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The Long Road to Winning Back the Black Community
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On the 45th anniversary of the dark day when Dr. Martin Luther King was gunned down in Memphis, I feel the need to write about some political history. I grew up in the Dayton area. Most of my friends back home are black. I have always found it hard to believe that most of them constantly vote Democrat, when the party itself has run many of Ohio's major cities into the ground economically for many years. But I shouldn't be surprised. The Ohio Republican Party, often showing little difference between themselves and the Democrats, deserves blame as well. They have allowed Ohio to remain a tax and spend state with failing schools, high crime, union and corporate corruption, and annoying, bigoted nativist sentiments.
Though my family mostly votes Democrat I have always been a Republican. You might call me a recovering neocon turned Rand Paul Republican through a drawn out awakening from the statism I grew up around. Though I wasn't a huge fan of Bush I believe–and did from my teen years–that historically the Republican Party has had the better track record on economics and foreign policy; even though I've never quite been in agreement with them on social issues. In high school I read John Stuart Mill and got my first taste of the importance of individual liberty. The history books I read suggested that the Republican Party, at least prior to George W. Bush, had a better track record on this, through the civil rights support from Calvin Coolidge and Dwight Eisenhower, and the economic policies of Ronald Reagan. When the party was founded as the party of civil rights, its motto was: Free Soil, Free Labor, and Free Men.
Though some northern Democrats such as my late grandfather (who would have turned 86 today) were friendly to the black community in the first half of the 20th century, most of the party — especially in the south — had always been an enemy of civil rights. It had been the party of Jim Crow. Even in the North, working class Democrats before the 1960s had a tendency to bigotry. The earliest labor unions were founded to protect "white labor." After both WWI and WWII, many blacks fled the south to work in the industrial cities of the northeast and midwest, and the white unions would fight hard to keep them out. This would continue until the 50s, when the struggle for racial equality reached new heights.
Prior to the 70s, most blacks were Republicans. They began a mass exodus to the Democratic Party when Johnson signed the civil rights bill, even though it only passed because of the Republicans in congress. Ironically enough, Johnson as a Senator opposed civil rights legislation vehemently.
Unfortunately the Republican Party never did anything to maintain those voters or get them back. The last Republican president to campaign in black neighborhoods and truly speak to issues that affected black communities in televised debates was Ronald Reagan. Had he not been such a drug warrior he might have repaired the frayed relations. Now, historically misguided baby boomers and gen-xers in the African-American community have taught their children the myth that Republicans are racist; some of it as a result of the aggressive anti-drug policies that were kicked up during the Reagan years. Of course, our opposition to Barack Obama makes it easier to keep this myth going even if this opposition is legitimate because the president's economic and foreign policies have been counterproductive and downright wrong. Perception is everything.
Fact: the only thing the Republican Party ever did to set back black people in its entire history was the War on Drugs. But that was a bipartisan mistake and has been supported over the years by just as many Democrats. Many rising Republican leaders such as Rand Paul and Justin Amash are finally willing to admit prohibition doesn't work and does nothing but disproportionately incarcerate black and Hispanic men for crimes where no physical or financial harm was wrought by them on another; just as gun laws do (ever heard of the "white and polite" rule?). As they do this, rising Democratic leaders such as Elizabeth Warren mock them as potheads or flip flop on the issue and do nothing to alleviate the problem.
I'm sick and damn tired of ignoramuses accusing the Republican Party of being racist for reasons most of them can't even explain when the Democrats clearly are part of the problem and won't admit it. At least Rick Perry, in spite of all his faults, signed the Peaceable Journey act into law to strike down the "white and polite" rule that was locking up minorities in Texas for carrying lawfully owned guns in their car for their own protection. Historically, you could carry a gun in your car in Texas for protection; but if you were ever stopped, there was a de facto "white and polite" rule. If you were white, and nice to the officer, he'd let it slide. If you were black or Tejano, good luck. You were probably going to be arrested. This disgusting remnant of the Jim Crow south was finally repealed when the Texas Republican Party pushed for the peaceable journey act. Now all Texans' second amendment rights are respected. They are allowed to carry guns in their car without a permit. It keeps me safe when driving at night in Houston, that's for sure.
Do you ever wonder why minority poverty and minority incarceration are highest in blue states? There are a lot of reasons; and support for prohibition — which I will define as locking someone up for possession or use of an item where no physical or financial harm was done to anyone else — is one such reason. The welfare state and teacher's unions are to blame too; as well as opposition to school choice programs that allow black students to get out of the ghetto by doing something as simple as: STOP FORCING THEM TO STAY THERE! (I'm very passionate about education reform. You'll see me write more on it in coming months).
It's going to take more than a generation to get blacks voting Republican again. It starts with ignoring or even laughing at the Rovian notion that religious-right wedge issues like gay marriage and abortion are the answer. If the black community was really that passionate about social conservatism, they would not be voting overwhelmingly Democrat. Truthfully, young blacks are just as secular as young whites. The generational shift away from social conservatism transcends race. I've actually met fewer young blacks who are aggressively anti-abortion or anti-gay than I have young whites, and when you put the two together, the number is inconsequential. It is likely to remain that way. The liberals control the pop culture, and it has secularized the generation. The culture war is effectively over. Fortunately, secularism and capitalism are not mutually exclusive; rather they are highly compatible.
First, the GOP needs a message of economic empowerment in black communities; one that can be brought by a revival of vocational training opportunities and academic improvement that the free market can best provide. We must be able to explain why lower taxes and fewer regulations create jobs, lower the price of everyday goods, and raise local wages. We must aggressively promote upward mobility through school choice and a return of apprenticeships in skilled crafts and STEM fields.
Next, we must become the civil rights party again, by doing as Senator Rand Paul recently said:
"It is important that we always stand up for the Bill of Rights, whether the First Amendment, Fourth or Second. The Constitution is non-negotiable"
The Bill of Rights is like dominoes, knock down one and they all fall. We must become the party of civil liberties again.
Finally, it would help if the first president to pardon a high number of non-violent gun or drug offenders was Republican. Rand Paul could very well be that president. He's probably not going to campaign on it if he runs in 2016. But I wouldn't be surprised if he did so after being elected.
In his address to CPAC, he said:
"Ask the Facebook generation whether we should put a kid in jail for the nonviolent crime of drug use, and you'll hear a resounding no,"
That would be as symbolic a move for the GOP as civil rights legislation was for the Democratic Party under Johnson. Tens of thousands of mostly black and Hispanic men, who have committed no physical or financial harm to anyone other than themselves, suddenly released back into society with their records expunged, so that they can get the help they need, get back on their feet and get back into the workforce. It's the right thing to do. And the Republican governors (hint hint, Mr. Perry), should start now as congress gears up for this gun control debate.
I urge Republican governors to scour the records of the incarcerated. Find people, of any race, who were incarcerated for possession of a firearm without a permit but committed no violent or financial crimes on top of this possession, and expunge their sentences and/or reimburse their fines. The overwhelming majority of them will be minorities. Show these people the Republican Party is not the party of prohibition, but the party of liberty, by freeing them from the police state.
I also urge you to pardon those who are incarcerated for committing non-violent, non-financial drug crimes, at least for weed–which science has irrefutably proven (to the point where anyone who still denies it is stupid) is safer than alcohol or tobacco. But you might as well start with the non-violent/non-financial gun "offenders." Think of the taxpayer money you will save! Your voters will thank you!
It's sad. Most of my generation thinks Dr. Martin Luther King was a pro-gun control liberal and many baby boomers think he'd be a drug warrior. I assure you if he was alive today and saw the prison statistics resulting from gun and drug prohibition, he'd be ashamed. Not that he was a fan of guns or drugs. He was a preacher of non-violent resistance and would not have appreciated self-destructive behavior. However, he would have been against government locking people up for possession of either; especially with those in prison for non-violent offenses being so disproportionately non-white. He would not want self-destructive behavior to be met with police brutality and incarceration. I'm confident he would have seen it as a mission of the church to solve these problems, not the nanny state.
The pro-civil liberties, pro-economic growth Republican Party being [re]invented by fresh young faces like Rand Paul, Justin Amash, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, as well as the many Gen Y Republicans supporting organizations like Young Americans for Liberty, is the one that will repair the GOP's frayed relations with the black community, as well as other minority groups; Hispanics, Asians, Arabs, even gays. The Rove/Kristol/Graham/Santorum wings of Dominionism, prohibition, crony capitalism, disrespect for the Bill of Rights, and perpetual warfare is what destroyed the relationship in the first place. The sooner we realize this, and begin taking action, the sooner black Americans will begin coming back to the party they once loved.
Aaron Alghawi obtained a B.S. in Economics from Texas A&M University in 2012, and is an At-Large Board Member of the Republican Liberty Caucus national committee.


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Why wait until the last minute to get your act together? Here are five events at least a week out to get you started. 1) Ryan Montbleau Band, Dec. 1, 9 p.m., $15-$20, Arch Street Tavern, 85 Arch St., Hartford, (860) 246-7610, archstreettavern.com. 2)...Tags: New Britain, Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, Stafford (Tolland, Connecticut), Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Charlie Morton's awaited start didn't go very well. After being sent down to Triple-A Indy over three months ago, Morton was given his first start on Sunday afternoon against the Brewers.
During a pre-game interview, Morton said "I feel like I've come a long way." Unfortunately today, he seemed like the same ol' Charlie we saw in the begining of the season.
He was pulled after throwing 82 pitches through 3.1 Innings, giving up nine hits, eight runs, seven earned, walked one and struck out two. With the Pirates loss, Morton falls to 1-10 with an 10.03 ERA. (allowing 52 earned runs on 75 hits over 46 2/3 innings)
"[Morton] just didn't execute quality pitches," Pirates manager John Russell said. "I think he threw a few too many offspeed pitches and didn't really get aggressive with his fastball. Just not enough quality pitches. When he throws that many offspeed pitches, then he loses the aggressiveness of really being able to pound the zone."
Three runs were surrendered in the first inning. After allowing back-to-back singles and a walk, Dickerson hit a two-RBI single and a wild pitch scored McGehee.
Charlie seemed to have calmed down in the second inning, allowing just one hit — a double by Kottaras– then retired the next three batters.
Morton was hit hard in the third inning allowing three more runs to score, although, this time it wasn't all his fault. Ryan Braun reached first base on an error by Ronny Cedeno and a passed ball by Ryan Doumit were the factors in two of the runs. Escobar and Kottaras both hit RBI singles, giving the Brewers a 6-2 lead.
Charlie was pulled in the fourth inning after giving up a two-run home run to Ryan Braun (his 19th of the season).
"Early on, they seemed to be on my four-seamer pretty good," Morton said. "I was throwing my sinker, but I was falling behind in some counts. With my sinker, I was inducing less firm contact, but I got beat bad on a couple curveballs I left up in the zone."
I hope that JR gives Charlie another start. You probally are thinking I'm crazy, but hear me out. Morton was being caught by Ryan Doumit and let's face it we know he is a horrible game caller. With Chris Snyder's experience I would like to see how he would pitch with Chris being behind the plate. Throughout the game I noticed Morton shaking off Doumit a lot. Not only were they not on the same page, I can only imagine that doesn't boost his confidence and only ads frustration.
Neil Walker hit a two-run home run in the first inning of Dave Bush. (Back-to-back homer nights for Walker who is batting .369 with runners on base)
In the second inning with two men on base, Cedeno at the plate and the pitchers spot up next, Ronny decided to bunt. I may not be a baseball player but I do know that is a very stupid idea. I'm not sure if that call was from the bench (god help us if it was) but WHY, oh, WHY would Cedeno do that? He was obviously out at first base. Morton struck out and Tabata flied to center to end the inning and leave both Doumit and Milledge in scoring position.
Dave Bush gave up two more home runs during his seven innings, Doumit in the fourth and Young in the seventh inning. Bush has now given up 10 home runs this month and 25 on the season. He gave up three runs on seven hits, struck out four and walked two. Bush is 7-11 on the season.
There was a scary moment in the eighth inning when Evan Meek was hit in the right arm by a come-backer from Ryan Braun (As if I need another reason to hate him). At first it had looked like Meek was hit in the chest. He fell to the ground and after a minute was helped to his feet. Evan walked off the field with JR and the Pirates medical staff favoring his right hand. Thankfully, the X-rays came back negative and there was no fracture. Meek was diagnosed with a contusion on his right wrist.
Trevor Hoffman came into the ninth inning to pick up his 599th career save and the Bucs lost to the Brewers 8-4.
News and Notes:
- The Pirates starting pitching now has a record of 24-72. It is the first time since 1952 that the team have five 10 loss starters. (Duke 6-12, Maholm 7-12, Ohlendorf 1-11, Morton 1-10)
- The Pirates have now lost 13 straight on the road.
- Jhonatan Ramos promoted from State College to West Virginia.
Minor League Update:
- Matt Curry (16th round pick in the 2010 draft) at State College, 50 games: .295 AVG, 13 2B, 6HR, 25 RBI
- John Bowker .310 AVG, 17 HR, 44 RBI, .960 OPS
- Alex Presley .324 AVG, 12 HR, 79 RBI, .880 OPS
- Josh Harrison .298 AVG, 3 HR, 72 RBI, 17 SB
- Chase D'Arnaud .243 AVG, 4HR, 44 RBI, 32 SB
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On October 5, 2010 Wind-up Records will release Finger Eleven's 5th studio album, Life Turns Electric. The 10-track album was recorded in New York at Wind-up Studios this past summer. Life Turns Electric was produced by James Black and Rick Jackett, who also co-wrote all the songs on the album with the other band members. The first single "Living in a Dream" is playing now on Alternative and Rock radio stations across the United States and Canada.

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Life Turns Electric is the sound of Finger Eleven's pedal to the proverbial metal. They fly past state troopers and speed traps. They barrel headlong into the future but take a scenic route through the dusty roads of the '70s to get there. There's nothing retro about it, but you can hear how they've inhaled the fumes of Classic Rock. This is the sound of a band blasting forward and having a blast while doing so. The guitars are back, the melodies are strong and instantly memorable, branding the lyrics on your brain the very first time you hear them.
"Some bands get confident and coast," says Scott. "They might put out the first 10 ideas they think of and that isn't what happened here." It's true. Finger Eleven grew confident through fan support and belief in their music and instead of coasting, they're simply more confident with their craft. On Life Turns Electric, that fact is clear. They didn't just put out the first ten jams they came up with – they put out ten of the best songs they've ever written.
Finger Eleven earned this confidence album by album, tour by tour and song by song. Since signing to Wind-Up records in 1998, the band have worked the road non-stop and released successful albums such as their debut Tip and its follow-up, The Greyest of Blue Skies. By the time they released their third, self-titled album, Finger Eleven had built a solid career. They didn't know that a little acoustic tune, written unassumingly under a tree somewhere, would be the one to crack the charts open and let them onto roads once closed to them. "One Thing," with its powerful chorus and acoustics, became a sensation.
The band's new success gave them the confidence to write Them vs You vs Me, the Gold-certified album that won Rock Album of the Year at the 2007 Junos. Them vs You vs Me was even more musically varied than Finger Eleven. Them vs You vs Me also featured "Paralyzer," a monster slab of backbone slide that became the band's biggest crossover hit. It's all funk and swagger with no best-before date, and it blasts out of car windows and club doors to this very day.
Their albums were going gold in the U.S., platinum in Canada. Their songs were on Guitar Hero and Rock Band and other video games and soundtracks. Finger Eleven's hits proved the band could be a hard rock band, an acoustic band, a funk rock band, all of these -or none of these. All they had to do was be true to themselves as Finger Eleven and both casual and hardcore fans would approve. They knew they were ready to make Life Turns Electric.
First, though, the band took some time apart to recharge - although Finger Eleven never shut down completely. Ideas continually evolve and revolve inside their heads. Eventually they brought their ideas to a cabin in the Canadian north to pull them out, lay them down and hammer them into properly righteous shape.
"When we're together, it's almost like we're a machine," says James. "Someone just drops a token in and everyone's gears start moving."
They emerged from the wilderness with their best batch of songs to date, and headed down to Wind-Up's own Quad Studios in New York City. They had something new in mind – a new attitude and a new method. After years in studios learning the ropes, they were ready to self-produce. They had honed their skills with home recordings and pitched in ideas with past producers. With the other band members at their side, Rick and James knew they could guide Finger Eleven through the making of their fifth album. They took their first test run with "Living In A Dream," the lead single with the mad groove and the crazy-memorable chorus. The result? A smash single already following "Paralyzer" up the Hot 100. "Living In A Dream" gave them the go-ahead to make the album they saw fit to make.
The band moved to New York City to live and breathe the music. The crackle and buzz of that city's streets is audible on Life Turns Electric. They turned up guitars and sped up the tempo; great songs with less juice were put aside for future use. Life Turns Electric was going to be about the rock.
"We chose to just rock this out," says Rick. "We concentrated on the chords and the melodies." New York helped them do that, supercharging the already-electrified grooves, powering the melodies, pushing the band forward.
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As producers, Rick and James mediated the recording process, but through the sessions, everyone had their say. The sessions were a team effort, and the results were sifted through no filters, refracted through no prisms, and compromised by nothing. In an era when records are divided into 'singles' and 'the rest of it,' Life Turns Electric is the full package; the songs are even stronger side by side.
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Randy Bell has been covering Mississippi news for 38 years. He's thinking about making a career out of it. After getting his start in radio as a DJ at his hometown station in Vernon, Alabama (his first words on the air were introducing a song by Herman's Hermits), Randy thought he wanted to get involved in the technical side of the business. But after one semester of 8 AM labs, he decided a degree in Electrical Engineering at MSU wasn't a good idea and switched to Communications although he was already working in a local station and learning more about radio on the job than in school.
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Those street-level maps we see on television during tornado warnings could be a little misleading. The National Weather Service says it's noticing a trend during our stronger storms for the tornado to touch down up to a mile away from where the main rotation is showing up on radar. That's because those storms are tilted. And relying on radar could give people a false sense of security thinking a tornado is passing them by because their neighborhood isn't in the path of the storm as depicted on TV. NWS says it's another reason for anyone anywhere near a tornado to take cover.
We all know it was a wet winter in Mississippi. And the National Weather Service says it'll go down in the record books at the fourth-wettest in history in Jackson-- with rainfall almost 12 inches above normal. It's the sixth-wettest winter in Hattiesburg. And the big concern is this-- several of our unusually-wet winters have been followed by major spring floods.
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Crystal Springs United Methodist Church is the first Mississippi-based employer to win a national award for its support of the National Guard and Reserves. The Freedom Award was presented in Washington. The church's senior pastor, John Mark Branning, is a chaplain in the Guard and was deployed to Iraq last year. The church paid the difference in his salary during his deployment, helped his family cover its bills and arranged for a video hook-up so Branning could witness the birth of his child. Church leaders say they considered his deployment a mission opportunity and say Branning has delivered a lot of good sermons based on his experiences in Iraq.
A rare event indeed on the Barnett Reservoir Aug. 19. A waterspout, a phenomenon that occurs more often on the Coast. The National Weather Service says it was the result of a rainshower (not a severe thunderstorm) getting caught up in some wind shear associated with a frontal boundary, resulting in some weak rotation that produced the waterspout. Even though it wasn't technically a tornado, NWS went ahead and issued a tornado warning just in case it held together once it reached shore-- which it didn't.
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It was one of the darkest days in Jackson's history-- April 24, 1996, the day a disgruntled firefighter went on a shooting rampage killing four of his comrades at Central Fire Station downtown and wounding two others. Now, there's a book about it. Former division chief and arson investigator Dave Berry and the widow of one of the firefighters who died have written personal accounts of that tragic day and some of the events leading up to it. The title, "White Shirts", is a reference to the uniforms worn by the chiefs and ranking officers who were Kenneth Tornes' targets. Berry chased Tornes out of the building and fired shots at his car as he drove away. The book co-authored by Noraine Moree is available online from Cannon Ridge Publishing.
State Trooper Marvin Henderson lost part of his left leg in a motorcycle accident, but it hasn't kept him from continuing his law enforcement career. In fact, he recently was hailed as a hero for stopping an armed robbery and chasing down one of the suspects. I had the opportunity to talk to Henderson about what he's gone through to overcome his disability. The story is posted below-- "Super Trooper".
Mississippi has added four more names to the state's law enforcement officers memorial. Two of the officers died in the line of duty last year-- in Madison and Grenada. The other two go back a long way-- at least a hundred years. A sheriff who was killed in 1912 and a town marshal shot to death in 1891 have been added to the wall, bringing the number of names to 216. Pearl police investigator Mike Walter's name will be included next year.
Mississippi now has 62 smoke-free communities. That's cities and towns with a comprehensive ordinance prohibiting smoking in public places. But health groups say the state still needs a statewide smoking law-- because even if every community passed its own ordinance, much of Mississippi wouldn't be covered. Legislation to establish that statewide policy never even got out of committee at the Capitol this year. But supporters plan to try again next year.
He was a wounded veteran of the war in Iraq. He was there when Marine Cpl. Dustin Lee was killed in a rocket attack in 2007, refusing to leave Lee's side until pulled away by medics. He retired from the military and moved in with Lee's parents, living in Quitman and traveling the country visiting schools, veterans groups and military hospitals. Now, Lex the German shepard has died. He was the first military working dog to be retired from active duty and given to the family of a fallen Marine. But it wasn't his war wounds that killed Lex. It was cancer. See the related story below, "Dustin's Dad".
It's good to see a list in which Mississippi doesn't rank at or near the bottom. The Center for Public Integrity ranks the state sixth nationally in its State Integrity Investigation. The study looks at the risk of public corruption in each state, focusing on factors like government accountability, political financing, state budget procedures and the public's access to information. Even though only five other states ranked higher, Mississippi's grade on the center's report card was just a C-plus. No state got an A. New Jersey ranked the highest, Georgia the lowest.
I had an opportunity to be one of the first Mississippians to visit the new National
9-11 Memorial in New York. I've visted the World Trade Center site annually for the
past eight years and was disappointed in the lack of progress. Last year, things
really began to take shape and now, with the memorial finished and construction well
underway on the Freedom Tower and other buildings, it's a much more positive
experience. Posted below is the story about my visit, "The National Memorial".
UPDATE: This story has been named winner of a national Edward R. Murrow Award for best Use of Sound among entries from small-market radio stations across the U-S and Canada.
The eight straight days of measurable rainfall in Jackson during July almost made the record books. If the streak had gone one day longer, it would have been the longest ever in July and among the longest for any month in Jackson. On the other hand, Hattiesburg-- where it also rained eight days in a row-- has had three other Julys with lengthier rainy streaks, including 14 consecutive days in 2003.
What a difference a year makes. Last April, Mississippi set a record with 67 tornadoes. This year, we had none. This is the first time in 11 years we've had a tornado-free April. And there were no tornadoes during May either, marking the first time since 1993 that we got through both months without a single tornado.
Last year, Mississippi had the distinction of having the first tornado in the country. The storm touched down in Attala County a couple of minutes past midnight on New Year's Day. This year, our first tornado was on Jan. 17. The EF-2 twister in Marion County was the 18th nationwide so far in 2012. Texas, North Carolina, Kentucky, Indiana and Tennessee all recorded tornadoes before we did.
It's rare for the FBI to issue a warning about a scam. But the bureau's Jackson office was getting so many inquiries from the public about a telephone scam involving phony government grants that it felt a warning was necessary. People are getting calls from someone with a foreign accent claiming that the "U-S Grant Department" is offering grants of up to $10,000 for residential purposes. But the caller says recipients have to pay a "processing fee". The FBI says nobody actually gets a grant and people stand to lose any money they send in.
Misssissippi's film industry is in a position to really take off now. The state has new tax incentives to attract moviemakers, one of the largest sound stages in the South, a new community college training program for jobs in the industry and lots of good publicity surrounding the release of a major motion picture filmed entirely in Mississippi last year. The head of the state film bureau, Ward Emling, says the success enjoyed by Dreamworks Studios in shooting "The Help" shows the people in Hollywood that they can do a major film in Mississippi-- and shows people here the economic impact the movie business can have. Emling says six new movie projects are in the works-- and some of those films could start shooting in Mississippi later this year. UPDATE: Being nominated for four Academy Awards and winning one is another feather in the state's cap now).
I'm now a graduate of the FBI Citizens Academy. The six-week program
gives the public an inside look at the bureau, including how the special agents
fight terrorism, white collar crime and health care fraud. I joined 18 other
citizens for those Thursday night classes, the highlight of which was a visit
to the FBI firing range for an opportunity to shoot some of their special weapons
including the M4 carbine and MP5 submachine gun. A story about the
program is posted below-- "Inside the FBI".
Jerome Lee's son, Dustin, was a Marine who was killed in Iraq five years
ago. And Lee would have given anything to have been in Newton County
last April as the state's Persian Gulf War Memorial was dedicated. But he
couldn't be there. Because HE was in Iraq. Lee is a criminal investigator
with the Miss. Highway Patrol and a master sergeant with the Air National
Guard. He volunteered to go to Iraq to "complete" his son's
mission. Lee served at an air base about 60 miles from Fallujah where
Dustin was killed in 2007. My story is posted below--
"Dustin's Dad".
You've heard of green power. How about brown? As in The Big Muddy.
The Miss. Department of Transportation is working on a pilot project to
generate electricity from the free-flowing current of the Mississippi River.
It's called hydrokinetic energy. MDOT will use its first turbine to light an
American flag display at the Vicksburg Welcome Center. If it's found to
be feasible, the department hopes to expand the project to light one of
the river bridges.
If you're having a problem getting a cell phone signal-- in some places, it could be intentional. The Federal Communications Commission
is looking into the possibility that some businesses may be using illegal
jamming devices to prevent people from making phone calls and sending
texts. The FCC has launched a nationwide crackdown on the jammers,
which are available on the internet. A gas station in south Mississippi was
caught using a jammer to prevent employees from making calls during work.
But it interfered with the whole neighborhood. The FCC says the devices
can even jam police and fire communications. They're different from the
filters used at Parchman to block inmates from using cell phones. Those
filters allow authorized calls to go through. The jammers block everything.
It would cost the state of Mississippi at least a half-Billion dollars a year if it had to pay the 13,000 volunteer firefighters who risk their lives in communities from
the Delta to the Coast. State Fire Marshal Mike Chaney is hoping, within the next
few years, most counties will be providing disability and accidental death insurance
to those volunteers. About a third of the counties already are, using state insurance
tax rebates to cover the cost. The risk those unpaid firefighters face was highlighted
recently when two volunteers died and another group of firefighters was attacked at a fire scene.
Mississippi had the dubious distinction in Aprii of 2011 of becoming the first state in
21 years to record two EF-5 tornadoes on the same day. The twister which destroyed
Smithville and a tornado which cut through four counties in east-central Mississippi
both earned the National Weather Service's top rating with winds estimated at over
200 mph. The storm in Smithville ripped plumbing out of the ground as it tore
houses apart and the other one gouged holes two feet deep in fields and tore
hunks of asphalt out of roads.
The National Weather Service says the tornado which hit the Terry area in March of 2011 shows why people should take severe thunderstorm warnings seriously. NWS says the storm didn't show a lot of rotation on radar as it moved into Hinds County and no tornado warning was issued until it pushed into Rankin County. Hinds County
was under a severe thunderstorm warning when the tornado hit, damaging several
homes. A survey rated the tornado as EF-2. NWS says it should be a reminder that
severe thunderstorms often produce tornadoes quickly.
When an EF-2 tornado touched down in Hinds County on New Year's Eve 2010 enroute
to Rankin County, the National Weather Service didn't just issue a tornado warning.
It declared a tornado emergency. This higher-level alert had been used just three
times previously in Mississippi for tornadoes in Rankin County in 2005, in Jackson
in 2008 and for the big storm that tore through Yazoo City in April of 2010.
They're only used for confirmed tornadoes on the ground which have the potential to
cause significant damage, injuries and deaths. The first tornado emergency was
declared in Oklahoma City in 1999 as forecasters looked for a way to make the public
understand the danger a huge tornado posed as it cut through the city. Since then,
NWS has developed guidelines for how they're to be used.
As the holidays approach:
A word about rebates. During the holiday shopping season, some of the
best-sounding offers come with mail-in rebates. Over the years, I've had plenty
of experience with how the process works and consider myself somewhat of an expert
on the subject. Here's some information you may find useful:
-- Make sure you get the rebate form before you leave the store. At larger stores,the form may be printed out with your receipt, but at some places, you'll have
to peel one off at the point of sale or ask the cashier.
-- Follow the directions on the rebate form carefully. Most will ask for a copy of the
receipt but some demand the original. Almost all will require you to cut out the UPCs
from the package to send in.
-- Make copies of everything you submit. If there's a problem, you'll need this evidence to get your rebate.
-- Don't wait too long to submit your request. There's a deadline and if you miss it,
you're out of luck.
Here's what I know about rebates:
-- They're based on the concept that a sizeable number of eligible customers won't receive them because they forget about the rebates, wait too long to send in the
request or think it's too much of a hassle.
-- While most redemption companies seem to be honest and efficient, a few seem to
go out of their way to make it difficult to claim the rebate. I once received a postcard
claiming I had missed a deadline for submitting my request when I clearly hadn't.
I suspect these cards were sent to everyone requesting a rebate in hopes that some
wouldn't pursue it any further.
Here's what I believe about rebates:
-- There's no reason it should take 8 to 10 weeks to process a request. I suspect the
money is earning interest in a short-term account which the company keeps after mailing the checks.
Another tip: make sure to remember the rebate amount. On more than one occasion
I've been shorted and had to demand a second check for the balance.
There's never been a September in Jackson any drier than 2010. The
National Weather Service says the city's official rainfall total for the month--
.04 inch-- was matched only by September of 1956. Meridian had its driest
September in 28 years and the fifth-driest on record.
The state agency regulating the telephone companies is still interested in
finding dead spots in cellular coverage in Mississippi. The Public Service
Commission launched a campaign called Zap the Gap about three years ago,
inviting the public to report places where cell phones have trouble getting
a signal. The PSC says some of the gaps have been closed with the
installation of new towers. But central district commissioner Lynn Posey
says they realize problem areas remain, mostly in rural parts of the state.
Posey believes, within the next few years, Mississippians should be able to
get a cell connection practically anywhere in the state. You can check out
Zap the Gap at www.psc.state.ms.us
UPDATE: In light of a new study showing Mississippi with the second-highest
number of cell-only households in the country, the PSC says "zapping the gap"
is more important than ever.
I was among the witnesses for Mississippi's first back-to-back executions
in almost half a century in 2010. Paul Woodward's lethal injection was briefly delayed,
but Gerald Holland's execution went right according to schedule. Both men
quoted scripture in their final statements-- Woodward reciting the Lord's Prayer
and Holland reading the 23rd Psalm. Holland expressed remorse for his crime,
but Woodward didn't. Both men spent about 24 years on Death Row for raping
and murdering young women.
The tornado that cut a 149-mile path through Mississippi in April of 2010 was the fourth-
longest in state history and the widest ever recorded. A tornado which slammed
into the Glade community in Jones County in 1987 was previously the widest--
1.25 miles. The tornado which ripped through Yazoo and Holmes counties was
1.75 miles wide. The National Weather Service says it was probably one of the ten-widest in U-S history. There have been a few tornadoes in other parts of the country which were more than 2 miles wide.
Despite the storm's 170-mph peak winds, it was a survivable tornado. NWS points
out that none of the 10 people killed had taken shelter in a sturdy structure. Six
were in mobile homes, two were in vehicles and two were outdoors.
Mississippi continues to issue Silver Alerts. The new law outlines a
process to notify the public when Alzheimer's patients and other elderly people
are reported missing. In some respects, it's similar to the AMBER alert program
which is used when children are kidnapped. The Miss. Department of Public
Safety is in charge of both programs. But the Emergency Alert System, which is
activated for AMBER, will not be used for Silver Alerts. EAS sends emergency
information to broadcast stations statewide. Most Silver Alerts are expected to be
localized events which won't require a statewide notice. The first use of the Silver
Alert helped locate a missing senior from Meadville who had driven off in his car
and gotten lost in Florida.
The 4.7 inches of snow officially recorded in Jackson Feb. 12, 2010 ranked among the city's
top 10 snowfall events-- and went down in the record books as the second-largest
February snowfall in history. For the winter season (December through February)
Jackson's 5.5 inches of snow ranked as the ninth-highest since weather records
began in 1896.
The National Weather Service has also done some calculations regarding winter
temperatures in Jackson and Meridian, the two Mississippi cities which have the
longest recorded weather histories. The average winter 2010 temperature in Jackson
was 42.8 degrees, tying 1939-40 as the fourth-coldest. In Meridian, it was 42.1
degrees, the third-coldest. For February 2010, Jackson's average temperature,
40.8 degrees was the fifth-coldest on record, while Meridian shivered through its
fourth-coldest February at 41.0 degrees.
The early January 2010 freeze may not have resulted in any record lows
in Mississippi, but at least one record high was tied. But it's not the
kind of record high we normally think about. Jackson's high of 27
degrees on Jan.8 tied the coldest high temperature on record. The
only other time it didn't get any warmer than that on that date was
in 1988. The National Weather Service says the most significant
thing about the Arctic outbreak was the length of time-- in some
places, 3 and a half days-- during which temperatures stayed below the
freezing mark.
UPDATE: Parts of north Mississippi endured another 72-hour freeze
in 2011. They dropped below freezing the evening of Jan. 11 and
didn't reach 32 degrees until late in the day on the 14th.
My story, "Shadow Soldiers", is
about the 1st Battalion, 204th Air Defense Artillery-- a Miss.
National Guard unit based in Newton which completed two tours of duty in Washington, DC-- helping to guard against another
9/11-style terrorist attack. I had the opportunity in 2009 to visit
with the unit's commander, Lt. Colonel Les White of Madison and
several of his soldiers in Washington to talk about their secretive
The 204th was the first Guard unit in the country to be assigned the
Avenger missile system, capable of shooting down any type of
aircraft which might threaten the White House, Capitol, Pentagon
or any other target in Washington. It's part of a multi-layered air
defense which also includes fighter jets, helicopters and other assets.
The 204th represents the last line of defense. If other efforts to
divert or neutralize a threat fail, it could be called on to take the
aircraft out of the sky with a Stinger missile. White couldn't talk about
the specifics of the mission or take me on a tour of the missile sites.
But he noted that some of the missiles are hidden, you might say,
in plain sight.
"Shadow Soldiers" is posted below.
UPDATE: The 204th served another mission in Iraq in 2011.
Scam Alert: Attorney General Jim Hood says con artists are trying
to take advantage of the publicity the economic stimulus package
has gotten-- offering to let people cash in. Hood is passing along
a warning from the Federal Trade Commission about bogus websites
and emails encouraging the public to sign up for a share of the
stimulus payments. Hood says some of the emails ask for bank
account or personal information which the crooks can use to steal money
or identities. Others provide a link which can download malicious
software or spyware. And the attorney general says some of the
scams ask for a small credit card payment-- as little as $1.99-- but
thieves can use those card numbers to make bigger purchases--
or victims may unknowingly be signing up for long-term payments.
Any of these scams should be reported to the FTC and the attorney
general's Consumer Protection Division.
UPDATE: The FBI has joined with the AG to warn the public about
a variety of scams, including a jury duty con. Mississippians are
being called and told that they've been selected for jury duty-- and
are asked for their social security numbers. Those who refuse are
often threatened with "contempt of court" charges. Actual jury
duty notifications are handled through the mail, not by phone.
If you have credit cards, you need to check your monthly statements
closely. Several Mississippians have called the Better Business Bureau
complaining about small, unauthorized charges from a company
calling itself "Adele Services". Usually, the charges are for around 25-cents.
The BBB says there's no record of such a company-- and the charges
could be from someone who's testing the validity of credit card accounts,
possibly in preparation for a much larger charge. It says cardholders
who don't challenge the tiny charges could be setting themselves up
to become victims of a much larger scam. The BBB says it's not clear
how the con artists have gotten access to the card numbers. It says they
may have been stolen or the numbers may have been picked randomly.
One other possibility-- that the scam is an attempt to rack up a significant
amount of money, one quarter at a time.Check out my story about one of the oil and gas surveys
conducted in the Jackson area in 2008. A company worked
in and around Clinton to see if any significant deposits could be found.
I went along with dynamite crews and vibrator trucks as they
sent sound waves into the ground to create a seismic map
which geologists will use to see if there's potential for development.
If you missed the story when it aired, it's now posted below.
Look for "An Oil Well in My Own Backyard?"
UPDATE: This story was named a winner of a national Edward R. Murrow
Award for Feature Reporting among small-market radio.
At the bottom of the page, I'm continuing to post some of my favorite
stories, old and new. From 2010-- there's a feature about
the 60-year-old man who became the oldest person to play junior college
football at Holmes Community College. Look for "Alan Moore: Alive and
Kicking." And a story about the volunteers who rushed to Yazoo City after
the deadly tornado hit in April of 2010. Look for "Volunteer City". Finally
from 2010, there's a feature about Clinton becoming the first community
in Mississippi with a citywide railroad "Quiet Zone". UPDATE: "Volunteer City
was named the winner of a national Edward R. Murrow Award-- the top
hard news story among small market radio stations in the U-S and Canada.
There's "A Visit to Holsten's", a story about the
place in New Jersey where the final scene in the final episode of HBO's
"The Sopranos" was filmed. And, there's a story from 2007 about
a World War Two legend who has since died-- "Jack Lucas,
American Hero"-- and a story, "Mickee the Medic" about a local
ambulance company employee who's saving lives after almost losing
his own. Finally, there's "British Baseball Fan", a story from 2007 about
an Englishman who visited Trustmark Park as part of his quest to see a
baseball game in every state in America. This story won a national
Edward R. Murrow Award in 2008, honored as the best example of sports
reporting among small-market radio stations.


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Snigdha Nandipati clinched the 2012 Scripps National Spelling Bee title with the French word guetapens. (If you're feeling cheeky, you could say that no guetapens could have tripped up Snigdha.) She won in the 13th round, beating Stuti Mishra, a 14-year-old from Orlando, Fla. Arvind Mahankali, a 12-year-old from Bayside Hills, N.Y. was third place for the second year in a row.
Snigdha is an 8th grade student at Francis Parker School, a private school in Mission Valley, according NBC San Diego. She also competed in last year's contest and tied for 27th place. She was eliminated when she misspelled "kerystic."
Read the story at NBCSanDiego.com
According to the Spelling Bee's official web site, Snigdha reads mysteries, adventure stories and "random facts in encyclopedias, particularly those topics pertaining to science or history." She also enjoys collecting coins from around the world. She plays violin, is a member of her school yearbook club and is fluent in Telugu.
Her grandfather, who traveled from India with her grandmother to watch her compete, promised her a trip to India if she won, according to the announcers. When she won, he rushed up to the stage and gave her a hug as confetti fell around them.
One of the announcers said that Snigdha means "smooth like honey" -- we weren't able to verify that, but we'll roll with it. She was cool and confident throughout the contest, which last two days. As she said minutes she won, "I knew my words."
Below is the feed from the final rounds:
10 p.m.: Snigdha Nandipati is trending on Twitter!
9:43 p.m.: "Is there any word you didn't know?" Snigdha responds, "I knew my words." Apparently she studied 10 to 12 hours on weekends and six hours on weekdays.
9:40 p.m.: One of the announcers says that Snigdha lives up to her name, which means "smooth like honey." A bit of a leap, but I'll go with it -- she was cool and unflappable.
9:39 p.m.: Snigdha's grandfather apparently promised her a trip to India if she won. Snigdha tells the announcer that this is a "miracle." She apparently knew the word when she heard it.
9:37 p.m.: Congratulations Snigdha Nandipati, who wins with "guetapens"! Her father wrote a computer program to help her study, and it paid off. The confetti is everywhere. (Guetapens means "an ambush, snare or trap.")
Alex Brandon / AP
Lena Greenberg, 14, of Philadelphia, reacts after spelling a word incorrectly and being eliminated during the finals of the National Spelling Bee Thursday, May 31, 2012 in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
9:36 p.m.: @ScrippsBee tells us there have been co-champions three times and that the last time was in 1962.
9:36 p.m.: It's not over yet! But Stuti misspelled her word, schwarmerei.
9:34 p.m.: Oooh, apparently Stuti and Snigdha did not "exchange much chitchat during the break." Stuti's little sister has been staring at her intently as she spells her word.
9:28 p.m.: We may be here for a while. Love that Snigdha, Speller 44, just said, "right, arrondissement." As in, I used to live in the 14th arrondissement in Paris.
9:25 p.m.: We're down to two spellers. Nail biter. Snigdha aces "admittatur."
9:21 p.m.: Arvind, who is 12, misspells schwannoma. He finishes third for the second year. He'll be able to return next year.
9:20 p.m.: Oh my word. Dr. Bailey uses "schwannoma" in a sentence: "M-m-m-my schwannoma." Was Arvind even alive when Reality Bites came out? (I just looked it up. No.)
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Lena Greenberg of Philadelphia celebrates with fellow speller Nicholas Rushlow of Pickerington, Ohio, after she correctly spelled her word.
9:14 p.m.: We should have noted that Lena got out for "geistlich," from the German for ghost.
9:12 p.m.: Down to the last three spellers! Arvind, Snigdha and Stuti remain on stage.
9:09 p.m.: Nicholas Rushlow gets another French word, vetiver, which he misspells. (He says, "another one?" referring to another word of French origin. What he was really thinking, he says later: "Oh crap.") His parents, clutching each others' hands in the audience, are his coaches.
9:08 p.m.: Arvind Mahankali of New York, who was at the Bee last year, is considered the favorite by many. He just correctly spelled quattrocento, which means fifteenth century.
9:07 p.m.: Love the judges who counsel the spellers to "watch Dr. Bailey's lips" and to "watch the time."
9:05 p.m.: Gifton Wright is out with ericeticolous, receives a standing ovation from his fellow spellers. Apparently you don't see this often. Gifton spells the word with an "o."
Alex Brandon / AP
Frank Cahill, 14, of Parker, Colo., reacts as he spells a word during the finals of the National Spelling Bee on Thursday. He was eliminated.
8:55 p.m.: "That luteovirescent shirt so does not go with those skinny jeans." -- Dr. Bailey
8:54 p.m.: Lena Greenberg is a delight. She just spelled yttriferous, her voice rising an octave with each letter.
8:53 p.m.: The last word was "rouille" and Nicholas Rushlow nailed it with just seconds on the clock. Not fair. I haven't had dinner yet.
8:50 p.m.: Dr. Jacques Bailey, the official pronouncer of the Bee, was the 1980 champion. He apparently trained with a nun at his Catholic school. He says that when he joined the Bee, he "kind of had an attitude."
8:44 p.m.: Gifton Wright takes the stage and my palms start to sweat. We're literally spelling the word out loud with him as he spells p-h-t-h-i-s-i-o-l-o-g-y.
Emma Ciereszynski, 14, from Dover, New Hampshire, reacts as she incorrectly spells a word in the final round.
8:41 p.m. Frank Cahill of Parker, Colo. has been given the word "porwigle": Frog or toad larva that at hatching has a rounded body, also known as a tadpole. Countdown ... trips up and spells it p-o-r-w-i-g-g-l-e.
8:40 p.m.: Apparently some of these kids spend 600 hours practicing.
8:31 p.m.: My favorite response so far, to the word "otosteon" -- Lena Greenberg of Philadelphia just said, "What?" The audience laughed. Her mother had her head in her hands. The announcer said she doesn't watch her daughter spell.
8:30 p.m.: My favorite comment so far, about Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego: "A strong threat to go deep this time."
8:23 p.m.: I'm not sure what's more stressful -- watching the parents or watching the spellers.
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Snigdha Nandipati, 14, of San Diego, Calif., spells a word during the finals of the National Spelling Bee Thursday.
8:22 p.m.: There are now seven contestants remaining at the National Spelling Bee. Two were eliminated in the time it took simply to format this blog.
8:21 p.m.: Ouch: The National Spelling Bee's Twitter feed: "Speller 145, Emma Ciereszynski, spells ridotto incorrectly in Round Seven of the Bee. #spellingbee She's out."
Kevin Lamarque / Reuters
Jordan Hoffman, 14, of Lee's Summit, Missouri, reacts as she incorrectly spells a word in the final round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee at National Harbor in Maryland May 31, 2012.


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In Darkness
Director : Agnieszka Holland
Screenplay : David F. Shamoon (based on the book In the Sewers of Lvov A Heroic Story of Survival from the Holocaust by Robert Marshall)
MPAA Rating : R
Year of Release : 2011 / 2012
Stars : Robert Wieckiewicz (Leopold Socha), Benno Fürmann (Mundek Margulies), Agnieszka Grochowska (Klara Keller), Maria Schrader (Paulina Chiger), Herbert Knaup (Ignacy Chiger), Marcin Bosak (Yanek Grossmann), Krzysztof Skonieczny (Stefek Wroblewski), Milla Bankowicz (Krystyna Chiger), Oliwer Stanczak (Pawel Chiger), Kinga Preis (Wanda Socha), Weronika Rosati (Woman with child), Alexandre Levit (Kovalev), Frank-Michael Köbe (Wilhaus), Joachim Paul Assböck (Nowak)
Set largely in the dank sewers of the Polish city of Lvov during the Nazi occupation, Agnieszka Holland's In Darkness is aptly titled both literally and metaphorically. It tells the true story of a dozen of so Polish Jews who hid in the sewers for more than a year with the aid of Leopold Socha (Robert Wieckiewicz), a Polish Catholic sewer worker who, as he put it, knew the tunnels better than his own wife and was able to steer the Nazis and their Ukrainian collaborators away from the Jews' hiding place while sneaking them food and supplies.
According to the film, Socha was no saint, at least not at first. His initial impulse to help the Jews was not out of Christian charity for fellow human beings, but rather an opportunity to make money. When we first meet Socha, he and a fellow sewer worker (Krzysztof Skonieczny) are ransacking deserted homes and stashing the stolen valuables in the sewer tunnels for later sale on the black market. It is while engaging in these illicit, war-profiteering pursuits that he first comes across a group of Jews who, sensing the encroaching liquidation of the Jewish ghetto, have hacked their way through the floor of their apartment to create an escape route. Despite the risk that Socha might turn them in, the Jewish group's leader, a reasonable older man named Pawel Chiger (Oliwer Stanczak), promises to pay Socha to hide them, and when he runs out of cash, he gives him the family heirlooms.
As Socha gets to know the individuals he is protecting and witnesses more and more of the Nazi atrocities taking place around him, his outlook changes and he begins to see the dozen men, women, and children as "his Jews" who he must protect at all costs, even at the risk of his own life and that of his wife Wanda (Kinga Preis) and his adolescent daughter. If the general thrust of the narrative sounds familiar, it is because In Darkness treads virtually the same arc as Schindler's List (1993), although it does not touch Spielberg's complex interweaving of gut-churching atrocity and grand humanism.
First-time screenwriter David F. Shamoon, working from Robert Marshall's book In the Sewers of Lvov, is intent on sanctifying neither savior nor saved, which allows the film to sidestep mucky sentimentality. Robert Wieckiewicz's portrayal of Socha, who was eventually named one of the 6,000 Righteous Among the Nations by the State of Israel in 1978, provides a compelling portrait of beady opportunism slowly eroding beneath the tug of fundamental human decency. He remains something of a cad, but a likeable cad whose shaggy-dog exterior is really just a lot of bluster (when Chiger runs out of money, Socha he insists on giving him cash to pay him in front of the others so they don't think him a fool for risking his life for "nothing"). The Jewish survivors are guaranteed a certain level of nobility for simply surviving the kind of extreme conditions that most of us couldn't imagine, much less endure for months on end, although the film gives us a broad spectrum that ranges from Mundek Margulies (Benno Fürmann), who is constant emblem of both cunning and bravery, to Yanek (Marcin Bosak), a self-absorbed jerk who deserts his wife and teen daughter in order to save his mistress and then deserts her while she is pregnant in the sewer.
At times, In Darkness achieves a harrowing intensity, and its narrow focus on a handful of survivors successfully emphasizes the will to live over the Nazis' compulsion to slaughter. Like any Holocaust film, it is but one of millions of potential stories that puts a human face on a historical horror so enormous that it threatens abstraction. While its intentions are certainly good, the film falters at times, and some of Holland's decisions are downright baffling. The film's sexuality is oddly foregrounded in ways that don't really work; perhaps the goal was to convey some sense of earthy sensuality, the human desire for contact that can never be completely snuffed out, but the film's numerous sex scenes feel mostly out of place and unnecessary (especially a playful early-morning romp between Socha and Wanda that immediately cuts to the film's despairing title card). The gravity of the material also lures Holland into making the film much longer than it needs to be; the lengthy sequences in the dark sewers certainly convey the monotonousness of the survivors' ordeal, but they come at the expense of narrative flow, weighing down the film in ways that are not necessarily productive. Her early flirtations with surreal imagery, particularly a sequence where Socha witnesses a group of naked women with almost glowing blue-white skin being herded thrown a primeval forest by Nazi soldiers, suggests a daring kind of grim fairy tale approach to the horrors of the Holocaust, but this approach is quickly discarded in favor of a more conventional, handheld aesthetic of desaturated colors and, well, lots of darkness.
Especially with its setting in the sewers, In Darkness is clearly indebted to Kanal (1957), a truly great and devastating film about the Polish resistance by Andrzej Wajda, who served as Holland's filmmaking mentor in the late 1970s and early '80s. In that film, Wajda was able to convey his tragic heroes' desperate plight with both economy and an overwhelming sense of expressive power. In its best moments In Darkness comes close to touching that kind of emotional, existential experience, but it ultimately drags on too long, which gives one the impression of a film of diminishing returns, rather than one that builds in intensity and emotional investment.
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