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Stand Up For Shapiro
Interview with organiser Julie Lawless
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Here's the deal: legendary US comic Rick Shapiro has been ill. Awesome Aussie comedy wrangler Julie Lawless has organised a fundraiser for Tuesday 21 August 2012. Hilarious Aussie (and unnameable internationals) are performing. Here's the gig. Story follows. Read and come along.
Julie Lawless – venue booker and tour organiser of both hip young talent and established legendary performers – is virtually 'fresh off the plane' when I catch up with her for a chat. She's just been to Montreal's 'Just For Laughs' comedy festival, returning via New York in order to check out new talent and old friends. Which is a good thing for everyone. It's via Julie, when she was managing Sydney's Laugh Garage, that we were treated to the likes of Lee Camp, Sam Tripoli, Thai Rivera, Nikki Lynn Katt and the very legendary Rick Shapiro.
I was first aware of Julie as the maker of hilarious and insightful comments on mutual friends' Facebook pages. One of those mutual friends, comic Julia Wilson [whom fellow comic Danny McGinlay has noted, serves as my 'good people police'] assured me Lawless was a cool chick worth knowing.
"Bless her," Julie says. "I love Julia Wilson". And so say all of us!
Although Lawless had been into comedy prior, she started interacting in the industry in the 'early noughties' – "around 2000, I'm guessing". Reading street publication The Brag one day, she came across "a tiny little paragraph about Chris Wainhouse, who was playing the Fringe Bar. The piece ended, '…make friends with Chris on MySpace…'" Having just joined MySpace, Chris Wainhouse ended up being Julie's first social networking virtual friend whom she didn't know in real life. Although real life friendship ensued:
"We started hanging out. And that's what I pinpoint as the beginning. I'd been to see live comedy before, but after having made friends with him and joking around on MySpace and then becoming friends with other comics and going to shows, I got to know people that way."
It was through another such friend, comic Sally Kimpton – who, for a time, shared a house with comics Wainhouse and Paul Brasch – that Julie started working at the Laugh Garage. "Do you feel like bossing comics around?" Sally asked Julie, handing over an ad the Laugh Garage taken out for the position of manager. "I applied and got the job," Julie says. "That was my first professional involvement. Via MySpace!"
Part of me thinks the early noughties are a bit early for MySpace. But if Lawless and Wainhouse really did strike up a cyber friendship that early, I may have had a hand in it. I wrote most of The Brag's comedy copy from 1998 (when it was still Revolver) to 2003 . "That's just awesome!" Julie says. "I'd like to think it was courtesy of Dom Romeo – that would add one more cog to my tale of how I got into comedy. And Chris is still one of my favourite comics to this day."
Lawless Entertainment
Julie no longer manages the Laugh Garage. Now she runs Lawless Entertainment, and in this capacity looks after a number of venues. By 'look after', I do mean 'book', but it's often more than that. Julie curates nights of comedy. It started with her simply helping organise gigs for overseas comedian friends visiting Australia. It started as simply as booking them for the Laugh Garage and ensuring there were other opportunities for them once they got here. "I've sort of made everything up as I've gone along, because nobody's ever really taught me how to do this stuff," Julie says. She learnt on her feet. Very quickly. Consider her involvement in the World's Funniest Island comedy festival, taking place on Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour. For the second year, she was programming the coolest stage.
"I totally was!" Julie laughs, appreciating the complement without taking herself too seriously. And then rightfully correcting me: "The two coolest stages, actually".
Because Julie was in charge of '¡Satiristas!' – Julian Morrow, chairing a discussion on satire that was to feature the likes of Paul Provenza (who wrote the book ¡Satiristas!), Lee Camp, Will Durst and Rod Quantock. "That talk panel was going to be amazing," she says.
As was her other baby, 'The United States of Funny': "A bunch of young comics from the US, who were going to come and do half an hour each and kill." The comics included Julia Lillis, Maggie MacDonald, Danielle Stewart, Lee Camp, Owen Benjamin and Thai Rivera.
Unfortunately, that second World's Funniest Island festival never came to be. "When the rug got pulled out from under us, it was pretty heartbreaking for everyone involved, of course," Julie says. However, she was instrumental The World's Funniest Wreckage – a showcase of many of the comics who would have performed on Cockatoo Island – which proved a roaring success, as were the various other comedy spots around town, to accommodate the comics who had come over.
Rick Shapiro
Of course, it was a year earlier, at the initial World's Funniest Island, that I first encountered the comic, actor, poet and legend that is Rick Shapiro – one of a number of great international, and yet criminally locally unknown – comics featured that year by the Laugh Garage. The Laugh Garage's – and thus, Julie's – involvement with Shapiro began with "Superfans in Perth and Melbourne contacting me and getting the ball rolling".
"I got a Facebook message from a comic I didn't know called Evan McHugh McAwesome, saying 'Would you put Shapiro on if we got him out here?'" Julie recounts. "McAwesome and a couple of guys from Perth were obsessed with Shapiro: they'd made a mini-documentary about looking for him in New York and got the ball rolling. We took it from there." (It's worth noting that some Perth people are, comparatively, obsessed – after all, Tuesday night at Perth comedy venue Lazy Susan's is 'Shapiro Tuesday'!)
For the uninitiated, Rick Shapiro might be considered a kind of be-bop version of Woody Allen: a hip take on the observations of a New York Jewish upbringing. Rather than playing the chords, be-bop is about implying the chords by playing the harmonies. Likewise, Shapiro doesn't do the traditional lead line/feed line/punch line joke structure - he implies jokes by telling stories that talk around the topic and rarely end on pat punch lines, adopting characters and setting up situations that leave room for the audience to interpret and engage without the need to make it obvious. They are organic – albeit hyperactive and highly energised – routines that skitter and dodge and weave much like, you begin to imagine, the comic has been forced to, throughout life.
Watching Shapiro at the World's Funniest Island was a supreme pleasure, but it meant that other great comics who immediately followed were difficult to watch because it took time to acclimatise to their more linear approach to comedy. "It's hard to follow a high-energy act like that," Julie concurs.
Julie knows – she was essentially Rick's tour manager in Sydney. Having had the pleasure of hanging out with them for an awesome afternoon barbecue (that ended well after midnight) I can say it's an adventure full of engaging diversions following Rick down the streets to the shops, let alone following him on stage.
Harold Park Hotel
With Julie's gig- and comic-wrangling history, Lawless Entertainment made perfect sense. Management company A-List Entertainment – who look after a number of big names – used to book two rooms that continue to offer the two longest-running comedy nights in Australia: the Old Manly Boatshed (Monday nights) and the Oatley Hotel (Wednesday nights). When A-List divested themselves of the rooms, they sought someone "appropriate" to run them. Someone who "wasn't a manager, agent or comic, and so would have no conflict of interest". That person? Julie Lawless.
"They very kindly thought of me. I've been running those rooms for about a year and a quarter."
More recently, Julie is involved in the renaissance of the Harold Park Hotel. This is a major gain – for Lawless Entertainment, for Sydney Comedy, and for the Harold Park. 'Back in the day' (from the early '80s to the turn of the millennium), the Harold Park Hotel was one of two definitive Sydney comedy venues (the other being Sydney's Original Comedy Store). The Harold Park was a place where you got to see so many amazing talents in their formative years – as well as the cream of the international crop. Robin Williams played there whenever visiting to flog a film.
Sold to developers towards the end of the '90s, the Harold Park Hotel always promised to retain a 'wine bar'-type comedy venue, yet its couple of stabs at comedy since have never quite cut it. Its current incarnation is its most promising yet.
"I've been booking the Harold Park for about a month and it's fantastic," Julie says. "It's alike a little custom-built theatre created with comedy in mind." She elaborates: this time round, the comedy takes place upstairs, "right away from the main bar this time". Which is how they first launched the new Harold Park some years back – before throwing up open mic comics to an indifferent bar.
Sounds good. And according to Julie, it is: "Everyone's enjoyed all the shows there. We had Dicko there last week, watching Chris Franklin!" On the whole, she says, "they seem to be a pretty smart crowd around there, so I'm trying to give them some clever comedy."
Stand Up For Shapiro
The Stant Up Shapiro Fundraiser Gala promises to be clever – and very special. While Rick Shapiro continues to play Edinburgh Fringe with his show Rebirth, it is in the wake of what is now being referred to a 'minor heart incident' that he had a few months ago. "He was actually hospitalised and wheelchair-bound for about 45 days," Julie says. A month-and-a-half of incapacitation when your income is stand-up comedy, in addition to the USA's arcane and downright medieval approach to health care, means no ability to meet what must be astronomical health bills. "I don't know exactly what they are," Julie says, "but I got billed $3,000 for a broken finger that I didn't even get treated, so you can imagine what 45 days is going to add up to."
There have been a number of fundraisers of Shapiro in the United States. Now, says, Julie, "we've decided to show Rick our love over here. Everyone's working for free on this: absolutely every cent that we raise is going directly to Shapiro, not just to help him with his bills but also to show him that we love him."
Of course, you want to know who's on: mostly, comics who relate to Rick and are friends with him. This includes some international acts that I'm not at liberty to divulge – but I am able to list Damian Smith, Sally Kimpton, Ben Ellwood, Darren Sanders and Simon Palomares.
Fine Print:
Tue 21st Auguest 2012
Show starts at 8pm, with doors open at 7pm.
Cost is $15 (or $10 if you've got student or backpackers id).
"I'm going to ask any comics who turn up and don't want to pay to put money in the bucket at the door."


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LONDON -- Given royal approval by Prince William and wife Kate, English soccer's new headquarters were officially opened Tuesday to boost hopes that one of the sport's underperformers can close the gap on the world's top teams.
Thirty-seven years in the making, the $160 million national soccer center at Burton-upon-Trent in central England will be the permanent home for all 24 of England's senior and junior teams and the training base for aspiring coaches.
"Coming here and seeing these wonderful facilities gives the same feeling as when I first went to the Olympic Park," said Prince William, who chatted with players and tried out the center's state-of-the-art facilities on a guided tour with Kate. "It gives me great pride we have created in this country facilities that are beyond compare anywhere else."
France and Spain became world champions a decade after building their national academies. England, whose only major trophy was won at the 1966 World Cup on home soil, is hoping for the same result.
Facilities were developed after extensive research into similar centers around the world, including Clairefontaine _ the world-famous headquarters of French soccer _ Spain's Cuidad del Futbol near Madrid, the Aspire Academy in Qatar and the Australian Institute of Sport.
One of the 11 outside fields on the 330-acre site is a replica of those at Wembley Stadium, where England plays its home matches, with exactly the same mix of grass and artificial fibers. There is a full-size indoor artificial surface, an indoor 60-meter sprint track, reflex machines for goalkeepers, a high-wire course and a suite of rehabilitation and sports science areas.
The idea for the center first came about in 1975 and has finally come to fruition.
"I'm rather hoping that the amount of great work being put in here will take us to that elusive World Cup," England manager Roy Hodgson said of the center, located in a sleepy town more than 100 miles from London and amid rolling countryside. "It's taken a long while for this dream to become a reality. It is going to be very important."
England's record in recent years has been disappointing, never making it past the quarterfinals of a major tournament since Euro 1996 _ which was also held in England.
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The center has been in use for several weeks by younger age groups. It was first sampled by England's senior men's team on Monday, ahead of World Cup qualifiers against San Marino on Friday and Poland on Tuesday.


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Our only hesitation is about reliability, with the conventional wisdom of the Internet (see forums and user reviews) being that Onkyo's receivers are a little flaky. It's hard to determine whether that's true (there are a lot of reasons why user reviews can be negative), but in any event it seems not to have affected the TX-NR414, which has gotten largely positive reviews from customers. (CNET doesn't test long-term reliability, so we have to rely on user reviews for details on reliability issues that don't show up during our testing period.)
There's a strong argument that it's worth spending a little more for the Onkyo TX-NR515, but both receivers are untouchable by the competition in terms of value.
Onkyo has never made much of an effort to pretty up its AV receivers. The basic design hasn't changed much over the years, with a boxy shape and an overall rough-around-the-edges look. The big volume knob is nice, though, and luckily the glowing ring around the outside can be dimmed in the setup menu. But if aesthetics are high on your list for an AV receiver, check out Denon or Marantz instead.
Onkyo's included remote is decent, although not as good as the offerings from Marantz and Denon. The input buttons are bright white, but they're small and don't glow in the dark. Overall, the remote isn't as cluttered as Sony's or Pioneer's, but there are still plenty of unnecessary buttons like the number pad at the bottom. At least with the money you saved by going with Onkyo, you can grab a nice universal remote.
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Bearden, Romare rōmâr bĭr´dən [key], 1911–88, American painter and collagist, b. Charlotte, N.C. Bearden grew up in Harlem and studied at New York Univ. and the Art Students League, New York City. In his work Bearden attempted to come to terms with and universalize the experience of African Americans. Although his early work involved religious themes, his later production showed a greater connection with jazz and its relation to the art of collage, which beginning in the early 1960s became his most important mode of expression. An extremely prolific artist who created some 2,000 works during his long career, Bearden is also noted for his prints in a variety of media, e.g., the lithographs in
Jazz Series(1979). In the 1960s he was a founder of the Cinque Gallery, which was intended to help young artists, and in 1963 the Spiral Group, which aided African-American artists.
See biography by J. Greenberg (2003); M. Schwartzman, Romare Bearden, His Life and Art (1990); R. Fine, ed., The Art of Romare Bearden (2003); R. J. Powell, et al., Conjuring Bearden (2006).
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with your husband in Real Life.
You can always take him dancing in Second Life. And you won't have to pay a sitter.
Friday, August 17, 2007
And If You Can't Go Slow Dancing.........
Posted by Gidge Uriza at 8:04 AM
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6 comments:
- Alison said...
Virtual love, how sweet! (Is his avatar wiping away tears from the eyes of your avatar?)
- Fri Aug 17, 10:22:00 AM
- QofS said...
- Fri Aug 17, 01:15:00 PM
I will have to no matter what, he would never slow dance with me. He is just not the dancing type.
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- Fri Aug 17, 01:48:00 PM
- April Brandon said...
it really is sweet....sickeningly sweet. (is that a word?)
- Sat Aug 18, 12:12:00 PM
- Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah said...
Your avatars look just like you guys in real life.
Except for the blue hair.
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you people are weird.
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On CNN's "State of the Union," host and chief national correspondent John King goes outside the Beltway to report on the issues affecting communities across the country. This week, King traveled to New Orleans, Louisiana, to look at recovery from Hurricane Katrina in the Lower Ninth Ward compared to the rest of the city.
The Lower Ninth Ward Health Clinic was clinic director Patricia Berryhill's home before Hurricane Katrina.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- Patricia Berryhill sits behind a desk in what not too long ago was her living room, cheerfully greeting those who walk in and reaching for the phone as it rings yet again.
"Lower Ninth Ward Health Clinic, Patricia Berryhill, may I help you?"
Sometimes the questions are routine -- this time more anxious.
"As for the HIV testing, if you come in on Tuesdays from 11 to 1, there is no charge," Berryhill tells the caller. "As for the Herpes virus, you are going to have to see a physician and make an appointment for that."
The patient files in the cabinets behind her now number more than 1,300, and 95 percent of those who walk through the door have no health insurance. The clinic asks for a $25 "co-payment" but no one is turned away if they cannot afford it.
A half dozen patients are waiting as executive director Alice Craft-Kerney takes a visitor on a tour. In the reception area, there are health awareness brochures, hurricane preparedness brochures, and a bookshelf about half-filled with children's books. Craft-Kerney tries every day to give some away. Watch John King preview this Sunday's show »
"Because we have such a low literacy rate here in Louisiana," she says. "So they come by, browse, and take whatever books they want free of charge."
The staff is cheery; the clinic neat and clean. A sign in the window making clear there are no narcotic drugs inside is a sign of the clinic's rough surroundings. And within a few steps of the door is a reminder that 43 months after Katrina changed everything, the Lower Ninth Ward is still a mess.
During a helicopter pass over the neighborhood, we saw concrete slabs and weedy spaces where houses once stood. Yes, there is a fair amount of new home construction, and renovations under way at some homes gutted by Katrina.
But while the debris is mostly gone, much of the neighborhood remains an abandoned wasteland.
Overall, Tulane University geographer Richard Campanella says, the population of New Orleans stands at about 330,000 -- roughly 75 percent of its pre-Katrina level. Before the storm, it was about 70 percent African-American; now it's about 60 percent.
And it is a more affluent city. Campanella says median household income is up to $40,000 from $27,000 before Katrina, "and it is not because the city is doing better economically."
Significantly, Campanella says the "curves" suggesting major changes during the post-Katrina period are "flattening."
"My sense is the post-Katrina city we all wondered about 3½ years ago what would it look like -- that we are there now," Campanella said in an interview on the Tulane campus. "The patterns are stabilizing and we are in a 'new normal' period."
A new normal in which the Lower Ninth Ward trails significantly behind.
Only about 19 percent of its pre-Katrina population has returned; roughly 3,600 people live there today, compared to some 19,000 when Katrina hit.
There are new twists on the resentments and suspicions that dominated community discussions in the horrible days just after Katrina and Rita. In the place of resident complaints that their neighborhood was slow to get help in the hours and days after the storm are accusations their rebuilding hopes are being deliberately ignored or set on the back burner.
Craft-Kerney says a commitment to add a second school in the Lower Ninth, or enticements to bring in a supermarket or a major pharmacy, would help bring more people back, or attract new residents.
"Much of it has been the lack of political will on the part of our government entities," she said.
City officials say there are myriad reasons the rebuilding is slow. One part of this divisive debate is the threshold question of whether it makes sense at all to have people living so close to where the levee breach was most destructive.
But Craft-Kerney and many other community activists see this debate in black and white, or rich and poor.
"As my teacher used to say, 'Them that got, gets,' " she said.
The Bush administration's response to Katrina was one of the turning points in American public opinion toward that administration. But Craft-Kerney says the clinic would not be in operation had it not been for the help of Mike Leavitt, the Bush secretary of health and human services.
It sits in what was Berryhill's home. After Katrina, she decided to move elsewhere in the city, but agreed to donate her former home as a clinic. It was gutted, rebuilt, and Berryhill now serves as its clinical director.
It survives mostly because of a Bush administration grant that runs through 2010. Whether the clinic gets additional federal funding will be one of the tests of the area's priority for the federal government.
Craft-Kerney will soon face the new administration. While she speaks highly of President Obama, she says she worries New Orleans and the Lower Ninth will be forgotten in the long list of major challenges facing his administration.
"I don't know exactly what his game plan is," Craft-Kerney told us during the clinic interview. "But I do believe in my heart that he is going to eventually do some things to help New Orleans. I don't expect it overnight -- but he did say he would make good on President Bush's promise to make New Orleans whole again."
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School's out for Vallas
During his short time at the helm of Bridgeport's failing education system, Superintendent Paul Vallas was both hailed as savior and demonized as an arrogant, inflexible dictator.
Now school's out for summer -- and for Vallas.
In a decision expected to rock the city's education system, a Superior Court judge Friday ordered Vallas removed from his job.
"This could be disastrous for our education system," said Thomas Mulligan, a city Board of Education member and local lawyer. "If Superintendent Vallas is unable to continue serving, this will mean Bridgeport will have gone through four superintendents in a three-year period --John Ramos, Vallas, the interim superintendent who replaces Vallas and a permanent superintendent."
No interim superintendent had been picked as of Friday night.
Although the Board of Education voted Monday to elevate Vallas from acting to permanent status, Judge Barbara Bellis ruled that Vallas is not qualified under state law to serve as superintendent.
In her 27-page decision, the judge agreed with critics of Vallas that he had taken a "sham" course to become qualified to serve as superintendent.
"The evidence was overwhelming that from the start, efforts were made to accommodate the appointment of Vallas as superintendent of the Bridgeport public school system at every level," the judge ruled. "The court orders that Paul Vallas be removed from his office."
"Thank heavens we had a forum and justice has prevailed," said city activist Carmen Lopez. "This was not a technicality, this was a serious matter."
The ruling comes just shy of the two-year anniversary of the state's takeover of the Bridgeport Board of Education and the ousting of the elected board, which was later reversed by the state Supreme Court. Vallas, 60, was appointed to the job in December 2011, and he started Jan. 3, 2012.
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1995: Appointed chief executive officer of the Chicago public school system. President Bill Clinton commends him for raising test scores, balancing the budget and creating magnet schools, summer school and after-school programs.
2001: Vallas resigns in the wake of political and union criticism. He runs as a Democrat for governor of Illinois and finishes second in a primary.
2002: Named chief executive officer of the Philadelphia school district and presides over the nation's largest experiment in privatized management of a public school system.
2007: Becomes superintendent of the Recovery School District of Louisiana and stays until 2011.
2010: Begins working with the Inter-American Development Bank on a five-year plan to reconstruct Haiti's school system.
July 2011: State takes over Bridgeport school system and appoints a Board of Education. Members, in turn, hire Vallas in December to begin work the following month as interim superintendent.
February 2012: State Supreme Court voids state takeover of Bridgeport schools.
March 2012: Vallas issues plan to reform city schools.
June 2012: Vallas says he is not staying beyond 2012-13 school year. Layoffs and reassignments follow.
July 2012: State court dissolves state-appointed Board of Education and orders a September election.
November 2012: Voters reject a charter revision that would allow the mayor to appoint the Board of Education.
January 2013: Vallas seeks one-year extension of contract.
March 2013: School board gives Vallas a three-year contract as superintendent.
April 1, 2013: Activist Carmen Lopez files lawsuit over the Vallas contract, charging he lacks certification to serve as superintendent.
April 15, 2013: State Board of Education approves a special school leadership program for Vallas to obtain the certification.
June 7: Proceedings begin in Superior Court on the Vallas contract lawsuit.
June 28: Judge Barbara Bellis rules that Vallas lacks the proper certification to serve as superintendent.
"I am going to continue to do what I have for nearly 20 years and focus on improving schools for students desperately in need of a better education," Vallas said in an email sent Friday night. "That has to remain our focus despite any other distractions as our students deserve nothing less. I'd like to thank my staff for their hard work in bringing the school system back from the edge of bankruptcy, laying the ground work for improved and sustained academic quality, and for always keeping the best interests of our students as their number one priority, regardless of the challenges."
A number of Vallas' supporters reacted with shocked surprise at the court ruling.
"Only in Bridgeport would the likes of Mr. Paul Vallas not be qualified to serve as superintendent," lamented Board of Education President the Rev. Kenneth Moales. "This ruling crosses the line; Mr. Vallas has proven his commitment to the children of this city."
Moales said a rally is planned in support of Vallas for Monday night. "This ruling will be appealed," he vowed.
"We anticipate a reversal so Superintendent Paul Vallas can continue his great work on behalf of the students of Bridgeport," said Mayor Bill Finch. "We disagree entirely with the substance of the judge's decision. We believe it goes against the great weight of facts presented at trial and the applicable law."
Lopez, a retired Superior Court judge, had sued Vallas, claiming he had not taken the school leadership program required by the state to become a superintendent for the state's largest city.
Vallas, who never took a graduate education course, earned $234,000 annually as the city's superintendent of schools.
During a hearing before the judge earlier this week, state Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor testified he is a friend of Vallas and was impressed with Vallas' work at other school districts, including New Orleans.
But Vallas lacked a state leadership certificate to serve as a superintendent, a certificate that at the time could only be obtained by completing a 13-month program at the University of Connecticut.
On April 15, the state Board of Education approved an abbreviated program -- essentially an independent study under the supervision of UConn Professor Robert Villanova -- for Vallas to take instead.
Villanova testified that while the course called for classroom sessions, seminars and technology-assisted discussions, Vallas met with him twice for about four hours and submitted six papers. The technology-assisted discussions were telephone calls.
"Vallas and his witnesses were, at times, less than candid with the court, Pryor when questioned regarding Vallas' departure from New Orleans, Vallas when asked to review documents to refresh his recollection, and Villanova with regard to the flex extended to Vallas," the judge stated. "The court accepts Vallas' testimony that the work, although done over the course of 10 weeks while fulfilling his employment as acting superintendent, could have been completed in a week."
The judge was also critical of the state Board of Education's decision to validate the course Vallas took.
"The state Board of Education approved what they believed was a UConn-approved program with requirements of classes, seminars and technology-assisted discussions that simply did not take place," she stated.
"This ruling is unfortunate for the Bridgeport school system and its 20,000 students," said Maria Zambrano, executive director of Excel Bridgeport, which has been supportive of the changes Vallas installed in his short time here.
Unless the city challenges the ruling, which Zambrano would support, "I would want the mayor, the City Council and the Board of Education to do what they can to keep Vallas," she said.
In the meantime, Zambrano said there has to be a conversation with the community to determine what qualifications are needed to lead this troubled school district.
"Is it just a piece of paper ... or a track record of results for improving educational outcome of its students? I believe it to be the latter," she said.
The split on the board and the hostility (between the five Democrats and the four aligned with the Working Families Party) will make it difficult to attract a top-notch superintendent, Mulligan said.
In the meantime, he believes Moales, the board's president, needs to call an emergency meeting. He said it will cost $100,000 or more to put together a search committee to find a new superintendent.
Bobby Simmons, another board member often aligned with the Working Families group, said the judge's ruling is an important lesson for students that government can't circumvent the law.
"I would request that we conduct a special meeting once we have had the chance to read the judge's decision," Simmons said.
Staff writers Michael P. Mayko and Linda Conner Lambeck contributed to this report.
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BY foxsports • October 27, 2013
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Minnesota Vikings rookie Cordarrelle Patterson has set the NFL record for longest kickoff return, a 109-yard touchdown to start the game against Green Bay.
Patterson was as far back as he could be in the end zone when he caught the opening kick from Tim Masthay on Sunday night. He took the ball straight up the middle and slipped through the coverage so fast only one Packers player, Micah Hyde, had a legitimate chance to tackle him.
Three players shared the previous record of 108 yards: Ellis Hobbs for New England in 2007, Randall Cobb for Green Bay in 2011, and Jacoby Jones for Baltimore in 2012.
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My last passport is long gone. I got it in the early 80's, when I was 15, for the generic American-Family-Goes-to-Europe trip. I have no idea where it is. It may be buried in a box at my parents' house. Or in my closet. Or lost/tossed in one of my countless moves between college, medical school, residency, marriage, etc. It had a hideous photo of me with early 80's shoulder-length hair, thick plastic rim glasses, braces, and zits.
So we made an appointment to do this over at our local post office yesterday. The girl is typing in our social security numbers. When she gets to mine she stops, and stares at the computer screen.
Ms. Postal: "Mr. Grumpy, are you aware there's already a passport in existence for this number?"
To be honest, I'd forgotten about it until she said that.
Dr. Grumpy: "Oh, yeah, that was from the early 80's. I'm sure it's long expired."
Ms. Postal: "May I have it please?"
Dr. Grumpy: "I don't have it. I have no idea where it is."
Ms. Postal: "WHAT! DO YOU REALIZE HOW IRRESPONSIBLE THAT IS?!!!"
Dr. Grumpy: "Uh, no, I mean, I'm sorry..."
Ms. Postal: "There could be a TERRORIST out there somewhere right now! Using your name, picture, and passport!"
(If Al-Queda has operatives out there who look like I did in the early 80's, I sort of feel bad for them).
Dr. Grumpy: "I'm really sorry, I didn't know I needed it."
Ms. Postal: "WELL! I guess I'll just have to mark the box here for previous passport lost. And let's hope that's ALL that's happened to it."
Dr. Grumpy: "Thank you. I'm sorry."
Ms. Postal: "Let's just try to be more careful with your new passport, shall we?"
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In his most recent quarterly shareholder letter, hedge fund manager Jeremy Grantham made headlines saying the era of 3% growth is "gone forever." He cited data on population growth, employment and productivity trends that all but assure that a new world of 1% growth is inescapable, just as it has been for Japan, whose aging population also reduced economic output two decades earlier in the former colossus.
Grantham did not get into the investment implications of slower growth —he said that would come in his next letter—but I will venture to say that a rapidly decelerating economy weighed down by massive debt will be a downer for stocks.
Just look at a historical chart of Japan's Nikkei 225 index. Any skiers out there? The last four decades look like Mount Fuji, with an almost straight downward slope following the market's1989 peak.
We can live on 1% growth (and anyway have no choice). As Research Affiliates head of investment management Christopher Brightman noted in a recent letter to clients: "1% real growth is still growth. It's a joy to behold, if our expectations are anchored on zero, as was the case throughout human history before the industrial revolution."
So what did people do to pursue their financial objectives before the industrial revolution? They scrimped and saved. (And, for the sake of historical accuracy, they died rather than retired, retirement being a post-World War II innovation.)
But that of course is not the relevant comparison. Your clients are not pre-industrial serfs who lived in the age of 0% growth. Your clients are historically unique. They grew up in a world of 3% growth and are entering an unfamiliar world of 1% growth, mostly unawares.
There may be no generation that ever needed an advisor as much as today's hard-pressed Americans. In the age of 3%, people needed advisors to keep them from self-destructing. All too many fruitlessly chased returns. In the age of 0%, there were no returns, and besides, having an advisor would be uneconomic for anyone outside the aristocracy.
In today's slow-growth environment, margins are likely to narrow quite a bit. After all, 1% is closer to zero than it is to 3%. So what is the task of the advisor? To help their clients scrimp and save, with any spurt of portfolio growth being "a joy to behold."
Specifically, advisors can help their clients with the basics of paring down debt, refinancing long-term debt on more favorable terms and reducing spending—all in order to increase their rate of saving. In a 1% growth economy, higher savings will be critical if there is to be any chance at salvaging the modern concept of "retirement." By anchoring expectations at zero, as Brightman suggests, advisors will have done much to deliver financial security to a population still harboring illusions of the old normal.
Smart advisors will doubtless uncover pockets of growth—whether in emerging markets or the soundest U.S. businesses. But the shift in emphasis from passive investing to active saving is overdue. Getting rich slowly through hard work and financial discipline was always a more reliable way to wealth anyway.


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Kotaku's got ten shots of Prison Break in game form. According to the email we received a while ago from Deep Silver's, the shots show a "highly detailed reconstruction of instantly recognisable environments from the show such as the prison yard, inside the cells, and the Prison Industries workshop."Also revealed for the first time is […]
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According to this Variety report, now-defunct Brash is being sued by developers 7 Studios and Zootfly for non-payment.They're not chasing a tenner, either. From the piece:L.A.-based 7 Studios says Brash owes it $468,000 for its work on "9," an adaptation of an upcoming animated film from Focus Features produced by Tim Burton (one of the […]
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According to this Gamespot story, the Season 3 box set of Prison Break includes an ad for a Brash game adaptation of the show.It's apparently scheduled for release next February. No other detail to be had, unfortunately.


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Sylvester Stallone: 'I haven't fallen out with Bruce Willis'
SYLVESTER STALLONE has assured film fans that reports of a falling out between himself and BRUCE WILLIS are not true.
The action man has confirmed that Willis was invited to return to The Expendables franchise for the upcoming third film, but the reunion "didn't work out" - and Harrison Ford was invited to replace the Die Hard star's Mr. Church. Ford plays Drummer in the new blockbuster.
Stallone tells WENN, "That happens in film and casting. It's nothing personal. It sounded like it got personal and I'm sorry it did sound that way. But it was actors talking and things move on.
"I think Bruce Willis is a great guy and he does fantastically entertaining films and when he nails it, he nails it big time."
And Stallone reveals he and Ford became great friends when they were struggling actors looking for a break back in the late 1970s.
He recalls, "Both of us would be wondering how long this acting was gonna last. Actually we became very, very close... Harrison is a very insulated, intelligent and very funny, very witty, dry humorist. When you tap into that, it's great."


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It's a beautiful Sunday afternoon in Gotham City. The stadium is packed with families and fans excited to watch their football team, the Gotham Rogues. As the game starts, the fans are screaming because number 86 (Hines Ward) has caught the opening kickoff and appears to be headed for an easy touchdown. But as he approaches the end zone, the opposing players are swallowed by the collapsing field, as explosions are rocking the stadium and causing holes to appear all over the arena. Meanwhile, at the opposite end zone, an intimidating man with a heavy coat and a strange black mask is walking into the light. As he approaches a dead referee, he reaches down to pick up the PA microphone. A moment later, the intimidating figure is speaking to the crowd, and after delivering a few lines director Christopher Nolan calls cut. Meanwhile, up in the press box, a small group of reporters from around the world are watching from up high, and excitedly trying to figure out what it all means. It's a great day to visit Gotham City. I mean Pittsburgh.
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As I type these words, it's Sunday, August 7, 2011, and I'm flying back from the set of The Dark Knight Rises. Yesterday, I got to visit the set with a few online reporters, and we spent all day watching filming at Heinz Field, interviewing the cast and filmmakers, and trying to figure out the secrets of the most-anticipated movie of 2012. While I've been incredibly lucky to see many filmmakers work up close, this was my first time on the set of a Christopher Nolan movie, and I have to say it was everything I'd hoped it would be. Hit the jump for so much more.
Before going any further, I know many of you don't want to know the secrets of The Dark Knight Rises. Perhaps you clicked the jump because you couldn't help yourself. Maybe you had to know just a bit more about the movie. So for those that don't want to know what happens, and simply wish to know what I thought about being on the set, well let me put it this way: Remember when you were a kid and the holidays came around? You'd be sitting, unwrapping your presents, and were so excited about everything in front of you? That was me on the set of The Dark Knight Rises. Everything I saw, learned, and heard was amplified by a thousand because I was on the set of THE DARK KNIGHT RISES!
Like all of you, I think Nolan operates on another level, and to be able to see him work, and watch the raw footage on a monitor was just incredible. In addition, I watched director of photographer Wally Pfister use a huge IMAX camera on a steadicam. I also saw over ten thousand extras react to a terrorist attack, and then I saw the production set off around 50 massive explosions in a professional football stadium. It was truly an amazing day and one of the best set visits I've been on.
But I've left out the best part: everything I saw and learned tells me that Nolan and his team have found a way to at least match The Dark Knight. But I have a suspicion he's actually going to top it.
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It's time for me to get specific about the set visit. If you're trying to stay spoiler free, you might want to scroll to the bottom and click over to the interviews. Most of the interview subjects were well-trained in the art of talking a lot but saying very little.
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While the cast and filmmakers were very guarded, and tried to tell us as little as possible, I still learned a lot about the movie on set. Some of what I learned could be considered spoilers, and some are just things I thought were cool. Either way, here's the list:
– The production is using the old-school huge IMAX camera (not the rumored smaller prototype) on both action scenes and scenes with dialogue. Anne Hathaway said the camera sounded like a cappuccino machine when it was next to her. We were told they will often film a take with the standard 35mm camera, and then the next take would be in IMAX. That's why they're unsure how much of the final film will be in IMAX until it's all put together in the editing room. Either way, if you love the look of IMAX, prepare to be blown away next summer.
– On set, Nolan doesn't watch playback on a monitor like most filmmakers. Instead he follows right behind the camera and watches the action up close. While he might watch playback at some point, he's clearly not a filmmaker who stays in video village (where the playback is located and where most directors stay).
– On this particular day, the production paid for 500 extras to be in the stadium, and they had over 10,000 unpaid extras that were there just to watch filming. However, throughout the day, they kept doing contests and at the end of the day they were giving away a car and some other cool merchandise.
– Most of the crew have worked with Nolan many times. Also, Nolan expects his crew to stay on for the entire production.
– All the actors and the crew are incredibly guarded about everything. No one wants to be the one that spills a secret.
– One of the reasons they went to Pittsburgh instead of going back to Chicago is that they wanted a new look and they felt like they've shot everything in Chicago. Producer Emma Thomas talked about not wanting to repeat themselves.
– According to the actors and filmmakers, the script generally doesn't change on set, which allows the actors to get comfortable with their lines.
– You will definitely see Bane break someone's neck in the movie.
– They didn't want to revisit the Joker as a villain, so they decided on Bane because he represents a physical challenge to Batman as opposed to a intellectual one.
– The Dark Knight Rises will have a different visual aesthetic than Batman Begins and The Dark Knight.
– They shot in India, England, Scotland, Pittsburgh, L.A., and New York.
– For the Bane character, they've "retained what works for this universe" with regards to his comic roots, but they've also changed some things.
– Christopher Nolan and co-writer David S. Goyer drew from comic book elements for the script, but ultimately their plan was to complete the stories they started in Batman Begins and The Dark Knight.
– The movie starts a few years after The Dark Knight. Bruce Wayne has some grey hair on the sides of his head. which Bale showed us during his interview.
– It appears that Bruce Wayne might be pulling a Howard Hughes in the beginning of the film as we saw a few images of Wayne with long hair and standing around in his pajamas.
– The three Tumblers that many of us have seen in leaked photos are all used in the climax of the film. Each one has a different weapon on top.
– Anne Hathaway's Catwoman is a cat-burglar in the film. Her costume is just like Batman in the sense that everything she has on her is practical. For example, her heels are metal and they're used as weapons.
– Bane is older than he looks. Also, when he was young, he was injured, and he now jury requires a venom/gas (not sure) to keep him alive, and that's what the mask is pumping into his body. He can't survive without it.
– The Batcave is definitely in the movie, and it looks like the new way in and out will be through the water. But the water info isn't 100% as I'm basing this on having seen the promo art, which wasn't final.
– Batman has a new vehicle, and it's definitely airborne. I saw promo art and the front of the unnamed vehicle looked like a cross between an X-Wing from Star Wars and the ship from The Last Starfighter. It should be noted by the time anyone reads this, I'm sure the toy images and trailers will have been released, and everyone will probably know the name of the vehicle.
– Gotham Stadium is going to get destroyed in the movie. When it happens, it's the first time Bane really steps into the limelight in Gotham. I'd imagine this is a little before halfway in the movie, or near the end of the first act.
– Bane has a powerful weapon of some kind. As Bane addresses the crowd at the stadium, his men are wheeling up a huge metallic ball on a cart and it looks like this is the device that does all the damage. No one would tell us what the device was called or any additional information on what it does.
Promo Art and Images
After getting to speak with the cast and with the filmmakers, I still didn't know much about The Dark Knight Rises. However, that all changed when we got to see a number of images and production artwork on huge cardboard sheets near where we were sitting. Here's what we saw, which may be online by the time you read this:
Police Officer John Blake (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman) are in a hospital. The scene looks like it took place either before the scene in the teaser trailer or right after. Levitt is holding a shotgun while Oldman has a handgun and both were standing up. They look like they're both scared for what is about to happen.
The next image was a close-up of Bane looking at the camera. Behind him was a jail cell, but not in an American jail.
Promo art of two Tumblers on a winter street in Gotham City. The two Tumblers look like they're approaching a big government building but I couldn't make out what it was. The streets were empty. I think this is from the climax of the film.
A shot of the Batpod, which has the same design from The Dark Knight.
A scene with a hundred extras. It's a jail of some sort with the cells towards the top, similar to the jail cell from the Bane image.
Promo art of Gotham Stadium getting destroyed by Bane and his henchmen. It looks very cool.
Shot of Bruce Wayne wearing pajamas in his apartment. Blake is sitting on the couch talking to him. No idea what he's saying.
Awesome shot of Anne Hathaway as Catwoman. If Warner Bros. had released this as the first image of the character, people would have loved it.
A shot of Anne Hathway as Selina Kyle. She's in street clothes, her hands are raised, and she's in handcuffs. I'm wondering if she meets Wayne for the first time when she attempts to break into his apartment and encounters Wayne in Howard Hughes-mode. Again, just a guess.
Shot of Bane from behind approaching Batman. It's a better looking shot from the teaser trailer. In this shot we can see the liquid going into Bane's neck and the back of the mask.
Promo shot of the new Batcave. The image shows a long elevated ramp that goes to a single desk. In the image, we definitely see Wayne, but I couldn't make out if it was Alfred (Michael Caine) or Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman) standing behind him. Also worth noting is the water that covers the entire floor of the Batcave. It seems that the rebuilt cave is filled with water, and perhaps this is the new way Batman gets in and out of the location.
Finally, the last image I saw was only for a few seconds before it got pulled. That's because this piece of promo art showed the new vehicle. From what I could tell, the new vehicle flies and looks like a mix between an X-Wing from Star Wars and the ship from The Last Starfighter. I'd imagine the production build the shell of the vehicle, and will then use CG to make it fly. Also, on all four wings, I saw a bright white light coming off the engine. I couldn't be sure if it's from the engine, or a light shining down. Either way, the ship looked extremely cool.
Bane's Big Entrance
If you're still reading this report, then you clearly don't mind spoilers. Therefore I'm about to get specific with what I saw being filmed, and what I thought of the footage. The thing to know is that we couldn't see on the monitor what was being shot, so I'm not exactly sure what it's going to look like. However, we got a crystal clear view at the main shots of Bane entering the stadium and how Nolan filmed it.
When we first arrived on set, we saw the production setting up to film a kickoff return by the Gotham Rogues. The stadium was packed with around twelve-thousand extras, and when they shot it, it looked and felt like a real football game was being played. They initially used a wide show, which means you could see everything in the frame. Not only did Nolan have a camera on the field following the main action, but on the sideline he'd set up a long dolly track, and the camera followed along as the players ran down the field.
Later in the day, they shot the same scene with a camera car driving in front of the players, so the player with the ball was running towards the camera while the camera was driving towards the zone. This is called "coverage" as Nolan will edit all these shots into one great looking return.
In between watching the players running the ball downfield, we watched as assassins from the League of Shadows (Ra's Al Ghul's shadowy organization from Batman Begins) entered the stadium with guns drawn, and the fans reacted in horror. They would often film these kinds of reaction shots in between the football shots so there was no wasted time. It's worth noting that while Nolan could have shot the stadium empty and added in the screaming fans, no computer can make a stadium full of people look totally convincing. Having a section completely filled with real people reacting in different ways will add so much more than any CGI crowd.
After getting the shots he wanted, and many takes of the crowd reacting to the chaos, Nolan's team started setting up the field for a lot of pyrotechnics. The first thing the team did was lay out a number of orange traffic cones. The crew was using the cones to show the area where the explosions would be set for the eye of the camera. In total, we counted 55 explosive devices on the field, and before they set them up, the crew blew one up so the crowd would understand what would happen and the level of noise to expect. That first one was pretty loud, so we were all pretty excited to hear what 55 would sound like.
As you might imagine, setting up what could be a potentially dangerous situation took a lot of time, and we patiently waited and watched the crew make everything perfect.
Once the field was set, we watched a number of rehearsals and then observed filming of the main Gotham Rogue player running down the field, and being chased by the opposing players. When the explosions go off in the movie, it will cause the field to sink in on itself, leaving huge holes in the stadium. As the player runs downfield, the explosions will go off behind him, and as they happen, areas around where he is running will form sink holes, and the opposing players will fall into them. That's why he'll get to the end zone unscathed.
To make this look as real as possible, the production built an area on the field that was elevated, but looked like it was absolutely part of the stadium. Then, in select areas, the crew made holes and filled the bottom with mattes so a stunt person could fall in and not get hurt. To make the stunt as safe as possible, Nolan and his team did a number of rehearsals, and then filmed a few takes without the explosions going off behind them.
Finally, once they'd shot enough coverage, they shot the same take except on this one they set off all 55 explosive devices as the players were running towards the camera. While the previous few takes had gone off without a hitch as the players fell into the holes at just the right time, and everything looked perfect, on the one with the explosions, there was a slight mix up towards the end, and one of the opposing players missed his mark. However, I'd imagine with all the ways Nolan shot the scene, he'll be able to cut away or use another take, and you'll never know anyone was out of place.
While I've seen a lot of cool stuff up close on a movie set, it was really something else to watch twelve-thousand people react to these explosions.
Finally, for the last bit of filming, we got to see Tom Hardy as Bane.
According to producer Emma Thomas, the football game is where Bane makes his grand entrance to the citizens of Gotham City. And if this ends up being true, that first shot is going to be amazing.
Rather than follow Bane from the front into the stadium, Nolan and cinematographer Wally Pfister follow Bane from behind and down low, so we see this hulking man wearing a long wintercoa,t and a weird mask as he's really walking onto the field for the first time. Bane is in the center of the frame. As he walks in, the thousands in the stands are terrified as Bane's men have taken control of the stadium after all the explosions have gone off.
As Bane walks in, he grabs the microphone off a dead referee and addresses the crowd. As he talks, the camera slowly follows him by having the steadicam operator walking around him. Bane is located in the center of the frame and all around you can see the stadium and the fact that he is really there. Where the seats are empty, I'm sure some CG people will be added. This is the moment where Bane makes his grand entrance, and after blowing up the field and terrifying thousands of Gothamites, it's going to be a powerful moment on screen.
Another thing that was very interesting about this particular scene is that we watched it being filmed a few different ways. The first few takes were with a 35mm camera, and then for the next few we saw the IMAX camera attached to the steadicam. For those unaware, an IMAX camera weighs around 150 – 200 pounds and I have never seen it used on a steadicam. As a film nerd, I was flabbergasted that Nolan and his team had set this up. If he ends up using most of his IMAX stuff, The Dark Night Rises is going to be breathtaking to watch in an IMAX theater.
In addition, after Bane addresses the crowd, we watched as his soldiers brought a prisoner to his feet and then after Bane let the prisoner say something to the crowd, Bane snapped his neck! This was actually the final thing we saw and it was a hell of a way to go out.
Final Thoughts
As you can imagine, getting to be on the set of The Dark Knight Rises was an amazing experience and something I'll never forget. While I sometimes leave a set thinking what I just watched might be good, I left this set 100% sure that Nolan and his team have crafted something that will make everyone very happy. I just wish I didn't have to wait almost a year to see it.
Finally, a huge thank you to Warner Bros. for inviting me to the set, and to everyone who reads Collider.
For more from our The Dark Knight Rises set visit:
- Christian Bale Talks Shooting in IMAX, Ending the Trilogy, Fight Scenes with Tom Hardy and More on the Set of The Dark Knight Rises
- Anne Hathaway Talks Fighting in Heels, Adapting to Christopher Nolan's Universe, Filming in IMAX and More on the Set of The Dark Knight Rises
- Tom Hardy Talks Following Heath Ledger's Joker, Bane's Costume and More on the Set of The Dark Knight Rises
- Producer Emma Thomas Talks Drawing from Comic Books, Bane, Filming in IMAX and Much More on the Set of The Dark Knight Rises


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On a stretch of Kings Highway in Midwood, Brooklyn, the name Pita Sababa has achieved almost mythic status. In Hebrew, "sababa" is slang for "hip" or "cool." About 20 years ago, an Israeli baker opened Pita Sababa in the middle of the city's main Syrian-Jewish neighborhood. For the SY's (as Syrian-Jews are known), Pita Sababa became synonymous with quality pita bread. However, a succession of owners drove the bakery into the ground. About two years ago a young Israeli named Ronnie Savion bought the store, renaming it the Kingsway Bakery. Radically, he changed the pita recipe, determined to make it the best pita bread in New York City.
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In the midst of an international crisis in migration policy – widely referred to as a 'refugee crisis' – this book brings together timely analyses of the manifold and yet specific ways in which migration affects globalized societies, set against the background of the rise of nationalist and populist movements. The voices of migrants and refugees are rarely heard in this context: usually, they are debated about, summarized and reported but their agency is denied. Each contribution to this volume adds an empirical perspective to our understanding of how language relates to migration in a specific national context. The chapters use innovative combinations of multimodal, qualitative and quantitative analyses to examine a broad range of genres and data related to the voices of migrants and reporting about migrants.
The current political discourses on processes of globalization, migration and social participation capitalize on feelings of fear and insecurity. They demonize 'the other', thereby turning the spotlight away from the systemic problems of social inequality and poverty. Based on concrete cases, this 'must read' book deconstructs the covert and overt mechanisms of migration control, exclusion and discrimination.
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Markus Rheindorf is a Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria. His research interests include Critical Discourse Studies, Migration Studies, Media Discourse and Populism.
Ruth Wodak is an Emeritus Distinguished Professor at Lancaster University, UK and the University of Vienna, Austria. She has published widely, including The Politics of Fear: What Right-wing Populist Discourses Mean (2015, Sage).
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Chapter 2. Kristof Savski: Migrants from other States of the Former Yugoslavia in Slovene Language Policy: Past, Present and Future
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Chapter 6. Markus Rheindorf and Ruth Wodak: Building "Fortress Europe": Legitimizing Exclusion from Basic Human Rights
Chapter 7. Iair G. Or and Elana Shohamy: "Youth should be sent here to absorb Zionism": Jewish Farmers and Thai Migrant Workers in Southern Israel