According to Ohio Administrative Code 3701-3-28, "Whenever a person is bitten by a dog or other mammal, report of such bite shall be made within 24 hours to the health commissioner of the district in which the bite occurred." If you have been bitten by an animal or know someone who has, please report this to the Ross County Health District.
What We Do: The Ross County Health District is required to quarantine all dogs, cats and ferrets that bite people. The quarantine is for 10 days and is most typically done at the animal owner's home. The purpose of the quarantine is to ensure that the biting animal does not have rabies. If the biting animal has rabies at the time it bit, the symptoms of rabies will be seen in that dog, cat or ferret within 10 days following the bite.
Try to obtain information about the animal's owner including name, address and telephone number; Try to obtain information about the biting animal such as the type of animal, color, breed, name and rabies tag; Make sure that the healthcare provider reports the animal bite to Ross County Health District, if not please contact the Ross County Health District at 740-775-1158 to file an animal bite report.
What is rabies? Rabies is a viral disease of mammals that is most often transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal. The virus travels through the central nervous system to the brain. Once it reaches the brain, the disease nearly always causes death. This is a disease that is preventable in several ways; keeping our pets currently vaccinated against rabies and avoiding encounters with wild animals like bats, skunks, raccoons and foxes. If bitten by an animal seek immediate medical attention and rabies treatment.
How is rabies spread? Rabies is spread or transmitted through the saliva of an infected animal to another animal or human. Usually, this happens through a bite that breaks the skin or contact with saliva into an open scratch or wound. On very rare occasions, it is has been documented that it can be spread if someone's eyes, nose or mouth comes in contact with saliva of a rabid animal.
Protecting your pets: Please remember to protect your pets such as dogs and cats from rabies by keeping them current on rabies vaccination. In event that your dog or cat may be bitten by a wild animal or exposed to a bat, contact your local veterinarian and the health district to determine the next steps to ensure your pet receives post exposure treatment if determined necessary by your vet and health district staff.
For more information on animal bites, exposure to rabies, and bat encounters and determining rabies risk, contact our office to discuss by calling 740-775-1158.
If the bat is seen and be captured, please do not damage the head of the bat. Contact our office to see how you can have the bat tested for Rabies if the bat can be captured. We recommend to prevent contact with any dead bat or live bats in your house, you should contact a wildlife specialist to have the bat removed from your home to limit exposure.
Do not take a captured bat into the urgent care or emergency room; they do not test bats for rabies. Please call Ross County Health District at to arrange for having the bat tested.


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Do OR Checklists Improve Outcomes?
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"Implementation of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist was associated with robust reduction in morbidity and length of in-hospital stay and some reduction in mortality," says the conclusion of a paper in the May 2015 issue of Annals of Surgery.
Now I am not against checklists. When I was a surgical chairman, I implemented and used one in both the operating room and the SICU. They probably do not add costs and may be helpful.
However, there are some problems with the paper. The authors looked at 5,295 operations done in two Norwegian hospitals. The intervention was a 20-item checklist consisting of three critical steps–the sign in before anesthesia, the timeout before the operation began, and the sign out before the surgeon left the operating room. Using a stepped wedge cluster design, patients were randomized to control or the checklist.
Complications occurred in 19.9% of the control patients and 11.5% in those who got the checklist, a significant difference with p<0.001.
A look at Table 2 finds that of 27 complications or groups of complications, 14 occurred in significantly fewer patients in the checklist group.
Of the significant 14, a few, such as cardiac or mechanical implant complications, could possibly have been prevented by the implementation of the checklist.
For most of the others, the relationship between the use of a checklist and a post-operative complication is tenuous. How could a checklist possibly prevent technical complications like bleeding requiring transfusion, surgical wound dehiscence, and unintended punctures or lacerations?
Urinary tract infection, pneumonia, asthma, pleural effusion, dyspnea, and the nebulous categories of "complications after surgical and medical procedures" and "complications to surgery not classified" also occurred significantly more often in the control cohort. What item on a checklist could have prevented those complications?
Embolism, sepsis, and surgical site infection, three complications one would expect a checklist to impact because of reminders to give prophylactic anticoagulation and antibiotics, did not occur at significantly lower rates in the checklist group.
Even the cardiac complication category is open to question because none of the five subcategories (cardiac arrest, arrhythmia, congestive heart failure, acute myocardial infarction) differed significantly between the two groups. Only when the five were combined did statistical significance emerge.
In the 300-bed community hospital, checklist use was associated with a significantly lower mortality rate than non-use, 0.2% vs. 1.9% respectively (p = 0.02), but no mortality difference was seen in the 1100-bed tertiary care hospital.
The tertiary care institution enrolled 3,811 patients, while the 300-bed hospital contributed 1,083. If more patients had been in the latter group, the difference may have disappeared due to the principle of regression to the mean.
Despite the heightened vigilance associated with an ongoing research project, compliance with checklist use was only 73.4%.
Before you go off on me, I will remind you that I do not oppose checklists, and most things we do in medicine are not based on Class 1 evidence.
Just don't tell me that checklists have been proven to reduce complication rates or save lives.
Skeptical Scalpel is a retired surgeon and was a surgical department chairman and residency program director for many years. He is board-certified in general surgery and critical care and has re-certified in both several times. He blogs at SkepticalScalpel.blogspot.com and tweets as @SkepticScalpel.
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King, Devers to host BCB Clinics for fast bowlers and Off Spinners on Sunday as coaching programme expanded
Dec 02, 2021 Sports
Kaieteur News – The profound effort of the Hilbert Foster led Berbice Cricket Board to develop the game and to make sure that all players have equal opportunities to fulfill their talent would be taken a step further on Sunday when the active board hosts two separate clinics for fast bowlers and off spinners.
Reon King
The two clinics would be conducted by former West Indies pacer Reon King and former national under19 player Sean Devers at the Albion Cricket Ground from 11am to 3pm.
The clinics would be held under the board's highly successful County wide Dr Tulsi Dyal Singh coaching programme. Hundreds of under19 players have benefitted from the programme which is sponsored by overseas based Guyanese Dr Singh. The board has since expanded the programme to include former national and international players who are highly respected in the county and are viewed as positive role models.
Foster, who has spearheaded a transformation of Berbice cricket over the last four years, last Sunday announced a plan to produce at least ten players for the West Indies at the different levels over the next two to three years. This includes the under15, under19, female under19, senior females and senior team -20/20, ODI AND Tests.
Sean Devers
The county coaching staff led by Winston Smith has been visiting clubs and hosting mini academies across the county. Foster disclosed that as a follow up to these programmes, the board would be hosting a series of special clinics for fast bowlers, off spinners, leg spinners, left arm orthodox, wicketkeepers and batsmen.
The BCB is in discussion with several former and current players to assist with their knowledge and Foster stated that all the responses have been positive. As part of the programme, the board would also be publishing more copies of its historic coaching manual and youth information booklet and in 2022, would be producing its own coaching video for youths.
King played nineteen test matches and 50 ODI for the West Indies between 1990 and 2005. He took 53 test wickets at an average of 32.7, while his 76 ODI wickets came at an average of 23.80. He currently works as an International Cricket Match Referee and is highly respected for his knowledge of the game.
Devers, is widely known across the country for his work as a sports journalist for the Kaieteur News and is also an international cricket commentator. He represented Guyana at the youth level and also played for Berbice at the senior inter county level.
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Up Periscope is a 1959 World War II submarine film drama directed by Gordon Douglas, produced by Aubrey Schenck and starring James Garner and Edmond O'Brien. The supporting cast features Andra Martin, Alan Hale Jr., Edd Byrnes, Warren Oates and Saundra Edwards. The film was shot and processed in WarnerScope and Technicolor and was  distributed by Warner Bros. The screenplay was written by Richard H. Landau and Robb White, adapted from White's novel of the same name.

Garner called the film "another piece of crap that Warner Bros. stuck me in while I was under contract."

Plot
Lt. Kenneth Braden, a newly trained U.S. Navy frogman, is unexpectedly ordered to report for duty without being able to notify his new girlfriend Sally Johnson. He learns that she is a naval intelligence officer responsible for a recent confirmation of his character and fitness for a special mission.

Submarine commander Stevenson, whose crew's morale has been shaken by the recent unnecessary death of a crew member, is ordered to take Braden to the island of Kusaie (Kosrae) to photograph a code book at a Japanese radio station. Stevenson waits in Lelu Harbor while Braden executes his covert mission.

After Braden returns, Stevenson dictates a letter accusing himself of endangering his submarine and crew in order to make Braden's mission easier. When they reach Pearl Harbor, Braden informs Stevenson that his crew "lost" the letter. To Braden's surprise and delight, Sally is waiting at the dock to greet him.

Cast

 James Garner as Lt. (j.g.) Kenneth M. Braden
 Edmond O'Brien as Commander Paul Stevenson
 Andra Martin as Sally Johnson
 Alan Hale Jr. as Ensign/Lt. (j.g.) Pat Malone (billed as Alan Hale)
 Carleton Carpenter as Lt. Phil Carney
 William Leslie as Lt. Doherty
 Frank Gifford as Ensign Cy Mount
 Henry Kulky as Chief Petty Officer York
 Edd Byrnes as Pharmacist Mate Ash (billed as Edward Byrnes)
 Richard Bakalyan as Seaman Peck
 Sean Garrison as Seaman Floyd
 Warren Oates as Seaman Kovacs
 Saundra Edwards as a bar girl (uncredited)

Reception
In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic A. H. Weiler wrote: "[I]t seems to run a familiar and somewhat undramatic course. ... Although there are moments of tension in 'Up Periscope,' it sails a movie course that is not particularly exciting. The bravery shown here is no longer unsung."

See also
 List of American films of 1959

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1959 films
1950s war films
American war films
Films directed by Gordon Douglas
Films scored by Ray Heindorf
Films set in Kiribati
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State tax revenue, which grew at 10 percent a year thanks to capital gains, dropped 5 percent the first half of this year.
...The foundation also would delay the income tax rollback and limit spending from the state's reserve fund.
"The ground is shifting," "Downtown" Steve Bailey declared this morning in his Boston Globe business column.
The Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation has always opposed our income tax rollback.
What has shifted is, the "highly-respected, non-partisan" MTF no longer is speaking with its omnipotent Voice Of Authority. Instead, Bailey went to its individual corporate members -- usually silent, unidentified partners -- for their opinions without identifying them as MTF officials.
We do the rest of the job today for Steve Bailey.
When these business leaders -- the driving financial force behind MTF -- call for sacrifice, we at CLT hope that they will lead by example, offering up the corporate welfare special tax exemptions they've received over the past decade (ie., Raytheon, an MTF member). If returning those special interest tax savings isn't enough to support the spending levels they advocate, only then can they propose "delaying" Joe Six-Pack's long-overdue income tax rollback with any moral authority whatsoever.
PS. Do you suppose there's a reason why Steve Bailey failed to identify the following as officials of MTF - are we perhaps beginning to rock their lofty pedestal?
WHO IS THE MASSACHUSETTS TAXPAYERS FOUNDATION?
The state's budget hole is getting deeper, the cuts more Draconian every day. Tax collections fell a startling 18 percent in January alone, and the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation in projecting a budget gap of as much as $500 million this year and $2.1 billion next year. What to do?
William Van Faasen, chief executive, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts: "I am in favor of postponing the [tax] rollback," Van Faasen says. "There is too much uncertainty, too much fragility. I am very worried about the instability of the health-care industry in Massachusetts and the long-term consequences of that. ... The tax cut is very shallow and broad. No one's life is dramatically changed by postponing it. Many lives are dramatically hurt by not properly funding the health-care needs in the short term. My view is not political or ideological. I would like to think it is practical."
Richard Syron, chief executive, Thermo Electron in Waltham and former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston: "I would be willing to forgo some of the proposed tax cuts." Unlike Swift, Syron, an economist, does not think delaying the cuts will hurt the economy. "Postponing the tax cuts will not be a fiscal retardant. I don't think state taxes act much on the state economy." What Syron has learned along the way: The longer you delay, the worse the problem gets. "We have some substantial experience with that here in Massachusetts."
Jack Connors, chief executive, Hill Holliday Connors Cosmopulos: "I have no problem with a freeze on the Cellucci tax cut now. The people who are getting hurt here can least afford to be hurt. If we marginalize a lot more people it is going to cost us a lot more money than we can even imagine. We were just getting to where the tide really did raise all boats. Now we are thinking of tossing them back over? Not a good idea."
David D'Alessandro, chief executive, John Hancock Financial Services: "I feel really strongly about delaying the tax cut," D'Alessandro says. "If we don't do something, the economy will lag even longer. ... The governor can get re-elected by raising taxes because all the Democrats are going to have to agree. Therefore no one should worry about getting elected or getting re-elected because of the tax freeze." The effect of higher income rates on business: "It won't cut Hancock's business."
Frederick Breimyer, chief economist, State Street Corp.: State revenue is being affected by a slide in corporate profits and a fall-off in capital-gains taxes, he says. Sales taxes, on the other hand, have held up well. What has made the situation "far more difficult" was the voters' decision in 2000 to lower the income tax rate at just the wrong time, creating a "structural change" in revenue that we will have to live with. "We have made it worse," Breimyer says. "What we should do is suspend it [the tax cut] until we can afford it. That would be the prudent thing to do."
Chad Gifford, chief executive, FleetBoston Financial Corp.: "The forces line up in favor of delaying the proposed tax cut. When you are looking at shrinking revenue and uncertain cuts, it sure indicates to me we should not be decreasing taxes at this time." Like Syron, Gifford does not agree with Swift that postponing the tax cut will prolong the recession. "I am not an economist, but I don't believe this is going to have an effect on the economy. It is more important for the state to retain a strong financial footing and help those most in need."
I think these people are trying to tell you something, governor.
IPSWICH -- The state budget crisis could continue to deepen even as Massachusetts and the rest of the country pull themselves out of recession, says Michael Widmer, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation.
Widmer laid out a scenario of mounting deficit for the North Shore Chamber of Commerce members gathered yesterday at Ipswich Country Club.
"What I'm worried about is that if we fail to address it, we will find ourselves in a worse situation a year from now," Widmer said.
Even if the economy recovers, the state might have to make draconian budget cuts for the fiscal year ending in June 2004, undo tax law changes of the 1990s and float bonds to cover the deficit, he said. "I'm not saying it will happen," he said. "The numbers suggest that is a distinct possibility if we don't address it now."
The voter-approved income tax rollback takes away another $1.46 billion.
Finally, health care costs, which make up a quarter of the state budget, are rising 10 percent to 15 percent.
The foundation predicts a fiscal year 2003 revenue shortfall of $1.7 billion to more than $2 billion. Widmer said that's assuming tax revenue growth comes back at 3 percent. "We're assuming in those numbers an economic recovery."
Widmer spoke to an audience that included state representatives Brad Hill of Ipswich and Michael Cahill of Beverly, who is in the race to succeed gubernatorial candidate Shannon O'Brien as treasurer.
"There's a huge game of political musical chairs taking place," Widmer said, and neither Gov. Jane Swift nor the Legislature has done its part to head off the problem.
Swift's 2003 budget makes a series of "risky and unwise assumptions" about the recovery, he said.
"We think for the short-term, we need more reductions," Widmer said. Those are likely to come in aid to cities and towns. The foundation also would delay the income tax rollback and limit spending from the state's reserve fund.
"If all else fails, we can luxuriate in the Patriots," he joked.
Widmer couldn't offer much comfort for people in the audience who are already feeling the state budget cuts. North Shore Community College President Wayne Burton said that while the college has record enrollment for spring, it just received notice that another $150,000 must come out of the budget. How can the college do its part for a competitive economy, he asked, with that kind of budget?
The foundation has always advocated investment in education, Widmer said. "It's important to strike a balance."
Widmer agreed that it is inevitable, but he said it's up to the Legislature to make sure $800 million doesn't become $1 billion, or more. "We absolutely have to husband our remaining reserves."


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Facebook's new 10-year plan? SMS -- aka WhatsApp
The social network is giving up 8 percent of the company in a deal designed to secure its future in emerging markets.
Jennifer Van Grove
The next 10 years of Facebook won't look anything like the last 10 years, thanks in part to the landmark acquisition of mobile messaging sensation WhatsApp, a buy that will help the social network accomplish its ambitious strategy of reaching billions more people around the world.
Facebook said Wednesday that it will buy the app, which comes along with 450 million monthly active users, for $16 billion in cash and stock, and also award the startup's founders and employees with an additional $3 billion in restricted stock units (RSUs), which will take four years to vest once the deal closes. Altogether, the stock and RSUs represent 7.9 percent of Facebook shares.
The arrangement has Facebook handing over a sizable chunk of its company to WhatsApp, but that could be a small price to pay to stay atop the Internet food chain. Essentially, Facebook has turned its biggest challenger -- at least in terms of audience -- into an ally and bought itself what amounts to SMS for emerging markets.
Don't take it from this reporter, but from the man who orchestrated the deal (emphasis ours):
"WhatsApp is an extremely high quality product with incredibly strong engagement and rapid growth. It doesn't get as much attention in the US as it deserves because the community started off growing in Europe, India, and Latin America. But WhatsApp is a very important and valuable worldwide communication network," Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday in a conference call on the deal. "WhatsApp is the only widely used app we've ever seen that has more engagement and a higher percentage of people using it daily than Facebook itself."
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WhatsApp's engagement rate, or the ratio of daily active users to monthly active users, is an impressive 70 percent, whereas Facebook's engagement rate is around 61 percent. Better still, Zuckerberg believes WhatsApp is on the path to "reach over 1 billion people worldwide in the next few years."
Zuckerberg's logic is that ads or no ads -- and WhatsApp won't have ads, according to founder Jan Koum -- an Internet service that reaches a billion people is incredibly valuable. Currently, the focus is on growth, both Zuckerberg and Koum insisted, but WhatsApp does monetize its application by selling annual member subscriptions to the app for $1, though the first year of membership is free.
During the call, the Facebook chief's statements often echoed past remarks about the social network's 10-year plan to connect the entire planet. The plan starts with standalone apps like Messenger, Instagram, and Paper, and finishes with the goal of providing Internet access to the remaining two-thirds of people on the planet who are not connected.
The WhatsApp acquisition means that as Facebook works to spread broadband access across the world, it can also give out an extremely cheap alternative to text messaging.
"As Facebook works to connect the entire world and build the infrastructure for a global community, WhatsApp will clearly help accelerate our progress," Zuckerberg said. "People use WhatApp as a replacement for SMS."
The parallels between WhatsApp and SMS were further made in a slide deck shared with investors. Facebook said that WhatsApp's messaging volume, which stands at 19 billion messages sent per day and 34 billion received per day, is approaching the entire global SMS telecommunications volume.
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Growing food in a drought is tough!
Trying to keep the school vegetable patch alive when we have to carry all water to the school in buckets and containers is proving hard, but all the 'grey water' gets given to the plants and they are hanging in there.
The Lion group are the oldest kids in the school and they help out around the school in many ways. Here they are serving milk to the squirrel group (the youngest children in the school) during milk break.
To mark his long association with the school we asked Peter Bender to plant at tree when he came to visit us.
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New Building Boosts Innovation Centre of Excellence
Posted January 4th, 2017 by BTP Admin
Expansion of the Brisbane Technology Park at Eight Mile Plains is further evidence of confidence in the strong and growing state economy, says Treasurer Curtis Pitt.
Officially opening the first completed building in the Innovation Precinct, Mr Pitt said Brisbane Technology Park was already extremely well-regarded nationally.
"Since its establishment in 1985, Brisbane Technology Park has developed to accommodate more than 150 national and multi-national companies working in industries as diverse as biotechnology, health and medical services and products, mining, communications, electronics, and software development," Mr Pitt said.
The opening of the newest building will enhance Brisbane Technology Park's appeal as an innovation centre of excellence. The building provides 4,425 sqm of commercial office space, with 1,429 sqm leased to anchor tenant Universal Communications Group, and the remainder occupied by MSS Security, payments processing company IntegraPay, Atlas Copco and Black Ink Espresso.
"I was pleased to be here at Brisbane Technology Park last year for the turning of the sod event and again earlier this year to witness construction progressing. To see the finished product is even more impressive as it represents the concrete confidence business has in our state economy, its diversity, and the nation-leading growth it is achieving," Mr Pitt said.
"It is important to note that some very notable medical and scientific breakthroughs have emerged from the businesses that have been established in Brisbane Technology Park. This includes endovascular stent graft technology developed by Cook Medical to treat aortic aneurysm disease. As well as advancements in food safety technology developed by Symbio Alliance."
Mr Pitt said Brisbane Technology Park demonstrated the government's ability to work with the private sector to innovate and create successful economic development outcomes for Queensland. "It also broadly aligns with the government's $405 million Advance Queensland strategy to harness innovation that will create jobs now and for the future while strengthening and further diversifying our economy," he said.
"Assisting home-grown technological breakthroughs get traction is vital for all Queenslanders and even further afield — that's what Advance Queensland is all about."
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La Grange native J.K. Dobbins, an incoming sophomore running back at Ohio State University, was among the 50 collegiate players on Friday named to the watch list for the 2018 Walter Camp Player of the Year award, which is presented annually to the player judged the best in college football by the Walter Camp Football Foundation.
The watch list will be narrowed to 10 semifinalists in mid-November, and the winner will be announced on ESPN Dec. 6.
The Walter Camp Player of the Year recipient is voted on by the 129 NCAA Bowl Subdivision head coaches and sports information directors.
It's been a preseason full of accolades for Dobbins, who has been named to a variety of All-American teams as well as the watch list for the Doak Walker Award annually presented to college football's top running back.
Dobbins is La Grange's all-time leading rusher with 5,149 yards despite missing his senior year with an ankle injury. He had a stellar freshman season for Ohio State in 2017, starting all 14 games at running back and setting the Ohio State freshman record with 1,403 rushing yards. He registered the second-highest yards per carry average – at 7.2 – in school history while ranking seventh nationally in yards per carry and second in the Big Ten Conference in rushing yards and yards per game (100.2).


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The People v. McGrane
People v. Edgecombe
¶ 77 The right of presence stems from common law. People v. McGrane, 336 Ill. 404, 408 (1929). Under common…
The People v. Tilley
On page 547 of the opinion in the Brothers case the court made the following pronouncement: "In each of these…
Full title:THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Defendant in Error, vs. JOHN MCGRANE…
Court:Supreme Court of Illinois
Date published: Oct 19, 1929
336 Ill. 404 (Ill. 1929)
168 N.E. 321
Supreme Court of Illinois
In People v. McGrane, 336 Ill. 404, Justice DeYoung wrote an opinion reversing a conviction for assault with intent to commit murder.
Summary of this case from The People v. Tilley
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No. 19726. Reversed and remanded.
Opinion filed October 19, 1929.
WRIT OF ERROR to the Circuit Court of DeKalb county; the Hon. WILLIAM J. FULTON, Judge, presiding.
DENNIS J. COLLINS, and ARCHIE G. KENNEDY, for plaintiff in error.
OSCAR E. CARLSTROM, Attorney General, LATHAM CASTLE, State's Attorney, and GE0RGE P. O'BRIEN, for the People.
Mr. JUSTICE DEYOUNG delivered the opinion of the court:
John McGrane was convicted in the circuit court of DeKalb county of an assault with intent to murder John P. Conroy. He prosecutes this writ of error for a review of the record.
On March 25, 1928, the plaintiff in error, John McGrane, was fifty-four years of age, unmarried and resided at Clare, in DeKalb county. He was a laborer, and had been employed by the Chicago Great Western Railroad Company. John P. Conroy also resided at Clare and was the railroad company's station agent at that point.
The prosecution's evidence tended to show that prior to March 25, 1928, Conroy had found fault with the work of the plaintiff in error at or near the railroad station, and that the two men quarreled whenever they met thereafter; that on the morning of the day mentioned, which was Sunday, Conroy and his wife were in an automobile on their way to church about half a mile south of Clare when the plaintiff in error emerged from the rear of a building, carrying a shotgun, and came to the center of the highway; that when Conroy's automobile reached a point within four hundred feet from the plaintiff in error, the latter held the gun in front of him; that, as the car approached, he stepped aside to permit it to pass, and that, after the car had passed, he fired and several shot struck the rear of the automobile. Neither Conroy nor his wife was injured.
The evidence offered by the defense was, in substance, that prior to March 25, 1928, trouble had arisen between the plaintiff in error and Conroy; that whenever they met their differences were resumed but that Conroy was always the aggressor; that on the Sunday morning in question, the plaintiff in error had been hunting and met Conroy and his wife in the highway, but that he did not shoot at Conroy's automobile or the persons occupying it.
The contentions by which a reversal of the judgment is sought are: First, that the circuit court erred in the admission and exclusion of evidence; second, that the State's attorney and his assistant made remarks in their closing arguments which inflamed the jury against the plaintiff in error; third, that the circuit court gave prejudicially erroneous instructions requested by the prosecution; fourth, that proper instructions requested by the plaintiff in error were refused; fifth, that the circuit court instructed the jury in the absence of the plaintiff in error in violation of his constitutional rights; and sixth, that the evidence fails to show the plaintiff in error guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Only the third and fifth of these contentions need to be considered to dispose of this writ of error.
At the prosecution's request, the court gave the jury the following instruction: "The jury are instructed that the rule requiring the jury to be satisfied of the guilt of the defendant from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt in order to warrant a conviction is complied with if, taking the testimony altogether, the jury are satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty. The reasonable doubt that the jury is permitted to entertain to authorize an acquittal must be as to the guilt of the accused on the whole evidence and not as to any particular fact in the case not material in the case." Reviewing the same instruction in People v. Cramer, 298 Ill. 509, we said that it required the jury to determine what were the material facts or final essential elements of the crime with which the defendant was charged; that the question was a legal one and could not properly be submitted to the jury, and that such an instruction should not be given without in some way defining the essential elements constituting the crime for which the defendant was indicted. The same instruction was again condemned in People v. Johnson, 317 Ill. 430, where it was said: "While the law does not require proof of every fact in the case beyond a reasonable doubt, and the doubt to justify an acquittal must be as to the guilt of the accused on the whole evidence and not as to any particular fact, yet a reasonable doubt as to the existence of any particular fact necessary to constitute the crime requires a verdict of not guilty, and it is necessary to a conviction that the People should prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, every fact necessary to constitute the crime. If one such fact is not proved by the measure of proof required by law, then the crime itself is not proved so as to authorize a conviction. It is not correct to say that a reasonable doubt as to any particular fact in a case is not sufficient to justify an acquittal, without distinguishing between facts which are material and constitute a necessary element of the crime and those which are not so material and necessary." No other instruction defined the essential elements of the crime with which the plaintiff in error was charged, and under these circumstances the court erred in giving the instruction. People v. Birger, 329 Ill. 352; People v. Rongetti, 331 id. 581.
The jury retired to consider their verdict at 5:30 P.M. Five hours later the officer in charge of the jury brought the following communication to the judge: "Honorable Judge, would it be a fair question to ask your honor the minimum and maximum sentence on both verdicts? C.W. Rimsnider, Foreman." The State's attorney and counsel for the plaintiff in error were present at the time and the judge stated that he thought the jury were entitled to an instruction on the question asked. He directed the officer to bring the jury into the court room, and in the absence of the plaintiff in error gave the following instruction: "The court instructs the jury in the language of the statute as follows: 'An assault with an intent to commit murder, rape, mayhem, robbery, larceny, or other felony shall subject the offender to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of not less than one year or more than fourteen years. An assault with a deadly weapon, instrument or other thing with an intent to inflict upon the person of another a bodily injury where no considerable provocation appears, or where the circumstances of the assault show an abandoned and malignant heart, shall subject the offender to a fine not exceeding $1000 nor less than $25 or imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of the court.' " Counsel for the plaintiff in error excepted to the giving of the instruction. The jury retired and shortly before 11 P. M. returned the verdict upon which the judgment was rendered.
Section 9 of the bill of rights prescribes that in all criminal prosecutions the accused shall have the right to appear and defend in person and by counsel. Section 8 of division 13 of the Criminal Code (Cahill's Stat. 1927, p. 953; Smith's Stat. 1927, p. 1021), provides that all trials for criminal offenses shall be conducted according to the course of the common law. By the common law the personal appearance of a person accused of a felony was required throughout the trial and it was also required that the record show the fact. ( Sewell v. People, 189 Ill. 174; Harris v. People, 130 id. 457). The plaintiff in error was entitled to a public trial by jury, at every stage of which he had the right to be present and in every part of which he had the right to participate for his protection. ( People v. Beck, 305 Ill. 593; People v. Harris, 302 id. 590; People v. Weinstein, 298 id. 264; Crabtree v. Hagenbaugh, 23 id. 289; Brown v. State, 24 Ark. 620; Roberts v. State, 111 Ind. 340; State v. Smith, 44 Kan. 75; Jones v. State, 26 Ohio St. 208; Hooker v. Commonwealth, 54 Va. 763; 1 Bishop's Crim. Proc. ___ 3d ed. ___ sec. 273; 2 Wharton's Crim. Proc. ___ 10th ed. ___ sec. 1484). The giving of the instructions to the jury is a part of the trial and the accused person has a right to hear the instructions read. Inquiry will not be made into the correctness of an instruction given in his absence, and the error is not cured by the presence of the defendant's counsel, since his attorney has no power to waive his right to be present in court. ( Bonner v. State, 67 Ga. 510; Maurer v. People, 43 N.Y. 1; Shipp v. State, 11 Tex.Crim. App. 46). That right may only be waived by the defendant himself.
Defendant in error, however, relies upon Crowell v. People, 190 Ill. 508, asserting that it justified the trial court in giving the instruction in the absence of the plaintiff in error. In that case the court gave an instruction similar to the one of which complaint is here made, but there the defendant was in the court room, although ill and lying on a couch about fifty or sixty feet from the judge, and the instruction was read in a loud tone sufficient to be heard throughout the court room. In this case the plaintiff in error was absent from the court room, and his absence was neither voluntary, nor had he waived his right to be present. It follows that the giving of the instruction in his absence, after the jury had been recalled to the court room, was in violation of his rights.
The judgment of the circuit court is reversed and the cause is remanded to that court for a new trial.
Reversed and remanded.
In People v. McGrane, 336 Ill. 404, no other instructions were given defining the essential elements of the crime and for that reason we condemned a similar instruction.
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Armed Robbers Caught Inside Firstbank In Abuja Confess, Indict Bank Workers
TL Media Guest December 31, 2019
Some employees of Firstbank of Nigeria in Mpape area of Abuja have been indicted by notorious armed robbers who confessed to the crime after they were arrested on Saturday.
According to a report by Punch, the suspects told police detectives during interrogation that they were invited to carry out the robbery by some employees of the bank.
While four gang members were apprehended, the number of bank workers in custody could not be confirmed as of the time of filing this report.
Operatives of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command and soldiers from the Guards Brigade foiled the heist in Mpape, a settlement a few metres away from the highbrow Maitama District.
One of the suspects was gunned down, while four others were arrested.
The suspects had holed up in the banking hall for almost two hours until they were smoked out with teargas by security personnel, who condoned off all possible escape routes.
It was gathered that the suspects were invited to rob the Automated Teller Machines located on the bank premises.
It was believed that the ATMs were stashed with huge amounts of money to cater to customers' cash needs during the Yuletide.
A police source, who is familiar with the investigation into the failed heist, informed PUNCH Metro that the bank workers in custody were trying hard to absolve themselves of blame.
"It is too early to give details, but so far, the suspects are claiming that they were given information about how to rob the bank by some of the workers. We are still working to verify their claims," the officer said.
When Punch correspondent passed by the bank premises on Sunday, observed that the place was desolate with broken glasses everywhere.
Two armed policemen were seen chatting outside the building.
Meanwhile, the bank's management said in a statement after the standoff between the robbers and security personnel that its workers and customers were safe.
"The immediate response by the police and military is very commendable and we truly appreciate them for their doggedness and commitment," it stated.
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Residents to be hired to help care for neighbourhood gardens
Mr Desmond Lee (in blue) being given a demonstration of a tree inspection at Bishan- Ang Mo Kio Park. TNP PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG
Ng Keng Gene
Those with green fingers may soon be employed on a part-time basis to help landscaping works in neighbourhood gardens.
Such opportunities will be part of about 1,000 new and upgraded jobs which the National Parks Board (NParks) aims to create over the next five years, said Minister for National Development Desmond Lee yesterday.
Many of the jobs - for Singaporeans - will leverage new technologies as part of NParks' digitalisation push for the landscape industry.
To foster greater ownership of gardens and green spaces, landscape companies will employ residents to care for greenery in their neighbourhoods under the Resident Gardener programme.
The Holland-Bukit Panjang Town Council started a similar initiative in 2015. This is the first time it is being rolled out for greenery under NParks' purview.
It will start with a pilot programme next month in Ang Mo Kio, Punggol and Yishun.
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NParks will link residents with landscape companies, and also train these gardeners to use mechanised tools.
"The programme provides an opportunity for residents who are gardening enthusiasts to supplement their income while engaging in their interests," said Mr Lee.
A year-long pilot involving the use of new tree and park management technologies will begin this month as part of the Landscape Sector Transformation Plan launched in 2019.
The plan aims to digitalise, mechanise and professionalise the sector over a decade. The pilot will focus on the Bishan-Ang Mo Kio area before the use of such technologies is scaled up islandwide from January 2022.
NParks said its digitalisation push will encourage the landscape sector to adopt technology, operate safely with greater efficiency and precision, attract a younger workforce, and enable older workers to continue contributing.
On the choice of Bishan-Ang Mo Kio, NParks said the area is representative of the different terrains it manages.
Mr Goh Eng Lam, chairman of the Landscape Industry Association (Singapore), said the new technologies will help to reduce reliance on manual work and foreign workers.
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And the winner is...drum roll please...Fiery Fuchsia! If this looks and sounds familiar then you probably read my social media posts on Facebook and Instagram so please feel free to skip this one.
In case you haven't been following along, let me back up a bit. A couple of weeks ago, I asked for help naming one of the three colours I have coming out for fall/winter. I opened up a contest online called "Name That Colour".
Here's a photo of the three colours.
The black is called Midnight Black; the pale blue is Silky Blue; and now the pink is christened Fiery Fuchsia. I like how there is a sky theme going on. Each colour representing a time of day when you might look out to the horizon and see that colour in the sky.
There were two entries for Fiery Fuchsia. Both Betty Healey and Katherine Moynihan came up with this 'glowing' recommendation. I decided to put their names in a hat and randomly draw the winner.
And the winner is the lovely Katherine Moynihan. She will receive a 20% discount coupon to use on her next online purchase of one of our new fall styles. I had the honour and pleasure of meeting Katherine at our annual "Forget for a Moment" Makeover this year. Congrats, Katherine!
A huge thank you to everyone who entered the contest. There were so many awesome and creative entries, it was difficult to choose just one. Here are a few honourable mentions.
Sunset Pink from Angelika Niedling, Elicia Merkley, Natalie Cox, Natalie Vogt, Betty Healey and Ellen Nadarajah. This entry was the most popular.
I think all of these names would have worked well with the other sky themed colours.
I have to say this contest was a lot of fun. Every morning I couldn't wait to see the new entries, like a kid in a candy store! Y'all are so creative! I'll have to do it again sometime. Are you game to play again?
In the meantime, keep your eye out for our new fall cardigan, tunic top, and pant. Pre-sale coming soon with delivery the end of October!
Way to go Katherine!! And congrats to you Colleen for being one step closer to your fall/winter launch!!


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Chol (Choll) is a village at the northern end of Ngaraard State in Palau. This village consists of a large, long, beach that runs along its entire east coast. The village has a series of ancient paths and platforms, similar to the rest of the villages in Ngaraard. There is also a large man-made channel that connects the village to the sea on the western coast.  At the center of the village, along the compact road, there is a small marketplace with benches where one can purchase some village refreshments.

Geography
The village of Choll is located directly adjacent to the village of Ngriil in Ngarchelong State. Choll has a small population, surrounded by dense forest and steep hills. A compact road was recently built through the center of the village.

Education
The Ministry of Education operates public schools.

Ngarchelong Elementary School in Ngarchelong currently students from Choll.

Palau High School in Koror is the country's only public high school, so children from this community go there.

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Populated places in Palau
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Thomas Schmidinger – London (UK)
Thu, 31 May 2018, 19:00
Housmans Bookshop, London (UK), Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, London, N1 9DX
London launch at Housmans, London
Looking for an expert introduction to Rojava? A more nuanced take on the situation?
Thomas Schmidinger will be at Housmans on May 31 at 7pm to discuss the conflict, present and past, and his new book 'Rojava: Revolution, War and the Future of Syria's Kurds' published by Pluto Press.
The Kurdish territory of Rojava in Syria has become a watchword for radical democracy, communalism and gender equality. But while Western radicals continue to project their own values onto the revolution, the complexities of the situation are often overlooked or misunderstood.
Based on over 17 years of research and fieldwork, Thomas Schmidinger provides a detailed introduction to the history and political situation in Rojava.
Outlining the history of the Kurds in Syria from the late Ottoman Empire until the Syrian civil war, he describes the developments in Rojava since 2011: the protests against the regime, the establishment of a Kurdish para-state, the conflicts between the parties about the administration of the Kurdish territory and how the PYD and its People's Councils rule the territory.
The book draws on interviews with political leaders of different parties, civil society activists, artists, fighters and religious leaders in order to paint a complex picture of the historical conflict and the contemporary situation.
Thomas Schmidinger is a Political Scientist and Cultural Anthropologist based at the University of Vienna. He is Secretary General of the Austrian Association for Kurdish studies. He is the author of Rojava (Pluto, 2018), which received the Mezlum Bagok award. He has written extensively on Kurdistan, Sudan, Kosovo, jihadism, migration and Muslim communities in Europa.
Revolution, War and the Future of Syria's Kurds
Thomas Schmidinger
The history and politics of Syrian Kurdistan, with a special focus on the revolution in Rojava.


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The last 24 hours have been hard for me to take in. Honest moment here: I have been avoiding the news!
I do not want to hear Hillary, Hillary, Hillary. I do not want to hear Trump, Trump, Trump. I do not want to hear black lives matter. I do not want to hear all Muslims are terrorists. I do not want to hear that another shooting has happened. I do not want to hear that another bombing has occurred. I do not want to hear that whites lives matter. I do not want to hear that all police are corrupt people. I do not want to hear about racial profiling.
It isn't that I don't care because I do care. Often I care to much and it makes me upset and frustrated.
What has our world come to? Have we really regressed so much from where we were or is it just that it is so much more visible because of social media and news networks being everywhere now?
Five years ago on July 7th I sat in my bed watching a live broadcast, from my hometown of Grand Rapids. Five years ago I watched as police officers tried to negotiate with a man. A man who had gone on a rampage earlier in the day killing 7 innocent people. Not just people but everyone was a part of his life. Five years ago I sat on my bed wondering what our world had come to.
Turned out that he had a lot of untreated mental health issues (a completely different subject; then again probably not as different as I would like to think). It doesn't make it any better. It doesn't help in any way shape or form but at least we know why.
Then last night on July 7th 2016 I sat in the bed watching another live broadcast, but this time from Dallas, Texas. It started out as Jack and I watching the peaceful protests being broadcast back and forth between New York, New York and Dallas, Texas turned into people screaming and running in Dallas, Texas and then seeing officers down on the ground and me in instant tears.
It was us sitting watching negotiations and uncertainty as to what was going on. It was people not understanding the gravity of what was happening. It was confused reports giving out statistics that they had been given and nothing was making sense. It was people separated from their loved ones. It was a lot of chaos and fear.
At what point has two wrongs made a right? At what point if your cousin was punched in the face by someone was it okay for you to go and seek your own justice? At what point if someone on social media makes a claim or shows a video of only part of what is going on does it give a country the right to seek their own justice in the town they live in?
When did it start to mean if you are pro-police you are anti-black? When did it start to mean if you are pro-black you are anti-police? Why can't we be pro-people? Why can't we be pro-love? Why can't we be pro-hope? Why can't we be pro-change?
It doesn't matter the profession out there, there are always going to be bad ones. Police, Fireman, Doctors, Educators, Pastors, Store Clerks, Stockers, Factory Workers, and the list goes on. When did it start to mean that just because the news focuses on those bad apples that all are bad or most are bad?
Our country is falling apart around us. Our leadership is falling apart around us. The focus is on the wrong things. We are divided and we need to figure out how to fix it.
I do not want my children to grow up in a country that feels they can take justice into their owns hands. Especially when the justice that takes place is not happened where the original incident took place. Actually I don't really care where the justice takes place – the justice that takes place should be taking place within our legal system and not be taken into our own hands. We do not need more vigilantes, we need more caring, love, understanding and the divide to stop.
I do care and I do love you! I am praying for everyone in Minnesota, in Louisiana, Texas, the United States and ultimately the World!
Today is a very sad day for the American people and Law Enforcement. I want to start by saying that my thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of the victims of these shootings. The shooting in Dallas overnight and the officer involved shootings in Minnesota and Louisiana this past week.
These investigations will all take time and no one wants to rush to judgement. As I stand here today I want the people of Kent County to know that all lives matter no matter your race, skin color, religion, or nationality. We ALL matter and we need to stand together and mourn our losses and fight through these hard times.
As a police officer I can tell you that the vast majority of officers are good people. They go out day in and day out to protect in serve. Most have given up many family opportunities that some take for granted. Officers are on duty 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It doesn't matter if it is Christmas, New Years, or their babies first birthday they are always working.
Most police vehicles in Kent County are equipped with in car camera's that will capture video and audio from the dashboard of the police cruisers. The officers are also equipped with a microphone.
Body Cameras are being introduced across the country. This is another tool that I feel is a necessity to protect both the citizens and the Police Officers on the street. There are some hurtles that have to overcome and most come with a very high price tag that most police departments and prosecutors cannot afford in their current budgets.
In the days to come we will all mourn the losses of the lives that were taken too soon. We need to stand together and work through the issues and rise above to see that justice is done.
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Women and Leadership Archives
A Visit Turned Crusade: A Struggle to End the Death Penalty
Posted on December 6, 2019 by Women and Leadership Archives
Dr. Irene Meyer was a Mundelein College* professor from 1957 to 1992. In that time, Dr. Meyer earned her PhD, became a fervent civil rights activist, and fought for the abolition of capital punishment in Illinois. I first came across Dr. Irene Meyer earlier this year for a reference request. In her file, there were several articles, which marked her involvement with a man on death row. Reading these sparked my curiosity, and I had to see what else we had in our collections on Dr. Meyer. What I learned was that Dr. Meyer has led an amazing life, built an incredible career, and her story is one that needs to be told.
Dr. Meyer was a first generation college student, and chose to go to Mundelein because of the school's Catholic tradition. Originally majoring in music, Dr. Meyer discovered a passion for psychological study, which fostered her career.
After finishing her undergraduate degree, Dr. Meyer briefly served as an elementary school teacher, and later joined the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the religious order which founded and ran Mundelein College. Shortly thereafter, she received her Master's Degree in Psychology in 1957, and PhD in Clinical Psychology in 1966 from St. Louis University. Just eight years later, Dr. Meyer was promoted from Associate Professor to Professor as well as the department chair at Mundelein College.
Figure 1: Sister Irene Meyer, BVM, N.D. (WLA, Mundelein College Photograph Collection)
Throughout her career, Dr. Meyer became a civil rights activist and staunch death penalty abolitionist, a position she took after meeting a man sentenced to death, Bill Witherspoon (c.1927-1990). Witherspoon had been convicted of murdering Chicago police officer Mitchell Stone in 1959. She first met Witherspoon when accompanying one of her students who was interviewing him to measure psychological impact of the death penalty.
After months of correspondence with Witherspoon, Dr. Meyer began to observe the psychological toll the death penalty had on not only the inmates on death row, but also the guards and wardens who had to carry out the sentence.
Dr. Meyer believed that behavior after incarceration was the only true measure of rehabilitation. She felt that Witherspoon had been rehabilitated and consistently showed support for a stay of execution. Dr. Meyer used her voice on campus to educate students about Witherspoon's situation, and provided them with resources to urge the governor to grant a stay of execution. This initiative received mass support with 1,700 petition signatures and 45 letters to the governor.
Figure 2: Sister Irene Meyer, BVM, N.D. (WLA, Mundelein College Paper Records)
Off-campus, Dr. Meyer utilized the media in her campaign against the death penalty. She delivered a paper in which she urges that Witherspoon's sentence be commuted to the ABC-TV news station where she was later invited to speak on the Jim Conway Show. Dr. Meyer made several appearances on the show, and spoke about the abolition of capital punishment on radio.
Eventually, Witherspoon's case would go all the way to the United States Supreme Court. The Court ruled in favor of Mr. Witherspoon, commuting his death sentence to 50-100 years. And after 20 years he was released on parole.
The work Dr. Meyer did for the Witherspoon case is only one part of her story. Meyer wanted to start a special education program at Mundelein, and she believed that students needed to have outside the classroom experience to have a well-rounded education. Through my digging, I found an interview with Dr. Meyer in our digital collections. She talks about her life, speaking about the work she did at Mundelein as well as outside of the college's purview. More information on her can be found in our collections here, and you can listen to her tell her own story here.
*Mundelein College, founded and operated by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVM), provided education to women from 1930 until 1991, when it affiliated with Loyola University Chicago.
Casey Terry is a graduate assistant for the Women and Leadership Archives. He has his bachelor's degree in History and Digital Media from Valparaiso University Valparaiso, Indiana and he is currently pursuing his master's in Public History from Loyola University Chicago.
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Chinese Way>Life
Days at the Opera
(China Daily) By Cecily Liu
Shavrova with one of her photos at the exhibition held in London. Cecily Liu / China Daily
A Russian-Irish artist's photographs of Peking Opera give a contemporary voice to the ancient art form. Cecily Liu reports in London.
Varvara Shavrova believed she was looking at one of the most beautiful women she'd ever seen. But she was wrong.
Not about the beautiful part. About the woman part.
The Russian-Irish artist and curator was stunned when Chinese friends told her the female Peking Opera character onstage at the teahouse near the Forbidden City was actually a man.
"I said 'No'. And they said 'Yes'. And I said 'No'—and still couldn't believe it," she recalls.
But that wasn't all that captivated her about the show.
"I loved the costumes, the makeup, the movements and how it can be formulaic in its own language," Shavrova says.
"You can compare it to contemporary art."
This initial fascination prompted the Russian-Irish artist and curator to research Peking Opera's history, understand the actors' lives and document their preparations and performances in her London exhibition The Opera.
Peking Opera was initially an exclusively male pursuit, with female characters played by male actors since Emperor Qianlong (1711-1799) had banned all female performers in 1772.
Although the ban was lifted in 1912, the tradition of males playing female roles continues.
This requires actors to put on layers of makeup and costumes, and heavy headdresses, which Shavrova says are almost like "helmets".
She photographed actors getting dressed, in sets of eight, to show the gradual transformation.
For example, the first picture of a series features a man without any makeup. The next few show the man applying layers of heavy makeup and putting on a head cloth to cover his hair, followed by an elaborate headdress with beautiful decorations. In the last few photographs, the character's femininity emerges.
The final shot shows what appears to be a woman with long hair, delicate facial features and a soft gaze.
The exhibition also displays a large-scale projection of a 17-minute film demonstrating Chinese opera and two plasma screens showing five-minute time-lapse videos.
The exhibition was originally commissioned by and shown at the Espacio Cultural El Tanque in 2011—an old oil depot on the Spanish island Tenerife. It was shown in 2012 at the Ballina Arts Center in Ireland and this year at the Patrick Heide Contemporary Art gallery in London.
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