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Prince Frederick man dies in Monday evening crash
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Maryland State Police are investigating a fatal single-vehicle crash the occurred Monday evening in Calvert County.
Shortly after 6:45 p.m., troopers from the Prince Frederick Barrack responded to the 200 block of Steeple Chase Drive in Prince Frederick, Maryland, for a report of a vehicle that struck a building.
According to a preliminary investigation, a Ford Explorer was traveling south from a commercial parking lot approaching the intersection of Steeple Chase Drive and Armory Road. The vehicle failed to come to a complete stop at the stop sign, accelerated into a slight left turn, struck a curb and light pole and entered a lower commercial parking lot. The Ford Explorer came to rest at a brick/concrete support pillar to a building.
The driver of the Ford, Larry Hilton Mackall, 63, of Prince Frederick, Maryland, needed to be extricated from the vehicle. He was transported by ambulance to Calvert Health Medical Center, where he died. The Calvert County Sheriff's Office and EMS/Fire personnel also responded to assist.
The Calvert County building inspector responded to the scene to investigate the structure, which was deemed safe. No other injuries were reported. Anyone with information on the case is asked to contact the Maryland State Police Prince Frederick Barrack at 410-535-1400.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation…
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The Appalling Silence of Mitt Romney
September 1, 2020 September 1, 2020 Dianny Antifa, Black Lives Matter riots, Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, RINOs
It has been five days since Senator Rand Paul and his wife were harassed and threatened outside of the White House after President Trump's acceptance speech. And while most of the attention has been on Senator Kamala Harris' appalling silence in response to her colleague's attack, some are wondering why Mitt Romney isn't out there in the spotlight every day denouncing it as "appalling."
How about Mitt Romney or Ben Sasse? https://t.co/GjdbvrDq2R
— Julie Kelly ?? (@julie_kelly2) September 1, 2020
I mean, Lord knows Mitt sees himself as our moral better. You'd think a violent attack on a man with whom he works every day would prompt some kind of self-righteous indignation. After all, Mitt loves to run to the nearest camera to denounce appalling behavior while telling us all how appalled he is.
So his appalling silence is a real head-scratcher.
Fact is, Mitt tends to reserve his sanctimonious pearl-clutching for his fellow Republicans – most notably, President Trump.
He gets appalled so often by this President, I began referring to him as Appalling Mitt Romney.
Since BLM/Antifa are not Republican, nor are they supported or defended by Trump, it stands to reason that all we'd get from Appalling Mitt is appalling silence.
Remember, Mitt was one of the gullible saps who tripped all over himself to join the Black Lives Matter Marxists in DC back in June – for which he received slobbering praise from his fellow appallingly silent Senator, Kamala Harris.
Did you really expect Mitt to utter a single negative word about those same Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters harassing his Senate colleague?
Not on the likely.
Now, I have absolutely no doubt that if the reverse were to happen – namely a MAGA-hat-wearing crowd swarming and harassing say Senator Mazie Hirono — Mitt would be elbowing his Senate colleagues out of the way to be the first one to denounce it on cable news.
There's a reason I called Mitt "John McCain: The Next Generation" when he first announced his run for the Senate. Romney, like McCain, believes he embodies "the conscience of the Republican Party." And by that I mean, "Attack Republicans relentlessly in order to get the slobbering praise of Democrats and their media handmaids."
Denouncing BLM/Antifa thugs who went after his colleague will not get him an ounce of praise.
So instead all we hear from Mitt Romney is appalling silence.
Honestly, I do not understand why Utahans sent this carpet-bagging media whore to Washington. But I sure wish they hadn't.
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15 thoughts on "The Appalling Silence of Mitt Romney"
Trevor Woods
Utah only elected him because he's a Mormon. I wonder why he doesn't just register as a democrat because he's fooling nobody with his "conservative" principles.
Pharmaskeptic
Mitt Romney is more than appalling. He is childishly revolting and treacherous. His behavior and that of his fellow Utah senator has to be explained in the context of the business interests of the Mormon church. Remember that the Mormon church endorsed Mittens which is why he was elected over more conservative candidates.
I grew up in Salt Lake City as a non-Mormon, which at the time ,in the forties and fifties, could be actually dangerous. I was friends with two of Mitten's cousins, also named Romney, who curiously were not Mormons. When you said "the church", it was assumed you meant the Mormon church. They ran everything.
I have no issue with anyone's religious believes and they are welcome to their faith. But it really has to be said that the business hierarchy of the Mormon church are corrupt to the nines. Remember when they were caught bribing the Olympic committee? They were completely out front about it. They were so used to this sort of corruption they didn't even think it was wrong. These folks think that they are so good that when they lie it's the truth. Or here's something you never hear about:
that 150 mile stretch of the I-15 in Utah that remained uncompleted for 25 years after the rest of the interstate highway system was finished. The cost overruns and delays milked U.S. tax payers for millions, maybe billions. Guess who owned all the construction companies involved.
The simple explanation for Mitten's behavior and that of Mike Lee is that the (very large) business interests of the Mormon church have gone globalist. Utah is a very business friendly state and that's good. The tech business in Utah has grown exponentially and is now referred to as the Silicon Slopes. Both Mittens and Mike Lee take their marching orders from the Mormon church. Those business interests would like lots of Indian H1B workers to man the computers in Utah. So you can see why Mike Lee, an otherwise conservative senator, is behind a bill to import lots of Indians at the expense of American workers. Of course, Mittens is in a class by himself. He is actually part of the cabal of Mormon business interests. I have no direct evidence of this, but I have always suspected he was told to stand down when he was running against Obama. That election was Mitten's to lose.
Who knows what vile and corrupt behaviors we can expect from Mittens next.
Re Re
You said it all! Well done!!!
To correct the premise: The LDS church does not endorse any political party or candidate, including Romney, a true jerk. Nor do they give any political figure marching orders. Your anti-Mormonism is typical. You may have legitimate gripes, but don't filter them through the lens of your bigotry.
Pharmaskeptic – you analysis of why Mitt Romney and other wealthy LDS Mormon pols/business leaders do what they do makes sense to a point – but it doesn't explain why Mitt Romney and other LDS political leaders like Harry Reid, Orin Hatch, Mitt Romney and Jeff Flake publicly endorse THE worst cult marxist programs like the Matthew Shepherd Federal Hate Crime bill that turns all crimes in to political crimes from a perspective that heterosexual White Americans are to blame for everything. I live in Chicago – 700 plus gang center murders, but these aren't "hate crimes", because they weren't motivated by White Racists, unless the White racists created a climate of violence and hate that made the Black gang members kill each other and the rest of us.
It doesn't explain why Mitt Romney and Jeff Flake ran away from the crazy Feminist demonstrators trying to lynch Supreme Court nominees Cavanaugh.
It doesn't explain why Mitt Romney and all the LDS pols are all simply insane treason supporting open borders mass immigration that is replacing this historic American nation.
No there are other reasons.
One big reason is that the LDS Mormon Church was once for White European Americans and related people only, but in the 1970s they came out of that – so you get the phenomena a born again sinner who is now (extremely rich) and is virtue signalling that they are better than everyone else, especially Conservatives and they are leading the fight against all (only White) racism. LDS Mormons in Utah were lucky that their state was still very White homogenous, so their idiot Lib Leftist pandering didn't really impact them yet, but now it is as there are BLM riots in Salt Lake City and street gang terrorists coming in from places like LA and Vegas.
The LDS Mormon (they don't like the Mormon name anymore) like being successful and not considered different, not good Americans, they like Mitt Romney like being accepted at Harvard and Yale and here at the University of Chicago. There program is to dress neat – suits on Sunday, sweaters the rest of the weak, live a squeaky clean life and agree with whomever is in the room with them at the time, you know, as* kissers, boot lickers, brief case carriers – they agree with the "undocumented", Black race hustlers, radical Islamists and of course the Zionist Neo Conservatives that are always pushing endless budge breaking wars, regime changes in the ME. Hell, Mitt Romney repeated his insane J advisers Max Boot's rant that "Russia was our greatest enemy". What a F#*$&# idiot.
Anyway that's my take on the seemingly incomprehensible politics of the pols of the Church of Latter Day Saint Mormons or the Church of Latter Day Sissies as I like to call them. Mitt Romney is arguably the worst, but most go this way.
GA Native
Mitt's as useless as teats on a boar.
OpenTheDoor
Utah, you got some 'splainin' to do.
/RR
Hate it when that happens, sorry, Dianny.
Keep in mind this treacherous twerp was our candidate against Emperor Obama in 2012. With him and McCain as opposition the Kenyan had a cake walk.
Mitt Romney is a snake, plain and simple.
To SRM
You misread me entirely. I am not an anti-Mormon. In fact, I find the social cohesion created within the Mormon church's members a very positive thing. The membership is one thing. The blurred line between the church hierarchy and its members' business dealings are quite another thing. They are so corrupt it takes your breath away.
Unfortunately this makes a business environment utterly pervaded by questionable practices. There is a reason that Salt Lake City has been the stock fraud capital of the United States. It's the reason I moved out of Utah. I was treated so dishonestly so many times. And when I pointed out the outrageous treachery, I was usually given what appears to be the standard answer, "I answer to a higher authority." I take it you are blind to this sort of thing or haven't had to deal with it.
And of course you are correct about the Mormon church not officially endorsing candidates, at least not in recent times. But it was made pretty obvious what the preference was. Nevertheless, I think most people in Utah have buyer's remorse when it comes to that snake Mitt Romney. Or maybe he's a white salamander.
Yep. Mitt Romney is now one of THE worst RINOs, Cuckservatives in American politics. Mitt/Mittens was the lone GOP Senator to vote for Trump's impeachment over the ridiculous Russian hacking scam. And now Mitt/Mittens Romney has taken the knee to "submit" to BlackLivesMatter, should be BlackLiesMatter.
Will Mitt Romney go the full monty – consume mass quantities of Fentanyl Opioids and Meth to honor BLM Saint George Floyd who yeah, died by consuming mass quantities of Opioids and Meth? Or will give over some of his daughters to the likes of Kenosha WI BLM martyr Jacob Blake. Jacob Black was a convicted rapist of a 14 year old girl, he died when one of his exes, baby mommas called the police because he was violating a restraining order. Oh, Jacob also had an outstanding sexual assault warrant open on him.
This is the BLM/Antifa "movement' squeaky clean LDS Mitt/Mittens Romney has submitted himself to kneel down. Why does Mitt do this terrible treason. Probably for the same reason his father George Romney did the same after Black criminals rioted and burnt down the once safe and prosperous city of Detroit MI – he felt it was good for his political career… NOT!
We made this Farstar cartoon just "noticing" that Sen. Mitt Romney was bowing down to the likes of Rachell Madcow Maddow – MSNBC, CNN etc when he voted as the lone Republican to vote for impeachment of our President Trump.
"God made me do it"
https://artoffarstar88.wordpress.com/2020/06/12/god-made-me-do-it/
The reason Obama happened was
1. McCain – a fake & traitor RINO
2. Romney – with his Mr. Rogers / Jimmy Carter persona


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Collin Root came to the University of Northern Colorado football team a year ago as a virtual unknown.
Fast forward to this week and he's a slash. As in place-kicker/linebacker.
In summary, the 6-foot-1, 232-pound junior is capable of — and definitely will — playing two positions at a high level.
It didn't take long for Root to prove his worth as the Bears' kicker. After sending kickoffs to the opponents' end zone, he drilled a game-winning, school-record 56-yard field goal against the College of Idaho.
Root would finish the season with four field goals of at least 40 yards, 30 for 31 on extra-point kicks and an average of 63.5 yards on kickoffs, resulting in a program-best 24 touchbacks.
However, he'd just as soon have a return specialist come his way.
In fact, this past season he all but challenged return specialists to think of him as just a kicker.
"Anybody who puts that label (just a kicker) on me, I'll show you real quick on a kickoff it's not like that," Root said.
When necessary, Root also punts. He boomed a pair of tight spirals in Saturday morning's scrimmage on the Butler-Hancock practice fields.
Root's stat line from a year ago indicates he had four tackles, two solo.
Those numbers are expected to dramatically increase.
Originally, Root headed for the University of Wyoming to play what he termed "big-time Division I college football," but conceded his mental outlook was everywhere but on the football field.
He then went to Ventura Junior College in a seaside community in Ventura, Calif. That wasn't up his alley, either.
Root headed home to Arvada and promised his family he wouldn't give up on his quest to kick at the college level.
In retrospect, UNC should have been his first choice, but it ended up being his third college in two years.
Now, in his second preseason camp with the Bears, he's asserted himself as a leader, and he's looking forward to de-cleating a pulling guard or running back as much as hitting a winning field goal.
Collins has said he has confidence in Root's leg, and he doesn't expect to hesitate to send Root out for field-goal attempts farther than 50 yards.
"He needs to calm himself down from when he's playing linebacker and has to go kick," Collins said. "He's learning to go from a linebacker mentality to a kicker mode.
Root has seen time at the weakside spot as well as middle linebacker in the first week of camp.


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Memphis Belle (1990, Michael Caton-Jones)
10 August 2011 Andrew Wickliffe	Leave a comment
Memphis Belle runs just around an hour and fifty minutes. It takes the film about a half hour before it's even clear the titular plane is going to have a mission in the narrative. It opens with a masterful introduction to the characters and the situation (a bomber has one more mission before the crew completes their tour of duty). There are a lot of problems with Monte Merrick's script, but his framing is great. He has the PR officer (played by John Lithgow) introduce everyone; it works beautifully in the narrative.
Caton-Jones's composition is fantastic from the first shot. Too bad Merrick's writing falls apart. First, it's little things, like D.B. Sweeney—the only character to openly scared—having some lame dialogue. It's not too damaging… but then Eric Stoltz's part gets bigger. And Stoltz is truly awful. With so many principals, Merrick's already resorting to caricature. He proceeds to give Stoltz, who's laughable, too much attention.
But Merrick and Caton-Jones also awkwardly make the captain useless. Matthew Modine has the less to do than any other actor, including David Strathairn as the base commander. At least Strathairn has some real dialogue. Modine just gets to look scared.
There are some great performances though. Billy Zane gives the film's best performance, but Reed Diamond and Tate Donovan are excellent as well.
The special effects are good. George Fenton's music is lame. The sound design is great.
While it's not terrible, it's too bad Memphis Belle isn't good.
Directed by Michael Caton-Jones; written by Monte Merrick; director of photography, David Watkin; edited by Jim Clark; music by George Fenton; production designer, Stuart Craig; produced by David Puttnam and Catherine Wyler; released by Warner Bros.
Starring Matthew Modine (Capt. Dennis Dearborn), Eric Stoltz (Sgt. Danny Daly), Tate Donovan (1st Lt. Luke Sinclair), D.B. Sweeney (Lt. Phil Lowenthal), Billy Zane (Lt. Val Kozlowski), Sean Astin (Sgt. Richard Moore), Harry Connick Jr. (Sgt. Clay Busby), Reed Diamond (Sgt. Virgil Hoogesteger), Courtney Gains (Sgt. Eugene McVey), Neil Giuntoli (Sgt. Jack Bocci), David Strathairn (Col. Craig Harriman) and John Lithgow (Lt.Col. Bruce Derringer).
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Good Night, and Good Luck (2005, George Clooney)
11 January 2008 Andrew Wickliffe	Leave a comment
George Clooney directs Good Night, and Good Luck with an absolute confidence. It's Clooney's second film, but he doesn't just know how to make a restricted setting story (the film takes place in the CBS building, a bar, and two to three other locations) exciting… he also knows how to make an informative docudrama into an affecting and revealing look at people working together. So, Good Luck is about citizenship and working together. And some great filmmaking.
Clooney and co-writer Grant Heslov have their main story–the plot–Murrow and McCarthy, but they add these subplots, some small, some very big. For example, the plight of secretly married couple Robert Downey Jr. and Patricia Clarkson parallels the film's main plot. But there's also Ray Wise's story (Clooney introduces Wise being filmed in studio, so discreetly, I thought it was a cameo). Or the relationship between Clooney's Fred Friendly and David Strathairn's Murrow, which is deceptively (at least as the film starts) deep. Their partnership is what enables the film's main plot. It's an incredibly interesting narrative, because the film is so short and… for the most part, most of the characters are only recognizable by their faces, not by names. Clooney cast a lot of good people who do good work, but they're important to the film because they work with Strathairn and Clooney, not for any other reason (Downey and Clarkson being exceptions).
As for Strathairn's performance… he brings an inestimable humanity to Murrow. His physical performance is perfect, of course, but there's this sensitivity, which makes Murrow almost so real he's fiction.
The film draws some definite parallels between the film's era and the modern one, when the television industry has turned news in to an even cheaper, even more exploitative reality show (something Murrow warns about early on). But Clooney closes with Eisenhower, reminding modern conservatives Republicans weren't always evil-minded idiots and, presumably, liberals too.
The use of historical footage should be distracting, but isn't. Even when, while watching, I noticed modern "news reporters" on television got a lot of their interviewing technique from McCarthy… I'm not sure how Clooney got away with it–some of the footage is cleaner than the rest and it's all supposed to be on television, but it presumably would have looked better–maybe he made it part of the black and white film agreement… you're watching Good Night, and Good Luck and it's in black and white and so you're going to accept what follows. Somehow, the film's reality and the news footage works hand in hand, the footage making the other scenes more real.
It's a significant achievement, not just for a second-time director. Lots of decent directors go whole careers without pulling off anything this assured and there are lots of great ones who only manage to do them sporadically. The film's exquisite.
Directed by George Clooney; written by Clooney and Grant Heslov; director of photography, Robert Elswit; edited by Stephen Mirrione; production designer, Jim Bissell; produced by Heslov; released by Warner Independent Pictures.
Starring David Strathairn (Edward R. Murrow), George Clooney (Fred Friendly), Patricia Clarkson (Shirley Wershba), Robert Downey Jr. (Joe Wershba), Frank Langella (William Paley), Grant Heslov (Don Hewitt), Ray Wise (Don Hollenbeck) and Dianne Reeves (Jazz Singer).
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City of Hope (1991, John Sayles)
24 May 2007 Andrew Wickliffe	Leave a comment
City of Hope is a raw John Sayles John Sayles movie. The camera follows the characters until it bumps into other characters, which is a simple, straightforward method, both a little more honest but also a little more amateurish. It introduces a gimmick into the film, which rarely does anything any good. It isn't always the bumping characters–the most effective sequence is when, at the same time, separated by cuts, a bunch of characters decide to sell themselves out or not to sell out. But the bumping does pop again and it is noticeable. Maybe it's a consequence of pan and scanning a 2.35:1 film (City of Hope, as far as I can ascertain, has never had a non-pan and scan video release). The pan and scan does hurt a little, but the gimmick would still be there, wider field of action or not. It's not bad–films still do it today, good films, but they're films made after Sayles (much like Sayles makes films after the Altman Nashville standard). It's a raw artist in progress and it's a thing sixteen years has made more noticeable. It doesn't date the film, but City of Hope does have a visible place in Sayles's body of work.
It's also his most traditional story–one of the two primary storylines is Italian-Americans and their relationship to work and corruption. Sure, it's political corruption–but the corrupt mayor is Italian. Vincent Spano's character is also a very general lead for a Sayles film too–like I said, it's all very raw. The other primary story, about Joe Morton's attempt to be a successful and moral politician, is more radical. However, the Spano story, simply because Spano, and Tony Lo Bianco as his father, are so great. Joe Morton's great too, but Sayles gives Spano a romance with Barbara Williams (who's also fantastic). Watching certain moments in City of Hope, it's obvious Sayles spent a lot of time figuring them out. There are some short car ride conversations he does beautifully, but also the scenes with Spano walking Williams home. Those scenes are amazing, pan and scan or not.
Where Sayles lifts the film from the norm is in the third act, when the viewer discovers it's actually not all about people bumping into each other, or the titular City of Hope, which pops up three times at least, but is actually all about watching people corrupt themselves. There's a wonderful juxtaposition of one woman telling her husband not to sell himself out, then congratulating him (that one's from Macbeth, right?), with another not supporting dishonesty, after positioning herself to do so. Except every character in City of Hope, not just those four–with the exception of Williams, who's a bit of a saint–eventually makes the choice to corrupt or redeem him or herself. Well, not redeem, but not further corrupt.
Besides the aforementioned, Tony Denison is great, so is Angela Bassett. Chris Cooper's only in it for maybe four minutes, but in that time, it becomes clear his never becoming a leading man is a considerable tragedy for American cinema.
I'm probably less enthused about the film than I should be, but it's only because I spent the entire time wondering how beautiful it must look in the right aspect ratio.
Written, directed and edited by John Sayles; director of photography, Robert Richardson; music by Mason Daring; production designers, Dan Bishop and Dianna Freas; produced by Sarah Green and Maggie Renzi; released by The Samuel Goldwyn Company.
Starring Vincent Spano (Nick), Tony Lo Bianco (Joe), Joe Morton (Wynn), Angela Bassett (Reesha), John Sayles (Carl), Gloria Foster (Jeanette), David Strathairn (Asteroid), Kevin Tighe (O'Brien), Barbara Williams (Angela), Joe Grifasi (Pauly), Louis Zorich (Mayor Baci), Gina Gershon (Laurie), Rose Gregorio (Pina), Bill Raymond (Les), Jace Alexander (Bobby), Todd Graff (Zip), Frankie Faison (Levonne), Tom Wright (Malik), Tony Denison (Rizzo), S.J. Lang (Bauer), Chris Cooper (Riggs), Stephen Mendillo (Yoyo), Josh Mostel (Mad Anthony), Daryl Edwards (Franklin) and Lawrence Tierney (Kerrigan).
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Angela BassettChris CooperCity of HopeDavid StrathairnFrankie FaisonGina GershonJoe MortonKevin TigheThe Samuel Goldwyn Company
1987, ★½, Drama
Matewan (1987, John Sayles)
What was that? Did anyone else see that? (Probably not, I'm watching the Canadian widescreen DVD).
Sayles actually ripped off the looking at the camera bit from The 400 Blows. He actually did it–while having the character's future self narrate the epilogue. I've been dreading watching Matewan for over a year, since April 2004 in fact. I thought the dread came from my having only seen Matewan in school, but I guess I was just being smart. Matewan is easily Sayles' worst film. It's also one of his only "bad" ones. Matewan isn't that bad, of course (get to that in a second), it's just propaganda. Sure, it's historically accurate, but it's also propaganda. Management abusing labor is a fact and it's a crime and Matewan is accurate in its depiction of it. But. Sayles presents one agent of management as a human being. The rest are not. The rest are villains. So, if there's a shoot out with the villains, it's impossible to care about them, impossible to think their deaths are at all a tragedy. Their deaths are weightless. Even Lethal Weapon 2 made excuses about its level of violence. It's a disappointment, but Matewan is also Sayles' first "big" film and it obviously got away from him.
There are signs of the Sayles goodness, of course. There are lots of interesting characters, but he doesn't know what to do with them. There's still too much of a story, instead of all the little stories that usually propel his films. There's the Sayles cast, Chris Cooper and David Straithairn and Mary McDonnell are all excellent, Cooper the most. It's hard to believe he didn't become a vanilla leading man after Matewan.
I'm incredibly upset about this film… I was off movies because Stripes was so shitty, because an Ivan Reitman/Bill Murray picture was so painfully mediocre (and unfunny). What is a bad John Sayles movie going to do to me?
★½
Written and directed by John Sayles; director of photography, Haskell Wexler; edited by Sonya Polonsky; music by Mason Daring; production designer, Nora Chavooshian; produced by Maggie Renzi and Peggy Rajski; released by Cinecom Pictures.
Starring Chris Cooper (Joe Kenehan), James Earl Jones ('Few Clothes' Johnson), Mary McDonnell (Elma Radnor), Will Oldham (Danny Radnor), David Strathairn (Police Chief Sid Hatfield), Ken Jenkins (Sephus Purcell), Gordon Clapp (Griggs), Kevin Tighe (Hickey), John Sayles (Hardshell Preacher), Bob Gunton (C.E. Lively), Josh Mostel (Mayor Cabell Testerman), Nancy Mette (Bridey Mae), Jace Alexander (Hillard Elkins), Joe Grifasi (Fausto), Gary McCleery (Ludie), Jo Henderson (Mrs. Elkins), Maggie Renzi (Rosaria), Tom Wright (Tom), Michael B. Preston (Ellix), Tom Carlin (Turley) and Jenni Cline (Luann).
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The new Candyman movie will apparently be about "toxic fandom"
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Horror fans have been questioning what the new Candyman movie—produced by Jordan Peele through his MonkeyPaw studio and directed by Nia DaCosta—could be about now that Chicago's infamous Cabrini-Green housing projects (the setting for the original 1992 film) have been torn down, and now we seem to have our first small answer: Speaking at the Produced By conference (via Deadline), MonkeyPaw creative director Ian Cooper revealed that Peele wants to use Candyman to "address how toxic fandom has become." He says that he and Peele "talk a lot about fans and the idea of appeasing fans," specifically when to do it, how to do it, and when not to do it, and Candyman will apparently be "mischievous" in how it relates to Bernard Rose's original.
He adds that he thinks fandom is "really problematic," which Deadline takes as a reference to stuff like the Game Of Thrones petition or Star Wars' Kelly Marie Tran getting harassed online (which was definitely about more than just "fandom," but whatever). He wouldn't really say how that will be reflected in Candyman, of course, but it sounds like Peele has some idea in mind that specifically plays with the expectations that a Candyman fan may have for a remake/reboot. This idea has apparently gone through tons of revisions, including some that "are so high concept they're basically a Gus Van Sant film."
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I think you have a great subject and a good composition but I am not a big fan of the digital art. It seems to get in the way of what I think would be a wonderful portrait in it's natural state.
I agree with Kevin - this would be wonderful and have great impact in it's natural state.
Basically all I did was apply the Redfield Fractalius filter with a low saturation setting. I've got the original on a disk and will look through and find it to post.
Thanks for the feed back. It's always enlightening to see what other people think.


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Home Domain Industry News Brandon Abbey Departs Escrow.com Amid Company Shake Up
Brandon Abbey Departs Escrow.com Amid Company Shake Up
In April of 2015, it was announced that Freelancer.com would acquire Escrow.com in a $7.5 million deal, pending regulatory approval. The deal was approved, and it closed a few weeks ago. Late last week, I learned that Brandon Abbey is no longer with Escrow.com after an 11 year tenure as its President.
In an email sent to me on Sunday, Freelancer.com CEO Matt Barrie confirmed Brandon's departure: "We parted ways on good terms. As you know Brandon has been running the business for a long period of time and is well known for doing a good job. However we think the potential for Escrow.com is much bigger. We're moving to up the tempo of the business and run it as a high growth technology company."
I reached out to Brandon, and while he confirmed that he is no longer with the company, he declined to comment.
I attribute much of Escrow.com's superior reputation and industry best practices to the leadership that Brandon brought the company. I always appreciated his knowledge of the domain name business and his discretion in my business dealings with the company. Whenever I had a buyer or seller who was concerned about using the company for a transaction, I would put them in touch directly with Brandon for reassurance. I am going to miss Brandon's presence at the company.
Matt informed me about other changes at Escrow.com that have been made and others that are forthcoming:
"We pre-hired a dozen people many months ago while we were waiting for regulatory approval. We now have a whole product team in place, run by Jackson Elsegood who is the product manager who reports into Senior Director of Growth, Michal Kot. This team has been working on revamping the product for the last few months. We also hired and trained up a multilingual customer support team. Keith Gettle, who is in the California office and who you probably know, has been promoted to Operations Manager and has been busily training up the team. The first deployment of that team is about to go live in the next few days and offer support in Mandarin and Cantonese to cater for the rapidly growing Chinese market in the Asian timezone.
Soon we move to 24x7x365 support like we do with Freelancer.com (from offices in seven countries). Currently Freelancer is in 34 languages and 20 currencies. We plan on doing the same with Escrow.com, over time. As part of this process, we would very much like to hear from our customers and partners their feedback about the most desirable features to put in the product. So please, give us feedback!"
Matt also let me know that "[m]oving forward Keith, Jackson and Mauli Fry (who has been promoted to Partnership Manager) will be the main contacts to put people in touch with regarding transactions."
I am glad to hear that people like Keith, Mauli, and Sandra Gordon will continue to work at Escrow.com. Sandra and Keith, in particular, have been very helpful to me during the past few years years. In a subsequent email, Matt told me that "Sandra is of course still one of our great escrow managers," and I agree with him on that.
Matt told me the company will retain its presence in California. The company also plans to add licensure in other jurisdictions as well. Matt told me, "We believe that Escrow.com's long tenure of operating history and being the only licensed, bonded and regulated business- together with great customer service- is its sustainable competitive advantage."
I look forward to seeing the promised improvements and hope Escrow.com will maintain the excellent reputation that Brandon helped create. I want to thank Brandon for all of his help over the years, and I hope our paths cross again.
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Howard Neu November 30, 2015 At 10:32 am
Brandon will be sorely missed. We wish him the best of luck on his future endeavors.
Cameron Johnson November 30, 2015 At 10:35 am
This is very sad news for me, as Brandon has been one of the single most professional and attentive people I've dealt with for over a decade. I would add Sandra to that group, so I'm relieved that at least Sandra will continue. Brandon, however, has set a gold standard for responsiveness and lightning fast resolution of problems that is unmatched in the domain world, in my opinion. I am genuinely sad to seem him go. I wish him nothing but success elsewhere. A great guy.
Kevin M. November 30, 2015 At 11:07 am
Word Up Cameron. Very sorry and sad to see Brandon leave Escrow.com. He's a great guy and always made me comfortable knowing he was running the ship, and very smoothly, there at Escrow.com. Definitely he will be missed. I wish him the very best.
JZ November 30, 2015 At 10:50 am
very worrysome.
Donna Mahony November 30, 2015 At 10:52 am
Thanks for many years of stellar service, Brandon. I hope you remain in the industry!
Andy Booth November 30, 2015 At 10:54 am
This is a big loss. Brandon was a top guy and it's sad to see that the new management weren't able to see what he brought to the table. I just hope this isn't a sign of things to come and that Escrow.com loses its core customer base because of 'ambition'. Thank God Sandra is still around.
I wish Brandon every success going forward and hope to catch him in the industry.
Acro November 30, 2015 At 11:08 am
I appreciate Brandon's personal involvement over the years, in many escrow cases that needed customization. Best of success in his future endeavors.
Charlotte GIlbert November 30, 2015 At 11:50 am
I hope Brandon has much success in whatever adventure he is undertaking! I am just concerned about those of us who advertise for Escrow and if our agreements will still be honored by Freelancer.
Andrea Paladini November 30, 2015 At 12:10 pm
Definitely a big loss for the company, hope they will keep their high quality standards, good to know at least Sandra Gordon is still there.
Thanks a lot to Brandon for his professionalism and kindness, he's a great guy, hope he'll remain in the industry, I wish him all the best.
Andrea Paladini November 30, 2015 At 1:15 pm
IMHO there was some sort of sudden significant disagreement with the new ownership, that's why Brandon left and declined to comment …
Hope the new owner will manage the company properly, not messing it up and keeping fees at the same acceptable level, as I've already commented here: http://www.thedomains.com/2015/04/26/escrow-com-purchased-for-7-5million/
IMHO there was some sort of sudden significant disagreement with the new ownership (did they change their mind on some major guidelines for the business? …), that's why Brandon left and declined to comment …
Hope the new owner will manage the company properly, not messing it up and keeping fees at the same acceptable level.
Thanks again to Brandon, a true gentleman, as JSL said as well.
BrianG November 30, 2015 At 12:19 pm
Brandon was a rock at escrow, as stated above he brought the gold standard.
I have noticed in recent weeks escrow.com
seems understaffed, as they seem to have a hard time responding, and closing out sometimes.
I assume Brandon owned a portion of escrow as the mystery owner never appeared, and we will see radical
changes coming.
That is why competition is important in this industry. No I do not consuder ecop competition.
Elliot Silver November 30, 2015 At 12:20 pm
I do not believe he was an owner of the company.
Ian Ingram November 30, 2015 At 12:34 pm
Wish him the best as well. In my experience, Brandon took care of business. The last issue I had, Brandon diagnosed, fixed, & followed up with me in less than 30 minutes.
Sadly, with most companies, we have become accustomed to spending more time listening to hold music while waiting to speak with someone who often has no idea how to fix a problem.
Francois November 30, 2015 At 12:39 pm
Like most, I am VERY surprised…
Thanks Brandon for all you have done for the domain industry but also for me, I wish you all the best.
JSL November 30, 2015 At 1:05 pm
Good luck Brandon ! You always were a true gentleman. Wish you the best.
Matt W November 30, 2015 At 1:45 pm
Escrow.com has had huge technological issues. Glad to see new management step it up. On the front end, Escrow.com looks great. On the backend, there were issues.
What kind of "technological issues" on the backend are you talking about?
Nuno November 30, 2015 At 2:35 pm
I wish him the best, finding a good professional isn't easy nowadays…
Regarding Escrow.com, I hope they add Paypal withdraw for European users like Sedo has.
Sedo external transfer has the risk of our buyer finding an alternative domain that may jeopardize the agreed deal.
Kevin November 30, 2015 At 2:49 pm
Escrow.com has been one of the best and most solidly reliable components for successful domain name investing and getting deals done and completed securely and promptly.
I hope they stay on course going forward.
Shane Cultra November 30, 2015 At 2:59 pm
Brandon WAS Escrow.com. He supported the domain industry like no other person has and in return the domain industry helped make Escrow.com what it is today. It is all starting to make sense of why i had so many problems this last month
mansour November 30, 2015 At 4:38 pm
I did about 15 transactions in the past few years with escrow.com I never heard about Brandon but I had a great experience throughout, we will know soon if the changes will be for the better or the worst. if you see a price increase or delay in payment this will be your first clue.
web muzer November 30, 2015 At 4:48 pm
Brandon provided highly competent, conscientious, professional and personal service making Escrow.com the 'gold standard'.
Seems like an opportunity for Frank S to snag him as advisor, or to head up a new division of Uniregistry. Dont believe California is big on non-competes. 😉
Jay November 30, 2015 At 11:16 pm
Just had a friend complain to me about unusual glitches at escrow.com when doing transactions and especially in getting the closings done on a timely manner.
We both hoped that it would stay the steady rock it has been and of course I now read to my horror that "Mr Escrow" Brandon Abbey has departed and new team brought in place.
New teams from outside of the domain space always turn out to be a disaster for functionality and reliability at least in the registrar side.
I hope the competitors to escrow.com launched from domainer circles did not stop too soon because escrow.com stops being the reliable rock it has been then the whole space is screwed.
Please, new owners of escrow.com do NOT break things in your rush to develop things.
Most domainers have been badly burned at various registrars when new teams have been bought in place to develop things with grandiose visions.
Claude Dauman December 1, 2015 At 1:21 am
I am deeply saddened and extremely disappointed to hear about Brandon's
departure from Escrow.com.
Brandon's hard work, personal attention to details and commitment to excellence,
over the last ten years, are the driving force behind the company's
growth and success during his tenure.
For me, even more than the bonding, licensing and auditing, it was Brandon's integrity, sterling character and genuine nature which instilled in me the highest levels of trust and confidence in Escrow.com.
Brandon genuinely cared about his customers. He would never hesitate to make himself available to accept calls from buyers or sellers, be they mom and pop retailers or fortune 500 CXOs, to assuage any concerns they might have, pertaining to the escrow process. He genuinely cared about his employees and he genuinely cared about the domain investors and the domain industry as a whole.
Brandon's departure from Escrow.com is not only a great loss for Escrow.com, it's a great loss to the entire domain industry. While Freelancer might have installed someone to take Brandon's position, they have not replaced him… that would not be possible.
I wish Brandon continued success and happiness in his next endeavor.
Warren Royal December 1, 2015 At 3:32 pm
Brandon is one of the top professionals I've known and respected in this industry over many years and I am very sorry to see him go.
I first used Escrow.com in October 2001 and for most of that time I've known that Brandon was there to help me if I ever had a problem.
A lot of the comfort that I have had in the integrity of the company was because of his own integrity. I have great respect for him and hope that his next adventure offers him the opportunity to have as great of an impact on our industry as this one has.
Thank you, Brandon!


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Twenty five years ago almost eight in ten Americans identified as "environmentalists." Now fewer than half do. A recent Gallup analysis explains the change.
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In 1990, roughly the same percentage of Democrats and Republicans claimed to be environmentalists. But over a quarter century, the divide sharpened. By 2000 the gap widened to 15 percent (54 percent to 39 percent) and by 2016, the gap widened to 29 percent (56 percent to 27 percent). The Far Right has successfully demonized environmental regulations and ridiculed "climate change" with Republicants.
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Government worked. Many of the concerns in the 1990's over water and air pollution were addressed by legislation and EPA regulation. As a result Americans now are significantly less concerned about air pollution (18 percent fewer are "greatly concerned") and water pollution (12 percent fewer are "greatly concerned").
Environmentally sensitive behaviors are now more commonplace. Gallup found that a vast majority of Americans recycle, work to reduce their energy consumption, and choose environmentally friendly products. Today, these habits are so routine compared to 1990 that they lose their association with environmentalism.
Today's environmental issues have less immediate effects on people's lives. Climate change and the destruction of rainforests have much less visible and much slower effects on Americans. Although concern about climate change has increased by 4 percent since 1990, today only 39 percent of Americans are "greatly concerned" about climate change. This pales in comparison to the 68 percent of Americans concerned about water pollution in 1990. Climate change simply does not rally the same support as pollution close to home and as a result environmentalism loses some of its appeal.
Big Lesson for Message Crafters this fall: People don't like the label, but they still support the environment. Despite the collapse in self-identification as an "environmentalist," Gallup has found steady support for specific pro-environment policy measures since the 1990's. Forget the label and concentrate on specific environment friendly policy proposals and how they will affect the everyday lives of voters.
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Q: Django manager first() vs Model.objects.all()[:1] I would like to know if first() is the same as limiting querysets.
Is Model.objects.first() the same as Model.objects.all()[:1] in speed?
You've to remember that first() is the same as Model.objects.all()[0], so my thoughts are that they aren't the same, but then I don't understand why we have a handy method as first().

A: Model.objects.first() returns one instance or None, while Model.objects.all()[:1] returns a slice of the queryset, with zero or one instances.  Here is first()'s source code from Django 1.10:
def first(self):
    """
    Returns the first object of a query, returns None if no match is found.
    """
    objects = list((self if self.ordered else self.order_by('pk'))[:1])
    if objects:
        return objects[0]
    return None

A: Regarding speed. Using timeit module in ipython I found:
In [11]: %timeit rompepc.models.SampleModel.objects.all()[:1][0]
1000 loops, best of 3: 326 µs per loop

In [12]: %timeit rompepc.models.SampleModel.objects.first()
1000 loops, best of 3: 464 µs per loop

There is still a difference when you try to access to fields
In [14]: %timeit rompepc.models.SampleModel.objects.all()[:1][0].sample_field
1000 loops, best of 3: 323 µs per loop

In [15]: %timeit rompepc.models.SampleModel.objects.first().sample_field
1000 loops, best of 3: 461 µs per loop

Have in mind that you would need to validate length before using the indexed version. Answering your question, it seems like is not the same.
Note: There're only two records in the model with a single char field. Database is SQLite3. It may behaves different with more records, fields and another DB engine

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Category Archives: digital media literacy research
Revisiting Media Literacy through a Digital Lens
I admit it, readily and happily: I've been an advocate of media literacy instruction since the late 1990s, when I came face-to-face with students who just didn't want to read the required Western canon. Students would locate and share copies of Spark Notes and, without blinking, recite plot points and character distinctions. Yet, when I pulled out magazines and asked students to identify images that had parallel themes to A Separate Peace or Flowers for Algernon, they were hooked and genuinely engaged in learning.
I knew I was onto something significant with media literacy.
Now, two decades later, I'm ready to end full-time public school teaching. With closure comes insight into the progress we have made toward infusing media literacy and popular culture as part of what Giroux calls "serious academic discourse" (1989). I'm also keenly aware that challenges continue to exist and daunt the most insightful and progressive media educators, even with the seeming ubiquity of digital tools and resources.
Looking Back at Two Decades of Media Literacy in the Classroom
Much of my grounding in media literacy (and, later, digital culture) was framed by Dr. Renee Hobbs of the Media Education Lab. Through Renee's influence, I came to understand media literacy analysis from the early Know TV Curriculum; then it was onto analyzing advertisements, copyright and fair use, news bias, one-minute teen films, and, most recently, propaganda through Mind over Media which curates a majority of its collection from users. My students contributed, linked, and critiqued ads surrounding Dove Soap and parallel ads pointing to the destruction of South Asian rain forests, among others.
I also learned about the National Alliance for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) and their analysis categories of author and audience, representations and reality, and meanings and messages. That framework jump-started me and helped me to create my own deconstruction model for students, called the Visual Analysis Protocol. Regardless of the course I teach — which can range from Children's Literature, Sports and Popular Culture, Masculinity and Sport, The Art of Film, Conspiracy Theory, or American Literature — my students have the requirement to analyze media texts incorporating a social justice lens and then to compose their own media texts.
The importance of original composing can't be overlooked: students assume critical distance from texts and persuasion when, instead of consuming, they produce. The shift to production requires them to design within commonly accepted conventions of a genre and with clear language expression. This is tough work for any age group, but it's essential for teens, whose identity experiences have been formed through constant media influences. Media composition also helps students to recognize the narratives employed in mainstream media texts, alongside their associative values, as a necessary step in questioning the dominant culture.
Add in "Digital" to Media Literacy Education, and What Happens in the Classroom?
As my years of teaching continued, an evolution toward 1-to-1 technology devices was slowly occurring. I was eager to move from familiar print text and paper-and-pencil literacy practices to on-demand online inquiry and digital multimodal text sets.
Digital applications have changed my pedagogy and the way that students engage with texts. I am both a teacher and digital media literacy curriculum designer, and in both roles I have reminded myself to be conscious of several pedagogical components of digital media literacy education. It is important:
to engage students in media literacy learning in ways that foster their currency in companion digital skills and strategies;
to develop instructional experiences that connect youths' in-school and out-of-school literacy and learning;
to offer inquiry into topics that arouse youth passions so to guide them as they become more deeply literate;
to balance opportunities for analysis with original composition so that critical examination is lessens negativity and reductionism;
and, to think of media literacy as a socially inclusive approach which calls upon civic participation and lifelong learning.
Tying It All Together in a Common Language of Digital Media Literacy
At the spring, 2016 conference sponsored by the Action Coalition for Media Education (ACME), co-president Julia Freschette outlined how digital distribution adds to consumer-generated content in a change to the entire digital landscape. She argued that the end goal now of digital media education is to understand the means through which communication is created, deployed, used, and shared. Sacred Heart University's Director of the Master's Degree Program in Media Literacy and Digital Culture, Bill Yousman, extended that discussion to reinforce how, even in a digital age, critical media literacy continues to deal with issues of power, and such power arises when media messages benefit dominant social groups at the cost of underrepresented groups.
Source: ACME
ACME co-president Rob Williams outlined a series of ways that a critical digital media classroom can also help students to identify how the social media environment fosters skills that apply to the real world. Yes, social media offers teens the opportunities to create and curate their own identities. But, with teens' average 7 hours, 40 minutes per day of total media submersion — not including multimedia tasking— teens can also use social media for larger purposes. Williams suggested that educators help students to gain language to discuss what they are doing on/ with social media, which can leverage them to gain the power of the network with their particular set of skill strategies.
In a conference session titled "Global Media Literacy Education: Teaching Beyond Borders," by Belinda De Abreau and Melda N. Yildiz, critical digital media literacy goals pointed to "global competence," or the capacity and disposition to understand and act on issues of global significance. To gain global competence, we can recognize cultural nuances among people around us as a beginning place to examine mediated environments and topics from culturally different points of view. A companion classroom activity compares newspaper representations of specific topics through a site like NewspaperMap and ask why different interpretations of the same text occur culturally.
Project Censored director Mickey Huff described some of that organization's earliest instructional activities, in which students identified the stories were being covered by independent news organizations but not being disseminated by the mainstream media. They asked, "Why is there such a discrepancy?" Today, Project Censored also teaches students about logical fallacies through news headlines, and they play "Déjà Vu" when news outlets do pick up and report a previously absent story. Huff and co-author Andy Lee Roth recently published the book Censored 2016, which captures the top censored stories and media analysis of 2014-2015. Huff stated that, until we have a news system that is diverse, we need to engage in such critical media analysis.
Sut Jhally, Professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts and founder and Executive Director of the Media Education Foundation, was absolutely mesmerizing as the culminating keynote speaker at the ACME conference! He revisited Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death introduction and argued that both Orwell and Huxley were right: fear and pleasure are driving our current worlds. Jhally suggested that we read not McLuhan but McLuhan's mentor, Henry Innis, who describes the essential influences of empire on society. Jhally also spoke of New York Times' Chris Hedges, who has a new book, Empire of Illusion. In it, Hedges discusses "the triviality of American popular culture… the mindlessness that makes the magic…." I've added lots of material to my summer reading list as a result of hearing Jhally speak.
And, in my own presentation, Reaching Magazines that Reach Us, I argued that media images of athletes of color reproduce generational stereotypes, and, through digital media analysis, we can help students to transcend such embedded messaging. Anytime we reproduce images from a former generation for a new generation, we expose youth to another framework with which to know their worlds. If we are to assist our students become active advocates for equity in the world, we must, instead, empower them to speak as systemic reformers. Digital media literacy can offer students the skills and structures to organize and act on a larger scale in order to change laws, policy, and larger social conditions. With digital media literacy analysis, they can, in turn, educate each other about racism. Through digital media literacy, we can help students to gain tools to transform institutions for justice for all. Advocating for equitable images is one way.
Barriers to Full Access to Digital Media Literacy Education in the U.S.
Of course, there are many issues when considering full implementation of digital media literacy programs in U.S. schools and other U.S. cultural sites. A tendency seems to exist in many professional development programs to emphasize digital tools without focusing on the more important learning application of those tools. Moreover, instructors who lack the technology expertise cannot fully utilize the potential of digital media education, and, additionally, teachers can feel compelled to choose preparation for high-stakes testing over digital media production projects.
In June 2013, President Obama announced his ConnectED initiative, which aimed to equip practically every school in the country with a high-speed broadband connection by 2018. We often speak about ubiquitous digital access, but it is important to remember that not all individuals, schools, or cultural institutions have the capacity to offer free wireless or to supply personal technology devices to their constituents, especially in an on-needed basis. Indeed, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, the affluent and educated are still the most likely to have good access to digital resources.
And, finally, we have to remember that the U.S. is one of the very few Western countries that does not mandate media literacy education in its public schools. Canada has media literacy requirements for their K-12 students. Countries like Sweden, Finland, South Africa, and the U.K. have some form of media literacy education for primary and secondary students. In fact, 70 to 80 percent of all European students receive some media literacy training by the time they graduate high school. If we want to teach our youth to be informed citizens in a democracy, the U.S. needs to reconsider its blatant disregard for the place and importance of digital media literacy instruction and to implement curricular standards that require students to analyze and interpret the vast amount of information that we all encounter every day.
An informed citizenry may depend on it.
Carolyn Fortuna, Ph.D. is the recipient of the International Literacy Association's 2015 Grand Prize Award for Technology and Reading. She has a twenty year background in public school teaching, and she is a part-time faculty member in the Gender and Women's Studies Department at Rhode Island College. If you'd like information about workshops in digital and media literacy and learning, contact Carolyn at c4tuna31@gmail.com.
Freire, P. and Giroux, H. (1989). Pedagogy, popular culture, and public life: An introduction. In Popular culture: Schooling and everyday life. Eds. H. Giroux and R. Simon. New York, NY. Bergin & Garvey Publishers, Inc.
This entry was posted in ACME, digital media literacy research and tagged curriculum integration, digital design, digital teaching and learning, media education lab, media literacy, Renee Hobbs on April 18, 2016 by c4tuna.
Harvard University: An Opportunity for a Digital Media Literacy Lesson
Massachusetts Hall at Harvard Yard
As a December recess getaway, I spent a long weekend in a Harvard University neighborhood. I walked beside Victorian townhouses and through the campus maze. The raw and misty weather didn't stop crowds on historical tours of the Yard, as dozens gathered around buildings like Massachusetts Hall and listened to the narratives of years gone by. But the tour that I envisioned in my head was not historic but, rather, based on critical digital media literacy. In no particular order, here's what my Harvard University digital media literacy tour might look like.
Matthews Hall at Harvard Yard
Buildings in Harvard Yard have ornate cornices, austere lines, or even modern facades. I kept asking myself, What social and cultural forces have influenced changes in architecture since 1636, when Harvard was founded? How did the introduction of new materials and mass production change the way that buildings have been designed? What effect will natural resource depletion have on architecture in the next two decades? What do we, as consumers, need to know about the sources of the materials we buy for our own home projects? How will a greater understanding of our own consumption contribute to a more sustainable planet?
Roses in bloom outside the Harvard University Museum
As a self-trained gardener, I'm always studying the ways that plants adapt to our four season New England climate. I wondered, In what ways is it ironic that roses were blooming in December on the Harvard University campus? To what extent has New England climate change affected botanical cycles of dormancy and bloom? What research studies are underway at Harvard University to help scientists and citizens to understand and confront the quickly changing climate? I recognized that the effects of climate fluctuations and consequences can be a first step to adapting our own interactions with the natural world.
Thayer Hall accessibility sign at Harvard University
At one time in my life, I was a community access monitor, so I noticed universal accessibility signs as I walked on the Harvard campus. What is it like to be a person who uses a wheelchair at Harvard University? What types of architectural adaptations have been made to Harvard's historic buildings so that persons with disabilities are given freedom of access? What barriers remain to persons in our U.S. society who seek higher education and associated residential housing? Moreover, how can we all, in our local communities, ensure that all citizens with disabilities have access to as many public and private structures as possible so they can richly participate in community culture?
Plaque commemorating education of indigenous peoples at Harvard University
Several years ago, my local book group read Geraldine Brooks' Caleb's Crossing and even heard the author speak at the Read across Rhode Island May breakfast. So, of course, as I meandered through Harvard Year, I was delighted to come across a plaque commemorating John Sassamon, who became the first known Native American to study at Harvard. Today, the purpose of Harvard University's Native American Program is to advance the well-being of indigenous peoples. I wondered, What barriers do Native American and Alaskan Native students face in higher education? How are these barriers to student success being addressed theoretically and practically at Harvard and at other renowned sites of higher level education in the United States?
Of course, questions about cultural literacy aren't new to Harvard University. In 1993, Harvard hosted a Media Literacy Teaching Institute that drew nearly a hundred interested instructors, scholars, and journalists. It is also telling, however, that funding cuts later discontinued the Institute. The host, Dr. Renee Hobbs, continues inquiry into education that prompts today's students to think critically about what they see, read, and watch at the Media Education Lab. Perhaps Harvard's current work at Youth and Media Lab at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society will continue the power and promise of cyberspace research through a study of its own Harvard Yard, which is a site that offers myriad possibilities for critical connections through digital and media inquiry.
Carolyn Fortuna, Ph.D. is the recipient of the International Literacy Association's 2015 Grand Prize Award for Technology and Reading. She teaches English Language Arts at a New England public high school and is an adjunct faculty member at Rhode Island College. If you'd like information about workshops in digital and media literacy and learning, contact Carolyn at c4tuna31@gmail.com.
This entry was posted in digital media literacy research and tagged cultural studies, cyberspace, digital literacy, digital teaching and learning, Harvard tour, history on January 3, 2016 by c4tuna.


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    operations = [
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            name='unit_type',
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            model_name='physicalunits',
            old_name='unit_type_fk',
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This straight forward layout shows how A can be added to or subtracted from register S by linking two similar circuits. The upper circuit is an adder and the lower acts as a subtractor.
If the value of S drops below 0 or rises above 31 then it is out of range and the train returns on a combined underflow/overflow error line.
Enter the values of A (and S if necessary). Start the train from the correct input line depending on whether you want to add or subtract A from S. When the train halts, the result can be read from register S.
If A is set to 1, then the circuit acts as a Count Up (increment) or a Count Down (decrement) function.


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McConnell, K2 score key win for downtown development
Sean Longoria
Redding Record Searchlight
The Redding Planning Commission on Friday gave a key win to the McConnell Foundation and K2 Development Companies as they prepare to apply for $20 million to replace half of the downtown parking garage.
The project, coupled with others nearby, could drastically alter how people live, work and get around downtown.
The approval of a use permit for the four-story, 100,000-square-foot building came despite concerns on how wiping out up to half of the garage would squeeze ability of drivers to find a parking space downtown.
North of Butte Street, the garage has about 250 spaces that would be wiped out for the building, which will include 24 spaces for retail employees and those renting apartments. Up to 12 more spaces could be added along Tehama and California streets and in the alley next to the Shasta College building.
"Reading through this project I'm very excited about it... as far as the parking, I just don't want us to overlook that," Commission Chair Robert Paget said.
But Chuck Aukland, the city's assistant public works director, said about a third of the 1,500 parking spaces in the downtown core aren't used. The parking garage also won't last forever and there's no money to replace it, he said.
Plans for more angled parking spaces and an overall study of downtown parking are also underway, he said.
"For this project, there certainly is capacity to allow it," Aukland said.
The city is also working with the Redding Area Bus Authority to possibly open more parking on California Street across from the former Redding police station, Aukland said.
McConnell is also buying the former police building and adjacent lot. That space may free up more parking once the police station building is torn down.
"There is additional parking coming online literally across the street from the parking that's going away," said John Mancasola, McConnell's president and chief executive officer.
Daniel Knott of K2 said the project is about creating a vibrant downtown.
"We want to see vibrancy ... and vibrancy is contingent upon housing," Knott said. "We come downtown to work and leave it a ghost town at night. We leave a ghost town on weekends."
Redding Realtor Ken Miller and Shasta College President Joe Wyse spoke in favor of the project. Wyse said more people downtown and a more vibrant area would make students feel safer.
"We must get this done. It's the scarlet letter of shame if we don't take advantage of the opportunity that's in front of us. So, no pressure, OK?" Miller said.
The use permit was necessary for the grant application due in January. It'd be the second round of Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities funding for K2, which drew on the same source for another mixed-use building to replace the former Dickers department store in the Market Street Promenade.
That project would punch Market Street into the promenade and connect disparate sections of Butte and Yuba streets.
The City Council will be asked to approve McConnell and K2's grant application and selling the parking garage property next month. Redding and the Shasta Regional Transportation Agency are partnering with the agencies on the grant.
Before that, though, McConnell is hosting a public workshop to answer questions and hear ideas from the public about the project. That workshop is Nov. 28 at 6 p.m. at Old City Hall, 1313 Market St.


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