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Measures of Disease Frequency Nigel Paneth
FRACTIONS USED IN DESCRIBING DISEASE FREQUENCY RATIO A fraction in which the numerator is not part of the denominator. e. g. Fetal death ratio: Fetal deaths/live births. Fetal deaths are not included among live births, by definition.
PROPORTION A fraction in which the numerator is part of the denominator. e. g. Fetal death rate: Fetal deaths/all births All births includes both live births and fetal deaths. – Synonyms for proportions are: a risk and, (if expressed per 100) a percentage. – Most fractions in epidemiology are proportions.
RATE Ideally, a proportion in which change over time is considered, but in practice, often used interchangeably with proportion, without reference to time, (as I did previously for fetal death rate).
MEASURES OF DISEASE FREQUENCY PREVALENCE RATE Divided into two types: 1. Point prevalence rate 2. Period prevalence rate
POINT PREVALENCE RATE Proportion of individuals in a specified population at risk who have the disease of interest at a given point in time.
PERIOD PREVALENCE RATE Proportion of individuals in a specified population at risk who have the disease of interest over a specified period of time. For example: • annual prevalence rate • lifetime prevalence rate. (When the type of prevalence rate is not specified it is usually point prevalence, or its closest practical approximation)
INCIDENCE RATE Like prevalence, divided into two types: 1. Cumulative incidence rate 2. Incidence density
1. Cumulative incidence rate: Number of new cases of disease occurring over a specified period of time in a population at risk at the beginning of the interval.
EXAMPLE OF CUMULATIVE INCIDENCE RATE If we count all new cases of influenza occurring in MSU undergraduates from September 1, 1997 - August 31, 1998, and we take as the denominator all undergraduates enrolled in September 1, 1997, we would be describing the cumulative incidence rate of influenza.
2. Incidence density: Number of new cases of disease occurring over a specified period of time in a population at risk throughout the interval.
The numerator does not differ between the two types of incidence However, the denominator can differ in incidence density from cumulative incidence because it takes account of (in the example): • Students who left school during the year • Students who died • Students who had influenza once and will not have it again the same season • Students who entered school later in the year
Incidence density requires us to add up the period of time each individual was present in the population, and was at risk of becoming a new case of disease. Incidence density characteristically uses as the denominator personyears at risk. (Time period can be person-months, days, or even hours, depending on the disease process being studied. )
The mortality rate is a type of incidence rate which we will discuss in more detail next week. It is the most widely used public health measure, but it has limitations.
USES OF INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE 1. Incidence is generally used for acutely acquired diseases, prevalence is used for more permanent states, conditions or attributes of ill-health. 2. Incidence is more important when thinking of etiology of the disorder, prevalence when thinking of societal burden of the disorder including the costs and resources consumed as a result of the disorder. 3. Incidence always requires a duration, prevalence may or may not.
4. In incidence, the unit of analysis is the event, in prevalence, it is the person. Thus incidence may exceed 100% (e. g. annual incidence of colds) unless a convention is adopted to count only first episodes of an illness that can occur more than once. 5. Prevalence can never exceed 100%. 6. Incidence generally requires an initial disease-free interval before counting starts, because incidence is measured only in those at-risk of disease.
USES OF INCIDENCE DENSITY AND CUMULATIVE INCIDENCE • Incidence density gives the best estimate of the true risk of acquiring disease at any moment in time. • Cumulative incidence gives the best estimate of how many people will eventually get the disease in an enumerated population.
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE In a STEADY STATE (i. e. if incidence is not changing, and the population is stable) Prevalence rate = incidence rate times the duration of disease (P = I x D)
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The Fluffy Movie (2014)
The Fluffy Movie DVD and Blu-ray release date was set for October 21, 2014.
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This is a documentary following the rise and success of the comedian Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias. Well known in America as one of its most popular comedians he performs year-round to sold out venues throughout the United States and around the globe. From his humble beginnings the audience can see the hard work and focus needed to turn this young man into the person Forbes magazine placed on its "Ones to Watch list." Parodies, skits, sound effects and creative storytelling are all used in "The Fluffy Movie" to bring this man's story to life.
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High Fives 2015 – Allan's Gigs
So how about five great gigs this year? Well, I've had plenty to choose from and I can't say that I've seen a bad one, so it hasn't been an easy choice to whittle it down to the top five (and no cheating this time either). These are all gigs that I walked away from feeling elated, feeling that I'd seen something special that I wanted to tell the world about. So I did, and here's a reminder of how good these gigs were.
John Fairhurst @Rich Mix
On a freezing February Friday night in Shoreditch, Rich Mix was a welcome respite from bars full of bankers and 'exclusive' lap-dancing joints. The venue is a social enterprise where the motivation isn't purely profit and programming of events is always interesting. On this particular night, John Fairhurst, along with Pete Episcopo (bass) and Toby Murray (drums) played a raw and raucous set of blues focussing on the 2014 album "Saltwater". Some of the album versions of the songs were fairly big production numbers but the live performance was strictly a power trio affair with John's blistering guitar topping off the mixture. The journey back through Shoreditch didn't seem quite so bad after a night of proper blues with electric guitars playing way up loud. You can see some photos from the gig here.
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Mollie Marriott @The Half Moon
This one was firmly in the eagerly-anticipated category. Mollie's been working quietly for some time putting together a great band for live and studio work featuring her Jim Stapley bandmates Izzy Chase-Phillmore, Sam Tanner and Johnson-Jay Medwik-Daley. After an interesting acoustic support set from her nephew, Mo Evans, Mollie's full band made their first live appearance in a Half Moon packed with fans and a few well-known faces as well. It was obvious from the start that this isn't just a bunch of hired hands; this is a bunch of really good mates as well. None of their playing is showy or attention-seeking; everything serves the songs and underpins Mollie's phenomenal voice, and it all works perfectly. The audience were onside anyway, but Mollie and the band gave a great performance of material from the upcoming debut album and a couple of covers as well. Here are some photos of this one.
Mad Dog Mcrea and Sound of the Sirens @The Half Moon
This was a very special gig. I'd been invited along to see Mad Dog Mcrea and I had no idea about the support on the night, Sound of the Sirens. It's such a great feeling when you see an artist for the first time and you know instantly that they're something special. And it's not just me; apparently Chris Evans was quite impressed with them as well. Anyway, they played a storming set completely winning over the audience with their powerful songs, dynamics, and harmonies. If the night had stopped at that point, I would have been perfectly happy, but we still had Mad Dog Mcrea to come, with an energetic run through material from their album "Almost Home" plus a few old favourites and crowd pleasers. Two great bands with enough in common to appeal to the whole audience but with enough differences to create a very varied night. And there are some photos here.
Squeeze and Dr John Cooper Clarke @Indigo2
Another interesting double bill, this time with two very different artists, linked by the era which saw the start of their careers. John Cooper Clarke (now making the most of his honorary doctorate) has been doing poetry and comedy events for a few years but the tour with Squeeze put him back in front of big audiences filled with people who remembered him from the first time round. He throws more one-liners and gags into his routine now but a lot of the old favourite poems are still there, although some of them, particularly "Twat", have evolved over time. On this night he was a barnstorming crowd-pleaser, building up the audience nicely for the headline act.
This year Squeeze had a new album to promote so the setlist was varied, to say the least, with material covering almost forty years from "Take Me I'm Yours" to new songs like "Cradle to the grave" with the usual smattering of different interpretations of Squeeze classics. What made this performance so special was the group of musicians (mainly Glenn Tilbrook's Fluffers) now making up the rest of Squeeze who add upright bass, melodica and other esoteric instruments to the mix as well as adding rich vocal harmonies. Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook have never sounded better and what an incredible set of songs. Guess what, some photos here.
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Graham Parker and Brinsley Schwarz & The Union Chapel
And finally. One of the greatest talents never to break through in the seventies and eighties, Graham Parker, who toured twice this year; once with The Rumour and once with Brinsley Schwarz. With a songbook which again covers almost forty years and a new album to promote as well, Graham Parker mixed up some established classics, some surprises and some new songs to delight an audience which might have been a little biased anyway. His voice is still remarkable and the songs are all strong enough to work in stripped-back arrangements. This wasn't just a nostalgia thing; there were new songs to promote and they all sounded as good as anything he's done before. He's a remarkable man and it was a real pleasure to hear these songs in such a beautiful venue. How about a look at GP in the seventies and now?
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Mollie Marriott @The Half Moon 23/02/15
As ways to start the night go, having a chinwag with Joe Brown in the toilets at The Half Moon is a pretty good, if slightly surreal, one. So what's he doing there on a Monday night? Perfectly obvious really; both Mollie Marriott and her support act Mo Evans are family and Joe's there to support them. And he's not the only one. Judie Tzuke (one of Mollie's writing partners) has shown up as well. There's a bit of a buzz around this show because it's the debut for Mollie's full band, and most of the audience is anticipating some new material as well.
But before we get to that, there's a short set from Mollie's nephew, Mo Evans, who's a singer-songwriter in the confessional mould. Armed with only an acoustic guitar, a capo and some interesting tunings, he manages to grab the audience from the start. It's a difficult job at the best of times, particularly when your songs don't have too many happy moments, but they're a pretty good crowd and he gets them onside. There's a particularly nice moment at the end of the set when his guitar amp gives up and he reacts by jumping down from the stage and gathering the audience around him to finish the set completely unplugged.
Mollie's been doing acoustic gigs and radio appearances recently with Johnson-Jay Medwik-Daley (guitar and backing vocals) and Izzy Chase-Phillmore (backing vocals) and this line-up is augmented for the album material by Sam Tanner, Alex Reeves and Henrik Irgens (keyboards, drums and bass). There's an assurance about the band's performance that only comes from putting in the hours in rehearsal; there should be some nerves showing on the first outing with new material but they're well hidden. The band are all great individual musicians but this is about working together to showcase the songs and Mollie's voice. Oh yes, that voice; it's powerful and pure and strong (which you would expect from someone who's worked extensively as a backing singer) but when she pushes it towards the limit, there's a raw emotional edge there that you only find in the truly great blues and soul singers. On top of all that, she's a genuinely engaging stage personality who has a great rapport with her band and the audience.
The set features the two singles "Ship of Fools" and "Transformer", the Alanis Morissette cover "Mary Jane" and a selection of new material from the album, including "Give Me a Reason" which features some lovely harmonies from Izzy and Johnson-Jay; the audience loves it. There's a huge amount of love and mutual respect on stage but also between the band and the audience, which all helps to create a perfect live music experience. The Half Moon isn't full by any means, but anyone who was there will be spreading the word.
So, is 2015 the breakthrough year for Mollie Marriott? It certainly looks like this is the right time for the big push; she's been around the music business for a few years now and she's highly respected as a backing vocalist, but she now has an album's worth of songs, a tremendous band behind her, a label and a good support team. And, in case I hadn't mentioned this already, a phenomenal voice. "Transformer" is already generating media attention and picking up local radio playlistings, and with the album coming out later this year, this just might be Mollie's time; I really hope so.
Posted by mckaya on Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 10:35 am
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The truth about Sustainability and Transformation Plans:
by Stewart Player
How Simon Stevens imposed a reorganisation designed for transnational capitalism on England's NHS.
Recently shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said his first job in government would be to launch an independent review of every single Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) and to halt service closures. He said plans for service changes had "been decided behind closed doors, with no genuine involvement of local people." In response Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said, 'These local plans are developed by local doctors and communities, backed by the top doctors and nurses of the NHS."
Both can't be right, and indeed casting the net a bit wider suggests a different origin than either politician is suggesting – the World Economic Forum.
In early 2012 the World Economic Forum considered that national healthcare systems were increasingly caught between a rock and a hard place. Fiscal crises were creating pressures to curb expenditure while it was also acknowledged that countries rely on healthcare systems for economic growth and national development. The Forum also thought there was little agreement about how to progress and "help existing models become sustainable", and set itself the task of building such a consensus.
Two reports, co-scripted with McKinsey & Co, were produced. The first, entitled The Financial Sustainability of Health Systems(1), aimed not only to examine this tension between cost and development, but also the extent to which this was compounded by ageing populations, improved technology, and rising consumer expectations, and also by the wider economic context of high levels of public debt and stagnant state revenue. The second report, entitled Sustainable Health Systems: Visions, Strategies, Critical Uncertainties and Scenarios(2), took this a stage further, examining structural scenarios of the future which could be used to inform present-day thinking. These will be considered in a subsequent article, particularly as they relate to the evolving shape and content of STPs.
As well as offering an overall diagnosis, the first report also identified various strategies and levers available to governments to resolve the above-mentioned tension. These included various forms of rationing and shifting the cost burden onto individuals and employers through, for example, mandatory private insurance, or at the other end of the spectrum, increasing tax revenue. A third option, raising healthcare productivity through delivering more services with fewer resources would, it was argued, "go a long way to ensuring their financial sustainability" while avoiding the "fierce political contest" inherent in making either of the first two choices.
Such productivity improvements would, however, also prove "challenging", not least because of "the public resistance that blocks radical change with the result that inefficient providers remain". Moreover health services can't be outsourced to low-cost locations in other parts of the world, and the labour-intensive nature of healthcare makes it difficult to substitute capital for labour. Sustainability therefore must be achieved through transforming supply: the various levers with which to accomplish this could include payment innovations related to value rather than volume, with financial incentives aligned to secure good performance for both health and social care; boosting clinicians' productivity through greater use of digital technology; and an emphasis on preventive care, and on more integrated care pathways.
Above all the report advocated a complete re-invention of the delivery system via new models of care. These would be in "capital-light settings" using "leveraged talent models" and low-cost channels, such as home-based, patient-driven models. However this shift "must be accompanied by capacity reductions in higher-cost channels" (such as hospitals) and the new systems "must become more agile in leveraging the opportunities for more self-care".
Observers will readily recognise that the Five Year Forward View of October 2014, which STPs are now set to implement, is drawn directly from the World Economic Forum's diagnosis of the healthcare crisis, and also reproduces the Forum's prescription for supply-side change and the various levers available to policy makers. NHS England's updates on the FYFV are aimed at embedding such processes, particularly with regard to notions of clinical value, and to the design features of the new care models, where 'leveraged talent models' can be translated as more flexible roles carried out by less qualified, cheaper staff. Similarly, the planned capacity reductions entail not only cutting acute bed numbers but also selling off parts of the NHS estate.
The three components of the World Economic Forum, namely transnational business, governments, and media/intelligentsia, are organised in a hierarchy. The CEOs of the top 1000 transnational corporations occupy key positions and are called 'Foundation Members'; key policymakers from national governments and international organisations are known as 'World Economic Leaders'; while select academics and experts are called 'Forum Fellows'.
These distinctions were reflected in the composition of the three groups assigned to study the 2012 healthcare sustainability reports. A Steering Board comprising "eminent health systems leaders and experts" provided "overall direction", with a predominance of health corporations, while a Working Group of experts "supported the project's approach and methodology". The members of these two groups remained the same throughout the project's life. The permanent members were complemented by some 200 stakeholders from all three levels of World Economic Forum membership who participated in a series of roundtable events in England, China, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands.
Simon Stevens himself, who at that time was head of UnitedHealth's Global Division, acted as Project Steward of the Steering Board for the first World Economic Forum report, working with chief executives of leading healthcare companies including Apax Partners, Novartis, Merck, Medtronic and Kaiser Permanente, as well as the Directors of Health at the World Bank, the WHO, and the European Commission.
Some of the personnel of the WEF's healthcare groups reappear in the policy direction, project support and implementation of both the FYFV and STPs in England. Michael MacDonnell, for example, who at Davos was then a Senior Fellow at Imperial College's Centre for Global Health Innovation is now acting as head of policy for the STP framework as a whole, while among the other workshop participants we can identify at least two, Ron Webster and Amanda Doyle, who are leading individual STPs in West Yorkshire and in Lancashire and South Cumbria, respectively. However it seems reasonable to assume that the WEF agenda has been effectively disseminated among other STP 'leaders', with a curriculum that can always be accessed at the various leadership academies offered by global consultancies, domestic think tanks and privately partnered government agencies.
The list of other UK participants at the Davos meetings reads almost as a Who's Who of the people who regularly win leadership awards from healthcare management journals in England. It also includes ex-health ministers and leading participants in government reviews, as well as Treasury officials and former members of health committees. Among the prominent figures in recent NHS policy-making who took part are Alan Milburn, Dame Julie Moore, Mark Newbold, Sir Robert Naylor, Sir Bruce Keogh, Niti Pall, Paul Bate, Paul Corrigan, Nick Seddon, and various representatives of the NHS Confederation, not forgetting selected representatives of UK private healthcare companies such as Jill Watts and David Mobbs. Two English MPs were also involved: Stephen Dorrell, who was then chair of the Parliamentary Health Committee, and now working for KPMG; and the former Labour leadership candidate Liz Kendall.
The truth about STPs: transnational capitalism for England NHS
Back in 1998 Kees Van der Pijl suggested that the WEF had reached the status of a true International of Capital, and that the "organisation stood out as the most comprehensive planning body of the transnational capitalist class", where "concepts of control are debated, and if need be, adjusted on a world scale", and whose aim is "enhancing competition to the full and eliminating whatever niches remain protected from the full discipline of capital". Public healthcare systems are evidently notable 'niches' in this sense.
Whether or not this is a fair description of the WEF and its aims, it is clear that the basic strategy now adopted for the NHS in England has its origins in the business-dominated international policy circuit, of which the WEF is the apex, rather than in either the Department of Health or NHS England – let alone in the creative input of local communities, doctors and nurses, as fancifully proposed by Mr Hunt. No one believes Mr Hunt's claim because few doctors and even fewer nurses, and no 'local communities', report having been seriously engaged in the development of STPs. What a comparison of the FYFV with the WEF reports suggests, instead, is that what is now planned for the NHS in England is not a home-grown response to meet distinctively English circumstances, which the FYFV presents itself as being, but what the global policy-making elite at Davos sees as a way of avoiding further growth of spending on publicly-provided health care.
(1) World Economic Forum. The Financial Sustainability of Health Systems. A Case For Change. In collaboration with McKinsey & Company.
(2) World Economic Forum. Sustainable Health Systems: Visions, Strategies, Critical Uncertainties and Scenarios. A report from the World Economic Forum. Prepared in collaboration with McKinsey & Company.
Stewart Player is a public policy analyst and co-author (with Professor Colin Leys) of The Plot Against the NHS (Merlin, 2011).
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westnab says:
Very enlightening. But is it doesn't do what it says on the tin – it doesn't explain Simon Stevens' role fully. He is only mentioned in the sub-title and once in the body of the article. I guess the article assumes we know who he is. I don't, for one.
Of course I do now that I've googled him!
jcashbyblog says:
I will bet the best expert on health services, Don Berwick, was not there.
Una-Jane Winfield says:
Please can the author tell us when he became aware of the existence of these explosive reports?
I want to publisize this article and the underlying reports for the NW London campaign (www.Saveourhospitals.net) and need background facts, please. Thank you.
Stewart Player says:
Hi Una-Jane,
I've been doing some research on transnational capitalist class formation and its implications for healthcare. Quite a few authors have identified the WEF as the purest form of this, if you will, and I came across these reports by the Forum on healthcare sustainability about a month ago. Please feel free to ask for any more information.
Best wishes for your campaign!
Piyush Pushkar says:
Hi, thanks for the article. Any other references on transnational class formation?
Barbara Harvey says:
The "crisis" in the nhs has been deliberate, to create a need for a "solution" every country is under threat from neoliberism
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I Want A Come Back, Star Tells Club
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Arsenal Legend Gilberto Silva has revealed he would love to return to the Emirates in the future.
Silva was a fan favourite at the club between 2002 and 2008 with his committed displays winning the hearts of the fans and club.
The midfielder retired from active football last year and is already working on taking up a football related role in the future.
When questioned about life as a retired footballer and his plans for the future by Insidefutbol, Silva revealed he is doing a course on management which would help him take up a role as a sporting director in the future.
The midfielder also talked up the chance of returning to Arsenal. Though he said he is yet to receive an invitation from the club, he still loves the club till date.
"I follow football and I am trying to find a way to be involved. I am studying a course of general management to prepare myself.
"I want to be prepared if I decide to one day return to football as sport director or in another role. That will help me a lot" , he added.
"You never know, anything can be possible. I haven't received an invitation at the moment, but if one day I get an. invitation I will think carefully, because Arsenal is a team I really love" , Silva said.
Silva was part of the invincibles squad that won the Gunner's last league title in 2003/2004 season.
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With rumors that his ex-wife Sandra Bullock may be nurturing a relationship with recently split actor Ryan Reynolds, motorcycle buff Jesse James seems to want the world to know he's over his Oscar winning ex. Jesse appeared on the red carpet last night with on-off girlfriend, reality TV star and tattoo artist Kat Von D, […]
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Guys Choice
Celebrities came out last night for Spike TV's fourth annual 'Guy's Choice' Awards. Walking the red carpet were Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Brooklyn Decker, Ozzy, Sharon, Kelly and Jack Osbourne, Adrien Brody and Marisa Miller. Award recipients of the night included quintessential action star Sylvester Stallone, who was honored with the Guycon Award, Robert De […]
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April 9, 2010 August 30, 2011 by mavrix
Exclusive! Did Bombshell Get to Pink's Husband, Too?
It's being reported that prior to her alleged affair with Sandra Bullock's husband, Jesse James, tattooed bad girl Michelle "Bombshell" McGee had a brief relationship with rocker Pink's husband, Carey Hart. According to the reports, in September 2008, during the time that Hart was estranged from Pink, he met McGee at the ASR convention in […]
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March 20, 2010 April 15, 2011 by mavrix
Jesse James Goes Out In Public
With all the drama that's surrounding Jesse James right now, you'd think he'd stay inside and chill on the couch for a few weeks. There's nothing that a marathon of The Price Is Right, The People's Court and Maury can't fix — except maybe Sandra Bullock's anger. Anyway, our cameras spotted Jesse James as he […]
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All About Steve Premiere Pics
Last night, Grauman's Chinese Theatre played host to the All About Steve premiere. Bradley Cooper (love him!) and Sandra Bullock was there, but don't be fooled by the 2nd thumbnail from the left…Sandra probably wasn't actually making out with that Diane Sawyer look-alike. Probably. In semi-related news, where's Sandra's hot piece of a husband? I […]
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Pics from The Proposal Premiere
Sandra Bullock (LOVE HER!), Ryan Reynolds and Anne Fletcher were all at the premiere of The Proposal last night at the El Capitan theatre in LA. I'm a pretty big fan of Sandra and Ryan (and Ryan's abs…), so I'll probably see this at some point in the near future. Seems like a good date […]
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Keanu Reeves is Still Hot
The Day The Earth Stood Still is about to come out in theaters, and I'm uber psyched about it. Yeah, it's kinda sci-fi and that's not really the genre that makes my toes tingle, but it has Keanu Reeves in it! You can take just about any movie and make it better by adding a […]
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March 13, 2007 May 3, 2011 by mavrix
Premonition Premiere
Principal cast members Sandra Bullock, Amber Valletta, Julian McMahon, Nia Long and director Mennan Yapo attend the premiere of Premonition in Hollywood on March 12.
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Interesting: Souter takes on originalists at Harvard
Published June 2nd 2010 by
For those who watch the U.S. Supreme Court, a theory of constitutional interpretation–so-called "originalism"–is now in vogue. The theory, which is often mouthed by politicians, suggests that the only way to interpret the U.S. Constitution is to look at what the founders wanted and thought and felt back when they wrote the document.
It's got simplistic appeal, even if it's a fairly goofy notion. It's goofy, in that history is rarely anything if not subjective, such that anyone who claims to know what the founders thought centuries ago is necessarily guessing. Sometimes it's an educating guess, but it's a guess all the same. As well, it presumes that all should be set in stone, without considering the tremendous changes brought over the centuries by technology, population growth, culture and the like.
Maybe I can explain what I mean better by asking this simple question: What would Thomas Jefferson or James Madison have thought about Google? Originalists claim to be able to apply the founders' intentions to free speech issues in the Google-era. I think that's fanciful at best. "My answer, for what it's worth, is, "Who knows?!"
Originalist thinking seems to go beyond constitutional adjudication. For that reason, the airy concepts are more important to consumers than we might realize.
So all of that is background for big props to CBS legal correspondent Andrew Cohen, a Twitter friend, who wrote this thoughtful piece on Justice Souter's commencement speech at Harvard. Justice Souter, who retired recently, takes a reality-driven view of the constitution. He understands that much of work of constitutional interpretation is difficult because the values embodied in the constitution co-exist in tension. That tension creates ambiguity, which is necessarily at odds with originalists and sound-bite politicians whose world is black and white.
I'm a fan. If the U.S. Constitution and the Supreme Court matter to you, it's worth a read. Hats off to Andrew Cohen for noting and explaining what many of us missed.
Addendum: Link to the text of the Souter speech…I would credit a particular Philadelphia rock star lawyer who passed it along, but that would be wrong for reasons I can't begin to explain.
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Music with Roots in the Aether - Pauline Oliveros 1975
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Program 5. PAULINE OLIVEROS
Landscape with Pauline Oliveros (57:40)
including "Unnatural Acts Between Consenting Adults," a collaboration with Carol Vencius
Landscape with Pauline Oliveros (continued) and The Music of Pauline Oliveros (57:40)
""Rose Mountain Slow Runner"
Music with Roots in the Aether is a music-theater piece in color video. It is the final version of an idea that I had thought about and worked on for a few years: to make a very large collaborative piece with other composers whose music I like. The collaborative aspect of Music with Roots in the Aether is in the theater of the interviews, at least primarily, and I am indebted to all of the composers involved for their generosity in allowing me to portray them in this manner.
The piece turns out to be, in addition, a large-scale documentation of an important stylistic that came into American concert music in about 1960. These composers of the "post-serial" / "post-Cage" movement have all made international reputations for the originality of their work and for their contributions to this area of musical compositions.
The style of the video presentation comes from the need I felt to find a new way to show music being performed. The idea of the visual style of Music with Roots in the Aether is plain: to watch as closely as possible the action of the performers and to not "cut" the seen material in any way--that is, to not editorialize on the time domain of the music through arbitrary space-time substitutions.
The visual style for showing the music being made became the "theater" (the stage) for the interviews, and the portraits of the composers were designed to happen in that style." — Robert Ashley
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New Problem Emerges From Altering Opioids: Hep C Rates Soared When People Switched To Injecting Heroin
When people could no longer grind Oxycontin and snort it or inject, some switched drugs, a new study from Rand says, and that is leading to the spread of disease and costly treatments taxing Medicaid. Other news on the opioid epidemic looks at safe injection sites and palliative use of marijuana, also.
Stat: Study: 'Abuse-Deterrent' OxyContin Switch Helped Drive A Hepatitis C Spike
When Purdue Pharma reformulated its signature pain drug OxyContin in 2010, its aim was to make the pill "abuse-deterrent." But the change may have had an unanticipated and disastrous public health impact, according to a new study: accelerating a nationwide spike in hepatitis C infections. When the new version of OxyContin became far more difficult to crush or ingest nasally, many opioid users switched to injecting illicit heroin after 2010. That shift, researchers found, caused hepatitis C rates to spike three times faster in states with the highest non-medical OxyContin use. (Facher, 2/4)
CQ: Changes In Opioids May Have Driven Hepatitis C Infections
Those findings, in a paper published Monday in Health Affairs by researchers at the RAND Corp., imply that the opioid crisis has also been a factor in another issue that Congress, the administration and the states are struggling with: drug prices. Hepatitis C treatments cost around $20,000 to $30,000 per course of treatment, putting a huge burden on state Medicaid budgets. "Even if we could find a way now to stop all overdoses, we're going to carry the burdens of these infectious diseases for a really long time, and they are very expensive," said David Powell, a senior RAND economist who led the study. "That's just kind of another cost of this crisis that hadn't really been captured before." (Siddons, 2/4)
San Francisco Chronicle: California Bill Allowing San Francisco Safe Injection Site Reintroduced
The bill, AB362, was authored by Assemblywoman Susan Eggman, D-Stockton, and co-authored by Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco. It's the second time the duo have worked together to launch a safe injection pilot program in San Francisco. A similar bill they co-authored was vetoed by Gov. Jerry Brown in October, but Gov. Gavin Newsom has said he is receptive to the idea of a safe injection site. (Fracassa, 2/4)
The CT Mirror: Lawmakers Consider Bill To Permit Marijuana Use For Opioid Withdrawal
Members of the legislature's Public Health Committee heard testimony during a public hearing Monday from those for and against Sen. President Pro Tem Martin Looney's proposed bill to add opioid use disorder and withdrawal as conditions that qualify for the palliative use of marijuana. (Megan, 2/4)
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The state launched a new hotline, but families are still unable to obtain information about how many cases exist in individual nursing homes. And in many cases, they can't get updates on parents. News on nursing homes is reported from California, Pennsylvania and Ohio, as well. Boston Globe: 'They Will Not Tell Us How Bad…
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Analysis: A Procedure That Cost $1,775 in New York Was $350 in Maryland. Here's Why.
For the past 18 months, while I was undergoing intensive physical therapy and many neurological tests after a complicated head injury, my friends would point to a silver lining: "Now you'll be able to write about your own bills." After all, I'd spent the past decade as a journalist covering the often-bankrupting cost of U.S….
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Farmworkers, Firefighters and Flight Attendants Jockey for Vaccine Priority
This story also ran on NBC News. This story can be republished for free (details). With front-line health workers and nursing home residents and staff expected to get the initial doses of COVID vaccines, the thornier question is figuring out who goes next. The answer will likely depend on where you live. While an influential…
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KHN's 'What the Health?': Who Will Run the Biden Health Effort?
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Can't see the audio player? Click here to listen on SoundCloud. The quadrennial guessing game about who will get what health job in a new presidential administration has taken on a new urgency in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage. Meanwhile, as two promising vaccine candidates inch closer to approval, the federal government is…
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Atiku:I'll End Boko Haram, Herdsmen Killings If Elected President , identifies poverty as cause { good..now lets discuss how ths poverty and illiteracy will go|
Former Vice President and now aspiring for President on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has vowed and promised to end the lingering Boko Haram crisis and other criminal activities such as the herdsmen/farmers clashes within shortest possible time if elected as President of Federal Republic of Nigeria come 2019.
Atiku made the vow on Tuesday while addressing PDP supporters in Borno at the Forshams Hall, Maiduguri.
He said "Nigeria ended its civil war in only 2 and half years despite the thick forest in the south-east. I wonder why the war against insurgency took us 9 Years without headway, there must be something wrong somewhere." Atiku stressed.
Continuing he said, "if elected as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, I will not allow any commander to tell me stories, we must end insurgency within shortest possible time because the insurgency has crippled everything in the Northeast", he added.
He said Nigeria is one of the most poorest nation in the world, characterized with abject poverty, unfortunately, insurgency is associated with poverty. So given the mandate, he will also address poverty which is more prevalence in the Northeast.
Atiku alleged that the increasing cases of criminal activities associated with herdsmen/ farmers clashes, leading to loss of lives and property, was as a result of bad governance under the present administration, noting that, unless Nigerians team up and voted against the present ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) government at National, states and local government levels, the situation the country found itself will even be worst in near future.
Also Speaking at the occasion, Director General, Atiku campaign Organization, ACO, Senator Gbenga Daniel said the former Vice President and his entourage were in Maiduguri as part of the ongoing consultation tour with PDP stakeholders across the country.
He therefore called on the people of the state to give their block votes and massive support to Atiku, who is the only person that will take them to the promised land.
In his welcome address, the Borno State Coordinator Borno state ACO, Alhaji Mohammed Imam said Atiku is like a son of Borno, adding that majority of people of the state are solidly behind Atiku come 2019 general elections. He said, "You are welcome to Borno which is your second home, you need not to campaign, we the people of Borno are strongly behind your candidature. Imam said.
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Verelogic Group are incredibly proud of our continued support to our local club, Swindon Town FC - including supporting Head Coach Ben Garner.
Now that the start of 2022 is in full swing, Verelogic want to emphasise their support once again to Swindon Town FC. As a sponsor of the club for nearly 13 years, it's no surprise that we like to show off our support to the club, and that now includes the sponsorship of the first team head coach Ben Garner.
At the start of the 2021/2022 season, Verelogic's CEO Kevin Metcalfe was given the choice of player/management sponsorship and chose to support Ben Garner for the season. Having faith in the new management, including the new chairmen, there was a real buzz at the start of the season.
Kevin said "Its an honour to sponsor our head coach leading us this season and hopefully for many more. Ben is a top coach and is doing a great job with the team. We look forward to watching his tactics throughout the year"


Greek Orthodox Parents Can't Exempt Children from Religion Classes
High school students sit inside a class room at Glyfada, suburb west of Athens, Monday, April 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)
ATHENS – Only parents who are not Orthodox Christian can ask to have their children to be exempted from religious studies classes in Greece, a tiny fraction of students.
That was the ruling of Education Minister Niki Kerameus from New Democracy who was to take questions in Parliament for that decision at the request of a former education minister, Nikos Filis from the major opposition SYRIZA, said Kathimerini.
The decision states that atheists, agnostics and students of other denominations and religions don't have to take religious studies and can submit an application to their school for an exemption okay.
Filis said it was a violation of rulings from the country's Data Protection Authority and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) with SYRIZA having wanted during its 4 ½ year reign to separate Church and State but never did.
Filis said the data authority has ruled that it is sufficient to invoke reasons of conscience so that Christian Orthodox students can also be exempted. He added, moreover, that the "ECHR ruled that member-states have no right to require citizens to disclose their religious beliefs."


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Link light rail turns 10!
The commemorative Link 10th birthday ORCA card
Thank you for a great first 10 years!
By Bruce Gray
Happy 10th birthday to Link light rail!
Thank you to everyone who has made Link a huge success over the past 10 years.
It was on a sunny Saturday 10 years ago today when Mayor Greg Nickels and a host of dignitaries cut the ceremonial ribbon to open Link to the travelling public.
Since then, Link has had more than 134 million boardings and has become part of the fabric of the community in Seattle.
Excited riders on board one of the first opening day trains on July 18, 2009.
Special 10th birthday commemorative cards
To celebrate and thank our riders for making the first 10 years of Link a success, we loaded 1,000 special 10th birthday commemorative ORCA cards into the ticket vending machines at Westlake, Mount Baker and Tukwila International Boulevard stations.
The ORCA cards have all been snatched up but keep an eye out for future commemorative cards.
We're just getting started
In the next five years, Link will add 22 stations and expand to more than 50 miles of rail service.
In 2021, we open light rail service to the University District, Roosevelt and Northgate.
In 2023 trains will reach Mercer Island, Bellevue and Overlake.
After that, new lines to Lynnwood, Federal Way and downtown Redmond open in 2024.
Future Link extensions approved by voters in 2016 as part of ST3 are planned for West Seattle-Ballard (2030), Tacoma Dome (2030), Everett (2036), South Kirkland and Issaquah (2041).
With these additions, the system will grow to 116 miles and is projected to serve about 600,000 riders every day.
Thank you again to everyone who has made Link's first 10 years successful.
Here's to the next 100 years as we look back one more time to a narrated slide show from The Seattle Times that first aired the week leading up to opening day.
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Firstsource to strengthen its commitment to the UK through North of England investment
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Mumbai, November 9, 2020: Firstsource Solutions Limited (NSE: FSL, BSE:532809), a global provider of Business Process Management (BPM) services and a RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group company will expand its presence and strengthen its commitment to Middlesbrough from later this year.
The firm will take three floors of the striking One Centre Square Building. This new building is Grade A office space and one of the region's most ambitious regeneration projects.
The 10-year deal expands Firstsource's capacity in Middlesbrough, and the company expects to create over 100 new jobs in coming months.
Dr. Sanjiv Goenka, Chairman, RPSG Group and Firstsource Solutions, said: "The UK is a strategic market for us. Our centre in Middlesbrough is a centre of excellence particularly for serving financial services sector clients, and we are pleased to move to bigger premises."The new centre was announced as part of Minister for Investment Gerry Grimstone's virtual tour to India.
Minister for Investment Gerry Grimstone said: "The UK and India have a strong investment relationship, with UK and Indian investments supporting over half a million jobs in each other's economies.
"Firstsource's commitment to expand in the North East will bring further jobs and economic prosperity to the region and contribute to growing the UK-India relationship. I look forward to seeing the firm's continued success in the UK."
Firstsource Solutions Limited, a RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group company (NSE: FSL, BSE: 532809, Reuters: FISO.BO, Bloomberg: FSOL@IN), is a leading provider of transformational solutions and services spanning the customer lifecycle across Healthcare, Banking and Financial Services, Communications, Media and Technology and other industries. The Company's 'Digital First, Digital Now' approach helps organizations reinvent operations and reimagine business models, enabling them to deliver moments that matter and build competitive advantage. With an established presence in the US, the UK, India and the Philippines, Firstsource acts as a trusted growth partner for over 100 leading global brands, including several Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies. (www.firstsource.com)
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Private sector union decline dates to the late-50s
Washington Examiner Online, March 21, 2013
Slate columnist Matt Yglesias posted the above chart yesterday as part of a post arguing that "America's Private Sector Labor Unions Have Always Been in Decline". He notes:
[P]rivate sector labor unions have been in decline in the United States pretty consistently since World War II. There was a little uptick associated with the Great Depression, but really mass private sector labor unionism in the United States was an element of wartime economic planning. Then, in the immediate postwar years, we were at something of a political economy tipping point. We could have become a country where the overwhelming majority of large private sector firms were unionized, but instead congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act. It's been a long steady decline since then, partially masked by the unionization of a large swathe of public sector workers in the 1960s.
German union backs UAW effort to organize VW's Tenn. plant
Chicago Tribune Online, March 20, 2013
The United Auto Workers has won the backing of the head of an influential German union in its effort to represent the hourly workers at Volkswagen AG's Chattanooga, Tenn., assembly plant.
Time To Strike? 'Quite Possibly' City Union Leader Says
myfoxphilly.com, March 21, 2013
Earlier this week, we talked to the mayor, who said: "The unions have said, specifically DC 33, we don't want to talk about anything other than give us more money in raises, give us more money for our health and welfare, and we don't want to talk about anything else. That's not negotiating – at all. And what they've said is no to everything else. So, you know, I'm not going to get into a back-and-forth. That's just a fact. That's what it is. That's what's been going on. We're trying to get a resolution, and they're just trying to maintain the status quo."
Corrections officer unions at odds with prison reformers
Efforts to close prisons and end use of solitary confinement are getting pushback from the American Federation of Government Employees, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the Teamsters and the Service Employees International Union. Their argument: Hey, the closures affect our members' jobs and solitary is needed to isolate the worst prisoners:
Union, district reopen talks after appellate court ruling
ConnectStoughton.com, March 21, 2013
The Stoughton Area School District and its teachers' union have reopened contract negotiations after a state appellate court last week left in place, at least for now, a lower court ruling that struck down parts of the state's controversial collective bargaining law, school officials said Monday night.
Collective bargaining transparency bill HB 2689 shot down in House Committee
Illinois Policy Institute, March 14, 2013
Yesterday a bill that would allow the public to see union contracts and comment on them before they are signed stalled in committee, becoming yet another victim of pressure from union officials who want to keep the public in the dark about the deals they make. The bill actually had both supporters and opponents from both parties (votes are listed below). If a handful of lawmakers had been more willing to take a stand in favor of the public's right to know, the bill might have made it to the House floor.
Is Indiana's Right to Work Making an Impact?
Barnes & Thornburg LLP, March 21, 2013
Early statistics indicate that Indiana's passage of Right to Work legislation is already showing benefits to the state, according to the Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC).
Labor Board Alleges Repeated Retaliation at Walmart's Top US Warehouse
The Nation Online, March 20, 2013
The National Labor Relations Board has issued a complaint against four companies involved in staffing and managing Walmart's largest distribution center in the United States. The NLRB complaint—similar to an indictment—alleges that the companies repeatedly threatened and punished warehouse workers for labor organizing, including by firing activists involved in a September strike that helped to inspire November's Black Friday retail walkout.
UMaine System claims some faculty members' labor tactics illegal
Bangor Daily News, March 20, 2013
In an effort to put pressure on the system to accept a 4.5 percent cost-of-living increase for faculty, which a fact-finding panel appointed by the labor relations board recommended in November, AFUM chapters at the different campuses have voted to adopt what's known as a "work-to-rule" arrangement.
Central Coventry Fire Union Officials Misleading Taxpayers, Says Rep. Morgan
Coventrypatch.com, March 21, 2013
State Representative Patricia Morgan (R-Coventry, West Warwick, Warwick) charged Wednesday that officials of the Central Coventry firefighter's union were misleading taxpayers who are now being asked to accept a whopping 36% increase in their fire district taxes.
NAIOP event focuses on "right-to-work" law, March 21, 2013
Albuquerque Business First Online, March 21, 2013
The New Mexico chapter of NAIOP — Commercial Real Estate Development Association is hosting a national expert to speak on the "right-to-work" law March 25.
Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation is scheduled to keynote the NAIOP event. Mix also serves as president of the National Right to Work Committee, a 2.6 million-member public policy organization. He is a frequent guest on Fox News, CNBC and CNN.
The Free Press is suddenly OK with political shenanigans where right to work is concerned
Detroit News Online, March 21, 2013
In December, they were shocked – shocked! – by the Republican Legislature's decision to push through right to work in a lame-duck session. It was an abuse of the process! It was a subversion of democracy! No way the editors of the Detroit Free Press would stand for such legal maneuverings.
Now? Well. Now is different. Writes the Freep:
Lawmakers should fully fund CalSTRS, LAO says
Sacramento Bee Online, March 20, 2013
In a 13-page report to the Legislature, the nonpartisan LAO said the time has come for California to remedy the $73 billion funding gap confronting CalSTRS.
The funding gap represents an estimate of the long-term shortfall in money needed to pay benefits. Hurt by the recession and a decision more than a decade ago to raise benefits, CalSTRS has plenty of cash to meet needs for the foreseeable future, but it's projected to run out of money in 2044.
House panel passes bill to temporarily shutdown NLRB
The House Committee on Education and the Workforce passed a bill today on a 23-15 vote to require the National Labor Relations Board to cease all activity until the question of whether it has a legal quorum to act is resolved by the Supreme Court.
According to a statement by the committee, the bill would require the NLRB "to cease all activity that requires a three member quorum. The bill also prohibits the board from enforcing any action taken after January 2012 or making any interagency appointments that require a quorum." The bill "does not prevent the NLRB regional offices from accepting and processing unfair labor practice charges filed by an injured party – worker, employer, or union."
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June 21 will mark the first official day of summer 2015, which also marks a change in consumer demand when it comes to beauty products. This means good news for companies launching hair and skincare products that protect against heat, humidity, UV damage and pesky clogged pores.

Kate Lloyd | Jun 05, 2015
June 21 will mark the first official day of summer 2015, which also marks a change in consumer demand when it comes to beauty products. This means good news for companies launching hair and skincare products that protect against heat, humidity, UV damage, and those pesky clogged pores resulting from an increase in sweat production—let's be honest, it happens.
Similar to how different seasons cause changes in diets (anyone else a fan of summer watermelon?), shifts in seasons also bring about new beauty trends, according to a whitepaper Mintel launched in March. The whitepaper, "Seasonality," reports beauty manufacturers are now introducing innovative products based on consumers' needs during a particular season; specifically, they are launching products to protect against certain weather conditions affecting skin and hair.
Seasonal products made up 11.1 percent of all beauty and personal care product launches in 2014, the report and stated, which rose from 9.8 percent in 2011. In addition, seasonal product launches for facial skincare rose from .5 percent (globally) in 2009 to 1.2 percent in 2014. Mintel's consumer research also shows consumers around the globe want different products based on season changes, with 80 percent of German consumers reporting their facial skincare needs change throughout the year. Similarly, almost half of Chinese females who are facial skincare users said they choose different brands during different seasons.
Winter weather means consumers want products to hydrate dry skin, according to Vivienne Rudd, director of insight, beauty and personal care, Mintel. But the sizzling summer temps bring on a whole different set of needs.
"Extreme summer conditions are calling for products which protect the skin from heat and humidity, as well as UV damage, and which build up resilience against the forthcoming autumnal changes," Rudd said. "By creating these seasonal options, brands have a chance of building year-round loyalty."
Specialty chemical companies such as Croda and Clariant are already tapping into the seasonality trend with beauty ingredients to help consumers gear up for summer.
Croda launched an advanced surfactant for oil-based facial cleansing, called Cithrol 10GTIS, during the in-cosmetics 2015 show in Barcelona. The mild surfactant allows formulators to create gentle cleansers that are efficient at removing consumer's long-wear and waterproof makeup. The makeup and dirt built up in pores are readily dispersed into the oil, then water is applied to skin and instantly emulsifies. Once rinsed, the skin feels clean, renewed and soft after sweaty summer days.
Clariant also recently launched a new line for creating tailored skin care products. The company's set of 100-percent natural Plantasens® serums, which are ready-made lipidic blends packed with nutrients, can help personal care formulators provide each skin type with the treatment it needs. In addition to moisturizing, the liquid gels also provide sensorial benefits in formulation to best address each skin type. For example, consumers who develop especially oily skin in the summer can use Plantasens Grape Serum to unblock pores, normalize the oil gland functions and protect against transepidermal water loss (TEWL).


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Media diversity issue absent from party platforms
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MMTC was able to cite numerous platform planks in party platforms since 1980 that addressed the issue of diversity of media ownership in one way or another – and laments the fact that the issue is absent from both planks this year.
It can't be because at long last the issue has been resolved, because nothing could be further from the truth – the fact is that the numbers are going in the wrong direction.
According to MMTC's Jacqueline Clary, the first broadcast license was awarded in 1909. It took another 40 years for a license to go to a minority-owned entity. Likewise, she says, the first minority-owned license for a television station wasn't awarded until 1973.
The result has been a regimen of "structural discrimination" that has the minority community starting out decades behind the mainstream, and often left with slim pickings in terms of quality licensed facilities.
The issue was a feature of party platforms, usually but not always on the Democratic side, and the Democratic Party had a pledge to work toward greater diversity of ownership during the 2008 election. But this year – nothing.
Clary wrote, "Why should you and your candidate for public office care about this issue? Three reasons: (1) demographics are shifting toward a majority-minority U.S. population, (2) the exclusionary broadcast pattern is repeating in emerging industries, and (3) the FCC is facilitating a massive shift in spectrum licensing to move spectrum from broadcasters to telecommunications services in the next few years. We cannot afford to have minority-owned businesses locked out of the telecom industry."
Both parties recognize the importance of telecommunications, says Clary, but "skirt around" the diversity issue. She concluded, "Both political parties ought to address this issue before November 6. For its part, the FCC needs to ensure minority ownership is addressed during its incentive auction rulemaking proceeding. If we fail to take this opportunity to include minority inclusion as priorities now, minorities will continue to fall behind in the years ahead – and so will our nation."
RBR-TVBR observation: The intractable nature of this issue is demonstrated by the fact that even when it has been on a platform, little has been done to forward the cause, often in spite of willing regulators in favor of action. The courts have not helped, making it very difficult to write regulations in such a way that minority entities can be given a leg up when competing in the licensing process, and the abolishment of the tax certificate program, which helped minorities deal for existing stations, was another step backwards.
A number of suggestions from MMTC are likely being considered even as we speak as part of the quadrennial review. It will be very interesting to see if any of them become part of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.
Meanwhile, while it's nice to have a platform plank on diversity, the simple fact is that as hot as some broadcast issues can get from time to time, including the Michael Powell 2003 dereg attempt and the indecency brouhaha kicked up by Janet Jackson, they never ever figure meaningfully in presidential politics. So ultimately, we'd be watching the quadrennial a lot more closely than any party platform when it comes to this issue.
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Biden Launches New DHS "Disinformation" Scheme after Original Board Shut Down by Public Outcry
Senator James Lankford (R-OK), lead Republican on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Government Operations and Border Management, sent a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, regarding the Department's ongoing needless pursuit of a "disinformation board" after their first attempt failed. On August 24, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced—after being heavily scrutinized by Lankford and others for their vague scope and potentially dangerous objectives against Americans' free speech—that they would terminate the highly controversial Disinformation Board of Governance.
Lankford writes in his letter, "Despite the Homeland Security Advisory Council's (HSAC) preliminary findings on July 18, 2022, that there is 'no need' for the Disinformation Governance Board's existence, the Office of Inspector General recently made a recommendation that DHS establish a unified strategy to counter disinformation on social media and operate it through the Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans (PLCY). After the OIG report was made public, HSAC released its final recommendations that notably doesn't recommend a role for PLCY. Therefore, I write to urge you to set aside the OIG's recommendation and not add authority to PLCY's broad mandate."
Lankford goes on to cite in his letter several questions that remain unanswered by the Secretary about their ongoing pursuits to address "disinformation."
From the beginning, Lankford stood firmly against the creation and continuation of the Board and demanded hearings from the Senate Homeland Security Committee to provide oversight after an alarming description of what the Board would be tasked to do. Lankford led a letter to Secretary Mayorkas requesting the immediate release of all documents related to the Board. Lankford has pushed to ensure that no funding for the Board is included in the Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations bill, and he introduced stand-alone legislation to stop federal funds from being used to establish it. Lankford grilled Secretary Mayorkas at a Homeland Security hearing about the questionable scope and nature of the Board's creation. Following the hearing, DHS announced the resignation of the Board's executive director and has paused all actions until an internal review is complete.
You can read the full letter HERE and below:
Dear Secretary Mayorkas,
I remain concerned by the US Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) ongoing efforts to centralize agency authority for countering disinformation. Despite the Homeland Security Advisory Council's (HSAC) preliminary findings on July 18, 2022, that there is "no need" for the Disinformation Governance Board's existence, the Office of Inspector General recently made a recommendation that DHS establish a unified strategy to counter disinformation on social media and operate it through the Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans (PLCY). After the OIG report was made public, HSAC released its final recommendations that notably doesn't recommend a role for PLCY. Therefore, I write to urge you to set aside the OIG's recommendation and not add authority to PLCY's broad mandate.
My growing concern with DHS' efforts to combat "disinformation" stems from its evident politicized nature and attempt to silence certain viewpoints. Immediately upon his confirmation, Under Secretary of PLCY Robert Silvers started the framework for the Disinformation Governance Board, which was made public through whistleblower documents revealing that on September 13, 2021, the Under Secretary lead a memo to you with the subject "Organizing DHS Efforts to Counter Disinformation." The additional documents show a lengthy paper trail of meetings and deliberations that, if implemented, would eventually end in PLCY being the central authority of disinformation for the Department.
While I appreciate your direction to the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) to review the Disinformation Governance Board, which as I previously mentioned, affirmed that the Board is not needed, it's clear that Under Secretary Silvers still believes this work should continue. It does not come as a shock that he publicly agreed with the OIG's recommendation, pending the public release of the findings from HSAC, to give his office within DHS responsibility to coordinate a unified strategy to counter disinformation on social media over the course of the next year.
In fact, the whistleblower documents give us further insight into his efforts in this space. One specifically distressing revelation from the documents, specifically pertaining to social media was a scheduled meeting organized by the Under Secretary with Twitter executives to "discuss operationalizing public-private partnership" and an "analytical exchange" created by DHS. Regardless of whether the meeting ever happened, the intent of the Under Secretary and his office is extremely telling. It is only logical that DHS remain cautious and skeptical of the OIG's recommendation to task PLCY with anything related to disinformation on social media.
Considering the broad authority of PLCY in tandem with the Under Secretary's publicly-known efforts to centralize the office's authority over "combatting disinformation" Department-wide, it's only a matter of time before PLCY turns this effort into a de facto Disinformation Governance Board. The American people do not need a sub-department to be the sole authority on what is true.
Finally, it's my understanding that much of the delay for getting information to Congress gets stuck within PLCY's bureaucracy after it's gone through clearance from the other Department components. I hardly think it is wise or reasonable to task this office with another job which will inevitably only cause further delays in Congressional responses.
Notably, I have still not received answers to questions for the record I submitted from the May 4, 2022, HSGAC hearing where you were questioned and testified on the Disinformation Governance Board and DHS's efforts to "combat disinformation." As such, please provide your responses to the following questions no later than COB, September 9, 2022.
HSAC's Final Report from the Subcommittee for Disinformation Best Practices and Safeguards did not explicitly outline a role for PLCY in any recommendations. However, the DHS-OIG recommended that PLCY establish a unified strategy to counter disinformation on social media. Undersecretary Silvers concurred with the OIG's recommendation pending HSAC's final report and gave a completion deadline of August 2023. Given the dueling recommendations, what, if any, role are you going to assign to Undersecretary Silvers?
Please provide a detailed chart on the roles and responsibilities of each DHS office and component in the clearance process.
Please provide a detailed chart on the roles and responsibilities of Under Secretary Silvers and assistant-secretaries in PLCY and how they conduct the clearance process and coordinate with DHS components.
Please ensure the chart reflects Under Secretary Silvers', and his chief of staff's, and any other political appointee's role in clearing information to Congress.
Please provide the number of requests from Congress that are awaiting clearance in PLCY.
It's my understanding that DHS assigns items with deadlines. How many Congressional responses have been completed on time? How many have not been completed on time?
How many Congressional responses have had their deadlines extended during the clearance process, and how many times was each Congressional response extended? Who approves the decision to extend a deadline in the clearance process, and for what reasons may a deadline be extended?
In God We Trust,
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The Birthplace of Country Music and PUSH! Film Festival present a film screening of the documentary filmThe Ballad of Shirley Collins, a meditative and carefully textured piece of portraiture of one of the 20th century's most important singers of English traditional songs.
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Are UK's imams modern enough?
By Robert Pigott
BBC News, religious affairs correspondent
A week after the failed attacks in London and Glasgow, the Muslim Council of Britain has called an emergency meeting of imams and Muslim community activists to work out a strategy for combating extremism.
British mosques are dominated by foreign imams
Their particular concern will be young Muslims, and the radical groups trying to recruit them to their hard-line understanding of Islam, with all its disdain for the Western way of life.
Those meeting in London on Saturday - and in a separate gathering in Oxford - are likely to see imams as a vital part of the task.
They are the official interpreters of Islam, and the public officials of the Muslim world whose word should carry maximum authority.
But a BBC study has led some influential figures in British Islam to doubt their imams are equal to this most urgent of tasks.
Urdu sermons
The survey, carried out among 300 imams by the University of Chester, painted a picture of a rapid influx of imams from India, Bangladesh, and especially Pakistan, with limited ability in English, and rudimentary professional qualifications by Western standards.
The survey found that although half of Muslims in Britain were born here, nine out of 10 of their imams came from overseas, 70% of them within the last decade.
Getting on for 90% speak a South Asian language as their mother tongue, and, perhaps more significantly, more than half of sermons are in Urdu. English comes some way behind.
"Too many imams cannot speak adequate English", says Ajmal Masroor, an imam at Wightman Road Mosque in London.
"How can they expect to get the message across to young people, or to speak to people of other faiths?
"I'm worried, and the Muslim community is very concerned about it."
Isolation fears
Ajmal Masroor preached this week on the injustice of violent attacks against the innocent, a counterblast to terrorism that came straight out of the Koran.
His is a modern interpretation of the faith and its holy text suited to a modern, Western, secular, and multicultural democracy. It also included criticism of other mosques that restrict access for women.
By their very nature they weren't designed for a 21st Century secular democracy like Britain
Professor Ron Geaves,
Chester University
Call to ban foreign imams
But many other imams are failing to grasp the nettles growing on the fringes of their congregations.
Khayer Chowdhury, a student in east London, said of his imam: "To be fair he doesn't speak very good English... and he talks about things that interest older people, like the family.
"He doesn't talk about things that concern young people... like how to behave on the street, and integration."
Muslim leaders such as Muhammad Raza, the director of the Imams and Mosques Council, fear that the isolation of imams from young Muslims places the whole community in jeopardy.
"I fear, and it's a real fear, that they could become the tools for further violence", he says. "And for that we need imams who can show their ability... their authority."
'Medieval'
The author of the BBC report, Professor Ron Geaves of Chester University's department of theology and religious studies, says many imams lack that ability and authority because they were educated for a different world, and, arguably, a different era.
The Muslim Council of Britain is meeting to tackle extremism
He says that overwhelmingly imams in Britain were educated only in traditional seminaries, nearly all of them in the Indian subcontinent.
"They're medieval, and provide learning by rote of the Koran, and other religious texts", he says.
"By their very nature they weren't designed for a 21st Century secular democracy like Britain, where Islam is a minority religion. Imams educated in them tend to see Islam as good, and everything else as bad." Prof Geaves says very few imams are making any effort to upgrade their academic or professional skills.
Mosques, often dominated by first and second generation immigrants to Britain, continue to seek imams from their ancestral countries rather than British-born imams.
Ajmal Masroor points out an uncomfortable reality about Islam in modern Britain.
"In the Ottoman times, an imam's job was highly respected and would attract a high number of extremely talented people", he says.
"Today, on the contrary, an imam's job is poorly paid and attracts the least talented people."
It may seem a harsh judgement on a body of people serving their communities - and the Almighty - to the best of their ability. But the social and political realities in which imams now operate are themselves increasingly harsh.
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This book is the essential pocket guide to tracing your family history. 2014 is the 10th anniversary of the celebrity UK TV program about family history which now celebrates its 100th episode. The idea for this very successful show has its roots in 1988 when TV producer Alex Graham read an interview of fellow Scot Billy Connolly's working-class family history in a Sunday Magazine. However, it was not until 12 October 2004 that the first episode was aired with Bill Oddie as the subject.
The book contains eleven case histories with some family secrets and surprises being uncovered along the way. Billy Connolly discovered he had Anglo–Indian ancestry by using civil records, parish registers, census returns and military records. Jason Donovan, the actor, had one ancestor who was transported to Tasmania for receiving stolen goods, and another ancestor who travelled to Australia as a soldier who was in charge of the convicts. Patsy Kinset had to search criminal records and at the same time discovered a Good Samaritan who founded a charity to look after the poor. Samantha Womack actress and singer started out her search with a blank canvas. By checking army records, newspaper reports, passenger lists to the USA and census records she found her long lost family who had been performers like she was and this gave her a sense of family pride.
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Tom Holland to play Fred Astaire in biopic
Date Posted: 07 December 2021
From web-slinging to tap dancing
7 Dec – Tom Holland recently confirmed that he is set to portray Fred Astaire in a new movie.
The "Spider-Man" actor shared the news with AP while promoting the latest "Spider-Man" movie on 5 December, saying that the script for the upcoming project has already arrived but that he has yet to read it.
"They haven't given it to me. I know Amy Pascal has the script. She Facetimed me earlier when I was in the bath and we had a lovely Facetime. But I will be playing Fred Astaire," he said.
The upcoming movie reportedly will be produced by Sony. However, the studio is still keeping mum about it for the time being.
He's got Fred's big tap shoes to fill
It is noted that Pascal previously mentioned that she has been eyeing Holland for the role during an interview for GQ magazine.
The actor could be a great choice to play the legendary dancer, singer and choreographer, who was most known for his movies like "Shall We Dance", "Holiday Inn" and "Easter Parade".
Other than web-slinging, the actor had previously displayed his dancing prowess by performing Gene Kelly's "Singing in the Rain" as well as Rihanna's "Umbrella" dance on the Comedy Central show, "Lip Sync Battle."
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