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MODERN FAMILY: Sleeper – WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 (9:00-9:31 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network. (Rebroadcast. OAD: 4/30/14)
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"Sleeper" – Phil fails at his one task to stay home and wait for the repairman, forcing him to tell an elaborate lie to hide the truth from Claire, but the stress is more than he can physically handle. Meanwhile, Gloria is obsessing over the family portrait she is responsible for organizing this year. Claire accuses Cam of being too snobby to use her girls' hand-me-downs and Jay secretly enters Stella in a dog show, on "Modern Family," WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 (9:00-9:31 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network. (Rebroadcast. OAD: 4/30/14)
"Modern Family" stars Ed O'Neill as Jay, Julie Bowen as Claire, Ty Burrell as Phil, Sofia Vergara as Gloria, Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Mitchell, Eric Stonestreet as Cameron, Sarah Hyland as Haley, Nolan Gould as Luke, Ariel Winter as Alex, Rico Rodriguez as Manny and Aubrey Anderson-Emmons as Lily.
Guest cast includes Rod McLachlan as Fred and Jonathan Runyon as Keith.
"Sleeper" was written by Paul Corrigan, Brad Walsh & Bill Wrubel, and directed by Ryan Case.
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'Apocalypse Now' gets the full treatment with 'The Complete Dossier' DVD
by Michael Sheridan
[rating=3]Starring: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Jay 'Chef' Hicks, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Albert Hall, Harrison Ford, Dennis Hopper
Director(s): Francis Coppola
Writer(s): Screenplay by John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola; Narration by Michael Herr
Martin Sheen stars in 'Apocalypse Now'
In the last fifteen years, I have made three or four different attempts to watch Apocalypse Now. In all those attempts, I was never able to get through the entire film. In each case I fell asleep at different points and never once saw the film all the way through.
Was this a commentary on the film? I wasn't really certain, to be honest. Perhaps it was just the timing. Maybe I was particularly tired on those days. So, when the opportunity came for me to really watch the film, I took it. Last week I sat down and watchedApocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier, which was released this past Tuesday on DVD. This two-disc set includes the original theatrical cut of the film, as well as the extended Apocalypse Now: Redux which was released in 2001.
Read more'Apocalypse Now' gets the full treatment with 'The Complete Dossier' DVD
Richard Donner made 1976's 'The Omen' brilliant
[rating=4]Starring: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw
Director(s): Richard Donner
Writer(s): David Seltzer
Gregory Peck tries to kill the devil in 'The Omen'
It had been years since I saw The Omen. I wasn't quite sure how much of it I'd actually remember when I sat down to watch it the other night, but surprisingly enough I remembered virtually all of it.
What I didn't remember, however, was how good a movie it was.
Richard Donner crafted a brilliantly intriguing religious thriller. It is wonderfully paced, with some terrific scenes and strong acting. The young boy, played perfectly by Harvey Stephens, is stunningly creepy. That last moment when he turns to the camera and smiles is chilling. I was honestly surprised by how much I liked this film. I'm not a fan of these kinds of movies. I thought The Exorcistwas rather boring. Religiously-themed fright flicks just don't interest me. But what Donner had created here, with screenwriter David Seltzer, was just outstanding.
Read moreRichard Donner made 1976's 'The Omen' brilliant
'King Kong: Special Edition' is brilliant yet extended version feels bloated
[rating=3]Starring: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Andy Serkis, Jamie Bell, Kyle Chandler, Lobo Chan, Thomas Kretschmann, Evan Parke, Colin Hanks, John Sumner
Director(s): Peter Jackson
Writer(s): Screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson; Based upon the story by Merian C. Cooper, Edgar Wallace
The giant gorilla roars in 'King Kong'
I don't often like to write reviews for films twice, but for King Kong I was will to make an exception. You see, I actually missed the first five minutes of the film when I saw it in the theater. It wasn't my fault, but the theater — for some bizarre reason — decided to start the film about twenty minutes early. I, along with dozens of others, were calmly waiting on line for popcorn. Someone came out and said it was starting, but no one believed him. When we all finally learned that it really was starting, none of us were happy.
Regardless, the DVD gave me the opportunity to see the film from start to finish. And generally, when I see a film a second time, it moves faster. I even tend to enjoy it a little more, or things that may have bothered me the first time don't so much the second. Of course, there are also occasions where the weaknesses seem worse, and I notice more problems along the way.
Read more'King Kong: Special Edition' is brilliant yet extended version feels bloated
'Brokeback Mountain' is a lovely gay love story, and that's not a bad thing
[rating=3]Starring: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Linda Cardellini, Anna Faris, Anne Hathaway
Director(s): Ang Lee
Writer(s): Written by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana; Based upon the short story by Annie Proulx
Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams in 'Brokeback Mountain'
Before I even got an opportunity to see Brokeback Mountain I'd heard all the jokes. All the gay cracks, all the "Poke-in-the-Back Mountain" puns. Every snide comments and ridiculous homophobic rant.
Yet most of the people I knew who had actually seen the film thought it was terrific. A beautiful story told well. So, putting those jokes aside, when I finally sat down to watch Brokeback on DVD, I didn't quite know what I was going to think. Would I get turned away by the homosexual storyline, or would I be able to enjoy it for what it was — a tragic love story.
Read more'Brokeback Mountain' is a lovely gay love story, and that's not a bad thing
Robert Redford and Morgan Freeman make Jennifer Lopez shine in 'An Unfinished Life'
[rating=4]Starring: Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez, Morgan Freeman, Becca Gardner, Josh Lucas
Director(s): Lasse Hallstrom
Writer(s): Mark Spragg, Virginia Korus Spragg
Robert Redford and Morgan Freeman co-star in 'An Unfinished Life'
It takes a lot for Jennifer Lopez to be tolerable these days. To be quite honest, I can't even look at the woman anymore. As a result, I was a little hesitant to watch An Unfinished Life. Ultimately I did, because Robert Redford and Morgan Freeman are just too good to not surrender an hour and forty-eight minutes of my time.
In a purely supportive role that is easily buried beneath Redford and Freeman, Lopez was actually good. I was reminded of the Lopez I remembered from Out of Sight, the film that made her a star, not the ridiculous J.Lo that was created by her stardom. And she stood well against the other actors. An Unfinished Life is filled with strong performances, which shouldn't be surprising, since the cast consists of some of the most talented people around.
Read moreRobert Redford and Morgan Freeman make Jennifer Lopez shine in 'An Unfinished Life'
Top notch 'Blue Thunder' gets treated well in new DVD
[rating=3]Starring: Roy Scheider, Warren Oates, Candy Clark, Daniel Stern, Malcolm McDowell
Director(s): John Badham
Writer(s): Dan O'Bannon, Don Jakoby
'Blue Thunder' helicopter flies over Los Angeles
There something fun about going back to movies that you remember from your childhood and revisiting them as an adult. I've been fascinated by some 80s action flicks in the last few months, I suppose mostly through nostalgia more than anything else. It's funny how over the top so many of them are, and whileBlue Thunder is better than most, its ending is a little much.
The story has Roy Scheider at the peak of his fame, this time playing a burned out helicopter pilot with the Los Angeles Police Department's air unit. This is a familiar site to most people who either live in or have seen moves featuring the west coast city, but at the time it was relatively new. The helicopters assist police officers on the ground to track down criminals and monitor the city. Scheider's Officer Frank Murphy is one of the best, but suffers from post-traumatic stress from Vietnam (this movie was made in 1983).
Read moreTop notch 'Blue Thunder' gets treated well in new DVD
'Sliver' may be sexier in unrated version, but isn't much better
[rating=2]Starring: Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, Tom Berenger, Martin Landau
Director(s): Phillip Noyce
Writer(s): Screenplay by Joe Eszterhas; based upon the novel by Ira Levin
Sharon Stone stars in 'Sliver'
I suppose it's related to the impending release of Sharon Stone's return to the character that made her famous, Basic Instinct 2, that prompted the release of this DVD, but I can say right now they should have just left well enough alone. Watching Sliver was a reminder of the excess that Hollywood had gone to with its brief fascination with erotic thrillers — a fascination led largely by screenwriter Joe Eszterhas.
Although I'd only seen bits and pieces of Sliver in the past, I was curious enough to take a look at this unrated version of the film. The rise and fall of Eszterhas is a classic true Hollywood story, so I figured I'd sacrifice an hour and a half of my life to see one of his films. It's not considered his best, but how exactly do you top such works of art like Basic Instinct and Showgirls?
Read more'Sliver' may be sexier in unrated version, but isn't much better
'Godzilla' has flaws, but it's NOT as bad as you may have been told
The giant lizard gets the CGI treatment in 1998's 'Godzilla'
I am most likely one of a handful of people who actually enjoyed Godzilla, the Roland Emmerich/Dean Devlin creation from 1998. Yes, I enjoyed it. It's fun, with some good action sequences. It entertained me. I'm not sure what more I was supposed to get from a movie about a giant lizard.
Like most kids of my generation, I grew up watching Godzilla movies on Sunday afternoons. I loved them. At the same time, we're talking about a series of movies featuring a guy in a rubber suit. You can't take these movies too seriously. The same has to be said about Godzilla. It's a popcorn movie whose single purpose is to entertain. It's not deep, it's not meaningful, it simply tries to give you a good time.
The story basically works as follows: Mutated by the nuclear tests performed by the French, a giant lizard that becomes known as Godzilla comes to New York City and wreaks havoc. The military struggles to stop him with the help of biologist Niko Tatopoulos (Matthew Broderick), while French secret service agent Philippe Roaché (Jean Reno) looks to contain his country's involvement in the creature's unintentional creation.
Read more'Godzilla' has flaws, but it's NOT as bad as you may have been told
'Chicken Little' is an underappreciated Disney delight
[rating=3]Starring: The Voices of Zach Braff, Garry Marshall, Don Knotts, Patrick Stewart, Amy Sedaris, Steve Zahn, Joan Cusack
Director(s): Mark Dindal
Writer(s): Steve Bencich and Ron Friedman
Zach Braff provides his voice as the title character in 'Chicken Little'
One of the best tests I can devise for animated films now is whether or not my son is willing to sit through it. It's not scientific, but it's the best kind of gauge I have at my disposal — besides my own perspectives.
When I popped the DVD in, as usual, my son was resistant. He is always a little wary of trying new movies. Not really sure why, exactly, but I suppose that's par for the course with children. They're always hesitant when it comes to something new. They like the familiar. Either way, Chicken Little was only on for a few minutes and he was hooked. So hooked, in fact, that he was dancing to the music at the very end.
He loved it, and I did, too.
Read more'Chicken Little' is an underappreciated Disney delight
'Ten Commandments' is still a wonderful classic 50 years later
[rating=4]Starring: 1956 – Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo, Nina Foch, Vincent Price; 1923 – Theodore Roberts, Charles de Rochefort, Richard Dix, Rod La Rocque, Leatrice Joy
Director(s): 1956 & 1923 – Cecille B. DeMille
Writer(s): 1956 – Screenplay by Aeneas MacKenzie, Jesse J. Lasky, Jr., Jack Gariss, Fredric M. Frank; Based upon the Holy Scriptures and other ancient and modern writings; 1923 – Story by Jeanie MacPherson
Charlton Heston is Moses in 'The Ten Commandments'
I'm not a religious person, but there is something grand about so many of the sweeping religious epics from the 1950s. The Ten Commandments is a film I've probably seen dozens of times, often during the holidays, yet I don't think I've ever actually seen it all the way through in one sitting. That made it all the more epic to watch it unfold in this new, 50th Anniversary edition DVD.
Although he's been somewhat dismissed in the last few years, Charlton Heston was a powerful actor who so often played larger-than-life characters. And he seemed to love it. He was practically born to play Moses, a role he devoured, even beneath the overdone beard and wig. Modern audiences may have difficulty relating to the style of the film, with its bombastic acting and casual pace, yet it's a perfect example of the grand filmmaking style of its time.
Read more'Ten Commandments' is still a wonderful classic 50 years later

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Here is the cress that we have been growing in class. As you can see we have got a good crop. The children wrote the conclusions of their growing experiment this afternoon.
Well done to Elijah for his amazing contributions in our maths carpet sessions. He always has his hand up and loves to offer differing ways to find out the answers. This shows that he is really thinking about his numbers and is applying himself really well in this subject. Keep it up Elijah!
Thanks to Josie who made my day coming in wearing Wookie mask.


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Category: Art / Science
Youth versus beauty: the science of violins
BBC Radio 4's Inside Science ran an interesting story this week about the audio-science of violins. Many people take it as given that a squillion-pound Stradivarius that has weathered the centuries has a richer sound than a newer instrument. That was put to the test in a "blind listening" — even the musicians playing the instruments were blindfolded.
And the winner was…
Well, listen and judge for yourself http://songofcontagion.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/violin_audio.mp3 (mp3).
Author Elizabeth PisaniPosted on May 15, 2017 Categories Art / ScienceTags BBC Radio 4, Inside Science, Stradivarius, Violin
White noise from the coloured river
Brian House, via Verge
We're not alone in using "sonification" to nudge people into thinking about the things that make our world go round (sometimes less smoothly than we'd like). US artist Brian House is translating pollution data from water quality sensors in the Animus River in Colorado into music. The data is run through amps linked to sheets of four different metals, all of them metals that have exceeded safety levels in the river. The artist describes it like this:
"Changes in the clarity of the water, invisible indicators of the dissolved metals within it, and the dynamics of its daily and seasonal flows all become sound in the gallery, producing timbral "color" from the river's continually changing composition."
It's a really interesting concept, but a quick listen (below) reinforced for me something that composer Tony Haynes noted at the very outset of the Song of Contagion collaboration: music driven exclusively by data are more conceptually than emotionally compelling. The more I hear of pure sonifications, the happier I am to have a real, live, passionately inspired composer at the helm of our show.
HT The Verge, via Mark Zip.
Author Elizabeth PisaniPosted on May 5, 2017 Categories Art / ScienceTags Brian House, sonification
Blood, sweat and music: truly visceral
Tony often describes his music as "visceral" — and it's certainly hard to sit through a Grand Union Orchestra performance without feeling it in the gut. But we may have been outdone on the visceral front by Russian artist Dmitry Morozov, who has literally turned his blood into a musical instrument. In the video above, you can watch him storing up 4.5 litres of his own blood; he then turns it into a battery that drives the composition Before I Die. It's not for the faint-hearted. Quite apart from all the hypodermics, Morozov gets broodingly philosophical about life, decay and death. Very interesting, but an entirely different brand of "visceral" to the Grand Union's signature style, which you can find more of here.
Read more about Morozov's bio-musical artwork here.
An aside for those who tried to book tickets to Song of Contagion when we first posted dates, but didn't find them: they're now on sale at Wilton's: book your tickets here.
Author Elizabeth PisaniPosted on March 16, 2017 Categories Art / ScienceTags blood, Dmitry Morozov, vtol
Sending bad drugs up in musical flames
The three tubed Fire Organ dancing to a single Concert C. All photo credit: Ryan Johnson
What do third-rate ecstasy, flames and superbugs have in common? An organ. This became apparent a a party given by the genius crew at Guerilla Science at which I encountered the Fire Organ, created by maverick engineers Burohappold. Acoustics consultant Natalia Szcepanczyk and others on the engineering team will doubtless correct me, but essentially, the fire organ reproduces the shape of sound in flame. The minute I saw it, I thought of something else entirely: drugs. More precisely, bad street drugs. In fact it looked a lot like this:
It's an image regular readers of Contagion may recognise: MDMA put through a mass spectrometer, showing all the particles in the Ecstasy pill (including a lot of shit that shouldn't be in any pill that a human is likely to swallow). The reason I've got it hanging around is that I was looking for mass spec images or real and fake antimalarial drugs. The real ones save lives. The fake ones don't. Worse, because they often expose bugs to small doses of medicine, they prompt resistant bugs to build up their strength and spread. In other words, they help breed superbugs.
Since mass spec images also look a lot like the output of electronic composition and editing programmes, I turned the Bad Drug graphs over to our music tech partners at CM Sounds, to see if they could reverse-engineer the sound of it. When I saw the fire organ (and as one beer led to another) it seemed too perfect not to close the circle by then trying to play that music back into the fire organ, to recreate the graph in flames. If it works, you'll be able to see AND hear the difference between good smack and bad, and between medicines that will cure you and those that might kill you. It would bring David McCandless-type beautiful information together with some of the sound nerdiness collected by the folks at the Programming Historian. Wouldn't that be trippy?
Author Elizabeth PisaniPosted on February 23, 2017 March 6, 2017 Categories Art / ScienceTags antibiotic resistance, Fire organ, Guerilla science
Photo-ops, scientific racism and the spread of zika
Sneak preview of one the songs that musicians and lyricists are busy working on for the Song of Contagion show, which will run June 13-17, 2017 at the fabulous Wilton's Music Hall: the Dengue Merengue. We're using the contrast between dengue and zika to demonstrate how important media coverage can be in determining how much attention and funding a disease gets.
The New York Times this week ran a long story titled How the Response to Zika Failed Millions. Though scientists get a mixed-to-bad scorecard, the press was highly praised.
"In Brazil, the press was the first to sense that something was going on," said Dr. Karin Nielsen, a pediatrician at the David Geffen Medical School at the University of California, Los Angeles, who also works in Rio. "It was pushing it even before the medical specialists were."
Certainly the press is excited about Zika. In the last year,the New York Times alone has written 1,062 stories mentioning Zika. So here's my question: why does the press not get excited about dengue? The NYT ran just 173 stories mentioning dengue in the last year, and if you sort them by highest relevance, 14 out of the top 20 have headlines that are about Zika, not dengue. And yet both pathogens are spread by the the same mosquito in largely the same areas. Dengue has been around for ever and is getting worse, debilitating around 96 million people every year and sending about half million of them to hospital. Around 13,000 of those will die. Zika has also been around a while, and it doesn't seem to kill anyone much, and was thought to do little harm. Recently, though, infection in pregnancy has been associated with some 2,311 cases of microcephaly. That's pin-head babies, and they make for great newspaper fodder. I've no doubt that sounds callous, but it's an indication of the extent to which photo-ops lead news coverage in today's screen-obsessed world. The Time's Zika scorecard story managed to include THREE baby-and-parent photos (and one pic of a mosquito-fogger).
It's also a perfect illustration of two of the other parameters that affect the importance we give to different diseases. One is what in Song of Contagion we've been calling the "cuddly-to-icky" spectrum. Deformed babies and their parents quite rightly excite sympathy in people worldwide; that makes it easier to put them on the front page (and to fund) than less endearing "victims". Dengue affects people of all ages, including kids, but there's nothing particularly eye-catching about a patient with dengue shock syndrome.
The other parameter Zika illustrates is the "near-to-far" spectrum. Because Zika came to notice in Brazil, in the Americas and just before the Olympics, it seemed much "nearer" to decision-makers in the United States (and journalists at the New York Times) than many other neglected tropical diseases. And with the Olympics planned, people from lots of other countries would draw near to the virus, too. Of course that's also true of dengue, but without the shock visuals and the hook of an "emerging" epidemic that Zika provides, physical proximity counted for less. Some parameters trump others, in health as in music.
Another aspect of the Times story reflects something I've found recently in my research on scientific collaborations. Investigators in low and middle income countries get really cross when researchers from rich countries treat them as second class citizens.
Dr. Ernesto T. A. Marques Jr., an infectious disease specialist at the University of Pittsburgh and at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Brazil, said Brazilian scientists felt let down when they looked for outside help — at first from European donors and health agencies.
"The local researchers' role was mainly to collect samples," Dr. Marques said bitterly.
The C.D.C.'s initial reluctance to accept Brazilian scientists' work also slowed the international response, said Dr. Peter J. Hotez, the dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.
Even when the Brazilians found Zika virus in two women's amniotic fluid and in the brain of a microcephalic fetus, "The C.D.C. would not accept it until they had done it themselves," he said.
While racism is not the exactly right word for this sort of inequity, it has the right flavour. In journalism we'd call it "big-footing." Local journalists toil away for years telling the story of some forgotten place, and then come the revolution, the tsunami or the World Cup, they get "big-footed" by crusty correspondents — usually white men based somewhere much more comfortable — who don't speak the language or have any useful contacts but who come in to report the big story, snatching all the glory. One day we'll learn in science as we are gradually learning in reporting that people with deep knowledge of local cultures, politics and ways of communicating are central to great research. I guess this is what Tony, in his musical discipline, calls "authenticity". It seems creative work in both art and science depends on it.
Author Elizabeth PisaniPosted on January 18, 2017 January 18, 2017 Categories Art / ScienceTags collaboration, dengue, New York Times, zika
Superbugs: "Not like Ebola" — but soon will be
Not any longer…
Last week, nearly every country in the world got together at the United Nations General Assembly to commit to doing something about the spread of superbugs: bacteria, viruses and other pathogens that are evolving their way around the medicines that treat them. It's an important step, and one the UK has taken credit for, not without reason. At a bunch of side meetings ahead of the big political discussions in New York last week, speaker after speaker said that the threat of antimicrobial resistance (or AMR, for those who want to avoid the mouthful) had been neglected because it was "not urgent, like Ebola", "not visible, like zika", "there are no activist groups shouting about it, like HIV." It could have been an introductory talk for the concept behind Song of Contagion.
What eventually put AMR on the global agenda was essentially the dedication and clever strategising of a single "champion" — Dame Sally Davies, the UK's Chief Medical Officer. She looked at the evidence: we're overusing antibiotics in both medicine and farming, they're developing resistance fast, and there are no new ones in the pipeline because it's more profitable to develop drugs that people have to take every day. She decided it was important, and rallied the UK Prime Minister to the cause. Then, very cleverly, Dame Sally outsourced a lot of the lobbying to an economist, Jim O'Neill. Bestower of BRICS, Goldman Sachs superhero and (briefly) UK Treasury minister, Jim is listened to by many in the corporate world (and in the all-important Chinese and Indian governments) who wouldn't take much notice of even the most energetic health official. Lord O'Neill was the public face of a hard-working team that put together a lot of scary info-graphics based on a lot of solid evidence (and some less solid but certainly scary "blue sky" estimates) that captured the front pages of newspapers as influential as The Economist.
We didn't actually specify "Champions" on the list of parameters that we think influence decision-making about health priorities.
But thinking more about the "human influencers", well, they very rarely act as an undifferentiated group. Sally Davies is a technocrat, certainly. But many technocrats before her recognised the threat of AMR without getting 193 nations to sign up to work together to do something about it. She is a technocrat who is also a visionary, a strategist, and a bit of a terrier. She just doesn't give up until she gets what she wants. So it was with the early AIDS activists. Which raises a question for the musicians engaged with Song of Contagion: what do "champions" sound like?
PROJECT UPDATE:
After a summer researching various options, we've come up with a shortlist of disease stories (.docx) that we think provide good illustrations of some of the key factors affecting which diseases are considered "important". (There's a one-page summary sheet here(.docx).) AMR is not currently on the list — somewhat ironically, because it is the issue Song of Contagion epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani is working on right now. So that might change…
We expect to gather anyone who's interested together to start writing lyrics the first week in November — please contact Sheelah (sheelah@btinternet.com) if you'd like to join in. Soon after that, it's over to the musicians — we welcome all-comers with open arms. There will be a few music workshops and rehearsals over the winter, ahead of a performance in spring 2017.
Author Elizabeth PisaniPosted on September 26, 2016 September 25, 2016 Categories Art / Science, Progress So FarTags AMR, Antimicrobial resistance, Champions, Jim O'Neill, Sally Davies
The HIV band plays on… and on….
My personal Groundhog Day is the biennial AIDS conference, bustling with passionate activits, hopeful researchers, singing orphans. This year's conference (held in Durban in July) had a greater sense of deja vu than most. After a brief blip of "End of AIDS" optimism at the 2014 conference, even Bill Gates was brought back down to earth: biomedical solutions alone won't work.
Actually, with 17 million people on effective treatment, we're much closer to the end of AIDS than we imagined when the AIDS circus last came to Durban 16 years ago. We're just not any nearer to the end of HIV. As deaths drop off, the number of people living with the virus rises. If you take a squint at the graphs that the musicians are "playing" in the video below, you can see the shape of AIDS deaths (dramatic peak, steep decline — the data are for the US) but also the steep and continuing rise in cost of treatment. Not shown, but even more dramatic, is the rise in the number people who have HIV and are sexually active. So despite the fact that effective treatment reduces the chance of passing on the virus, the number of new HIV infections added to the global pool each year is not falling: around 2.1 million new infections in 2015.
The video comes from Song of Contagion's very first music workshop; we've moved on a bit since then but it does look like HIV will be one of the disease stories we'll be taking on. (By "we", I mean the talented musicians shown in this introduction to the incomparable Grand Union Orchestra.)
You can see from their final performances how much work composer Tony Haynes puts in to each piece. Here, with a cast that includes public health nerds and some fine HIV researchers, you can see the very first seeds of what I hope will eventually turn in to one of those classic Grand Union performances:
Author Elizabeth PisaniPosted on August 2, 2016 Categories Art / Science, Progress So Far, VideosTags Elizabeth Pisani, Grand Union Orchestra, HIV, HIV/AIDS, music workshop, Song of Contagion, Tony Haynes
How would PJ Harvey sound out Contagion?
Photo credit: REX via The Telegraph
Yesterday, I had the great pleasure of seeing PJ Harvey perform. Her most haunting song was probably "Dollar dollar", a song about a boy begging at traffic lights in Kabul. It wells up out of an experience that clearly moved this thoughtful singer deeply when she was collaborating with photographer Seamus Murphy. But for me, standing under London sky pregnant with thunder, it was a song about Nairobi. I could feel my low grade irritation with matatu drivers rising; I could feel my foot hovering over the brake of my tiny (tinny) Jimny jeep; I knew that I hated being confronted with hungry kids with no prospects in life and with a pot of glue hanging from their top lip; and I knew that I hated myself for hating it.
It reminded me that music can prompt emotions (and express injustices) that are at once so universal and so deeply personal. The very emotions that swept me when I first saw the Grand Union Orchestra performing Undream'd Shores, and that led to the Song of Contagion collaboration.
Think we should invite PJ Harvey to contribute some disease music to Song of Contagion?
(Originally published by Elizabeth Pisani on June 13, 2016)
Author Elizabeth PisaniPosted on June 25, 2016 June 26, 2016 Categories Art / Science
Music really IS ecstasy
I spent Sunday hanging out with the good musicians of CM Sounds, who showed us what the sitar and the sax could look like if you turned them into musical graphs. What they looked like, in fact, was Ecstasy, when you put it through a mass spectrometer. So many parallels between music and well-being…
(Originally published by Elizabeth Pisani on May 25, 2016)
Body of Songs
Another great project linking music and health. Body of Songs, also funded Wellcome Collection's parent organisation, sent musicians into the lab and the clinic, to observe scientists working with various organs of the body, sometimes in gory, surgical detail. When they'd recovered their cool, each musician wrote a song. You can find a taste of them here:
Author Elizabeth PisaniPosted on June 25, 2016 June 26, 2016 Categories Art / ScienceTags Body of Songs, Wellcome Trust
If Smiling Made a Noise…
Data visualisation seems so old hat these days. Even Wired magazine is begining to ask "What does it sound like?" rather than "What does it look like?" This week, they're talking about the sound of smiling. (http://www.wired.com/2016/04/smiling-made-noise-itd-sound-like/) But what are we going to call this sounding of stats? "Data audiolisation" sounds uglier than the sound of frowning…
The Museum of the Mind
Raving Madness at Bedlam Museum
Yesterday, during a visit to the thought-provoking http://museumofthemind.org.uk, I was reminded both how far we have come in the treatment of mental illness since the 'Bedlam madhouse' was first opened, and how far there is still to go.
At the entrance to the new museum stand the two statues which used to sit over the gates to the old hospital: "raving madness" and "melancholy".
At the time, these just about covered the range of diagnoses for mental illness. Many centuries later, we have a far better understanding of all the ways in which the mind can be 'broken', as well as the different manifestations of mental illness. Today, for example, is #WorldAutismAwarenessDay; although first coined by a Swiss psychiatrist in 1911, the word autism wasn't used in its current sense until the 1940s, long after the building that houses the latest iteration of the Bethlem Hospital was built.
It made me wonder: how has the divvying up of mental illness into infinitesimally narrow diagnoses affected those who live with it? Have some types of mental illness or their manifestations become more 'acceptable' than others? How much has that been affected by Pharma's desire to sell drugs that people have to take for all eternity?
(Originally published on April 3, 2016)
Author Elizabeth PisaniPosted on June 25, 2016 June 26, 2016 Categories Art / ScienceTags autism, Bedlam, Bethlem Museum, mental illness, Museum of the Mind
'Unfolding' molecular clouds in space
We're not the only ones trying to use science to make great art. Check out this work by Japanese artist Ryoichi Kurokawa, who's working with astrophysicists at the Research Institute into the Fundamental Laws of the Universe (CEA Irfu, Paris-Saclay) to unfold the birth and evolution of stars.
http://www.creativeapplications.net/news/molecular-clouds-in-space-ryoichi-kurokawas-unfold-at-fact/
Author Elizabeth PisaniPosted on June 25, 2016 June 26, 2016 Categories Art / ScienceTags astrophysics, Kurokawa, visualisation


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|introduction = '''Reflection''' is the twelfth and final track on [[Prince]]'s 28th album [[Album: Musicology|Musicology]], but ten months prior to the album's initial release (in concerts and as a download), '''Reflection''' was offered as an mp3 download to members of the [[NPG Music Club]], during the club's third year, after being streamed during the club's opening week. In April 2004, a video of the performance by [[Prince]] and [[Wendy Melvoin]] of this track on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tavis_Smiley_Show The Tavis Smiley Show] (their first performance together in many years) was made available for download through the [[NPG Music Club]].
|introduction = '''Reflection''' is the twelfth and final track on [[Prince]]'s 28th album [[Album: Musicology|Musicology]], but ten months prior to the album's initial release (in concerts and as a download), '''Reflection''' was offered as an mp3 download to members of the [[NPG Music Club]], during the club's third year, after being streamed during the club's opening week. In April 2004, a video of the performance by [[Prince]] and [[Wendy Melvoin]] of this track on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tavis_Smiley_Show The Tavis Smiley Show] (their first performance together in many years) was made available for download through the [[NPG Music Club]].
Initial recording dates for the studio version are unknown, but it is likely that the track was recorded in early 2003. No recording studio information is given, but it is likely that the track was recorded at [[Paisley Park Studios]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota.
|date = Early 2003 (assumed)
|studio = [[Paisley Park Studios]],<br>Chanhassen, MN, USA (assumed)
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Redhead Stepchild < < < Non-Prince Songs All Prince Songs Unreleased Songs > > > Release It
from the album Musicology
Performer: Prince
First Released: 29 May 2003 - NPG Music Club mp3 download
Album(s): Musicology
Writer(s): Prince
Producer(s): Prince
Live Appearances
First and last live appearance:
12 February 2004, The Tavis Smiley Show, KCET Studios, Hollywood, CA, USA
25 June 2007 (a.m.): Roosevelt Hotel, Blossom Room, Hollywood, CA, USA
Performed regularly on tour:
Performed occasionally in shows:
Reflection is the twelfth and final track on Prince's 28th album Musicology, but ten months prior to the album's initial release (in concerts and as a download), Reflection was offered as an mp3 download to members of the NPG Music Club, during the club's third year, after being streamed during the club's opening week. In April 2004, a video of the performance by Prince and Wendy Melvoin of this track on The Tavis Smiley Show (their first performance together in many years) was made available for download through the NPG Music Club.
Initial recording dates for the studio version are unknown, but it is likely that the track was recorded in early 2003. No recording studio information is given, but it is likely that the track was recorded at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota.
Recording Information
Early 2003 (assumed) Paisley Park Studios,
Chanhassen, MN, USA (assumed) Tracking
Recording Personnel
Prince - all vocals and instruments
Released Versions
Reflection 3:04 NPG Music Club mp3 download
Video Versions
Reflection (Live) 2:46 NPG Music Club .wmv download Live 12 February 2004, The Tavis Smiley Show, KCET Studios, Hollywood, CA, USA
Broadcasts/streaming (only)
Reflection (Live) 2:46 Delayed live performance broadcast Live 12 February 2004, The Tavis Smiley Show, KCET Studios, Hollywood, CA, USA; same as video above
Musicology album
NPG Music Club
Although Prince released two albums and multiple downloads during 2003, this track is the only studio track to include vocals released during 2003.
This track has only been performed live twice; both times (in 2004 and 2007) it was performed by Prince with former bandmember Wendy Melvoin on acoustic guitar.
The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)
Redhead Stepchild < < < All Songs Unreleased Songs > > > Release It
Retrieved from "http://www.princevault.com/index.php?title=Reflection&oldid=234940"
Released Songs (Prince)
Songs (Prince)
Recorded 2003


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Liverpool v Tottenham Betting Tips
Liverpool's perfect record came to an end last weekend, but they'll be hoping to get back to winning ways against Tottenham at Anfield. Jurgen Klopp's men were 1 match away from equalising Man City's record of 19 consecutive wins, however, they couldn't capitalise when facing the worst Manchester United side of the last 30 years. For Spurs, they've struggled to live up to the high expectations they've set themselves over the last couple of years. Sitting 7th in the table, and suffering embarrassing defeats in the Champions League and Carabao Cup, it looks like another trophyless season in North London.
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Liverpool's Recent Form
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Coming into their match against Man United, the majority of pundits expected Liverpool to extend their Premier League winning record to 19 games. Instead, United put together their best performance in weeks to ensure that Liverpool couldn't match Man City's record from 2 seasons ago. Manchester United looked comfortable from the outset and took a surprising lead after 36 minutes. Victor Lindelof took the ball from Divock Origi, fairly in our opinion, before unleashing Daniel James down the right. James played a perfect cross in for Marcus Rashford to deftly touch the ball past Allison. VAR was called into action again when Sadio Mane was judged to have handled the ball on his way to scoring just before the break. United looked like keeping the lead, but Adam Lallana scored a late equaliser in the 86th minute, his first goal in over 2 years. As good as Liverpool have been going forward this year, they have to stop conceding soft goals. They've only kept 4 clean sheets from 15 games in all competitions, after keeping clean sheets in over half their games last year.
Liverpool to win and BTTS @ 33/20
Tottenham Hotspur - 21/4 To Win
Tottenham's Recent Form
DWLWLD
Last Time Out For Tottenham
Tottenham continued their disappointing run with a 1-1 draw against Watford. Spurs were poor from the get-go and found themselves 1-0 down after just 6 minutes. Daryl Janmaat's early cross found Abdoulaye Doucoure at the back post, who easily slotted the ball into the bottom corner. VAR was again caused the main controversy in this match. Both sides were denied penalties but as we've seen with VAR, the decisions could have gone either way. The introduction of Heung Min Son at half time changed the game for Spurs. The South Korean immediately putting them on the front foot, but it took until the 86th minute for Spurs' pressure to pay off. Dele Alli capitalized on a Watford mix up at the back, controlling the ball with his chest before sliding on the half volley to finish into an empty net. The game finished 1-1 with Spurs failing to beat the side at the bottom of the table. With Harry Kane misfiring, Cristian Eriksen's mind elsewhere and Heung Min-Son not fully fit, it's hard to see where the goals are going to come from for Spurs.
Spurs To Score Under 0.5 Goals @ 8/5
Where's The Value Bet?
Liverpool have mainly dominated the last 10 games between the two sides. They have managed to win 5 of those games and have only been beaten once. That includes winning the last 2 Premier League matches, as well as the Champions League Final back in May. So if history is to repeat itself, Liverpool are likely to win. But at such short odds, we've looked at Bet UK's other online betting markets to see what else we could add. In the 28 combined games between these two sides, there have been 98 goals - an average of 3.5 per game. With Liverpool having a point to prove and Tottenham all out of sorts, over 3.5 could be a good shout ahead of this weekend. So, we've gone for Liverpool to win and over 3.5 goals @ 43/20 in what should be an exciting game at Anfield.
Liverpool To Win And Over 3.5 @ 43/20
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Ann attended Fordham University, where she earned a bachelor of arts in communication and media studies. At Fordham, Ann was an anchor and the student executive producer for Fordham Nightly News. She interned with CBS This Morning, MSNBC's Morning Joe, and WPIX 11 News.
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CDC letter: McLaren Flint Hospital has spread Legionnaires' disease for 10+ years
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ABC12 uncovered a letter saying the hospital has been a source of the bacteria since 2008.
Attorney expects approval of $641.2 million Flint water settlement next month
Updated: Dec. 21, 2020 at 6:12 PM EST
Federal Judge Judith Levy held a public hearing on the proposed settlement Monday before making her decision.
A judge last summer allowed the Ottawa County sheriff's office to exhume remains that were buried at a cemetery in Blendon Township. The woman's body, likely 16 to 22 years old, was discovered by hunters more than 50 years ago.
The funding is from the state and the Michigan Economic Development Corp. through the Michigan Small Business Survival Grant Program.
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In December, a grand jury indicted Adam Dean Fox, Barry Gordon Croft Jr., Ty Gerard Garbin, Kaleb James Franks, Daniel Joseph Harris and Brandon Michael-Ray Caserta on a conspiracy charge that carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.
Experts from several universities, the park service and the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa had planned to assess how an effort to rebuild the wolf population is affecting the ecosystem.
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One person is in custody after two men were found dead at a home in Adrian.
A Michigan man was found dead inside a West Virginia home, police said.
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South Australian Police have confirmed the SA real estate industry is currently the target of cybercriminal behaviour, extending to Conveyancers.
The transfer of real property naturally means the transfer of large sums of money – for most people the most you'll ever pay or receive. Cybercriminals are aware of this and have stepped up their game in recent months to intercept correspondence and change bank account details to be able to redirect electronic fund transfers.
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News roundup: Van der Sande cleared; pro racing on Zwift
Due to paperwork error, van der Sande is cleared of doping charges. Pro Continental riders race on Zwift. USA Crits announces D1 teams.
January 23, 2019 VeloNews.com
Photo: Luc Claessen/Getty Images
Here's your News roundup for Tuesday, January 23. This is our way of keeping you up to speed on all of the stories circulating in the world of pro cycling.
Van der Sande cleared after prednisolone positive
Tosh Van der Sande (Lotto-Soudal) has been cleared by the UCI after a positive test for prednisolone, a corticosteroid, at the Six Days of Gent in November, Het Nieuwsblad reports.
The 28-year-old Belgian ingested prednisolone via a nasal spray, Sofrasolone, which is allowed in competition when declared in doping control paperwork. According to Het Nieuwsblad, Van der Sande mistakenly listed the wrong nasal spray on his form at the time of the test. He was notified of his positive test in December, at which point his Lotto Soudal team suspended him from competition.
Van der Sande's lawyers explained the circumstances surrounding the test and the paperwork error in his defense to the UCI. Het Nieuwsblad reports that the UCI deemed the explanation satisfactory and has closed the case with no penalty for Van der Sande.
Just happy this is over ! Thanks to everyone who supported me… I've been training hard and will be ready for season 2019 ! #unnecesarryhectic #newgeneration #clean pic.twitter.com/2a4NcSzInd
— Tosh Van der Sande (@Toshvds) January 23, 2019
Zwift's KISS Super League begins with opening round of racing
Zwift's new competition series, the KISS Super League, got underway on Wednesday with its opening round of men's racing. Ian Bibby of the Madison-Genesis team won the inaugural event.
The nascent esports league features 15 teams on the men's side, including four UCI Pro Continental teams and nine Continental teams. Eight teams, six of them professional squads, will contest the women's series, set to begin in February.
"Our role is to deliver something brand-new to cycling. By gamifying racing we will create entertaining coverage and introduce an added dimension to bike racing," said Zwift's Craig Edmondson. "Team-based competition, power-ups, course 'know how' and the differences in racing physics makes Zwift a new battleground for competition."
USA Crits announces 19 D1 teams for 2019 series
USA Crits has finalized the line up of teams that will contest the series this season, with a total of 19 D1 squads across the men's and women's divisions.
As in 2018, a prize purse will be on offer for the top-performing riders and teams through the season-long competition. Races will again be streamed online at USACRITS.tv.
"We are creating a model that works. We need defined teams racing across America with storylines fans can follow and solutions to allow them to watch and keep up with their favorite teams," said USA Crits director of development Scott Morris via a press release.
Men's D1 teams:
Aevolo Cycling
Arapahoe-Hincapie p/b BMC
ButcherBox Cycling
FAVE Cycling
Legion of Los Angeles
Marc Pro Cycling p/b Gym One
Palmetto State Medical Cycling Team
Support Clean Sport-Guttenplan Coaching
Team Clif Bar Cycling
Texas Roadhouse Cycling Team
Women's D1 teams:
Colavita-Bialetti Women's Pro Cycling Team
DNA Pro Cycling Team
Gray Goat Mobile-Bullseye Total Media Women's Cycling Team
Hagens Berman-Supermint
LA Sweat
Levine Law Group p/b Huseby.com
Point S Auto-Nokian Tyres Cycling Team
Sho-Air-TWENTY20
Wolfpack p/b Jakroo
303Project unveils 13-rider roster
The Colorado-based 303Project team has announced its full roster for the 2019 season with 12 returning riders and one newcomer.
Johann van Zyl, who raced at the WorldTour level with Dimension Data for the past three years, has signed on to race with 303Project in 2019. The 27-year-old South African joins seven Americans, two Mexicans, a Spaniard, a Costa Rican, and an Australian in the team, now in its second year at the UCI Continental level.
The squad will hold its first training camp of the season in early February in California.
Rally announces UnitedHealthcare as title partner
Rally Cycling has become Rally UHC Cycling for 2019. The American team has been sporting the new name on its jerseys since the start of the new year, but officially announced the change on Wednesday.
Now in its 13th year, the squad that started as the Kelly Benefit Strategies team first added Rally Health as a title partner for the 2016 season. Rally, a digital health platform, is owned by the UnitedHealth group, meaning that two separate pro cycling teams raced under that umbrella until the end of 2018, when the long-running UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling folded. That leaves the newly minted Rally UHC as the lone team to fly the UnitedHealthcare banner at the Pro Continental level in 2019.
The team kit remains predominantly orange for 2019 but will incorporate UnitedHealthcare's logo and blue accents for the new season.
USA Crits
UCI announces 2023 team licenses
Former WorldTour pro Nicolas Roche grumbles at UCI Gravel Worlds startline system


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The burglar and the skylight: another debunking that isn't
Bizarro-Overlawyered is upset about the fact that a legislator, over twenty years ago, mentioned a lawsuit involving "a burglar [that] fell through a skylight and injured himself only to recover thousands of dollars from the owner of the skylight," and points to this MS Word account of the case of Bodine v. Enterprise High School to debunk the tale. Those dastardly reformers, misrepresenting the facts once again! (Of course, there are several thousand posts on Overlawyered over the last seven years, and not a one before today mentions this case, so it's hardly central to the reform movement. It doesn't appear on the ATRA website, either. But why split hairs when there's a chance to demonize reformers?)
Except if one actually goes to the document, buried within a lot of rhetoric criticizing reformers for mentioning the Bodine lawsuit, we learn: Ricky Bodine was a 19-year-old high-school graduate who, with three other friends (one of whom had a criminal record), decided the night of March 1, 1982, to steal a floodlight from the roof of the Enterprise High School gymnasium. Ricky climbed the roof, removed the floodlight, lowered it to the ground to his friends, and, as he was walking across the roof (perhaps to steal a second floodlight), he fell through the skylight. Bodine suffered terrible injuries to be sure, though one questions the relevance: if the school is legally responsible for burglars' safety, it doesn't matter whether Bodine stubbed a toe or, as actually happened, became a spastic quadriplegic. But I fail to see what it is that reformers are supposedly misrepresenting. A burglar fell through a skylight, and sued the owner of the skylight for his injuries. Bodine sued for $8 million (in 1984 dollars, about $16 million today) and settled for the nuisance sum of $260,000 plus $1200/month for life, about the equivalent of a million dollars in conservatively-estimated 2006 present value.
In other words, a burglar fell through a skylight, and blamed the skylight's owners for his injuries; because the law permits such suits, and because the law does not compensate defendants for successful defenses, Bodine had the ability to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars from taxpayers for injuries suffered in the course of his own criminal behavior. Bodine's only hope of recovery is the law's rejection of proximate cause as prerequisite to liability. Assemblyman Alister McAlister, the Democratic legislator who used the story to push for reform, described the facts correctly. McAllister didn't mention that Bodine was 19, but so what? He didn't mention that Bodine was 6'1″ and a waiter, either, and all three facts are irrelevant. Lilliedoll accuses McAlister of falsely claiming that the legal theory was "failure to warn," but that's hardly an inaccurate description of a duty-to-trespassers theory: the alleged duty could have been fulfilled by posting visible warnings to trespassers of the dangers of traversing the roof.
Were the skylights safe? Perhaps not; there had been other accidents (all involving trespassers) at other schools, though not long enough before Bodine's accident for a school bureaucracy to have time to react. But, for most people's sense of justice, that is hardly relevant: Bodine had no business being on the roof in the first place. In the words of anti-reformer Justinian Lane, "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime."
If this is the best the anti-reformers can do to point out "distortions" in the reform movement, I'd say we're doing a pretty good job. (Earlier in the series: Sep. 17; Sep. 18). And once again, the only people misrepresenting anything are the supporters of the litigation lobby, who once again fail to honestly engage with the reform position in their efforts to rebut it.
Update: David Nieporent notes in the comments:
Ted, you missed the best part of the skylight anecdote. In another post on Tortdeform, Cyrus Dugger approvingly cites a long passage from a book review of an anti-tort reform book. That passage also attempts to debunk the skylight story. But here's how it describes it:
The actual case involved a teenager who was on the roof of a school and, by the best accounts we can find, was trying to redirect a light because they were trying to play basketball. And while he was on the roof he stepped through the skylight, which had been painted over black. So this may have been a trespasser, but it wasn't a burglar. (Emphasis added.)
That's right: in this account which is trying to debunk myths about the case, cited approvingly by Tortdeform, it turns a thief into a guy "trying to redirect a light."
Filed under: Cyrus Dugger, personal responsibility, skylights, third party liability for crime, trespassers
By Ted Frank
At least the school didn't face criminal charges, as happened in the Netherlands when a burglar (in the dark, after forcing the front door of a house) stepped on a skateboard in the hallways, tripped, and broke his ankle (or lower leg).
Homeowner was woken by the noise, called the police, and was promptly arrested and charged with illegally restraining a person and causing bodily harm,
The burglar was treated and released.
Homeowner spent several month in prison, and of course came home to find his property completely emptied.
By J.T. Wenting
Ted, you missed the "fact" that the criminal couldn't tell the difference between roof and skylight! This fact alone makes it the school's fault.
Or so says that genius over there.
I can't really tell WHO said it, with that indented, shaded text box.
By Pat W
(He was trying to "redirect" it in the same way John Dillinger was trying to "redirect" a bank's assets, I guess.)
By David Nieporent
I will have a comprehensive post/response on this issue in the next week or so.
By Cyrus Dugger
I think I'm going to be sick. I just read a few of the posts on tortdeform.com. It's like these people are so removed from reality that they can't even think straight.
Once again, I am reminded of why I generally dislike the plaintiffs' bar.
By Piotr Reysner
If you do, it will be the very first "comprehensive" post I have seen there. Your previous attempts have all fallen far, far short.
By Deoxy
An award in such a case would reward a crime or an infraction of trespassing if there was no intent to carry away the lamp. Compensating a tort taking place in a crime is against public policy in many states.
If the school had not settled, that argument could have been made at preliminary pleadings, at trial, and on appeal.
This case has ambiguity because the defendant settled an unjust claim and prevented the decision of a tribunal.
If a claim is unjust, it should be disputed. Even if the legal defense costs exceed the potential payout, prevailing prevents that subject matter from becoming a lawyer cottage industry. Expensive resistance is an investment in the prevention of future bogus claims.
By Supremacy Claus
and we read further in and we start to get to the "aha" moment….
In 1968, the California Supreme Court in Rowland v. Christian had written, "a man's life or limb does not become less worthy of protection by the law nor a loss less worthy of compensation under the law because he has come upon the land of another without permission…
reasonable people do not ordinarily vary their conduct depending upon such matters." Nonetheless, the defendants filed a motion for summary judgment arguing that that the plaintiff's status as a trespasser barred recovery as a matter of law. On June 6, 1983, Judge Redmon denied the motion for summary judgment, holding that the issue of whether the skylight was a dangerous, defective, and hazardous condition on public property was a question of fact for the jury.
In contrast, certain elements of the Bodine case made it less likely that the jury would deem Ricky's accident an extraordinary occurrence. First, the defendants faced the possibility that because the skylights were hidden, the jury would be incensed that the high school and the school district had endangered other young people who were not engaging in crimes and would seek to punish them by awarding a substantial verdict to Ricky. The defendants admitted in their responses to the plaintiff's interrogatories that they were aware that students and other young people commonly went onto the gymnasium roof to retrieve sports equipment. In Larry's deposition, he reported hearing that "another kid fell through the same place Rick fell through, I don't know how long after." Moreover, any doubt as to whether the defendants recognized the specific risk that someone could fall through one of the painted-over skylights was resolved by the fatal accident at Shasta High less than a year earlier. The defendants undoubtedly recognized the risk of going to trial and having the jury learn that they had failed to take even minor steps such as posting warnings on the roofs or placing a wood barrier over the skylight following Paul Schuur's fatal fall.
Right. So, we cover up the fact that the school was criminally negligent, given that they knew students were up there regularly and also knew of the previous fatality, and we play up the fact that the person who WAS grievously injured happened by chance to be up there for illegitimate purposes, and presto-change-o, we've sufficiently distorted the facts to whip up the public's emotions to get them to support surrendering vital rights that protect them from corporate abuses.
Ah, the evil genius of Corporate Amerika.
By Coppo
Coppo correctly notes that California law permitted trespassers to sue their victims, even when they are in the midst of committing a crime. Which is precisely what reformers were complaining about.
He or she does ignore the argument why the school was not "criminally negligent," and that the settlement was for about 6% of the initial demand, suggesting that it was a purely extortionate nuisance settlement, rather than one reflecting wrongdoing by the school. And while there is an accusation of "distorting" facts, he or she fails to identify a single such distorted fact. But the misspelling of the last word of Coppo's comment is certainly telling.
Mr Frank, are you sure California law still allows trespassers to sue property owners if they are injured
while committing a crime?
The McAllister bill in the California Legislature was introduced to prevent those lawsuits. It was called Assembly Bill 1 in about 1985.
That bill was bottled up in a state Senate committee chaired by my Senator, David Roberti, (D-Los Angeles/Burbank). I joined with a number of local residents and flooded Senator Roberti's office with phone calls, letters and personal visits for several weeks. Eventually, the Senator's committee moved the bill to the Senate floor, where it passed and was signed into law.
Nobody should underestimate the perfidy of the California Legislature, however. I would not be surprised if those scoundrels quietly passed a measure to gut or undo Assembly Bill 1.
By Mike W
California law does not permit injury lawsuits against property owners for any injury occuring during the course of or after the commission of a felony. The statute then defines 25 felonies, of which burglary and robbery are included.
Mike W is right. AB 200 was passed in 1985 and is still part of the California Civil Code. 847 reads:
"847. (a) An owner, including, but not limited to, a public entity,
as defined in Section 811.2 of the Government Code, of any estate or
any other interest in real property, whether possessory or
nonpossessory, shall not be liable to any person for any injury or
death that occurs upon that property during the course of or after
the commission of any of the felonies set forth in subdivision (b) by
the injured or deceased person.
(b) The felonies to which the provisions of this section apply are
the following: (1) Murder or voluntary manslaughter; (2) mayhem;
(3) rape; (4) sodomy by force, violence, duress, menace, or threat of
great bodily harm; (5) oral copulation by force, violence, duress,
menace, or threat of great bodily harm; (6) lewd acts on a child
under the age of 14 years; (7) any felony punishable by death or
imprisonment in the state prison for life; (8) any other felony in
which the defendant inflicts great bodily injury on any person, other
than an accomplice, or any felony in which the defendant uses a
firearm; (9) attempted murder; (10) assault with intent to commit
rape or robbery; (11) assault with a deadly weapon or instrument on a
peace officer; (12) assault by a life prisoner on a noninmate; (13)
assault with a deadly weapon by an inmate; (14) arson; (15) exploding
a destructive device or any explosive with intent to injure; (16)
exploding a destructive device or any explosive causing great bodily
injury; (17) exploding a destructive device or any explosive with
intent to murder; (18) burglary; (19) robbery; (20) kidnapping; (21)
taking of a hostage by an inmate of a state prison; (22) any felony
in which the defendant personally used a dangerous or deadly weapon;
(23) selling, furnishing, administering, or providing heroin,
cocaine, or phencyclidine (PCP) to a minor; (24) grand theft as
defined in Sections 487 and 487a of the Penal Code; and (25) any
attempt to commit a crime listed in this subdivision other than an
By James N
I don't understand why everyone is pointing out that a bill was passed in 1985 to serious-prevent felony trespassers from suing for injuries incurred in the commission of their crimes when the whole post is about the lawsuit that led to that law being passed.


Happy sigh. I came home from working at our office space for the afternoon and was met by an excited Silas who had been eagerly looking forward to my return so we could play another game of baseball together.
I'm so grateful for sunshine, beautiful weather, and for breathing room in my life again after a full few weeks. It's amazing what those three things do for my soul!
After baseball, I'd promised Kathrynne I would make some Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins for her. I haven't made this recipe in years, so I'm surprised she even remembered it!
But she brought it up earlier in the day and talked about how she wished I would make it again. We happened to have some bananas that were on their last leg, so today was the perfect day to make it!
Kathrynne's still feeling pretty miserable and running a fever and very little food sounds good to her, so I was especially happy to hear that she was hungry for something.
I know that there are a lot of amazingly staged photos of recipes abounding on cooking blogs all over the internet. And I have no problem with these beautiful pictures. In fact, I find them inspiring, artistic, and mouth-watering.
But we all know that Pinterest-perfect, magazine-worthy pictures and backgrounds aren't really real life.
So tonight, I snapped some very un-staged pictures while I helped the kids make the muffins. Looking at these pictures, I'm reminded that this is the stuff that memories are made of. The messes, the every day moments, the time together.
And to me personally, these pictures are much more meaningful than the most artistic food photograph out there. Because these are my people and we are living life together — dirty dishes, spills, cluttered countertops, and all!
Mix dry ingredients together. Beat egg in a small bowl. Stir in the mayo. Add to the flour mixture. Stir until just moistened. Stir in bananas.
Spoon batter into 12 greased or paper-lined muffin tins. Sprinkle with chocolate chips and/or nuts.
Bake in a preheated oven at 375 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes or until lightly browned.
I found this when I was browsing on Pinterest the other day. I realized that we happened to have all of the ingredients on hand for it, so Silas and I spent a little time in the kitchen making it today.
This boy. He melts my heart! I love how much he loves to help and serve. He has the sweetest heart and is always looking for ways to bless his mama.
Silas did all of the stirring and mixing and then filled up the muffin tins — with very little help from me.
Here's the link to the recipe we used: .
Overall, we were happy with the end result. For the healthful ingredients they have in them, they were fairly delicious.
I probably would have loved them more if they didn't have almond flour as their base, though. I keep telling myself I'm going to learn to like almond flour, but so far, I just can't quite get over the texture and taste of it in baked goods. It just always tastes a little too nutty and off to me.
Is anyone else like that? Maybe I'm just weird!
I do, however, think this batter would be really yummy made in the waffle iron and slathered with butter. Or, topped with some kind of frosting. Otherwise, these were a little on the dry and bland side to me.
Have you cooked or baked anything this week? Have any new must-try recipe links to share?
I "Trim Healthy Mama-fied" the Blueberry Crisp recipe from Bread & Wine a few weeks ago. Since then, I've made it a few more times to tweak it and get it just right.
Many of you asked me for this recipe, so I'm happy to share it. Please note that if you're not familiar with the Trim Healthy Mama way of eating, this recipe might just look really weird to you… and it might even have a few ingredients you've never heard of before.
Mix all ingredients together, except for the berries. Sprinkle half of the oat mixture on the bottom of an 8×8 pan. Sprinkle berries over. Sprinkle the remaining oat mixture on top.
Bake at 400 degrees for 30 minutes or until bubble and lightly browned. Serve warm or cold.
Please note: This has a higher fat content than a typical THM E meal. You can either eat just a small amount for a meal, eat it as part of a Crossover meal or snack, or use twice as much fruit to the crumb topping ratio.
Honestly, I was not expecting this recipe to be as delicious as it turned out to be. I thought it would be yummy, but I didn't expect it be one of those major winner recipes.
Jesse was out with Kaitlynn at her ice skating practice last night and when he walked in the door, his first remark was, "That smells so good." And it did.
Jesse kept commenting as he was eating it last night, "This is such a great recipe." I totally agreed.
What surprised me most of all was that our kids loved it, too. They even asked if they could please eat the leftovers today.
It's a simple recipe and it's packed with good-for-you ingredients. If you wanted to kick it up a notch, you could add some hot sauce or salsa to it.
I also think it'd be great served with some crushed tortilla chips, cheese, sour cream, and sliced avocado. If you have a family who isn't really into meatless meals, you could add some cooked chopped chicken.
Saute onion, garlic, pepper, carrots, and celery in oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Stir occasionally and cook until softened. Add chili powder and cumin and saute for a few more minutes.
Stir in broth and beans and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 25 minutes. Stir occasionally.
Remove a few cups of the soup and puree in a blender. Stir pureed soup back into the soup, season with salt and pepper, and simmer for about 5 more minutes.
What are your favorite soups for fall and winter? Any recipes you think we must try? I'd love to hear!
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Working as a medical assistant can be an interesting job if you are curious about the medical industry. This is a position that allows you to work with patients without having to take on the responsibilities associate with a nurse or doctor. You are able to help ensure that patients are comfortable and that they understand the procedure. Many times, you may get to work along with the doctor when they are performing exams and other procedures, which will allow you to get a better understanding of how these scenarios work and some of the elements involved in treating patients. This would be a good position for someone who is very outgoing and likes interacting with patients.
A medical assistant is responsible for assisting in the examination and treatment of patients when working together with a doctor. They interview patients and check their vital signs, as well as record information on their charts. They may be required to draw blood and collect the samples from patients, though this generally requires additional training. They are responsible for preparing the treatment rooms for examination of patients. This is a position which requires a high school diploma and a medical assistant certificate. It should also require around two years of experience in the field before the individual is able to apply to almost any position related to this and gain acceptance.
The median salary for a medical assistant is $31,600.