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How the Spurs defense can be scary again
Allowing fewer threes will get the Spurs defense back to the top of the league.
By CharlieOCharles@CharlieOCharles Oct 3, 2019, 10:41am CDT
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For the first time since before Tim Duncan arrived 22 years ago, the Spurs struggled to get stops last season. The reasons for their porousness aren't particularly surprising. A lack of roster continuity combined with an overall talent shift to more offensive-minded players led to a disjointed effort from a group with limited upside on that end.
Their 20th ranked defense gave up 110.5 points per 100 possessions, a number that somehow still fails to capture just how easily opponents were able to score. The team's poor performance on that end led to some rare sights at the NBA level, including a triangle and two defense that ultimately didn't work.
The most obvious issue was perimeter defense. While conventional wisdom holds that, for the most part, wings and especially bigs bring much more defensive value than perimeter players, the 2018-19 Spurs put that notion to the test. The inability of the majority of the team's guards to defend their position led to constant defensive breakdowns. Opposing guards scored 20 or more points on the team 64 times last season, the most in the league.
Bad defense on ball handlers tends to lead to penetration, a weakness that plagued the Spurs all season long. They allowed nearly 47 drives per game, 5th most in the league, and although they managed to hold the ball handler on drives to near a league average scoring rate, they allowed the 2nd most assists off drives, which underscores just how bad the team was at defending the drive and kick.
*Data available here (derived from tracking data at nba.com/stats).
In fact, not fouling was pretty much the only thing the Spurs managed to do well on opposing drives. But the penetration itself wasn't the biggest problem. As mentioned, they held ball handlers to a near league average scoring rate on drives, in large part due to the fact that they were so stingy with giving up free throws. The problem was bad help and poor discipline by the rest of the perimeter defense.
Recognizing that they couldn't contain penetration, either individually or as a team, the Spurs spent much of the season searching for a way to keep opposing ball handlers out of the middle of the floor, frequently deviating from their typical scheme in hopes of hitting on something that worked.
Since many of the team's perimeter defenders were unable to effectively fight through or lock and trail over screens, that meant more switching and going under screens, even in situations where the Spurs would typically seek to deny the screen entirely. While those adjustments generally had the intended effects, the adjustments themselves, as well as continued poor execution on the ball and in help, led to a cascade of threes.
Unsurprisingly, that resulted in a dramatic shift in the shot frequency of the Spurs' opponents by range, per Cleaning the Glass:
Spurs defensive shot frequency 2016-19
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Not only did teams shoot more threes against the Spurs than ever before, they did so at a 36.5% clip, a little above league average. While there's a lot of noise in opponent 3PT%, it's pretty easy to figure out why the Spurs saw a jump in both opponent 3PT frequency and accuracy.
After giving up the 9th fewest wide open threes in 2017-18, they plummeted to 19th in 2018-19. That jump worked out to about 4 more wide open threes per game. That's 4 more of one of the most valuable shots in basketball. Just turning those 4 shots back into midrange attempts, even uncontested ones, would've made the Spurs an average defensive squad.
However, this season should be much different. The Spurs will have their All Defensive 2nd Team point guard back, meaning they should be able to keep an elite perimeter defender on the floor at all times. That means instead of blow-bys, missed switches, and uncontested threes, there will be a lot more of this:
And this:
Dejounte Murray, in particular, will have a dramatic impact on the team's defense. In 2017-18, Spurs' opponents turned the ball over more, took fewer shots, and earned fewer free throws per 100 possessions when he was on the court. His ability to rebound and generate steals without fouling reduces the other team's opportunities to score, and that's without even considering how he closes driving and passing lanes, clogging up the offense and forcing more difficult shots.
The Spurs also added DeMarre Carroll in the offseason and should be giving some minutes to Lonnie Walker IV as well. DeMarre is a solid, reliable wing defender, and even though Lonnie has nowhere near the defensive pedigree of Dejounte or Derrick White, he has the physical tools to be an outstanding defender and should already be better than the rest of the guards on that end of the court.
These additions should mean far less penetration to begin with and less of a need to help off shooters when it does happen, which will lead to more contested floaters and midrange shots, which the Spurs' defense is designed to allow. It should also mean much better rotations and close outs, extending possessions, and forcing opposing teams deeper into the shot clock.
The Spurs will still be playing some limited defenders, but with a healthy roster, they won't be forced to play more than two at a time. With Dejounte and Derrick in the lineup, there's no reason to play Patty Mills and Bryn Forbes together, and with DeMarre able to fill the nagging hole on the wing they were never able to solve last season, there will be no need to play DeMar DeRozan and Marco Belinelli together, either. Throw in minutes for Lonnie, and it becomes clear the Spurs could easily have two plus defenders on the perimeter for 48 straight minutes.
They will still likely have to make some concessions on defense to keep the offense running, so Patty or Bryn will almost certainly spend a handful of minutes on the court with DeMar or Marco. But that's a far cry from needing to spend 1250 minutes with 3 of the 4 on the court, giving up over 113 points per 100 possessions, like they did last season.
If the team's perimeter defenders can clean up their act — staying with their man on and off the ball, cutting out the overzealous help, and rotating just a half step quicker — the Spurs should be able to knock their opponents' three point frequency back down to a more acceptable level. More importantly, if they can cut back the number of wide open looks they give up, preferably closer to 2017-18 levels, it'll go a long way towards helping reestablish the dominant defensive presence that has been a hallmark of the team for the last 22 years.


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Sunward Steel Buildings, Inc., manufactured and provided this pre-engineered steel office building for a buyer in New Castle, Delaware, in May of 1997.
While it has changed hands since its construction, the large, multifunctional metal building now serves as the primary headquarters for Electrical Integrity, a family operated & top-ranked electric services provider. This leading company offers available 'round-the-clock care for client emergencies with their 24/7 emergency customer service guarantee. Thomas Gargalas and his team provide services to a wide range of residential, commercial and industrial clients throughout Delaware, Maryland and parts of Pennsylvania.
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Throughout the spacious steel corporate building are a 4,200 square foot warehouse area with its own entrance and a manager's office, (2) full-size delivery bays, and a separate office area complete with an office, a lunch room and two full bathrooms. The building's open floor plan makes it particularly versatile and suitable for numerous uses, and the property also features 14 parking spaces, including one handicapped space.
Other notable features and customizations include (3) 3070 framed openings equipped with (3) 3070 walk doors and several enhancements intended to prevent moisture-related damage, among them a 270 linear-foot eave gutter and 150 linear feet of downspouts. Additional configurations made in compliance with building code requirements and out of respect for Delaware's distinct seasonal climate patterns include an 80-mph wind load and a 35-psf snow load.
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Economical, sustainable and easy to configure based on a buyer's unique needs, pre-engineered metal corporate buildings have become increasingly popular over the years as entrepreneurs and business owners search for places they can call their own. This particular building offers evidence of just how versatile and adaptable prefabricated buildings are, as each new buyer has reconfigured the space to adapt it to his or her own needs.
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He is a second grader studying at a local inclusive school in Yogyakarta, and while I was often skeptical of inclusive schools, I was quite impressed with their initiative to take on environmental education for elementary students this time. It was going to be his second presentation on environment, with forest in particular.
My nephew shrugged and said that he's already understand the basics of the subject, mentioning that it will only be centered around no littering and the importance of recycling. For him it was boring.
It hit me right there—that though for us the elders environmental damage and climate change only goes around to be discussed with scientific and third-person view, these little kids that we adore are the ones that will receive the direct impact for our technocratic-oriented industrialism acts. And they need to be made aware to prepare themselves for that, even from early ages.
I told him that forest are not just important, but they themselves, along with every elements of the nature are highly needed to support the sustainability of human lives. I told him of greenhouse gases, global warming, its eventual consequences of global climate change with the increasing sea levels and the possibility that Indonesia will be submerged in the future. I told him that papers, plastics, gadgets, and most of what we consume and use in everyday lives can affect these changes. I told him of the plastics islands formed in between oceans that will not be able to be decomposed in a long time and how it was consumed by other organism and become toxins, damaging the ecosystem. I told him that it would be so sad if humans were to die in an unnatural way, suffering because we were not cautious enough, and might even end up in a scale big enough to be called Judgement Day.
And then we began imagining the dreaded future and talking about the ideal ways for a human to die.
Saying that my nephew is smart is a disgrace—he is beyond smart. Sometimes, I found myself talking to him about the concept of life and death, religions, space, and everything else. He would then ask me questions of things beyond what adults can comprehend, or rather try to comprehend. His favorite by nature is, of course, why.
I used to ignore the facts on environmental damage and overall climate change—because honestly, it won't happen in near future, so why would it affect me?
But then I realized that maybe we shouldn't do it for ourselves, or even for human race, but rather for our children, nieces, nephews, grandchildren, who are not very well aware of the fact that they will live in suffering in the future for our mistakes.
I don't want to see my nephew struggling to keep alive in the future with his house being flooded and his food contaminated.
I want to see a world in which my nephew can grow up to be healthy, happy, and courageous enough to pursue his dreams without having to worry about heavy rains and droughts.
It breaks my heart to imagine him living in a torn-down world.
If you love them, you should at least try to lessen their burden, including the future ones.
This conversation reminded me of my favorite piece from Prince EA a few years back. I still, to this day, consider this to be one of the most sincerest way in communicating climate change. I can still feel the chills listening to his words. And as I am now, I can empathize with him. Sorry.


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Nokia to transform Finland's nationwide smart grid for better support of renewable energy
Nokia is installing a mission-critical IP/MPLS network to enable Fingrid to digitalize and automate the management of its national power grid.
The new smart grid will be better able to seamlessly integrate variable renewables such as solar, wind and micro-generation from bioenergy.
The Nokia network will also support all current and legacy grid control applications including SCADA, teleprotection and current differential protection.
Espoo, Finland – Nokia today announced that it has been selected by Fingrid, Finland's national transmission system operator, to build an IP/MPLS network to support the digital transformation of its national electrical grid. Fingrid will use the network to operate 120 high-voltage substations and control 14,600km of power transmission across the country. The new smart grid is needed to manage the growing adoption of variable distributed energy resources, such as wind, solar and micro-generation using bioenergy.
As one of Europe's leading users of renewable energy, Finland's power transmission network is constantly being upgraded in order to meet the changing character of energy generation. Solar and wind generation, for example, require a much more agile and automated grid to manage the variable, two-way power flows by automatically ramping and balancing inputs and outputs. This calls for new distributed energy resource management systems, which need a highly reliable, secure communications system to monitor, control, coordinate, and manage distributed energy assets.
Nokia's mission-critical IP/MPLS network solution has been deployed by transmission system operators worldwide — supporting these new grid applications along with other critical ones, such as supervisory control and data acquisition systems (SCADA), teleprotection and current differential systems, which demand stringent control of latency and jitter. This project is in partnership with NetNordic, a longstanding Nokia channel partner.
Kari Suominen, head of ICT for Fingrid, said: "We are committed to realizing the potential of renewable energy generation and are embarking on an ambitious transformation of our national grid to make it smarter and more flexible. Nokia's IP/MPLS solution plays an important role in the digital transformation of our distributed energy resource management by providing us with a reliable, secure and agile communications system that has the potential to support all of our power management needs."
Kamal Ballout, Global Vice President of Energy Practice for Nokia, said: "Fingrid joins our long list of transmission system operator customers who are modernizing their networks and transforming their businesses by embracing more distributed and renewable energy sources. Through continued investment in our IP portfolio, we are able to meet the specific requirements of today's energy market, helping them evolve their infrastructure for a more sustainable future."
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An exciting new retail banking experience for ANZ retail branches nationwide.
ANZ Banking Group commissioned Blue Sky to undertake a full re-design of their retail banking experience. Blue Sky led the creative design development and working with a multi-disciplinary team, undertook the process of step change to re-invent ANZ banking branches. The process involved in-depth research, stakeholder reviews and development of insights which formed the basis of the new generation branch designs.
Customer needs were paramount in developing the new design solutions to ensure the resulting branch designs were intuitive, easy to use and allow customers to undertake their banking tasks in the best possible way. New technologies, smart design and an in-depth understanding of the operational aspects of ANZ retail banking, allows the new branch designs to function in a way that maximises efficiency and fulfills the ANZ brand promise for customers.
In-depth study and analysis of customer flows and branch zoning, allowed the branch designs to be easy to navigate and space efficient. Careful consideration of customer touch points and technology deployment improved the functionality of ANZ branches and provided a cutting edge, next generation banking experience for customers.
The detail design and development was undertaken based on a scalable, modular, Kit of Parts model to allow mass procurement of branch fit-out components. This not only provided value and efficiency to ANZ, but ensured that the branch designs were consistent from a customer experience standpoint. In collaboration with the documentation partner WMK Architecture, advanced BIM modelling was utilised to ensure all design documentation is consistent and controlled.
To facilitate the national rollout of the design to a large number of new branches nationwide, a detailed document of Design Standards was produced. These standards ensure future branches can be rolled out in a fast, consistent manner and core design principals can be maintained at branches across Australia.
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Allan Srsa, age 48. Beloved son of Joyce (nee LeNassi), father Ronald. Loving brother of Sandi Fink (David). Cherished nephew of Barbara and Ollie Kay. Devoted uncle of Matthew (Aurora), Aubrey (Matt), Jessica, Rachael, Nathaniel and great uncle of Benjamin and Flynn Fink. Loving friend of Kelly. Beloved companion of his cat Chewy.
Allan graduated from St. Joseph High School. For the past 15 years Allan lived in various places on the west side, prior to that he lived in Wickliffe. Allan bowled on several leagues; he was an avid bowler and he bowled a PBA sanctioned 300 game. He loved to cook and his love for cooking continued with his work for various restaurants as a manager and in franchise development. He enjoyed playing cards with friends and trips to casinos. Allan's greatest enjoyment was being with his family.
In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, 1730 Mt. Carmel Dr., Wickliffe, OH 44092. Mass of Christian Burial Saturday, February 9th at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church at 11 AM. Interment private. Family will receive friends to pay tribute to and celebrate the life of Allan at the MULLALLY FUNERAL HOME located in the DeJOHN-FLYNN-MYLOTT FUNERAL HOME OF WILLOUGHBY HILLS 28890 CHARDON ROAD, (between Bishop Rd. and Rt. 91) FRIDAY 4-8 PM.
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Abzorb has won a new contract to deliver an integrated network cabling system and IP security at a new secondary school development in Milton Keynes.
Working with NWP, Abzorb designed a network cabling system to facilitate the school's voice and data network, site security, building management and access control, as well as offering a flexible environment that meets the IP security needs of the school now and in the future.
The network consists of 2212 category-6 user outlets, providing ample connectivity for each student, fed from four server rooms that are connected by fibre optic cabling and house nine cabling and equipment cabinets.
The Abzorb network also controls a 27-camera CCTV system and a secure fob-controlled building access system. Integrating the entire system through the network allows better visibility across the site and improved building management controls.
Kev Hall, director at Abzorb said: "The risk landscape is rapidly evolving in the education sector, online as well as physically on-site, and providing a safe learning and working environment is at the heart of every schools' charter. Putting in place cost-effective and flexible security delivers the duty of care to staff and pupils and allows teaching staff to focus on doing their jobs."
Tim Keyes, Managing Director at NWP said: "We have been pleased to appoint Abzorb to provide the network cabling and CCTV systems for this high specification installation. Security is high on the Ofsted priority list and every school's security must be reviewed on an ongoing basis in keeping with current guidelines. School security needs change continually and must be kept under constant review."
Writing on the Milton Keynes Council website, Zoe Nolan, Cabinet Member for Children and Families at Milton Keynes Council comments, "This project is a key part of the council's continued investment in the growth of Milton Keynes and its plan to deliver; supporting improvement in our education and skills sector, ensuring a local school place for every child and a non-selective model of education."
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Parents often ask me how to change their children's behavior. There are often several factors that contribute to children's misbehaviors. And, each of these factors influence how a parent can best respond. Let me list just four factors that might influence children's misbehavior…and a good response to each one.
Children may misbehave out of a desire to confirm the limits. Children need limits. They will often test the limit or work to confirm that limit in their own mind. They might do this by misbehaving, looking at a parent as they prepare to misbehave, telling on another child, or simply asking for confirmation. These actions either confirm or test limits the parent has already established. Parents often see this behavior as an effort to assert power. However, children need firm limits to establish a sense of safety. Engaging in this "limit testing" behavior is like leaning on a fence. It confirms the strength of the fence and so the ability of the fence to keep us safe.
o Remember, it is your children's job to test the limits. Our job is to consistently and respectfully reinforce the limit. Explain the limit beforehand. Remind them of the limit. Explain alternative behaviors allowed within the limit. Allow natural consequences to occur when they break the limit.
Children may misbehave out of a desire to gain attention. Children need to know that their parents are available to them. They want to know their parents delight in them and watch over them. When they feel threatened in any way or fearful of something inside them or around them, they will seek attention. This could be as simple as feeling overwhelmed and threatened by all the sights, sounds, and traffic of a store…or by watching their parent giving attention to a person on the other end of the telephone. When children perceive a threat or feel some fear, they will often "act out" to gain their parents' attention and confirm their availability.
o Remember, your children need to know you delight in them, watch over them, and remain available to them. Respond to their material and emotional needs. Comfort them in the face of overwhelming situations. Help them understand their feelings and teach them healthy ways of responding to personal fears. Remain responsive to their needs.
Children may misbehave out of a desire to feel adequate. Childhood is full of challenges…and comparisons. Children compete with each other. They also get judged by their performance every day in school. It is easy in the midst of the demands of home (chores), school (classroom behavior, homework, tests), and friends (how to fit in), to experience feelings of inadequacy. In the midst of these challenges, children need recognized and reaffirmed. If they do not receive that recognition they may misbehave to get it.
o Remember, your children need to know that your acceptance and love is not based on their performance ability in sports or academics. Instead, encourage them to simply do their best. Teach them that achieving to the best of their ability brings personal satisfaction. Allow them to explore their interests and to invest in areas they find most motivating. Take a personal interest in those activities yourself…it will show your children how much you value them and their interests!
Children may misbehave out of a desire to communicate a priority. This often comes across like anger or revenge. We tend to become angry about those things we find important. The same is true for our children. Perhaps they misbehave because they are angry and feel unheard or unimportant or neglected. If you search under the angry behavior you may find the priority of wanting to be heard, viewed as important, or paid attention to. Of course, the misbehavior miscommunicates this priority and need. We have to teach them how to communicate this priority in a way others, including us, can better understand it.
o Remember, your children have feelings too. Emotions are not bad in themselves. They are opportunities to connect and learn about one another. We do want to teach our children how to express their emotions in a way that will help others understand and respond. In addition, when our response is directly in response to their need or priority, we take a big step in reducing their anger. When a person feels heard, anger often dissipates.
Knowing why our children misbehave or what influences their misbehavior will give us insight into how to respond to that misbehavior. Look past the behavior into the deeper influences. As you address these underlying factors over time you will see your children's behavior improve.


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Ferguson tense ahead of grand jury decision
Police stand guard during a demonstration outside the Ferguson Police Department, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. Ferguson and the St. Louis region are on edge in anticipation of the announcement by a grand jury whether to criminally charge Officer Darren Wilson in the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
FERGUSON, Mo. >> Crews erected barricades around the building where a grand jury has been considering whether to indict the Ferguson police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, even as a grand jury decision seemed unlikely this weekend.
Tension has been mounting in Ferguson and elsewhere in the St. Louis area, with many speculating that the grand jury's decision would be announced Sunday. That seemed increasingly unlikely, although there was a noticeable uptick in preparations.
At Shalom Church in nearby Florissant, the Rev. Freddy Clark alluded to the pending grand jury decision Sunday morning, telling the mostly black, interdenominational congregation that "justice will be served" whichever way the decision goes because God will take care of it.
"None of us are pleased about what happened," said parishioner James Tatum. "Whatever the verdict is, we have to understand that's the verdict."
Downtown STL Inc., a St. Louis civic group that promotes downtown businesses, told members in an email Saturday that the grand jury will reconvene Monday to continue deliberating whether charges are warranted against Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson in the Aug. 9 fatal shooting of Brown.
The email did not explain how the group knew the information, and a spokeswoman declined comment. Ed Magee, a spokesman for St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch, didn't respond to several messages Saturday.
The Brown family's attorney, Ben Crump, said Saturday that he hadn't heard a decision had been reached and that prosecutors had promised to tell him when that happened.
Wilson is white and Brown, who was unarmed, was black. There have been many demonstrations in the months since Brown's death, including some that were violent. On Saturday, authorities set up barricades around the Buzz Westfall Justice Center in Clayton, where the grand jury has been meeting.
Barricades also went up in the shopping center parking lot on West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson where police set up a makeshift command center immediately after Brown's death.
Several dozen protesters marched in Ferguson on Saturday evening, praying, playing music and chanting slogans including, "No justice, no peace" and "Mike Brown means, we've got to fight back." Cars stopped and drivers honked, slowing traffic.
Brown's mother, Lesley McSpadden, spoke to protesters through a bullhorn and urged people to be careful.
"Don't agitate them, and don't let them agitate y'all," she said. "I don't want nobody getting hurt. We're all willing to do something, but I don't want nobody getting hurt."
Later, several protesters gathered outside of Ferguson's police station, where they blocked South Florissant Avenue. Officers warned the crowd not to impede traffic, and the demonstrators moved to the sidewalk before eventually spilling back into the street. Two people were arrested for unlawful assembly, said St. Louis County Police spokesman Brian Schellman.
Several businesses in Ferguson and Clayton have boarded up their windows, and some residents admitted to feeling anxious.
Jamie Freeman of Ferguson, 38, a registered nurse and mother of four, said she was especially concerned since her 20-year-old son lives in the neighborhood where Brown was shot.
"I just hope it stays peaceful," Freeman said of protests that will follow the grand jury decision. "We all have human emotions, but there's a way to do things, and violence, you can't get peace from violence."
The FBI has sent nearly 100 additional agents to Ferguson to help law enforcement agencies, according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss the FBI plans.
Salter reported from St. Louis. Associated Press writers Andale Gross in Florissant and Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report.
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As an AHRQ researcher, I get to dive into topics that matter to the American people using one of the most comprehensive health care databases—AHRQ's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, or HCUP. HCUP is the Nation's most complete source of hospital-based data, including information on hospitalizations and emergency department (ED) visits for all patients, including those paid by government and private insurance as well as the uninsured.
Learning about data trends to help improve lives can mean swimming through very scary waters. Take the opioids crisis, for instance. There has been widespread attention given to opioid-related deaths in the media. A New York Times article recently estimated that nearly 60,000 people died from using an opioid drug in 2016. On the other hand, the New York Times also wrote that opioid prescriptions have declined for the first time in two decades. These articles illustrate two very important aspects of the opioid crisis. But what about the people who don't die or are still being prescribed too many pills? And what about those who turn to heroin or other illicit opioids and overdose, but survive thanks to a visit to the hospital or emergency department (ED)?
It's hard to defeat a problem like the opioid epidemic until you know how bad the problem really is and what subgroups are affected disproportionately. That is what AHRQ is uniquely suited to provide—data on opioid hospitalizations and ED visits for specific population subgroups from our HCUP Fast Stats database. HCUP allows Secretary Price, other HHS agencies, policymakers, and frontline providers to best define the challenge, and ultimately, begin to measure how opioid addiction treatment and reduction efforts are working.
Men and women were hospitalized at virtually the same rate nationwide in 2014—about 225 hospitalizations per 100,000 people. That's a 75 percent increase for women between 2005 and 2014, compared to only a 55 percent increase for men.
An infographic shows that in three-quarters of all States with available data, women had a higher rate of an opioid-related hospitalization than men in 2014.
However, men were still more likely to make opioid-related ED visits in 2014.
Individuals 25–44 years had the highest opioid-related ED visit rate in every State. But people 65 and older had the largest increases in opioid-related hospital stays and ED visits.
In July, we plan to release another statistical brief on opioid-related hospitalizations and ED visits by patient residence and income. This may also be a disturbing read, as the data will show, for example, that opioid-related ED visits increased the most in the lowest income communities from 2005 to 2014.
While none of these data are very encouraging, it is critical to have a better idea of why women are being hospitalized more than men or why 25–44 year-olds are visiting the ED more than other age groups, especially since we have 2015 and 2016 data for many States in the database and we are continuing to see the trend line for hospitalizations and ED visits going up.
That's why I am heartened by Secretary Price's request for additional funding for opioid abuse research. Recently, the Secretary awarded more than $70 million in grants to help prevent opioid overdose deaths. About $28 million of the grant money will go to medication-assisted treatment (MAT). AHRQ is investing about $12 million over 3 years in grants to explore how best to deliver MAT opioid abuse in rural areas and remove barriers to using MAT. Also, the recently enacted 21st Century Cures Act authorized the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to award $485 million in grants for opioid abuse prevention, treatment, and recovery.
All these grants show HHS' dedication to halt the opioid epidemic. AHRQ will continue to play an important role monitoring the national and State data for opioid-related hospitalizations and ED visits—because that's our job.
Dr. Elixhauser is a Senior Researcher at AHRQ. She has worked with HCUP data for more than 20 years and is the author of more than 200 articles and reports.


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That's a quote from Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, an excellent book that applies design thinking to life decisions, particularly career choices. Yet the quote could actually apply to any step you want to take.
The book is based on a course the authors taught at Stanford University. Bill Burnett was the head of the Stanford Program in Design, and Dave Evans was teaching at UC Berkeley, including a course called "How to Find Your Vocation." They combined their interests and experience to use design thinking - "a method for practical, creative resolution of problems and creation of solutions" - to help students design their life after university.
Throughout the book, they advocate the use of prototypes.
As an example of what happens when you don't prototype, they told the story of Elise.
After a long career in Human Resources, Elise was ready for something different, and she knew exactly what it would be: an Italian deli and cafe that served "wonderful coffee and authentic Tuscan food." She had visited Tuscany and loved the food and cafes there, and she dreamed of creating something just like it.
She liked the idea of an Italian deli and cafe, but didn't know what she didn't know. She simply never imagined the problems hiring staff, managing inventory, and maintenance of the store.
Who is related to that goal?
How can I contribute to them to deepen the relationship?
I was reading Designing Your Life in Germany, while working with an engineering firm there. We have adapted Circles to help employees develop a prototyping mindset. The company wants more ideas and more efforts to implement them. I'm trying to help them have more conversations and build deeper relationships.
Whether your idea is for a new product, a new process, or a new Italian deli, sometimes the best question isn't what to do, it's whom to talk to about it. When you offer your genuine attention and vulnerability in exchange for information, the things you learn can change your idea - and your life.


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Social Economy in China and the World
Thirty-years of economic transformation has turned China into one of the major players in the global capitalist economy. However, its economic growth has generated rising problems in inequality, alienation, and sustainability with the agrarian crises of the 1990s giving rise to real social outcry to the extent that they became the object of central government policy reformulations.
Ngai Pun, Ben Hok-bun Ku, Hairong Yan, Anita Koo
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Degrowth and Environmental Justice: Decoupling
Based on a paper by Jason Hickel and Giorgos Kallis Decoupling refers to the separation of economic value creation material extraction and pollution. Ecological limits pose a challenge to growth-led development and the low historical and predicted rate of decoupling suggests that long-term sustainable growth-led development is impossible.
Jezri Krinsky
blobMetropolis
Sufficiency Politics Map
The Sufficiency Policy Map is an online tool for initiatives, political actors, organisations and individuals. It provides recommendations, strategies and communication tools for realizing projects and policy around the topic sufficiency. Sufficiency projects have the aim to reduce one's own ecological footprint.
Dominik Zahrnt, Angelika Zahrnt
Institute for Ecological Economy Research
A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow
In this Ted Talk, Oxford economist Kate Raworth argues that instead of prioritizing the growth of nations, the world should rather prioritize meeting the needs of all people living on the planet within ecological limits.
Degrowth, Happiness and and wellbeing
How should we discuss welfare when understanding the role of growth and the viability of Growth-led development? One option is to look at subjective happiness. This provides an anti-materialistic view which may superficially appear more compatible with significant reductions in consumption in order to remain within safe ecological limits.
Reintroducing Macroeconomics
This lively introduction to heterodox economics provides a balanced critique of the standard introductory macroeconomic curriculum. In clear and accessible prose, it explains many of the key principles that underlie a variety of alternative theoretical perspectives (including institutionalist economics, radical economics, Post Keynesian economics, feminist economics, ecological economics, Marxist economics, social economics, and socioeconomics).
Cohn, Steve
Introductory Course: "Degrowth: What?!"
This is a recording of an introductory course held at the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Federico Demaria from the French-Spanish organisation Research and Degrowth gives an introduction to degrowth. The presentation is based on the introduction to the book "Degrowth. A vocabulary for a new era." and discusses definitions of degrowth, degrowth literature, debates, history and further research to be done.
Federico Demaria
The Extraenvironmentalist
The Struggle for the Commons
Silvia Federici illustrates the potential of the concept of the commons as way of resistance and reorganization of the society in times of social injustice and ecological crisis. Amongst others, she outlines the role of women in the commons movement. Federici explains why she regards the theory of the tragedy of the commons as unfounded and why she considers Marx's concept of primitive accumulation as still appropriate to describe current events of deprivation, such as land grabbing.
Kontext TV
Marxist Political Economy
After completing the module, participants should have knowledge and understanding about the theory of Critical Political Economy and its basic methods. They should be able to apply central concepts to analyse critical questions regarding the embeddedness of economic relations within broader social, political and ecological relations.
Anna Weber
MINE - Mapping the interplay between Nature and Economy
The MINE website explores the interplay between nature and economy. Focusing on such fundamental concepts as time, thermodynamics, evolution, homo politicus and justice, a new outline of economic activity emerges within nature. The dominant approach of Mainstream Economics, which considers nature as a subsystem of the economy, is thus replaced by a broader and more integrated framework. The visual map and its links between concepts provides an orientation. The visitor can approach the content from their own starting point and follow their own path to discovery. Each concept starts with the historical background and moves on through theory and practice. The research behind MINE began in the 1970s at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, in an interdisciplinary group spearheaded by Professor Malte Faber, including scientists from economics to mathematics, physics and philosophy. The research has contributed to the field of Ecological Economics. MINE is directed at students, scientists and decion-makers. More on http://nature-economy.de/faq/
Prof. Malte Faber et al.
Climate, carbon and class
The British historian, Adam Tooze, highlights how the climate crisis is not just an environmental or ecological problem but also a political economy challenge.
Chartbook Substack Newsletter
Einführung in die Ökologische Ökonomik
Das Lehrbuch "An Introduction to Ecological Economics" von Robert Costanza, John Cumberland, Herman Daly, Robert Goodland and Richard Norgaard ist ein Meilenstein im Hinblick auf eine verständliche Darstellung der Integration von Ökologie und Ökonomie zur neuen Disziplin der Ökologischen Ökonomik.
Thiemo W. Eser (Hrsg.), Costanza, Robert ; Cumberland, John H. ; Daly, Herman E. ; Goodland, Robert J. A. ; Norgaard, Richard B.
Lucius und Lucius
Policy Implications of Recent Advances in Evolutionary and Institutional Economics
In a changing world that has been shaken by economic, social, financial, and ecological crises, it becomes increasingly clear that new approaches to economics are needed for both theoretical and empirical research; for applied economics as well as policy advice.
Claudius Grabner, Torsten Heinrich, Henning Schwardt
Rethinking Economics - An Introduction to Pluralist Economics
Economics is a broad and diverse discipline, but most economics textbooks only cover one way of thinking about the economy. This book provides an accessible introduction to nine different approaches to economics: from feminist to ecological and Marxist to behavioural.
Liliann Fischer, Joe Hasell, J. Christopher Proctor, David Uwakwe
The Social Costs of Business Enterprise
Karl William Kapp (1910-1976) was one of the forefathers of Ecological Economics. Influenced namely by the Frankfurt School, Institutionalist Economics and Pragmatist Philosophy, he contributed to debates on the social costs of production, economic planning, sustainable development and epistemology. I
Sozialökonomik - Geschichte und Gegenwart eines Wissenschaftskonzepts
Die Sozialökonomik ist 1. die historische Fachbezeichnung einer integrierten Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaft (vgl. Einzelwissenschaft, Disziplin) und 2. ein kontextabhängiger Ausdruck für komplexe Zusammenhänge von Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft (vgl. Sozialökonomie bzw. Sozioökonomie).
Frank Fehlberg
Institutionalist Economics
Institutional economics focuses on the role of social institutions in terms of laws or contracts, but also those of social norms and patterns of human behaviour that are connected to the social organisation of production, distribution and consumption in the economy.
The importance of a Land Degradation Neutrality approach to achieving Sustainable Land Management
This essay deals with the concepts of Sustainable Land Management (SLM) and Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN).
Pınar Topçu
Sustainable Prosperity
On July 2020 ZOE-Institute published a unique platform for transformative policymaking: Sustainable Prosperity. Building on insights from new economic thinking the platform provides knowledge about ideas, arguments and procedures that support effective promotion of political change. It aims to strengthen change makers in public policy institutions, who are working on an ambitious green and just transition. As such, it provides convincing arguments and policy ideas to overcome the reliance of economic policy on GDP growth
The Governance of Markets in Challenging Times: From Classic Authors to New Approaches
This course provides future change makers in public and private sectors with a comprehensive overview on the structures and actors that shape markets.
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Hertie School of Governance
Dependency in Central and Eastern Europe - Self-reliance and the need to move beyond economic growth
In this essay, the author takes a critical perspective on the pursuit of growth as the solution for providing for environmental sustainability and economic stability in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Drawing from the framework of dependency theory and presenting brief insights into European core-periphery relations the author then argues for the implementation of an alternative strategy to development that is built around the concept of self-reliance.
Simon Schoening
Making Many Maps: Why We Need an Interested Pluralism in Economics and How to Get There
Introduction Economics is by necessity a multi paradigmatic science Several theoretical structures exist side by side and each theory can never be more than a partial theory Rothschild 1999 Likening scientific work to the self coordinating invisible hand of the market Michael Polanyi cautioned strongly against centralized attempts to steer …
Patrick Leon Gross
Patrick Léon Gross
Who cares? A convergence of feminist economics and degrowth
This essay suggests to bring together two aspects of economic thought which so far have developed largely separately: degrowth and feminist economics. In this strive, the concept of care work and its role in feminist economics will be introduced and the downsides of the commodification of care work will be discussed. Subsequently, contributions to the discussion on the (re)valuation of care work will be taken into account.
Jannis Eicker, Katharina Keil
Post-Keynesians focus on the analysis of capitalist economies, perceived as highly productive, but unstable and conflictive systems. Economic activity is determined by effective demand, which is typically insufficient to generate full employment and full utilisation of capacity.
Towards a practice of fare-free sustainability
How can we establish new institutions and practices in order to use fare-free public transport as a beacon for sustainable mobility and a low-carbon lifestyle? The author of this essay elaborates on how practice theory and institutional economics can help to answer this question.
Roxana Erath
Marxian Political Economy
Marxian Political Economy focuses on the exploitation of labour by capital. The economy is not conceived as consisting of neutral transactions for exchange and cooperation, but instead as having developed historically out of asymmetric distributions of power, ideology and social conflicts.
Kritische Evaluation der Bewertung von Umwelt in neoklassischen Makromodellen
Hannes Vetter hat sich in Rahmen der Schreibwerkstatt "Varieties of Mainstream Economics?" mit der Evaluation der Bewertung von Umwelt in neoklassischen Makromodellen auseinandergesetzt.
Hannes Vetter
Reimagining the world of (care)work: the case of Cargonomia
In this essay the authors argue for a wider concept of care work that includes community building, civic engagement and environmental activism. On the basis of the case of Cargonomia, a grassroot initiative in Budapest, they show that such a wider concept of care work could allow for different narratives that promote sustainable lifestyles with a milder environmental and social impact on the planet and its communities.
Ágota Csoma, Orsolya Lazányi
Mit Wachstumsunabhängigkeit zur nachhaltigen Digitalisierung
Die Zukunft der Ökonomie wird digital sein. Daher ist es wichtig, schon heute die richtigen Weichen zu stellen und die digitale Infrastruktur mit einer Nachhaltigkeitstransformation zu verknüpfen. Ein Beitrag von Kora Kristof und Steffen Lange.
Kora Kristof und Steffen Lange
Institutionenökonomik
Der Fokus der Institutionenökonomik liegt auf der Rolle von sozialen Institutionen, wie Verträgen, Gesetzen oder auch Verhaltensweisen, in der Produktion, der Verteilung und dem Konsum sowie auf den aus ihnen resultierenden sozialen Beziehungen.
Economic theory, methodology, and secure foundations
Approaching the law of nature that determines all forms of economy. The bulk of economic theory addresses the economic process by setting out on a catalogue of aspects, seeking the laws in the aspects and hoping to get together a reliable view of the whole.
Dr. Alec A. Schaerer


Earlier this week, Facebook announced a big change to its promotion guidelines. Businesses and brands can now host contests and promotions right from their Timelines, with no third-party applications required. (Of course, there are some limitations, and apps are still useful, especially for gathering and organizing data that are useful for marketing, and for helping to maintain consistent branding.) The change is especially exciting for small business owners who want to run basic Timeline contests.
To celebrate the change, the ShortStack team came up with five awesome Timeline contest ideas.
If your business or client is planning to launch a new product, use a Facebook Timeline contest to get feedback (or first impressions) in advance. In your post, share a photo of your soon-to-be-released product and ask users to share their thoughts in a comment as a way to win a prize.
This Timeline crowdsourcing-style contest is a great way to drive lots of comment entries, and it's also a smart way to get valuable feedback about your products from your fans. The feedback you receive might even encourage your brand to make some beneficial adjustments to the products before you take them to market.
The simpler you keep your Timeline contests, the better. Users don't have to think — they just have to click "like," and they're entered. The really cool thing about this kind of Timeline contest is that if you use a tool (e.g., ShortStack's new Comment/Like Importer feature) to collect Facebook IDs, you can create a large custom audience, and then run highly targeted ads on Facebook.
If you own a brick-and-mortar store, host a Timeline contest to promote your in-store promotion. Upload a photo that gives details about your deal or promotion (for example, you're having a Labor Day Weekend sale). Next, ask users to like and comment on your post to enter to win. An appropriate prize would be a gift card to your store.
This kind of Timeline contest idea is great for rewarding one (or a few) of your loyal Facebook fans and getting the word out about your store's sale, thus bringing in some extra foot traffic and sales.
For businesses wanting to grow their mailing lists before the holiday season begins, it's best to host a Timeline contest and build a complementary contest app with an entry form.
In the copy for your Timeline contest, drive users to your Facebook app by sharing a link to it. Also, provide an incentive so users will want to go to your app. For example, users who enter into your contest via your app can receive extra entries, giving them a better chance to win your company's awesome prize. We did this earlier this week when we first rolled out our new feature.
The answer is: No. According to Facebook's new promotion guidelines, pages cannot ask fans to share to be entered into their Timeline contests — only likes and comments can be used as entries. A solution to this is to use a Facebook app that has sharing features.
Remember: Facebook still does not allow pages to require users to like their page in order to enter contests — only status updates. This means that non-fans that see Timeline contests in their News Feeds can also enter.
The only way to really drive page likes with a Facebook contest or promotion is to host it using a fan-gated app.
Did anyone get a Timeline contest out yet? I'd be curious to know what you learned, what sorts of data you were able to gather, and what you might do differently next time.
Jim Belosic is CEO of ShortStack, a self-service custom app provider.


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Realism, Genre, and the Literary Superhero: A Review of Considering Watchmen: Poetics, Property, Politics
By Mitch Murray
Hoberek, Andrew. Considering Watchmen: Poetics, Property, Politics . New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2014.
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's Watchmen , in all likelihood the most famous American superhero comic of the past three decades, has been considered extensively already. But, while Time magazine's inclusion of Watchmen on its list of the 100 best English language novels and Zack Snyder's 2009 film adaptation have made Watchmen into a household name, Andrew Hoberek maintains that Watchmen has been passed over by many comics scholars because of the superhero genre's uneasy relations with so-called art comics. He also contends that scholars have justified Watchmen 's serious consideration via a series of methods from literary criticism (though Hoberek perhaps relies too much on Sara J. Van Ness's "Watchmen" as Literature: A Critical Study of the Graphic Novel to make this point). In response to current Watchmen and literary criticism, the gambit of Hoberek's title—and the real methodological principle of the whole book—is a rigorous and ongoing process of considering Watchmen , not just in relation to its own aesthetic and socio-political situation, but also in relation to our own.
Hoberek has Watchmen in mind as something of a keyword—following the tradition of Raymond Williams, for whom difficult words illuminate ongoing or emergent change and processes—for the contemporary moment and the state of contemporary American fiction. His book's three sections on the poetics, property, and politics of Watchmen culminate in a coda on contemporary American fiction, where I would say Hoberek's truer interests ultimately lie. Hoberek departs from what he sees as mainstream and formalist academic approaches to Watchmen in favor of one guiding question: "Is it literature?" According to him, comics are not print literature, nor are they fine art, so applying literary criticism or art history methodologies to the comics medium is not necessarily useful. So, rather than throwing a series of methodologies at Watchmen to see what sticks, Hoberek's approach transcends inquiries that would squabble over its status as literature, art, or mass culture. As he insists, asking whether Watchmen is literature demands we articulate what is at stake in calling something literature in the first place and "forces us to attend to all the elements of Watchmen 's form, circumstances of production, and institutional status" (29). While it seems settled that Watchmen is a masterpiece of the comics medium, Hoberek's discussion of property and politics alongside Watchmen 's poetics addresses and provokes far more interesting questions: what does Watchmen allow us to understand about our present moment, and what precisely can we do with Watchmen now?
Watchmen stands out among comics because, as Hoberek points out in the book's first section on poetics, it was one of the first works in comics modernism, a period Hoberek traces back to the 1980s and works like Moore's Swamp Thing and Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns . Hoberek understands literary modernism as "a turn to formal innovation spurred by dissatisfaction with the conventions of an ossified realism." (39). But, unlike literary modernism, the breakthrough in comics did not arise out of dissatisfaction with the constraints of realism. Moore and Gibbons, he claims, were dissatisfied with an ossified genre. Since the superhero genre was already inherently unrealistic, they broke with convention by creating a realist superhero comic. Their antecedent, in Hoberek's account, is none other than Virginia Woolf, whose "modernist experimentation in fact serves ends of a more precise psychological realism" (39), an influence we can see even before Watchmen when Moore revised Swamp Thing in 1984's "The Anatomy Lesson." Moreover, Hoberek argues, in representing the multidimensionality of individual experience that is characteristic of modernist literature and art, comic book modernism was "able to go beyond either literature or visual art alone" (44) because the medium allows for the simultaneity of text and multiple images. Fredric Jameson suggests that the paradox of modernism is that realism, insofar as it is about "the hitherto unreported, unrepresented, and unseen," (476) is modernism's first form. This means, "a modernist realism would begin to emerge when the traditional methods of narrative representation (novelistic realism) are used and then undermined" (479). In the case of Watchmen , the traditional superhero narrative is undermined by just such a modernist realism in the comics medium. This break from convention will become more important by the time we reach Hoberek's coda on contemporary American novels and its discussion of realism and the superhero genre.
But Hoberek first takes us through two more sections (on property and politics) before more fully revealing what is at stake today in Watchmen 's make-it-new modernist sentiment. Part of Hoberek's case for Watchmen as a keyword for literary and cultural studies is that its particular kind of modernism could not have arisen at any other time. Hoberek argues that comics modernism, which is to say realism, was a response to certain material developments in the comics industry itself, developments that foreshadow the neoliberal present and its struggles over intellectual property. For Moore and Gibbons, the realist superhero comic was not only a break from the conventions of superhero narratives and the comic book medium but also an attempt to resist, however minimally, a particular regime of intellectual and creative ownership. One of the strengths of Hoberek's book is its fascinating biographical research, which illustrates Moore's aspirations to artistic autonomy (tellingly, Moore remarked that writing a prequel to Watchmen would be like writing a prequel to Moby-Dick ). In an inherently collaborative medium and in an industry built on piecework and precarious artistic labor, comics modernism gave Moore and Gibbons a typically foreclosed space in which to create a relatively autonomous work. This situation, Hoberek argues, is allegorized by the conflict in Watchmen between Rorschach and Adrian Veidt (Ozymandias). Rorschach was based on Steve Ditko's character The Question, who he created after leaving Marvel because of disputes with Stan Lee and Marvel owner Martin Goodman over profits and creative control of Spider-Man. Moore's admiration of Ditko casts Rorschach as "a figure for the uncompromising artist" (86) while Veidt, whose corporation copyrights the Minutemen heroes and sells action figures and memorabilia, represents a comic book industry that has begun to spread into diverse markets.
The richness of Hoberek's book also comes from its attention to Moore's oeuvre and how his concern with intellectual property also informs later works. In Century: 2009 , Moore's unnamed villains, who are based clearly on franchise characters such as James Bond and Harry Potter, continue to allegorize "the struggle between the creative artist seeking to craft a finished work of art and the corporation which owns a profitable, because endlessly reproducible, set of intellectual properties" (96). In other words, Veidt's business model marks for Hoberek an ascendant neoliberalism. Since 1986-87, however, the struggle between profitability and artistic integrity merely describes business as usual. The control over the creative commons by corporations like Disney and Time Warner has only intensified (consider Alan Moore's disgust at the film adaptations of his own works From Hell , The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen , Constantine , V for Vendetta , and of course Watchmen itself). It is surprising, however, to find no discussion in Hoberek's book about the recent spate of creator-owned comics (the success of many Image Comics publications comes to mind). Granted, many of these comics are not superhero narratives, and so a more thorough examination of the particularities of the genre is necessary. But perhaps the comic book medium can still offer some resistance to the enclosure of the creative commons by media corporations.
Moore and Gibbons's proto-neoliberal villain, and the encroachment by corporations elaborated in Hoberek's chapter on property, neatly segues into his discussion of politics. He argues that, much like V for Vendetta , Watchmen is a response to the ideology of the Thatcher/Reagan years. Veidt can only bring an end to the Cold War via an elaborately staged alien attack, by "re-creat[ing] it at a further remove, much as American neoconservatives would mobilize the war on terror as the impetus behind a US-guided version of neoliberal expansion" (154). In Watchmen the heroes never band together to save the day; they're a kind of anti-Justice League. In this way, the villain, Veidt, turns out to be the hero, sort of. Hoberek draws the connection between Moore's own distrust of institutions as such and Thatcher's own anti-institutionalism. But in this light, he warns, realism is too easily read as a "political realism that is dangerously close to cynicism," one in which "collaboration is only possible or desirable in its most minimal or contingent forms" (158). Watchmen can "critique the neoconservative aspects of the Reagan/Thatcher eighties but not the neoliberal ones that were themselves premised on a distrust of institutions" (157). However, Watchmen is not somehow insufficient or bad because it fails to overcome the problems of state-backed superheroes and neoliberal ascendancy. Rather, as Hoberek describes it, Watchmen can be said to map the ideological limits of its own period, namely the point at which institutions as such and their possible collaborative projects become unacceptable to both the political left and the right. The book's organization around poetics, property, and politics begins to make a whole lot of sense since Watchmen appears to be a fitting keyword for an emergent neoliberal regime. For Hoberek, in other words, comics' modernist realism reveals some of the tendencies that informed and continue to shape our own present.
With this realist aesthetic in mind, how does Watchmen help us to consider the contemporary moment under a more fully elaborated neoliberal capitalism? In the coda, "After Watchmen ," Hoberek turns his attention to contemporary literature by Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem, Junot Díaz, Aimee Bender, and Rainbow Rowell, authors who each deploy elements of the superhero narrative in response to "realist fiction that had, by the end of the twentieth century, exhausted the innovative energy that it had acquired from modernist revolution at the century's beginning" (180). For Hoberek, Watchmen was a modernist break from the superhero comics of its time, and the appearance of superheroes in literature today signals a similar break in print fiction, but with something of an inversion: where Watchmen helped kick off the realist superhero comic, these contemporary American authors write superhero fiction "to escape the now stifling formal limitations… of literary realism in its late twentieth-century minimalist mode" (164). In other words, we are witnessing the literary realist becoming generic and the generic becoming literary realist.
Yet, it is unclear what precisely these "stifling formal limitations" (164) of literary realism are, and it is at this point that we need to acknowledge some of Considering 's own limitations. For one, it is tempting to find in it a false binary between minimalist literary realism and superhero fiction, the former programmatic and oppressive and the latter necessarily radical. Further, it would be troublingly easy to attribute breaks from literary convention to a handful of male authors and thus valorize a gender disparity in the production of what Hoberek considers contemporary literature. And while Hoberek acknowledges that most authors of superhero novels are men—an unevenness obvious in comics as well—his discussion remains disproportionately weighted in favor of Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao . Hoberek's argument hinges on two assumptions: that the dominant conception of contemporary literature as such equals literary minimalist realism (and since Hoberek does not provide many examples beyond early Chabon short stories and Díaz's Drown, it is hard to get a handle on this literature's pervasiveness) and, second, that this literature is necessarily oppressive, offering only "falsely happy endings and… despair in the face of present circumstances" (182). Of course, there is plenty of this fiction, but, as Mark McGurl argues in The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing (2009), we also have an unprecedented plenitude of excellent literature thanks in no small part to the explosion of American MFA programs in creative writing. Apart from a brief mention of The Program Era and occasional nods to Raymond Carver—a central figure of the American MFA—Hoberek barely reckons with McGurl's study of MFA fiction. I mention The Program Era , not to fault Hoberek, but because both Hoberek's and McGurl's studies lack a consideration of genre fiction more generally. Or, more accurately, Hoberek keeps his focus on superhero fiction, and McGurl makes an omission of necessity because MFAs train students not to write genres, but to write literature akin to what Hoberek calls minimalist or realist.
But to exclude a discussion of genres from any consideration of literature today would be to blot out, not only rich and imaginative traditions and experiments in fiction, but also to elide realism's own literary history and its more complex relationships with popular genres. In particular, science fiction comes to mind in recent novels by more identifiably realist authors like William Gibson (since 9/11 anyway), Ben Lerner, and Ruth Ozeki. Yet, I think Hoberek is aware of his book's blindspot since Considering reads like a prelude to just such a study in genre, an opening up of lines of inquiry into genre fiction today. After all, though the graphic novel form makes Watchmen into something more recognizably self-contained, literary, and realist, it is not an "aesthetically serious" work like other graphic narratives along the lines of Bechdel's Fun Home , Spiegelman's Maus , or Yoshihiro Tatsumi's A Drifting Life . It is, fundamentally, a superhero story, a work of genre fiction. Considering begins with comics' superhero–modernism opposition (in Hoberek's specific usage, that is, a genre–realism opposition). Of print fiction, Jameson suggests that postmodernity might have "rendered the opposition of realism and modernism obsolete," and because of this we might need to "invent some new categories, which is to say, to articulate some new kinds of oppositions" (479), a task, we now see, that Hoberek has begun here.
The opposition in comics from the 1980s between superheroes and realism (or genre and realism) sheds new light on an opposition between realism and genre in print literature today. In a recent review of his own—one that anticipates his interest in superheroes and in Díaz in particular—Hoberek calls Colson Whitehead's zombie novel, Zone One (2011), the "greatest American novel of the twenty-first century" ("Living" 406). Not only does Zone One use "forms of defensive individualization that structure the high literary canon" of modernism but also, via the zombie subgenre of horror, Whitehead can use the "trauma narrative that became the mark of realist literary seriousness in the late twentieth century" (411). In Whitehead's hands, Hoberek argues, the "parody of trauma as a mode of individualization" depicts "the breakdown of our categories of the individual and even the human not as a tragedy but as a form of release" (412). In other words, the literary zombie novel does not merely allegorize us v. them scenarios but rather asserts that we have yet to become human. Perhaps, too, we have yet to become superhuman.
As I suggested in the beginning, Hoberek's Considering lets us use Watchmen as a sort of keyword for the contemporary moment. This means that there is something more to be done with Watchmen ––besides praising it, that is. Hoberek insists that we consider it in an account, not only of the comic book medium, but also of contemporary American print literature and the relations between realism and genre fiction. Using Watchmen as a keyword for the contemporary helps us interrogate the category of literature itself and how it changes and is changing alongside property and politics. We can single out Watchmen , not because of its unimpeachable status among graphic novels, but because it is useful in a discussion of contemporary realism and genre. Following Jameson again, who in turn follows Lukács, "the narrative of individuals" of the realist novel can be "made to approach historical dynamics as such" and "reveal its relationship with a history in movement and a future on the point of emergence" (479). Realism, then, is fundamentally concerned with "the revelation of tendencies rather than with the portrayal of a state of affairs" (479). By zeroing in on Watchmen 's realism, Hoberek can retroactively identify a partially articulated tendency to neoliberalism.
Moore's Watchmen reveals a neoliberal emergence that in our own present has surely intensified, but the contemporary superhero genre does not merely reverberate with the gritty echoes of Thatcher and Reagan. By shifting the focus from comics to the contemporary American novel, Hoberek also shifts the focus from Watchmen , and the immanent neoliberalism of its situation, onto possible new modernist realisms, along with their revelations of tendencies and potentialities, in our contemporary moment. His understanding of genre in contemporary American fiction can therefore be read as an attunement to the emergence of alternate futures. In other words, if a future that breaks from our present is to be represented it will be in genre fiction.
Hoberek's book, for its wealth of fascinating details and compelling arguments alone, is a useful starting point for anyone interested in the work of Alan Moore and comic book studies. More interesting, I think, and one of its finest contributions to the study of comics and literature, is the refreshing methodology it offers, which sets the stage for a rigorous historicization of realism and its relations both to its own tradition and to genre fiction. The scandal of Considering Watchmen is that it's not really about Watchmen . But this is exactly why Hoberek is successful. He insists that a consideration of Watchmen , superheroes, and genre more generally is an ongoing project, and he gives us a big step in our response to contemporary American print literature. In turn, this gives us some tools for understanding how literature is responding to the contemporary.
Hoberek, Andrew. Considering Watchmen: Poetics, Property, Politics. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2014. Print.
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Jameson, Fredric. "Antinomies of the Realism–Modernism Debate." Modern Language Quarterly 73.3 (September 2012): 475-85. Print.
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Redondo Beach Lobster Festival going on hiatus…
Redondo Beach Lobster Festival going on hiatus this year
Servers prepare plates of lobster tail at a past Redondo Beach Lobster Festival at Seaside Lagoon.
By David Rosenfeld | drosenfeld@scng.com | The Daily Breeze
PUBLISHED: May 3, 2018 at 8:00 p.m. | UPDATED: May 3, 2018 at 8:01 p.m.
Lobster festivals just aren't what they used to be.
After 23 years, the annual Redondo Beach Lobster Festival that includes music, crafts and of course lobster will not be held in Seaside Lagoon in September.
Chamber of Commerce CEO Marna Smeltzer said the festival, one of the chamber's two signature events, has not been as successful as it once was. The festival, she said, has generated anywhere from $100,000 in profits to as little as $20,000.
Based on the most recent financial data available through nonprofit tax filings, in 2016 the lobster festival generated $465,000 in revenue. With expenses, however, the event made no profit. In 2015, the lobster festival made nearly $590,000 in revenue and about $83,000 in profit.
"It was a huge risky event," Smeltzer said. "And it's become stale. It needs a lot of review. It needs to be fresh again and it's a very expensive event to do."
Smeltzer is stepping down this year after leading the chamber for 32 years. Given the change in leadership, Smeltzer said it was decided it was bset for the event to take a hiatus. She said it's possible the event could come back, but that would be up to the board of directors.
"We looked at a lot of different things. It was a really hard decision," Smeltzer said.
The chamber's decision not to hold the event this year comes after San Pedro recently announced it too would be taking a break from its revered lobster festival after nearly 20 years.
The chamber will still organize the annual Super Bowl 10K, which continues to be a community favorite, Smeltzer said.
Councilmember Nils Nehrenheim said while he was disappointed the lobster festival won't be held this year, he looked forward to new events taking its place.
"The lobster festival has been a great mainstay of the South Bay, but luckily we have other things like this three-day music festival, which is a great new vibrant event that we can capitalize on," Nehrenheim said. "One thing I want to do is have more events at Seaside Lagoon."
Mayor Bill Brand, who had announced a potential September music festival at his state of city address, called the lobster festival a "tired concept."
"I look forward to the chamber holding a more sustainable event in the future that doesn't involve flying lobster from the east coast to serve before our lobster season," Brand said.
Following Brand's election in 2017, the City Council talked about denying the lobster festival the fee waiver the city typically grants the Chamber to hold the event. Estimates put costs to rent Seaside Lagoon and pay for additional police officers and fire fighters on duty at $25,000, but Nehrenheim believes costs could be much higher.
"With the budget crunch coming up and higher pension costs, the city is reviewing all the signature events and how much money we are giving away," Nehrenheim said.
While council has not taken any action on those fee waivers, they are expected to take up the matter during budget discussions in June.
"I don't see the city subsidizing Chamber of Commerce events in the future," Brand said. "I look forward to the chamber creating another fun event that brings people to the waterfront."
A similar fee waiver has applied to the city's other signature events including the Superbowl 10K, the Riviera Village holiday stroll and Springfest in North Redondo, all of which will be re-evaluated.
Smeltzer said the fee waiver issue did not factor into the chamber's decision to cancel the lobster festival this year.
"We stepped up and said we would pay the fees for the Lobster Festival, but that's not why we aren't doing it," she said. "There are so many other reasons."
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