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For years, San Antonio had been notoriously short on the side of apartments and condominiums in the downtown area. In fact, as far back as I can recall, the mid-1970s, there may have been 4 or 5 apartment buildings in "center city," specifically on or near Houston and St. Mary's Streets, to satisfy the needs and desires of potential residents.
That all has changed, slowly, over the last 15 years as the population of the city has soared. And with new businesses and industries getting started in and near downtown, spell that Tech, there is a new and flourishing demand for places to reside. Just two miles north of center, the opening of The Pearl, a mixed use development dealing plentifully in restaurants and other retail, as well as a first class hotel, and apartments and condominiums, has had a profound effect on downtown's growth, albeit on Broadway leading away from center. Three additional apartment complexes that come to mind include the Rivera, the Mosaic and the Can Plant in The Pearl.
And just south of downtown about a mile, at and near the Blue Star Arts complex along South Alamo and Probandt, the effect has been similar, with the rise of the Big Tex apartments along the San Antonio River, Southtown Flats and other complexes south on Probandt.
And not intending to shortchange the other two directions, east and west from the center of the city, ten years ago the Vistana, a high rise apartment building was opened at W. Houston St. and Santa Rosa and about the same time, the Vidorra, near Interstate 281, directly east of downtown, was opened.
Neighborhoods full of small, medium and large sized houses have flourished both north and south of downtown. One of the oldest, dating back to the late 1800s is King William with mostly large, stately houses. Other neighborhoods include the Historic Arsenal, Lavaca, and north of downtown, Tobin Hill.
Upon further understanding, the downtown area is now "alive and jumping" though it is still well shy of the number of apartments and condominiums that have been proposed by the city, 7,500 in all. Still, the reach of development has performed wonders for downtown, enlivening an area that had been quiet far too long.
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In a city with a population hovering around 1½ million, in an area approximately 550 square miles, it shouldn't be a surprise there...


SONS gaffer Ian Murray today moved to bolster his attacking options by re-signing St Johnstone striker Chris Kane on-loan till Jan 2015.
'Kano' who scored ten goals for Dumbarton last term whilst also on loan will be available for tomorrow's SPFL match against Livingston.
Manager Murray said : "I'm delighted to sign Chris again. When we got wind he was available we made enquiries and it's a good outcome.
"He has a good scoring record for us and I'm sure he'll do well second time around."
Chris will wear the number 23 jersey during his spell at the club.


Abortion is a devastating reality and is trending among women in society.
155 624 abortions had been performed in state hospitals and clinics since the law legalising abortion came into effect in February 1997.
As alarming as they are, these figures relate only to abortions done at state hospitals and clinics, and exclude those done at private facilities like the Marie Stopes clinics, a major provider of abortions, and other private clinics.
The debate about women using abortion as a contraceptive has caused outrage between Christians and Medical Science.
Christians argue that it is murder and Science believes it is part of family planning.
However, the medical side begs to differ from the views of Christianet.
Marie Stopes being the countries biggest private abortion clinic, they had a different medical view on abortion.
Statistics show that abortion spread after it was made legal and illegal abortion plans continue to spread in society.
Sobekhulu said the number of patients at their clinic has tripled since 2000. They perform a number of abortions every month, to women aged 12 and 35.
legalised. The latest figures have once again divided those favouring abortion and those opposed to it.
1996's Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act marked the passing of one of the most progressive abortion laws in the world, entitling South African women of whatever age to a free abortion at a public facility.
However, women put their lives at risk by going to "backdoor" abortion clinics because of long waiting lists for termination in public hospitals and clinics.
Zandile Mwandla a former Public Relations student at Berea College, said had she not terminated her pregnancy, she would not have graduated.
"Termination is wrong on so many levels , both culturally and in christianity but it was the only solution at that time because a baby would have been a setback in my life," said Mwandla. Mwandla is currently a PR officer intern at Mzimkhulu Municipality .
In his book, A Godword Life John Piper says "Christians around the world should be moved to action by abortion. Hell is an even more devastating reality, and what an utter inconsistency it would be to feel indignant about the holocaust of abortion, but not about the holocaust of sinners perishing in unbelief.
In his article on abortion,Ghana writer Obourba Asante Taado wrote, "There comes a time in the history of a nation when we have to pause and examine ourselves to see whether we are moving forward or not. Besides poverty, hunger, conflicts escalating into wars, diseases including Hiv/Aids which threaten our existence on the African continent, there is this immoral and irresponsible behaviour that threatens the moral fabric of our society".
He goes on to say that abortion is as crucial as any other topic that affects a nation. It needs to be debated and dealt with to save the moral fabric of society.
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Trad methods of application also accepted
As I watch the next generation of talent come through, they continue to validate my theory that the traditional user journey is going out of style.
Jaguar Land Rover and the virtual band Gorillaz are joining forces to make an already attractive brand even more attractive by allowing applications to come through a virtual reality app. A mixture of video game, spatial reasoning test, assessment centre and job preview, the app is designed to hook in electronic and software engineers.
They've got a chronic skills shortage - and they need 1000 more, so 1 in 5 new recruits will be within this new role profile.
If they want, they can still, of course, come through the traditional route of the careers site. With that many brains needed, the company can hardly afford to close off a route of entry.
But by speaking to these people in their own language, and by pulling in some famous virtual friends, the PR and curiosity factor should hopefully get this free thinking brand the success they're after.
Potential candidates will be set challenges via the app, including assembling the Jaguar I-PACE Concept, Jaguar's first all-electric five-seater sports car. There will also be code-breaking challenges to test applicants' "curiosity, persistence, lateral thinking and problem solving skills". JLR said: "The best performers will be fast-tracked through the recruitment process, helping to meet Jaguar Land Rover's ambition to employ thousands of bright new talents over the next year. It's a major change in the way the business looks for candidates, aiming to tackle the engineering skills gap, inspire and attract a diverse range of talent and new thinking." The company said it would also accept applications via traditional routes such as the JLR careers website. JLR's main UK manufacturing and engineering sites are in Solihull and Castle Bromwich in Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Gaydon, Coventry and Halewood in Liverpool.
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Cindy Zarzycki met a tragic end at the hands of her boyfriend's father, Arthur Ream, who lured her to a Dairy Queen under false pretences in 1986. He was convicted of her murder in 2008 after zealous investigators pursued the cold case decades after she'd gone missing.
It now looks like the 13-year-old's murder might have only been the tip of the iceberg, as authorities search for the bodies of Ream's other possible victims.
Cindy Zarzycki was a normal teenager living in Warren, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, with her family, and looking forward to spending time with her boyfriend, Scott Ream.
On a Sunday in April 1986, Cindy Zarzycki told her father that she was going to a nearby Diary Queen to meet her friends, and later walk to church. In reality, Cindy was going to what she believed was Scott's surprise birthday party.
Little did she know that Scott Ream would not be there, and his birthday was actually in January. Instead, she was met by his father, Arthur Ream.
Cindy once told her mother that she could trust Scott's father, and it would be safe for her to be in his car.
Arthur Ream hid the fact that he was a predator who had a fetish for teenage girls. It is believed that Ream picked Cindy up in his van, raped her, then murdered her. Cindy Zarzycki seemingly vanished from the face of the earth, and decades later, it was discovered that Ream buried her in the woods.
The Zarzycki's last memory of Cindy was that of her leaving her East Detroit (now Eastpointe) home to supposedly meet her friends. She never returned home.
In 1996, after the Zarzyckis still had no knowledge of Cindy's whereabouts, Detective Derek McLaughlin of Eastpointe, Michigan was handed a cold case file by his supervisor. It was the case of missing teen Cindy Zarzycki, and McLaughlin was told to solve it. He became obsessed with the case, and resolved to bring closure to the Zarzycki family.
When charges were brought against him, Arthur Ream was serving a sentence for the unrelated crime of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl. Even though other detectives were suspicious of Ream, they continued to treat Cindy's case as that of a runaway, because a body was never found.
When investigators interrogated Ream, they found that his behavior was telling. McLaughlin said, "He didn't ask us why we were there. He just said, 'I knew this day would come.'" By that time, his son Scott Ream was killed by a drunk driver. He died in 1994. The Zarzyckis, McLaughlin, and other investigators wanted to find Cindy's body to bring her family closure.
Ream initially made an offer to tell investigators where Cindy's body was, but thinking that the jury may actually not find him guilty, later changed his mind. By then, the Zarzyckis accepted they may never find Cindy's body. However, on July 8, 2008, Ream decided to tell authorities where Cindy's body was buried. He drew a map of land in Macomb Township, Michigan that was owned by some friends.
The map proved to be confusing, so Ream, with his hands and feet shackled, was taken directly to the place he indicated on the map. He crossed the Clinton River on an old shaky bridge, and pointed a spot near the riverbank where he buried Cindy's body.
After seven hours of digging, and help from the owner of the adjoining land, the expedition was met with success. McLaughlin saw a purse, a human leg bone, and some shoes that belonged to Cindy Zarzycki. Her body was finally found in 2008, 22 years after she was last seen.
Later, McLaughlin brought Linda and Ed Zarzycki to the spot their daughter was found, and showed them where she was buried for all those years. For the Zarzyckis, the waiting was over.
Arthur Ream was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for the murder of Cindy Zarzycki, and the girl's family finally found closure. When Ream was convicted of Cindy Zarzycki's murder, he was already serving a 15-year sentence for molesting a 14-year-old girl.
But the story did not end there. Arthur Ream is now suspected of killing up to six other teenage girls, and burying their bodies in the same area of Macomb Township where Cindy Zarzycki's body was found.
Police are combing the area with the focus of finding Kimberly Alice King, a 12-year-old girl who was last seen on September 15, 1979, in Warren, Michigan. Police suspect that Ream could be behind her mysterious disappearance in the area where her grandparents lived.
Warren Police Department suspect that they might find the bodies of up to six girls aged 12 to 17 in the wooden, swampy area.
They are working on fresh information gleaned from Ream himself, as well as some others, and believe that the missing girls could be buried in the same area. Kim Larrow and Kellie Marie Brownlee, who have been missing since 1981 and 1982 respectively, are also suspected of being Arthur Ream's victims and could also be buried in the area.
As authorities search the area for more of Arthur Ream's possible victims, the families of the missing girls are hoping that they will finally know what happened to their daughters.
Knowing that would bring a small measure of peace to the family members who have waited years in vain for any news —good or bad— of the girls.


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Stephen Curry Finally Opens His Heart on Mess Created By Kevin Durant's Warriors Exit: "It Was Tough to Be Patient and Tough for Me, Just Staying Locked in and Motivated."
By Sankalp Harikrishnan
When we think of dynastic teams in the NBA, we predominantly recall sides of the past eras. Yet, the Golden State Warriors built a setup in the mid-2010s that was historic, to say the least. Led by the attacking trio of Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, and Kevin Durant, and ably guarded in defense by the ageless Draymond Green, they were simply splendid. However, time after that was not easy at all.
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Coached by the great Steve Kerr, the Warriors were the team to beat from 2015 to 2019. Racking up NBA Finals slots like it was a piece of cake, the franchise secured three titles in that time span. However, life after that was not so welcoming, though. As KD drifted away to the Brooklyn Nets and injuries struck, there was a sense of defeat in the Californian camp.
For the next two years, the blue and yellow army struggled to find any kind of form. And mainstay Stephen Curry recently admitted to how tough that phase was.
Jan 1, 2022; Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) shoots a three point attempt in the first half against the Utah Jazz at Vivint Arena. Mandatory Credit: Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports
Stephen Curry recalls 'tough' Kevin Durant-less afterlife for Warriors
For the longest time, Curry has been the star player for Golden State. Arguably the best shooter in the game's history, he was aided by potent men throughout. Nonetheless, Durant's exit in 2019 came as a massive setback for the Dub Nation. In addition, consecutive injuries to the 'Splash Brothers' meant that GSW failed to reach the playoffs for back-to-back years. Talking about the same, Curry admitted the challenges he faced.
Stephen Curry on Klay Thompson's Return Game: "I Got Goosebumps on the Outside of the Court Just Watching"
In an interview with GQ, the 33-year-old got candid and open. "Well, as many good breaks as we got, we got kind of the same bad breaks," said the 7-time All-star. He has previously admitted that when it rained, it poured in terms of the Warriors' setbacks.
"The injuries that took us to a pretty crazy free fall right before the pandemic. And it's weird because if you look at it in those two years, it was tough to be patient and tough for me, just staying locked in and motivated." Clearly, KD's exit meant more to Kerr's roster than just a switch of franchises.
After a tough couple of years, it is good to see the Warriors bounce back in 2021-22. Will it be the first title for Curry and co. in the absence of Kevin Durant? Let's wait and watch!
Sankalp Harikrishnan
Sankalp Harikrishnan is an NBA and Tennis writer at EssentiallySports. He aspires to pursue Sports Journalism and has represented his institution in cricket, badminton, soccer and table tennis. Sankalp idolises Roger Federer and Stephen Curry, and has an inherent love for statistics.


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Updated: Mar. 29, 2019, 8:08 a.m. | Published: Apr. 29, 2015, 12:07 a.m.
By Noah Cohen and MaryAnn Spoto | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
WALL — Rachel Bryk had a lot to handle for a 23 year old.
Diagnosed with two extremely painful neurological diseases six years ago, Rachel struggled just about every day to get out of bed.
The second oldest of four children, Rachel also was dealing with the issues of being transgender.
And most recently, she was the subject of online bullying, a situation her family suspects may have been the emotional tipping point that drove her to take her own life by jumping off the George Washington Bridge late Thursday afternoon.
"It was a combination of things," Rachel's mother, Lisa Bryk, said from the family's home in Wall Township on Tuesday afternoon. "Her actual reasons that she told people was that she was in constant pain."
Port Authority police have not officially identified Rachel Bryk as the person who jumped off the bridge around 6:10 p.m. on Thursday because her body has not been recovered. However, Lisa Bryk and her husband Roger Bryk said Port Authority police have told them they have video of their daughter on the bridge and they have her purse that contained a suicide note.
Rachel's parents said they had no clue their daughter, formerly known as Roger, was suicidal. They said she seemed happier in recent months after coming out to her family as transgender in January.
But beneath that happiness, Rachel was in severe physical pain from fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis, two neurological diseases that make every movement feel like agony, her mother said.
The conditions caused Rachel to drop out of DeVry University, where she was studying electronic engineering, because just sitting still in class was too painful, her mother said. The disease also prevented Rachel from getting a job to earn money to pay for school, Lisa Bryk said. She was turned down for Social Security disability benefits last year.
Her family started piecing things together in the past few days after gaining access to Rachel's computer, where Rachel had left a list of passwords for them to find.
They learned it was after that disability rejection that Rachel made her first suicide attempt from the George Washington Bridge. That time, Port Authority police unknowingly thwarted her plan. When they found her on the bridge, she told them she was stranded and trying to get home. They gave her money for a train ride home, her parents said.
They learned that's when the bullying began. They learned she had announced that suicide plan to friends and acquaintances on online gaming forums she frequented. But when she didn't go through with it last year, that's when the online taunts started, her parents said.
She announced this one, too. And she scheduled a tweet to go out at midnight after her jump to proclaim that she had carried out her plan.
Lisa Bryk, a counselor, said she drove her daughter to the train station last on the day she died, thinking her daughter had a doctor's appointment in Manhattan as she so often had. But as the hours ticked away and Rachel hadn't called, Lisa Bryk started getting worried. She said she called her daughter, texted her, but got no response. Around 3 a.m. on Friday, they called Wall Township police. They called one of Rachel's girlfriends, who finally confessed to knowing about Rachel's whereabouts and intention.
So around 4 a.m., they contacted Port Authority police, who, Roger Bryk said, initially told them had no reports of anyone plunging to his death from the bridge. Hours later, after seeing a newspaper article about someone jumping off the GWB, the family pushed Port Authority police harder for answers. Roger Bryk, who is an electrician at Newark Liberty International Airport, said he texted a Port Authority detective a description of what Rachel was wearing. Minutes later, he got a call back about the photo of her on the bridge. Te following day, police told them they found her purse there.
Until receiving that call, Roger Bryk was ready to go to New York to start searching for his daughter. He said he didn't give up hope that maybe she lost her phone, the battery died or she was lost. But Lisa Bryk said she knew in her heart that wasn't the case - that her daughter had succeeded at doing what she had failed to do last year.
Now family members just wait, holed up in their home, for word that the body of their daughter, their sibling, has been recovered.
"The waiting is the hardest part," Roger Bryk said, tears filling his eyes.
He said Rachel's friends should have told police, her family, anyone who could have intervened.
"So many people knew and did nothing about it, except trying to talk her out of it, but that's just not enough," Lisa Bryk said.
Rachel was seeing a therapist to help with her transgender transition, but never revealed anything about the bullying or suicidal thoughts, her parents said. They think that was calculated, because Rachel, as the daughter of a counselor, knew the key words and phrases to avoid.
"She knows how that works. She's not going to say anything to anyone who will stop her," Lisa Bryk said.
She said she's convinced her daughter's physical pain was the main driver of the suicide.
"She would never have killed herself for the bullying alone," said her mother, Lisa Bryk. "I don't want the issue of the physical pain that she lived in to be lost in all that."
"It's just a struggle every day to live like that, in chronic pain," said Lisa Bryk, who also suffers from fibromyalgia. "People think you look fine on the outside and that if you just tried harder, things would be OK. And that's not the case. People said that to her and it just made her feel more hopeless."
Even with their grief, the Bryks said, they want to talk about Rachel's situation because they want to shed light on all the issues she faced.
"We don't want other people to go through this," Lisa Bryk said. "Even if one person can be helped."
Bryk was a well-known game developer and active in the online community around Dolphin emulator software, which allows users to play Nintendo video games on their computers.
A post on the Dolphin Emulator website said Bryk "spent a considerable amount of time working on what she loved, becoming the tenth most active developer over the time period." The post called her "a face constantly within our community" and added how she regularly took time to help other users.
"She often would do a lot of the drudge work that no one else would do and attempt features that no one else had time to work on," the message said.
While Bryk apparently spent hours online, she was also attacked in Internet communities.
Before her suicide, Bryk wrote that she was targeted by "constant transphobia" in some online forums.
"There's not constant transphobia on reddit any time i post, or someone mentions me, like there is here," she wrote in a post on one forum. "The rest of you don't have to worry though, i'm gonna kill myself soon enough and you won't have to be bothered by me anymore."
An anonymous response encouraged the game developer to end her life.
"DO IT, if you're such a weak willed thin skinned dip---- then f--- do it," the online reply said.
"good riddance," another post said.
In posts on the Ask.fm site, Bryk seemed to attract the concern of some anonymous users on the question and answer site.
"The one thing I don't like about you is how you are so self negative. I have no advice but I really wish I could help," a message to Bryk said.
"I know, but you can't. No one can help me. It is not your fault," the response from her account said.
Two passing motorists saw a woman in her 20's walk from the New York City side, climb over a railing and jump, according to Port Authority police spokesman Joe Pentangelo.
At least one witness shouted to try and stop her, but she plunged into the water, authorities said. Officers recovered a pair of woman's shoes on the walkway.
About eight hours after Bryk jumped from the bridge, a message scheduled to post on her Twitter account announced her suicide.
"Guess i am dead. Killed myself. Sorry," the message said.


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On November 5, in response to President Trump's announcement that he intends to block access to asylum for all vulnerable families who cross between ports of entry and indefinitely detain migrant families, 570 faith leaders and 145 faith-based organizations across traditions delivered a letter to all members of Congress denouncing these proposed illegal policies and expressing unequivocal support for the caravan of people seeking protection from violence in Central America.
"We call on Congress to reverse course and see that the U.S. complies with its own laws and international obligations to welcome those seeking protection," the letter stated.
Read the full letter and see the list of signatories here.
That same day, the leadership of the four organizations that share the Maryknoll name, the Maryknoll Sisters, Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, Maryknoll Lay Missioners, and Maryknoll Affiliates, released a joint statement calling on the leaders of the United States to respond to the needs of the migrants on the caravan "with compassion and dignity worthy of our nation."
As a community of Catholic men and women with a long history in Central America, the leaders of Maryknoll said they feel "profoundly close to these sojourners" and "unequivocally reject President Donald Trump's characterization of the caravan as an 'invasion of our country.'"
On November 8, The Trump administration issued a new rule designed to prohibit migrants who cross the border outside of designated entry points from seeking asylum in the United States. The law is clear, however: people can apply for asylum whether or not they're at a port of entry, and regardless of their immigration status. The measure is almost certain to face legal challenges.
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Why Would an Archives Copy a Film Twice?
Megan McShea
Still from home movies of Paris studio and zoo, between 1934 and 1936. Marion Sanford and Cornelia Chapin papers, 1929-1988. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Today we are celebrating the 2018 UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage by trying to answer this question: Why would archives invest in new copies of films that have already been copied to a useable format? To illustrate this complicated tale, we are pleased to present as a case study the Cornelia Chapin Home Movies, found in the papers of artists Marion Sanford and Cornelia Chapin, and recently preserved with a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF).
When is a copy worth doing over?
For many archives, motion picture film can be a tricky format to make available to the public. Although it is more likely to survive in its original format for much longer than any kind of audio or video tape—if it comes to us in good condition and is stored properly—it cannot be viewed in its original format without risking damage to the film. Like most archives, the Archives of American Art lacks film scanning equipment to safely reformat film in-house, which means we rely on specialized film labs to create digital copies for researchers.
Back in 1991, long before digitization was the standard means of reformatting for obsolete audiovisual recordings and films, the Archives had a selection of its film holdings copied to VHS video to gain access to their content. Although VHS is now itself obsolete, this action allowed for decades of access and use of many of the Archives' films by researchers and staff alike, including the home movies of sculptor Cornelia Chapin (1893–1972).
Chapin, a sculptor active in New York and Connecticut, moved to Paris in 1934 to study the direct carving method with Mateo Hernandez. It would become her specialty, with animals being her main subjects. She was a member of "The Philadelphia Ten," a group of women who enjoyed success as fine artists in the early twentieth century. Her films were shot between 1932 and 1936. One carefully edited film, "Hilltop Happenings, Harpursville, Summer 1932" complete with intertitles, depicts a summer day in the country for Chapin and a group of women artists, including another member of the Ten, sculptor and potter Genevieve Karr Hamlin. Additional films document Chapin sculpting animals from life in a zoo and at work with Hernandez in their Paris studio. The direct carving method documented in these films was an important and innovative technique in its time, and it happened to flourish during the early days of amateur film. However, in doing research for our grant proposal we were not able to find any other period film footage showing artists working this way in an archival repository, confirming the unique value of Chapin's films.
Thanks to the 1991 VHS video copy of the films, researchers have had access to this footage for over twenty-five years. The Archives has also been able to make use of the footage in public programs, such as the 2014 exhibition Artists and their Models, which used clips of Chapin working in her Paris studio with a bear cub model for her sculpture Bear, installed on the grounds of the National Zoo. The VHS copy also allowed the Archives to create a digital video copy from the tape with its in-house video digitization equipment, making it possible to share it with the public on our YouTube channel.
So, why go back to the original when we already had a copy?
The answer is simple: not all copies are created equal. And, perhaps more importantly, in the case of Chapin's home movies the original films were in urgent need of preservation. A 2016 film assessment project revealed that the original film had advanced vinegar syndrome, deterioration so severe that the film had become badly deformed and difficult to handle. We were at risk of losing our chance to capture a better copy from the original film.
Fortunately for the Archives, the NFPF understood that a much better copy of the film could be made, and that time was running out to do so. The preservation grant awarded to the Archives allowed us to have the lab make a film-to-film transfer, creating a new set of prints. Both a set of projection prints and a preservation copy were made. The projection prints not only provided copies that could be projected for the public in their original medium, but these same prints could also be digitized directly, creating dramatically better digital files for sharing than the digital copy of the old VHS tape.
Some stills from the different transfers illustrate this best.
(L) A still from the digital copy of the VHS copy of the original film. (R) The same frame from the new digital copy, made directly from the preserved film in 2018. The detail and range of grays in the new copy is much more complex.
(L) A still from the studio footage, old copy. (R) The same frame from the new copy. Even footage that was shot in low light has exceptional detail in the new, higher quality copy.
(L) A still showing Chapin working at her sculpture cart at the zoo, from the old copy. (R) The same frame in the new copy. Notice the individual pelicans, the folds in their clothing, and the range of grays in the trees and water. Also notice the old copy did not show the full frame, something we did not realize until we had the films preserved. (All stills from Cornelia Chapin's home movies in the Marion Sanford and Cornelia Chapin papers, 1929-1988. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.)
Although archives are in the business of preservation as well as access, most archives do not have the means to copy film themselves, and are in a race against time to preserve vast volumes of magnetic media in their collections, a more dire and voluminous issue. Considering these circumstances, it is reasonable for archives to rely on any existing access copy of films—VHS video or any one of dozens of access copy formats made over the course of many decades as resources permitted and technology changed. It's simply a practical workaround.
The argument here is not for dispensing with these old copies, or to criticize archives who depend on them for access, but to demonstrate how much better the image quality of the original film is compared to these low-resolution copies we've relied on all these years. As archives continue to use old VHS copies, they may be lulled into thinking they are a faithful representation of the original film, but they rarely are. In addition to improved image quality, revisiting the original films allowed us to sequence them properly, and to date them from forensic evidence on the films, creating better description. Not to mention the benefit of having an access copy that shows the full frame of the original footage, something we did not even know we were missing.
For any film, even those whose content may not seem to merit the investment of a film-to-film process, film scanning technology has so improved the quality one can expect from film reformatting that it is worth considering going back to the originals and doing this work over again. As these examples show, a high-quality digital copy made today from an original film will be as different from a legacy analog access copy as the old copy is from the original.
On this World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, the Archives of American Art, and all archival repositories in the United States, are fortunate to have a partner in the National Film Preservation Foundation, which recognizes the unique qualities and vulnerabilities of motion picture film, and provides funding for its preservation. Such resources allow us to make copies of badly deteriorated films, preserving the original's unique material qualities when it matters most. Their support of our work to preserve these treasures has improved the quality of the copies we make available to the public a thousand fold.
This post originally appeared on the Archives of American Art Blog.
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This is the map the City Council chose in dividing the city into voting districts, although slight tweaks were made at the meeting Wednesday.
CHINO >> Faced with a legal challenge from a Malibu law firm, the Chino City Council this week gave tentative approval to divide the city into voting districts.
The council will take final action June 7 to approve a map that will move the city from general at-large elections to by-district voting, starting with the Nov. 8 general election.
Chino and other California cities, including Rancho Cucamonga and Highland, have caught the attention of a Malibu law firm, which claims at-large elections violate the California Voting Rights Act and dilute "the ability of minority residents — particularly Latinos, a 'protected class' — to elect candidates of their choice or otherwise influence the outcome" of council elections.
With this charge of racial polarization, Shenkman & Hughes is demanding the cities draw voting districts or face multimillion-dollar lawsuits. No city legally fighting it has won in court.
Highland litigated the matter after presenting the issue to the residents who voted overwhelmingly against district elections, a system that restricts voters to choosing among candidates in the district where they live rather than voting for all council seats. Although the voters said no, the courts threw out the election results and ordered Highland officials to comply with the Shenkman & Hughes demands.
Council members were more diplomatic in their criticism during the special session on the matter Wednesday night, but residents voiced stronger opinions about a situation that they say could financially cripple the city and undermines the council's authority.
Resident Paul Rodriguez objected to cities being "forced by Nazi judges and Mafia-minded lawyers telling cities what to do. This is not very democratic." He said Chino is a "chain of pearls," where every individual, from the custodian to the mayor, is a vital part of the whole.
But, Rodriguez said, he understood the futility of taking the Malibu firm to court.
Other residents joined Rodriguez in favoring one of seven voting district maps presented by consultant National Demographics Corp. of Glendale, the one referred to as Map 4-1B — and the option city staff liked best. The council selected that map — with some slight tweaks — which would balance ethnicities, placing about 18,000 residents of the city's 85,935 population into each district.
The mayor would still be elected at-large and all residents could vote for the mayoral candidate of their choice.
"We're definitely not crazy about the district situation and think it's unfortunate," Councilman Tom Haughey said. "But our council members have always been concerned about the welfare of the community," so it must act to avoid a lawsuit it can't win.
By-district voting is inevitable, Councilwoman Eunice Ulloa said, but she and her colleagues voiced concerns that future elected officials would appeal to district constituents rather than look at what's best for the entire community.


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Redditor creates an Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 mod
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Every day, modders from all over are working hard into making excellent video game console mods, but there are times when keeping it all simple works better. A Reddit user named "timofiend" made a gaming console mod, putting together an Xbox 360 Slim and an 80 GB PlayStation 3 into one PC case.
"Spent the last month or so working on this, has a new Xbox 360 slim inside, and an 80 gig PS3 (normal one not the slim, as I couldn't afford to buy two new consoles for this project I just used mine)," said user timofiend on the /r/gaming portion of social network/link provider website Reddit.com.
The Redditor is working on releasing the documentation on the mod's building process and is proud to announce that he has not experienced any major issues.
In terms of overheating, timofiend revealed that he did not use liquid cooling devices because it was too expensive. When both consoles are turned on at the same time, the temperature goes around 37 to 38 degrees Celsius (98.6 to 100 degrees Fahrenheit) for the Xbox 360 and 38 to 39 degrees Celsius (100 to 102 degrees Fahrenheit) for the PlayStation 3.
"Fan cooling, the Xbox 360 is using the stock cooler on the machine (on the new slim so the stock fan/heatsink assembly is much better than the original Xbox ones) and the ps3 uses an assembly I made, which is pretty much just a 120mm fan with a shroud redirecting air to flow through the heatsink," he said on a post. "That was the one I was most worried about, and shall be keeping a very close eye on."
This seems like a good idea if you want to have an all-in-one device for games. Maybe timofiend could put in a Wii or a Wii U in there some time in the future.
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The Tel Aviv Family Court ruled today (Monday) that six-year-old Eitan Biran, who lost his family in a cable car crash in Italy, will return to live with his family in Italy. Judge Iris Ilotovich-Segal did not accept the claim of Eitan's grandfather, Shmuel Peleg, who allegedly abducted the child to Israel, because Israel was Eitan's place of residence. The court also ruled that Peleg's claim that the boy's aunt Aya had no custody rights was incorrect. According to the ruling, Peleg violated her custody rights by bringing Eitan to Israel. "The court did not accept the grandfather's claim that Israel was the minor's regular residence, nor the claim that the minor had two regular residences - Israel and Italy. The minor, a six-year-old boy, moved with his ent...
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'The military benefit was not equivalent to the political and image damage [to Israel]' A former Israeli general said on Sunday that Israel's bombing of a building in the Gaza Strip that housed The Associated Press (AP) bureau in May was an "own goal." Maj. Gen. (res.) Nitzan Alon suggested that the incident caused more damage to Israel's image than it provided strategic benefit, The Times of Israel (ToI) reported. "Bringing down the tower with the AP offices was equivalent to a self-inflicted 'public relations terror attack' and an own goal, in our view," he said. Alon, who conducted one of the IDF probes into the May operation, spoke at an Institute for National Security Studies conference. "The military benefit w...
Facebook Whistleblower Haugen: Shareholders Would Replace Zuckerberg If They Could
Facebook's shareholders would look for different leadership than that of its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg if they could, whistleblower Frances Haugen told The Observer over the weekend. "I believe in shareholder rights and the shareholders, or shareholders minus Mark, have been asking for years for one share, one vote," Haugen said. "And the reason for that is, I am pretty sure the shareholders would choose other leadership if they had an option." Haugen said Zuckerberg has failed to show he can protect the public from the negative effects of his company, stressing that "he has all the control. He has no oversight and he has not demonstrated that he is willing to govern that company at the level that is necessary for public safe...
Millions Of Used Gloves Entered US In Medical Fraud Scheme
'Some of them had bloodstains... I couldn't believe my eyes,' a victim of the scheme said While demand for medical supplies skyrockets during the Covid pandemic, so does the potential for fraud, leading to a surge in used counterfeit gloves from Thailand. Tens of millions of used surgical gloves, dyed blue and repackaged as new, found their way into the United States as part of a massive medical equipment fraud scheme, a CNN investigation detailed on Sunday. US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorities received a tip from a businessman who ordered from Thailand-based company Paddy the Room after he discovered the quality of the gloves. Tarek Kirschen ordered a $2 million shipment for distribution in 2020 but was quickly alerted to the scam when his clien...
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Pelosi, Biden Expect $2 Trillion US Spending Bill To Pass
Biden met with a key bill opponent, Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, to negotiate After months of fierce political wrangling, United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday she expects agreement on a huge social spending package and a vote on a cross-party infrastructure bill this week. Asked on CNN's "State of the Union" whether the agreement on the spending package and votes on infrastructure could occur in the coming week, Pelosi replied, "that's the plan." And on the spending package specifically, which has divided progressive and moderate Democrats, she sounded particularly optimistic. "I think we're pretty much there now," she said. "We're almost there. It's just the language of it."
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Biden Delays Release Of JFK Assassination Records, Blames Pandemic
President Joe Biden said that the United States would "unfortunately" not release the public records regarding President John F. Kennedy's assassination because the COVID-19 pandemic has caused delays at the agencies responsible for organizing the records. The decision was signed off by Biden in a memo and released by the White House on Friday. "Temporary continued postponement is necessary to protect against identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or the conduct of foreign relations that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in immediate disclosure," the memo states.
Walmart Recalls Aromatherapy Spray Linked To Rare Bacterial Illness, 2 Deaths
Walmart has recalled an aromatherapy spray after it identified a bacteria in the product that has now been linked to four illnesses and two deaths. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday that it had identified the bacteria Burkholderia pseudomallei in the aromatherapy spray. The spray, "Better Homes & Gardens Lavender & Chamomile Essential Oil Infused Aromatherapy Room Spray with Gemstones," was found Oct. 6 in the home of a Georgia resident who became ill with melioidosis in late July, according to the CDC. The CDC said it will continue to test the bacteria in the bottle to potentially match the bacteria identified in the four patients. The symptoms of melioidosis are similar to that of a cold or flu, according to the CDC.
Report: Israel, Hamas Reach Understandings On Prisoner Exchange
Positive developments unexpectedly occurred in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian organization Hamas, sources revealed on Friday, towards reaching a prisoner exchange agreement. Sources told Rai al-Youm, an Arab world digital news website, that Egypt has "accomplished many points related to the prisoner swap deal, which may be announced within a few weeks," The Jerusalem Post (The Post) reported. The sources disclosed that there are "official and clear guarantees from Hamas and Israel that comply with the broad outlines of the deal." "There are understandings on many points, and Cairo has completed more than 70% of the deal," they added. "The rest may be related to the details of time, place, guarantees, and other lo...
State Dept Admits Biden Admin Lied About Number Of Americans Left In Afghanistan
The State Department on Friday conceded that there are significantly more Americans in Afghanistan than previously estimated — leading to Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and other Republicans to accuse the administration of a "betrayal" of Americans abroad. State Department officials briefed congressional staff this week and told them that it is in touch with 363 Americans in Afghanistan and nearly 176 legal permanent residents, a congressional source who was on the call told Fox News. That 363 number is significantly higher than previous estimates by the Biden administration, which had put the number at around 100 in September — and is only the number with whom the State Dept. is in contact.
Catalytic Converter Theft Quadruples In One Year
These criminals better not let the tree-huggers catch them. Sawzall-wielding thieves hacking away at parked cars sent thefts of a key pollution-cleaning part through the roof in the past year. Through Oct. 10, 2,170 catalytic converters were reported stolen in the five boroughs, more than four times the 501 ripped off through the same date in 2020, the NYPD said. "The whole process takes under two minutes," Detective Thomas Kelly of the Auto Crimes Unit told The Post. Catalytic converters, part of a car's exhaust system, break down some of the smog that would otherwise come out the tailpipe.
Biden Spending More Time Away From White House Than Predecessors
President Joe Biden decamped to Wilmington on Friday, escaping the White House he's likened to a "gilded cage" for a weekend at his Delaware home. It's yet another weekend away from Washington as the President has spent a noteworthy portion of his first year in office at one of his two Delaware homes or at Camp David, working remotely. A CNN analysis of Biden's public schedule indicates the President has spent a significant amount of time away from the White House, particularly on weekends, since his January inauguration. Including this weekend's trip to Delaware, Biden has taken 35 personal trips and spent all or part of 108 of his first 276 days in office at one of his Delaware homes or at Camp David in Maryland. That...
IDF's 1st Fallen Paratrooper To Be Buried In Israel, 73 Years After His Death
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Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer grilled Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) Sunday morning over the potential government shutdown as a result of the GOP effort to defund ObamaCare, asking Paul if the bigger problem wasn't the Democrats fighting the GOP's wishes, but the infighting amongst the Republican Party.
"I am old enough to remember when Barry Goldwater ran for president in 1964, and he said 'I would rather be right than president,'" Schieffer said. "He got his wish; he lost in a landslide. Aren't you and the other tea party leaders leading the Republican Party to the same fate?"
"Once things are passed, doesn't mean they are set in stone and no future Congress will look at them," Paul said. "Historically, Bob, the way it worked is if the House is Republican and passed something and the Senate was Democrat and passed something you had a conference committee, equal number of Republicans and Democrats, and you hashed out your differences. Why don't we have a conference committee on this? You could appoint one today, they could meet tomorrow, and hash out the differences. That is the way it is supposed to work. Republicans and Democrats are supposed to find a middle ground. But right now the president is saying my way or the highway."
"But, you know, Senator, with all due respect, it is a little more complicated than that," Schieffer said, "because you have got not just Republicans versus Democrats, you have got Republicans versus Republicans. You have got Senate Republicans versus House Republicans. You have got Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who is advising House Republicans to go against their own leadership in the House. So it is going to take more than a conference committee. I mean, you would have to set up 15 or 20 committees to try to resolve all of the controversies that are going on right now."
"Well, I didn't say it was going to be easy," Paul said.
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It is reported that Zuckerberg was given a pre-tax allowance of $10 million last year to take care of the additional cost incurred on providing security to him and his family, including safety personnel, equipment and services. He was also provided a private aircraft for his use, again to keep him safe, which cost nearly $2.6 million.
The Company's COO, Sheryl Sandberg, whose base salary in 2018 was $850,000, was also paid an additional sum of about $1.1 million for security.
Last year saw the social-media platform dealing with one controversy after another. It had admitted to inappropriate sharing of user data with Cambridge Analytica, which may have used the same to influence voters in 2016. Zuckerberg even had to appear before the Congress in a hearing, which was far from calm, wherein Facebook's manner of ensuring user privacy was questioned and discussed.
Facebook was also criticised for letting infamous conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones, use the site. Following the spread of incorrect and hateful posts by Jones, the social-media platform banned his content. This action was also objected to by some who thought it was unfair.
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And here we are again, in this time of the year when it's too cold to enjoy the spring and too late to enjoy the winter. But how does March present in music and events scene? Let Melting Vinyl tell you how it looks from our point of view!
From of all late Happy International Women's Day everyone and not so late Happy International Women's History month! We at Melting Vinyl have "women's day" most of the days in the year, having our office and shows constantly filled up with amazing ladies. For this occasion, we prepared a Spotify playlist including some of the female artists we've booked in the past, and those from upcoming shows as well. Please enjoy the playlist below.
This time of the year is also good to bring up some news and facts about females in the music industry. Remember how in 2017 we had 45 UK festivals pledge to achieve 50-50 gender balance by 2020? A BBC News (2018) analysis of 756 acts advertised on the posters of nine biggest UK festivals found 77% were all male. Just 13% of acts advertised on posters online were all female – that's 97 bands, singers and DJs – and another six bands were majority female. Overall, less than a quarter of festivals' biggest acts featured any women at all. We are proud to say that in the past three years of Lewes Psych Fest organized by Melting Vinyl, over 48% of the artists featured women in their line-up, that including headlining acts as well.
Last but not least, a kindly reminder to all us listeners, but music promoters as well – "Female Fronted in NOT a Genre!". Female-fronted: a term used to lump together disparate bands based on the presence of a female vocalist or front person. Male-fronted: a term rarely – if ever – used, because male musicians are seen as the default. The use of the term "female-fronted" has become just as controversial in music as other more overtly sexist outlooks and behaviours, such as believing women don't have a place on stage with the guys or the isolation of those who are not white straight cisgender men. The majority of female musicians constantly deal with sexism in the scene, including being tokenised, excluded, and seen as not good enough to play alongside their male counterparts (New Noise, 2018). We are lucky enough to live in a town full of female safe spaces and female shows, but let's all remember most important – to support artists because they are great musicians, not because of their gender. After all, I think we can all agree that separation only leads to separation, not equality.


Hey Adam, why did you make this board?
Ok, many of you know I recently "left" a board I had been a member of for nearly five years. There was a time where I was frustrated, angry, annoyed, and upset over issues that happened there. That said, they made every effort to reconcile with me and I appreciate them for doing so! My negative feelings are gone and I still maintain a membership there. Many of the smartest people I know post there and I learned so much solid theology and doctrine as a member as well! May God richly bless them always.
So why did I create this place?
Well, I wanted a board that was a lot less "stringent". A board that had a wider audience. A board where the confessions are respected and even followed but still a place where one did not have to completely submit to every aspect of the confessions at this point in their life/Christian walk.
I wanted a board where we can try and teach those who don't even know of the confessions about them and why we hold them in esteem. A board where Sundays are set aside to worship God but it's also ok to watch a football game or rake your front yard.
Many of us will be "like minded" here on most issues and we will seek to bring any who are not our direction, but we will not cast you out until you've arrived.
That's why I made this board and for no other reasons. Feel free to join knowing I have no animosity toward any person or website/message forum. I simply seek to make something more suited to where I am theologically.
Re: Hey Adam, why did you make this board?
I think that the internet is big enough for a variety of forums.
Thanks Kevin, I hope all are that understanding and believe the reasons I've stated her. I've actually been thinking of this for over a year now.
What about the Reformation Superhighway?
On a seperate note, this thing doesn't seem to be attaching my signature.
I'll admit to still being dispy. Mostly because that's how I was raised and I have not studied the subject yet. (dont start trying to convert me yet...I have two more books I want to finish before I tackle the subject).
I'll pray for the salvation of all of you who watch American Idol!
My signature does not attach either, despite clicking the box below that says "Attach signature".
I'm glad to hear that you are harboring no malice Adam. Some things on other boards tend to frustrate me as well.
Don't get me wrong, I'm in essential agreement with most of the confessions of "classical Protestantism" with little exceptions here and there. I see that they are very useful. However, confessions are not the Scriptures. Even the confessions themselves attest to this fact. So frankly, for one to be "confessional" one must put the Scripture first and if the confession differs we should take the word of Scripture over the words of the confessions.
Hope this board does well my friend.
MrMerlin777 wrote: I'm glad to hear that you are harboring no malice Adam. Some things on other boards tend to frustrate me as well.
Where is the "Thank" button around here?
I'll look into the signature thing guys. Not sure about "thanks" being available.
Try using your signatures now.
Regarding the Reformation Superhighway...I find it more restrictive than 'other' boards. Not so much in rules, but if there are certain things you don't believe...well, you know.
Ivan wrote: Regarding the Reformation Superhighway...I find it more restrictive than 'other' boards. Not so much in rules, but if there are certain things you don't believe...well, you know.
Can't say I've noticed that and I post regularly over there.
spokenfor wrote: I'll pray for the salvation of all of you who watch American Idol!
It's why I left. It was intolerable. Perhaps things have changed. I left well over a year ago.
You might want to drop in again to "test the water". I've found the place pretty well rounded frankly.
Those who were unhappy with that forum for doctrinal reasons likely won't find any reason to change their minds about it now.
Therefore I'd probably not change my mind. Let's just leave it at that.


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A Marxist Defense of the LA Rebellion
Important lessons 30 years later
By Sam Marcy posted on May 6, 2022
The following excerpts derive from a pamphlet written by Sam Marcy, the late Chairperson of Workers World Party.
The 1992 rebellion in Los Angeles was touched off by the racist verdict in the Rodney King beating case, but it elicited sympathy and participation from other oppressed communities. Sixty-three people, the majority Black and Latinx, died.
The entire pamphlet may be downloaded at workers.org/book/a-marxist-defense-of-the-l-a-rebellion/
Marxism and insurrection
The brutal suppression of the Los Angeles insurrection offers a classic example of the relationship of bourgeois democracy to the capitalist state. All this has to be seen in light of the repressive forces amassed by the city, state and federal government: 8,000 police, 9,800 National Guard troops, 1,400 Marines, 1,800 Army soldiers and 1,000 federal marshals. (Associated Press, May 5)
Bourgeois sociology must leave out of consideration the fact that society is divided into exploiter and exploited, oppressors of nationalities and oppressed. The basis for both the exploitation and oppression is the ownership of the means of production by an ever-diminishing group of the population that controls the vital arteries of contemporary society. They are the bourgeoisie, the ruling class.
At the other end of the axis is the proletariat of all nationalities, the producer of all the fabulous wealth. Material wealth has been vastly increasing along with the masses' productivity of labor. But only 1% of the population amasses the lion's share of what the workers produce, while a greater and greater mass is impoverished.
Flattering 'the people'
Occupied South Central Los Angeles, 1992.
No amount of praise, no amount of flattery, can substitute for a clear-cut delineation of the class divisions that perpetually rend society apart.
To the bourgeois social scientists, the masses are the object of history. Marxist theory, on the other hand, demonstrates that the masses are the subject of history. Where they are the objects of history, they are manipulated as raw material to suit the aims of ruling-class exploitation. They become the subject of history only when they rise to the surface in mass revolutionary action.
Their rising, as in Los Angeles, is what Karl Marx called the locomotive of history. Their revolutionary struggle accelerates history, bringing to the fore the real character of the mass movement.
One cannot apply Marxism to any meaningful extent without first recognizing the existence of national oppression — the oppression of a whole people by capitalist imperialism. This is one of the most characteristic features of the present world reality.
This concept above all others must be kept foremost, if we hope to understand what has happened in Los Angeles and in other major cities of this country.
What is the state? What is democracy?
The insurrection and the way it is being suppressed closely follow the exposition by Frederick Engels in his book "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State" and later brought up to date by Lenin in "State and Revolution."
Bourgeois sociologists and scholars, and above all capitalist politicians, always confound the relationship between the two. They often treat them as a single phenomenon. In reality, the relation between democracy and the state is based on an inner struggle — between form and essence.
The state can take on many different forms. A state can have the form of a bourgeois democracy; it can be a monarchy; it may be ruled by a military junta. And in modern society, on the very edge of the 21st century, it may have a totalitarian or fascist form.
Whatever its form, its essence is determined by which class is dominant economically and consequently also dominant politically. In contemporary society, this means the rule of the imperialist bourgeoisie over the proletariat and the oppressed nationalities.
The bourgeoisie cannot maintain its class rule by relying solely on one particular form of the state. Under such circumstances, should there be an imperialist war or a deep capitalist crisis that leads to ferment among the masses, the bourgeois state would be vulnerable to revolutionary overthrow.
But the state is not just the officialdom — who presume to govern in the interest of all the people. The state in its essential characteristics is the organization, to quote Engels, of a "special public force" that consists not merely of armed men and women but of material appendages, prisons and repressive institutions of all kinds.
Most noteworthy are the prisons calculated to break the spirit of millions of the most oppressed, while pretending to have some mock forms of rehabilitation. All the most modern means — mental and physical — are used to demoralize and deprave the character of those incarcerated. These repressive institutions, this public force, appear so omnipotent against the unarmed mass of the oppressed and exploited. But it stands out as the very epitome of gentility and humaneness when it comes to incarcerating favored individuals, especially the very rich, who have transgressed the norms of capitalist law.
In general then, the Los Angeles insurrection shows that democracy is a veil that hides the repressive character of the capitalist state. The state at all times is the state of the dominant class. And the objective of the special bodies of armed men and women is to secure, safeguard and uphold the domination of the bourgeoisie.
Engels explained that in the course of development of capitalist society, as the class antagonisms grow sharper, the state — that is, the public force — grows stronger.
The sharpening of class and national antagonisms had even then resulted in larger and larger appropriations for civilian and military personnel employed for the sole purpose of suppressing the civil population at home and waging adventurist imperialist wars abroad. The state grows in proportion as class and national antagonisms develop. Democracy is merely a form which hides the predatory class character of the bourgeois state. Nothing so much proves this as the steady and consistent growth of militarism and the police forces in times of peace as well as war.
The ruling class continually cultivates racism to keep the working class divided in order to maintain its domination. This is as true at home as it is abroad. The forces of racism and national oppression have been deliberately stimulated by Pentagon and State Department policies all across the globe.
Marxism on violence
After every stage in the struggle of the workers and oppressed people, there follows an ideological struggle over what methods the masses should embrace to achieve their liberation from imperialist monopoly capital. There are always those who abjure violence while minimizing the initial use of violence by the ruling class. They denounce it in words, while in deeds they really cover it up.
Yes indeed, they readily admit the verdict in the Rodney King beating was erroneous and unfair. But — and here their voices grow louder — "The masses should not have taken to the streets and taken matters into their own hands." Their denunciation of the violence of the ruling class is subdued and muffled — above all it is hypocritical, a sheer formality. It's an indecent way of seeming to take both sides of the argument, when what follows is in reality a condemnation of the masses.
In times when the bourgeoisie is up against the wall, when the masses have risen suddenly and unexpectedly, the bourgeoisie gets most lyrical in abjuring violence. It conjures up all sorts of lies and deceits about the unruliness of a few among the masses as against the orderly law-abiding many.
The Marxist view of violence flows from an altogether different concept. It first of all distinguishes between the violence of the oppressors as against the responsive violence of the masses. Just to be able to formulate it that way is a giant step forward, away from disgusting bourgeois praise for nonviolence. It never occurs to any of them to show that the masses have never made any real leap forward with the theory of nonviolence. Timidity never made it in history.
Indeed, Marxists do prefer nonviolent methods if the objectives the masses seek — freedom from oppression and exploitation — can be obtained that way. But Marxism explains the historical evolution of the class struggle, as well as the struggle of oppressed nations as against oppressors.
As Marx put it, "force is the midwife to every great revolution."
None of the great revolutions has ever occurred without being accompanied by force and violence. And it is always the oppressor — the ruling class and the oppressing nationality — that is most congenitally prone to use force as soon as the masses raise their heads. Does not the bourgeoisie, once it has tamed the proletariat at home, use force and violence through its vast military armada to more efficiently exploit and suppress the many underdeveloped nations throughout the world?
While it might seem that in Los Angeles national oppression alone is involved, in reality it derives from the class exploitation of the African American masses dating back to the days of enslavement.
Fewer workers, more cops
How interesting that technology everywhere displaces labor, reducing the number of personnel.
The truth is that the development of higher and more sophisticated technology under capitalism doesn't contribute to the welfare of the masses but, on the contrary, throws them into greater misery.
What has been the general trend? The growth of technology, particularly sophisticated high technology, has reduced the number of workers employed in industry as well as in the services. The introduction of laborsaving devices and methods has dramatically reduced the number of workers in all fields.
But the opposite trend prevails in the police forces. This is an absolutely incontestable fact.
At one time the police patrolled the streets on foot. Maybe they used a public telephone for communications with headquarters. Today they are equipped with sophisticated gear. They ride either on motorcycles or in police cars or helicopters. They communicate by radio.
All this should reduce the number of police. But the trend is quite the contrary: to increase the forces of repression. This is not geared to productivity as in industry. Their growth is geared to the growth of national antagonisms, the growth of racism and the bourgeoisie's general antilabor offensive.
In Los Angeles, the bourgeoisie is forced to bring in federal troops to assist city and state authorities. The social composition of the Army is not just a cross section of capitalist society. The Army and Marines, especially the infantry, have a preponderance of Black and Latinx soldiers.
In Los Angeles the local police and state forces were inadequate. Only because the masses were unarmed was the bourgeoisie able to suppress what was in truth an insurrection — a revolutionary uprising.
Spontaneity and consciousness
As Marx would put it, such a rising is a festival of the masses. The incidental harm is far outweighed by the fact that it raises the level of the struggle to a higher plateau. The wounds inflicted by the gendarmerie will be healed. The lessons will be learned: that a spontaneous uprising has to be supported with whatever means are available; that a great divide exists between the leaders and the masses.
No viable class or nation in modern capitalist society can hope to take destiny in its own hands by spontaneous struggles alone. Spontaneity as an element of social struggle must beget its own opposite: leadership and organization. Consciousness of this will inevitably grow.
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