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According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 67% of people living in Hunterdon County were fully vaccinated on Tuesday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considers a person to be fully vaccinated two weeks after receiving a single dose injection (Johnson & Johnson) or a second injection (either Pfizer or Moderna).
New Jersey has reported a total of 1,674,453 cases of the coronavirus in total, a 14% increase from the previous week.
The five counties with the highest percentage of their population fully vaccinated in New Jersey on Tuesday are Morris (74%), Bergen (73%), Hudson (72%), Somerset (72%) and Burlington (71%).
Here are the latest figures on COVID-19 vaccinations in Hunterdon County:
How many people in Hunterdon County have received a COVID-19 vaccine?
83% of residents of Hunterdon County have received at least one dose of the vaccine, for a total of 103,163 people
67% of people in Hunterdon County are fully vaccinated, for a total of 83,664 people
For a county-by-county overview of the vaccination rollout, check out our COVID-19 vaccine tracker, which is updated daily.
How many people in New Jersey have been vaccinated so far?
84% of New Jersey residents received at least one dose of the vaccine, for a total of 7,477,980 people
71% of New Jersey people are fully immunized, for a total of 6,281,498 people
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Songwriter Norman Whitfield Known For His Genius
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Songwriter Norman Whitfield Known For His Genius Oct 26, 2008 15:09:45 GMT -5
Post by Motorcity on Oct 26, 2008 15:09:45 GMT -5
Motown songwriter Norman Whitfield known for his genius
BY BRIAN McCOLLUM
FREE PRESS POP MUSIC WRITER
He could be thorny and ornery, a real pain in the neck.
But when you walked into Norman Whitfield's world, you rubbed elbows with genius.
The Motown family lost one of its virtuosos Tuesday, as Whitfield succumbed to complications from diabetes. He died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he had been for several months, at one point lapsing in and out of a coma. He was 67.
The Grammy-winning Whitfield was the most prominent of Motown's second-wave songwriter-producers, sculpting deeply textured, sophisticated music for artists such as the Temptations, Marvin Gaye and Rare Earth. In the late 1960s, he helped propel the Detroit label into ambitious new territory, pushing Motown beyond the sweet melodies and puppy-love tales of its early days into edgier, more expansive music.
It was the difference between "My Girl" and "Papa Was a Rolling Stone": Whitfield's work was darker, funkier, often laced with exotic instrumentation. Drawing inspiration from San Francisco psychedelia and British hard rock, he crafted music with social themes: the Temptations' "Ball of Confusion," Edwin Starr's "War," Gladys Knight & the Pips' "Friendship Train."
His post-Motown career was most famously marked by his soundtrack for the film "Car Wash," which included a chart-topping hit of the same name in 1977.
The talent was instinctive, but it didn't always translate easily. Friends and colleagues remembered Whitfield as a maverick with a bite, a musical visionary who fiercely battled for his ideas.
"Norman was a taskmaster in the studio," said Otis Williams of the Temptations. "He wanted what he wanted. Everybody who worked with him knew he could be very adamant and vocal about what he believed in."
But Whitfield was usually right. He racked up hit after hit, many written in collaboration with close friend Barrett Strong, including the song that would become Motown's most successful: "I Heard it Through the Grapevine," a smash for Knight and Gaye.
A Northwestern High School graduate, Whitfield started his music career in the late 1950s as a tambourine player with the band Popcorn and the Mohawks, his entrée into the local music circles that would soon lead him to Motown.
Songwriting on the side led to Whitfield's big break in 1966, when his song "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" became a smash for the Temptations. He became the group's go-to collaborator, and his knack for the rigors of studio work -- including intricate hand-editing of tape -- soon flourished.
"Nobody in the business could lay down funkier grooves than Norman," said Williams. "He was a master in the studio."
Gil Bridges of Rare Earth recalled his band's first Whitfield session: The producer charged into the studio, dictated the players' parts, then rolled tape as the group jammed for nearly an hour. Bridges recalled Whitfield darting around the studio, a towel around his neck to absorb sweat, gesturing to signal the start of solos and breaks. Whitfield later trimmed and shaped the jam into a searing 3 1/2 -minute single, and Rare Earth had a top 10 hit: "(I Know) I'm Losing You."
"Norman was a pretty complex guy. He could bring artists to tears," said longtime friend Clay McMurray. "But respect was a two-way street with him. Underneath, he was a very decent guy. We could sit and laugh, and that's something a lot of people didn't get to do with Norman. Not everyone knew that side."
"Norman was making tracks in a way nobody else was at the time," said Gary Stromberg, the "Car Wash" producer who enlisted Whitfield for the film. "He had this incredible vision. He lived in his own world. It was his way or no way. He didn't work very well with people. But you let him on his own, let him create the way he wanted to create, and he was brilliant. Getting tracks from him was like being handed pure gemstones."
Whitfield is survived by four sons and a daughter. Funeral arrangements are not yet set.
Contact BRIAN McCOLLUM at 313-223-4450 or mccollum@freepress.com.
Last Edit: Oct 26, 2008 15:19:53 GMT -5 by Motorcity
May the Whitfield family find peace in the condolences, thought and prayers shared in their time of mourning.
Rest in peace to one of Motown's, and music's, finest composing producers.
Rest knowing your genius has touched many and lives on
Post by Kay on Oct 27, 2008 18:15:42 GMT -5
I remember reading when he took a slight turn for the worse but I never knew about him lapsing in and out of a coma
As sad as it is, at least the brother is no longer suffering - and just look at what he has left us with!


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Maria M. by Gilbert Hernandez
If you are me, you will have noticed that this post is not tagged "I Love (And Rockets) Mondays," and that it is not appearing on a Monday. If you are not me, you did not notice and do not care.
But that tiny, silly issue of nomenclature is at very central to this book — Gilbert Hernandez's full-length graphic novel Maria M. is not a "Love and Rockets" story. But it is a meta-Love and Rockets story, a comics version of a movie from his L&R world, like his previous stories Chance in Hell and The Troublemakers and Love from the Shadows . (And then there's Speak of the Devil, which is really weird — supposedly the "true story" of the events that inspired a movie of the same name within the L&R world, so the true fictional version of something that we previously half-saw a fictionalized fictional version of.)
So this is a version of the story we've already seen part of in Poison River – but Hernandez is specifically telling us it is a packaged story, designed for a purpose, turned into fiction and cleaned up for a particular audience. I think it's meant to be a '90s movie set mostly in the '60s, something from the Goodfellas era, in a world where that gangster era was more Latin than Italiano.
And, of course, all of Hernandez's graphic novels are fictions. But the level of fiction in them is clearly important to him: that some are the "real" story and some are the sensationalized movie version. This one is a movie version, but Maria M. looks to be a relatively big-budget, moderately prestigious picture – probably not made with serious expectations of Oscars, but one that would be reviewed well and remembered fondly, that was a strong stepping-stone for its cast and crew and a sturdy, dependable, engrossing piece of entertainment for its era.
It is is that: Hernandez is good at making fictions that resemble other fictions. (Though, this time out, he isn't deliberately trying to ape wide-screen images with his panels, the way he mostly did with the earlier movie-books; Maria M. is laid out like a "normal" Hernandez comic, with standard panel progressions and lots of variations in size.)
And the story itself? We are somewhere unclear. From Poison River, we know it's an unnamed Latin American country, but here it's left entirely unspecified. It's probably that same country; it's probably not the US. We begin in the late '50s; Maria is a voluptuous eighteen and has no daughters. Unlike Hernandez's Palomar and Luba stories, Maria M. is not about family – not about that kind of family, not about Maria's family. It is about family in the way that all gangster stories are.
Over the course of the next couple of decades, she weaves in and out of the lives of a group of pornographers and gangsters, many of whom become obsessed with her. She never accomplishes much, never gets rich and famous the way she wants to be, never really gets out. But she does come to be happy with what she gets, as far as we see, which is not nothing.
The later parts of the story are largely about her relationship with the fictional version of Gorgo – I won't spoil any of that, but I mean "relationship" in an expansive sense that is not at all equivalent to sitting-around-talking-about-our-feelings. This is a Hernandez book about gangsters, and a crime movie presented on the page: there will be gunplay and ambushes and torture and various horrors along the way. But Hernandez means this to be a movie, and he knows how movies are supposed to be structured: he knows how audiences want movies to end.
Maria M. is the most successful of the Hernandez movie-books, which is unsurprising. It was designed to be the capstone of them to begin with: the book that was actually based on a good, successful movie, with the biggest dramatic sweep and the strongest story. We should not be surprised that Gilbert Hernandez can make a strong, crowd-pleasing story when he sets out to do it; we should remember that he usually sets out to do different things each time.
Reposted from The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent.
Michael Davis: A Black History Milestone And Then Some
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For Black History Month, DC Comics has the hottest ticket in the comic book world… The Return of Milestone Media.
That happens today.
The in-store books will launch in April, but new and veteran fans can head over to DC's website and find some digital gold. I'm not a part of the new Milestone, but who knows, perhaps one day I will return if they buy me something pretty. Denys Cowan's brilliant idea is about to make history all over again, with Reggie Hudlin and Derek Dingle.
Thursday was Clarence Avant's birthday. Clarence is known as the Black Godfather; he's also hands down the most powerful man in music. He turned 90 yesterday and is just as compelling as when he was 30.
Fun Fact: Clarence had the winning bid when the original art for Hardware #1 was auctioned off.
Not So Fun Fact: A fraudulent letter was sent to Clarence to prevent me from accepting an offer at Motown, where he was Chairman. That was perhaps the dumbest move ever made in corporate crime.
Clarence knew the letter was bullshit and was not surprised it was sent. He asked what I wanted to do about it.
Clarence is about Black empowerment and needs no "teachable moment" because every moment spent with him is a teachable one if you're smart enough to listen.
Sometimes I was smart enough; that time, in 1993, I'm not so sure. My answer was to let it go and protect some folk who may have suffered if Clarence made a call about the letter. Clarence told me the person would continue to be a problem if I did not check him.
I didn't; he still is.
The funny part of this is I don't want to ruin this person's legacy. But he had no problem trying to destroy mine. One thing is for sure, I'm not going another year with no resolution.
I have Clarence to thank for that resolve. I will always be grateful for his guidance and friendship.
Jason Medley is a triple threat, a world-class designer, a hellofa writer, and an outstanding human being. His Sheriff Wright series has assembled a great team and is one original bad-ass idea. I will be talking more about that in detail in another column, but he gets a shout-out here.
I gotta give a shout-out to a gifted writer and chef who has beaten the odds and raised 3 super talented children who will each do great things, I am sure of it. More on them later; for now, hats off to Sheila Walls-Haynes.
Lastly, there's Sidney Clifton, who I will also be giving a lot more ink; in the meantime, here's a long-overdue congratulations to a no-joke pioneer.
These individuals are doing things that deserve recognition by a lot more people than I can reach. I'm blessed to have crossed paths with each.
Allergic by Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter
The thing to remember about young readers is that they're young. Maybe not everything in the world is new to them ("Wow! Breakfast is oatmeal! I've never seen that before!"), but they're seeing and experiencing new ideas and concepts and situations all the time.
It can be hard for those of us who haven't hit that concentrated dose of newness for years to remember what that was like, but the best stories for young people embody that sense: they're stories for people who are living newness all the time, building their selves day by day and figuring out what they think and feel about lots of things all the time.
So I try to keep that in mind with books for that audience: to think they way they would, and not the way I do. I'm probably not as good at it as I think I am, of course. But you always have to try.
Allergic is a graphic novel for young people. If you're dismissive, you could call it an "issue book." But everything's an issue book if it resonates with something in your life: an issue is just a thing that actually touches you. And this is a book that will touch a lot of people — there are a lot of kids who suddenly realize they're allergic to something, when that something comes into their lives for the first time.
It could be peanuts or pollen or penicillin or a bee sting. It could be life-threatening, or annoying, or barely noticeable, or anywhere on that spectrum. It could be obvious, or sneaky and hard to track down. It could be something that kid loves, or something that kid wasn't that interested in anyway.
So it's a big "issue," that a lot of people need to worry about on a daily basis.
Writer Megan Wagner Lloyd and artist Michelle Mee Nutter have taken those facts, and an understanding of that young audience, and built them into a story about one girl — because we all respond better to good stories, we all want to see someone else working through things to understand how we could do it ourselves.
Maggie is young — just turning ten as the book opens. She's wanted a puppy for a while: she's planning to be a vet when she grows up; she loves animals, though entirely from afar up to now. And you can guess that it doesn't go the way she wants. She has a strong allergic reaction to pet dander. After a few tests, it turns out she reacts badly — rashes, swelling, itching — to just about any animal with fur.
So she goes through all the usual stages: anger (at her parents, at the world), denial (which doesn't last long; her skin gives her away if she's near a furry animal), bargaining (as she runs through a list of non-furry animals and finds them all wanting), and finally acceptance. She meets other young people, at her school and elsewhere, who are allergic, to other things and in other ways. She learns what we all learn: you need to find the ways your life can go around the roadblocks and detours every life throws up, to make the life that's the combination of what you want and what you can get.
Maggie's in a good position; she should have a good life. She has a loving family, good medical support, a new understanding of this annoying way her body works. And her story will resonate with a lot of other young people, struggling with allergies or other issues — Lloyd and Nutter tell her story well, and tell a wider story than I'm focusing on. Maggie has twin younger brothers and her mother has a new baby on the way; she has friends at school and other activities. She has a life, and Allergic is about her life, not just this annoying skin reaction she has.
This is obviously mostly for young people: that's what it's for, that's what it does well. But if you have the care of a young person with an allergy, or any medical/personal issue that could be similar, you might want to take a look at it for yourself, and for that young person.
Note: I'm actually ahead of publication on a review, for the first time in a long time. Allergic officially goes on sale this coming Tuesday, March 2nd. If you order it right now, your bookstore will probably be able to have a copy for you that morning. (Or you can use my link and have a exploitative hegemonic megacorporation deliver it directly to your home: your choice.)
Peter Bagge's Other Stuff
Peter Bagge is a world-class grump, and I have to respect that. I tend to connect that to his libertarianism, but the direction of influence is unclear and it's not as if comics isn't full of grumpy loners outside of libertarians, either. But Bagge has had a long career both making comics about fictional grumpy, obnoxious people and making comics about how he is libertarian and so entitled to be grumpy personally about such-and-such, so he's been leaning into it for some time now.
Although, come to think of it, the last decade of his work, focusing mostly on biographies of strong-willed but not necessarily libertarian people of the past, might show him starting to walk down a path of slightly less grumpiness — and I emphasize slightly.
But here I am looking at Classic Bagge, the man who spent more than a decade making a comic book called Hate and meant it the whole time. So expect every page to be pickled in bile, to mix my metaphors.
Peter Bagge's Other Stuff is the odds-and-sods collection from the Hate era, gathering stories he did with other creators (mostly as the writer) or for other purposes, most but not all of which appeared, first or eventually, in the quarterly or annual Hate comics of the '90s and '00s. It is absolutely chock-full of grumps and cranks and losers and weirdos of all types: you would be hard-put to find a single functional human being on any page of this book.
So this may be a book best read in bits rather than straight through. Bile and spleen can be fun, but too much will curdle. And there's enough here to curdle the strategic federal cheese reserve.
What you will find in Other Stuff:
four stories about young hipster Lovey and her horrible friends
the Musical Urban Legends series, and a couple of related rock 'n' roll stories
a large section of collaborations, with work by both Hernandez brothers, Alice Cooper (writing), Adrian Tomine, Alan Moore (writing), Daniel Clowes, Johnny Ryan, Danny Hellman, R. Crumb, Rick Altergott, and a few others
six single-page biographies of scientists
several other assorted "true" stories, some of them vaguely reportage
a dozen-and-a-half strips of "The Shut-Ins," early-Internet super-adopters and shunners of the outside world, created to appear on a website promoting Adobe products
and a couple of even weirder things
This is very varied and odd; the section with collaborative work is possibly even weirder than the stuff I gave more attention to above (a R. Crumb Cathy parody! Ack! Dilbert as a Muslim terrorist, offensive in so many ways I can't even catalog them!). Bagge is a creator seemingly unafraid of letting out every idea he has ever had, which is good for the breadth and depth of his work but also can result in some what-the-hell?! moments. This book has more than a few of them.
Naturalist: A Graphic Adaptation by Wilson, Ottaviani, and Butler
When you're talking about people who have an inordinate fondness for insects, you probably mean either God or E.O. Wilson. And only one of them is a person you can actually have a conversation with. (Well, Wilson is 91, and probably still busy enough that it would be tough to get some of his time — but you know what I mean.)
Actually, you can differentiate them a bit more than that — God is said to like beetles better, and Wilson was always an ant guy. Just in case the distinction becomes important in your life.
Edward O. Wilson is the towering biologist of the 20th century, which is particularly impressive since that was such a physics-heavy century. He won two Pulitzer Prizes for books he wrote, is responsible for hundreds of scientific papers and possibly the foundational biological theory of the era, and is one of the pillars of the conservation movement. Naturalist was his memoir — the story of how he grew up, got interested in ants, got into science, and navigated most of his career. That book came out in 1994, when Wilson was 65, and just a couple of years before he retired from active teaching at Harvard — but, as I said above, he's still going strong now at 91, and has published as many books since Naturalist as he did before it. So the idea probably was that Naturalist was going to be basically the story of his life, but he may need to add a second volume at this rate.
Naturalist has had a strong life, and has been particularly influential on young readers interested in science — obviously those kids who like bugs, but also the ones who end up going into chemistry or physics or possibly even (gasp!) engineering. [1] So clearly someone — maybe even Wilson himself, since he's obviously a smart guy with a lot of ideas — thought it would be good to do one of those new-fangled "graphic novel" versions of Naturalist, since all of the kids love them these days.
(I may be deliberately making this sound silly for comic effect. But it was a good idea.)
However it happened, Island Press — the nonprofit that publishes the prose edition of Naturalist — found Jim Ottaviani, the premier and almost only writer of science in comics form, to adapt Wilson's book into comics and cartoonist, illustrator, and cartoonist C.M. Butzer to draw it. Colors are by Hilary Sycamore, but the pre-publication proof I read only features color for the first seventeen story pages, so I can't really speak to her work here as a whole. The graphic adaptation came out last November, and is widely available now — so now there are two versions of Naturalist available to be handed to a budding scientist, one of which features lots of pictures of ants to go with Wilson's words.
As usual with Ottaviani's work, there are lots of caption boxes and dialogue — he likes to get in as many of the real words of the books and scientists he's adapting as possible. So this will be a denser graphic novel than many readers are used to: I'd say that's no bad thing, since science is demanding and full of details that require close attention. Anyone looking for something quick and surface-y is not cut out for a life in science to begin with.
And, of course, this is the story of a life, and one intertwined with field exploration, collaboration with other scientists, and writing — some of it is about external action, but most of what was important in Wilson's life happened in his thoughts, as he examined ants around the world, thought about them back in Massachusetts, scribbled ideas on a board with colleagues, and bounced their theories off the real world to make sure they actually worked.
I wish there were more graphic novels like this, and fewer about punching people, but that's the world we live in. Intellectual activity is always less popular than punching. But this one is out there, and it's really good at what it does. If you know someone who could be a scientist eventually, this would be a good book to give her.
[1] Note: your present writer's son is a budding engineer, in the second year of a five-year undergraduate ChemE program, and so he kids because he loves.
Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru
A note to copyeditors of the future: the radio story from 1946 is "The Clan of the Fiery Cross," styled in roman within quotation marks and spelling Clan with a capital C. The 2020 graphic novel loosely based on that radio play is Superman Smashes the Klan , in italics and spelling Klan with the K used by its namesake.
One suspects the relative political power of that real-world Klan, and possibly of the corporate entities that owned (then) National Periodical Publications and (now) DC Comics, are responsible for the switch from C to K. But that's outside my remit here.
That radio story has been mentioned as a major factor in the waning power of the real-world Klan in the post-war years. I'm not a historian, but it makes sense to me — they are not generally called out as strongly active during the main civil rights era beginning the next decade, so the timing, at least, makes sense. And it's a comforting message to superhero fans: See! we can do good work in the world, and not have to make any effort at all! Just being a fan of Superman makes the world better!
This graphic novel is not driving that message. Stories themselves generally don't; stories are about action, not feeling good about yourself for liking those stories. The active verb in the title is there for a reason: this Klan of the Fiery Kross needs to be smashed, and it will not go away quietly by itself.
And, while Superman is the subject of the title sentence, he's not alone here: Superman alone cannot smash the Klan. That takes more people: a Black police detective, some familiar reporters named Lois and Jimmy, the members of the Lee family at the center of this story, and even a local white kid at first hostile to his new neighbors. One might even say it takes a city, or a village.
The Lee family are moving to a leafy Metropolis neighborhood in 1946 at the beginning of Smashes the Klan, moving out of Chinatown largely because the father, Dr. Lee, is taking a job as chief bacteriologist of the Metropolis Health Department. They meet their new neighbors, who are mostly friendly — especially once it's clear son Tommy will be a big asset to the baseball team fielded by the local interfaith Unity House. But our viewpoint character in the Lee family is daughter Roberta, who is less sure about their new neighborhood and home.
Tommy's rocket arm dislodged Chuck Riggs, previously the star pitcher, from that position, which does not leave Chuck happy. Chuck's Uncle Matt is also coincidentally — this is a Superman story — the local Grand Scorpion of the Klan of the Fiery Kross, so he seizes Chuck's grievance and the Lees mere presence in their neighborhood as reason for an old-fashioned cross-burning and fire-bombing.
The Lee's house is saved by quick action by Tommy and by neighbors, including that Black detective, Inspector Henderson. (Whose help Dr. Lee at first does not want, when he thought Henderson was just a random local Black man.) Daily Planet reporters arrive the next morning to report on the situation — of course it's Lois Lane and Clark Kent, since the Planet has never had any other reporters in seventy years of operation.
But Superman is dealing with assimilation issues of his own. The day before, he fought a Nazi would-be supervillain, Atom Man, and kept him from destroying the Metropolis Dam. But Atom Man is powered by a strange green crystal — anyone who has ever consumed any Superman story is nodding right now — and that gives Superman first a strange wave of nausea and weakness, and then continued hallucinations of two figures who claim to be his real parents, aliens who rocketed him to Earth from the doomed world Krypton. (Well, they're not that succinct and specific to begin with. But we know the story, and it is the same story.)
Tommy gets in more danger, the Klan continues to foment violence, and that green crystal will of course come back. Dr. Lee's employer, and some of his co-workers, turn out to be quite different than what we had expected.
In the end, Superman Smashes the Klan. But he can't do it alone. And he can't do it without confronting his own past and understanding who he is: without publicly claiming his place as an immigrant and alien. His story — an immigrant, coming to a new place, and wanting to be friendly and helpful — is explicitly twinned with Roberta's, and with all of the other people the Klan hates.
This is a story for younger readers, and a story about Superman, so you can be assured everything will work out for the best, and only the most unredeemable will be smashed — anyone who can be brought around will be. Writer Gene Luen Yang will make sure of that, as he also makes his story deeper and more resonant than a Superman tale for pre-teens had to be. Art team Gurihiru gives it all a modern, clean, manga-lite look — easily readable and dynamic.
This is a book a lot of Americans should read: there are far too many Chuck Riggses out there, unthinkingly racist and led by family members or friends or media to believe evil things and, in far too many cases, to do evil things. This story says that most of them are redeemable; I would like to believe that. But they have to want to be redeemed. They have to want to smash the Klan.
For those who do, this book is there for you. And if you're in a position to put this book in front of a Chuck Riggs, someone who might be amenable to it but does not, right now, want to smash the Klan — doing that would be a very good thing.
New Images from Justice Society: World War II
BURBANK, CA – The Flash speeds into the middle of an epic battle between Golden Age DC Super Heroes and Nazis in Justice Society: World War II, the next entry in the popular series of the DC Universe Movies. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, DC and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, the feature-length animated film will be released on Digital starting April 27, 2021, and on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Combo Pack and Blu-ray on May 11, 2021. The film is rated PG-13 for violence and some bloody images.
Justice Society: World War II will be available on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Combo Pack (USA $39.99 SRP; Canada $44.98 SRP) and Blu-ray (USA $29.98 SRP; Canada $39.99 SRP) as well as on Digital. The 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Combo Pack features an Ultra HD Blu-ray disc in 4K with HDR, a Blu-ray disc featuring the film in hi-definition, and a digital version of the movie. The Blu-ray features a Blu-ray disc with the film in hi-definition and a digital version of the movie.
Justice Society: World War II finds modern-day Barry Allen – prior to the formation of the Justice League – discovering he can run even faster than he imagined, and that milestone results in his first encounter with the Speed Force. The Flash is promptly launched into the midst of a raging battle – primarily between Nazis and a team of Golden Age DC Super Heroes known as The Justice Society of America. Led by Wonder Woman, the group includes Hourman, Black Canary, Hawkman, Steve Trevor and the Golden Age Flash, Jay Garrick. The Flash quickly volunteers to assist his fellow heroes in tipping the scales of war in their favor, while the team tries to figure out how to send him home. But it won't be easy as complications and emotions run deep in this time-skipping World War II thriller.
Stana Katic (Castle, Absentia, A Call To Spy) and Matt Bomer (Doom Patrol, White Collar, The Boys in the Band), who made their DC Universe Movies debuts as Lois Lane and Superman in the 2013 film Superman: Unbound, return to the popular animated film series in the lead roles of Wonder Woman and The Flash for Justice Society: World War II. The star-studded cast includes Geoffrey Arend (Madam Secretary, Batman: Hush) as Charles Halstead/Advisor, Armen Taylor (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind) as Jay Garrick, Elysia Rotaru (Arrow) as Black Canary, Liam McIntyre (The Flash, Spartacus, Justice League Dark: Apokolips War) as Aquaman, Omid Abtahi (American Gods, The Mandalorian) as Hawkman, Matthew Mercer (Critical Role, Overwatch) as Hourman, Keith Ferguson (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Overwatch) as Dr. Fate, Darin De Paul (Overwatch, Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge) as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Ashleigh LaThrop (The Handmaid's Tale, Utopia, The Kominsky Method) as Iris West, and Chris Diamantopoulos (Episodes, Silicon Valley, voice of Mickey Mouse) as Steve Trevor.
Jeff Wamester (Guardians of the Galaxy TV series) directs Justice Society: World War II from a screenplay by Meghan Fitzmartin (Supernatural, DC Super Hero Girls) and Jeremy Adams (Supernatural, Batman: Soul Of The Dragon). Producers are Jim Krieg (Batman: Gotham by Gaslight) and Kimberly S. Moreau (Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles). Butch Lukic (Superman: Man of Tomorrow, Constantine: City of Demons) is Supervising Producer. Sam Register is Executive Producer.
Justice Society: World War II Special Features
4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Combo Pack, Blu-ray and Digital
DC Showcase – Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth! (New Animated Short) – Jack Kirby's beloved DC comic creation features the last civilized teenage boy on a post-apocalyptic Earth ruled by talking animals. In this short, Kamandi and his friends Prince Tuftan of the Tiger Kingdom and humanoid mutant Ben Boxer are kidnapped by a gorilla cult dedicated to finding the reincarnation of their god, The Mighty One. Golgan, the cult's leader, puts Kamandi's team through a series of deadly tests to find if any of them know the secret of … The Mighty One.
Adventures in Storytelling: Justice Society: World War II (New Featurette) – The film's creative minds chat about the methods used to produce the touchstone sequences in Justice Society: World War II.
A Sneak Peek at the next DC Universe Movie – An advance look at the next animated film in the popular DC Universe Movies collection, Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One.
Look Back – Justice League vs. Teen Titans (Featurette) – A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Justice League vs. Teen Titans, a 2016 thriller that follows Damian Wayne's induction into the Teen Titans. Complicating his training is the growing presence of Raven's satanic, world-conquering father Trigon, whose escape plan from his inter-dimensional prison includes spreading his demonic forces across the globe, infiltrating the minds and bodies of the Justice League to do his bidding. To save the universe and prevent a literal hell on Earth, the Teen Titans must rescue – or defeat – the Justice League, and intern Trigon for all eternity.
Look Back – Wonder Woman: Bloodlines (Featurette) – An intriguing glance into the production behind 2019's Wonder Woman: Bloodlines, which finds Amazon Princess Diana helping a troubled young girl enlisted by a deadly organization known as Villainy, Inc., whose criminal members have their sights set on invading Themyscira. The expansive adventure is packed with brutal battles, mysterious mythology, and endless wonder!
From the DC Vault: Justice League: "Legends, Part One", "Legends, Part Two"
Justice Society: World War II will also be available on Movies Anywhere. Using the free Movies Anywhere app and website, consumers can access all their eligible movies by connecting their Movies Anywhere account with their participating digital retailer accounts.
DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION ELEMENTS
On April 27, 2021, Justice Society: World War II will be available to own in high definition and standard definition from select digital retailers including Amazon, the Apple TV app, FandangoNOW, PlayStation, Vudu, Xbox and others. On May 11, 2021, Justice Society: World War II will be made available digitally on Video On Demand services from cable and satellite providers, and on select gaming consoles.
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Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang
I'm no more the obvious audience for this book than Gene Luen Yang was the obvious creator for it: neither of us cared all that much about basketball. The difference, I guess, is that Yang got interested in sports because of his community and a specific story at a specific time, and then created this graphic novel to tell that story and his involvement in it. [1]
Yang was a math teacher at Bishop O'Dowd, a respected private Catholic high school in Oakland, California. The men's varsity basketball team there, the Dragons, had a strong program: they'd been among the best in the state (and California is a big, competitive state) on and off for a couple of decades. But they'd never won the state championship — coming into the 2015 season, there were 0-8 in that big game.
Yang was coming off his previous graphic-novel project, 2013's double-barreled Boxers & Saints , and was still semi-aimlessly casting around for his next big personal comics project a year later. Of course, at the same time he was also negotiating to do more writing of other people's properties, which Yang puts into this story as a secondary plot or background flavor. [2]
So my guess is that this was a more general period of "what do I want to do with the rest of my life." Yang shows himself with four young children, and dividing his time in three: comics, teaching, and family. Turning comics into a day-job allowed him to simplify that down to just two divisions, which has to be appealing. His soul-searching over the Superman job is connected in this book to his being a teacher at the school: this is a book about the school and its basketball team, with Yang as the viewpoint character, rather than a story essentially about Yang's career and life, with the school as a main setting.
But that's what was behind it all. Yang wanted new projects, was probably already thinking on some level about needing to quit teaching to focus on comics fully, and wondered what the big deal was about the Bishop O'Dowd Dragons. So he went to talk to a fellow teacher, head coach Lou Richie.
And out of that conversation, and the events of the next year, he made Dragon Hoops , the story of primarily the 2015 team and secondarily about Yang learning about the history of the Dragons, about the players on the team in 2015, and about Richie. And then, tertiarily, about Yang himself and his career decisions — those are the least connected to the team, so Yang keeps them appropriately less important. (There's also a minor thread about how Yang tells the story: there's one loose, unfinished thread of this story that he didn't want to include — but the fact that he mentions possibly not including it tells we sneaky readers that he already has included it.)
Again, Yang is the viewpoint character, and our lens into this world: this is a sports book largely for an audience that doesn't deeply care about sports a lot of the time. But it's not his story, and he's not trying to make it his story. It's the story of Richie and his players: superstars Ivan Rabb and Paris Austin, younger players like Arinze Chidom and Jeevin Sandhu, and a half-dozen others. It's a book organized by the rhythms of a season: preparing ahead of time, early practices, the games of the season in order, and then (of course) the post-season, culminating in that big championship game again.
Yang was lucky in his story: teams fizzle out everywhere, every year. The Dragons could easily have ended up out of contention. It's the danger of starting to write about a story before the ending is clear — Yang was something like a reporter telling this story, building blocks of how he wanted it to go while never being sure it would end the "right" way.
I won't tell you what the ending was, or even the middle: the Dragons played a lot of games that year. And the women's team, also called the Dragons, had some games that come in here. The story of whether or not the Dragons won is important, but more important (to Yang, at least, if not to many of the readers) is who these players were, how they worked, what they accomplished together, and how they came from different backgrounds to be part of something larger while still staying specific people.
Yang has always been interested in representation — most obviously with Chinese-Americans like himself — and Dragon Hoops is a book where he broadens that view to look more deeply at other ethnic groups in America. Most obviously, since this is about basketball and Oakland, Black Americans are central to Dragon Hoops. It was published in March of 2020, and so finished months before that — the specifics of the American racial-justice landscape have shifted hugely since that point, though not in any way that damages Yang's story and understanding here. He is on the side of hyphenated Americans and ethnic Americans of all kinds, wanting them to have secure, real places in the world that are not reliant on the good will of white people.
Dragon Hoops never says the words "white supremacy." But Yang writes about it nevertheless: from his own point of view, and from the lives of the Black young men who make up most of the Dragons. There are several scenes of bigotry here, directed at the Dragons — mostly trash-talking audiences at road games — and Yang picks up the way hate grabs onto anything to demean and attack, that there will always be something that those bigots use, no matter who they're yelling at this time.
Because this is a real story. And a real story about a real basketball team of mostly Black teenagers in 2015 America is going to include some racial slurs. Maybe there will be a year when that won't be the case. Yang hopes so. I hope so. The Dragons players hope so. But we'll have to see.
[1] I frankly still don't care that much about basketball: even when I did care about sports, it was the one I never got into. But I liked the book, he said brightly!
[2] Everybody's got to eat, and everyone wants to do work that personally excites and speaks to them. So, if what Yang really wants to do with his life is write a bunch of stories about Superman punching things better, that's great. I generally have very little interest in punching-things-better stories, though, so those background negotiations can feel to me, and readers like me, like he's getting pulled into a sadder, lesser world after making personal stories and teaching for a living.
DC Showcase Announces Third Wave of Shorts
BURBANK, CA (January 28, 2021) – Beloved DC characters Kamandi, The Losers, Blue Beetle and Constantine are the focus of four new DC Showcase animated shorts for release by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment in 2021-2022.
Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, DC and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, and inspired by characters and stories from throughout the iconic DC canon, the all-new quartet of shorts will be included on upcoming releases of DC Universe Movies, with exception of the lengthier Constantine short. The Constantine short will serve as the anchor for a compilation set to be distributed in 2022. More information will be released closer to individual street dates.
All four new DC Showcase shorts are produced by Rick Morales (Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge).
Directed by Matt Peters (Justice League Dark: Apokolips War) from a script written by Paul Giacoppo (Young Justice, Star Wars: Resistance), Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth! will be the first of the new shorts to be released. The post-apocalyptic thriller will be attached as a bonus feature to Justice Society: World War II in Spring 2021.
Launched in 2010, DC Showcase was originally comprised of four animated shorts: The Spectre (2/23/2010), Jonah Hex (7/27/2010), Green Arrow (9/28/2010) and Superman/Shazam: The Return of Black Adam (11/9/2010). An additional short, Catwoman (10/18/2011), was attached the following year to the release of Batman: Year One. For 2019-2020, DC Showcase returned with five shorts: Sgt. Rock (8/6/2019) Death (10/22/2019), The Phantom Stranger (3/17/2020), Adam Strange (5/19/2020), and the interactive Batman: Death in the Family (10/13/2020).
Actors featured on DC Showcase shorts have included Malcolm McDowell, James Garner (in his final performance), Jerry O'Connell, Linda Hamilton, Karl Urban, Gary Cole, Alyssa Milano, Bruce Greenwood, Thomas Jane, Michael Rooker, Eliza Dushku, Neal McDonough, Ariel Winter, Danica McKeller, George Newbern, Michelle Trachtenberg, Charlie Weber, Arnold Vosloo, Leonard Nam, Jamie Chung, Peter Serafinowicz, and Michael Rosenbaum.
Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye (2 vols.) by Jon Rivera, Gerard Way, and Michael Avon Oeming
I'm sure the creators will all insist that this is totally not a superhero book, that it's much cooler and obscure and indy and retro and hand-crafted than that. But it's a big DC Comics book with Superman in it, whose hero is a guy with a mysterious, technologically-advanced eyeball with unexpected and plot-convenient powers, who leads a team of people in jumpsuits and drives a weird vehicle with a silly name.
So, yeah, it's absolutely a superhero book.
Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye was a twelve-issue series — I'm not sure, at this late date, if it was meant to be mini- or maxi- or ongoing, and frankly I don't care — from 2016-2017, about the very minor DC character of the title, who had previously appeared in some forgettable '60s stories and a few random crossovers. It was part of the "Young Animal" line, which was an attempt to recapture the sales magic of Vertigo without the benefits of time, a deep bench of British writing talent, a healthier market, and (most importantly) Karen Berger. And, as I understand it, the Animals Which Are Young was modestly successful, but has not been a long-term sustainable thing — not that very much in guys-in-tights-punching-each-other comics is "a long-term sustainable thing" this decade to begin with.
That twelve-issue series was collected in two volumes: Going Underground (ha ha ha) and Every Me, Every You .
Cave's adventures were written by Jon Rivera and Young Animal guru Gerard Way, and drawn by Michael Avon Oeming (whose work I haven't seen regularly since Powers, but who is still quirky and organic, even if I think his psychedelic extravaganza fight scenes are hard to follow and not his best work). The twelve issues all make up one long story, in which Our Hero (renowned spelunker Cave Carson) and his spunky teenage daughter Chloe steal the original version of his tunneling machine, the Mighty Mole, to chase the evil spelunking team led by the eeeevil heads of the company Cave used to work for, because they are pursuing the eeeeeevil plan of an extradimensional EEEEEEEEVIL monster that intends to eat the multiverse, more or less.
Cave's dead wife — every superhero has a dead wife or three in the fridge; it's standard issue — turns out to have been the princess of a secret advanced subterranean race, because of course she was, and so Chloe is the heiress to Vast Powers and Responsibilities, including the only possible way to stop the aforementioned monster from snacking down on all of the worlds with Cave Carsons in them.
It gets weirder and more bizarre from there, in best Young Animal fashion, and there's a large cast of characters mostly so Rivera and Way can kill off lots of them in ways that make readers struggle to remember who they were and why we should care. (Was that jump-suited person still on Team Evil, someone who defected once Team Evil's evilness was clear, or an OG do-gooder? Does anyone care? Does anyone besides me find that several of them look distractingly like Ron from Kim Possible?) The large cast tunnels through the ground of Earth-DC (or maybe Earth-Young Animal?) and then through the contiguous grounds of several other alternate Earths, meeting a Cave Carson Jr. and eventually his father. Doc Magnus appears, and is even more of a dick than usual, while still not being particularly interesting as a character.
In the end, the multiverse is indeed saved from being eaten, as we all knew it would be. DC would not stop publishing umpty-zillion comics just because Cave fucking Carson couldn't save its bread and butter, now would it?
This is a loud, flashy, silly, overstuffed comic with some good moments and a whole lot of confusing action. It is somewhat more serious than the standard punch-fest, or at least aspires to be. I did not take it seriously for one second, but I did enjoy pieces of it, and was engaged enough to request the second volume from the library when I hit the end of the first one. And I have enjoyed dunking on it here. So it is not without its pleasures, even if those are highly particular and goofy. Caveat emptor.
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Oscar Pistorius to be Indicted for Murder, Trial Set for Next Year
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South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is expected to be back in court on Monday to face charges in connection with the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
According to CNN, the trial of Olympic sprinter will begin in March 2014.
The first phase will take place in March, but the entire trial could occur at various times across a year or more due to potential motions and postponements along the way, the report said.
Pistorius will be served with an indictment Monday following the completion of the investigation. It's the day that would have been Steenkamp's 30th birthday.
Pistorius is charged with premeditated murder over the shooting death, according to CNN.
Pistorius 'was not wearing prosthetic legs when he shot girlfriend'
A report by the telegraph.co.uk says that it has been alleged that Pistorius was not wearing his prosthetic legs when he shot Steenkamp dead through a locked lavatory door.
The latest claim in the sensational case is reportedly made in a leaked ballistics report that is said to form part of the police investigations dossier handed to the Pistorius defense team last week.
"It comes as Mr. Pistorius, 26, prepares to face the glare of the world's media once more as he appears in court in Pretoria for a preliminary hearing in his trial for the murder of Miss Steenkamp, a law graduate and FHM model, who would have celebrated her 30th birthday on Monday," the telegraph report said.
"The double amputee shot Miss Steenkamp dead at his home in Pretoria in the early hours of St. Valentine's Day this year. He claimed he thought she was a burglar — the state claims that he shot her deliberately after a blazing row.
"In an earlier court hearing, Mr. Pistorius said that he had woken in the middle of the night, heard a noise in the bathroom and immediately grabbed his gun to protect himself and his girlfriend, who was staying the night."
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Cal/OSHA Votes to Implement Strict COVID-19 Workplace Protections for California Workers
By Jason P. Brown & Susan F. Wiltsie on November 30, 2020
Posted in California Developments, OSHA Developments
The California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board ("Cal/OSHA") voted on November 19 to implement a stringent new standard for employers to follow when implementing COVID-19 protections in the state.
The state's rulemaking agency for workplace safety voted unanimously (6 to 0) to pass the "Emergency COVID-19 Prevention Regulations" (the "Standard"), which is expected to go into effect within 10 days (assuming the State's Office of Administrative Law adopts Cal/OSHA's regulation).
The standard includes obligations for employers to:
Write and implement a COVID-19 Prevention Program;
Identify COVID-19 hazards, with input from employees, and correct any hazards identified;
Engage in contact tracing following any positive case that involved potential workplace exposure, and then notify and provide testing to potentially exposed employees;
Require physical distancing and mask wearing, improve ventilation, and maximize outdoor air;
Not allow workers with COVID-19 or at high risk of exposure to return to worksites until their quarantine ends, and pay employees throughout quarantines;
Report all outbreaks—defined as three or more cases in two weeks—to the public health department, provide continuous testing to all on-site employees (for 20 or more cases in 30 days, employers must provide twice-a-week testing);
In employer-provided housing, space beds six feet apart, eliminate the use of bunk beds, and disinfect daily; and,
In employer-provided transportation, screen workers before boarding, and require them to sit three feet apart and wear face coverings.
The written elements of California employer's COVID-19 Prevention Program must include, at a minimum:
A system for communicating, in a form readily understandable by its employees and without fear of reprisal: (a) possible COVID-19 exposures and hazards; (b) policies for accommodating employees with medical or other conditions that put them at increased risk of severe COVID-19 illness; (c) information about access to COVID-19 testing; and (d) information about COVID-19 hazards and the employer's COVID-19 policies and procedures, to employees and to other employers, persons, and entities within or in contact with the employer's workplace.
The identification and evaluation of COVID-19 hazards, which must: (a) allow employees and authorized employee representatives to participate in this process; (b) include the development and implementation of a process for screening employees for and responding to employees with COVID-19 symptoms; (c) develop COVID-19 policies and procedures to respond effectively and immediately to individuals in the workplace who have COVID-19 to prevent the risk of transmission; (d) conduct a workplace-specific identification of all interactions, areas, activities, processes, equipment, and materials that could potentially expose employees to COVID-19 hazards; (e) for indoor locations, evaluate how to maximize outdoor air and whether it is possible to increase filtration efficiency to the highest level compatible with the existing ventilation system; (f) include a review of applicable orders and guidance from state and local health departments related to COVID-19 hazards and prevention; (g) evaluate existing COVID-19 prevention controls at the workplace and the need for different or additional controls; and, (h) include periodic inspections to identify unhealthy conditions, work practices, and work procedures related to COVID-19 and to ensure compliance with COVID-19 policies and procedures.
A process for investigating and responding to COVID-19 cases in the workplace, which must: (a) include procedures for verifying COVID-19 case status, receiving information regarding COVID-19 test results and onset of COVID-19 symptoms, and identifying and recording COVID-19 cases; (b) when there has been a COVID-19 case in the workplace, determine when the individual was last present, was first experiencing symptoms, and was tested, who may have had exposure to the individual, give notice within one business day to employees and contractors who may have been exposed (without revealing any personal identifying information about the individual with COVID-19), offer COVID-19 testing at no cost to potentially exposed employees during their working hours and provide them information on benefits, and investigate whether any workplace conditions could have contributed to the risk of exposure and steps to reduce exposure; (c) keep the personal identifying information of COVID-19 cases or persons with COVID-19 symptoms confidential; (d) keep any medical records resulting from this process confidential.
The correction of COVID-19 hazards, which must include the implementation of effective policies and/or procedures for correcting any unsafe or unhealthy conditions, work practices, policies and procedures in a timely manner based on the severity of the hazard.
Training and instruction on: (a) the employer's COVID-19 policies and procedures for protecting employees against hazards; (b) information regarding COVID-19-related benefits to which the employee may be entitled under applicable federal, state, or local laws (including workers' compensation law, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, Labor Code sections 248.1 and 248.5, Labor Code sections 3212.86 through 3212.88, local governmental requirements, the employer's own leave policies, and leave guaranteed by contract); (c) the fact that COVID-19 is an infectious disease that can be spread through the air, may be transmitted when a person touches a contaminated object and then touches their face, and that an infectious person may have no symptoms; (d) methods of distancing of at least six feet and the importance of combining physical distancing with the wearing of face coverings; and (e) the fact that particles containing the virus can travel more than six feet, especially indoors, so physical distancing must be combined with other controls, including face coverings and hand hygiene, to be effective; (f) the importance of effective handwashing and using hand sanitizer, and that hand sanitizer does not work if the hands are soiled; (g) the proper use of face coverings and that they are not respiratory protective equipment; and, (h) COVID-19 symptoms, and the importance of not coming to work and obtaining a COVID-19 test if the employee has COVID-19 symptoms.
Physical distancing, including through the use telework or other remote work arrangements; reducing the number of persons in an area at one time, including visitors; visual cues such as signs and floor markings to indicate where employees and others should be located or their direction and path of travel; staggered arrival, departure, work, and break times; and adjusted work processes or procedures, such as reducing production speed, to allow greater distance between employees.
The use of face coverings, including: (a) providing clean and undamaged face coverings and ensuring they are worn by employees over the nose and mouth when indoors, when outdoors and less than six feet away from another person, and where required by orders from the CDPH or local health department.; (b) when employees are exempt from wearing face coverings (g., due to a medical or mental health condition); (c) procedures for employees not wearing face coverings; (d) allowing employees to wear face coverings unless it could create a safety hazard; (e) measures to communicate face covering requirements to non-employees; and (f) developing COVID-19 policies and procedures to minimize employee exposure to COVID-19 hazards originating from any person not wearing a face covering.
Other engineering controls, administrative controls, and personal protective equipment, including the use of partitions, improving ventilation, cleaning and disinfecting procedures, the improvement of handwashing facilities, and the use of personal protective equipment (PPE).
Reporting, recordkeeping, and access
The exclusion of COVID-19 cases from the workplace.
Return to work criteria, including for symptomatic COVID-19 cases and non-symptomatic COVID-19 cases.
California employers may find Cal/OSHA COVID-19 guidance and resources here.
The Standard will go into effective immediately following final approval, which is likely to be November 30, 2020.
Cal/OSHA can enforce non-compliance with the new Standard through civil penalties, ranging in size depending on the severity of the violation. The standard will remain in effect and enforceable for six months after the effective date, but may be extended for up to 14 months.
California employers will need to carefully analyze their workplaces, and perform and consider the criteria provided by the Standard to comply with Cal/OSHA's regulation. Employers should continue to look out for updates from Cal/OSHA about the Standard and how it will interpret certain provisions within it, and consult experienced OSHA counsel on managing compliance.
Tags: Cal/OSHA, Coronavirus/COVID-19
The U.S. Department of Labor Updates its Workplace COVID-19 Guidance to Protect Unvaccinated and Other At-Risk Workers
New York Releases HERO Act Standard, Sample Plan: What Employers Need to Know
OSHA's New Safety Rule: Health Care Workers and Beyond


Place: Loosbroek Length of route: The route is 19 kilometers long Nature of the route: The Loosbroek route is a heavy route through the agricultural area. The route usually takes care of tramways and maintenance paths. The route consists entirely of forest tracks and singletracks. There are a number of short climes in the route. The route is part of the MTB Routenetwerk Maashorst. This route network has a total length of approximately 100 kilometers. The routes (Herpen, Zeeland, Reek, Uden and Loosbroek) are interconnected by means of wooden poles there in black, the international MTB sign (triangle with 2 rounds). Marking: The route is marked with wooden posts with the orange international MTB sign (triangle with 2 rounds). Environment: The MTBroute Loosbroek goes through the nature reserve De Bedafse Bergen. This is an extended 75 hectare nature reserve.
Loosbroek er en del af Singletrackers komplette samling af officielle MTB spor i Holland. Den indeholder alle typer af mountainbike ruter fra downhill og enduro trails over pumptracks og teknikbaner til XC spor og familievenlige stier.Anerkend gerne sporbyggernes store arbejde ved at anmelde sporet i Singletracker App'en.


Five people got arrested in Rajasthan's Ajmer district on Sunday for torturing and murdering a woman. This month earlier she was being tortured and claimed for addressing her self a witch as per the police report said. Police have arrested Mahaveer, Gopi Chand, Chandra Prakash, Pinki and Sonya in this case. This case have been made under various sections of the Indian Penal Code including Section 302 (punishment for murder) and the Rajasthan Prevention of Witch-Hunting Act," said a police official on phone from Kekri in Ajmer. The lady name was kanya, she was mother of Kalu and Maya, the son and daughter. In a police complaint to police they alleged that their mother was ill for some time after her husband's death about a month ago and some relatives allegedly to grab her property branded her as a witch. The woman paraded naked after being beaten up badly with iron chains, dragged forcibly by hair in the village. She was tortured to death by all means, iron rods were also put into her eyes and was also forced to eat faeces.
The woman subsequently died and was cremated clandestinely on August 4, according to the complaint. Even the village panchayat, also sought to cover up the incident, directing them to go to Pushkar and take a holy dip to wash their sins and also warning that anyone who disclosed the incident to the authorities would be cast out from the community. The investigation is going on and accused have been arrested for brutal murder.


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Scutellaria alabamensis, known as Alabama skullcap, is a rare and endangered wildflower, endemic only to 9 counties in North central Alabama.

Description
Alabama skullcap is an erect perennial herb, usually 4.5–6 cm tall, that produces blue and white flowers in an elongated cluster (rarely, flanked by 2 lateral clusters). Blooms early June-early July.

It is one of 300-400 members of the Scutellaria genus of flowering plants, commonly known as skullcaps.
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The skullcap name is because of the resemblance to medieval helmets.

References

External links
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Yoga Speak is a written manifestation of my practice. When I move, what comes to life on the inside begs for air on the outside, and my words are the breath that make that happen.
I had been in great spirits as of late, and I credited this with my almost daily yoga practice.
I loved my studio, my class, my fellow yogis, my instructor and my mat.
I was seeing the bright side of most things, most days. It was as if an angel was riding on my shoulder.
I was on a yoga high even on Thursdays, my off day.
So imagine my surprise when my instructor told me I was holding anger in my quads.
But, I'm not angry, I said, to which he replied that the anger was in my quads.
But, what am I angry about? I asked, to which he answered that he could not say but that it was in my quads.
Well, what am I supposed to do with it? I followed up, to which he answered, Just do the poses and release it.
Anne Samit is an author and a yogi, moving every day and writing it all down along the way.
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What Newt Gingrich Really Thought Of Ronald Reagan
He may be praising Ronald Reagan now, but Newt Gingrich was singing a different tune in the 1980s.
Doug Mataconis · Wednesday, January 25, 2012 · 19 comments
Nate Silver reports today that Newt Gingrich has mentioned the name of the 40th President of the United States more than any other Republican candidate during the debates that have occurred this election cycle. He's called himself a "Reagan conservative." He's said that he helped Ronald Reagan defeat the Soviet Union, a revelation that would no doubt come as a great shock to Margaret Thatcher, Pope John Paul II, and Reagan himself. He's said that he was the architect of the 1981 Reagan Tax Cuts along with Jack Kemp and William Roth, again something I'm sure Kemp, Roth, and Reagan would find surprising. I've already noted that Gingrich is no Ronald Reagan in any sense of the word, and today at National Review, Elliot Abrams, who served in President Reagan's State Department for the entirety of his eight years in office reveals that Gingrich didn't really think much of Reagan while he was in office:
In the increasingly rough Republican campaign, no candidate has wrapped himself in the mantle of Ronald Reagan more often than Newt Gingrich. "I worked with President Reagan to change things in Washington," "we helped defeat the Soviet empire," and "I helped lead the effort to defeat Communism in the Congress" are typical claims by the former speaker of the House.
The claims are misleading at best. As a new member of Congress in the Reagan years — and I was an assistant secretary of state — Mr. Gingrich voted with the president regularly, but equally often spewed insulting rhetoric at Reagan, his top aides, and his policies to defeat Communism. Gingrich was voluble and certain in predicting that Reagan's policies would fail, and in all of this he was dead wrong.
The best examples come from a famous floor statement Gingrich made on March 21, 1986. This was right in the middle of the fight over funding for the Nicaraguan contras; the money had been cut off by Congress in 1985, though Reagan got $100 million for this cause in 1986. Here is Gingrich: "Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire's challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic change in strategy will continue to fail. . . . President Reagan is clearly failing." Why? This was due partly to "his administration's weak policies, which are inadequate and will ultimately fail"; partly to CIA, State, and Defense, which "have no strategies to defeat the empire." But of course "the burden of this failure frankly must be placed first on President Reagan." Our efforts against the Communists in the Third World were "pathetically incompetent," so those anti-Communist members of Congress who questioned the $100 million Reagan sought for the Nicaraguan "contra" rebels "are fundamentally right." Such was Gingrich's faith in President Reagan that in 1985, he called Reagan's meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev "the most dangerous summit for the West since Adolf Hitler met with Neville Chamberlain in 1938 in Munich."
Gingrich scorned Reagan's speeches, which moved a party and then a nation, because "the president of the United States cannot discipline himself to use the correct language." In Afghanistan, Reagan's policy was marked by "impotence [and] incompetence." Thus Gingrich concluded as he surveyed five years of Reagan in power that "we have been losing the struggle with the Soviet empire." Reagan did not know what he was doing, and "it is precisely at the vision and strategy levels that the Soviet empire today is superior to the free world.
Gingrich's attacks on Reagan were actually quite common among members of the hard-line right in the late 80s, especially once the President began pursuing a new relationship with the Soviet Union upon the rise to power of Mikhail Gorbachev. I recall reading some of that criticism the pages of National Review itself at the time, and hearing it on the airwaves from the likes of Rush Limbaugh. Reagan was a patsy, they said. He was letting himself be deceived by a man with a nice smile who was still, at heart, the same kind of Communist that his predecessors were. Some conservatives were even suggesting in the late 80s that Reagan's openings to the Soviet Union and willingness to negotiate were signs of oncoming senility. Even the words of their British hero Margaret Thatcher, who described Gorbachev was "a man we can do business with" after meeting him for the first time, were not enough to mollify these critics, who seem to have gotten themselves so wrapped up in 45 years of Cold War that they couldn't recognize real change when it appeared before them, or that the President they supposedly had all rallied behind knew something that they didn't.
Like many other conservatives who criticized Reagan in those days, Gingrich has conveniently forgotten the manner in which he threw the President of the United States under the bus. To listen to them today, you would think that they were cheering on the sidelines for the entire eight years of the Reagan Presidency. Of course, as we've noted here at OTB before, conservatives tend to have a very selective memory of the Reagan years. They forget that Reagan compromised with the opposition, raised taxes when they needed to be raised, and, yes, negotiated with the Soviet Union to reduce the world's stockpile of nuclear weapons. They forget that, like Gingrich, they weren't constant cheerleaders, especially when Reagan insisted on pursuing peace rather than eternal conflict starting across a nuclear divide. They romanticize an era that was both good and bad, perfect and imperfect, and they ignore their role in undercutting their own President's agenda.
Abrams continues:
There are two things to be said about these remarks. The first is that as a visionary, Gingrich does not have a very impressive record. The Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, just as Reagan had believed it must. The expansion of its empire had been thwarted. The policies Gingrich thought so weak and indeed "pathetic" worked, and Ronald Reagan turned out to be a far better student of history and politics than Gingrich.
The second point to make is that Gingrich made these assaults on the Reagan administration just as Democratic attacks were heating up unmercifully. Far from becoming a reliable voice for Reagan policy and the struggle against the Soviets, Gingrich took on Reagan and his administration. .
One wonders what Republican voters would think if they knew the real story about Newt Gingrich and Ronald Reagan, and the extent to which he and other conservatives were stabbing the President in the back just has he was working on what would ultimately become his biggest foreign policy achievement, the end of the Cold War.
FILED UNDER: Campaign 2012, US Politics, Newt Gingrich, Ronald Reagan
About Doug Mataconis
Doug Mataconis held a B.A. in Political Science from Rutgers University and J.D. from George Mason University School of Law. He joined the staff of OTB in May 2010 and contributed a staggering 16,483 posts before his retirement in January 2020. He passed for too young in July 2021.
Kylopod says:
Wednesday, 25 January 2012 at 10:43
A while back I read a nice book about how the Cult of Reagan developed on the right in the years after he left the White House: Tear Down This Myth by Will Bunch. (It mentions the Gingrich quote comparing Reagan with Neville Chamberlain.) Bunch argues that although mythologizing presidents after they leave office is absolutely normal, the Reagan phenomenon is unique in contemporary politics in the extent to which it dominates the conservative imagination.
john personna says:
The first rule of the Newt club is that no one is as smart as Newt.
Doug Mataconis says:
@Kylopod:
I often wonder if things would have been different if Reagan had not essentially disappeared from public life in 1994 because of his Alzheimer's diagnosis.
Rob in CT says:
Oh, look, Newty's been a bomb-thrower all along. How shocking.
Granted, I'm not terribly impressed with funding the Contras, but then Newt doesn't appear to have been criticizing that the way I would've.
One wonders what Republican voters would think if they knew the real story about Newt Gingrich and Ronald Reagan
Well, that would require:
1) Knowing the real Ronald Reagan, in context; and
2) Knowing more about Gingrich than "oh, he was the Contract for America guy who made Bill Clinton balance the budget!"
Fat chance.
@Doug Mataconis:
It allowed the post-mortem mythologizing to start early, I guess? It may also have muted some criticism, though I admit I don't know if that's likely.
@Doug Mataconis: Yeah, that's occurred to me as well. If he'd continued to be an active and outspoken figure through the Clinton and Bush years, it might have at least halted the attempts to deify him, by reminding people that he's a flesh-and-blood human being.
"He's said that he helped Ronald Reagan defeat the Soviet Union, a revelation that would no doubt come as a great shock to Margaret Thatcher, Pope John Paul II, and Reagan himself."
Not to mention Charlie Wilson.
WR says:
Yes, but in the 80s Gingrich was talking about the real Reagan. Now he's talking about Republican Fantasy Superhero Reagan, who is an entirely different person.
@WR: Anyone remember the Daily Show segment where Stewart hosts a "debate" between Gov. Bush and Pres. Bush? (If you don't, you can see it here.) Maybe we ought to see a debate between President Reagan and Republican Fantasy Superhero Reagan.
Reagan had done his homework. He had read and wrote on the Soviet Union for a long time. He was also much more of a pragmatist than any of the current candidates. He was willing to talk with the bad guys and reach a deal. He was not perfect, but he was more interested in results than posturing.
Brummagem Joe says:
What Republican doesn't invoke Reagan like a ju ju man. If this is Newt's worst sin the Republican establishment must be scraping the bottom of the barrel. Is it just a coincidence that Romney's campaign are out with an ad bashing Newt for his Reagan references and right on cue Abrams, Doug, and start pronouncing on the subject. As a cop of my acquaintance once said there's no such thing as a coincidence. And btw Doug, Reagan didn't end the cold war.
Nightrider says:
This reminds me of the time that God tried to take too much credit for helping Newt create the sun. Or when we ignored Newt's warnings throughout the summer and fall of 1941 that the Democrats were about to bomb Pearl Harbor.
Oh come on – the 80's? That was so two wives and 7 interns ago for Newt. He is different now. He traded in the old wife for a new one, ate a 3rd grader (by the looks of his stomach), and is willing to peddle whatever America will swallow (which apparently is a lot looking at the SC primary)
mattb says:
@Kylopod and @Doug Mataconis:
Agreed. Perhaps the most important thing in this — which I recently heard a political scientist discussing — is that the modern cult of Regan is more based around his rhetoric than his actions. The brilliance of Reagan as the great communicator, was to clearly communicate red meat to the base while being far more pragmatic behind the scenes
I also suspect, if the nation did not experience the economic growth during the mid and late Reagan years, memories of him would be quite different.
DGH says:
Republicans, especially conservative base, tend to be members of authoritarian Christian churches – Baptists, Assemblies of God, etc. They are comfortable with preachers who, they believe, are their role model, and they like politicians who have similar styles. Looking back 40 years, Ronald Reagan is by far the most "preacher-like" of Republican Presidents.
SJ Reidhead says:
Thursday, 26 January 2012 at 04:01
The problem with Abrams' attack is that it has been completely debunked today. But, thanks to the one-sided headlines on Drudge, no one is paying attention to the rebuttal. There are at least a half dozen other members of Reagan's administration, including Michael Reagan and Nancy Reagan who are saying the opposite.
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Jason Carnley says:
It's so easy to string some words together from a couple of speeches to make things appear one way. I note that Newt wasn't attacking from the left but the right. Rush is also accused of attacking Regan. That should tell you something. Taken as a whole Rush strongly supported Reagan and his policies 95% of the time. To say that Newt was wrong isn't necessarily true. If a harder stance had been taken would change have occurred more quickly? In hindsight we are all saying Regan was right but we didn't know that for several years after he left office. It looked like we were locked in the same Cold War at the same level. Even today can we say our problems with Russia don't exist? How often do we find Russian weapons in the hands of Islamic radicals. Are they helping Iran develop nukes?
Freeman111 says:
Nancy Reagan hasn't said anything about newt recently. That quote was from 1995. She would probably say he passed the torch to newt but then newt burnt down the house.
Eric Florack says:
Sunday, 29 January 2012 at 15:17
So, nobody in here has ever had a disagreement with a wife or other family member?
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The victim has already been identified as Matthew "N", who was 48 years old, but there is still no official version of the cause of death.
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Personnel from the Secretariat of Public Security (SSP), the State Investigation Police, and the State Attorney General's Office immediately arrived at the site.
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