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> Iran's Houthis Start Battle to Control Red Sea
Iran's Houthis Start Battle to Control Red Sea
Shi'ite Houthi militia, after replacing Yemen's government, launches conquest of strategic port city of Aden controlling Eilat access.
Dalit Halevy, Ari Yashar
Iran Yemen Aden Houthis
Aden, Yemen Thinkstock
The Shi'ite Houthi militia which is loyal to Iran and receives support from the Islamic regime has moved its conquest of Yemen into a new stage, opening its battle for the southern port city of Aden which controls access to the Red Sea and ultimately to Eilat and Israel.
Earlier this month the Houthis established their temporary government, the Supreme Revolutionary Council, in the presidential castle in the capital city of Sana'a after besieging the previous government in the castle until it disbanded.
On Monday, the new government led by acting president Mohammed Ali Al-Houthi ratified a decision to take over control of the country and called on the UN Security Council to "honor the will of the Yemenite people," framing their coup as a locally supported event despite the fierce opposition the Houthi minority militia is facing having taken control.
After being forced to resign, former President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi remains under house arrest enforced by members of the Houthi militia "Ansar Allah."
The Houthi militia is concentrating its efforts on establishing a base of power in central Yemen, dispersing protests against it with live fire.
In addition, special forces loyal to the Houthis have begun operations to try and capture governmental buildings in the Aden district of southern Yemen, with reports surfacing of battles breaking out between the Houthis and local forces near the Aden airport.
Aden has become the central goal of the Houthis, as control of the port city allows domination over entry to the Red Sea through which commerce transverses to Israel and Europe.
Foreign ministers of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council nations responded to the developments by expressing their concerns over the Iranian-backed conquest of Yemen, pressuring the UN Security Council to take action on the matter including issuing permission to conduct military operations in Yemen.


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Q: Didn't understand relationship 'ProcessInstanceId' in field path How come I can compile a query on workitem to return processinstanceID but the related targetobjectid (and then of course the targetobjectid.name ) return the error:
Edit - sorry I wasn't clear but ultimately I want the targetobject's name field - to display to users.
ProcessInstance.TargetObjectId.name brings  " Didn't understand relationship 'TargetObjectId' in field path.... type error"

Error: Compile Error: Didn't understand relationship
  'ProcessInstanceId' in field path. If you are attempting to use a
  custom relationship, be sure to append the '__r' after the custom
  relationship name. Please reference your WSDL or the describe call for
  the appropriate names. at line 15 column 50

public class UsersItemsToApprove {

public UsersItemsToApprove() {

}

public UsersItemsToApprove (ApexPages.StandardController controller) {

}

   public List<ProcessInstanceWorkitem> getWorkItems() {
    List<ProcessInstanceWorkitem> results = new List<ProcessInstanceWorkitem>();
    List<ProcessInstanceWorkitem> allitems = [SELECT ElapsedTimeInDays,
           ProcessInstanceId,  ProcessInstanceId.targetobjectid
            FROM ProcessInstanceWorkitem
            WHERE ActorId= :UserInfo.getUserId()];

    for(ProcessInstanceWorkitem thisitem : allitems)

    {

            results.add(thisitem);

    }
    return results;
}

}

A: Just to complement what was already answered:
When querying attributes of a related (lookup) object, you should access:

*

*ProcessInstance.Name for standard lookups (your case);

*Custom_lookup__r.Attribute__c for custom object lookups;

A: Try this, this should work
List<ProcessInstanceWorkitem> allitems = [SELECT ElapsedTimeInDays,
           ProcessInstanceId,ProcessInstance.TargetObjectId
            FROM ProcessInstanceWorkitem
            WHERE ActorId= :UserInfo.getUserId()];

A: You need to use the relationship name when getting cross-object fields (a Right Outer Join). You can get this value using:
system.debug(ProcessInstanceWorkItem.ProcessInstanceId.getDescribe().getRelationshipName());

The above yields ProcessInstance, so you should do:
SELECT ProcessInstance.TargetObjectId FROM ProcessInstanceWorkItem

You have to continue this process on down the line. Only the final cross-object field will end up being unmodified. So if you want to go a third level, you would use:
SELECT ProcessInstance.TargetObject.Name FROM ProcessInstanceWorkItem

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I'm trying something new next month. I'm going to write a blog post every day of February. I've tried blog challenges before. I usually find them on Pinterest. This time, I don't want to use ideas I've found on the Internet. They are never all perfect, and unfortunately in February, they're pretty much romantic themed. I can handle some love posts, but not an entire month of it.
I also know I can't just write these without having a plan. Lately, my writing life is a lot easier with a plan. I will have an idea or prompt planned out for every day.
The problem is I need some ideas. I've only got a couple, but I need a plan for 28 prompts.
I'm asking anybody who reads this for some ideas. What do you want me to write about? Something about my mom life? Something about my writing life? Something about me? Something about my life before kiddo? What would you like to see in this blog?
My list of 28 prompts will be ready before February starts. I'll share them all before I start.
If you have any ideas, please comment here, on my Facebook page, or on my Instagram page.
I don't have much else to say, but I'll add a couple of photos because I can't do a post without some sort of photo. I'm adding travel photos because I love writing about travels. (I can add a prompt about it!) These are before my son, but I do plan on travelling with him as well. I haven't been as many places as I'd like, but I plan on many more adventures.
This photo was taken in Newfoundland.
Newfoundland is one of my favourite places.
That's it for photos. I'll probably add a travel prompt to my 28 days.


party system. The 1990s were characterized by political oppression, violence and misuse of state resources. The economy, mainly based on agriculture and the export of tea and coffee, was adversely affected by mismanagement, and severely hit by drought in 1999 and 2000. Kenya has played a key role in the peace settlements in Somalia and in the southern Sudan, in 2005. It has borne the brunt of the impact of refugees and prevalence of arms from the two countries. The Christian churches in Kenya are strong. The Protestant and Anglican churches, through the national council, and the Catholic Church have repeatedly spoken out and acted against the mismanagement and corruption of political leaders, and contributed to the democratic changes in 2002. Besides these churches, there are many other large African Instituted, Pentecostal, Evangelical, and independent churches. The Evangelical Fellowship of Kenya is affiliated with the WEA. Orthodoxy in Kenya comes mainly under the Patriarchate of Alexandria and the Coptic Orthodox Church. Some of the pressing challenges are high rates of poverty, as most Kenyans live below US$1 per day, and the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Multimedia portraits of the African Church of the Holy Spirit and the Coptic Church in Kenya can be viewed on the 'Keeping the Faith' website.


Gretchen Woodward was at the new Margaret and Robert Hill Breast Center for a routine bone scan on Wednesday.
But as she walked down corridors full of art work along wood-grain floors past exam rooms with new digital equipment, she marvelled at the week-old $15 million facility in Jacksonville's San Marco area.
"It's fabulous. It's nice to have everything in one place and it's clean and bright," said the Riverside woman. "If you are really sick, what a great place to be."
Filling two of four floors of part of the Baptist Outpatient Center at 1235 San Marco Blvd., the Hill center offers centralized breast cancer screening, diagnosis, treatment, genetic counseling, education and therapy. For Peggy Neville, a registered nurse and Hill center breast cancer coordinator, that continuity of care is better than what they outgrew years ago.
"We were across the street in a very small, inadequate area not very conducive to patient comfort. It was just dismal," Neville said. "They made it nice for the patients, much more comfortable for waiting and much more conducive for healing."
The 22,000-square-foot center was made possible by a gift from Margaret and Robert Hill Jr., chairman of the Baptist Health board. An additional 11,000-square-foot outpatient breast cancer and cosmetic surgery center opens on the second floor in late winter. The seed for the center was planted in 2003, when medical director Christine Granfield and Baptist officials wanted a way to make breast cancer screening, treatment and support more efficient by moving it from various parts of Baptist downtown to one location.
The result: Nine months of renovation to make room for seven digital mammography machines, six new breast ultrasound machines, an open Magnetic Resonance Imaging system that can handle patients up to 550 pounds and a LumaGEM breast-imaging system to detect millimeter-size breast cancers. The LumaGEM is one of about a dozen in the country, Baptist said.
Woodward's test was in a new bone density scanner. New consultation rooms allow a woman, her family and doctor to talk away from exam rooms. Physical and occupational therapy for post-mastectomy patients are also on site.
There are eight dedicated mammographyspecialists who meet weekly with other staff to discuss patients' needs. A conference room with a big flat-screen television and video camera will let them remotely meet with other doctors at Baptist facilities downtown, Jacksonville Beach, Mandarin and Nassau County to get wider analysis of patient cases. Those facilities see about 60,000 patients a year combined.
"If a patient wants to go to the Beaches and have their surgery, it's fine," Granfield said. "They will get the multi-disciplinary approach as well. … The goal is to make it a system-wide team approach."
Third- and fourth-floor waiting rooms have panoramic views of San Marco and downtown, with computer stations for patients to work at or register. A boutique offering wigs, bras and other items opens soon for breast cancer patients, while a yoga and massage therapy room will follow nearby.
Examination rooms are named for healing herbs or flowers, with the first letters of each spelling out "loving" and "healing."
The whole desire was to give patients a peaceful visit to help them heal.
"It's just a beautiful place and soothing, and the patients love it," Neville said. "It is well-organized and orderly and very efficient as far as working."
"That's the point - let's get them better quickly," she said.
For more information on the Hill center, call (904) 202-2222 or go to e-baptisthealth.com/breasthealth .


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Ethno-science and historiography
16 Mar 2022 15:00 - 16:00 Online, via Zoom
'Ethno-Science' Reading Group. Session Five: ethno-science and historiography
'Ethno-Science' is a reading group dedicated to programmatic and critical texts on the changing relationship between scientific knowledge and what is variously called local, 'indigenous' or 'native' knowledges. Our starting point is the eighteenth-century travel instructions that asked naturalists to routinely record indigenous names and knowledge. We explore economic botany, zoology, ethnography, and other strands of nineteenth-century natural history relying on systematic surveys of national and colonial territories, and the eventual consolidation of ethno-disciplines in the twentieth century. The aim is to understand the relationship between reifications and reinterpretations of 'savage', 'indigenous', 'native' or 'primitive' knowledge and corresponding field practices of interrogation and interaction with local informants. We are interested in the putative shifts towards increasingly global awareness and calls for the incorporation of 'traditional' knowledge in political and scientific discourses.
The meetings take place monthly, on Wednesdays from 15:00 to 16:00 in the 2021-22 academic year (7 meetings). All welcome.
This week, the group are meeting to discuss the following texts:
Tilley, Helen. 'Global Histories, Vernacular Science, and African Genealogies; or, Is the History of Science Ready for the World?' Isis 101, no. 1 (1 March 2010): 110–19.
Mukharji, Projit Bihari. 'Vishalyakarani as Eupatorium Ayapana: Retro-Botanizing, Embedded Traditions, and Multiple Historicities of Plants in Colonial Bengal, 1890–1940'. The Journal of Asian Studies 73, no. 1 (2014): 65–87.
To join via Zoom, or if you have queries about the events or reading, please don't hesitate to email Raphael Uchôa or Staffan Müller-Wille.
gloknos is initially funded for 5 years by the European Research Council through a Consolidator Grant awarded to Dr Inanna Hamati-Ataya for her project ARTEFACT (2017-2022). ARTEFACT is funded by the European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (ERC grant agreement no. 724451). For information about gloknos or ARTEFACT please contact the administrator in the first instance.
Session One: Nineteenth Century Travel Instructions
British Association for the Advancement of Science. Notes and Queries on Anthropology, for the Use of Travellers and Residents in Uncivilized Lands. London, E. Stanford, 1874.
Urry, James. "'Notes and Queries on Anthropology' and the Development of Field Methods in British Anthropology, 1870-1920." Proceedings of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, (1972): 45–57.
Wednesday 24 November 2021
Session Two: Economic Botany in the Nineteenth Century
Nau, Eugène. 'Flore indienne d'Haïti', in Émile Nau. Histoire des Caciques d'Haïti, (Paris: Gustave Guérin et cie, Éditeurs, 1894).
Reyes, Michael. 'Caribbean ethnobotany before Roumain: Eugène Nau's nineteenth-century contribution to an understanding of the "indian flora of haiti"', Caribbean Quarterly 63(4) (2017), 467-483.
Session Three: Translations between Field and Lab
Bravo, Michael T. The Accuracy of Ethnoscience: A Study of Inuit Cartography and Cross-Cultural Commensurability. Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, 1996.
Shmuely, Shira. 'Curare: The Poisoned Arrow That Entered the Laboratory and Sparked a Moral Debate'. Social History of Medicine 33, no. 3 (2020): 881–97.
Session Four: 'Ethno-Science' Guest Speaker
Details TBC
Session Five: Ethno-Science and Historiography
Session Six: 'Ethno-Science' Guest Speaker
Session Seven: Recent Reflections on Bioprospecting
Das, Kaushiki. 'The Global Quest for Green Gold: Implications of Bioprospecting and Patenting for Indigenous Bioresources and Knowledge'. Society and Culture in South Asia 6, no. 1 (2020): 74–97.
Pollock, Anne. 'Places of Pharmaceutical Knowledge-Making: Global Health, Postcolonial Science, and Hope in South African Drug Discovery'. Social Studies of Science 44, no. 6 (2014): 848–73.
Two Gourds of Curare Poison from the Amazon Basin, ca. 1860 (Kew Gardens CC BY)
'Science and its Others: Histories of Ethno-Science' Research Group
Harriet Mercer
Staffan Müller-Wille
Raphael Uchôa
gloknos
gloknos at CRASSH
Online Event, Reading Group
Historical sources of the ethno-sciences: session one
Global epistemological politics of religion 2023: session one
Historical sources of the ethno-sciences: session two
Historical sources of the ethno-sciences: session three
Global epistemological politics of religion 2023: session two
Historical sources of the ethno-sciences: session four
Global epistemological politics of religion 2023: session three
Global epistemological politics of religion 2023: session four

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Gal Gadot Varsano[1][3][4] (Hebrew: גל גדות, [ˈɡal ɡaˈdot];[5] born 30 April 1985)[6] is an Israeli actress and model. At age 18, she was crowned Miss Israel 2004. She then served two years in the Israel Defense Forces as a combat instructor, and began studying law and international relations at IDC Herzliya college while building up her modeling and acting careers.[7][2][8]
Gadot at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con
Gal Gadot[1]
(1985-04-30) 30 April 1985 (age 34)
Petah Tikva, Israel
IDC Herzliya
178 cm (5 ft 10 in)[2]
Miss Israel 2004
Yaron Varsano (m. 2008)
galgadot.com
Gadot's first international film role came as Gisele Yashar in Fast & Furious (2009), a role she reprised in subsequent installments of the film franchise. She went on to earn worldwide fame for portraying Wonder Woman in the DC Extended Universe, beginning with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), followed by the solo film Wonder Woman and the ensemble Justice League (both 2017).[9][10] In 2018, Gadot was included on Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and was listed among the highest-paid actresses in the world.[11][12]
Gal Gadot was born in Petah Tikva, Israel,[1] and raised in its neighbouring city of Rosh HaAyin.[13] In Hebrew, her first name means "wave" and her surname means "riverbanks".[14] Her parents are Irit (née Weiss), a teacher, and Michael Gadot, an engineer.[15] Both her parents were born in Israel, and they Hebraized their surname from "Greenstein" to "Gadot" prior to her birth.[16][17] Her father is a sixth-generation Israeli.[18] Her maternal grandparents were born in Europe; her grandfather, who was imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp, survived the Holocaust, and her grandmother left before the Nazi invasion.[18][19][20] Gadot has stated that she was brought up in a "very Jewish, Israeli family environment".[15] Her ancestry is Polish-Jewish, Austrian-Jewish, German-Jewish, and Czech-Jewish.[2] She has one younger sister.[21]
Her high school major was biology. She says that in high school she was good at basketball because of her height.[2] As a teenager, her first jobs were babysitting and working at Burger King.[22] As an adult, Gadot studied law and international relations at the IDC Herzliya college.[2][8]
Gadot completed her two mandatory years of service in the Israel Defense Forces, enlisted as a combat instructor.[23] She said of her time in the Israeli military: "You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You learn discipline and respect."[24] Gadot says that her background helped her to win the role of Gisele in Fast & Furious: "I think the main reason was that the director Justin Lin really liked that I was in the military, and he wanted to use my knowledge of weapons."[25]
Modeling and pageant career
At age 18, Gadot won the 2004 Miss Israel beauty pageant[26] and next competed in the Miss Universe 2004 pageant in Ecuador. She carried out her mandatory two-year military service from the age of 20, then studied law.[27]
Gadot has led international campaigns as a model for Miss Sixty, Huawei smartphones, Captain Morgan rum, Gucci fragrances and Vine Vera skincare ranges, and Jaguar Cars. In 2015, she became the face of Gucci's Bamboo perfume brand.[28] She has been featured as the covergirl on Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Bride Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, UMM, Cleo, Fashion, Lucire, FHM. Gadot has been the main model for fashion brand Castro in 2008–16.[29] In 2013, her combined annual modelling and acting salary was estimated at NIS 2.4 million, which was ahead of a number of other famous Israeli models such as Esti Ginzburg and Shlomit Malka, though significantly behind Bar Refaeli.[30]
In 2007, 21-year-old Gadot was in the Maxim photo shoot, "Women of the IDF", and was then featured on the cover of the New York Post. In April 2012, Shalom Life ranked her Number 5 on its list of "the 50 most talented, intelligent, funny, and gorgeous Jewish women in the world", behind model Bar Refaeli and actress Eva Green.[31] In 2014, Gadot was one of two Israeli actresses, along with Odeya Rush, listed as an upcoming leading lady by InStyle magazine.[32]
Gadot at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con panel for Justice League
After Gadot had completed her first year of college, a casting director contacted her agent to have Gadot audition for the part of Bond girl Camille Montes in the spy film Quantum of Solace.[27] Although the part eluded her, a few months later, Gadot starred in the 2008 Israeli drama Bubot. Three months later, the casting director from her Quantum of Solace audition chose Gadot over six other actresses for the role of Gisele Yashar in the action film Fast & Furious, the fourth film in The Fast and the Furious franchise.[33][34] Gadot performed her own stuntwork in those films.[35]
In 2010, she had small roles in the action-comedy Date Night and the action-adventure comedy Knight and Day.[36] 2011 brought her back to The Fast and the Furious franchise, reprising her role as Gisele in Fast Five, and in 2013's Fast & Furious 6.[37]
Gadot portrayed Wonder Woman in the superhero film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016). Gadot received swordsmanship, Kung Fu, kickboxing, capoeira and Brazilian jiu-jitsu training in preparation for the role.[38] Gadot's performance as the superhero, which was the character's first appearance in film, was hailed as one of the best parts of the film.[39]
Also in 2016, she had a small role in John Hillcoat's crime-thriller Triple 9, where she starred along with Kate Winslet and Aaron Paul.[40] Later that year, she co-starred in the action crime thriller film Criminal, as the wife of Ryan Reynolds' character,[41] alongside Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, and Tommy Lee Jones.[42] Her final film of 2016 was the action comedy Keeping Up with the Joneses, in which she played a secret agent, alongside Zach Galifianakis, Jon Hamm, and Isla Fisher.[43]
In 2017, Gadot starred in a solo film for her character, Wonder Woman. She reprised the role in the ensemble film Justice League, which was released in November 2017, and was her third DC Extended Universe instalment.[44][45][46] In 2017 Gadot was also invited to become a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[47] Emily Shire stated that Gadot's acting defies some of the stereotypes of women, especially as many Jewish women were portrayed on film as unattractive or the funny sidekick.[48]
Gadot provided the voice of Shank in the Walt Disney Animation Studios' film Ralph Breaks the Internet.[49]
Gadot, fellow Wonder Woman actress Lynda Carter, DC Entertainment President Diane Nelson, Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins and U.N. Under-Secretary General Cristina Gallach appeared at the United Nations on 21 October 2016, the 75th anniversary of the first appearance of Wonder Woman, to mark the character's designation by the United Nations as its "Honorary Ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls".[50][51] The gesture was intended to raise awareness of UN Sustainable Development Goal No. 5, which seeks to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls by 2030.[50][51][52] The decision was met with protests from UN staff members who stated in their petition to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that the character is "not culturally encompassing or sensitive" and served to objectify women. As a result, the character was stripped of the designation, and the project ended 16 December.[52]
Gadot was also featured in the music video for Maroon 5's single "Girls Like You".[53] In July 2018, during a break in filming Wonder Woman 1984, Gadot visited a Virginia children's hospital in costume as Wonder Woman.[54][55][56]
Gadot married Israeli real estate developer Yaron Varsano in 2008.[57] They have two daughters, one born in 2011,[58] and another in 2017.[59][37][60]
Gadot and her husband owned a boutique hotel in Tel Aviv, which she helped to run.[61] They sold their hotel to Roman Abramovich in 2015 for $26 million.[62]
Gadot at the San Diego Comic-Con panel for Wonder Woman 1984 in 2018
2009 Fast & Furious Gisele Yashar Justin Lin
2010 Date Night Natanya Shawn Levy
Knight and Day Naomi James Mangold
2011 Fast Five Gisele Yashar Justin Lin
2013 Fast & Furious 6 Gisele Yashar Justin Lin
2014 Kicking Out Shoshana Mirit Ben Harush Shay Kanot
2015 Furious 7 Gisele Yashar James Wan Credited and appears in a deleted scene[63]
2016 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Diana Prince / Wonder Woman Zack Snyder
Criminal Jill Pope Ariel Vromen
Keeping Up with the Joneses Natalie Jones Greg Mottola
Triple 9 Elena Vlaslov John Hillcoat
2017 Wonder Woman Diana Prince / Wonder Woman Patty Jenkins
Justice League Zack Snyder
2018 Ralph Breaks the Internet Shank (voice) Rich Moore
2020 Wonder Woman 1984 Diana Prince / Wonder Woman Patty Jenkins Post-production; also producer
2007 Bubot Miriam "Merry" Elkayam
2009 The Beautiful Life Olivia 3 episodes
Entourage Lisa Episode: "Amongst Friends"
2011 Asfur Kika
2012 Eretz Nehederet Herself
Kathmandu Yamit Bareli
2017 Saturday Night Live Herself (host) Episode: "Gal Gadot / Sam Smith"
2018 The Simpsons Herself (voice) Episode: "Bart's Not Dead"[64]
2019 Eurovision Song Contest 2019 Herself Guest
TBA Untitled Hedy Lamarr series Hedy Lamarr Also executive producer[65]
2018 "Girls Like You" (Original, Volume 2 and Vertical Video versions) Maroon 5 featuring Cardi B Herself [66][67][68]
2009–14 Castro Fashion Israel [69][70]
2013 Vine Vera Cosmetics United States [71]
2014–15 Careline Cosmetics Israel [72][73]
2015 Huawei Smartphone: Huawei P9 Israel [74]
Kering Fragrance: Gucci Bamboo United States [75]
2017 Erroca Sunglasses Israel [76]
Wix Website United States [77]
GTArcade Video game: League of Angels: Paradise Island China [78]
2018 Revlon Cosmetics United States [79]
Huawei Smartphone: Huawei P20 United States [80]
Reebok Sportswear Worldwide [81]
Asus Electronics Worldwide [82]
2019 Hot Telecommunications provider Israel [83][84]
2004 Miss Israel 2004 Herself Winner
Miss Universe 2004 Miss Israel Participant
Nominated work
2016 Chinese American Film Festival Most Popular US Actress in China Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Won [85]
Critics' Choice Awards Best Actress in an Action Movie Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Nominated [86]
Teen Choice Awards Choice Movie: Breakout Star Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Nominated [87]
Choice Movie: Scene Stealer Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Nominated [87]
Women Film Critics Circle Awards Best Female Action Hero Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Nominated [88]
2017 Detroit Film Critics Society Breakthrough Wonder Woman Nominated [89]
National Board of Review Awards Spotlight Award Wonder Woman Won [90]
North Texas Film Critics Association Best Actress Wonder Woman Nominated [91]
Teen Choice Awards Choice Liplock (shared with Chris Pine) Wonder Woman Nominated [92]
Choice Movie: Action Actress Wonder Woman Won [92]
Choice Movie: Actress Summer Wonder Woman Nominated [92]
Choice Movie: Comedy Actress Keeping Up with the Joneses Nominated [92]
Choice Movie: Ship (shared with Chris Pine) Wonder Woman Nominated [92]
2018 Critics' Choice Awards #SeeHer Award N/A Won [93]
MTV Movie & TV Awards Best Fight (Wonder Woman vs German soldiers) Wonder Woman Won [94]
Best Hero Wonder Woman Nominated [95]
Palm Springs International Film Festival Rising Star Award - Actress Wonder Woman Won [96]
Santa Barbara Film Festival Virtuosos Award Wonder Woman Won [97]
Saturn Awards Best Actress Wonder Woman Won [98]
Teen Choice Awards Choice Movie Actress: Action Justice League Nominated [99]
Israeli fashion
Women in Israel
Women in the Israel Defense Forces
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The recipe for this adventurous weeknight Moroccan meal can be on the table with minimal time and effort by using the Mini Beef Quick Roast. Make the simple Kasbah couscous side-dish while the roast beef is cooking.
Combine cinnamon, paprika, turmeric, garlic salt, ginger, cumin, pepper and salt in small bowl. Rub some of the spice mixture evenly over roast (*reserving any extra for another recipe). Insert meat thermometer lengthwise into centre of roast so that shaft is not visible. Place on rack in ovenproof skillet or shallow pan.
Cook roast, uncovered, in 350°F (180°C) oven for 50 to 60 minutes, until thermometer reads 155°F (68°C) for medium.
Remove roast to cutting board; tent with foil for 5 minutes to allow temperature to rise 5°F (3°C). Cut into thin slices across the grain and serve with hot Kasbah Couscous.
In medium saucepan, stir 1/2 cup (125 mL) couscous into 1/2 cup (125 mL) simmering chicken broth; remove from heat, cover and let stand 5 minutes. Gently stir in 1/4 cup (50 mL) diced dried apricots or raisins, 1 green onion, chopped, 2 tbsp (30 mL) EACH Italian salad dressing and toasted slivered almonds and 1/2 tsp (2 mL) finely grated lemon peel. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
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Tag Archives: prison history
Democracy's Prison Problem
18 December 2021 Browse All Work by Date, Writing
How much does the existence of democracy depend on depriving some of its people of the benefits of democracy?
Eastern State Penitentiary represented in 1833 as a medieval castle from old Europe
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
– Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, 1865
In 1865, the United States government revised the Constitution to make slavery illegal. Six little words, however, change the whole meaning of the sentence: Forced confinement is illegal "except as a punishment for crime." These six words hint at a larger flaw in a document that opens with high words about liberty and justice. The existence of democracy depends on depriving some of its people of the benefits of democracy.
As of 2020, the number of Americans in jails, prisons, and out on parole after prison is just over three million. That is, at least one percent of America's population is at this point incarcerated. Also one third of Americans have a criminal record, meaning that they have been in jail or prison at some time. This is a permanent stain and barrier to existing in society as a full citizen; prisoners and many former prisoners cannot vote.
The most common conclusion from these facts is that America keeps too many people locked up. Changes to the legal system are needed. But what if the problem is deeper than anything that small reform can solve? What if the problem strikes to the core of this country's founding?
There is a line from American author Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 book called The Scarlet Letter. The story is in Puritan Massachusetts just after the arrival of the first colonists to the New World:
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
American history textbooks present the people who founded this country as a group in search of freedom and liberty. What is less remembered, however, is these people were generally a pretty intolerant lot. Perhaps this intolerance is descended from their reading of the Old Testament in the Bible, which is rich in images of vengeful and wrathful God. No matter the reason, their society was a punishing place to live in an uncolonized continent. Suffering and repentance, the Puritan and Quaker founders of America believed, was a requirement of society. The Bible is rich in descriptions of solitude and revelation. Jesus went to the desert and spoke to God; saintly hermits lived in the desert and gained self-knowledge through the pain of solitude. The founders of America found their democracy through the country's geographic isolation from the wars and problems of Europe.
In 1830, the largest and most expensive structure ever built in the young democracy of America was not the White House (built with slave labor) or any similar structure built in the image of ancient Greek democracy. The title of largest structure ever built in the now 200-year-old nation was a prison, Eastern State Penitentiary. One of the cruel ironies – or is it an irony? – is that this prison was built in the same city in which the U.S. Constitution was signed and where, in effect, this country was first imagined on paper. The external appearance of the prison was not built in the style of Greece and Rome, as if to imply that the values of these past democracies were embodied in the operations of this prison. Instead, the external appearance of Eastern State was fancifully modeled after a castle with tapered walls, slit windows, towers, and a jagged silhouette. This prison, its builders believed, should inspire fear in those who saw it. And what better aesthetic precedent for the new democracy to follow than the medieval castles of Europe lived in by kings and queens? Inside Eastern State, the isolation of prisoners was absolute. Prisoners spent 24 hours a day in solitary confinement; the average sentence was for five years. Solitude and punishment, the Quaker founders believed, was the path to redemption. Eastern State was one prison, but it was the most influential prison of its time, visited by all manner of foreign dignitaries interested in designing prisons for their own countries. In its time, Eastern State was almost as popular a tourist attraction as Niagara Falls. It set the design precedent that most American prisons today still follow.
Does democracy require that some people be deprived of their freedom? The builders of Eastern State and the authors of the U.S. Constitution were familiar with French philosophers like Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The ideas of Rousseau are now credited with inspiring the actions and writing of the founding fathers of America. One quote from Rousseau stands out:
The word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.
For Rousseau, slavery is not incompatible with democracy. A democracy can have slaves, so long as those people are made slaves "as a punishment for crime." But who defines crime, and who defines punishment? What if the crime is being born Black, or woman, or crippled? One definition of crime would seem to come from religion, whose laws were not made by humans. Crime is what God defines as a crime. To go against the Ten Commandments of the Bible is to commit a punishable sin. But at the same time, the Puritans, Quakers, and Christians who founded this country and wrote the Constitution ruled that church and state must be separate. The government cannot rule by religious law. The legitimacy of democracy comes not from God, but from the people. Therefore, the definition of crime comes from what the people define as crime, and not from any higher power or document. This is deeply problematic: Human rights can be revoked for having committed a crime. But since crime is a social construct, then simply convicting someone of a crime becomes justification for all manner of human rights abuses like forced labor, convict leasing, and profit from modern-day prison slavery in America.
Where do we go from here as a society? If democracy requires rules to function, what does democracy do with those who break those rules? I do not know. The challenge seems deeper than anything that reform can fix. But maybe the best path to becoming a democracy is recognizing the many ways you are not yet a democracy. Democracy should not be a state of being; it should rather be aspirational as a state of becoming. Once you are a democracy, that is it; there is no room for improvement. You are perfect, and any flaws are just kinks in the perfect system. At best, this self-congratulatory naivete seems lazy. At worst, it is dangerous.
American lawmakers often claim that America is the world's oldest democracy. As Republican lawmaker Paul Ryan claimed in 2016: "The United States is the oldest democracy in the world, and its endurance is a testament to our Constitution." The claim that we are an ancient democracy and that other countries are not has become justification for all manner of American military action in other countries. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that began as missions to take down foreign threats to American citizens soon became exercises in nation building. Our civilizing mission, politicians told us, was to spread democracy and the American way of life. Within a few years of the Iraq invasion, images circulated the world over of American soldiers torturing prisoners in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. At each instance of police abuse, military torture, drone strikes, and systemic injustice, the problem is represented in the media as not being an inbuilt flaw with democracy but rather a flaw with a few individual bad actors. The torture at Abu Ghraib was not the fault of the US government; it was the fault of individual solders, we were told. The rhetoric of democracy expects us to separate the images of the Iraq invasion from images of torture, as if the torture of prisoners in Abu Ghraib had nothing to do with the opening of Baghdad's new parliament a few miles away.
Perhaps, recognize the torture and injustice within America's own borders. Perhaps, recognize that maybe we were not fully a democracy before the time in the 1960s when Blacks, and women, and others could not vote. Perhaps, recognize that we are not the world's oldest democracy, but one of its youngest. Perhaps, recognize the ways that you are not in order to become what you should be. John Locke might have inspired the leaders of the American revolution when he wrote: "Liberty is to be free from restraints and violence from others." But this ideal is not reality so long as three words define the national conversation: "I can't breathe."
Just like the architects at Eastern State who believed that self-reflection and introspection would produce better people, maybe the work of becoming democracy happens not in the voting booth but in the constant process of self-reflection and self-improvement. The legitimacy for democracy comes not from the country's innately flawed founding documents, philosophers, and slave-owning "founding fathers" but from people who are alive today, and the degree to which they can participate in the workings of democracy. A utopia we are not and a utopia we must become. But the fact that we can never be a utopia as much as we can never be a democracy is the whole point in trying to become one because it is only in trying that progress is possible. Progress is measured not by what we have but by what we have left to do. So, yes, admitting that democracy requires prisons avoids the harder work of creating a democracy without prisons. There is, as yet, no democracy without prisons. However, that is precisely the point in trying to create one because, even if fail, we will have become better off and more humbled for having tried. As civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. observed: "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
Tagged architecture of fear, essay, politics, prison history
Architecture of Redemption?
1 April 2020 Browse All Work by Date, Prison, Writing
Contradictions of Solitary Confinement
at Eastern State Penitentiary
Master's thesis at the University of Cambridge: Department of Art History & Architecture
Developed with Max Sternberg, historian at Cambridge
View of cellblocks and guard tower
Eastern State Penitentiary guard tower
The perfect disciplinary apparatus would make it possible for a single gaze to see everything constantly. A central point would be both the source of light illuminating everything, and a locus of convergence for everything that must be known: a perfect eye that nothing would escape and a centre towards which all gazes would be turned.
– Michel Foucault
Prison floor plan in 1836
In the contemporary imagination of prison, solitary confinement evokes images of neglect, torture, and loneliness, likely to culminate in insanity. However, the practice originated in the late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century as an enlightened approach and architectural mechanism for extracting feelings of redemption from convicts.
This research examines the design of Eastern State Penitentiary, built by English-born architect John Haviland from 1821 to 1829 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This case study explores the builders' challenge of finding an architectural form suitable to the operations and moral ambitions of solitary confinement. Inspired by Jeremy Bentham's panopticon, Haviland's design inspired the design of over 300 prisons worldwide. With reference to primary sources and to philosophers Jeremy Bentham and Michel Foucault, this research interrogates the problematic assumptions about architecture and human nature encoded in the form of solitary confinement practiced at Eastern State Penitentiary, which has wider implications for the study of surveillance architecture.
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I am indebted to Max Sternberg for his attentive guidance throughout this research, and his support of my experience in providing undergraduate supervisions at Cambridge. I am grateful to Nick Simcik Arese for encouraging me to examine architecture as the product of labor relations and relationships between form and function. I am inspired by Alan Short's lectures on architecture that criticize the beliefs in health and miasma theory. My research also benefits from co-course director Ronita Bardhan. Finally, this research is only possible through the superb digitized sources created by the staff of Philadelphia's various archives and libraries.
I am particularly indebted to the guidance and friendship of Andrew E. Clark throughout my life.
The COVID-19 pandemic put me in a "solitary confinement state-of-mind," allowing me to research prison architecture from a comfortable confinement of my own.
of Eastern State: 1836-1877
of Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon
Exhibit on Prison Design
Research begun before MPhil
Tagged architecture of fear, essay, history of technology, panopticon, planning, prison history
Eastern State Penitentiary: Decorative Fortress
3 March 2020 Browse All Work by Date, Films, Prison, Writing
Developed with Max Sternberg, historian at the University of Cambridge
Paper delivered 6 March 2020 at the University of Cambridge: Department of Architecture
As part of my Master's thesis in Architecture and Urban Studies
Created in SketchUp. Based on original drawings and plans of the prison.
All measurements are accurate to reality.
With ambient music from Freesound
Eastern State Penitentiary was completed in 1829 in northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by architect John Haviland. It was reported as the most expensive and largest structure yet built in America.
The design featured a central guard tower from which seven cell blocks radiated like a star. This system allowed a single guard to survey all prisoners in one sweep of the eye. A square perimeter wall surrounded the entire complex – thirty feet high and twelve feet thick. The decorative entrance resembled a medieval castle, to strike fear of prison into those passing. This castle contained the prison administration, hospital, and warden's apartment.
As we approach the central tower, we see two kinds of cells. The first three cell blocks were one story. The last four cell blocks were two stories. Here we see the view from the guard tower, over the cell block roofs and over the exercise yards between cell blocks. Each cell had running water, heating, and space for the prisoner to work. Several hundred prisoners lived in absolute solitary confinement. A vaulted and cathedral-like corridor ran down the middle of each cell block. The cells on either side were stacked one above the other. Cells on the lower floor had individual exercise yards, for use one hour per day. John Haviland was inspired by Jeremy Bentham's panopticon. (Don't know what the panopticon is? Click here for my explanation.)
Over its century in use, thousands visited and admired this design. An estimated 300 prisons around the world follow this model – making Eastern State the most influential prison ever designed.
360° panoramic view from guard tower
Computer Model
Shows prison as it appeared in the period 1836 to 1877 before later construction obstructed the original buildings.
Eastern State Penitentiary's exterior resembles a medieval castle. More than a random choice, the qualities of Gothic attempt to reflect, or fall short of reflecting, the practices of detention and isolation within. Contrary to the claim often made about this structure that the appearance was supposed to strike fear into passerby, the use of Gothic is in many ways unexpected because of its untoward associations with darkness and torture, which the prison's founders were working to abolish. It is therefore surprising that America's largest and most modern prison should evoke the cruelties and injustices of the medieval period. The choice of Gothic appearance, and the vast funds expended on the external appearance few inmates would have seen, leads one to question the audience of viewers this penitentiary was intended for – the inmates within or the public at large?
This essay responds by analyzing what the Gothic style represented to the founders. The architectural evocation of cruelty and oppression was, in fact, not contradictory with the builders' progressive intentions of reforming and educating inmates. This prison's appearance complicates our understanding of confinement's purpose in society. The two audiences of convicted inmates and tourist visitors would have received and experienced this prison differently, thereby arriving at alternative, even divergent, understandings of what this prison meant. More than an analysis of the architect John Haviland and of the building's formal qualities in isolation, this essay situates this prison in the larger context of Philadelphia's built environment.
I am indebted to my supervisor Max Sternberg, to my baby bulldog, and to my ever-loving parents for criticizing and guiding this paper.
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Three-dimensional floor plan
Floor plan showing extent of vision from central guard tower
View from northeast
View from southeast
View from guard tower
Individual exercise yards
Cross section cell block 4
– Master's thesis on this prison
– Animation of Jeremy Bentham's panopticon
– Computer model of panopticon in virtual reality
– Lecture on problems with the panopticon
Tagged architecture of fear, data visualization, film, panopticon, politics, prison history
What's wrong with Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon?
19 December 2019 Browse All Work by Date, Films, Prison
Postmodernist thinkers, like Michel Foucault, interpret Jeremy Bentham's panopticon, invented c.1790, as a symbol for surveillance and the modern surveillance state.
This lecture is in two parts. I present a computer model of the panopticon, built according to Bentham's instructions. I then identify design problems with the panopticon and with the symbolism people often give it.
– Computer animation of Jeremy Bentham's panopticon
– View the panopticon in virtual reality
– Explore about Eastern State Penitentiary, a building inspired by Bentham
Tagged architecture of fear, British history, data visualization, history of technology, panopticon, politics, prison history
11 November 2019 Browse All Work by Date, Building Construction, Films, Prison
Created at the University of Cambridge: Department of Architecture
And featured by the Special Collections department at University College London
To say all in one word, it [the panopticon] will be found applicable, I think, without exception, to all establishments whatsoever, in which, within a space not too large to be covered or commanded by buildings, a number of persons are meant to be kept under inspection.
– Jeremy Bentham
Since the 1790s, Jeremy Bentham's panopticon remains an influential building and representation of power relations. Yet no structure was ever built to the exact dimensions Bentham indicates in his panopticon letters. Seeking to translate Bentham into the digital age, I followed his directions and descriptions to construct an exact model in virtual reality. What would this building have looked like if it were built? Would it have been as all-seeing and all-powerful as Bentham claims?
Explore Bentham's panopticon in the animation above or in virtual reality below
based on Bentham's drawings at University College London:
c.1791 plans of panopticon, drawn by architect Willey Reveley for Jeremy Bentham
Creative Commons image credit: Bentham MS Box 119a 121, UCL Special Collections
Panopticon: Theory vs. Reality
Central to Bentham's proposed building was a hierarchy of: (1) the principal guard and his family; (2) the assisting superintendents; and (3) the hundreds of inmates. The hierarchy between them mapped onto the building's design. The panopticon thus became a spatial and visual representation of the prison's power relations. As architectural historian Robin Evans describes: "Thus a hierarchy of three stages was designed for, a secular simile of God, angels and man."
Spatial diagram of power relations
Obstructed view from ground floor
Author's images from computer model
To his credit, Bentham recognized that an inspector on the ground floor could not see all inmates on the upper floors. The angle of view was too steep and obstructed by stairs and walkways. To this end, Bentham proposed that a covered inspection gallery be erected between every two floors of cells.
By proposing these three inspection galleries, Bentham addressed the problem of inspecting all inmates. However, he created a new problem: From no central point was it now be possible to see all activity, as the floor plans below show. The panoramic view below shows the superintendent's actual field of view, from which he could see into no more than four complete cells at a time. The view from the center was not, in fact, all-seeing. Guards would have to walk a continuous circuit round-and-round, as if on a treadmill. They, too, are prisoners to the architecture.
Panopticon panorama from guard's point of view
Section showing each guard's cone of vision
Guard's cone of vision
Guard's walking circuit
The intervening stairwells and inspection corridors between the perimeter cells and the central tower might have allowed inspectors to see into the cells. Yet these same architectural features would also have impeded the inmates' view toward the central rotunda. Bentham claimed this rotunda could become a chapel, and that inmates could hear the sermon and view the religious ceremonies without ever needing to leave their cells. The blinds, normally closed, could be opened up for viewing the chapel.
Rotunda with blinds closed
Rotunda with blinds opened
Bentham's suggestion was problematic. The two cross sections above show that, although some of the inmates could see the chapel from their cells, most would be unable to do so.
In spite of all these obvious faults in panopticon design, Bentham still claimed that all inmates and activities were visible and controlled from a single central point. When the superintendent or visitor arrives, no sooner is he announced that "the whole scene opens instantaneously to his view," Bentham wrote.
View from guard tower to cells: VISIBILITY
View from cells to guard tower: INVISIBILITY
Despite Bentham's claims to have invented a perfect and all-powerful building, the real panopticon would have been flawed were it built as this data visualization helps illustrate. Although the circular form with central tower was chosen to facilitate easier surveillance, the realities and details of this design illustrate that constant surveillance was not possible. That the British public and Parliament rejected Bentham's twenty year effort to build a real panopticon should be no surprise.
However flawed the architecture, Bentham remained ahead of his time. He envisioned an idealistic and rational, even utopian, surveillance society. Without the necessary (digital) technology to create this society, Bentham fell back on architecture to make this society possible. The failure of this architecture and its obvious shortcomings do not invalidate Bentham's project. Instead, these flaws with architecture indicate that Bentham envisioned an institution and society that would only become possible through new technologies invented hundreds of years later.
My computer model is available here in virtual reality.
Read my research on Eastern State Penitentiary, a radial prison descended from Bentham's panopticon
Supervised by Max Sternberg at Cambridge, advised by Philip Schofield at UCL
The archives and publications of UCL special collections, Bentham MS Box 119a 121
Audio narration by Tamsin Morton
Audio credits from Freesound
– panopticon interior ambiance
– panopticon exterior ambiance
– prison door closing
– low-pitched bell sound
– high-pitched bell sound
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Tagged architecture of fear, British history, building construction, data visualization, film, history of technology, models, panopticon, prison history
Exhibition Design for the Old Essex County Jail
16 May 2019 Browse All Work by Date, Newark Activism, Newark History, Prison, Writing
Developed in collaboration with Newark Landmarks
and the master's program in historic preservation at Columbia University
Warden's House c.1967
Warden's House in 2019
Jail entrance gate
Since 1971, the old Essex County Jail has sat abandoned and decaying in Newark's University Heights neighborhood. Expanded in stages since 1837, this jail is among the oldest government structures in Newark and is on the National Register of Historic Places. The building needs investment and a vision for transforming decay into a symbol of urban regeneration. As a youth in Newark, I explored and painted this jail, and therefore feel a personal investment in the history of this place. Few structures in this city reflect the history of racial segregation, immigration, and demographic change as well as this jail.
In spring 2018, a graduate studio at Columbia University's master's in historic preservation program documented this structure. Eleven students and two architects recorded the jail's condition, context, and history. Each student developed a reuse proposal for a museum, public park, housing, or prisoner re-entry and education center. By proposing eleven alternatives, the project transformed a narrative of confinement into a story of regeneration.
Inspired by this academic project and seeking to share it with a larger audience, I and Zemin Zhang proposed to transform the results of this studio into a larger dialogue about the purpose of incarceration. With $15,000 funding from Newark Landmarks, I translated Columbia's work into an exhibition. I am grateful to Anne Englot and Liz Del Tufo for their help securing space and funding. Over spring 2019, I collaborated with Ellen Quinn and a team at New Jersey City University to design the exhibit panels and to create the corresponding texts and graphics. The opening was held in May 2019, and is recorded here.
My curator work required translating an academic project into an exhibit with language, graphics, and content accessible to the public. Columbia examined the jail's architecture and produced numerous measured drawings of the site, but they did not examine social history. As the curator, I shifted the exhibit's focus from architecture to the jail's social history – to use the jail as a tool through which to examine Newark's history of incarceration. As a result, much of my work required supplementing Columbia's content with additional primary sources – newspaper clippings, prison records, and an oral history project – that tell the human story behind these bars. I worked with local journalist Guy Sterling to interview former jail guards and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka about his father's experience incarcerated here during the 1967 civil unrest. The exhibit allowed viewers to hear first-hand accounts of prison life and to view what the Essex County Jail looked like in its heyday from the 1920s to 1960s. Rutgers-Newark organized seminars connected to the jail exhibit on the topic of incarceration in America, and what practical steps can be taken to change the effects of the growth of incarceration.
The finished exhibit was on display from May 15 through September 27, 2019. The exhibit makes the case for preserving the buildings and integrating them into the redevelopment of the surrounding area. The hope is that, by presenting this jail's history in a public space where several thousand people viewed it per week, historians can build support for the jail's reuse. Over the next year, an architecture studio at the New Jersey Institute of Technology's College of Architecture and Design is conducting further site studies. Before any work begins, the next immediate step is to remove all debris, trim destructive foliage, and secure the site from trespassers. These actions will buy time while the city government and the other stakeholders determine the logistics of a full-scale redevelopment effort.
My interest in prisons drew me to this project. This jail's architect was John Haviland, who was a disciple of prison reformers John Howard and Jeremy Bentham. In my MPhil thesis research about Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary, I developed my exhibit research by looking at the social and historical context of John Haviland and early prisons. As I describe, Eastern State began as a semi-utopian project in the 1830s but devolved by the 1960s into a tool of control social and a symbol of urban unrest.
Launch Virtual Exhibit Website
Read my January 2021 article in The Newarker magazine.
Read this July 2020 article from Jersey Digs
about my exhibit and the New Jersey Institute of Technology's proposal to reuse this jail site.
Hear my September 2019 interview about this jail and exhibit from Pod & Market.
Explore this jail as an interactive exhibit online.
View this artwork as part of my short film from 2016 called Pictures of Newark.
Tagged architecture of fear, film, historic preservation, Newark, Newark history, prison history


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Buhari's Third Term: APC roasts man seeking constitutional change
Friday, November 29, 2019 6:50 am | News | 2 Comment(s)
Lanre Issa-Onilu, APC National Publicity Secretary: denounces man seeking Third term for Buhari
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has denounced a self-proclaimed member of the Party, Charles Enya, seeking an amendment of the constitution to allow President Muhammadu Buhari run for a third term in office.
In a statement, the party described Enya an agent provocateur, a busy body.
'We are a progressive party and we do not have space for anti-democratic forces and charlatans", the APC said in a statement signed by national publicity secretary, Lanre Issa-Onilu.
Onilu said Enya would be promptly expelled, if his membership of the party is confirmed.
The full statement:
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has read in the media about a purported legal action taken by a self-proclaimed member of the Party, Charles Enya, seeking an amendment of the constitution to allow President Muhammadu Buhari run for a third term in office.
The Party had initially chosen to ignore him. However, it has become important to send a clear message to him and such other agents provocateurs.
At the last National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the Party, President Buhari didn't mince words and he is not the type that talks tongue-in-cheek. He pointedly said he would abide by the constitution and uphold the oath of office he took, swearing by the holy book he believes in. This he said was besides his advanced age which made such an idea beyond his contemplation.
The NEC meeting highlights released to the media by the party equally quoted the President admonishing APC members, leaders and elected officials to reposition themselves in their respective constituencies so as to sustain the administration's landmark legacies beyond 2023 when the President's constitutionally permitted terms end.
The president said history would not be fair to members if the APC collapses after his second term. What better proof is required of the President's resolve to abide by the constitution on term limit?
The Party is, however, by this statement sending a strong signal to such other busybodies like Charles Enya who may be contemplating testing the resolve of our government on our mission to work for the best for our country to be ready to face the law.
We would follow this new enemy of our country, who is most likely being sponsored by the desperate and misguided opposition, every step of the way, using all legal means to thwart his devilish efforts to create chaos in our country.
As a party, we would not take kindly to anyone or group causing unnecessary distraction for this administration through anti-democratic actions. As a country, we are several years behind where we ought to be. The President Buhari-led administration is focused on the onerous responsibility of delivering good governance. We are focused on revamping our moribund infrastructure, growing the economy, fighting corruption, creating the right environment for our teeming youths to deploy their creative energies, and providing adequate security for all of our people.
We have tried to find out the status of this character claiming to be a member of our party. If he turns out to be our member, we would ensure the party organ that has the responsibility to act on this matter promptly commence the process of expelling him. We are a progressive party and we do not have space for anti-democratic forces and charlatans.
Okpeh Sunday Idoko says:
Thank you Lanre Issa-Onilu, very
tense strong wording letter to charlatans and anti-democratic forces not only to this Enya but intended jokers and their likes. This man will be use as example in deterrent to others.
J K Akinsanya says:
He is from the East or Benue no wonder he wants to destroy Nigeris


I was going to be making a coffee table art book. but this was only a general concept. I had the field to play on, but there weren't any lines, or balls, or for that matter, players.
the photos contained so many different people and locations, what sort of story could I tell? I was afraid that trying to do one continuous story arc might feel forced, or at the very least be hard to follow. maybe it would be better to do something more abstract? even if I went that route, there still needed to be some semblance of form. I could play tennis without a net, but I should at least be playing tennis on a court.
while I pondered this question I continued to spend time with the photos, to write my notes, and to rearrange and reorder. eventually the answer hit me. these were regular photos from regular people all found in one particular county… and THAT was exactly the story that needed to told. I decided each photo would have its only seperate story or poem, with the idea of Kitsap County being the unifying factor. my plan was that the individual pieces, when combine together would create a portrait of the county's residents.
the creative process is a strange and beautiful thing. I'm a firm believe that the bulk, maybe 95% of making "stuff," be it art, film, prose or otherwise is putting in the time. day in and day out you have to do the work. sit down at the easel, make the phone calls, stare at a blinking cursor. to use a cliché – "Rome wasn't built in a day." it takes time to make creative work and you have to work on it regardless of how "inspired" you feel. but there is that 5% that's not just grinding away… there are the moments of true inspiration, the sparks that ignite the idea. for me, these often come at the beginning of a project, or when I've hit a wall.
I think "Found in Kitsap" is a good mix of this balance between "work" and "inspiration." the initial find of cameras – inspiration. the pursuit of more – work. spending the time with images – work. the idea to focus on Kitsap County – inspiration. and the idea that would tie it all together? well, that was inspiration too. one night as I sat looking at photos my mind stumbled upon the idea that would unify the photos. I could organize them into an emotional sin-curve. instead of trying to tie the images together with story points or characters, I would create an emotional flow that spanned across all of them.
the collection would start in the evening, descend into the darkness of night, then rise to glory and hope. each photo would need to visually represent both the time from the "day in the life," and an emotion that corresponded that part of the day. this was the framework I needed to move forward.
armed with the qualifiers of emotion and time of day I started to rearrange the images. if the image appeared to have been taken at a specific time of day that might determine the emotion of the story. and visa versa, if an image elicited a strong emotion that would influence where in the "day" it would be placed. I moving the photos around until I felt I had a completed order. I didn't worry about making it 100% perfect, since it was in the three-ring binder I knew at any time I could tweak it.
with the photos in place I began to jot down ideas for the stories on each photo. the further I went down this road, the more confident I became. it seemed like the emotional arc just might work. eventually I had notes on nearly every page. this was a fairly lengthy process. I can't exactly remember how long I spent on it, but I image it was a fews months. finally I decided that it was time to write. I took sheets of blank paper and placed them in between each image. these acted as facing pages for each photo – and would be where I would hand write the stories and poems.
looking back, it's kind of funny because the actual "writing" of the 100 stories & poems is one of the least interesting parts of the journey. I simply did the work. day in, and day out.
for the next month, every day I would write three stories. if I finished in a half hour, great. if it took me two hours, okay. the important thing was that I made progress toward finishing. I bounced around, trying to pick between stories I knew all the way through and those I had yet to discover. some flowed out like they were already written, others had to dragged kicking and screaming from my mind. but regardless, every day there were three new ones to write.
the binder began to fill up 3, 6, 9, 18, 33, 66, 81, 99… and then all of a sudden I was finished. I took a couple days off and relaxed. then I begin to type up the stories and poems. once completed I printed out three copies. again, using entire ink cartridges for each. the pages were punched and added to binders. I now had the first mock-ups of "Found in Kitsap." it was time to share the project. the first copies of the book, along with a little questioner were given to a few close friends.
I was hoping to get answers in a few specific areas, but moreover I was nervous… I had no idea if this experiment would work, but I know I needed feedback before moving forward. read about it in part 9, "Feedback & Next Steps.


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I've finally watched all the nominees for Best Picture in this year's Oscar Awards, with Brooklyn and The Big Short being my two latest watches. I thought I'd write some short opinions on those two and The Martian. For my thoughts on the rest of the nominees, I made one blog post about The Revenant and one where I discuss Bridge of Spies, Mad Max, Room and Spotlight over here.
Brooklyn – Watched February 22nd
The Big Short – Watched February 23rd
The Martian – Watched November 6th 2015
Click on the title of the film to read more about them on IMDB, as I will not go into much detail about the premises or plot of the films!
Brooklyn – John Crowley
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson
I found Brooklyn to be a really beautiful and quite understated, in a good way. Saoirse Ronan does a great job, and the film definitively made me tear up a few times. You get to care about the characters, and even though it's not a very fast-moving drama-filled picture, it's not in any ways boring either. I also have to commend Julie Walters in her role, I hardly recognized her at first! Domhnall Gleeson makes yet another appearance in one of 2016's nominated films, and though his role here isn't the biggest, he is surely one of the actors you should keep an eye on in the year to come!
My only issue with Brooklyn is that it just wasn't memorable enough. It has so many strong points, especially when it comes to the acting and the visuals, but even though the story is touching it didn't really stick with me, and it's only been two days since I saw it. For it to be a contender for Best Picture it would have needed some more originality, to make it stand out more. But it's a recommended watch all the same!
The Big Short – Adam McKay
Starring: Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling
Right. I'll straight out say it, I didn't care much for The Big Short. Reading on IMDB it seems like most people loved it, so I'm obviously not speaking for the majority here. The issue for me that it tackles such complicated topics, and it's constantly doing quirky things to try to explain them, which just made my head spin. There's a lot of breaking the forth wall in this film, cutting to scenes where models and celebrities explain advanced economics, combined with some meta moments where actors break character to tell you that "this didn't really happen" or "this was a tad different in reality". The concept of that is quite exciting, and The Big Short is in no way lacking originality, but for me it just didn't work. The cuts and editing were too irregular, and while they were going for the very "cool" style and also poking some fun, it just felt too silly at times.
Christian Bale is nominated for his role, and though I wasn't a fan of the film I think he did a fine job. One of the big surprises for me was also Steve Carell, I think his portrayal was absolutely fantastic, and equal with Bale's. One of many this year that could have been nominated, but wasnt.
The Martian – Ridley Scott
Starring: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig
Ah, The Martian. It's been a while since I saw this, but it's still quite strong in my mind. Let me start of by saying: I really enjoyed The Martian, I thought it was a really good film, it was exciting, funny and emotional at times. I left the movie theatre with my expectations met.
I don't however, think it deserves a nomination for Best Picture OR for Best Actor in a Leading Role. It's just not that much of an achievement, even though I enjoyed it. The thing is, and it's gonna sound harsh: I felt most of the work that was done in this film, both with the production and acting could have been done by most capable actors, directors, producers et cetera. I didn't leave the movie thinking "Wow, how did Matt Damon pull that off" or "Boy, only Ridley Scott could have made something like that". It wasn't outstanding in any way, even though it's a good film. Would I rather watch this again than The Big Short? Yes. But I still think it shouldn't have gotten as many nominations as it has. Sadly.
But if you haven't seen it, go ahead! I do recommend it 🙂
Having now watched all of the nominees my favourites are still The Revenant and Spotlight! There are still some films missing from the other big categories, but as of now I've seen most of the actors and actresses nominated for both lead and supporting, especially after I see The Danish Girl this Saturday.
If you have any thoughts on the Best Picture category for this years Academy Awards, please leave a comment below 🙂
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I saw an angel with a trumpet seemed like the first of the Seven Trumpets angels of in Rev 8: He came and dropped things, books, booklettes, scrolls, other token objects and then he left.
Then had a vision yesterday morning of Sunday May 1st, 2016.
He came and dropped things, books, booklettes, scrolls, other token objects and then he left.
The previous night i had met a Shofar man who Often Works with a powerful minister in northern Nigeria.
And saw that books, writings and scripts were put on that Roundtable and were releases as interpretation for the sound of the Shofar to be assembled from their various pieces like a puzzle,to be pieced together and interpreted whole to arrive at the full meanings of the trumpet sounds.
When the Shofar is actually blown!
Then felt to check the Hebrew meaning of Jubilee, and found that apart from liberty it actually means 'Ram' s horn trumpet'!!
Thus i came to the understanding that.: This is actually the year of the Shofar! And that Shofar or trumpet angels are being released now, to give interpretation of trumpets sounds to anointed men and women of the Shofar, but more especially as they form Roundtables, Because these interpretations will come in bits and pieces to each of the Shofars hence the need for the Roundtable to make the pictures clearer and complete.
And decoding the Shofar trumpet sound is the key of this season. Interpreting the sounds will be key to unlocking divine doors, gates, destinies, defining moments and key revelations for access and breakthroughs of a lifetime. This is the year of Jubilee:the year of the Shofar, and we have just about four more months to the end of this Hebrew year and i believe that is the span of this time portal /window in which we have to apprehend the requirements of this season and there by keep this portal of sound interpretation opened, even beyond the Hebrew year of Jubilee. Thus i do believe that the anointed Shofars need to move into gear and shape the required Roundtables so that the downloads can commence in full, as i believe the trumpet angels are already waiting for us.
*Strong's Definition*: Apparently from [[H2986]]; the _blast_ of a horn (from its _continuous_ sound); specifically the _signal_ of the silver trumpets; hence the instrument itself and the festival thus introduced: - jubilee, ram's horn, trumpet.
And this is why many Shofars have started receiving instructions to write, just as the Shofar man had informed when i told him my visions of a round table, he had been told to write and wait for the anointed time, and thus he received my message as the sign that the anointed time was here. He's recognized for being a main core of the seven Shofars men and women who worked with the powerful minister. This made me feel like he was a sign of the seven angels with trumpets in Rev 8. The first one being the one who opened the door to the others.