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Roger Penske faces tough crowd at news conference
Roger Penske had never faced such questions in a media gathering.
Roger Penske faces tough crowd at news conference Roger Penske had never faced such questions in a media gathering. Check out this story on IndyStar.com: https://indy.st/27krjaN
Curt Cavin, IndyStar Published 2:46 p.m. ET May 13, 2016 | Updated 4:10 p.m. ET May 13, 2016
The Penske drivers Will Power,left, team consultant Rick Mears, driver Helio Castroneves, Simon Pagenaud and Juan Palo Montoya laugh as they ask team owner Roger Penske about driving the pace car for the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 Friday, May 13, 2016, morning at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.(Photo: Matt Kryger/IndyStar)Buy Photo
Taking hard-hitting turns at the microphone Friday in the Indianapolis Motor Speedway interview room were Team Penske drivers Helio Castroneves, Simon Pagenaud, Juan Pablo Montoya, Will Power and the greatest of all Penske drivers, Rick Mears. Their perspectives were unique.
Pagenaud asked Penske about the business of racing. Montoya asked about raising children in the sport. Power asked Penske about regrets for ending his driving career in 1965. Mears asked if Penske could have envisioned building such a racing dynasty.
Then there was Castroneves' very personal question. He wanted to know how Penske planned to quickly transition from official Indianapolis 500 pace car driver on May 29 to strategist of his No. 3 car. After all, Castroneves has a record-tying fourth 500 victory he'll be trying to win.
Penske responded to the Brazilian by saying he'd call former stunt car artist Joie Chitwood to see how to make a dramatic entrance into the pit box.
Grand Prix of Indianapolis Qualifying Day
IndyCar driver Simon Pagenaud celebrates winning the pole position for the Angie's List Grand Prix of Indianapolis Friday, May 13, 2016, morning at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Matt Kryger/IndyStar
IndyCar driver Simon Pagenaud won the pole position for the Angie's List Grand Prix of Indianapolis Friday, May 13, 2016, afternoon at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Matt Kryger/IndyStar
IndyCar driver Juan Palo Montoya qualified 8th for the Angie's List Grand Prix of Indianapolis Friday, May 13, 2016, morning at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Matt Kryger/IndyStar
IndyCar driver Takuma Sato was not happy qualifying in the 22nd position for the Angie's List Grand Prix of Indianapolis Friday, May 13, 2016, afternoon at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Matt Kryger/IndyStar
Indycar holds Juan Pablo Montoya in pit to serve a penalty during the second session of knockout qualifying. Bob Goshert / For the Star
IndyCar driver Jack Hawksworth was happy qualifying in sixth pace during qualifying for the Angie's List Grand Prix of Indianapolis Friday, May 13, 2016, morning at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Matt Kryger/IndyStar
IndyCar driver Juan Palo Montoya leaves his pit box with 4 minutes left in their qualifying period. He qualified 8th for the Angie's List Grand Prix of Indianapolis Friday, May 13, 2016, morning at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Matt Kryger/IndyStar
IndyCar driver Will Power was fastest during the morning practice for the Anglie's List Grand Prix of Indianapolis Friday, May 13, 2016, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Matt Kryger/IndyStar, Matt Kryger/IndyStar
IndyCar driver Juan Palo Montoya rounds turn 9 during the practice for the Angie's List Grand Prix of Indianapolis Friday, May 13, 2016, morning at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Matt Kryger/IndyStar
IndyCar driver Will Power drives out of turn 9 during the practice for the Angie's List Grand Prix of Indianapolis Friday, May 13, 2016, morning at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Matt Kryger/IndyStar
IndyCar driver Scott Dixon rounds turn 9 during the practice for the Angie's List Grand Prix of Indianapolis Friday, May 13, 2016, morning at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Matt Kryger/IndyStar
IndyCar driver Graham Rahal rounds turn 9 during the practice for the Angie's List Grand Prix of Indianapolis Friday, May 13, 2016, morning at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Matt Kryger/IndyStar
IndyCar fans watch as IndyCar driver Alex Tagliani heads into a turn during the practice for the Angie's List Grand Prix of Indianapolis Friday, May 13, 2016, morning at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Matt Kryger/IndyStar
Team Penske owner Roger Penske talks with Mark Reuss, director of product development for GM, as they talk about Roger driving the pace car for the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 Friday, May 13, 2016, morning at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Matt Kryger/IndyStar
The Penske drivers Will Power,left, team consultant Rick Mears, driver Helio Castroneves, Simon Pagenaud and Juan Palo Montoya laugh as they ask team owner Roger Penske about driving the pace car for the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 Friday, May 13, 2016, morning at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Matt Kryger/IndyStar
Team Penske owner Roger Penske,left, fields question with Mark Reuss, director of product development for GM, as they talk about Roger driving the pace car for the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 Friday, May 13, 2016, morning at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Matt Kryger/IndyStar
Penske team consultant Rick Mears asks team owner Roger Penske about driving the pace car for the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 Friday, May 13, 2016, morning at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Matt Kryger/IndyStar
Mark Reuss, director of product development for GM, fields question with Team Penske owner Roger Penske,left, as they talk about Roger driving the pace car for the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 Friday, May 13, 2016, morning at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Matt Kryger/IndyStar
Will Power debriefs his crew at the end Angie's List Grand Prix morning practice at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 13, 2016. Power had the quickest lap. Bob Goshert / For the Star
Three-time Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves reflects on the Angie's List Grand Prix morning practice session at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May13,2016. Bob Goshert / For the Star
IndyCar driver James Hinchcliffe rounds turn 9 during the practice for the Angie's List Grand Prix of Indianapolis Friday, May 13, 2016, morning at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Matt Kryger/IndyStar
IndyCar driver Helio Castroneves rounds turn 9 during the practice for the Angie's List Grand Prix of Indianapolis Friday, May 13, 2016, morning at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Matt Kryger/IndyStar
James Hincliffe contemplates his place in the field after the final practice session for the Angie's List Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 13, 2016. Bob Goshert / For the Star
IndyCar driver Juan Palo Montoya leaves his pit box with four minutes to go during the qualifying session for the Angie's List Grand Prix of Indianapolis Friday, May 13, 2016, afternoon at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Kristin Enzor/For The Star
IndyCar driver Juan Palo Montoya sits in his car leaving hit pit box with four minutes to go during the qualifying session for the Angie's List Grand Prix of Indianapolis Friday, May 13, 2016, afternoon at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Kristin Enzor/For The Star
IndyCar driver Scott Dixon,left, talks with James Hinchcliffe,right, following qualifying for the Angie's List Grand Prix of Indianapolis Friday, May 13, 2016, afternoon at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Kristin Enzor/For The Star
Team owner A.J. Foyt watches the times of his drivers during qualifying for the Angie's List Grand Prix of Indianapolis Friday, May 13, 2016, afternoon at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Kristin Enzor/For The Star
Simon Pagenaud, in car, is congratulated by his crew member after he won the pole position for the pole position for the Angie's List Grand Prix of Indianapolis Friday, May 13, 2016, afternoon at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Kristin Enzor/For The Star
IndyCar driver Will Power,right, congratulates his teammate Simon Pagenaud, in car, after he won the pole position for the Angie's List Grand Prix of Indianapolis Friday, May 13, 2016, afternoon at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Kristin Enzor/For The Star
IndyCar driver Simon Pagenaud prepares to get into his car on pit late at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Friday, May 13, 2016 Jessica Hoffman/For the Star, For the Star
IndyCar driver Scott Dixon prepares to get into his car on pit lane at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Friday, May 13, 2016 Jessica Hoffman/For the Star, For the Star
IndyCar driver Simon Pagenaud on track during qualifying for the Angie's List Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Friday, May 13, 2016 Jessica Hoffman/For the Star, For the Star
IndyCar driver Graham Rahal reacts to qualifying third for the Angie's List Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Friday, May 13, 2016 Jessica Hoffman/For the Star, For the Star
IndyCar driver Graham Rahal on pit lane following the qualifying session for the Angie's List Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Friday, May 13, 2016 Jessica Hoffman/For the Star, For the Star
Will Power appears to be disappointed after failing to make the Fast 6 qualifying session on May 13, 2016. Power will start the Angie's List Grand Prix from twelfth. Bob Goshert / For the Star
"Spin (the car) right in front of your pit," Penske told Castroneves. "They'll open the door, I'll jump out. That's my plan."
The room laughed. Castroneves seemed relieved.
Castroneves didn't hear what Penske said walking out of the news conference. Since 1936, the official pace car has been delivered to the race-winning driver, but Penske joked about keeping the 2017 Camaro SS for himself if one of his drivers won.
IndyCar series to race at Watkins Glen
At least his drivers should hope Penske was joking.
Kidding aside, Penske said it took him all of a minute to accept Chevrolet's invitation to drive the pace car. "It's an amazing ask," he said.
Penske spoke of attending his first 500 in 1951 with his father, who had enough connections to earn an invitation to a house party where Penske, then 14, sat in a race car for the first time. He was hooked on the sport from that moment forward.
Penske's first acquisition was a Chevrolet dealership in Philadelphia, and he recalled his retired father withdrawing $50,000 to fund the purchase. He told his son, "If you lose this, I'll (have to) go back to work."
Answering Montoya's question, Penske said he has a grandson now racing in karting. Penske told Power he never looked back from his decision to be a car owner rather than a car driver.
"(Mario) Andretti took (the ride offered)," said Penske, whose team has won a record 16 500s. "He obviously went in one direction, I went in the other. I think the story is pretty complete."
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Watkins Glen: Labor Day weekend
Scott Dixon was present Friday when IndyCar confirmed the return of Watkins Glen International, a road course where Dixon won three consecutive IndyCar races (2005-07).
The race weekend will be Sept. 2-4.
"I'm probably a little happier than the rest (of the drivers)," Dixon said with a smile.
IndyCar officials pursued a deal with Watkins Glen President Michael Printup literally minutes after the street race in Boston was canceled. Indy Lights will join IndyCar in the event.
The last IndyCar event at The Glen was in 2010.
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Paying off debt is a constant topic. Whether you have a home, car, property, credit cards, or student loans you have debt if you still owe payments. Unfortunately, debt can sneak up on individuals and families quite unexpectedly. Spending habits contribute significantly to how you handle your debt. Ultimately, you can't tell someone how to spend their money because everyone has different priorities. Therefore, couples must work together to accomplish the same goal of paying off debt, individuals ought to commit to their budget changes, or there is the option of making more money to get what you want to buy.
First, I do understand why the common consensus says to start with the smallest loan amount first. You're not only getting something paid off faster, but you are feeling a sense of accomplishment. Lower loan amounts mean smaller loan payments. It is easier to add additional monies to a smaller monthly payment than it is a broader note. When at all possible I encourage doubling up on payments to get the loan paid off quicker but don't forget that any added monies help. By paying off a smaller loan you have extra money in your budget to contribute to paying offer other ones.
Secondly, as I stated, you get the smaller loans paid off quicker by contributing more to those first. However, if you have an additional lender that charges you more interest, I would consider making more substantial payments to those lenders. You will continue to pay all other loans as scheduled, add as much as you can within your budget to the higher interest loan. Depending on the terms of your investments, a higher interest loan is usually going to have a longer duration than a lower interest loan, and you will be paying more interest over the course of the loan.
If you are the type of person that wants to see success quicker than I suggest paying off debt by starting with the smaller loans first so that you are confident in your actions. On the other hand, if you have the patience to pay off a more massive loan with higher interest, I say go for it. Remember that if you can afford to pay more to those pesky lenders, you might even want to consider paying extra on two loans instead of one. Regardless of how you decide to pay off debt and manage your monthly budget the most critical focus is setting a goal and continuing with it.


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Responding to chancellor Rishi Sunak's package of support for businesses announced this evening (Tuesday, 17 March) and the prime minister's pledge to do `whatever it takes' to support people and jobs through the corona virus crisis, the head of the UK's leading union, Unite, has said that his union stands ready to play their part throughout this time of crisis.
Len McCluskey, Unite's general secretary said: "It is abundantly clear that we need a package of measures equal to the public health and economic emergencies now upon us.
"Urgent and considerable action is needed by government to avert personal and industrial catastrophe.
"Unite is pleased to have heard the prime minister and chancellor say very clearly that they `will do whatever it takes' to protect public health and the economy's health. We will hold them to that.
"However, we remain extremely concerned that workers' and individuals' own capacity to act on the public health advice will remain seriously compromised because the direct economic support has not yet been provided by government. This must change and urgently. Providing wage support and covering rents must be a priority.
"It is welcome that those hit by the virus will have a three month mortgage holiday should they need it, but what about the vast majority of people who rent? They need to know that they can put food on the table and keep a roof over their families' heads. Only then will they feel able to play their part in tackling this public health emergency.
"We urgently need for the government to introduce now the sort of measures that we have seen implemented in our competitor nations, including paying workers 75 per cent plus of their salary while they are forced to be at home as has been introduced in Denmark and Holland. UK workers deserve the same efforts and assistance."
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New Research Study Reveals Consumer Preferences for Incentives and Rewards
September 19, 2016 – Fishkill, NY – Virtual Incentives has released the first round of data from a new research study on consumer perceptions and preferences surrounding incentives. The study, formally called "Incentive Research Paper" also explored how the incentive itself impacts brand perceptions, while studying influencers like gender, age, income levels and political affiliation. Alter Agents designed the study and provided analysis; Voxpopme provided video answers technology to video capture and analytics technology; and MindField Online supplied programming and sample for the research project. Jonathan Price, CEO of Virtual Incentives, said, "The information we gathered for this study is vital in helping brands make informed decisions when it comes to incentivizing their target audiences. After all, we want the reward or incentive moment to truly resonate and create an engaging moment with the recipient – that means we need to be educated on what different consumer groups are really looking for when it comes to incentives." Data surrounding reward personalization revealed insights in to just how accustomed and willing consumers are in having personal information used in conjunction with incentive delivery:
Receipt of personalized reward: Only two out of every five respondents have received a personalized incentive and, of those, just over half said it increased their consideration of the brand.
Brand perception, general: Fifty-six percent said that receiving a personalized incentive would improve their consideration of the brand
Brand perception, specific: While the vast majority indicated that use of personalization made a brand seem smart, unique and caring, a meaningful minority of 16 percent find it "creepy"
Trust: Most respondents felt that a personalized incentive made them feel respected as a customer, while 1 in 4 feel it is a violation of their privacy.
Type of personalization: Sixty-three percent prefer a reward based on purchase history, rather than the less popular reference to a purchase location (24 percent) or use of name (23 percent)
In addition to personalization factors, the study found that more education and higher incomes drive interest in incentives programs. In fact, the more educated and higher income level the consumer, the higher participation across the board – for all incentive types. More importantly, incentives programs lead to more expensive purchases, larger quantities, and shifts in retailer choice for these higher-status customers. For example, 20 percent more of those with an income over 50K would purchase a more expensive item based on receiving an incentive. One thing that stood out was that, no matter the income or education level, one-third of respondents agreed on preferred reward: a virtual gift card that could be used anywhere they chose, such as Visa® or MasterCard®. As data from the study is further analyzed, more trends will be released including political affiliation influence on reward preference, just in time for the elections. A paper summarizing the findings of the study will be available in early October. About Virtual Incentives Virtual Incentives (VI) provides incentive solutions proven to increase engagement, strengthen brand awareness and maintain customer loyalty. The company's proprietary digital platform provides a comprehensive reward experience for both the client and the end-user, providing an integrated API, simple ordering and instant delivery, state-of-the-art security, advanced personalization and an innovative user interface. Founded in 2008, VI partners with industry leading businesses, including more than 40 Fortune 100 companies. VI is the leading provider of Visa rewards and Visa® virtual accounts and offers Virtual MasterCard® accounts as well as eGiftCards from more than 600 merchants around the world. http://www.virtualincentives.com @VirtualRewards About Alter Agents A full service market research and brand consultancy, the Alter Agents team of senior level consultants helps brands navigate the new age of the promiscuous shopper. Alter Agents' seasoned founders include Rebecca Brooks, Angela Woo, and Phil Dance. Their experience includes working with brand giants such as eBay, Google, Hyundai, Yahoo, Viking River Cruises, and many more. More at www.alteragents.com. #MRX #AlterAgents #shopperinsights About Voxpopme Voxpopme was founded three years ago in Birmingham, England in order to create a platform that would allow consumers to voice their opinion while giving brands a way to connect better with their customers. The solution was combining mobile and video technology in order to provide a level of insight and feedback far greater than alternative methods. The Voxpopme platform has been has been capturing 15-60 second videos for some of the world's largest brands with hundreds of thousands of videos processed. Their technology allows videos to be accurately transcribed and sentiment scored within minutes, and the web-based portal gives clients access to search, filter and build show reels of key content. www.voxpopme.com About MindField Online, a McMillion company Founded 35 years ago, McMillion Research is now grouped among the industry leaders in market research data collection. With a commitment to technology and innovation, the company remains on the leading edge in the research and data collection communities. Senior management boasts an impressive 18 years or more of market research and data collection experience. Working primarily for supplier and end-user partners, McMillion Research has been recognized as the trusted source for online and traditional market research data collection for thirty years. www.mcmillionresearch.com
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The Stoney Fire has been 100 percent contained, and the City of Chico is reopening some areas of Upper Bidwell Park.
UPDATE 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, August 8, 2018 - The City of Chico is reopening a portion of south Upper Bidwell Park following the Stoney Fire. The areas reopening will be the Annie Bidwell Trail from the Centennial/Chico Canyon Road entrance to the Bidwell Park Golf Course and as far as the Olive Orchard Only.
The Chico Fire Department and Park Division warn that there are still potential hazards in the Stoney fire area on the south side of Bidwell Park, so there are still some areas that remain closed.
The Ten Mile House Road will also be reopened to hikers and bikers, but access to the Annie Bidwell, Pine, and Guardians trails from the road will be closed.
CHICO, Calif. - The Stoney Fire in Upper Bidwell Park is 100 percent contained, but the Chico Fire Department still warns that there are many potential fire hazards in the area.
These hazards include smoldering root systems, falling trees and limbs, bulldozer lines and other hazards that cross the trails.
Additionally, high temperatures and low humidity continue to pose a high fire danger in the area, hindering rehabilitation of the area according to a release from City of Chico.
For public safety, the entire south side of Upper Bidwell Park south of Big Chico Creek from 10 Mile House Road on Highway 32 and westward will remain closed to all park users. There is not an estimated time that this section of the park will re-open.
The Chico Fire Department informs the public that small amounts of visible smoke are normal, but advise to call 911 if they see flames or burning areas outside of the contained fire perimeter.
According to Chico Municipal Code Section 12.R.04.370, anyone who enters a closed area of Bidwell Park will be subject to fines.


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New variants drive up Covid cases in US: CDC
Covid-19 cases caused by new variants are growing fast in the US, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
According to the latest CDC data published on Monday, two new variants, BQ.1 and BQ.1.1, have been growing especially fast, reports Xinhua news agency.
At the beginning of October, each one accounted for about 1 per cent of new infections in the US, but they have been roughly doubling in prevalence each week, the health body said.
The data further revealed that BQ.1 led to about 14 per cent of new infections in the country in the week ending October 29, while BQ.1.1 caused 13.1 per cent of the fresh cases.
Together, the two variants accounted for more than one in four new infections nationwide, CDC data showed.
BA.5, which has dominated Covid-19 infections in the US since July, now accounted for 49.6 per cent of new cases in the country.
A host of new sublineages — offshoots of BA.2, BA.4 and BA.5 — are now responsible for the majority of new cases.
These variants are slightly different from each other, but they all carry some of the same key mutations that help them skirt immunity from vaccines and past infections. This makes them more likely to lead to breakthrough infections and reinfections, according to experts.
"BQ is actually a BA.5 variant," Dr. Andrew Pekosz, a virologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, recently told Health.
"Here in the US, all the variants that are circling — BQ.1.1, I guess, is the biggest or the most talked about one now — they're all derived from either the BA.5 or the BA.4 variants. They've picked up a few mutations that help them evade some of the infection or vaccine-induced immunity."
Another variant, XBB, is also a variant of Omicron and has been dubbed the "nightmare variant" in Singapore. It is extremely immune evasive and has also shown that it might be immune to current vaccines.
The World Health Organization (WHO) SARS-CoV-2 virus evolution advisory group said last week that XBB and BQ.1 do not currently diverge sufficiently from each other or from other Omicron lineages that have extra immune escape mutations to warrant a variant of concern designation or a new label.
"The two sublineages remain part of Omicron, which continues to be a variant of concern," the WHO group said.
Health experts are concerned emerging Omicron subvariants would make some existing protections ineffective for the public, especially the immunocompromised people.
"We're in a very challenging phase," said Syra Madad, an epidemiologist who helps oversee pandemic response for New York City Health and Hospitals, the nation's largest municipal health-care system.
"Barely anybody is masking. We have very low vaccination rates for the updated boosters, as well as generally waning immunity. And to top it all off, we have these highly immune-evasive subvariants that are circulating," Madad told The Washington Post on Monday.
The Covid-19 vaccination rate in the US lags that of many other high-income countries.
Less that half of the total booster-eligible population in the US has received a booster dose, according to CDC data.
Experts are urging the public to get booster shots to prevent from severe illnesses.
As of Tuesday, the country's overall Covid caseload and death toll stood at 99,374,721 and 1,095,315, respectively.
The two tallies are the highest in the world.
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"Straight Outta Compton" flawed, but important look at rap group N.W.A.
Anne Nickoloff, Director of Print|September 3, 2015
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"Straight Outta Compton" chronicled the complex history behind gangsta rap group N.W.A.
The most important thing to know when viewing "Straight Outta Compton" is that two of its producers were also two of the main characters in the film (Dr. Dre and Ice Cube).
Knowing that, it's easy to see why the film is so ridiculously biased in favor of the protagonists, who were all members of gangsta rap group N.W.A. In "Straight Outta Compton," they were courageous, sexy fighters for truth, justice and the first amendment.
Was the film flawed? Oh, totally. Just take one look at the film's casting call, which ranked women from "A" to "D," and specified a darker skin tone for each less-beautiful grade. For a film that took such a rabid stance against racism, it's difficult to see their standards of beauty so adamantly (and negatively) connected to race.
Also, conveniently not included in the film were instances of Dr. Dre's abuse towards multiple ex-girlfriends, or his attack against music journalist Denise "Dee" Barnes.
And really, the orgy scene says all you would ever need to say about N.W.A.'s sexism. But I won't really get too descriptive of that scene here, past saying that the popular phrase "Bye, Felicia!" finally has some context to it.
N.W.A. was always pretty openly sexist, and plenty violent, so who could expect that to disappear in their self-produced film? At least "Straight Outta Compton" took an honest look at how the rappers grew up, and the state of police brutality today.
That's why I think this film is influential. It shaped a context around one of the most misunderstood genres of music that has existed in recent times, and it made the lyrics accessible even to non-gangsta rap fans.
Memorable scenes included one in which the band rolled past a group of protestors stomping on and burning copies of their CD's. This activity, of course, inadvertently supported N.W.A.'s album sales and growth as a musical group. Eazy E (Jason Mitchell) looks at them and, laughing, says, "They bought those motherfuckers!"
Despite the rappers' flaws, you were still rooting for them. The pure resentment the rappers showed towards a team of policemen before their concert was tangible. As the police officers demanded the group to not play hit single "Fuck tha Police" at the show, I rolled my eyes along with N.W.A.
You can't tell a musical group that gained fame off violent lyrics that they can't perform those violent lyrics. Seriously, what was N.W.A. going to play? A cover of some Beatles song?
The bad guys were harder to place. Evil-but-not-really-evil band manager Jerry Heller (Paul Giamatti) had surprising depth. The filmmakers made sure to show Heller's upstanding respect for the group, even in the face of police racism. Half of the film, you were rooting for Heller. For the rest, you were shaking your head as he easily took advantage of Eazy E and the remaining members of N.W.A.
The film's real villains were, honestly, the police.
This criticism is well-timed. In the midst of police brutality cases that seem to pop up every day, nothing is more harrowing than the opening scene of "Straight Outta Compton," where a house is destroyed in a drug raid (and, I mean, ripped apart by a battering ram), as Eazy E narrowly escapes across the rooftop.
The film has just as much to say about the world as it had to say about N.W.A. Sure, it is flawed in ways that absolutely cannot be ignored.
But the film is undeniably important—it brought light to the constantly revealed U.S. police flaws. And that absolutely cannot be ignored, either.
Film: "Straight Outta Compton"
Director: F. Gary Gray
Release Date: Aug. 14, 2015
Rating: ★★★½
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In the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, global online giving effort GivingTuesdayNow, set for May 5, will focus on supporting Catholic Charities Appeal beneficiaries working to address a range coronavirus-related needs, including hunger and homelessness, as well as parishes facing financial hardship due to the pandemic. (GivingTuesdayNow)
By Gina Christian • Posted May 4, 2020
Parishes and ministries in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia stand to receive some critical funding thanks to a new worldwide charity effort.
May 5 has been designated as GivingTuesdayNow, a global day of online fundraising for an array of nonprofits and outreaches serving those impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the archdiocese, the day-long drive — which unites international and grassroots organizations – will focus on the annual Catholic Charities Appeal (CCA) and the Parish Support Initiative, both of which are managed by the Catholic Foundation of Greater Philadelphia (CFGP).
Donors are being asked to participate in GivingTuesdayNow by visiting either CatholicCharitiesAppeal.org or www.SupportMyParish.org to make tax-deductible gifts.
The international organizers of the effort, which follows up on the annual GivingTuesday campaign held in early December, have warned that due to the coronavirus, "the social sector is in crisis at the very moment the world needs it most."
Amid the pandemic, CCA beneficiaries such as St. John's Hospice and Martha's Choice Marketplace have seen skyrocketing client demand for food assistance and other social services.
St. John's daily lunch service, now in a grab-and-go format to comply with social distancing requirements, has increased from nearly 220 to 320, said Martin Farrell, St. John's director of development and community relations.
"In any given week we could use $50,000 to meet our operating costs," said Farrell.
Martha's Choice director Patrick Walsh said that the Norristown-based emergency food pantry has seen a "100% increase in client volume."
Many families are also struggling to purchase supplies of diapers, the monthly cost of which can average $80 per baby, according to the National Diaper Bank Network.
With infants and toddlers requiring eight to 12 changes a day, "diaper need" can take a toll on both children and parents, said Amy Stoner, director of archdiocesan Catholic Social Services' community-based, housing and homeless services.
"Babies who are sitting in dirty diapers for long periods of time can develop rashes and urinary tract infections," she said, adding that infants in severe diaper need are also at greater risk for child abuse.
Recently, archdiocesan Nutritional Development Services (NDS) partnered with the city of Philadelphia, the Greater Philadelphia Diaper Bank and the nonprofit Mitzvah Circle to provide emergency distribution sites for families in need of free diaper supplies.
Lizanne Hagedorn (left), executive director of archdiocesan Nutritional Development Services (NDS), and NDS staff member Nita Weightman greet a family that collected free diapers and breakfast items at the Archdiocesan Pastoral Center in Philadelphia, April 21. The outreach was a collaboration among the Archdiocese, the city of Philadelphia, the Greater Philadelphia Diaper Bank and the Mitzvah Center in response to the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic on area families. (Photo by Gina Christian)
Some of the phone calls for the assistance have been heartbreaking, said Robert Jones, director of government programs for NDS.
"I've had people say, 'I have nothing for my child. I lost my job, and I am so happy I can come and get diapers," he said.
"With so many people out of work due to COVID-19, the demand for life-sustaining items such as food, essential baby items and rent assistance has greatly increased to unprecedented levels," said CCA board president Bill Phelan. "Any donation can help make a difference."
Since mid-March, more than 30 million Americans (about 18.6% of the nation's labor force) have filed first-time unemployment claims, as businesses — shuttered due to stay-at-home orders — have laid off or furloughed staff. An estimated one in five workers in Pennsylvania are now jobless.
The coronavirus pandemic has compounded Philadelphia's long struggle with poverty, which stood at 24.5% in 2018, and food insecurity, which rose 22% from 2012 to 2017.
Even as public health officials explore ways to gradually lift COVID-related restrictions, unemployment and food insecurity will remain an ongoing issue for some time.
Parish finances will also loom large in the months and years ahead, as weekly collections have plummeted during the pandemic-related suspension of public Masses.
To counter such declines, the CFGP and the archdiocese have created the Parish Support Initiative, which enables donors to support their own parishes – or those deemed most in need – through online gifts as well as checks.
Clients of St. John's Hospice, an archdiocesan Catholic Social Services outreach to men experiencing homelessness, line up to receive free lunches donated to the outreach by Wawa as part of efforts to counter coronavirus-related food insecurity. (Photo courtesy of Martin Farrell)
"The COVID-19 pandemic has created many uncertainties for all of us," said CFGP president and CEO Sarah Hanley. "Our parish communities have felt this impact tremendously too. This initiative offers parishes an additional source of much-needed income in order to supplement their regular offertory."
Weekly collections provide "the vast majority of operating income, roughly 85%" for a parish, according to Arjun Dias, director of the Office for Parish Service and Support.
"Most area parishes have seen significant declines" in collections, Dias said, with an average loss of 57%.
Although Masses and devotions have moved online, electronic giving at parishes has lagged, he added.
"While 87% of our parishes are equipped with e-giving, the utilization rate is roughly 20%," Dias said. "So a lack of public Masses means declining collections."
The Parish Support Initiative has successfully raised over $90,000 to date, and CFGP staff are hoping that GivingTuesdayNow will enable the fund to top $100,000.
Through the archdiocesan Arise project, the monies are already beginning to assist financially challenged parishes in preparing for post-pandemic life. Grants of $250 are being made available by the CFGP to help set up email and social media accounts to reach parishioners in real-time as pandemic restrictions are lifted.
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General Manga Chit-Chat
Views on manga scan sites
Thread starter Sunshineabove
Start date 22 September 2017
Sunshineabove
School Idol
I know it's abit of a grey area but I was have a chat with a few people I work with today who are in to manga and anime and the subject of scans and reading manga online
I was just thinking it's an interesting subject it here what people's opinions are
Captain Karen
Totally depends if a title is licensed or not. Scanlations are fine but if something has an official release there's no need for it. You do get into a gray area when the official translation is way behind the scanlations.
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That's was the point that started the whole thing and I do think that is a very gray area
Karamatsu Boy
It's not even slightly a grey area. Manga sites like Crunchyroll Manga, Comixology, the Kindle store, Renta etc are performing a great service. The others are illegal, demoralising to creators and they actively harm sales. People who lap up the free manga on these scan sites seldom ever buy the original material (I wouldn't have a problem with it if they did, then used the translations to supplement their lack of language studies). Many of them directly compete with licensed material, or harm the chances for unlicensed material to ever become licensed by saturating the market with a free, illegal alternative.
I detest them.
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Thousand Master
It's not a grey area but there are different shades of black. So many of these sites are the darkest shades of black around, ignoring takedown requests, making profit from hosting stuff illegally whether or not it's available through legal methods, and even claiming credit for the translation work done by someone else or slapping their own watermarks on the series, but there are sites that don't do those things. Directing those people who are using the worse sites onto the not-so-bad sites is a significant step in the right direction - and also serves as an excuse to encourage these people to get licensed stuff legally, when they inevitably complain that such-and-such a famous series isn't on there.
On those few sites that do respond to takedown requests, the whole "it's okay because it makes series available that otherwise wouldn't be" argument holds up to a certain extent. But most people who pirate go for the dirtier sites, and the list of most popular manga on these sites gives the lie to the argument, at least within the community at large - they are flooded with series that are readily available legally. And even on the sites that do respond to takedowns the overwhelming sentiment among the community is that the licensor or publisher must be the enemy of the fans whenever they make such a request, rather than simply requesting the site do something that really they should do even without having to be told to.
As for me, yes I do (very) occasionally use a specifically selected site for reading a handful of series through illegal scanlations. But of the 3 series I've read some of this year on that site, 2 of them are ones that I then buy every volume of in Japanese when said volumes come out, and the third is a series that is legally available for free in Japanese but which contains too much technical language for me to understand it without the help of an English translation. Which fits in reasonably well with the stuff Rui "wouldn't have a problem with". I certainly wouldn't use it as a replacement for reading a series legally, and view the act of doing this to be inexcusable. But I know that in adopting this approach I'm an extreme outlier among even the users of a site whose main USP is that it's not as morally bankrupt as other such sites.
State Alchemist
Yes, it's all a bit different today than it used to be. The people who translated Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (still not available in English, but I did buy all the Japanese volumes when they were re-issued - Some of them I bought twice because half of the old volumes had gone OOP) ran a fan site for the manga and encouraged everyone to buy the books - Their goal wasn't to make money but to get something they loved to a wider audience. Although I wasn't really around then, it sounds like the early fansub scene was similar to this.
When it's done on such a commercial scale that popular fansub/scanlation sites that host thousands of series' are generating millions of page-views rather than hundreds and the people who run the sites are actively profiting from ad revenue off other people's work (who they are paying no royalties to) that is really bad.
Shadow Cat
While I agree that published manga, especially ones that either are, or are planning to be released in the west are a big no-no, especially from sites that use obsessive amounts of ads to generate revenue for illegal content.
The main issue with all of the larger sites is they won't take down licensed content, this puts unnecessary pressure on local companies, while most can support themselves (but shouldn't have to) more niche titles either don't get picked up, or canceled.. Best example would be Translator Discusses "Wandering Son" Manga Status
I can't name any sites that actively take down licensed content
Although my opinion does (kinda) change when it comes to Doujin material, Most of the books self-published by Doujin artists rarely get releases in America/UK. The only exception from my understanding would be the (now defunct as of June 2016) DoujinPress.com – Printing and Buying Service for Doujinshi who did get some English translated Doujin in print.
While I personally buy a number of Doujin items from groups that I follow on sites like Pixiv, being Japanese only and pretty darn costly even through sites like Melon Books, its difficult to justify the cost vs what you physically get.
So please Don't get me wrong, I think these artists 100% deserve to be paid for the work they have done but sometimes it just not justifiable or even possible to buy Doujin releases
After saying all that about Doujins,, I don't agree with Doujin sites that have things like Official Rips, I don't/wont use them as once again, I don't agree with people blatantly stealing content like this... There is a vast difference (in my eyes at least) between someone translating a doujin and someone ripping content off official, and even fan translators w/out knowledge
On the other side of things, Fan Translations can, and are used in the production of official release, DMP are working with the group behind the translation for kodomo no jikan and Yuri-Ism (A well know Yuri Group) has also released official translations
So my main hate is for
1) Sites that don't take down Licensed content
2) Sites that use a lot of Advertisement for Revenue from Stolen Content
3) Sites that go out of their way to host Rips
With doujinshi I (again, sorry) disagree in that they aren't meant to be read by a wide audience. It's fan art (or indie comics, for original work) and while I know it sucks to pay £10 or more for 16 pages of gorgeous ink art it's not designed to work as a mainstream infrastructure and if it did most of the truly funny/creative/awful doujinshi would never make it through the transition in the first place due to copyright drama. With parody doujinshi, there's a lot more at stake for the artist than the paltry 300yen cover price. They're drawing this stuff purely for the love of the series, in most cases, so it's even more morally bankrupt to me to scan and share their fan art without their permission.
But then I'm a lunatic who does everything the hard way. I honestly cannot believe how good we have it right now; a day and date localised version of Shounen Jump? A Black Butler simulpub? Random freebie top tier manga included with my Crunchyroll subscription even though I'd have happily paid the same price for an anime-only deal? Yet the content we can read in Shounen Jump still gets pirated because day and date is still too slow compared to the illegal scans which appear before the Japanese release date each week, people recommend the illegal sites over the legitimate ones to new fans and Black Butler/Attack On Titan etc are pirated because people don't like the spelling of some of the names in the official versions (?!). People who can't speak a word of Japanese are strangely discerning all of a sudden when nitpicking 'Levi' versus the nonsense fan-'translation' of 'Rivaille', for example, and can't sully themselves by reading the inferior (correct) edition legally.
Can agree with the general theme that the sites which monetise scanlations are scum. They always put the onus on the creators to spend the time notifying them about licenses too, rather than, like, being actual fans and doing the work themselves. I'd rather that manga creators, publishers and licensors put their money into manga, not into policing cheapskate fans who don't want to support their own so-called hobby night and day.
The reason I'm so firm (or all-out aggressive) is that the cutesy 'grey area' line of thought it just a way for fans to avoid needing to feel guilty about what is, inherently, a fairly scummy way to act unless you are one of the rare people who supplement every single illicit download/view with a purchase of the Japanese version. It's not a grey area; it's blatantly violating copyright and also hurting the creators' feelings. If people want to do that anyway I can't stop them, but when it's brought up right in front of me I will feel the need to insist that they try to understand that they're knowingly breaking the law and damaging the industry, and each person who passively helps these unauthorised sites continue to exist must reconcile that in their own way.
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I think I've only got that opinion of Doujin items as I do tend to buy what I read. But as mentioned, sometimes its not justifiable. Sites like OtakuRupublic can be reselling a doujin for way over the cover price and none of that money goes back to the original creator.
I think an artist should be paid for the work for what they do so prefer to buy via them. Next route would be sites like Mandarake. Other third party resellers are an option but not my preference.
The only reason I read scans is so I can understand what is going on rather than /just looking at pictures/ so I can fully understand the story the artist is trying to tell. While the argument is that I should learn Japanese, its understandable that some people find it difficult to learn and do things in their native language and it may not be possible to learn to read and understand Japanese.
As for released manga:
I've also got Japanese Volumes 1-3 of First Love Sisters as Seven Seas lost their license before releasing Volumes 2 and 3 in English.
I can't seem to find a copy of Volume 3 Last Uniform in Japanese
Got kinda bored of asking DMP every 6 months since 2013 to release Volume 2 of Sweet Blue Flowers, I have got the new release on Preorder as the cost of importing /that/ many volumes from Japan would have been crazy and would have been binned immediately due to lack of space
And I don't think Prism was ever released due to the artist getting caught tracing
Reading unofficial releases of Simulpups and weekly Shounen Jump is just utterly stupid, none of these sites are expensive. And I've seen a few people on Facebook say stuff like /Oh you can read ..../ and honestly, trying to even argue with them with /Its available on Crunchyroll/ is a waste of time. They will just go around in circles for hours saying random ****
st_owly (witch)
Time-Traveller
I read far fewer scans than I did a few years ago. I've always been one to download them rather than read them on dodgy websites online (years of my parents refusing to get wifi in the house so I had to use my limited internet time to download loads of stuff then cart it to my computer on a memory stick to read it... Old habits die hard). My general rule with media consumption is "if I want to watch/read this again, I go buy it." I've discovered loads of great series through scans, a lot of which will never be licensed. (particularly older material). Equally, I've gone out and bought a lot of things I first read through scans. One example is Midnight Secretary, which I first read scanned years ago because the idea of Viz releasing anything josei was laughable. A few years later they released it, so I bought it because I want to support josei in the West. I can appreciate that a lot of people who read scans never buy anything though :/ Ultimately though, I think the manga industry needs a Crunchyroll equivalent. The way Crunchyroll is trying to beat piracy is by being easier than pirating since you can't compete with free and it seems to be working. They need to massively expand their manga catalogue and make the viewer less terrible IMO. Also, I don't want to have to buy individual volumes/chapters of a digital series. I much prefer the all you can eat for £xx per month approach like streaming sites have. And Japanese publishers need to get with the programme and not be so reticent about digital media...
SadBunny
Completely Average High School Student
Crunchyroll Manga is frustratingly limited for anyone used to anime streaming. Big ups to Shueisha's Manga Plus app. Hope it pans out. Shueisha said they were monetizing it with ads, however I have not see an ad. So idk how Manga Plus is being supported here.
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I have a .htacces file which i'm using to redirect certain roots to files.
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This is working great for my subdir redirect but my root redirect to home.php throws up a 404 error and then redirects me to my site's 404 eorr page.
This is my .htaccess file (i've left everything in just incase another rule is throwing things off).
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These are the past year's winners of the acclaimed Google coding competition.
He has been winning the Google Code Jam since 2014. He has secured the top place among thousands of participants. He is a Belarusian-based sports programmer who has a major international competition trophy to his name. At the age of 11, he even qualified for the 2006 International Olympiad in Informatics.
He represented the Republic of Belarus. He won among 21,273 contestants.
He represented Poland. He won among 20,613 contestants.
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WALKING THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE: POEMS ON BROOKLYN & BEYOND
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Q: Download under user's profile directory I have a hard time placing the file I have just downloaded in any other folder than the one the script is in. It really wouldn't matter but I am trying to remotely update some programs with ninite. I am able to download the file but only to the folder the the script is in. I need to run the nininte.exe after its been downloaded with a few command line arguments (namely silent) that I was going to pass to it with a batch script. I would like to just dump it in the downloads folder. When I google it I just get hits on installing python to a specific folder.
Here is my code so far
import urllib

ninite = urllib.urlopen("www.downloadSite.com")
localFile = open('ninite.exe', 'wb')
localFile.write(ninite.read())
ninite.close()

The script works great like this but when I try to add the folder location localFile = open('%userprofile%/Downloads/ninite', 'wb') it returns an error that there's no file or directory with that name.

A: You could use os.path.expandvars() to expand environment variables such as %userprofile% in the destination directory name and use urllib.urlretrieve() to download the file:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
import urllib

url = "https://example.com/path" # where to get the file from
dest_dir = os.path.expandvars('%userprofile%/Downloads/ninite') # where to put it

# make the directories (recursively)
try:
    os.makedirs(dest_dir)
except OSError: # ignore errors
    pass

# download the file
urllib.urlretrieve(url, os.path.join(dest_dir, 'ninite.exe'))

A: It looks like you're trying to use the Windows equivalent of ~/Downloads/ninite. The os.path.expanduser() library function will help you here. You can do this:
import os.path
os.path.expanduser('~/Downloads/ninite.exe')

That will return the full path to the file. Although the tilde is a Unix thing, on Windows it will substitute your %userprofile% environment variable.

A: It looks like what you want to use is %userprofile% which is an environment variable on Windows. open() would not expand it and would treat it literally. You should use os.environ('userprofile') to retrieve the path stored in the environment variable and use it to construct full path to the file. Something like this should do the trick:
localFile = open(os.environ['USERPROFILE']+'/ninite.exe', 'wb')


Brian Powell remembers the Emeritus Professor of Japanese Studies and his skill in bringing the history of the Far East to a Western audience.
Richard Storry, Emeritus Professor of Japanese Studies in the University of Oxford who was a member of the Editorial Board of History Today , and a frequent contributor to the magazine, died at his home in Woodeaton on February 19th at the age of sixty-eight.
Born in Doncaster, Richard Storry was educated at Repton and Merton College, Oxford, where he held a History Postmastership. In 1937, at the suggestion of Edmund Blunden, one of his tutors at Merton, he accepted an appointment as a Lecturer in English at what is now Otaru University of Commerce in the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. He taught in Otaru until 1940, when he returned to wartime Europe. Between 1941 and 1946 he served in the intelligence corps in the Middle East, Singapore, India, Burma and in Britain, and he commanded, with the rank of Major, No. 1 Mobile Section, South East Asia Translation and Interrogation Centre, during the battle of Imphal (1944).


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The Spiritual Truth of JFK (As Movie and Reality)
Posted on November 18, 2013 by Peter Gabel
[Editor's Note: November 22 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and virtually all major TV channels, magazines, and other media outlets are planning specials, documentaries, articles with historical analyses and personal retellings of where people were at the time of assassination. Also, Oliver Stone's 1991 Oscar-nominated film JFK challenging the conventional theory that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman and suggesting that there may have been a conspiracy to kill Kennedy will be shown this month in over 250 theaters nationwide. To put the Kennedy assassination in a historical perspective that is both spiritual and political, we here reprint Peter Gabel's brilliant article on the subject, "The Spiritual Truth of JFK (As Movie and Reality)," originally published in Tikkun in March/April 1992 in response to the original release of Stone's film. Gabel's piece is an example of the kind of historical analysis we are trying to develop in Tikkun – locating the critical event of JFK's assassination in the context of the repression of our collective spiritual longings for a loving world that characterized the 1950s, and what he calls the "opening up of desire" represented by JFK. In defending Stone's film against its critics, Gabel also shows how the conflict between hope and fear, between the desire for an erotic, loving, and caring world and the forces seeking to deny and contain that desire, is central to understanding the meaning of historical events. His analysis also implicitly helps explain why this month there is such an outpouring of memory, pain, longing, and loss in recollecting the assassination fifty years later.]
(JFK, an Oliver Stone film/ CC-BY-NC-SA by www.impawards.com)
Oliver Stone's JFK is a great movie, but not because it "proves" that John F. Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. Stone himself has acknowledged that the movie is a myth — a countermyth to the myth produced by the Warren Commission — but a myth that contains what Stone calls a spiritual truth. To understand that spiritual truth, we must look deeply into the psychological and social meaning of the assassination — its meaning for American society at the time that it occurred, and for understanding contemporary American politics and culture.
The spiritual problem that the movie speaks to is an underlying truth about life in American society — the truth that we all live in a social world characterized by feelings of alienation, isolation, and a chronic inability to connect with one another in a life-giving and powerful way. In our political and economic institutions, this alienation is lived out as a feeling of being "underneath" and at an infinite distance from an alien external world that seems to determine our lives from the outside. True democracy would require that we be actively engaged in ongoing processes of social interaction that strengthen our bonds of connectedness to one another, while at the same time allowing us to realize our need for a sense of social meaning and ethical purpose through the active remaking of the no-longer "external" world around us. But we do not yet live in such a world, and the isolation and distance from reality that envelops us is a cause of immense psychological and emotional pain, a social starvation that is in fact analogous to physical hunger and other forms of physical suffering.
One of the main psychosocial mechanisms by which this pain, this collective starvation, is denied is through the creation of an imaginary sense of community. Today this imaginary world is generated through a seemingly endless ritualized deference to the Flag, the Nation, the Family — pseudocommunal icons of public discourse projecting mere images of social connection that actually deny our real experience of isolation and distance, of living in sealed cubicles, passing each other blankly on the streets, while managing to relieve our alienation to some extent by making us feel a part of something. Political and cultural elites — presidents and ad agencies — typically generate these images of pseudocommunity, but we also play a part in creating them because, from the vantage point of our isolated positions — if we have not found some alternative community of meaning — we need them to provide what sense of social connection they can. We have discussed this phenomenon in Tikkun many times before, emphasizing recently, for example, the way David Duke is able to recognize and confirm the pain of white working-class people and thereby help them overcome, in an imaginary way, their sense of isolation in a public world that leaves them feeling invisible.
In the 1950s, the alienated environment that I have been describing took the form of an authoritarian, rigidly anticommunist mentality that coexisted with the fantasized image of a "perfect" America — a puffed-up and patriotic America that had won World War II and was now producing a kitchen-culture of time-saving appliances, allegedly happy families, and technically proficient organizations and "organization men" who dressed the same and looked the same as they marched in step toward the "great big beautiful tomorrow" hailed in General Electric's advertising jingle of that period. It was a decade of artificial and rigid patriotic unity, sustained in large part by an equally rigid and pathological anticommunism; for communism was the "Other" whose evil we needed to exterminate or at least contain to preserve our illusory sense of connection, meaning, and social purpose. As the sixties were later to make clear, the cultural climate of the fifties was actually a massive denial of the desire for true connection and meaning. But at the time the cultural image-world of the fifties was sternly held in place by a punitive and threatening system of authoritarian male hierarchies, symbolized most graphically by the McCarthy hearings, the House Un-American Activities Committee, and the person of J. Edgar Hoover.
(JFK/ Credit: Creative Commons)
In this context, the election of John F. Kennedy and his three years in office represented what I would call an opening-up of desire. I say this irrespective of his official policies, which are repeatedly criticized by the Left for their initial hawkish character, and irrespective also of the posthumous creation of the Camelot myth, which does exaggerate the magic of that period. The opening-up that I am referring to is a feeling that Kennedy was able to evoke — a feeling of humor, romance, idealism, and youthful energy, and a sense of hope that touched virtually every American alive during that time. It was this feeling — "the rise of a new generation of Americans" — that more than any ideology threatened the system of cultural and erotic control that dominated the fifties and that still dominated the governmental elites of the early sixties — the FBI, the CIA, even elements of Kennedy's own cabinet and staff. Kennedy's evocative power spoke to people's longing for some transcendent community and in so doing, it allowed people to make themselves vulnerable enough to experience both hope and, indirectly, the legacy of pain and isolation that had been essentially sealed from public awareness since the end of the New Deal.
Everyone alive at the time of the assassination knows exactly where they were when Kennedy was shot because, as it is often said, his assassination "traumatized the nation." But the real trauma, if we move beyond the abstraction of "the nation," was the sudden, violent loss for millions of people of the part of themselves that had been opened up, or had begun to open up during Kennedy's presidency. As a sixteen-year-old in boarding school with no interest in politics, I wrote a long note in my diary asking God to help us through the days ahead, even though I didn't believe in God at the time. And I imagine that you, if you were alive then, no matter how cynical you may have sometimes felt since then about politics or presidents or the "real" Kennedy himself, have a similar memory preciously stored in the region of your being where your longings for a better world still reside.
In this issue, Peter Dale Scott gives an account of the objective consequences of the assassination, of the ways that the nation's anticommunist elites apparently reversed Kennedy's beginning efforts to withdraw from Vietnam and perhaps through his relationship with Khrushchev to thaw out the addiction to blind anti-communist rage — an addiction that, as he saw during the Cuban missile crisis, could well have led to a nuclear war. But for these same elites, the mass-psychological consequences of the assassination posed quite a different problem from that of reversing government policy — namely, the need to find a way to reconstitute the image of benign social connection that could reform the imaginary unity of the country on which the legitimacy of government policy depends. In order to contain the desire released by the Kennedy presidency and the sense of loss and sudden disintegration caused by the assassination, government officials had to create a process that would rapidly "prove" — to the satisfaction of people's emotions — that the assassination and loss were the result of socially innocent causes.
Here we come to the mass-psychological importance of Lee Harvey Oswald and the lone gunman theory of the assassination. As Stone's movie reminds us in a congeries of rapid-fire, post-assassination images, Oswald was instantly convicted in the media and in mass consciousness even before he was shot by Jack Ruby two days after the assassination. After an elaborate ritualized process producing twenty-six volumes of testimony, the Warren Commission sanctified Oswald's instant conviction in spite of the extreme implausibility of the magic bullet theory, the apparently contrary evidence of the Zapruder film, and other factual information such as the near impossibility of Oswald's firing even three bullets (assuming the magic bullet theory to be true) with such accuracy so quickly with a manually cocked rifle. You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist, nor do you have to believe any of the evidence marshaled together by conspiracy theorists, to find it odd that Oswald's guilt was immediately taken for granted within two days of the killing, with no witnesses and no legal proceeding of any kind — and that his guilt was later confidently affirmed by a high-level Commission whose members had to defy their own common sense in order to do so. The whole process might even seem extraordinary considering that we are talking about the assassination of an American president.
(JFK's Grave, 1964/ CC-BY-NC-SA by Rob Ketcherside)
But it is not so surprising if you accept the mass-psychological perspective I am outlining here — the perspective that Kennedy and the Kennedy years had elicited a lyricism and a desire for transcendent social connection that contradicted the long-institutionalized forces of emotional repression that preceded them. The great advantage of the lone gunman theory is that it gives a nonsocial account of the assassination. It takes the experience of trauma and loss and momentary social disintegration, isolates the evil source of the experience in one antisocial individual, and leaves the image of society as a whole — the "imaginary community" that I referred to earlier — untarnished and still "good." From the point of view of those in power, in other words, the lone gunman theory reinstitutes the legitimacy of existing social and political authority as a whole because it silently conveys the idea that our elected officials and the organs of government, among them the CIA and the FBI, share our innocence and continue to express our democratic will. But from a larger psychosocial point of view, the effect was to begin to close up the link between desire and politics that Kennedy had partially elicited, and at the same time to impose a new repression of our painful feelings of isolation and disconnection beneath the facade of our reconstituted but imaginary political unity.
Having said this, I do not want to be understood to be suggesting that there was a conspiracy to set up Oswald in order to achieve this mass-psychological goal. There may well have been a conspiracy to set up Oswald, but no complex theory is required to explain it. And it would be absurd, in my view, to think that the entire media consciously intended to manipulate the American people in the headlong rush to convict Oswald in the press. The point is rather that this headlong rush was something we all — or most of us — participated in because we ourselves, unconsciously, are deeply attached to the status quo, to our legitimating myths of community, and to denying our own alienation and pain. The interest we share with the mainstream media and with government and corporate elites is to maintain, through a kind of unconscious collusion, the alienated structures of power and social identity that protect us from having to risk emerging from our sealed cubicles and allowing our fragile longing for true community to become a public force.
The great achievement of Oliver Stone's movie is that it uses this traumatic, formative event of the Kennedy assassination — an event full of politically important cultural memory and feeling — to assault the mythological version of American society and to make us experience the forces of repression that shape social reality. The movie may or may not be accurate in its account of what Lyndon Johnson might have known or of the phones in Washington shutting down just before the assassination or of the New Zealand newspaper that mysteriously published Oswald's photographs before he was arrested. But the movie does give a kinetic and powerful depiction of the real historical forces present at the time of the assassination, forces that were in part released by the challenge to the fanatical anticommunism of the fifties that Kennedy to some extent brought about. Through his crosscutting images of the anti-Castro fringe, the civil-rights movement, high and low New Orleans club life, and elites in corporate and government offices who thought they ran the country, Stone uses all his cinematic and political energy to cut through the civics-class version of history and to bring the viewer into sudden contact with the realities of power and alienation that were present at that time and are present in a different form now.
I say this is the great achievement of the movie because no matter who killed Kennedy, it was the conflict between the opening-up of desire that he represented and the alienated need of the forces around him to shut this desire down that caused his death. This struggle was an important part of the meaning of the 1960s, and it provides the link, which Stone draws openly, between John Kennedy's death and the deaths of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy. There is no way for the forces of good to win the struggle between desire and alienation unless people can break through the gauzy images of everything being fine except the lone nuts, a legitimating ideology that is actually supported by our denial of the pain of our isolation and our collective deference to the system of Authority that we use to keep our legitimating myths in place. Oliver Stone's JFK brings us face-to-face with social reality by penetrating the compensatory image-world of mass culture, politics, and journalism. And for that reason it is an important effort by someone whose consciousness was shaped by the sixties to transform and shake free the consciousness of the nineties.
Peter Gabel is editor-at-large of Tikkun. His new book, Another Way of Seeing: Essays on Transforming Law, Politics, and Culture (published by Quid Pro Books) is available from Reach and Teach and Amazon. The article reprinted above, "The Spiritual Truth of JFK (As Movie and Reality)," also appears in The Bank Teller and Other Essays on the Politics of Meaning (Acada Books, 2000).
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About Peter Gabel
Peter Gabel is a law professor and a founder of the critical legal studies movement, a marriage and family therapist, author of the Bank Teller and Other Essays on the Politics of Meaning, editor-at-large of Tikkun, co-creator of the Noe Valley Farmers Market in San Francisco, bass player in The Central Park Zoo (www.cpzoo.com), partner of union organizer Lisa Jaicks, and father of Sam (14).
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4 thoughts on "The Spiritual Truth of JFK (As Movie and Reality)"
Robert Blair Kaiser on November 22, 2013 at 12:49 pm said:
Peter Gabel writes that "…most of us — participated [in the Lone Gun Theory] because we ourselves, unconsciously, are deeply attached to the status quo, to our legitimating myths of community." For those of us still connected to our religion, that religion (Protestant, Catholic, or Jew), we have a "myth of commnity" and for those who reach out to help feed the hungry, cloth the naked and help find shelter for the homeless, it is more than a myth, it is real.
Trouble is that we also share another "myth of community" and it is also a religion of sorts. It is our belief in America as the seat of all goodness, a faith in our leaders who lead us into war under the banner of goodness. The current campaign to "thank our military" for giving us "our freedom" that we before every NFL or NBA game is a good example of the propaganda (sponsored by our milirtary but with the connivance of the NFL and the NBA) that stuffs us with the notion that we owe "our freedom"to our boys and girls in the Army, Navy, Marinss, etc. I thought we owed our freedom to the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution and to vigilant members of Congess and the media to make sure we are not bamboozled into all kinds of things (lie wars snd guns) that profit General Electric,General Motors, General Dynamics and all the other generals.
Trouble is, the members of Congress and a large part of the media are caught up in our worship of America, "right or wrong, my country, but my country right or wrong"–unable to see who is making themselves rich on war, killing off our young people, taking the bread from the mouths of the poor.
I like to quote Marine General Smedley Butler, who said this in a public spech some 80 years ago. Sad thing:I think it is still true in 2013.
QUOTE: I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism…. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service. I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents. ENDQUOTE
Gregg on November 22, 2013 at 1:16 pm said:
Thanks for both the article and the response!
bette on November 26, 2013 at 4:11 pm said:
Thanks, Peter Gabel. Makes even more sense reading it now, the second time around. And GREGG, great response.
Bette Tiago on November 26, 2013 at 4:13 pm said:
ROBERT BLAIR KAISER. Sorry I missed acknowledging you comment. Thanks!


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