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Jani Ruscica
A poetic depiction of Sicilian folklore traditions, Swan Song is a farewell to a time that no longer exists. Rinaldo, a traditional Sicilian marionette, plays out his epic duel against the oblivion. A folk song, performed by old Sicilians, serves as the backbone of the piece. The song arouses memories and creates a sense of community.
communities (groups), families, history, lyric poetry, music, personal narrative, singing, theatrical puppets, tradition
Halldor Ulfarsson (Artist), Jani Ruscica (Author), Jani Ruscica (Director), Daniel Lindholm (Editor), Jani Ruscica (Editor), Jani Ruscica (Producer), Jani Ruscica (Script), Daniel Lindholm (Camera), Sini Pelkki (Camera), Jani Ruscica (Camera), Seppo Salminen / Academy of Fine Arts (Funder), Veli Granö / AVEK - The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture (Funder), Olli Rautiainen (Instrumentalist), Arttu Peltomaa (Lighting), Henri Lehtinen (Lighting), Sini Pelkki (Photographer), Jenni Aarniala (Sound)
www.janiruscica.com
Jani Ruscica is an artist working with video, photography, sculpture and other media. Ruscica is based in Helsinki and was educated at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London and at the Academy of Fine Art in Helsinki. Ruscica's self reflexive works explore the intersection between cinema, video art, theatre and performance. Ruscica has worked with scientists, theatre makers and street performers. Recent exhibitions include Casino Luxembourg, 5th Momentum Biennial in Moss, Norway (2009) and Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm (2009), Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki (2009), as well as screenings in institutions such as Centre Pompidou in Paris, TATE Modern in London and MoMA in New York.
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Decoding the Classic Burglar Outfit
Where did the crook in the striped shirt come from?
by Eric Grundhauser January 27, 2017
Villains Week
Say hello to Burglar Bill. John Fisher ARPS/CC BY-SA 2.0
Here he comes, creeping through a shadowy alley. It looks like he's getting away, until a police spotlight captures him against a stark brick wall. In a black domino mask, striped shirt, flat cap, and holding a sack of purloined goods, it's a BURGLAR!
We can all see the stereotype in our mind's eye, but where did this cartoonish image come from? The very first instance of the stereotypical burglar is a bit unclear, but the various elements of the figure can be found springing up around the 1800s, though the roots of some costume elements go back even further.
The oldest element of the villainous caricature is the domino mask, which can be traced back to the masquerades of the 17th century. In Venice during the 1600s, elaborate costume balls allowed their mainly upper-class attendees to don masks to obscure their identities so they could be removed from the rigid expectations of their social class. This encouraged an air of clandestine intrigue that is still associated with carnival masks.
Many of the traditional masks of the time were elaborate, full-face masks, but the smaller half-masks, which only covered the eyes and sometimes the nose, were also a popular option, for both men and women. Also in the 17th century, the trickster character of the harlequin came into prominence, and was most often depicted wearing a smaller domino mask, which only surrounded the eyes.
A traditional Venetian carnival domino mask. gnuckx/CC BY 2.0
As the tradition of the masquerade spread throughout Europe, the mask eventually became simplified into a black strip that laid across the eyes, with holes cut out so that the wearer could still see. This basic mask, whether directly descended from the world of the masquerade or created simply out of necessity, became associated with ne'er-do-wells who wanted to hide their identity. Depictions of a burglar wearing a simple domino mask can be found as early as 1871, in an advertisement encouraging women to arm themselves for home self-defense. Although the figure in this advertisement is wearing a suit as opposed to the striped outfit that would become more iconic, the early seeds of the trope are plain to see.
Speaking of that striped shirt, they too came from the 1800s. The striped burglar's shirt was originally inspired by the striped, duotone uniform of prison inmates. The striped uniform was introduced as part of what we now call the "Auburn System" of penal management, which began being practiced around 1820. Under this system, prisoners were largely kept in solitary confinement, and made to perform hard labor in complete silence. The uniforms introduced with this system consisted of shirts and pants in matching, horizontal black-and-white/gray stripes, and were meant to make the inmates instantly recognizable, much like some brightly colored prison uniforms do today. The zebra-stripe style of inmate uniform spread throughout the New York penal system to prisons like Sing Sing, and across much of the rest of the country.
A group of prisoners from a Utah prison in 1889. Harold B. Lee Library/Public Domain
It wasn't until the turn of the century that views surrounding prison uniforms began to shift away from the stripes, towards a more basic style that would not stigmatize the incarcerated laborers quite so immediately (though it's worth noting that some modern correctional facilities have gone back to dressing inmates in stripes). However, after nearly a century of criminals wearing such a distinctive pattern, the damage was done, and images of criminals in stripes had become part of the cultural lexicon, appearing in photos and political cartoons.
Once the pattern was synonymous with criminality, it wasn't a huge leap to having a cartoonish burglar wear the stripes. It's a bit ironic that the stripes real convicts were made to wear so they could be identified would come to represent burglars in the middle of a crime.
Then there is the sack of loot these cartoon crooks are so often seen absconding with, which would also seem to originate in the 1800s, but is probably not rooted in much reality. The origin of the burglar's bag, which in depictions from the U.K. often bears the word "swag" (yes, pretty much like we would use it today when referring to free promotional items), or in the U.S. with a more universal dollar symbol, leads back to a satirical children's lyric called Burglar Bill. In this 1888 poem, a burglar breaks into a house and runs into a precocious young girl who convinces him not to rob their house, sending him into a repentant reverie. One early line in the poem, describing the robber entering the home goes:
He is furnished with a "jemmy,"
Centre-bit, and carpet-bag,
For the latter "comes in handy,"
So he says, "to stow the swag."
While the tools are a bit archaic (a "jemmy" would be akin to a crowbar, and although a "centre bit" is a bit of a mystery, it is described in one reference from 1889 as a "spinner"), the swag bag is easily recognizable as the inspiration for the burglar's bag.
On its own, each element of the iconic burglar image has its roots in image of criminal life, but it's hard to pin down the first time they were all brought together. Silent film expert Fritzi Kramer, creator of the Movies Silently blog, isn't aware of any instances of the trope appearing in early silent films, although she does point out another key element of the figure: his hat.
"I'm afraid I've never seen the burglar outfit in a silent film," she says. "The cloth cap was quite common but that was standard working class headgear for both men and women. Also, five o'clock shadows were quite the thing." This flat cap has been a common bit of headgear for centuries, but it is now often found adorning depictions of crooks and criminals, almost more often than the striped top. In many modern depictions, the flat cap is sometimes replaced with a beanie.
A likely culprit for creating the iconic burglar image may actually be a children's book from the 1970s, loosely based on the aforementioned poem, Burglar Bill. Released in 1977, this Burglar Bill was a children's book by Allan Ahlberg and Janet Ahlberg, and focused on the titular character as he finds a baby and reforms his ways. In the book, the titular figure is illustrated wearing each element of the classic outfit: the domino mask, the striped shirt, the loot bag, and even the cloth flat cap. When he meets another burglar, she too is wearing the domino mask and striped shirt, instantly recognizable as a burglar.
Today, classic elements of the burglar's look can still be seen in places ranging from the Beagle Boys of DuckTales fame, in their domino masks and flat caps, to the Hamburglar in his striped suit. Actual depictions of the cartoon villain combining all of these iconic elements are rarer since the figure is by its very nature generic, but that low brow criminal figure is still skulking around the collective consciousness.
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A Mini-Bible Course: Some of the resources and directions which Christians have been given regarding their life on earth.
Instruction for Life on Earth ~ "Then He arose from there and came to the region of Judea by the other side of the Jordan. And multitudes gathered to Him again, and as He was accustomed, He taught them again" (Mark 10:1).
Tasks to Accomplish on Earth ~ "After these things the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two by two before His face into every city and place where He Himself was about to go. Then He said to them, 'The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest'" (Luke 10:1-2).
Power for Life on Earth ~ "The prayer was no sooner prayed than it was answered. Jesus called twelve of his followers and sent them into the ripe fields. He gave them power to kick out the evil spirits and to tenderly care for the bruised and hurt lives" (Matthew 10:1, The Message).
Warnings & Assurances for Life on Earth ~ "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers" (John 10:1-5).
Examples of Effective Life on Earth ~ "There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, a devout man and one who feared God with all his household, who gave alms generously to the people, and prayed to God always" (Acts 10:1-2).


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"Once you're outdoors, you can't rely on technology anymore," says Christiaan Adams, developer advocate for Google Earth. Being able to read a good old-fashioned paper map is one of the most fundamental outdoor skills. In case you never learned or need a refresher, here are the basics.
Google Maps can be considered a basic street map: an accurate two-dimensional portrayal of the world that includes the locations of roads, cities, parks, and other features. Maps like these do nothing to illustrate elevation.
That's where topographic (usually just "topo") maps come in. These have lines at set elevation distances that trace the contours of the terrain. By representing topography, they allow you to see the three-dimensional world on a two-dimensional piece of paper. Topo maps are the only map you should use if you're trying to navigate outdoors and will be the subject of most of this article.
There are also oversimplified trail maps—think stylized theme-park maps—that may loosely represent the location of a trail and points of interest in relation to each other. Avoid these at all costs, as they lack the necessary topographic data that will allow you to find your way if lost.
You can find nationwide topo maps from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). They're the gold standard and the basis of many other commercially available maps.
Any good map will tell you how to read itself. Take the above legend from a standard USGS quadrant map. From left to right, it gives you information on where and when the map data was compiled, the area's magnetic declination, the scale (note the contour interval below it), the location of the shown area in relation to the state it's in (in this case, Texas), and a key to the symbols used to represent roads. Let's look at what this information represents and how you can use it.
The source data isn't typically all that relevant. It's worth glancing at just to make sure it's not insanely out of date, but as we can see here, much of the data used to assemble this map comes from 2008–2015, so it's pretty recent.
Magnetic declination is the difference between true north and magnetic north. A quality compass will allow you to alter the direction it points to suit the data provided by the map. Follow your compass instructions to do that. As you can see, there can be some pretty big differences between the two norths depending on where in the world you are.
The scale is how much the represented area has been shrunken down from the real world. For most topo maps, it'll be 1:24,000. So, one inch on the map would be 24,000 inches in the real world. The ruler represents distance to make the scale easy to understand at a glance. Want to measure the distance of a winding trail? Use a piece of string to trace its route, mark its length, then compare the straightened string to that scale. Or do what I do: Use two fingers as a protractor to "walk" rough distances across the map.
The contour interval is the elevation distance between each of the contour lines, so you can scale the terrain being represented.
The map location is obvious. It allows you to easily look up the adjoining maps, should you need them.
The key is another essential, spelling out what the symbols on the map represent. Here, it's types of road, but you'll also find stuff like the lines that represent hiking trails, or train tracks, or watchtowers, or other essential stuff.
Take a minute to absorb the legend before trying to read the map itself. It'll make the experience way easier and more informative.
Here comes the tricky part. It may seem hard at first glance, but once you learn what contour lines represent, you'll be able to look at them and picture real-life mountains, valleys, or whatever. And once you can do that, you can use a map to quickly and easily find your location and navigate.
Adams, who also volunteers for the Bay Area Mountain Rescue Unit, rescuing lost and injured travelers across California, says he still uses Google Earth to gain an understanding of an area's topography and terrain features before diving into a topo map and suggests that doing the same might be the best way for you to learn.
"I can do my map and compass work better and more effectively if I've seen the satellite imagery and the digital maps first," says Adams.
Let's do just that, using Devil's Tower National Monument as an example. Its distinctive shape should make seeing it represented with contour lines easy to understand.
Pick out two distinct terrain features that you can see both in the real world and on the map. A mountain peak, a prominent bend in a river, a saddle in a ridgeline, or something similarly unique.
Hold your compass level, point it (via its direction-of-travel arrow) at the first object, and twist the bezel so the big red arrow inside it aligns with the red north needle. Next, locate that object on your map, and rest a long edge of your compass on it, with north still inside the red bezel arrow. Rotate the map until its orienting lines align with those of the compass bezel. Trace a straight line through that object, using the edge of your compass as a ruler. You're somewhere on that line. Do the same for the second object, and where that new line intersects the first one is your precise location. Get this right, and you've just found your location as accurately and quickly as you could with a GPS navigator.
Of course, you can do this calculation mentally once you gain some experience interpreting maps in the real world. "I'm right by that river bend," or "We're just under that ridge," will simply become second nature.
Adams suggests that the easiest way to learn this skill is by first using Google Maps on your phone as a backup. Try to guess or calculate your location, then check it against the blue dot on your phone. He again cautions, however, against relying solely on that technology.


The first night of this year's Mickey's Halloween Party at Disneyland began on Friday, Sept. 25 and I was there as a guest of the Disneyland Resort with my 11 year-old niece and 8 year-old nephew to celebrate with family-friendly screams and sweets!
All 17 nights of Mickey's Halloween Party at Disneyland are extra special this year as they sparkle with Diamond Celebration bling, including the all new "Paint the Night" parade. This parade is a must-see family favorite that will seriously leave you with your jaw wide open. Trust me. I've seen it three times now and it's like the first time. Every. Single. Time. Insider Tip: If you have seen the parade, skip it and hop on attractions! The lines for attractions are not very long at all during Mickey's Halloween Party.
The biggest perk of Mickey's Halloween Party is that all guests dress in costume and trick-or-treat throughout Disneyland park. Major stoke factor! I have way too many costumes for a woman in her 40s and the kids have tons of faves that they use for play at home so, as you can imagine, preparation for the party included deciding which costumes to wear. After checking the forecast we all decided on the following costumes: Woody (me), the Queen of Hearts (Rosey) and a Pirate on the Black Pearl (Ernesto).
When we met Mickey and Minnie they both agreed that our costumes were spooktacular!
Meeting favorite characters, including Disney Villains, is one of the major highlights of Mickey's Halloween Party. The map you receive when you arrive shows you where you can meet characters throughout the park. (Insider Tip: I have a snap shot of character locations for you below.) This is a great way to plan who you want to meet ahead of time. Ernesto was able to meet with Captain Jack Sparrow and Rosey was able to see her favorite villain, Maleficent (although the line was too long to stand in for her liking). She was completely content with a little magical interaction from her favorite gorgeously perfect villain rather than lose trick-or-treat or attraction time.
Another bonus to Mickey's Halloween Party is the exclusive entertainment. As in the Cadaver Dans crooning Halloween jams on the eerie Rivers of America in New Orleans Square & Frontierland PLUS Halloween Screams - A Villainous Surprise in the Skies Fireworks. Basically the most epic Halloween themed fireworks show ever. You can even go to Tomorrowland for the Monsters U Dance Party!
Insider Tip: The best spot for viewing the fireworks is just in front of the castle itself, but that can sometimes be a crowded area to get to. A great alternative is in the middle of Main Street U.S.A. As soon as the "Paint the Night" parade ends (after Mickey's float passes by), guests can spill right back onto Main Street U.S.A. to watch the fireworks. Don't panic if you can't find a spot smack dab in the middle of Main Street. As long as the castle is in view, you're fine. The fireworks happen high in the sky and the villainous music will surround you!
Two special attractions you can enjoy during Halloween Time at Disneyland are Space Mountain: Ghost Galaxy and Haunted Mansion Holiday. Haunted Mansion fans take note: the Hatbox Ghost is making his first ever appearance in Haunted Mansion Holiday this year! YES! Insider Tip: Ride Space Mountain Ghost Galaxy soon, it's only here until November 1, 2015 whereas Haunted Mansion Holiday will be around the entire Holiday season through early January 2016.
Rosey's answer was, "I liked that there were so many Trick or Trick stations and that they were all over the place!" It really was super convenient to have Treat Stops spread out all over the park. Plus, the Treat Stops have sweets and healthy treats, so parents can pick and choose what the kids are eating on the sly if necessary. Wink. Insider Tip: Treat Stops may seem crowded early in the evening, but the lines for everything die down after the "Halloween Screams" fireworks show.
Have a character/entertainment plan. Decide ahead of time which characters and shows are "musts" for you and your family. The character lines can be quite long so plan on having a back-up plan as well. In our case, Rosey was really happy to interact with Maleficient from afar rather than stand in the line to see her. Ernesto insisted we see Captain Jack Sparrow so as a family we decided that is where we would wait. Remember, the "Halloween Screams" fireworks show is exclusive to Mickey's Halloween Party. I recommend you don't miss it!
Check the forecast and plan costumes accordingly. Southern California can be extremely hot and humid in early Fall, so please do check the weather forecast. My costume was a simple Woody dress I paired with a cowboy hat and bandana in order to be comfortable and still enjoy myself. You can go as big or small as you choose in terms of costumes - just be sure to follow the guidelines and wear comfortable shoes!
Bring one bag or a backpack for the family to share. If you don't have a stroller, a bag or backpack will come in handy to carry around those "spare" costume pieces you start shredding as the night goes on. It's also a great way to hide candy you don't want the kids eating right away. Carry your extra water in the bag as well!
Accept that you can't do it all and enjoy a break. We all woke up at 4:00 AM the day of the party in order to fly down, and by 11:00 PM Ernesto was ready to tap out. That's when we sat down and enjoyed a solid half hour of visual entertainment in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle before making our way back to the Disneyland Hotel. There is nothing wrong with knowing when to say when. One common mistake I see parents making is forcing their kids to stick it out. That's not fun for anyone. This trip was all about the kids and I kept that in perspective the entire time. (There is always the option to purchase tickets for an adult night out at Mickey's Halloween Party too!) Many shops are open and so are several restaurants. Refer to your map for spots to enjoy a little down time. I recommend the benches in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle.
Get there early! Your ticket to Mickey's Halloween Party includes early entry into Disneyland. Take this opportunity to play in Disneyland park for three hours before the party starts! You will receive your wristbands and trick-or-treat bags in the park, so there is no need to line up outside again. This is a great time to enjoy attractions, have an early dinner and take photos while the sun is out and the costumes are fresh.
Buy tickets online and on mobile devices at Disneyland.com/party, as well as at the Disneyland Resort main gate and by phone at 714-781- 4400. I recommend you buy your tickets in advance rather than trying to buy them at the park. Call and look online to check for availability for the 17 nights: Friday, Sept. 25; Monday, Sept. 28, Wednesday, Sept. 30; Friday, Oct. 2; Monday, Oct. 5; Wednesday, Oct. 7; Friday, Oct. 9; Monday, Oct. 12; Wednesday, Oct. 14; Friday, Oct. 16; Monday, Oct. 19; Thursday, Oct. 22; Friday, Oct. 23; Sunday, Oct. 25; Tuesday, Oct. 27; and Thursday, Oct. 29. Tickets for Halloween night, Saturday, Oct. 31, are sold out. Online and mobile purchases are not available the day of the event.
Disclosure: I was invited to the opening night of Mickey's Halloween Party at Disneyland as a media guest of the Disneyland Resort. We were provided entry into the event, however all opinions and tips come directly from me, Rosey and Ernesto.
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Aperian Global Celebrates 30th Anniversary
International Consulting and Training Company Helps Organizations and Employees Work Across Boundaries
Aperian Global
OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Aperian Global, an international consulting and training company providing organizations with scalable, blended solutions to enable employees to work across borders and boundaries, celebrates its 30th anniversary in December 2020.
"We believe we've been able to make a positive impact on a lot of lives over the years by helping global organizations to become more inclusive," co-founders Ted Dale and Ernie Gundling said in a statement. "We came together initially as business partners with a mission to help facilitate better understanding and teamwork across differences, both locally and globally. These days, people are more connected than ever through communication technology – but the fundamental issues that divide them are still present. Aperian Global's purpose is to help bridge differences across borders of all kinds."
Aperian Global helps clients to foster inclusive work environments, accelerate the development of future global leaders, improve virtual collaboration, and expand in new international markets. The company also helps to increase productivity and eliminate disruptions associated with dispersed teams, employee relocation abroad, and mergers and acquisitions.
The company has offices in the United States, France, Denmark, China, Singapore, and India, and partners with clients in over 60 countries, providing solutions for 40% of the Fortune Global 100.
Aperian Global's consulting, training, and online learning applications - including their flagship GlobeSmart® learning platform - build knowledge and skills that enable employees from around the world to work together more effectively. GlobeSmart offers assessments, e-learning modules, culture guides, insightful metrics, and much more. The platform has over one million users from over 200 organizations and universities worldwide and is often combined with live training and systemic changes to provide blended, scalable talent development solutions.
In 2021, Aperian Global will celebrate a milestone — the 100th country added to GlobeSmart's in-depth Culture Guide database, valued by clients for its original research and the depth of country content that it contains. 2021 will also bring a renewed emphasis on the popular Inclusive Behaviors Inventory, a statistically validated assessment that measures individuals on key dimensions of inclusion.
"It's good to see how far Aperian Global has come over these 30 years," the co-founders said. "We're even more excited to see what can be accomplished together with our global colleagues in the future."
For more information, visit www.aperianglobal.com.
Michael Nadeau, Content Marketing Writer
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The St. Thomas (Minnesota) Tommies women's ice hockey team represents the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) in NCAA Division I competition in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA).

History
St. Thomas played their first varsity game during the 1998–99 season. In the last 20 years, the Tommies have never had a losing season. They finished third or better in the MIAC every year. In the program's 23-year history at the NCAA Division III level, the Tommies have won six conference championships, six conference tournament titles and reached the NCAA Division III frozen four once.

In 2019 the MIAC took the unprecedented step of removing St. Thomas from its membership because of concerns about "athletic competitive parity." Because the removal affected all sports and was effective at the end of the 2020–21 season, St. Thomas had time to decide what it would do next. The women's ice hockey program was given the green light to jump directly to the Division I level in July 2020. The women's hockey team joined the WCHA for the 2021–22 season.

In 2023, St. Thomas announced plans for the new Lee and Penny Anderson Arena, with the team planned to begin playing its home games there in the fall of 2025.

Current roster
As of August 21, 2022.

Head coaches
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Frequency and severity of potentially fatal, but very treatable, pre-eclampsia significantly higher for black women
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Pre-eclampsia, a potentially fatal pregnancy condition characterized by high blood pressure, is 60 percent more common in black women than white women, according to the Healthcare Cost Utilization Project (HCUP).
Left untreated, pre-eclampsia can lead to complications — even death — for mother and baby.
"Black women are more likely to develop pre-eclampsia and to experience poorer outcomes associated with the condition … in rare cases, death," study authors wrote. HCUP is sponsored by the federal government's Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Symptoms of pre-eclampsia, also referred to as toxemia, include high blood pressure and protein in the urine occurring after the 20th week of pregnancy. Pre-eclampsia is estimated to complicate 3 percent to 6 percent of all pregnancies. The rate of pre-eclampsia in the U.S. has increased 25 percent in the past two decades, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. It is a leading cause of maternal and infant illness and death.
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White women and Hispanic women had substantially the same rate of the disease. Asian and Pacific Island women had the lowest rate of any ethnic group.
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Greg Sargent Demands Context (for Rick Sanchez)
Posted by William A. Jacobson Friday, October 1, 2010 at 04:06pm 3 Comments
Greg Sargent who blogs at The Washington Post has been the single greatest blogospheric force in going after Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell, nitpicking their every word, and ascribing the worst motivations to ambiguous or out of context statements to portray them as dangerous extremists, liars, and worse. Sargent almost single-handedly has pushed the nonsense about O'Donnell's Linked-In page into the media.
But for liberal Rick Sanchez, and his swipe at the Jews who run CNN and the rest of the media, Sargent demanded context:
"If Sanchez meant that everybody who runs the networks is a lot like Stewart in that they're Jewish, that's obviously very, very bad, and portends serious trouble for him. I wonder, though, if that's what he really meant. Here's the full context of what Sanchez said about Stewart — most of his complaint is directed at white liberals who, Sanchez complains, don't understand minorities despite their best intentions…"
I'm not knocking Sargent for demanding that words be viewed in context, including for Rick Sanchez. Read Sargent's "update" to his post, in which he pulls back and notes that Sanchez's comments were not very defensible even in context.
Next time you read one of Sargent's slams against Angle and O'Donnell, though, keep it in mind that context can be important, and sometimes people say things which do not come out the way they meant. I hope Sargent will give Angle and O'Donnell the same benefits of the doubt that he was ready to extend to Sanchez.
In the meantime, to prove that Sanchez can be a uniter, not just a divider, I agree with Paul Campos of Lawyers, Guns & Money blog:
"It's unfortunate that a CNN pooh bah once said something tactless to you, but if that's your best example of what sort of things you've had to overcome as a "minority" in America, then I suggest you might ask yourself why your last name is still Sanchez while Jon Stuart Leibowitz's is now Stewart."
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FZ | October 1, 2010 at 4:35 pm
"I hope Sargent will give Angle and O'Donnell the same benefits of the doubt that he was ready to extend to Sanchez."
Monkeys will fly out of my butt before that happens.
Donald Douglas | October 1, 2010 at 8:14 pm
Sargent's and ass, and he can eat his words now: 'Rick Sanchez Fired From CNN'.
khan | October 2, 2010 at 7:46 am
Snachez is famous for his on-air idiocy (Iceland volcanoes, metric system, etc.), so it's pretty funny to hear him rail against white people. Dear Rick, you're Hispanic. Hispanic means descendant (or descended) from the Spanish. Spanish are Caucasians. Therefore, Hispanics are…Caucasians.


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Giving time and attention to the Narcissist and his attorney is exactly what they want. It's so hard to set boundaries when they have to be set within the confines of the Court system because the Narcissist and his attorney are incapable of being fair and equitable and there is no way the Court could possibly know all the nuances of the relationship triangle.
Written agreements, if filed with the Court are to be fought and changed. Written Agreements not filed with the Court between you and the Narcissist are not valid because they are not filed with the Court. You again find yourself in a no-win situation between the Narcissist and his Narcissistic attorney who will tell you he will not argue with you when you haven't presented an argument at all but rather written a statement in response to his correspondence. I have been dealing with this behavior forever and yet I still am amazed and stunned by the self-entitlement and attitude that no rules pertain to them but to everyone else. These people are malignant by nature. You can avoid only so much. When you avoid or try to set boundaries, they will file paperwork in Court. There is a great deal of stress in waiting and wondering when the next attack will be. So, are we supposed to accept that it is the nature of these creatures to sting, bite, steal our souls and safety? Yes. We must do whatever we have to in order to avoid being injured by them. In all fairness, the attorney is representing his client but when that attorney has been a family friend, who has held your children in his arms, and he is dragging you (and by association your children) through the Narcissist's games at whim and going for the jugular every chance he gets, it is a sick, twisted relationship of abuse because the attorney is allowing you to be abused through frivolous lawsuits and foot stomping by the Narcissist. He's not even smart enough to know that the Narcissist has made him the abuser. He is doing the abusing for the Narcissist. The emotional toll it takes is just what the abuser is hoping for. He is using his attorney to emotional abuse you and make you walk on eggshells and most likely there is a form of financial abuse going on too. You have to pick your battles. Sometimes I go to court and sometimes I don't. Most of the time, his issue is caused by his own actions. He gets upset because I set boundaries and then drags me into court. I don't go because it wouldn't have been an issue if he had done his end of it properly.
I guess if you take anything away from this post, it's pick your battles. Don't be afraid to send the attorney a letter letting them know that you feel he is allowing the abuse to continue through him and send a copy to the Judge. Just remember to address the Judge as your Honor. Be honest, and try to bulletin your points so it makes for easier reading.
I am not an attorney and different states have different laws but if you have any questions, I will answer them with what worked for me if I can. Feel free to email me. Remember to add your state.


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When the lives and the rights of children are at stake, how can we be silent witnesses?
Out of the 22 crore children in the age group of 6-14 years, nearly one crore are still out-of-school.
Slums are the hubs of all social disparities – 1.24 lakh children not in school in Delhi/NCR alone.
More than 50% of these are labourers, working for survival.
Learning outcomes are about 50% of the expected age and grade-specific outcomes.
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To strengthen Government's efforts towards Universalisation of Elementary Education including the components of access, retention and quality, which is not only a national concern, but also a global one, voiced as SDG 4. The project also aims to address the larger issue of poverty and ignorance through the provision of educational opportunities to the poor and unreached segments of society.
Aishwarya is an eleven-year-old girl studying at RISE centre. She is in the fourth standard at school. Her family hails from Gonda a district lying on the outskirts of Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh. Like most others in their community, they had migrated to Delhi in search of a better life for themselves. Shiv Kumar, Aishwarya's father is a mason. She has three siblings including two brothers and a sister. One of the brothers is elder to her while the others are younger to her. Her father is an alcoholic. Her mother, Kusum Devi, is a domestic worker.
Aishwarya had never been to school. When they arrived in Delhi, the mother started taking Aishwarya to her duty. RISE teachers found out about her and insisted that Aishwarya should get a chance to study. It was her right! Her mother enrolled Aishwarya with the RISE Centre. She was found somewhat weak in her studies, but, she had a creative streak. RISE teachers saw that she was excellent in arts and crafts. She could continue her studies and slowly she gained confidence and picked up her learning streak too! Now she is one of the brightest students in her class. She has been enrolled for Scholarship awarded by Gayatri pariwar.


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The average number of full-time equivalent (FTE) active staff we paid for either directly or indirectly during 2010-11 was 23,426 (compared with 24,474 in 2009-10) The size of the agency's workforce reduced by around 1,900 (8 per cent) during 2010-11. We plan to achieve further efficiencies, resulting in further workforce reductions, in the period between April 2011 and March 2015.
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5.29 We could find no overall plan to evaluate the success or otherwise of the facial recognition gates at Manchester Airport and would urge the Agency to do so [as] soon as possible.
Q423 Dr Huppert: I would certainly provide a steer towards risk-based, intelligence-led controls. What options are there for taking this further? How can we become sharper at using that?
Damian Green: The root of it is early intelligence and information. That is why this Government, even through the difficulties of getting rid of the previous e-Borders main contractor, because it was running behind so badly, are determined to carry on with e-Borders. We already have 90% of flights from outside Europe covered by that. It is that kind of early intelligence-intelligence before people get on a plane-that will help us make our borders secure. The old idea that the border starts at Dover or Heathrow will become increasingly old-fashioned. I want to export our borders, so that they start at airports around the world, and so that, as is the case now, if people come through France, the borders start at Calais or Gare du Nord, or at Brussels rather than Dover. We have already stopped 68,000 people who would otherwise have got on planes flying in the past year, because of intelligence that we have collected. It seems to me that that is the route that we need to go down.
The "main contractor" Mr Green refers to, the organisation in charge of delivering eBorders† – the seat of intelligence-led, risk-based border control – is Raytheon Systems Ltd, manufacturers of the Cruise missile. One of the coalition government's first acts was to fire Raytheon. Raytheon are now suing us for £500 million.
In the meantime, IBM have taken over the eBorders contract. Sheikh Raed Salah flew into the UK despite being on the eBorders Warnings Index, the problem being, according to the BBC, that IBM's system relies on little slips of paper being distributed to Immigration Officers and the slips don't always get to the right IO and another problem being, also according to the BBC, that a lot of the information on the Warnings Index is false, put there by malicious people denouncing someone they don't like.
Along with Dame Helen's "e-gates" and the "risk-based approach", of course, we also have Jackie Keane's IABS to secure the border and to control immigration and to make the Olympics safe. Except that Brodie Clark considers the technology of IABS to provide the least reliable of any identity/security check at the border.
Is this an optimal allocation of resources?
900 officers of the Border Force will be lost to all this dubious technology.
Since the coalition government came to office, between 12 May 2010 and 31 October 2011, the Home Office has spent £491,304,533.51† with the contractors involved in the smart gates, ePassports, eBorders and IABS initiatives. Using the figures in Jonathan Sedgwick's accounts, that is enough money to pay all 900 officers for 12 years.
Is all that public money – your money and mine – being wisely invested?


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Lonergan, Kenneth
Last Updated: May-02-2019
Teagarden, J. Russell
Primary Category: Performing Arts / Theater — Secondary Category: Literature / Plays
Genre: Theater
Chronic Illness/Chronic Disease
The play is set between 1989 and 1991, the last two years of the life of Gladys Green, an 85 year old woman who runs a small art gallery in New York's Greenwich Village. She lives on her own near the gallery, but she is watched over by an adoring grandson (Daniel) who lives in the same building, and by a doting daughter (Ellen) and son-in-law (Howard), who live uptown from her. Gladys can't hear very well and she has diabetes, but otherwise she is doing well enough.
From this point we watch Gladys gradually lose some of her mental capabilities, mostly memory. Our attention is directed to how the family responds and comes to grips with her deterioration. Aware of Gladys' past before she opened her gallery as an activist lawyer with a frenetic lifestyle, Daniel lays out a strategy the family adopts: "she's got to have something to do." Their chief tactic is to keep Gladys in the gallery where she could mix with people, keying off what she said keeps her sane: "Everyone needs someone to talk to, otherwise you'd just go nutty. I love to talk to people."
This approach works for a while, and mainly through permitting a young artist (Don), who has never before sold a painting, to exhibit his work in the gallery. Don keeps Gladys company and talks to her. He thinks he notices her hearing problem worsening, but Howard tells him, "I'm afraid that's more her memory than her hearing aid." What speeds up her deterioration, however, is the gallery losing its lease when the owner of the space decides to turn it into a cafe.
A path ensues that is familiar to many people who have been close to a person losing memory and other mental functions with age. The family desperately wants to keep Gladys as independent as possible, but they need more help as time passes. She can stay in her own apartment for awhile with visiting nurses and aides, but eventually she needs to move in with Ellen and Howard; they never liked the idea of putting her in a nursing home, and they never did. In an aside directed at the audience, Daniel describes what his mother did for Gladys thereafter: she "took care of her, dressed her and cleaned her up and fed her and watched her fall apart, day in and day out with nothing to stop it and no relief in sight." It did end, though, two months later when Gladys died in Ellen's home.
A Doctor's Visit: An Adaptation of a Short Story by Chekhov
Glass, Guy
Kohn, Martin
Primary Category: Literature / Plays
Genre: Play
Psychosomatic Medicine
First published in 1898, Chekhov's "A Doctor's Visit" has been ably adapted as a short play by physician-playwright, Guy Fredrick Glass. In addition to the original characters, in his adaptation Glass has added a new character, a medical student, Boris, as a foil and interlocutor for the work's main character, Dr. Korolyov. Staging directions and scene setting also add dramatic dimensions to the story, as do elaborations of conversations including comedic encounters with the governess, Christina Dmitryevna, and a display of "compassionate solidarity" (see Coulehan annotation ) with the doctor's patient, Liza. The primary theme of the story stays true in this adaptation—Korolyov's impressions of the patient viewed from a cold objective stance are changed as he develops personal insights into the social and political nature of her (and his) malaise.
Calcedonies
Nisker, Jeffrey
The play has two characters: Ruth and Friend (who is a male doctor).Ruth is an engaging, straight-talking quadriplegic who can zip and dance with her chin-operated wheelchair and takes delight in terrorizing medical staff both physically and verbally. She wants to write poetry and is waiting for a device to make it possible for her to use a computer. She keeps developing bedsores that threaten her life and require long admissions to the hospital before they will heal. She desperately wants to live no matter what happens, as she feels that having no mind would be worse than having no body.Friend is a male doctor with children who is ashamed of having examined her while she was unaware. Burdened with his guilt, he asks to be her "friend." Ruth is skeptical and runs circles around him, but eventually comes to trust him and believe in his sincerity.She makes him a witness to her advance directive to instigate all heroic measures, as she is afraid of the kindly "ethical" and cost-effective arguments not to treat the disabled. But Ruth dies horribly from sepsis, and Friend is helpless to prevent it. She never obtains the device that would have allowed her to put her poems into printed words.
Paul, Justin; Pasek, Benj ; Levenson, Steven
Evan Hansen, an awkward, lonely high school senior, struggles with Social Anxiety Disorder. On the advice of his therapist, he pens supportive letters to himself: "Dear Evan Hansen, Today is going to be an amazing day, and here's why. Because today all you have to do is be yourself. But also confident."
Connor, another loner student, picks up one of Evan's letters and, several days later, commits suicide. When Connor's parents find the letter, they take it to be their son's suicide note. Instead of dissuading them, Evan concocts an account of a close friendship with the classmate he barely knew, creating an email trail. Connor's family swallows the story.
As Evan gains the attention he has always craved and comes out of his shell, he finds that he cannot stop himself. He founds the "Connor Project," an organization dedicated to preserving his "friend's" memory where he shares his musings on social media: "Have you ever felt like nobody was there? Have you ever felt forgotten in the middle of nowhere? Have you ever felt like you could disappear? Like you could fall, and no one would hear? ...Well, let that lonely feeling wash away…Lift your head and look around. You will be found. You will be found." Once Evan's postings go viral, the Connor Project becomes a veritable industry, with a budget, and fans who look to it for inspiration. As the stakes rise, the Project can flourish only by being fed more lies.
Zeller, Florian; Hampton, Christopher
Primary Category: Literature / Plays — Secondary Category: Performing Arts / Theater
This annotation is based on a live performance presented by the Manhattan Theater Club at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater in New York City that ran between April and June of 2016. The play was nominated for a 2016 Tony Award for best play, and Frank Langella won the 2016 Tony Award for best performance by an actor in a leading role in a play. In supporting roles were Kathryn Erbe, Brian Avers, Charles Borland, Hannah Cabell, and Kathleen McNenny.
The Father is the story of an older man with Alzheimer's disease (André) and his progression through first living on his own, then living with his daughter (Anne), and finally living in a nursing home. Or, is it? It's hard to tell, and that is the intention of the playwright, Florian Zeller, who told The Guardian (2015), "The Father is about an old man lost in the labyrinth of his mind." The objective of the play is to bring audience members into the actual dementia experience so that rather than witnessing André's disorientation they feel his disorientation.
The director, Doug Hughes, creates the audience experience through an interplay among set designs, lighting effects, repeated scene sequences, and time loops as contexts for various symptom manifestations like memory loss, paranoia, anger, and lasciviousness. All the scenes take place in one room that serves at different times as André's flat, Anne's flat, and a nursing home room. The furnishings of the room change based on the supposed setting, but the walls are exactly the same for all of them. In different scenes, André is not always sure where he is, and neither is the audience.
Early in the play, André hears Anne tell him she's relocating from Paris to London with her lover, but she is present to him in most of the scenes thereafter and until the end of the play when he's told by a nurse that Anne had moved to London some time ago. Had she really left Paris and was never actually there in all those other scenes? He wonders and so does the audience. In other scenes, the way characters from the past and present enter and exit distorts time for André, and so while audience members know the linear trajectory of the disease course, they can't be sure of where they are in that course during a given scene. With the last scene taking place in André's nursing home room with the same walls seen in his flat and Anne's flat, the audience can't be faulted for wondering whether all that came before was just one of André's hallucinations.
The play does not keep audience members in a perpetual state of confusion and despondency. Farcical elements are peppered throughout that produce occasional laughs, such as when Anne contests André's account of a previous conversation, he suggests it's she who has the memory problem: "You've forgotten. Listen, Anne, I have a feeling you sometimes suffer from memory loss. You do, I'm telling you. It's worrying me. Haven't you noticed?"
Williams, Tennessee
The play is set in 1947 (the year it premiered) in New Orleans. Having lost their ancestral Mississippi home to creditors, Blanche Dubois arrives at the shabby French Quarter flat of her sister Stella. When we first meet Blanche she explains she is on a leave of absence from teaching high school English on account of her "nerves." From her first meeting with Stella's husband Stanley Kowalski, a World War II vet, we detect class conflict and sexual tension between the two of them. As Blanche's visit becomes more and more protracted, Stanley becomes increasingly suspicious of her motives and background. Meanwhile, she begins to date Mitch, one of Stanley's poker buddies. Gradually we learn more about Blanche's checkered past. She was once married to a young man who committed suicide after she discovered him in a sexual encounter with another man. Stanley uncovers rumors that she was fired from her teaching job for having sex with a student. As the play progresses, fueled by her surreptitious drinking, Blanche's mental state unravels. When Stanley warns Mitch about Blanche's notorious reputation, Mitch rejects her. Adding insult to injury, while Stella is having a baby, Stanley rapes his sister-in-law. Blanche's emotional deterioration is complete. In the final scene, a doctor and nurse arrive to take Blanche to a mental hospital. She initially resists them, but when the doctor helps her up she willingly surrenders: "Whoever you are - I have always depended on the kindness of strangers"(p. 178).
Performance and the Medical Body
Bouchard, Gianna; Mermikides, Alex
Genre: Essay
This is a collection of essays by (mostly British) artists, performers, and academics on the intersection between medicine and theater. It appears in a series entitled "Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues" put out by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. The introduction makes it clear there are many points of convergence beyond the scope of this volume, such as how medicine is depicted in plays and therapeutic uses of theater (e.g. drama therapy). The focus here, then, is on "the ways in which the body is understood, displayed and represented in performance" (p. 11). And the "medical body" of the title refers to one that is 'acted upon' by illness or disability and/or by the diagnostic and therapeutic activities of the medical profession" (Ibid).
The book is divided into three sections: "Performing the Medical," "Performing Patients," and "Performing Body Parts." The first section includes an essay by Roger Kneebone, a surgeon, who explores the parallels between his field and theatrical performance. Kneebone has devised simulations that enable laypersons to get a sense of what it is like to participate in surgery. In his view, this encourages cross-fertilization of ideas. For example, his collaboration with a jazz pianist has demonstrated to him that musical improvisation, in its spontaneity, is somewhat like emergency surgery. And his work with a choreographer led to the development of a dance piece depicting the movements of a surgical team during a procedure.
In the second section we read about Brian Lobel, a theater artist who has used his experience with testicular cancer to create a solo performance piece entitled "BALL." This not only allowed Lobel to "regain a sense of mastery over the illness experience" (p. 88), but has also earned him a niche within the theater community. Lobel now works with other cancer sufferers helping them develop their own narratives in a project called "Fun with Cancer Patients."
The final section of the book includes a description of "Under Glass," a forty-minute performance piece consisting of eight specimen jars each containing a solo performer, said to be "at once museum exhibit, gallery and medical laboratory" (p. 141), which also provides the book's front cover image. "Under Glass" was devised by Clod Ensemble, whose Performing Medicine project is known for its teaching programs in numerous London medical schools. Meant to provoke discourse about the public display of specimens, it brings to mind the Victorian "freak show" as well as the more recent controversial touring Body Worlds exhibition of plastinated cadavers and body parts.
4:48 Psychosis
Kane, Sarah
Last Updated: Dec-15-2015
4:48 Psychosis was the last work of controversial British playwright Sarah Kane. In 1999, soon after her twenty-eighth birthday, having completed the play, she took her own life.
Naturally, these tragic circumstances can never be far from the reader's mind. But to dismiss 4:48 Psychosis as a suicide note is to negate Kane's achievement. The play was, in fact, meticulously researched and carefully written. Kane's first play, Blasted, had considerable shock value, and throughout her short career she pushed the boundaries of what might be considered stageworthy. 4:48 Psychosis is both the final product of a life marked by recurrent episodes of depression (the play gets its name from the time she found herself waking up every day during the last episode) and the final chapter in her writing's progression towards disintegration. It represents her deteriorating mental state, but is also a conscious stylistic decision.
The text of 4:48 Psychosis is unrecognizable as a conventional play. The author has left neither stage directions nor an indication of the number or gender of performers. Words and numbers appear to be arranged ornamentally on the page. However, meaning that is not apparent emerges from the chaos, as in the way that sense may be made from a psychotic mind. The numbers are not random, but "serial 7's" from the mental status exam. Quotations from the Book of Revelations appear side by side with excerpts from a medical chart, and extracts from self-help books are interspersed with dialogue between a patient and her psychiatrist. The latter provides an illustration of the patient's attempt to reconcile her anger with her neediness: "I cannot believe that I can feel this for you and you feel nothing" (p. 214). We learn too of her struggle with self-mutilation and her suicidal impulses, and follow her moods from dark humor to despair to hopefulness. Indeed, the last line of the play, "Please open the curtains" (p. 245) appears to leave open the possibility that she will pull through. That option was unfortunately not the one the author chose for herself.
Kitt, Tom; Yorkey, Brian
Last Updated: Nov-18-2015
Next to Normal is a musical, composed in a rock idiom.
Meet the Goodmans, (father Dan, mother Diana, daughter Natalie) who on the surface resemble a "perfect loving family" like any one of millions. However, from the outset we see that they are, in fact, a hair's breadth from collapse: Diana's long-term struggle with bipolar disorder leaves her suffering uncontrollable mood swings. Her illness fuels the chronic tension in her relationships with husband and daughter. In addition, we learn that a son (Gabe), whom we initially believe to be an active family member, actually died years ago and his appearances represent Diana's hallucination.
As the show begins, Diana is undergoing a hypomanic episode that is resistant to treatment by her psychopharmacologist. Discouraged by side effects and egged on by her phantom son, Diana flushes her pills down the toilet. As she deteriorates, she visits a new psychiatrist who agrees at first to treat her without medication. As she begins in psychotherapy, for the first time, to accept the loss of her son, she descends to a new clinical low. At the close of the first act, after making a suicide attempt, she is hospitalized and agrees to be treated with ECT.
By Act II, the ECT has effected great clinical improvement, with stabilization of Diana's mood and no further hallucinations. All this, however, has come at the expense of her memory. As it returns, she becomes aware that what she most needs to remember, and process, are her feelings about losing a child. In fact, we learn that she was kept from expressing them at the time because of concerns she might decompensate. She struggles to make sense of all of this while remaining stable. When she confronts Dan about Gabe, it is he who appears unable to discuss their loss. She suddenly becomes aware that Dan has been enabling her in an unhealthy way. She reconciles with her daughter, but realizes that in order to move forward she needs to get out of her dysfunctional marriage. However, the door is left open on this relationship, for at the recommendation of her psychiatrist Dan enters psychotherapy.
The Theater of War
Doerries, Bryan
Last Updated: Oct-30-2015
War and Medicine
This is a book about the author's passionate love affair with ancient Greek plays, how he goes beyond merely making them relevant to our time by finding therapeutic benefit in them, and how he finds ways to adapt them for a variety of populations and uses.
Doerries begins by telling us about two formative relationships, representing opposite extremes, that have influenced his worldview. In the first case, we learn how his father, a diabetic, effectively commits suicide over a period of decades by gorging himself on sweets. He rationalizes his behavior to his son by suggesting that, no matter what he does, his life is destined to end in disaster anyway like "those Greek plays." (p. 17) In contrast, we hear of the author's relationship with a young woman, doomed by cystic fibrosis, who manages to make every moment of her all-too-brief life matter. She goes on to provide an object lesson in how to die with grace and dignity. These experiences afford Doerries an insight into mortality beyond his years. He also gains insight into his own destiny, eschewing an academic career for a path of his own making. He follows his intuition which tells him "If I could present readings...maybe something healing could happen." (p. 66) He then begins to devise his own translations from the original Greek which he directs in dramatic readings, and he seeks out the audiences that will benefit from them.
One of the plays that captures his imagination, Sophocles's "Ajax," tells of a warrior who loses his friend to war, becomes despondent, and takes his own life. Doerries discovers that this storyline is familiar territory to sufferers of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Consequently, when he presents it at military bases it produces an abreactive effect. Indeed, the pent-up emotion he elicits has no other outlet, and he and his performers become folk heroes. Of course, there are detractors as well.
In the remainder of the book, Doerries finds additional applications for his method, from prisoners in Guantanamo Bay to hospice providers to victims of natural disasters.
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By: Domenica Tomasetti* Posted: 11/24/2021
There have been a lot of eyes on the National Collegiate Athletic Association ("NCAA") as newly implemented laws are poised to change the perception of collegiate sports.[1] In 2021, in National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Alston[2], the Supreme Court held that college athletes would no longer be restricted from benefiting from their name, image, and likeness.[3] Thus, Alston opened up the rights for student-athletes to profit from sponsorships and the ability to team up with companies eager to have collegiate athletes promote their brands.[4]
NCAA's Alston Argument and the Results of Its Failure
In Alston, the NCAA argued that allowing college students to benefit from their name, image, and likeness would take away the separation between the students and professional athletes.[5] Essentially, any change allowing them to be paid would take the amateur status away from the players and teams.[6] Nonetheless, the NCAA's arguments did not stand, and the Supreme Court established the opportunity for collegiate athletes to profit.[7]
Now, well into college football season and the start of basketball season, college stars are signing with agencies and beginning to see the profits their universities have been benefiting from for years.[8] In addition to the team goals of winning championships and individual goals, both players and coaches now have agencies and sponsorships to navigate through for the first time.[9] However, with this new potential for earnings comes questions on the legal status of these student-athletes.[10]
NLRB Addresses Proper Label for Student-Athletes
On Sept. 29, the National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB") issued a memo that will shift how college athletes are classified.[11] In her memo, general counsel for the NLRB Jennifer Abruzzo addressed the public with a statement that college athletes are considered employees under the National Labor Relations Act ("NLRA") and are entitled to the full protections available to employees.[12] The assertion made by Abruzzo provides legal advice and standards to guide future events if and when a case with the NLRB does arise.[13] Specifically, labeling collegiate athletes as student-athletes rather than employees will be considered a violation of §8(a)(1) of the NLRA.[14] Furthermore, general counsel stated, "The freedom to engage in far-reaching and lucrative business enterprises makes players at academic institutions much more similar to professional athletes who are employed by a team to play a sport."[15] Collegiate athletes have always been participants in lucrative business enterprises.[16] However, before Alston, they did not see the profits made by those business enterprises – their universities and the NCAA profited instead.[17] While not every student will see an influx of cash, the top athletes in the largest and most successful programs are anticipated to make approximately $2 million each year.[18]
Statutory Protections of the NLRA Afforded to Employees
In 2015 the National Labor Relations Board dismissed a case brought by a group of NCAA football players at Northwestern, thereby declining to characterize student-athletes as employees under the National Labor Relations Act ("NLRA").[19] Now six years later, this newly released legal memorandum by the NLRB deviates from that precedent.[20] With employee status, these athletes would fall under all statutory protections provided by the NLRA of 1935.[21]
Various other statutory protections include the right to strike and the right of employees to choose their representatives.[22] In addition, the NLRA provides protections for protected concerted activity, which includes the option for employees to come together and protest the terms of their employment.[23] Therefore, these provisions open the door to potential collective bargaining agreements for players.[24] Specifically, athletes at these universities will have the option to collectively bargain and negotiate for better working conditions without fearing retaliation by their schools or the NCAA.[25]
NCAA Responds to the Characterization of College Athletes as Employees
The NCAA released a statement that it would like college students to not be considered employees but rather continue to be labeled "student-athletes."[26] It wants to prevent the universities' students from being afforded all of these statutory protections, including unionization.[27] However, if the NCAA looks at previous cases banning player unions that it considered successful, the organization may realize that what was once successful may no longer be legal.[28]
The NCAA has gone through a significant number of changes in the past two years, and these changes continue to make an impact.[29] Next, colleges and states will need to craft new guidelines that adapt to the evolving law.[30] For now, the NCAA must wait to see how the fact that athletes now have proper representation and a new label unfolds.
*Staff Writer, Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal, J.D. Candidate, May 2023, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
[1] See Zach Braziller, NCAA Changes College Sports Forever: 'An entirely new landscape', N.Y. Post (June 30, 2021), https://nypost.com/2021/06/30/ncaas-new-nil-rule-changes-everything/ (discussing impact recent legal changes to NCAA rules will have on college sports).
[2] Nat'l Collegiate Athletic Ass'n v. Alston, 141 S. Ct. 2141 (2021).
[3] See id. at 2166 (deciding college athletes should no longer be prevented from profiting from name, image, likeness).
[4] See Gregory A. Marino, NCAA v. Alston: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?, Foley & Lardner LLP (Aug. 5, 2021), https://www.foley.com/en/insights/publications/2021/08/ncaa-v-alston (discussing possible financial implications of Supreme Court's decision in NCAA v. Alston).
[5] See Alston, 141 S. Ct. 2141, 2152 (2021) ("The NCAA 's only remaining defense was that its rules preserve amateurism, which in turn widens consumer choice by providing a unique product—amateur college sports as distinct from professional sports.").
[6] See Dennis Dodd, Classifying College Athletes as Employees, NLRB Memo Sets Stage for Further NCAA Destabilization, CBS Sports (Sept. 29, 2021), https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/classifying-college-athletes-as-employees-nlrb-memo-sets-stage-for-further-ncaa-destabilization/ (discussing possible implications of NIL, newly released memo by NLRB).
[7] For further discussion on the Supreme Court's decision in Alston and its impact to college athletes' earning potential, see supra note 2 and accompanying text.
[8] See Tommy Beer, These NCAA Athletes Have Already Inked Endorsement Deals, Forbes (July 1, 2021), https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2021/07/01/these-ncaa-athletes-have-already-inked-endorsement-deals/?sh=5dd97e604676 (listing some athletes who have already signed endorsement deals, identifying companies).
[9] See Amanda Christovich, Big East Basketball Coaches' Views on NIL, Front Office Sports (Oct. 25, 2021), https://frontofficesports.com/big-east-basketball-coaches-views-on-nil/ (providing discussion from some coaches on potential impact of NIL, plan to navigate new territory).
[10] For further discussion on the legal status of student-athletes following the decision in Alston, see supra note 6 and accompanying text.
[11] See N.L.R.B. Gen. Couns. Mem., GC 21-08, Statutory Rights of Players at Academic Institutions (Student-Athletes) Under the National Labor Relations Act, (Sept. 29, 2021) [hereinafter NLRB Memo], available at https://apps.nlrb.gov/link/document.aspx/09031d458356ec26 (explaining student-athletes should be considered employees, receive all protections afforded by NLRA).
[12] See id. ("[I]t is my position that the scholarship football players at issue in Northwestern University, and similarly situated Players at Academic Institutions, are employees under the Act. I fully expect that this memo will notify the public, especially Players at Academic Institutions, colleges and universities, athletic conferences, and the NCAA, that I will be taking that legal position in future investigations and litigation under the Act."); see also Glynn A. Hill, College Athletes Can Now Earn Money and Other Benefits. Are Unions Next?, Wash. Post (Sept. 30, 2021), https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/09/30/nlrb-memo-ncaa-college-athletes-employees/ (describing NLRB's role in enforcing labor protections for employees).
[13]See Michael McCann, College Athletes are Employees, NLRB Counsel Says, Sportico (Sept. 29, 2021), https://www.sportico.com/law/analysis/2021/nlrb-college-athlete-memo-1234641056/ (providing legal advice to classify student athletes as employees in order to be afforded labor protections to be involved in concerted activity, participate in strikes, engage in collective bargaining). For further discussion on the relevance of the NLRB Memo, see supra note 11 and accompanying text.
[14] See NLRB Memo, supra note 11 at 1-2 (discussing statutory violations for referring to players as student-athletes rather than employees).
[15] See NLRB Memo, supra note 11 at 6.
[16] See Mark J. Drozdowski, Ed.D., Do Colleges Make Money From Athletics?, Best Colleges (Nov. 16, 2020), https://www.bestcolleges.com/blog/do-college-sports-make-money/ (providing information on how much money some colleges make from their athletic programs).
[17] See id. (showing how much money goes to universities rather than athletes).
[18] See Tommy Beer, NCAA Athletes Could Make $2 Million a Year if Paid Equitably, Study Suggests, Forbes (Sept. 1, 2020), https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/09/01/ncaa-athletes-could-make-2-million-a-year-if-paid-equitably-study-suggests/?sh=51f297615499 (discussing profits college athletes could see each year in top programs).
[19] See Daniel Wiessner, U.S. Labor Board Dismisses Northwestern Football Players' Union Bid, Reuters (Aug. 17, 2015), https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-football-northwestern/u-s-labor-board-dismisses-northwestern-football-players-union-bid-idUSKCN0QM1Q620150817 (discussing NLRB's decision in 2015 that student-athletes should not be characterized as employees, not afforded protections under NLRA, including ability to unionize).
[20] See NLRB Memo, supra note 11 at 1 (explaining that title "employee" will afford student-athletes statutory protections NLRB denied them in 2015).
[21] See 29 U.S.C. §§ 151-166 (1947); see also NLRB Memo, supra note 12 at 9 (discussing protections to be afforded to college athletes under the NLRA with characterization "employee").
[22] See 29 U.S.C. §§ 151-166 (1947) (showing statutory protections for employees under NLRA to choose their own representatives, ability to go on strike).
[23] See id. (listing other statutory protections for employees under NLRA that should be afforded to college athletes).
[24] See id. (providing elements of NLRA).
[25] For further discussion on what the label employee means for athletes, see NLRB Memo supra note 11 and accompanying text.
[26] See Steve Berkowitz, College Athletes Are School Employees, New National Labor Relations Board Memo Says, USA Today (Sept. 29, 2021), https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2021/09/29/nlrb-memo-says-college-athletes-school-employees/5915491001/ (discussing NCAA's response to memo issued by NLRB).
[27] See 29 U.S.C. §§ 151-166 (1947) (providing statutory protections of NLRA).
[28] Nw. Univ., 362 NLRB 1350, 1356 (2015) ("[E]ven if the scholarship players were statutory employees (which the Board does not here decide), we have concluded that it will not effectuate the policies of the Act to assert jurisdiction in this case."); see also NLRB Memo, supra note 11 at 2 (footnote omitted) (discussing Nw. Univ., 362 NLRB 1350).
[29] For an example of recent changes impacting NCAA schools and players, see supra notes 1-2 and accompanying text.
[30] Braziller, supra note 1 ("[T]here are the states where laws haven't passed yet. Schools in those states can come up with their own NIL rules and guidelines under the parameters set by the NCAA.").
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