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Scott Sander Sheppard (born 1977) is an American astronomer and a discoverer of numerous moons, comets and minor planets in the outer Solar System.

He is an astronomer in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC. He attended Oberlin College as an undergraduate, and received his bachelor in physics with honors in 1998. Starting as a graduate student at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii, he was credited with the discovery of many small moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. He has also discovered the first known trailing Neptune trojan, , the first named leading Neptune trojan, 385571 Otrera, and the first high inclination Neptune trojan, . These discoveries showed that the Neptune trojan objects are mostly on highly inclined orbits and thus likely captured small bodies from elsewhere in the Solar System.

The main-belt asteroid 17898 Scottsheppard, discovered by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa Station in 1999, was named in his honor.

Discoveries

Sheppard was the lead discoverer of the object with the most distant orbit known in the Solar System,  (nicknamed Biden). In 2014, the similarity of the orbit of  to other extreme Kuiper belt object orbits led Sheppard and Trujillo to propose that an unknown Super-Earth mass planet (2–15 Earth masses) in the outermost Solar System beyond 200 AU and up to 1500 AU is shepherding these smaller bodies into similar orbits (see Planet X or Planet Nine). The extreme trans-Neptunian objects  and , announced in 2016 and co-discovered by Sheppard, further show a likely unknown massive planet exists beyond a few hundred AU in the Solar System, with  being the first known high semi-major axis and high perihelion object anti-aligned with the other known extreme objects. In 2018, the announcement of the high perihelion inner Oort cloud object 541132 Leleākūhonua (nicknamed "The Goblin") by Sheppard et al., being only the third known after  and Sedna, further demonstrated that a super-Earth planet in the distant solar system likely exists as Leleākūhonua has many orbital similarities as the two other known inner Oort cloud objects.

Most notable discoveries

Sheppard has been involved in the discovery of many small Solar System bodies such as trans-Neptunian objects, centaurs, comets and near-Earth objects.
 Three comets are named after him which are Sheppard-Trujillo (C/2014 F3), Sheppard-Tholen (C/2015 T5) and comet Trujillo-Sheppard (P/2018 V5).
 The possible dwarf planets discovered by Sheppard are 471143 Dziewanna, , , ,  and .
 In 2018, Sheppard was the lead discoverer of the most distant observed object in our solar system and first object observed beyond 100 AU, dwarf planet  (nicknamed Farout), which is around 120 AU from the Sun.
 He discovered a minor-planet moon around likely dwarf planet .
 He is also a co-discoverer of a minor-planet moon orbiting the binary trans-Neptunian object 341520 Mors–Somnus.
 Among the numerous irregular moons of the major planets in whose discovery he has been involved are:

Jupiter
Discovered moons of Jupiter (full list):

 Themisto (2000), first seen but lost in 1975 by Charles Kowal
 Harpalyke (2000)
 Praxidike (2000)
 Chaldene (2000)
 Isonoe (2000)
 Erinome (2000)
 Taygete (2000)
 Kalyke (2000)
 Megaclite (2000)
 Iocaste (2000)
 Dia (2000)
 Euporie (2001)
 Orthosie (2001)
 Euanthe (2001)
 Thyone (2001)
 Hermippe (2001)
 Pasithee (2001)
 Aitne (2001)
 Eurydome (2001)
 Autonoe (2001)
 Sponde (2001)
 Kale (2001)
 Arche (2002)
 Eukelade (2003)
 Helike (2003)
 Aoede (2003)
 Hegemone (2003)
 Kallichore (2003)
 Cyllene (2003)
 Mneme (2003)
 Thelxinoe (2003)
 Carpo (2003)
 Kore (2003)
 Herse (2003)
 S/2003 J 2 (2003)
 Eupheme (2003)
 S/2003 J 4 (2003)
 Eirene (2003)
 S/2003 J 9 (2003)
 S/2003 J 10 (2003)
 S/2003 J 12 (2003)
 Philophrosyne (2003)
 S/2003 J 16 (2003)
 Jupiter LV (2003)
 Jupiter LXI (2003)
 S/2003 J 23 (2003)
 S/2003 J 24 (2003)
 Jupiter LXXII (2011)
 Jupiter LVI (2011)
 S/2011 J 3 (2011)
 Jupiter LIV (2016)
 Valetudo (2016)
 S/2016 J 3 (2016)
 S/2016 J 4 (2016)
 Jupiter LIX (2017)
 Jupiter LXIII (2017)
 Jupiter LXIV (2017)
 Pandia (2017)
 Jupiter LXVI (2017)
 Jupiter LXVII (2017)
 Jupiter LXVIII (2017)
 Jupiter LXIX (2017)
 Jupiter LXX (2017)
 Ersa (2018)
 S/2018 J 2 (2018)
 S/2018 J 3 (2018)
 S/2018 J 4 (2018)
 S/2021 J 1 (2021)
 S/2021 J 2 (2021)
 S/2021 J 3 (2021)
 S/2021 J 4 (2021)
 S/2021 J 5 (2021)
 S/2021 J 6 (2021)
 S/2022 J 1 (2022)
 S/2022 J 2 (2022)
 S/2022 J 3 (2022)

Saturn
Discovered moons of Saturn (full list):

 Narvi (2003)
 Fornjot (2004)
 Farbauti (2004)
 Aegir (2004)
 Bebhionn (2004)
 Hati (2004)
 Bergelmir (2004)
 Fenrir (2004)
 Bestla (2004)
 Kari (2004)
 S/2004 S 7 (2004)
 S/2004 S 12 (2004)
 S/2004 S 13 (2004)
 S/2004 S 17 (2004)
 Hyrrokkin (2006)
 Loge (2006)
 Surtur (2006)
 Skoll (2006)
 Greip (2006)
 Jarnsaxa (2006)
 S/2006 S 1 (2006)
 S/2006 S 3 (2006)
 Tarqeq (2007)
 S/2007 S 2 (2007)
 S/2007 S 3 (2007)
 Gridr (2019)
 S/2004 S 21 (2019)
 Angrboda (2019)
 Skrymir (2019)
 S/2004 S 24 (2019)
 Gerd (2019)
 Saturn LVIII (2019)
 Eggther (2019)
 S/2004 S 28 (2019)
 Saturn LX (2019)
 Beli (2019)
 S/2004 S 31 (2019)
 Gunnlod (2019)
 Thiazzi (2019)
 Saturn LXIV (2019)
 Alvaldi (2019)
 S/2004 S 36 (2019)
 S/2004 S 37 (2019)
 Geirrod (2019)
 S/2004 S 39 (2019)

 Uranus
Discovered moons of Uranus (full list):
 Margaret (2003)
 Ferdinand (2003), first seen but lost in 2001 by Holman et al.

 Neptune
Discovered moons of Neptune (full list):
 Psamathe (2003)

See also

References

External links
 Scott Sheppard's web site, Carnegie Institution for Science
 Scott S. Sheppard – Curriculum Vitae, Carnegie Institution for Science

1977 births
American astronomers
Planetary scientists

Discoverers of moons
Discoverers of trans-Neptunian objects
Living people

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Ofcom's explanation for undermining their own ruling
Wed 23/07/2008 17:16
From Andrew Morgan, Ofcom
Dear Dean,
Ofcom notes your comments on the reporting of its decision into The Great Global Warming Swindle and the wording in the notification email issued by Ofcom.
Ofcom distributes email notifications with the aim of alerting interested parties to the publication of specific Ofcom documents. As such, it is not always possible in these emails to include all the detail and relevant information behind announcements.
You state that Ofcom did not refer within the notification to specific guidance supporting Rule 2.2 of the Broadcasting Code. This states that the rule is designed to deal with content which materially misleads the audience so as to cause harm or offence. Nevertheless, the notification did state:
"….while Ofcom had concerns about aspects of the presentation (and omission) of facts and views within the programme, it did not believe, given the nature of the programme, that this led to the audience being materially misled. As such, Channel 4 has not been found in breach of Rule 2.2 of the Broadcasting Code."
This paragraph of the notification focuses on the specific Rule set out in the Broadcasting Code which states:
"Factual programmes or items or portrayals of factual matters must not materially mislead the audience".
Ofcom could reasonably expect seasoned media correspondents who reported on the Finding to appreciate the significance of the words 'materially misled' in the notification and the meaning attached to them under the Code and its guidance.
It is also worth noting that the guidance you discussed was set out in the full findings within Broadcast Bulletin No. 114. In addition, please be reassured that Ofcom's Media Office communicated this guidance in full to any journalists who contacted Ofcom regarding the outcome of its investigation.
Ofcom takes on board your comments, however in this case Ofcom will not be issuing a correction given the reasons detailed above.
Posted by fisking
An Ofcom attempt at a brush-off… and my reply
Dear Mr Morrison
Freedom of Information: Right to know request
Thank you for your request for information regarding The Great Global Warming Swindle.
Your request was received on 23 July 2008 and I am dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 ('the Act').
Generally any information provided will consist of copies of original documents in paper or electronic format.
Where we hold the information you have requested we will endeavour to answer your request in full and within 20 working days. If we are unable to provide the information requested, we will explain why under the Act the information has not been provided.
If you have any queries then please contact information.requests@ofcom.org.uk. Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.
Eleanor Berg
Thank you Eleanor,
There is however an outstanding question in my email of yesterday evening, and to which I still require a prompt response:
Will OFCOM produce a new Update as a matter of urgency; to correct this error while the matter is still a matter of public discussion; and will you circulate this correction directly to editors of the national media?
I assume that Andrew Morgan or Stewart Purvis will be in touch today with a response to this question?
Dean Morrison
Ofcom responsible for the misreporting of their own ruling
Tue 22/07/2008 22:57
To Andrew Morgan – Ofcom
Dear Andrew,
I am concerned about widespread reporting such as this:
"TV documentary on global warming did not mislead viewers, says Ofcom "
http://tinyurl.com/5ectw
Which you know is not what the ruling states (page 14):
"The accompanying Ofcom guidance to the Code explains that "Ofcom is required to guard against harmful or offensive material, and it is possible that actual or potential harm and/or offence may be the result of misleading material in relation to the representation of factual issues. This rule is therefore designed to deal with content which materially misleads the audience so as to cause harm or offence." (Emphasis in original).
Ofcom therefore only regulates misleading material where that material is likely to cause harm or offence."
"In dealing with these complaints therefore Ofcom had to ascertain – not whether the programme was accurate – but whether it materially misled the audience with the result that harm and/or offence was likely to be caused. It is not within Ofcom's remit or ability in this case as the regulator of the 'communications industry' to establish or seek to adjudicate on 'facts' such as whether global warming is a man-made phenomenon, nor is Ofcom able to reach conclusions about the validity of any particular scientific theories."
and (page 15):
"In summary, in relation to the manner in which facts in the programme were presented, Ofcom is of the view that the audience of this programme was not materially misled in a manner that would have led to actual or potential harm."
and (page 15/16)
"As a result Ofcom considered it highly unlikely that the programme could have caused actual harm. As to potential harm some complainants had considered that the programme's questioning of the theory of man-made global warming would create doubt and confusion in viewers' minds about the need to take action against global warming. Ofcom considers that, although the programme may have caused viewers to challenge the consensus view that human activity is the main cause of global warming, there is no evidence that the programme in itself did, or would, cause appreciable potential harm to members of the public."
Therefore the headline is wrong, and should include the caveat "so as to cause harm or offence" to accurately reflect the ruling.
I'd normally consider this to be a matter of poor reporting, coupled with an aggressive damage limitation exercise by Channel 4. I contacted the editors of a number of papers yesterday, and the Guardian at least corrected the story to reflect the actual ruling.
However it now appears to me that the source of this misreporting is OFCOM itself. It would appear that yesterday you published a summary of the ruling in:
"Ofcom Update: Ofcom Broadcast Bulletin issue number 114"
that omitted key information and the vital caveat:-
"In addition, while Ofcom had concerns about aspects of the presentation (and omission) of fact and views within the programme, it did not believe, given the nature of the programme, that this led to the audience being materially misled. As such, Channel 4 has not been found in breach of Rule 2.2 of the Broadcasting Code."
-and much of the media would seem to have simply repeated this without checking to see if it fairly reflected the actual ruling – which has allowed Channel 4 to incorrectly claim that they have been vindicated by OFCOM on these matters of fact.
Therefore as a matter of urgency:
Who was responsible for producing the "Ofcom Update"? and who authorised its publication?
Were the contents of the "Ofcom Update" agreed with the panel that made the ruling?
If this is not the case, I feel that OFCOM has made a grave error in a matter of great public interest, and will seriously consider making a complaint about OFCOM itself.
Will OFCOM produce an new Update as a matter of urgency; to correct this error while the matter is still a matter of public discussion; and will you circulate this correction directly to editors of the national media?
Leaks to Channel 4 – and their Guardian 'spoiler'
On a separate matter it seems that the ruling was 'leaked' to the media at the weekend – in a way which laid the ground for the 'spin' that Channel 4 seem to be putting on the story today.
I understood that the ruling was under strict embargo, and that any breach of this would be considered very seriously indeed?
I would like you to look at the Guardian article this weekend, which not only seemed to have some advance insight into your ruling, but also the position that Channel 4 was planning to take on the matter:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/19/channel4.climatechange
"In a long-awaited judgment following a 15-month inquiry, Ofcom is expected to censure the network over its treatment of some scientists in the programme, The Great Global Warming Swindle, which sparked outcry from environmentalists.
Complaints about privacy and fairness from the government's former chief scientist, Sir David King, and the Nobel peace prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will be upheld on almost all counts, the Guardian has learned.
But it is understood that Channel 4 will still claim victory because the ultimate verdict on a separate complaint about accuracy, which contained 131 specific points and ran to 270 pages, will find that it did not breach the regulator's broadcasting code and did not materially mislead viewers.
The detail of the ruling is expected to criticise Channel 4 over some aspects of the controversial programme, made by the director Martin Durkin, but executives will argue that the key test of whether it was right to broadcast the programme has been passed." (my emphasis)
To me that indicates that the leak came from someone with intimate knowledge of the intentions of Channel 4 executives – and that this leak is therefore a 'spoiler' intended to frame any debate to Channel 4's advantage.
If so this would seem to be an abuse of your procedures, and Channel 4's responsibilities to you.
Could you tell me whether you will be investigating this 'leak', and what action you would take if it was found to originate in Channel 4?
As for my individual complaint – I will await your letter to me before giving you a formal response…
First response from Ofcom
Mon 21/07/2008 17:22
Dear Dean
A copy of Ofcom's decision has been sent to you this afternoon in response to your complaint.
Your email of this afternoon to Stewart Purvis has been passed to me for reply.We have noted your comments in relation to the interview given by Hamish Mykura to the BBC today.
We will examine the interview and take any steps that are appropriate in the circumstances.
To Stewart Purvis of OFCOM:
Dear Mr Purvis,
I believe that Hamish Mykura has been misrepresenting today's ruling on "The Great Global Warming Swindle" – to make the claim that the programme has been vindicated on matters of fact – when reality your judgement says:
Ofcom therefore only regulates misleading material where that material is likely to cause harm or offence. As a consequence, the requirement that content must not materially mislead the audience is necessarily a high test. In dealing with these complaints therefore Ofcom had to ascertain – not whether the programme was accurate – but whether it materially misled the audience with the result that harm and/or offence was likely to be caused. It is not within Ofcom's remit or ability in this case as the regulator of the 'communications industry' to establish or seek to adjudicate on 'facts' such as whether global warming is a man-made phenomenon, nor is Ofcom able to reach conclusions about the validity of any particular scientific theories." ( Page 14)
I understand the ruling to mean that you were making a judgment about whether the presentation of misleading information was likely to cause 'harm or offence' – and your ruling specifically did not adjudicate on 'facts' – or in any way endorse the content of the programme – which is the impression Mr Mykura seeks to achieve in this BBC interview:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7517595.stm
(from this web-page)
Please could you listen to the interview, and issue a public clarification if you are in agreement,
On seeing Ofcom's ruling misreported
I write regarding this article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/21/channel4.ofcom
Where I believe you are misreporting the OFCOM ruling on "The Great Global Warming Swindle".
It's untrue to say that the OFCOM ruled that the programme did not 'materially mislead' the viewers – and I'm surprised to see the Guardian repeating Hamish Mykura's spin, without looking at the ruling (page 14)
Ofcom therefore only regulates misleading material where that material is likely to cause harm or offence. As a consequence, the requirement that content must not materially mislead the audience is necessarily a high test.
Therefore Ofcom concluded the broadcasters did not intend to cause "harm or offence" – but made no judgement as to whether the public had been misled or not…
Please stop helping Channel 4 in their damage limitation exercise.
Ofcom's materially misleading "Swindle"
There follows correspondence between myself and Ofcom on their ruling, and in particular on their own misrepresention of their own ruling – on the "Great Global Warming Swindle" mockumentary…
Filed in Global Warming Denial, Ofcom, Science and the Media, The Great Global Warming Swindle ·Tags: Science and the Media, The Great Global Warming Swindle
Let the Fisking begin!!
Global Warming Denial
Science and the Media
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Ofcom Swindle Complaint
Ofcom's Ruling on "The Great Global Warming Swindle"
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A Pivotal Week
A pivotal week lies ahead in the Presidential race.
The first debate is scheduled for Tuesday night.
President Trump and Joe Biden will go head-to-head for a large television audience with Chris Wallace moderating the debate in Cleveland.
Incumbent Presidents have typically performed poorly in the first debates during most Presidential races.
You may recall Barack Obama being described as having an "off night" when he debated Mitt Romney in 2012 or the questions that were raised about the mental faculties of Ronald Reagan in his first debate with Walter Mondale in 1984. Romney picked up 4.4 points in the polls after the first debate in 2012. Reagan saw his lead fall by 3.6 points in 1984. However, in both cases the incumbents rallied and won re-election.
Various theories have been advanced for why this has occurred. Some argue it is due to the fact that the challenger has been "challenged" more in the year leading up to the debates. They have have had more practice debating and have been challenged more by the media. It is said that the incumbent has gotten soft in not being in the fray to the same extent the challenger has.
Others say that merely having the challenger on the same stage with the President elevates the stature of the challenger in the eyes of the voters.
There is little question that there will be a lot of eyes on the debate this week. Forbes predicts that the debate audience might approach 100 million viewers. That viewership has only been reached 11 other times in television history of which 10 were Super Bowl games. The other program was the M*A*S*H finale in 1983.
With the pandemic curtailing campaign rallies, a polarized political climate, the ratings spike of newscasts, the lack of original programming content on competitive cable networks, an unpredictable president who constantly courts media attention (including expected complaints about the moderator and format) and recent debates setting TV audience records, the 2020 debates could average 100 million viewers, joining ten Super Bowls (including this year's) and the M*A*S*H finale in 1983 to reach that audience threshold.
Forbes fails to mention one other factor in its analysis.
Viewer interest in determining whether Joe Biden is up to the task of being President of the United States is going to be strong. There is still a substantial question hanging over the candidacy of Joe Biden. I wrote about it in my last blog post when I asked , "How Worried Should We Be About Joe Biden?"
Will Biden be able to go toe-to-toe with Trump on the debate stage? Biden has long been known for gaffes, will he slip up on the biggest stage ever? Can Biden give voters the confidence that he has the drive and durability to be President of the United States in these challenging times?
The schedule Biden has been following does not suggest that he has it.
Consider this tweet from The Hill reporter Joe Concha.
This is all at the same time that Trump is flying around the country speaking at large rallies while also nominating a new Supreme Court justice and brokering Middle East peace agreements.
Biden's recent interview with MSNBC also should not inspire much confidence that Joe has it together ahead of the debate.
Watch Biden as he is thoroughly confused and needs MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle to bail him out. Pay particular attention to the look on Ruhle's face as she listens to Biden. She closes her eyes as if to say to herself, "this is our candidate and this is a nightmare."
Click here if your browser does not play the video.
This article from RedState details some other strange things that came out of Biden's mouth during that interview.
Here is another example from last week where Biden was addressing the United States Conference of Mayors virtually, in which he said he said he had gotten to the Senate "180 years ago."
Remember what I wrote recently about problems with numeracy being a warning sign of dementia?
Click here for the video if the video below does not play in your browser.
Joe Biden has a tremendous opportunity to lay these concerns to rest with a solid debate performance just as Ronald Reagan did in the second debate in 1984.
However, a performance like those above in front of 100 million people would be very damaging to the cause of the Democrats.
There are many voters who don't pay much attention to politics. However, they know what they see and hear.
That is why the debates are a pivotal point in the race. Donald Trump and Joe Biden both have a lot riding on their performance Tuesday night with that gigantic audience that will be further amplified by social media.
Love him or hate him, Donald Trump is a known quantity for most voters. Presidential debates present much more opportunity for the challengers to capture swing voters. On the other hand, there may be voters who don't like Trump personally but are they willing to risk their lives, livelihoods and liberty on someone who presents themselves like Biden did in the two clips above? That is asking voters to make a very big BET.
Making any change involves risk. That is a fundamental trait in most human beings. People tend to prefer the known versus the unknown. That is why incumbents have an advantage in most elections. Familiarity drives favorability. That is why so much is spent on advertising and most people think that their hometown is the best place to live.
I can guarantee there will not be a better show on tv than what we will see on Tuesday night.
Count me in as one of the 100 million that will be watching.
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Not every general counsel worries about leaky stadium joints, chicken wings, loud music, and the weather. But that's all part of the job for Lonn Trost, chief operating officer and general counsel of the New York Yankees.
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ASH Announces 2022 Honorific Award Recipients
(WASHINGTON, June 29, 2022) — The American Society of Hematology (ASH) will recognize exemplary hematologists who have made significant contributions to the field with Honorific Awards at the 2022 ASH Annual Meeting in December. This year's recipients are a group of pioneering scientists, innovative clinicians, and selfless mentors who have advanced hematology through vital contributions, from revolutionary achievements in stem cell transplantation and the discovery of novel blood cancer biomarkers, to dedicated mentorship of underrepresented minority trainees to bolster a strong and diverse hematology workforce.
"We applaud this year's Honorific Award recipients, all of whom have made tremendous contributions to our field. They have dedicated their careers to advancing patient care, research, and education, all of which directly improve the lives of people with blood disorders," said ASH President Jane N. Winter, MD, of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. "ASH values opportunities to recognize leaders and role models with diverse perspectives, talents, and experiences, who are dedicated to furthering the future of hematology."
The 2022 Honorific Awards recipients are:
Irving Weissman, MD, Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine:
Wallace H. Coulter Award for Lifetime Achievement in Hematology
Dr. Weissman has made monumental contributions to hematology over the past 56 years. As a trailblazer in cancer stem cell biology, he is best known for his research on hematopoiesis, leukemia, and hematopoietic stem cells.
Dr. Weissman's fascination with microbiology began at the age of ten after reading Microbe Hunters. The book taught him the role of microbes in vaccine development, and, more importantly, the principle that scientific discoveries can be translated for clinical use. Decades later, at Stanford University Medical School, Dr. Weissman worked in stem cell research. After graduation, his research journey continued: in 1988, his laboratory was the first to discover and isolate blood-forming stem cells from mice, and in 1992 he published the first isolation of human blood-forming stem cells. From there, the group began pivotal clinical trials on women with metastatic breast cancer. They developed a method to isolate the blood-forming stem cells free from the cancer cells, enabling these cells to be delivered back to patients after chemotherapy as treatment for the underlying disease. This discovery revolutionized the cancer community's understanding of stem cells' role in drug development.. Dr. Weissman and colleagues later discovered that CD47, an age marker on red blood cells that scientists can use to detect emerging cancerous stem cells, could be targeted with blocking antibodies to treat blood cancers with low-dose azacytidine and drug-resistant lymphomas when paired with rituximab. Dr. Weissman's work established hematopoietic stem cells as the paradigm for mammalian stem cell biology and transformed the way scientists and physicians approach blood cancers in the lab and clinic.
Peter Hillmen, MD, PhD, University of Leeds School of Medicine, Emeritus Professor
John Atkinson, MD, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Ernest Beutler Lecture and Prize
This award recognizes the work of Dr. Hillmen for his 30 years of research on paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), a rare genetic blood disease that causes red blood cells to break apart, and Dr. Atkinson's discovery of an immune system regulator, termed membrane cofactor protein (MCP). Both breakthroughs have advanced our understanding of the complement system, a fundamental component of the human immune system that plays a significant role in the manifestation of many blood disorders.
Dr. Hillmen established the National PNH Service in the United Kingdom, which has served more than 1000 patients with the rare disease. He is an extraordinarily accomplished researcher and has published more than 250 research articles, approximately half focusing on PNH biology, treatment, and outcomes. Dr. Hillmen additionally developed and led a series of clinical trials on eculizumab, a drug that has since transformed PNH treatment and significantly increased survival rates for patients with PNH. His research interests extend beyond PNH and across many facets of hematology, but all with the common theme of understanding the immune system's underlying role in hematologic disease.
Dr. Atkinson has spent his professional career dedicated to understanding the role of the complement system, a network of proteins in the immune system. Notably, he and his colleagues were the first to discover a previously unknown regulator of the complement system, MCP, which is now more commonly referred to as CD46. CD46 is expressed on nearly every human cell and protects healthy cells from complement system-mediated damage. Remarkably, this protein now functions in many human vaccines, demonstrating its broad role in human disease. Dr. Atkinson's interest in the complement system was piqued in 1971 when he served as an infectious disease consultant at the National Institutes of Health. Later, in 1976, at Washington University School of Medicine, he was appointed to direct the Rheumatology Division and became an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. After establishing his first independent laboratory, he continued studying the intersection of hematology and immunology as it relates to the complement system.
James Gavin, MD, PhD, Emory University School of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine
David Wilkes, MD, University of Virginia School of Medicine
Leadership in Promoting Diversity
Dr. Gavin and Dr. Wilkes are being honored for their decades of commitment to diversity in medicine through their leadership of the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program (AMFDP) of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Together they have contributed 28 years of service to the program and continue to serve as eminent leaders in their respective fields. Since 1983, AMFDP has supported 330 scholars, many of whom have gone on to be professors, department chairs, and leaders at the National Institutes of Health and the National Academy of Medicine.
Dr. Gavin has participated in AMFDP for 39 years and served as director for 20 years. His contributions were instrumental in shaping the ASH-AMDFP partnership to increase diversity in hematology. Early in his career, he became fascinated with diabetes, a disease that had affected his family and continues to affect African American populations disproportionately. He devoted his life's research to uncovering ways to improve diabetes outcomes. Beyond his own research, Dr. Gavin served as a role model for many medical trainees. Through AMFDP, he learned how influential mentorship could be on student success. He guided many students and trainees through their medical careers and is devoted to helping underrepresented students in medicine overcome systemic barriers to entry. Dr. Gavin's most notable accomplishments include serving as the first African American president of the American Diabetes Association, the president of the Morehouse School of Medicine, and a senior science officer at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute-NIH Scholars program. He has made unparalleled contributions to medicine through his pioneering research in diabetes, leadership, advocacy, and, most notably, his dedication to advancing the careers of students, trainees, and physician-scientists.
Dr. Wilkes has served as the national director of AMFDP since 2013 and has given several national presentations and published many studies on eliminating bias and reducing discrimination in health professions. He is a leading physician and scientist who has made significant contributions to immunology and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. As a pulmonologist and critical care physician, he focuses on research to uncover what drives the immunology of lung transplant rejections. Throughout his career, Dr. Wilkes and his colleagues have worked to understand the mechanisms behind graft-versus-host-disease (GVHD). Their work led to the development of a drug for pulmonary fibrosis, the endpoint of lung transplant rejection caused by GVHD. Dr. Wilkes is motivated to promote diversity in hematology because of the profound ways that unique perspectives improve academic medicine and increase cultural competency in patient care.
Irene Ghobrial, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
William Dameshek Prize
Dr. Ghobrial is being recognized for her research on the mechanisms underlying disease progression in myeloma. Through her work, she has challenged standard myeloma patient care by leading screening for early detection of the disease, uncovering novel biomarkers for risk stratification, and disrupting the traditional myeloma treatment paradigm with innovative trials in smoldering myeloma. While Dr. Ghobrial has made many significant contributions to her field, her most notable research accomplishments include leading, PROMISE, the first screening study in the US and the first study to ever screen high-risk individuals. PROMISE detected MGUS/SMM, a precursor molecule for myeloma, in more than 30,000 individuals deemed to be at high risk of developing myeloma, many of whom are African American and first-degree relatives of patients with myeloma. Dr. Ghobrial and her colleagues are also pioneering early-intervention prevention strategies for myeloma using CAR-T cells.
Bruce Blazar, MD, University of Minnesota Medical School
E. Donnall Thomas Lecture and Prize
Dr. Blazar has made innumerable contributions to the field of transplantation immunology and stem cell biology. His research has focused on designing strategies to reduce blood and bone marrow transplant complications. His lab is currently working on developing new therapies that prevent and treat acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), a donor anti-host immune reaction resulting in inflammation and cell-mediated destruction (acute GVHD), or later after transplant, fibrosis that can affect virtually any organ in the body (chronic GVHD). Dr. Blazar's early contributions to preventing acute GVHD included preclinical modeling of commonly used immunosuppressant drugs as well as CTLA4-Ig, a recombinant fusion protein that blocks the specific T cell immune response to host antigens. The latter recently became the first U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) drug for acute GVHD prophylaxis. In more current chronic GVHD studies, he discovered that donor germinal center B cells that produce anti-host antibodies can work in concert with macrophages to cause chronic GVHD. His lab's paradigm-shifting research in preclinical chronic GVHD modeling contributed to each of the three FDA-approved chronic GVHD drugs.
Timothy Ley, MD, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Robert Montgomery, MD, Versiti Blood Research Institute
Henry M. Stratton Medal
Dr. Ley, the basic science awardee, is being recognized for leading the effort to sequence the first human cancer genomes, from patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). These studies helped to create a foundation for the Cancer Genome Atlas, and the discovery of many previously unknown drivers of AML. His research focuses on understanding the molecular underpinnings of AML, including the acquired mutations and altered gene expression patterns responsible for the disease's initiation, progression, and relapse. He is currently studying AML initiating events, and how they "reprogram" hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells to make them more fit for transformation. He hopes that mechanism-based targeting of the initiating events may provide new approaches for treating myeloid malignancies.
Dr. Montgomery, the translational/clinical awardee, is being recognized for his substantial contributions to understanding hemophilia, von Willebrand disease (VWD), and interactions between von Willebrand factor (VWF) and Factor VIII (FVIII), both of which are critical components of hemostasis. Dr. Montgomery was the first to identify what became known as the VWF propeptide that shepherds the trafficking, bond formation, and storage of mature VWF within endothelial cells. He has led a VWD Program Project since 2005 that has identified problems with the stringency of VWD diagnosis, new causes of variant VWD, new functional assays for VWF, and developed rodent models of variant VWD and hemophilia. He also developed a novel approach for gene therapy of hemophilia A with inhibitors using ectopic expression of FVIII in platelets that binds, stores with VWF, and releases FVIII at sites of vessel injury where it is functional even in presence of high-titer FVIII inhibitory antibodies. His research has not only advanced our fundamental understanding of VWF and FVIII biosynthesis and function but also translated to the clinical diagnosis and management of VWD patients.
Michael Caligiuri, MD, City of Hope National Medical Center
Christopher Flowers, MD, MS, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Mentor Award
Dr. Caligiuri has dedicated much of his career to mentoring the next generation of physicians, scientists, and physician-scientists: over the last three decades, he has mentored more than 100 individuals and has had a profound impact on their careers. Dr. Caligiuri first realized his passion for mentorship after struggling in physiology class while in medical school. He searched for ways to break down complex concepts and developed his own lectures. After the chair of the department allowed him to deliver two of his lectures to first-year medical students, he saw the effect his teaching abilities had on fellow students; he received the highest evaluation scores among all the lecturers in the year-long course and continued to deliver the lectures for his remaining time in medical school. Dr. Caligiuri derives great satisfaction from giving educational and career advice based on his own 35-year journey in academic medicine and the excellent guidance he received throughout his career from his mentor, the late Clara D. Bloomfield, MD. He has played a critical role in supporting ASH's Minority Medical Student award program (MMSAP) and has fostered the careers of many students who have pursued hematology professionally. He has made a special effort to foster diversity and inclusion in medicine by leading, along with his wife Ani, "Diversity, Dialogue and Dinner," where Black medical students, physicians, and community leaders came together to discuss the inherent challenges they faced in their professional lives as a result of their race. Dr. Caligiuri's own research focuses on exploring human natural killer cell biology and immune therapy for the treatment of hematologic malignancies and solid tumors.
Dr. Flowers is a leading lymphoma provider and world-renowned epidemiology expert who has served as a research mentor and advocate for his mentees throughout their careers. Dr. Flowers is committed to recruiting and mentoring underrepresented minorities and co-developed the ASH Minority Recruitment Initiative (MRI), which provides a 13-year pipeline of awards extending from the first year of medical school to faculty positions. Dr. Flowers first realized his passion for mentorship as a medical student, when he studied the work of a group of physicians who served as "clinical champions" and dramatically sped the process of drug development. This inspired Dr. Flowers to become a clinical champion himself. Later, his formative experiences with his own mentors through his residency and fellowships inspired him to pay such guidance forward. His formal mentoring roles have included sponsoring participants in the ASH Minority Medical Student Award Program, the ASH Amos Minority Faculty Development Program, and many other training programs. He also served as a faculty member and Co-Chair of the ASH Clinical Research Training Institute (CRTI). Dr. Flowers' own clinical research has primarily focused on developing observational studies, which are now viewed as "real-world evidence," and he currently leads a large multi-center cohort study in lymphoma.
The awards will be presented during the 64th ASH Annual Meeting, December 10-13, 2022, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Learn more about the ASH Honorific Awards.
The American Society of Hematology (ASH) (www.hematology.org) is the world's largest professional society of hematologists dedicated to furthering the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disorders affecting the blood. For more than 60 years, the Society has led the development of hematology as a discipline by promoting research, patient care, education, training, and advocacy in hematology. ASH's flagship journal, Blood (www.bloodjournal.org), is the most cited peer-reviewed publication in the field, and Blood Advances (www.bloodadvances.org) is the Society's online, peer-reviewed open-access journal.
Kira Sampson, American Society of Hematology
[email protected], 202-499-1796
ASH Announces 2022 Honorific Award Recipients.
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For building and facilities managers, the new healthy building certification schemes being rolled out globally present a major opportunity.
To help out we thought we'd do a quick comparison of the three main healthy building standards out there today - FitWel, WELL and LEED.
The table shows how new and existing office staircases can be leveraged to help you achieve one of these certifications.
Mandotory requirements are marked with an * and areas in which StepJockey can help are in bold.
Provide at least one accessible stairwell to regular building occupants that connects all regularly used floors.
*Stairs must be assessable to all regular building users during business hours.
*Buildings must have at least one main stair that enables occupants to travel between the building entrance floor, occupant's own destination floor and common use floors.
Locate an accessible stairwell equally or more visible than any elevators and or escalators at the main entrance.
*At least one staircase must be located within 7.5m of the entrance.
Stairs must be visible from the lobby and located no further than 7.5m from any edge of the lobby.
Use stair design to encourage stair usage.
*At least one staircase must be clearly visible from the entrance.
Place permanent point of decision prompts promoting stair use at elevator call areas.
*Signage to encourage stair use must be clearly visible at every bank of elevators.
Ensure that the quality of light in stairwells is of an equal or better quality than that of the building corridors.
*Stairways must be made aesthetically pleasing by use of light, music or artwork.
Provide daylighting at each floor/roof level of the stair(s) using either windows and/or skylights of at least 8 square feet (1 square meter) in size.
Providing activity incentive programmes for staff.
The use of StepJockey's elevator call button signs as well as our signage for stairwells and entrance lobbies can all be used to help you achieve one of the above well building standards.
More information on each of these building wellness standards can be found on their websites.
If you want to find out how StepJockey can help you achieve any of this building standards get in touch via our website.


According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), more than one million people in the United States have CFS. It is more prevalent in the U.S. than lupus, multiple sclerosis, and many types of cancer.
It is found more often in women than in men – women are four times more likely to get it. While anyone of any age can get CFS, it seems to be most common in people in their 40s and 50s. Researchers have found no evidence to suggest that CFS is contagious, but they do believe there may be a genetic or familial link.
Complications that can come from CFS include depression, increased absence from work, lifestyle restrictions, inability to carry out normal daily activities like caring for children, housekeeping, or spousal functions. It can cause significant social isolation and loneliness.
Many people have found that chiropractic for CFS helps reduce the pain that accompanies the condition as well as increases injury in some patients. The chiropractor uses spinal manipulation to treat the CFS patient, helping with many of the symptoms that are associated with the condition without invasive treatments or medication.
Many CFS patients report more energy, less pain or no pain, greater flexibility, increased mobility, and reduced inflammation of joints after just a few chiropractic adjustments. Often it will be recommended that the patient attend several sessions a week for spinal adjustments and counseling on supplements and diet. All of these treatments work together to relieve the symptoms, strengthen the immune system, and help the patient feel more in control of their body and their condition.
One of the benefits of chiropractic treatment for CFS is that it treats the whole patient, not just the symptoms. A doctor of chiropractic may recommend various chiropractic services such as spinal adjustments, but they will also sit with the patient and discuss that patient's diet, daily routine, and any medications or supplements they are taking.
They may also recommend a liver detox program, depending on the patient as well as a more structured diet and exercise program.
Chiropractic care can give much needed hope to patients with CFS. The whole patient care that they receive helps not only the physical suffering, but the emotional suffering as well.
The changes in diet, recommended supplements, and chiropractic treatments help the physical symptoms of the patient but also address the emotional ones as well, particularly depression and frustration. It is important that patients with CFS know that there is someone who hears them, understands their difficulties, and wants to help them on every level, not just symptom control. Chiropractic care addresses all of these for optimal whole patient care.


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This example extends [Redux Saga's cancellable counter example](https://github.com/redux-saga/redux-saga/tree/master/examples/cancellable-counter) to have multiple counters on the same page.

To run the example locally:

```sh
git clone https://github.com/ioof-holdings/redux-subspace.git

cd redux-subspace/examples/redux-saga/cancellable-counter
npm install
npm start
```

Or check out the [sandbox](https://codesandbox.io/s/github/ioof-holdings/redux-subspace/tree/master/examples/redux-saga/cancellable-counter).

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WHAT TROUBLES we store up for the future when judges use the Charter as a means to reconstruct Canadian society to fit their personal prejudices.
Take the debate over gay marriage. Society has an interest in promoting and supporting the loving relationships on which households are built, whether the partners in those relationships are homosexual or heterosexual. In such relationships, people should have equal access to things like pensions and other benefits and equitable procedures in the case of the breakdown of the relationship. Thus, if we were to have a proper debate about the future of marriage, I would favour the creation of some kind of civil union giving official social sanction and status to gay relationships.
The "if" in that sentence, however, never came to pass. We started the debate. There had been discussions in Parliament, the matter was being studied. We were beginning to take the measure of Canadians' attitudes. The diversity of opinion is wide, the differences sharp. And we were properly treating this as a political question, not a rights question.
People like to denigrate politicians because they are inveterate compromisers. But this debate shows how great and important is the function of compromise, brokered by skilled politicians. When there is a full and free debate and everyone's feelings and thoughts get on the table, compromises and trade-offs are made. Rarely does anyone get exactly what they want, but we try to embrace the full range of mainstream opinion while safeguarding minority rights. Whether we get our way or not individually, the outcome has been legitimized by the political process and a large consensus usually emerges.
Not so for the courts. Judicial decisions are usually "winner takes all;" the judge's job is not to reach a delicate balance between what, say, minorities want and majorities will tolerate. In the Charter era, they have the power to sweep aside millennia of social evolution and the deeply held convictions of a very large part of the Canadian population, as they have done with the traditional institution of marriage.
That may appear to be a great victory for gay marriage advocates, but how we reach decisions matters just as much as the content of the decisions themselves. The consequences of this judicial law-making power are far-reaching. Not least of those consequences is a coarsening of our social and political life. The art of compromise, by both politicians and the population at large, is lost. Minorities no longer have to engage in a dialogue with majorities about how their place in society is to evolve; social conflict becomes a battleground in which competing "rights claims" are used as weapons, the outcome in the hands of inscrutable and unaccountable judges.
Not having gone through the painful compromise building that the political process presupposes, the support for judicial decisions hangs by a very slender thread. While polls show that judges have Canadians' respect, that is largely the result of a confusion. Judges are believed to apply impartially the majesty of the law, a law they allegedly do not make. How attractive, compared to the base compromises and trade-offs of the political world.
But that respectability is vulnerable as the true character of judicial activism under the Charter is revealed. People may not like what politicians do, but at least they can throw the rascals out at the next election. Under the Charter, judges have arrogated to themselves the power to make up the law as they go, based on an elite world view that is not widely shared by Canadians. The gulf between what Canadians believe and what the law constrains them to do is growing dangerously and unsustainably wide.
Of course, some will argue that is simply the way rights work: You either have a right or you do not, and if you do, a minority of one must be able to prevail against the largest majorities.
That does not mean, however, that we must all agree whenever some crotchety judge with bad digestion wakes up one morning and decides to create a "right." There are basic rights that must not be abridged because they are essential to the democratic process by which laws are decided, things like freedom of speech and assembly and association. There are similar rights that constrain dangerous coercive state power, like due process, security from arbitrary search and arrest, and improper interrogation techniques. There is a broad consensus on what these rights mean and why they must be protected.
But the Charter has given licence to judges to pull rights out of hats like rabbits. While everyone likes a good bit of legerdemain, it is no basis on which to build a society that respects fundamental rights as well as the fundamental role of politics in the evolution of our society. If judges decide that Canadians have a "right" to short waiting times for medical care, or to a minimum income, or to equal incomes, or that brothers and sisters have a right to marry (and all of these things are issues that have or may come before the courts), they may be able to impose their will. But they can only do so by dressing up their own political prejudices in the borrowed moral clothing of genuine rights. By such "rights inflation," they cheapen the real rights we must all defend, and undermine the prestige of the courts and the Charter.


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Anthropology & Mimetic Theory
The Point Yuval Harari Misses of Myth – Bringing René Girard to the Table
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Posted on September 5, 2011 by erik buys
As a kid, René Magritte used to play at an abandoned cemetery, together with a little girl. He saw a painter there, who seemed to him to possess magical powers… (thanks to Marcel Paquet's Taschen book, for this and the following information on Magritte).
Of course, later on, Magritte (1898-1967) became a painter himself, and an intriguing one. The Belgian surrealist managed to create a world of ideas and suggestions on the canvas. As it turns out, many of his paintings drew from the experiences he had at the cemetery of his childhood. His surreal work contains a world of opposites: a heavy rock is painted as a levitating object, a nocturnal landscape is depicted under a blue, white clouded and sunlit sky… These and other examples remind of the contrasting experiences Magritte underwent at the cemetery: the promising life of two young children contrasts with a place of dead, decaying bodies, as the first hints of a sensual interplay between a boy and a girl contrast with the barrenness of the graveyard surroundings. At the same time, Magritte's paintings convey the paradoxes of any artist's 'magical' creativity: at once all-powerful and powerless. Indeed, a painter is able to create a world according to his own laws (levitating rocks, for example), yet he never manages to capture reality itself. The Treachery of Images (French: La trahison des images; 1928-1929), Magritte's well-known painting of a pipe, makes this clear. The subscript Ceci n'est pas une pipe shows the idea that we only access reality through images, representations, or indeed, mimesis. The image of a pipe is not the pipe itself. A poetic equivalent could be the expression 'I'm speechless'. For saying 'I'm speechless' actually implies speaking, so the reality of being speechless is misrepresented by the expression itself. The Italian movie La vita è bella (Roberto Benigni, 1997) contains a riddle in a similar sense: "When you say my name, I'm gone… Who am I? Answer: 'Silence'…"
Medieval thinkers were very much aware of these paradoxes and of the mediated nature of all human knowledge. Reality, which was ultimately divine to them, is always bigger and 'different' than our representations of it. We live by symbols and images, referring to 'what lies beyond' them. Somehow we seem to lose this awareness more and more. We seem to lose ourselves to the impression we can control many aspects of our own life, and many aspects – if not all – of 'reality'. We live in a world where everything is said to be 'manageable', a world of plans and strategies, of ideologies and calculations – calculated 'risks' and false certainties. We think we can master reality, that we are free and independent 'Masters of the Universe', yet the background radiation of our day-to-day conscience tells a different story: climate change gets at us in unexpected ways, terrorist attacks stun us time and again, and accidents 'do happen'.
I just finished reading The Book of Illusions, a novel by Paul Auster. He's on my list of favorites already (next to Milan Kundera and John Maxwell Coetzee – who are, as I discovered after I'd read them, both admirers of René Girard's work –, and next to the not so well-known Craig Strete). I loved reading the story because of its surreal feel, because it breathes both the anguish and hope that 'nothing is what it seems'. The story is carried by the character of a David Zimmer, a Vermont professor who lost his wife and two young sons in a plane crash. As fate would have it, he delves into the life of the mysterious silent comedian and film director Hector Mann. Writing the story of Mann's life and films somehow saves Zimmer's life from despair. As it turns out, there are some remarkable analogies between the two men. In some ways, the life of Zimmer is an imitation of Mann's life. Moreover, one of Mann's later films, The Inner Life of Martin Frost, represents an important aspect of Mann's own life. So we have one imitation after the other. As a whole, Auster's novel reflects aspects of our own 'condition'. We are mimetic creatures, we live by 'representations' of ourselves and of reality as a whole. We construct our own 'story'. Yet life is not a story. Louis Paul Boon (1912-1979), a famous Flemish writer, honorary citizen of my hometown Aalst, conveyed this insight in a great way. A book has a beginning and an end, while we don't actually know when 'we' begin, nor can plan when we catch a deadly disease or undergo a life threatening accident. Our lives are 'open endings', fractures, interrupted beyond our control by unplanned experiences. Paul Auster seems to also make clear that in order to give life a chance, an author must be prepared to 'burn' his own work. He has to 'question mark' it. The chapter on The Inner Life of Martin Frost, the one late movie of Hector Mann watched by Zimmer, magnificently reflects this indeed 'surreal' and 'poetic' idea. The movie is about the muse of writer Martin Frost. Claire Martin, as she calls herself, is slowly dying while he finishes his story. In order to bring her back to life, Frost burns his story, thereby expressing the irreducibility of any human being's character. He understands that capturing someone else's life in a well-defined story (with beginning and ending) actually 'kills' this person in a way. Writing about Claire is also stating 'this is not Claire'. Here's the fragment:
Martin shakes out three aspirins from the bottle and hands them to her with a glass of water. As Claire swallows the pills, Martin says: This isn't good. I really think a doctor should take a look at you.
Claire gives Martin the empty glass, and he puts it back on the table. Tell me what's happening in the story, she says. That will make me feel better.
You should rest.
Please, Martin. Just a little bit.
Not wanting to disappoint her, and yet not wanting to tax her strength, Martin confines his summary to just a few sentences. It's dark now, he says. Nordstrum has left the house. Anna is on her way, but he doesn't know that. If she doesn't get there soon, he's going to walk into the trap.
Will she make it?
It doesn't matter. The important thing is that she's going to him.
She's fallen in love with him, hasn't she?
In her own way, yes. She's putting her life in danger for him. That's a form of love, isn't it?
Claire doesn't answer. Martin's question has overwhelmed her, and she is too moved to give a response. Her eyes fill up with tears; her mouth trembles; a look of rapturous intensity shines forth from her face. It's as if she has reached some new understanding of herself, as if her whole body were suddenly giving off light. How much more to go? she asks.
Two or three pages, Martin says. I'm almost at the end.
Write them now.
They can wait. I'll do them tomorrow.
No, Martin, do them now. You must do them now.
The camera lingers on Claire's face for a moment or two– and then, as if propelled by the force of her command, Martin cuts between the two characters. We go from Martin back to Claire, from Claire back to Martin, and in the space of ten simple shots, we finally get it, we finally understand what's been happening. Then Martin returns to the bedroom, and in ten more shots he finally understands as well.
1. Claire is writhing around on the bed, in acute pain, struggling not to call out for help.
2. Martin comes to the bottom of a page, pulls it out of the machine, and rolls in another. He begins typing again.
3. We see the fireplace. The fire has nearly gone out.
4. A close-up of Martin's fingers, typing.
5. A close-up of Claire's face. She is weaker than before, no longer struggling.
6. A close-up of Martin's face. At his desk, typing.
7. A close-up of the fireplace. Just a few glowing embers.
8. A medium shot of Martin. He types the last word of his story. A brief pause. Then he pulls the page out of the machine.
9. A medium shot of Claire. She shudders slightly–and then appears to die.
10. Martin is standing beside his desk, gathering up the pages of the manuscript. He walks out of the study, holding the finished story in his hand.
11. Martin enters the room, smiling. He glances at the bed, and an instant later the smile is gone.
12. A medium shot of Claire. Martin sits down beside her, puts his hand on her forehead, and gets no response. He presses his ear against her chest–still no response. In a mounting panic, he tosses aside the manuscript and begins rubbing her body with both hands, desperately trying to warm her up. She is limp; her skin is cold; she has stopped breathing.
13. A shot of the fireplace. We see the dying embers. There are no more logs on the hearth.
14. Martin jumps off the bed. Snatching the manuscript as he goes, he wheels around and rushes toward the fireplace. He looks possessed, out of his mind with fear. There is only one thing left to be done–and it must be done now. Without hesitation, Martin crumples up the first page of his story and throws it into the fire.
15. A close-up of the fire. The ball of paper lands in the ashes and bursts into flame. We hear Martin crumpling up another page. A moment later, the second ball lands in the ashes and ignites.
16. Cut to a close-up of Claire's face. Her eyelids begin to flutter.
17. A medium shot of Martin, crouched in front of the fire. He grabs hold of the next sheet, crumples it up, and throws it in as well. Another sudden burst of flame.
18. Claire opens her eyes.
19. Working as fast as he can now, Martin goes on bunching up pages and throwing them into the fire. One by one, they all begin to burn, each one lighting the other as the flames intensify.
20. Claire sits up. Blinking in confusion; yawning; stretching out her arms; showing no traces of illness. She has been brought back from the dead.
Gradually coming to her senses, Claire begins to glance around the room, and when she sees Martin in front of the fireplace, madly crumpling up his manuscript and throwing it into the fire, she looks stricken. What are you doing? she says. My God, Martin, what are you doing?
I'm buying you back, he says. Thirty-seven pages for your life, Claire. It's the best bargain I've ever made.
But you can't do that. It's not allowed.
Maybe not. But I'm doing it, aren't I? I've changed the rules.
Claire is overwrought, about to break down in tears. Oh Martin, she says. You don't know what you've done.
Undaunted by Claire's objections, Martin goes on feeding his story to the flames. When he comes to the last page, he turns to her with a triumphant look in his eyes. You see, Claire? he says. It's only words. Thirty-seven pages–and nothing but words.
He sits down on the bed, and Claire throws her arms around him. It is a surprisingly fierce and passionate gesture, and for the first time since the beginning of the film, Claire looks afraid. She wants him, and she doesn't want him. She is ecstatic; she is horrified. She has always been the strong one, the one with all the courage and confidence, but now that Martin has solved the riddle of his enchantment, she seems lost. What are you going to do? she says. Tell me, Martin, what on earth are we going to do?
Before Martin can answer her, the scene shifts to the outside. We see the house from a distance of about fifty feet, sitting in the middle of nowhere. The camera tilts upward, pans to the right, and comes to rest on the boughs of a large cottonwood. Everything is still. No wind is blowing; no air is rushing through the branches; not a single leaf moves. Ten seconds go by, fifteen seconds go by, and then, very abruptly, the screen goes black and the film is over.
(Taken from Paul Auster, The Book of Illusions, Faber and Faber open market edition, 2003, p.265-269).
As a Phoenix rising from her ashes, Claire breathes new life into Martin Frost's existence, melting away his 'frost', taking him away from the reflections in his books to the tangible reality of her 'body' – born, nevertheless, from the sparks of his imagination… Spicy, 'mimetic' detail: as Claire ('the brightness') was willing to sacrifice herself to let Martin's story come alive, Hector was willing to sacrifice himself to save… well, you'll have to read the book to know ;-).
Paul Auster's is a story of the paradoxical power of art, storytelling and human communication in general. In order to 'experience' reality, we cannot but refer to it by 'duplicating' or 'imitating' it. As this is also a 'treason' of reality it's exactly what 'saves' it at the same time. For that which we 'possess' in words, images and gestures is not reality 'itself', reality remains 'untouched' and 'unspoiled' in a way. It's what lies 'beyond', as that sublime, ungraspable mystery…
While reading the book, I couldn't help but imagine the films of one of my favorite directors, namely Billy Wilder (1906-2002). In more than one way, the story of Hector Mann in Auster's book reminded me of the story in Wilder's Sunset Boulevard. I also had to think, surprisingly perhaps, of another kind of moviemaking. I was reminded of a video-clip by Norwegian pop-band a-ha, for their big hit song 'Take on Me'. 25 years after the song earned six awards at the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards (September 5, 1986), I'd like to celebrate the art and craftsmanship of the video once more. Like Paul Auster refers to moviemaking in his novel, a-ha made a video-clip with references to yet another art-form, comics. Scott McCloud points to the distinction between animation and comics in his truly inspiring book Understanding Comics – The Invisible Art: "Each successive frame of a movie is projected on exactly the same space – the screen – while each frame of comics must occupy a different space. Space does for comics what time does for film!" Makes one think about the mysteries of space and time, and our vain attempts to grasp them…
Well, what kind of storytelling you prefer, doesn't really matter. However, I'm strongly convinced that what we need today is the art of storytelling. Too many tragedies seem to happen nowadays because of people who live from 'indisputable ideologies' (stories turned frigid) – the Norwegian had their tragedy, the world as a whole had 9/11. To write the story to let others come alive, while also realizing that 'the other' is always bigger than 'our story' – that's what we need… "In the beginning was the Word…" (John 1:1). The Word between one man and the other, the Poet creating proximity and distance at the same time, creating tenderness… Like a painter, who caresses the image of his beloved model with a paintbrush, leaving the model herself 'untouched'…
'She' is always the one who saves us from 'the labyrinth' – from the dark cave of the womb into the light. 'She' is reality beyond our words and imaginations, beyond the games we play, beyond virtual competitions where we try to find a sense of 'victory', beyond the illusion that we are 'masters' of reality. Life is not a programmed, predestined computer game (Tron, the movie, anyone?).
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Spending Review: what it means for the Department of Transport
The Department for Transport will have an annual budget of £11.6 bn - down from £13.1 bn.
By David Millward and Peter Hutchison
2:00PM BST 20 Oct 2010
The Cuts
The reduction is not as bad as orginally feared. Officials at the department had braced themselves for cuts up to 25 per cent (£3.97 billion) so will not feel too hard done by at the announcement.
A total of £30 billion is to be invested in transport projects over the next four years, including £14 billion to fund maintenance and investment in railways.
A rise in the cap on regulated rail fares to 3 per cent above RPI inflation from 2012 will come in to pay for new rolling stock and improved passenger conditions.
Spending Review: what it means for Justice
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Spending Review: what it means for Defence
The cost of rail travel will rise sharply, with Philip Hammond having already admitted that it would have been tough to maintain the existing formula which pegs the rise on most commuter routes to one per cent above the retail price index.
Two major projects costing £7.5bn across London: Crossrail which runs from east to west and Thameslink, which goes from north to south, will go ahead. Nevertheless even these schemes could see their budget shaved. There is growing speculation that while the number of stations on Crossrail will remain unchanged, there could be some reduction in capacity as part of the drive to maximise value for money from the scheme.
Birmingham New Street station will be improved and several hundred million pounds earmarked for a number of major road projects go ahead including funding for the Tyne and Wear Metro and the Luton-Dunstable Busway.
Other projects that escaped the axe included Manchester to Liverpool rail electrification, widening schemes on the M25, improvements to the M1, M4, M5 and an upgrading of the A11 in East Anglia.
Key successes
In March 2010 the Transport Select Committee said the Department had performed well in improving train punctuality, cutting road congestion and death on the roads. But it was still found wanting when it came to devising a long term strategy to deal with congestion, with traffic still expected to rise dramatically. A long-promised integrated transport policy was yet to be delivered and the DfT was urged to publish a progress report to see if it had delivered the promises made in a spending plan drawn up a decade ago.
Savings already identified/made
Shortly after taking office the Coalition unveiled £683 million savings, towards the initial £6 billion the Treasury was demanding across Government.
One of the first casualties of the Coalition was the £50 million Better Stations programme, promised by Lord Adonis, the Transport Secretary in the previous Government. He earmarked 10 of the country's grubbiest stations - nine of which were in Labour constituencies - for a major overhaul.
Network Rail, which is responsible for maintaining and improving the country's track infrastructure has promised another £50 million savings. The Coalition also put plans for hundreds of extra carriages to ease overcrowding on hold and also delayed pressing ahead with a new generation of electric-diesel express hybrid trains to replace the ageing 125 fleet.
Other cuts have included £17.2 million from the road safety grant, which means that the Treasury now makes a profit out of the fines it collects from speed cameras. Under Labour the grant matched fine income. Nearly £160 million has been taken out of the budget to ease urban congestion and another £61.4 million has already been cut from the pot allocated for major projects such as road schemes. Transport for London is set to lose £108 million in DfT funding.
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