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A Writer's Wit: Israel Horovitz
Theatre's great. It's such an act of faith. It's a wonderful art form where you suspend disbelief for a couple of hours. It's a lovely art form because the actors and the audience are alive and in the room at the same time together. That's why I love the theatre.
Israel Horovitz
Author of Park Your Car in Harvard Yard
I. Horovitz
FRIDAY: My Book World | Matt Bell's novel Appleseed
A Writer's Wit: William Arthur Ward
I can't picture going to a beach, or anywhere on vacation, without a couple of books as companions.
Rosecrans Baldwin
Author of Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
R. Baldwin
Dreyer's English Is Not Dry
It's dark. You exhale a fist of memory. I love you like weathering wood in a room of empty pianos. When you return to something you love, it's already beyond repair. You wear it broken.
James L. White
Author of The Salt Ecstasies
Born March 26, 1936
J. L. White
Dreyer, Benjamin. Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style. New York: Random, 2019.
This book about copyediting offers readers an excellent review if you think you already know the business pretty well, and, if you don't, then it's a great place to begin (Dreyer himself includes a list of fine sources). Even so, he makes something like the subjunctive mood ("mood" being a grammatical concept not always taught today) utterly clear (If I were vs. If I was)—not as rigid as, say, the Chicago Manual of Style. Dreyer nevertheless has his pet peeves and his absolutes:
This may be a particular peeve of mine and no one else's, but I note it, because it's my book: Name-dropping, for no better reason than to show off, underappreciated novels, obscure foreign films, or cherished indie bands by having one's characters irrelevantly reading or watching or listening to them is massively sore-thumbish. A novel is not a blog post about Your Favorite Things. If you must do this sort of thing—and, seriously, must you?—contextualize heavily" (113).
I give Dreyer another thumbs up because he has a broad (flexible and forgiving) understanding of the English language, the concept of rhetoric being one of them. A peeve of mine (and he articulates it well) is how people misuse the term "begging the question" in common speech (especially on MSNBC or CNN) and writing, mistakenly taking it to mean "raising the question":
Begging the question, as the term is traditionally understood, is a kind of logical fallacy—the original Latin is petitio principii, and no, I don't know these things off the top of my head; I look them up like any normal human being—in which one argues for the legitimacy of a conclusion by citing as evidence the very thing one is trying to prove in the first place. Circular reasoning, that is" (151). The greatest example from my classical rhetoric text is, "When did you stop beating your wife?" An apparent single premise actually assumes two, one of which is not possible without the other. To stop beating your wife you had to begin at some point, making the question a trap.
At the same time, Dreyer is unusually forgiving about other concepts, some of which cause me to grind my teeth. Even a few scientists seem to forget that "data" are plural (hee hee) for "datum." The data clearly show … (not "shows"). Same with "media." The media are (not "is") always talking about how the media are not to blame. Ah, so satisfying to my ear, and yet Dreyer seems to shrug it off.
Dreyer's greatest talent may be as wordsmith. He makes this discussion of "continual" vs. "continuous" pellucid: "Continual" means ongoing but with pause or interruption, starting and stopping, as, say, continual thunderstorms (with patches of amity). "Continuous" means ceaseless, as in a Noah-and-the-Flood-like forty days and forty nights of unrelenting rain" (179).
He tackles "epigraph" and "epigram"; he tackles "farther" and "further," and makes their meanings clear. Most of all, Dreyer's book seems to demonstrate that the copyeditor, far from being captain of the grammar police, exists to take a writer's finished manuscript and style his or her words to make the final product seem more like the original than the original. In other words, the copyeditor's work should be invisible. Well done, it seems like magic, particularly to the author.
NEXT FRIDAY: My Book World | Matt Bell's novel, Appleseed
A Writer's Wit: Gloria Steinem
If someone called me a lesbian—in those days all single feminists were assumed to be lesbians—I learned to say, "Thank you." It disclosed nothing, confused the accuser, conveyed solidarity with women who were lesbians, and made the audience laugh.
Gloria Steinem
Author of Makers: Women Who Make America
G. Steinem
TOMORROW: My Book World | Benjamin Dreyer: Dreyer's English
A Writer's Wit: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Author of A Coney Island of the Mind
L. Ferlinghetti
FRIDAY: My Book World | Benjamin Dreyer: Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
A Writer's Wit: Erich Fromm
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Author of The Art of Loving
E. Fromm
Universality of Fleshly Ways
Do what thy manhood bids thee do,
from none but self expect applause;
He noblest lives and noblest dies who
makes and keeps his self-made laws.
Richard F. Burton
Author of The City of the Saints
R. F. Burton
Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. New York: Random, 194- (1903).
I found this late nineteenth-century novel fascinating for a number of reasons. First, Butler undertakes to explore the centuries-old problem of conflict between fathers and sons. The Pontifex family is indeed a family of priests (how audacious of Butler to further his satire by borrowing the word from Roman times). But dear young Ernest Pontifex does not want to follow in his father's footsteps; and then he eventually does. For a while, anyway. Then he rebels big time, winding up in gaol for molesting a woman, at which time his parents disinherit him. Mr. and Mrs. Pontifex have taken the following line of thinking as they raise their children, including Ernest: "If their wills were 'well broken' in childhood, to use an expression then much in vogue, they would acquire habits of obedience which they would not venture to break through till they were over twenty-one years old" (22).
A number of sources advocate for the idea that Samuel Butler was gay, largely because he never married and seemed to maintain a number of close emotional relationships with men. If the subliminal crumb-droppings of this novel mean anything, Butler leaves all kinds of clues that this assertion may indeed be true (as does Maugham in his Of Human Bondage). Ernest's father, Theobald, says the following: "It is an unnatural thing for a boy not to be fond of his own father. If he was fond of me I should be fond of him, but I cannot like a son who, I am sure, dislikes me. He shrinks out of my way whenever he sees me coming near him. He will not stay five minutes in the same room with me if he can help it" (122). Why is Ernest disposed toward this behavior? Probably because elder Pontifex beats Ernest for any number of reasons (his manipulating mother aids in this process). And which comes first, father's rejection of son, or son's rejection of father? When does the endless cycle of enmity begin? At any rate, many gay men are rejected by their fathers because they may see something in their sons that they do not like in themselves. Other clues? Ernest does not marry or marries badly (a bigamist, canceling his marriage) because he doesn't get women; he has no positive feeling for women (especially his mother, though he forgives her in the end); but he does maintain longstanding relationships with various men throughout his life.
Yet, the most interesting aspect of the novel may be Butler's treatment of the root of all evil, the way of all flesh: greed, the lust for money. Readers can locate the plot on the internet, but suffice it to say that Butler makes much (a biting satire) of the British notion of passing on wealth to one's heirs, or not doing so, which action plays a large role in this novel's satisfying climax and denouement (the elder Pontifexes get their comeuppance for their poor treatment of son Ernest).
Unlike other authors of this period, Butler writes for the most part in a manner that is simple and easy to follow, yet the novel is far from facile. Butler's is a story that continues to unfold. It echoes throughout homes in England and around the world.
NEXT FRIDAY: My Book World | Benjamin Dreyer's Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
A Writer's Wit: George Plimpton
I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.
George Plimpton
Author of Paper Lion
G. Plimpton
TOMORROW: My Book World | Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh
A Writer's Wit: Patrick Hamilton
Too much thought is bad for the soul, for art, and for crime. It is also a sign of middle age.
Patrick Hamilton
Author of The Midnight Bell
P. Hamilton
FRIDAY: My Book World | Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh
A Writer's Wit: Alice Hoffman
Mothers always find ways to fit in the work—but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
Alice Hoffman
Author of The World We Knew
A. Hoffman
College Tales Always Delightful
I write to find out what I'm talking about.
Author of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962 play)
E. Albee
Kendig, Robert E. Sojourn at Stevenson College: Campus Tales from a Bygone Era. A compendium of whimsical events that actually did occur, modestly embellished. Wilmington: Winoca, 2005.
This book is a satisfying read because the author opts to tell his story of teaching in a college town in the 1930s in a nonlinear manner. Although some characters carry over from one chapter to the next (like a meddlesome underling in the history department), each tale can more or less stand alone.
This book has its poignant moments, but it is largely about humor:
A filling station owner installs a large speaker under the seat (ew) in his customer outhouse and connects it to a microphone. "'Lady, would you move over please, we're working down here'" (46-7).
At Stevenson College, students are a bit perturbed because the faculty are "unnecessarily indolent" (78) in standing for the opening and closing hymns. "During the holidays, some of the students—we never knew who were the guilty ones—gained access to the chapel. They ran uninsulated wires through the tops of the cushions on the front pews, and under the carpeting on the floor to the loud foot pedal of the piano and thence to a substantial dry cell battery located to the rear of the instrument" (79).Well, one can imagine that on that day, every faculty member stood for the opening and closing hymns.
Later, the meddlesome underling commandeers the visit of a literary figure from England, attempting to make his visit as English-like as possible, even to the point of faking a British accent in what is probably a mid-South community. All throughout she rudely attempts to guide the discussion away from the local department and what and how the professors teach. Finally, when the woman expresses her fascination with the spelling of British names, the Brit himself has had enough: "This was more than Sir Reginald could stand. He sat upright in his chair and, looking directly at Mrs. Garber, he responded, 'No, madam, I am not hyphenated. I am not even circumcised!'" (108).
The story that may touch educators comes near the end when Kendig renders how he advises a star pupil who, upon graduating, has the opportunity either to play a professional sport or take advantage of a Rhodes Scholarship. The pupil asks Kendig what he ought to do. The esteemed professor asks him to ponder the following: "But think about the two opportunities ahead of you and assume for a moment that either one can lead to your being famous. Then you might ask, 'For what would I want to be famous?'"(165-6). I won't say which he chose.
This is one of those books published by a small press that may not be picked up because it is "too parochial or too regional" in its nature. Yet it is a book that is well edited, well-designed, and one that is both enlightening and entertaining. Kudos to publisher/editor Barbara Brannon for bringing this book to light for all of us.
NEXT FRIDAY: My Book World | Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh
A Writer's Wit: Libba Bray
We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, "What do I want?"
Libba Bray
Author of Lair of Dreams
L. Bray
FRIDAY: My Book World | Robert E. Kendig's Sojourn at Stevenson College: Campus Tales from a Bygone Era.
A Writer's Wit: Clare Booth Luce
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
Clare Boothe Luce
Author of The Women (1936 play)
C. B. Luce
A Writer's Wit: Vita Sackville-West
What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
Vita Sackville-West
Author of The Edwardians
Born March 9, 1892
V. Sackville-West
Coetzee's Diary
I have to have music on when writing, or else the silence swallows me whole.
Sarah J. Maas
Author of House of Earth and Blood
S. J. Maas
Coetzee, J. M. Diary of a Bad Year. New York: Viking, 2007.
Coetzee relates the story of an aging author dying of cancer who hires an attractive young woman in his building to do typing for him. In the evenings the woman relates to her boyfriend what the developing book is like. She also engages in dialogue with the author concerning his strong opinions (also the title of the book). At some point the boyfriend becomes the author's accountant and devises a failproof plan to cheat the author out of his estate at the time of his death.
What makes this simple plot compelling is Coetzee's structure: the top third of each page is assigned to fragments from the fictional author's essays. A middle portion of the page, usually quite slim, is a continuing dialog between the author and the typist, where he discovers she isn't only pretty but smart as well. The bottom section of each page portrays the relationship between the typist and her boyfriend. At least, in theory, one may read all three parts separately, from front to back because Coetzee presents them as three distinct but interrelated stories. However, I mostly read the book conventionally, attempting to keep each of the threads separately yet trying, at the same time, to see how the three threads related to one another.
This novel is a fascinating read mostly because of the structure. If Coetzee had given the book a more traditional approach with alternating chapters or sections, it might have been a different book indeed, though I cannot predict how. Such is the alchemy of fine writing by a fine author.
NEXT FRIDAY: My Book World | Robert E. Kendig's Sojourn at Stevenson College: Campus Tales from a Bygone Era
A Writer's Wit: Julia Cameron
Creativity—like human life itself—begins in darkness.
Julia Cameron
Author of The Artist's Way
J. Cameron
TOMORROW: My Book World | J. M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year
A Writer's Wit: Grace Lumpkin
She went out of the door into the barren front yard where the ground met her feet. She missed the soft ground of the mountains that was rich with growth. There was plenty of mud on the roads here, as in the streets of the village. But on the mountains the soft soil sank under her feet, and in it grew small flowers and plants she liked to pick in the spring.
Grace Lumpkin
Author of The Wedding
G. Lumpkin
FRIDAY: My Book World | J. M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year
A Writer's Wit: Tom Wolfe
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
Tom Wolfe
Author of The Bonfire of the Vanities
T. Wolfe


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Stock Up Your Kindle With Some New "Free" and "Cheap" Reads #freebooks
There are a ton of books on Amazon for free or a deep discount. Stock up now before these books go back to their original prices.
To All The Boy's I've Loved Before by Jenny Han
Ages 12 +
Lara Jean's love life goes from imaginary to out of control in this heartfelt novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer I Turned Pretty series.
What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them…all at once?
Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren't love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she's written. One for every boy she's ever loved—five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day her secret letters are mailed, and suddenly, Lara Jean's love life goes from imaginary to out of control.
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle by The Countess of Carnarvon
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration and setting for Julian Fellowes's Emmy Award-winning PBS show Downton Abbey, and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants, Lady Almina, the 5th Countess of Carnarvon. Drawing on a rich store of materials from the archives of Highclere Castle, including diaries, letters, and photographs, the current Lady Carnarvon has written a transporting story of this fabled home on the brink of war.
Much like her Masterpiece Classic counterpart, Lady Cora Crawley, Lady Almina was the daughter of a wealthy industrialist, Alfred de Rothschild, who married his daughter off at a young age, her dowry serving as the crucial link in the effort to preserve the Earl of Carnarvon's ancestral home. Throwing open the doors of Highclere Castle to tend to the wounded of World War I, Lady Almina distinguished herself as a brave and remarkable woman.
This rich tale contrasts the splendor of Edwardian life in a great house against the backdrop of the First World War and offers an inspiring and revealing picture of the woman at the center of the history of Highclere Castle.
J.R.R. Tolkien The Making of A Legend by Colin Duriez
Long before the successful The Lord of the Rings films, J.R.R. Tolkien's creations, imagination, and characters had captured the attention of millions of readers. But who was the man who dreamt up the intricate languages and perfectly crafted world of Middle-earth?
Exodus 2022 by Kenneth G. Bennett
Joe Stanton is in agony. Out of his mind over the death of his young daughter. Unable to contain his grief, Joe loses control in public, screaming his daughter's name and causing a huge scene at a hotel on San Juan Island in Washington State. Thing is, Joe Stanton doesn't have a daughter. Never did. And when the authorities arrive they blame the 28-year-old's outburst on drugs. What they don't yet know is that others up and down the Pacific coast—from the Bering Sea to the Puget Sound—are suffering identical, always fatal mental breakdowns. With the help of his girlfriend—the woman he loves and dreams of marrying—Joe struggles to unravel the meaning of the hallucination destroying his mind. As the couple begins to perceive its significance—and Joe's role in a looming global calamity—they must also outwit a billionaire weapons contractor bent on exploiting Joe's newfound understanding of the cosmos, and outlast the time bomb ticking in Joe's brain.
All For Anna (Letting Go Book 1) by Nicole Deese
If guilt is a prison; Victoria Sales has given herself a life sentence. Held captive by regret, 23 year-old trauma RN, Tori Sales, has seen the reality of many nightmares. But there is one nightmare she will never wake from—her last memory of Anna. Her efforts to save the little girl were not enough; she was not enough. After a year of living alone, Tori is forced to return home—a place where heartache, loss, and broken relationships lurk around every corner. Isolation is her only solace; running is her only escape. But she cannot outrun the truth forever. When a handsome, compassionate stranger enters her world, Tori is inspired to deal with her past and focus on the future—one she never believed possible. But before her quest for closure is complete, a new revelation surfaces, tainting her world yet again. Will she accept the recovery she so desperately needs? Or will she choose the escape she knows best... ***This is the first book in the Letting Go series. It CAN be read as a stand-alone, as each story-line will feature a new main character. Book #2 is titled "All She Wanted" (The story of Briggs) and is available on Amazon.***
Devoured by Jason Brant
Day One: A series of terrorist attacks spread a cloud of noxious gas over highly populated areas.
Day Two: Higher brain function erodes in those exposed to the gas. Their bodies begin to distort, faces distending, skin sallowing, teeth elongating.
Day Three: The infected disappear into the shadows, fleeing the harsh daylight which has begun to sear their flesh.
Day Four: The world is DEVOURED.
Life isn't kind to Lance York. A full-time job has eluded him for years, his wife loathes the sight of him, his bank accounts are empty, and his wealthy father-in-law revels in his failures.
After he lunges in front of a car to save a sick and disoriented woman, Lance awakens in a quarantined hospital. A devastating plague is spreading worldwide, driving those infected with it insane. Their bodies begin to mutate into horrors that have haunted mankind's nightmares for centuries.
The world descends into chaos as the infected flee to the shadows, emerging at night to devour the remnants of civilization.
With the help of an unlikely ally, Lance must navigate through the collapsing city of Pittsburgh, striving to escape the madness of the apocalypse that unfolds around them.
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Frederick Charles Édouard Alexis Hesling (1869–1934) was the first governor of French Upper Volta, a post he held from May 1919 to December 1927.

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PRIMAXIN's BROADER ANTIBACTERIAL "COVERAGE" COMPARED TO CEFTAZIDIME
PRIMAXIN's BROADER ANTIBACTERIAL "COVERAGE" COMPARED TO CEFTAZIDIME is its primary advantage, Merck maintained at an analysts meeting on Jan. 8 highlighting the recent approvals of Primaxin (imipenem/cilastatin) and Vasotec (enalapril). Outlining how Primaxin stands up to its key competitors, Merck said that Primaxin has "better coverage" against gram positive bacteria, such as Staphylococcus aureus, and anaerobic infections, such as Bacillus fragilis. Merck's major competition from Primaxin will come from aminoglycoside combinations and from several third generation cephalosporins, including ceftazidime, the firm predicted. In addition to recently launched ceftazidime, marketed by Glaxo (Fortaz) and Lilly (Tazidime), Merck cited Pfizer's Cefobid and Hoechst-Roussel's Claforan as other cephalosporins that Primaxin will square off against. Merck does not expect Primaxin to cannibalize Mefoxin sales, estimated by the company at $220 mil. in the U.S. in 1985. Mefoxin use, Merck pointed out, has been focused on "community-acquired" infections and on prophylaxis. The company noted that Primaxin's primary usage will be against "hospital-acquired" infections, particularly gram negative rods such as Pseudomonas, Serratia, and Enterobacteriae. The company said that its marketing strategy will be to position Primaxin as an appropraite antibiotic for serious hospital infections of unknown etiology, mixed infections, and nosocomial infections. In attempting to distinguish Primaxin, Merck said it would emphasize the drug's high antimicrobial activity, its broad spectrum of activity, and its novelty as the first of a new class of anti-infectives for the hospital armamentarium. In addition, the firm's marketing efforts will cite studies showing the drug's relative cost-effectiveness to aminoglycoside combination therapy ("The Pink Sheet" Dec. 23, p. 6). Asked how Primaxin was being received by hospital formularies early in its introduction, Merck responded that the current level of orders is running ahead of formulary acceptance, indicating that hospital pharmacies may be ordering the drug in anticipation of formulary acceptance at upcoming P&T cmte. meetings.
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Smoke investigation on Mountain Ave.
Firefighters investigating smoke inside a structure in the 1900 Block of Mountain Ave. Full city Fire response.
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Rupert Murdoch's control of Fox targeted by investor
http://www.smh.com.au/business/media-and-marketing/rupert-murdochs-control-of-fox-targeted-by-investor-citing-scandals-20170928-gyr3c3.html
Rupert Murdoch's control over media conglomerate 21st Century Fox faces a renewed challenge from a shareholder who cites scandals at the mogul's companies.
Fox recommends shareholders oppose the proposal by the Nathan Cummings Foundation, which held 947 voting shares, to eliminate the dual-class stock structure that gives Mr Murdoch control, according to a regulatory filing on Thursday.
Investors will decide on the non-binding measure at the annual meeting scheduled for November 15 in Los Angeles.
Despite owning 17 per cent of the outstanding shares, executive chairman Mr Murdoch controls almost 40 per cent of the voting power, according to the filing and a statement by the foundation.
The group has unsuccessfully pursued a similar change at another Murdoch company, News Corp, for several years and proposed such a change at Fox in 2013.
"There are a number of reasons, including all of the various high-profile scandals that the company has faced," said Laura Campos, director of corporate and political accountability at the New York-based foundation.
"Imagine your loved ones conquered by Napoleon and forced to live under French rule. Do you want them to eat that rich food and those heavy sauces? Do you want them to have soufflé every meal and croissant?"
James Murdoch facing upset shareholders too -
James Murdoch is poised to defend his position as Sky's chairman at its annual shareholder meeting on Thursday.
A trio of advisory firms have called on shareholders to rebel against Mr Murdoch, who is chief executive of 21st Century Fox and sits on its board.
One investor, Royal London, which owns £44m in Sky shares, has criticised the dual position as "inappropriate", amid Fox's attempted bid to take over Sky.
Royal London, which has a 0.28% stake in Sky, resurfaced its concerns over the Fox-Sky deal ahead of the vote - saying the board's chairman should have no affiliation to either company.
"Minority shareholders at Sky would be better served by a truly independent chairman," said Ashley Hamilton Claxton, the firm's corporate governance manager.
"Independent oversight of the board is particularly important given Fox's ongoing bid to acquire Sky."
More than 28% of shareholders voted against Mr Murdoch's comeback as chairman last year, four years after he stood down from the position in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World.
Fox's bid to buy the 61% stake in Sky which it does not already own is now the subject of a Competition and Markets Authority investigation.
Telecoms regulator Ofcom earlier said the deal risked giving the Murdoch family "increased influence" over the UK's news agenda and political process.
Sky is also set to update the market with results for the three months to 30 September on Thursday.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/cbd/rupert-murdoch-may-have-lost-a-crucial-ally-after-saudi-arrests-20171105-gzfc7k.html
The shockwaves would have been felt around the world over the weekend when billionaire investor Prince al-Waleed bin Talal was among a clutch of Saudi princes and ministers arrested in the kingdom.
And the real impact of the arrests could hit a very well-known former Aussie next week.
Prince al-Waleed has stakes in many prominent global companies, but none are more important than his crucial stash of voting stock at Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox.
Prince al-Waleed's voting stake has made the Murdoch family's position at both News Corp, and its more lucrative spin-off, 21st Century Fox, impregnable.
The Murdoch family's control of the company is not quite assured with its 38 per cent stash of voting stock, which dwarfs its economic interest of only 14 per cent.
But add in the prince's stake and the family could weather severe storms such as the British phone hacking scandal without having to make too many concessions to other investors.
...Now it just happens that 21st Century Fox is holding its annual shareholder meeting next Thursday, and one of the items on the agenda is a vote to unwind the dual class share structure.
As of December 31, 2015, Prince al-Waleed's group owned 5 per cent of 21st Century Fox.
If the prince no longer controls this stake, or has not voted on it yet, the voting result could be cataclysmic for Rupert.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/nov/08/saudi-prince-sells-21st-century-fox-stake-in-blow-to-murdochs
A key ally of Rupert Murdoch has sold his stake in 21st Century Fox, leaving the company more vulnerable to a rebellion by shareholders unhappy at the dominance of the Murdoch family.
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who controls the investment firm Kingdom Holding and is one of the world's richest men, at one stage owned more than 6% of Fox and has consistently backed the Murdochs in shareholder votes about the family's control of the company.
He has been a shareholder in Murdoch companies – including Fox and News Corp, the owner of the Sun, Times and Wall Street Journal – for two decades and expressed public support for the family after the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World in 2011.
Regulatory filings in New York show Prince Alwaleed reduced his stake to 4.98% in December 2015, and an analysis of Bloomberg data shows the stake has fallen to zero since the end of the last financial quarter, on 30 September.
Fox is facing a rebellion at its annual meeting next Thursday from shareholders who are unhappy with the company's performance and how it handled a sexual harassment scandal at Fox News.
Prince Alwaleed was among 11 princes arrested – along with four ministers and dozens of former ministers – over the weekend by the Saudi government in what was described as an anti-corruption crackdown.
Team Sky to become Team Disney?
The executive chairman of 21st Century Fox has said the firm is big enough to compete in a shifting media landscape.
Executive chairman Lachlan Murdoch made the remarks after reports that the Murdoch family had talked about selling parts of the business to Disney.
CNBC reported this week that Disney had approached Fox about a possible deal for its entertainment business, including Sky.
The goal would be to create a company that can compete as newer firms such as Netflix and Amazon become bigger content creators. Those talks are no longer ongoing, CNBC said.
Original article at https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/06/21st-century-fox-has-been-holding-talks-to-sell-most-of-company-to-disney-sources.html
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-07/fox-s-flirtation-with-disney-puts-sky-murdoch-s-assets-in-play
"Sky for Disney is a wonderful fit and helps them meet their stated target of going straight to the consumer," Brian Wieser, analyst at Pivotal Research said in an interview, adding that the satellite company is already trying to be a Netflix in Europe. "If Fox is for sale then everyone would look at them."
Robert5091 wrote: Team Sky to become Team Disney?
<Insert joke about a Mickey Mouse outfit.>
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/nov/16/rupert-murdoch-newspapers-struggling-digital-age
...a shareholder proposal calling for Twenty-First Century Fox Inc – also controlled by the Murdoch family – to scrap its dual-class share structure was rejected on Wednesday.
Fifty-seven per cent of votes cast sided with the position of Fox's board, which argued that the current share structure provided flexibility and enhanced the company's ability to focus on long-term results, a Fox regulatory filing said.
The majority of Fox shares traded publicly are class A shares, which have no voting rights. The Murdoch family owns about 39% of the class B voting shares.
At the 26-minute annual meeting on Fox's movie and television studio lot in Los Angeles, shareholders also re-elected Murdoch and his two sons to the company's board, suggesting continued support for the family even as its Fox News division is recovering from a series of costly sexual harassment settlements.
see also http://www.smh.com.au/business/cbd/rupert-murdoch-survives-massive-investor-backlash-at-21st-century-fox-20171115-gzm15l.html
The Murdochs seem to be looking for cash, or re-organizing/ selling off badly performing assets.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/16/comcast-has-approached-21st-century-fox-to-express-interest-in-buying-some-major-assets-sources-say.html
Comcast has approached 21st Century Fox and expressed interest in an acquisition of some of Fox's assets, sources said Thursday.
Talks are ongoing, a source said.
Comcast is interested in the same set of assets that Disney approached Fox about earlier this year, sources said. Also of interest to Comcast is acquiring the international assets of Fox, given that the Philadelphia-based company is heavily concentrated in the U.S.
CNBC reported last week, citing sources, that 21st Century Fox has been holding talks to sell most of the company to Disney, leaving only an entity focused on news and sports.
A Comcast-Fox deal would have the same regulatory issues that Disney would have in acquiring the Fox assets, the sources said.
Disney under U.S. rules could not own two broadcast networks. And that would be the same case with Comcast. Neither company is talking about purchasing all of Fox, sources told CNBC.
Any deal by Comcast or Disney would also likely exclude Fox's news and sports programming assets for fear of running foul of antitrust laws.
Fox shares jumped more than 6 percent in after-hours trading. Comcast shares rose about 0.75 percent, while Disney shares were mildly lower.
CNBC reported Friday that while the Disney and Fox talks were not ongoing, a deal was not totally dead.
Verizon Communications is also interested in acquiring parts of Fox, Dow Jones reported after the bell Thursday.
Team Micky Mouse could still be on -
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/02/business/dealbook/disney-21st-century-fox.html
The Walt Disney Company has resumed talks with 21st Century Fox about buying at least part of the company, as Fox weighs whether to shrink its empire, two people briefed on the matter said on Saturday.
Fox is still in talks with Comcast about a potential deal, added these people, who were not authorized to speak publicly about the negotiations. The Murdochs, who control Fox, are expected to make a decision about whether to pursue a sale by the end of the year, one person added.
The return of Disney, which held talks with Fox earlier this year, highlights how media companies are increasingly seeking to compete in a new era of streaming by getting bigger and acquiring more content. It also leaves medium-sized players like Fox to decide whether they can buy the scale they need — or sell and focus on particular business niches.
If Fox decides to pursue sales negotiations, it would represent a potential unwinding of a media kingdom that the Murdoch family has assembled for decades. Disney and Comcast have been most interested in only part of the constellation of Fox businesses, notably the 20th Century Fox movie studio; cable channels like FX; Sky, the British broadcaster; Star, an Indian broadcaster.
Fox would be left with several highly profitable businesses, including Fox News, its broadcast network and its sports pay-TV channel.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/12/will-bob-iger-hand-a-murdoch-the-keys-to-the-disney-empire
Disney and 21st Century Fox's on-again, off-again talks, which fizzled somewhat at the end of last month, appear to be back on, with the two sides zeroing in on a deal that could close as soon as next week. The deal, which could alleviate pain points for both companies as the media industry rapidly consolidates, would potentially see James Murdoch succeed Disney C.E.O. Bob Iger, who is expected to step down in 2019, the Financial Times reports. As the deal stands, Disney would acquire Fox's entertainment assets, including Star TV networks, its movie studios, stakes in Hulu and Sky, and its regional sports operation. Fox would retain its sports and news assets, including Fox News—the agreement would reportedly be valued at more than $60 billion.
https://www.axios.com/disneys-bob-iger-contract-likely-extended-pending-fox-deal-2515433971.html?utm_source=sidebar
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/05/disney-and-fox-are-closing-in-on-deal-could-be-announced-next-week--sources.html
Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger's contract is likely to be extended should the company move forward with a $40-$60+ billion deal to acquire 21st Century Fox's entertainment assets, the Wall Street Journal reports. Sources tell CNBC that a deal could come as soon next week.
Why it matters: Iger's last contract negotiation had him slated to exit in July, 2019, leading to speculation that he might run for president.
The Murdochs are having a garage sale -
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/08/for-fox-and-the-murdochs-they-may-be-better-off-selling-to-disney-than-comcast.html
Sources previously told CNBC that Disney was close to a deal to purchase parts of Twenty-First Century Fox, including network Nat Geo, Asian pay TV operator Star TV, movie studios, stakes in Sky and Hulu, and regional sports networks. It would not include news and business news divisions, its broadcast network and Fox Sports. The deal, could be worth more than $60 billion including the assumption of debt, could be announced early next week.
Comcast has also thrown its hat in the ring. The company is most interested in British pay-TV operator Sky because of its technology capabilities. Comcast wants to diversify its business outside the United States, which this deal would allow.
http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-fox-brain-drain-stacey-snider-dana-walden-20171211-story.html
Walt Disney Co.'s planned acquisition of much of Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox media company — a deal that is expected to be completed as early as this week — could prompt a brain drain of high-level Fox executives in the coming months.
Disney and Fox appear to be putting the finishing touches on their proposed merger, according to two knowledgeable insiders who were not authorized to discuss the situation. Philadelphia cable company Comcast Corp. said Monday that it was no longer pursuing a deal with Murdoch.
Team Mickey Mouse coming soon!
Walt Disney is close to confirming a deal to buy 21st Century Fox's entertainment assets for about $60bn, reports say.
The sale would include the 20th Century Fox film studio and the Sky and Star satellite broadcasters in the UK, Europe and Asia.
Disney was left as the front runner after Comcast, the NBC owner, dropped out of the race on Monday.
The Financial Times said talks about the price were continuing on Tuesday.
CNBC reported that Fox and Disney were on a "glide path" for an announcement on Thursday, according to people familiar with the negotiations.
The Murdoch family was said to favour a deal with Disney because it would rather be paid in the entertainment giant's shares than Comcast stock.
A deal with Disney could also face fewer US regulatory hurdles, although it is extremely unlikely to be waved through.
https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/walt-disney-company-acquire-twenty-first-century-fox-inc-spinoff-certain-businesses-52-4-billion-stock/
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/14/why-disney-is-rupert-murdochs-preferred-buyer.html
So Rupert sells out most of Fox - investor revolt stymied?
Did Rupert land on his head when he fell on his son's yacht?
https://www.salon.com/2018/01/23/rupert-murdoch-fox-news-founder-blames-facebook-for-having-popularized-scurrilous-news-sources/
The founder of Fox News blasted Facebook for having "popularized scurrilous news sources" without a hint of irony. Rupert Murdoch — Fox News' current chairman and acting CEO — has criticized Facebook for, of all things, helping promote "scurrilous news sources."
If you were around in the UK in the heyday of the Sun and News of the World, you'll get the irony.


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Volume 41, Number 2, February 2008
Semiconductors and Related Materials
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Eur. Phys. J. Appl. Phys. 41, 107-110 (2008)
Amorphous to crystalline induced CoSi2 phase formation in Co-implanted Si
S. Abhaya, G. Amarendra, S. Kalavathi, B. K. Panigrahi, S. Saroja, K. G. M. Nair, V. S. Sastry and C. S. Sundar
Materials Science Division, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam 603 102, T.N, India
Corresponding author: amar@igcar.gov.in
Formation of CoSi2 in Co implanted Si sample has been studied using glancing incidence X-ray diffraction and depth resolved positron annihilation techniques. The implanted sample exhibits near-surface amorphization in the temperature range between 300 K and 670 K. It is found that recrystallization of Si occurs at 870 K which inturn, triggers the formation of the CoSi2 phase at lower temperatures as compared to that obtained in thin film systems. The results are discussed in the light of enhanced intermixing brought by defect migration, associated with recrystallization.
PACS: 81.05.Je – Ceramics and refractories / 78.70.Bj – Positron annihilation / 61.72.Ji – Point defects / 61.10.Nz – X-ray diffraction
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A Golden Gloves boxing tournament, sponsored by the Alameda County Deputy Sheriff's Activities League (DSAL).
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'The Journey to Trust Is Long'
The Sheriff's Office in unincorporated Alameda County provides civic services in the absence of a local government. Is this "community capitals policing" a model for public engagement or law enforcement overreach?
Story by Emily Nonko
Photography by Eddie Herena
Published on Apr 8, 2019
On a cold and drizzly Friday night, a crowd began to build inside the Hayward Adult School. The continuing education campus, a series of low-slung buildings situated around a concrete courtyard, was hosting California's Golden Gloves boxing tournament inside its modest gym.
Attendees rushed across the flood-lit courtyard, trying to escape the rain, and were greeted by two young police cadets, in full uniform, doling out $25 tickets for the event inside. A small group of officers chatted by the front door; a few more wandered through the entrance toward the ring.
Inside, a flurry of dark blue uniforms, some with yellow stitching spelling out Cadet or Explorer across the upper back. A deputy serving as DJ blared Jackson Five, K Camp and Spice Girls. Two explorers — part of a youth law enforcement program — stood as gatekeepers to the VIP section surrounding the boxing ring, while cadets walked the floor selling tickets to a 50/50 raffle. A camera hung around one officer's neck; another officer snuck in a dance move.
This wasn't an unfamiliar sight for the plain-clothed crowd gathering on the bleachers. For anyone taken aback by the significant law-enforcement presence, as the music quieted, Terrance Montigue — a boxing coach and sergeant with the Alameda County Sheriff's Office — stepped inside the ring to explain.
He taps the mic several times. "All right, we're going to get this party started, so to speak," he tells the crowd. Montigue explains he coaches through the Alameda County Deputy Sheriff's Activities League — known as DSAL — an arm of the Alameda County Sheriff's Office that offers a boxing academy and was hosting the Golden Gloves for the second consecutive year.
He thanks the crowd for coming as well as the event staff of explorers, cadets and deputies wandering the gym in uniform. "None of this would be possible without Captain Neideffer, who created DSAL sports," he continues. "A big round of applause for Captain Neideffer." Captain Marty Neideffer stands briefly, not in uniform; he's known for donning a business suit instead.
For the past 15 years, as described by the East Bay Express, "Neideffer has been building something unusual in American policing." In partnership with Hilary Bass, who he met while she served as resident services coordinator for a local housing developer, he established DSAL as a nonprofit for the sheriff's office to run community farms, athletic leagues and events from the Golden Gloves to Friday night markets.
Along the way Neideffer and Bass built off the community policing philosophy to establish what they call "community capitals policing." Their work revolves around a target locale: the unincorporated communities of Ashland and Cherryland, where DSAL has gained a prominent presence.
Ashland and Cherryland are wedged between the cities of San Leandro and Hayward within Alameda County, which covers 821 square miles across Northern California's East Bay. Being unincorporated means the area lacks many things, most crucially a local governance structure and local representatives. To Neideffer, it presented an opportunity for the sheriff's office to offer resources and build trust in two communities with high crime and what he saw as ineffective law-and-order policing.
But there are residents increasingly uneasy about the growing, changing role of law enforcement, pointing out that Ashland and Cherryland are home to undocumented residents and those with traumatic experiences involving the Alameda County Sheriff's Office. To these community organizers — working in spaces that include a local church, neighborhood association and larger grassroots organizations — DSAL's growth prompts questions of civic representation, resource distribution, and the role of law enforcement in a community.
"Where does the sheriff end and the community begin?" asks 24-year-old Marco, outside a youth center in Ashland that became a point of controversy last year, when the county proposed that the sheriff's office take over operations. (He asked that only his first name be used.)
Marco expresses distrust about community capitals policing in the neighborhood he grew up in. "There's a very blurred line," he says, "And there needs to be limits."
Unincorporated and Overlooked
Neideffer also grew up in Ashland, one of seven kids in a Catholic family, when the area was "a working-class enclave," he recalls. As part of early 20th-century development of the Bay Area, canneries and packing facilities replaced farms and orchards in the unincorporated area east of Oakland. Ashland and Cherryland developed as neighborhoods in the 1940s and 50s to serve the growing industrial sector.
Neideffer remembers growing up with small businesses, a strong union presence, and things for kids and working-class families to do. But Ashland and Cherryland experienced the same decline as many U.S. cities: factories and white residents left; disinvestment and neglect took hold.
Captain Marty Neideffer. (Photo by Emily Nonko)
Being unincorporated exacerbated this. In California, unincorporated communities are outside city boundaries and are governed by the county's elected board of supervisors. A supervisor's district can include one or more cities as well as one or more unincorporated areas — meaning that Ashland and Cherryland have no dedicated political representatives or city council.
The main drag of East 14th Street — which cuts through Ashland and Cherryland before hitting the incorporated city of Hayward — became desolate without economic development initiatives. There were no theaters, music venues, art galleries, libraries or public gathering hubs, and limited open space. The area is considered a food desert.
A real estate boom that began in San Francisco and carried across the bay hasn't helped matters; in fact, a report found that Alameda County has re-segregated since 2000.
University of California, Berkeley reported that as Bay Area housing prices rose between 2000 and 2015, "some flatland areas of Oakland and Berkeley lost thousands of low-income Black households … Meanwhile, low-income Black, Asian and Latinx populations grew significantly in southern Alameda County cities such as San Leandro, Hayward, and the unincorporated communities of Ashland and Cherryland."
There are huge county discrepancies for Ashland and Cherryland in unemployment, poverty, vacancy and chronic disease. The crime rate for assaults and robberies was nearly three times the rate than other communities in the area. Life expectancy in the city of Piedmont is approximately 10 years longer than in Cherryland, though they're only 15 miles apart.
This is not to say the two communities are a monolith. "The only thing Ashland and Cherryland have in common is poverty," says Arlene Nehring, a senior minister leading community organizing work through Eden United Church of Christ in Cherryland. Today Cherryland has a growing population of first-generation, Spanish-speaking immigrants. Ashland has a diverse, low-to-middle income population with a higher number of African-American residents. While Hispanic and Latino residents represent the largest demographic in both places (43 percent in Ashland and 54 percent in Cherryland, according to the county), communities form around where residents immigrated from.
Such diversity means there's no "one-size-fits-all" solution for the unincorporated communities, Nehring stresses. Still, beyond the Sheriff's Office, greater Alameda County has made a significant attempt to address the issues.
Nate Miley is an Alameda County supervisor who represents the area and is, given the lack of official local representation, essentially the mayor of Ashland and Cherryland. Establishing formal civic representation is a major goal before he leaves office in five years, according to Claudia Albano, Miley's deputy chief of staff.
Albano, with a background in both community organizing and government, was lured from retirement by Miley to oversee these efforts. She scrawls complex webs of information across a whiteboard to explain the organizing strategy — she's also a lecturer at the School of Social Welfare at Berkeley — and peppers her speech with expletives.
Ashland and Cherryland, she notes, are a small part of Miley's district with low voter registration and turnout. The work to her has greater meaning. "This is a social justice issue. It's an equity issue," Albano says. "It's not about where votes come from — it's about doing what's right."
For several years the office recruited local leadership to build an organized community voice. The group now advocates for a Municipal Advisory Council, which would offer some official political representation to unincorporated areas, as well as an improved county budget process so unincorporated areas have more input and review.
It's no mistake, Albano adds, that whiter, wealthier unincorporated areas in Alameda County already have municipal advisory councils.
One major organizing challenge, Albano notes, is that many Ashland and Cherryland residents have no idea they live in unincorporated areas: their zip code reflects the incorporated cities of Hayward and San Leandro. The sentiment is echoed by Barisha Spriggs, a member of the Ashland Community Association who also advocates for the Municipal Advisory Council. "Our post office is in San Leandro," Spriggs points out, "But we get no funds from the city of San Leandro."
"We're not ICE," Sergeant Oscar Perez, who also serves as a DSAL boxing coach, says point blank. "In a predominantly undocumented community, we still fill our [boxing] classes. The community is not scared to come to a gym they know is operated by the sheriff's office."
Albano and Spriggs both believe establishing a civic structure and local representation for Ashland and Cherryland is an urgent social justice issue, but their opinions differ on the role of the sheriff's office. "The sheriff is a bandage, it is not a real solution," says Spriggs. She doesn't want a community that depends on law enforcement to provide recreational activities at parks, health services, or spur economic development. "Because it is unincorporated, it's why [the sheriff's office] has so much control," Spriggs says. "We want to be independent like any city."
Albano views the sheriff's office as a crucial partner in working toward a Municipal Advisory Council. And she believes that community capitals policing could become a model for the country. "If all we did was look at police work with a terrible brush, how will we change or reform it?" she asks. "We have to look at the innovative stuff. This is the most innovative shit I've ever seen in community policing."
Keeping Kids Engaged: Sports and Farming
The REACH Ashland Youth Center, a sleek modern building fronted by a plaza, park and playground, is easy to spot on the mostly drab drag of East 14th Street. Where there are pockets of vibrancy — a community garden, colorful mural, soccer fields — it's likely DSAL has something to do with it.
Hilary Bass.
Neideffer calls REACH "the house that Hilary built," referring to Hilary Bass, his partner in growing the DSAL nonprofit through the sheriff's office. A center like this was a far-off aspiration 15 years ago, when Bass was a 25-year-old resident services coordinator and Neideffer was a school resource officer. Back then a major problem facing youth in the unincorporated area was a lack of things to do.
"There was just nothing to do for kids — at all," explains Evelini Bogart, who met Bass at age 11. Bogart lost her father, was looking for a job to help support her family, and became a member of a youth leadership council started by Bass. "In our area a lot of parents work full-time, so the kids are on their own," Bogart, now 23, says.
"The kids who were constantly finding their way in front of school resource officers were in circumstances of poverty and did not have a lot of options to do things," Neideffer echoes. "This idea of diverting, or addressing that gap, was what prompted the start of the Deputy Sheriff's Activity League." He formed DSAL as a nonprofit in 2004. Around the same time, Bass was busy organizing the youth leadership council in hosting talent shows, movie nights and violence prevention rallies.
The two met at a meeting of the Ashland Violence Prevention Collaborative and discovered their aligning interest in youth programming. "I had some money for programming, and she had programming ideas without the money," Neideffer explains. The sheriff's office officially hired Bass as DSAL's program director in 2009.
Thinking about opportunities for young people in Ashland and Cherryland informed Neideffer and Bass' vision of public safety and policing within a community. "You tap that vein of what's impacting kid's behaviors, what's impacting crime, what dynamics are involved in that," Neideffer says. Law enforcement intersects with conditions of poverty, economic opportunity, health, addiction and other quality of life issues. "But all these different sectors, all these different agencies, are trying to tackle the same problem from their own siloed area," Neideffer says.
The pair envisioned DSAL as a nonprofit offshoot of the sheriff's office that could more holistically, and creatively, address matters of public safety. To address young people lacking activities, they launched free boxing and soccer leagues coached by professionals and members of the sheriff's office.
Dig Deep Farms comprises 8 acres across 3 sites in the county, and provides employment and training for returning citizens.
To address the food desert and limited economic opportunities, in 2011 DSAL launched Dig Deep Farms. Two urban farm sites, havens of green off East 14th, provide internships to formerly-incarcerated adults and youth on probation.
To utilize law enforcement in supporting community revitalization, DSAL partnered with other county agencies to launch Eden Night Live inside a long-vacant East 14th lot. A Criminal Justice Innovation Award funded the series of pop-up festivals, which ran July to December 2016 and July to December 2017, with music, arts, games, sports and local food vendors. The Urban Institute profiled the event as a successful effort in urban placemaking and "building beyond policing."
During this work, the sheriff's office promoted Neideffer to captain and brought DSAL into its Youth and Family Services Bureau, which includes behavioral health professionals. In tandem, the sheriff's office expanded from four therapists to 16 licensed clinical social workers and marriage and family therapists to better focus on reentry from jail, juvenile diversion and family counseling.
On the fence surrounding the Eden Night Live site — now used for DSAL soccer practice — hangs a sign that reads "Healthy Vibrant Community With a Vital Economy." The words are printed inside the outline of a sheriff's badge. Surrounding text breaks down the type of capital that goes into this work: social, political, cultural, natural, human, financial and built.
It's the sheriff's office vision of community capitals policing: reentry practices, creative placemaking, economic development, social enterprise, sports and fitness programs, all to change how law enforcement can serve their community.
Who Should Run the Youth Center?
In April 2018, the East Bay Express ran an article that wondered "is Alameda County's Sheriff reaching too far?" Conversations around the role of law enforcement in Ashland and Cherryland came to a head when Supervisor Miley proposed that operation of REACH transfer from the county's Health Care Services Agency to the Alameda County Sheriff's Office.
Before REACH was built, Bass' youth leadership council spent an entire decade advocating for it. "We would go to these very long, boring board meetings with all these adults who looked at us funny," Bogart recalls. "We kind of rallied for the youth who had no voice."
The REACH Ashland Youth Center.
It was among the last projects selected as part of a redevelopment program of Alameda County, before the state slashed the funding. The $23-million center opened in 2013 with a health clinic, library, cafe, computer lab, study hall, art room, recording studio and gym. SFGate dubbed REACH the "Taj Mahal of Youth Centers." For those who join, all services, including healthcare, are provided free.
Since its opening, the county's Health Care Services Agency operated REACH. But when it came to operations, the sheriff's office and health care agency clashed. "When we first came together, there wasn't enough acknowledgment around our differences," says Lisa Warhuus, who is part of the agency and interim director of REACH. "It could lead to conflict and misunderstanding — our governing rules and guidelines conflict sometimes. We didn't know each other's rules, and didn't take enough time to learn and understand them."
There's been persistent disagreement around the presence of uniformed, armed deputies, who kept an office on the second floor. A sheriff's office grant funded five officers to work out of REACH; Health Care Services Agency felt that number was too high. Ultimately all uniformed officers left the center.
A petition signed by about 300 parents, many of them Latino immigrants, emerged to support deputies as part of REACH operations. Then, in December 2017, Supervisor Miley proposed a management takeover by the sheriff's office. The decision overestimated the community's comfort with law enforcement.
Opposition took hold in early 2018. "There was no oversight, or any formal assessment of the current staff … they didn't ask the youth or community members," Marco recounts on another rainy day outside REACH. He and Barisha Spriggs, of the Ashland Community Association, were manning a table underneath the center's overhang to distribute care packages to homeless residents.
Spriggs started a Change.org petition against the sheriff's office taking over. It gained the attention of larger grassroots organizations, like Ella Baker Center, which has taken strong stances against abuses within the Alameda County Sheriff's Office and spoke out against REACH's management change.
Barisha Spriggs.
Nehring, of Cherryland's Eden Church, wrote an open letter to Supervisor Miley and gathered over 250 signatures from residents expressing concern over the proposed takeover, as well as lack of public oversight. Nehring, who's seen a significant increase of undocumented residents in her parish, expressed concern with young people providing their parent's contact information to become members of REACH. It could have a chilling effect, she thought, if management was under the sheriff.
In response to outcry and calls for more accountability, the county decided to retain leadership with the Health Care Services Agency. Neideffer is not defensive about the pushback. "This was an earthquake worth having," he recounts in his office. "It reset the conversation."
It was one example of growing pains DSAL and the sheriff's office have hit while expanding and interacting with county agencies outside law enforcement. But both Neideffer and Warhuus say the controversy set the two agencies on a better path to work together moving forward.
The presence of uniformed officers remains unsettled. Marco says he and other youth do not support their presence, expressed at an open forum held about six months after REACH's proposed management change. On a February visit with Bass, there were none to be found.
Bass gives an impassioned tour of REACH that retains a hint of disbelief she and her youth leadership council actually pulled this off. But it was an awkward place to discuss the presence of uniformed officers; not all the organizations who operate out of REACH have been in agreement about the sheriff's office. (Nurses with La Clínica de La Raza, which provides healthcare services, have said some clients would avoid the center under the sheriff's office.)
Bass says DSAL is looking at ways to reintroduce officers back into the facility. It was partly a security concern, in that uniformed officers could respond to safety issues in the building or nearby. But she believes the presence of uniforms is essential in community capitals policing.
"People have biases about people in uniform," she explains. "If we are to progress in relationship development, people have to actually build relationships with people in uniform and see them as human beings. If that doesn't happen and the uniform still carries a stigma, it further challenges the progress of building relationships."
Bogart, after her years as a youth advocate, is now employed by DSAL and works out of REACH. She sees importance in the uniform, too. "I come from a family where they didn't always agree with the police … not on law enforcement's side," she says. "Deputies can be in uniform and playing soccer and dodgeball, and I think it's helpful so the kids aren't always so afraid."
To officers who participate with DSAL, the work can be transformational. Repeatedly, officers expressed distress to me about their negative portrayal in the media alongside a desire to "humanize the badge." To them, DSAL offers an opportunity to connect with Ashland and Cherryland residents outside of tense, law-and-order situations. They could get to know the community as soccer coaches, urban gardeners, or fans at a boxing match.
Deputy McGee, working as a DJ.
"I'm DJing right now, and I'm a cop!" Deputy C. McGee yells over "Who Let the Dogs Out," blaring across the Hayward Adult School gym between Golden Gloves matches. McGee was tasked with DJing the three-day event.
McGee studied sociology at the University of California Santa Barbara and was drawn to the Alameda County Sheriff's Office because of the community programs and services. "I was always interested in law enforcement because I cared about communities that needed help," he says.
Upon joining the force, he got involved in DSAL events on top of his primary assignment, supervising inmates enrolled in education and study programs. He also coordinates the Santa Rita Jail Youth Education Program, designed to prevent youth from criminal activity.
McGee believes the community capitals policing model aligns with reasons he entered law enforcement and sees it as an important component in rebuilding communities.
But gaining trust while in uniform is an uphill battle. "I have to convince you that I'm here to show you love and help you out," he says. "It takes time to build those relationships … but we're still regular people."
Looking Critically at Police-Community Relations
The Alameda County Sheriff's Office isn't immune to abuses, often against its most vulnerable citizens. Misconduct includes excessive force, racial discrimination, and the illegal recording of privileged attorney-client conversations. Last year the sheriff's office came under fire for its decision to publicly disclose the release dates of inmates from county jails to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Can the work of DSAL stand apart from the abuses? There was hardly a consensus. Some told me they retain deep distrust of the sheriff's office that extended to DSAL. Laura Rodriguez, with the neighborhood group Padres Unidos de Cherryland, says the increased presence of law enforcement requires lots of communication with immigrant residents. "We can feel more of their presence, but in a positive way," she says. "We tell the community why [law enforcement] is there, at any type of event."
Another sticking point with DSAL's growth is the distribution of money and resources in an unincorporated community.
Ashland and Cherryland have long been at a disadvantage as "a poor community with no tax revenue," Spriggs explains. "Unincorporated areas with tax revenue, higher incomes and business revenue have a stronger chance of incorporating into a city and surviving that long term." A bill proposed last year would allocate money from vehicle license fees to support unincorporated communities working toward municipal incorporation. It didn't pass, but Spriggs helped introduce an identical bill this year.
Alameda County Sheriff's Office, on the other hand, has a budget that's doubled over the past decade as the Alameda County jail population decreased 44 percent. It totaled $404 million in 2018, according to the Ella Baker Center, which has advocated for an audit of the office.
The way Neideffer and Bass see it, funding through the sheriff's office is being used to develop an innovative, community-centered policing model. With the addition of grants and award money, they can offer arts and athletics programming for free, and invest in projects like the food hub with a commercial kitchen and event space now under construction.
But some community members gawk over the grant money, access to resources and high law enforcement salaries. "DSAL has its own grant writer — we need our own grant writer," says Spriggs, in regards to the Ashland Community Association. Nehring is concerned with the imbalance of sheriff's resources relative to others, feeling that funding should be shared with organizations poised to serve undocumented residents. "What makes things hard is that there's a ton of money," she says, "But almost all the money goes to people with badges."
Where DSAL stops and law enforcement begins
DSAL's work has had an effect on the sheriff's office, and the nonprofit's impact is likely to grow. "We have to be flexible and understand what the current trends are," says Sheriff Greg Ahern, who oversees the Alameda County Sheriff's Office. "The shift I've had to manage is the shift from just enforcement to prevention, service and programs."
DSAL now includes 20 deputies, two sergeants, a lieutenant, captain, 16 therapists and four support staff. Neideffer's goal is to introduce community capitals police training to the Alameda County Sheriff's Office at large. Scaling up will undoubtedly hold its own challenges.
Not all cops will want to approach their job through the lens of community capital. For those who do, training must go beyond law-and-order policing, Neideffer says. "It must emphasize the importance of understanding history, of identifying root causes of crime, of building community and governmental partnerships, and leveraging those partnerships to solve problems."
In the meantime, DSAL can point to positive statistics since the introduction of community capitals policing: since 2014, arrests are down, recidivism for reentry clients is below the state average and they've seen a steady increase in DSAL program participation.
But a task remains at the local level, as Ashland and Cherryland residents advocate for a Municipal Advisory Council. This organizing will better determine how representation, economic initiatives and quality of life priorities play out.
It's clear DSAL will be a part of those conversations; in fact, their presence in the community feels cemented. In interviews with community leaders, youth, educators and county employees, all were familiar with the nonprofit. And all had thoughts on how Ashland and Cherryland would have to negotiate that relationship moving forward. As Nehring told me one early afternoon, rushing from a reading event at Cherryland Elementary to the food pantry hosted at her church, "the journey to trust is long."
Arlene Nehring (second from right) with some Alameda County residents, at the Eden Church food pantry. (Photo by Emily Nonko)
On the Eden Night Live site off East 14th, Bass has a vision not unlike the youth center she spent a decade advocating for. It's that of a Polis Station — misspelling intentional — a sheriff-operated hub with offices for officers and therapists alongside public entertainment and recreation space.
In her dream, a question looms. Can DSAL gain enough local trust to re-invent the police station and offer it as a community center? Bass believes they're on the right track.
"This is a concept that police should be 'atomized' into the community so that natural relationships can form and evolve," she says. "It's a natural integration of residents with one another, youth and adults, and residents and their government." She pauses, as if envisioning it. "That would be ideal."
Travel for this story was funded by a grant from the Solutions Journalism Network.
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Emily Nonko is a social justice and solutions-oriented reporter based in Brooklyn, New York. She covers a range of topics for Next City, including arts and culture, housing, movement building and transit.
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