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World's Best Blogger?
by Jesse Kornbluth
Andrew Sullivan in his "blog cave"
Sullivan circa 1992
Photograph courtesy of Andrew Sullivan
Sullivan (right) at home with his husband, actor Aaron Tone, and their two beagles
From the Blog Cave
Excerpts from Andrew Sullivan's blog
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See videos of some of Andrew Sullivan's television appearances.
It was noon in Washington, D.C., when the shooting began in Tucson. Across the country, reporters and media executives rushed to cover the story of the gunman, the Congresswoman he shot at close range, and the 14 other victims. But the news couldn't reach one of the Internet's most important writers. For Andrew Sullivan, M.P.A. '86, Ph.D. '90, the editor of a blog called The Dish, the weekend is a time for rest, and having teed up on Friday afternoon a half-dozen evergreen posts for Saturday, he had turned off his communication devices and was sleeping in.
Sullivan had been lightly ill that week, so he slept unusually late, until almost two in the afternoon. Before he was quite ready to deal with the world, he checked his mailbox—and woke up fast. Along with the news of the shooting was an urgent question from readers: Andrew, where are you?
Sullivan winced. He e-mailed his four young assistants: "We have to go cable"—that is, pump out blog posts 24/7. Then he climbed four unpainted wooden steps to what anyone else would call a large windowed closet and he calls "the blog cave." He pulled a velvet curtain shut to seal himself off from his husband and their beagles, settled into an armchair with his laptop, and began a siege of blogging that would last six days.
Sullivan and his team had worked like this before. During the 2010 protests in Iran, they had scoured Facebook messages, Twitter bleats, Al Jazeera dispatches, and Iranian blog posts. The eclectic charm of the Dish (formerly TheDailyDish)—poems, philosophical and religious speculation, photographs from the windows of readers, the latest Sarah Palin outrage, and videos by The Pet Shop Boys—disappeared. The site became all Iran, all the time, and the Dish quickly became the Web's go-to site for news and context. In the process, the site's traffic spiked.
The Dish's coverage of the Tucson shootings paralleled its Iran coverage. While other bloggers ascribed blame, Sullivan filtered new reports, asked important questions, grieved for the victims—and avoided partisan speculation. Once again, his audience grew.
But this round of blogging was different. Andrew Sullivan is a lifelong asthma sufferer. He has sleep apnea, and at night wears a mask connected to a machine that regulates his breathing. And since 1993, he has been HIV-positive. Although Sullivan isn't the only writer with HIV to have survived for almost two decades, no other HIV-positive writer publishes anything like 300 blog posts a week, year after year; he needs to monitor his health.
Shortly after the week of Tucson, the Internet's Iron Man faltered—exhaustion and an unusually cold winter created so much bronchial distress that his doctor ordered him to take to his bed. During his unprecedented two-week silence, governments toppled in the Middle East. While his assistants did great work, friends teased Sullivan: "Andrew, you're missing an entire revolution."
When Sullivan returned, he had news of his own—he was leaving the Atlantic website, his home for the last four years, to join TheDailyBeast.com and Newsweek magazine, both edited by Tina Brown. In the traditional media paradigm, it's a promotion for a writer to move from the website of a highbrow monthly magazine like the Atlantic (circulation: 400,000) and the occasional article for that publication to America's second-largest weekly news magazine (circulation: 1.5 million) that has just become the partner of a website with five million monthly readers. But when the writer in question has a blog that's more popular than the websites of many publications, it's clear that Newsweek/Beast got something equally important in this deal.
"The Dish has twice as many readers as the New Republic and more than National Review," Sullivan says. And on the Atlantic site, the Dish also ruled. Some days, according to Alexa.com, which measures site traffic on the Internet, the Daily Dish accounted for more than half of the visitors to TheAtlantic.com. In cold numbers: Andrew Sullivan—one blogger, with a small budget and a minimal staff—has presented Tina Brown with a gift of about 1.3 million Internet readers.
Blogging Brahmin
American media have three castes. At the top is "The Village," a term created by a progressive blogger who calls herself "Digby" to describe a rarefied league of highly paid bold-faced names—think David Brooks, Peggy Noonan, Howard Kurtz—who move easily between print columns and television punditry. In the middle is the working press, a stressed-out group of reporters and columnists employed by increasingly desperate newspapers and magazines; to their daily tasks has been added blogging on their publications' websites. At the bottom are bloggers.
Most of the Internet's 150 million blogs serve up highly personal dispatches, the equivalent of those year-end letters that arrive in Christmas cards. Very few of those bloggers post news and views as a primary activity—there's no money in it. So blogging as a professional journalistic activity really involves at most a few thousand independent writers.
These elite bloggers are serious and knowledgeable, but they are often described as the untouchables of American media—unemployed, unemployable pajama-clad slackers who live with their parents and tap out overwrought screeds on basement computers. That view is not the verdict of critics who have visited the sites of elite bloggers; it's a media god's throwaway line. (NBC News anchor Brian Williams, for example: "All of my life, developing credentials to cover my field of work, and now I'm up against a guy named Vinny in an efficiency apartment in the Bronx who hasn't left the efficiency apartment in two years.") Beyond a general disdain for the Internet, the reason is often personal—bloggers don't just write about politicians, they also attack the media. And because media potentates don't welcome criticism, they lash back.
Andrew Sullivan also moves easily from blogging and print journalism to TV, but his resemblance to the Villagers ends there. For one thing, his views are ever-changing and all over the map; a TV producer can't count on him to speak for any one constituency. For another, although he has a résumé that qualifies him as a media elitist, he has dramatically redefined his idea of success. At 47, his concerns are no longer those of the overachieving wonder boy he used to be.
Sullivan earned a first-class degree (equivalent to a summa) in modern history and modern languages at Oxford, where, in his second year, he was president of the Oxford Union, the debating body that claims to be "the most illustrious student society in the world." He won a Harkness Fellowship to the Kennedy School in 1984; back in London, he interned at the think tank of one of his idols, Margaret Thatcher. He returned to Harvard in 1989 to write his doctoral thesis, "Intimations Pursued: The Voice of Practice in the Conversation of Michael Oakeshott," which won the government department's Toppan Prize, for the best dissertation "upon a subject of Political Science." In 1991, when he was just 27, he was named editor of the New Republic; under his leadership, the magazine grew impressively in both circulation and advertising. He left the New Republic five years later, "at the tail end of a series of differences," says New Republic owner Martin Peretz, Ph.D. '66. Sullivan moved on to write books and become a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and a columnist for the Sunday Times (of London).
To see such precocity is to be mystified—why would a writer with such impeccable credentials cast his lot more with bloggers than with people of his own kind?
"He's Catholic and gay and an exile," says the writer and feminist historian Naomi Wolf. "That's all very helpful—his background forces him not to be confined in any single identity."
Sullivan is bald, bearded, and bespectacled; in photographs he has an intellectual's intensity. At the same time, he's quite adept in social settings, and has immense personal charm. Hendrik Hertzberg '65, IOP '85, who knew him in Cambridge and preceded him as editor of the New Republic before joining the New Yorker, recalls Sullivan as "a strikingly beautiful young man…who had to fend off the women with a cricket bat." David Frum, J.D. '87, a Harvard colleague who went on to become a speechwriter for George W. Bush, M.B.A. '75, describes Sullivan as a social powerhouse: "Over drinks, Andrew dazzled a table of teaching assistants with his knowledge of pop bands. We knew nothing, but it wouldn't have made a difference—we were spellbound."
The motivation behind Sullivan's accelerated trajectory and outsized personality is grittier. He may have seemed sophisticated in Cambridge, but he was raised in Sussex by parents who hadn't gone to college; their marriage was less than happy, and his mother bipolar. "I had to be independent quite early," he explains, "and I had to get out. The escape was my brain."
At 11, he commuted three hours a day to attend a school for gifted boys. His protection was his Roman Catholic faith. He'd been an altar boy; now he drew crosses in the margins of his books "to ward off evil" and, in art class, refused to draw anything unrelated to the Bible. His ambition could not have been more conventional—to become a Tory member of Parliament.
Sullivan was 23 when he acknowledged his homosexuality and jettisoned his virginity. Years later, when his byline started to matter, he went public. "Every day, you have to say who you are, or live in fear," he explains. "I thought, 'If I do this, I'll never get to be a Tory MP.' And I said, 'Screw it.' I knew I wanted even more to be happy, have love and sex."
He had, by his account, a great deal of sex. In 1996, when he revealed he had contracted HIV, a friend asked whom he had unprotected sex with. In Love Undetectable, his 1998 book about "friendship, sex, and survival," Sullivan writes that he admitted it could have been anyone. His friend was incredulous: "Anyone? How many people did you sleep with, for God's sake?"
In the book, Sullivan held nothing back. "Too many. God knows. Too many for meaning and dignity to be given to every one; too many for love to be present at each; too many for sex to be very often more than a temporary release from debilitating fear and loneliness."
That is classic Sullivan: the unsparing candor, the over-sharing, the spiritual afterthought. Three years later, when he started to blog, that kind of writing would become his signature—and, for all its outsider status, the first really comfortable identity he'd known.
Neocon Renegade
When Sullivan launched a website in 2000, he thought of it as nothing more than an archive of his magazine articles. He knew nothing about technology—every time he wanted to add another article, he had to ask a friend for help. Sullivan is a prolific writer; for his friend, this routine quickly grew old. "Do it yourself," he advised.
Self-publishing was liberating. Under a "Daily Dish" headline, Sullivan started adding short posts. Readers sent suggestions. Soon he was updating his site several times a day; if a blogger is defined as a single writer who regularly posts news and commentary, Sullivan was among the first. And, from the beginning, he was popular; within a year, his request for contributions brought in $27,000.
The creation of a community was thrilling. So was the absence of an editor. But that freedom can be a trap for a writer who prides himself on writing from the heart as well as the intellect. Sullivan made what he has come to consider his first significant, sustained blunder after the attacks of September 11, when he compared antiwar dissenters and liberals to traitors: "the enemy within the West itself—a paralyzing, pseudo-clever, morally nihilist fifth column that will surely ramp up its hatred in the days and months ahead."
That was the start of a new Andrew Sullivan: a Brit applauding every escalation of White House rhetoric and cheerleading the invasion of Iraq. "I was caught up in emotion," he says, beginning a monologue that has not become less painful with the passage of years. "We had every reason to be outraged, and I had a desire to match the magnitude of the event with words of the same magnitude. Sending a few Special Forces units to take out a criminal didn't seem serious enough."
Toppling a dictator in Iraq did. Sullivan was committed to that idea—even more committed, he says, than his friend Donald Rumsfeld.
"The son of one of Rumsfeld's closest friends was a friend of mine," Sullivan says. "We met in a gay bar. That's how I came to have dinner with Rummy and stay at his house in Taos. He liked to rag me about the blog: 'You've done this for years and made no money. When will you make money?' And we fought about gays in the military. But when it came to war in Iraq, I was more bellicose than he was."
Here Sullivan was right in sync with other neo-conservatives. And he stayed in sync until he saw the photographs from Abu Ghraib: "That was the heartbreaker—torture destroyed all moral basis for the war."
Sullivan's Catholicism didn't allow for situational morality. Neither did his boyhood hero, George Orwell. He had made a mistake—"the darkest political misjudgment of my life." Now he had to pay for it, and because he was a blogger, he had to pay in public.
"When you write as I do, there's nowhere to hide," he says. "I had gone so far that I faced a crisis as a writer. So, first, I had to stand up, acknowledge my error, and make a good-faith apology. Then I needed to analyze what went wrong. And that's when my doubts about neo-conservatism began."
The institutions that Sullivan believed in disappointed him so greatly during the Bush administration that in 2004, for the first time, he endorsed a Democrat for president. "I've met so many gay soldiers I wasn't aware there were any straight people in the military," he says, deadpan, but official recognition of gays in the armed forces made no headway in those years. In the '90s, long before most gay men thought gay marriage was a possibility, Sullivan had been an activist in that cause; he was furious when the president advocated a constitutional amendment defining marriage as a heterosexual partnership only. And as a fiscal conservative, he disagreed with the Bush administration's enthusiasm for off-the-books funding of expensive wars and medical programs.
But the breaking point was, first and always, torture. In 2006, John McCain—who had once sponsored legislation to ban American military personnel from using torture—abandoned his opposition and supported the Military Commissions Act, which gave the president the right to torture. Sullivan was shattered. "That night, I got on my bike and rode to the Jefferson Memorial," he recalls. "I didn't know what else to do. I couldn't believe America had done this."
When Andrew Sullivan changes his mind, he often goes from one extreme to another. Not long ago, he was the subject of one of those interviews that, for most, is an opportunity to display some wit and warmth. Sullivan did—to a point. Then the Politico.com interviewer asked: "You're president of the United States for enough time to make only one executive decision. What is it?" Without hesitation, Sullivan replied: "Announce a full Justice Department investigation into the war crimes ordered by and admitted by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney."
Relentless Heterodoxy
Andrew Sullivan did not support John McCain in 2008. The torture flip-flop would have been enough of a reason. Then McCain added Sarah Palin to the ticket. The combination of her scant government experience and "raw political talent" terrified Sullivan—and with only two months between her nomination and the election, he started hammering.
"I was told: 'Don't touch this, it will hurt your reputation,'" he says. During a campaign when most pundits were, at worst, quizzical about Palin, Sullivan filled his blog with questions she was never going to answer. Did he pay a price? "I have become more of an outlaw in this town because I couldn't hide my amazement from my peers—I've definitely become more alienated from mainstream media."
Since the election, Sullivan has continued to press for clarification about a rumor the mainstream media won't touch: that Trig is not Palin's son. Sullivan hasn't flung any accusations at Palin; he's just pounded her ever-changing stories about Trig's birth, and her unwillingness to provide a birth certificate for him. In the heated conversation that surrounds all things Palin, nuance has been lost—and Sullivan has been cast as a crank who takes pleasure in badgering a woman who may have no political future. His response: "Early on, I figured out that anything I write about her can only help her, but I don't care about that. The job of a journalist is to find the truth."
This relentlessness has led to continuing analyses of other issues that most media avoid. Once a strong supporter of Israel, for example, Sullivan came to question its settlements in Gaza. His language is not always temperate: "It staggers me to read defenses of what the Israelis have done. They attacked a civilian flotilla in international waters breaking no law. When they met fierce if asymmetric resistance, they opened fire. And we are now being asked to regard the Israelis as the victims."
Unsurprisingly, he has provoked others to respond in kind.
A few years ago, Sullivan had a dustup about his Jewish "problem" with Leon Wieseltier, JF '82, a former colleague at the New Republic and a friend. Wieseltier wrote long, and he wrote harsh, concluding, "And this is not all that is disgusting about Sullivan's approach." Asked to comment for this article, Wieseltier wrote back: "Sorry, I'm sick of the subject."
Martin Peretz takes a longer view: "I'm curiously soft on Andrew. I don't really understand his attitude toward Israel and Zionism. I hope these turbulent days in the Arab world will help him grasp that the Jews of Israel live in a very dangerous environment and that one can't contemplate peace treaties here the way they're contemplated in other regions."
Sullivan's impassioned prose is matched only by his willingness to change his mind. When Sullivan supported Barack Obama in 2008, it was the final break with his former allies. Of a dozen prominent neo-conservative writers contacted for this profile, only one responded—to decline. His onetime allies have, however, been quite willing to deride him in their blogs, like Jonah Goldberg, writing in National Review: "Once a voice of restraint and reason, Sullivan now specializes in shrill panic: mercurial ranting full of operatic arguments, steeped in bad faith, aimed at people he once praised."
Sullivan's reasoning exasperates his former friends because it's as much psychological as it is political. "When I read Dreams from My Father, I read it as a gay book," he says. "That is, Obama discovered he was black at the same age that others of us learned we were gay. The world had no place for him. He had to make a place for himself."
Sullivan continues to praise Obama, though as a fiscal conservative, he has some grievances with the president—and with everybody else in Washington: "We all know what the Congress should be doing about the debt right now, don't we? It should be debating which mix of long-term entitlement and defense cuts and the least economically damaging tax increases would lower the long-term debt, restore global confidence in the long-term solvency of the U.S., and thereby ignite more business confidence and job growth.…What do we have instead? A president too calculating to take a stand and an opposition so focused on drastic cuts to discretionary spending and overreaching on collective bargaining that it is already making independents and moderate Republicans queasy."
Sullivan doesn't just criticize. He proposes solutions. He dreams of a Republican candidate who is "a real fiscal conservative, socially inclusive, open to serious tax reform and politically adult conversation to regain the center ground." Currently he is extremely enamored of Indiana's Republican governor, Mitch Daniels, who is not, as of this writing, a presidential candidate.
"Intellectual Diva"
David Bradley, owner and publisher of the Atlantic, courted Andrew Sullivan for six years. When Sullivan signed on, TheAtlantic.com had 200,000 unique visitors a month—"less than accidental visits to the New York Times," Bradley says. On the Dish's first morning, the publisher had his laptop open: "Our traffic grew sixfold in a moment. It was like Hoover Dam had broken—we were awash with traffic."
Bradley and Sullivan talked frequently and intimately, and in one of those conversations, Sullivan shared a deep truth about himself. "All my life," he said, "I've been disappointed by powerful men." Bradley took that to heart. "I made a private vow that, whatever happens, I'm not going to be his next disappointment."
He wasn't. Sullivan and Bradley had their differences about money—the Dish may have accounted for as much as $2 million in advertising revenue each year, and Sullivan has long wanted a cut—but Bradley says he was quite willing to share equity. The catch: Sullivan would have to broaden the site, so its success didn't depend only on him. But in the end, the issue really was Sullivan's innate restlessness.
These days, that restlessness is limited to Sullivan's professional life. A few years ago, he was in "one of the sleaziest clubs in Washington at 3 a.m." when he spotted Aaron Tone. "It was the thunderbolt—a total cliché," he says. "I didn't want to believe it."
In 2007, the short blogger and the tall actor got married in Provincetown, where they spend two weeks each summer, to get off the grid. The rest of the year, they live with two beagles in the large studio apartment that Sullivan bought in 2000 with his profits from day trading. It's a quiet life; their biggest social event is usually their weekly hosting of the new South Park episode.
In 2005, an exhausted Sullivan thought he needed to quit the Dish. When he thought that again in 2010, the hiring of assistants changed his mind. Now there seems to be nothing that makes him dream of slowing down.
"I have a profound professional admiration for the Dish as an editorial enterprise," Hendrik Hertzberg has blogged. "It's a kind of internet gyroscope. I find that it orients me in cyberspace. It fends off motion sickness. It gives pleasure. I almost always feel a little better after paying it a visit, even when the news of the day is unusually depressing. There ought to be a name for what the Dish is—'blog' doesn't capture it, somehow. There are many excellent blogs out there in blogland...but Andrew's 'The Daily Dish' is the best."
Andrew Sullivan is an intellectual diva, prone to epic battles. He's a showman; call what he does a show. But he performs in the open, without rehearsals, and he reveals everything to his readers, never sparing himself. And then, because he has an acute sense of pacing, he varies his posts with features that have nothing to do with politics, torture, or Palin.
So be warned: Sullivan sometimes posts dozens of times a day. If you've never read him, it might be better not to start. A curiosity can lead to a habit, and a habit to an addiction. And then, without quite knowing how it happened, you may find yourself beginning a sentence with, "As Andrew said…."
Jesse Kornbluth '68, a New York-based writer, edits HeadButler.com.
One "beautiful" encounter set Michael Stanley on his own humane path to neurology and writing.
Notes on Doctoring
The traditional alumni parade will remain an enjoyable part of the new celebration. (This photo was taken in 2014.)
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Celebrating Alumni, Anew
Carolyn Gold intended her book to be a resource for other brain-injury patients.
Photograph courtesy of Carolyn Gold; photo collage by Niko Yaitanes
Life After Brain Injury


Firefly Young Driver Review. - Me, Annie Bee.
"Righto" I thought, I mean who lets a 6 year old drive a car?
A quick search told me that Young Driver do indeed do just that.
Young Driver initially started providing driving lessons for 10-17 year olds, in a full size car.
They then saw a gap in the market and created Firefly – a smaller, two seater, electric car suitable for 5-10 year olds.
Firefly has a top speed of 10 mph and a safety mechanism that means the car will stop if it senses a collision is imminent, this was particularly reassuring for me!
Last Saturday we trotted along to RAF Church Fenton. I love a good airfield. It's a perfect location, to let young people loose in cars. I'll admit, despite the low speed and inability to collide I was still a bit apprehensive. I also thought that Aoife might be a bit overwhelmed by it as she was nervous before she started "I'm not going to be able to smile when you take photos as I must concentrate".
As she sat in the car, the instructor went over the car's controls and the rules of the road while Aoife sported her 'absolutely not listening' face. There are days when I can barely get her to follow simple instruction like 'put your shoes on' so how was she going to drive a car?
I didn't hold out much hope.
It turns out I didn't need to worry about that. She was flying round the circuit doing doughnuts and hand brake turns like a boy racer within minutes.
OK, maybe she wasn't THAT good but she was a natural. The course is simple, incorporating junctions and a roundabout. She got to grips with following the track, feeding the steering wheel and smiling for pictures as she drove past.
At one point she even managed a little sort out of her hair and pose whilst driving.
The Firefly lesson is 20 minutes long. The first five minutes take place with the instructor in the car then, for the rest of the lesson, Aoife could take her designated grown up for a drive. In this instance it was Rory – I wasn't convinced I wouldn't get stuck in the car!
As this was her first lesson the focus was on getting round the course and negotiating roundabouts and junctions but as the child progresses with lessons they will use the indicators, practice parallel parking and reversing into bays. Actual real life driving skills.
As someone who doesn't drive and is a bit worried about learning, I think that these Young Driver lessons are a fantastic idea.
Teaching children driving skills while they're still fearless will grow their confidence and so when they take their driving test at 17 they won't be nervous or worried at all.
Aoife absolutely loved her lesson, she was chuffed to bits when she got her very own (not real) driving licence at the end! She enjoyed "going round and round the roundabout" and thinks everyone should do it because "then you get a driving license to drive real cars".
I think I need to explain this isn't quite true before she's off with Rory's car keys and loitering around the local McDonalds!
Looks fun and like you said a confidence booster.


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Алекса́ндр Степа́нович Ко́рнев (1921—2003) — полковник Советской Армии, участник Великой Отечественной войны, Герой Советского Союза (1944).

Биография

Александр Корнев родился 26 января 1921 года в Ейске. Учился в Орджоникидзевском техникуме путей сообщения, одновременно занимался в аэроклубе. В 1939 году Корнев был призван на службу в Рабоче-крестьянскую Красную Армию. В 1940 году он окончил Качинскую военную авиационную школу пилотов. С августа 1941 года — на фронтах Великой Отечественной войны. В 1942 году Корнев окончил курсы усовершенствования штурманов. Участвовал в Курской битве, освобождении Украинской ССР, Румынии и Венгрии.

К лету 1944 года майор Александр Корнев командовал эскадрильей 809-го штурмового авиаполка (264-й штурмовой авиадивизии, 5-го штурмового авиационного корпуса, 2-й воздушной армии, 1-го Украинского фронта). К тому времени он совершил 227 боевых вылетов на штурмовку скоплений боевой техники и живой силы противника, его оборонительных рубежей, нанеся ему большие потери.

Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 2 августа 1944 года за «образцовое выполнение боевых заданий командования по уничтожению живой силы и техники противника и проявленные при этом мужество и героизм» майор Александр Корнев был удостоен высокого звания Героя Советского Союза с вручением ордена Ленина и медали «Золотая Звезда» за номером 2383.

После окончания войны Корнев продолжил службу в Советской Армии. В 1951 году он окончил Военно-воздушную академию в Киеве. В 1957—1976 годах Корнев преподавал в ней. Был уволен в запас в звании полковника. Проживал в Киеве. Умер 29 августа 2003 года, похоронен на Берковецком кладбище Киева.

Награды
Был также награждён двумя орденами Красного Знамени, орденами Александра Невского, Отечественной войны 1-й степени, Красной Звезды, «За службу Родине в Вооружённых Силах СССР» 3-й степени, рядом медалей.

Память

Примечания

Литература

 Золотые Звёзды Кубани. Том 2. Краснодар, 1969.

Лётчики Великой Отечественной войны
Похороненные на Берковецком кладбище

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Entertainment » Theatre
Broadway Actors & COVID-19: Aaron Tveit Has It; Gavin Creel Thinks He Might
Aaron Tveit (Source:Associated Press)
Broadway star Aaron Tveit announced on Tuesday that he's tested positive for COVID-19 and has been in quarantine since the March 12 Broadway shutdown, Deadline reports.
"Hey everyone. I just wanted to update you all that I've found out that I've tested positive for Covid-19. I've been in quarantine since Broadway shows shut down on Thursday, March 12th, and I'm feeling much better," Tveit posted on Instagram.
Tveit is currently starring in "Moulin Rouge! The Musical," which is currently one of the consistently highest grossing shows on Broadway. It is currently in shutdown, as are the rest of Broadway.
He went on to consider himself lucky to have such mild symptoms — "cold like with no fever... One thing I have been experiencing is the loss of taste and smell, which I think is a big sign for people who are otherwise asymptotic."
"I was tested last Monday, and just found out the results, however, I have been taking this situation extremely seriously, even before I was tested," he added.
He accompanied his post with a photo of his dog Miles.
Gavin Creel on Rosie O'Donnell's Actors Fund YouTube special (Source: YouTube)
Tveit's announcement came a day after Tony-winning actor Gavin Creel said he was "pretty sure" he had COVID-19, making the announcement during Rosie O'Donnell's livestreamed show last night, March 22, reports Broadway World.
"I'm pretty sure I have the virus," Creel said. "I haven't been officially tested, but I was doing 'Waitress in London' and a bunch of our cast has fallen sick from it. One of my castmates did test the same day that I was starting to have symptoms, and she's positive and we were together the whole time."
"He assures that it was not Sara Bareilles, who co-starred with him as Jenna in the production," Broadway World adds.
Creel described his symptoms as like having a "cruddy flu."
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'Moleleki behind my prosecution'
By webmaster On Dec 10, 2010
Nat Molomo
MASERU — Reatile Mochebelele, the convicted former boss of the Lesotho Highlands Water Commission (LHWC), tried to duck jail by claiming that Natural Resources Minister Monyane Moleleki instigated his prosecution because of a long-standing grudge.
Mochebelele, who is wanted in Lesotho to serve a 10-year jail sentence for corruption, made the claims in his application for refugee status in South Africa.
This was soon after his conviction last year for receiving bribes from Lahmeyer International, a German consultancy firm which was engaged by the LHWC for the Katse and Mohale dam projects.
Mochebelele was Lesotho's chief delegate on the commission.
Letlafuoa Molapo, who was Mochebelele's deputy and accomplice in the bribery crime, is currently serving a three-year jail term at Maseru Central Prison.
But Mochebelele has been holed up in South Africa after choosing to apply for political asylum instead of coming back home to face the music.
That move stalled Lesotho's attempts to have him extradited.
When his asylum application was declined on December 4 2009, Mochebelele appealed to the Refugee Appeal Board, an independent tribunal which offers asylum seekers who have their applications rejected a second chance to prove their claims.
However, the board also threw out his appeal on November 23 2010, paving the way for Lesotho to start extradition proceedings against him.
Yet it is the justification that Mochebelele gave to back his application for political refugee status in South Africa that makes interesting reading.
In his appeal to the Refugee Appeal Board, Mochebelele claimed he was prosecuted at the instigation of Moleleki with whom he alleged to have had a long-standing feud.
Because of this alleged feud, Mochobelele claimed, Moleleki went all out to have him convicted.
He said Moleleki was fired as the public relations manager of the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA), an institution that fell under the LHWC which Mochebelele headed.
This was sometime between 1991 and 1992 and Mochebelele, an agricultural engineer by profession, had been heading the commission since 1986.
He said immediately after Moleleki became the minister of natural resources under which the LHWC fell, he told him that he could not work with him.
Mochebelele claimed Moleleki told him that he would not renew his contract because he was not attending Basutoland Congress Party (BCP) meetings in the run-up to the 1993 elections.
According to Mochebelele, there were further clashes in 1994 when the commission ordered an audit of the LHDA's management.
He said Moleleki ordered him to stop the audit but he persisted and went ahead as planned.
The results of the audit, Mochebelele claimed, only further strained relations between him and the minister.
It led to the dismissal and eventual prosecution of the LHDA chief executive, Masupha Sole, who Mochebelele claimed to have been good friends with Moleleki.
Sole is currently serving 18 years in prison for a number of bribery and fraud convictions.
In evidence that the Refugee Appeal Board describes as "voluminous" Mochebelele further alleged that in 1995 a representative of Lahmeyer International, one Dr Spies, told him that he had been ordered to leave the country because of his relationship with him.
Mochebelele said Spies told him that the only reason he had been expelled from Lesotho was because the minister was not happy that he was renting a house from him.
He further claimed that his relationship with the minister did not improve in the late 1990s.
He alleged that in 1999 Moleleki refused to sign employment contracts for him and Molapo because he just did not like them.
The two worked for three years without contracts, Mochobelele claimed.
The minister refused to renew their contracts in 2002, he alleged.
He said he only learnt in 2003 that he was being investigated when he was already working in South Africa as an adviser to Nepad.
Mochebelele said trouble followed him when Moleleki was appointed foreign affairs minister in 2004.
In 2005, a magistrate in Pretoria told him that Lesotho's foreign affairs ministry had requested information about his property in Midrand and wanted his accounts frozen, Mochobelele claimed.
"The attorney-general of Lesotho, Adv (Lebohang) Maema, was posted to New York after word went around in Maseru that he felt there was no case to prosecute the appellant (Mochebelele)," he alleged.
In the appeal, Mochebelele portrayed himself as an innocent man who was persecuted by Moleleki because the two had "differences".
To prove that there was an alleged agenda to persecute him, Mochebelele pointed at his sentence which he said was harsh.
He was sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered to forfeit M800 000 of the M1 million he had initially paid as fine.
The Refugee Appeal Board was however not convinced that Mochobelele was a victim of politically motivated prosecution and it rejected his appeal on November 23.
In its ruling the board said it found it improbable that Moleleki had set in motion the process to persecute Mochebelele.
It pointed that while Moleleki had become a minister in 1993, investigation into Mochebelele's case had only started in 2003.
Even then, the board reasoned, the information that triggered the investigation had not come from Moleleki but from a Lahmeyer International official who was based in Lesotho.
"The board is of the opinion that if Minister Moleleki wanted to prosecute the appellant (Mochebelele) maliciously because of their imputed political different opinions he could have and probably would have done so long before the corruption and bribery charges were brought against the appellant and his co-accused (Molapo)," the board said.
It ruled that Mochebelele had also failed to prove that "Moleleki or the Lesotho government was actuated by malice".
"The evidence does not show that, apart from differences between them, Minister Moleleki or any government official ever threatened the appellant with threats (that) may have shown malice," the board said.
Mochebelele had also failed to prove that "criminal proceedings were instituted upon false charges".
The board also added that although he had denied receiving the bribes the Appeal Court of Lesotho had found otherwise.
The Refugee Appeal Board's ruling means Mochebelele can no longer apply for refugee status using the same reason in South Africa.
That also means that the extradition case against him will have to proceed.
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GHAZIABAD: The Development Authority (GDA) is planning to develop a riverfront along the banks of the in the city forest area.
The development agency will shortly appoint a consultant, possibly from or an IIT to prepare a detailed project report. The plan will be executed after that.
"We are planning to develop the Hindon riverfront in the city forest area on the lines of the Gomati riverfront. We will soon be appointing consultants for the job," said Kanchan Verma, vice-chairperson at the GDA. "The scale of the Hindon riverfront will not be as large as the Gomati riverfront but we are planning to develop it between a 2km and 4km stretch" added Verma. The city forest area, which is spread in an area of 150 acres along the , is considered Ghaziabad's green lungs and is visited by thousands of residents every day. The GDA has been trying for long to introduce new themes, which include sound and light show and musical water fountain. Apart from the riverfront, the GDA has also planned to introduce toy trains in the city forest area. "We have got permission from the state government to operate toy trains in the city forest, which we think will be a big draw for revellers and residents," said Verma.


Important Note: This event will utilize a kitchen facility to enable its labs. Please RSVP to ensure that your space at the sinks, tables, and fretboards is accounted for. Brad has arranged for a ¥6000 package for those who wish to purchase and use their own ukulele during the workshop. Please contact us before March 10th to take advantage of this opportunity.
Get your hands dirty with Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in this curated event: we'll learn better ways to talk about (and enjoy) chocolate, let our nose start a conversation, outsource our brains with wooden blocks and dice, and learn to play the ukulele. It's ok, there will be elementary and junior high school students helping you along the way. Oh yeah, we're going to finish with an ice cream lab, toppings and discussion to follow.
CLIL engagements lend themselves to intrinsic motivation, and it is our goal that you may experience this, rather than "learn about it." In such environments, you will find your job as an educator to be move away from the teacher and towards an enabler of independently-driven learning.
Matt Shannon is an educator, cultivator, and curriculum developer, based in Saitama, Japan. He has helped place student work at the edge of space, given lectures on why we need to think about the ocean when we're looking for good ideas, and is a long-time fan of Mr. Wizard. He is president of the Saitama chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching.
Brad Semans develops curricula and trainings for the Saitama City Board of Education. He also owns and operates an English teaching service specializing in content based lessons for the purposes of developing functional bilingualism. His interests include application of theory to the classroom and playing ukulele in lessons.
Hiroya, Haruki, Ayaha, Yu, Ao, Kotaro, and Minato have all studied a variety of subjects through English and are all ukulele enthusiasts.
English was introduced to high schools in Cambodia as a foreign language component of the high school curriculum in 1992. Despite some significant progress since its inception, the teaching of English has, however, faced considerable challenges in terms of class size, methodology, syllabuses, enthusiasm, students・proficiency level, and learning environment. Many high school teachers seem complacent about the way they teach English, for they believe that as long as they stick to the syllabuses which were adopted by the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports for all high schools, they have achieved their course goals. Also, many students take a carefree attitude towards English learning. As a result, they end up having enormous difficulty with English communication despite six years of English study, from grade seven to grade twelve. This paper will identify the challenges that impede the progress of English teaching and learning in Cambodian high schools and look at the chances of its success in an attempt to revitalize the ELT field in high schools in particular and in Cambodia as a whole.
Om Soryong is currently the deputy head of the English Department of the Institute of Foreign Languages, Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He holds a Master's Degree of Science in Instructional Design from Southern Illinois University, USA and a Graduate Diploma in TESOL from the University of Canberra, Australia. He has been involved in curriculum/syllabus design and development and teaching English as a foreign language in the Bachelor of Education in TEFL and Bachelor of Arts in English courses at the Institute of Foreign Languages for more than 10 years. His areas of expertise include teaching methodology, translation, curriculum development, and instructional design. He has a special interest in learner motivation and the use of humour in the classroom. He is also a member of the CamTESOL steering committee.
Mini-immersion, the inclusion of short content-focused segments within the framework of typical conversation classes, gives teachers and students a chance to step completely out side of the box. The importance of teaching both BICS and CALP has been thoroughly demonstrated and this teaching technique facilitates a balance between the two in a common EFL setting: extracurricular English lessons for young ELLs. In this workshop, attendees will be presented with arguments for using Mini-immersion. There will also be chances for the audience to discuss and apply the technique. Finally the presenter will discuss the effects of Mini-immersion and show samples of language produced by students of Mini-immersion. For teachers of young language learners this workshop will provide an engaging avenue for instruction as well as new paths to assessment of student performance and the effectiveness of instruction. For students, Mini-immersion is an excellent way of developing autonomy in young learners.
Brad Semans has taught in Japan for more than 9 years now. He is the Head ALT Instructor for Saitama City and also runs a successful private tutoring service catering to elementary aged students with advanced language abilities. Brad is also the assistant editor of the Saitama Journal of Language teaching and has authored a host of articles and papers that no one in their right mind would publish, so they didn't.
The JALT Omiya Chapter is proud to be one of the organizations taking part in this year's Nakasendo Conference . Representing JALT Omiya this year are Jun Harada and Bradley Semans.
-Jun Harada's presentation entitled 'Let's Delve into the Minds of 'Bad' Students: Alternative TESOL will take place from 2:10~3:00 in Room B.
-Bradley Semans' materials swap is titled 'Dave Pilkey in the Classroom (or 'Who the heck is Dave Pilkey?') will take place from 3:10~4:00 in the Gathering Room.
This year's annual event, Nakasendo 2009, will be held on June 28th at Tokyo Kasei University. Our theme, "Paths to Learning" offers an engaging day of professional development through collaboration. In addition to our line-up of presenters from participating organizations and our "Learning Paths" materials swap, we are delighted to host Dr. Kensaku Yoshida, a formidable voice in our unique EFL context, as our keynote speaker this year.


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Die Universität Kumamoto (jap. , Kumamoto daigaku, kurz: Kumadai ()) ist eine staatliche Universität in Japan. Der Hauptcampus liegt in Kurokami, Kumamoto in der Präfektur Kumamoto.

Geschichte
Die Universität hat ihren Ursprung im 1756 gegründeten Krankenhaus Saishunkan (, dt. "Haus des wiederkommenden Frühlings") und im Heilpflanzengarten Banjien (, dt. "Garten mit sich mehrenden und bewachsenden Pflanzen"). Ihr Gründer war Hosokawa Shigekata (, 1721–1785), der Daimyō von Kumamoto-Han. Das Kumamoto-Han wurde 1871 abgeschafft und das Krankenhaus wurde ein öffentliches Krankenhaus, das 1896 zur privaten Medizinischen Schule Kumamoto wurde. Sie entwickelte sich 1922 zur präfekturalen Medizinischen Hochschule Kumamoto und 1929 dann zur staatlichen Medizinischen Hochschule Kumamoto (, Kumamoto ika daigaku).

1949 wurde die Universität durch den Zusammenschluss der sechs staatlichen Schulen in Kumamoto gegründet:
 die Medizinische Hochschule Kumamoto,
 die Fünfte Oberschule (, Dai-go kōtō gakkō, gegründet 1887),
 das Technikum Kumamoto (, Kumamoto kōgyō semmon gakkō, gegründet 1906),
 die Pharmazeutische Fachschule Kumamoto (, Kumamoto yakugaku semmon gakkō, gegründet 1885),
 die Normalschule Kumamoto (, Kumamoto shihan gakkō, gegründet 1874), und
 die Jugend-Normalschule Kumamoto (, Kumamoto seinen shihan gakkō, gegründet 1920).

Der Hauptcampus (Kurokami-Campus) ist der ehemalige Sitz der Fünften Oberschule und des Technikums Kumamoto. Die Schulen wurden im Mai 1887 als staatliche Fünfte Höhere Mittelschule (, Dai-go kōtō chūgakkō) gegründet und dienten als Vorbereitungskurs für die Kaiserliche Universität. Später wurde die medizinische Fakultät (in Nagasaki im Aug. 1887) und die technische Fakultät (1897) gegründet. 1894 wurde die Fünfte Höhere Mittelschule in Fünfte Oberschule umbenannt. 1901 entwickelte sich die medizinische Fakultät zur Medizinischen Fachschule Nagasaki (heute Universität Nagasaki) und 1906 die technische Fakultät zur Höheren Technischen Schule Kumamoto (, Kumamoto kōtō kōgyō gakkō), die 1944 in Technikum Kumamoto umbenannt wurde. Lafcadio Hearn und Natsume Sōseki waren Lehrer an der Fünften Oberschule für einige Jahre. Im Hauptgebäude der Fünften Oberschule (erbaut 1889) befindet sich heute das Universitätsmuseum. Das Hauptgebäude des Technikums (erbaut 1924) ist heute das Verwaltungsgebäude der Universität Kumamoto.

Der ehemalige Heilpflanzengarten Banjien wurde 1890 geschlossen und die Pflanzen wurden an die Fünfte Höhere Mittelschule gespendet. Also hat der Heilpflanzengarten der Universität die Töchter der Pflanzen des Banjiens.

Fakultäten

 Kurokami-Campus ():
 Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften
 Fakultät für Pädagogik
 Fakultät für Rechtswissenschaft
 Fakultät für Naturwissenschaften
 Fakultät für Ingenieurwissenschaften
 Honjō-Kuhonji-Campus ():
 Fakultät für Medizin
 Ōe-Campus ():
 Fakultät für Pharmazie

Siehe auch
Liste der Universitäten und Hochschulen in Japan

Weblinks

 Offizielle Website (japanisch und englisch)

Einzelnachweise

Kumamoto
Kumamoto
Ehemaliges Technikum
Hochschule in der Präfektur Kumamoto
Gegründet 1949


I am in a creative funk. I've sewn the last of the 2 things I had laying on my desk. I'm desperately trying to get into doing some embroidery, but lately all I want to do is lay on the couch!
I say enjoy the REST!!! ;)Happy couch sitting!!!
maybe your pregnant….. tee hee….


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Université Yale
What are people most afraid of? What do our dreams mean? Are we natural-born racists? What makes us happy? What are the causes and cures of mental illness? This course tries to answer these questions and many others, providing a comprehensive overview of the scientific study of thought and behavior. It explores topics such as perception, communication, learning, memory, decision-making, persuasion, emotions, and social behavior. We will look at how these aspects of the mind develop in children, how they differ across people, how they are wired-up in the brain, and how they break down due to illness and injury.
reasoning, Problem Solving, abstract thinking, analytical thinking, Critical Thinking
Was very useful and insightful. Being an educator, t allowed to delve into various aspects which allows to understand differences i children .and underlying reasons.\n\nThanks for wonderful experience
The lectures were very fun, engaging, and interactive. Taking this course gives you a deeper understanding of life and helps answer questions we have about ourselves, others, and the world we live in.
In this module, you will learn about psychology examining the self and others. Specifically, in the first half, you will learn about social and non-social emotions. In the second half, you will learn about how we deal with other people—social psychology.
Evolution of emotion10:06
Why evolution matters13:28
Facial expressions7:22
Fear4:31
Kinship7:18
Attachment8:30
Prisoner's dilemma12:54
Irrationality and culture8:44
Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University
So, we talked about how animals including humans can evolve to be kind, to be altruistic towards genetic relatives and the influence that this has on our psychologies. But our kindness and altruism isn't limited to those we share genes with. We're also kind to non-kin. So, looking at non-humans, we see animals groom themselves, they give warning cries, they share in the task of child care, they share food, and so on. Certainly, in both everyday life and in the hunter-gatherer life of our past, we're kind to one another, we form groups, we help one another. In your everyday life, you're probably connected to people, to friends, to romantic partners who you don't share genes with and yet you have a mutual inclined relationship with. You're actually also probably to some regards kind to strangers and how that comes about is a different story, but we're going to stick to friends. So, one way of thinking about the relationships between friends is in terms of what the biologist Robert Trivers has called reciprocal altruism. There's a principle where we're more likely to help those who help us. If you scratch my back, I scratch yours and there's mutual benefit. Suppose we need to drag in something, maybe a carcass, from one place to another and we both benefit from having it moved, but neither one of us is individually strong enough to move it. If we work together, we both benefit. Or, to take a more difficult case, suppose whenever I get a surplus of food, I give you some and whenever you get a surplus of food more than you can eat, you give me some, we both benefit from this. But there's a problem. The problem is, the problem of cheating. What if I helped you on Tuesday and you don't help me back on Wednesday? We're actually back to the free rider problem. In an animal context, imagine the case of warning criers. So, some animals, if one of them in a group sees some predator approaching, will give off a loud cry to warn everybody else and that benefit of the group. Overall, everybody is best off if the creatures in that group give warning cries. But, you know who would really be best off? Somebody who took advantage of the warning cries, who will listen to them and responded, but actually didn't give them themselves. Imagine a gene that led animals to both give warning cries and respond to warning cries and a second gene that led an animal to respond to warning cries, but not give warning cries, the selfish free rider gene would outproduce the more generous gene. It would have all of the benefits and none of the costs and pretty soon, the whole group would be worst off. So again, we see a similar case where the reciprocal altruism appears to be untenable. There is however a solution. Reciprocal altruism can evolve if animals can punish cheaters, can punish free riders. Punishment can be actually whacking them in the head or causing them pain or killing them, but it could also be shunning them. In a situation where animals need to interact with other animals to survive, shunning is a powerful punishment. So the claim is, that you find this kindness among non-kin, among non-related individuals. If the animals have evolved a corresponding mechanism for punishment, which requires a lot of psychological apparatus, a lot of cognitive machinery, these animals have to recognize cheaters, they have to remember who they are and hold this memory across time, and had to be motivated to punish. One very general way to see the situation and to see how the situation can be solved is what's known as a prisoner's dilemma. So, here's the logic of the prisoner's dilemma. It's incredibly cool, but we need to walk through it. So, imagine you and a friend commit a crime and you're arrested. You and your friend are put into separate rooms, you are prisoners, and a police officer comes up to each one of you separately and he says, "Look, you have two options. You can cooperate with your friend, which means you say nothing, you don't squeal on your friend, you don't blame your friend or you can defect," and the police officer says, "Do you defect?" You say, "Yes, we did it and it was all his fault." So, if you cooperate with your friend and your friend cooperates with you, you both get a fairly mild sentence. You get one year in prison. They can't pin the whole crime on you, but they have some other evidence and so on. If however, you squeal on your friend and your friend keeps his mouth shut, you go free. You just walk away. If you cooperate with your friend and he squeals on you, you're in big trouble man. Your friend will walk away and you will spend the rest of your life in prison. If you both squeal on each other, you'll each get a very long prison sentence. So, the police officer says, "So, look at this and be aware that your friend is looking at the same sheet and making the same choices." Well, of course, in real life they don't actually explain to you prisoner's dilemma. This actually is not so different from what actually happens when people are arrested for crimes, often for serious crime. They really will be put in a separate room and be told, "Look, give up on your friend and you'll get a lesser sentence," and they'll say, "I tell you, your friend is getting the same offer. Whichever one acts first wins." It's a matter of trust, really. If you trust your friend and you know he won't defect on you, and he trust you and know you won't defect on him, you both cooperate. But he says, the cop says, "I want you to observe something really interesting about your options. Suppose he cooperates with you, what's the best option for you? What will turn out best for you?" Well, if he cooperates, that's the top two squares, your best thing for yourself is to defect. That's the upper right corner, then you walk away. Suppose he defects on you, well, what's your best option? Your best option again is to defect. You will get 20 years in prison, but it's just better than life in prison. So, when faced with this option, you say, "Fine, I defect and I want to squeal on my partner." He gets the same option and then he squeals on you. So, this is a weird and unhappy outcome. Here's a way to phrase the prisoner's dilemma more abstractly. The best case is to defect while the other person cooperates. The worst case is to cooperate when another person defects. The best over all is if each cooperate and the worst over all is if both defect. The puzzle is, as a police officer has reminded you, regardless of what your opponent does, it would be better off defecting, but if both people defect, both are worse off. Now, once you start hearing about a prisoner's dilemma, you see it everywhere. Imagine my wife and I decide to divorce. We each struggle separately with the option of getting an expensive and carnivorous divorce lawyer. So, plainly I think and she thinks, if we don't, if we just go to mediation, we'll split our money, we'll both do okay. But then something occurs to me. If I choose yes to getting a carnivorous and expensive divorce lawyer and she chooses no, I'll get everything. She'll lose everything, very tempting. Also I worry, if she gets a lawyer and I don't, I lose everything and she gets everything. Faced with the logic, it seems inevitable that we both get expensive lawyers, we have a lengthy court battle and we don't both do pretty badly. You have two countries and they're deciding whether or not to build up their weapons and their military, which are very expensive. They both decide, no, and they say, "Ah, it's okay, not bad." But then, it occurs to them that if one country chooses yes and the other one chooses no, the one who chooses yes really gets everything, they could invade the other country and the one who chooses no is in a very bad situation. So, faced with this logic, they both choose yes and then they both do pretty badly. Prisoner's dilemmas are everywhere. Now, there may be no solution to the one-shot prisoner's dilemma. Where you deal with another individual who's a stranger, you just interact once and you make your choice. But now imagine that you get to play the prisoner's dilemma game over and over and over again with a certain individual, what's the best strategy? What's the best strategy for the maximum payoff? You could even think about this for a moment. Would you always defect? Would you always cooperate? Would you be random? What would you do? Many years ago, the scholar Robert Axelrod put together a competition. The competition involved people participating by bringing computer programs, establish different strategies for solving the prisoner's dilemma and the idea is that each of the programs would play multiple games. What's really cool is that the winning program was extremely simple. It was actually four lines of computer code. It was the simplest program that they had. It worked on a principle that was developed by Anatol Rapoport. It worked on a principle called tit for tat. It just had two very simple rules. The first is, the first time you meet a new program, cooperate. The second is, after that, do on each trial what the other program did on the previous trial. You see, this has a genius to it. It's nice, it starts friendly, it's not a sucker. If it starts friendly and you defect on it, it will then defect back, but it's forgiving. Once you're nice, it's going to be nice right back. It basically rewards niceness with niceness and meanness with meanness, and it's transparent. The logic of it's clear enough that it's easy to figure out how to work together for mutual gain. If I'm going to play with a tit for tat machine for a long series of games, I will just cooperate all the time because I know my cooperation will be rewarded with cooperation. What's really cool is, evolutionary psychologists have pointed out that our social emotions, how we heel for other people, seem to be calibrated to different aspects of the prisoner's dilemma. So, we feel gratitude and liking for people who cooperate with us, which motivates us to be nice to them in the future, we feel anger and distrust to those who betray us, which motivates us to betray or avoid them in the future, and we feel guilt when we betray someone who cooperates with us. This motivates us to behave better in the future. Here it is lined up in terms of the different parameters of the prisoner's dilemma options, which is, I think a beautifully elegant way of how evolutionary considerations and game theoretic considerations and evolution of cooperation can actually provide some really interesting insight into the nature of our emotions and the nature of our psychology more generally.


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SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies Can Protect from Reinfection, NCI Study Suggests
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People who have had evidence of a prior infection appear to have some degree of protection against being reinfected with the virus.
December 29, 2020 • By National Cancer Institute and Norman E. Sharpless
As the first shipments of COVID-19 vaccines begin to arrive in the United States, some interesting and timely data have emerged from NCI-led research about the coronavirus and immunity. Using real-world data from more than 3 million people, NCI researchers and our collaborators have found that people who have had evidence of a prior infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, appear to have some degree of protection against being reinfected with the virus.
This finding may explain why reinfection appears to be relatively rare and helps to confirm what many have hoped would be the case since the emergence of the virus.
Some may wonder why NCI is conducting research on COVID-19. Earlier this year, Congress appropriated $306 million to NCI in emergency funding to study the immune response to SARS-CoV-2. This project is one of many in this area that NCI has taken on at the request of Congress.
The NCI research team, which I was a part of, was led by Lynne Penberthy, MD, MPH, associate director of NCI's Surveillance Research Program. Working with two health care data analytics companies (HealthVerity and Aetion) and commercial labs (Quest and LabCorp), we obtained serology (antibody) testing results for more than 3 million people, representing more than 50% of the commercial SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests conducted in the United States. Nearly 12% of these tests were antibody positive; most of the remaining tests were negative (less than 1% were inconclusive).
The research team then looked at what fraction of individuals in each group went on to later develop a positive result on a nucleic acid (PCR) test for SARS-CoV-2, which may indicate a new infection. We found that, 90 or more days after the initial antibody test, people who had been antibody-negative had evidence of infection (a positive PCR test) at about 10 times the rate of people who had been antibody-positive.
This protective effect is strong and comparable to the protection afforded by effective SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, although developing protection from vaccination is much safer than from natural infection. This finding suggests that people who have a positive antibody test result using widely available assays have substantial immunity to SARS-CoV-2 and are at lower risk for future infection.
Implications for Public Health
Because of the public health significance of these data, we have posted the results of the study on a preprint server (medRxiv), even while the study is undergoing peer review. Our goal is to get the information to the public as quickly as possible so that public health agencies and others can review it and consider using the information, in combination with other studies, in setting policy.
The finding that a positive antibody test is a predictor of a relatively low risk for reinfection could have important implications, influencing decisions about returning to physical workplaces, school attendance, and other activities.
These results might also be used to prioritize individuals for vaccination against the coronavirus at a time when supply is limited, although the results should not deter anyone from seeking vaccination.
Policy recommendations around how individuals should use the results of serology testing come from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or state public health agencies. Currently, CDC does not recommend that serology status be used to make decisions about personal behavior, work status, or vaccine allocation.
A complication in interpreting the results of this work is that people who have recovered from a SARS-CoV-2 infection can still shed viral material (RNA) for up to 3 months. These individuals are generally thought to have low risk for passing the virus on to others, even though they may continue to test positive for the virus on a PCR test.
To address this concern, our study focused on evidence of new infections more than 90 days (and up to 120 days) after the initial antibody test, to maximize the chance that positive nucleic acids tests represent new infections as opposed to persistent RNA shedding.
We have known for some time that, at the population level, antibody testing is useful for looking at prior rates of infection in large groups of people, known as a seroprevalence survey. But it has not been known whether antibody testing is useful for a given individual.
That is, can a person's antibody status predict their risk for future infection?
Additionally, there are many different antibody tests available, and many of the assays studied to date have been research-grade assays used only for seroprevalence surveys.
So another important question has been whether the widely available assays, such as those used by major reference labs such as Quest and LabCorp, can be used to assess an individual's risk for future infection. Our results suggest that they can.
Using Real-World Data
To comprehensively address the question of whether, and to what degree, detectable antibodies protect from infection, NCI is supporting clinical trials that monitor infection rates in large populations of people whose antibody status is known. Such "seroprotection" trials, however, take a relatively long time to complete and may not provide clear answers for several more months.
That's why we decided to use real-world data for this study. Real-world data approaches are not as powerful or compelling as carefully designed prospective trials for providing clinical evidence, but they have major advantages, including size (they can include many more people) and speed (they can be completed more quickly). They can also be more representative of the broader population, in contrast to clinical trials, which typically include only a subset of individuals who may not represent all population groups.
Using real-world data involves inferring the answers to clinical questions by aggregating and analyzing patient information collected from multiple sources, including commercial labs, electronic medical records, and private insurers. Importantly, this is done in a way that completely protects the privacy of individual people's health information and is compliant with relevant patient privacy laws, including HIPAA.
The use of real-world data is also subject to biases that may confound a study's results.
For example, some people, upon learning they had a positive antibody test, might have behaved differently from people who were antibody-negative. If antibody-positive people believed they were protected during the period of study, they could have engaged in behaviors that could increase their likelihood of exposure to the virus, such as poor social distancing or failure to wear a mask in public places. If this occurred, the degree of protection inferred from this study might be an underestimate of the actual protection.
There also may be biases that could have worked in the other direction. Resolving this issue will require further studies.
How Long Does Immunity Last?
As interesting as these data are, the work leaves several important questions unanswered. One of the most important is how long immunity lasts.
We were only able to follow individuals for less than 120 days. Also, we don't know if the antibodies detected in these assays provide protection directly or are just a marker for immunity. This question is important for the modest fraction of individuals who have recovered from COVID but who do not have detectable antibodies after recovery.
Nevertheless, we believe these data, together with results of several other studies, suggest that SARS-CoV-2 infection provides strong immunity to reinfection that lasts for at least several months. And we believe that immunity can be identified in most patients using antibody tests available to all Americans.
Future studies by NCI researchers, working with other parts of the federal government—including CDC and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases—as well as our academic and industry partners, will build on these findings, so that individuals can best understand their risk of subsequent SARS-CoV-2 infection.
This article was originally published by the National Cancer Institute. It is republished with permission.
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Critical Distance: Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Ted Pigeon
As commercial cinema goes, animation and live action are seen as divergent modes of filmmaking sharing the mutual goal of aesthetic cohesiveness; they only achieve it by different means. While Avatar and The Adventures of Tintin achieve a melding of live-action and animation techniques, other examples suggest that the sensibilities of animation and live action are more disparate and incompatible. If the static shots and deadened rhythms of the big-budget fantasy films John Carter and the first two Chronicles of Narnia entries are any indication, the qualities of animation may not so easily translate to live action. These films were directed by animation veterans—Andrew Stanton and Andrew Adamson, respectively—whose authorial voices evaporated under the conditions of live-action filmmaking.
Given the standing casualties, it would be reasonable to expect that Brad Bird, the venerable and considerably gifted director of Pixar greats Ratatouille and The Incredibles, would encounter similar difficulties working in live action as did Adamson and Stanton. Bird's first project in the non-animated realm would pose a more considerable test than those of his predecessors, both of whom were essentially handed the reins of a new film franchise. If the translation from animation to live action weren't already revealed as problematic by the previous examples, the challenge of making a fourth entry in the moribund Mission: Impossible franchise would be potentially as significant. Yet, despite these (and forgive me for saying) impossible conditions, Bird makes Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol work. It succeeds not only as the resurrection of a franchise but also as an exercise in the rarified practice of artful action filmmaking. Whether the story makes a bit of sense is hard for me to say, as I certainly can't recount it very well. More importantly, this fourth Mission: Impossible makes visual sense.
The script is fairly basic, but the screenwriters are savvy enough to acknowledge that audiences (no doubt with assistance from Jason Bourne) have moved on from Ethan Hunt and the IMF. Thus, the fancily titled Ghost Protocol isn't framed as the next inevitable mission, as was John Woo's forgettable second film. Nor does it fall into the trap of grounding its conflict in the personal life of its protagonist. (Because, as recent Pulitzer Prize-winner Wesley Morris notes, Tom Cruise's screen presence is decidedly asexual.) No, the screenwriters instead opt for a "dismantle and disavow" approach, with an opening that sees fellow IMF-ers busting Ethan out of a Serbian prison. Immediately following the breakout, Hunt is framed for the destruction of the Kremlin and along with his fellow agents must go on the run. And run he does. In Moscow, Dubai, and Mumbai. He runs into, on top of, and between cars. He runs down buildings, in front of monuments, and through sandstorms. But I'll be damned if Cruise's sprinting isn't put to great use here, as he chases a villain bent on a nuclear leveling of the entire planet. The origins and motives for this villain, played by Michael Nyqvist, could certainly have used a bit more development, as could have those of the female sub-villain played by Léa Seydoux. Ghost Protocol rather focuses squarely on Cruise and his new protégé, played with icy joy by Jeremy Renner, cashing in on the intensity of his standout performance in Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker. Cruise and Renner together is a surprisingly good match, particularly since the film is patient to reveal each character's ultimate motivations and keeps them both in pure business mode. While Cruise is the de facto leader and gets the lion's share of screen time, Bird and company smartly project Ethan Hunt as a guiding paternal figure. The other members of the team, including Simon Pegg (returning from the last film) and Paula Patton, each have a function and serve it well, both in contrast to and in cooperation with Cruise's holy sprinter's status.
Despite serving up a buffet of your standard spy ingredients, Ghost Protocol aces the formal test. Bird goes to painstaking degrees to ensure that the action on screen, though busy, is visually coherent. Given its clarity, the film's action may can be interpreted as a rebuke of the current chaos aesthetic that characterizes many recent action blockbusters. (And in case you missed them last year, be sure to watch Matthias Stork's video essays on chaos cinema.) But Bird isn't a rigid classicist in his approach to action or even simpler scenes of dialogue. He maintains the urgent, at times frenetic tone that J.J. Abrams brought to the franchise in the previous film, Mission: Impossible III. Abrams is a producer on Ghost Protocol, and his artisan touch is evident throughout. Honoring this approach but shifting its emphasis, Bird crafts each sequence with stunning attention to how each shot connects to the next. Where Abrams sees a series of shots serving the purpose of a single shot and idea, Bird makes each shot matter. Despite this being his first live-action effort, Bird operates like a veteran of action moviemaking. More importantly, the seamlessness of the motion between shots fashions a sense of dimension and space for a given setting, scene, or composition. By contrast, Bird's contemporaries—Abrams, Christopher Nolan, et al.— have failed at this consistently. (I can't help but imagine what Super 8 or Inception might have looked like with a helmer like Bird, who would certainly not have rendered their visual palettes so flat and unimaginative.)
Ghost Protocol makes no attempt to push the boundaries of a genre and type of filmmaking whose boundaries are resistant to shifting. It offers something much more straightforward, especially in the context of commercial action filmmaking. The term "action movie," seems archaic today. To put it simply, action movies are less relevant. That's not to say they were particularly significant in their heyday of the 1980s and early 1990s; nevertheless, their simplicity both in visual and thematic terms spoke to audiences. On the other hand, the contemporary action picture and its subdivisions—notably the spy thriller—has been realigned according to the fractured chaos aesthetic. Moreover, in an age in which audiences' tastes are increasingly influenced by the more sophisticated sensibilities of television drama (which demand patience for story and character development over chunks of time), an efficient, effective, and, coherent actioner such as Ghost Protocol is a nice break from the complexities and confusions of other contemporary fare. Perhaps this is where Bird's background in animation proved to be such an asset. Unlike a majority of his colleagues, many of whom pay lip service to the smaller details in favor of creating big, "blockbuster-y" moments, Bird is concerned about what each shot contributes, how it communicates, and how it does a job within the context of story and the craft of a scene. Even in the film's standout sequence, when Cruise is dangling from the Burj Khalifa building, Bird maintains balance and lets his attuned visual senses carry the proceedings to a tense, exciting effect. This is the kind of thing a filmmaker is forced to learn in animation—where every composition matters—and it lends beautifully to live action, provided that director understands what powers a film.
Ghost Protocol is fairly standard material given the best treatment, which alone qualifies it as one of the more noteworthy movies released last year. It's a fine-tuned machine, and as such stands as a moniker of the simple pleasures of seeing compact movement on screen. This, after all, is the universal quality that bounds and defines cinema—live-action or animated.
Ted Pigeon is author of the blog The Cinematic Art.
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