to say, cultural and historical toxic waste) was not his last, as many predicted, and apparently emboldened by his survival, Stephens is determined to "let it all hang out," as they used to say in the Sixties. Once again, he is attacking his own paper, which has doubled-down in its determination to publish only the news it feels safe to let its readers know about.
It is telling that Stephens' column was published in tandem this week with another attempt by the Times to hide the utter corruption of the Biden family from the public, at least until the election is over. Above the Stephens piece—also telling—is the poisonous Michelle Goldberg's screed suggesting that the discovery of Hunter Biden's incriminating (to both him and his father) laptop is more GOP "collusion." The Times' truly despicable headline: "Is the Trump Campaign Colluding With Russia Again?" Note "Again": the Mueller investigation found no evidence of "collusion" by any American citizen, much less the Trump campaign (to be fair, it didn't investigate the Clinton campaign's Russian dealings), and yet the Times allows that lie to lead its Editorial page. Polls show (I know, I know: polls) that over 70% of Democrats still think the President won the election by colluding with Russia, and mainstream media descriptions like this is a main reason. And it's intentional.
Ethics Hero: New York Times Op-Ed Columnist Bret Stephens
October 11, 2020 October 11, 2020 / Jack Marshall / 27 Comments
Bret Stephens has been criticized on this site for regularly failing his alleged assignment of bringing a principled conservative voice to the New York Times op-ed pages, and seeming to yield to the strongly biased culture of the uenthical paper that employs him.
In his most recent column, however Stephens courageously and unblinkingly calls out the New York Times' controversial "1619 Project" for what it is—dishonest, misleading, falsified—oh, let's not mince words— crap. [Ethics Alarms discussed the "1619 Project" and its unethical creator, Times reporter and race activist Nikole Hannah-Jones, here] Josh Blackmon, for example, writing at Reason, thinks that the columnist metaphorically biting the hand that feeds him will mark the beginning of the end of Stephens at the Times. After all, a Times editor recently resigned after the paper's Jacobins called for his head for daring to allow a Republican Senator to voice an opinion that went against the Times' view of the world. Stephens has gone far, far beyond that.
He knows it, too. At the end of his dissection of the bad history and unethical journalism that disgracefully won the Times a Pulitzer Prize, the columnist writes,
For obvious reasons, I've thought long and hard about the ethics of writing this essay. On the one hand, outside of exceptional circumstances, it's bad practice to openly criticize the work of one's colleagues. We bat for the same team and owe one another collegial respect.On the other, the 1619 Project has become, partly by its design and partly because of avoidable mistakes, a focal point of the kind of intense national debate that columnists are supposed to cover, and that is being widely written about outside The Times.
To avoid writing about it on account of the first scruple is to be derelict in our responsibility toward the second.All the more so as journalists, in the United States and abroad, come under relentless political assault from critics who accuse us of being fake, biased, partisan and an arm of the radical left. Many of these attacks are baseless. Some of them are not. Through its overreach, the 1619 Project has given critics of The Times a gift.
Ethics May Day, 2020: Biden, Reade, Planned Parenthood, A Renegade Times Pundit, And The Democrats Get Their Way.
May 1, 2020 May 1, 2020 / Jack Marshall / 22 Comments
It's May! It's May!
1. So Joe Biden went on "Morning Joe" and denied that Tara Reade was telling the truth. So what? What does this tell us? Was there any chance whatsoever that he was going to say, "Yup, I finger-fucked her. I don't know what came over me!"? No. This is like the Kurt Gödel conundrum about the island where there are only truth-tellers and liars, and there are some questions where they will give exactly the same answers. He picked a screamingly partisan journalist, Mika Brzezinski, to ensure soft-ball treatment (she actually was a bit tougher than expected), and, to some eyes, looked as if he had rehearsed his statement. Ann Althouse does an extensive analysis here.
I don't see the point. It's a pro forma denial, and Biden was pressured into it.
I do think the Post article used some unfortunate phrasing..
"The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee was rebutting Tara Reade's accusation that he reached under her skirt to penetrate her with his fingers somewhere in the Capitol in 1993. This denial requires him to thread a thin needle."
2. Showing it has more integrity than most women's groups, Planned Parenthood, the Daily Beast reports, was the only one among the major pro-abortion groups in the nation that responded directly to the progressive site's request for a comment regarding Tara Reade's allegations. The "Democrat-aligned" groups either "did not respond" or " replied and did not provide a statement"…except Planned Parenthood.
Its president released a statement saying in part, "We believe survivors—and saying we believe survivors doesn't mean only when it's politically convenient…Joe Biden must address this allegation directly.'" Continue reading →
Morning Ethics Warm-Up, 12/27/2019: Two Bingos, Two Drag Shows, and Poop
December 27, 2019 / Jack Marshall / 19 Comments
1. Is it me, or is this TV commercial indefensibly gross, and signals the impending end of civilization?
2. Reasons not to duck the New York Times op-ed pages…Yale student Kathryn Hu contributed a sane and thoughtful essay on the topic of classic operas with characters and plot elements that seem sexist or racist to today's more enlightened audiences. As we know, today's "woke" censors of the arts and arbiters of what we are allowed to watch and hear have their own solution: never do the piece again, despite its obvious virtues, or interpret and rewrite it out of existance or into nausea, like John Legend injecting "It's your body and your choice" into the lyrics of "Baby It's Cold Outside." I had to suppress my gorge from rising while reading this article, for example, that described the current production of J.M Barry's 1904 classic "Peter Pan" in Washington D.C:
In [Playwright Lauren Gunderson's] version now playing at Shakespeare Theatre Company (retitled Peter Pan and Wendy…), the character of Tiger Lily has been completely reconceived. No more the helpless princess in distress, Tiger Lily is now a spirited and fearless Native rights activist whose people thrived in Neverland long before Captain Hook's pirate ship dropped anchor and Peter showed up with the Lost Boys.
Because as we know, there were so many Native American activists in 1904. To anyone with brain cells and cultural perspective that haven't been woked to death, it is obvious that Barry's Neverland is a child's fanciful impression of Indians, pirates, and friendly wild animals. It has nothing to do with reality , so imposing current day adult political views on the and characters is neither fair nor necessary.
Hu's solution to the supposed horrors of 19th Century biases and social mores in opera: Continue reading →


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Home Featured Reel Pali Palisadian Don Cheadle to Star in New Sci-Fi Series on Quibi
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Palisadian Don Cheadle to Star in New Sci-Fi Series on Quibi
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Palisadian Don Cheadle, still riding the wave of a year that saw him earn windfall success with "Avengers: Endgame," "Black Monday" and "Ratched," will be starring in a new science fiction series "Don't Look Deeper," on the yet-to-be-released streaming platform Quibi, a mobile-only app with $1 billion in funding set to launch in April 2020, backed by Palisadian Janice Min.
Quibi will offer two payment tiers: $4.99 per month with short ads or $7.99 per month with no ads.
Palisadian Steven Speilberg earlier last year announced he would be producing and writing a series that can only be viewed in the dark for the app. Other big Hollywood names that will contribute to the platform include Guillermo del Toro, Sam Raimi and Antoine Fuqua.
Quibi, founded by former Disney Execs Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, is focused exclusively on short-form content (10 minutes or less) and claims it will spend nearly $495 million on programming ahead of its launch and as much as $600 million in its first year on around 7,000 videos, including everything from movies to reality TV.
What makes Quibi a draw for content creators is its unique rights arrangement: After a certain amount of time, the rights for the content are restored to the content's creators, an ambitious and unprecedented move in the entertainment business.
Cheadle's foray onto the Quibi platform, "Don't Look Deeper," takes place in Merced, California, and centers on a girl who believes herself to be something other than human.
The series also stars Emily Mortimer ("Mary Poppins Returns") and Helena Howard (Madeline's "Madeline"). "Lost" co-creator Jeffrey Lieber serves as showrunner, writing the series alongside Charlie McDonnell.
"Don't Look Deeper," a co-production between New Form and 30 Ninjas, will be directed and executive produced by "Twilight" director Catherine Hardwicke.
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