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A ROOSEVELT | CAMPUS NETWORK INITIATIVE
Rethinking Communities is a Roosevelt | Campus Network nationwide effort to reimagine the economic development, civic infrastructure, public health, and environment of the communities in which we live, work, and go to school. The initiative emerged after the Campus Network and Pipeline—our young professionals network—committed in the fall of 2013 collectively engage what they believe to be a key issue of our time – the rise of economic and political inequality.
In 2014, the Networks focused this work on anchor institutions, tapping into their place-based civic infrastructure to provide a way for young people to concretely and effectively engage on a complex issue that lacks straightforward solutions. Over 25 campuses (and growing) across the country are collecting data and information from their universities and institutions to ultimately work alongside those institutions to improve their labor and sourcing practices – with the long-term goal of developing a kind of "LEEDS standard" for local institutions as they work with surrounding communities. This work is also informing a larger, organization-wide initiative on how to build a 21st century economy that supports broad-based prosperity.
The Rethinking Communities initiative begins with a basic tenet: the social contract is failing many Americans. The things we, as Millennials, have long been told are core parts of the American bargain – public education, safe working environments, affordable healthcare, the basic ability to provide for one's family – are becoming harder to achieve in the 21st century.
The Rethinking Communities initiative is based on the assumption that smaller localities – cities, towns, and even neighborhoods – will drive the economies and politics of the future. Local action on these local and micro-local level can be a much more accessible and powerful means of influencing the direction of the whole nation. We see an intentional community-building endeavor as a start to counter issues raised by globalization, increased inequality, outsourcing of jobs, and changes in technological capabilities.
Our objective is to take advantage of our physical presence in universities and communities nationwide, and find optimal ways to rethink local economies as a starting point to tackle larger, global issues. With the goal of reforming anchor institutions that are the backbone of these communities (anchor institutions are places like hospitals or colleges and universities), Campus Network and Pipeline chapters are using baseline metrics that have been built to define how well an institution facilitates local economic development, community building and education, health, safety and environment. By using the same set of metrics across the board, we will both grow our understanding of a how a specific institution can improve in its role as a local anchor, and contribute to a larger understanding of how anchor institutions compare to each other. Sample projects include:
· In Washington, DC, the Georgetown University, George Washington University, and American University chapters are researching the purchasing power of their universities as a way to empower and invest in businesses that hire locally from surrounding low-income neighborhoods;
· At the University of Richmond, students are working with city and local elected officials to redesign "Richmond Promise" based on best practices, with the goal of better connecting the resources of the university to the community; and
· In New York City, students at NYU are working with university administrators to collect and encourage greater data analysis of the university's direct impact on the positives and negatives of the gentrification process.
Based on these metrics, groups will write proposals that improve a specific weakness. Redirecting a portion of a University's purchasing power to play a larger social role—investing locally owned businesses, facilitating the creation of financially secure households, working to improve the health of community residents, or a host of other potentially groundbreaking proposals.
While we work to implement these local fixes, the Campus Network will collectively create a method to grade anchor institutions across the country on how they alleviate (or exacerbate) economic inequality. Might this comparative process put real pressure on universities – and eventually, hospitals, airports, or even sports teams – to do a better job in responding to the needs and values of the communities where they're based? That is what we hope to examine.
WHY THE ROOSEVELT NETWORKS
We are committed to amplifying this work in the next two years and beyond, believing strongly that, as the generation that will inherit today's democracy and economy, it is our responsibility and opportunity to directly address the democratic and economic inequality that influences every issue we engage on.
Through the bold and persistent experimentation of the Campus Network, we aim to see how far we can go to create new self-sustaining economies that resist the economic pressures of the larger world. In that innovative spirit, we hearken back to the values of Franklin Roosevelt that undergird all of our work: a system that is more balanced, more sustainable, and more able to support the common good.
This project will come to fruition throughout 2014 and 2015, and also involves the Roosevelt Institute's Four Freedoms Center and Pipeline. As this work develops, we're exploring additional ways to expand on the ways young individuals—passionate about and deeply affected by economic and political inequality—can effectively engage in the conversation and shape short and long-term policy outcomes.


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2018-2019 THE YEAR OF THE LEAP INTO NEW BEGINNINGS!
ISAIAH 43:18-19 NKJV……18.."Do not remember the former things, Nor consider the things of old. 19 Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it?I will even make a road in the wilderness And rivers in the desert.
The African Impala (an African antelope) are amazing creatures that can jump to a height of over 10 feet and cover a distance greater than 30 feet. Yet Impalas can be kept in a zoo inside an enclosure with a simple 3 foot wall. Why? Impalas will not jump if they can't see where their feet will land. Do we have something in common with these antelopes? Able to take great leaps of faith, but refusing to do it unless we can see where we'll land?
In 2018 we will have to leap by FAITH.
The number EIGHT always means a NEW BEGINNING a NEW ORDER OF THINGS. EIGHT is the number for the NEW BIRTH or the NEW CREATION.
God saved eight people on the ark in order to have a new beginning for mankind after the flood.
Jewish babies were to be circumcised on the 8th day. The number 8 symbolizes circumcision the cutting away for the NEW.
KBCMI we came out of Completions in 2017 in order to receive New Beginnings in 2018 and continued New Beginnings in 2019.
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Enrich your spiritual life as you study inspirational messages gleaned from the Word of God! The Holy Bible is filled with wisdom that will strengthen your character and deepen your walk with the Lord. As you reflect on key Scripture passages, you will discover encouraging lessons and practical applications woven throughout the Word. Leon Gooden presents an in-depth study of key Bible passages to sharpen your faith and help you grow in your understanding of God. Each chapter explores a different Scripture passage to encourage you in your daily walk with Jesus Christ. In this book, you'll learn: -How God calls you to be actively involved in His purposes and plans for the world -You are God's child, accepted and highly favored—made holy and righteous by the blood of Jesus -How the Holy Spirit will empower you to bring life to others who desperately need it -How God wants to sanctify you and move you toward the future He has planned for you -How worship can overcome temptations to sin -When nothing makes sense, God has a perfect handle on things -Why the result of knowing God is an intimate relationship with the Creator of the universe This book is ideal to enhance your personal daily devotions, or as a Bible study tool in a small group setting. Short chapters with edifying messages are perfect for livening up your devotions! Start reading your copy of Walking in the Word today—and spark a flame in your heart for real growth as a child of God!
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EPH. 4:12. For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of CHRIST.
EDIFYING - The word 'edification' comes from a Latin word, 'aedificare' which means, "build". The idea therefore is, 'to improve the mind or character of some one by teaching'.
Kingdom is the sovereign, power, dominion, and rule to infiltrate, influence, and incorporate all who would receive its provisions, promises, promotion, and protection for the the Kingdom of God and for Experiencing and Enjoying The Kingdom lifestyle.
To Advance is to proceed progressively by divine impartation, inspiration, imagination and instruction to move forward the Kingdom of God and for Experiencing and Enjoying the Kingdom lifestyle.
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" Dr. Ivette Lozano, who has been in medical practice for over 20 years, was shocked to learn in March that she would be required to share her patient's diagnosis with the pharmacist before prescriptions for hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin would be dispensed.
On March 20, the Texas State Board of Pharmacy issued a new rule that no prescriptions for hydroxychloroquine or azithromycin could be dispensed without a diagnosis "consistent with evidence for its use."
"Never before have we had to turn in a diagnosis with a prescription," Lozano told The Texan. Lozano has seen about five to six patients per week for coronavirus. "They see a dramatic improvement within six to eight hours," Lozano said.
Health care attorney Matt Rinaldi said doctors have called him concerned about the requirement. He said the rule does not violate HIPAA regulations because patient information can be shared for treatment purposes."
Pharmacy Board Loosens Restrictions on Hydroxychloroquine Prescriptions, Reversing Course
" Recent news reports revealed Gates offered what amounted to a $10 million bribe to the Nigerian House of Representatives for a forced vaccination program for the Wuhan virus. Politicians in Nigeria turned down the offer, flatly.
The subject of the vaccine-happy Gates' particular focus on youth has not gone uncommented-on, either. None other than Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nephew of President John F. Kennedy and chairman of the Children's Health Defense, is on record on the CHD website saying: "Vaccines, for Bill Gates, are a strategic philanthropy that feeds his many vaccine-related businesses (including Microsoft's ambition to control a global vaccination-ID enterprise) and give him dictatorial control of global health policy."
In 2000, Gates was allowed into India to direct the nation's immunization effort against polio. Under his leadership, up to 50 doses of polio vaccines were administered to enormous numbers of Indian children before age five and hundreds of thousands of those children became paralyzed over the next roughly 20 years.
While he was advancing his polio effort in India, he started up another vaccine program testing experimental HPV vaccines, designed to protect against sexual infection. In one year alone, 2009, 23,000 young girls were inoculated. According to Kennedy, 1,200 suffered severe side effects, with seven young girls actually dying."
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More than 1.5 million homes were out of power in the Northeast this weekend as a powerful nor'easter caused flooding and wind damage from Virginia to Maine, leaving at least five people dead from falling trees.
A snowboarder was killed by an avalanche in California, and northeast Nebraska was in a blizzard warning today.
A tornado that tore through Offutt Air Force Base last summer did nearly $20 million in damage, including the roofs of 32 buildings and 10 military planes, including two E-4B "doomsday" planes built to serve as aerial command posts in the event of a catastrophic national emergency.
Northwest Nebraska is in a blizzard warning, and while Southwest Nebraska wasn't expecting any snow, be we are in a Red Flag warning today, with extremely low humidity and winds gusting to 65 creating dangerous fire conditions throughout the region.
Nebraskans have grown up with stories of the "school children's blizzard" in January 1888, when a blizzard rolled in following an unseasonably warm morning. Some 235 people, many of them children in one-room schoolhouses, perished in the storm.
While it's clear modern technology can't protect us entirely from the wrath of Mother Nature, we are blessed with a wide variety of ways to receive accurate information about approaching dangers like blizzards.
This week, the National Weather Service office in Goodland, Kan., is coordinating the Tri-State Severe Weather Awareness Week, with emphasis on various aspects of weather safety throughout the week.
Today's emphasis is communications, which, while greatly improved, still demands attention from the general public.
While social media is a useful tool, make sure you're reading a current official post from the National Weather Service, and not some outdated fake news posting.
By the same token, make sure you tune in to a live local broadcast station when weather threatens, rather than an internet streaming service.
Numerous smartphone weather apps have notifications available, and while the National Weather Service does not have an app, users can link a mobile site (mobile.weather.gov) as an icon on their homescreen.
Local emergency management officials can also implement emergency text and phone notifications, and while warning sirens are scattered through communities, they are designed for outdoor warnings only.
Other safety tips throughout the week include tornadoes and tornado safety, hail, downburst winds, thunderstorm and lightning safety and flood and flash flood safety.
Take some time to plan for severe weather, and check with neighbors who might need shelter or help in case bad weather is approaching.


I am always on the search for a good Buttermilk Biscuit recipe. Nothing beats a fresh warm biscuit with a meal.
For breakfast time, make yourself an egg, bacon and cheese biscuit when you are on the run. Or try pouring some Sausage Gravy or Cream Chipped Beef over top of a few biscuits.
These are also great at a picnic with fried or fresh barbecue chicken hot off the grill. Or make a great bread portion of the meal.
I use a 3-1/2″ diameter Ateco biscuit cutter.
Make these biscuits big and use for your own breakfast sandwich or pour some sausage gravy or creamed chipped beef over top. This recipe will make 6 large biscuits.
Preheat the oven to 425ºF / 220ºC.
Combine all the dry ingredients in a large bowl. Whisk lightly to airate. Add shortening and cut in until it resembles coarse meal.
Slowly add the milk and continue stirring until a dough forms. You only want to lightly mix and not to work the dough.
Turn out the dough onto a floured surface and knead 10-15 times. Pat out 1-inch thick. Using a biscuit cutter dipped in flour, cut biscuit. Dip the biscuit cutter in flour for each cut you make. Transfer the biscuits to a ungreased sheet pan.
Bake 12-15 minutes in a 425ºF / 220ºC preheated oven until edges begin to brown slightly. Enjoy!
Note 1 - Butter flavored Crisco® - if you do not have that use solid vegetable shortening.
Note 2 - If you do not have buttermilk, make you own by adding 1-2 tablespoons of vinegar to a cup of milk and allowing it to sit 5-10 minutes to thicken up.
Serving Suggestions - plain with some butter and jam. These also make great egg, cheese and meat biscuits for those days when you are on the run.
I just made these using White Lily Flour and they were some of the best biscuits I've ever made! So light and yummy, thanks for sharing your recipe.


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National Careers Service Announces Free Online Event to Support Unemployed Graduates
The National Careers Service South East has announced that it will host a live, interactive webinar to support unemployed graduates to boost their job search, access graduate employers and ignite their careers.
Hosted in partnership with The Association of Graduate Career Advisory Services (AGCAS), and with guest speakers including Deloitte, Kent Police. Aviva and NHS Careers, the event will take place from 10:00am-1:30pm on Tuesday 1st February.
The event will be free to attend and will provide attendees with the opportunity to access personalised career support and interact live with a panel of expert advisers.
The webinars, which will include a live 'Q&A' opportunity for all attendees, will cover topics such as:
Career options, transition and what employers have identified as future skills required for the new world.
An overview of the job opportunities available at Deloitte, Aviva, Kent Police, and the NHS; including what those employers look for in a candidate
An overview of the university careers support available to graduates
The graduate voice – recent graduates speak about how they have moved forward with their career.
People can access further information and register for the webinar online by visiting: rebrand.ly/GraduatedWhatNext.
For further support, the National Careers Service is available for free, personalised, and impartial careers advice for people who need help to find learning and work that's right for them. To contact the service, call the helpline on 0800 100 900, open Monday to Friday from 8am until 8pm, and Saturday from 10am until 5pm. Alternatively visit: https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk.
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Pope urges oil companies to lead clean energy transition in unprecedented Vatican Conference
"Civilization requires energy, but energy use must not destroy civilization."
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Pope Francis urged the leaders of big oil companies to see the light on climate change at a first-of-its kind conference held at the Vatican with oil executives, investors and Vatican experts, The Guardian reported Saturday.
"Civilization requires energy, but energy use must not destroy civilization," the pope said during remarks at the end of the conference, according to The Guardian.
The current pope, who has emerged as a leader in the fight against climate change following his groundbreaking 2015 encyclical, urged the companies to lead the transition towards renewable energy and away from fossil fuels.
He said they should strive "to be the core of a group of leaders who envision the global energy transition in a way that will take into account all the peoples of the earth, as well as future generations and all species and ecosystems," The New York Times reported.
The pope also spoke with a great sense of urgency about the coming crisis. "There is no time to lose," he said, according to The New York Times.
"Will we turn the corner in time? No one can answer that with certainty," the pope said. "But with each month that passes, the challenge of energy transition becomes more pressing."
The meeting, held Saturday behind closed doors at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, included big names in the oil industry like the chairman of Exxon Mobil, the chief executive of BP, the chief executive of the Italian energy company Eni and representatives of Royal Dutch Shell, Norway's Equinor and Mexico's Pemex, according to The New York Times and the BBC.
In recent years, oil companies have switched from outright hostility to climate science to taking action on climate change. Exxon Mobil, for example, who funded climate denial think tanks between 1998 and 2005 to the tune of $16 million, has since endorsed the Paris agreement.
But while the pope commended companies for the efforts they are making, he also said those efforts did not go far enough.
Pope Francis also focused on the social justice aspects of climate change, saying it would harm the poor disproportionately, and that clean energy was essential to bringing people out of poverty without disrupting the climate they depend upon.
"Our desire to ensure energy for all must not lead to the undesired effect of a spiral of extreme climate changes due to a catastrophic rise in global temperatures, harsher environments and increased levels of poverty," he said, according to The Guardian.
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Turbine goes: XPOMET Health Hackathon 2019
10/15/2019 – Stefan Adolf
Hackathon #7 this year introduced me to the unknown waters of health tech & machine learning. I've always tried to get myself into these areas, so I'm glad I finally have been forced to wrap my head around them. The organization team (thank you impactfarm for making it outstanding) told us four weeks in advance about the challenge they had in mind for us — and thankfully they also came up with a team name: From September 14 on, we could refer to ourselves as the "Turbiners" (which is slightly incorrect, since two of us were absolutely unaffiliated with Turbine). So, we had four weeks of time preparing our project — which is still hard when you're on a full-time job — and it read: "intelligent claim management in the digital health ecosystem".
Now, what you may not be aware of: Fraud is a highly underrated and very relevant topic in the health industry. According to a McKinsey study from 2017 there's a saving potential for health insurers in Germany of up to half a billion euros a year — only by checking reimbursement claims by care providers (doctors, hospitals, hospices etc.) more thoroughly. As it turns out, 70% of all claims need to be checked, but only 8–10% of the potentially fraudulent cases are finally identified and corrected. If that doesn't sound like a good case for Machine Learning, what does?
Team Turbiners during another "sorting things out" session
Since our team had been assembled quite randomly, we were extraordinarily lucky to have had Elena Williams in our team. She's currently studying data science in Hamburg and could contribute much of her knowledge into our project. Around two weeks before the hackathon we were looking for data sets that could help us and eventually Elena came up with this one. It contains 130.000 claims by more than 5400 providers and has been examined by experts who identified the fraudulent entries. What's important to understand: Fraud can only be observed on a provider level. The unique claims are pretty much unobtrusive, so any model we could come up with only would operate on providers and never on particular claims.
"So how do you feel on the second day of the #healthhackathon19, Elena?!" pic.twitter.com/Bl8n4RRMXR
— Bayer Karriere (@BayerKarriere) October 11, 2019
The original notebook takes three approaches to analyse the dataset: Logistic Regression, Random Forest Classifiers, support vector machines and an auto encoder. They reached a predictive accuracy of anything between 50–90%. To boost the accuracy further, Elena tried to figure out better features to train the model and relied on a Keras Deep learning model with four layers. According to the training evaluation she reached an accuracy of 93% in the end which is quite outstanding.
In the meantime, the rest of the team concentrated on making the prediction model usable — seeing is believing, right? So I created a fresh React app, imported all the test data into a Sqlite database (sic) and wrote a Flask micro API that's capable of selecting all claims for a given provider. It also comes with an endpoint to call the predict function of the trained model. I noticed quite early that this is not a simple task: All these data scientists use their highly interactive Jupyter notebooks for one reason or another, but that's not something that you want to build a "reliable" service on (do you?). So most of our backend work consisted in transferring Elena's data transformation and feature extraction code into a plain Python backend.
The plan was to upload an Excel / CSV-file with a batch of beneficiary / claim data on the frontend, translate it into the presentation that Elena's model would expect and run the prediction on it. Thankfully our junior dev Sascha took care of the upload part, so I could concentrate on the integration. I made one observation that could be helpful for others: While Sqlite comes with great support of automatic CSV imports it unfortunately translates a string value of "NaN" to "NA" (which might be the NaN-representation of Sqlite, who knows). When reading this data with Pandas again, it interprets it as string. Once we figured that out, following up the other 250 cells was close to a piece of cake. Python people might know that but let me repeat: The tensor manipulation features of Panda's DataFrame are simply outstanding! If you happen to do any data analysis in any language — stop here and switch to Python, it will save you days of data manipulation.
A major issue we weren't able to figure out is the scaling of predicted values. Elena's model performed nicely on training and testing data sets but calling the prediction on a single data set (consisting of around 60 claims, derived from the original training data) just ended up in an array of unusable float data — in the end, she didn't develop a binary classifier, but rather a predictor that yields a certain probability of having identified a fraud. Unfortunately, without a clear output it wasn't possible for us to demonstrate our model's accuracy, but I'm pretty sure that's mainly due to our missing experience.
If you'd just like to get a feeling for all achievements, here is a deployment for you (it's currently asleep, give it 30 seconds to wake up & another 20 seconds to download the database from my S3 bucket): turbiners.netlify.com. The codebase is split into a Python backend and a React frontend. It looks so nice because I've been using Grommet JS for styling.
Another part of the jury's evaluation was a business model canvas for our case. Now, since I'm a down-to-earth, glue-level, hard rock listening developer I must admit that my business development skills have degraded and I still have the strong opinion that "business" and "hackathon" are never a good match. I'll still share a few of our ideas and would like to thank Florian Schulze, Turbiners' team member #4 for the effort he took from our shoulders by starting off ideas:
Value proposition: we want to build a digital claim management service (running on our side) and an obfuscator / anonymizer service (running on the insurance / client's side).
Our key partners would be insurance auditors with lots of experience in detecting medical claim fraud cases.
Our primary customer segments would be German health insurance companies and their attached consultancies.
As sales channels we identified health conferences and SaaS solution marketplaces (e.g. offering a blackboxed service instance of us on customer operated dedicated AWS instances).
After quite some discussion, we agreed that our preferred business model would be to take a 0.5% share of all analysed claim reimbursements files (which could add up to around €50–100mn revenue / year depending on quality of prediction and market share)
Here's our final pitch deck:
Some miscellaneous takeaways and side notes
The winning team (consisting of only 1 member) in our category has absolutely earned his prize: He threw together an Android app, a Blockchain, a VR channel and MongoDB and built an app that first tells you which exercise to execute and then scans your body movements to identify that you're doing it right. Once done, it stores your achievement on a chain and registers your activity in Mongo. I'm dead sure that it took most of the four weeks of preparation to put all these pieces together, and I was quite impressed by his demo.
The other category dealt primarily with machine support in "real" health applications, e.g. ophtomal… eye diseases. One team certainly stood out: They used some weird looking lens concept to scan your eyeball. With a little machine learning / image classification attached, they were able to identify major health conditions within just a fraction of the costs a "real" medical device would need.
Sascha seems to enjoy his walkthrough of an inflated intestine
Contacts and Takeaways
The most important reason why I personally wanted to join the health hackathon, though: I've been looking for contacts, inspiration and validation of the real world use case I'm currently working on at Turbine. That is: storing a patient's medical record and its access rights on a decentralized ledger. And I have not been disappointed:
Several parties, among them four co-workers of Berlin's Charité, lawyers, doctors and consultants strongly confirmed my assumption: There is absolutely nothing like a shared digital patient file in Germany. All approaches toward it are heading into the direction of either medication plans, fitness tracking or "eGK" applications that collect and store data that a patient collects himself (e.g. by tracking her blood pressure). It's astonishing, but every time I roughly illustrated our idea everybody became very excited and immediately offered their full support.
This is what a conference and hackathon should look like. The food could've been better (no complaints about bad food if it's for free, yes, I'm already sorry), the beer could've been more plenty, the surround sound of all four conference panels could've been less annoying and the unnecessary artificial "pressure" that the main hackathon sponsors have been building up upfront was unnecessary. But besides that, we all had a lot of fun! :) Next up: Diffusion 2019!


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In honor of the Winter Olympics and Charles Darwin's birthday, the Wyoming State Museum is hosting "Animal Olympics," a Family Day on February 5.
Join us from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. to learn about the biological adaptations that allow some of the world's most impressive animal athletes to do incredible things.
This event for all ages will ask participants to put their own skills to the test against the capabilities of animals. Find out if you can sprint as fast as a cheetah, jump as high as a mountain lion, lift weights like an elephant, and more.
With games, activities, crafts, and up-close encounters with our museum collections, kids and families will learn about evolutionary adaptations of animals around the world. Families will also get to meet researchers from the UW Biodiversity Institute as well as local Special Olympics athletes!
In order to keep everyone safe, the museum will require timed registration to participate in this event. Families can find the registration link on the homepage of our website (https://wyomuseum.wyo.gov/) or they can use this link to go directly to the registration form (https://animalolympics.eventbrite.com/?aff=pr). Register by phone at 307-630-2573.
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Noted as Arkansas' most prolific antebellum artist, John Henry Byrd is best known for the restrained romantic portraits he painted around the state for twenty years. Nicknamed the 'Sully of Arkansas', Byrd in the 19th century painted many of that state's leading families who lived in areas such as Little Rock, Batesville, Camden, Pine Bluff, Hot Springs, and El Dorado. During his career he also lived in New Orleans, Louisiana, and in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Portrait of a young girl wearing a white dress, black beaded necklace, and colorful ribbon.


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22 Jun 2018 | 15:00 GMT
First Semisolid Lithium Batteries to Debut This Year, in Drones
SolidEnergy Systems will start with drones and aims to have its lithium batteries in electric vehicles after 2021
Bill Joy, Silicon Valley Visionary, on the Future of Batteries, Electric Airplanes, and the "Internet of Energy"
Ionic Materials Expands Lab Where It Makes Safer, More Efficient Lithium Batteries From Plastic
Will a New Glass Battery Accelerate the End of Oil?
Photo: SolidEnergy Systems
Ready-Made: SolidEnergy says its new batteries can be manufactured with existing equipment.
Lithium-ion batteries boast a powerful blend of energy capacity and long cycle life. But they have a dangerous tendency to burst into flames, leading to injuries, product recalls, and flight bans.
Researchers have touted solid-state lithium batteries as a safer alternative. These devices swap out flammable liquid electrolytes for an inert solid such as plastic or ceramic. But researchers have pursued solid-state battery technology for decades without coming up with any products.
Now, SolidEnergy Systems, in Massachusetts, plans to become the first company to sell such batteries. The startup says it can pack twice as much energy into its battery as a conventional lithium-ion battery of the same weight can store.
That means devices could work twice as long. For example, right now "advanced drones have sensors, cameras, and processors on board, so the battery lasts only 20 minutes, and it's heavy," says founder Qichao Hu. With SolidEnergy's new battery, those drones could fly for 40 minutes or more.
The company is currently testing its batteries for drones and expects to begin selling them later this year, followed by batteries for wearables in 2019 and for electric vehicles after 2021.
In today's batteries, a dilute solution of lithium salts serves as the electrolyte. Its job is to shuttle ions between the carbon anode and the lithium transition metal oxide cathode. Some ceramics, polymers, and glassy materials can also do that well. In addition to being safer than their liquid counterparts, these alternatives could also support a pure lithium anode, which would boost energy density.
Lithium-ion battery pioneers originally chose lithium metal for the anode in the 1980s. But lithium metal anodes quickly grow mossy whiskers called dendrites, which can reach the cathode and short the battery. So battery researchers switched to carbon for the anode.
SolidEnergy's workaround is to coat its ultrathin anode, made of a pure lithium foil, with a mixed polymer-ceramic electrolyte, which smothers dendrite growth. Another electrolyte, a paste of lithium salts, goes on the cathode.
Photos: SolidEnergy Systems
Weed Control: These ultrathin anodes, made of pure lithium foil, are covered in a polymer-ceramic coating to prevent harmful dendrites from sprouting.
The electrolyte on the cathode contains just enough solvent to make the lithium salts conduct ions at room temperature. The device is technically a semisolid battery but safer than conventional lithium-ion cells, Hu says. The battery's energy density is about 500 watt-hours per kilogram, twice that of a conventional lithium-ion battery's 250 Wh/kg. The downside is that it can be recharged only about 200 times, as opposed to more than 1,000 times for conventional batteries.
"There are lots of people trying to find the 100 percent perfect solid-state approach," Hu says. "But we think our semisolid approach is good enough."
Other labs remain focused on that vision of the ultimate solid-state battery. Last year, John Goodenough at the University of Texas at Austin unveiled a solid glass battery. He and colleague Maria Helena Braga use a lithium-doped glassy material as the electrolyte. In their latest design, which they reported in April in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, they coat the flexible cathode with a special plasticizer solution.
One problem with solid-state batteries is that as various materials expand and contract at different rates, the batteries' interfaces crack. The plasticizer acts as a cushion to prevent cracking, Braga says. The new battery design has twice the energy density of conventional lithium-ion batteries and can be recharged 23,000 times.
Recently, industry giants have also begun to invest in solid-state batteries. Honda, Nissan, and Toyota have teamed up with Panasonic Corp. to develop them for electric vehicles. But some high-profile buyouts of solid-state technology startups have sputtered. In 2015, Dyson bought University of Michigan spin-off Sakti3 with plans to develop an EV battery, while German giant Bosch bought Seeo, a solid-state polymer battery startup from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). Both companies have since deserted those technologies.
Lithium metal batteries are not easy to work with, says LBNL scientist and chemical engineer Nitash Balsara, who cofounded Seeo with other LBNL alumni in 2007. "By and large, the battery industry is really interested in safety, as long as it's free," he says. "I think [that's] a mistake. There is room to develop intrinsically safe lithium batteries and give [them] to consumers."
Balsara now has a new startup, Blue Current, which is perfecting a hybrid polymer-ceramic electrolyte. Polymers don't conduct ions as well as ceramics, but ceramics are brittle. The hybrid "mixes the best of both worlds to stuff more energy into a battery, and it doesn't crack when a car hits a bump," Balsara says.
Solid-state batteries might work eventually, but they still face engineering challenges, says lithium-ion pioneer M. Stanley Whittingham, a professor of chemistry at Binghamton University, in New York. "Nothing's going to replace lithium-ion batteries in the near future," he says, predicting that solid and semisolid batteries will be relegated to niche markets for the next 5 to 10 years. "In the end, the challenge is how expensive they'll be," he says.
At $500 per kilowatt-hour, SolidEnergy's battery is currently much pricier than conventional lithium-ion batteries, which now sell for about $200. But Hu expects costs to go down with large-scale manufacturing and is talking with major battery makers.
"We're not ready for the ultimate goal of EVs yet," Hu admits. "But we've met the key performance requirements for drones and are making great progress toward EV batteries."
This article appears in the July 2018 print issue as "New Battery Tech Launches in Drones."
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I'm so excited to be participating in this awesome blog hop for So Suzy & Crackerbox Stamps. You should have arrived here from the talented Olesya Kharkova's blog.
I've been a fan since since I started my card making journey, almost three years ago. I found out about So Suzy through the Stamp Junkies Facebook group and entered a contest So Suzy was having and I actually won! (Hint hint you should play along too for some fabulous prizes!) As my prize, I got to pick out an image from their (then) new release. Talk about hard choices but this is the stamp I selected.
I love So Suzy for many things but the main one is their awesome selection of snarky sentiments. If you love snark, you've found the place to shop. There is even a Snarkfest and one of my snarky finding was chosen for a stamp. I feel so honored!
So Suzy has an awesome owner and their customer service rocks. The former owner, Suzanne Moore has wonderful and insightful So Suzy Podcasts . If you haven't listened you don't know the wealth of knowledge you are missing out on. Thanks to Suzanne and educational podcasts and classes, I now know how to price my cards, set up for a craft fair, and most importantly develop a blog and social media accounts for card making. Without her inspiration, I'd still be sitting in my craft room pondering what I should do next.
Happy Birthday & Anniversary to a great company with awesome and fun people. I look forward to celebrating many more years of snark with all of you! I hope you will also hop along with us for a chance to win some awesome prizes.
To celebrate this Family & Friends Blog Hop of Anniversary, So Suzy and Crackerbox Palace are giving away a $25 gift certificate to one lucky winner and three $15 gift certificate for the runners! Please leave a comment on the So Suzy Stamps Blog by Monday, April 30th for a chance to win. 4 winners will be announced on the So Suzy's Blog on 5/04/2018.
Without further ado here are the cards I made for this great blog hop. It was hard to stop making cards since there are so many awesome stamps I wanted to showcase.
For my first card I used this great coffee cup created paired with this awesome sentiment from Suzanne Moore. I love these together because I need my coffee to start my day off right.
I made the background on photo paper with some distress oxides in Black Soot and Walnut Stain. I stamped the cup on some Copic friendly paper and colored it in. I fussy cut the cup out and attached some twine and added a tag that I sprayed with shimmer mist with this So Suzy sentiment that I clear heat embossed.
I adhered the cup and tag to the cardbase with foam tape to give it a little dimension and then added some Nuvo Drops.
For my 2nd and 3rd card I used this beautiful tulip set. I heat embossed the first one in Rose Gold on watercolor paper.
Using my Gansai Tambi watercolors, I put a layer of yellow down and once it was fry added some red. The background was made with a dark blue and once it was dry, I splattered some yellow and gold to add a little more interest. I love this sentiment as well and thought it paired perfect with the tulips.
For my other tulip card, I used Polychromos pencils and stamped the image in Antique Linen Distress ink on some Toned Tan Sketch paper.
After I colored the flowers, I used some Spun Sugar Distress Ink and stamped a light text background. Its hard to see in the pictures because its so light but it added a little more to the plain background.
I used Distress Oxides with photo paper with this peacock image. I had a pile of backgrounds I had made using distress oxides and thought this would pair perfectly with the beautiful peacock.
I used my MISTI to stamp the image since photo paper is a little slick and heat embossed it in blue. Once it cooled, I used a Versamark Marker to color in the inner portion and heat embossed it with a lighter blue.
I had to create this last card with this fun snarky stamp. I created the background using alcholh inks on Yupo paper.
After the ink was dry, I stamped the sentiment in Versamark ink and heat embossed in white. I finished the card with some white sequins.
Thanks for joining us on this awesome blog hop.
Wow !! That's a fantastic bundle of cards ! With a great variety of designs.
I love the coloring technique you used on the coffee card and the background came out amazing – all the cards are amazing but love the vivid coloring on the tulip card as well. Beautiful work!
Love your coffee cup card! What a great background!
Gorgeous cards but my favorite is the coffee card. I love all the texture & technique in that card. And the color combination is perfection.
Thanks for sharing all of these wonderful cards. Love how you colored the tulips.
Your cards are so beautiful! I really love the tulips that are stamped on kraft cardstock.
Wow! Awesome set of cards!!! Your colouring is amazing!!!
Miss Ericka, I just love you! I am truly blessed to have "met" you during our creative journey! Love your cards and you are a true inspiration!
Thank you so much for the inspiration and I'm glad we "met" as well! Love the snark and your wonderful sense of humor!
WOW! You were very busy and all of them are so wonderful! I loved all of your techniques.
Thanks Vicky! Love these stamps.
Fantastic cards! Love your vibrant style and gorgeous backgrounds.
Such pretty cards with beautiful coloring! I love the Blowing Butterfly Tree… one of my favorites too!
Oh my gosh which one to choose?? Nope I Love them all! Haha! Thank you for the really nice close up of the Tulip card! I am new to coloring and showing this card up close helps me to better understand the shading you did etc… You are a very talented artist! Thank you for sharing!
Ah thanks Cindy for your kind words.
Wow, wow, wow!! Your cards are just stunning!! Thanks so much for your testimonial about So Suzy Stamps…i am new to this company!
What a parade of wonderful cards! I am especially swooning over how you colored those tulips! GORGEOUS!!!!!
Beautiful cards! And I love your "snark" that is now a stamp – it's one of the ones on my shopping list! TFS!


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Afterlife in Gothland
(NBM, 2002)
™ and © NBM
Maddox MacClarran is a typical twenty-something angry leather-clad pagan Goth who's thrown into the position of actually having to do something noble. So what happens to him after trying to save the life of his roommate? He wakes up to find himself dead and in the ultimate netherworld known as Purgatory.
The story has an interesting perspective — the entire tale is told from behind the eyes of MacClarran himself, so he's never actually seen in the issue, at least until near the end. In this nether-realm, he finds himself in the company of his guardian angel (another Goth, of course) as well as several other real-life historical celebrities who have their own reasons for being cast halfway between Heaven and Hell.
Creator Shea Anton Pensa tells a story that's funny enough, as his non-religious character tries to find justification for his arrival in such a place. Still, the character's moody whining gets kind of old after a while. The setting of the story requires a minimal amount of background art, but the highlight of the art is Pensa's caricatures of Purgatory's other residents. This is for fans of light-hearted supernatural fare.
— Jim Johnson
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require "spec_helper"
require "plugin_job/hosts/text_host"

require "childprocess"
require "tempfile"
require "net/telnet"

module PluginJob

  describe "client making calls to the dispatcher" do
    let(:dispatcher){ChildProcess.
      build("ruby", File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..','script','plugin_proc.rb'), 'stdout')}
    let(:temp_out){Tempfile.new("client_host_spec_0")}
    let(:client){TelnetClient.new}

    let(:command){"Sleepy"}
    before :each do
      # capture output to a temp file
      dispatcher.io.stdout = temp_out
      dispatcher.start
      sleep(2)
    end
    after :each do
      temp_out.close
      temp_out.unlink
      dispatcher.stop
    end

    it "responds with an echo" do
      expect(dispatcher).to be_alive
      client.request(command)

      temp_out.rewind
      # read output from the temp file
      output = temp_out.read
      # puts output
      expect(output).to_not be_nil
      expect(output =~ Regexp.new(command)).to_not be_nil
      expect(output =~ Regexp.new("Completed")).to_not be_nil
    end
  end #   describe "client making calls to the dispatcher" do

  describe "Invalid preconditions" do
    let(:dispatcher){ChildProcess.
      build("ruby", File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..','script','plugin_proc.rb'), 'stdout')}
    let(:temp_out){Tempfile.new("client_host_spec_1")}
    let(:client){TelnetClient.new}
    let(:second_client){TelnetClient.new}

    let(:command){"NoPrint"}
    before :each do
      # capture output to a temp file
      dispatcher.io.stdout = temp_out
      dispatcher.start
      sleep(2)
    end
    after :each do
      temp_out.close
      temp_out.unlink
      dispatcher.stop
    end

    it "Indicates an error" do
      expect(dispatcher).to be_alive
      client.request(command)

      # read output from the temp file
      temp_out.rewind
      output = temp_out.read

      # puts output
      expect(output).to_not be_nil
      expect(output =~ Regexp.new(command)).to_not be_nil

      str_invalid = I18n.translate('plugin_job.host.invalid')
      str_err_msg = "Failure by design"
      expect(output =~ Regexp.new(str_invalid)).to_not be_nil
      expect(output =~ Regexp.new(str_err_msg)).to_not be_nil
      expect(output =~ Regexp.new("Exception backtrace")).to be_nil
    end
  end # describe "Invalid preconditions"

  describe "second client making calls to the dispatcher" do
    let(:dispatcher){ChildProcess.
      build("ruby", File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..','script','plugin_proc.rb'), 'stdout')}
    let(:temp_out){Tempfile.new("client_host_spec_1")}
    let(:client){TelnetClient.new}
    let(:second_client){TelnetClient.new}

    let(:command){"Sleepy"}
    before :each do
      # capture output to a temp file
      dispatcher.io.stdout = temp_out
      dispatcher.start
      sleep(2)
    end

    it "blocks a second request" do
      expect(dispatcher).to be_alive
      c1 = Thread.new {client.request(command)}
      sleep(0.5)
      c2 = Thread.new {second_client.request(command)}

      c1.join
      c2.join

      # read output from the temp file
      temp_out.rewind
      output = temp_out.read
      # puts output
      expect(output).to_not be_nil
      expect(output =~ Regexp.new(command)).to_not be_nil
      expect(output =~ Regexp.new("Exception backtrace")).to be_nil
    end

    after :each do
      temp_out.close
      temp_out.unlink
      dispatcher.stop
    end
  end # describe "second client making calls to the dispatcher" do

end # module PluginJob

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The Modesto clinic has lost three doctors in the past year.
Staff is recruiting physicians to work at the Modesto clinic, Hill-Jackson said. Before hiring a doctor last week, it was operating with only five doctors and still needs to hire at least two or three more to meet the needs of Modesto area patients and get appointment wait times below 30 days.
Under a law passed last year, VA patients expecting a wait longer than 30 days should be able to see a private-sector physician at the department's expense. The Choice Program allows veterans to seek care elsewhere if they cannot get an appointment at a VA clinic within 30 days of their preferred date or when considered medically necessary.
News reports and a subsequent internal investigation by Veterans Affairs revealed last year that patients were getting sicker and in some cases died while waiting to be seen at their local clinics. CNN broke the story that at least 40 veterans died while waiting for care in Phoenix, Ariz.
The Department of Veterans Affairs implemented major reform as a results to bring the wait-time for non-emergency appointments down to 30 days, but there has been little improvement, according to a seven-month analysis by The Associated Press.
One in 36 patient visits at VA clinics nationwide still include a delay of more than a month, according to the AP report released in April.
During an eight-month period this year, the percentage of patients at the Modesto clinic waiting more than a month for an appointment steadily increased, from 5.17 percent in February to 17.37 percent in September, according to data released by the VA. It decreased to 14.87 percent in mid-October but went has gone back to 17.5 percent as of Thursday.
The wait-time data for Modesto includes patients who were referred to the other clinics or seen in the private sector through the Choice Program.
"We work to use all available resources to minimize the wait times as much as possible," Hill-Jackson said.
He said the Modesto VA is assisting patients by providing shuttle services from Modesto to Livermore or Stockton or reimbursing veterans who must travel farther for care.
Since September, the Modesto VA Clinic has had the longest wait times in the Palo Alto Health Care System, which encompasses clinics in the Bay Area and as far east as Sonora and west as Monterey.
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Hill-Jackson said he isn't aware of patients with urgent matters being made to wait. Until staffing levels increase, he said, patients will be triaged and scheduled for appointments based on their needs.


A crazed killer, who leaves a bloodied plastic dragonfly as their calling card, is on the loose in Milan wiping out prostitutes, dealers and junkies. A well-meaning, if not always effective, Police inspector named Paolo is assigned to the case and, with the help of his wife Silvana, attempts to get the person or persons behind the brutal dragonfly killings.
An extremely entertaining, if low-rent, Spanish-Italian co-production from 1974, Una libélula para cada muerto (A Dragonfly for Each Corpse) is a relatively obscure Giallo from director León Klimovsky written by and starring the great Paul Naschy. Featuring a truly wonderful cast, including gorgeous Erika Blanc, veteran Angel Aranda and genre-favorite Maria Kosty, A Dragonfly for Each Corpse is a bloody and often overlooked entry in the Giallo canon and a film more than deserving of a decent DVD release.
Argentine filmmaker León Klimovsky was born in early October of 1906 and had worked in the film industry since the twenties. Already in his late sixties by the time he shot A Dragonfly for Each Corpse, Klimovsky was an assured if professionally disappointed man who had hoped to become more than just a commercial filmmaker. A Dragonfly for Each Corpse came at the tail-end of Klimovsky's most successful run as a director, a run that had carried him through the sixties with a number of Spaghetti Westerns and some Spanish Horror films including the legendary La Noche de Walpurgis (Werewolf Shadow), a jewel from 1971 written by and starring one Paul Naschy.
Considering how wildly popular Werewolf Shadow proved to be it was no surprise to see several films featuring the collaborative powers of Klimovsky and Naschy. These include Dr. Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo (1972), Vengeance of the Zombies (1973), Devil's Possessed (1974), Muerte de un quinqui (1975) and Secuestro (1976). It was a fruitful partnership that yielded some truly splendid genre films and A Dragonfly for Each Corpse is one of the most interesting for a number of reasons.
Due to the worldwide success of Dario Argento's "Animal Trilogy" and works by such distinct directors as Lucio Fulci, Sergio Martino and Umberto Lenzi, the Giallo was one of the most popular genres of the early seventies, so it was a natural one for the team of Klimovsky and Naschy to attempt. With a number of surprisingly brutal murders throughout, the presence of the unforgettable beauty Blanc and a number of past Giallo soundtrack ques from the mighty Cam music Library used for the soundtrack, A Dragonfly for Each Corpse might seem like a major lost classic from just the description alone but it is finally a bit less than the sum of its parts.
If a Dragonfly for Each Corpse is mostly an aping of the classic Giallo, then it is a pretty damn good one. Naschy's script and story of a killer attempting to wipe out the morally corrupt isn't necessarily fresh but it's handled fairly well, even if as a murder mystery though it is finally just functional. A Dragonfly for Each Corpse really comes alive though in the sections involving Naschy and Blanc, who play husband and wife in the film.
Taking a cue from the astonishing Black Belly of the Tarantula (specifically the sections concerning Giancarlo Giannini and Stefania Sandrelli), A Dragonfly for Each Corpse is at its most suprising in how it handles the relationship between the Naschy's just the facts Police inspector Paolo and his intuitive and very sharp bride Blanc's Silvana. The two would have made a great crime fighting duo in another film and their interactions while trying to figure out who the murderer is provides the film with its most interesting and, at times, humorous moments. What is most invigorating about the relationship is the way that Naschy and Klimovsky allow Blanc's character to ultimately be the sharper of the two and seemingly always a step of the head of the macho, if well-meaning, Paolo. It's a cool little twist that's refreshing in a genre often accused of misogyny and Naschy and Blanc have a wonderful chemistry together.
Behind the camera Klimovsky doesn't attempt to out-stylize the Giallo's most celebrated auteurs and instead just brings to the film an confident and steady visual touch that keeps it moving at a steady pace. He also delivers the film's more violent and shocking scenes in an almost casual, but never dull, way. A Dragonfly for Each Corpse isn't a terribly dynamic film but it's never pedestrian. Klimovsky is a clearly competent director attempting to make an entertaining thriller with enough bloodshed and skin to satisfy fans and he captures the essence of the classic Giallo throughout.
Of course the skin was still a problem in early seventies Spain and two versions of A Dragonfly for Each Corpse had to be filmed. Knowing it would be subjected to the harsh eye of the censors Klimovsky simultaneously filmed a clothed and more explicit version. The version I watched, from an import Spanish DVD, is uncut as far as the violence goes but is the alternate 'clothed' print. That, coupled with the sometimes awkward recycled score (a particular bit from Bava's Twitch of the Death Nerve threw me out of the story every time it played), gives A Dragonfly for Each Corpse a slightly generic and undercooked feel at times.
While the lack of skin in the more available version will prove frustrating to fans used to more permissive and freewheeling Giallo's from the time like Torso and A Lizard in Woman's Skin, they won't have much to complain about when it comes to the steady supply of blood and mayhem Klimovsky and Naschy deliver. A whopping dozen or so killings are spread throughout the under ninety minute A Dragonfly for Each Corpse, a fact that makes it one of the higher body count films of the period. The gore effects are fairly crude but the vibrant cinematography of the great Miguel Fernández Mila, as usual, make great use of the color red, and the look of the film elevates it at every turn.
As for Paul Naschy's performance, fans will get a real kick of the cigar-chomping machismo he brings to his role as Inspector Paolo Scaporella. Klimovsky clearly loved filming Naschy and his scene-stealing close-ups are everywhere in the film, as is his humor which provides a much needed lightness often at the expense of his own character, who isn't quite as badass as he pictures himself te be.
Ultimately A Dragonfly for Each Corpse perhaps isn't one of the strongest films that the team of Klimovsky and Naschy delivered in their time together but it's a terrific minor work and will please their fans as well as Giallo-enthusiasts. Why it still hasn't found a wider release is beyond me.
Eddie Dodd is having trouble looking in the mirror these days. Once a dedicated activist and civil-rights attorney who believed in change and progression through the sixties and seventies, Dodd has spent the best part of the eighties defending drug-dealers and pushers in exchange for whatever cash he can get, and he only sees a shadow of what he used to be each time he catches his reflection. With only a ponytail he refuses to cut connecting him to his youth, Dodd finds a shot at redemption when an idealistic young law student interns at his office and brings him a case that will either change or end his life.
A searing work from 1989 fuelled by a magnificent performance by James Woods, True Believer is one of the great under-the-radar American films from the last few decades. Directed with flair and intelligence by Joseph Ruben from an absolutely killer script from Wesley Strick, True Believer is a stirring film that has haunted me since I first saw it as a teen more than twenty years ago.
True Believer had its origins in a series of articles Pulitzer-Prize nominated journalist K.W. Lee had written on a controversial 1973 San Francisco Chinatown gangland killing. Lee's writing and the notoriety surrounding the event eventually led to the release of a prisoner on San Quintin's Death Row, and it inspired the young screenwriter Strick to fashion a passionate and inspired fictionalized screenplay set in nineteen-eighties New York.
New York born and Berkely graduate Wesley Strick was just past his 36th birthday when True Believer briefly played theaters in February of 1989. It was the first major script that the former Rock-Journalist had seen brought to the screen and it would land him an Edgar Award nomination. It also remains the crowning achievement of his career, as none of his subsequent work (as a screen-writer and script-doctor) has come close to matching its intelligence, style and depth.
While True Believer's storyline had been inspired by that Chinatown slaying from the early seventies, Strick's inspiration for the burned-out and disillusioned Eddie Dodd was Tony Serra, the famed lawyer who had successfully gotten the acquittal for wrongly accused Chol Soo Lee in the case. Strick's highly fictionalized version of Serra was a man who had lost his way through the eighties, a dreamer who had been eaten up by a system that simply just didn't give a damn the way that he had. An actor of limitless talent had to be brought on board to play Eddie Dodd for True Believer, otherwise the film wouldn't have worked. Lucky for Strick and director Ruben, that very special actor was available in 1988 when the film was shot mostly on location in New York City.
James Woods had been delivering knock-out work since the mid seventies on stage and screen. His career seemed close to exploding in 1986 due to his unbelievably intense Oscar-nominated performance in Oliver Stone's Salvador, but the films that followed that masterful work had been mostly disappointing. The film that proceeded True Believer, 1988's The Boost, had gotten Woods back on the right track though and it led the way to, what I think, is his career best performance as Eddie Dodd.
Joining Woods for True Believer in the pivotal role as legal clerk Roger Baron was Robert Downey Jr., one of the most gifted actors that had came out of the eighties. Downey, like Woods, was also suffering a bit of a dry-creative run when he shot True Believer in 1988, but he delivers a typically hypnotic and engaging performance as Baron and elevates what could have been a stock-character in lesser hands.
As far as the film's director went, Joseph Ruben probably seemed an unlikely choice to bring Strick's script for True Believer to life but he turned out to be an inspired choice as well. The New York born filmmaker had been working, mostly in exploitation films, since the seventies and had delivered a future cult-classic in 1987 with The Stepfather. True Believer is Rubin's best work as a director though, and he manages to make it work as both first-class entertainment, as well as an incredibly provocative indictment of a generation that had sold out its beliefs and values for a luxury swimming pool in their backyard. Everything from his framing to his ability to hold a shot when it needed to be held in True Believer marked Rubin as major-talent in the making. It's a shame he hasn't been given a script of such quality since.
The late eighties were a tricky time in American cinema. Lightweight crowd pleasing films like Rain Man and Driving Miss Daisy were crowding theaters and picking up awards, but it was a slew of cynical and thought-provoking works like True Believer, Running on Empty and Tequila Sunrise that were really telling the story of the day, each focusing in their own specific way on the failings of the eighties as an answer to the strives made in the sixties and seventies (culturally, politically and cinematically).
I first saw True Believer when I was a junior in High School and it had a pretty profound effect on me and I don't think I have let a year slip by without giving it another look. Certainly one thing that I found so inspiring about the film was Wood's haunting performance, Roger Ebert spent nearly the entirety of his original three-star review of the film praising it. Technically the film is quite dazzling as well if not at all showy (watch the still breathtaking and wonderfully edited sequence where Dodd and Baron recreate the murder they are investigating), but there was something in the film's spirit that really moved me more than anything else. It was something about being a teen in the eighties suffering through Reagan, AIDS, The Religious-Right and conformity all the while with the knowledge that the liberal attitudes of the late sixties and seventies were so close and yet so far away. True Believer is one of those pivotal films from the eighties that is working against the decade…it's not flashy, it doesn't owe anything to MTV, and it has a real individualistic spirit that goes against the complacent nature of so many films of the time. Brad Fiedel's score and James Woods' haircut are about the only things that place True Believer as a 'typical eighties film'. It's a raging, if subtle, work that is a simultaneous throwback and flash-forward.
Not surprisingly True Believer failed when it hit theaters that cold winter of '89. While it captivated a number of critics who were exhausted with the increasingly sappy and condescending turn American film had made in the mid-eighties audiences didn't turn out for True Believer upon its release, and it's never really gotten the fan-base it deserves. Woods astonishing performance alone should have guaranteed a cult around this film but it's just never happened.
True Believer has always, thankfully, been a fairly easy film to see thanks to home video (and it even inspired a short-lived series called Eddie Dodd starring Treat Williams) and it is currently available on a bare-bones widescreen DVD from Columbia.
Joseph Ruben's daring and expertly realized film remains one of my favorites from the eighties, and I hope some more folks might seek it out for the first time or give it another look. Re-watching the film recently I was struck with a certain sadness that I, like Eddie Dodd, didn't fulfill a lot of my early promise, but as the end credits rolled and Lou Reed's stunning "Busload of Faith" kicked in I was at least happy that I haven't sold out my core beliefs and attitudes as I am nearing my fortieth year on the planet. True Believer, like Reed's song that was written for it, is just as relevant today as it was more than two decades ago...a reminder that everything, and nothing, has changed.


This research generates new knowledge about how 24 educational leaders in the USA and England used their doctoral research to build narrative capital to inform strategies to steer their organizations towards cultural alignment. Cultural alignment prevents forms of segregation rooted in nation-states' wider historiography of education segregation based on low income and/or racial, cultural and linguistic diversity, and those recognized as having special educational needs. The evidence reveals doctoral study enabled the leaders to focus on the inner life and the emotional relational dimension of their narratives, and their alignment with the narrative of the members of their organizations through building networks of organizational participation in processes and practices. The networks enabled values to be shared such as trust, respect, agreeing to disagree and celebrating diversity. Thus doctoral research enabled the leaders to provide chances for members of the organization to evaluate their personal and professional narratives with each other and build narrative capital. Narrative capital is essential to underpin the construction of new life narratives that move beyond old descriptive scripts to scripts that turn dreams into objective realities, social mobility and civic engagement. Further research is recommended to explore how networks of participation in organizational processes and practices for cultural alignment are described and understood by leaders, educational professionals and students.


Ordinary Day, Not Such Ordinary Thoughts . . .
Sunday, September 23. Escape from Rosa and her mincing farewell to us, scout out a nearby café for tea and tostas, headed for Arcade. We have mapped out our route, cutting some of the stages in half because of their length or difficulty, and choosing one more town in which to spend a second night. This time it's Ponte Vedra, for tomorrow night and the next. If our plan works and I don't fall down or otherwise crash, the timing for reaching Santiago is just what I thought it would be. Saturday, September 29, arrival at the Seminario Major, aka San Martin Pinario Hospidaleria. My favorite converted Seminary, elegant but simple, friendly, and right across from the northeast entrance to the Cathedral. Good plan. Only a plan, though.
The track today, now that I'm completely off the coastal way, is very hilly, but a shorter day and quite manageable. My thoughts float, as they always do, though I find I'm more anchored to my life back home than I typically am while on Caminos. Business to take care of no matter what, and these are not things my daughter can do for me, as she usually does during these times in Spain.
A new type of ad is popping up on my Facebook and Tiny Beans sites . . . advertising funerals, asking, "Do you have your funeral plan in place?" Not just one pop-up of this sort. Continuous funeral plan ads. Is that a hint?
While I am on the trail today, though, I am musing in that direction . . . thirty years with Neil and no sign of any real deterioration for either of us, but for the usual aging, lines, creaky joints more evident. But I watch people around me, not so much on this trail, but in the towns, moreso than I can or do in my daily life, and see dowager's humps, limps, a crutch or wheel chair, vacant looks of those whose aging is catching up with their brains, etc. Some couples still hold hands, others act as though they wish they had never met . . .
And I wonder . . . how will we end? Neil and I. Of course, I would choose to be fairly healthy until I crash, but everyone hopes for that, and it doesn't always happen. Protracted illnesses or deterioration, or just a heart attack in one's sleep . . . none of those is optimal.
So often I reminisce, either with photos or in my mind or listening to an old Al Jarreau tune, about our former young and vibrant selves, beginning as a couple, so actively and passionately in love,and look at old people passing me, wondering, "What did THEY look like when they were young and newly in love?" And I can see them now, 30 or 40 or 50 years later, often feeble. But while I can imagine in detail how Neil and I were years ago, I can't picture us in 10 or 15 years, but for a scene that is pretty much like we are now, only more wrinkled. I don't picture me helping Neil with his walker, or him with his hands gripping my wheel chair, though intellectually I don't kid myself about the absence or presence of those future possibilities.
What dreary thoughts to have while walking a lovely countryside. I even listen to a recording of a few poems Neil used to recite to my answering machine, but it doesn't give me more energy for walking as it used to do. Still the dreamy voice, reciting love poems but I'm in a different space in my thoughts now.The music I put together years ago to be used someday for my memorial party does cheer me up and put bounce in my steps. I don't understand that. Walk on, Joannah.
I have secured a decent hotel with a balcony, in Arcade, again near water, but a river this time, and once I have arrived, I see Ria, always the energizer bunny, waving to me from the balcony like Evita or Juliet.
The reception young woman draws me an incomprehensible map of the town, so I can scout out a Laundromat and the post office (another small package of things I realize I won't need, lightening my load). Necessary and a way to get a look around, though there isn't a lot to look at. And Ria would like to find a café on the beach, but there is nothing. So we stop at a restaurant on the main street, but unfortunately, the kitchen is closed. This is the way pilgrims spend the rest of a short walking day. Dealing with normal things, not lofty thoughts and discussions.
The restaurants don't open until 8:30 for dinner. They must not get many pilgrims stopping here who are very, very hungry long before they hit the village . . . so we wait . . . and at 8:25, we walk down and out the front hotel door to a large canopy covering the hotel's restaurant. Padron peppers again, yum yum, tomatoes and soft cheese (sort of a Caprese), and I finally find my eggs. Scrambled with champignons and "cured ham", which I discover after I nearly break my tooth on one bite.
Vino tinto, of course, and excellent bread. Some sort of mediocre dessert. And that's the end of the evening.
Tomorrow is another day. Laundry for real, not just in the sink, the Correos (post office) to send my little package, and on to Ponte Vedra.
Writer, educator, psychotherapist, woodswoman. Crave solitude and just walked the Camino de Santiago from the French Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela. Long-term partner, Neil. Three grown kids, one traveling the world for a couple of years (see theparallellife.com), and two in other countries . . . Thailand and Texas! One Golden Retrievers and two cats. Avid reader, looking for 10 more hours in each of my days.
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2 Responses to Ordinary Day, Not Such Ordinary Thoughts . . .
I am following you more so now than ever before and understanding all your thoughts about age and aging. Please touch base with me when you get back. Mike will no longer travel. I am going to Santa Monica for his niece's wedding in late October…the first major trip since my trip to Italy. Planning to stop in Phoenix and spend time with Etta (she was on our France trip), Ali Bernhardt Sargeant is marruy Paul You. They are both in documentary production ——-Ali has done some great stuff and doing well Our oldest grand daughter, Blair, has just started her first job with Boos Allen in San Diego. She and her significant other will be meeting me in Santa Monica. Good Reunion time. But want to hear from you.
Dear Anne, Mike has not wanted to travel for quite a long time, I think. But I'm glad you are still doing some of the things you want to do. I will get in touch with you when I get home. Have a good trip to California. Weddings are always beautiful. My youngest son Morgan got married at La Jolla just south of the Cove in late August and we were all there. It was lovely. And Neil, my wonderful atheist, became a universal life church minister online so he could perform the ceremony as Morgan and Irene asked him to do.
I'll talk to you when I get back.
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