The first inhabitants of the cooperative of inhabitants set up by the Chamarel association moved in in July 2017. Eight months later, residents and project leaders are reviewing the reality of the housing project.
The Chamarel project began in 2009. It aimed to imagine for the elderly, whose number is growing in France, and whose support is therefore a major issue for the country, an alternative to current choices: staying at home, with all the difficulties it means, for oneself or their family, or moving to a retirement home, where rules are instituted and cannot allow a real autonomy.
The project materialized with the purchase of a land in Vaulx-en-Velin in 2012, "Les Barges", then with the building permit, issued in 2015.
"The Barges" Chamarel has now welcomed its inhabitants for 8 months, in a building of 4 floors, with shared spaces. The building is designed to accommodate disabled people and the vast majority of housing is social housing. Chamarel is fully satisfied with it, and is now taking care of setting up the life in the building, in the respect of the objectives fixed at its beginnings.
This innovative project around cooperative housing shows us a new and viable path in the care of the elderly, which respects individuals and the environment. Although it has encountered some difficulties, its implementation paves the way for other projects of this kind, especially since the ALUR law reintroduced in 2014 the status of the cooperative inhabitants, thanks in particular to the association Habicoop.
The importance of cooptation, after a period of joint work allowing each party to get to know each other better, and on the basis of defined values rather than on a "friendly" basis. We will be "neighbors", but not necessarily "friends"
The association finally shows that each cooperative of inhabitants will be different, being defined by the individuals. But the success of such a project, innovative and adapted to the current stakes, makes it possible to imagine that it could be reproducible on a large scale.


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Philip David Ochs (; December 19, 1940 – April 9, 1976) was an American songwriter and protest singer (or, as he preferred, a topical singer). Ochs was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, political activism, often alliterative lyrics, and distinctive voice. He wrote hundreds of songs in the 1960s and 1970s and released eight albums.

Ochs performed at many political events during the 1960s counterculture era, including anti-Vietnam War and civil rights rallies, student events, and organized labor events over the course of his career, in addition to many concert appearances at such venues as New York City's Town Hall and Carnegie Hall. Politically, Ochs described himself as a "left social democrat" who became an "early revolutionary" after the protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago led to a police riot, which had a profound effect on his state of mind.

After years of prolific writing in the 1960s, Ochs's mental stability declined in the 1970s. He had a number of personal problems, including bipolar disorder and alcoholism, and died by suicide in 1976.

Ochs's influences included Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Bob Gibson, Faron Young, and Merle Haggard. His best-known songs include "I Ain't Marching Anymore", "When I'm Gone", "Changes", "Crucifixion", "Draft Dodger Rag", "Love Me, I'm a Liberal", "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends", "Power and the Glory", "There but for Fortune", "The War Is Over", and "No More Songs".

Biography

Early years
Phil Ochs was born on December 19, 1940, in El Paso, Texas, to Jacob "Jack" Ochs (1910-1963), a physician who was born in New York , and Gertrude Phin Ochs (1912-1994), who was from Scotland. His father was of Polish Jewish descent. His parents met and married in Edinburgh where Jack was attending medical school. After their marriage, they moved to the United States. Jack, drafted into the army, was sent overseas near the end of World War II, where he treated soldiers at the Battle of the Bulge. His war experiences affected his mental health and he received an honorable medical discharge in November 1945. Suffering from bipolar disorder and depression on his return home, Jack was unable to establish a successful medical practice and instead worked at a series of hospitals around the country. As a result, the Ochs family moved frequently: to Far Rockaway, New York, when Ochs was a teenager; then to Perrysburg in western New York, where he first studied music; and then to Columbus, Ohio. Ochs grew up with an older sister, Sonia (known as Sonny, born 1937), and a younger brother, Michael (born 1943). The Ochs family was middle class and Jewish, but not religious. His father was distant from his wife and children, and was hospitalized for depression; he died on April 30, 1963, from a cerebral hemorrhage. His mother died on March 9, 1994.

As a teenager, Ochs was recognized as a talented clarinet player; in an evaluation, one music instructor wrote: "You have exceptional musical feeling and the ability to transfer it on your instrument is abundant." His musical skills allowed him to play clarinet with the orchestra at the Capital University Conservatory of Music in Ohio, where he rose to the status of principal soloist before he was 16. Although Ochs played classical music, he soon became interested in other sounds he heard on the radio, such as early rock icons Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley and country music artists including Faron Young, Ernest Tubb, Hank Williams Sr., and Johnny Cash. Ochs also spent a lot of time at the movies. His mother did not want to hire a babysitter and instead gave her sons money to spend at the theatre. While living in Far Rockaway, the brothers saw five to six films each week, as there were three theaters in town. He especially liked big screen heroes such as John Wayne and Audie Murphy. Later on, he developed an interest in movie rebels, including Marlon Brando and James Dean.

From 1956 to 1958, Ochs was a student at the Staunton Military Academy in rural Virginia, and when he graduated he returned to Columbus and enrolled in the Ohio State University. Unhappy after his first quarter, he took a leave of absence and went to Florida. While in Miami, the 18-year-old Ochs was jailed for two weeks for sleeping on a park bench, an incident he would later recall:

Somewhere during the course of those fifteen days I decided to become a writer. My primary thought was journalism ... so in a flash, I decided—I'll be a writer and a major in journalism.

Ochs returned to Ohio State to study journalism and developed an interest in politics, with a particular interest in the Cuban Revolution of 1959. At Ohio State, he met Jim Glover, a fellow student who was a devotee of folk music. Glover introduced Ochs to the music of Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and The Weavers. Glover taught Ochs how to play guitar, and they debated politics. Ochs began writing newspaper articles, often on radical themes. When the student paper refused to publish some of his more radical articles, he started his own underground newspaper called The Word. His two main interests, politics and music, soon merged, and Ochs began writing topical political songs. Ochs and Glover formed a duet called "The Singing Socialists", later renamed "The Sundowners", but the duo broke up before their first professional performance and Glover went to New York City to become a folksinger.

Ochs's parents and brother had moved from Columbus to Cleveland, and Ochs started to spend more time there, performing professionally at a local folk club called Farragher's Back Room. He was the opening act for a number of musicians in the summer of 1961, including the Smothers Brothers. Ochs met folksinger Bob Gibson that summer as well, and according to Dave Van Ronk, Gibson became "the seminal influence" on Ochs's writing. Ochs continued at Ohio State into his senior year, but was bitterly disappointed at not being appointed editor-in-chief of the college newspaper, and dropped out in his last quarter without graduating. He left for New York, as Glover had, to become a folksinger.

1962–1966

Ochs arrived in New York City in 1962 and began performing in numerous small folk nightclubs, eventually becoming an integral part of the Greenwich Village folk music scene. He emerged as an unpolished but passionate vocalist who wrote pointed songs about current events: war, civil rights, labor struggles and other topics. While others described his music as "protest songs", Ochs preferred the term "topical songs".

Ochs described himself as a "singing journalist", saying he built his songs from stories he read in Newsweek. By the summer of 1963, he was sufficiently well known in folk circles to be invited to sing at the Newport Folk Festival, where he performed "Too Many Martyrs" (co-written with Bob Gibson), "Talking Birmingham Jam", and "Power and the Glory"—his patriotic Guthrie-esque anthem that brought the audience to its feet. Other performers at the 1963 folk festival included Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Tom Paxton. Ochs's return appearance at Newport in 1964, when he performed "Draft Dodger Rag" and other songs, was widely praised. However, he was not invited to appear in 1965, the festival when Dylan infamously performed "Maggie's Farm" with an electric guitar. Although many in the folk world decried Dylan's choice, Ochs was amused, and admired Dylan's courage in defying the folk establishment.

In 1963, Ochs performed at New York's Carnegie Hall and Town Hall in hootenannies. He made his first solo appearance at Carnegie Hall in 1966. Throughout his career, Ochs would perform at a wide range of venues, including civil rights rallies, anti-war demonstrations, and concert halls.

Ochs contributed many songs and articles to the influential Broadside Magazine. He recorded his first three albums for Elektra Records: All the News That's Fit to Sing (1964), I Ain't Marching Anymore (1965), and Phil Ochs in Concert (1966). Critics wrote that each album was better than its predecessors, and fans seemed to agree; record sales increased with each new release.

On these records, Ochs was accompanied only by an acoustic guitar. The albums contain many of Ochs's topical songs, such as "Too Many Martyrs", "I Ain't Marching Anymore", and "Draft Dodger Rag"; and some musical reinterpretation of older poetry, such as "The Highwayman" (poem by Alfred Noyes) and "The Bells" (poem by Edgar Allan Poe). Phil Ochs in Concert includes some more introspective songs, such as "Changes" and "When I'm Gone".

During the early period of his career, Ochs and Bob Dylan had a friendly rivalry. Dylan said of Ochs, "I just can't keep up with Phil. And he just keeps getting better and better and better". On another occasion, when Ochs criticized either "One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)" or "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" (sources differ), Dylan threw him out of his limousine, saying, "You're not a folksinger. You're a journalist."

In 1962, Ochs married Alice Skinner, who was pregnant with their daughter Meegan, in a City Hall ceremony with Jim Glover as best man and Jean Ray as bridesmaid, and witnessed by Dylan's sometime girlfriend, Suze Rotolo. Phil and Alice separated in 1965, but they never divorced.

Like many people of his generation, Ochs deeply admired President John F. Kennedy, even though he disagreed with the president on issues such as the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the growing involvement of the United States in the Vietnamese civil war. When Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, Ochs wept. He told his wife that he thought he was going to die that night. It was the only time she ever saw Ochs cry.

Ochs's managers during this part of his career were Albert Grossman (who also managed Dylan and Peter, Paul, and Mary) followed by Arthur Gorson. Gorson had close ties with such groups as Americans For Democratic Action, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and Students for a Democratic Society.

Ochs was writing songs at a fast pace. Some of the songs he wrote during this period were held back and recorded on his later albums.

1967–1969
In 1967, Ochs – now managed by his brother Michael—left Elektra Records for A&M Records and moved to Los Angeles, California. He recorded four studio albums for A&M: Pleasures of the Harbor (1967), Tape from California (1968), Rehearsals for Retirement (1969), and the ironically titled Greatest Hits (1970) (which actually consisted of all new material). For his A&M albums, Ochs moved away from simply produced solo acoustic guitar performances and experimented with ensemble and even orchestral instrumentation, "baroque-folk", in the hopes of producing a pop-folk hybrid that would be a hit.

Critic Robert Christgau, writing in Esquire of Pleasures of the Harbor in May 1968, did not consider this new direction a good turn. While describing Ochs as "unquestionably a nice guy", he went on to say, "too bad his voice shows an effective range of about half an octave [and] his guitar playing would not suffer much if his right hand were webbed." "Pleasures of the Harbor", Christgau continued, "epitomizes the decadence that has infected pop since Sgt. Pepper. [The] gaudy musical settings ... inspire nostalgia for the three-chord strum." With an ironic sense of humor, Ochs included Christgau's "webbed hand" comment in his 1968 songbook The War is Over on a page titled "The Critics Raved", opposite a full-page picture of Ochs standing in a large metal garbage can. Despite his sense of humor, Ochs was unhappy that his work was not receiving the critical acclaim and popular success he had hoped to achieve. Still, Ochs would joke on the back cover of Greatest Hits that there were 50 Phil Ochs fans ("50 fans can't be wrong!"), a sarcastic reference to an Elvis Presley album that bragged of 50 million Elvis fans.

None of Ochs's songs became hits, although "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends" received a good deal of airplay. It reached No. 119 on Billboard'''s national "Hot Prospect" listing before being pulled from some radio stations because of its lyrics, which sarcastically suggested that "smoking marijuana is more fun than drinking beer". It was the closest Ochs ever came to the Top 40. Joan Baez, however, did have a Top Ten hit in the U.K. in August 1965, reaching No. 8 with her cover of Ochs's song "There but for Fortune", which was also nominated for a Grammy Award for "Best Folk Recording". In the U.S. it peaked at No. 50 on the Billboard charts—a good showing, but not a hit.

Although he was trying new things musically, Ochs did not abandon his protest roots. He was profoundly concerned with the escalation of the Vietnam War, performing tirelessly at anti-war rallies across the country. In 1967 he organized two rallies to declare that "The War Is Over"—"Is everybody sick of this stinking war? In that case, friends, do what I and thousands of other Americans have done—declare the war over."—one in Los Angeles in June, the other in New York in November. He continued to write and record anti-war songs, such as "The War Is Over" and "White Boots Marching in a Yellow Land". Other topical songs of this period include "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends", inspired by the murder of Kitty Genovese, who was stabbed to death outside of her New York City apartment building while dozens of her neighbors reportedly ignored her cries for help, and "William Butler Yeats Visits Lincoln Park and Escapes Unscathed", about the despair he felt in the aftermath of the Chicago 1968 Democratic National Convention police riot.

Ochs was writing more personal songs as well, such as "Crucifixion", in which he compared the deaths of Jesus Christ and assassinated President John F. Kennedy as part of a "cycle of sacrifice" in which people build up heroes and then celebrate their destruction; "Chords of Fame", a warning against the dangers and corruption of fame; "Pleasures of the Harbor", a lyrical portrait of a lonely sailor seeking human connection far from home; and "Boy in Ohio", a plaintive look back at Ochs's childhood in Columbus.Schumacher, pp. 110, 160, 214–215, 223–224.

A lifelong movie fan, Ochs worked the narratives of justice and rebellion that he had seen in films into his music, describing some of his songs as "cinematic". He was disappointed and bitter when his onetime hero John Wayne embraced the Vietnam War with what Ochs saw as the blind patriotism of Wayne's 1968 film, The Green Berets:

[H]ere we have John Wayne, who was a major artistic and psychological figure on the American scene, ... who at one point used to make movies of soldiers who had a certain validity, ... a certain sense of honor [about] what the soldier was doing. ... Even if it was a cavalry movie doing a historically dishonorable thing to the Indians, even as there was a feeling of what it meant to be a man, what it meant to have some sense of duty. ... Now today we have the same actor making his new war movie in a war so hopelessly corrupt that, without seeing the movie, I'm sure it is perfectly safe to say that it will be an almost robot-view of soldiery, just by definition of how the whole country has deteriorated. And I think it would make a very interesting double feature to show a good old Wayne movie like, say, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon with The Green Berets. Because that would make a very striking comment on what has happened to America in general.

Ochs was involved in the creation of the Youth International Party, known as the Yippies, along with Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman, Stew Albert, and Paul Krassner. At the same time, Ochs actively supported Eugene McCarthy's more mainstream bid for the 1968 Democratic nomination for President, a position at odds with the more radical Yippie point of view.Despite their disagreements, the Yippies used several Ochs songs in their media, in particular, the anti-war "I Ain't Marching Anymore". For example, see this Yippie-produced documentary . Still, Ochs helped plan the Yippies' "Festival of Life" which was to take place at the 1968 Democratic National Convention along with demonstrations by other anti-war groups including the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. Despite warnings that there might be trouble, Ochs went to Chicago both as a guest of the McCarthy campaign and to participate in the demonstrations. He performed in Lincoln Park, Grant Park, and at the Chicago Coliseum, witnessed the violence perpetrated by the Chicago police against the protesters, and was himself arrested at one point.See also the documentary film Conventions: The Land Around Us at Vimeo Ochs also purchased the young boar who became known as the Yippie 1968 Presidential candidate "Pigasus the Immortal" from a farm in Illinois.

The events of 1968the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and of Robert F. Kennedy weeks later, the Chicago police riot, and the election of Richard Nixonleft Ochs feeling disillusioned and depressed. The cover of his 1969 album Rehearsals for Retirement portrayed a tombstone with the words:
PHIL OCHS
(AMERICAN)
BORN: EL PASO, TEXAS, 1940
DIED: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 1968

At the trial of the Chicago Seven in December 1969, Ochs testified for the defense. His testimony included his recitation of the lyrics to his song "I Ain't Marching Anymore". On his way out of the courthouse, Ochs sang the song for the press corps; to Ochs's amusement, his singing was broadcast that evening by Walter Cronkite on the CBS Evening News.

1970
After the riot in Chicago and the subsequent trial, Ochs changed direction again. The events of 1968 convinced him that the average American was not listening to topical songs or responding to Yippie tactics. Ochs thought that by playing the sort of music that had moved him as a teenager he could speak more directly to the American public.

Ochs turned to his musical roots in country music and early rock and roll. He decided he needed to be "part Elvis Presley and part Che Guevara", so he commissioned a gold lamé suit from Elvis Presley's costumer Nudie Cohn. Ochs wore the gold suit on the cover of his 1970 album, Greatest Hits, which consisted of new songs largely in rock and country styles.

Ochs went on tour wearing the gold suit, backed by a rock band, singing his own material along with medleys of songs by Buddy Holly, Elvis, and Merle Haggard. His fans did not know how to respond. This new Phil Ochs drew a hostile reaction from his audience. Ochs's March 27, 1970, concerts at Carnegie Hall were the most successful, and by the end of that night's second show, Ochs had won over many in the crowd. The show was recorded and released as Gunfight at Carnegie Hall.

During this period, Ochs was taking drugs to get through performances. He had been taking Valium for years to help control his nerves, and he was also drinking heavily. Pianist Lincoln Mayorga said of that period, "He was physically abusing himself very badly on that tour. He was drinking a lot of wine and taking uppers. The wine was pulling him one way and the uppers were pulling him another way, and he was kind of a mess. There were so many pharmaceuticals around – so many pills. I'd never seen anything like that." Ochs tried to cut back on the pills, but alcohol remained his drug of choice for the rest of his life.Schumacher, pp. 260, 265, 275, 301–302, 310–311.

Depressed by his lack of widespread appreciation and suffering from writer's block, Ochs did not record any further albums. He slipped deeper into depression and alcoholism. His personal problems notwithstanding, Ochs performed at the inaugural benefit for Greenpeace on October 16, 1970, at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, British Columbia. A recording of his performance, along with performances by Joni Mitchell and James Taylor, was released by Greenpeace in 2009.

1971–1975

In August 1971, Ochs went to Chile, where Salvador Allende, a Marxist, had been democratically elected in the 1970 election. There he met Chilean folksinger Víctor Jara, an Allende supporter, and the two became friends. In October, Ochs left Chile to visit Argentina. Later that month, after singing at a political rally in Uruguay, he and his American traveling companion David Ifshin were arrested and detained overnight. When the two returned to Argentina, they were arrested as they got off the airplane. After a brief stay in an Argentinian prison, Ochs and Ifshin were sent to Bolivia via a commercial airliner where authorities were to detain them. Ifshin had previously been warned by Argentinian leftist friends that when the authorities sent dissidents to Bolivia, they would disappear forever. When the airliner arrived in Bolivia, the American captain of the Braniff International Airways aircraft allowed Ochs and Ifshin to stay on the aircraft and barred Bolivian authorities from entering. The aircraft then flew to Peru where the two disembarked and they were not detained. Fearful that Peruvian authorities might arrest him, Ochs returned to the United States a few days later.

Ochs was having difficulties writing new songs during this period, but he had occasional breakthroughs. He updated his sarcastic song "Here's to the State of Mississippi" as "Here's to the State of Richard Nixon", with cutting lines such as "the speeches of the Spiro are the ravings of a clown", a reference to Nixon's vitriolic vice president, Spiro Agnew—sung as "the speeches of the President are the ravings of a clown" after Agnew's resignation.Eliot, p. 216.

Ochs was personally invited by John Lennon to sing at a large benefit at the University of Michigan in December 1971 on behalf of John Sinclair, an activist poet who had been arrested on minor drug charges and given a severe sentence. Ochs performed at the John Sinclair Freedom Rally along with Stevie Wonder, Allen Ginsberg, David Peel, Abbie Hoffman, and many others. The rally culminated with Lennon and Yoko Ono, who were making their first public performance in the United States since the breakup of The Beatles.

Although the 1968 election had left him deeply disillusioned, Ochs continued to work for the election campaigns of anti-war candidates, such as George McGovern's unsuccessful Presidential bid in 1972.

In 1972, Ochs was asked to write the theme song for the film Kansas City Bomber. The task proved difficult, as Ochs struggled to overcome his writer's block. Although his song was not used in the soundtrack, it was released as a single.

Ochs decided to travel. In mid-1972, he went to Australia and New Zealand. He traveled to Africa in 1973, where he visited Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, and South Africa. One night, Ochs was attacked and strangled by robbers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, which damaged his vocal cords, causing a loss of the top three notes in his vocal range. The attack also exacerbated his growing mental problems, and he became increasingly paranoid. Ochs believed the attack may have been arranged by government agents—perhaps the CIA. Still, he continued his trip, even recording a single in Kenya, "Bwatue".

On September 11, 1973, the Allende government of Chile was overthrown in a coup d'état. Allende committed suicide during the bombing of the presidential palace, and singer Victor Jara was rounded up with other professors and students, tortured and brutally killed. When Ochs heard about the manner in which his friend had been killed, he was outraged and decided to organize a benefit concert to bring to public attention the situation in Chile, and raise funds for the people of Chile. The concert, "An Evening with Salvador Allende", was held on May 9, 1974, at New York City's Felt Forum, included films of Allende; singers such as Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Dave Van Ronk, and Bob Dylan; and political activists such as former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Dylan had agreed to perform at the last minute when he heard that the concert had sold so few tickets that it was in danger of being canceled. Once his participation was announced, the event quickly sold out.

After the Chile benefit, Ochs and Dylan discussed the possibility of a joint concert tour, playing small nightclubs. Nothing came of the Dylan-Ochs plans, but the idea eventually evolved into Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue.

The Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975. Ochs planned a final "War Is Over" rally, which was held in New York's Central Park on May 11. More than 100,000 people came to hear Ochs, joined by Harry Belafonte, Odetta, Pete Seeger, Paul Simon and others. Ochs and Joan Baez sang a duet of "There but for Fortune" and he closed with his song "The War Is Over"—finally a true declaration that the war was over.

Decline and death

Ochs' drinking became more and more of a problem, and his behavior became increasingly erratic. He frightened his friends both with his drunken rants about the FBI and CIA and about his claiming to want to have Elvis's manager Colonel Tom Parker or Kentucky Fried Chicken's Colonel Sanders manage his career.

In mid-1975, Ochs took on the identity of John Butler Train. He told people that Train had murdered Ochs and that he, John Butler Train, had replaced him. Ochs was convinced that someone was trying to kill him, so he carried a weapon at all times: a hammer, a knife, or a lead pipe.

His brother, Michael, attempted to have him committed to a psychiatric hospital. Friends pleaded with him to get help voluntarily. They feared for his safety because he was getting into fights with bar patrons. Unable to pay his rent, he began living on the streets.

After several months, the Train persona faded and Ochs returned, but his talk of suicide disturbed his friends and family. They hoped it was a passing phase, but Ochs was determined. One of his biographers explains Ochs's motivation:

In January 1976, Ochs moved to Far Rockaway, New York, to live with his sister Sonny. He was lethargic; his only activities were watching television and playing cards with his nephews. Ochs saw a psychiatrist, who diagnosed his bipolar disorder. He was prescribed medication, and he told his sister he was taking it. On April 9, 1976, Ochs died by suicide by hanging himself in Sonny's home.

Years after his death, it was revealed that the FBI had a file of nearly 500 pages on Ochs. Much of the information in those files relates to his association with counterculture figures, protest organizers, musicians, and other people described by the FBI as "subversive". The FBI was often sloppy in collecting information on Ochs: his name was frequently misspelled "Oakes" in their files, and they continued to consider him "potentially dangerous" after his death.

Congresswoman Bella Abzug (Democrat from New York), an outspoken anti-war activist herself who had appeared at the 1975 "War is Over" rally, entered this statement into the Congressional Record on April 29, 1976:

Robert Christgau, who had been so critical of Pleasures of the Harbor and Ochs's guitar skills eight years earlier, wrote warmly of Ochs in his obituary in The Village Voice. "I came around to liking Phil Ochs's music, guitar included," Christgau wrote. "My affection [for Ochs] no doubt prejudiced me, so it is worth [noting] that many observers who care more for folk music than I do remember both his compositions and his vibrato tenor as close to the peak of the genre."

Legacy
Almost fifty years after his death, Ochs's songs remain relevant. Ochs continues to influence singers and fans worldwide, most of whom never saw him perform live. There are mailing lists and online discussion groups dedicated to Ochs and his music; websites that have music samples, photographs, and other links; and articles and books continue to be written and published about him.

Ochs's commitment to fighting against the Vietnam War started early. In 1964, he performed his song "Talking Vietnam Blues" which was "the first protest song to directly refer to Vietnam by name".

His sister, Sonny Ochs (Tanzman), runs a series of "Phil Ochs Song Nights" with a rotating group of performers who keep Ochs's music and legacy alive by singing his songs in cities across the U.S. His brother Michael Ochs is a photographic archivist of 20th-century music and entertainment personalities. His daughter Meegan Lee Ochs worked with Michael to produce a box set of Ochs's music titled Farewells & Fantasies, the title of which was taken from Ochs's sign-off on the "postcard" on the back of Tape from California: "Farewells & Fantasies, Folks, P. Ochs". Meegan has a son named Caiden Finn Potter, Ochs's only grandchild. Alice Skinner Ochs was a photographer; she died in November 2010.

In February 2009, the North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance gave the 2009 Elaine Weissman Lifetime Achievement Award to Ochs.

In September 2014, Meegan Lee Ochs announced that she was donating her father's archives to the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Included are many of his notebooks, journals, videotapes of his performances, the gold lamé suit, photographs, and other documents and memorabilia that Meegan had preserved since his death.

Covers and updates

Ochs's songs have been covered by scores of performers, including Joan Baez, Bastro, Cher, Judy Collins, John Denver, Ani DiFranco, Ronnie Gilbert, John Wesley Harding, Henry Cow, Jason & the Scorchers, Jim and Jean, Jeannie Lewis, Gordon Lightfoot, Melanie, Christy Moore, Morrissey, Pete Seeger, They Might Be Giants, Eddie Vedder, and The Weakerthans. Wyclef Jean performed "Here's to the State of Mississippi" in the 2009 documentary Soundtrack for a Revolution.

In 1998, Sliced Bread Records released What's That I Hear?: The Songs of Phil Ochs, a two-CD set of 28 covers by artists that includes Billy Bragg, John Gorka, Nanci Griffith, Arlo Guthrie, Magpie, Tom Paxton, and Peter Yarrow. The liner notes indicate that all record company profits from the sale of the set were to be divided between the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California and Sing Out! magazine.

Wood Records released an indie rock/experimental rock tribute album titled Poison Ochs: A Tribute to Phil Ochs in 2003.

In 2005, Kind Of Like Spitting released an album, Learn: The Songs of Phil Ochs, consisting of covers of nine songs written by Ochs, to pay tribute to his music and raise awareness of the artist, whom they felt had been overlooked.

Jello Biafra and Mojo Nixon, on their album Prairie Home Invasion, recorded a version of "Love Me, I'm a Liberal" with lyrics updated to the Clinton era. Evan Greer, part of the Riot-Folk collective, later updated the song for the George W. Bush era. Ryan Harvey, also part of Riot-Folk, remade "Cops Of The World" with updated lyrics. The Clash used some of the lyrics to "United Fruit" in their song "Up in Heaven (Not Only Here)", which appeared on their 1980 album Sandinista!. During their performance on VH1 Storytellers, Pearl Jam covered "Here's to the State of Mississippi" with updated lyrics to include Jerry Falwell, Dick Cheney, John Roberts, Alberto Gonzales, and George W. Bush. In 2002, with the agreement of Ochs's sister Sonny, Richard Thompson added an extra verse to "I Ain't Marching Anymore" to reflect recent American foreign policy. Jefferson Starship recorded "I Ain't Marching Anymore" with additional lyrics by band member Cathy Richardson for their 2008 release Jefferson's Tree of Liberty.

Neil Young has cited Ochs as a major influence on his music. In a 1969 interview, Young said, "I really think Phil Ochs is a genius ... he's written fantastic, incredible songs – he's on the same level with Dylan in my eyes." In 2013, Young performed "Changes" at Farm Aid and included it in his 2014 tour set; it also is the lead track on A Letter Home, his 2014 album of covers.

In 2016, Richard Barone released his album Sorrows & Promises: Greenwich Village in the 1960s, which includes "When I'm Gone". Barone said of the project: "My favorite artist on the album is Phil Ochs. I grew up with Phil Ochs songs. I love his topical songs–and I also like his songs that are not political. He was always really good no matter what he was doing." On tour, Barone also performed "Changes".

In 2020, Welsh singer-songwriter Martyn Joseph released Days Of Decision: A Tribute to Phil Ochs containing 14 Ochs covers, as well as liner notes by Ochs' sister, Sonny.

Tributes
On learning of Ochs' death, Tom Paxton wrote a song titled "Phil", which he recorded for his 1978 album Heroes. Ochs is also the subject of "I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night", by Billy Bragg, from his 1990 album The Internationale, which was based on the Alfred Hayes/Earl Robinson song "Joe Hill" which Ochs helped popularize. Bragg said that recording this song was "a reassertion of my rights as a performer." Ochs also had his own, different song ("Joe Hill") about the early 20th-century union activist/songwriter. "Thin Wild Mercury," by Peter Cooper and Todd Snider, is about Ochs's infamous clash with Dylan and getting thrown out of Dylan's limo. Ochs is mentioned in the Dar Williams song "All My Heroes Are Dead", the Will Oldham song "Gezundheit", the Chumbawamba song "Love Me", and the They Might Be Giants song "The Day". The Josh Joplin Group recorded a tribute to Ochs on their album Useful Music. Schooner Fare recorded "Don't Stop To Rest (Song for Phil Ochs)" on their 1981 album Closer to the Wind. Latin Quarter memorialized him in the song "Phil Ochs" on their album Long Pig (1993).

John Wesley Harding recorded a song titled "Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan, Steve Goodman, David Blue and Me", the title a reference to the Ochs song "Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Me". Singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith wrote a song about Phil entitled "Radio Fragile", included in her album Storms. English folk/punk songwriter Al Baker recorded a song about Ochs entitled "All The News That's Fit To Sing", a reference to the title of Ochs's first album. Cajun musician Vic Sadot wrote a song about Ochs entitled "Broadside Balladeer". Singer-songwriter Jen Cass's "Standing In Your Memory", and Harry Chapin's "The Parade's Still Passing By" are tributes to Ochs. Leslie Fish recorded "Chickasaw Mountain", which is dedicated to Ochs, on her 1986 album of that name. The punk band Squirrel Bait cited Ochs as a major creative influence in the liner notes of their 1986 album Skag Heaven, and cover his "Tape From California". The American hardcore punk supergroup Hesitation Wounds wrote a song called "P. Ochs (The Death of a Rebel)", which appeared on their self-titled debut EP in 2013. The song's lyrics reference the folk singer's life and suicide. Ochs has also influenced Greek folk-rock songwriters; Dimitris Panagopoulos' Astathis Isoropia (Unstable Equilibrium) (1987) was dedicated to his memory. On the 2005 Kind Of Like Spitting album In the Red, songwriter Ben Barnett included his song "Sheriff Ochs", which was inspired by reading a biography of Ochs. On April 9, 2009, Ochs' friend Jim Glover performed a tribute to Ochs at Mother's Musical Bakery in Sarasota, Florida.

Popular culture
Among Ochs's many admirers were the short story writer Breece D'J Pancake and actor Sean Penn. Meegan Lee Ochs, who worked as Sean Penn's personal assistant from 1983 to 1985, wrote in her foreword to Farewells & Fantasies that she and Penn discussed "over many years" the possibility of making a movie about her father; the plan has not yet come to fruition, although Penn expressed an interest in the project as recently as February 2009.

Author Jim Carroll's autobiography, The Basketball Diaries (1978), was dedicated in memory of Phil Ochs.

Ochs is mentioned in the song "The Day" from the self titled They Might Be Giants album.

On the cover of The Go-Betweens' The Lost Album, Grant McLennan wore a shirt with the words "Get outta the car, Ochs", a reference to the limousine incident involving Ochs and Dylan.

The 1994 film Spanking the Monkey makes reference to Ochs and his suicide.

Ochs is mentioned in the Stephen King novels The Tommyknockers (1987) and Hearts in Atlantis (1999).

In the 2019 novel Revolutionaries by Joshua Furst, based on the life of Abbie Hoffman, Ochs appears as a character under his own name.

Ochs is mentioned in David Bowie's 2013 song "(You Will) Set the World on Fire" on The Next Day album.

Films
Michael Korolenko directed the 1984 biographical film Chords of Fame, which featured Bill Burnett as Ochs. The film included interviews with people who had known Ochs, including Yippies Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, manager Harold Leventhal, and Mike Porco, the owner of Gerde's Folk City. Chords of Fame also included performances of Ochs songs by folk musicians who knew him, including Bob Gibson, Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton, Dave Van Ronk, and Eric Andersen.

Filmmaker Ken Bowser directed the documentary film Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune, which premiered at the 2010 Woodstock Film Festival in Woodstock, New York. Its theatrical run began on January 5, 2011, at the IFC Theater in Greenwich Village, New York City, opening in cities around the US and Canada thereafter. The film features extensive archival footage of Ochs and many pivotal events from the 1960s civil rights and peace movements, as well as interviews with friends, family and colleagues who knew Ochs through music and politics. The PBS American Masters series opened its 2012 season with an edited version of the film.

Experimental filmmaker Phil Solomon named his 2007 experimental film Rehearsals for Retirement after Ochs' 1969 song of the same name.

Professional affiliations
 Ochs was a member of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, which is affiliated with the AFL–CIO.
 The music publishing company Ochs formed with Arthur Gorson, Barricade Music, was an ASCAP company.

Discography

Studio albums and live recordings

 All the News That's Fit to Sing (Elektra, 1964)
 I Ain't Marching Anymore (Elektra, 1965)
 Phil Ochs in Concert (Elektra, 1966)
 Pleasures of the Harbor (A&M, 1967)
 Tape from California (A&M, 1968)
 Rehearsals for Retirement (A&M, 1969)
 Greatest Hits (A&M, 1970)
 Gunfight at Carnegie Hall (A&M Canada, 1974)
 There and Now: Live in Vancouver 1968 (Rhino, 1991)
 Live at Newport (Vanguard, 1996)
 Amchitka (Greenpeace, 2009)
 Live Again! (RockBeat, 2014)
 Live in Montreal 10/22/66 (Rockbeat, 2017)

 See also
 Counterculture of the 1960s
 List of anti-war songs
 List of peace activists
 List of songs recorded by Phil Ochs
 Robyn Ochs, his niece and a bisexual activist

References
 Citations

 General bibliography

Further reading

 Phil Ochs "Cosmic Baseball" Page

External links

 The Phil Ochs Papers at the Woody Guthrie Center
 Phil Ochs web pages includes lyrics, discography, images, &c.
 Celebrating Phil Ochs includes lyrics, chords, personal recollections, and much more
 Excerpts from the Testimony of Phil Ochs at the Chicago Eight Trial
 Vic Sadot, Phil Ochs' FBI File, Broadside Magazine Phil Ochs: The Life and Legacy of a Legendary American Folk Singer – video report by Democracy Now!''
 Sonny Ochs, interviewed about Phil Ochs, Culture Shocks with Barry Lynn, March 23, 2011.

 Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration (Philadelphia, May 31, 1977) (video part 1) (video part 2)

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We have discussed texting quite a bit within our office and in general over the past few years. You can read about the dangerous and expensive effects of texting and driving on Atlanta insurance in our previous article here. However, today I thought we would focus on the extreme safety issue that is evolving from the occasional mishap into the dangerous daily norm.
First, some context- my wife and I live on a street where the speed limit is 25 mph. You would think accidents would be kept to a minimum as the good law-abiding citizens of Atlanta would never speed, if for no better reason than to keep down their Atlanta auto insurance premiums. Shockingly, this isn't always the case as we have had seven, that's right SEVEN, accidents either directly in front of our driveway or within a mere fifteen yards. They were all slightly different circumstances but the common denominator in each of these accidents was a lack of performing the most common requirement when driving- looking at the road. Only one of the seven accidents may have been unrelated to texting. That gentleman was so intoxicated that he likely would have been unable to type if he tried.
So, back my wife's trip to the store a mere mile away from our house. Before she was even able to pull out of the driveway she came upon accident number seven. This was the second of the seven accidents involving a postal worker being rear ended while placing the mail in the mailbox. Now, I can't unequivocally prove the offending party was texting and driving, but one would assume this to be the case, since it is unlikely to miss a stop-and-go postal truck directly in front of you. The last postal worker hit in our driveway was out on workers compensation for quite some time so we will have to see if this latest incident on our 25 mph superhighway results in the same.
While texting and driving is dangerous enough in itself, the risk factors multiply exponentially when you combine it with another epidemic sweeping the country- texting and walking. After leaving the scene of the accident at our house my wife continued to the store down the street. The store is located on yet another 25 mph superhighway, but this stretch comes complete with a round-a-bout and pedestrian crosswalk frequented by Emory University students. It is here that my wife witnessed, no more than 90 seconds after leaving the scene of the last texting accident, the dangerous collaboration of both the texting and driving and texting and walking contingencies.
An Emory student, who was obviously used to walking while staring at her screen, strode confidently into the road fully engrossed in the email, Facebook update or other distraction she was reading. Simultaneously, a vehicle whose driver was also checking the urgent items on his screen, came careening at least 40 mph down the hill towards the crosswalk. My wife watched in horror as neither party took any evasive maneuvers to avoid what would be a certain tragedy. Thankfully, the driver must have finished reading his exceptionally important update as he slammed on the brakes hard enough to hear the screeching at the top of Emory's campus. It was only this screeching sound that pulled the student out of her texting induced trance as she jumped backwards to avoid the impact of his BMW. There was no yelling at each other as the mutual guilt was realized and they went on with their daily routines as if no one had almost lost their life.
Unfortunately, this has become normal. We need to make it not normal. Until then, please be alert as no text is worth losing your life or taking the life of another.


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Just over 67,000 new cases of COVID-19 were identified in the United States on Friday, bringing the nationwide count soaring past 4.5 million, according to a count kept by Johns Hopkins University.
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Q: pandas DataFrame transpose/melt/pivot for one column only I have data like this in a pandas DataFrame:

And I would like to transform it to this (in a pandas DataFrame):

I tried to use df.melt(), df.pivot(), and df.T() but it didn't work out for me since they transformed all the columns... Anyone knows how to fix this (using something else than pd Dataframe is also fine, I have my data in a csv file)?

A: I think you can use pivot with fillna:
print (df)
  name group  weight
0    a     e      60
1    t     g      70
2    p     d      80
3    f     d      40
4    e     e      50
5    l     g      30
6    a     d      20

print (df.pivot(index='name', columns='group', values='weight').fillna(''))
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name
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e          50
f      40
l              30
p      80
t              70

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I'm sold, I can't wait to be apart of the future!
What did you think of the Stadia reveal?
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What about the first party lineup?
Demo shown works decent in a controlled environment but what happens in real scenarios with a shaky internet connection?
Will the service launch with a full library of games?
The future is certainly streaming but is the future actually now?
I'll leave gaming to the companies who made Mario, Zelda, Zidane, Nathan Drake, Master Chief, and Spiro.
More is a good thing, but I'm getting older and these new features don't interest me.
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It's not really something I can even use if it relies on streaming.
Get better freakin' broadband in my community first, then I might even think about it, but without, it's useless to me.
I mean, I can't even watch Netflix in HD with the kind of connection available, still get DVDs and blurays delivered to me. I don't watch people playing games on youtube. I play the games myself.
It's the future, and the future looks less cluttered.
It's too ahead of it's time. Google should come back in a decade with this idea but updated to be on par with 2030's technology.


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Title: Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
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HomePoliticsArmy, Others Deployed To INEC Offices In Imo Over Attacks
Army, Others Deployed To INEC Offices In Imo Over Attacks
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that security personnel, including the Army and Department of State Services (DSS), have been deployed to its offices in Imo State, following the surge in attacks on its offices in the state.
The Eastern Updates reports that this is coming barely 24 hours after hoodlums attacked and vandalised the INEC office in the Isu Local Government Area (LGA), marking the fourth of such incidents in Imo in less than three weeks. Other attacks were recorded in the Orlu and Oru West LGAs as well as the state headquarters in Owerri.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in the state, Prof. Sylvia Agu addressed the security crisis during a live appearance on Channels Television's Sunrise Daily on Friday which was monitored by The Eastern Updates.
'Security men have been deployed, stationed in those areas. At the headquarters, we have the army, the Civil Defence, and the DSS. In the various local governments, we are using vigilante groups; we are using Ebubeagu group too and we have 100 percent assurance from the security men – not just giving us the assurance, they are already on the ground," she said.
'That particular building is one housing the election party monitoring department (EPM), security, the transport office, and some of the building of the account (sic). It's very destructive, but we thank God because it did not affect our sensitive materials.'
Read Also: 2023: Your Votes Will Count, INEC Assures Imo Electorate
Commenting on the implications of INEC's operations in the state, Agu downplayed the severity of the attacks, noting that the commission had backups to ensure it did not suffer a significant loss of data.
"It's really not enormous, because we have a backup for the accounts section. For the transport section, we don't have much there. What we have there are pieces of furniture. For the EPM office, we have a backup. For all those things that got burnt, we have backups.
'For the security office, (there was) nothing serious. We are aware that we're vulnerable and because of that, we normally create backups in case of those types of incidents, so that when it happens, we can always lay (our) hands on our backups,' she said.
The REC stated that permanent voter cards (PVCs) and other sensitive materials were not affected, adding that the distribution of PVCs was on schedule. According to her, distribution does not occur at the offices that have come under attack.
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Jeff Yu: The Making of a Champion
Like all of us, Jeff Yu is many things: a son, a boyfriend, a student, a researcher, a former MMA fighter. Jeff also happens to be one the best male pole dancers in Canada.
Now, before your eyebrows start raising, or your eyes start rolling, let's start with some hard, cold facts:
Fact 1: pole dancing is a legitimate sport, whether performed by a male or a female. It combines strength, agility, endurance, and skill. It requires hours of training and buckets of skill. It is far from easy.
Fact 2: from North America to Asia, from Australia to Europe, Pole Dancing is taking off as a sport. At the latest World Pole Sport Championships, held annually in London, hundreds of athletes from more than 30 countries competed in a variety of divisions. Recently, a petition has been made to the International Olympic Committee to include Pole Dancing as an Olympic sport. That's legitimate.
Fact 3: When Jeff Yu was crowned Canadian Male Pole Dancing Champion in 2014, it was the culmination of a lot of hours, a lot sweat, and a lot of determination. It was earned
When Jeff first walked into Tantra Fitness in January of 2013, on the recommendation of a friend, he was a little unsure of what to expect, whether he might feel a bit like a fish out of water. But thanks to his own open mind, and a welcoming community of athletes and instructors, he immediately knew he had found something and somewhere special. Three years later, he would not change a thing.
We sat down with Jeff to talk about the evolution of pole dancing, erasing the stigma, and what it takes to be a champion.
Let's get the obvious question out of the way: why Pole Dancing, as opposed to any other sport?
I think it comes down to personality. And my story begins with a new year's ever resolution. I believe that all guys should learn how to dance in some way, shape or form. So tried my hand at foxtrot, waltz, those kind of dances. Then I talked to a friend who was studying in Copenhagen, and she was taking some pole dance classes. So she came back to Vancouver and asked me, "Hey, do you want to try this out?" And being a person who tries anything once, I said, "Yeah, why not?" I am definitely more of a "why not" guy than a "why" guy.
And what made you continue in the sport once you started?
When I first began a couple of years ago at Tantra, I was also doing MMA training. So I was sort of doing these polar opposites at the same time: something that was highly masculine and something that was perceived as highly feminine. Eventually, it got to the point where I was just doing too much, doing too much to my body - working out and training 7 days a week in 2 different sports. Something had to give, or my body was going to give. So I had to make a choice.
Honestly, the reason I chose pole dance over MMA was the community aspect of Pole, and the self-discovery aspect as well. Unlike MMA, in Pole, you are fighting against yourself. You are figuring out your own body. Yes, we have some of the best instructors in the world, but they don't know your body as well as you do, and as a novice, you don't know your body very well either. So I really enjoyed that self-discovery component, that "wow" moment when I nail that move, when I astonish myself. That's a huge aspect of the appeal of Pole.
Did you know you would be breaking boundaries? Was that a consideration at all?
Yes and no. I mean there are other men in the sport, but in Canada it is definitely not as big as in Eastern Europe or the United States. When I first started getting into it, I noticed that I was generally the only guy in the gym, and at competitions, there were not as many male competitors as the other divisions. But I always did it for myself and for my studio. I really wanted to make myself and Tantra proud, so I didn't really think about whether I was breaking any boundaries. At the same time, however, I do understand that I am perceived as a bit of a "special case."
Now that you are a national champion, do you feel any responsibility to expand the sport further, to spread the word, so to speak?
Absolutely. It really comes down to the stigma, which is that Pole dancing is only for women or for homosexual men. But I am able to bring my own personality, my own background to the sport, and there are a lot of men with a similar background to mine who might want to pursue the sport. I may bring something different to pole dancing, but I always respect the history of the sport. I have an appreciation for all styles, but I would never try to emulate something that did not fit my body type. I have to stay true to myself and my own style.
So a guy is sitting at home, thinking he would like to give pole dancing a try, but doesn't really know where to start. What should his first step be?
Call the studio - that's what I did! The most important is to have an open mind and ask lots of questions.
Would it be fair to say that Pole Dancing is in the gymnastics family? Or is it a truly unique sport?
The sport has definitely evolved over the years, from a more lyrical aspect to a more acrobatic aspect today, and this has brought it closer to gymnastics. Now, as competitions are getting bigger and the sport continues to evolve, tricks are getting more and more extreme and the acrobatic aspect of the sport has become more important.
We must never forget, however, that there is also a dance component to Pole. There is the pole aspect, which is the fitness and the acrobatics, but you need to connect everything together; you need a flow. And that is where the dance aspect comes in to play, be it lyrical or jazz or hip hop or whatever style you choose.
What about the future of pole dance. Do you see a further evolution over the next five to ten years?
Definitely. It is one of the things I find so exciting about the sport. It is a little bit past its infancy, but not much. At Tantra, we have started something called Advanced Pole Lab Workshops, because there are so many new moves coming out of the pole community that we couldn't put it into our regular curriculum. And personally, I am always growing, improving, inventing and perfecting new moves. I have my own signature, combination move, but the sky is the limit. As the sport becomes more "gymnastical," the tricks are just going to get bigger and more technical. It is exciting to see the sport grow so quickly, and to be a part of it.
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Armani is a longtime filmmaking enthusiast, who sees cinema as a continuous source of inspiration.
Fashion designer Giorgio Armani is hosting a film series titled "Vite Straordinarie," or "Extraordinary Lives," at Armani/Silos, a fashion art museum in Milan.
This film series began in mid-June. Six biographical pictures about the lives of influential people in cinema, music, and photography are being featured. The objective is to study the psychology of the creativity of these people. Armani believes these biopics are a good way to see the lives of people we know only by their work and learn about how they create.
The influential people featured in the film series include filmmaker David Lynch, director Elia Kazan, actor Marlon Brando, jazz musician Chet Baker, photographer Vivian Maier, and photographer Sebastião Salgado.
Armani is a longtime filmmaking enthusiast, who sees cinema as a continuous source of inspiration. He has designed costumes for many movies over the years, including "The Wolf of Wall Street," "A Most Violent Year," "Ocean's Thirteen," "The Tuxedo," "The Untouchables," and "American Gigolo," among many others.


Trevor Noah, best known to Americans these days as the successor host of The Daily Show, has a fascinating life story. In his book, Born A Crime, he recounts stories of his life growing up as a non-white in South Africa at the end of apartheid.
He was born to a black mother and a white Swiss father. At the time, during apartheid, this was illegal. Because of his mixed race, he spent most of his life as an outsider. He didn't fit in with the whites, he didn't fit in with the blacks, he didn't even feel like he fit in with the other mixed race (Coloured) kids.
He tells about his life as a young child — going to church three times every Sunday, being pushed out of a moving car by his mother to save their lives from men who were sure to kill them because of their ethnicity. He tells about his school life and raising hell as an adolescent — shoplifting, running from police, building a pirated music empire complete with his own middlemen.
It is also the story of Trevor's relationship with his mother. She is a fierce woman full of wisdom and advice who instilled the belief in her son that he could do anything, be anyone. And at a time when she had no reason to believe apartheid would end. She showed him a world outside the black ghettos, taught him English as a first language, and pushed him hard out of unconditional love.
The stories in this book are funny, heartwarming, and tragic. While not told in a chronological order, he still manages to create a cohesive story of what it was like in his world. It made me laugh, it broke my heart, and it made me reflect on my own life.
With each story, he gives unique insight into the politics and social aspects of racism, class, and a country struggling with democracy. This book taught me a lot about the intricacies of apartheid and how it affected the lives of ordinary people. Trevor Noah brought to light the foolishness of the unsustainable and sometimes arbitrary rules and decisions based on race.
We live in a world where we don't see the ramifications of what we do to others because we don't live with them.
If we could see one another's pain, and empathize with one another, it would never be worth it to us to commit the crimes in the first place.
I highly recommend this book. It's well-written and thought-provoking with a large dose of humor.


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In other news, Canada has formally designated the Proud Boys as an international terrorist organization.
OTTAWA — Canada formally designated the Proud Boys as a terrorist entity under its criminal law on Wednesday, a move that could lead to financial seizures and allow police to treat any crimes they commit as terrorist activity.
Government officials said Wednesday that they believe Canada is the first nation to label the Proud Boys a terrorist group. The events last month in Washington, they added, contributed to the move, which was already under consideration.
Meanwhile, federal investigators looking at Russia's big hack that originated at SolarWinds reportedly found that Chinese hackers were using the same exploit as the Russians to spy on U.S. government computers. There's failing, and then there's this.
Finally, the Pentagon is soliciting proposals for a wearable device for detecting incoming microwaves. This is reportedly connected to something we first covered here in 2017; the mysterious "sonic attacks" that weren't actually sonic at all.
That was laid out in a Dec. 9 contract solicitation for "a low cost, low weight, small size wearable radio frequency (RF) weapon exposure detector," specifying high-frequency microwaves, that came from the Defense Department's Defense Health Program. [...]
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's criticized report suggested the weapons were the "most plausible" explanation for puzzling neurological injuries seen in at least 15 diplomatic personnel and their families in Cuba in 2016 and 2017.
"Without known patterns of [radiofrequency] injury to guide diagnosis, it will be difficult to differentiate [microwave] injury from other common sources of illness and injury such as heat stroke," says the defense agency's microwave weapon detector program request, which closes in about two weeks.
When I read this report from Buzzfeed, I looked back at the infamous attacks in 2017 in a different way. I had always viewed those attacks as diplomatic harassment intended to disrupt relations because the U.S. and Cuba -- and it may have been that -- but what if it was also a weapons test? Even if it wasn't an explicit weapons test, the Pentagon apparently noticed.
Forgive the light posting today. There was a whole lot of nothing going on and I think there's just going some days like that under the Biden administration.
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