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We believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He is co-equal with the Father. Jesus lived a sinless human life and offered Himself as the perfect sacrifice for sinners by dying on a cross. He rose from the dead after three days to demonstrate His power over sin and death. He ascended to Heaven's glory and will return again to earth to reign as King of Kings, and Lord of Lords.
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separated from God. As a result, mankind is incapable of regaining a right relationship with God through his own effort.
We believe that the blood of Jesus Christ, shed on the cross, provides the sole basis for the forgiveness of sin. Therefore, the only means to salvation is belief in Christ's substitutional death and resurrection.
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We believe that because God gives mankind eternal life through Jesus Christ, the believer is secure in their salvation for eternity. Salvation is maintained by the grace and power of God, not by the self-effort of the Christian. It is the grace and keeping power of God that gives this security.
We believe that the Bible sets forth two ordinances, the Lord's Supper and water baptism. The Lord's Supper is to be celebrated regularly in remembrance of Christ's death on the cross, and in expectation of His return. Water baptism is an outward testimony of a person's belief in Christ. Baptism by immersion best captures the Biblical symbolism of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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Blinn College to offer online Spanish program in Spring 2018
Online courses feature innovative tools, interactive instruction to maximize student engagement
As more students opt for the convenience of online foreign language courses, Blinn College is making it easier than ever to learn the foundation of the world's second most spoken language.
Beginning in Spring 2018, students can earn their Associate of Arts in Spanish without ever stepping foot on campus. The new online program will feature innovative technology and interactive instruction to maximize student engagement and ensure full equivalency to the traditional face-to-face courses.
"Blinn's foreign languages faculty are in constant pursuit of the latest advanced online tools to engage students in conversations," said Dr. Pat Westergaard, Dean of Humanities. "We are very proud of their innovation and commitment to quality online courses. For example, we have had success teaching Czech and Spanish through a collaborative online program that allows participants to practice their language in an online, face-to-face format."
Blinn's Associate of Arts in Spanish provides students an understanding of the Spanish language in its spoken and written forms, and introduces students to the Hispanic culture. Coursework consists of vocabulary memorization and verb conjugation, speaking practice, readings, lecture, and Hispanic culture.
The online associate degree program in Spanish features four Spanish courses – SPAN 1411: Beginning Spanish I, SPAN 1412: Beginning Spanish II, SPAN 2311: Intermediate Spanish I, and SPAN 2312: Intermediate Spanish II – that utilize interactive tutorials, video conferencing, and virtual proctored exams to guarantee students are mastering the material.
"Online courses follow the same rigorous curriculum that is taught in a traditional classroom setting," said Irma Valdez, Foreign Language Department Head. "Once they complete the online program, our students will be fully prepared to take the next step in their education or career."
Students who complete Spanish 1411 and Spanish 1412 or their equivalents are eligible to complete the last two courses of the degree plan through a Blinn study abroad course in Grenada, Spain.
"We are proud of the study abroad opportunity," Westergaard said. "Students accelerate their language skills when immersed in the culture."
Program graduates gain a basic understanding of the Spanish language that can be used in a wide variety of career fields, including social services, education, international relations, healthcare, tourism, and customer support. As the U.S. economy becomes more globalized, the need for employees with foreign language skills is expected to grow.
"An associate degree in Spanish complements any career that involves high interaction with people," Spanish Instructor Isaac Martinez said. "Individuals who are bilingual have a huge advantage in the workplace – not just with communication, but by understanding and appreciating the different cultures of the world."
Blinn's online programs are fully equivalent and hold the same accreditation as its traditional face-to-face courses. Academic and student support are available to students who take online programs through the College's online student portal, myBlinn. Blinn also offers a variety of resources for students considering online courses at www.blinn.edu/online/, including an orientation course, tips for taking an online course, tutorials, and frequently asked questions.
Regardless of whether students choose to enroll in online or face-to-face courses, they benefit from Blinn's exceptional academic reputation. According to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB), Blinn's academic transfer rate of 34.2 percent ranks second in the State of Texas and exceeds the state-wide average of 21.1 percent.
THECB data also shows that Blinn students who take 30 credit hours during the 2017-18 school year save $3,717, approximately 42 percent, in tuition and fees compared to state residents at the average Texas public university.
Registration for the Spring 2018 semester is available through Monday, Jan. 15. College officials encourage early registration for convenient scheduling and placement in high-demand courses. Registration for Blinn's Winter Minimester, which runs Dec. 15-22 and Jan. 3-10, is available through Thursday, Dec. 14.
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The popular Hohner Silver Star entry level 10 hole diatonic harmonica from Hohner. It is available in the following Keys: C, D, E, F, G, A, Bb.The Silver Star is a step above many other entry level harmonicas.'C' is the most popular key for beginners. The brass tuned reeds are built around an airtight ABS comb. It is excellent for getting started on harmonica and playing blues, rock or any other music of your choice.
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You are probably reading this post on your laptop or cell phone. Or maybe Alexa is reading it out loud to you! Electric devices are so essential to every aspect of our life that it is difficult to go on with our daily tasks even for a few minutes without electricity. In your spare time, Alexa might read to you a dystopian novel where society disintegrates and chaotic conflict erupts in a developed country. You might then discuss the novel's take-aways in your book club with a calm voice knowing that in reality you will not have to try to survive such a situation yourself.
In parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, though, many people struggle in such circumstances. Approximately 600 million people there can tell you what life without electricity is like. Worse, civil conflict is not just a subject of dystopian novels for them. Many men and women there have experienced conflict in their lifetime, and the possibility of additional conflict is very real. The crying need for electricity and the threat conflict poses to the integrity of power systems must both be dealt with by engineers like ourselves who are trying to design power systems that will meet people's needs.
We were amazed to learn, though, that planners and policymakers use the same computer tools to plan investments in Sub-Saharan Africa as in developed countries, despite the very different needs and stresses they face! These tools were originally developed for use in peaceful, advanced economies, and miss many of the crucial risks and objectives faced by planners elsewhere. This surprising observation motivated us to investigate how conflict risk could be considered by models for evaluating power system investments.
Happily, we were not the first who have studied power systems in conflict conditions, and so we could benefit from others' experiences. However, our review of power system damage assessments and press reports of conflict's effects revealed a more complex story than previous research has recognized. For example, past research penalized large projects because of potential sabotage and therefore suggested investments in small diesel generators. Sadly, though, it is not only large projects that are vulnerable to disruption. Focusing narrowly on just one way in which conflict can affect power supply can lead to systems that are still highly vulnerable. For instance, past research ignored fuel shortages that can occur during conflict and would render diesel generators useless. Conflict affects power systems in so many ways, as we indicate in the figure below, that all technologies are vulnerable to conflict to various extents, and there are no obvious "right" plans! What mix of technologies would minimize vulnerability of a power system in a particular country depends on many factors.
During our review, we were also surprised to find out that past models assumed that periods of peace or conflict would last for decades. This assumption is either overly optimistic or overly pessimistic! Instead, we employed probabilities of conflict trajectories generated by statistical models. Conflict history turns out to be one of the predictors for future conflict. In other words, peace is more probable to follow a peaceful rather than a violent period. By modeling the random development of conflict and peace, it is possible to make more informed decisions about how power systems can reduce their vulnerability.
Those observations led us to develop a framework that acknowledges the multiple effects of conflict and the dynamic nature of conflict uncertainty. Planners can use this framework to analyze if it is best to postpone, diversify, or adjust the levels of their investments, given the likelihood and impacts of possible future conflict. Our hope is that this framework will be part of a new paradigm of "smart" planning models that are aware of their context and will help make power systems more robust to context-specific risks without breaking the bank!
As any other research piece, our analysis has several limitations, and we identify needed research. Future research could account for broader and different effects of conflict on the economy, estimate the impact of electrification on the probability of conflict, quantify the conflict effects based on richer datasets, and account for strategic attacks to the infrastructure. Hopefully, this blog post intrigued you so that you'll want to read the article and join us in addressing these open questions!


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Human 'Halloween' Skulls, Found In Connecticut, Are As Shockingly Real As They Get
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A junk hauler duo was indeed scared stiff when they realized that two skulls picked up at the cluttered home of a deceased man on the day before Halloween weren't part of the decoration. The skulls, the duo picked up, were as real as they get.
Apparently, they had inadvertently picked up actual human remains, and the "Halloween" skulls were actual human skulls. Unlike traditional Halloween skulls, which are made of plastic, these were made up of calcium, just like all other bones in the human body. David Odice and Charlie Inzucchi of The Junkluggers Junk Removal Co. were quite shaken when they realized that, among multiple items, were actual skulls that were once used for Satan-related rituals.
The skulls were among thousands of occult-related items that were cleared out of the Fairfield home. The house was home to Robert L. DeVitto who lived there until his death at the age of 56 two weeks ago, reported Reuters.
Recalling the chilling experience, right during Halloween, Odice, said, "Being Halloween makes this real creepy and spooky, especially considering what else we found in the house. There were thousands of things related to the occult: magazines, videos, crystals, amulets, all kinds of new age and metaphysical stuff."
Not realizing what they were hauling to the recycling center, the contractors dumped the skulls, and the rest of the dead man's paranormal and satanic-themed belongings, at a Stamford recycling center late Thursday evening, reported Tech Times. However, after noticing the skulls remarkably appeared genuine or human, an attendant at the center notified police. Images of the skulls were sent to the state Medical Examiner's Office. The office later confirmed the suspicions of the attendant, stating that the skulls were indeed human skulls, and even clarified that one belonged to a male and the other to a female.
The entire bizarre case has been handed over to the Stamford Police Department. Lieutenant Diedrich Hohn at the precinct shared the department is conducting an inquiry into the matter and will be able to confirm within two weeks whether a criminal investigation is required.
Speaking about the case, Hohn said, "It's one of the most bizarre cases we've had, especially being Halloween. If the skulls turn out to be 120 years old, obviously we don't have a big crime here. But we want to be sure the skulls were not part of a grave robbery."
What is equally interesting is the fact the police were able to track down the just-deceased home owner's father Robert J. DeVitto, 89, and inform him about his son's recent demise.
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Here's a short video of a site we cleared for Lawtech and United Utilities.
The area of land was covered in trees and brash. We used one of our teams of arborists and RC Forestry flails to prepare the site for the installation of the solar panels.


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These are just a few of the modern art landscapes, real and imaged, in Amy Benson's Seven Years to Zero, a collection of linked vignettes that blurs the line between fiction and memoir. In a narrative divided into seven years, the collection traces on couple's move to the metropolis, and their struggle with the decision of having a child in a world of factories, earthquakes, pollution, extinction, nuclear fallout and uncertain future. Through the lens of one couple, one city, and one child, Benson explores how art shapes awareness, and how awareness shapes our understanding of our place in a changing world.


Principal investigator of project "Communication with hearing aid. A comparative study of persons with acquired hearing loss within their interactions in private settings and with hearing health practitioners", funded by the Academy of Finland 2011-2014.
"I'm interested in communicative breakdowns and how people restore and maintain their intersubjective understanding. Thus far, I've studied mainly linguistic breakdowns, but I'm very interested in finding out how people manage with breakdowns due to hearing impairment, a perceptual problem. As a speech and language therapist I'm also interested in how people learn to use hearing aid technologies in their communication."


Creative teams work in pairs, and behind every great ad is a strong copy and art direction team. Effective ads must combine great visuals with compelling copy.
In this article, we'll help you understand how the art director and copywriter combine their own talents to create award-winning work.
Copywriters look for the clever turn of phrase that expresses the communication strategy simply and creatively, in that order. Copywriters are often tasked with coming up with "the line." The first job of a copywriter is to say the line straight. If you can't express your whole idea in no more than 140 characters, you haven't nailed it yet. Next, the copywriter puts a clever spin on the idea through the use of wordplay, metaphor, puns, synonyms, and idioms to drive the idea closer to its intended communication.
The copywriter's secondary job is to fill his or her brain with facts, figures, tidbits, arcane knowledge, and observations. The task of pulling together the line that goes down on paper is usually a synergy of two or more ideas or facts that exist somewhere, swimming around in his or her brain. Searching for the idea that makes it into the final ad is akin to digging through a huge box of Legos to find the one piece you need to make everything fit. If that piece doesn't exist, the idea will never come together.
Unlike copywriters, art directors think visually. It's the art director's job to decide what the ad's look and feel will be. A great art director knows intuitively the style and tone that the visual materials should take. Will the ad feature photography or illustration? Will the photography be product-focused or lifestyle-focused? Will the color scheme be warm or cold? How much whitespace will the ad feature? How much copy will it feature? All of these things influence the gestalt of the final work, or its presence.
The art director's secondary job is to be a student of the visual arts: film, photography, painting, signage, calligraphy, and sculpture, among other things. It's not enough just to experience these arts. A great art director will analyze them for typeface choices, line spacing, color, media, lens, and presentation.
Remember, art direction and copy are a team. The team brainstorms together, concepts together, sketches together, and pitches together internally. Copywriters often have great ideas for art direction, and art directors often have great ideas for copy. Neither party has the whole idea, as each brings their own breadth and depth of understanding and experience to the table to finesse the ad into a better version of the original idea.
The result is an ad that creates a synergy between visual communication and copy. Think about it like peanut butter and jelly. A peanut butter sandwich is pretty dry. A jelly sandwich is pretty sweet. This is exactly the result of uninspiring copy with great design or great copy with sloppy design.
The ultimate goal of both designers and copywriters is to sell the product at hand. To wit, each party must understand the role that they play. A copywriter has to write lines that fit with the design in tone, style, and the amount of copy required. It's been said that the art director sets the stage for copy, because the initial goal of design is to get the reader to read and agree with the first line of copy. The first line of copy should encourage the reader to read the second line, which encourages the reader to read the third line, and so on.
Both sides should be willing to compromise to achieve the end result of grabbing and holding the reader's attention until they've exchanged enough information to make a sale.


A regiment of the Nineveh Plains is getting ready to defend the sons of our people of the Christians in the Khabur River in Syria from the attacks that they are getting from ISIS.
We came to this position because we are one people with one destiny and we have to cooperate [as Christians] to fight Islamic terrorism. … Despite the small force that we will send it is meaningful for our people. …The situation for the Christians in the Khabur is poor from a security perspective after the Christians fled to Qamishli and Hasaka.
There are many hostages in the hands of ISIS.
Now that we have obtained sanction in the form of legislative language passed by the American Senate, we must step up our efforts to support our people in Nineveh in their desire to protect their homeland.
Spread word of our news to media outlets. Contact your MPs, ministers, and politicians and inform them that the hard work of our people in organizing themselves militarily and showing the world their willingness to fight has been recognized by the world's military superpower, but that they urgently need help from governments in their struggle to defend the living heritage of ancient Assyria.
This help must come in the form of arming, equipping, training, and supplying Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac military divisions.
For all of those compassionate Christian people who have desired to help fund the Christian militants who are fighting ISIS, to protect their churches and their towns, now is your opportunity to finally fund and support Christian fighters who are combating Islamic jihad.
For all of those heroic men from America, from Europe, from Australia, who have volunteered to us to help protect Christians, click here to contact the Restore Nineveh Now project and see if they need any help.
Christ said, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." (Mark 12:17) And we ask you, with all of the horrors and ravishments, with all of the plunders and massacres Christians have been suffering through, to please give unto God what belongs to Him. The churches in the East, they are of the oldest Christian societies in the history of our Holy Faith, and the Christians of these lands, they are the inheritors of the Apostles. And when we see brave Christian men, raising up arms like the Maccabees, taking up their weapons like the warriors of Nehemiah, "with their swords, their spears, and their bows" (Nehemiah 4:13), and fighting off the enemies of God to defend their churches and their lands, who would not be so cold, so indifferent, so callous, to not support this most holy cause?
This is a holy cause, and those who are prepared to sacrifice themselves for their safety of the brethren, and for the perpetuation of the true Faith, they are fighting in a holy war. Support this pious militia, who are laying down their lives for the protection of Christians. Christ declared to St. Paul, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?" (Acts 9:4) Thus, when Christians are persecuted, Christ is persecuted, and therefore, when Christians protect each other, they are protecting Christ from being abused, mistreated, scoffed, and oppressed.
When the Jews were planning on killing St. Paul, the commander called upon two centurions and ordered them to "Prepare two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea at the third hour of the night; and provide mounts to set Paul on, and bring him safely to Felix the governor." (Acts 23:23-24) If then God honored pagan soldiers to protect His Church, then what is stopping us from supporting Christian warriors from protecting God's Church from peril and destruction?
Life is not that long, and we are here, not for ourselves, but for the advancement of the Holy Faith, the Church, and for the cause of the Divine Law of God. Tell me, then, since life is so short, what more fulfilling way to spend this life than to give aid to a valiant force of Christian fighters who are combating savages of the most evil order?
St. James says, "Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves." (James 1:22) How are we to be doers of the word if we, seeing Christians fighting and dying for their Faith, do nothing in support of them? We must be doers of the Faith, and thus must we help and support our brothers in arms.
St. Peter tells us to "Love the brotherhood. Fear God." (1 Peter 2:17) How can we say that we love the brotherhood and fear God, and yet not support this holy militia? How many churches have to be destroyed, how many Christians have to die, before we lend our hands to aid this brave body of pious fighters?
If in olden times the Maccabees attained to the highest praise of piety because they fought for the ceremonies and the Temple, it is also justly granted you, Christian soldiers, to defend the liberty of your country by armed endeavor.
There was outrage expressed throughout the Western world on what Christians have been enduring, and now is the time to put that outrage to action. Support the militia! Support this holy cause! Exemplify what Christian charity is, and give what you can to help these courageous men.


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The Deuteronomy architecture provides a clean separation of transaction functionality (performed in a transaction component, or TC) from data management functionality (performed in a data component, or DC). In prior work we implemented both a TC and DC that achieved modest performance. More recently we first built a high performance DC (the Bw-tree key value store) that achieves very high performance on modern hardware. The Bw-tree is currently shipping as an indexing and storage layer in a number of Microsoft systems, including Hekaton and DocumentDB. This new DC executes operations more than 100× faster than the DC we previously implemented. Our newly re-implemented TC combined with the our new DC commits more than 1.5 million transactions per second (6 million total operations per second) for a variety of workloads. This demonstrates that Deuteronomy can achieve very high performance overall. Importantly, the resulting Deuteronomy full stack system's data resides on secondary storage and is only cached in main memory, while it has performance on a par with the best main memory systems.
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David has been ICDE PC co-chair and conference co-chair, VLDB PC co-chair, and editor of ACM TODS and VLDB Journal. David was awarded IEEE Meritorious Service Award and SIGMOD Contributions Award for serving as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin since 1992. He has served on the VLDB Board and the ICDE Steering Committee, and has been IEEE TCDE Chair. He currently is on the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors. David is a Fellow of IEEE (and Golden Core Member), ACM, and AAAS.


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This can be quite beneficial to you, the person who's ultimately responsible for stormwater compliance. For instance, you may need to put up straw wattles around storm drains in a parking lot to temporarily protect the storm drain system from getting construction runoff. If we find a qualified product that is more sustainable, just as effective, and less expensive, we'll implement it and pass the savings onto you.
Across the many territories where our clients depend on us, there are different protocols for accepting new stormwater technology. Washington State's Technology Assessment Protocol- Ecology (TAPE) program approves emerging stormwater devices to keep pace with this rapidly evolving industry. TAPE certification requires testing and approval by an external board--but not every technology. If deemed "functionally equivalent," some control measures can be implemented without going through the program.
To be approved for use without TAPE certification, the Stormwater Control Measure (SCM) must be designated as functionally equivalent. Each SCM that avoids the TAPE process is paired with an already approved, existing technology. For example, TAPE-approved BMP C233 represents a silt fence, BMP C235 are straw wattles, and alternative options for each type can be found through Ecology in the lists of equivalent devices.
Are you looking for a sustainable alternative for building a retaining wall? Created by American Erosion Control, LLC, the Erosion Eel is marked as functionally equivalent to BMP C235: Straw Wattles. The construction scenario highlighted above is therefore highly relevant to this product. It can be used in place of rock check dams, silt fences, compost socks, and wattles. Filled with recycled tires, the Erosion Eel is self-weighted and doesn't require staking at most sites. Ecology's formal letter of approval for the device explains how it should be used.
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We spend an awful lot of time repairing curb inlets and catch basins, because nothing on earth is immune to erosion and catch basins are on the front line. Often, you'll see filters placed into the opening to catch trash and, sometimes, even chemicals. The GeoCurve consists of a wire frame and filter media in a lengthy "C" shape. It's touted as an easy-to-install (or replace) equivalent to BMP C220 Storm Drain Inlet Protection.
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In "The Day the Earth Stood Still," a remake of the 1951 science-fiction classic, an alien named Klaatu (played by Keanu Reeves, right) visits Earth to save us humans from ourselves. The story is a work of science fiction, with the emphasis on fiction, says Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute and a technical adviser on the film. For example, to be able to detect a dangerous buildup of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere and come save us from global warming, an alien that could travel at light speed would have to reside no more than about 50 light-years away. "I doubt that there are any aliens that close," Shostak says. And even if there are, "they might not care about our problems."
Scientific accuracy aside, Shostak says the film could hook a new generation on space science, just as the original film helped direct his career, which is dedicated to the search for E.T. As kids stumble out of the theater, they might ask, do aliens exist?
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Sex on Screen and Objectification of Women in Rashomon
Posted on 11th Jun 2021 11th Jun 2021 by Reel Talk	Posted in filmTagged antiporno, female representations, film, Films, Japanese film, Kurosawa, rashomon, sex on screen, woman of the dunes
Written by Issy Smith, Edited by Owais Azam
Sex and depictions of the erotic are an inherently political tool for filmmakers. With understandings of sex being ever evolving and extremely culturally specific, the ways in which sex is depicted on screen reflect the context of the production as a social and cultural artefact. Through a racialised and feminist lens, it becomes that much more important for audiences to retrospectively investigate depictions of sex and how Western audiences may excuse these depictions as a means for fetishism and exoticism of the foreign woman and the suffering of the East. In exploring how sex is depicted in Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950), I shall negotiate depictions of consent on the screen through a modern feminist lens and explore how Kurosawa's relationship to Japanese cultural values alters the portrayal of sexual politics.
Rashomon approaches its representations of sex as a means of understanding its characters, neither challenging nor actively engaging with politically relevant discourses around sex. As a period drama, the film in many ways misrepresents the politics of the past by portraying 1950s Japanese depictions of sex as an unnegotiated standard.
We understand the unnamed character of the "wife" through her relationship with sex and her sexualisation. She is presented through an orientalising male gaze consistently throughout the film. We are first introduced to her through Tajimaru's perspective, her face veiled. This presentation offers a distorted image of her, emphasising the costuming while implying her beauty with a chime like melody added to the score as he scans her body. Her face is obscured multiple times throughout the film as we view her through an abstracted lens. Immediately we are led to associate her with the innocent and passive stereotype of the Japanese woman, draped all in pale colours and whites.
As with many representations of Japanese womanhood, the wife initially falls into the tropes of the docile and submissive, often motherly figure. The "good wife and wise mother" archetype prevails amongst perception of women extending outside of fiction and, as Koyama Shizuko states in her breakdown of Japan's ideology towards women, even now "we cannot say that the image of the "good wife and wise mother" is a thing of the past. Although the number of employed women is increasing, women are still primarily called upon to fulfil the roles of housekeeper, wife and mother" (Koyama Shizuko, 1994).
These stereotyped depictions and ideologies of the submissive Japanese housewife only reinforce exoticized Western narratives of Japan; the East as the hapless, submissive feminine, often animalistic and to be protected by the West's aggressive and dominant masculine has been a common depiction. The East's "separateness, it's eccentricity, it's backwardness, it's silent indifference, it's supine malleability" (Edward W. Said, 1978) has been easily twisted into sexual notions or demonised tropes to fit the narrative of the era. Similarly, the assumption of domestic compliance often manifests in depictions of Japanese women as sexually submissive and, if not, than defiant, cold, and cunning.
We see this dichotomy of representation throughout the film through the wife's reaction to her own rape. In the wife's testimony, we see the role of these stereotypes as roles women feel forced to fill as she depicts herself in contrast with "the fierceness (Tajimaru) spoke of". Instead, she depicts herself as docile, the only version of the story in which she has no agency or fierceness as she portrays herself as fulfilling the role of the good wife.
The rape itself is used as a catalyst for themes of doubt as we understand it from multiple perspectives. While the GHQ (General Headquarters) banned films promoting "violence and actions that threaten peace" (Naoko Kato, 2002), the film excuses its depictions of rape with the implication that it was consensual. In Tajimaru's depiction of events, the wife actively participates: she holds him close as he rapes her, and later in the woodcutter's story the wife says she stopped crying when she realised who Tajimaru was, implying that even if her consent wasn't initially willing she accepts it retrospectively. The film thus asks the audience to question the rape, with the woman's retelling of events being the only version to actively condemn Tajimaru's actions while the others shift blame partially to the woman herself. This reflects modern rape narratives in lieu of the "Me Too" movement and the backlash portraying the accusation of sexual assault as equivalent to a witch hunt (Sarah K. Burgess, 2018).
Importantly, in the post-war Japanese context, the portrayal of a woman actively participating in sex was extremely radical, especially out of wedlock. At the time the film was made, The Meji Civil Code, which introduced Western ideas of virginity and female purity, was widely in effect having been established in the late 1800s. These changes also lead to presumptions of the idealised otome (maiden) as lacking sexual desire, with sex promoted as a means for childbearing in post-war society for women. Women were once again relegated to the role of the domestic while their male counterparts were expected to engage in sexual activity as "any blockage in the natural flow of men's sexual energies would cause physical and mental debilitation" (Mark McLelland, 2010).
Thus, the wife's participation villainises her, contrary to her submission, as she is engaging with sex to fulfil her own desire rather than to reproduce as the domestic woman would. Tajimaru's actions then are not condemned by the film due to the lack of consent but rather for taking what is not his, portraying the wife as property in the eyes of the men around her. Her husband disregards her as tarnished regardless of whether she actively participates, dismissing her when she is no longer the otome we see her as initially.
However, it is important to note that these cultural factors are reflections not only of the specific geopolitical landscape the film was produced in but also the specific post-war period, especially when compared to more recent Japanese films. In the decades following Rashomon, depictions of sexual violence became much more explicit but were often sources of conflict and horror within films, such as the rape and subsequent ectopic pregnancy of the widow in Woman of the Dunes (Teshigahara, 1964) or the rape revenge narrative at the heart of Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion (Ito, 1972). More recently, the pink (pornographic) film has been used to dissect and question the role of female sexual pleasure in a modern society. Antiporno (Sono, 2016) and Tokyo Decadence (Murakami, 1992) epitomise this shift in Japan's narrative sensibilities, using BDSM and kink iconography to explore the modern submissive woman and the toxic cultural obsession with sexual purity, actively presenting these standards as exploitative and fetishistic. They allow their female characters to fulfil both dominant and submissive roles and present non-explicit consent through the lens of the victim as uncomfortable and unwanted.
It could be argued that Rashomon suffers from being embedded in its cultural context, with the Japanese writer and director having a potentially narrow perspective on Japanese social constructs around sex. However, upon returning to this film as a modern viewer, what stands out is not only the reflection of past social and cultural contexts but the reflection of modern ones. With sexual assault and female sexuality still controversial topics of discussion, critically engaging with depictions of sex on screen within the accepted canon remains necessary and important.
Burgess, Sarah K. "Between the Desire for Law and the Law of Desire: #MeToo and the Cost of Telling the Truth Today." Philosophy & Rhetoric, 51:4 (2018).
Kato, Naoko. War Guilt and Postwar Japnese Education (The University of British Columbia, 2002).
McLelland, Mark. "'Kissing Is a Symbol of Democracy!" Dating, Democracy, and Romance in Occupied Japan, 1945–1952." Journal of the History of Sexuality, 19:3 (2010), pp. 508–535.
Said, Edward W. Orientalism (New York: Pantheon Books, 1978).
Shizuko, Koyama, and Gabriel A. Sylvain. "The 'Good Wife and Wise Mother' Ideology in Post—World War I Japan." U.S.-Japan Women's Journal. English Supplement, no. 7 (1994) pp. 31–52.
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Again, no topic today. A work assignment has completely absorbed me for the past few days. Hubby gets monosyllable grunts instead of complete thoughts. But I do want to keep up on the writing. My theory that body and mind responds to habit does seem to bear out. I wake up in the morning anticipating my blog.
Now, if this poor old brain had something to say..... mister fishy grins at me from his perch at my desk. He makes me smile. Hubby and I saw another at a Webkins display, the first time I've seen him in Edmonton.
Mister fishy of course, reminds me of Pike Place, the success of my unit to introduce joy in the workplace, and the accolades that came from that. That initiative is getting old, but the principles haven't. They've borne the test of time.


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-007-Skyfall (PG-13)
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La Famille Cochon est un ensemble de personnages récurrents dans le magazine français Les Belles Histoires.

Les histoires de la Famille Cochon sont écrites par Marie-Agnès Gaudrat et illustrées par Colette Camil. La série a été rééditée en livres de poche et s'est vendue à plus de .

Personnages
 Les enfants : Marie, Charles et Bébé Cochon
 Les parents : Papa et Maman Cochon
 Les grands-parents : Papi et Mamie Cochon

Liste des histoires
 La Famille Cochon déménage, Les Belles Histoires n° 216, septembre 1990.
 La rentrée de la Famille Cochon, Les Belles Histoires n° 252
 La Famille Cochon aux sports d'hiver, Les Belles Histoires n° 281, février 1996.
 La Famille Cochon chez Mamie Cochon
 La Famille Cochon part à la mer, Les Belles Histoires n° 310, juillet 1998.
 La Fête des Mères chez la Famille Cochon, Les Belles Histoires n° 332, juin 2000.
 La Famille Cochon en goguette, Les Belles Histoires n° 363, 2003.
 La Famille Cochon fête Noël, Les Belles Histoires n° 386, décembre 2004.
 La famille Cochon à l'hôpital

Intégrale
 La famille cochon, l'intégrale, Les Arènes Éditions,

Adaptation
Quatre histoires ont été adaptées en dessin animé par France 3 dans la série Les Belles Histoires, avec la voix d'Henri Dès.

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Personnage de littérature d'enfance et de jeunesse
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11 hrs ago by Ryan Brauninger
On Malone and more...
I've spent the last day or so making phone calls about Texas A&M's continued pursuit of Oradell (NJ) DT Tywone Malone. As many of you know, Ty and his family spent last weekend in College Station. Here's what I can report after speaking to two separate sources who are both tied into the recruitment.- First thing that probably needs to come across is that if you're following this recruitment and think baseball is just something he does as a secondary hobby, you couldn't be more wrong. I was told, emphatically, that a better description of Malone would be "a baseball player that's good at football." He started playing baseball at 5 years old, and it's his first love. Therefore, Justin Seely and Rob Childress will have just as much of an influence on this decision as Elijah Robinson and Jimbo Fisher. - Tywone is looking at every possible angle he can from both the football and baseball prospective. I was told to expect this to go all the way until Signing Day where he'll make a traditional pick a hat announcement. - I asked a source what made A&M standout amongst his other finalists, and I was told the Aggie coaching staff has been honest and patient throughout the entire process. My source lauded Elijah Robinson's relationship with Ty as well as the persistence of Justin Seely's communication - "Ty is super close with Coach Elijah, and Coach Seely's consistency has made the kid feel like he's very much valued by the Aggie baseball program." - The Aggies have presented Ty and his inner circle with a clear plan of how they'd handle him playing both sports if he chooses A&M. During football season, he'd be a 100% football player. He would not participate in fall baseball unless he was completely clear of any scheduling conflicts with football, and he was given the ok by the football staff. That being said, those opportunities would be few and far between. Similarly, during the spring, he'd be all in with Aggie baseball. He'd do football practice/spring game/meetings etc whenever the baseball schedule would allow. - Overall, I wasn't given a clear indication of who the leader was, but A&M certainly has more than just staying power in this recruitment. I feel like Jimbo's experience of handling dual sport (specifically baseball) kids is something that's really appealing to Tywone. I also believe the aforementioned structured plan for his fall and spring responsibilities has been very much appreciated by everyone in his inner circle. I checked around with some folks regarding the timeline for Snow College (UT) OL Jordan Moko, and I believe he won't make his decision known until February. Still, like Looch has said, we like A&M's chances. Moving on, I've got some 2022 quick hitters...- Like Looch has said, I don't think we'll have to wait too much longer for some more kids to jump in the boat. The Aggies will almost assuredly pick up more than one pledge in the next 7 days. - A&M is set to speak with Austin Westlake QB Cade Klubnik today at 4 o'clock. - A ton of ground has been made up with North Shore CB Denver Harris. Last summer, the Aggies had a loooong way to go in that recruitment. Now, a contact in Houston thinks everyone is chasing the Aggies. - Keep an eye on Bremond DL Jaray Bledsoe. The 6-5, 260 pounder has some really impressive tape that features huge raw athletic upside. I've been told the Aggies have definitely been in touch. He picked up an offer from Oklahoma today. Big time ceiling on this kid. - Another name I've heard creating some buzz is Austin Westlake OL Connor Robertson. No A&M offer yet, but the Aggies, along with a host of other big time programs, are sniffing around. - I'm not totally sure what the timeline for CyPark LB Harold Perkins looks like, but if he picked a school soon, you'd have a hard time telling me it wouldn't be Texas A&M. - I'm not the Dallas guy, but a source today told me to watch for the Aggies with Frisco OL Cole Hutson. I've heard he's got a big fan in A&M OL Coach Josh Henson.
1 day ago by Billy Liucci
Jimbo's current recruiting run
Can we just talk about the recent recruiting run Coach Fisher and the Aggies are on? As hot a streak as I can remember and I've been doing this for a quarter century now.Let's revisit the Aggie commits since the week of the early signing period:Remington Strickland - Beat OU head-to-head for the rising senior OLShemar Turner - Beat Bama, LSU and everyone else for the five-star, national top-100 DLTunmise Adeleye - Beat UF and Bama and everyone else for the five-star, national top-100 DLBryce Foster - Beat OU, LSU and Oregon for the five-star, national top-100 OLElijah Jeudy - Beat Georgia for the four-star DE from PhillyJardin Gilbert - Beat LSU and Bama for the four-star safety and one of the top DBs in LouisianaMalick Sylla - Offers from every power program in the country, potential five-star DE, easy national top-50And the Ags are in anywhere from very good to excellent shape with every name on the following list:Class of 2021 - LJ Johnson Jr (No 40 player in the country), Tywone Malone (No 61), Jordan Moko (No 1 JC OL in the country), Brian Thomas (No 79)Transfer portal - Wanya Morris (a five-star in the Class of 2019 and No 28 player in the country)Class of 2022 - Donovan Green, Bobby Taylor, Harold Perkins, PJ Williams, Bryce Anderson and those are just the names that seem to be leaning the hardest the Ags' wayWhat you're now seeing is Alabama, Clemson and Georgia type recruiting, as Fisher is now recruiting at a level that is every bit as impressive as he did in Tallahassee while building a national champion and a team that at one point won something like 65 of 72 games.This is some pretty remarkable, championship-level stuff, and we're going to see a several names off of the uncommitted list above choose the Ags in the not-too-distant future.
3 days ago by Ryan Brauninger
Quick update on Ty Malone
I've been told tonight that Oradell (NJ) DT Tywone Malone has arrived in College Station. We'll work on an update after the weekend.
Thursday night recruiting updates
- I mentioned the 2022 "commitment day" that's been thrown around a little bit in my stickied post from earlier today. I checked around further on that this afternoon, and while I do think it's something that's been discussed, I'm still rather skeptical about it happening. Now, could I see a scenario where A&M rattled off a handful of verbal commitments in a short period of time? Yes, absolutely. However, I believe that if something like 4-5 targets all announced on a certain day, it would be something that was planned completely behind the scenes by those kids. It would be epic and fun to cover, but I'm not sold on it just yet. We've seen Fisher and his staff go on these runs where they pick up more than a few of their top targets over the course of a month though. Aggies would have to close on some top priorities, but that type of scenario is certainly possible with the way things are going. - Oradell (NJ) DT Tywone Malone is expected to be in College Station on Friday night. My sources I spoke with today maintained that Elijah Robinson's relationship with Malone and his folks had the Aggies in an advantageous position ahead of the trip. Reminder: Malone and his party cannot have any contact with the A&M football or baseball coaching staffs. This is simply a reconnaissance mission like they went on last week to Florida State and are planning to do next week at Ole Miss. - A Houston area source I spoke with today still felt like the Aggies held an advantage for CyFair RB LJ Johnson Jr. It's still unclear as to whether LJ will enroll early or not, but the time to make that type of decision is definitely dwindling. I believe the last enrollments can arrive next week at the latest. I do know that talks and conversations continue between LJ and the A&M staff as well as other Aggie signees. - Name to keep an eye out for in 2022 is Clear Lake CB Julian Humphrey. He picked up an A&M offer prior to last season, and he has gotten off to a fantastic start on the 7 on 7 circuit - winning Defensive MVP at the big Pylon tournament in DFW last weekend. - Some people asked earlier about A&M's pursuit of 2022 Klein Cain RB Jaydon Blue. The Aggies are certainly recruiting him, but as things stand today, it feels like LSU, Texas, and Alabama would be at the forefront. We'll see if Jimbo and company can make up some ground this off-season.
10 days ago by Jason Howell
Three Things: Denton Guyer-Cedar Hill, A&M's close in 2021 & more
TexAgs senior recruiting analyst Jason Howell is back at it again with another round of his weekly recruiting thoughts, this week discussing the much-anticipated Guyer-Cedar Hill matchup this weekend as well as the Aggies continuing to close on the recruiting front.


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Natania Bloch
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Before joining Transitions Clinic Network, Natania worked in various non-profit spheres, including addiction medicine, environmental conservation, and social services. Since early in her career, Natania has been passionate about uplifting underserved communities, especially within the healthcare system. She is eager to join TCN as a program assistant to support people impacted by incarceration and help fulfill their healthcare needs. Raised in the foothills of Boulder, she graduated from the University of Colorado with degrees in History and Jewish Studies. She now lives in San Francisco with her 2-year-old puppy, Artemis. In her free time, she enjoys roller-skating, reading, and searching for the best coffee shops that San Francisco has to offer.
Charleszetta Brown
Community Health Worker, Contra Costa Health Services
Ms. Brown has worked with the re-entry population since 2015, starting with her work in transitional housing to assist those released under the State mandate AB109, to develop plans to move into permanent housing. Ms. Brown's passion for working with those who many times are voiceless, and invisible, grew into her hearts work. Ms. Brown enjoys helping others on their journey to having the best life, and reaching their goals. In her current role, she links and connect individuals to community resources, medical appointments; she assist with health coverage enrollment, Cal fresh, and other vital services; she co-facilitates a support group (called REMEDY) for formerly incarcerated men and women, as well as, encourage and motivate them to check on their health! Reminding them that Health is their Wealth!! When Ms. Brown is not working, she teach Seniors in her community how to crochet, as well, she enjoys volunteering her professional service of hair stylist and make up for prom season – making sure young women and men, who may not have the funds to get all spruced up, look like a million dollars. And, she extends this offer to back to school students.
Joseph Calderon
Senior Community Health Worker
Joseph Calderon, Senior Community Health Worker. Joe is a native of San Francisco and a certified community health worker (CHW). At the age of 23 he started serving a life sentence. After nearly 20 years incarcerated, he began to explore ways to give back to society upon his release. He currently works as a Lead CHW and Trainer at the Transitions Clinic Network, a national organization dedicated to improving health and reentry outcomes for those returning to the community from incarceration. Joe trains and mentors CHWs with histories of incarceration who are employed by TCN programs nationwide. Joe was an appointee to the San Francisco Reentry Council from 2013-2016 and now serves on the Policy and Procedure Sub-Committee. He also served on the Equity Advisory Committee with the San Francisco Human Rights Commission. In 2017 the San Francisco Department of Health appointed Joe to the SF LEAD (Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion) Policy Committee. He has a passion for working with diverse and disenfranchised populations, leveraging his personal experience with incarceration to advocate for social justice and community investment. Mr. Calderon has a Post-Prison Community Health Worker certificate from San Francisco City College and plans on continuing his education in public health. Joe completed a JustLeadershipUSA fellowship in 2018.
Bethany Divakaran, RN
Nurse Program Manager
Beth is a public health nurse with extensive experience in organizational and system transformation aimed at addressing the social determinants of health. She leads the Transitions Clinic Network Reentry Healthcare Hub and works closely with CDCR nursing staff to ensure care coordination from state prison to primary care clinics across California. Beth has a doctorate in public health nursing (DNP) and master's degree in public health (MPH) from the University of Minnesota. She has worked as a nurse leader across hospital, clinic, and governmental settings and has taught nursing students at the University of Minnesota and Concordia University-St. Paul.
Sharon Fennix
Hotline Coordinator
Sharon Fennix is the Transitions Clinic Network Hotline Coordinator. Her passion for transforming the health system to better meet the needs of individuals returning from incarceration comes from her lived experience of serving38 years in prison. While incarcerated, she completed several educational and vocational programs, including college coursework, training to become a certified optician and certified dental technician, and training to become a substance use disorder counselor, and for several decades Sharon has worked to support individuals that have been impacted by trauma, domestic violence, substance use, and mental health conditions. She is thrilled to be part of the TCN team, and particularly enjoys working with men and women who have lived experience to help other returning community members.
Sherae Frost
Sherae has been working in the social service sector for the past 25 years, giving back to the community and helping people to become stable in their lives. It's not only a passion for Sherae, as she loves to be of service. In the past, her life was rocky but thanks to Recovery, Sherae is proud to say that she has been 23 years Clean and Sober. It's and honor to work with the Transition Clinic Network in assisting returning citizens with meeting all their social and medical needs.
MaDonna Garcia-Crowley
Community Health Worker, La Clinica de la Raza - North Vallejo
MaDonna has been the Community Health Worker for the Solano County Transitions Clinic in Vallejo since July 2016. As a resident of the area for over 40 years, she has watched the community grow and she stays updated on local resources. MaDonna is a licensed Cosmetologist Instructor, but, her passion is to assist people in the reentry population and those struggling with alcohol and/or drug addiction. Because of this, she has furthered her education majoring in Human Services and becoming a Certified Addictions Specialist. Having a history of incarceration herself and with lived life experiences with chronic disease, such as cancer, having been diagnosed in the past with mental health conditions such as manic depression and also having a history of substance use disorder, MaDonna can relate on almost any level that may be qualifying a potential Transitions Clinic patient for care. By overcoming medical, mental and spiritual barriers, today, with over 14 years in recovery, she is able to empower and inspire all who come into contact with her. Sharing hope and rejuvenation. When doing presentations or outreach to the reentry audience or those working with the reentry population, MaDonna shares her favorite mantra, which states, "Our past doesn't define us, it refines us." MaDonna gives Glory to her Higher Power, whom she chooses to call Jesus, for transforming her life, to position her to help serve others thru genuine peer support . With all these tools she is able show others that things can change for the better, which can lead to cut downs on recidivism. In her spare time she enjoys spending time with her special someone of 28 years, her blended family of four children and 10 grandchildren, taking care of her 18 year old blind cat (Leah), reading the Word, biographies and magazines, and traveling (especially to the coast).
Morgan Gliedman
Prior to joining the Transitions Clinic Network as Communications Manager, Morgan worked in the public health and harm reduction fields. She has led, developed, and launched numerous educational initiatives, including multimedia overdose prevention and reversal materials, a video series aimed at combatting stigma and promoting best practices among medical providers, trauma-informed care trainings for practitioners working with justice-involved populations, and toolkits translating the brain science of addiction into digestible, accessible formats. She is deeply committed to engaging impacted community members and centering lived experience; in Baltimore City, she convened multiple community events as well as listening sessions with people who use drugs for the FDA and National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) patient-focused drug development initiative. Morgan has served on NIDA's Clinical Trials Network Steering Committee and as an expert participant for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) "Use of Medication Assisted Treatment in Emergency Departments" evidence-based resource guide development. Morgan graduated from New York University with a concentration in creative writing and is earning her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has written about her family's experiences with the criminal legal system in The Washington Post, Vox, and The Fix.
Felecia Greenly
Community Health Worker, Lifelong Medical Center, Oakland
Tressa Hillman
Community Health Worker, Valley Homeless Healthcare Program, San Jose
Tressa Hillman is a Community Health Worker for Santa Clara County. She has lived experience and serves as a medical and social liaison for recently incarcerated individuals with high-risk for homelessness. Tressa's goal is to improve linkage to medical care, reduce recidivism and hospitalizations, while improving quality of life. She makes connections by treating each person with dignity and respect.
Clemens Hong, MD, MPH
Clemens S. Hong, M.D., M.P.H., co-founded the Transitions Clinic with Dr. Emily Wang in San Francisco in 2006. He went on to teach for several years at Harvard Medical School, and joined Massachusetts General Hospital as a primary care general internist and health services researcher. Dr. Hong is the Co-Founder of Anansi Health, and currently serves as Director of Community Programs at the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, where he oversees multiple County programs, including Housing for Health, the Office of Diversion and Reentry, Whole Person Care, My Health LA, CalAIM, and COVID-19 Testing. Dr. Hong received his Bachelor's Degree from the University of Washington and his Master's Degree from Tufts University School of Medicine. He went on to complete internal medicine training in the San Francisco General Hospital Primary Care Program at UCSF, as well as a general medicine fellowship at Harvard Medical School.
Community Health Worker, Chap Care - Pasadena
Alex Morales
Alex Morales is the TCN Program Assistant at Southeast Family Health Center. In his previous role, he was the Food Access Coordinator and a COVID-19 Responder serving with National Health Corps San Francisco and is now working at Southeast helping maintain the clinic flow. Alex hopes to continue working with the community and aide in removing barriers that prevent individuals from accessing healthcare.
Shira Shavit, MD
Executive Director, Transitions Clinic Network
Shira Shavit, MD is a Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California in San Francisco and the Executive Director of the Transitions Clinic Network. For nearly two decades, Dr. Shavit has been redefining national best practices for the care for chronically-ill individuals and communities impacted by mass incarceration. Under her leadership, the TCN Model grew from the flagship program in San Francisco, where she continues to treat patients, to 48 health systems nationwide. In California, Dr. Shavit oversees a statewide network of 21 primary care systems that proved instrumental in supporting the increased number of individuals releasing from prison during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her team's efforts have resulted in 10,000 people with chronic conditions receiving coordinated care from all prisons statewide to community health systems, a historic first in the state. In addition to providing clinical care to people returning from incarceration, Dr. Shavit has provided technical assistance to numerous counties and states to improve health outcomes, cut health care costs, and support healthy integration of individuals reentering their communities. She has also served as an expert consultant to reform healthcare systems in the California State prisons in collaboration with the Federal Receivership (2006-2011). Dr. Shavit graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, completed her MD at Rush University in Chicago, and completed her residency training at the University of California, San Francisco. She is a recipient of the Robert Wood Johnson Community Health Leader Award (2010), completed a CHCF Health Care Leadership Fellowship (2022), and was recently recognized with a UCSF Chancellor's Award for Public Service (2022). Additionally, she is a member of the California Department of Health Care Services CalAIM Justice-Involved Initiative Stakeholder Group.
Anna Steiner, MPH, MSW
Program Manager, Transitions Clinic Network
Anna Steiner, MSW, MPH, Program Manager. Before joining TCN as Program Manager, Anna served as Program Advisor for the Office of Viral of Hepatitis Prevention at the California Department of Public Health. Throughout her career, she has worked to promote health equity and build capacity among those facing systematic and institutional barriers to accessing health care, including people who use drugs, formerly incarcerated and homeless individuals.
Arlinda Timmons-Love
Community Health Worker, Reentry Health Hotline
Presently Arlinda is an "African American Reentry Health Conductor" for Contra Costa County Department of Reducing Health Disparities in Partnership with Center for Human Development African American Health Conductor Program. She works with formerly incarcerated men & women who are returning home, back to their communities; making sure if they have any hereditary chronic illnesses they will get Obama Care, as well as jobs & other resources the federal government has set aside for them. Being an advocate for those who can't speak the language they left 20 to 30 years ago, understand the language they're returning to. Arlinda also works at the WCHC in the Transitions Network Clinic, a Specialty Clinic that only treat the needs of the formerly incarcerated targeted population. Arlinda lost her 15yr old son to gun violence, and in 2004 she founded "Women of New Birth" a nonprofit organization working with women who lost their children to gun violence. In 1999 Arlinda became a Neighborhood Change Agent under City of Richmond Mayor Gale McLaughlin, whom started a city organization to fight gun violence called "ONS" Office of Neighborhood Safety, advocating & working with young men ages 13yrs old to 29yrs old who police targeted as "shooters", to turn their lives around. She worked with these men from all areas of Richmond and the yearly murder rate dropped tremendously due to her tenacity in making sure another mother would not have to feel the pain of losing her child. Arlinda still remains with the ONS Program as a Peace Keeper, is actively enrolled in CCSF Community Health Worker Program, certified with Yale's National Institutes of Health Office of Extramural Research, Administrative Justice graduate, facilitate 52 week court mandated batterer class, anger management facilitator & has numerous letters of appreciation, certificates and awards. But the most valuable award I get is from the people I help in the communities I serve with the needed resource they need, and just being a light in the community to them.
Emily Wang, MD, MAS
Co-Founder & Director of Research
Emily Wang, MD, MAS is a physician, researcher, and nationally recognized expert on the health impacts of incarceration. Her commitment to studying and eliminating health care access inequities began when she was a medical student volunteering in domestic and international prisons. In 2006, during her residency at UCSF, she co-founded with Dr. Clemens Hong the flagship TCN program at Southeast Health Center—this program, and the innovative model of enhanced primary care for returning community members that Dr. Wang co-created, have flourished into the Transitions Clinic Network. In 2008, Dr. Wang joined the Yale School of Medicine, where she is a professor of general medicine and public health. She went on to become the founding director of the SEICHE Center for Health and Justice, a collaboration between Yale School of Medicine and Yale Law School. She leads the Center's research program, the Health Justice Lab, which receives National Institutes of Health funding to investigate how incarceration influences chronic health conditions, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, and opioid use disorder. SEICHE and the Transitions Clinic Network collaborate closely on research, analysis, and evaluation. Dr. Wang's pioneering research has demonstrated the evidence-based efficacy of the patient-centered TCN Model of care, as well as the importance of participatory approaches to partner with impacted individuals with lived experience. This research has been instrumental in growing the network nationally. Dr. Wang received her BA from Harvard University, MD from Duke University School of Medicine, and MAS from the University of California at San Francisco. She co-chaired the National Academy of Sciences' consensus report on "Decarcerating Correctional Facilities During COVID-19" and serves on the World Health Organization's Health in Prisons Programme Steering Committee. She has been named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
The Community Advisory Board (CAB) engages current and former clients in program planning, evaluation, policy matters, and health and wellness activities, furthering TCN's ability to provide care that enhances the health and well-being of individuals returning from incarceration, while providing impacted individuals with opportunities to gain leadership experience that can be translated to employment and other professional opportunities.
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Jabari Jackson
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Nilda Palacios
Rickie Blue-Sky
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The Community Advisory Board at a virtual convening in February 2021 (below) and at Southeast Health Center in San Francisco (top left).
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