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Finding the 'Aha!' Moment
Expert user researcher Steve Portigal breaks down why thinking about bias and mistakes is the key to joyful discovery.
Words by Carrie Neill, Visuals by Emi Tolibas
Steve Portigal says being a researcher allows him to do things he would never do as his "civilian self." A self-proclaimed introvert, Portigal recalls the kind of uncanny magic of going to dinner with a friend who's particularly extroverted. "We joke about all of the service experiences and interactions it unlocks," he says.
The structure of research work, Portigal says, allows him to have those kinds of interactions, the ones he'd normally feel locked out of in everyday life. It's why he posits introverts are so common in the research field.
"Introversion's not about shyness or dislike of people," Portigal says. "It's about energy. One of the coping mechanisms for introversion is to play a role. And in a research situation, there's that kind of structure to talk to strangers and ask them questions and learn about them, and do all of the things you'd never be able to do as your civilian self."
Portigal's done more than simply master the art of talking to strangers; as a sought-after strategic consultant, speaker, author, and podcast host, he's teaching a new generation of researchers how to do the same. We sat down with him to chat about everything from the importance of being present to how our mistakes can create unparalleled moments of discovery.
dscout: What's the biggest mistake you see researchers making right now?
Steve: I'm concerned that it's easy for us to think about research as a tactical activity, because there are so many tactical details to work out. How are we going to find people to talk to? How much are we going to pay them? What kind of release will they sign? What happens with their data? These are certainly important questions, and a necessary part of the work, but sometimes they take up more space in our minds than they should. When the research community gathers to talk about their work, so many of those conversations are about those tactical aspects. Those are generally the easier conversations to have, but in some cases they're taking the place of some of the more crucial topics we should be tackling, like understanding bias.
We often take it for granted that people who are out in the field doing research can behave in an intellectually neutral way for the purposes of research. That they've spent the time to cultivate a sense of curiosity and open-mindedness. And I'm not sure that's always true.
Steve Portigal
Bias is a loaded word. It doesn't necessarily mean something that's socially unacceptable. A bias could be that you've drunk the Kool-Aid of your organization, or you have a strong belief in the value of the design solution that your company wants to utilize. We often take it for granted that people who are out in the field doing research can behave in an intellectually neutral way for the purposes of research. That they've spent the time to cultivate a sense of curiosity and open-mindedness. And I'm not sure that's always true. Because there's so much visible energy spent around things like managing the delivery of incentives, and fewer researchers saying, "I had an experience where I realized I was being very critical of this person," or "I realized I was turning into an advocate for the solution."
I was coaching a research team recently, and they'd institutionalized this kind of practice. They were trying to have sales meetings and conduct user research at the same time. I had to tell them, "You can't do that. Those are two completely different objectives."
Those are conversations that are often difficult for researchers to have within their own organizations. There can be pushback from management.
Ideally there's a collaboration and a chance for research to speak truth to power. But that's not what a person in a support role does.
So how do you help a researcher make the case for why their work needs to be separate from a sales conversation?
I'm interested in how researchers are positioned within a company. Sometimes you hear researchers say: "I support this product team" or "I support this group of designers"—and it's interesting to me that the language frames research as a support function. It's not about trying to be on top. Ideally there's a collaboration and a chance for research to speak truth to power. But that's not what a person in a support role does.
A lot of organizations don't have leadership in research positions, so young people coming in don't always have access to mentors. Structurally, that makes it difficult for young people in the field. In the example I just gave—the researchers were the ones who told me they were using a sales meeting to learn about people, and I had to be the one to advise them not to do that. Because they didn't have that kind of senior leadership on the inside.
Take a pause from the larger world and go into a space where all you care about is the person in front of you and your curiosity and desire to learn. That transition in mindset is important. At first, you should make it explicit, and then over time, you develop the ability to kind of flip from one world to the next more fluidly.
It seems to go back to your point about the lack of focus on something like bias, and how, since it's not a tactical concern, it's something a young researcher might not realize they need to focus on without someone more senior to guide and mentor them. Because humans are only objective up to a certain point—we bring our own baggage and our own worldviews with us to any conversation. How do you advise people on how to manage their own biases in an interview?
Research requires a certain kind of mindset—we have to keep objectives in mind, and the mechanics of the job and the project, and wants and needs of our colleagues and so on. That's a lot to bring into the field with you. But if you really want to hear a person for who they are, you can't carry all that with you. You can't go into an interview saying, "I'm going to come back with seven key takeaways that I'm going to type up and put into the Slack channel."
The more you think about how you have to extract something that's going to be utilized in the work world, the further you are being pulled out of just a chance to be present with someone. So my advice to people is to set that aside. To be very literal about it and say aloud or under your breath or to your team, "Right now we're just going to focus on how Joanne organizes her desk, or whatever the scenario might be. We're just going to focus on that for the next few minutes." Take a pause from the larger world and go into a space where all you care about is the person in front of you and your curiosity and desire to learn. That transition in mindset is important. At first, you should make it explicit, and then over time, you develop the ability to kind of flip from one world to the next more fluidly.
What do you see happen when people don't make that switch? When they go into an interview just seeking their seven takeaways and they aren't really present?
There's a very positive feeling—that I would almost consider joyous—which is realizing that you're wrong. Identifying that you might have had an assumption coming into a conversation, one that you didn't even realize you had.
Often you'll see people do things like using corporate-speak instead of natural language, or proposing things to people as opposed to listening to what they're saying. Some of it is that biased questions try to generate solutions, when that's not at all what interview should be about. There's a very positive feeling—that I would almost consider joyous—which is realizing that you're wrong. Identifying that you might have had an assumption coming into a conversation, one that you didn't even realize you had. And after having an interaction or looking at some evidence, you start to feel those assumptions drifting away, and you feel lighter and freer. You're realizing you have a bias, but the act of realizing it is also the act of letting it go. In some ways that's what research is. It's the shedding of bias. Because a person can only become so much of a hollow vessel, and not know things. You'll always have assumptions about how a task is being performed, or what a value proposition is, or how a word is being used to describe a set of experiences. Bias can be any of those presumptions we're carrying around. But uncovering those biases and letting them go can be really joyous, and lead to those "aha!" moments.
It can be instructive.
Right! "Wow, I just learned something." I think that joy is really the joy of discovery—gaining a richer understanding of the world. The work of a researcher is really about our engagement with other people. But so much of it comes back to ourselves and how we know ourselves and whether we have the ability to listen to ourselves.
Those moments of discovery are at the heart of a lot of the stories in your most recent book, Doorbells, Danger, and Dead Batteries: User Research War Stories. The book collects a number of stories about times when research went spectacularly wrong—and yet it ended up being a kind of game-changer for the researcher in the long run.
This is a pattern in a lot of these stories. The interview feels very stressful, that you're wasting your time, and the person's not going to give you anything. It feels like you're in the wrong place. But you stick with it and finish the interview. And then, later on in the process, when you're going back over your data, often you can find that those moments are very helpful. It goes back to the idea of bias coming in, that when you're speaking to people in your research, you start judging the value of what they tell you based on what you think you want to learn. Sometimes, those conversations can lead to valuable and specific insights. But perhaps, more often, they serve as a touch point to understand the world more broadly—a contrast to the rest of the data that was more like what you expected to gather.
In the last couple of years since the initial publication, a number of people have shared their own war stories in an online forum. Was that surprising to you, that people were so willing to share about things that went spectacularly wrong?
It wasn't so surprising to me—I really wanted to give people permission to share the reality of those experiences, and to normalize that research experiences don't always go as we expect. Sometimes they can so spectacularly wrong, and sometimes they're just sort of confusing. Sometimes they provide huge insights, and sometimes they don't. But I just wanted to create a space where the reality could be discussed. Researchers like to talk about ideal experiences to evangelize what we do. But the reality is that sometimes it can be more dramatic, and not fit into a certain box quite as nicely. I've actually seen a number of industry events where people are setting up "war stories" sessions and bringing in researchers to talk to each other about the kinds of things that go wrong, and what really goes on. It's a movement with a lowercase m, and it's really gratifying to see those conversations happening. It's what I'd hoped would start from the project.
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Topic: William Schuman (1910-1992)
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William Schuman (1910-1992)
Any other admireres of this fine American composer?
I just discovered Symphony 6 in a historic performance conducted by Ormandy. What a great work; decribed by one critic as "A Requiem for the twentieth century" it ends beautifully and it has been a great new discovery for me. Symphony 3 (especially in Bernstein's Sony recording) is Schuman's best known symphony (there is a good new recording on Naxos) and the Violin Concerto and more populist "New England Tryptich" are both excellent works.
Is Schuman highly regarded in the US?
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Re: William Schuman (1919-1992)
I discovered Schuman through his Carols Of Death (a setting of Whitman poems for a cappella choir, and by no means the downer that the name suggests) which were the filler item on an LP of some Ives pieces.
I can heartily recommend this set of Symphonies 3, 5 & 8 :
once you delve into "New England Tryptich", you must then hear the originals by earlier colonial composer, william billings!
johnQpublic
Quote from: vandermolen on June 26, 2007, 10:43:55 PM
From my perspective, no he's not. Today's orchestra when playing "modern" works they tend to go for more recently written works. Composers of Schuman's generation get overlooked too often.
I really love his Symphomy #8 (Bernstein). The finale is unreal.
Thanks for replies. I will listen to Symphony 8 asap. "Carols of Death" sound v interesting too and the Billings work on which the New England Tryptich is based.
British composers of the 1930s and 40s are neglected in the UK as far as concert performances are concerned (ie Bax, Bliss, Moeran, Alwyn etc). You rarely see anything in concert.
http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Namedrill?&name_id=1107&name_role=1
here is arkivmusic's billings list. you'll want 'when Jesus wept', 'chester', and 'be glad then america'.
the best, imo, is the older columbia recording by the gregg smith singers...hard to find now.
Joe Barron
Mr. Schuman was born in 1910, I believe.
The Bernstein perfromancea are indeed remarkable. I listened to the third again recently. It's the work of a young man, rather too busy and bursting with ideas, but engaging and full of spark. I've always liked it. The Fifth is also a favorite, and the Seventh shouldn't be overlooked, either.
BTW, I did meet Mr. Schuman back in the 1980s, at a concert of his works in Washington DC. A very charming man. He said something I'll wlways remember. I asked him if he thought any popular music was as good as the so-called serious concert music. He said no. He didn't believe it had the staying power. The real purpose of popular music, he said, is that it should be played at the height of your mating season.
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Quote from: Joe Barron on June 27, 2007, 12:17:51 PM
BTW, I did meet Mr. Schuman back in the 1980s, at a concert of his works in Washington DC. A very charming man. He said something I'll wlways remember. I asked him if he thought any popular music was as good as the so-called serious concert music. He said no. He didn't believe it had the staying power. The real purpose of popular music, he said, is that it should be played at the hhieght of your mating season.
Thank you Joe for the date correction, I've changed it on the header; my apologies. It doesn't surprise me to hear that Mr Schuman was a charming man and I loved his comments on popular music. The only composer I briefly spoke to was Sir Lennox Berkeley who was also very pleasant. I received extremely nice letters from Vagn Holmboe, David Diamond, George Lloyd, Ursula Vaughan Williams (with book of her husband's essays) and John Kinsella in response to unsolicited fan mail from me.
The only composer I briefly spoke to was Sir Lennox Berkeley who was also very pleasant.
I knew his son Michael, in the days when I worked for the company run by Michael's wife Deborah. He was - and, I am sure, still is - a thoroughly delightful fellow, and very entertaining company - though possessed of a hair-raising driving style: I still recall hurtling around Berkeley Square wedged into the front seat of a microscopically small minivan with the composer at the wheel, who was waving an arm out of the window and declaring "Of course, at one time all this belonged to us" while swerving violently to avoid a cyclist.
Quote from: david johnson on June 27, 2007, 10:37:08 AM
You have reminded me that the recording of Carols Of Death which I mentioned earlier was also by the Gregg Smith Singers - and which, I am delighted to say, I have now found in a 3-CD VoxBox along with other pieces by Schuman, Rorem and Talma. Excellent. Thanks for that.
Just listened to Symphony 6 again; what a great work. Don't know how I missed it all these years.
pjme
I have several Schuman recordings (symphonies 3,6,7,8,9,10, pianoconcertino, violinconc.,Judith...) and find most of these works gripping. The later symphonies can be quite tough though. I cherish an old LP with a totaly enjoyable concerto for viola, women's chorus & orch. (On old English rounds). Never understood why it wasn't released as a CD....I wrote to the Schuman Society - but got only a polite answer ....
Thoroughly agree with the expressions of admiration for Schuman's symphonies! On re-checking my CD collection I find that I have 18 CDs of music by Schuman-No.3 in the versions by Bernstein(1961 and 1985) and the more recent Naxos version by Gerard Schwarz, No.4(the old Louisville version-Jorge Mester- and the more modern Albany-David Alan Miller-and Naxos versions), No.5(Bernstein and Schwarz), No.6(Hugh Keelen on Koch and the old Ormandy), No.7(Maazel and Schwarz), No.8(Bernstein), No.9(Schwarz), No.10(Slatkin and Schwarz), together with the Piano Concerto, the Violin Concerto, New England Triptych(5 different versions!), the Canticle "In Praise of Shahn"(Otto-Werner Mueller and Bernstein), "Judith"(Schwarz), Credendum(Ormandy and Miller), Prayer in Time of War(Mester), American Festival Overture, Circus Overture, Orchestra Song plus the odd Evocation for Oboe, Brass, Timpani and Strings "To Thee Old Cause"(Bernstein). Don't think that I am doing badly with this composer!
What are missing are the unrecorded Concerto on Old English Rounds(as noted), the Song of Orpheus for cello and orchestra, more of Schuman's ballet scores and his choral works.
I find Schuman a composer of enormous vigour. He certainly produced music of real energy and power but his music does require virtuoso performance from a top flight orchestra and the committment of a conductor like Bernstein if it is to communicate effectively-although, to be fair, Schwarz make an excellent fist of it in his recent recordings. There can(sometimes) seem to be a slight sense that Schuman's trademark style is being recycled in the later symphonies and there is no doubt that they do require concentration on the part of the listener! I do, however, find him a most rewarding and serious symphonist-much tougher(obviously) than Copland, Barber, Hanson or Harris-to name but four other of his (rough) contemporaries-but certainly easier than Roger Sessions, who is just too tough a nut for me to crack!
Can I recommend amongst other American symphonists the works of both Walter Piston(although his symphonies can be a trifle 'formal') and-a particular favourite of mine-Peter Mennin, who died in 1983 at the age of 60 but who produced a number of colourful and exciting works.
Piston's Second and Fourth symphonies+New England Episodes are great works. I was struck by the similarity the opening of the last of the New England Episodes with the opening of Vaughan Williams's contemporaneous Ninth Symphony.
"Man With No Shadow" by Makoto Tojiki (2009)
In today's New Music Box, Frank J. Oteri interviews Joseph W. Polisi, whose book on William Schuman just came out called American Muse. Sounds like a great read, and further, apparently Juilliard will be doing an all-Schuman concert next year that will include the Violin Concerto. The article is here.
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Quote from: Dundonnell on August 03, 2007, 01:30:29 AM
Song of Orpheus is available on Naxos in a decent recording, though it can't hope to match the peerless Leonard Rose in the first recording. I can send people an MP3 of this criminally unavailable recording of Rose if anyone wants it.
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I had the LP of Bernstein's recording of the Schuman 8th back in the '60s. I remembered it as having outstanding sonics (unusual for Columbia), and when I finally acquired the CD a few years ago I learned I wasn't wrong. This is the most dissonant of the Schuman symphonies but I think it's also very beautiful and moving.
The 7th symphony is in a similar vein and I know it from this recording, which I can also recommend:
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His violin concerto is IMO by quite some margin the best US violin concerto. Oh how I long for Zukovskys verson with MTT/Boston on DG to be generally available again. I have the original LP coupled with Pistons 2nd symphony, what a wonderful and pathbreaking disc that was!
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Quote from: erato on March 11, 2009, 02:06:00 PM
Myself - I consider Schuman's & Rochberg's (the original version) to be the two greatest.
How does Rochberg's concerto rate with you?
Better than the Barber?! I must hear it!
Just ordered the Naxos CD.
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Daverz
You can't fool me, it's turtles all the way down!
Looks like a new or reissued recording of the Schuman VC. I found the Naxos disappointing compared to the Zukovsky.
http://www.amazon.com/Leonard-Bernstein-Serenade-William-Concerto/dp/B0016MJ3NG

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So, the name and the answers come in fine (answers is an array). But the string for the key test does not pass in. it is coming in correctly (I can console.log it above), however the object is creating the key as the literal variable name so if I did something like :
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In the late 1800s, explains New York-based photographer Corinne May Botz, Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot held weekly lectures at the Salpêtrière teaching hospital amphitheater, where he would display women suffering from what was then known as "hysteria." More than a century later, Botz traces the often uncomfortable intersections of theater and illness in Bedside Manner, for which she documented standardized patients, or professional actors used in instructing medical students in interacting with and treating a diverse set of cases.
A standardized patient can be cast as anything from a pregnant woman to a domestic abuse survivor, a critically injured individual or the loved one of a fatally ill person. Through two-way mirrors, students are evaluated on their synergy with and diagnosis of the "patient," and with practice, they learn how to effectively play the role of "a good doctor."
Botz shot in hospitals throughout New York City, collaborating with Dr. Alice Flaherty to produce an 18-minute film starring the neurologist as she adopts various roles, including the patient, the doctor, and the standardized patient. In documenting people who make their living pretending to be ill, the photographer puts pressure on the fragile bond tying a patient to his or her doctor, revealing the layers of pretense and affectation that run beneath even the most mundane check-up.
In these staged hospital visits, which for all intents and purposes are "fake," Botz uncovers shades of veracity. As with children "playing doctor," there are emotional ambiguities and psychological implications to be found in these strange, simulated scenarios. As doctors-in-the-making rehearse for their careers, a familiar choreography emerges.
In the precarious game of "how are you" and "show me where it hurts," we learn what's expected of us as "sick people," and in turn, our interactions with our doctors tend to follow an often absurd script. Although Botz's subjects are indeed stand-ins for the real thing, she muddies the boundary that separates authenticity from contrivance, unraveling the fabric of what we have come to consider matters of life and death.
Bedside Manner is on view at Benrubi Gallery in New York until February 6, 2016. The film made in collaboration with Alice Flaherty can be viewed only within the gallery setting.
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The 2023 Zaragoza City Council election, also the 2023 Zaragoza municipal election, will be held on Sunday, 28 May 2023, to elect the 12th City Council of the municipality of Zaragoza. All 31 seats in the City Council were up for election. The election will be held simultaneously with regional elections in at least eight autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

Electoral system
The City Council of Zaragoza () is the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Zaragoza, composed of the mayor, the government council and the elected plenary assembly. Elections to the local councils in Spain are fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years.

Voting for the local assembly is on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprises all nationals over 18 years of age, registered and residing in the municipality of Zaragoza and in full enjoyment of their political rights, as well as resident non-national European citizens and those whose country of origin allows Spanish nationals to vote in their own elections by virtue of a treaty. Local councillors are elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes—which includes blank ballots—being applied in each local council. Councillors are allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:

The mayor is indirectly elected by the plenary assembly. A legal clause requires that mayoral candidates earn the vote of an absolute majority of councillors, or else the candidate of the most-voted party in the assembly shall be automatically appointed to the post. In the event of a tie, the appointee will be determined by lot.

Parties and candidates
The electoral law allows for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election are required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors need to secure the signature of a determined amount of the electors registered in the municipality for which they seek election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates. For the case of Zaragoza, as its population is between 300,001 and 1,000,000, at least 5,000 signatures are required.

Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which will likely contest the election:

Opinion polls
The tables below list opinion polling results in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a poll.

Voting intention estimates
The table below lists weighted voting intention estimates. Refusals are generally excluded from the party vote percentages, while question wording and the treatment of "don't know" responses and those not intending to vote may vary between polling organisations. When available, seat projections determined by the polling organisations are displayed below (or in place of) the percentages in a smaller font; 16 seats are required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Zaragoza.

Voting preferences
The table below lists raw, unweighted voting preferences.

Results

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The full story behind Rev. Jeremiah Wright's 9/11 sermon
Editor's note: CNN Contributor Roland Martin has listened to several of the sermons of Rev. Jeremiah Wright from Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. Portions of the sermons have been excerpted in recent stories.
As this whole sordid episode regarding the sermons of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright has played out over the last week, I wanted to understand what he ACTUALLY said in this speech. I've been saying all week on CNN that context is important, and I just wanted to know what the heck is going on.
I have now actually listened to the sermon Rev. Wright gave after September 11 titled, "The Day of Jerusalem's Fall." It was delivered on Sept. 16, 2001.
One of the most controversial statements in this sermon was when he mentioned "chickens coming home to roost." He was actually quoting Edward Peck, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and deputy director of President Reagan's terrorism task force, who was speaking on FOX News. That's what he told the congregation.
He was quoting Peck as saying that America's foreign policy has put the nation in peril:
"I heard Ambassador Peck on an interview yesterday did anybody else see or hear him? He was on FOX News, this is a white man, and he was upsetting the FOX News commentators to no end, he pointed out, a white man, an ambassador, he pointed out that what Malcolm X said when he was silenced by Elijah Mohammad was in fact true, he said Americas chickens, are coming home to roost."
"We took this country by terror away from the Sioux, the Apache, Arikara, the Comanche, the Arapaho, the Navajo. Terrorism.
"We took Africans away from their country to build our way of ease and kept them enslaved and living in fear. Terrorism.
"We bombed Grenada and killed innocent civilians, babies, non-military personnel.
"We bombed the black civilian community of Panama with stealth bombers and killed unarmed teenage and toddlers, pregnant mothers and hard working fathers.
"We bombed Qaddafi's home, and killed his child. Blessed are they who bash your children's head against the rock.
"We bombed Iraq. We killed unarmed civilians trying to make a living. We bombed a plant in Sudan to pay back for the attack on our embassy, killed hundreds of hard working people, mothers and fathers who left home to go that day not knowing that they'd never get back home.
"We bombed Hiroshima. We bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon and we never batted an eye.
"Kids playing in the playground. Mothers picking up children after school. Civilians, not soldiers, people just trying to make it day by day.
"We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff that we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.
"Violence begets violence. Hatred begets hatred. And terrorism begets terrorism. A white ambassador said that y'all, not a black militant. Not a reverend who preaches about racism. An ambassador whose eyes are wide open and who is trying to get us to wake up and move away from this dangerous precipice upon which we are now poised. The ambassador said the people we have wounded don't have the military capability we have. But they do have individuals who are willing to die and take thousands with them. And we need to come to grips with that."
He went on to describe seeing the photos of the aftermath of 9/11 because he was in Newark, N.J., when the planes struck. After turning on the TV and seeing the second plane slam into one of the twin towers, he spoke passionately about what if you never got a chance to say hello to your family again.
"What is the state of your family?" he asked.
And then he told his congregation that he loved them and asked the church to tell each other they loved themselves.
His sermon thesis:
1. This is a time for self-examination of ourselves and our families.
2. This is a time for social transformation (then he went on to say they won't put me on PBS or national cable for what I'm about to say. Talk about prophetic!)
"We have got to change the way we have been doing things as a society," he said.
Wright then said we can't stop messing over people and thinking they can't touch us. He said we may need to declare war on racism, injustice, and greed, instead of war on other countries.
"Maybe we need to declare war on AIDS. In five minutes the Congress found $40 billion to rebuild New York and the families that died in sudden death, do you think we can find the money to make medicine available for people who are dying a slow death? Maybe we need to declare war on the nation's healthcare system that leaves the nation's poor with no health coverage? Maybe we need to declare war on the mishandled educational system and provide quality education for everybody, every citizen, based on their ability to learn, not their ability to pay. This is a time for social transformation."
3. This is time to tell God thank you for all that he has provided and that he gave him and others another chance to do His will.
By the way, nowhere in this sermon did he said "God damn America." I'm not sure which sermon that came from.
This doesn't explain anything away, nor does it absolve Wright of using the N-word, but what it does do is add an accurate perspective to this conversation.
The point that I have always made as a journalist is that our job is to seek the truth, and not the partial truth.
I am also listening to the other sermons delivered by Rev. Wright that have been the subject of controversy.
And let me be clear: Where I believe he was wrong and not justified in what he said based upon the facts, I will say so. But where the facts support his argument, that will also be said.
So stay tuned.
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C. Vandenburg
. . .Thank you Roland and Anderson Cooper. I always thought that you were two of the most fair commentators on Cnn. There is too much at
stake in this country to let the untruth and inuendo cheat us out of a great
leader. I think that the news media has a responsibility , with all of their influence, to inform the public with accuracy and fact. To do otherwise
would be to give in to tabloid journalism. CNN has more class than that.
March 21, 2008 at 11:28 am |
nonecares
belive in or not but there is something realy missing with most of american ppls . who cares ? about pastor or mastor ? the realy problems in usa ? bring us togethers i means this is 2008 you remember ? so do not let your chance gos away about the color black white green yelow we r all 1 ! maccain our hero obama our hope to bring us togethers we can tell our enemys we r back again usa ! clintons thanx for the passet but this you got no messages for us in this comp so we love u but we r ready for a somethings new for usa thanx usa one love
Donna R.
If this is true why didn't CNN look into it before? I do not feel that it is as simple as this, other wise it would not have gotten so out of hand as it has. Why hadn't the other news stations check into this, or had they ? Perhaps after studying the facts they have realized the truth about the Reverend going to far in his sermons. I am surprised that such lessons are being taught in a church, the church should represent love and peace for everyone. I still have strong concerns over this whole situation.
Thank you. This just shows how dangerous the media can really be and how taking words OUT OF CONTEXT can do so much damage. This should be told more than on this blog, though.
There is nothing wrong with what he said. Look at Nagasaki, how many people died there? There s nothing wrong wityh him or Obama
Lamarr
Bottom line...Hate begets hate and the deliverance of it from God's pulpit is the ultimate transgression. In the end, this Pastor , you, and I willhave to answer to a higher being. At that time, all truths will come out, and no media outlet will be there to protect. Please away with all the yellow journalism.
At this point, Sen. Obama is un-electable. His comment yesterday about All White's being typical just further lends to his true character when impromptu.
Shame on you for attempting to smooth over and 'explain away' the pure hatred of the words 'God Damn America'. What is shocking to me is that evidently this hate spewing is common in black churches. Their children are listening and so this hatred is continued. Some have tried to name white ministers who have said unacceptable things but I'll bet one would be hard pressed to find them saying anything that compares to hate mongering words of Obama's minister.
Peguero
Thank you Roland Martin for your insight and the valuable information. I have been searching and requesting on various blogs that the COMPLETE sermon be shown or transcripted. We can not judge 30+ years of any life in a 90 second video clip. We were unfairly criticizing Senator Obama without seeing the COMPLETE picture. Even fmr Republican Presidential candidate, Gov. Huckabee DEFENDED Rev. Wright and said it was unfair to criticize him without seeing the complete sermon and that his words (or more to the point his fiery delivery of those words) was being taken out of context. Gov. Huckabee also defended Senator Obama saying it was unfair to blame the Senator for someone elses comments.
But sadly this is the blatant lack of common sense prevailing in most media outlets. When you have manipulators and professionals of misdirection and misinterpretation like FOX NEWS running 90 seconds of yelling ALL DAY AND NIGHT. Where did the common sense in this country go? Where did logic and reason in this country disappear to?
James in Milwaukee
Remember when the nation saw a man in L.A. get beaten by 4 police officers while 4 to 6 stood by, and the conclusion was we didnt really see the whole event.....that he was a threat and the video was out of context.........Americans are now know when something is out of context ( like Reverend Wrights statements) if it works for the L.A.P.D why iwould it not for the pastors remarks?
Thanks for putting his words into perspective. Doesn't change much. The words are still extremely one-sided. Unfortunately, as with many charismatic and dishonest leaders, he's only telling half of the story.
For example: "we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon and we never batted an eye." This is one statement (of the many) that is false. While I detest that our nation felt compelled to drop two bombs on Japan to end the war, the ambassador and the pastor should have looked back at history for the context of our actions.
The war department's clear estimate was that the Allies would have taken more than a million casualties in winning the war over Japan. After ample opportunity to surrender (not in the Japanese military policy), we dropped the first bomb. We continued to warn Japan that we had a second device and would use it if they did not surrender. Still, our enemy would not surrender. Again, I believe I would not have supported those actions had I been there, but I believe the history helps us to better understand the context under which the decisions were made.
CNN, in your efforts to tell the whole truth, don't forget to look at both sides of the issue.
I'm sure the families of the victims of 9/11 sympathize with the good pastor....not!
Thank you for doing this. I, too, listened to two sermons, the "chickens" sermon and the "GD America" sermon. While the statements taken alone are upsetting, when in the context of his sermon, they make a lot of sense. They are intense, but the sermons he was giving were intense. He was trying to make a point, not comfort people. Sometimes making people open their eyes means taking them out of their comfort zone.
Did you notice in the sermon you talked about that he said "We" when referring to the atrocities that America has committed? "We." No one in that church, and certainly Jeremiah Wright, thinks of America as the "other." We are all in this together now. And we better learn to treat each other right.
You stated that Wright didnt say "God DAMN America"
in THIS speech........Better look at the other "sermon".
Its there
David Callands- Greensboro NC
Roland, I appreciate you on CNN. Some can get so far away from finding the facts that they just spin anything including Lou Dobbs. I wish that this story in detail would get as much time as the sermon clips have gotten so that the people can see the truth to what was being said and not just a mess of different sermons and running them together to look like one message. By the way I enjoyed your conversation with Carl Berstien and David Gergin.
Wonkerine
Finally,an actual example of invesagative journalism.
ps they should start calling you anti-american any second or an apologist so get ready.
Rogers Davis
Roland:
Thank you for bringing context to what many are extorting to support their political agenda. You are one of the few courageous voices. I respect your willingness to speak the truth!
Gerri, ATL
Talk about delusional and racist, read the Dakes bible(written by a white pastor) and millions of whites have these bibles. The Dakes bible condones racism and you wonder why the church condoned slavery. Quit acting innocent in the complicity of race, racism and discrimination in this country. Or better yet, you might be in denial. I believe Pastor Wright's sermon was right on point. The US cannot terrorize innocent people and countries and expect no retaliation.
Who are you? Do you actually live in America?
Count me as one mature white male who isn't afraid of black men, and who will gladly cast his vote for Obama.
Why are there so many who feel it is unpatriotic to question whether our nation's actions may have led to some of our nation's troubles? I can't believe that any intelligent American honestly feels America is ALWAYS right, no matter what. That isn't a rationale claim for any individual human being on Earth, or for any nation made up of human beings.
great job roland....
now why dont you go and dig up the context of Geraldine Ferraro's remarks... and the context of Bill Clinton's 'fairy-tale' remarks and the context of Hillary's LBJ remarks...
Seems to me like you were not so eager to do the "journalists job to seek the truth, and not the partial truth" around those comments...
And that makes me question your motives for your extreme deligence in this case however 'noble' you try to make it seem ....
Natalie Raleigh NC
I have stopped watching CNN becasue they have been so negative toward Obama. It's okay for jounalist to report news and have different opinons however, I believe Campbell Brown has made me even more uncomfortable in the way she has detorted the truth. In her efforts to keep the ratings going up. I am a African American and I have love for all races however, CNN has gotten a lot of support from the black community mainly because of you and John (with that map:>). Seems like CNN has taken the same road as FOX news. Thank you so much for putting the truth out there. Let's see how much coverage it gets. Thank you for the truth. Be blessed
Good Job Roland! Finally someone to speak the truth in the MEDIA!!
The right wing media is making this guy out to be an America hater but that's what the right wing media does best....scares! I'm laughing at the fact that the loud mouths at Fox news are acting like this is the first time they've heard a black person upset with our government....wake up Fox and smell the governments corruption!
The preacher wasn't that far off base with me and I'm a 38 year old white guy.
Christi From CA
Thank You for telling the whole truth. It is so sad that the media can distort and play something over and over that is so off kilter in truth, just for the purpose of hurting a candidate. I challenge the main stream media to pick up on this story and tell the countrty the whole truth about Rev Wright.
Eric M.
Like most people there are things about myself that I would change if I could. Two things that I would definitely not change are my skin color, or the era that I now live in. I am not a celebrity or some young politician in the making. I am a soon to be 25 year old African American male from Detroit, Michigan, currently residing in suburban Atlanta, Georgia. I have seen my hometown crumble before my eyes under the strain of flawed free trade policies, and corporate greed. Both of which have crippled the ability of American workers to earn decent employment opportunities. I have also seen billions of dollars wasted by an administration that cares less about people, and more about oil profits and the opportunity to rule the world with its iron fist of democracy. This is my America and I am proud to be American, but not proud of the way America conducts itself. It is foolish if we believe that the rest of the world loves us as much as we love ourselves. In my opinion, Jeremiah Wright is not racist at all, or just another old man bitter at the United States for its past indiscretions. He simply told the truth about how this country really operates. To the black community, this is no secret even to a young man such as myself. Barack Obama did what he had to do in this tough situation. If he bowed to conservatives and disrespected Rev. Wright, he risked alienating his black base. On the other side, if he agreed with the controversial statements, he risked losing the support of many whites in this country that have supported him up until this point. He played it of well by condemning the statements by Wright and at the same time not condemning the individual. In the same manner as the Louis Farrakhan situation last month, Barack took a solid hit on the chin from both his critics and the media. Most blacks in America understand that he has rules to follow in order to be able to play ball. I hope that both ministers Farrakhan and Wright understand that it is nothing personal against them, just the cost of doing business when running for President. I for one just hope he keeps his focus on the prize ahead and slides home safely with victories in August and more importantly November 2008.
Linda - IL
I want to thank Roland Martin and I plan to tell my friends and family to also read the full context of Rev. Wright's sermon. I had no doubt there was more to the sermon than those snippets aired endlessly. It is beyond time to put this issue to rest. This is an attempt to take the focus off what we should be talking about like the economy, health care, war in Iraq and outsourcing of jobs. Once again thank you Roland.
Question for Anderson and Roland: Anderson specifically asked Barak if he had heard Reverend Wright's statements, and even followed up by questioning whether it was credible that he only became aware in the past year. On Tuesday Barak basically admitted he hadn't been completely truthful in his previous response.
Please note there is already a circulating video of the two responses that doesn't look good on the question of credibility. Do I believe Barak shares the Reverend's views? No, and I'm still willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Do I believe Barak prevaricated at the crucial moment when his campaign was in mortal danger? Yes! Does this go to the character question? Perhaps!
What is unacceptable is lack of specific follow up by Anderson for Barak to reconcile the two conflicting responses to his original question.
Neither CNN nor the rest of the media is doing Barak or the Democrats a favor in not properly vetting these issues. You can bet the swift boaters will have these issues gift wrapped for them, and the kind of Independents and independent-minded viewers desperately needed for a November victory will trust their own "lyin" eyes and ears when voting.
Jan carley
Thank you CNN and Roland for being honest about the context of Rev. Wrights speech. I am amazed in this day and age the mainstream media can literally falsify a story and run it as fact with no safeguards or accountability. This has happened to Rev Wright and affected Barack Obama's reputation. Absolutley no credibility and accountability to this whole news story that has been played over and over; and is still being played out especially by Fox News (Hannity and Colmbs) and Msnbc(morning Joe} It is disgraceful that we can't even get real, honest, researched news. For Rev. Wright to be one of 100 ministers in our nation invited to the white house by Bill Clinton who had "sinned", shows this man is well known in the ministry circles and respected.
As for his use of a racial slur during a sermon, I agree it was a poor choice. A man in his position should be discouraging the use of this slur, not propagating it. Many people marched, had fire hoses turned on them, had dogs turned loose on them, endured beatings and humiliation, and died. And yet a this generation of African Americans shows their respect for the sacrifices these people made by teaching a new generation (blacks AND whites) that it's okay to say it. This word is NOT a term of affection or endearment, but a word of hate and menance. It is time to erase the stain of this word from our vocabulary.
Tex Independent
Bravo Mr. Martin!
Please continue this full-picture, fact-specific journalism! The country needs to have more information resources like that provided by your enlightened article.
Mr. Martin,
The solidarity of african-american support for Mr. Obama seems to contradict his message of unity that transcend race. Maybe we all should try to bring out the problems within our own race with the same passion we point out the problems of other "typical race".
Mr Martin.
Great points in your article. Well stated!!! Thank you!
Christel B.
Thank you Roland. If only America as a whole adopted your attitude and your quest for the TRUTH. I do have one question. Why is it that no one has adressed Rev Wrights' statements about real annd authentic FACTS about America's History. We may not like to hear it but it is about time we aknowledge the fact. America has indeed destroyed many innocent familes through the centuries. Slavery did happen, segragation did happen, Japanese concentration camps did happen, the conquest of the West that destroyed Native Americans did happen. Does it make America less of the wonderful and amazing country that it is? No it doesn't. America is still a great country. It can even be greater if it can move past this "historical amnesia".
Let's give Obama a chance and stop the attcaks on his character. He represent the true essence of what America is about: Hope, Opportunity, and the quest for a better life. God Bless America, and God Bless the rest of the World. God bless Rev. Wright, the Obamo family, the Clintons, and the McCains. PEACE.
Thank you. I've been looking for just such a summary of this speech. I had a feeling the context explained things...and it does.
Nice to see main stream media do something right sometimes.
Might better pull up ALL of his speaches on you tube or something Roland. He does say God damn America. This preacher is a preacher of hate, and all I can say is thank God white preachers aren't preaching this kind of madness otherwise we would all be going backwards instead of forward in this country. The black community must also contribute to the end of racism and take responsibility for their actions and community and only then will racism truly end. Stop blaming other people for your problems.
Ok.. now try and explain away the sermon where he says Whites engineered AIDS to do away with the blacks. I just cannot wait to hear that one.
Thank you for taking the time to consider the this issue in context.
Bill F. Fayetteville, TN
Everyone seems to be missing the point on Sen Obama and the reason Sen Obama gave the speech on race. The vase majority of Americans had never heard of the Rev. Wright until someone broadcast some of his sermons on the Internet and TV. All of a sudden he became a significant person assoicated with Sen Obama, in a very negative way. Sen. Obama had to do some quick damage control and came out and made his speech on race relations. It was a very good speech, but it was a political speech made because of political necessity to keep his candidancy from going down the tubes. If Sen. Obama was so concerned with race relations he should have made this speech 3 months ago, not out of political necessity this week. If Rev. Wright's sermons had never been exposed would Sen. Obama have made that speech this week? I very seriously doubt if he would have. Obama is a very smart and skilled politican who has a way with words and makes outstanding speeches, but you must remember he is still a politican trying to obtain the highest office in this land. Maybe I'm a little cyncial of his words but then again I am just "your typical white person".
Thank you so much Roland for your quest for the unadulterated truth! Your work is to be commended. If all journalist took this view in their career, there wouldn't even be a need for you to have to clarify Rev. Wright's words on that day. It is a shame that the people in our "well-educated" society are so easily led in this direction or that direction due to sound bytes and inflammatory comments made by journalists who obviously have an agenda! It is a shame that we can't trust the majority of American media to give us the truth about what is happening across the nation. So again I thank you Roland for your dedication to the truth and remembering why you became a journalist in the first place.
Might better pull up ALL of his speaches on you tube or something Roland. He DOES say God damn America. This preacher is a preacher of HATE, and all I can say is thank GOD white preachers aren't preaching this kind of madness otherwise we would ALL be going backwards instead of forward in this country. The black community must also contribute to the end of racism and take responsibility for their actions and community and only then will racism truly end. Stop blaming other people for your problems.
Thank you Roland.
People why must everything be black and white. You love Obama/Hillary or you hate them. Where is the civility? Where is the love?
Can you not read this and stand back and place these words into context? Are you hearts so hard that you no longer feel the pain of others?
Seriously, if you are of the faith that you claim, then how should you behave on this matter?
Seriously, on this day or all days....
Would you do the same fact checking when the issues relate to Hillary? There are a lot of things said about her noone on this network borders to go loking for facts.
Thank you, I hope more people will read this and learn to find facts instead of false information and rumors. Keep giving folks the whole report, if they have a fair mind of their own most should be able to make a fair and honest judgement .
Kimberly Bush
Thank you for the whole story. I have one question:
Where was all the outrage when Robertson, Fallwell, and Buchanan claimed 9-11 (and Katrina) were caused by abortion, gays, and our other sinful acts? Where was the demand on Bush & Co to denounce their statements then?
Where is the outrage on McCain chasing down the approval of Hagee and the other outrageous right wing extremists?
Apparently, the only time "America deserved it" is when we aren't blaming heterosexual, male, white, middle class america.
Thank you for this piece. It's so important to know the whole story. But, as with Obama's speech on race, I worry that readers – who have been spoon-fed on sound bites – won't bother to go to any depth or understand context and complexity. Woe to anyone who seeks public office these days. If you don't know how to manipulate the media, like the Clintons do, you can be in big trouble, simply for being an intelligent person or uttering a nuanced statement.
Ron from Las Vegas
This just proves again that news organizations and politicians are only interested in the sensational to put forward their agenda. They take some words or statements out of context and then spin it for their own good. We need a law that no one can report or distribute a part of a speech but must distribute the whole thing. Too often people are willing to look at a part and take someones word that it represents the whole. If Clinton and McCain were real leaders they would have come forward and asked their supporters to look at the whole sermon and not just a sound bite. Everyone says what a great nation we are, but when you see the things that are done in the name of news and politicians, our greatness is significantly diminished to the state of a dictatorship. We pride ourselves on free speech and openness, but we never require require the truth or the complete story. By demeaning others we demean ourselves and our values.
Thanks Roland. Now the responsible thing for CNN, since they have also been an accomplice in playing these soundbites over and over to play the entire sermon over and over. Maybe we can learn where Barack learned that we must try to treat other right. Rev. Wright did not say Blacks must treat Blacks right, but WE must treat each other right. How ironic the Ambassador was on FOX news and Rev. Wright was quoting him. I don't hear FOX playing the ambassador's quotes. I feel that someone should find the file and insist that FOX play it over and over.


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And just like that, the week is done. Similar to Cannes, it simultaneously felt like I had just arrived and been there forever. Life has a funny way of doing that when you're running on pure adrenaline and no sleep.
The last three days were definitely the most low-key. With the exception of Monday which was a bit more hectic with two big events, the rest of the festival passed by in the blink of an eye.
On Monday morning, we assisted with press check-in for a couple of screenings and spent the rest of the day tracking covering from Sunday's press junkets. Around 2pm we headed over to the Shangri-La Hotel to help out with the red carpet for the 2016 Birks Diamond Tribute honoring Canadian women in film.
Even though I recognized approximately one celebrity (Sandra Oh, holla!!), the event was super cool. I alternated between helping guests out in the lobby as they arrived and helping out at the carpet upstairs.
The venue was super cool and we had rented out the whole place for the party, including the cafe, restaurant and patio bar. That night was purely talent-handling as we greeted guests, walked them up the carpet for photos and interviews, and raced back to the front to do it all over again.
The carpet finally closed around midnight, and I realized I hadn't eaten in about twelve hours so I mingled at the party for a bit, taking advantage of some of the free food, and then headed back and knocked out.
Tuesday was definitely the chillest day thus far — only one screening in the morning followed by a quick round of monitoring and we were free!
Back when I did Cannes, the program videographers had followed me around to capture my experience and potentially create a little promo video but things got hectic and it never got finished. But now since I was back for Toronto, Richie had reached out to see if we could do a quick interview and some B-roll and hopefully put something together with all the footage from Cannes.
So after work, we met up for a quick lunch and walked around until we found a good place for the interview and some walking shots. I'm excited to see how everything comes out!
That night, I had an invite to the SXSW-sponsored party. It was a pretty sweet venue and I felt super cool when my name was on the list and checked off without any problems while people were trying to crash and getting turned away.
And that brings us to the last day — I had nothing on the schedule for work and I wanted to take advantage of my free time to squeeze in as many movies as I could.
But alas, the best laid plans. There were at least six movies or so screening that day that I've been dying to see but of course many overlapped and I had to make some sacrifices.
Finally, I decided on La La Land at 8:30am, followed by Free Fire at 12:15, and wrapping up the day with Jackie at 2:45pm.
Which was all well and good until I totally slept through my alarm and missed La La Land — off to a great start! On the other hand though, even at the time I had planned on arriving at the theater, I realized later that the rush line in the morning had been so long I probably would not have gotten in. Which would have made me very cranky that I had woken up early for nothing. So I guess yay for being lazy!
Instead, I took my time in the morning to get ready and pack up everything since my flight was leaving that night. My supervisor had texted me about covering a press screening at 11:30am which fit perfectly with my 12:15 Free Fire plan so after I was done packing, I headed over to the theater. After I wrapped up the screening, I got in the rush line for Free Fire, which was literally around the block. I spent a very nervous 45 minutes anxiously wondering if I was going to get in (it was one of the most talked about movies at the festival) until finally finally finally at exactly 12:15pm I reached the front of the line and was given one of the last 13 tickets. Lucky me indeed.
I even managed to find a perfect seat in the middle row — the theater was packed and the movie had started so it was a bit of a stress to find somewhere to sit. But once I did, all my anxiety evaporated and I spent the next hour and a half enjoying one of the best movies of the festival.
Free Fire is scheduled to be released sometime in 2017 so who knows if it will even be out in time for awards season — I'm honestly thrilled that I got a chance to see it now. Fantastic cast, wacky characters, compelling setting, edge-of-your-seat action, and it was also just really funny. Something I was not expecting about a movie in which all the characters are basically stuck in a warehouse and shooting at each other after an arms deal goes south.
As soon as the movie ended, I grabbed a grilled cheese from a little shop across the street from the theater and got right back in the rush line for Jackie, starring Natalie Portman as Jacqueline Kennedy. The film was great, and there is no doubt in my mind Natalie Portman will get nominated for Best Actress — especially considering Fox Searchlight acquired it and they have one of the best track records in awards season. Jackie will be released in December, so definitely one to check out as award season kicks off.
By the time I got out of the movie and back to the hotel, it was just about time to head out. In no time at all, I was on the train to the airport, boarding, landing, and back home.
What a trip it has been — I wouldn't trade this experience for anything. I've learned so much about the industry and with every festival I work I become more and more comfortable that this is what I'm meant to do.
And now that Fall is starting, my favorite time of the year has begun again — so brb while I pass the rest of the year spending all my money on tickets and popcorn.
Fall movie preview post to come soon — so hold tight! Until next time!


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Oddsmakers are listing Texas (+165) as the underdog to Houston (-175). Bettors can gamble on the games total with odds listed at -105 for over 9.5 runs and -115 for under 9.5. The games most recent runline odds sit at -120 for taking the Astros -1.5 runs and +100 for the Rangers +1.5 runs.
The Rangers are just 27-39 SU and 28-37 ATS. The team has lost 1.3 units for bettors taking the moneyline and 15.1 units against the spread (ATS). Texas has a 3-4 ATS mark over its last seven games and the total has gone under in six of those seven. The Astros, on the other hand, have gone 40-25 SU this year and are 35-29 ATS. Overall, the teams lost 1.6 units for moneyline gamblers, but have gained 5.0 units ATS. Houston has covered the spread four times in its last seven games and the over has cashed in five of those seven.
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Charlie Morton is getting the start for Houston. The right-handed Morton is 7-1 with a 2.84 ERA and 92 strikeouts. He's 1-0 with 26 strikeouts and a 2.08 ERA against Texas this year (two starts).
The Rangers are sending lefty Mike Minor (4-4, 5.76 ERA) to the mound. Minor has 52 strikeouts and 14 walks to his name, as well as a 1.35 WHIP. Minor is 0-1 with seven strikeouts and a 6.52 ERA against Houston this year.
Houston's pitchers have allowed 3.0 runs per game and its starters own a 2.83 ERA, 1.01 WHIP and 10.27 K/9. The bullpen has managed an ERA of 3.03, along with a WHIP of 1.01.
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Second baseman Jose Altuve and right fielder George Springer have paced Houston's hitters. Altuve is slashing .341/.386/.470 with five home runs, 33 RBIs, 38 runs and nine stolen bases, while Springer is hitting .287 with 13 homers, 39 RBIs and 47 runs scored.
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James Anthony Mulvihill naît le  à North Ryde. Il étudie à St Mary's School à Concord et à . En 1935 il est employé des chemins de fer. Il est fonctionnaire de l'Australian Railways Union, puis secrétaire adjoint du Parti travailliste de la Nouvelle-Galles du Sud de 1957 à 1965. En 1964, il est élu au Sénat australien en tant que sénateur travailliste pour la Nouvelle-Galles du Sud. Il reste au Sénat jusqu'à sa retraite en 1983. Mulvihill meurt en 2000.

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Naissance en avril 1917
Décès en décembre 2000
Décès à 83 ans
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Where Greece hopes to find cash – and why the ECB says no
Cash-strapped Greece had been hoping that the European Central Bank — which is about to pump billions into the eurozone economy — would help ease its torment, but so far the ECB has been markedly reluctant to come to its aid.
These are the key issues over which they are at loggerheads:
The bank — whose governors meet on Thursday — is one of the big three institutions, along with the IMF and the European Commission, who must make sure Greece sticks to the terms of its 240-billion-euro ($265-billion) bailout, and the extension that the country's new leaders have just agreed.
But new promises of more spending by Greeces left-wing government to tackle the "humanitarian crisis" in the country got a chilly reception from the ECB's president Mario Draghi.
"It is far from certain that the bank is ready" to give Greece the helping help that it expects with its creditors, said economist Carsten Brzeski of ING bank.
Athens would like to borrow more money in short-term bonds called treasury bills, its only real means of raising cash on its own.
But neither the ECB nor the other two members of the "troika" that hold Greece's purse strings are ready to raise the ceiling of 15 billion euros it is allowed to raise in this way.
The governors of the ECB halted in February an exception that temporarily allowed Greek banks to refinance themselves from the ECB in Frankfurt using Greek debt as a guarantee.
As long as the ECB thinks Greece is not doing enough to push through the reforms it would like, this source of financing is unlikely to be restablished.
Since this source of cash was cut, Greek banks have had to borrow from the Bank of Greece at more costly rates through a mechanism called Emergency Liquidity Assistance.
While the debt is formally on the books of the Bank of Greece, the ECB still controls the amount of funds that can be used in this manner, and this too will be on the table on Thursday.
To make matters worse for Athens, the ECB has asked Greek banks to stop buying Greek treasury bills on which the government has so relied, cutting off another lifeline.
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis claims that the ECB owes Greece 1.9 billion euros and wants to use the money to make the next repayment to the IMF at the end of March.
The sum is the money the bank has made on Greek debt it bought up at the height of the crisis, along with the sovereign debt of other struggling eurozone countries.
Although it was agreed in 2012 that money made on Greek debt would go back to Greece, Draghi said last week that first Athens "must conform to the programme". The money was not the bank's to give, he claimed, because the profits have already been redistributed to eurozone central banks.
But Varoufakis insisted this was "the Greek peoples money" and demanded to know why "why we are being evaluated" before it is given back.
It is out of the question to restructure the 27 billion euros of Greek debt the ECB holds, one of its directors, Benoit Coeure, said in January.
But Varoufakis claimed that if the debt had been held by private banks, a part of it at least would have been written off during a restructuring in 2012.
Now, however, Athens must pay these obligations as they come due, with 6.7 billion euros falling due to the ECB this summer.
While the ECB is about to pump billions into the flagging eurozone economy through "quantitative easing" — buying up at least 1.1 trillion euros of public and private debt — ironically Greece cannot for now benefit from its largesse.
The bank's rules dictate that it cannot hold more than a third of the sovereign debt of any country. So until Greece pays off the debts that fall due in the summer, it will be excluded from the massive bid to kickstart growth.
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Greece has backup plan if March bailout cash fails to arrive, says Varoufakis
Greece, QE programme to top ECB meeting in Nicosia
Greece seeks to plug its 'Bermuda Triangle' of lost taxes
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The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has disclosed that plans have been concluded to re-impose another lockdown beginning from January 2021 following an increase in the number of coronavirus cases in the State.
Wike said that the new development became necessary since residents have refused to comply with the protocols imposed after a surge in COVID-19 across the state
He gave the hint during a thanksgiving church service in celebration of the 90th birthday of Priscilla Mark, at the St. Martin's Anglican Church, Omagwa in Ikwerre Local Government yesterday.
The governor lamented as worrisome the refusal of most churches and markets in the State to enforce the compulsory wearing of a facemask in adherence to COVID-19 protocol.
He said the State government had initially relaxed the restriction on the number of persons who worship in churches, but with the second wave of COVID-19, he will by this week announce new stringent measures to check the spread of COVID-19 cases in the State,
"When you go to some churches, they do not wear a facemask. Go to market, they do not wear facemasks. They believe COVID is not real. It's not real because it has not happened to you; nobody had died whom you know. When somebody has died and the person was close to you, you will know that COVID is real.
"So, it is real and I want to appeal to all of you that we have to be more strict now because the second wave is more dangerous than the first wave. It's very, very dangerous. I know how many people we have lost since the second wave started."
Wike, while imploring the Bishop of Diocese of Ikwerre to prevail on members of all churches under his jurisdiction to always wear their face mask, stressed that the second COVID-19 wave was deadlier than the others.
"If you don't comply, I have no choice, but to shut down the churches; Pentecostal, Catholic, Anglican. I have no choice because when you have it, who spends the money? It is the state that treats. So, we need to use the money for some other things, but not for this. Let us discipline ourselves and know that COVID is real. Let nobody tell you that there is nothing like COVID. It's real."
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IWD: Kano State empowers 1,500 women with N15m
Hajiya Hafsat Ganduje,
By Muhammad Nur Tijani
Kano State Government on Sunday empowered 1,500 women with N15 million to mark International Women's Day (IWD).
The wife of the Governor, Hajiya Hafsat Ganduje, who distributed the money in Kano, said that the gesture was done to empower women in the state.
Ganduje, who was represented by the wife of the Deputy Dovernor, Hajiya Hafsat Gawuna, identified women as important component of the society.
She said the state government had been making giant strides toward ensuring that women became valuable assets to the society.
She added that the present administration succeeded in rehabilitating and re-activating skill acquisition centres across the state and ensured maximum utilisation of such centres for various women empowerment programmes.
She noted that "we successfully trained over 8000 women in different areas of trade and supported them with cash and materials to establish small businesses for their sustainance.
"We also trained 200 female youths in auto-mechanic at PAN Kaduna. The women were selected from the 44 local government areas of the state and 484 wards."
She said that the state government collaborated with Industrial Training Fund (ITF) and trained over 300 females on tomato preservation, Video and Photography, event management, plumbing and essential items, among others.
She said that 200 women were supported with mini trucks for refuse collection from households for a fee.
The governor's wife assured that the present administration would provide more funding to Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development for more innovative projects around agricultural value chain for women and other empowerment programmes.
According to her, the rise of women in a society is not the fall of men but a means of ensuring that the society benefits from the strength and weaknesses of each other.
Hajiya Zahra'u Muhammad, the state's Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, said "the IWD is a global day for the celebration of the Social, Economic, Cultural and Political achievements of women all over the world."
Celebration annually on March 8 across the globe, IWD was proposed by German revolutionary, Clara Zetkin during 1910 International Socialists wWmen's Conference.
The conference was to sensitise women and the society on the need to join hands to ensure women contributions and participation to the development of the society. (NAN)
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