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RELEASE: Displacing Unhoused Neighbours Will Not Solve Crisis
OneCity Vancouver urges the City of Vancouver to pause sidewalk evictions until front-line agencies can secure suitable and safe alternative living arrangements for residents.
VANCOUVER, B.C. (Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh territories) — In response to the encampment clearings yesterday afternoon on East Hastings Street, OneCity Vancouver is calling on the City to pause evictions until suitable and safe alternative living arrangements are secured, and to work with BC Housing and the provincial government to ensure those alternatives are available.
After a series of fires in single-room occupancy (SRO) buildings, a heat dome which has resulted in unmanageable conditions in poorly maintained and underfunded SROs, the end of unjust and dehumanizing street-sweeps, and a chronic underfunding of affordable housing, a tent city has grown on East Hastings Street. In a cruel twist of fate, it is now being cleared because it poses a fire hazard to other SROs.
It is being cleared despite the fact that BC Housing has explicitly stated that it does not have the units to house the people who will be displaced by today's actions.
"Our neighbours, in a clear violation of their human rights, are being removed from the place they live without their consent and with nowhere to go. These members of our community are struggling with multiple intersecting crises, including a housing crisis, a poisoned drug supply, underfunding of mental health supports, a heat wave and increased levels of stigmatization and violence," said Matthew Norris, OneCity Vancouver City Council candidate and member of the Lac La Ronge First Nation.
"These events are the result of decades of poor policy and underfunding including: a lack of affordable housing options in neighbourhoods throughout the city, chronic underinvestment in supportive services, and a reliance on street sweeps. Today's actions will only serve to displace our unhoused neighbours and will do little to address the root causes of homelessness and poverty in our city," Norris added.
Whether a person is being evicted from a house, an apartment, or a temporary structure like a tent, evictions are profoundly destabilizing and dehumanizing. They remove a person from local social and support networks, and this instability is compounded by the lack of options for where to go, and the uncertainty of where their belongings will be relocated to and how they will be accessed.
"If we want to avoid encampments in our parks or on our streets, we need to build dignified housing for people at every income level, in every neighbourhood in the city," said Serena Jackson, OneCity Vancouver candidate for Park Board.
"Every Vancouverite should be ashamed of what happened today. But we should be even more ashamed that this tent city existed at all. We never should have let it get this bad. We saw this at Oppenheimer and Strathcona, and we continue to see it at CRAB Park and on Hastings. Evicting people who have nowhere to go doesn't resolve anything," Jackson said.
Despite the hundreds of people sleeping on our street and a pressing shortage of every type of housing, the City of Vancouver continues to subject new social housing proposals to lengthy, often-demeaning public hearings.
These hearings put residents' human rights on trial. Not only are fully-funded homes left unbuilt due to aesthetic concerns, the future residents themselves are often the subject of organized and discriminatory opposition, resulting in the further stigmatization and demonization of some of Vancouver's most vulnerable residents.
The status quo is unsustainable. We cannot have tent cities on our streets. We cannot expose other SROs to the threat of fire. But neither can we close our eyes to the fact that for many of the people who were evicted today, and who will be evicted in the weeks to come, a tent on the street was the least worst option.
The City of Vancouver must pause these evictions until front-line workers, in partnership with the DTES community, can secure suitable and safe alternative housing arrangements for those now living on Hastings Street.
To ensure that this never happens again, we must reform our processes and secure the funding to build the homes we need - and ensure that every Vancouverite, no matter their income level or employment status, lives in dignity.
OneCity Vancouver will release its platform, including its proposed response to Vancouver's housing crisis and community safety, in the coming weeks.
In 2020, there were 2,095 homeless people living in Vancouver. Although a more recent count has not been conducted due to COVID-19, we can only assume that number has grown.
The majority of unhoused people were living in Vancouver when they found themselves without a home.
36% of unhoused Vancouverites are/were in the care of the Ministry as a Child or Youth.
Indigenous people are over-represented within the unhoused population, with 39% of the unhoused population being Indigenous despite representing only 2% of the general population.
Black people are significantly over-represented among unhoused people. They are 3.7 times more likely to experience homelessness than the general population.
Nearly 300 speakers spoke at the marathon hearing for supportive housing at 8th and Arbutus - far more than spoke at hearings on the Broadway Plan.
Following a presentation made at City Hall in support of the 8th and Arbutus project, BC Housing CEO Shane Ramsay was "swarmed by opponents and threatened with physical violence."
For more information on a human rights approach for homeless encampments see: "A National Protocol for Homeless Encampments in Canada" by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing.
MEDIA CONTACT FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Barrett Bryan-Soron
[email protected]ecityvancouver.ca
RELEASE: ABC majority kills Vancouver Renters Office, leaving Vancouver renters in the cold
In a city where the majority of citizens are renters, ABC shows that they don't have renters' backs
What. A. Year.
2022 was a rollercoaster of emotion. Some laughing, some yelling, a lot of meetings, emails, and knocking doors. Local artists organised amazing street parties and outdoor music, local activists organised important rallies for justice and human rights, advocates fought to keep trans kids safe...

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A former Denver radio personality has filed a lawsuit against singer Taylor Swift, saying he lost his job after being accused of inappropriately touching Swift during a photo session.
The lawsuit was filed Thursday, Sept. 10, in U.S. District court in Denver by David Mueller.
The lawsuit says Mueller was falsely accused by one of Swift's security team of grabbing the singer's buttocks backstage at the Pepsi Center on June 2, 2013.
A statement from Swift's publicist on Saturday says Mueller's employer was given evidence after the incident and made its own decision on his job status.


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Q: need a conditional statement for desired output I need to write a conditional tatement in IF class by using three variable to get some desired output, i have tried many logics with that three variable to get the desired output which i can use in if class but i couldn't succeed, hope anyone can help me with this, Thank you
here us the conditional table i need
A                 B            C            resultFalse      False      False          FalseTrue        False        False        TrueTrue        True        False         FalseTrue         True        True            TrueTrue        True        False          False

A: The result is only true if
1) A is true and B & C are false
2) A, B, and C are true
In other words:
if((A & !B & !C) | (A & B & C)){
  print('true')
}

The third and fifth row in your table are equal by the way.

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Former land owners not satisfied with the amount of compensation determined by the Valuer General and offered to them by the acquiring authority can lodge an objection with the Land and Environment Court.
Court proceedings involving claims for compensation are between the acquiring authority and the land owner.
Objections need to be lodged within 90 days of receiving the compensation notice. If an objection is not lodged within 90 days the offer of compensation is deemed as accepted.
If an objection is lodged with the court the acquiring authority is not bound by the offer to pay the amount of compensation which was determined by the Valuer General. The acquiring authority may contend for a lower amount. However, the offer remains open for acceptance until the court determines the proceedings.
For more information about the Land and Environment Court, visit their website at www.lec.justice.nsw.gov.au.
by calling 02 9113 8200 or by email at lecourt@agd.nsw.gov.au.
Section 67 of the Land Acquisition (Just Terms Compensation) Act 1991 provides that a person who has not been given a determination of compensation notice and whose claim for compensation is rejected (or taken to be rejected) may appeal to the Land and Environment Court against the rejection of the claim.
Where an appeal is not lodged within the 90 day period, the Land and Environment Court may consider the person's claim for compensation if satisfied that there is good cause for the person's failure to lodge the appeal within that period.


> (four tuners) in it.
> frontend number for one of the DiVCO frontends.
> - Forcing the frontends to load in a particular slot number.
> - Forcing the nxt6000 to load after all the other frontends have loaded.
> until manually renamed and the module loaded.
> Can anyone suggest any methods for resolving this?
> but neither the blacklist method not renaming the file seems to work.
> Are there hidden options available when loading the modules??
> reload Linux on the HTPC and now have this issue.
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An Arctic fox in Sweden's Västerbotten County. Creative Commons
Fewer Arctic foxes born in Sweden
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A cyclical decline in the population of small rodents in the Swedish mountains has hurt the numbers of one of Sweden's most endangered predators, the Arctic fox.
The Arctic fox, or fjällräv in Swedish, lives in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of the northern hemisphere, is an endangered species in Scandinavia, where populations are critically low.
Last year, a record 88 kits were born in the Swedish mountains, reports Swedish Radio News in Norrbotten. However, this year, only seven have been born.
This has not come as a surprise to researchers involved in protecting the Arctic fox.
"It was expected as we had a violent crash in the small rodents population beginning last year," says Stockholm University Zoology professor Anders Angerbjörn, to Swedish Radio News in Norrbotten.
Stocks of Arctic fox fluctuate in a cycle in tandem with the population of lemmings and voles (a 3- to 4-year cycle), which are the main food source of the predators.
In the past, longer sustained periods without a regular supply of the small rodents, coupled with hunting, now illegal, led to the Arctic fox becoming critically endangered in Norway and Sweden.
Several projects are in operation in both countries helping to supplement food supplies and Anders Angerbjörn hopes that they can make a difference.
"As long as we get nice four-year-cycles of small rodents we can, with our various measures, support the Arctic fox population, so that it is regularly increasing," he tells Swedish Radio News.
Today, there are between 150 and 200 Arctic foxes in Sweden.
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Resolving conflicts when families are finding a new normal is the driving force for Toronto family lawyer Erin Chaiton-Murray.
"It's getting to a resolution and feeling that you've helped a client close a chapter and move to the next stage of their life," says Chaiton-Murray, senior associate at Fogelman Law.
"The end result is not always a perfect solution but I think that it is rewarding when a client feels that they have been able to reach a resolution and when they've done so in a way that feels good in the circumstances — preserving their own sanity, their relationship with their children and hopefully, with their former spouse," she tells AdvocateDaily.com.
Before entering law, Chaiton-Murray, who grew up in Toronto and holds a Bachelor of Arts in health studies and gerontology from McMaster University, originally considered pursuing the field of social work.
She was interested in studying disabilities and health and worked with children with autism and at the centre for students with disabilities at McMaster. But she also had a blossoming interest in law, potentially in areas of health and family law.
So Chaiton-Murray combined those interests by enrolling in the joint law and social work program at the University of Toronto, graduating in 2008. Through law school, she became involved in Downtown Legal Services, the student-run clinic at U of T, working on both criminal and family law cases.
She then summered, articled and practised family law at a well-known Toronto family law boutique before joining Basman Smith in 2013.
Chaiton-Murray — a married mother of three daughters who enjoys running and travelling in her spare time — offers a range of services, from drafting domestic contracts to acting for clients in high-conflict and complex support, property, custody and access matters.
She says being a mother of young children gives her a good perspective for clients who have concerns about co-parenting, managing schedules and other family issues.
"Managing a family is busy and when you're trying to do it as a separated parent, it adds a layer of complication and stress," she says.
In her practice, Chaiton-Murray tackles financial issues from child and spousal support to more complicated property and valuation issues around businesses or other assets.
"In many cases, the focus is on conflict management, helping clients navigate through the process, and finding a method or forum to reach a solution that is livable for everyone," she says.
Many of her cases are resolved out of court, either through direct negotiation or mediation, she adds.
Through it all, Chaiton-Murray says she finds her work interesting because of the range of people and issues she encounters.


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Q: Create/delete disk partitions via WMI there is a way to create/delete disk partitions via WMI ?
I'm already able to mount/unmount virtual disks (vhd) and list their partitions.

A: As far as I know, there is no way to create/delete partitions in WMI. You may want to look into the Shell Functions


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STRUCTURAL GENOME
Deciphering living organisms
Fifteen laboratories will analyze the structure of the proteins of genes
Brazilian researchers have already mastered the techniques of sequencing genes and FAPESP's different genome projects have produced a great deal of information. Now, the analysis of the three dimensional structure of the proteins expressed by the genes is the next step in understanding the workings of living organisms and FAPESP has just launched the Structural Genome Project in partnership with the Ludwig Cancer Research Institute. The project provides for investment of US$ 3.5 million over four years. The money will be distributed over a network of 15 laboratories in the State of São Paulo to finance the purchase of supplies and equipment. The biochemist Rogério Meneghini, director of the Structural Molecular Biology Center of the National Synchrotron Light Laboratory, in Campinas, will be the project coordinator. "Biological work is increasingly done in synchrotron light laboratories. It is a worldwide tendency", said Meneghini.
The Structural Genome Project envisions the study of protein which sequences have been generated by in a given genome project. "At first, we thought of using only genes expressed in the Human Cancer Genome Project as they are extremely relevant" says Meneghini, who is of one the fathers of project. "Now we are considering studying the genome structure of Xylella fastidiosa. Besides being interesting in itself, it will let us reach the crystallization stage faster than working with human proteins," he adds. The Ludwig Institute will come in with the sequences produced in the Cancer Genome and already stored in its gene database or those to be produced in the future. The idea is to choose 50 or 100 genes and carry out the so-called High Throughput Protein Structure Determination procedure: expression, in vitro synthesis, purification, crystallization, and resolution of the structure of the protein on a relatively large scale. This process, starting with the genome and ending with the structure, has been called the structural genome process.
Thorough analysis
In contrast to other genome projects, in which the first sequences began to appear in the first week, structural genome determination is more detailed. "If we manage to do ten relevant three-dimensional structures, we will be making a significant contribution to our knowledge of the structure of proteins", says Meneghini. He explains that to obtain the structure is very elaborated process, which demands to overcome bottlenecks in the way that range from the expression to the resolution of the structure.
Knowledge of protein structure facilitates the understanding of their function in cells. Based on this, determining genome structure also make it possible to design molecules that inhibit the activity of the protein, when this is desired. Diseases, in particular those caused by viruses, bacteria, and protozoa, are related to the action of proteins. Hence the interest by laboratories and pharmaceutical companies in the knowledge of these protein structures, which means that more specific drugs can be designed for treating these diseases. One of the components of the cocktail used by HIV carriers, for example, is a molecule whose design is based on the three-dimensional structure of a HIV protease. This molecule attaches to the protease, inhibiting it. This is what is known as drug design.
Workshop with specialists
Researchers interested in taking part in the project and scientists already working in this field in research centers in Brazil and abroad met in the Foundation's auditorium on June 13, in a workshop to present the project. The scientists Roberto Poljak, of the Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology of the University of Maryland, USA, Christina Redfield, of the Center for Molecular Sciences in Oxford, England, and William Studier, of the Biology Department of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, who took part in the meeting, will be members of the committee monitoring the project. "We have come to learn about the Brazilian project, exchange information, make suggestions and assess the project", said Poljak.
Christina Redfield heads a group of five researchers at one of the biggest NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) centers in the world. There, they focus on the dynamics of the structure being analyzed and the way it interacts with the molecules in its natural environment. "What I liked about the idea of this workshop was the diversity of the fields involved. Even though they work differently on the same problem, crystallographers and scientists involved with NMR end up competing. They do not collaborate. It seems to me that here the idea is to join forces to make progress in the work", said Redfield.
The Argentine crystallographer Roberto Poljak began his project in the US with orphan genes, in other words, those with no known function. Out goal is to contribute ideas as to what the function of these genes might be", he said.
The biologist, biophysicist, and biochemist William Studier uses protein cloning, purification, crystallization, and protein expression in his routine research. "The Brookhaven National Laboratory is not yet working on a particular protein. First we are setting up the capacity to do so", said Studier, whose pilot project, for studying yeast, began two years ago. "We have quite a big research community in this field. Besides this, yeast is eukaryotic and has many genes similar to those of humans". By the end of this year, Studier's laboratory will cease being funded by the US Department of Energy and will be included in National Institutes o Health's budget. Enthusiastic about what he has read of FAPESP's genome projects in international scientific magazines, Studier believes it is important to share experiences so that Brazil can set up a good program. In his opinion, genome projects need coordinating so that groups spread out all over the world do not waste time duplicating activities. "The scientific community needs to communicate. It is not a question of stealing a march on others to be able to produce drugs. We leave that to the pharmaceutical industry. The important thing is to get basic information for the use of all", he says.
The history of proteins
John Kenderw published the first work explaining the dimensional structure of a protein, myoglobin, at the end of the 40s. Later, in the 60s, the Australian Max Perutz, working in Britain, won the Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of hemoglobin. The technique used to discover the structure of the protein is crystallography. A pure solution of the protein is obtained and crystallization is attempted. Even today, crystallization is looked on as an art. Scientists joke that when you love the crystal it grows better. The difficulty lies in the need for a large number of protein molecules organized in a complex crystalline structure. Similarly, spectroscopy using nuclear magnetic resonance is another method of studying proteins that does not require crystallization. This method is advantageous in that it allows the study to be undertaken in solutions; nonetheless, it is still limited by the size of the proteins within its reach.

This work first appeared on Pesquisa FAPESP under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Read the original here.

Brazilian researchers have already mastered the techniques of sequencing genes and FAPESP's different genome projects have produced a great deal of information. Now, the analysis of the three dimensional structure of the proteins expressed by the genes is the next step in understanding the workings of living organisms and FAPESP has just launched the Structural Genome Project in partnership with the Ludwig Cancer Research Institute. The project provides for investment of US$ 3.5 million over four years. The money will be distributed over a network of 15 laboratories in the State of São Paulo to finance the purchase of supplies and equipment. The biochemist Rogério Meneghini, director of the Structural Molecular Biology Center of the National Synchrotron Light Laboratory, in Campinas, will be the project coordinator. "Biological work is increasingly done in synchrotron light laboratories. It is a worldwide tendency", said Meneghini. The Structural Genome Project envisions the study of protein which sequences have been generated by in a given genome project. "At first, we thought of using only genes expressed in the Human Cancer Genome Project as they are extremely relevant" says Meneghini, who is of one the fathers of project. "Now we are considering studying the genome structure of Xylella fastidiosa. Besides being interesting in itself, it will let us reach the crystallization stage faster than working with human proteins," he adds. The Ludwig Institute will come in with the sequences produced in the Cancer Genome and already stored in its gene database or those to be produced in the future. The idea is to choose 50 or 100 genes and carry out the so-called High Throughput Protein Structure Determination procedure: expression, in vitro synthesis, purification, crystallization, and resolution of the structure of the protein on a relatively large scale. This process, starting with the genome and ending with the structure, has been called the structural genome process. Thorough analysis In contrast to other genome projects, in which the first sequences began to appear in the first week, structural genome determination is more detailed. "If we manage to do ten relevant three-dimensional structures, we will be making a significant contribution to our knowledge of the structure of proteins", says Meneghini. He explains that to obtain the structure is very elaborated process, which demands to overcome bottlenecks in the way that range from the expression to the resolution of the structure. Knowledge of protein structure facilitates the understanding of their function in cells. Based on this, determining genome structure also make it possible to design molecules that inhibit the activity of the protein, when this is desired. Diseases, in particular those caused by viruses, bacteria, and protozoa, are related to the action of proteins. Hence the interest by laboratories and pharmaceutical companies in the knowledge of these protein structures, which means that more specific drugs can be designed for treating these diseases. One of the components of the cocktail used by HIV carriers, for example, is a molecule whose design is based on the three-dimensional structure of a HIV protease. This molecule attaches to the protease, inhibiting it. This is what is known as drug design. Workshop with specialists Researchers interested in taking part in the project and scientists already working in this field in research centers in Brazil and abroad met in the Foundation's auditorium on June 13, in a workshop to present the project. The scientists Roberto Poljak, of the Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology of the University of Maryland, USA, Christina Redfield, of the Center for Molecular Sciences in Oxford, England, and William Studier, of the Biology Department of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, who took part in the meeting, will be members of the committee monitoring the project. "We have come to learn about the Brazilian project, exchange information, make suggestions and assess the project", said Poljak. Christina Redfield heads a group of five researchers at one of the biggest NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) centers in the world. There, they focus on the dynamics of the structure being analyzed and the way it interacts with the molecules in its natural environment. "What I liked about the idea of this workshop was the diversity of the fields involved. Even though they work differently on the same problem, crystallographers and scientists involved with NMR end up competing. They do not collaborate. It seems to me that here the idea is to join forces to make progress in the work", said Redfield. The Argentine crystallographer Roberto Poljak began his project in the US with orphan genes, in other words, those with no known function. Out goal is to contribute ideas as to what the function of these genes might be", he said. The biologist, biophysicist, and biochemist William Studier uses protein cloning, purification, crystallization, and protein expression in his routine research. "The Brookhaven National Laboratory is not yet working on a particular protein. First we are setting up the capacity to do so", said Studier, whose pilot project, for studying yeast, began two years ago. "We have quite a big research community in this field. Besides this, yeast is eukaryotic and has many genes similar to those of humans". By the end of this year, Studier's laboratory will cease being funded by the US Department of Energy and will be included in National Institutes o Health's budget. Enthusiastic about what he has read of FAPESP's genome projects in international scientific magazines, Studier believes it is important to share experiences so that Brazil can set up a good program. In his opinion, genome projects need coordinating so that groups spread out all over the world do not waste time duplicating activities. "The scientific community needs to communicate. It is not a question of stealing a march on others to be able to produce drugs. We leave that to the pharmaceutical industry. The important thing is to get basic information for the use of all", he says. The history of proteins John Kenderw published the first work explaining the dimensional structure of a protein, myoglobin, at the end of the 40s. Later, in the 60s, the Australian Max Perutz, working in Britain, won the Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of hemoglobin. The technique used to discover the structure of the protein is crystallography. A pure solution of the protein is obtained and crystallization is attempted. Even today, crystallization is looked on as an art. Scientists joke that when you love the crystal it grows better. The difficulty lies in the need for a large number of protein molecules organized in a complex crystalline structure. Similarly, spectroscopy using nuclear magnetic resonance is another method of studying proteins that does not require crystallization. This method is advantageous in that it allows the study to be undertaken in solutions; nonetheless, it is still limited by the size of the proteins within its reach.


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package spring.boot.admin.deploy.pipe;

import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import rx.Observable;
import rx.functions.Func1;
import spring.boot.admin.deploy.config.DeployProperties.ActionResult;

public interface Pipeline extends Func1<List<ActionResult>, List<ActionResult>>{

	@Override List<ActionResult> call(List<ActionResult> actionResults);

	static <T> Observable<T> pipelize(Iterable<? extends Func1<? super T, T>> pipes, Observable<T> observable){
		Iterator<? extends Func1<? super T, T>> iter = pipes.iterator();
		while(iter.hasNext()){
			observable = observable.map(iter.next());
		}
		return observable;
	}

	public interface Defaults{

		public interface BootstrapPipe extends Pipeline{};

		public interface DestroyPipe extends Pipeline{};

		public interface ActionsPipe extends Pipeline{};

		public interface LogPipe extends BootstrapPipe, DestroyPipe, ActionsPipe{

			final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger("LogPipe");

			@Override
			default List<ActionResult> call(List<ActionResult> actionResults) {
				actionResults.forEach(rs -> logger.info(rs.toString()));
				return actionResults;
			}
		};

	}

}

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Category Archives: KUHT
A Few Notes On Our Food Problem, Bob Dylan, Brooke Jacobson, Burt Lancaster, Carrie Brownstein, Charlton Heston, Christina Kovac, Fred Armisen, Gerald O'Grady, Harry Belafonte, Houston, James Blue, James Ivory, KUHT, life, NEA, Portland, Richard Blue, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, Sheldon Renan, The Invisible City, The March, USIA, Wendell Berry, Who KIlled The Fourth Ward
Understanding Blue: Politics, Pluraversality, and the Muse of Form
Rosalie Kunoth-Monks never met James Blue, but she is a member of the pluriverse he loved.
She lives in Utopia (true!). I saw her on the internet, where I also saw this:
Both videos are examples of regional film.
Rosalie Kunoth-Monks addressed her remarks to a live audience in Australia. Toni and Candace first deployed their withering lack of respect for logic in a no-budget web series, Thunder Ant, shot in Portland, not far from the house where James Blue grew up.
Blue believed that regional film = democratized media = increased diversity of voices being heard. As a member of the NEA's first media funding panel, he voted to fund a network of regional film centers, all four of which still exist today. One of them is the Northwest Film Center, where The March and A Few Notes On Our Food Problem screened on April 25, 2014 as part of the James Blue Tribute.
Blue believed stories could change things. He was fascinated by the exercise of power which came with access to a camera, and never resolved his ambivalence about his privilege as a gifted filmmaker. His awareness of privilege fueled his activism as an educator. It drove him to leave Hollywood. It inspired him to place cameras in the hands of his subjects. He incorporated it into his work.
Was James Blue a political filmmaker?
In the discussion which followed the screening, Brooke Jacobson, an NEA colleague of James Blue, was startled to hear the audience conclude he was not.
There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say, 'It is yet more difficult than you thought.' This is the muse of form. Wendell Berry
Blue shot Who Killed Fourth Ward? on 8mm with a two person crew for community television. By contrast, he shot The March, fourteen years earlier, on 35mm with seven two person Hearst Metrotone newsreel crews and the mandate of the President.
The March and A Few Notes On Our Food Problem, made by Blue for USIA and USIAD respectively, deliver a sense of the world as troubled but benign. In Who Killed Fourth Ward? and The Invisible City, made for KUHT community television, that surety is gone. In them, Blue, following a new muse of form, relinquishes his duties as omniscient, unseen narrator, and enters the film as a participant. He is asking questions, and bringing along a camera to make sure he gets answers. It is easy to imagine if the same Northwest Film Center audience had seen those two later documentaries, they would have had no trouble labeling Blue a political filmmaker.
But was Blue, in Houston, a newly political filmmaker?
The full title of the March On Washington was March On Washington For Jobs And Freedom. Employment, voting rights, the elimination of Jim Crow – these are not minor demands. The organizers had been preparing for this event for decades. In Blue's voice over narration, he speaks about the potential for violence, and shows the steps the organizers were taking to keep control of the crowd. Feed people, use walkie talkies, maintain a chain of command.
Blue understood what could happen if thousands of citizens squared off against police. He knew what it was like to live in a world where violence had overtaken the civic order. He had directly experienced the war behind the recent Paris Massacre. Disaster, for Blue, was within the realm of the possible.
The narrative Blue chose for his coverage of the March focused on the arriving marchers. It focused on the leadership, including young black men, who, at that time, were never seen in media as being calm, purposeful and in charge, but in Blue's film are shown to be just that. They were entrusted with keeping safe the 200,000 Americans who had arrived to exercise their constitutional right to assembly. Blue leaves out guest speakers Burt Lancaster, Charlton Heston, Bob Dylan and Harry Belafonte and shows us the politically engaged nobodies who came to walk, talk, listen, sing, and cool their feet in the reflecting pool. He photographs them as if they are a miracle, because to him, perhaps, they are.
They are the pluriverse he has come to recognize as valuable.
The March is about them.
Is that political?
For perspective, James Ivory, James Blue's friend and near exact contemporary, when asked which of his own films he thought was most political, retorted that they all were, or at least he hoped they are all were.
I believe James Blue would give the same answer.
The March and A Few Notes On Our Food Problem were screened at the Northwest Film Center on April 25, 2014 as part of UO's James Blue Tribute. Brooke Jacobson, co-founder of the Northwest Film Center, was in the audience.
So was Sheldon Renan, the author of the proposal that the NEA fund a network of four regional film centers, of which the Northwest Film Center was one. Sheldon Renan, Brooke Jacobson and James Blue all share two distinctions. They all came from Portland, and each one served as an advocate for regional film at the NEA.
Richard Blue, who advised James Blue on A Few Notes On Our Food Problem, and Gill Dennis, who wrote the voiceover narration for A Few Notes, participated in an onstage panel discussion following the screening as did Christina Kovac, who led the NARA restoration of The March, and Gerald O'Grady, a long time Blue colleague and friend, who is an historian of films of the Civil Rights Movement.
Notes On James Blue is a blog kept by Anne Richardson, of Oregon Movies, A to Z, to cover the 2014 James Blue Tribute, organized by the University of Oregon.
Notes On James Blue is supported by the James Blue Alliance, a 501 c3 non profit organization dedicated to preserving the legacy of filmmaker and film educator James Blue. All thoughts, opinions, and errors, however, belong to Anne Richardson, and do not necessarily reflect those of the Alliance.
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The Invisible City (1979)
Jean-Pierre Gorin, Jean-Luc Godard's collaborator on his most political films, came to teach in San Diego around the same time James Blue arrived in Houston. In an interview about his "live and let live" attitude towards doctrinaire Marxists, Gorin said "They don't bother anybody. They are just over there teaching, but where is life?"
Where is life? could be the motto James Blue used to guide his life and career. He was following that compass when he went to Hollywood, and he was following it when he left. What he wanted wasn't something the studios could help him with. He wanted to explore not just the power of storytelling, but the power of community created by the bond between storyteller and audience. He was interested in the implications of that power, who should wield it, who should be taught how to wield it. He was more interested, in 1979, in passing the talking stick around the circle than with holding his place as head man.
The Invisible City is the most difficult of James Blue's films to write about. His most ambitious film, it is arguably the one made for the smallest audience. It has no script, or rather, he shares scriptwriting duties with the audience, eliciting feedback from each episode which he then incorporates as he goes along to the next. E pluribus unum. We, the viewers, can make television. We, the citizens, can change our city. James Blue brings everything he has: his skills as an artist, his belief in democracy, his formative brush with want as a child of the Depression, his curiosity about a new medium, video. He does this not as a pitch man or performer, but as a scientist who has set up an experiment, and is intently observing the results. Will this work?
In the resulting five hour/five episode interactive public television documentary, James Blue and Adele Santos take us on a tour of a bifurcated city growing like a weed. Petroleum politics had raised oil prices, and Houston was an oil town. Skyscrapers going up, unemployment going down. One thousand new residents were arriving per week. But the filmmakers see two cities. Visible Houston, with no income tax and no state tax, was inhabited by well educated citizens earning high wages. Invisible Houston, for whom the most basic city services did not exist, was inhabited by poorly educated citizens earning low wages. Both categories of citizenry had jobs, thanks to the boom, but a hard working resident of the invisible Houston could be living in a car, or a tin shed, or a house better suited to a wrecking ball.
Blue shows us images of deteriorating housing, but, as before, the images which interest him most are the faces of the people. He shows us the bureaucrats behind their desks, the experts with their statistics, and he shows us the people living in sheds or in cars. The mother with four children who was told an apartment flooded with water was the only one within her price range. The social worker, fighting to contain her anger, who was witness to the mother's distress and helplessness. In Who Killed Fourth Ward?, Blue presented himself as an isolated guerrilla media maker. This time he armors up and presents himself as an academic working with NEH money and in concert with a team of social scientists and grad students. Yes, the poor are always with us, but shouldn't they have someplace to live? In The Invisible City, James Blue continues to stitch together a vision of television as town hall.
Ed Hugetz remembers the first time he heard Blue speak at Rice University. First, we are going to build an audience, he told a handful of students, scattered throughout an otherwise empty auditorium. Then, we are going to become filmmakers. I am struck that James Blue prioritized building an audience so highly. It confirms what we see throughout The Invisible City. He is not trying to make a film. He is trying to make a community. To do this, he reverse engineered the entire filmmaking process. He includes his subjects as collaborators. He includes himself/reveals himself on camera. He chooses public television over theatrical release. He chooses video over film. He tells us what his plan is, and asks the KUHT television audience, after each one hour episode, to contact the station with feedback about where the story should next go. He shares his power as writer-director-producer as elaborately, flamboyantly and comprehensively as possible.
The Invisible City was produced at the Southwest Alternate Media Project (SWAMP), founded by James Blue in 1977. SWAMP still exists today. Its mission statement incorporates the lens of plurality which Blue and Santos used in The Invisible City. "The Southwest Alternate Media Project (SWAMP) promotes the creation and appreciation of film, video, and new media as art forms of a multicultural community."
James Blue did not know The Invisible City would be his last film. While he was making it, he was recruited by the Center For Media Study at SUNY Buffalo to start a documentary program there. He was planning to make a film about Buffalo using the same approach as The Invisible City when he died of a swiftly moving stomach cancer on June 14, 1980.
Adele Santos, the co-creator of The Invisible City, was teaching at Rice University when she approached James Blue with the idea to examine Houston's housing crisis in a film. Recently retired from her position as dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT, Santos continues to teach. Her firm, Santos Prescott and Associates, is based in San Francisco.
I saw the fifth, culminating, episode of The Invisible City on March 13, 2014 in the Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene, as part of the James Blue Tribute. Brian Huberman and Ed Hugetz, colleagues of James Blue during his Houston years, opened the evening with an introduction via Skype.
At 7:00 PM on April 23, 2014 in Eugene, at the Schnitzer Museum of Art, reknowned ethnographic filmmaker David MacDougall will introduce Kenya Boran, which he co-directed with James Blue in 1972. The screening is free.
More information about other James Blue Tribute events can be found here.
Notes On James Blue is a blog kept by Anne Richardson, of Oregon Movies, A to Z, to cover the 2014 James Blue Tribute. The six month long Tribute celebrates the bequest of James Blue's films to the University of Oregon by the James Blue Alliance, a 501 c3 non profit organization dedicated to preserving the legacy of filmmaker and film educator James Blue.
Notes On James Blue is supported by the James Blue Alliance. All thoughts, opinions and errors, however, belong to Anne Richardson, and do not necessarily reflect those of the Alliance.


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