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Colloquium 2017 Thematic Working Groups
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(1) Holding private sector and the state accountable: Learning for transformational change within and beyond the forestry sector
(2) Sustainable urban development and knowledge
(3) Governance of information for bio- and circular economies in the age of digitalization (CANCELLED)
(4) The role of living laboratories in sustainability transformations (CANCELLED)
(5) After the big picture: Degrowth and post-capitalist ecologies
(6) Regenerative notes – Reflecting and developing empathetic practices in post-fossil world
(7) Games as transformative tools in environmental policy
It is recommended (but not necessary) that the presenters will send a full paper (Work-in-Progress) to the Convener at latest one week before the Colloquium (Thursday 16th November) and that the Convener(s) then makes the papers available for the other presenters of the Working Group session.
Convener: Maria Brockhaus (maria.brockhaus@helsinki.fi)
Prof. Maria Brockhaus: "Opening Words"
Dr. Natalya Yakusheva: "Exploring Accountability in the EU Forest Governance"
Dr. Eeva Primmer: "Is There a Role for Private Sector Forestry Actors in Biodiversity Offsetting?"
Dr. Dalia D'Amato: "Green, Circular, and Bio Economy Concepts: Obstacles and Opportunities for Accountability"
Many of today's environmental policy problems such as deforestation and the existing inequities in rights and benefits from natural resources are deeply rooted in historical processes and patterns of global trade and investment within and beyond the forestry sector. To tackle these problems, in many international fora there is a strong call to involve 'the private sector' as part of the solution, and private and hybrid policy instruments relying on voluntary commitments have become more and more popular.
Some argue that success in achieving such commitments will rely, among others, on the capacity of civil society organisations (CSO) to hold state and private sector accountable to their promises. Besides the need for formal accountability structures, there is the assumption that a number of enabling conditions can enhance transparency and lead to desired transformational change away from unsustainable business-as-usual and the existing power relations that support it: i) new information (for example analysis of historical environmental footprints, spatially explicit analysis of emission displacement and leakage), ii) new technologies (e.g. remote sensing), and iii) new coalitions with interaction and cooperation between different members of the civil society such as independent research and for example indigenous peoples groups, environmental NGOs or consumer associations (as demonstrated in the case of the Volkswagen emissions scandal).
For the policy problem of deforestation, ambitious goals have been set, most notably within the Climate Change Convention, the New York Declaration on Forests, and in the SDG 15. So far, however, rhetoric still dominates, large scale international investments in and benefits elsewhere from tropical deforestation continue, and measurable outcomes in terms of reduced deforestation are limited. Hence, this session calls for papers that investigate enabling (or hindering) conditions for CSO to hold private sector (and the state) accountable, and which can provide lessons to successfully reduce deforestation.
Maria Brockhaus, University of Helsinki
Conveners: Pekka Kettunen (pekka.kettunen@abo.fi) & Hanna Heino
Marko Joas (Abo Akademi University): "Policy Tools for Climate Governance on Local Government Level: Patterns of Usage in Finland"
Katariina Kiviluoto and Petri Tapio (Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku): "Sustainable Transport Campaigning – Understanding Them Deep Down"
Emma Terämä (Environmental Policy Centre, Finnish Environment Institute SYKE, Helsinki), co-authors Carina Schneider, Hannah Sender, Martin Zaltz Austwick: "Informal Sharing and Self-Selection as Creative: A story of Urban Resilience in London's Hackney Wick & Fish Island"
Emma Terämä (Environmental Policy Centre, Finnish Environment Institute SYKE, Helsinki), co-authors Felicia Koskinen, Maija Mattinen-Yuryev, Daniel Galland, Ari Nissinen: "The Sustainable Nordic City – Utopia or Business as Usual, as Evidenced by a Systematic Review"
Sustainable urban development is based on a belief that through a number of measures it is possible to turn urban environment towards a more environmentally friendly and sustainable eco-system (Naess & Vogel 2012). This argumentation assumes that there is a sufficient understanding of the urban mechanisms and their relationship to sustainable development, as well as knowledge of the dynamics of urban systems, i.e. how sustainable development is acknowledged by the political decision-makers. A number of challenges prevail. First, urban mechanisms are not the same everywhere. Size as well as economic structure can vary and affect the opportunities and the time-scales of change. Second, the incentives of the decision-makers to advocate change can vary too. For example, the financial basis of Finnish municipalities is based on taxes, of both individuals and enterprises. Hence, working places and attractive housing areas are a number one priority in the municipalities. This incentive may work against proposals of pedestrian streets and green areas seen as creating de-growth rather than economic opportunities. Similarly if working places per se are the priority, considerations of eco-friendly production become secondary. Furthermore, if waste is used as a source of energy the incentives to recycle and diminish the amount of waste are neglected. In sum, steps towards sustainable development need to be supported by evidence and illuminations of the benefits of such a change, and understanding of the underlying change mechanisms.
We wish presentations and papers which deal with the above issues, theoretically, empirically, case studies and comparative analyses.
Reference: Naess, P. & Vogel, n. (2012) Sustainable urban development and the multi-level transition perspective. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 4: 36-50.
Pekka Kettunen, Senior research fellow in public administration, Abo Akademi University
Hanna Heino, Project researcher, University of Turku
Conveners: Salla Rantala (salla.rantala@ymparisto.fi) & Riikka Paloniemi
Enhanced sharing of digital environmental data and information is expected to increase new innovations to aid transitions to bio- and circular economies. Consequently, policy reforms in Finland and in other countries aim to make environmental information more available by promoting opening of data produced by governments and researchers in free, accessible and preferably digital formats. Not only is increased access to data, information and knowledge expected to lead to the development of new innovations, business opportunities and services, but also to contribute to enhanced democratization and citizen empowerment, and increased efficiency of governance, education and research. Open science (open publishing, sharing of data and research infrastructure) is an explicit policy goal in Finland, expected to significantly increase the utilization of new knowledge for social and economic innovation. While heated public debates on the rules of game of opening environmental data and information are on-going, sound empirical understanding is required to inform the development of new governance models of shared digital intellectual resources.
In this workshop, we will address the question of how to achieve legitimate and effective governance approaches to support the opening of environmental data and digitalization. We depart from an understanding that the governance of shared knowledge takes place over a wide range of scales and within a dynamic, overlapping variety of actors and formal as well as informal institutional structures. Complex combinations of contracts, social norms, informal rules and routines, in addition to intellectual property rules, comprise the frameworks through which shared data and information are de facto governed. Which combinations work the best to facilitate socially accepted and economically and ecologically sustainable innovation in each context remains a vast, largely unexplored area of enquiry. As such, relevant research may fruitfully draw from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary orientations, including interdisciplinary research.
Salla Rantala, Researcher, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE)
Riikka Paloniemi, Head of Unit, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE)
Conveners: Senja Laakso (senja.laakso@helsinki.fi), Kaisa Matschoss & Eva Heiskanen
Living laboratories have emerged as a governance tool to drive innovative sustainable development, whereby different stakeholders gather together to develop and test new products, systems, and services, and ways of living, to address the challenges of climate change and (urban) sustainability. Importantly, Living labs are not just focused on technologies but also on issues of consumption, behaviour and lifestyles (Voytenko et al. 2015). Living labs for sustainability have different goals and ways of working, and there is no uniform definition of living labs. The concept of Living Labs can be seen as a methodology, an organisation, a system, an arena (i.e. geographically or institutionally bounded spaces), environment and/or a systemic innovation approach (Bergvall-Kåreborn et al. 2009; Voytenko et al. 2015). What is common to Living labs in the framework of sustainability is that the most important success indicator is providing space for innovative experimentation and facilitating learning within a project.
Our session builds on ENERGISE, a pan-European research project that adopts a Living labs approach to observe energy cultures in a real-world setting and to test initiatives to reduce energy use. The session invites papers exploring a variety of empirical cases that investigate living laboratories from different perspectives: how do living labs facilitate change in everyday practices, energy use and product and service development – and, on the other hand, what methodologies living labs (should) employ and how to broaden and scale up the sustainable solutions? What are the dynamics of power and agency in living labs? In which ways do living labs shape local contexts and vice versa? Also new approaches drawing on various relevant disciplines and literatures are invited.
Senja Laakso, University of Helsinki
Kaisa Matschoss, University of Helsinki
Eva Heiskanen, University of Helsinki
Conveners: Pasi Heikkurinen, Toni Ruuska, Marko Ulvila & Kristoffer Wilén (kristoffer.wilen@hanken.fi)
(Thursday 23.11)
Jan Otto Andersson: "Visions of a Nordic "Equilibium Economy" in Retrospect and Today"
Toni Ruuska: "The Absolute Contradiction: Capitalism vs. Finite Planet"
Marko Ulvila and Kristoffer Wilén: "Class Matters in the Plutocene"
(Friday 24.11)
Tuomas Tiainen: "Should We Care about Autonomy Also? – Degrowth and Crisis of Human Life"
Olli Tammilehto: "The Death-Growth Machine and the Uprising of Its Feeders"
Pasi Heikkurinen: "Of Naturaphobia"
The functioning of national economies and welfare states are currently organised to be dependent on economic growth. In the absence of growth, their stability is threatened. Yet this growth imperative is considered to be a main driver of the destruction of the natural environment, the environment on which the same national economies and welfare states, as well as all human activity, are fully dependent upon.
Much of the current environmental debate can be seen as thoroughly depoliticised focusing on market-based solutions and technological fixes for complex and in many ways structural problems. Possible reasons for this unfortunate development can (i) in a best-case scenario be either good intensions but delusional, or ii) in the worst case, a form of active support for a destructive eco-modernist project, and hence, also a specific way of thinking about humans' relationships with the natural environment.
In this working group, we are interested in contributions, which not only problematize the current destruction of the natural environment and humans' life-worlds, but also seek to shed light on the main drivers behind the destruction. For example, are the phenomena of anthropocentrism, capitalism, colonialism, fascism, fossil fuels, industrialisation, masculinity, modernization, nihilism, technocracy, secularization, Trump, urbanism, Western lifestyle, wealth and whiteness, symptoms or/and the major causes of the disease? We also welcome papers that question the idea of finding 'root causes' behind the destruction.
Despite the emphasis on root causations, the aim of the working group is to not only dwell on the problems, but also focus on possible solutions. Therefore, we will gladly welcome novel, as well as 'not-so-novel' but interesting, takes on alternatives for steering clear(er) of the current path of destruction. We are keen on hearing your ideas on what can be done, if anything, and analyses of actions that are taking place around the world. These initiatives can range from thinking differently to activist movements and grassroots alternative economies, as well as to include ideas of organizing municipalities and government, and crafting international policy.
The overall purpose is to understand how different problems and solutions relate to the bigger picture of the real ongoing ecological destruction? We encourage you not to feel compelled to focus on win-win-win-win-(n) scenarios, that is, to theorize how economic growth, companies' profits could actually go hand-in-hand with protecting the natural environment, so please feel free to highlight any possible conflicts and contradictions you have found.
Pasi Heikkurinen, University of Leeds, Sustainability Research Institute
Toni Ruuska, Aalto University School of Business
Marko Ulvila, Post-growth Study Group
Kristoffer Wilén, Hanken School of Economics
Conveners: Mari Keski-Korsu, Maarit Laihonen (maarit.laihonen@aalto.fi)
& Petri Ruikka
Could empathy be one of the key elements in reconnecting us with our ecosystem and ourselves? After all, empathy is the element that has enabled humans to work together and collaborate in order to flourish as species. We are interested in extending our reflections towards asking how to create deeper connections in the crisis of humanity and how to develop skills for existence in post-fossil life. We are collectively searching for method for empathetic action and activism.
In this workshop, we collectively reflect how discussion can be empathetic, what would that enable, and what does that mean in terms of collective intelligence? We facilitate and give some foundations as well as general directions for empathetic discussion experiment, but the format is open for ongoing development during the session.
The session is inclusive and open for everyone and includes brief introduction to the topic, working in small groups, and final discussion together. We wish that the participants stay the whole session, 2-3 hours (23rd Nov. at 15.00-), in order to guarantee empathetic atmosphere and coherence in the discussion.
Mari Keski-Korsu
Maarit Laihonen, Aalto University School of Business
Petri Ruikka
Conveners: Nina V. Nygren (nina.nygren@uta.fi) & Taru Peltola
Tina Neset, Sirkku Juhola, Therese Asplund, Janina Käyhkö & Lotten Wiréhn: "Maladaptation in Nordic Agriculture – An Interactive Game to Support Stakeholder Participation and Analysis"
Taru Peltola, Minna Kaljonen & Marita Kettunen: "Supporting the Transition to Sustainable Dining in Finnish Schools through Gamification and Emotional Labor"
Nina Nygren: "Game Development and Gaming as a Tool for Interaction and Exploration?"
Gamification – the application of game-design elements and game principles in non-game contexts – is a relatively new tool in environmental policy. It can be used for e.g. raising environmental awareness, communication of scientific results, engaging stakeholders and citizens, experimenting, gathering data (e.g. on biodiversity), and creating dialogue and learning. Gamification offers novel platforms for collaboration, presents new features of interaction (Newman et al. 2012, Bonney et al. 2014, Buytaert et al. 2014), and provides particular kind of motivational elements (Radchuk et al.). Yet, it also has a number of major challenges as it transforms the settings of participation, the nature of interaction and creates novel identities and expectations for actors. Hence, both the potential of using gamification in sparking new thinking, ways of acting and transforming society and the negative outcomes of using games, such as power asymmetries, should be explored in-depth. In this working group we welcome presentations on various aspects of gamification in the environmental sphere, ranging from theoretical contributions to hands-on examples and analyses of games as tools in environmental policy. We particularly welcome multidisciplinary contributions on gamification.
Nina V. Nygren, University of Tampere, Faculty of Management
Taru Peltola, Finnish Environment Institute (Syke)
Cautious Hope at the 2017 NESS Conference in Tampere
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Highlights from the keynote presentations
written by Marko Ulvila, photos by Jere Nieminen
The bi-annual Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference took this year place in Tampere, Finland with the theme HopefulNESS. It gathered together more than two hundred academics mainly from the Nordic countries for three intensive days of sharing and discussion. The programme included five key-note presentations from distinguished scholars and more than a hundred presentations in thirty working groups.
The conference started with the keynote presentation by prof. James Meadowcroft from the Carleton University, Canada. In his talk on confronting the limits of the environmental state Prof. Meadowcroft drew on his vast expertise on political sciences and energy and environmental policies. He presented three structural elements that pose fundamental constrains to what modern states can do to manage environment:
– economic foundations with the growth compulsion in capitalism
– international system with competition of profoundly unequal nation states
– national political systems with the limits of representative democracy
Though all these dynamics contribute to increasing critical environmental harm, prof. Meadowcroft argued that there is no need for desperation. For example in the context of climate there has been clear progress during the quarter of the century. In summing up, he pointed that the three constraints pose significant structural obstacles, but are not absolute. Given sufficient time it is possible to mitigate structural obstacles and find solutions to particular environmental problems. Therefore one should push the idea and practice of environmental state further so that such solutions would be developed and applied.
The second keynote presentation by Dr. Josephine Mylan from the University of Manchester (UK) discussed sustainable consumption in transition. She applied a reconfiguration view on consumption in contrast with reformist of revolutionary perspectives on the topic. Key elements in the reconfiguration view are interest in ordinary practices and multiple drivers moving the agency of consumers. Thereby also role of firms becomes interesting.
Her three cases illustrated the dynamics and challenges in the field of sustainable consumption. Over the years the environmental impact related to packaged orange juice has increased due to the emphasis on freshness. This is not only a matter of consumer choice, but also a lock-in caused by investments in certain kind of plantations, packaging, transport and retail systems. Shifts to low-temperature laundry practices demonstrates a case where detergent companies have promoted a more sustainable practice with positive results. This has required a process or co-evolution and reconfiguration by many actors, including machine vendors, regulators and cultural norms. The case of meat is in early transition, with vegetable based products on a rise but no decrease of meat consumption yet visible in statistics.
On the second day the first keynote was delivered by prof. Esther Turnhout from the Wageningen University (NL). Her talk on politics of knowledge in the context of biodiversity started with the observation how knowledge is performative and plays out in the service of making order and defining what is normal. One outcome of such definitions and classifications is that they and reality become mutually aligned and constituted. Biodiversity science is an example of such urge for classification. There the shifts from morphology to DNA analysis recreate how species are grouped and related, even in botanic gardens. In biodiversity conservation classifications produce for example categories of endangered species and hot spots of vulnerability and value.
The concept of ecosystem services is one manifestation where biodiversity knowledge interacts with other aspects of society. Some feel that that the concept will help to highlight the value of biodiversity, while the critics point to the risk of commodification. One example of emerging issues is how in the climate policies a single tree can be seen mainly as a carbon store with potential monetary value when kept in place. Such measurementality plays an increasing role in the biodiversity knowledge and governance, leading to the narrow view of ecosystem services as the dominant view.
Prof. Turnhout concluded with slightly optimistic note about the developments in the Inter-governmental platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services (IPBES). Its conceptual framework has incorporated also the knowledge systems of indigenous communities, besides the western scientific understanding. This might open up possibilities to re-imagine biodiversity and its values, leading the democratisation of biodiversity knowledge.
The second keynote of the day was delivered by Dr. Morgan Meyer from the Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (FR). In his presentation on domesticating sustainability he covered the rich field of participatory knowledge and technology creation especially in the DYI and open source communities. The examples from DYI biology, hacking of agricultural hardware and open source ecology demonstrate currents that want to contribute to sustainable solutions from the bottom-up. There are real issues in the ethics of DYI biology since technologies can and are used for both destructive and constructive purposes. He concluded with concepts of promissory equipment and the fabric of participation that are shaping knowledge creation in the field of sustainability.
The final keynote was made by professor emeritus Yrjö Haila from the University of Tampere (FI). Building on his decades long experience, prof. Haila started by discussing the definition of biodiversity that at times is so wide that it comes politically meaningless. Wrong understanding can also lead to proposals that make no sense, such as assessing the prehuman state of the environment and attempts to return it. Similarly, seeing humans and nature separate is serious nonsense.
Prof. Haila pointed out how it is necessary to re-frame the understanding of biodiversity. One way to do is to focus on the human dependence on the biosphere and work through the different scales of relevance, from global to micro. In the reworking it would be important to avoid an singularization, atomistic reductionism to entities and technocratic closures of the understanding of biodiversity. He further pointed to the concept of vital force by molecular biologist Franklin Harold as a key one in developing the understanding biodiversity. Focus needs to be on processes, in particular reproductive cycles. They have impacts on metabolism, physiology and are shaped by developmental-historical processes. Cultivation is one such dynamics that works the relationships, and weeds, the faithful companions, an expression of the vital force in all processes.
In this approach, the biodiversity question is about how to live together with our companion organisms. The responses to the biodiversity crises depends on the time frame. It is useful to look at least the following time frames and their defining characters:
1) Immediate time, real time: stability, regular cycles
2) Personal time: synchronization (with seasons, for example)
3) Institutional, collective time: synchronization with whatever gives support
4) Political time: challenging "Trump time"
5) Historical time: constraints & enablements
In an important sence, biodiversity crisis a sink scarcity problem. There are no place or location which takes on influences potentially disturbing a system without causing observable change. This contributes to the process of homogenisation, where sterilisation is the final outcome. This is the opposite to the working of the vital force. To enhance the vital force, considerate stewardship is needed, along with the prevention of criminal neglect and plunder. In this, artistic expressions such as immigrant speciesor ballast plants can be useful.
Note: video records of the keynotes are available at https://moniviestin.uta.fi/videot/jkk/tapahtumat/ness-2017
Marko Ulvila is Tampere based non-fiction writer and organizer working on sustainable well-being and ecological democracy.
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From a missing 'Balloon Boy' to a poignant love story, Max Pinckers unearths tales of "subjective reality" for his latest work, and in doing so finds a new documentary realism in the post-truth era.
One such character, an American amateur inventor with a mane of silken hair, sat at the kitchen table of his home in Dunnellon, Florida and told Pinckers that he believed he had become the media's new Osama bin Laden. "My name is Richard Heene. A few years ago I got into a bit of trouble," said the forty-something showman, detailing the events that led him to end up behind bars. "It went from a backyard experiment to something that was blown out of proportion." As anyone who switched on US cable news in late October 2009 might tell you, Heene was talking about the 'Balloon Boy' incident. On the morning of Thursday 15 October, Heene reported that his six-year-old son, named Falcon, had been carried away across the windy skies of eastern Colorado in a 20ft-wide, flying saucer-shaped helium balloon that he had constructed out of reflective silver foil. Over two hours later, the empty balloon fell from a height of 3000ft into a wheat field 15 miles away. Audiences remained hooked as suspenseful further hours passed, when suddenly Falcon emerged from the attic of the family's garage – later appearing in an interview with CNN where he seemed to give the game away, saying his father did it "for a show" on TV.
Heene is one of Pinckers' people: individuals who achieved a moment of infamy when the "subjective reality" they had created in their imagination clashed into the verifiable truths that the news media deals in. In addition to the Heenes, Pinckers documents Rachel Dolezal, the civil-rights activist who was unmasked in 2015 as being born white, after spending years claiming to be African American. And there's Herman Rosenblat, whose tale of romance with a girl he met on opposite sides of a concentration camp fence was hailed as the greatest love story ever heard, before being revealed as a fiction. "Every one of them supposedly deceived someone or lied. But at the same time, they didn't do that to con people or gain something out of it. It was always a very personal thing, creating your own world, and making it the way you think it should be," says Pinckers.
He and Ali Shalal Qaissi, a former inmate of Abu Ghraib jail who claimed to be the infamous hooded figure in the iconic photos of prisoner torture, possess memories of profound truth, even if their stories are not factually true, says Pinckers. The photographer never calls them liars, diplomatically explaining each had "a very personal or subjective way of dealing with reality that became difficult for news to grasp because it's not based in facts". In Margins of Excess, Pinckers captures the aftermath when the media pushed back against the fiction: combining over-lit portraiture and staged fictions to communicate the subjective reality that media and more objective documentary photography cannot, he explains as we meet in the upstairs of a pub in Soho, London.
Pinckers presents the images as a book that defies being divided into individual pictures or standalone parts. The documentary photographs are blasted with lights resembling an ultra-bright US news studio or TV set, and sometimes posed in misleading surroundings – like one subject, a boy who compulsively hijacked subway trains, seated in a realistic simulation of a control cockpit. These are spliced together with the photographer's own truth-blurring images: shots of actors chosen, Pinckers explains, for their ability to cry on demand, and directed to recreate poses of dramatic angst or woe.
For Pinckers, it is familiar territory. He has built a body of work over the last eight years (including three previous books, each of which has featured in BJP since he appeared in our Ones To Watch issue of 2013) that spotlights his own questions about documentary photography's lack of debate over how it confronts the new world we face: where the authority of the photograph as an independent document has vanished amid the proliferation of digital images, fake news and Photoshop. "I think we are moving into a space where people don't believe what they read in the news any more, they don't trust what the politicians are saying, they don't know where to look to get their reality," says Pinckers, making the case for mixing fiction into documentary photography.
Two playful projects in 2017 both took on sacred cows of the photo industry: the first, in collaboration with a specialist in artificial intelligence, creating a camera with no viewfinder, named Trophy Camera v0.9, programmed to recognise trends in the previous winners of World Press Photo, and to only take photos it deems prize-worthy. In Controversy, he travelled to the purported site of an icon of war photography, Robert Capa's The Falling Soldier, an image that Spanish academic José Manuel Susperregui claims to have proved was staged. Pinckers captures the place Susperregui believes is the photograph's true location using ultra-high-resolution scans, a laborious process usually reserved for reproductions of famous artworks. Here, it cast the background olive orchard in a softly motion-blurred relief.
Both ideas reappear in Margins of Excess. Actors are posed into archetypical scenes chosen for their endless reproduction in awards shortlists and media coverage of terrorism or disaster. Across the pages, the eye is allowed to wander over charged images from one edge of the American continent to the other, without awareness of the jumps between different locations, times, fiction and fact. Beginning the project in July 2016, Pinckers pre-empted the dangerous acceleration of fake images and alternative facts that followed the election of president Donald Trump. The book's front cover bears an image of a couple locked in a tearful embrace, taken on the day of Trump's election win, posed with actors, but scarcely distinguishable from similarly desperate, genuine scenes taking place that day across the country.
Until July last year, Pinckers was a nominee member of Magnum, but says he was an odd fit, putting an early ban on any of his images being shared with newspapers. Having Magnum credentials helped on some stops on his US road trip, he says, but during the journey he and his partner – Victoria Gonzalez-Figueras, who doubles as the project's researcher – juggled hats, presenting themselves as artists to subjects who were often mistrustful of journalists, or as academic researchers to government officials. Pinckers makes clear he does not think the role of straight documentary photographer is dead, but feels it is in danger of getting trapped in an echo chamber, as photographers continue to pursue dated notions of objectivity and authenticity.
Looking at the World Press Photo winners, we see vital work but also, inevitably, rehashed tropes: photographers recycling the imagery of the Madonna and Child, Pinckers says, to give newspaper editors what they want. Are such images telling us about the tragedy they capture or our own beliefs? There's a growing chorus that believes such archetypical images do a disservice to their subjects.
He laughs at a recent headline that a Wildlife Photographer of the Year award was withdrawn after it was judged to have employed a taxidermy anteater. "Another classic case of a work that could be brilliant if only it was intended to be critical," he says. Asked if he has had any push-back from documentary photographers who feel criticised by his approach, or else concerned that such fiction is infiltrating documentary form, Pinckers says no. Few photographers are engaging in much-need critical discussions about its future that drive forward the developments of other visual arts, he says. Even photobooks rarely receive critical reviews.


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CM Biren inaugurates Shija Academy of Health Sciences
The Chief Minister lauded Shija Hospitals for its contribution towards providing quality healthcare not only to the people of the state but also to the whole North East region and neighbouring countries.
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Imphal: Chief Minister N Biren Singh Wednesday inaugurated Shija Academy of Health Sciences (SAHS), the first homegrown private medical college in the North East region, at Langol in Imphal West district.
Works Minister Th Biswajit Singh, Shija Hospitals Chairman cum Managing Director Dr Palin Khundongbam, SAHS Director and Dean Dr Maisnam Amuba Singh, Shija Hospitals Director (Medical Services) Dr Jugindra Sorokhaibam, SAHS Medical Superintendent Dr Kaushik Debnath, Shija Hospitals Board of Directors Dr Bonney Khundongbam and Gaitri Maibam also attended the function as dignitaries.
Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Minister lauded Shija Hospitals for its contribution towards providing quality healthcare not only to the people of the state but also to the whole North East region and neighbouring countries. He also said that the private hospital also contributed a lot in fighting COVID pandemic. The Chief Minister further stated that it is heartening to learn that 57,000 patients have received treatment under CMHT and PMJAY at Shija Hospitals so far.
Stating that the Government alone can't meet all the necessities of the people, the Chief Minister stated that there is a need to encourage the PPP model in every sector. He further said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi also directed the states in the recent Chief Minister's Conference to promote the PPP model.
Maintaining that the State Government is ever ready to extend all possible co-operations to private companies in all their endeavours, N Biren Singh further said that the State Government had given the approval to run the 20 KL Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) Plant at Porompat through PPP model. Stating that the Government had a hard time in tackling COVID pandemic, he appreciated the efforts of health professionals and all the frontline warriors.
Addressing the gathering, Works Minister Th Biswajit said that the country has witnessed a sharp increase in healthcare facilities during the tenure of Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister. Stating that establishment of a private medical college would prove to be a boon to the State, he said that a large number of Manipuri students go outside the state to pursue medical courses every year. In this regard, the Minister also appreciated the Shija Hospitals for establishing a private medical college within a short span of time. He further stated that Manipur has a huge potential to become a healthcare destination in the North East region.
A souvenir that presents an account of 36 years of service by Shija Hospitals was also released on the occasion.
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Hi! I'm Danny – an undergrad researcher here at UCI. And you might be wondering what the heck this thing is.
This is a fouling community. A group of different species that include animals such as sea squirts and "moss animals" that grow on hard wet surfaces in the ocean.
I've grown up around the ocean, so naturally I've always had a passion for marine life. But before joining the Sorte Lab, I've never even seen anything like that before. And that's what's so interesting about the work I do. Every day is about learning something new and I hope that through my research, I get to show all kinds of people things that they might not even know about.
Right now, I'm studying the competition that occurs between different species in these communities, and so far I've found that if you look at how these communities develop over time, the dominant competitor changes depending on how old the community currently is.
So what does this mean? Why should anyone care?
As you might have heard, climates all over the world are changing. For oceans, this makes it easier for nonnative species to survive in new places. And these fouling communities are no exception.
In the past few decades, nonnative species have dominated native Californian species, taking over most of the space in these communities. This happens when recreational or commercial boats and ships travel from place to place, picking up foulers that attach and grow on the hulls that can then colonize new areas. Think of them like stowaways that hide on the outside of boats instead of inside.
These introduced species can overtake a native community, completely changing its dynamics and affecting the many organisms that rely on it for shelter and habitat and we play such a huge role in this! By understanding the community and the battles that go on within it, we can implement ways to deal with new competitors when they emerge.
My research so far should get one message across: our actions have true and sometimes unacknowledged consequences to the natural world, so the least we can do is be aware of it.
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Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Spectrum Brands Holdings Inc (NYSE:SPB) by 12.5% during the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the SEC. The fund owned 323,516 shares of the company's stock after purchasing an additional 36,073 shares during the period. Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC owned about 0.66% of Spectrum Brands worth $17,056,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.
Several other hedge funds have also added to or reduced their stakes in SPB. Envestnet Asset Management Inc. grew its holdings in shares of Spectrum Brands by 1.9% in the third quarter. Envestnet Asset Management Inc. now owns 18,687 shares of the company's stock worth $985,000 after purchasing an additional 341 shares during the last quarter. First Mercantile Trust Co. boosted its position in Spectrum Brands by 10.2% during the 3rd quarter. First Mercantile Trust Co. now owns 3,698 shares of the company's stock valued at $195,000 after buying an additional 342 shares during the period. Voya Investment Management LLC grew its holdings in Spectrum Brands by 5.9% in the 3rd quarter. Voya Investment Management LLC now owns 6,617 shares of the company's stock worth $348,000 after acquiring an additional 368 shares during the last quarter. Bank of Montreal Can grew its holdings in Spectrum Brands by 0.3% in the 2nd quarter. Bank of Montreal Can now owns 121,493 shares of the company's stock worth $6,533,000 after acquiring an additional 382 shares during the last quarter. Finally, OLD National Bancorp IN grew its holdings in Spectrum Brands by 4.6% in the 3rd quarter. OLD National Bancorp IN now owns 10,066 shares of the company's stock worth $531,000 after acquiring an additional 439 shares during the last quarter.
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Shares of NYSE SPB opened at $63.26 on Friday. Spectrum Brands Holdings Inc has a fifty-two week low of $40.54 and a fifty-two week high of $66.50. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of $56.43 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $54.24. The company has a market capitalization of $3.09 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 22.12, a P/E/G ratio of 0.87 and a beta of 1.81. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.30, a quick ratio of 0.97 and a current ratio of 1.45.
Spectrum Brands (NYSE:SPB) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, November 13th. The company reported $1.13 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.09 by $0.04. Spectrum Brands had a return on equity of 7.17% and a net margin of 12.32%. The firm had revenue of $993.00 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $990.38 million. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.79 EPS. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 26.0% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, analysts forecast that Spectrum Brands Holdings Inc will post 3.72 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, December 17th. Shareholders of record on Monday, November 25th will be issued a $0.42 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, November 22nd. This represents a $1.68 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.66%. Spectrum Brands's dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 58.74%.
Several brokerages have recently commented on SPB. Royal Bank of Canada reaffirmed a "buy" rating and set a $68.00 price objective on shares of Spectrum Brands in a research note on Sunday, August 11th. Wells Fargo & Co reduced their target price on Spectrum Brands from $53.00 to $52.00 and set a "market perform" rating on the stock in a research note on Tuesday, October 15th. Finally, ValuEngine lowered shares of Spectrum Brands from a "hold" rating to a "sell" rating in a report on Friday, November 15th. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have given a hold rating and four have given a buy rating to the company. Spectrum Brands has a consensus rating of "Hold" and a consensus price target of $56.79.
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Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc operates as a branded consumer products company worldwide. The company's Hardware & Home Improvement segment offers hardware products under the National Hardware, Stanley, and FANAL brands; locksets and door hardware under the Kwikset, Weiser, Baldwin, EZSET, and Tell brands; and plumbing products under the Pfister brand.
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The size of the business Larger firms tend to be viewed as less risky therefore attract a higher price, even if they are less efficient than smaller competitors.
Buyers sometimes pay more for businesses with high growth rates because they repay the investment more quickly. You might consider selling before turnover and profits level out.A strong order book going forward or a record of regular profits are good indicators for your company's value.
If you have a wide 'business mix' it can affect the sale price, since buyers may only be interested in one area or market.
The size of your customer base is important, but so is the quality of your customers and the cross-selling opportunities.A strong client base can be worth a lot. If they are blue-chip, with strong history of trading with you, then estimates can be taken on future earnings small clients have become big ones, or if you have a history of being recommended by clients, these will both be good indicators of your company's value.
While a business is only ever worth what a prospective buyer is prepared to pay for it, there are steps you can take to increase the value of your business, and ways to make a reasonable estimate of that value.
Buyers sometimes pay more for businesses with high growth rates because they repay the investment more quickly. You might consider selling before turnover and profits level out. A strong order book going forward or a record of regular profits are good indicators for your company's value.
What Happens Without Class Act?
To reduce the number of uninsured individuals in the country, the health care reform's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) had established the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act (CLASS Act) but before the latter can be implemented it reached the dead end.
The Act would've served as a voluntary, self-funding long term care insurance program for members of the working class who are discouraged by the price tag attached to a standard long term care insurance (LTCI) policy.
In spite of its impressive concept that would've made it a good alternative to private insurance, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) later announced that the program is unsustainable. The government cannot help but cite the probability of getting more enrollees to the program who are at higher risk of care will inevitably increase the premium rate which is payable in five years.
One of the key components of the Act is affordable premiums but if it ends up paying more in benefits and receiving a very small amount of total premiums in 2017, there might be a possibility that not all claims can be paid.
To avoid the occurrence of such an unpleasant event, the government decided to repeal the said LTCI program for the time being. According to the Secretary of HHS, Kathleen Sebelius, before the program can resurrect it has to be financially stable for 75 years for it to be affordable to the consumers.
Reviewing everything that has been said and written about the Act will reveal its actual selling point which is accessibility to affordable long term care (LTC) for anybody from ages 18 and above regardless of health condition.
For as long as an individual is still active at work he can enroll in this program, while students who are 18 years old and individuals with a monthly income below the poverty level will only pay subsidized $5 monthly premiums.
Looking back, everything seems so easy and possible. After a thorough review of this voluntary LTCI program, though, HSS realized that the individuals who will actually take interest in enrolling to this program are those who have either been rejected by a private insurance company due to pre-existing conditions or have realized that they cannot afford the annual premium of a policy anymore because they are too old.
Those who did not show much interest in the closedown of the said federally-supported LTCI program have a genetic predisposition to a serious illness and would need nursing home care someday.
Since the minimum daily benefit amount which the Act had intended to pay its qualified members is only equivalent to a home health aide's three-hour service, elderly folks who are looking at receiving care in a nursing home never saw it as a good option for LTCI.
Meanwhile, majority of LTCI experts believe that the government has to consider restructuring Medicaid eligibility again now that CLASS Act has folded up since a bigger population will need assistance with their long term care come 2030.


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The Concepts of Race vs Culture Pt 2: Culture
Editorial Genetics & Genetic Genealogy Race & Diversity
In my previous post, The Concepts of Race vs Culture Pt 1: Race http://genealogyadventures.net/2014/02/20/the-concepts-of-race-vs-culture-pt-1-race/ I touched on three things:
How the concepts of Race and Culture have come to mean the same thing;
How scientific studies of human DNA raises an interesting discussion point about Race; and
Why I don't believe that Race, as a modern concept, actually exists. As a man-made concept, the notion of Race didn't exist before the 17th Century. There were socioeconomic foundation behind its conception and implementation.
So If I don't think Race exists, what exists in its place?
An illustrative example of how the concept of Ethnicity has become related to 'Race'
For the time being, I am going to dodge the idea of Ethnicity, the concept that has come to be the kissing cousin of Race. Ethnicity is also a man-made concept, subject to human foibles to rationalize, justify and otherwise excuse any manner of atrocities and prejudices. Like Race, it suggests an 'otherness' within humanity, which simply doesn't exist. Again, I refer to genetic admixtures we all carry within us. A better understanding of human genetics, and admixtures, in particular, will influence our concept of Ethnicity as well as Race.
Examples of masks from different Cultures from around the world
What I do believe in is Culture. Culture is tricky because, as a concept, it too has become corrupted through misuse and something that I call 'language laziness' (where we think 'oh that word will do' when that word isn't applicable). Everything has a culture today. Businesses apparently have a culture. They don't, not really; they have an environment. Some will say this is semantics. So be it. We have so-called gun cultures, gang cultures, mob cultures, academic cultures, liberal cultures, conservative cultures, etc. These are not cultures. These are environments.
What we do have is Culture…and culture. When I use the word culture, with a small 'c,' I mean all of the arts and other expressions and manifestations of human intellectual achievement as a collective body (i.e., books, films, paintings, photographs, sculptures, ballet and other forms of dancing, music, etc.).
When I use the word Culture, with a capital 'C,' I refer to its anthropological and behavioral scientific origins. In this context Culture is the full range of learned human behavioral patterns. English Anthropologist Edward B. Tylor was the first person to use this term in this way in his book, Primitive Culture, published in 1871. Tylor defines Culture as "that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by [humans] as a member of [a] society."
I emphasize the words 'custom' and 'society' to underline a basic point I'll be making – added to the phrase 'behavioral patterns', you can probably guess where I'm going with this.
As an American-specific example, one could argue that there is a "White" Culture. Many have. My apologies for using a "Race" term that I don't believe. The concept of "Race is so embedded in our psyches and language that there are no other means of discussing this topic without referring to it. I'm using it as a kind of short-hand. OK, so back to the "White" Culture in America. To which "White" Culture would this be referring? There are too many "White" sub-Cultures for a view as reductionist as this.
We can look at it this way:
Example of the "American "White" Culture":
Sub-Culture Level 1: The New England "White" Culture and Southern "White" Culture are two very different things. I'd say it's fair to argue that there are more differences between these two sub-Cultures than commonalities.
Sub-Culture Level 2: The "White" Culture of Virginia and the "White" Culture of Georgia or North Carolina, South Carolina, or any other state in America's South-east. Each state has its distinct history, set of shared experiences, traditions, and ties that bind its citizens, which separates it from its neighboring states.
Sub-Culture Level 3: The "White" Culture of Richmond, Virginia, and the "White" Culture of Newport News, Virginia.
Sub-Culture Level 4: The white-collar "White" Culture of Richmond, Virginia, and the blue-collar "White" Culture of Richmond, Virginia.
I'm sure I could drill this down another level or two, but that would be overkill. This example doesn't even touch on educational attainment, religious affiliations, or political beliefs, which add their layers of complexity.
There is nothing to unite "White" Americans at that primary level except for lack of permanent melanin in the skin (it's worth noting here that skin tones vary widely even within the Culture). In this example, there can't be a singular "White" American Culture simply because there is no set of commonly shared experiences, history, customs, or behavioral patterns to unite it. Instead, we have a lot of sub-Cultures. Some of whom compete against each other.
All peoples have a unique Culture. Those Cultures are as diverse and as complicated, like the example I've given above. When Americans refer to "African-American Culture," to which African-American Culture are they referring? With a history and experiences as diverse as the American "White" Culture, the 'African-American' Culture is one that shouldn't be spoken of using reductionist language. Asian-American, Native American, Latin-American: the same applies to all of the diverse Cultures that live side-by-side, part of the different communities where we live.
I was raised within a rural, New England, middle-class African-American sub-Culture. I would have never guessed that as a child. As an adult, I see and understand it. Historically speaking, one group of my ancestors were people of an African-American Culture who were southern, Virginian, and enslaved. Some were free –most were not. The next few generations were people of the African-American, southern, Virginian, farming sub-Culture – before the great exodus from the south changed the various sub-Cultures they lived within.
Another group of my ancestors was part of the White, European, immigrant, southern, Virginian, land-owning, upwardly-mobile sub-Culture – many of their descendants entering into the White, southern, wealthy, Virginian, slave-owning sub-Culture. For many, many decades, I was a member of the North-west London, executive, white-collar, creative industries Culture – unlike any other Culture in Britain. This sub-Culture is unique as a' racial' qualifier can't be added. It is a generally inclusive and diverse Culture.
Culture, it would seem, is not a fixed thing. One can move within a Culture's various sub-Cultures. It's one of the reasons why I say no Culture can be viewed, thought about or spoken of in absolute or reductionist terms. To do so doesn't reflect reality. To do so doesn't reflect the world in which we live.
Culture, like culture, gives humankind a bounty of riches in the form of diversity. Understanding this concept in this manner hopefully will give rise to a better understanding between peoples of different Cultures and sub-Cultures, that group of people's history and their collective experiences. The collection of sub-Cultures within a Culture are shaped by the experience and the history singular to the people who form that particular sub-Culture. Understanding this enables an understanding of a Culture, and its sub-Culture's forms of expression – its culture, as it were. Hopefully, we stop seeing someone from another Culture as 'wholly other' or 'alien' to us – just someone from a different Culture than our own. No better and no worse than us. We can celebrate Cultural and sub-Cultural differences instead of reviling them.
No one overall Culture is better than any other.
Eradicating our concept of Race (and Ethnicity) levels the playing field for every human being on the planet. Eliminating the language of Race more or less forces all of us to accept that we're a species sharing common DNA. The only difference being which combination of admixtures we carry within our individual genetics and how our genes choose to manifest themselves. No combination is better than another. They are what they are.
Refining our understanding and appreciating the concept of Culture will, hopefully, one day, enable human beings to appreciate the diversity of the human experience in all of its positive manifestations and work towards eradicating the negative. Only fear and hidden agendas prevent this.
I believe it's only when humankind understands and appreciates this that the difficult, painful, and (hopefully) ultimately cathartic – conversations around the legacy of Empire, slavery, genocide, and tyranny in all its forms can happen in an open, honest and frank way. That's when respectful coexistence can start to happen. That's when we move forward collectively as a species.
I know that's the world and the legacy I'd like to leave behind for the generations that follow mine.
Tags: anthropology, behavioral science, cultural identity, cultures, DNA testing, ethnicity, racial identity, sociology
The Concepts of Race vs Culture Pt 1: Race
How my gateway ancestors answered some major admixture questions
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Darien Francis says:
I am with you. It is interesting that, like you, I am a deep thinker. I 'discovered' the race vs culture concept all by myself then decided to Google around to see if anyone else embraced this concept and here I am. Your analysis is awesome and touches the very points I have thought about. Will reconnect with you shortly. – Darien Francis
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One film critic's best & worst of 2011
Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Dec. 30, 2011 Updated: July 28, 2017 2:15 a.m.
1of2Sony Pictures: Owen Wilson, here with Rachel McAdams, proved a solid leading man in the best pick "Midnight in Paris," by Woody Allen. Show MoreShow Less
2of2Associated Press photo: Sorry Twi-hards, but this critic says enough already with the "Twlight" series, even though Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are cute. Show MoreShow Less
This year at the movies -- who knew?
Who knew Martin Scorsese could pull off a French period piece for kids ("Hugo")? Who knew Roland Emmerich could try his hand at something Shakespearean ("Anonymous") and not make a fool of himself?
Who knew Woody Allen had another funny movie in him ("Midnight in Paris")? Who suspected Pedro Almodovar didn't ("The Skin I Live In")?
We had a winter and spring marked by epic fails ("Red Riding Hood," "Sucker Punch," "Beastly"), a summer of surprisingly pleasant comic-book fare ("Thor," "Captain America"), and a fall full of entertaining genre pieces ("Fright Night," "Drive," "Warrior") that nobody saw. And we're into an awards' season of "Yeah, is that it?" titles.
So, no, 2011 wasn't the best year for film. So many documentaries, not one of them a dazzler. So much chatter about a "Tree of Life" that wilted long before the leaves fell this fall.
But in a year full of filmic surprises, there were movies that stuck with you, that have resonance for our times and staying power in our memory. And yes, they come from surprising quarters.
?"Everything Must Go" -- Will Ferrell brought his usual bag of tricks, and a load of bitter pathos to this simple story of a guy who loses his job, his wife, his home and any shot at sobriety in the same day. It's an amazing high-wire walk for Ferrell and a terrific film, neither of which got their due because of the "Oh, it's Will Ferrell," attitude from critics and audiences.
?"Take Shelter" -- The great ones keep you guessing, and Michael Shannon, perhaps the finest character actor to come along since Michael Caine, does that in spades with this religious allegory about a faithless man whose hallucinations convince him there's a reckoning on its way, and he'd better get that storm shelter ready. A truly haunting film.
?"Hanna" -- Whiplash-fast action, stunning long-take combat scenes and a riveting set of performances inform this teen-raised-to-be-an-assassin thriller, one of the best action films in ages. Saoirse Ronan dazzles, Eric Bana finally has a hit worthy of his screen presence and that darned Cate Blanchett gives us nightmares as the boss you wish you hadn't crossed.
?"Midnight in Paris" -- It's not up there with Woody Allen's Holy Trinity of great comedies, but this period piece fantasy is funnier and wittier than any three other romantic comedies to come down the 2011 pike. That Allen was able to turn Owen Wilson into a credible well-read leading man, at home in the company of Hemingway, Dali and Gertrude Stein, may be the greatest feat of his career.
?"The Ides of March" -- The best of the two good George Clooney movies of the fall, this political thriller has plenty of twists and turns, the least-fussy Ryan Gosling performance ever, and edge. "The Descendants" is the one getting all the awards buzz, but "Ides" is the less predictable tale, one without the plot-device teenage boy idiot savant.
?"The Help" -- The online Oscar pundits are worked into quite a lather over this, but if there aren't Oscar nominations for Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, and either Jessica Chastain or Bryce Dallas Howard, Hollywood will have missed the boat.
?"Puss in Boots" -- In a year of cynical animation and cynical sequels ("Kung Fu Panda 2," "Cars 2," "Happy Feet 2"), the Antonio Banderas-Salma Hayek-voiced "Puss" transcended cynicism (it's a spin-off of "Shrek") and delivered a bootload of laughs.
?"Soul Surfer" -- An understated, uplifting and beautifully acted faith-based film built on a horrific moment of violence (the shark that bit off young surfer Bethany Hamilton's arm), this sleeper hit from the spring attracted superb actors (Helen Hunt, Anna Sophia Robb, Dennis Quaid) for a reason.
?"Insidious" -- First and foremost, a horror movie has got to scare you, get those hairs on the back of your neck standing at attention. This ghost story is a serious return to form for the guys who launched the "Saw" franchise, a genre-transcending fright that drew A-listers Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne brilliantly playing parents whose comatose kid is being possessed by something in their new home.
?"Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" -- It's not "Joy Luck Club," though that's what they were aiming for.
?"Sucker Punch" -- A violent comic-bookish PG-13 fantasy set in an asylum whose inmates imagine themselves as hooker-heroines in a dreamscape brothel, this may be the worst idea for a movie anybody ever had.
?"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 1" -- The first "Twilight" movie whose director treated the whole overheated heavy-breathing fest as a joke. Bill Condon was laughing at you, Twi-hards.
?"Jack and Jill" -- Adam Sandler dons a dress, does an overweight yenta shtick and manages to be offensive without being the least bit funny.
?"The Undefeated" -- It took an awful lot of creative editing to make Sarah Palin look like a media victim and a smart, credible crusader for the common man and woman. "Atlas Shrugged" was just as bad, but at least it wasn't a lie.


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