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A.N.T. Fest, Thalia Follies and more…
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Beginning on the 16th and running through the end of November is the A.N.T. Fest, which is dedicated to new work and emerging artists, featuring over 175 artists in various categories of performances including comedy, music, and genre-defying acts, all under one roof at Ars Nova. Some acts worth checking out include Liquid Gold, a group of female comedians, Just Jump, a dance/comedy featuring a scared 7-year-old girl on a high-dive platform who places her fate in the wisdom of a tranny hooker, and Pirates and Ninjas, which tells the story of two neighbors: a wench-loving pirate and a ninja with OCD.
Another troupe bringing laughter to the masses are the Thalia Follies, an incisive political comedy that tackles the plentiful parodies that politics offer us this year. Returning for its fifth season at Symphony Space, this show will run for three nights only, starting the 23rd!
On the eve of the election check out the girl with the 34-and-a-half-inch inseam at the Legs Malone Show, taking place at Public Assembly, which is sure to be packed full of sexy entertainment and "erudite commentary" from special guests. Have a laugh and a cocktail (or three) but don't get too tipsy to show up at the polls in the morning!
Amor Cubano: In a bottle, a tube, and a small packet is a multimedia theatre performance written by and starring Brooklynite Maceo Cabrera Estévez, who introduces us to Barbarita Perales, the inventor of a product that captures the essence of Cuban life in a bottle, who then sells it on an infomercial. Is there a miracle cure for all life's ills? Can Amor Cubano bring Barbarita's son home from Iraq? Find out the answer to these questions and more at BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange on Oct 24 and 25.
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It begins when you hand over your skis or snowboard and step into the gondola at Kicking Horse Mountain Resort.
On days without lineups, because every skier or snowboarder knows you don't mess with a powder day, the 12-minute ride up the mountain can take an extra six minutes because the gondola is running slower to conserve energy.
"It's not a difference the regular person would notice," said Andy Brown of Kicking Horse Resort, located in the Purcell Mountains near Golden, B.C. "So, when there's no lineup, we dial it down.
The restaurant at the top, Eagle's Eye, has low-flush toilets, waterless urinals and hands-free faucets to conserve water. Back at the bottom, the Whitetooth Grill uses reusable red baskets to serve its meals to reduce waste.
It's one of several ski resorts in or, in its case, near the Canadian Rockies that are increasingly adopting sustainable practices not only to reduce their overall costs, but also to improve their environmental footprint as the climate changes.
One green entrepreneur suggests they could take it a step further by turning to renewable energy sources such as wind or solar power to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
"Climate change is a big issue and ski resorts have a lot to gain by adopting renewable energy," said Nick Blitterswyk, an alumni of the University of Calgary who's the chief executive of Urban Green Energy in New York. "We often forget, but the cost of energy is one of the largest costs for ski resorts. Making snow is very energy intensive and so on.
The threat of climate change for ski resorts is becoming more real.
In the western United States, scientists are detecting a change in the snow cover at lower elevations due to an increased temperature in the past 50 years.
It has major implications for ski hills such as those around Lake Tahoe in California, which is in the midst of a historic drought.
Researchers in Alberta are also studying stream flow, precipitation, snowpack, groundwater, vegetation and mountain meteorology to assess the overall impact of environmental change in the mountains.
John Pomeroy at the Marmot Creek Research Basin in Kananaskis Country in February 2013.
Pomeroy said it's unknown how quickly it will happen, but he suggests it could be in this lifetime — for some.
"With four more degrees of warming in the Rockies at high elevation, the simulations I ran show we would lose half of the high mountain snowpack and we would lose a month-and-a-half of snow cover," he said. "We could have that kind of warming before the end of this century. Say by 2070 or 2080.
In the short term, he said resorts in Canada might actually benefit from the conditions down in the U.S. because more people will travel north to ski.
However, Pomeroy said it's in their interest to care about climate change because their business model depends on snowpack.
It's a similar message from Blitterswyk, who adds that renewable energy would both reduce their costs and their emissions.
As an example of how renewable energy can take off, he pointed to work they did on the home of the Philadelphia Eagles' football stadium.
"That project has wind and solar on the stadium and it's very very visible," said Blitterswyk. "It's had such a huge knock-on impact because so many — especially homeowners, but also businesses in the area — now see sustainability as something they want to do as well.
An aerial view of Kicking Horse Mountain Resort near Golden, B.C.
Back at Kicking Horse, officials said they are "taking a hard look" at alternative energy supplies for remote locations.


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Home / features / meizu / mobile / How To Take Screenshot Using Meizu M3E?
The title of this article may sound dumb, but if this is your first time using a M3E phone, you may have a hard time figuring how to do a simple screenshot natively.
Why? The well respected Chinese smartphone maker is using a modified Android skin a.k.a. FlyMe OS with different controls compared with the traditional long press of power button and volume keys. So without further ado, here's how you get the job done.
How to take a screenshot using Meizu M3E?
2. Press the power button together with either volume up or volume down keys simultaneously.
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(Johannesburg) – Mozambique security forces have been implicated in serious abuses while fighting an armed Islamist group in the northern province of Cabo Delgado.
Since August 2018, the security forces have allegedly arbitrarily detained, ill-treated, and summarily executed dozens of people they suspected of belonging to an armed Islamist group .
Human Rights Watch interviewed 12 victims and witnesses of abuse in person or by phone, along with security force personnel and journalists between November 10 and 27.
Security forces arriving in villages several hours after an attack have arrested young men and others who refuse to cooperate with them. In the most recent reported incident, on November 23, police stationed in the village of Chicuaia Velha, Nangane district arrested several villagers, mostly men who had not fled following the attack. The night before, insurgents armed with machetes and knives had raided the village, set fire to homes, and killed at least 12 people, including women and children.
A senior army official, who asked not to be named, said that the suspects were taken to a "temporary screening" at makeshift barracks in Mocimboa da Praia district. "Those who did not flee the village must explain what they saw, why they did not run away, and whether they recognized any of attackers," he said. "It's a normal procedure. If they are innocent, we will let them go." One week later, these men have not been charged, taken before a judge, or had access to their lawyers or family members, in violation of Mozambican and international law.
Four men described being detained in August after government forces carried out raids on alleged insurgent training camps in Palma district. Two men, ages 26 and 32, said that soldiers apprehended them while they were cutting wood in the forest on August 11, and forced them onto a military track. One demanded to know where they were being taken. A soldier, accusing them of being armed group members, beat him with his AK47 assault rifle in the head and stomach.
They spent the night in military barracks in the forest with about a dozen other detainees. The next morning, the soldiers took them to Mieze jail, about 20 kilometers from the provincial capital, Pemba. The two detainees were released on August 16 without charge.
Two other men said that they were arrested together with an alleged Islamic religious leader in Palma and eight other men on August 18, two days after security forces had attacked a suspected insurgent base in Palma district. The detainees were taken to military barracks in Mocimboa da Praia district and questioned overnight.
"There were many others there," said one of the detainees, a 23-year-old farmer. "We were all told to remove our shirts and sit on the floor. The soldiers would come and take us one by one to the forest, and then we would hear gunshots followed by screaming. Some of them did not come back." A 25-year-old farmer also said that several of the detainees were taken outside, gunshots and screams followed, and the men never returned. The two men said they were released the next morning. Two others from the group were later transferred to Pemba and are facing trial for state security crimes.
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Under Mozambican law, military personnel are prohibited from holding detainees in military barracks. Suspects detained during military operations must be handed over to police, who will proceed with arrests and either release the suspects or charge them within 48 hours. Mozambique's constitution says that detainees must be informed at the moment of arrest about accusations against them and the reasons for their detention.
On September 30, a court in Pemba began the trial of 189 people, including Mozambicans, Tanzanians, Congolese, Somalis, and Burundians, suspected of belonging to the armed Islamist group. Forty-two defendants are women. They are accused of homicide, use of prohibited weapons, crimes against state security, and public disorder. A state prosecutor for Cabo Delgado province, who asked not to be named, said that many of the defendants had accused soldiers of detaining them for several weeks before handing them over to police, using torture to force them to confess, and in some cases killing unarmed suspected insurgents in the bush.
In November, a team from the Mozambican National Human Rights Commission visited the prisons where the defendants are being held. They documented serious human rights abuses, including overcrowding so severe that prisoners were forced to sleep standing up. The commission chairman, Luis Bitone, told the media that residents of the villages the armed group targeted have found bodies scattered in the woods and that they are afraid to sleep in their homes because of the attacks.
Allegations of security force abuses against suspected Islamist insurgents have emerged previously, leading President Filipe Nyusi to publicly condemn those acts. In October, the state news agency, AIM, quoted him saying he had instructed the security forces in Cabo Delgado not to kill suspected members of the armed group.
"President Nyusi publicly condemning the abuses was an important step," Mavhinga said. "But to really stop the abuses, those responsible for past abuses need to be held to account."


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The MS Wire - A Column by Ed Tobias
Dreams, Diagnoses, and Disclosures: When to Tell Others About MS
Telling friends, family, and co-workers about an MS diagnosis can be challenging
by Ed Tobias | July 29, 2022
The other night I dreamed I was standing in a military formation when my leg began to twitch with an MS spasm. I couldn't stay in line. The top sergeant yelled while the other soldiers laughed.
Suddenly, the scene shifted to a balance beam, where I desperately tried to stay upright, but knew I couldn't. So I jumped off. More laughing.
In the dream, I realized it was time to make another kind of leap by revealing that I have multiple sclerosis (MS).
In reality, I disclosed my MS long ago. It's not easy to do that, whether it's to your boss, co-workers, friends, or family. No matter how or when you do it, there will be repercussions, and there's no one-size-fits-all approach.
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I Had to Make Difficult Business Decisions After My PPMS Diagnosis
Disclosing at home
Telling family and friends was actually pretty easy for me. My wife, a physical therapist, diagnosed me before the doctors did. She understood MS, which was a good thing, but she also understood there was no cure. I think I let her tell the other relatives and friends, taking the weight off my shoulders.
My son was only a year old when I was diagnosed, so he grew up alongside it. As he grew older and I began to walk with a cane, some of his friends asked him why I needed it. I said to tell them I had a bad leg. I didn't want to bother him, or me, with trying to explain an illness that has no easy explanation.
My grandkids also grew up with my MS. In fact, my grandson learned to walk with me by holding my canes.
Disclosing at work
I wasted no time at work. I told my manger and the people I supervised right away, keeping it simple. "I have multiple sclerosis and don't know where it will eventually lead," I told them. "I may have to be out once in a while, but I don't expect it will affect my work." I don't think it did, but several weeks later, I was fired. I wasn't told why.
I know other people with MS who lost their jobs after disclosing their illness. I know still others whose employer gave them the leeway and accommodations they needed after they disclosed. Disclosing at work is a very difficult decision.
I can tell you that when I was a boss, I didn't like surprises. Knowing about a potential problem right away gave me time to figure out a plan to handle it. Experts at West Virginia University's Job Accommodation Network (JAN) say there's no legal need to disclose anything before you're hired, but they caution that it's better to disclose your disability before any disability-related job performance issues surface. JAN provides a wealth of detailed information on its website.
This whole job equation may change, of course, if your job is outside the U.S. If that's your situation, I'd suggest contacting the MS society in your country for specific guidance.
An Army life wasn't in my cards
I don't know where my Army dream came from. There was still a military draft when I turned 18, and a lottery chose who would be called to serve. My number was 307 out of 365, so I was never called. With an MS diagnosis coming several years later, it's probably a good thing that my military service was limited to dreams.
You're invited to visit my personal blog at www.themswire.com.
Note: Multiple Sclerosis News Today is strictly a news and information website about the disease. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on this website. The opinions expressed in this column are not those of Multiple Sclerosis News Today or its parent company, BioNews, and are intended to spark discussion about issues pertaining to multiple sclerosis.
Ed Tobias Diagnosed with MS in 1980 at age 32, Ed has written the "MS Wire" column for Multiple Sclerosis News Today since August 2016. He presents timely information about MS, blended with personal experiences. Before retiring from full-time work in 2012, Tobias spent more than four decades in broadcast and on-line newsrooms as a manager, reporter, and radio news anchor. He's won several national broadcast awards. As an MS patient communicator, Ed consults with healthcare and social media companies. He's the author of "The Multiple Sclerosis Toolbox...Tools and Tips for Living With MS." Ed and his wife split time between the Washington, D.C. suburbs and Florida's Gulf Coast.
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After months of hospital tests, it came down to my GP to give my MS diagnosis, due at my (managerial) place of work, I'd gone straight there, told the staff, and 'phoned my Boss.
He was a UK Northener, and they like to JOKE about most things: Example I'm 4'10" and H.O. had loads of fun with that. On hearing my news, Boss had said, "Ee, I've 'eard of thart", keen for info. I'd asked for more; unable to see his face, but I'm guessing it was straight when he'd told me, "It makes yer grow a foot...".
As well as making me laugh, that was the best possible response anyone could ever ask for.
I'd continued to work for them until my (MS) body had forced me to stop.
Ed Tobias
Hi Abbey,
That's the best response from a boss I've ever heard. I need to find a way to use that response someday, though I doubt I could match the way he said it. I'm glad your work experience was good and sorry that you finally had to stop working there.
Benjamin Hofmeister
I was still in the military when I was diagnosed and since everyone in my little section knew there was something amiss and that I had just seen a neurologist, there was no way to keep the diagnosis to myself. I still vividly remember telling the Sergeant Major of the operations section. When I saw the look that came over his face, I was nervous that he was either about to start crying, or come around his desk and try to hug me and that I really wasn't sure what to do in either scenario. Thankfully the moment passed and once we talked about what the diagnosis might mean, everything worked out for the best.
(This isn't always the case with the military, or any job, for that matter)
Thanks for the comments, Ben. It's really nice when the boss understands. Interestingly, in a later job I was the boss when an employee came in to my office and disclosed an MS diagnosis. She was quite surprised when I responded "I understand and don't worry," and then told her why.
Kenan Boate
You mentioned being fired 30 days later after disclosing your MS illness. Is this legal?
Hi Kenan,
It was about three months later but no, it's not. But there was no way to prove my MS was the reason for my firing. As I wrote, I'll never know whether that was the actual reason.
Sandra L Cuaron
It was semester finales, and I went to drop off my finale report. When my left leg numb driving into the parking lot of the collage using my hand gears to stop the car. I started hitting my leg to see if the feeling of the leg would help. Sat for a bit and the feeling came back. I thought it was fatigue. I had a job, sons in Jr- high school sports football, basketball, music and Collage and my husband working nights. I thought I was over worked. I was doing well after two weeks I thought I was fine. Saturday morning my husband and I got up to go for a walk and I started to feel a little different and we get to the corner waiting for the light to cross and my leg started to stiffen, I could pick up my leg and I panic, and my husband asked me if I could walk for the next quarter mile. I said, yes. Then next day I couldn't walk. My husband takes me to ER and, after 2 1/2 months of physical therapy. That was 1999. I was diagnose and seen 4 Neurologist. 99.9 M.S. I am still able to walk with help of walker and wheelchair at times.
Hello Ed- This is a longer one, sorry. (Perhaps a bit of "venting"). Let me say first that I think this is an area of MS life that needs research and a good set of recommendations, especially for work. These two issues were big "ugly" for me. Hope for the best but plan for the worst is my recommendation for competitive work situations where your "not being there", is an already preferred outcome for some, to begin with. I'll get to that.
But 1st, in my family, I told my mom (one of three sisters). She didn't want to accept it, and it gave her something new to occupy her concerns with. Her sister, my aunt, was very upset with me, and later when my mother passed (dementia related) , my aunt blamed my disclosure. (Like I was supposed to fake it or something.). Everybody else was fine and supportive, and then my cousin (via other sister) was diagnosed also. But this one aunt made things more uncomfortable than they needed to be. MS is plenty to worry about in and of itself.
As to work, I had just graduated with a PhD in psych and obtained a year's experience for licensure and passed the national exam, and obtained my dream job as an organizational consultant. The firm was just re-grouping and hiring licensed psychologists. This was not favored by some of the other non-psych consultants. The re-grouping also involved new ownership by a large bank, BB&T. They were the sponsor of the local MS Society too (so much for that). They owned the consulting firm I worked at, Farr Associates, which also no longer exists. In all fairness, BB&T had nothing to do with it, but they put their name on my paycheck and they had deep pockets.
The ADA had recently been passed. In my case, unlike yours Ed, there was a clear differentiation in behavior and treatment towards myself and others. A clear record of intending to find, and make up if needed, unfavorable information, leading to an unanticipated and emotionally shocking dismissal. Imagine- you're just getting started with loan debt, trying to form a work history record, living in a new place states away from where you were from, and trying to "hook up" with someone. I disclosed at a meeting with the CEO of our company that I had MS. He requested I tell everyone at the 25 employee firm. There were secret recordings of confidential meetings with coworkers. There were memos responding to requests for unfavorable info. And finally, the made up story involving sexual harassment with someone in another country and the firing. How you going to deal with that?
But I had formed good relationships with many at work who provided me with support when needed. A law suit was settled and while the proceeds were a cautious amount, it did lead to self independence eventually. But I had to give up my career and ambitions to get there, which wouldn't have been necessary if not for Farr Associates.
Moral of the long story? In a competitive situation where some others may not want your presence anyway, be careful, and yes, be paranoid- they are probably out to get you! Figure out who your enemies are and guard against them. But make lots of friends too. Always be professional and ethical. Keep copies of all written records at home. Keep notes on events and date them.
All this because I had MS. Later I learned they did the same to a black fellow. It was a terrible experience.
Thanks for taking the time to provide all that information. It's unfortunate that was your experience. It's also unfortunate that there are many others with similar experiences, though my impression is this is more prevalent in smaller companies. I was very fortunate in being able to spend most of my career working for a company where my skills outweighed my disability and where I found support right up to the CEO level when, at one point, I had a target on my back.
All of what you wrote is certainly food for thought for all of us.

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Егор Матвеевич Гришунов — советский офицер, Герой Советского Союза (1 ноября 1943 года).

Биография
Егор Матвеевич Гришунов родился 23 апреля 1917 года в деревне Сеченки Смоленской губернии (ныне Ярцевский район Смоленской области). Окончил школу. Работал бухгалтером.

Участвовал в Зимней войне 1939—1940 в боях на Карельском перешейке.

После войны окончил Тбилисское артиллерийское училище.

Участие в Великой Отечественной войне и подвиг
В годы Великой Отечественной войны сражался в Крыму, под Сталинградом, участвовал в освобождении Украины. Прошёл путь от командира батареи до командира артиллерийского полка.

С 1942 года член ВКП(б)/КПСС.

Погиб в боях у города Мелитополь. 21 октября 1943 немецкие войска начали контратаку. Майор Егор Гришунов приказал выкатить орудия на открытые позиции и отбивать атаку прямой наводкой. Он перенёс командный пункт в боевые порядки и лично корректировал огонь орудий. К концу дня вражеские войска были отброшены, потеряв более 150 солдат, 3 танка и 2 САУ. Во время преследования противника осколок мины убил майора Гришунова.

1 ноября 1943 года указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР за умелое руководство полком, личную храбрость и мужество, проявленные при прорыве долговременной обороны на реке Молочной майору Гришунову Егору Матвеевичу присвоено звание Героя Советского Союза посмертно.

Похоронен в  в городе  Запорожской области.

Награды
 Герой Советского Союза (1 ноября 1943).
 Орден Ленина.
 Орден Красного Знамени (29.4.1942)
 Орден Красной Звезды (1.2.1943)
 Орден Отечественной войны I степени (16.3.1943)
 Медали.

Источники и ссылки

 Город на Вопи. — Ярцево: Вести Привопья, 1996. — 152 с. — ISBN 5-86064-024-2

Выпускники Тбилисского высшего артиллерийского командного училища
Участники советско-финляндской войны (1939—1940)
Члены КПСС
Артиллеристы Великой Отечественной войны
Командиры полков в Великой Отечественной войне

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Advocates of reforming NSA (National Security Agency) practices are currently focusing on other controversial plans that American Freedom Act didn't mention. Now that the National Security Agency's bulk surveillance programs have efficiently been neutered, what is the future of privacy?
The president of America, Barack Obama singed a reformed act of the NSA (National Security Agency) on surveillance, after few hours of the bill's endorsement, leading to the presentation of the measure, as reported by Efe news agency on Wednesday.
The White House described the orders of Barack Obama, in a statement which rushed to endorse the American Freedom Act, altering certain classes of the Patriot Act, approved after 9/11 terrorist attacks, which contain huge collection of mobile record from citizens also.
America will continue its mass surveillance programs, however it will not be the Govt. who will directly gather the data from US citizens – rather mobile companies will collect the information.
The data will be facilitated particularly, should the management need it for the privacy concerns.
With 32 votes in against and 67 in favor, on Tuesday the Senate finished the 2 weeks of disagreements among 2 groups of the Republican opposition, in spite of the reality that the genuine text received overwhelming two-party acceptance 14 days ago in the House of Representatives.
The termination of the act, the practices of which were exposed by Edward Snowden 2 years ago, has reverted to reopen the discussion on the balance among the privacy of citizens and national security and freedom.
According to majority of Congressmen including Barack Obama, the bill has managed to accomplish the necessary stability.
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Darren Goodsir refuses to apologise to the Oz. And other media tidbits of the day.
No apology, but here's a loan. Sydney Morning Herald editor-in-chief Darren Goodsir yesterday informed News Corp that his paper will not be apologising for a piece published on Monday by journalist Michael West which alleged News Corp and Telstra were lending money to Foxtel at an exorbitant 12% interest rate in order to reduce the companies tax commitments.
The allegation, the result of complex forensic accounting you can follow at the link above if you're so inclined, is strongly rejected by News Corp and Telstra, has led to days of several biting critiques in the News Corp press, all the while the company's corporate side has been seeking a correction be issued in the paper.
On Wednesday, the Herald Sun's Terry McCrann wrote what was perhaps the most critical rebuttal to the story:
"Last September The Age and its Sydney clone, the Sydney Morning Herald, splashed across their front pages a claimed 'report' on corporate tax in Australia which was quite simply complete and utter rubbish. On Monday they did it again. They purported to reveal a scheme by News Corporation, publisher of this paper, and Telstra to slash their tax bills. It was also quite simply, complete — made-up and incoherent — rubbish."
The piece went on to both criticise West's specific allegations and to accuse him of "sheer ineptitude and raging anti-News Corp bias". The piece also reprised McCrann's "Age-ABC-Crikey axis" line, which we are so fond of.
Not one to be silenced, West has been baiting News Corp on Twitter for the past few days, saying he's confident of securing $450 million in loans to Foxtel at a reduced 10% interest rate, which would nonetheless provide a very tidy return for all involved. He has formally made the offer to the directors of Foxtel.
"We hope Foxtel gives due consideration to our attractive offer," he told Crikey this morning. "Not only is it priced at a 200 basis point discount to the prevailing interest rate of 12 per cent but the offer is also in the public interest as taxpayers will no longer be required to fund the tax deductions — which presently benefit News and Telstra — on the exceedingly high interest rate of 12 per cent.
"It is of course subject to due diligence".
Another irony to this whole saga is that West is a Walkley-award winner, and he got that Walkley in 2005 while he worked at The Australian for reporting on a scandal involving Macquarie Bank. McCrann was on the judging panel that awarded that Walkley. We wonder if he regrets it. — Myriam Robin
If you're gonna republish a press release … An April 2014 editorial in the Fairfax-owned Gippsland Times which drew "substantially" from a press release by then-Victorian health minister David Davis has drawn censure from the Press Council, after it failed to attribute a statement in the release as an opinion from the minister, expressing it instead as fact.
The editorial, titled "Labor labelled as health 'hypocrites'," regarded the health funding increase in central Gippsland under the Liberal government.
The Press Council's beef appeared in the failure to properly attribute Davis' comment: "Labor MPs voted against the interests of Victorians and voted in favour of Julia Gillard's $107 million cut to Victorian hospitals in 2012-13". The council said the use of these words gave the impression the statement was a fact, when it was an opinion expressed from a politician.
The publication agreed the editorial was largely taken from the release, and said, according to the adjudication, that this was "not an unusual practice for small regional newspapers". The Gippsland Times conceded it should have attributed the statement to Davis.
The council acknowledged such a mistake could be easily made by small newspapers with few staff, but ruled it should have been corrected before publication. "The Council considers therefore that the article's heavy reliance on a press release was not in itself a breach of the Council's Standards of Practice," the adjudication read. "But the failure to present some material as a statement of opinion from the Minister's release did constitute a breach. The Council welcomes the publication's acknowledgement of error and of the need to avoid repetition. It commends this approach for adoption by other publications."
The Press Council flagged last year that it would be keeping a closer eye on opinion writing, now subjected to the same accuracy rules as news articles. But it's unusual for the Press Council to rule on an editorial. Yesterday, the council revealed it had passed a motion condemning The Australian for breaching its confidentiality provisions in its campaign against the council, for what the Oz sees as the council's creeping attempt to control the press. The Oz's editor-in-chief Chris Mitchell yesterday called on the council to be reconstituted by publishers. — Crikey intern Abbey Casey and Myriam Robin
TV ain't dead. A statement from CBS in the US has added to the debate about whether TV is dying: it's not, despite all the claims from the tech heads, the early adopters/adapters and other tech heads. The CBS announcement has some data and some ideas to back that claim. According to CBS, viewing levels for the first half of its current line up (for the 2014-15 season) are 3% above those for 11 years go. The website deadline.com. reported the claims, making the very important point that, as multi-platform viewing grows in the US, bigger audiences are being generated.
"While it's CBS' point, it speaks to how all broadcast networks are, with varying degrees of success, able to re-assemble their audience via all these other platforms," Deadline pointed out. According to the numbers from CBS, its current 24-program, prime-time roster viewed across linear TV and also via digital video recorders had an average 13.38 million viewers a night. That was up 3% from 2003-04's linear, TV-only average of 13.38 million. These totals do not include viewing on various forms of unmeasured nonlinear viewing, including mobile and over-the-top platforms such as the CBS All Access streaming service and DVR playback after seven days. These are all now growing rapidly in the US. Measure those (it's slowly happening) and the viewing averages will grow noticeably.
On a much smaller scale, the Seven Network here found it had more viewers than for the Australian Open tennis this year when it added in 4.1 million free video streams during the two weeks of the tournament. That was in addition to the more than 13 million people who watched on free-to-air, linear TV. The networks are offering programming streams now on different platforms to different devices. The problem is how to capture the data to support the case. The Australian networks are short of money and will need to partner with someone else to achieve this. Hence the linking of Nine and Fairfax in Stan, and Seven and Foxtel in Presto.
Many who claim TV is dead and or dying only think of linear TV and viewing on static sets. That's all so very 1995. Even the Australian networks don't think like that any more. — Glenn Dyer
Dateline scores. After SBS' Dateline controversially fired most of its former journalists in a dramatic rethink of the program (as Crikey readers would be well aware), many TV journalists have been eagerly awaiting its return. Early figures suggest many viewers were just as keen — Tuesday night's episode had the best opening ratings by a significant margin. SBS is very happy with the numbers and the high engagement on social media with the episode.
Across the country, 330,000 people watched Dateline at its new half-hour 9.30pm slot on Tuesday. The 2014 season premier had 244,000 viewers, while the 2013 season premier had 230,000 viewers. The whole night was a good one for SBS, with Dateline keeping 80% of Insight's audience during a competitive night.
The episode used a mixture of archival footage and fresh interviews to document the plight of Indonesian death-row inmates Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan. Narrated by SBS news host Anton Enus and aired without a presenter, as will be usual in the new half-hour format, it made heavy usage of footage from former Dateline star investigative journalist Mark Davis' 2010 episode, for which he gained exclusive access to Kerobokan prison to film the pair. Davis, who co-owns the footage with SBS, also took it to the ABC when he did an hour-long Four Corners documentary on the same topic aired last week. A report in The Guardian said SBS was unhappy with the ABC's heavy usage of the footage, and when one considers the fact that Dateline's opening episode was almost certainly already in production at that stage, it's easy to see why. — Myriam Robin
This is why we need subs. The ever-perspicacious Townsville Magpie has tipped us off to this sentence in a Fairfax story on Bali Nine duo Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran …
As the Magpie notes: "For the lack of a comma (or indeed, a better constructed sentence) it appears the two condemned men will be shot in situ in Bali's Kerobokan prison this afternoon." We would blame a poor subbing job for the tortured sentence — if there were any left to blame.
Front page of the day. A brave photoshoot by new Health Minister Sussan Ley.
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We're no threat to commercial media operators: SBS
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Media briefs: Jokowi listens to Triple J … SBS apologises … bad news for News …
Media briefs: Murdoch expansion … Worst. Journo. Ever. … Mythbusters runs out of duct tape …
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At least Susan Ley looks like she's having a bit of a laugh about that photo.


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West Ham's season got off to the worst possible start on Sunday as they were handed a 4-0 thumping by Manchester United at Old Trafford.
The Hammers did not put up much of a fight against a side many had tipped for the title before the season began, as their new signings failed to make an impact.
There's a long way to go in the season yet, but already the optimism of the summer has begun to dissipate in east London.
Here we take a look at what the papers said about the result.
"Slaven Bilic began the new season as one of the favourites to be the first boss sacked in the Premier League," David McDonnell writes for the Mirror.
"After such an insipid display from his West Ham side, it's easy to see why the bookies believe he could be the first boss to bite the bullet.
"Many teams come to Old Trafford and adopt a policy of containment, but West Ham were so deep in the first-half, they may as well have been sat in the Stretford End.
"Such a timid approach got what it deserved, with Jose Mourinho's side allowed to dominate the game, safe in the knowledge their opponents had no ambition whatsoever."
"Arguably, for the first time since 2008, United's options in the middle of the park befit the club's stature once again," Mark Critchley says for the Independent.
"In Ander Herrera, they have a tenacious captain in waiting. Paul Pogba's first year received mixed reviews but the talent is there for all to see. Now, with Matic, there is finally a player capable of dominating the middle of the park and setting a foundation for the rest of the team.
"It would be foolish to read too much into one game mind, especially against a West Ham side that lacked coherence in attack, and doubts remain over Matic after he was so poor while things fell down around Mourinho's head at Chelsea two years ago."
"Optimism has been high at West Ham after a productive summer for manager Slaven Bilic - but some of that may have disappeared after they were easily brushed aside at Old Trafford," says Jonathan Jurejko for the BBC.
"Bilic said afterwards it was hard to find any positives, but one poor performance on the opening weekend does not mean the Hammers should necessarily panic, especially as several key players - including Manuel Lanzini, Andy Carroll and Michail Antonio - were missing through injury."
"West Ham had defended stoutly until [the first goal] but they set about the afternoon with a distinct lack of adventure," Daniel Taylor reports in The Guardian.
"There were only sporadic moments when their new-look frontline of Hernandez, Marko Arnautovic and Andre Ayew flickered into life.
"Arnautovic had their best moment with a looping header that David de Gea tipped over the crossbar but the score was 2-0 at that stage and, for the most part, Slaven Bilic's men were pinned inside their own half. 'They were better than us in every department,' Bilic reflected."
"The sight of Pogba and Matic monstering the likes of Mark Noble was also the stuff of nightmares for West Ham, who gave debuts to four players – goalkeeper Joe Hart, Pablo Zabaleta, Marko Arnautovic and Javier Hernandez – but need the presence of William Carvalho, the powerful Portuguese international who they are chasing, in their own midfield," Jason Burt says in The Telegraph.
"They, in truth, have a problem with Noble, their captain, who was withdrawn here and appears to be a player in rapid decline.
"They will not be fully judged on this display but it is as poor a start to the season as United's was impressive."


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Moldauer, Hurd Win American Cup Titles
Written by Travis Seefried	for International Gymnast Magazine | Saturday, 03 March 2018 17:24
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HOFFMAN ESTATES, ILL.—In her first competition of 2018, world champion Morgan Hurd of the United States proved that winning the all-around in Montreal was no fluke. With a new found confidence and upgrades on three of her four events, Hurd defeated reigning world floor champion Mai Murakami of Japan and two-time U.S. Junior Champion Maile O'Keefe to take her first American Cup title.
2018 American Cup champions Yul Moldauer and Morgan Hurd (United States)
In a crowd of almost 4,000 in the Sears Centre, Hurd placed first on bars, beam and floor on her way to the all-around crown and an impressive 56.599 four event total. "I feel ecstatic!" Hurd said after the meet. "Following worlds, I went home and I didn't stop working hard. And now, my hard work is paying off."
Murakami, 2016 Olympian and fourth all-around at the last worlds, also turned in four solid routines to finish second. Murakami showed the same routine and tumbling she used last fall to win the world title on that event. She shared the floor title this weekend with Hurd (14.033). She also tied for first on vault with O'Keefe with scores of 14.600 for beautifully executed Yurchenko-double fulls.
Despite several errors in her senior debut, O'Keefe won the bronze thanks in part to strong vault and floor routines and costly errors from the rest of the field. She did show tremendous difficulty and potential on all four events and will definitely be one to watch in the months ahead to the U.S. nationals and this fall's World Championships in Doha, Qatar.
Rounding out the women's field were Lorette Chirpy (France), Kelly Simm (Great Britain), veteran and fan-favorite Elisabeth Seitz (Germany), who tied Hurd's top bar score of a 14.20, and the always entertaining and elegant Brooklyn Moors (Canada). Fabiane Valentin (Brazil) and Mao Yi (China) both withdrew after vault, with Mao being carried out on a stretcher.
The University of Oklahoma's Yul Moldauer easily defended his American Cup title from last year to become the first man to win back-to-back titles since fellow Sooner Jonathan Horton did so in 2006 and 2007.
Though he led the field on only one event, still rings (14.333), Moldauer competed aggressive, consistent routines with clean execution to easily top the field by almost three points. He scored an impressive 85.964 and placed in the top three on every event.
Finishing second all-around was 2017 European Championships bronze medalist James Hall of Great Britain (83.297). Hall showed consistency on all six apparatus as well, and added the event titles on pommel horse (14.166) and high bar (13.866).
Ukraine's Petro Pakhniuk finished just over two tenths behind Hall with an 83.064. Like his countryman and American Cup favorite, Oleg Vernyayev, Pakhniuk excelled on the parallel bars earning an event high 14.933.
Pre-meet favorite to challenge Moldauer for the all-around, Olympic and world champion Kenzo Shirai of Japan recorded the two highest scores of the entire competition on floor and vault (14.966 and 15.066 respectively). However, falls from pommel horse and high bar left him in sixth place finish.
The rest of the men's roster included Phillipp Herder (Germany), Allan Bower (USA), Sun Wei (China), Francisco Barretto Junior (Brazil) and Nestor Abad (Spain).
The 2018 American Cup served as the first of four in a series of FIG World Cup all-around competitions to be held throught the year. This was also the first major competition to be held in the United States since the Larry Nassar hearing and the restructuring of USA Gymnastics.
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Google's new rules for developers make Chrome extensions safer for all
03 Oct 2018 0 Google, Google Chrome, Organisations, Web Browsers
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Google has announced a range of security changes to its Chrome browser that will make the use of extensions more secure. The updates, to be introduced in version 70 of the popular browser, cover areas including extension permissions and developer accounts.
Browser extensions are small programs that enhance its functionality. The problem is that misbehaving extensions can steal data or invade users' browser privacy. Chrome is a trusted application in most operating systems, meaning that if you give an extension permission to do things, the operating system will usually wave it through. This can leave users vulnerable to malicious extensions.
In the past, Google has taken steps to keep extensions in line by limiting what they can do. Late last year, for example, it introduced an optional site isolation feature that made it more difficult for malicious code on one site to steal secrets from another when open in the browser. It also enabled administrators to block extensions based on the kinds of permissions they request, such as access to the webcam or the clipboard.
Per-site permissions
Now, it has announced plans to take things further. In Chrome 70, the company will enable users to restrict an extension's permissions to manipulate website data and services on a per-site basis. When users gave a Chrome extension permission to read and change website data in the past, the extension could use those permissions across all sites. The change allows users to be more selective about the sites that the extension can access.
While you may want a screen clipping extension to read information from a handful of news sites that you visit, say, you might want it to avoid reading anything else, including your online bank account. Chrome 70 will restrict host access permissions to specific sites allowed by the user, or it can be configured to request approval for host access when visiting any site. The user can also enable host permissions on all sites by default if they wish.
Google will also make the review process more stringent for extensions that request 'powerful permissions', it said, and will also monitor extensions that use code hosted remotely.
Obfuscated code banned
The company is also banning the use of obfuscated code. This is JavaScript code that is scrambled to avoid others finding out what it does, and while this can be a way for developers to protect their IP, a good reverse engineer would eventually work out what it was doing, Google pointed out.
In the meantime, obfuscated code also enables cybercriminals, such as cryptojackers, to execute nefarious code under the hood. From now on, Google's Chromium team is having none of it. Not only will all new extension submissions have to carry usable code, but existing extensions with obfuscated code will be removed from the Chrome Web Store in early January if they don't fix the issue. The company said:
Today over 70% of malicious and policy violating extensions that we block from Chrome Web Store contain obfuscated code. At the same time, because obfuscation is mainly used to conceal code functionality, it adds a great deal of complexity to our review process. This is no longer acceptable given the aforementioned review process changes.
Minification, which reduces side code by removing comments and unused code and shortening variables, is still fine, it added.
2FA for extension developers
Google also changed the requirements for developers to access their online accounts. They will be expected to use two-step verification (or 2FA) to access their accounts in the Chrome Web Store from next year, the company stated. This is a bid to protect developers of popular extensions from having their accounts hijacked and their published extensions tampered with by malicious actors.
These enhancements may go some way towards mitigating malicious Chrome extensions, of which there have been a few.
One popular legitimate extension called Web Developer for Chrome was hijacked last year after criminals compromised the developer's account.
Another extension named "Desbloquear Conteúdo" was evil from the start, inserting a perfect overlay of username, password, and one time pad form fields on a bank's site.
The security changes are a precursor to version 3 of Google's extensions manifest, which will make it harder to write insecure extensions, the company claimed. These changes will include more narrowly-scoped application programming interfaces (APIs) so that developers can give extensions more selective access to webpages. Expect those new changes next year.
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PROFILE: Melissa Dunphy, composer
Kristin Shafel of KCMETROPOLIS.org
This Saturday's Simon Carrington Chamber Singers dual concerts will feature the world premiere of their first composition competition's winning work, Melissa Dunphy's "What do you think I fought for at Omaha Beach?" Melissa took some time recently to answer a few questions about the piece, her compositional process, and her reaction to winning the SCCS competition.
This Saturday's Simon Carrington Chamber Singers dual concerts will feature the world premiere of their first composition competition's winning work, Melissa Dunphy's "What do you think I fought for at Omaha Beach?" Based in Philadelphia and currently at work on her doctoral degree at the University of Pennsylvania, Australian-born Melissa has already achieved a level of success and recognition on a national level, including a spot on The Rachel Maddow Show for another large choral work, The Gonzales Cantata. Melissa took some time recently to answer a few questions about the piece, her compositional process, and her reaction to winning the SCCS competition.
Kristin Shafel: Your piece "What do you think I fought for at Omaha Beach?" is based on a WWII veteran's testimony from the Maine Senate Hearing last year regarding marriage equality, a very politically and emotionally charged topic. Your "Gonzales Cantata" is another politically-inspired work. As a person of Chinese/Australian descent, what has drawn you to US politics for creative inspiration?
Melissa Dunphy: I was only mildly politically interested and a centrist growing up in Australia, but when I immigrated to the US in 2003 (to marry my American husband, Matt Dunphy) I was faced with the somewhat unexpected culture shock of a political spectrum shifted much further to the right. I'm often asked what I miss the most about Australia, and my answer is always the same: socialized health care and well-funded public education systems. I think most Americans don't understand how profoundly public health care and education affect the standard of living and quality of life - not just for the people who need them, but for everyone in society. My husband and I decided to settle in the US because, with over ten times the population of Australia, there are more opportunities in the arts and media, but the experience of moving brought me from being politically complacent to being very civically engaged and determined to contribute to political dialogues.
As a composer, my first rule is "write your passions," so it was only natural that politics would begin to inspire me musically, but the best topics are always not only politically interesting but personally engaging. Watching the struggles of the gay rights movement struck a particular chord in me. I was able to get married in order to be with the person I love; why shouldn't a gay or lesbian couple be able to do the same? I believe one of the worst things about the marriage equality debate is that it has been manipulated into being a partisan issue. Marriage equality has nothing to do with the left or the right; it is about human rights. One of the reasons I was so drawn to the speech that inspired "What do you think I fought for at Omaha Beach?" was that the speaker, a lifelong Republican, made that point in such a beautiful, poignant way. I broke down in tears watching the video of his testimony. Anything that elicits that strong a reaction from me is probably going to end up in a piece I write at some point.
KS: What is your process for evolving somewhat prosaic language into the text for a piece of music? Do you set the testimony word-for-word, or modify it at all?
MD: I don't think there's any such thing as an "unsettable" text. Since I was a teenager, I've been drawn to setting very challenging texts; one of my first vocal pieces was based on a poem "No Brian" that consisted of dozens and dozens of permutations of those two words with various punctuation marks. I do make cuts to the prose I use, usually for practical reasons; it takes much longer to sing something than say it, and regular speech involves a lot of repetition, so taking one iteration and setting it in a way that emphasizes those words has the same effect. Sometimes, I'll rearrange text for dramatic effect: in one section of Omaha Beach, for example, I have most of the choir sing about what Mr. Spooner did during WWII - battles and facts - while a small group of sopranos sings a descant about the suffering he saw. For the most part, however, I try to leave the actual words as they are. There's song in all prose; sometimes it's a matter of chipping the prose away to reveal the song, like a sculptor working on a piece of marble.
KS: What is your compositional timeline for politically-charged pieces? Do you immediately start writing after hearing the text or do you let them gestate? Do you feel timeliness effect their reception?
MD: If something grabs me, I usually get down to the business of the text straight away, but after I've cut the text into lyrics, I'll sometimes take time before I put pen to paper (or mouse pointer to virtual staff). I do set myself deadlines, but I try not to worry too much about timeliness because I choose subjects that I hope are interesting in the long term. It's the personal, human aspects in stories that make them truly interesting. In the Gonzales Cantata, the character study drives the narrative more than political outrage, so I didn't mind that it took me a couple of years to get the piece out the door - but I will admit to being very glad that Alberto Gonzales was still in the news when it premiered. "Omaha Beach" had a much shorter timeline from inspiration to premiere, but I hope it helps to preserve Mr. Spooner's story in the public consciousness for longer than the cable news cycle or the lifespan of an internet meme.
KS: Much of your music (posted on your website) includes voice. What is your relationship with voice and choir?
MD: The first instrument we hear when we're in the womb is our mother's voice, and our own voice is the first instrument we use once we're born, so the human voice necessarily has a very special place in music. It's little wonder that nearly all pop music is vocal, and nearly all famous melodies in any genre of music are singable. There's something very spiritual about the act of singing - taking a musical concept out of your head and expressing in your body. I do it all the time as I'm composing - even when I compose instrumental music - and I feel very lucky that I grew up singing in choirs and have some vocal training. Voice is such a powerful tool for composers; in any combination or instrumentation, if a voice is audible, it will be of primary importance to the listener. When you first distinguish Glenn Gould's quiet humming as he plays Bach's Goldberg Variations, your ear locks onto the timbre of his voice, and whatever line he is singing becomes the melody, whether you like it or not! Voice is also every composer's best friend for making very difficult or avant-garde musical concepts more accessible to listening audiences. It is almost too easy for me to return to vocal music again and again.
KS: I read on your website that you have had performances of your compositions on the East and West coasts of the US, and in Australia. Is this your first performance in the Midwest? How does it feel to win the Simon Carrington Chamber Singers' first composition competition?
MD: I suppose this counts as my second performance in the Midwest, since an electronic piece I wrote, Insects, was performed at the SEAMUS annual conference at St. Cloud University in Minnesota this past April. I have never been to Missouri or Kansas before, however, so I'm very excited to be able to attend these performances.
I was quite shocked to win the SCCS composition competition! I composed the piece over several months, but finished it literally only days before sending in my entry, so the only person who had seen it beforehand was my composition professor at Penn, Dr. James Primosch. I don't think I had even shown my husband. I had absolutely no idea how it might be received by performers, or other musicians, or anyone else. It's always a little daunting to blindly send out a piece of music to be judged, especially by someone as distinguished as Simon Carrington. I usually talk myself down and imagine the worst possible outcomes. What an incredible joy it was to receive the news that my piece had been shortlisted. Even then, I didn't think it would be possible to win. I must have had to read the final outcome ten times before it sunk in - especially Mr. Carrington's wonderful comments.
KS: What is on the horizon for you as a composer? More vocal and/or politically charged works? Are there any events since the Maine Senate Hearing that have caught your attention?
MD: I've had a bee in my bonnet for a while about writing a chamber opera, particularly with strong female leads. I get a different idea for a subject just about every week. Watching the media coverage of Rand Paul and seeing Berg's Lulu at the Met recently led me to wonder if I should write an opera about Ayn Rand's outrageous love pentagon. I find her personally riveting, even if I agree with hardly anything she wrote or said; I'm sure that even if I completely ignored the subject of Objectivism, that opera would wind up feeling politically charged because she so embodied her own political philosophy. Perhaps I could throw in a clarinet solo for Alan Greenspan.
For more information about Melissa Dunphy, please visit http://www.melissadunphy.com.


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Dr Aristea Fotopoulou works at the intersections of media & cultural studies with science & technologies studies. She has written about information politics, knowledge production, and digital engagement, digital networks and feminism.
She is currently on Research Placement as 2014 Visiting Scholar at the Research Center Science and Justice, UCSC, where she examines data sharing and ownership in relation to digital health and algorithmic living (Tracking personal data project funded by RCUK Digital Economy NEMODE+).
As postdoctoral researcher (Research Fellow II) based in the Department of Media and Film, University of Sussex, she works on a media analysis of emerging technologies (smart grids, wearable sensors and in-vitro meat) contributing to the technology assessment collaborative project EPINET (Integrated Assessment of Societal Impacts of Emerging Science and Technology from within Epistemic Networks, FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2012- European Commission) (with Kate O'Riordan). Her focus is on media, communications and digital culture.
Dr Fotopoulou has just completed work in Storycircle (Framework for Innovation and Research in MediaCityUK (FIRM), an action research project which focuses on the social and digital conditions for narrative exchange and knowledge production (PI Nick Couldry, University of London, Goldsmiths College, Department of Media and Communications). She has also been involved as Research Assistant in the Horizon Scoping Study Digital expertise, literacy and knowledge (funded by the Digital Economy Communities and Culture Network+/EPSRC, PI Caroline Bassett). This project considers questions of digital literacy and, more broadly, questions of digital engagement and the kinds of expertise that are necessary to access/enable engagement.
Her thesis 'Remediating Politics: feminist and queer formations in digital networks' (2012) examined the possibilities and foreclosures for gender politics in digital environments today. It mapped forms of political organisation and knowledge production to indicate how understandings of the political and older debates around gender and sexuality are being reformulated in digital networks. Fotopoulou's earliest work explored blogs of disabled women, and methodological issues in queer studies and intersectionality. She taught in the School of Arts and Media at the University of Brighton between 2010-2012, and teaches in the School of Media and Film, University of Sussex since 2009.
Dr Fotopoulou has a rich educational background and diverse skills and expertise. At postgraduate level she studied Media and Cultural Studies, as well as Social Science Research Methods (Sussex). At undergraduate level she studied Physics (University of Ioannina), social sciences and media (Open University) and art & design (Middlesex University). She worked extensively in the digital media industry as an animator and 3D cg-artist before embarking on theoretical postgraduate studies.
Organised the research seminar Smart Publics? Technoscience and public engagement with the Publics Now, Then and Beyond Network, Open University (University of Sussex, 5th December 2013).
Co-editor of Ada Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology forthcomingIssue 4 on Digital Media Praxis.
'The Quantified Self movement: reshaping participatory science and public engagement', in Participation Now! Section of OpenDemocracy.net (commissioned, in press).
Book review, Gender, media & Cultural studies text book supplement, Times Higher Education, November 2012.
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by jfwknifton | October 17, 2019 · 6:17 am
On holiday with Ross Poldark (2)
Last time I talked in very general terms about the main, and most obvious, sights at Botallack, a disused tin mine in Cornwall:
First, there is the enormous stone chimney, to power the pumps that maintain low water levels in the mine:
And then there is something which I have never managed to fathom out. It looks rather like Cornwall's attempt at Peru's Nazca lines, but constructed with stone and concrete:
In among them were two Georgian missile silos, their "Hanover" ICBMs targeted on Napoléon's distant boudoir. Spot the photographer, by the way:
Walk a little further on to the south and there is a view of the winding gear, the top bits of a more modern chimney, and a ruined wall. And what a sky! :
Keep walking and there is a view back towards the car park. The metal winding gear has not been used for a long time, perhaps as far back as 1900.
Again, everywhere there are ruined buildings, all of them in local stone:
At least one of the forgotten buildings was an arsenic-refining works. In areas of volcanic rock where tin and copper are mined, some nasty substances may always be encountered such as arsenic, cadmium, lithium and even uranium.
I suspect that perhaps, over the years, the local builders and farmers have been helping themselves to many of the pre-cut stone blocks for their own walls and/or barn building or perhaps even as the hard core for country roads.
If you turn round and walk past the big stone chimney:
You can then continue for fifty or a hundred yards, until you get to the "abandoned mine engine of Wheal Owles":
That particular disused mine is frequently used in Poldark episodes when the work force is filmed actually working the mine. I have walked over to the Wheal Owles on just one occasion but I didn't take any photographs. To be honest there are so many of this type of ruined pump house in this part of West Cornwall that the old adage "Seen one, you've seen 'em all" comes into play.
This is the view straight ahead of the bench towards the north. There is another large ruined building and then what looks like the stump of a demolished chimney nearer to the tip of the headland.
Here's that same view looking slightly more northwards;
You can just see the reason why the BBC people chose this site. It's at the bottom left of the photograph above, and it's one of the Crowns mines, the most photogenic industrial location in Cornwall and its second most photographed tourist site after the Men-an-Tol:
We'll walk down to see the Crowns mines next time.
Filed under Cornwall, Film & TV, History, Humour, Personal, Science
Tagged as arsenic, Botallack, cadmium, copper, hard core, lithium, Nazca Lines, Poldark, the Crowns Mines, tin, uranium
by jfwknifton | July 22, 2019 · 8:17 am
"The Devil's Doctors" by Dr Mark Felton (4)
Last time I was talking about "The Devil's Doctors" by Dr Mark Felton which describes how, at Mukden POW Camp in Manchuria, Allied prisoners of war, primarily Americans, were used to test Japanese biological weapons developed at Pingfan, the nearby headquarters of Unit 731. Dr Felton also broadens the scope of his writing to include events after the war, when large numbers of Japanese doctors were found guilty of war crimes, in many cases on American personnel, but no sentences were ever carried out. "Why did this happen?" the author asks, but quickly reveals the real truth. The Americans were now thinking about war with their erstwhile allies, the Soviets:
To wage the next war and win, the American government wanted to know immediately everything about the Japanese biological weapons so that they could use the information for their own purposes. On August 13th 1945, before even the end of this war, in Operation Flamingo, the American government set up an OSS team to
"secure all Japanese documents and dossiers, and other information useful to the United States government".
Indeed, fifteen military intelligence operatives were about to be parachuted into Pingfan to gather up scientists and data, when the Japanese, terrified by the thought of Stalin's savage soldiers invading the sacred Japanese homeland, suddenly surrendered:
Shiro Ischii and his colleagues fled from Manchuria to Japan with all their data. According to the author, they eventually finished up talking to Columbia University's Dr Murray Sanders to whom General MacArthur had personally given the job of investigating the Japanese biological warfare programme. Here's Ischii again:
Everything that Dr Sanders found out was taken to MacArthur who decided that the Japanese data was "almost incalculable and incredibly valuable to the United States". He wanted it "on an exclusive basis". The Americans offered Ischii and his colleagues from Pingfan a "blanket immunity from prosecution in perpetuity". The people who made this offer were well aware that living Allied prisoners had been experimented on. Both Pacific Stars and Stripes and the New York Times had published allegations in 1946 and in 1947 American Military Intelligence found 12 independent witnesses all giving the same details about the live vivisection of Allied POWs. Here's MacArthur:
According to the author, when J Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, tried to look into the affair, he was told by MacArthur's investigating agent that "information of the type in question is closely controlled and regarded as highly sensitive". In other words, he was told to get lost. Here's Hoover, who does not seem to have pressed the point:
So Ishii and all of the rest got their lifelong immunity and were never put on trial. Had they appeared in court, the British and the Soviets would have acquired all of the data that only the Americans had at the time. Ishii went to live the American Dream in Maryland where he died in 1959. According to the author, the prominent Unit 731 vivisectionist, Masaji Kitano, went back to Japan and became the president of a large pharmaceutical firm. Here's Kitano:
Sadly, the author, Dr Felton, does not name the vivisectionist who became Governor of Tokyo, nor the one who was President of the Japan Medical Association nor the one who headed the Japan Olympic Committee. Even so his research at this point could not be bettered, with some very dark and disgusting political stones being overturned.
As the war slipped away, the Japanese were keen to use their new Biological Weapons in the USA. Again, the author's research into events at this point could not be bettered. A first feasibility trial consisted of a submarine launched spotter plane which dropped incendiary bombs in the forests of the West Coast. It was too wet and not a lot happened.
In August 1943, the Japanese Navy tested large paper balloons, again launched from submarines, and again with the intention of setting fire to the forests. That project was abandoned in favour of an Army project to use bigger balloons carrying incendiary and anti-personnel bombs. Sadly, six people were killed near Bly in Oregon, possibly because the powers-that-be did not release news of what the Japanese were doing, because it might have caused mass panic.
The final piece in this well researched jigsaw came when the Japanese Navy commissioned the huge I-400 submarines which would have carried three aircraft each, Aichi M6A1 Seiran torpedo bombers:
These aircraft would have overflown San Francisco, Los Angeles and other American cities and then dropped canister type bombs or possible even crop sprayed them with Today's Maniac Special… bubonic plague, typhoid, dysentery, perhaps even a nerve gas. Shiro Ishii would surely have had some ideas about what to do?
So why did it not happen? Well, the author's persistent research has turned up a good few reasons. Firstly, Japan found it difficult to produce the huge I-400 submarines and the planes to go with them. Furthermore, a "morally bankrupt" Imperial Army still had one or two who remembered dimly how decent human beings led their lives. Quite simply, the Chief of the General Staff, Yoshijiro Umezu put a stop to it. He told his officers:
"If bacteriological war is conducted it will grow from the dimension of war between Japan and America to an endless battle of humanity against bacteria. Japan will earn the derision of the world".
Overall, I would strongly recommend this book which lays bare the extremely dirty secrets of the Japanese and the Americans, and I suppose those of the Soviets too, because, although they never received any of the material scooped up and taken away by their American allies, they definitely wanted to have it. So too did the British, and there is a lengthy section about their activities with plagues and nerve gases, centred on the top secret centre at Porton Down in Wiltshire. The book is 198 pages and if you can buy yourself a copy, then you really should. It's a fine tale about just where a Master Race complex can lead you.
Filed under Criminology, History, Politics, Russia, Science
Tagged as Aichi M6A1 Seiran, bubonic plague, Dr Murray Sanders, dysentery, General MacArthur, J Edgar Hoover, Los Angeles, Manchuria, Masaji Kitano, Mukden, New York Times, Operation Flamingo, Pacific Stars and Stripes, Pingfan, San Francisco, Shiro Ischii, Stalin, The Devil's Doctors, typhoid, Unit 731
by jfwknifton | July 7, 2019 · 8:17 am
Last time I was talking about "The Devil's Doctors" by Dr Mark Felton which describes how, at Mukden POW Camp in Manchuria, Allied prisoners of war, primarily Americans, were used to test Japanese biological weapons developed at Pingfan, the nearby headquarters of Unit 731:
The author then extends his account to some of the other atrocities carried out at other locations within the Japanese sphere of influence. In the last post I spoke of what happened to the crew of a B-29 Superfortress, brought down over Japan on May 5th 1945:
The crew were all murdered in the vilest fashion and 30 Japanese eventually stood trial in an American court. Dr Fumio Ishiyama, the university's chief of surgery, committed suicide to avoid justice. Of the remaining 29 Japanese, 23 were found guilty. There were five death sentences, four life imprisonments and prison for all the rest. Sadly, the sentences, awarded for war crimes up to and including cannibalism, were never carried out.
The author then reveals that the American government, having realised that their erstwhile allies, the Russians, were in actual fact, total savages and vile people and worse than that, a bunch of Commies, decided to do very little indeed with the guilty Japanese defendants. After all, the Japanese people were a lovely lot who well might fight on our side against the Russians if we were very, very kind to them. Nobody was hanged and every single war criminal was free as a bird by 1958. Personally, I'm only surprised that the thirty Japanese weren't asked to write a best selling recipe book.
One of the most striking things in the author's research is that the 700 page Official History of Kyushu Imperial University devotes just one page to the vivisection experiments it carried out for years on hundreds of innocent people. It reminded me of one German company's attitude to the 80,000 concentration camp slave labourers they used. They don't even get a mention.
The doctor in charge at Pingfan was Shiro Ischii:
Ischii wanted to discover how diseases affected the human body, and hundreds of thousands of Chinese people paid the ultimate price to help him. Aerial sprays were used from aircraft and bombs made of ceramic material but full of germs were dropped on Chinese civilians. It must have been a little bit like spraying forest fires nowadays:
Poisoned food and water was frequently offered to Chinese victims. Fleas carrying bubonic plague were released by Japanese aircraft over the Chinese cities of Ningbo (1940) and Changde (1941). At least 400,000 people died as a result of this. Here are the two cities nowadays:
In comparison, casualties at Hiroshima were 90,000–146,000 and at Nagasaki between 39,000–80,000.
Dr Felton has researched Pingfan in enormous detail. The centre was divided into various 'Divisions', all under the command of Shiro Ischii. Division 1 worked with anthrax, bubonic plague, cholera, tuberculosis and typhoid, frequently introducing it to live people. As test volunteers, between 300-400 Chinese were kept confined at a local camp and numbers were always maintained around that level. Division 2 worked on weapons to deliver the toxins, trying to invent radical new ways to contaminate the western USA. Division 3 constructed artillery shells for shorter range operations and Division 4 developed new biological agents.
The book tells exactly what kind of medical and surgical war crimes were committed by Unit 731 personnel but I will not inflict them upon you. You will need to buy the book! Suffice it to say that the treatment meted out to these poor Chinese people was vile, beyond contempt. It still affects Sino-Japanese relationships today, mainly because of the extreme reluctance on the part of the Japanese to accept their guilt and to apologise in a meaningful and sincere way.
Filed under Criminology, History, Politics, Science
Tagged as B-29 Superfortress, Changde, Kyushu Imperial University, Manchuria, Mukden, Ningbo, Pingfan, Shiro Ischii, Unit 731
by jfwknifton | June 27, 2019 · 7:16 am
Last time I was talking about "The Devil's Doctors" by Dr Mark Felton which describes how, at Mukden POW Camp in Manchuria, Allied prisoners of war, primarily Americans, were used to test Japanese biological weapons developed at Pingfan, the nearby headquarters of Unit 731. This is Manchuria:
The events at Mukden were not a unique series of atrocities, however. By no means:
The author relates the dreadful events which took place on May 5th 1945 when a B-29 was rammed and brought down over Japan by a kamikaze fighter pilot. Of the crew, the first fatality had his parachute lines cut in mid-air by the wing of a second Japanese fighter aircraft. A second American was attacked by a mob of Japanese civilians who came running across a field to kill him. With the six bullets in his revolver he shot five of them and then himself. A third man was shot by civilians. A fourth man was never found. A fifth was sent to Tokyo to be questioned under torture. The rest were rounded up and taken to Kyushu Imperial University where they were murdered by the medical staff who dissected them alive in the post mortem room. The witness to all this was Dr Toshio Tono, a young medical assistant at the time.
In the 1980s he wrote a book about the event which named names, most of whom were, by then, in senior posts within the university. According to the author, the dissection of the prisoners paid particular attention to the brain, heart, liver and stomach. Times and places are given. On May 17th 1945, two Americans were dissected, on May 22nd two more, on the 25th a single man and on June 2nd, the last three men died. The horror is not over yet. On June 3rd the last victim's liver was preserved for a party that evening in the Officers' Hospital. More than one witness has come forward to say that the meat was chargrilled, seasoned with soy sauce and served as an hors-d'œuvre to the military and civilian guests, who knew what they were eating and enjoyed the meal.
I suspect that this incident may well have inspired Hannibal Lecter.
Filed under Criminology, Film & TV, History, Politics, Science
Tagged as B-29, Hannibal Lecter, Manchuria, Pingfan
Eagle Comic (5)
On the front cover, Eagle featured Dan Dare, the lantern jawed squeaky clean hero:
He could easily dominate the whole front page:
He was always helped, and occasionally hindered, by Digby, his rather podgy sidekick:
Presumably, he was named after an extremely obscure aircraft called the Digby, which was the name given to the Douglas B-18 Bolo in Canadian Air Force service. You can see this lost aircraft in action in the Powell and Pressburger film "49th Parallel" made in 1941 with Leslie Howard and Laurence Olivier. It's a thriller well worth keeping an eye out for, and a film which portrays perfectly the repulsive attitudes of the Nazis:
Here's another picture of Digby:
And, yes, he is using an electric hairdryer as a weapon:
I shouldn't poke fun, though. Some of the science was years ahead of its time. Who else had heard of nuclear fusion in 1950?:
Dan Dare and Digby had their nemesis in the extraterrestrial figure of "The Mekon":
Dan, Digby and the Mekon caused a revolution in the unchanging comic world of Weary Willie and Tired Tim. Issue N0 2 of Eagle came out on April 21st and the comic was on its way. Here's the top half of that second issue:
And the bottom half of the same page:
Sometimes the price of the comic was rather strange. This issue cost 4½ old pence which even in the days of a pound made up of 240 pence was an unusual price. I can't get enough of that eagle personally:
On the other hand, there was a 4½d stamp at the time. Here's a special one for National Nature Week:
The Eagle went from strength to strength, with its brightly coloured, vigorous art work…
It always had futuristic machines…
Here's that orange caption:
There are occasional monsters…
And the Dan Dare stories always had lots of alien species. Was it this type of picture that inspired the bars and cafes of "Star Wars" ?
Why, they even had girls from time to time…
Filed under Aviation, Film & TV, History, Literature, Personal, Science, Writing
Tagged as 49th Parallel, Dan Dare, Digby, Douglas B-18 Bolo, Eagle, Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard, National Nature Week, Powell and Pressburger
I haven't done many book reviews over the course of my blog posts but every now and again, I come across a book which recounts almost unbelievably serious wrongdoing which has gone unpunished, often deliberately on somebody's part. I feel that such incidents deserve to be given a little publicity. In such a category is "The Devil's Doctors" by Dr Mark Felton.
The book's subtitle says it all: "Japanese Human Experiments on Allied Prisoners of War". It recounts how the Japanese, terrified of the ultimate loss of face when they lose a war they themselves have started, make huge efforts to develop and perfect Biological Weapons, BWs. Before they are used, these weapons will need to be tested on both Europeans and Americans. The latter group are more important for the tests because Japanese attacks will target the West Coast of the USA, physically much closer to Japan.
"The Devil's Doctors" concerns itself with the Allied prison camp at Mukden in Manchuria. Between one and three men are dying every day, only a short time after suddenly developing sickness and severe diarrhoea. On March 12th 1943, the senior officer records in his diary that 195 men have died in 126 days. All of the men who died were Americans with "not a single British, Australian or New Zealand prisoner" involved. Here are some prisoners at Mukden during the time of the book:
As you can just about see in that photograph, conditions in the camp are infinitely better than the average Japanese POW camp, with clean fresh drinking water, hot water in the bathhouse and three meals a day, with as many as 3,000 calories consumed. Discipline is enforced in a much more lenient way, with no random beatings or beheadings. Why is this? Why are men dying when there seems little reason for this to happen? Why are conditions so much better than, say, the Burma-Siam railway? Are the Japanese trying to reproduce life in California so that their testing of biological weapons produces accurate results? Here are some typical Japanese POWs. They are nothing like the prisoners at Mukden:
The author carefully follows the dreadful trail to the truth. Is there a link between biological weapons tests and the "barrage of hypodermic injections" to which the prisoners at Mukden are subject. Why do the deaths increase just after the injections have been administered? Why do the deaths increase just after the distribution of fresh fruit to the prisoners? And what about the reports from prisoners about being awakened in bed by Japanese orderlies touching their faces with feathers. Just what is going on at Mukden?
The feather stories and the injections and the free fruit might all be construed as just silliness were it not for link the author makes with the proximity of Pingfan to the camp. Pingfan is the home of Unit 731, where Japanese doctors and scientists carry out acts of appalling barbarity and cruelty on thousands of Chinese nationals. Although there were seventeen other places in the South East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere where this frightful barbarism went on in secret, Pingfan was the undoubted capital of this Evil Empire. The author will spend most of the book exploring the idea, persistent over the last seventy years, that the doctors of the nearby Mukden POW Camp were testing BWs developed at nearby Pingfan on white men of varying origins. This is Pingfan:
It wasn't as if such treatment of prisoners was unique among prisoners of the Japanese. The author quotes evidence of horrific medical experiments at Shinagawa Hospital in Tokyo where Captain Hisikichi Tokada injected the bile from prisoners with amoebic dysentery into prisoners with tuberculosis. POWs were sprayed facially with dysentery amoebas, a practice which is known to have been carried out at Mukden. And these were Tokada's more responsible deeds:
You can read about Tokada's other Mengele moments when you buy the book! Tokada, thank goodness, would be hanged after the war:
More to come next time.
Filed under Criminology, History, Personal, Politics, Science
Tagged as Biological Weapons, Manchuria, Mukden, Pingfan, South East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, The Devil's Doctors, Unit 731
by jfwknifton | June 7, 2019 · 7:38 am
In Eagle Comic, the sponsored stories and advertisers' contributions were always very interesting. Walls Ice Cream had their ordinary run-of-the-mill adverts:
But they also had "Tommy Walls- the Wonder Boy". The first stirrings of product placement. The perfect planting of a brand name in young, impressionable minds. I think that lots of the young readers actually thought that this story was part of the comic itself. I know I did:
The first picture says "NEW JET LINER MAKES FIRST TEST TODAY"
The last one says "WHAT A WIZARD DESIGN" which is countered by "BUT LOOK"
Clearly something has gone drastically wrong, but if you eat lots and lots and lots of Walls ice cream, you'll be able to save the day:
It must take sacks and sacks of sugar consumed to have the strength to hold the wing and the fuselage of a jet airliner together as it flies to an airport and makes a normal landing. Where was Tommy Walls when the De Havilland Comet was crashing all over Europe?
Cadbury's came a close second with their "Cadbury's Corner Quiz". Here's the first question: And Question 2: And Question 3:
And the final question:
And, of course, there were the ordinary quarter page adverts. Television told our mothers not to forget the Rowntrees Fruit Gums. Only listen to this irritating tune if you have always wanted your brain reformatted :
As well as the commercial links between our mothers and Rowntrees Fruit Gums, 'Eagle' Comic also emphasised the point with a comic strip starring "Ronnie the Gumster" :
But what's a "Gumster" ? Something you find in a Forrest? Like Forrest Gumster.
Tagged as Cadbury's, De Havilland Comet, Rowntrees Fruit Gums, Walls Ice Cream


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