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Ormond Beach Observer Monday, Mar. 18, 2013 6 years ago
Eileen Pazos: A puzzling hobbyist
Eileen Pazos could never complete a crossword puzzle, but she could make them. And her latest is all about Ormond Beach.
BY MIKE CAVALEIRE | ASSOCIATE EDITOR
If this were 50 years ago, when Eileen Pazos first started making crossword puzzles, the process would have been "grueling," and it would have gone like this.
First, she would have pored through the dictionary, pulling words she liked then listing them on paper. She would have made categories: nine-letter words, five-letter words, each with a handful of possibilities under them. Then, finally, she'd get started on the real work: inserting answers into blocks, jigsawing them with other answers, until she had a full, playable spread.
When she did all this, back in the 1960s, for the New York Times, it took her more than three weeks to finish. But her latest custom crossword puzzle, which she made about Ormond Beach, took less than seven days, with the help of online word-finders.
Thanks to the internet, she didn't even have to go to the library.
"I've done it for all my hometown newspapers," said Pazos, 74, lounging on a poolside chair outside the home she shares with her sister, in The Trails. But until this year, she hadn't made a puzzle in nearly a decade.
This one's her reunion tour.
Since her '20s, Pazos has been constructing crosswords. It's a hobby she started to get closer to a former boyfriend, who was "a crossword puzzle fanatic." But she was personally never any good at solving them — even today, she can't finish a full Times daily puzzle. So, she decided to make her own, instead, all about sports. And before she knew it, she was making one for the 2,000-employee company she worked for in New York, for use in its newsletter to test readership.
"They offered prizes for those who completed it correctly," she said. "And when it came out, work sort of came to a halt."
Workers at the company's South American branch were calling workers in North America for tips; departments were comingling; people were thinking.
"It went over pretty big," she says, "and from there, I got into other crossword puzzles. … But the big one was the New York Times. That was the Big Time for me."
She's also made puzzles for the Miami Herald, about a dozen corporate newsletters and a handful of local newspapers.
A former English major and current pun-lover — she calls herself a "punster" — Pazos' Times puzzle was all about puns. "What was the sign on the astronaut's door?" was one of the clues. "Out for launch!"
"It's a wonderful thing to have your puns put in print," Pazos said. "They're not lost in posterity. And I think that's why a lot of people get into crossword construction — so they can have a showcase for their puns."
After the Times puzzle, Pazos received fan mail from all over the country, she says so opening a folder of her Ormond-themed crossword notes, pages and pages of graph paper, riddled with pencil marks and smudges.
"You need a lot of paper and good erasers," she laughed. "I even almost had to stop this one and start again, because I came to a stumbling block, with two Rs right next to each other."
An eight-year Ormond resident, Pazos also sings on the Ormond Alliance Church praise team, is a former Volusia County schools substitute teacher and plays in the Greater Volusia Tennis League at The Trails Racquet Club, where her 4.0 team has won the past two seasons.
"People love crossword puzzles … they're informative, they entertain," she said. "And if they have one about their hometown, that's even more fun to do."
(Pazos' full Ormond Beach-themed crossword puzzle will be featured in the Thursday, March 21 edition of the Ormond Beach Observer.)
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Les Vampires (1915 to 1916)
This is a post I should've written two days ago, when I had more time. On Friday the floor was cleaner, and could've waited. Today, in an hour, I'll have to stop and vacuum it. I've been stalling, and where'd it get me?
I didn't like Les Vampires at all. When I finished it, late last week, splitting the hour-long last episode into two 30-minute halves so as not to find it so tedious, I already knew the whole thing wasn't for me. I didn't expect the finale to save it, and the finale did not. But since then, I've tried to ponder what makes this ten-part serial so well-liked by so many. For indeed, there are many who find it wonderful.
It's the subject matter itself that thrills them. That's my take. For if I tell you what Les Vampires is about, you will want to see it. If I tell you how Les Vampires is about it, you may not.
The former: Les Vampires is an early French serial, released between Winter 1915 and Summer 1916, composed of ten episodes varying in length between about fifteen minutes and sixty. It concerns the attempts of star reporter Phillippe Guérande (Édouard Mathé) and his comical sidekick, Mazamette (Marcel Lévesque) to outwit the Vampires, a high-functioning French gang of terrorists and thieves.
The Vampires are led by a Grand Vampire (a position in frequent rotation). Always a 'he,' the Grand Vampire has access to advanced poisons, able to paralyze or kill in miniscule doses. One even has a portable cannon, transported in luggage, able to destroy a nightclub, or even a passenger ship. The GV's operatives are ruthless; possessing powers of hypnosis in at least one case, and substantial physical skills in almost all cases.
Dressed in black from head to toe (yes, like ninjas), Vampire operatives can penetrate any safe, or safe-house, to get what, or who, they want. Greatest of them is Irma Vep (play around with those letters), the cagey bad-girl with a lot of curves in her black bodysuit. Irma is a mistress of disguise, impersonating several people over the course of the serial, including a young man. She's hard to kill and, you figure, the kind of woman the rest of the Vampires would love to spend more time with.
Sounds cool. I picked up the DVD and right on the cover was Irma's (Musidora's) face, snarling at me like a blood-lusting, sexy animal. I popped it in and up came the menu screen, playing Les Vampires' most famous image: a woman in black, with the ears and wings of a bat, twirling in a continuous loop.
In fact, there are no vampires in Les Vampires. The crooks are quite mortal. The woman in the bat-suit is an actress and dancer—one of their early victims. I was let down. But none of this, of course, needed matter if the serial was good.
Les Vampires was filmed during a transitional period for silent films. It was around the mid-teens that directors really began shaking off the trappings of the theatre—moving the camera more, closing in on actors' faces more, urging them to perform more subtly before the lens. In this respect, Les Vampires' writer and director, Louis Feuillade, seems mostly on-track. But otherwise, he seems years behind the point cinema had already reached.
Les Vampires just plods. Here's why: Feuillade's willingness, in episode after episode, to show us the entirety of a long action—start to finish. Imagine footage of a man running, from foreground to horizon, across a field. Imagine that, in medium to long shot, with the camera fixed in position, this takes about 90 seconds. I assure you that the reason for the man's run, no matter how dramatic, will not keep you from growing bored.
Feuillade pulls this kind of thing a lot in Les Vampires; perhaps believing that the spectacle of what a character was doing could, by the very idea of it, transfix us. I remember a longshot of the side of a building, and a Vampire scaling its entire height in one unbroken shot. And much later, a shot of an open Vampire codebook, and Philippe's pen, connecting one letter to the next. Many, many letters. Sometimes the characters just stood and jawed to one another, uninterrupted even by intertitles, which made me suspect that what they were saying was not so crucial that I had to witness it all. No episode of Les Vampires needed to be longer than 35 minutes.
There are problems, too, with the progression from one episode to the next. Les Vampires has no cliff-hangers of the type we've come to associate with serials—in addition to each episode being slow, they offer little to make us want to watch the next one. Feuillade typically opens an episode with some development in either the Vampire's camp (a new scheme; a new operative); or in Guérande's (he is visiting a relative; he is now engaged). Conflict is inevitable, but not always intentional, and it's sewn up by episode's end. The only ongoing problem is the continued existence of the gang.
In this way, Les Vampires is more like a season of a television series—presenting a season-arch (the persistence of the gang) against which the individual scenarios of each episode play. Each episode, insofar as the events in it can be resolved, is self-contained. However, we rely on good TV to advance characters as well as stories, and Les Vampires never really does this.
Mathé is an uncreative hero and the Grand Vampires, though they do interesting things, are not interesting themselves. Lévesque, as Mazamette, delivers the best performance, but as a comic figure in a serial that deals with pretty serious matters, he's never the main focus. Musidora is loved by the camera, but to those who praise her acting here, remember this: Theda Bara or Nita Naldi could have played Irma Vep just the same.
The standout episode—that is, the one that hummed along best for me—was number 6: "Hypnotic Eyes." In it, the Vampires are challenged not only by Guérande, but by a second criminal gang, led by Moreno, a conniver who pulls Irma into his arms. Moreno's gang, in turn, is tripped up by a pair of small-timers working their own scam. "Hypnotic Eyes" has a complicated plot, but this is a good thing, because it gives Feuillade less time to linger. And it's as close as we come to real character development, thanks to Irma's divided loyalties.
It just kills me to call a silent film "boring." Some are. But it's so often a charge leveled against the whole art form, by people who don't watch silents to begin with, that I hate it. Les Vampires, though, bored me in every episode. There were moments of beautiful photography—like the Vampires in shadow, entering a roomful of partygoers they've just gassed, or Irma Vep, rappelling out a window like an unwinding kite-string spindle… or the actress in the bat-suit—but they were brief. And the serial was so, so long.
Where to find Les Vampires:
The complete Les Vampires is available as a double-sided DVD, which you can learn more about here.
Posted by Chris Edwards at 5:43 PM
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Grand Old Movies December 4, 2011 at 6:17 PM
I've heard about this series and its legendary aura, but had never seen it - it sounds quite disappointing, by your description. It's probably unfair to apply our standards to films made over 90 years ago, but Feuillade doesn't seem to have had the most basic ideas of how to film action, which even the Keystone Kops had.
Chris Edwards December 4, 2011 at 10:41 PM
I don't want to give the impression that Feuillade was a total incompetent--there are moment in the serial that look magnificent. But its flaws aren't the kind you expect from a film made in 1915.
It's strange.
KC December 5, 2011 at 12:03 AM
I'm surprised to hear this series was such a letdown. Though I'm sure I'll check it out at some point, I'm glad to know I shouldn't expect much. Thanks for the thoughtful review. It's such a bummer that someone named Musidora isn't more fascinating.
Never trust a blog where the author puts a big, smug photo of himself at the top.
Chris Edwards December 28, 2011 at 9:10 PM
True... but since I'm not naturally photogenic, the choice had less to do with ego than it did necessity in the face of limited resources.
And hey, at least you know who I am, right Anonymous?
I can pretty much agree with this. Though I loved the adventurous elements of Les Vampires, they were too far and few in between for me, and too tenuously held together by the dull investigative angle.
Irma Vep was cool, but a little overrated as a proto-femme-fatale, considering her unshaking but constantly changing loyalty to whomever happens to be "dominant" at the time :/
Chris Edwards August 29, 2012 at 9:07 AM
Good point about Irma's shifting loyalties. I have FANTOMAS here at the house, awaiting view and review--I'm hesitant to get started.
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A noren is a Japanese fabric, usually with one or more vertical slits, that is hung in a doorway. They can be used for decoration or to separate a room. Originally, they were used practically to block wind, dust and sun from entering a store or restaurant.
Now a days, they are probably more decorative than anything else. Artwork, calligraphy or businesses logos are the typical designs. I like how Leica used this traditional element in their wonderful Leica Store Kyoto. The contrast of the famous "Red Dot" printed on a textured off white fabric is certainly a nice touch.
I shot this as I exited the store. Really more of a snapshot. However, the Olympus PEN-F in monochrome mode, unexpectedly rendered the background dark and the light fabric appeared almost like a work of art. I suppose, if I were diligent, I should post process to make the background completely black. I opted instead to show the image as shot, except for some cropping.


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Tessa Blanchard and Impact's Presentation of Intergender Wrestling
Posted by Andrew Sinclair | Nov 25, 2019 | Columns, Impact Wrestling
Tessa Blanchard became number one contender to Sami Callihan's Impact World Championship last week, outlasting Brian Cage, Michael Elgin, Rich Swann, Moose and Daga to win a superb six-person elimination challenge match.
While the result may have been telegraphed, the way the match played out wasn't. Moose looked good in there with Daga before being beaten by Rich Swann, who was easily the star of the match. That is often the case in matches like these for the person who fills the workhorse role, but the former X-Division champion delivered an exceptional babyface performance as he took an absolute beating to beat Moose, Michael Elgin and push Brian Cage close, only to lose before Blanchard then pinned Cage with a rollup.
The crowd reaction that Blanchard got was very good, and her act in Impact is clearly one that resonates with live audiences, but it is still difficult to tell whether she's actually moving the needle for the promotion or not. The real test of that will come from her being announced as a headline for a big show, which they now have with her against Sami set for the main event of the Hard to Kill PPV in January.
A lot of intergender wrestling is neither here nor there for me, but I respect the company wanting to do something different and actually doubling down on something that they may think help them gain an extra foothold or get a few more viewers in this current wrestling landscape.
While I could have focused this week's column solely on her win or the fact that Swann came out of the match ultimately feeling like the bigger star, the thing that stuck with me after the matched finished and I deleted the recording from my TV was the commentary in the main event from Don Callis and Josh Mathews.
They constantly presented her fight with Cage as a huge mismatch, one that she couldn't possibly win. They spoke of what an enormous upset it would be if she went on to win the match. They spoke of how she was being rag-dolled and how she couldn't possibly hope to match his physicality. All of their commentary served to emphasize that she was a woman fighting one of the biggest, strongest men on the roster; something entirely counter-intuitive to the way they've booked her over the last six months and the way they want to present her and the product in the months ahead.
Tessa has exclusively been wrestling men since May, she has come close to beating Callihan in prominent spots twice and she has pinned former X-Division champion Jake Crist on multiple occasions in recent months. She has been treated as an equal to the men, and no big deal has been made of it. They have used her as the seamless gateway to introducing intergender wrestling as a regular feature of the weekly product and they have done a good job with it. However, when it mattered most and she was in the biggest spot of her run to date, they seemingly tried to make it seem stark and different. It was almost as if Blanchard wasn't being treated as an underdog in the same way they'd presented Swann earlier or they'd present a different male member of the roster.
I mean, the YouTube video was entitled "Tessa Shocks the World"…
While I understand that beating Cage is presented as a different prospect to beating Callihan or Crist, the point remains the same – if you want intergender wrestling to be your thing, it has to be presented as the most natural thing in the world and not as some side attraction or shock and awe element of your promotion. I may be reaching on this or reading too much into it, but it seemed as though this week that exceptionalism crept into their presentation at a time when it probably shouldn't have done.
The World Champion of a promotion is supposedly the best performer on the roster. They might not always be the most credible competitor, but they are seen as the bar for the rest of the promotion. Impact have spent months building up Tessa's credibility to the point that she could compete for titles with the men and compete with the promotion's biggest names and it would seem normal and natural, yet last week Callis and Mathews seemed to make a big deal of her being in the match and of her chances of victory being slim. You can't, truthfully, have it both ways. You cannot have intergender wrestling as a central element of your main event program but present your biggest female star as a perennial underdog when you've spent months demonstrating the opposite to be true.
Whether the Tessa experiment works or not remains to be seen, but Impact needs to ensure that the narrative and commentary are right heading into 2020 if they really want intergender to be the thing that they are known for moving forward.
I continue to enjoy the Johnny Swinger stuff. Don't judge me.
The four-way tag match to open the show was good fun but it made me sad – they've got Jake Something and they're doing nothing with him. The post-match with Ace Austin, Reno SCUM and the Rascalz was good and presumably lays the groundwork for Austin vs Trey at the PPV.
Next week we've got the annual Thanksgiving special with the Throwback Throwdown show, which should be, erm, something.
Well, until next time…
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Interview With Worship Leader Patrick Cloonan
Our worship service begins at 10:00 a.m on Sundays. Our worship songs consist of a mixture of contemporary and also reflective worship songs, lasting approximately thirty minutes. Our worship director, Patrick Cloonan, prayerfully selects songs that attempt to place the emphasis on the lyrics first, then the beat rhythm.
We believe worship is a time to express thanksgiving and grateful hearts to God for all He has done for His people. (Ps. 95:1-7, Ps. 96:1-4, Ps. 100:1-4, Col. 3:16-17, Heb. 13:15) For us, worship is more than just singing a song or two and getting on with the service. We believe the scriptures makes it clear that the "Father seeks true worshippers that will worship in spirit and truth." (Jn. 4:24)
There are plenty of opportunities to help and use your gifts in this area. We welcome you to try out for the worship team or volunteer on the sound board team.
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Oxford Research Encyclopedias Encyclopedia of Social Work
Addictions and Substance Use
Aging and Older Adults
Clinical and Direct Practice
Health Care and Illness
International and Global Issues
Macro Practice
Populations and Practice Settings
Race, Ethnicity, and Culture
Social Work Profession
Native Americans: Overview
Hilary N. Weaver
Populations and Practice Settings, Race, Ethnicity, and Culture
An Overview of First Nations People
Social Policy Issues
Issues for Social Work Practice
Native Americans: Practice Interventions
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First Nations Peoples, the original inhabitants of what is now the United States, are diverse and growing populations. There are approximately 5.2 million First Nations Peoples within the boundaries of the United States, accounting for 1.7% of the general population (Norris, Vines, & Hoeffel, 2012). First Nations people tend to be younger, poorer, and less educated than others in the United States. The contemporary issues faced by these peoples are intimately intertwined with the history of colonization and current federal policies that perpetuate dependency and undermine self-determination. Social workers must overcome the negative history of the profession with First Nations Peoples, in particular social work involvement in extensive child removals and coercive sterilization of Indigenous women. Social workers have the power and ability to make important differences in enhancing the social and health status of First Nations Peoples, but this must begin with an awareness of their own attitudes and beliefs, as well as an awareness of how social workers have contributed to, rather than worked to alleviate, the problems of First Nations Peoples.
Keywords: American Indians, First Nations Peoples, Indian Child Welfare Act, Indigenous, Native Americans, sovereignty.
First Nations Peoples, also known as Native Americans, American Indians, and Indigenous Peoples, are the original inhabitants of what is now the United States. Indeed, Indigenous people are found throughout the world and some of their territories straddle international borders. For example, the Akwesasne Mohawk reservation is partly within the United States and partly within Canada. This article focuses on First Nations Peoples within the United States, but it is important to keep in mind that Indigenous Peoples transcend national divisions.
There is no consensus as to which of the many terms that refer to Indigenous Peoples is best, but individuals often have clear preferences (Weaver, 2005). Additionally, there are regional differences as to commonly used terms. For example, the term American Indian is in common use in the Southwest and is the label generally used by the federal government, while the term Native American is more commonly used in the Northeast. The term First Nations, commonly used in Canada and increasingly prominent in the United States, is often associated with a strong sense of sovereignty and Indigenous nationhood. Given that all these terms group hundreds of diverse peoples together, it is generally preferable to use more specific terms for particular tribes or nations such as Comanche, Seminole, or Odawa, whenever possible.
An individual's right to choose the term that is most comfortable is closely tied with cultural identity. This being the case, it is imperative that social workers accept and use terms that clients prefer. Throughout the history of contact with Europeans, First Nations Peoples have had terms imposed upon them. For example, the Ni Mii Puu were named Nez Perce by interpreters from the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1805 (Nez Perce Nation, 2007). This imposed term is the one most often used by those outside that nation today, thus continuing to undermine the inherent right to self-name and have identity respected. While many Native Nations have asserted their right to be called by their own names, this is typically not respected by federal entities such as the U.S. Census Bureau, which still uses terms that some Indigenous people find offensive, like "Sioux". In the discussions of Census data that follow, the terms used by the Census Bureau are presented initially to preserve accuracy, but are followed with more respectful terms.
At the time of the 2010 Census, 5.2 million people (1.7% of the U.S. population) reported they were American Indian or Alaska Native (Norris, Vines, & Hoeffel, 2012). The largest Indigenous groups identified in the Census were Cherokee (819,105), Navajo (332,129; also known as Dine), Choctaw (195,764), Chippewa (170,742; also known as Anishinabe), Sioux (170,110; also known as the three interrelated groups Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota), and Apache (111,810). The largest Alaska Native group is the Yup'ik (33,889; Norris, Vines, & Hoeffel, 2012).
First Nations Peoples tend to have lower educational attainment than other people in the United States. In 2011, 78.9% of First Nations Peoples age 25 and older had at least a high school degree, compared with 85.9% of the total population. Only 13.3% had a bachelor's degree or higher, compared with 28.5% of the general population (US Census Bureau, 2012). In 2012, median income for First Nations households was substantially lower than that of their nonindigenous counterparts ($35,310 compared to $51,371).
The majority of First Nations Peoples no longer live on land that is under the control of their nations, and this has been the case for decades. In 2010, 78% of First Nations Peoples lived outside of reservations or trust lands (Norris, Vines, & Hoeffel, 2012). The Indigenous population that lives on reservations tends to be younger, poorer, and less educated than their urban counterparts.
While the history of each Indigenous group varies, there are several key aspects of history common across most First Nations groups. Six key areas that roughly correspond to sequential historical eras are discussed here: the establishment of treaties, genocide, the reservation era, boarding schools, termination, and urban relocation.
When Europeans came to this continent they recognized the different First Nations groups as distinct sovereign nations (Cote, 2001). Treaties were established on a government to government basis, recognizing that nations such as the Cherokee and Onondaga were of equal stature with nations such as England and France. After the American Revolution, treaties were established between the United States and various Native Nations. The federal government reserved the power to make treaties exclusively for itself, thus affirming that individual states did not have standing to make legally binding agreements with First Nations Peoples (Venables, 2004). This government to government relationship continues today and, in most instances, unless specific legislation like Public Law 280 has been passed in a particular state, Native Nations are not subject to state jurisdiction. Public Law 280 is a controversial statute passed in 1953 that transferred criminal and civil jurisdiction over tribal lands from the federal government to six states and created an opportunity for other states to assume such jurisdiction (Tribal Court Clearinghouse, 2007).
As the fledgling United States gained power, it increasingly waged wars against First Nations Peoples. These were often campaigns of genocide designed to decimate Native Peoples in order to take their lands, subjugate them, and subsume them under the power of the United States. Ultimately, the wars perpetrated upon Indigenous Peoples and the spread of disease (both deliberate and unintentional) led to the annihilation of up to 99% of the Indigenous people in the United States (Stiffarm & Lane, 1992). The remnants of First Nations Peoples were relegated to reservations by the late 1800s (Venables, 2004).
Reservations were usually established on land considered undesirable by the people of the United States that may or may not be a part of the traditional territories of the people placed there. Even these supposedly protected areas were encroached upon by white settlers and prospectors. The federal government took legal action to significantly reduce the size of some reservations followed by an allotment policy that allocated specific parcels of reservation land to nuclear families. The remaining "surplus" land was then opened to white settlement. Between 1887 and 1934, Native Americans lost nearly two-thirds of their land under the allotment policy (Winlow, 2013).
Once First Nations Peoples were relegated to ever shrinking territories, the federal government increased its push for assimilation. This was tantamount to cultural genocide. The primary vehicle of this policy was a system of boarding schools with the slogan "Kill the Indian, Save the Man." This slogan reflected the belief that if Indigenous children were taken from their homes and communities they might be socialized into an American value system, thus no longer remaining culturally distinct (Tamburro & Tamburro, 2014). This educational system, which emphasized vocational skills and Christianity, was implemented after the U.S. Civil War and continued until the 1970s. The legacy of these institutions are Native communities where generations of people have no non-institutional role models for parenting, thus leading to widespread child abuse and neglect.
By the 1950s, the federal government began to take different approaches to assimilate First Nations Peoples. Congress enacted legislation to terminate or legally end the existence of various Native Nations, thus extinguishing the reservation status of tribal lands and ending treaty rights for members of those nations (Kelly, 2010). At the same time the government began a major relocation program to move Native people from reservations to cities where, in theory, they were more likely to find employment (Miller, 2013). The relocation program resulted in the majority of Native people residing in urban areas, but training and job placement services were inadequate and did not take into account the loss of social support systems that Native people would experience when leaving their traditional homelands.
There are several key issues that social workers must consider when working with First Nations Peoples. Three that will be discussed here are diversity, sovereignty, and social or health status.
Extensive diversity exists among First Nations Peoples. There are well over 500 different Native Nations that continue to exist within the United States. There are many others that are recognized under state law such as the Lumbee in North Carolina and Houma in Louisiana. Different Native Nations have different forms of government, social structures, languages, customs, and spiritual beliefs. Additionally, there is significant variance among people within a particular Native Nation. Some people are strongly grounded in their cultures and follow traditional ways, some strongly identify as being Indigenous but do not espouse traditional ways, still others express little connection to their cultures. A social worker must seek to understand not only tribal-specific content, but also how a particular client experiences his or her cultural identity.
It is crucial for social workers to understand the concept of sovereignty. Because First Nations Peoples have always been recognized as members of distinct nations, they have legal standing that is quite different from other ethnic or cultural groups in the United States. Native Nations typically have their own governments, systems of law enforcement, and social service systems. This may open up a wealth of resources and services not available to nonindigenous clients. A fundamental understanding of sovereignty is necessary in order for a social worker to understand the policies and laws that apply specifically to First Nations Peoples (Cavalieri, 2013).
The social status and health status of First Nations Peoples are significantly worse than other populations on most social indicators. Native people experience high rates of violence, trauma, and imprisonment (Department of Health and Human Services, 2010), much of which is associated with alcohol use (Sugarman & Grossman, 1996). First Nations Peoples suffer disproportionately from health problems such as diabetes, tuberculosis, and alcohol-related problems, as well as suicide (Indian Health Service, 2014). Indigenous people are also overrepresented in the homeless population (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2001).
Poverty is a major concern for First Nations Peoples. Native Americans have the highest rate of poverty of any group in the United States: 29.1%, compared to 15.9% for the general U.S. population (National Indian Education Association, 2014). There are, however, significant tribal differences in poverty status. The First Nations groups who experience the greatest amounts of poverty are the Lakota/Dakota/Nakota at 38.9%, the Dine at 37%, and the Apache at 33.9%. Among Alaska Natives, Athabaskans are the poorest population, with 22.9% living in poverty, followed by the Inuit, with 21.3% in poverty (Ogunwole, 2006).
Historical or intergenerational trauma is increasingly recognized as a major concern for Native Americans. Indeed, traumatic experiences such as forced assimilation through residential schools, taking of land, and significant depopulation through violence and disease transmission are often conceptualized as at the root of many contemporary social and health disparities (Cavalieri, 2013).
While the social and health statistics for First Nations Peoples are often very poor, it is important that social workers do not approach work with these populations from a deficit perspective. In fact, First Nations Peoples have displayed incredible strength and resilience, surviving colonization for more than 500 years. The fact that First Nations Peoples continue to exist as distinct peoples is testament to their strength. In fact, culture itself can be a source of empowerment for many Native people.
There are three major social policy issues discussed here that are critical for social workers to understand, all of which have their roots in the sovereignty of First Nations Peoples: the Indian Child Welfare Act (1978), the relationship of First Nations to the U.S. federal government, and economic development. Indeed, a law like ICWA is only possible because First Nations are legally distinct entities rather than ethnic groups.
The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) is a federal law that is binding on social workers, regardless of where they practice. ICWA was passed in response to the large numbers of Indigenous children separated from their families and communities through foster care and adoption. By the 1970s, 25–35% of First Nations children were in substitute care with 85% of these placements being with non-Native families (Mannes, 1995). This led to massive disruption in the ability to transmit culture from generation to generation, thus threatening cultural continuity for many First Nations Peoples. In response to this crisis, ICWA affirmed that Native Nations have a right to jurisdiction in any child welfare case where an "Indian child" (defined by law as a minor enrolled or eligible for enrollment in a federally recognized Native Nation) is being removed from home. A child welfare worker who recognizes there is a possibility of removing an "Indian child" from home must identify the child's nation and call that nation immediately. Many nations have Web sites that include contact information for their social service departments. Native Nations may choose to cede jurisdiction to a state or county department of social services, but a department of social services can never assert jurisdiction without the express permission of the child's nation. Additionally, ICWA established a set of placement priorities for instances in which a child must be removed from home. Ideally, a child will be placed with the extended family. If this is not possible, the child can be placed with someone from his or her First Nation, any Native Nation, or any qualified foster or adoptive family, in that order. This set of placement preferences affirms that cultural continuity is in the best interest of the child and must be honored whenever possible.
It is important to note, however, that in spite of ICWA, significant numbers of Native American children continue to be removed and raised outside of Indigenous contexts. For example, Native American status offenders who could be afforded protection under ICWA are removed from their families and communities in disproportionate numbers (Gonzalez & Gonzalez-Santin, 2014). Additionally, case law citing an exemption when a court determines that there is no existing Indian family (i.e., an instance where a child is not living with a Native American parent or has had limited cultural contact) erodes coverage for Native American children and the power of the law itself. Indeed, this legal argument has been described as a backdoor maneuver used by states to circumvent the intent of ICWA (Jaffke, 2011). This exemption to ICWA was supported when a case of a non-Native family adopting a Native child against the wishes of both the tribe and the Native American father reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 2013 (Gonzalez & Gonzalez-Santin, 2014).
The government to government relationship between First Nations and the United States has shifted as the latter gained stature and power. What initially began as legal agreements between equals became relationships of one group dominating others. Indeed, the United States has taken the stance that First Nations are not only junior partners but are wards of the federal government or incompetents in need of protection. Under this legal stance the United States has created and perpetuated extensive dependency. For example, the U.S. government must grant permission to First Nations to establish casinos that have the potential to bring revenue to impoverished communities (National Indian Gaming Commission, 2013). Additionally, the federal government handles leasing of Native land and mineral resources and holds the profits in government bank accounts rather than allowing First Nations Peoples to manage many of their own resources (Vezolla, 2010). This creation and perpetuation of dependency is contrary to social work values of empowerment and self-determination. Only through active involvement in monitoring U.S. social policy can social workers begin to understand the forces that undermine self-sufficiency among First Nations Peoples.
Economic development is a crucial issue for First Nations Peoples and is at the heart of addressing many social and health problems. Sovereignty is a powerful foundation for economic development that opens up avenues not open to others in the United States. As noted above, however, sovereignty itself continues to be undermined, thus perpetuating poverty and dependency. First Nations need the ability to act like nations. Social workers must recognize the crippling effect of colonization, not just as a historical artifact but as a contemporary and extraordinarily powerful force that stands in the way of enhancing the lives of First Nations Peoples. Informed social workers can be powerful allies working with First Nations Peoples to challenge the perpetuation of federal dependency and furthering opportunities to alleviate poverty and foster economic development.
Social workers must overcome the negative history of the profession with First Nations Peoples, in particular, social work involvement in extensive child removals and coercive sterilization of indigenous women. Social workers often operate under the authority of entities sanctioned by the United States and state governments and thus are associated with colonizing and disempowering forces. Indeed, social workers must challenge social injustice, including that perpetuated by their employers. The core components of social work, social justice, empowerment, and a focus on the strengths and resilience of clients, must be a reality in working with First Nations clients rather than just vague principles lost in everyday practice.
While social workers have many important skills and talents, perhaps the most important value they can bring to their work with First Nations clients is a strong sense of social justice. Advocacy skills are crucial in insuring that appropriate policies that respect sovereignty and promote the well-being of First Nations Peoples are enacted. Social justice and advocacy are important on the micro as well as the macro level. For instance, a social worker may need to advocate on behalf of an individual who is not receiving payments that the federal government has collected for leasing grazing rights on reservation lands. It is also important to advocate that the federal government relinquish its self-appointed role as guardian for Indigenous Peoples which perpetuates dependency and disempowerment.
Stereotypical and paternalistic attitudes toward First Nations Peoples continue to be the foundation for federal oppression and perpetuation of problems such as poverty. Social workers can begin to work on challenging discrimination and oppression by reflecting on how their own attitudes and beliefs may contribute to these issues. As awareness of their own role in perpetuating problems increases, social workers will be better positioned to help work for societal change.
The social and health status of Native Americans is typically poor compared to other populations in the United States and may in fact be declining in some areas such as increased incidence of chronic diseases like cancer (Intercultural Cancer Council, 2002). Social workers must also be attentive to issues of drugs and violence in both reservation and urban communities. These serious concerns must be viewed within the context of Native American struggles for self-determination and self-sufficiency (Cavalieri, 2013). Indicators of social and health status are likely to remain troubling as long as attempts at empowerment are hindered by a social environment that does not recognize sovereignty.
The contemporary issues faced by First Nations Peoples are intimately intertwined with the history of colonization and current federal policies that perpetuate dependency and undermine self-determination. Social workers have the power and ability to make important differences in enhancing the social and health status of First Nations Peoples but this must begin with an awareness of their own attitudes and beliefs and awareness of how social workers have contributed to, rather than worked to alleviate, the problems of First Nations Peoples.
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JetBrains unveiled the full public access preview of Big Data Tools
The famous Czech software development company and the creator of the Java dev fav IntelliJ IDEA, JetBrains, recently unveiled the full public access preview of Big Data Tools, a new plugin is designed to allow developers to work with Zeppelin notebooks, Spark applications, and S3 files from within that popular IDE. It was previously available as a preview in an early access program for IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate users, the plugin is now also available to users of the company's DataGrip database IDE and PyCharm Python IDE.
The plugin offers smart navigation, code completion, inspections and quick-fixes, and refactoring inside the notebooks for Zeppelin notebooks written in Scala and Spark SQL. It is possible to browse, create, and run Zeppelin notebooks without leaving the IDE. The plugin also allows users to track Spark jobs, see cluster environment and storage information from the IDE, and browse and manage files in HDFS, S3, and other supported storage solutions. The company says, the tool also supports columnar storage solutions, which was not available until now.
The company is billing Big Data Tools as the first product to provide synergy among all the tools built on top of the IntelliJ Platform. It's a kind of acknowledgement of the impact of Big Data on developers -- including some significantly changing roles -- and the need for "the best possible tools for developers, data scientists, and engineers."
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SUPRA council
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Public records of SUPRA
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Celebrating 50 years of SUPRA
SUPRA Presidents roll call
Take a look through our archives
To celebrate our 50th Anniversary we've been taking a look through our archives, which are held in the Rare Books collection at Fisher Library, and on site in our office at the Holme Building.
If you're a current or past member of SUPRA, or former SUPRA councillor, we'd love to see your personal archives from your time at SUPRA.
If you recognise yourself or anyone (or anything) in any of the photos or publications here, please email us to tell us more!
SUPRA's founding was announced in Volume 1, No. 1 of the Grad Post, which was the name of the Association's first newsletter – in case you don't get the pun: it's a reversal of the syllables in 'postgrad'. Our current newsletter, eGrad, is an electronic version of the same newsletter; which means it has been published continuously for 50 years!
eGrad is published weekly, and contains important information for postgrads, updates on SUPRA campaigns and events, and lots of other useful resources! You can subscribe to receive eGrad when you join SUPRA. If you're already a member and want to get eGrad, contact us, and we'll add you to this mailing list. You can also read the latest edition of eGrad on our website.
In the 1980s neoliberalism brought a wave of deregulation to many industries, including higher education. SUPRA engaged with these issues in forums such as Graduate Post (which our every-evolving newsletter was then called!)
Here are some Graduate Post covers from the 1980s, discussing the commodification of higher education and other issues that were affecting 1980s Sydney Uni postgrads.
The fight against fee deregulation was a major focus for all Australian student organisations in the 1990s. These photos show former SUPRA councillors and other student activists (including former President Tom Clark, 1997-98, holding red and black SUPRA banner, on the left), and others participating in anti-fees rallies.
Free tertiary education first came under attack in 1983 with the election of the Hawke Labor government, who determined to implement a user-pays university system. From 1996 the Howard Government made deep funding cuts: funding for universities fell from 85% in 1987 to 54% in 1998.
In 1999 the Howard Government introduced the so-called 'Voluntary Student Unionism' bill to Parliament. This bill was repeatedly defeated in the Senate, but eventually passed in 2005, bringing uncertainty to the future of student organisations in Australia.
SUPRA covered these challenging times in our regular newsletters and publications, such as Express.
In 2005 the Howard government succeeded in passing the so-called Voluntary Student Unionism bill through parliament; when it came into effect in 2006, student organisations in Australia were effectively de-funded, and some were forced to close.
SUPRA survived this crisis by negotiating with the University to secure funding, and by charging a small fee for membership. This gallery of images from the 2000s includes a popular t-shirt design made by SUPRA that was part of a membership fundraising drive (the reference is to a famous line from the movie The Godfather III!). There are also photos of SUPRA Councillors (including several of former President Jenny Leong) campaigning, working in the SUPRA office, meeting members and constituents, and doing other work for the postgraduate community.
SUPRA today!
SUPRA is proud to be celebrating 50 years!
Our Welcome to SUPRA page provides a quick overview of who we are and what we do
Browse our Get help pages to find detailed, up-to-date information about common issues that affect postgrads
Our COVID-19 pages contain trusted information about the pandemic, including what we're doing to support postgrads
Learn about SUPRA council and how you can get involved
Join SUPRA to access the full benefits of being a member of the only independent representative association for postgrad students at the University of Sydney – SUPRA!
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SUPRA acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation as the traditional custodians of the land we work and study on. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.


It is with the greatest pleasure that I get to announce not just one but TWO amazing things transpiring soon.
1. I have been selected to be published for a record breaking (for me) 14th time! The Mighty.com has picked up my Special Abilities post! Once it is live, I will do a special post here to let all of you wonderful supporters know. In addition to that, I will be collecting all 13 (soon to be 14) posts on this blog for easy access. Make sure to check out the Published page tab to see them there!
2. I will be attending Texas Furry Fiesta in Dallas, TX and will have my "My Stuffed Therapy" panel on Saturday March 30th at 4:30 in the Bryan-Beeman Room (subject to change). It has been almost 2 years since my last panel and I am excited to be able to speak to all the wonderful people there! I enjoy talking and sharing what stuffed therapy means to me and seeing the faces of people I have helped. I hope to see you there.
One thing I have noticed during the holidays this year is the treatment of people and employees. Having a chronic illness has made me very aware of people and the feelings they give off. I can sense more of when a person is having a bad day or the tension in the room. I always try and make mention of asking how someone is doing or listening and responding to people.
Every time I go into the gas station or grocery store, I greet the clerk and ask how they are doing. I try and hold a small brief conversation with them. The smiles I and nods I get are overwhelming. Just by the simple act of talking to them has made a difference in my life not to mention what happens after I leave.
I try and hold open the door or elevator for people behind me. Simple things that people get amazed over. The surprised look on people's faces are shocking. I have even had a few ask why I would hold open the door for longer than two seconds. These very simple acts are so easy to do but it seems that more and more people are abandoning these acts of service.
I find this also translates into modern society in the fact that we have lost the art of finding the good in people. In this day and age of politics that seem to be dividing everyone, I have seen more people abandon being nice and courteous to one another in favor of treating people like a punching bag. I truly believe this stems from the lack of trying to find the good in people.
Finding the good in people can be difficult. I can hear the arguments in my head of why I should not try or bother to find it. "People are just to evil" or "You can't fix the world" echo in my head but in honesty, I am not trying to change the world. I am just trying to change the world around me. If I surround myself with positive reinforcement, does that not change my own world?
In doing this, what else would change? By just trying to find a positive chord in a person, you are changing the way your brain thinks. Instead of going into a conversation with an attitude of "I don't like 'this' about a person", you remember they are a good parent, they take care of their elderly neighbor, or they stop and pet each animal they find. You start looking for the good things in this world. You try and find commonality with a person. What would change in this world if more people did it?
Don't go out and change the world. Start small and change yourself and let that change your world.


This January marked two important anniversaries. January 11th was suffragist Alice Paul's 134th birthday (described in the quotation above, from a clipping in her archive at Harvard's Schlesinger Library). January 19th witnessed the third annual Women's March. While contemporary women's marches are organized through viral tweets, websites, and other social media, the parades and protests of Paul's era used the latest technology of their time: mass produced newspapers.
Alice Paul, 1920. Harris & Ewing. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
In the early 20th century, the increasingly literate American populus devoured sensationalist newspapers (many of which are well-preserved in N-YHS's archives). Expanding mass media technology made the reproduction of text and photographs widely accessible. In the height of the Progressive Era (1890-1920), reformers used the media to advocate for their causes and gain public support. Historians do not often associate the Progressive Era's use of mass media with the movement for women's suffrage that occurred at the same time. However, the women leading the movement for the franchise utilized this powerful tool to their advantage.
Front page of the Woman's Journal and Suffrage News. March 3, 1913. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
The American women's suffrage movement began with the Seneca Falls convention in 1848, when women such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony wrote the "Declaration of Sentiments," a document modeled off the Declaration of Independence that outlined women's grievances against the government that refused to grant them electoral power. While these women, and others, continued to advocate for the vote throughout the nineteenth century, they achieved negligible progress, especially as the Civil War and Reconstruction dominated the American political landscape. By the turn of the twentieth century, society generally viewed suffragists as old-fashioned and unpleasant.
Across the Atlantic, however, the women's suffrage campaign was reinvigorated by an organization called the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). In England, suffragists had faced a similar stalling of momentum for women's suffrage. Thus, Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters, Christabel, Sylvia and Adela, founded the WSPU in 1903 in order to use "deeds, not words" and employed unprecedented tactics to advocate for the vote. These women became known as "suffragettes" and rather than politely petitioning the government for the right to vote, as other groups had tried and failed to do for decades, they engaged in spectacular public demonstrations to garner attention for their cause. They organized mass marches through London's Hyde Park and theatrical public demonstrations complete with scripts, costumes and choreography. In the early 1900s, proper ladies never walked in public unescorted—doing so would equate them with prostitutes in the public eye. Therefore, when the suffragettes employed eye-catching tactics to advocate for the vote and attract media visibility, they faced derision and scorn.
Americans shared similar prejudices with the British regarding women in public; indeed, amid the social upheaval caused by increasing urbanization and industrialization at the turn of the twentieth century, well-to-do members of American society remained wedded to Victorian strictures that relegated women to the domestic sphere. Even female suffragists, who ardently desired to extend the franchise to women, were apprehensive about engaging in public demonstrations for suffrage like their British counterparts. Carrie Chapman Catt, an influential American suffragist, remarked in 1909, "'we do not have to win sympathy by parading ourselves like the street cleaning department!'" Thus, the American women's suffrage campaign persisted rather quietly, while more flashy news events scored headline after headline.
Alice Paul (left) with British suffragist Emmeline Pethick-Laurence, 1920. National Photo Company. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
What does the WSPU and suffrage activism in England have to do with the American women's suffrage movement? A key character who bridges this gap, and represents the transatlantic feminist networks that began developing in this time, is Alice Paul. A New Jersey native and graduate of Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania, twenty three year-old Paul traveled to England in 1907 to study social work at the University of Birmingham. During her time abroad, Paul encountered the WSPU, whose members encompassed diverse classes of women, from titled aristocrats to poor mill workers. As Paul engaged in public demonstrations, marches, and meetings, sometimes resulting in arrests and jailings in London, the American press took note, publishing numerous articles about her back home. "Miss Paul Stirs London," the headlines read. "Miss Alice Paul Tells of Tube Feeding." Then, in 1910, the papers reported, "Miss Paul to Make First Speech Here." Indeed, Alice Paul, suddenly a local celebrity, was coming home, bringing with her the experiences she gained with the WSPU in England.
Conscientious of the rise of her own local celebrity and a participant in America's mass-circulation newspaper sensation, Alice Paul set out to organize what would become one of the most performative, spectacular, and influential demonstrations in American women's suffrage history: a march on Washington, D.C. to express opposition to the election of anti-suffrage President Woodrow Wilson. Employing the tactics innovated by the WSPU, the march would be a theatrical dramatization of political desire, with the women themselves serving as the performers.
Woman suffrage parade, Washington, D.C. 1913. G.V. Buck. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Five thousand suffragists arrived in Washington to demonstrate, some of whom notoriously hiked all the way from New York to join in the procession. Speakers included Helen Keller, the Reverend Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, and on March 3, 1913 just four years after her expression of opposition to public demonstrations, even Carrie Chapman Catt would take to the stand. Leaders organized the event with emphasis on performance and pageantry; women sported costumes and sang songs. Suffragist Inez Milholland dressed in an iconic costume as the eternal beauty, Helen of Troy, and she rode into Washington atop a white horse.
Inez Milholland at Suffrage Parade, Washington, D.C., March 3, 1913. Bain News Service. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
While Paul and other leaders successfully attracted public attention, with estimates of 100,000 male spectators lining Pennsylvania Avenue, the 5,000 suffragists were not kindly received. Many of the men were inebriated after the inaugural festivities and they "heckled, spat, threw objects, and eventually broke through the meager police lines." In a statement for the New York Times the following day, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw stated, "There was certainly no effort made to protect us…but [the police] were not taken unawares because they were besieged with demands to give us protection." Ultimately, over one hundred women were hospitalized.
Women's March on Washington, 2017, via Wikimedia Commons.
The Women's Procession did not achieve votes for women; in fact, women would spend another seven years advocating for suffrage, through tortuous time in jail, undergoing hunger strikes and force feedings and enduring heckling and harassment during their public demonstrations. Moreover, the women's suffrage movement did not exist in a vacuum; suffrage leaders were not exempt from the biases and prejudices that dominated social and political interactions at the turn of the twentieth century. African American activists, including Ida B. Wells, endured discrimination among suffragists. The African American delegation at the Women's Procession was forced to march in the back, behind the white leaders. Alice Paul was not an infallible heroine, and several of her decisions would be seen as racist today. Still, by the time the Nineteenth Amendment was signed into law in 1920, concluding a fight for equality that began before the Civil War, Paul had revolutionized the way American women would advocate for the vote.
By taking advantage of the popular press and playing on her experience with celebrity, Paul transformed the suffrage movement into a public spectacle. The iconic images of women's marches have by no means disappeared in the near-century since suffrage. Transatlantic feminist networks helped to bring about the ultimate winning of women's right to vote, and today, international women's demonstrations continue to capture the public imagination through our own generation's version of the sensational press: social media.
Top image credit: Suffrage Parade, 1913 (detail). Bain News Service. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Excellent piece, thank you! Let us always remember, " Well behaved women seldom make history," said Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard University!


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During a grandiose launch hosted at Madinat Jumeirah, Huawei released two great pieces of technology, the Mate S and the Huawei Watch.
"With the launch of the Huawei Watch, we have created a bespoke timepiece that expresses consumers varied preferences in technology, fashion and lifestyles, whilst maintaining technological innovation," said Sandeep Saihgal, Middle East Vice president of Huawei Consumer Business Group.
The Huawei Watch is a 42mm timepiece powered by Android Wear and boasting the first sapphire glass dial in the industry. The fully circular watch features a 1.4-inch touch-sensitive AMOLED display, cold-forged stainless steel frame, and comes with a built-in heart rate monitor and 6-Axis motion sensors. The Huawei Watch is the first smartwatch in the Huawei wearable family.
Receiving SMSs, emails, calendar, app, and phone call notifications has never been easier or more convenient. Compatible with smartphones running Android 4.3 or higher, Huawei Watch boasts a powerful Qualcomm 1.2GHz processor for optimal performance, includes 4GB of storage, 512MB of RAM and Bluetooth 4.1.
On top of all this ground-breaking features the device is also the perfect fitness partner. It can count your steps, monitor you heart rate and help you create a bespoke fitness program, everything you need to stay in shape.
"In designing the Huawei Mate S, we wanted to develop a smartphone that offers a personalized experience with the power of touch; we once again took a revolutionary approach and reimagined how people interact with their devices, adding innovative features that enhance ease of use, functionality and creativity," explained Saihgal.
The Huawei Mate S takes regular recording functions to the next level by creatively implanting three microphones that support Huawei's smart direction algorithm. The Huawei Mate S' beam-forming algorithm allows all three mics to focus on the sounds coming from where the phone is facing, enabling a clear recording with minimal background noises.
The device is equipped with a camera that considers users' needs in everyday life: a professional camera and settings that incorporate contrast, texture, and distinctive tonality. The 13 mega pixel rear camera features a RGBW sensor, optical image stabilizer, Dual color-temp LED flash lights, and independent image signal processor camera units, which combine to capture higher quality pictures faster.
The Huawei Mate S and the Huawei Watch are now available across select retail outlets across the region.


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Dissecting the Power of 20th-Century Alcohol and Tobacco Ads
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Kent, 1970Courtesy Jim Heimann Collection/TASCHEN
Innovative and seductive, a new Taschen-published volume offers an engrossing insight into the world of advertising for cigarettes and alcohol
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A new Taschen-published compendium details a delicious niche in 20th-century advertising: alcohol and tobacco. Travelling chronologically through from 1900 to the 1990s, 20th Century Alcohol and Tobacco Ads underlines the trends, controversies and innovative graphic design of the century's advertising, which adapted with competition, contemporary events and, eventually, developments in scientific knowledge surrounding these somewhat illicit substances. Their appeal is tied up in the marketing techniques used to sell them, explains Jim Heimann, the tome's editor and Taschen America's executive editor. "Especially with smoking, it's always tied to lifestyle; for the first half of the century it's always about how glamorous it is to smoke, so people are always portrayed having fun, or being in really elegant situations."
Heimann's own vast collection of graphic design-related ephemera, which numbers well into the thousands, formed the backbone of 20th Century Alcohol and Tobacco Ads, producing a comprehensive look at the form's evolution. From the Golden Age-era Hollywood years, which saw stars like Jean Harlow and Marlene Dietrich endorsing Lucky Strikes, to the gendered 60s ads starring the Marlboro man, followed by the emergence of cigarette brands like Virginia Slims and Eve directly targeting women, and later to the Absolut Perfection hype of the 80s and 90s, promotional posters comprised cutting-edge graphics which were both punchy and impactful. The book serves to unpack the link between enticing graphics and their psychological, seductive impact. "I'm always aware of the visuals, the graphics and the designs and the illustrators and when I'm in the editing process – I'm looking for those visually stunning things."
Lucky Strike, 1935Courtesy Jim Heimann Collection/TASCHEN
The characters developed to represent the brands "became icons of popular culture, because they were so ubiquitous," Heimann continues. Take the Marlboro man, for example. "It just plays on the whole imagery of the West, and the hypermasculinity of smoking a cigarette takes you out into herding cattle, with this really great-looking guy," Heimann enthuses. "He's suntanned, and his skin is tough and he's got his cowboy hat on. And you know that's what they want you to buy into: 'if I smoke a cigarette, I can have the attitude of a lonesome sort of cowboy of the West'." The strength of this particular campaign meant that Marlboro was eventually able to simply show a belt buckle in a shot – not a cigarette in sight – to conjure up these connotations. Methods like these also courted scandal, however: rival cigarette company Camel's character Joe Camel was controversially brought to an end after seemingly targeting minors.
The relentless promotion of these widespread vices – encapsulated fittingly in the book's cover, which depicts a beautiful devil-woman brandishing a cocktail in one hand and a pitchfork in the other – is a continued mainstay in today's advertising landscape, and Heimann notes that with recent law changes in America the field is still developing in fascinating ways. Due to California's legalisation of marijuana, there's "a whole other idea of marketing, and already there are billboards around town here in LA advertising various dispensaries, and they have a convention for pot growers," he says. "It's become really interesting." Laws may come and go, such trends imply, but our fascination with things that are bad for us is utterly timeless.
Tanqueray, 1988Courtesy Jim Heimann Collection/TASCHEN
Marlboro, 1973Courtesy Jim Heimann Collection/TASCHEN
Bud Light, 1988Courtesy Jim Heimann Collection/TASCHEN
Murad, 1919Courtesy Jim Heimann Collection/TASCHEN
Schlitz, 1951Courtesy Jim Heimann Collection/TASCHEN
Asti, 1952Courtesy Jim Heimann Collection/TASCHEN
Carta Blanca, 1943Courtesy Jim Heimann Collection/TASCHEN
20th Century Alcohol and Tobacco Ads is released on February 19, 2018, published by Taschen.
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Akshay Kumar played yet another prank at the HT India's Most Stylish on Friday when he shocked his mother-in-law Dimple Kapadia with blood on his clothes.
Actor Akshay Kumar is known for pulling pranks on his co-stars and he did not spare his family either at the HT India's Most Stylish on Friday. Akshay scared his wife Twinkle Khanna and mother-in-law Dimple Kapadia with a blood soaked shirt at the event.
Dimple was joined by actor Sunny Leone on stage to present the HT Hottest Trendsetter (Male) award. Dimple made a heartwarming announcement when she said that 'her son' Akshay had won the award.
When Akshay arrived to receive his award, he, too, called Dimple his mother. She then had to put an award pin on his lapel. When she tried to pin it, Akshay recoiled in pain and said that she had stabbed him by mistake. He opened his jacket to reveal a white T-shirt soaked in blood. He put his hand on it and showed the blood to everyone, establishing that it was indeed fresh.
Twinkle also won the HT Most Stylish Author award. Upon receiving the award, Twinkle said everything that Akshay is, 'is because of the woman standing behind him'.
Akshay's latest film, Kesari is doing well at the box office. He is currently filming Good News with Kareena Kapoor Khan and will soon begin working on Mission Mangal with Vidya Balan and Sonakshi Sinha. He also has Sooryavanshi with Rohit Shetty and an Amazon Prime Original, Fire.