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"A Fruitful Life"
It's been a hard day, and seeking solace, turned to prayer. I pulled this book off my shelf because the title — Light and Peace — spoke to me. It's a collection of prayers by Charles Hall Leonard, published by the Murray Press, a Universalist publisher, in 1915.
Leonard (1822-1918) was an outsized figure in Universalist history, was a professor and later dean of the theological school at Tufts, and remembered today I'd guess for creating Children's Sunday, though readers of this blog may be more interested to know that he was the unacknowledged author of A Book of Prayer for the Church and the Home, or what I call usually "the Universalist prayerbook."
Elmer Hewitt Capen
One prayer "in memory E. H. C." bears repeating here. That was the thirty-years' Tufts president and Universalist minister Elmer Hewitt Capen, who died in office in 1905.
Prayers for deceased ministers have a special place in my heart, and particularly as Terry Burke, the long-time and much-loved minister of First Parish in Jamaica Plain was laid to rest today, and with whom some day we shall each share glory.
O God, our heavenly Father: To whom can we go, but to Thee, who art our strength in weakness, our light in darkness, and our comfort in sorrow? To-day, we know not how to speak to each other, nor how to interpret to ourselves. We turn to Thee, and, first of all, beseech Thee to awaken within us the memory of all that has been precious in the life of our great friend and leader: his wise devotion to the college into which he built his life; his intelligent administration of its affairs in a manifold range of usefulness bearing upon its progress and growing facilities, and in that loving care and interest which reached the endeavor and the struggle of the humblest student. Help us to recall the calmness of his thought, his unselfish regard for others, his generous approval of all that is right and good, and his Christ-like pity and forgiveness toward all the weak and sinful. We remember the words, spoken in private and in public, which move us to-day with new power, because of this mystic silence.
We desire also to remember all that he was and is, and will be to us, as a part of permanent influence in all the relations which distinguished his life: in the privacy of his home, in the maintenance of a loyal service to the church, in all his efforts as an educator, and in the ampler calls of citizenship.
Help us, O God, in our sense of gratitude for all that this full life has been to us now that we read it anew, know anew its noble witness to learning, to charity, to religion, and get its larger message as from open skies.
Goddard Chapel at Tufts
We bow down before Thee, with whom are the issues of life and of death. Help us all to that acquiescence in grief, which, year by year, has been taught from this place, and, above all, breathed in the prayers that here have daily been put up in our behalf. Help these sorrowing teachers who waited for his step, were cheered, day by day, by the denials he so patiently took up, and were inspired more and more by his confident sympathy. We remember before Thee those who, in great procession along the productive years, moved through these halls, and bore hence the mark of the man they had learned to know, to honor and to love. And grant Thy especial favor to the students, in all ranks, and in all places, here and there, who are now enrolled as members of the college. Have regard unto their sad and questioning hours; and give joy to them also, that they came to know so well the man and president who greeted their coming at first.
And now, what wait we for but for grace and power, both for mind and heart; new motive in view of a great example; new ability to take up the tasks which a great leader has laid down; and new light, also, for comfort to those whose sorrow to-day is deepest, that there may be to them one fixed and tranquil object of thought and affection; and help us all to see that it is no fractional life that we are called to contemplate, but a life, forecast and fashioned in accomplishment, opening more and more into its own power and beauty, and, at the last, opening forth towards the realities of a world from which all veils were taken away. O God, most merciful and gracious, open our eyes to that grateful vision, that so we may be enabled to go on, to bear up, and to find our highest joy and peace in the field of duty to which now Thou dost send us back, and in the entrusted daily care to which Thou hast appointed us. Grant that, from the trembling moments of our human life, and from the mourner's watch, we may go forth with uplifted heart, and a diviner purpose, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
Author Scott WellsPosted on Wednesday, 19 August 2015 Categories Memorial, Ministers, Pastoral liturgy, Prayer, Universalist historyLeave a comment on "A Fruitful Life"
The Lord's Prayer in Esperanto
I'm at that point in my Esperanto education that I had better move the next level or accept being left as an eterna komencanto: an "eternal beginner." That's not bad (article in English) per se, but I would like to attend conferences — organized, if off-beat, travel (esperante) is one of Esperanto culture's big pay offs — and I'm hardly going to do well, if I can't make dinner plans effectively. Some of the conferences are for and by Christians, (esperante) and they're appealing and (once you fly to Europe) cheap. So I figure I'd better memorize the Lord's Prayer.
Patro nia, kiu estas en la ĉielo,
sanktigata estu Via nomo.
Venu Via regno.
Fariĝu Via volo
kiel en la ĉielo, tiel ankaŭ sur la tero.
Nian panon ĉiutagan donu al ni hodiaŭ.
Kaj pardonu al ni niajn ŝuldojn,
kiel ankaŭ ni pardonas al nian ŝuldantojn.
Kaj ne konduku nin en tenton,
sed liberigu nin de la malbono.
Ĉar Via estas la regno
kaj la potenco
kaj la gloro eterne.
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"This week we pray for…"
You may have noticed that there's a widget on the right-hand column called "This week we pray for" that has a date, a list of nations and a picture. This links to a prayer resource from the World Council of Churches, focusing on a different region of the world each year.
Each resource page features a photo, thanksgiving and petitions, prayers, links to information about the churches in those countries, and sometimes other resources. The idea is to stimulate intentional prayer for the people of the world.
To get the code to share on your site, go to
http://www.oikoumene.org/en/resources/prayer-cycle/share.
Author Scott WellsPosted on Monday, 29 December 2014 Sunday, 28 December 2014 Categories Christian Church, Prayer1 Comment on "This week we pray for…"
Normal thanks
So, Daisy the Dog greeted me this evening with a tap-dance show, like normal.
I had to help her on to the bed, but then she enjoyed Hop on Pop and Pillow Burrowing, like normal.
And she whimpered for (and ate) her usual food, like normal.
For these normal things, Lord, I am truly thankful.
Author Scott WellsPosted on Tuesday, 28 October 2014 Categories Prayer1 Comment on Normal thanks
Micro-alterations in liturgy
One of the principles I brought into my morning and evening prayer practice is that I would read the prayers as printed until became accustomed to them. I would borrow their voice and let it become mine as I learned the internal logic of the services. I refused to be trapped by my own sensibility: a sensibility evoked with the joke about Unitarian Universalists reading ahead to see if they agree with the words of a hymn. Being a Unitarian Universalist is, too often, questing after fixing things whether they need fixing or not.
So I took time to listen. Now that I have a sense of this voice and rhythm, I've begun to make alterations. Very small one. (I'll write about a replacement soon.) These are the micro-alterations that a person or congregation, familiar with a liturgical text, will make, possibly without planning and likely without notice. An appeal less to change, but a flexibility that keeps the prayer from drawing too much attention to itself.
Small changes to gendered language. "All men" become "all." Or "men" become "people." Matriarchs join patriarchs. But I leave the "he" pronouns for God. Changing them would pull me too far out of prayer; instead, I pronounce these pronouns softly — more like"ee" — and keep going.
Pacing some items — less timely, less resonant prayers, say — faster than others. You can always slow down when they're needed.
Inserting petitions into collects. That's a blog post of its own.
Stopping, and sometimes repeating, a prayer.
Author Scott WellsPosted on Wednesday, 20 August 2014 Tuesday, 5 August 2014 Categories Daily prayer, PrayerLeave a comment on Micro-alterations in liturgy
Daily prayer: "I will pray for you" (and mean it)
"I will pray for you" and its secularized version "I'm thinking of you" are still lively expressions of concern, and often deeply valued by the person thought of or prayed for. Friends have approached me, asking for prayer, only last week.
"Of course," I said. And I mean it, and I have a plan to fulfil that request. I will pray for you.
There's a technique to adding petitions to collects. To review, collects (accent on the first syllable) are a variety of prayer with a particular structure, and they are typically prayed in a set series, with special collects added for particular occasions. In the morning and evening prayer the Universalists historically used, the collects come at the end. The collect "for all Conditions of Men" is a good place to add petitions, so I'll show it as printed, and then as I pray it. Prayers for clergy and congregations (I always pray for my ministers and church, for what it's worth), for this and other nations, for special occasions, and my blessings in this life come in other places.
As printed:
O God, the Creator and Preserver of all mankind, we humbly beseech thee for all sorts and conditions of men; that thou wouldest be pleased to make thy ways known unto them, thy saving health unto all nations. More especially we pray for the good estate of the Church Universal; that it may be so guided and governed by thy good Spirit, that all who profess and call themselves Christians may be led into the way of truth, and hold the faith in unity of spirit, in the bond of peace, and in righteousness of life. Finally, we commend to thy fatherly goodness all those who are any ways afflicted or distressed, in mind, body, or estate; that it may please thee to comfort and relieve them according to their several necessities, giving them patience under their sufferings, and a happy issue out of all their afflictions. And this we beg for thy mercy's sake in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
How I pray it today:
O God, the Creator and Preserver of all mankind, we humbly beseech thee for all sorts and conditions of men; that thou wouldest be pleased to make thy ways known unto them, thy saving health unto all nations. More especially we pray for the good estate of the Church Universal; and in particular the churches in Iraq, that it may be so guided and governed by thy good Spirit, that all who profess and call themselves Christians may be led into the way of truth, and hold the faith in unity of spirit, in the bond of peace, and in righteousness of life. Finally, we commend to thy fatherly goodness all those who are any ways afflicted or distressed, in mind, body, or estate; particularly Anna, Bailey and Carter; the refugees in Syria and Gaza; and people suffering with bulimia that it may please thee to comfort and relieve them according to their several necessities, giving them patience under their sufferings, and a happy issue out of all their afflictions. And this we beg for thy mercy's sake in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
The semicolons are your friends. Added petitions seem to fit there naturally, or at the end of sentences. I'll later share some resources about finding additional, particular ("proper") collects.
Author Scott WellsPosted on Sunday, 3 August 2014 Saturday, 2 August 2014 Categories Daily prayer, Prayer2 Comments on Daily prayer: "I will pray for you" (and mean it)
Evening prayer alterations: Prayer for the President
Twice a day now, I pray for the President of the United States and others "in civil authority" as part of my morning and evening prayer practice. It is not only a hallowed practice, but one that gets its warrant in the same breath as a testimony made for universal salvation, namely 1 Timothy 2:1-4:
I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
(Reading on in the same chapter, I'm not so fond about the part about women teaching; the author of this letter makes a hash out of his Genesis prooftext, too. I digress.)
But the prayer appointed in the evening is increasingly problematic. I've given a good try, but I need to find a replacement. It reads:
Almighty God, whose kingdom is everlasting and power infinite; Have mercy upon this whole land; and so rule the hearts of thy servants, The President of the United States, The Governor of this State, and all others in authority, that they, knowing whose ministers they are, may above all things seek thine honor and glory; and that we and all the people, duly considering whose authority they bear, may faithfully and obediently honor them, in thee and for thee, according to thy blessed Word and Ordinance; through Jesus Christ our Lord who, with thee and the Holy Ghost, liveth and reigneth, world without end. Amen.
Close versions of this prayer have been in use in the United States in a number of different prayer books for two hundred years. Also, if you were saying Evening Prayer among traditionalists in the Church of England, you would note it is in the place of the state prayers (particularly "Prayer for the Queen's Majesty"). Which is by way of saying this prayer bears more of the markings of a prayer for a Christian ruler than a prayer Christians would make for their elected leaders in a secular democracy. And while the author to Timothy had no imagining of our modern democracy, neither were the powers prayed-for either Christian or particularly sympathetic, so the tone of this prayer seems unnecessarily deferential.
Author Scott WellsPosted on Monday, 28 July 2014 Wednesday, 23 July 2014 Categories Daily prayer, PrayerLeave a comment on Evening prayer alterations: Prayer for the President
An unexpected source of Universalist prayers
The Optimist's Good Morning is a book of prayers and written selections, published by Little, Brown in 1907 but it's also a Universalist Publishing House title, and so not-surprisingly full of Universalist authors (and a few who aren't, like Confucius.)
Florence Hobart Perin, the compiler, was herself a Universalist leader, and presumably the same Florence Hobart who was the clerk of the old Boston Association in the late 1890s.
George L. Perin (link to picture), is the most cited author, was something of a denominational celebrity and former missionaries to Japan. (I've had a devilish time connecting Florence and George.) You might recognize some of the other names in it, like Quillen Shinn, Henry Nehemiah Dodge, Mary Livermore, Charles R. Tenney, Edwin C. Sweetser, Frederick A. Bisbee, Frederic Perkins and Wilburn D. Potter.
It speaks to an upbeat kind of Universalism that I've seen little written about, but for which each of these Perins were long-time proponents, if the print record is correct.
Author Scott WellsPosted on Thursday, 24 July 2014 Thursday, 24 July 2014 Categories Prayer, UniversalismLeave a comment on An unexpected source of Universalist prayers
A Universalist witness to the Armenian genocide
The Armenian genocide began in 1915, so in anticipation of the centennial, I'm reprinting this witness — towards the end of the genocide — from the April 15, 1922 issue of the Universalist Leader. (I'm not sure what else to call it but "witness," and the people of 1921 don't have the language we do to describe atrocities.)
This is a powerful prayer: learn from it. The references to orphanages demand research. There was a Sunday School fundraiser for a "Near East Appeal" and at least three congregations survive that gave then. Thanks and praise to the parishes in (West) Hartford, Connecticut; Franklin, Massachusetts; and Haverhill, Massachusetts.
There are other witnesses, and I will lift them up as I find them.
But was this a remote act of sympathy? Perhaps not so remote. If you are in Providence this General Assembly, be sure to tour First Universalist Church. It's quite near the convention center and the minister — Scott Axford — is a friend; he plans on giving tours then. He once gave me a tour and pointed out the typically Armenian names on a memorial plaque, pointing to a lost and little-known Armenian chapter in our history.
A PRAYER FOR ARMENIA
Thou wast slain and hast redeemed us by Thy blood and made us unto our God kings and priests. (Rev. 5: 9-10). Having therefore boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus… Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith. (Heb. 10: 19-22.)
ALMIGHTY God who by Thy grace hast not only called us out of darkness into light but hast called us into the Blessed Service of Intercession, we come to Thee with accord on behalf of the people of Armenia. We pray that Thou Thyself wilt undertake their cause, and with great might succor them. We remember the many thousands who, rather than deny Thy Name, have suffered torture and death, and we give Thee thanks for all who have by Thy grace endured and are now in Thy presence, and we ask Thee, for those who remain in the fiery trial of their prolonged agony, to stand by them and strengthen them and grant them a clearer vision of Thee and deliverance from their sufferings. Send them what they need for their material wants–protect the fatherless and widows–remember the orphans still without home or shelter.
Bless the children in the orphanages whom Thou hast committed to our care and those who are giving their lives to help and save them. We thank Thee for all Thy servants laboring for Thee, who have been true to Thy name. Strengthen and bless all by whatever name they are called, who contribute of their substance to feed the hungry and to provide shelter and care for the sick and the helpless.
Give wisdom to all who are seeking to help the Armenians in any way, whether spiritually, politically or materially, give courage and a spirit of responsibility to our statesmen, deliver our country and all who are called Christian from blood-guiltiness, through apathy or fear. Bless all who are serving Thee, and may all our service be lifted on to a higher plane of selflessness and sacrifice through the power of the Holy Spirit of him who came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and give his life a ransom for many. In whose Name and through whose merits we offer our prayer and praises, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
(Adapted from the Armenian Liturgy.)
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Holy and eternal Spirit, source of life and light…
Holy and eternal Spirit, source of life and light, thou art our helper in every need, thou fulfillest all our joy. Be thou this day the present help of all who turn to thee, here and everywhere, whether hurt or ashamed, whether sick or disheartened. And when we are strong, be thou a light beyond our present thoughts and pleasures, to guide us into ways of larger right and nobler blessedness. Amen.
Von Ogden Vogt
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Prionailurus bengalensis, conhecido como gato-leopardo ou  leopardo-asiático, é um pequeno gato selvagem do Sudeste Asiático e Subcontinente Indiano. Há onze subespécies de gato-leopardo, classificadas por suas distribuições geográficas mais largas. O nome gato-leopardo é devido às manchas prevalentes em todas as subespécies, semelhantes às do leopardo, mas a relação dessa espécie com o leopardo é distante, dado que o leopardo pertence a um gênero diferente, Panthera.Este felino é também conhecido como leopardo-asiático. Este nome provavelmente é resultado da tradução parcial do inglês de asian leopard cat, quando se acrescentou "asian" para não se confundir com o gênero Leopardus do qual a jaguatirica e outros felinos da América do Sul pertencem. Note, porém, que esta espécie tampouco pertence ao gẽnero Leopardus, sendo um parente distante.

Distribuição
Possui uma grande distribuição geográfica. Ele pode ser encontrado em florestas através da Indonésia, Filipinas, Bornéu, Malasia, Tailândia, Myanmar, Laos, Camboja, China e Taiwan. O felino também pode ser encontrado na Coreia, Índia e Paquistão. Seus habitats são variados, e incluem florestas tropicais, matagais, florestas de coníferas, bosques reflorestados, regiões semiáridas e áreas de agricultura, especialmente próximo de fontes de água; também podem ser encontrados em altitudes até 3000 m.

Características físicas
Na média, o gato-leopardo é do tamanho de um gato doméstico, mas há variações regionais consideráveis: na Indonésia, o tamanho médio é de 45 cm, com uma cauda de 20 cm, enquanto a média no sul de Amur é de 60 cm de corpo e 40 cm de cauda. A altura do ombro é de cerca de 41 cm e o peso oscila entre 4,5 kg e 6,8 kg, valores similares aos do gato doméstico. A cor do pêlo também varia: é amarela nas populações mais ao sul, e cinza ou prateada nas populações do norte. O peito e a parte inferior da cabeça são brancos. A pelagem do gato-leopardo é pintada de preto, seja com manchas pontuais ou listras, dependendo da subespécie. Suas ninhadas têm de dois a quatro filhotes, e o período de gestação pode varia entre sessenta e setenta dias.

Hábitat e comportamento
O gato-leopardo é um hábil escalador de árvores. Também consegue nadar, mas raramente o faz. É um gato de hábitos noturnos, e passa os dias em tocas, que podem ser árvores ocas, cavidades sobre raízes ou cavernas. Ele pode passar algum tempo fora das tocas em áreas onde não há humanos. O leopardo-asiático e solitário, exceto durante o período de acasalamento. Não há nenhum período fixo de acasalamento na parte sul de sua área de habitação; nos hábitats mais frios, a norte, tende a se acasalar entre março ou abril, quando o clima é ameno o suficiente para que filhotes recém-nascidos o suportem. Leopardos-asiáticos comumente formam um casal para a vida toda, e criam seus filhotes juntos por sete a dez meses. A maturidade completa é alcançada aos dezoito meses, mas, em cativeiro, o macho pode se tornar pronto para reprodução em sete meses, e a fêmea em dez.

Reprodução e desenvolvimento

O estro dura de cinco a nove dias. Após um período de gestação de nove a dez semanas (60-70 dias), entre dois e quatro filhotes nascem na toca, onde permanecem até completar um mês de vida. Os gatinhos pesam entre 75 g e 130 g no nascimento e usualmente dobram seu peso até as duas semanas de vida; em cinco semanas, eles pesam quatro vezes mais que seu peso no nascimento. Os olhos se abrem em dez dias, e os filhotes começam a comer comida sólida em 23 dias. Na idade de quatro semanas, os caninos permanentes aparecem, coincidindo com o início do consumo de alimentos sólidos. Se os filhotes não sobreviverem, a mãe pode entrar no cio novamente e dar à luz uma nova ninhada.

Dieta
gatos-leopardos são carnívoros e se alimentam de pequenas presas, como mamíferos, lagartos, anfíbios, pássaros e insetos. As subespécies nortistas também caçam lebres. A dieta é comumente suplementada com grama, ovos, aves de criação e de caça, e presas aquáticas.

Conservação
Em Hong Kong, o gato-leopardo é uma espécie protegida pela Ordenação 170 de Proteção de Animais Selvagens. A população é composta por mais de 50 mil indivíduos e, embora esteja decaindo, o gato não é ameaçado.

O estado de conservação do gato-leopardo é listado como Apêndice II no CITES (espécies não necessariamente ameaçadas de extinção atualmente, mas que podem vir a ser tornar ameaçadas caso o comércio não seja rigidamente controlado) e pouco preocupante na Lista Vermelha da IUCN de espécies ameaçadas.

Subespécies

 Prionailurus bengalensis alleni, Ilha de Hainan (China)
 Prionailurus bengalensis bengalensis, Índia, Bangladesh, terras continentais do  Sudeste Asiático, Yunnan
 Prionailurus bengalensis borneoensis, Bornéu
 Prionailurus bengalensis chinensis, China, Taiwan, Filipinas
 Prionailurus bengalensis euptailurus, Sibéria oriental, Mongólia, Manchúria
 Prionailurus bengalensis heaneyi, Palawan, Filipinas
 Prionailurus bengalensis horsfieldi, Himalaia
 Prionailurus bengalensis javanensis, Java (há autores que classificam como P. javanensis javanensis)
 Prionailurus bengalensis rabori, Filipinas (Negros, Cebu, and Panay)
 Prionailurus bengalensis sumatranus, Sumatra (há autores que classificam como P. javanensis sumatranus)
 Prionailurus bengalensis trevelyani, Paquistão oriental

O gato-de-iriomote (P. iriomotensis) foi considerado uma subespécie do gato-leopardo. Ele vive exclusivamente na ilha de Iriomote, uma das Ilhas Yaeyama do arquipélago japonês.

O gato-de-tsushima vive exclusivamente no arquipélago de Tsushima, no Estreito da Coreia. Uma população do gato-de-tsushima, frágil, foi estimada entre 70 e 90 espécimes em 1997. Este felino foi inicialmente considerado uma espécie separada e, posteriormente, uma subespécie do leopardo-asiático; agora, é considerada uma variedade da subespécie manchuriana, P. b. euptailurus.

Análises moleculares recentes de populações de gatos-leopardos encontraram uma clara distinção entre as populações do norte (Tsuchima, Coreia, Sibéria, China e Taiwan) e do Sudeste Asiático. Se essas diferenças genéticas indicam uma disntição específica, P. b. euptailurus pode ser realmente uma espécie válida.

Gato-leopardos como animais de estimação
Gatos-leopardos são considerados os gatos selvagens asiáticos mais difíceis de domesticar. Ter um leopardo-asiático como animal de estimação é possível, embora uma licença seja requerida na maior parte dos lugares. Requisitos para as licenças variam de lugar para lugar.

A subespécie P. bengalensis bengalensis é frequentemente cruzada com gatos domésticos para produzir uma descendência híbrida conhecia como gato de Bengala. Esses híbritos podem ser adotados como animais de estimação sem a necessidade de licença. Para o criador de animais típico, um gato de Bengala adotado deve estar ao menos quatro gerações (F4) distante do gato-leopardo. Os chamados "gatos de fundação" das três primeiras gerações de cruzamento (F1-F3) são geralmente reservados para propósitos de acasalamento ou como animais de estimação em ambientes especializados.

 Sunquist, M. & F., 2002, Wild cats of the world, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Ligações externas

Mamíferos da Ásia
Prionailurus
Mamíferos descritos em 1792

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Filmmaker Stanley Nelson on Police Brutality, Black History & His First Oscar Nomination for "Attica"
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Legendary filmmaker Stanley Nelson's new documentary "Attica" has been nominated for the first Oscar in his three-decades-long career documenting the Black American experience. The film tells the story of the deadliest prison uprising in U.S. history, when men at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York rebelled on September 9, 1971, overpowering guards and taking over much of the prison to protest conditions, before New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller called out state troopers, who opened fire and killed at least 39 men, including 10 guards. Attica is one of the most "important American events that happened over the last 50 years," says Nelson. He also has an upcoming film focusing on the racist origins of police and discusses the hate crimes trial of Ahmaud Arbery's murderers and the condemnation of police in New Jersey who broke up a fight by violently arresting a Black teen while allowing an older white teen to remain free. "These things are not just happening for the first time. These things are being filmed for the first time," says Nelson.
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Part 1: Wave of Bomb Threats Terrorizing Historically Black Colleges Continues During Black History Month
Part 2: Filmmaker Stanley Nelson on Police Brutality, Black History & His First Oscar Nomination for "Attica"
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AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.
As we spend much of today's show with the legendary filmmaker Stanley Nelson, one of the leading documentarians of our time, we turn to his latest documentary, Attica, with Traci Curry, which tells the story of the deadliest prison uprising in U.S. history, in 1971, when prisoners at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York rebelled on September 9, 1971, overpowering guards, taking over much of the prison to protest conditions, before they were brutally suppressed. Stanley Nelson's extraordinary new film is nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. This is his first nomination in his more than three-decade-long career making more than 30 films. He is a three-time Primetime Emmy winner, two for his work on Freedom Riders, which was added to the National Film Registry in the Library of Congress in 2020. This is the trailer for Attica.
ARTHUR HARRISON: Attica was fear.
JOE HEATH: It was 70% Black and Brown prisoners, all white guards. What could go wrong?
DAVID BROSIG: "Grab the guards! Grab the keys!"
GEORGE CHE NIEVES: All hell broke loose.
PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON: Tell me this: Are these primarily Blacks?
ARTHUR HARRISON: Guys were complaining about these basic things like toothpaste, a roll of toilet paper to last you a month.
JAIME VALONE: The inmates were considered like animals.
GEORGE CHE NIEVES: They'd beat you up in your cell, and then they'd take you to segregation. And sometimes you don't come back.
REPORTER: Have the inmates made any demands?
RUSSELL OSWALD: There are all kinds of demands for changing the whole world.
LEWIS M. STEEL: This had to be mediated; otherwise, it was going to end in disaster. They wanted to use those weapons.
ARTHUR HARRISON: "Put your hands in the air, and you will not be harmed."
DANIEL SHEPPARD: "You will not be harmed."
GEORGE CHE NIEVES: "You will not be harmed." But that was bull [bleep].
CLARENCE JONES: They want to kill us.
ELLIOTT "L.D." BARKLEY: We are men!
UNIDENTIFIED: He was waking up America.
ALHAJJI SHARIF: Somebody had to take a stand.
AMY GOODMAN: That's the trailer for Attica, the new documentary on Showtime that's actually streaming for free on YouTube until the end of Black History Month, co-directed by the legendary filmmaker Stanley Nelson, nominated for his first Academy Award. We're going to play some clips. But, Stanley, let's start with why you made this film about the deadliest prison uprising in this country. They started September 9th, 1971, and Governor Nelson Rockefeller called out the state troopers, who opened fire on September 13th.
STANLEY NELSON: I felt that the story of Attica had never really been told. You know, I was around when Attica happened in '71, but I never knew why the prisoners rebelled. I never knew why Rockefeller and law enforcement went in Attica and just slaughtered the inmates and the guards. So, I thought that there was so much of the story that I didn't know. And I thought, and I think, that this is really one of the really important American events that happened over the last 50 years.
AMY GOODMAN: I want to go to the next clip, and that's — if you could set it up — the first night, Stanley, the first night of the uprising.
STANLEY NELSON: Yeah. When the prisoners took over, one of the things that is important that we understand about Attica is that they held 40 guards and civilian workers hostage, so law enforcement couldn't come in. And this clip is about the first night, where they're actually out in the yard at night for the first time, and there's, really, as one prisoner says, exuberation. And there's really a sense that they're doing something that will change the prison system forever, and also a sense of freedom from not being locked up at night, many for the first time in a long time.
AMY GOODMAN: Let's go to that clip.
CARLOS ROCHE: The guy next to me was named Raymond Wade. He's walking around, looking up in the air. It's dark. I said, "Yo, Raymond Wade. Yo, Ray. You all right?" He said, "Man, I ain't been out after dark in 22 years."
LAWRENCE AKIL KILLEBREW: And we was talking, singing songs. It was a festive night. I loved it. I loved it. I mean, I was out in the nighttime looking at the stars. I was drunk. I was happy. You know, I liked it. I was having a good time.
GEORGE CHE NIEVES: And it was good. I felt free. You know, I mean, prison was there, but I felt free. I didn't have to hear the doors locking. And it was a good feeling that first night.
JAMES ASBURY: When it got dark, and everybody was talking about finding somewhere to sleep, with, you know, don't sleep alone and, you know, that type of thing. There's a lot of psychopaths and sociopaths in those facilities, so, you know, you had to protect yourself from your peers even.
ALHAJJI SHARIF: Well, I knew this wasn't going to last forever. I knew there would be an end to this. But just because we was incarcerated didn't mean that we were less than human. Somebody had to take a stand.
AMY GOODMAN: A clip from the Oscar-nominated film Attica. So, that's the first night. If you could talk about the conditions? And let's be clear: That was September 9th, 1971. It was basically two weeks after George Jackson was killed by prison guards at San Quentin. And talk about the significance, his inspiration for these prisoners, and then what they were protesting, Stanley.
STANLEY NELSON: Yeah, I think one of the things that was important is that this was '71, and so there's protests going on all over the country — you know, the Black Panthers, the Young Lords. The prisoners are reading Malcolm X. And George Jackson is a real hero to the prisoners in Attica for his writings. And when George Jackson was killed, the prisoners just felt that it was the last straw, and they go on a hunger strike. And what they do is, you know, they refuse to eat. And it's not only the Black prisoners, but it's the white prisoners and the Puerto Rican prisoners. And that was really different, because one of the things that the prison system did was separate the prisoners by race and kind pitted one race against the other. And so, the death of George Jackson was really an inciting incident in the takeover of Attica.
AMY GOODMAN: I want to go back to Attica, in which the prisoners describe their reasons for taking guards as hostages, why Muslim prisoners were trusted to protect those hostages.
DANIEL SHEPPARD: When we got to the yard with the hostages, we hollered, "We got hostages!" And we had about a thousand men shouting that out. We know when there are hostages, it keep the police from coming in, vamping on us. You got to have hostages. That's the only — that's your only leverage.
LEWIS M. STEEL: As long as they had the hostages — well, they didn't have guns, and they didn't have this, and they didn't have that, but they had hostages — and they are your people, and you are responsible for your people. You are responsible to protect your people and do your job, sit down, negotiate with us.
UNIDENTIFIED: You're getting into the area where the 21 hostages are being held. They're in that main group.
UNIDENTIFIED: We can't distinguish them, because the prisoners have taken their clothing away and put prison clothes on them.
DAVID BROSIG: They were blindfolded in a circle in the middle of the yard. They also had guards, inmate guards, that were around them, protecting them.
ALHAJJI SHARIF: And we were seeing them as captives. We see them as people who were under our supervision, so we couldn't do harm to them. Our understanding of Islam was that you don't harm a captive. Therefore, it was decided to allow the Muslim brothers to look out for them.
AMY GOODMAN: A clip from the Oscar-nominated documentary Attica. Stanley Nelson, take it from there in these days, the prisoners taking hostages, their demands to be treated as human beings, their call for that observers' committee, everyone from William Kunstler to David Rothenberg to Clarence Jones, the publisher of the Amsterdam News. Talk about that scene and how they understood they needed protection. We're just about to talk about what Governor Nelson Rockefeller did.
STANLEY NELSON: Yeah, one of the things that the prisoners realized right away was that because they had hostages, they had a certain amount of control. So, one of the things that they did was invited an observer committee, which included some of the people that you named, because they thought that those people would be sympathetic and honest in the negotiations with the prisoners for their demands.
Another really important thing for the whole incident, and for us as filmmakers, were that the prisoners invited the media in, because they felt that the media would film this whole thing and would be — and that would give them a certain amount of protection, and so that the media would film the treatment of the hostages and know that the hostages — people outside would know that the hostages were treated fairly. And so, for us, as filmmakers, there's just incredible, incredible footage of the whole uprising, because the media was invited in and kind of given, in many ways, you know, a free range to film the whole incident. That went on for five days.
AMY GOODMAN: I want to go to this final clip we've got of your film Attica, prisoners describing the living arrangements they established during the uprising.
DANIEL SHEPPARD: You took a stick, and you put a sheet over it and pulled it back, and that was your sleeping quarters. By the time guys started having to go to the bathrooms, it was — none were working. The guys that had been to Vietnam and been in the Army, they said, "We've got to make a latrine." They knew what a latrine was. I didn't know what a latrine was.
INMATE 1: He's all right. He can walk.
INMATE 2: Give him a little air.
INMATE 3: All right, all right.
INMATE 4: Let's get you back.
INMATE 5: OK.
GEORGE CHE NIEVES: There was this brother. And I say "brother." He was white. They called him Tiny. And he was like a nurse before the Attica rebellion happened. They set up the medical section in the yard for anybody who had any problems to go, and Tiny would take care of them. And the medical attention in the yard was much better than the medical attention we got throughout the years.
LAWRENCE AKIL KILLEBREW: Oh, we had a good time. We was making wine and food outside. It was like a big picnic, like a shantytown, like Deadwood when Buffalo Bill was out.
DANIEL SHEPPARD: Did you ever watch Gunsmoke, the Western? Well, Matt Dillon was the sheriff marshal of Gunsmoke. He kept order. In the yard, we didn't have a Matt Dillon. Every man was a law unto himself. You did whatever the hell you wanted to do. And there was no order.
AMY GOODMAN: That's a clip from Attica. If you can then describe, Stanley Nelson, what happened next? As the prisoners thought that they were negotiating, dealing with the hostages, dealing with the observers' committee, what was Governor Nelson Rockefeller doing in his final act?
STANLEY NELSON: Well, first, I think it's important to understand that the prisoners had 30 demands, and 28 of those demands, the head of prisons had already met — you know, more toilet paper, more showers, small things like that. So 28 of the 30 demands were met.
And finally, Governor Rockefeller, Nelson Rockefeller, of New York was in charge of the prison system. But, you know, nobody understood that he was on the phone with Richard Nixon, and Richard Nixon was encouraging him not to meet the final demands, not to go up to Attica, because the prisoners were asking for Rockefeller to just come up to the prison. And the observer committee was asking for Rockefeller, "Just come to the prison. You don't have to go inside. You know, just show some concern." And Rockefeller refuses to do that, and instead gives an ultimatum and, finally, orders law enforcement, over 500 state troopers and former guards and guards, into Attica with guns and rifles.
AMY GOODMAN: And talk about how many people died, how many of them hostages. What was understood then, what was learned later, something that the prisoners continually repeated about who killed the hostages?
STANLEY NELSON: Yeah, 39 people died. Eight or nine hostages were killed. And immediately it comes out in the news, in the national news, in all the reporting, that the hostages had slit — I mean, the inmates had slit the hostages' throats and killed the hostages. And that's what's reported on the national media, you know, after the first day. And, in fact, Richard Nixon, President Richard Nixon, calls Rockefeller to congratulate him on the retaking of the prison.
AMY GOODMAN: As we talk about institutional racism, I wanted to go to a broader question about what's happening today in the United States with African Americans and the police. You have a film coming up about this, but there are currently two federal hate crimes trials going on in St. Paul, Minnesota. There's the federal civil rights trial of the three former police officers involved in George Floyd's murder.
In Georgia, jurors at the hate crimes trial of Ahmaud Arbery's murderers were shown graphic images of Arbery's autopsy. One juror has asked the judge if there's money for counseling available, after hearing the racist language used by the murderers and viewing these images of the damage to Arbery's body as caused by the two close-range blasts from Travis McMichael's 12-gauge shotgun.
Then you've got Texas, a grand jury indicting 19 Austin police officers on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for their roles in violently suppressing Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. News of the indictments came just hours after Austin approved a $10 million settlement with two protesters injured by police.
And then you've got this video, the New Jersey NAACP calling on the Bridgewater Police Department to remove the officers filmed breaking up a fight by violently arresting a Black teen while allowing an older white teen to remain free. The video is just horrifying, as the white teen is put on a couch and the police officers put a knee on the back of the 14-year-old Black boy, and then they handcuff him.
Stanley Nelson, you're one of the leading documentarians of the Black American experience. Can you talk about your response to all of this coming together now, not that it hasn't come together every day in U.S. history?
STANLEY NELSON: Yeah, I mean, I think that one of the things that has happened is that because everybody is walking around with a phone that has a camera, we're seeing these things videotaped and pictures of these things, and so that we can't deny it anymore, or the general public can't deny it, the police can't deny it in the same way.
We're just starting a film on the history of African Americans and the police. And I think the one thing we have to understand is these things are not just happening for the first time. These things are being filmed for the first time. From the time of the police evolving from slave catchers, there's been this very negative relationship between African Americans and the police. The difference is, you know, now we're seeing it, and we're seeing it in a way that can be played back, and so that we're starting to understand it in a different way. And hopefully we're starting to understand the police in a different way. I think that, in some ways, it's reflected on Attica, the film that we did on Attica, because people are receiving it in a different way, I mean, as people are, I think, hopefully — a lot of people are less prone to just believe whatever law enforcement says.
AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to end with a clip of your upcoming film on Frederick Douglass. He celebrated February 14th as his birthday, though the exact date of his birth has not been recorded. I wanted to go to a clip.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS: [voiced by Wendell Pierce] In the summer of 1841, a grand anti-slavery convention was held in Nantucket. I was induced to express the feelings inspired by the occasion and the fresh recollection of the scenes through which I had passed as a slave.
KENNETH B. MORRIS JR.: The abolitionists that were there knew that they had this fugitive slave in the audience, and they asked Frederick, "Will you tell the audience what it was like to be enslaved?"
FREDERICK DOUGLASS: What shall I say of this experience? I have seen the cruelty and brutality of slavery. And I had been subjected to the depths of slave life. I was a graduate from this peculiar institution, with my diploma written on my back.
JOHN STAUFFER: More Americans heard Douglass speak than any other American in the 19th century, with the possible exception of Mark Twain. And it was significant that a former slave was famous.
UNIDENTIFIED: Frederick Douglass understood the power of his literature as a tactic of liberation, a man born enslaved who rose to become a man of growth, of self-mastery.
FARAH JASMINE GRIFFIN: Frederick Douglass has a very clear idea of what becoming means. He is becoming an orator. He's becoming a world leader. He's becoming a statesman. And for him, becoming is an ever-unfolding process that he sees as self-creation.
AMY GOODMAN: The teaser for the forthcoming documentary Becoming Frederick Douglass, courtesy of Maryland Public Television. That's coming out in the fall, as well as a documentary on Harriet Tubman. Stanley Nelson, we have just 30 seconds. Your career has spanned more than 30 years, more than 30 amazing documentaries. How does it feel to be nominated for your first Oscar?
STANLEY NELSON: It feels great. You know, I mean, it feels great. I think, you know, one of the things that's so wonderful about it is that more people will see Attica. And for some people, the fact that we're nominated is validation and a reason to see Attica. And that's what we want. You know, I think that that's really what —
AMY GOODMAN: Well, it is long overdue. Thank you so much, Stanley Nelson.
That does it for our show. A very happy birthday to Neil Shibata! I'm Amy Goodman. Please stay safe.
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Editor's Note: When asked about the witness of the pianist, Betty Reynolds Dickinson, who was in the chapel at the time of the meeting between the funeral home director, Tom Kennedy, and Beatrice Longoria, producer John Valadez described her as an "elderly woman" who could not remember the incident. The reality is, Valadez admitted he was blown away by her testimony because it did not fit the story he wanted to tell. His solution - ignore her witness and/or belittle her intellect when her name was mentioned. Below Betty Reynolds Dickinson answers Valadez's demeaning charge with an open letter to the Emmy Committee explaining why The Longoria Affair is not a true historical documentary and, therefore, not qualified for an Emmy nomination in the documentary category.
Betty Reynolds Today
THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES
1696 Broadway, Ste 1001
ATTN: Mr. Brent Stanton, Executive Director
Ms. Lauren Saverine, Manager
Mr. Bill Small, Chairman, News & Documentary
Mr. David Winn, Director, News & Documentary
Re: "The Longoria Affair", by John Valadez - Nominated for an Emmy in Historical Documentary Category
Dear Members of the Emmy Nominating Committee:
For more than sixty years it has been apparent to me that the true story of the "Felix Longoria Affair" is deliberately suppressed, perhaps by those who stand to profit by repeating the oft told, yet untrue account. Film producer, John Valadez, continues this tradition in his film, The Longoria Affair. He refuses to include some very important, documented information, which he acknowledged privately to encourage participation in the film by Jane Kennedy, her daughter, and others who were reluctant to participate.
Valadez is suppressing true information. I know because I was in the funeral home at the time of the meeting between Thomas W. Kennedy, Jr. and Beatrice Longoria. I am the last living witness to the conversation between these two people that precipitated the Longoria Incident.
Here are the facts as I heard and understood them:
Fact #1:
The funeral home director, Kennedy, did not refuse to bury Felix Longoria. Kennedy actually made the arrangements with Beatrice for the wake and burial of her husband, Felix! Kennedy did discourage use of the chapel for the wake because of a family fight between Beatrice's boyfriend and her husband's grieving father. Beatrice asked Kennedy to exclude Felix's mother and father from Felix's wake. That is, Beatrice wanted Kennedy to turn Felix's parents away at the door of his funeral home.
Mr. Kennedy, the funeral home owner, would not agree to this. Instead, out of respect for the Longoria family and a desire to assuage Beatrice's fear of a family fight during the wake, he tried to make other arrangements that allowed Beatrice to be in control.
I told this to John Valadez in a meeting in my lawyer's office in the spring of 2009. Valadez asked me many questions, which I answered truthfully. Yet, Valadez excluded my witness of what I saw and heard in the funeral home that day from the film. A query was sent to PBS asking why my witness was excluded. Valadez's response through ITVS spokesperson, Lois Vossen, to Michael Getler, PBS Ombudsman, was as follows:
You offer as documentation "testimony from the pianist in the chapel, verifying [Beatrice Longoria's] request for exclusion of the [Longoria] family. According to producer John Valadez, he went with Richard Hudson to meet the pianist, Ms. Betty Reynolds. In the research interview [not on camera], Ms. Reynolds said she could not remember such an incident.
John says they spent about a half-hour with the elderly woman, asking in numerous ways if she could remember any incident or argument between Mr. Kennedy and any Hispanic woman. She could not. Valadez concluded that there was simply not enough evidence to support the claim that Beatrice and her in-laws were estranged, or that she requested that they be excluded from the wake for her husband.
John Valadez deliberately and blatantly answered untruthfully! There is a witness and recorded documentation of this meeting in my lawyer's office.
The family fight is also documented in the report by Shag Floore, Information Specialist, to Lt. Col. Stanley H. Partridge, Fort Worth Quartmaster Corp. This report, available from the LBJ Library and archives in Austin, Texas, gives a full account of the fight between Beatrice's boyfriend and Felix's father.
Once again, in a reply to the PBS Ombudsmen, John Valadez states:
The filmmakers did not include a report that was written by an Army Department specialist sent by the American Graves Registration Division. This report was based only on conversations with the town's most "prominent citizens". None of the people interviewed was Hispanic, and the specialist did not speak to Beatrice Longoria or to the Longoria family.
Just hours before driving to Three Rivers with the Director of the Texas Funeral Home Association, Peter Dunne, to investigate the incident, the specialist, Shag Floore, did speak to Dr. Hector P. Garcia, who refused an interview. Valadez did not reveal that Dr. Garcia called the Longoria's before Floore and Dunne's arrival to advise them to take their father to Laredo in order to avoid questioning. The evidence is there, but for Valadez, it obviously did not serve the story he chose to convey in the film.
Also of note: When Kennedy and Beatrice met while I was in the funeral home, he had picked her up at the bus stop early that morning. He helped her make arrangements for the wake, funeral, and burial. He took her to the telegraph office to send a telegram, and then, at her request, took her to a "Moreno" relative's home in lieu of the home of her deceased husband's parents. Now why would Beatrice go there when her deceased husband's parents lived only a few houses away? And why did the Longoria's not pick Beatrice up at the bus station and help her with the funeral arrangements? They confessed they did not know she was even in town much less that she was making arrangements for a wake and funeral for the remains of their deceased son, Felix, until they read it in the newspaper! And why did she not spend the night with Felix's parents? These are questions that were discussed which Valadez chose not to investigate and include in his emotionally charged film.
There are many other important facts left out in this film which are addressed at www.longoriaaffairrevealed.com. Go there and read supportable facts left out of the documentary. Then ask yourself why Valadez excluded this information? Valadez used information from one source: the Hector P. Garcia papers and books written from them. The Longoria Affair manipulates or omits all other sources.
Is The Longoria Affair really a historical documentary? Does it truly meet the guidelines established by the National Endowment for the Humanities for a historical documentary? Read their guidelines; consider the above facts, visit www.longoriaaffairrevealed.com, and then you decide if The Longoria Affair should be considered for an Emmy? I do not.
Betty (Reynolds) Dickinson
Professional Credentials:
 Concert Pianist  Music Studio, 33 years  Accountant -- Public Business & Ranching Interests  Presently serving on three Committees, appointed by McMullen County Court o McMullen County Historical Commission, Vice-Chair o McMullen County Museum Commission, Vice-President o McMullen County Cemetery Association, Member  Co-founder/Former President of Celebration Arts & Music of Live Oak County  Founding Member/Former President of Coastal Plains Music Teachers Association
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LITHIA - It has been easy to spot Newsome High soccer standout Jackie Simpson during the past few seasons. The tall and physical senior has made her presence known wherever she has played for the Wolves in her career, dominating opponents in the air, on set pieces and winning possession. In the last few weeks, however, there has been no missing the Wolves' stopper. On her right forearm Simpson has had a four-week fixture of a pink and black cast immobilizing her wrist, thumb and a couple of fingers after suffering a tear to her ulnar collateral ligament during a match with her club team. Most often this type of injury would keep a player off of the field for the long 10-week recovery, but the Wolves senior isn't going to let a little cast stop her. Although, come game time it's not such a little cast.
Simpson's pregame routine now includes wrapping the cast in layers transforming the small mid-forearm cast into what her and teammates have deemed "The Club Hand.'' To protect herself and opponents, the hard cast is wrapped with soft bandaging — including bubble wrap — causing her to make a concerted effort to keep the club out of the way. "It's so awkward," Simpson said. "When I'm shooting the ball I'm off balance and I don't ever forget it's there, but this is soccer and I just have to deal with it." She was held out by officials in the first game she tried to play with the cast with her Brandon FC club team, so she knew she needed to find a way to make the hard cast game ready. "I use bubble wrap, an Ace bandage and then wrap it again in a soft adhesive tape," Simpson said. "In my first club game with the cast they didn't let me play, so I was like 'No way.' The first time I wrapped it, it was 10 times bigger so now I think I have it as small and safe as possible." Wolves' coach Kelly Townsend had hoped to utilize Simpson as an attacking midfielder and capitalize on her knack for finding the goal, which included 13 goals last season in Newsome's Class 5A state runner-up run and 15 goals in her sophomore year. However, the Wolves' coach has needed Simpson helping out a young defense at stopper and Townsend said, as she expected, her captain gladly accepted the role. "Anywhere I put Jackie on the field she is going to make things happen," Townsend said. "Would I like to see her at center mid? Of course I would. Is that a reality for us as a team? No, we are much stronger with her at stopper." In tandem with freshman sweeper Karli Gutsche, the Wolves defense has been stifling allowing only four goals in the team's first 12 games. "With Karli right behind Jackie that center line is near impossible to break," Townsend said. "It's invaluable to have players like the two of them back there and gives this team a huge advantage." For Simpson, who plays center midfielder for her club team at Brandon FC, the transition to a more defensive spot isn't a limitation. And with the strength the Wolves have in the midfield including Caroline Evers and Maria Cate, Simpson said she is taking advantage of the chances she gets to push up on the field. "I thought I was going to play a little more center mid, but this is all about what is best for our team and not about me. As I go forward and step up, Caroline and Maria are more than willing to drop back and help so I'm more than happy with my role." The Wolves are again off to a hot start going 10-1-1 through the first dozen games and are looking to make another deep run into the region tournament trying to make it eight straight appearances in the region final and get back to the state final four.


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Leaked documents show Amazon's TV gamble is paying off strongly, with The Grand Tour leading the way
Alan Martin Alan has been writing about science, tech, games and politics for a decade, with a period in game production in the middle.He has a special soft spot for the Internet of Things, healthcare, psychology and fitness trackers – despite most of them offering the same critique: he's not fit enough. Alan is also the only person you'll find in the Venn diagram of "people who've written for Nuts" and "people who've written for the New Statesman". Read more March 16, 2018
Back in 1994, Amazon's mission was clear: sell lots of books. In 2018, that simple aim has changed a bit: sell lots of books (and clothes and computer hardware and coffee machines).
But in 2018, the internet has lots more people chasing that aim, so the method behind the mission has got more sophisticated. The Kindle makes people buy books exclusively from Amazon; the Echo and Dash buttons nudge people towards fuller digital shopping baskets; and original TV programmes streamed via Fire TV make people members, encouraging them to exclusively buy from Bezos. That last point isn't tin-hatted conspiracy theorising – it's straight from the horse's mouth. "When we win a Golden Globe, it helps us sell more shoes," CEO and founder Jeff Bezos said back in 2016.
Previously, only Amazon knew whether this was just a nice theory, or if it's actually backed up by evidence, but leaked documents obtained by Reuters seem to show there is hard-nosed business acumen behind Amazon's pursuit of television.
The top line is this: between late 2014 and early 2017, 19 original Amazon programs drove more than five million people to take out Prime accounts on Amazon. That's roughly a quarter of total Prime signups for the period, Reuters believes. A Prime account (usually £79/$99, with student discounts available) not only gives you unlimited streaming but also provides free one-day shipping and various other perks.
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From the documents, it's clear that the strategy is paying off for the company, but not every programme is created equal. One of the big successes – the first season of The Man in the High Castle – is credited with tempting 1.15 million people to tap in their credit card details. Given the show cost $72 million in production and marketing, Amazon estimates that the show drew in new subscribers at a rate of $63 per head.
Amazon has a slightly clumsy metric of measuring which shows drove subscriptions, but it's hard to think of a better one: it measures the first program streamed after sign up. That, of course, means that if people came for Sneaky Pete, hated it, but then got really into Transparent, it would still show up as a point for Sneaky Pete.
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Nonetheless, a sign up is a sign up, so it's hard to argue too hard. What the data shows is that despite its relatively high production costs of $78 million, the first season of The Grand Tour was the most successful driver of Prime subscriptions at just $49 per subscription. Alongside The Man in the High Castle, the first seasons of Bosch, Hand of God and Goliath all converted at a rate of under $500 per first stream too, with costs of $158, $356 and $492 respectively.
Interestingly – or perhaps depressingly predictably – the most critically acclaimed content on Amazon seems less cost-effective overall. Transparent, the winner of eight Emmy awards, had half the viewers of The Man in the High Castle making it relatively unhelpful in Amazon's greater mission to sell shoes (although that unfairly overlooks its appeal in attracting film talent keen for critical recognition). Likewise critically-acclaimed drama Good Girls Revolt attracted just 52,000 'first streams,' – a poor return given its $81 million production costs, and it's unsurprising it didn't get a second season.
Still, it's pretty clear that overall Amazon's gamble is paying off. While Netflix's ultimate goal is to attract and maintain paying subscribers, for Amazon, that's just the entry point to a far longer funnel. And as long as video subscribers are doing all their shopping on Amazon, you can fully expect the company's television experiment to continue.
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President Benigno III's had an impromptu press conference with members of the local media at the sidelines of the recently-concluded Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Vladivostok, Russia last September 8. During the exchange, it is apparent that Aquino is not in any way throwing Rico E. Puno, his shooting buddy and (outgoing) interior and local government undersecretary for peace and order, under the bus. An incomplete transcript of the press con has been posted in the government website. Veteran journalist Raissa Robles posted a more complete transcript in her blog.
Asked by a reporter how involved Puno is in the department's procurement of additional weapons for the Philippine National Police, Aquino said he is relying on the former as regards to checking the pertinent data related to the transactions. Aquino added that Puno is his "eyes and ears" and that he is "knowledgeable" (about guns, perhaps). In 2011, then-House minority leader Edcel Lagman said Puno is part of Aquino's circle of cronies (referred to as "kakampi, kaklase, at kabarilan").
Puno first gained notoriety shortly after the 2010 Manila hostage crisis where a number of Hong Kong nationals died. The fiasco revealed that Aquino effectively truncated the power of now-deceased Jesse Robredo as DILG when he gave Puno the power to supervise the PNP. Robredo belongs to the so-called Balay faction of Aquino allies while Puno is allied with the Samar group. Shortly after the hostage incident, retired Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz listed Puno as among the regular recipients of jueteng payola. Despite the two issues, Aquino did not ask Puno to resign.
Compared to his multi-awarded superior at the DILG, little is known about Puno. As undersecretary for peace and order, Puno also controls the Bureau of Fire Protection and the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology. However, the DILG website does not even have a bio brief of Puno.
A Philippine Star news report published shortly after Puno's appointment in July 2010 said he has been part of Aquino's staff since he was a congressman and senator. "He served as Aquino's consultant in various activities in Congress; in the Senate as officer for public order and safety, economic affairs and local governance, as well as liaison officer for the PNP and the Armed Forces," the article added.
Puno is again in hot water after it was revealed in an ABS-CBN report late last week that a group led by him went to Robredo's condominium unit in Quezon City supposedly to safeguard (acting on Aquino's orders) sensitive documents stored there just a day after the latter's plane was reported missing.
The controversy intensified after another report came out indicating that Robredo is in fact investigating Puno for his involvement in a deal to procure assault rifles for the Philippine National Police-Special Action Force. Why Aquino wants Puno to "secure" documents that includes those that may likely incriminate the latter has not been explained yet.
In the past two years, Puno has proven himself to be an albatross in Aquino's neck. However, the president seems to be very reluctant to part ways with him. He said in Vladivostok that Puno continues to enjoy his trust since he is deemed "innocent until proven guilty." He went as far as suggesting that Puno may be given another cabinet position if HE wants it. The ties that bind Aquino and Puno must be definitely thicker than water.
*Despite having a cozy working relationship with Puno, Aquino admitted two weeks after the 2010 Manila hostage fiasco that he has "differences" with Robredo and that this is why he appointed him in an "acting" capacity only. According to him, this will serve as an "evaluation period" for him to determine if he can get along with Robredo.


Oh yes, we are living in a technological age. Today, more than ever. Tomorrow – even more. Jobs change according to what technology dictates. Careers get more ramifications depending on new inventions. Some become easier, others – obsolete, and new professions come into being. So how do we adapt to the changing tide of modern technology and the changes it brings?
Many universities are clamouring for your time and money when it comes to technological degrees. And the big question is… which one to choose? Have a look at these options for your future education and career advancement in all things IT, if you haven't made a decision yet.
One of the many changes in technology and perhaps even the future of technology is robotics. From automated manufacturing lines to healthcare, a robotics degree holds huge potential. Whether you choose a degree path that includes engineering new robotic devices or one to help maintain, troubleshoot and program existing ones, this field is here to stay. There is so much potential in this field because it is still changing, growing, and improving. A few years ago, we could only imagine smartphones or SIRI. They were all just film scripts.
Now we have robotic technology in our smartphones that obey our commands whether it's to perform certain functions and give information. All is managed with our fingertips. There doesn't seem to be any signs of robotics slowing down anytime soon. At some point, we may even have robotic fast food lines worldwide or our own personal robots at home. It truly is a great field of study and a great field to be any if you are looking for a techie career.
This unique niche field pairs patient problems with current useful statistics and the newest developments in technology to treat and cure disease. If you like working with people equally as much as tech, this may be a good option for you. It's a neat field not just because you get to work with the newest and coolest tech in medicine, but you get to work with people who get to try out these new developments. In other words, you get to be the middle-man between the technological world and the real world. The great messenger.
A degree in the physics field will give you the keys to many different markets. Individuals in this field are constantly curious about the world around them and love to solve problems. You can work with micro-lasers to help treat breast cancer, develop standards of weaponry for the government, or lend your expertise to a class of upcoming students.
There is no limit in this field as it allows you to work with all areas of tech and science. If you decide to take your physics degree and go into a career in research, not only can you improve upon current technology, you have the potential to invent new technology and be on the forefront of change. All it takes is an idea and the ability to bring it to life.
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Decades ago, this may have been a laughable career choice. Now, though, the general population goes into a meltdown when their devices misbehave. Degrees in this field range from associates to doctorates and involve writing code, building microchips and learning the skills to set up huge servers and networks for businesses and government.
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Alright. I don't know if this is advice or anti-advice, but it's something, and now you'll know it, too, instead of me just carrying it around in my head all by myself where it should probably stay locked up forever.
OK — in an extraordinary feat of patience (aka, not my strongest suit), I've been waiting ALMOST A YEAR to share this news with you. The REAL news, instead of the previous *hints* of news. The REVEAL of the Thing We Did. The IF WE'RE GOING TO FAIL, AT LEAST WE'RE GOING TO FAIL BIG announcement.
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Third quarters remain mystery for Lakers after second-half rout by Wolves
After being a concerning trend early in the season, the Lakers third quarter woes exploded into a full-blown problem on Friday against the Timberwolves.
By Jacob Rude@JacobRude Nov 13, 2021, 12:39am PST
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Early in the season, a balance between observing early-season trends while also keeping them in the context of a small sample size is required. For the Lakers, the concerning trend of third quarter futility exploded into a full-blown concern on Friday.
Matched up against a Timberwolves team that came in as losers of six straight, the Lakers turned in a perfectly suitable first-half performance...then followed it up with the worst third quarter of the season. The Timberwolves opened the second half by outscoring the hosts 40-12, including a 30-4 run and a span of over seven minutes between field goals from the Lakers.
Minnesota used that period as the catalyst to an absolute beatdown in the second half that included a 33-point lead and a fourth quarter comprised almost entirely of garbage time to snap their losing streak.
After the game, the Lakers were left looking not just at how things went so wrong on Friday despite a strong start and why it continues to be a trend this season.
"Yeah, it was everything," head coach Frank Vogel said. "Obviously, our effort hasn't been good enough in the third quarter consistently throughout this season. We're talking about it, We're challenging our guys to be better. I don't know what it was. We get in control early in the game, we play well and start executing the plan.
"And we're playing against a team that shoots the most threes in the league and they have that ability to go through stretches where they get really hot. That happened around the same time where we were getting beat to lose balls, weren't keeping our man in front of us, weren't taking pride in protecting the rim and I think we lost four or five loose balls consecutively. We have to be better with that. Then, obviously, on the other end we start pressing."
Defensively, the Timberwolves shot 15-of-24 from the field and 7-of-13 from the 3-point line in that third period. Minnesota outrebounded the Lakers 16-8 including a trio of offensive rebounds, an area where the guests dominated on the night by outscoring the purple and gold 19-10 in second-chance points.
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Offensively, it wasn't any prettier as the Lakers shot 4-of-21 from the field, missed 12 of its 13 3-point attempts turned the ball over six times and went without a field goal from 11:17 mark until the 3:44 mark, a span of 7:33.
"We sucked," Anthony Davis said. "We scored 12 points in the third quarter. They scored 40. That's the game right there. We got to a better job coming out in the third."
"Just not coming out ready," Russell added. "We didn't do a good job of being prepared, especially in the third quarter. Ain't too much to say. Obviously, we didn't make shots either."
As noted, the Lakers third-quarter struggles aren't new. After Friday, they sit at 29th in third-quarter net rating, 26th in offensive rating and 29th in defensive rating. Put more simply, in third quarters this season, the Lakers have been outscored by 83 points in 13 games, the worst mark in the league.
The difficulty in pinpointing the problem is that there are few consistencies when it comes to lineups. Vogel has played 59 different lineups in third quarters and only three of them have played more than 10 minutes. None of those lineups have a positive net rating, a trend when looking at all lineup variations.
The six most-common two-man lineups have negative net ratings, lineups lots of Russell Westbrook and Davis. The 10 most-common three-man lineups all have negative net ratings. The seven most-common four-man lineups all have negative net ratings.
After Friday, only player on the Lakers has a positive net rating in third quarters, that being Austin Reaves who is out for the foreseeable future with a hamstring strain. His net rating of +14.0 dwarfs that of the next-closest Laker in Carmelo Anthony with a net rating of -10.8.
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It all adds up to the Lakers understanding they have an issue, but not being certain how to fix it.
"It's not always consistent," Vogel said of the third-quarter issues. "It's different things. We had a different lineup out there tonight and some of the lineups have plagued us in some of the other third quarters. I just think turnovers, poor defense and just not executing well enough offensively. Our screening was terrible tonight. Our screening was terrible and it just leads to bad possessions. So, it's just part of building those relationships and getting these guys playing at a higher level."
Wayne Ellington, who made his debut in the starting lineup on Friday, has had a different viewpoint for much of the season on the bench, giving him a unique perspective on what plagues the Lakers in third quarters.
"No sense of urgency," Ellington said. "We come out slow trying to get into the game instead of coming out full speed. It's been a struggle for us and something we have to be better at."
Perhaps Friday will serve as a wake-up call for the Lakers when it comes to their third-quarter woes. But for a team that has more embarrassing losses than notable wins this young season, it's now past time to address that early season trend turned full-blown issue.
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The year will also focus on encouraging more young people – especially those that live in disadvantaged communities – to enjoy sport and lead an active lifestyle. This will build on the work that's already achieving success thanks to projects like Sky Blues in the Community's In It Together and Go Swim which are seeing people across the city return to sport and physical activity.
Sky Blues in the Community Business Development Manager, Hiedi Sloan said: "Coventry being named European City of Sport for 2019 is something that many local organisations, including ourselves, will take real pride in. At Sky Blues in the Community we are dedicated to making a difference to the lives of local people and every single day we see the impact the power of sport can make. We deliver many different projects that: engage people of all ages and abilities; promote healthy behaviours; inspire personal development and provide opportunities for people that face common barriers – all with sport very much at the heart".
"Being invited to contribute to the application process for European City of Sport is a true testament to the hard work of our team of employees and volunteers as well as our partner organisations. We are committed to working in partnership and alongside a network of local organisations we look forward to celebrating the success of sport in Coventry in 2019".
Councillor Kamran Caan, Cabinet Member for Public Health and Sport said, "Our sports strategy, which builds on the wonderful legacy of London 2012, is helping us to ensure that everyone in Coventry has access to high quality and affordable facilities whilst giving residents as much support as possible to become active".
"European City of Sport will bring together a great year of celebration – showcasing the best of what the city already does, attracting sporting events to the city and supporting grass roots sports clubs in communities. Part of the programme for the year includes a new community grants fund to work with grassroots sports clubs and communities and also creating a number of new satellite sports clubs for 11-19 year olds".
Former Olympian Dave Moorcroft and Chair of Coventry Sport Network said: "The announcement that Coventry has been granted European City of Sport in 2019 gives me great pride. It recognises the hard work that we're all doing in Coventry and gives real credit to all those organisations making a difference on a day to day basis be it the new sports facilities being developed or the projects that are getting people active".