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I meant to unveil one book-a-palooza post a day, but I got impatient. All the text and pictures were ready, I couldn't resist dumping them all at once.
And if these Penguins don't interest you (!) scroll down there are plenty of other book treasures that follow.
I saved the best Book-a-palooza post for last.
Some of you may remember my obsession in getting all 20 volumes of the Penguin English Journey's series. Well obssessions ran amok on my recent trip to London. As you saw earlier, I couldn't help buying almost all of the Penguin Great Loves series. But far crazier was my last minute decision to acquire all 100 volumes in the Great Ideas series.
What possessed me? I already owned two that I had picked up a year ago at an English bookshop in Den Haag. And then when I was in the original Daunt Books on Marylebone High Street on a rainy Friday night a few weeks ago, I picked up a copy of Nationalism just because I loved the cover (see below).
Later that weekend right before drifting off to jet-lag enhanced slumber I noticed that the volume was numbered and that there are 100 books in the series. One thing led to another and our last full day in London I found myself in Daunt Books on Fulham Road where I managed to snag about 45 volumes in one fell swoop. But this still left fifty-some still to buy. As we wended our way across central London that day I called in at every new bookshop we passed to see if they had more of them. The giant Waterstone's at Picadilly. Nothing. At the fantastically wonderful Hatchards just a few doors down from that, not one to be found. Foyles on Charing Cross Road, another goose egg. I was starting to despair, the helpful folks at Hatchards explained that they once had them all in one section but after the original promotion they put them into general stock which made them worse than a needle in a haystack given the time I had left. Then, after almost not even going in, I walked into the Blackwell's on Charing Cross Road and asked at the information counter. He pointed me toward a full display of the whole series. Earlier at Daunt I had noted down all the numbers that were still missing. I took that list and started grabbing the ones I needed off the shelf. I soon had to enlist John's help to hold the ones I was going to buy as I went through my numbered list. Within five minutes John had about 52 books in his arms. I had managed to find all the volumes that were missing. I couldn't believe my luck. Finding all missing 97 volumes in one day. The best part is that Blackwells had them on sale 3 for the price of 2!
And let me tell you, they are beautiful. Most of covers have some element of embossed design. Some are very intricate and some are extremely simple. Below are a selection of my favorites.
Penguin knows at least two things: 1) Pretty covers matter; and 2) Create a numbered series and OCD book collectors will spend way too much money, like climbing Everest, just because it is there.
|Can you spot the rainbow of Great Ideas on the top shelf?
|The cover that started it all for me.


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In February, the American Institute of Physics established a new wholly owned, but managerially independent, limited liability company to oversee publishing all of its research journals. The move comes amidst a broader restructuring effort by AIP to modernize its governance, and better respond to the changing publishing market.
"The AIP gets nearly all of its funding from publishing," said Fred Dylla, the Executive Director of AIP. "It's very important that the publishing be run as efficiently as possible."
AIP is an umbrella organization, whose members are other societies, among the largest of which is APS. APS is the publisher of the Physical Review family of journals, including Physical Review Letters, Physical Review X and Reviews of Modern Physics, whereas AIP publishes a portfolio of 17 journals, many of which concentrate on applied areas of physics, as well as journals of several of its member societies.
Several APS divisions and topical groups correspond closely with areas covered by AIP journals, including The Journal of Chemical Physics, Physics of Fluids, Physics of Plasmas, and Review of Scientific Instruments. AIP also publishes Journal of Applied Physics and Applied Physics Letters.
The newly formed AIP Publishing LLC is designed to be leaner and more adaptable. "Publishing is a fast moving business," Dylla said. "It was felt to be very important to get the publishing right."
AIP Publishing will have its own governing board of about 12 people with a half-dozen experts of varying backgrounds, many fewer than the 40-person board of AIP. The new board plans to meet four times a year, rather than twice.
Despite the new governance structure, the intention is to keep the day-to-day operations of the journals unchanged. AIP Publishing is retaining the same offices and much of the same staff as when publishing was directly under AIP. Physics Today will remain editorially under AIP, while its physical publishing will be done by the LLC.
"It was an AIP Governing Board decision that created this entity, and it is very similarly organized to what AIP publishing used to be," said Marsha Lester, a chemistry professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and editor of The Journal of Chemical Physics. "The primary difference is that [the LLC] has its own board of directors."
The CEO of the new company is John Haynes, who was previously vice president for publishing at AIP.
"[T]he creation of AIP Publishing LLC places the organization in an excellent, strategic position to deliver even more benefit to global researchers whilst continuing to provide great value to library customers worldwide," Haynes said in a statement.
The reorganization comes as part of a major rethinking of AIP operations laid out in a 2008 self-assessment and a 2010 governance review.
"It had become clear to our Governing Board that it had been 80 years since AIP as a whole really looked at its governance," Dylla said.
The assessments criticized the complexity of its system for decision-making, and its large, 40-person Governing Board.
"When a meeting is that big, and it meets so infrequently, it's hard for the management and the governance to be a closely knit team," Dylla said.
Now that the publishing operation has been streamlined, the board is refocusing on reassessing and restructuring the governance of the rest of the Institute's operations. In addition to Physics Today, AIP runs the Niels Bohr Library & Archives and the Center for History of Physics, as well as the Statistical Research Center. It is active in government and media relations, and also administers the Society of Physics Students for undergraduates, and the Sigma Pi Sigma honor society.
Commenting on the establishment of AIP Publishing LLC, Bill Appleton, a professor emeritus at the University of Florida and editor of Applied Physics Reviews said "The main concern I have personally is that AIP and APS have been very closely coupled over the years and from a scientific point of view that is extremely beneficial. I don't think this will have any effect on that, but it would be too bad if it did."
Bruno Nachtergaele, a physics professor at the University of California, Davis and editor of Journal of Mathematical Physics, said that he thinks the new setup will help the journals respond to changes in the market faster.
"I'm certainly optimistic about the journal and I don't think the new company will affect it greatly," Nachtergaele, said. "I don't see anything negative at this time."
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In an interview with E!'s Jennifer Godwin, there's good news and bad news. The good news? Betty's coming back. Matt Weiner says: "I don't like spoilers, but you will find out that January's contract has been renewed." He adds:
"She's raising Don's kids. And I also feel that she was always in her own show." Godwin also gets Weiner to talk about Betty's relationship with Henry Francis. Godwin posits, "My theory about Betty is that she's a sloth — she doesn't like to leave one tree without already having found her next tree. She doesn't like touching the ground." Weiner answers:
What confirms your suspicion of this, because I agree with you, is that Henry Francis (Christopher Stanley) did not sleep with her. He knew he was not getting anything. He was not getting anything until it was legal… He's a handsome guy who says, "You'll never have to work again." A lot of women like that. Lots of people don't know the people that they're marrying. She didn't know Don that well. But Henry has been good to her, and I think she knows what he's about, and he's a very exciting person for her. I think he's the anti-Don in the sense that he seems very grounded. All I can tell you is that, as a pregnant woman, when he treated her sexually at a party, something happened in her brain chemistry.
The other woman we may seem more of is Carla; Weiner says that he and the writers have "talked about" a Carla-centric episode:
Deborah Lacey is a great actress, and Carla's relationship with the family has so much integrity. That's a real relationship between employer and employee, and that's something that we're very proud of.
In addition, since she is one of the only African-Americans on the show, her thoughts of, feelings about and place in the changing American landscape of the 1960s —compared to that of the Drapers — could make for extremely rich storylines. And if the show makes it to 1968 and Martin Luther King's assassination, well, she's just got to have a bigger part.
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Godwin: It's a tragedy. It hurts me. She bet on the wrong horse when she married her husband, and now all we can do is hope that he dies in Vietnam.
Weiner: Guys like him, apparently, don't really die in Vietnam. Only good people die.
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Weiner: No, he's not good for her.
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Dan Fagin, a professor in the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, has won The New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism for "Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation".
"Dan Fagin epitomizes what the Bernstein Award is all about – powerful, in-depth reporting that informs the public, shapes policy, and changes the world," said New York Public Library President Tony Marx. "We are honored to recognize him and all of this year's finalists, journalists of the highest caliber whose hard work and dedication to the truth are essential to a great democracy."
The work, which tells the story of a New Jersey town ravaged by industrial pollution, with a cluster of childhood cancers scientifically linked to local air and water pollution, was last month awarded the Pulitzer Prize in the category of "General Nonfiction."
In Toms River, Fagin, director of the Carter Journalism Institute's Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program (SHERP), takes the reader beyond a single community to cover a much larger subject: the centuries-long quest to understand the complex relationship between pollution and cancer.
In it, Fagin blends investigative reporting with a scientific detective narrative and deep historical research to reveal how rampant pollution and inadequate oversight made Toms River a cautionary example for fast-growing industrial towns from South Jersey to South China. He also explores how new information about gene-environment interaction is changing our understanding of how cancer begins.
"It's high time a book did for epidemiology what Jon Krakauer's best-selling 'Into Thin Air' did for mountain climbing: transform a long sequence of painfully plodding steps and missteps into a narrative of such irresistible momentum that the reader not only understands what propels enthusiasts forward, but begins to strain forward as well, racing through the pages to get to the heady views at the end," the New York Times wrote last March.
The Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, which includes a $15,000 cash prize, was established through a gift from Joseph Frank Bernstein, in honor of journalist Helen Bernstein (now Helen Bernstein Fealy) and has been given to journalists whose books have brought clarity and public attention to important issues, events, or policies.


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By Kelly Dickerson
You no longer have to be a graduate student or doctor to study neuroscience.
According to an article in Science Now, a new do-it-yourself project, called the RoboRoach, allows kids as young as 10 to create their own cyborg cockroach and control its movement. The $99 kits come with live cockroaches, a surgical kit, and tiny electronic hardware pieces.
The goal behind these RoboRoach kits is to get kids interested in neuroscience research and encourage them to pursue a career in the field. Cockroaches and humans have neurons that function in a similar way, so when you observe the cockroach responding to the signal from your phone, you are also seeing how human neurons respond to a signal. But some scientists and bioethicists are concerned this new product is unethical and may be encouraging cruel treatment of animals.
The RoboRoach made its debut at the TEDx conference in Detroit on Oct. 2. Greg Gage and Tim Marzullo, the co-founders of Backyard Brains, a small startup company of scientists and engineers, created the tiny backpack the cockroach wears and designed the kit that allows the user to attach all the pieces themselves. They funded the project with a Kickstarter, and the cyborg cockroach will be commercially available starting in November.
How the cyborg cockroaches are created
The cockroaches are placed in ice water as a kind of crude anesthetic. Then the kids are instructed to sand down a patch of shell on the cockroach's head and superglue electrodes to the newly smooth area. Next, a groundwire is stuck into the cockroach's thorax—the area right between its neck and stomach. Finally, the kids must carefully trim the antennae and stick small silver electrodes in them that will receive the signal from the circuit that attaches to the cockroach's back and resembles a tiny backpack.
Swiping the screen of a smartphone controls the RoboRoach's movement.
Amateur neuroscientists can steer the cockroach left and right after the surgery. Their movements are controlled by electrodes in their antennae, and they respond to directions from a wireless signal sent from a smartphone. The tiny backpack the cockroach wears communicates directly with its neurons by sending small electrical pulses.
After a few minutes, the cockroach will adapt to its cyborg fixture and will stop responding to the signals.
An ethical dilemma
Gage told Science Now that the insects feel little pain during the surgery. The kit explains how to take care of any wounds the cockroach might get during the attachment, and after the kids are done experimenting, the backpack can be removed and the cockroach can "retire" and still do regular cockroach things like eat and mate.
However, other scientists see these kits as a serious violation of basic ethics.
Jonathan Balcombe from the Humane Society University in Washington, D.C. told Science Now that "if it was discovered that a teacher was having students use magnifying glasses to burn ants and then look at their tissue, how would people react?"
Bioethicist Gregory Kaebnick compared the cyborg cockroaches to the Imperius Curse from the Harry Potter novels. He told Science Now that he isn't calling for an outright ban of the product, but still finds it unpleasant.
Normally, cockroaches use their antennae as feelers to navigate around any object that might be blocking their path. But when their antennae are trimmed and electrodes are stuck in, they lose that natural sensing ability and it is replaced with an electric impulse sent from a phone. There is little explanation on the Kickstarter page of any lasting effects this surgery has on the cockroaches.
Animal experimentation is fairly common and can be useful, especially in neuroscience where it is crucial to study a live brain to observe and understand the signaling that goes on between neurons and the rest of the body. Understanding the brain and the way neuron signaling works is the only way that treatments and cures for neurological diseases, like Parkinson's disease, will be discovered.
See also:
There's a Kickstarter Project for a Cyborg Cockroach You Can Remote Control
Controlling the Minds of Cockroaches Using Microsoft's Xbox Kinect
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I follow several naked women posters on Twitter like 'iLikeGirlsDaily' and the like and I am amazed at the number of unique women that have naked pictures of themselves on-line. What's the over/under on the number of American women with at least a bare breast shot of themselves out there? Consider that there are probably 90 – 100 million adult women in the U.S., I'm going with around 800,000.
It really is remarkable how many of them are out there. If you're a single man, this is obviously a thrilling development. OH MY GOD, SO MANY WOMEN. But if you're a father, this is obviously the most horrifying thing ever. OH MY GOD, SO MANY WOMEN.
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First off, we should acknowledge that there are a great many women who are naked on the Internet who NEVER intended to be naked on the Internet. I'd wager that at least 10 percent of those photos were intended for private audiences (you can go ahead and increase the amount for people who got naked while under the influence of alcohol and/or heavy narcotics). So I don't know if we should count them because I think we're trying to ascertain the number of willing participants. But even if you discount those fine upstanding ladies, the number remains STAGGERING.
A two-year-old leak of porn-star medical records included more than 15,000 people. But that's just in California, and that only accounts for paid sexual performers in one state. The number of amateur performers almost certainly dwarfs that number. And then we have to account for magazine centerfolds, legitimate actresses in nude roles, the thriving market in illegal Czech and Russian immigrants who are sent here in shipping containers specifically to star in Brazzers videos for your merriment. Even if the number of women who are naked online (and I count thong shots in this guesstimate, because thong shots) is a small percentage of the overall American population, you're still talking about potentially tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people. I say it's lower than 800,000 here in America alone. Maybe 400,000. But still, that's terrifying. YOU STAY AWAY FROM MY KID.
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We follow up on rack mounting the Mac Pro, the Macintosh Office and HyperCard. We follow up on providing tech support for apps and services. After a decade of drama, Apple is ready to kill Flash in Safari once and for all. There's an Apple Car for sale — but it's not the one you think. Apple's first iPad was revealed 10 years ago today. Everything we know about the iPhone SE 2. Apple hits 1.5 billion active devices with ~80% of recent iPhones and iPads running iOS 13. Sheets don't inherit the environment. On the road to Swift 6. Software Maker for Apple Devices Jamf Files Confidentially for IPO. Apple delivers best-ever quarterly numbers, powered by iPhones, services. Picks: Speech recognition and speech synthesis on iOS with Swift. Rogers ends subsidized phone plans, now exclusively offers device financing. Xcode Previews. Xcode tip: Using breakpoints as bookmarks.


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K-9 Returns…
You can't keep a good dog down, and it seems, even after almost 40 years, our beloved robotic canine (get it?) appears to have more lives than a cat. K-9 is set to return again, this time in a standalone film of his own. The inner-seven-year-old inside me couldn't help but get excited when I read earlier this week that K-9 would be back. He was part of my childhood. I first fell in love with Doctor Who during the Tom Baker era, and for me, K-9 was part of the family.
It was announced earlier this week that K-9 Creator and writer Bob Baker, along with Nick Park from the Wallace and Gromit series, is producing the film K9: TimeQuake, which is due out in theaters in 2017 and will feature our robotic hero facing off against a classic Doctor Who villain from the 3rd Doctor and 5th Doctor eras – Omega.
Omega, a legendary Time Lord himself and an intergalactic engineer, had been credited with founding early Time Lord society, along with the great and mighty Rassilon, and with harnessing the power from a supernova to give the Gallifreyans mastery over space and time. Unfortunately, Omega was trapped in an anti-matter universe and had gone mad as a result. He has come close to destroying the galaxy more than once, only to be stopped on each occasion by The Doctor. Omega has appeared in several Doctor Who stories including – The Three Doctors 10th Anniversary Special (with Stephen Thorne as Omega) (1973) , The Arc of Infinity (with Ian Collier and Peter Davison as Omega) (1983) and the Big Finish 5th Doctor audio Omega (2003), with Ian Collier reprising the role.
A Girl's Best Friend…
K-9 first appeared in the 4th Doctor adventure The Invisible Enemy (1977). He was the creation of Professor Marius, in the year 5000. K-9 joined The Doctor and then-companion Leela (played by Louise Jameson) on various adventures. With his computerized brain and laser snout, K-9 soon proved to be a valuable member of the crew.
Even after The 4th Doctor left Leela on Gallifrey with K-9 Mark I and Romana in E-Space with K-9 Mark II, we knew we hadn't seen the last of our beloved tin dog. K-9 seemed to have as many lives as The Doctor, returning for not just one, or two, but three TV spinoffs, several specials and Big Finish Audios over the years.
K-9 Mark III was left as a gift for former companion Sarah Jane Smith from The 4th Doctor in the TV pilot K9 and Company (1981) – the first attempt at a Sarah Jane spinoff (starring Lis Sladen). K-9 resurfaced again in the The Five Doctors 20th Anniversary Special (1983), with Sarah Jane, and yet again for the David Tennant story School Reunion (2006), reuniting Sarah Jane, K-9 and The 10th Doctor.
Lightning struck twice for K-9 and Sarah and the result was the hit BBC Kids series The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007-2011). Sadly, K-9 Mark IV was trapped in a void for most of series, as he was promised to DisneyXD (featuring modifications and design changes – I favored his original design) for a K-9 Series (2009-2010) for Australia. Each time he was voiced by the original actor John Leeson (actor David Brierly voiced him briefly in 1978).
Initial Reaction to "TimeQuake"…
To be honest, I'm having trouble seeing this work on the big screen and don't understand why they haven't just done a theatrical release based on The Doctor (yes, they made two movies with Peter Cushing, but that was a long time ago).
I held out hope that K-9 would return to the current series of Doctor Who alongside Peter Capaldi's 12th Doctor. Let's face it, Capaldi would have a blast, and K-9 would quickly endear himself to the irascible old Time Lord, as well the rest of us, as he always does.
I also held out hope that Time Lady Romana and K-9 Mark II might have survived the Time War and resurfaced during the 9th Series along with the resurrected Time Lords, or Team Sarah Jane: The Next Generation featuring her kids (now grown), might end up working for U.N.I.T. with K-9 Mark IV at their side. A gal can dream, right?
Instead, the Time Lord's best friend will be fighting the big bad alone, facing off against one of The Doctor's oldest enemies. Not sure how that will play out, but happy to hear K-9 is still out there, fighting the good fight.
Affirmative, Mistress…
Here's a classic moment with K9 Mark I and Leela (Louise Jameson).
And another, a rare clip featuring an inebriated (not sure how) K-9 Mark II with Romana Mark I (Mary Tamm) and The Doctor Mark IV. Enjoy!


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Though the origins of the Tea Party are difficult to discern, from the failed 2008 Republican nomination campaign of Ron Paul, to a Florida resident organising a demonstration via Facebook, by early 2009 a populist, grassroots movement had gained ground in American under the banner of "fiscal responsibility" and "smaller government".
The Tea Party movement drew from the ranks of conservatives, Republicans, libertarians, constitutionalists, Christians and various other political and religious stripes. Men and women, disaffected, anxious and fearful of events about them joined together, with touchstone issues ranging from disillusionment with the political process to immigration to the erosion of individual liberty.
Though ill-defined, hazy and nebulous, the Tea Party was the latest incarnation of populist tradition stretching back more than a century, from the People's Party to the Temperance Movement to the Moral Majority – the expression of a desire for a rebirth, a new way or a political third party.
Yet like its populist forebears, the Tea Party became different things to different people. For one follower it was a buttress against government expansion, to another a defender of the nation's border, to another it was a flag bearer for social issues, from homosexuality to abortion.
The Tea Party's dramatic and rapid growth coincided with the election of Barack Obama, America's first black president, which critics took as an indication of the movement's true character. Fiscal responsibility may be the watchword, opponents of the Tea Party argued, but this was really a movement fuelled by anxieties about race.
Yet to dismiss the Tea Party as a political entity defined or motivated by questions of race alone is to miss the swell of economic, religious, social and historic waves crashing up and around the American people at the time. The Tea Party certainly is about race, but it is also about so much more…
The 2008 financial crash
A month before the inauguration of Barack Obama in January 2009, outgoing President George Bush gave an interview to CNN in which he explained the passing of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (October 2008) as the abandonment of "free-market principles to save the free-market system", a move he said was necessary to ensure "the economy doesn't collapse."
The Act was designed to prop up America's ailing financial institutions in the face of economic turmoil, or "bailout Wall Street", as it became known.
In February the following year, Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, a stimulus package offering a mix of spending and tax cuts in the hope of further containing the economic maelstrom.
That same month, CNBC's Rick Santelli gave an impassioned rant on the woes of economic stimulus, calling for "a Chicago Tea Party in July". The video went viral and is now often ascribed as a tipping point in the formation of the Tea Party as a national movement.
The content of his now-famous clip caught the prevailing mood post the passing of the stimulus package. "The government is promoting bad behaviour," said Santelli, stood on the trading room floor of the Chicago Stock Exchange. He then proposed an online referendum "to see if we want to subsidise the losers mortgages or would we like to buy houses, buy cars and foreclosure and give them to people who might actually prosper down the road".
The benefits of the stimulus aside (argument continues as to whether its passing prevented recession becoming depression), the ideological battle lines for the next four years had now been drawn. These were not social and these were not racial; they were economic, as free market capitalism bumped up against bailouts, regulation and government intervention.
That it was unfettered and unregulated markets that had created the housing bubble and its subsequent collapse that led to the 2008 stimulus was an irony seemingly lost on Santelli. Regardless, the bubble burst, leading to a downturn in US property prices, which threatened global institutions worldwide. The consequent collapse of the stock market and decrease in international trade forced global governments to act, with Bush's Economic Stabilization Act, which included the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), and Obama's Recovery and Reinvestment Act ploughing more than $1trillion combined into the beleaguered US economy.
According to former U.S. Representative Dick Armey, currently co-chairman of Freedomworks, a Washington-based conservative organisation with close ties to the Tea Party, it was Bush-era policies which propelled the movement to national prominence, arguing that: "The Government expansion during President George W Bush's reign provided the fuel. And it was his Wall Street bailout that ignited the firestorm we see today." For Armey, Obama had simply "doubled down on the bad policies of the Bush administration", and in doing so had poured "gasoline on a bush fire".
Amid the foreclosures, rising unemployment and declining consumer spending, rallies began to spread across the country, under the banner of the Gadsden Flag. Most boasted a few hundred protesters; some in the bigger cities attracted thousands, though debate raged in the media as to the exact numbers.
One of the biggest rallies of 2009 was held in April in Atlanta, part of a National Tax Day event, with protests reported across hundreds of major cities. Numbers for the events were difficult to quantify, exemplified by debate over the Atlanta rally. Fox News reported a crowd of between 15,000 and 20,000. Others put the number more at 7,500.
Common to all the rallies was a voicing of economic concerns, whether that was manifest in opposition to healthcare, the bailout or the perceived increasing size of government (hence spending), usually sub-vocalised as a rant against the evils of "socialism". Estimates of the total number of people protesting that day run from anywhere from 200,000 to 350,000. Regardless, the Tea Party as a national movement, albeit disjointed, devoid of leadership or, as the BBC's Mark Mardell put it, "hydra-headed", had arrived.
In September 2009, the Tea Party Express, a bus convoy of activists, snaked its way across the American heartland, stopping at more than 30 cities to spread its six-principled message: "no more bailouts, reduce the size and intrusiveness of government, stop raising our taxes, repeal Obamacare, cease out-of-control spending and bring back American prosperity."
A second convoy set off a month later with a mission to "highlight some of the worst offenders in Congress who have voted for higher spending, higher taxes, and government intervention in the lives of American families and businesses."
The impact of the movement at the ballot box was first registered at the 2010 mid-term elections, with a number of Tea Party-backed candidates winning office, most notably Rand Paul, son of Ron Paul, who beat Trey Grayson in a GOP Senate primary in Kentucky.
Despite victories that propelled the Republicans to a majority in the House of Representatives, they missed out on a majority in the Senate, often with Tea Party-backed candidates beating establishment Republicans for the nomination only to lose the election to the Democratic candidate. It remains speculation as to whether the establishment Republicans would have fared better than the Tea Party-backed candidates against their Democratic counterparts.
Still, the mid-terms probably represented the high-point in Tea Party support amongst Americans, with a Gallup poll putting support at around 30 per cent. By August 2011, following the debacle of the debt ceiling crisis, that figure had dropped to 25 per cent, while opposition to the Tea Party had increased with "more Americans holding intensely negative feelings toward the movement than intensely positive feelings".
Implacable demands from Tea Party-backed Republicans during the debt ceiling debate, most notably Junior Senator Jim De Mint, had led to a game of political brinkmanship that almost cost the United States its AAA credit rating. During the crisis, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner outlined the danger of not increasing the debt: "failure to raise the limit would precipitate a default by the United States. Default would effectively impose a significant and long-lasting tax on all Americans and all American businesses and could lead to the loss of millions of American jobs. Even a very short-term or limited default would have catastrophic economic consequences that would last for decades."
For a movement that crowed "fiscal responsibility" as a mantra, holding the US economy hostage on a matter of ideological purity was perhaps the least fiscally responsible route available. However, the power of the Tea Party, this strange grassroots activist movement that had gained popularity n a platform of debt reduction, had now been displayed, and at Washington's top table.
Healthcare as a rally point
On January 4, 2012, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann gave a speech suspending her campaign for the Republican nomination, having won only 5 per cent of the caucus vote in Iowa, her home state. Reflecting on her run for the nomination, she said:
"On the evening of March 21, 2010, that was the evening that Obamacare was passed… that day served as the inspiration for my run for the presidency of the United States because I believed firmly that what the congress had done and what President Obama had done in passing Obamacare endangered the very survival of the United States of America, our Republic because I knew it was my obligation to ensure that President Obama's programme of socialised medicine was stopped before it became fully implemented."
The 2009 health care debate, culminating in President Obama's September address to a joint session of congress, outlining the reform of public and private health insurance and the subsequent passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, is one of the defining moments of the 44th presidency (so far).
Along with the passing of the Wall Street bailout and the stimulus package, healthcare reform worked to galvanise an already vociferous opposition, particularly among the grassroots Tea Partiers, who now had another tangible legislative totem against which to rally.
In his congressional speech on healthcare, Obama pitched the debate as a moral choice. Quoting a letter from the recently deceased Ted Kennedy, himself a long-term proponent of healthcare reform, Obama argued: "What we face… is above all a moral issue; at stake are not just the details of policy, but fundamental principles of social justice and the character of our country."
Notions of social justice have long been anathema to the free market ideals of the GOP, and while South Carolina Republican Representative Joe Wilson's outburst ("You lie!") perhaps caught the mood of opposition (albeit in response to rumours that illegal immigrants would receive insurance), there were also some extremely persuasive legal arguments that said the Act was unconstitutional.
Central to Obama's reform was what became known as the "insurance mandate", which requires every American citizen to buy and maintain health-care coverage by 2014. But could the government compel its citizens to buy insurance and remain within the parameters of the constitution? The debate continues yet regardless of the outcome, opposition to the bill was no longer just ideological but legal, giving further impetus to the Tea Party and their message.
Another indicator of the importance of the healthcare bill was highlighted by the election of Scott Brown, the Republican candidate who won the 2010 special election to succeed U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts. Despite a record not attuned to the social conservatism – Brown is pro-choice and unopposed to gay marriage (Boris Shor of the University of Chicago called Brown a "liberal Republican who is to be found to the left of [his opponent] Dede Scozzafava") – the movement still backed him due to his vocal opposition to Obamacare.
Arguably this was a marriage of convenience, with Brown benefitting from the Tea Party as much as the Tea Party thought they would benefit from Brown's election. However, that the movement was willing to be ideologically flexible on social issues as long as the candidate stood firm on healthcare points to the importance of the Affordable Care Act's repeal within Tea Party ranks.
During the 2012 Republican nomination process, Michele Bachmann was not the only candidate to run on a platform of repeal. "If elected president on my first day in office I will grant a waiver for all fifty states for Obamacare," Mitt Romney told the audience at the New Hampshire Republican presidential nomination debate in June 2011.
Similar sentiments were expressed by the other candidates. To make this sop to the political right, Romney was forced to contort his record and by doing so opened himself up to charges of political expediency from his rivals. However repeal of Obamacare, for the majority of Tea Party supporters, remains a central, unalterable goal. As such, even Romney, the architect of the Massachusetts' healthcare plan on which Obamacare was based, had little option but to abandon his state-based achievement in favour of the rabid anti-government message now demanded by the Tea Party movement.
The Tea Party and racism
It is less than fifty years, little more than a generation, since the passing of the Civil Rights Act, and despite steadily changing attitudes, the issue of race pervades. In short, the US remains a nation divided by colour.
An oft-heard criticism of the Tea Party is that it is racist in character. There has been plenty of anecdotal evidence that gives credence to this view, from signs calling the president a "half breed Muslim" or demanding he be "traded" back to Kenya, to accusations by politicians and lawmakers of hearing or being called the word "nigger" at a protest rally on Capitol Hill prior to the passing of the healthcare bill.
Racism exists within the society therefore perhaps it is no more surprising to find it at a Tea Party rally than at a football game. However, two questions remain: is racism a characteristic of the Tea Party and how reflective is this of the movement at a whole? Neither has a simple answer as racists tend not to volunteer their bigotry to pollsters, however, research carried out by Professor Gary Jacobsen suggests that members of the Tea Party are more likely to harbour some form of racial resentment than non-Tea Party affiliates. Using national data compiled by a congressional election study on political attitudes, behaviours, and beliefs following the 2010 mid-term elections, Jacobsen concluded:
"Tea Party activists have denied accusations that their movement is racist, and there is nothing intrinsically racist about opposing 'big government' or clean energy legislation or health care reform. But it is clear that the movement is more appealing to people who are unsympathetic to blacks and who prefer a harder line on illegal immigration than it is to other Americans."
On the makeup of the Tea Party, Jacobsen also pointed out that:
"The movement energised people who opposed Barack Obama from the start and who subsequently developed intensely negative opinions of him and his agenda that were extended to his Democratic allies in Congress. Tea Party sympathies helped to mobilize an electorate that was older, whiter, more Republican and more conservative than the one that had given the Democrats control of the government two years earlier."
Though the research is far from conclusive (and was immediately attacked in the blogosphere as part of an academic liberal conspiracy to discredit the Tea Party), when allied to the myriad YouTube clips displaying racist signs and various demographic studies that show the Tea Party member tend to be "older, white and male", Jacobsen's argument becomes persuasive.
Yet racism seems to be a very specific charge to throw at such a sizable and nebulous group. A broader and more potent characteristic of the Tea Party appears to be the fear of change, and not just the immediate individual concerns of unemployment or higher taxes, but the long-term remodelling of America and what it is to be an American.
In 1998, President Bill Clinton gave an address on immigration to the students of Portland State University. He said:
"Today, nearly one in ten people in America was born in another country; one in five schoolchildren is from immigrant families. Today, largely because of immigration, there is no majority race in Hawaii or Houston or New York City. Within five years there will be no majority race in our largest state, California. In a little more than 50 years there will be no majority race in the United States. No other nation in history has gone through demographic change of this magnitude in so short a time. What do the changes mean? They can either strengthen and unite us, or they can weaken and divide us. We must decide."
A decade on, the US Census Bureau published a report that projected that by 2042, whites would no longer be the majority of the population, though they will remain the biggest single grouping (around 70 per cent) within the population until well after 2050.
Writing in the Atlantic, Hua Hsu argued that the rise of multi-culturalism in the US, manifested in myriad ways, from the growth of hip hop culture to Tiger Woods success on the golf course, has led to a "cultural and socioeconomic dislocation" for whites, who have become aggrieved by the sense that "the system that used to guarantee the white working class some stability has gone off-kilter."
The politics of white identity in America, which for Hsu means "the gradual erosion of 'whiteness' as the touchstone of what it means to be American", has left the country's white working majority adrift in a world where "'whiteness' no longer defines the mainstream."
And what greater indication of America's shifting identity than the election of a Hawaiian-born, mixed-race man with a Kenyan father and a foreign-sounding name to the office of President?
Not that Obama's victory triggered this crisis of identity, but in an unsophisticated way, the election of a black man to the white house probably brought the issue into sharper focus for America's blue collared masses, certainly more than the projections on a Census Bureau report. As such, Tea Party members are not only politically conservative, but they are, in the literal sense, fearful of change. It's a fear that has revealed itself in a number of ways, from the need to seek out new communities (the Tea Party as an expression of white identity) to investing in conspiracy theories that decry Obama is a secret-Muslim-fifth-columnist.
Like their John Bircher Society forebears, the Birthers, a group of people that claim that Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States, see only conspiracy and plot. Questions over the president's constitutional eligibility originated as a political smear, playing to base fears of 'otherness' seared into the American psyche through decades of propaganda from the Cold War to the so-called War on Terror.
The rumours started during the 2008 Democratic Party primaries, when a handful of anonymous Hillary Clinton supporters tried to reignite her faltering campaign by questioning her opponent's citizenship. Following Obama's inauguration, the rumour was picked up by the Republican blogosphere, appealing not only to those who sought to make political hay, but also the vast legions of online conspiracy theorists seeking the "truth" on everything from the 9/11 attacks to the moon landings.
According to Kathryn Olmsted, conspiracy theories gain traction in the US for two main reasons:
"First, they're highly effective because they tap into deep, historic American anxieties about "un-American" agents within the republic — perhaps even within the White House. Second, these stories have some powerful sponsors in the media and in politics, sponsors who insinuate their paranoid theories into the mainstream debate to promote their own political goals."
For Olmsted, the birther issue is borne out of racism:
"Above all, his [Obama] 'Americanness' is almost certainly suspect because he's not white. It's hard to imagine the same theories being used against Sen. John McCain — even though he was born overseas and could have his U.S. citizenship legally challenged. These fears are worsening now partly because the economy has fallen on hard times, and also because there is a substantial part of the American electorate that will never accept a black president as legitimate."
Polls give indications, though questionable, about the resonance of the birther myth within Tea Party ranks. A CBS News/ New York Times poll conducted in April 2010 found that 30 per cent of Tea Partiers thought Obama was born in another country, yet 41 per cent said they believed he was born in the US. Even among the wider US population, 20 per cent said they thought the president was not born in the US.
Though not its defining characteristic, racism remains part of the Tea Party makeup, betraying the anxieties of a social group stricken with a loss of identity and fearful of a future in which the tenets of the past have increasingly little hold.
Religion and revolution
Like race, religion is a pervasive aspect of American identity, soaked like a dye into the very fabric from which the nation was cut.
Though the makeup of the Tea Party remains hazy and imprecisely defined, research from Pew conducted in February 2011, suggested that "the movement "draw(s) disproportionate support from the ranks of white evangelical Protestants." The research also concluded that "most people who agree with the religious right also support the Tea Party", however the analysis found that support for the Tea Party "is not synonymous with support for the religious right".
On social issues, Tea Partiers are more likely to base their decision on religious beliefs, with opposition to same-sex marriage running at 65 per cent, 15 per cent more than all registered voters. It was a similar story on abortion, with 59 per cent of Tea Partiers saying that abortion should be illegal in all/most cases, against the national average of 42 per cent.
Yet even if most Tea Party followers tend towards the religious right, this is perhaps one of its least distinctive characteristics. As noted by Sir Christopher Meyer, the former British Ambassador to the United States, in politics "God does not even get a walk-on part in our [European] elections. In America he is centre-stage, wherever you place yourself in the political spectrum, to be invoked as much by Barack Obama as Texas Governor Rick Perry, who has apparently been told by God to stay in the Republican primary race."
If the bible is entrenched as the basis for moral or spiritual law for the Tea Party, the 1776 revolution and the constitution is equally as important as the basis for civic law.
For Jill Lepore, the revolution has been transformed into "civic-minded folklore that has been turned into historical fundamentalism" in the Tea Party mindset. There is nothing new about poaching episodes from history to buttress modern political positions, whether that's the hijacking of Ronald Reagan's legacy to the holding of a "Restore Honour" rally on the anniversary day of Martin Luther King's historic freedom march.
Yet for Lepore, this "historical fundamentalism" has turned the revolution into an almost religious event, the birth of a country with a manifest destiny given by God.
As Lepore argues, "historical fundamentalism is marked by the belief that a particular and quite narrowly defined past—'the founding'—is ageless and sacred and to be worshipped; that certain historical texts -'the founding documents'- are to be read in the same spirit with which religious fundamentalists read, for instance, the Ten Commandments; that the Founding Fathers were divinely inspired; that the academic study of history (whose standards of evidence and methods of analysis are based on scepticism) is a conspiracy and, furthermore, blasphemy; and that political arguments grounded in appeals to the founding documents, as sacred texts, and to the Founding Fathers, as prophets, are therefore incontrovertible."
To question the founding fathers or the constitution is to be a heretic. "Historians question the past, fundamentalists revere the past," argues Lepore. For the Tea Party, the founders are divine, while the constitution has been raised to the level of a sacred document, similar to the gospels.
Fear not race is the defining characteristic of the Tea Party. The 2008 economic crash was played out on Wall Street, but the consequent evictions, foreclosures, rising unemployment figures and failing businesses had the biggest impact across the towns and cities of working class America.
In 2000, US national debt stood at $5.3 trillion. In 2008 it stood at $10 trillion. By 2018, projections put the debt at $18 trillion. Fear again pervades – how will we pay for this debt, how will the next generation pay for the debt? Reducing debt means higher taxes or debasing the dollar. Or, as the Tea Partiers argue, decrease borrowing now.
For much of the last decade, the US has been engaged in two costly wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. According to a 2011 congressional research report, the total cost of the wars stands at $1.3 trillion, not to forget the countless bodies (more than 8,500 fatalities) that have been repatriated to the US in black bags along with countless injuries during the conflicts. Support for the wars was built on fear – fear of WMD, fear of Muslims, fear of the spread of Islam, fear that petrol prices will rise, fear of terrorism, fear of anything "other" than America or that threatens America's standing.
To the east, Chinese industry threatened US global economic hegemony, while to the south a seemingly porous border added to the number of illegal immigrants on American streets, with 11 million illegal immigrants lived in the US in 2008, 56 per cent of which came from Mexico.
Added to the fear of outside threats came perceived threats from within. The bailout, and the stimulus packaged jarred with the country's free markets fundamentals, used by the opponents of the administration to whip up economic anxieties. Likewise healthcare reform, which not only challenged the sovereignty of the markets but also treaded on the toes of the constitution.
The country was changing and in the midst of this shift, Barack Hussein Obama was elected to office, embodying a new form of America- culturally, economically, politically and racially. To that end, the Tea Party came into being as a product of the forces pushing inwards and outwards on the society. However, Obama's victory in 2008 and his subsequent policies, many forced by the same outside pressures, threw into sharp relief the changes and fears that beset the nation.


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This is why MAD doesn't matter and the Russians (and Chinese) don't care. They are prepared. America is not.
What's worse is who funded all of this: The United States, which was sold New Lies for Old through nuclear blackmail. Send money to the Russians so they can maintain 'security' of their nuclear stockpile, otherwise it would be a pity if one or two nuclear suitcase bombs were smuggled out by 'terrorists' while they turn a blind eye. Russia's Perestroika Deception suckered America, and as grave consequence, by definition changed the world.
It was said that, already long ago in the 30's, Russia had began to subvert the United States. It has been frequently warned that the sword is coming to America if it doesn't wake up by such people as Yuri Bezmenov in the 1980's, but it only fell on deaf ears as people were more concerned about shopping malls and following the Kardashians. The Superbowl is also more important.
America is going into war unprepared — and without God. He wants to, but won't help a nation that intentionally shuts Him out.
Did you know that the Russians have a massive underground complex in the Ural mountains that has been estimated to be approximately 400 square miles in size? In other words, it is roughly as big as the area inside the Washington D.C. beltway. Back in the 1990s, the Clinton administration was deeply concerned about the construction of this enormous complex deep inside Yamantau mountain, but they could never seem to get any straight answers from the Russians. The command center for this complex is rumored to be 3,000 feet directly straight down from the summit of this giant rock quartz mountain. And of course U.S. military officials will admit that there are dozens of other similar sites throughout Russia, although most of them are thought to be quite a bit smaller. But that is not all that the Russians have been up to. For example, Russian television has reported that 5,000 new emergency nuclear bomb shelters were scheduled to have been completed in the city of Moscow alone by the end of 2012. Most Americans don't realize this, but the Russians have never stopped making preparations for nuclear war. Meanwhile, the U.S. government has essentially done nothing to prepare our citizens for an attack. The assumption seems to be that a nuclear attack will probably never happen, and that if it does it will probably mean the end of our civilization anyway. Continue reading


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Humanitarian innovation has rapidly emerged to become central to discussions about the future of humanitarianism. Innovation practices are framed as a means by which the humanitarian community can identify the paradigm shift that it needs to survive in a rapidly changing world. However, this framing is based on a misunderstanding of economic theories of innovation and particularly of the nature of humanitarian economics. The lack of both a true market and a profit mechanism in the humanitarian industry means that innovations can be generated but will never be sustained. Unless this obstacle is addressed – perhaps through emerging networked approaches to economic activity – humanitarian innovation will continue to be a dead end.
Language and its translation are important operational concerns in humanitarian crisis response. Information sharing, coordination, collaboration and relationship-building all revolve around the ability to communicate effectively. However, doing so is hampered in many humanitarian crises by linguistic differences and a lack of access to adequate translation. Various innovative practices and products are being developed and deployed with the goal of addressing these concerns. In this theoretical paper, we critically appraise the ethical terrain of crisis translation and humanitarian innovation. We identify ethical issues related to three broad themes. First, we foreground questions of justice in access to translation and its prioritisation in contexts of widespread and pressing needs. Second, we consider the relationship between humanitarian ethics and the ethics of crisis translation. We argue for the importance of attending to epistemic justice in humanitarian crisis response, and consider how Ricoeur's conception of linguistic hospitality provides insights into how relationships in humanitarian settings can be understood through the lens of an ethics of exchange while also acknowledging the steep asymmetries that often exist in these contexts. Finally, we identify issues related to how translation innovations intersect with humanitarian values and humanitarians' ethical commitments.
This is an initial exploration of an emergent type of humanitarian goods – wearables for tracking and protecting the health, safety and nutrition of aid recipients. Examining the constitutive process of 'humanitarian wearables', the article reflects on the ambiguous position of digital humanitarian goods developed at the interface of emergency response contexts, the digitisation of beneficiary bodies and the rise of data and private-sector involvement in humanitarian aid. The article offers a set of contextual framings: first, it describes the proliferation and capabilities of various tracking devices across societal domains; second, it gives a brief account of the history of wristbands in refugee management and child nutrition; third, an inventory is given of prototype products and their proposed uses in aid. It is argued that what needs to be understood is that, in 'the making' of humanitarian wearables, the product is the data produced by digitised beneficiary bodies, not the wearables themselves.
Medical documentation poses many challenges in acute emergencies. Time and again, the reflection of those who manage healthcare during a 'disaster' involves some reference to poor, inadequate or even absent documentation. The reasons for this are manifold, some of which, it is often argued, would be negated by using technological solutions. Smartphones. Tablets. Laptops. Networks. Many models exist, and yet we have not reached a status quo whereby this single aspect of disaster response is fixed. Should we abandon technology in favour of a traditional paper solution? Perhaps not; however, it seems that the answer may lie somewhere in between. As simple as the problem might seem on the surface, its answer requires thought, investment and practice. And while it is being answered, it is essential to remain mindful of the hazards posed by gathering healthcare data: who owns it? Where will it be stored? How will it be shared? Academics and practitioners are equal guests at the table wherein this challenge is approached.
When former Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon encouraged the humanitarian sector to innovate and create a new paradigm to respond to people in crisis, the sector answered with an unbridled number of new enterprises and laboratories to create tools, products and new initiatives. As these emerged, so did the reality of the changing complexity of communities in need of humanitarian assistance. The deterioration of the natural physical environment, along with burgeoning population dynamics and threats to humanitarian workers themselves, has tipped the balance of complexity beyond the capability of the system to respond effectively. The humanitarian sector as a whole must urgently commit to reconciling four critical challenges to reinvent itself and its effectiveness: reconciling the meaning of innovation; developing an overarching strategy that addresses the radically changing global context in which communities require assistance; agreeing on an integrated structure to deliver innovation; and addressing how innovation is financed. Unless the sector addresses these four elements, the action and effect of innovation will fail to realise the transformational change necessary, to respond to communities in crisis now and in the future.
Humanitarian innovation has come under considerable fire in recent years for its uncritical technophilia, its links with the private sector and its tendency to fetishise objects rather than focusing on politics and process. There are many examples of these issues in the shelter sector, yet this article argues that a clear distinction should be made between innovation and architecture. By comparing the Ikea-funded Better Shelter with the series of architectural interventions in Vienna, collectively known as Places for People, this paper argues that architecture can productively engage with humanitarianism not by constructing shelters but by designing at a smaller scale in a way that does not involve any building at all.
In this interview with editors Tanja R. Müller and Gemma Sou, Tony Redmond reflects on his long career as a professor and practitioner of international emergency medicine and founder of UK-Med, an NGO that provides international emergency humanitarian medical assistance and which hosts the UK International Emergency Trauma Register (UKIETR) and UK International Emergency Medical Register (UKIEMR). He questions the usefulness of prioritising innovation in medical humanitarianism and advocates aiming for the same duty of care that one would offer in one's everyday practice at home. In this, Tony is also critical of the term 'humanitarian space', as it by definition proclaims an imagined geographical entity where normal rules should not apply.
In 2015, Action Contre la Faim launched a campaign calling on the UN to create a new post, that of a Special Rapporteur for the protection of humanitarian aid workers. Critics of the proposal claimed, inter alia, that creating such a post would imply that aid workers were a special category of civilians, worthy of protection over and above that accorded the wider population in the contexts in which they work. This raises an important issue which runs deeper than the campaign for a Special Rapporteur. The present article argues that, with or without such a post, the current situation is one in which humanitarian agencies treat aid workers as distinct and separate from the wider civilian population, and take significantly different measures for the safety of their staff from those they take for other civilians. For the most part, the distinction and associated differences are uncritically accepted, and this article sets out to challenge such acceptance by highlighting the nature of the differences, assessing possible explanations for the underlying distinction and considering its implications. Through this analysis, the article argues that this distinction not only reflects but also reinforces an unequal valuing of lives internationally.


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Republican Firm Tied To Voter Fraud Allegations
Republican Firm Tied To Voter Fraud Allegations
Republicans around the country have been vocal in recent years about the need to crack down on voter fraud. And that's caused party officials to scramble to explain how a GOP firm could have been accused of submitting fake voter registrations in a number of Florida counties.
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And I'm Audie Cornish. Congressional Democrats are looking into allegations that a Republican consulting firm committed voter registration fraud. The head of the company is an Arizona operative with a reputation for aggressive tactics, as NPR's Peter Overby reports.
PETER OVERBY, BYLINE: Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee wants to talk to consultant Nathan Sproul. The Republican National Committee last week cut loose Sproul's company, Strategic Allied Consulting, after allegations of voter registration fraud turned up in four swing states where the firm was working for the Republican Party. Florida, North Carolina and Nevada have investigations underway. Sproul's attorney says he's advised Sproul not to give interviews and the lawyer himself declined to speak to NPR. A statement maintains that Strategic Allied Consulting has a zero tolerance policy and it fires contractors who violate the election laws. Republican committees paid the company nearly $3 million this year. Election law professor Rick Hasen at the University of California at Irvine recently published a book, "The Voting Wars." Noting the conservative campaign against voter fraud, he says fraud allegations in voter registration are fairly common. But aside from Nathan Sproul's company, Hasen says...
RICK HASEN: I've not heard of anyone either on the Democratic side or the Republican side where there were allegations that voter registration forms were actually destroyed intentionally.
OVERBY: And Sproul's various companies have a history of such allegations.
STEVE MAY: It's not the first time he's been under attack or where his tactics have been questioned.
OVERBY: Steve May is a former Arizona GOP legislator. He's known Sproul since the mid-1990s.
MAY: He wants to win elections. He gets paid to win elections, and that's what he does.
OVERBY: Among the various allegations over the years against Sproul and his companies: posing as a liberal voter registration group, posing as pollsters to screen out potential Democratic voters, and trashing Democratic registrations instead of turning them in. Some of these allegations have been investigated, but none has ever been prosecuted. In 2004, Sproul was working for the RNC, he also worked to get Ralph Nader on Arizona's presidential ballot presumably to draw off votes from Democrat John Kerry. Bob Grossfeld is a long-time Democratic consultant in Arizona.
BOB GROSSFELD: This is a fellow who knows where the line is, races right up to it, and occasionally just kicks dirt over it, to maybe cover it up a little bit.
OVERBY: And despite his hardball reputation, or maybe because of it, Nathan Sproul gets customers from the Republican Party and scrutiny from the Democrats. Peter Overby, NPR News, Washington.
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The reasons that drive people to dislike a piece of art are sometimes those that you cannot think of in a hundred million years.
I was speaking, recently, to a young filmmaker. The conversation was initiated with single-minded purpose – he wanted to pick my brains about something (I still don't know how much I was able to help him with what he wanted) – but it gradually expanded to include anything and everything. We spoke about the nature and the purpose of criticism. We spoke about the tendency of people in the film industry to gloat over the failure of their peers. (You haven't seen Schadenfreude, first hand, until you've watched the glee spread like sunshine over the faces of industry folk when a much-lauded director lays an egg; it's chilling.) And we spoke about the humbling nature of audience response. Each of us had experienced this in different ways – he through the people who have seen his work, and I through those who have read my work. And funnily enough, both of us produced an anecdote about Mani Ratnam to illustrate our experiences.
K's story revolved around Kannathil Muthamittal, which (in case you don't know) is about a little girl who's told by her father that she's adopted, and that her birth mother is from Sri Lanka. This becomes the impetus for the family to journey to the island, where they are trapped in the midst of war – not just in the general disruptions to normal life caused by a long-running civil war (which makes it difficult for them to make enquiries about people and travel from place to place), but also in the gunfire that erupts around them when they are seated in a park. And K said that a friend of his who worked in advertising didn't care for the film at all. I thought that maybe the subject was too grim for her. Or maybe, like those who worked in the adoption circles, she felt that the way the child had been apprised of her reality was very cinematic, and this killed the film's premise for her.
But no. K told me that his friend's reason for disliking the film was that there was no duet. I said, "Surely you're not serious." And he smiled and said he was. The friend's logic was simply this: How can you have Madhavan and Simran in a movie and not have a romantic song picturised on them? The slight issue of where this duet could have been incorporated into a movie about a couple worrying that they may lose their child did not seem to bother this friend. Seen one way, this is not a completely unreasonable expectation. Such a song probably could have been included in the flashback that details the couple's courtship, which is better described as a somewhat accidental getting together. This flashback does have a number that plays in the background, Sattena nanaindhadhu nenjam – but it's not a full-fledged song, and it's not exactly capital-R romantic. And this absence was enough of a deal-breaker that all the other wonderful things about this movie paled into insignificance. The film, in the friend's eyes, was a dud.
My story is slightly more bizarre. I was invited, some time ago, to a radio station to talk about the Oscars. Usually, these things are done over the phone, but this time, for whatever reason, they wanted me there. So I went. The person hosting the show was seated opposite me in a sound-proof booth, and as a warm-up to the conversation (the headphones and the volume levels take a bit of getting used to), she began to talk about reviewing. She asked me what I thought of Raavan. I said that I'd found it intriguing, and even if it wasn't a consistently successful film, there were a lot of fascinating things in it. She asked me why people seemed to dislike the film so much. I said I didn't know – who can really say why someone doesn't like something? And then she said she'd hated the film – not because of the story or the performances, but because there was too much moisture.
At first I didn't understand. What did she mean by "too much moisture"? She explained that the film looked too wet, that it was always raining, that there was… too much moisture. I didn't what to say. That humbling moment, to me, was a revelation, my Bodhi-tree burst of enlightenment. You can pour blood, sweat and tears into making a movie or writing something or putting up a painting or composing a piece of music, and then someone will come along and dislike it because it's six in the evening. I wrote, last week, about people who undertake a profession in the public eye – I said that they needed to equip themselves with mental armour. They also need to equip themselves with a mental sieve, to separate the criticism that is informed and well-judged from that which is just a visceral reaction. The former, at least, you can do something with. The latter is nothing more than an affirmation that you can never please all the people all the time.
Lights, Camera, Conversation… is a weekly dose of cud-chewing over what Satyajit Ray called Our Films Their Films. An edited version of this piece can be found here.
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