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Media: 'I've got a crush on Obama'
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It isn't hard, really, to understand how Senator Obama, no matter what hes doing, makes for better television than Senator McCain. In the age where political campaigns are run much like Hollywood soap operas, and the appearance of a candidate matters just as much (if not more) as what theyre saying, the Illinois senator has the perfect combination of a silver screen actor: good looks, articulate, glimmering personality. There is no real confusion, then, that he commands the attention (and bias) of the media over Senator McCain, his older counterpart who, at best, has the allure of a black and white, 1950's Western. At least, as far as Hollywood is concerned.
But, the realm of politics is not Hollywood, and given the task of disseminating information to the masses, not only is it inappropriate for the news media to carry-on a love affair with Senator Obama, it is an outright insult to Senator McCains constituents (and those still deciding for whom to vote) to be inundated with around-the-clock coverage of Senator Obamas every move. Media has the ability to shape public opinion and its position as Senator Obamas lapdog not only ignores that theres a viable candidate who is also in this race, but it unfairly attempts to guide the hands of voters by limiting their access to his opponent, and (even if subconsciously) sway them in his favor.
I am of the opinion that news should be fair and balancedor at least try to be; editorials and talking heads notwithstanding. We know that full objectivity doesnt exist, but viewers/readers can certainly tell when favoritism does. Those who make the argument that Mr. Obamas campaign is, somehow, more newsworthy than Mr. McCains do so out of their own bias for his candidacy. Sen. Obama isnt more newsworthy than Sen. McCain, but he is better at the art of stagecraft. What exists between the candidates isnt a comparative of their newsworthiness, rather the ability to produce the ready-made news image.
(continued) Senator Obamas campaign excels at taking pretty pictures. Dazzling photos abound of the Senator surrounded by thousands of adoring fans, high atop his platform, riding the wave hope. Sen. McCain can attract a crowd, too, but, as Newsweek explains, he has a deep distaste for the artifice of modern media-driven campaigns all this business about standing in precisely this spot and reading precisely this line off a teleprompter exactly the same way a dozen times a day. Obama is a top-notch orator, who has even adopted a cadence akin to some of the most influential pastors of Black churches melodically paced, reaching a crescendo at his most important points, then slipping back into a musical lull that carries the audience. McCain, on the other hand, prefers to shoot from the hip, as it were, where he can interact with his audience often in a visually dull, town-hall meeting. Despite his lack of media-savvy, it does not mean that Sen. McCain has nothing important to say. After all, pretty pictures do no a campaign make. He is confident that his genuineness is what will connect with voters, rather than razzle-dazzle political theatrics.
However, this does not absolve the media of their blatant fawning over Sen. Obama. There is some merit in McCains claim that he is being shoved aside in favor of Obama, and not just because of his media missteps. In the 12 May 2008 issue of New York magazine, Kurt Andersen explains that the much of the media is enamored with Obama because they happen to fall into his target demographic. This was first noted in the Democratic primary, when he opposed Hillary Clinton, and still rings true in the race against John McCain. Andersen writes, And the great majority of media people are members of the same (white) demographic cohort that rejected Hillary and voted for Barack educated, more-affluent than-average residents of cities and suburbs. Andersen notes that Obama not only shares these qualities with the various members of the media, but that he is also well-traveled, a lovely writer, and a little quixotic makes him a media darling, and an idealized version of themselves. Clinton, and now McCain, cant even compete. Clintons styling as a warrior for the blue-collar worker, and McCains no-frills Straight Talk Express are mass media categories that rarely make it into the foreground, and when they do, they are often portrayed as losers, which, if the media has their way, is precisely where they are trying to push Senator McCain.
For now, though, the Arizona senator can take some comfort that even though is opponent has the backing of the media and is greeted like a top-billing movie star, there is still a strong following for those old country Westerns; and his brand can even be extended to that of the war hero, which sells very well in this country.
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Jeffery Kragh, 48 - March 05, 2013Jeffery "Jeff" Ray Kragh, 48, of Krum, TX, passed away, Tuesday, March 5, 2013, at his residence after a courageous battle with cancer.
A memorial service will be conducted on Saturday, March 9, at 2 p.m. at the Chapel of DeBerry Funeral Directors in Denton, TX.
Kragh was born June 7, 1964, at Ada, OK, to Jim and Gwen Rowe Kragh. He graduated from Chickasha High School and attended Oklahoma State University.
On June 5, 1993, he was united in marriage to Jennifer Ostendorf at Gothenburg. The couple traveled the United States and made numerous friends.
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Survivors include: his wife, Jennifer Kragh of Krum; his son, Justin Kragh; parents, Jim and Gwen Kragh; sisters—Amber (Chris) Dunlevy of Norman, OK, and Crystal (Doug) Krey of Rush Springs, OK; father- and mother- in-law, Richard and Janet Ostendorf of Gothenburg; brother-in-law, Matt Ostendorf of Gothenburg; nieces—Shaila, Micki and Savannah Ostendorf and Raygan Krey; nephews—Nick and Nate Dunlevy.
In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to the Justin Kragh College Fund, c/o Northstar Bank, Attn: Chris Farmer, P.O. Box 1108, Krum, TX 76249.
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Act of Valor
When a mission to rescue a kidnapped CIA operative unexpectedly uncovers a chilling plot with potentially unimaginable consequences, a team of the most elite, highly-trained warriors in the modern world is dispatched on a top-secret operation.
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Act of Valor in my opinion is much underrated. People seem to have missed the mark entirely with this film. Critics have said that the characters lack any development and so on, and that the action war scenes were too intense. Well, guess what. This is what The Navy Seals do. Act of Valor does lack effective character development, but I expected that. What can you expect from this? A real life portrait of real Seals doing what they do best, being the fearless soldiers. Believe me, that's much more interesting than some made up story featuring inaccurate portrayals of Seals. I think this film gives a great portrait of what these men do. I very enjoyed the film and I thought the action scenes were exciting, thrilling and top-notch, and it more than makes up for the so-so performances. The films "actors" aren't actors, they are real life Seals. If you're looking for great performances, this isn't your film. If you enjoy a mindless thrill ride, then give this one a shot. Though the film lacked in an effective story, I enjoyed it very much and I thought it was really intense to watch the Seals on-screen, and that's what made this film good. The cinematography for this film was unique as well; the filmmakers used a first person point of view in many scenes, as if you're playing a game of Call of Duty or Battlefield. I thought it plunged you a bit more into the film, and made the experience that much more thrilling. Is Act of Valor a perfect film? No it's not. Does it offer a thrilling look at how Seals do their jobs, yes it does. As a whole, the story was good, nothing really special, but like I've stated many times here, what makes this film worth seeing is the top-notch action as you real life Seals give us a taste of what they do. A unique War film, not the best, but not the worst either. Expect mindless entertainment, and you'll enjoy it. Turn off your brain, and enjoy. What the Seals do in real life is thrilling and exciting and Act of Valor brings light on the matter pretty well. A must see for war film fans.
- TheDudeLebowski65, Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Hollywood often gets ridiculed for its tenuous connection to reality. I doubt any real U.S. Navy Seals look at 1990's Navy Seals as a paragon of military validity. The makers of Act of Valor thought they could do one better than Hollywood. They hired real-life active-duty U.S. Navy Seals as their stars and made a movie based upon Seal combat experiences. Act of Valor was billed as the real deal. I just wish the filmmakers had spent less time on trivial yet realistic details and more time on plot, characters, and enticing action. Who cares that the movie stars actual Navy Seals? Apparently enough people did judging by its healthy box-office returns in the spring, but really, why should a movie be any better because it has real Navy Seals pretending to be actors rather than actors pretending to be Navy Seals? Is this movie brought to a greater level of excellence because the characters know intuitively how to hold a gun properly? Was the slight difference in posture the difference maker? I suppose there is some curiosity seeing real Navy Seals go through all their training, but you know who else could be trained? Actors! Which these fellas are not. The line delivery is so flat, like the Seals were just happy to spit out all their dialogue and move along. There's little emotion to just about any line that isn't communicated via a bark. I can't fault these servicemen because they never signed up to be actors; they have bigger things on their minds. Is there anything in this movie that could not have been done with actors? I doubt it. I understand the gimmick but I just can't comprehend the appeal. Can an actor not be taught how to hold a gun, how to clear a room, how to squeeze the shoulder of his colleague to communicate move forward? I salute the Seals for trying (as well as defending our country, naturally) but I'm reminded of the old adage: it's easier to teach an actor how to sing than a singer how to act. The movie seems more preoccupied with trivial details of authenticity than more important endeavors like story or character development. Here's the most trivial detail of them all: live ammunition was used during the action sequences. WHY?! Do the guns not work with blanks? Why in the world would you dramatically escalate the danger on set and risk every shoot with live ammunition, actual gunplay? Action sequences are already a risk, so why would you exponentially increase the danger for ... a slight uptick in realism? Again, it all feels like a movie in service of a gimmick. The plot is a rather clich-filled jaunt across the world taking down terrorists, rescuing hostages, and mostly just knocking down doors, sweeping rooms, and shooting people in the head. Sure there's a bad guy, a Chechen Islamic terrorist (double bonus: Russian and Arab!) and some other bad foreign guys with beards, but none of it ever seems to matter. I also question why a Chechen extremist would plot to attack the U.S., especially since we don't exactly have the warmest international relationship with Russia. Surely a Chechen attack would strengthen that relationship, and the two countries might work in tandem targeting Chechnya. I'm saying this villainous plan is dumb. The good guys aren't any deeper. Beyond their bravery, skill in combat, and impending fatherhood, we don't know anything about these guys. A series of voiceovers try and list the various characters, but once the action starts good luck remembering any of them. In fact, good luck even keeping the two leads apart. I kept mixing them up myself. And if that wasn't bad enough, the action is a fairly big let down as well. Directors Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh must have studied under Tony Scott or Michael Bay, because every shot has the sleek beauty to it, the dawning sunsets, the cool gun mettle colors, the rah-rah jingoist spirit. Seriously, most of the action is just people shooting one another. That may sound like a no-brainer to anyone who bought a ticket, but the action needs to be properly thought out as well as the plot. The first mission, rescuing the tortured CIA Agent, is the best sequence because it has different points of action, organic consequences, and makes good use of geography. I'm going to hammer this point time and again until people take notice: geography is essential to well-developed action. You need to make use of your surroundings in interesting ways, otherwise what was the point of even setting the action there? The later action sequences fail to make use of any of these integral ingredients, so it becomes a rote series of people entering rooms, shooting other people, and moving to more rooms. Rather, rinse, repeat. The action has a muscular feel but it gets redundant rather quickly. That's when your mind starts to notice how transparently the movie is working as a recruitment film for the U.S. Navy. There are sequences in this film that have no bearing on the plot (submarine visit?) other than to showcase the cool things that you, too, can do when enlisted in the Navy. There are plenty of sustained POV shots that give the illusion of a video game, war as a game. This also why the complexities of war and geo-politics are sanded down to a series of clear-cut missions. I feel like the real servicemen deserve a more complex movie that treats their heroics as something more than clearing a video game level. When you get down to it, the audience that made Act of Valor a hit this past spring reminds me a lot of the audience that went to see the nearly four-hour Civil War movie, Gods and Generals. These are audiences obsessed with the details of realism. They'll pore over the details of costumes and tactics. Whether the movie is actually any good or not, the characters engaging, the plot entertaining, is all immaterial. It's the details they came to see. Hence the real-life Navy Seals, the missions inspired by real Seals, and the live ammunition on set. That's what makes a movie to them. For me, I need more than realistic details; I need people and a story, and if it's an action movie, then there better be well-developed action. It's not like Act of Valor is a documentary people. It's all pretend. I'll be interested in how audiences respond to director Kathryn Bigelow's movie about the hunt and execution of Osama bin Laden. That movie uses actors and has an Oscar-winning director and screenwriter. Let's see if anyone can tell the difference. Nate's Grade: C-
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Dual-source, multi-slice computed tomographic angiography of the coronary arterial circulation of the English bulldog
The goal of this study is to use the newest generation of cardiac CT scanners to investigate the coronary circulation of English bulldogs.
The English bulldog is the most commonly afflicted breed with pulmonary valve stenosis (PS), a congenital narrowing of one of the valves in the heart. The therapy for PS is to dilate the thick and narrowed valve with a balloon catheter. However, bulldogs are also known to have abnormal coronary arteries, the vessels that supply blood to the heart muscle, which can wrap around the pulmonary valve. If the coronary artery wraps around the pulmonary valve, then a balloon procedure cannot be performed due to the risk of tearing or damaging the coronary artery.
Historically, the only way to confirm that a dog suffers from an abnormal coronary artery is to catheterize the dog's heart, which is both costly and requires general anesthesia. New computed tomographic (CT) scanners are very fast and are able to visualize the heart in excellent detail. Such scanners have proven useful in humans to define and clarify the coronary arteries without requiring cardiac catheterization. Our goal is to show that this is a viable method for evaluating the dog's coronary circulation at less cost and without the need for general anesthesia.
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- Clinically healthy English bulldogs and English bulldogs with PS are eligible for this study.
- The healthy bulldogs must not have any known underlying medical condition and must pass a careful physical examination.
- Bulldogs with PS must not be in heart failure or have clinically significant heart rhythm disturbances at the time of examination.
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Your dog's health condition will be evaluated, including a brief review of your dog's medical history and a thorough physical examination. Blood will be drawn to measure your dog's red blood cell levels and to store a blood sample for DNA collection. If your dog qualifies, they will receive a sedative and have an intravenous catheter placed. The CT scan will be performed with the dog resting comfortably on their chest and intravenous contrast will be given to highlight the arterial circulation. The contrast agent is given routinely to dogs undergoing CT and is proven safe in animals. Once the CT images are acquired, your dog will recover from the sedation and either return home with you if fully awake, or be monitored at the Veterinary Medical Center overnight if the imaging is performed in the evening. Because the imaging occurs at a human medical facility, it will require having your dog come to the Veterinary Medical Center in the early evening or on a weekend. This will conclude the study and no further recheck or follow up is required.
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#MEExposed: Tessanne's Bread & Butter
Inspired to write again after Tessanne's riveting performance on NBC's hit reality TV series, 'The Voice', I am rendered speechless, but at the same time very anxious to speak.
The impact of this performance on the country of Jamaica, the Caribbean and the world, has been extremely intense to say the least, and there is so much to be said about what happened, what is about to happen, and what could potentially happen.
Firstly I would like to personally congratulate Tessanne for taking the risk to audition for a show such as 'The Voice'. With her local accolades it would seem that an artist of her calibre would have no need to be on a US reality show, but little do people realize, her audience has been mainly a Caribbean audience. She also hasn't released a lot of new material recently, so this was actually the perfect opportunity to introduce herself to a new fan base. Thanks to Jamaican DJ, Shaggy for making the suggestion to her.
After years of honing her already stellar gift, it would seem like this is divine timing in her career. Many forget the impact of every tweet, instagram photo, FB share etc. adorning this Jamaican artist who represents the 'Out of Many One People' of Jamaica in such a unique but fitting way. Now the world can see a Jamaican who is not the stereotypical darked-skinned locked reggae singer, but a mixed race Jamaican with an undoubtedly Jamaican accent, and a true sense of national pride. This topped off by having vocal cords comparable to or even better than some of the best power singers there have ever been.
Now the massive population of America. and the rest of the world, can tap into her already created album, available on iTunes, bringing in for her an increase in her passive income stream from album sales. Yet the naysayers would argue "She doan need fi deh inna dat.", again reflecting the short-term scope we have chosen to apply to so many things in this culture.
What Tessanne has done for herself, Jamaica and Jamaican music, is successfully re-opened a very large door that was preventing us as Jamaicans from crossing into genres and places where we were never expected to stay afloat. Making it evident to the world that the brilliance that we exhibit in sports also exists in the arts, and through the brilliant minds that are born and raised in our country. I like to think of this door as a swinging door, because we are not to deny those that have come before Tessanne and paved the way in music, from Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff to Shabba, Patra, Sean Paul and Shaggy, we have never been denied in the international music scence.
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I am beaming with pride, and though early out the gate, I think my prediction of her winning 'The Voice' will be an even more epic experience for us, and then we will see where next her journey goes. Truth be told, she doesn't have to move one step further in this competition, because all who needs to see her I assure you are already bidding.
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Last but not least, Jamaican artist, Protoje, spoke quite frankly about the Jamaican government not being proud of their culture, in a recent OnStage interview. Though I wouldn't use those words per se, I have to agree with him that the investments that have seemed obvious to be made in our entertainment sector, have been ignored. The government has repeatedly missed the mark with taking the bait to sustain things that attract so much attention to the country. Proto mentioned that we don't have a proper indoor live music venue, yet our own artists travel far and wide to perform in many.
We don't even have a stable standardized high school music education system. We haven't taken the time to see that Jamaican children need instruments and creative development, and that it would probably take them off the streets and have them doing something that would serve them better mentally and otherwise.
I really have said enough. As a musician myself, who has been formally trained and made many sacrifices for music, I have connected to it in a way that words cannot express. Having myself auditioned for a few of these same international shows, I could have very well have been in the same position as Tessanne, but my time is not now. Tessanne has the world stage, and for this I am proud and immensely supportive. There is nothing I have wanted more for her ever since hearing her voice, but for it to get the recognition it truly deserves. She is a humble, proud Jamaican with a talent like no other. I wish her every success that is to come, and I wish for Jamaica to take more responsibility for our arts.
Every man for himself has always worked, as artists have long nurtured and believed in their gifts, but it's time the country steps in and helps more people to truly realize their potential, and also capitalize off of brand Jamaica in a way that allows everyone to have their bread and butter.
I am MARIO EVON, Jamaican 'Reggae-Soul' Singer/Songwriter. UWI (Mona) and Berklee College of Music graduate. Lover of food, exercise and life as we know it. Follow me here on 'M.E. Exposed'. Also check out my new single, 'Soul Tek'. Blessed love.


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This is the embarrassing shit — the unconstitutional and serious shit — that politicians get up to when they are driven by fear, assume constituents are docile, and think no-one will call them out.
Well, I and many other good people in the Quaker State are calling them out.
This brouhaha began last month when people were up in arms at political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal delivering the commencement speech for students at Goddard College. Abu-Jamal attended Goddard via correspondence course while imprisoned. Many of the Pennsylvania legislators have admitted they had not heard or read Abu-Jamal's speech and yet voted unanimously to introduce into law procedures that prevented Americans from exercising their 1st amendment right. This debacle is politically motivated; by signing the so-called "Revictimization Relief Act" into law Governor Corbett and the lazy lawmakers around him are attempting to not look soft in the face of Abu-Jamal's continued and bare logic. They want him silent and they want all like him silent.
The Abolitionist Law Center say this:
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett's scheduled signing of what the Harrisburg Patriot referred to as the "Muzzle Mumia Law" today allows those who have been victims of a personal-injury crime to sue an offender for conduct that causes the victim "mental anguish." The statute is so devoid of definition or standards that the Harrisburg Patriot wrote: "Some victims of terrible crimes will be in a 'state of mental anguish' as long as the person who did it to them is alive and breathing. Does 'breathing' qualify as 'conduct' that's now subject to court action?"
Things in the prisons of Pennsylvania are desperate; the activist group DecarceratePA are at the forefront of exposing the repeated arrogance of politicians and the Fraternal Order of Police, who some believe are the driving force behind this law to silence prisoners.
Many prisoners in Pennsylvania are smart and many know what is going on. They know that their state disallows journalists' visits with cameras and now the State of Pennsylvania is prohibiting prisoners to read their own writings. It's a scandal. In the final two minutes of the Democracy Now! clip (above) journalist Noelle Hanrahan puts into great context the continued silencing and attacks on prisoners' agency over the past few decades in Pennsylvania.
Fortunately, immediate legal response is in swing. More from the Abolitionist Law Center:
Prison Radio and imprisoned intellectual and journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal have retained the Abolitionist Law Center (ALC) to provide legal representation for them in response to Pennsylvania General Assembly's passage of a bill intended to subvert the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and repress their free speech rights. The Abolitionist Law Center is working with the attorneys Kris Henderson and Nikki Grant of the Philadelphia-based Amistad Law Project on this matter as well. Amistad Law Project is a public interest law center that advocates for the human rights of all people and currently focuses its work on those inside Pennsylvania's prisons. ALC, along with the Amistad Law Project, are representing Robert Saleem Holbrook, an imprisoned activist, writer, and member of the Human Rights Coalition.
The law was passed in response to Mumia Abu-Jamal's selection as a commencement speaker to Goddard College students at his alma mater in Vermont. Leading up to and in the wake of this speech, the Fraternal Order of Police, Governor Corbett, Department of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams, and a number of legislators staged a media campaign designed to whip up a frenzy of support for depriving Abu-Jamal, and any other person convicted of a crime, of their constitutional right to free speech. The law also permits the District Attorney where the criminal conviction was obtained, or the state's Attorney General, to use their public offices and taxpayer funds to file the lawsuit, raising the possibility that Mumia will be sued for his speech by politicians and government officials who have made a habit of attacking him in order to win the support of the FOP for their election campaigns.
On October 17, Mumia Abu-Jamal issued a statement (broadcast at Prison Radio) from the State Correctional Institution (SCI) Mahanoy where he is serving a sentence of life-without-parole after being framed for the killing of a Philadelphia police officer:
I welcome Governor Corbett's signature on an unconstitutional bill that proves that the government of Pennsylvania, the executive and the legislature, don't give one wit about their own constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, nor the United States Constitution. I welcome that because it proves that they are the outlaws.
Abu-Jamal has spent 33 years in prison, 30 of which were in solitary confinement on death row, after being convicted at a 1982 trial that, according to Amnesty International, "failed to meet minimum international standards safeguarding the fairness of legal proceedings." (see Manufacturing Guilt to learn more about the case) By continuing his journalism as well as maintaining his innocence and attracting a massive international movement of supporters, Mumia has long been targeted by the Fraternal Order of Police and their political counterparts. "Having failed to kill Mumia on the street in 1981, and having failed to execute him during his over 30 years on death row, the FOP and the government of Pennsylvania continues to try to silence him, this time by extinguishing his speech," said Noelle Hanrahan of Prison Radio.
Abu-Jamal has given three other commencement addresses in the past: Goddard in 2008, Antioch College in 2000, and Evergreen College in 1999. He has recorded more than 3,000 essays, published seven books in nine languages, with two more books set for publication in 2015, and has been the subject of three major broadcast and theatrical movies. The latest film, Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary, is currently airing on the Starz network, sold out theatres coast to coast, and has sold more than 20,000 DVDs.
"The 'Silence Mumia Law' should be understood as part of a reaction against recent criticisms of the prison and criminal legal systems. In the wake of the Ferguson rebellion, race and class-based mass incarceration, and the role of police in enforcing it with arbitrary arrests, frame-ups, and extrajudicial killings, is being questioned more than ever. The Fraternal Order of Police and the government are scrambling to silence those questions, disingenuously using the language of 'victims rights' to re-establish the lie that police forces and other institutions of state violence are righteous protectors of public safety that are beyond question. This illegal attack on our clients' constitutional and human rights will be fiercely challenged in the streets and the courts," said ALC Legal Director Bret Grote.
For more information contact Noelle Hanrahan on firstname.lastname@example.com or 415-706-5222. Alternatively, contact Bret Grote on firstname.lastname@example.com or 412-654-9070
Prison Obscura continues to travel. If you're in or around New Jersey then you should know a version (a tighter edit) of Prison Obscura is currently on show at Alfa Arts Gallery in downtown New Brunswick. The show runs until November 1st.
The official opening was last Friday (10th) and coincided with the Marking Time: Prison Arts & Activism Conference at Rutgers University and hosted by the Institute for Research on Women (IRW). To give you a taster of the presentation, below are some snaps taken by staff at Alfa Arts Gallery. But not before a few notes of thanks …
I'd like to thank Alfa Art Gallery-owners Chris Kourtev and the entire Kourtev family for generously giving over their space for three weeks to house the show. Thanks to Nicole Fleetwood, Sarah Tobias and all the staff at IRW involved in bringing Prison Obscura to NJ. Thanks for a wonderful conference too!
I'd also like to extend my thanks once more to Matthew Callinan, Associate Director of Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford. Matthew continues to make sure the logistics for each venue are taken care of and, in this case, gave up an entire Sunday to drive from Philadelphia and install the show. Thanks to the staff at John B. Hurford Center for Arts & Humanities at Haverford, who continue to support the exhibition.
For more information about the exhibition, visit the Prison Obscura website.
Ever since I came across the work Temps Mort it has haunted me. Haunted me in a good way; it has stayed with me. It resonates because of the power delivered by Mohamed Bourouissa and his collaborator's low-res images. It resonates, also, because this is the only project made by an artist and prisoner with contraband cell-phones that I know of. Surely, there are exchanges like this happening all the time, but this is the only published example. And it was made with the express intentioned to make art.
So I was pleased to discover, recently, that Temps Mort is now a book.
Methodologically, Bourouissa is way ahead of the game. As well as asking for images made according to description and sketches, he asked for videos. Bourouissa would send example videos and his collaborator (whom we know only as Al) would mimic. Throughout the project, Bourrouissa is clearly thinking about how the work will look to secondary and tertiary audiences. We are asked to make sense of seemingly random glimpses of an institution's innards.
In exchange for composed views of the inside, Bourouissa sent short videos of the Paris streets. The simplest gestures become impressive. Even the txtspk language that is reproduced in the book is touching. In prisons, cellphones are illegal, valuable and a scarce resource, but the two use the tool with abandon and they repeatedly text to make sure they're adequately fulfilling one another's requests for footage.
This is not a photobook heavy on photos, yet everything inside depends on the discussions about images between Bourouissa and Al. There's a lot of white space. The texts ensure we know the timeline and the white space ensures we know — and sense — the slow passing of time.
Temps Mort is over 5 years old now and the book feels a little like a memorial to that audacious moment when an artist dared and a prisoner dreamed. The book is a document that will last longer than the exhibitions and the interest in cellphone videos that declare a moment in Parisian jail operations. This blog post is many more steps removed from the original gifts between Bourouissa and Al. This blog post has no audio/visual jacks nor 9-foot white cube walls. This blog post lags behind the thrill of the original creation of the works and behind the recent exhibitions Bourouissa has mounted. My humble hope, here, is to impress how impressed I am. There's nothing like this project.
There's been many projects made in collaboration with prisoners from Virginia to Tennessee, and from Louisiana to Illinois, artists have communicated with prisoners to conjure something beyond the limits of the cell. And yet, none of those efforts have used the illegally smuggled mobile phone as their tool. There's a subtle two fingers to the man in Temps Mort that we shouldn't deny. I'm inclined to celebrate it.
Here's some images and videos appropriated without permission from the web. Enjoy.
© Ruddy Roye
PDX Design Week wrapped up last weekend. Before I moved out of the city, I was asked to do a guest post for the PDXDW blog. I don't know much about design, so I wrote about photographers that are making good use of emerging technologies or commenting on our brave new world dominated by emerging and automated technologies.
Thanks to Taryn Cowart for her assistance getting it published.
With some line-editing, I crosspost the listicle below.
Good photography is good vibes. Often, even bad photography is good vibes. The world needs Seflies, SnapChat cheekiness, cat GIFs, and Doge bombs. However, sometimes, we have to search out the good stuff. We need to look around and ask what's at stake. Frankly, there's not a lot resting on your cellphone pictures — they're not changing the world. When the technologies and file formats with which they were made are obsolete, no-one will care if your phone snaps are lost forever. Least of all you?
When we talk about art, journalism and photography we should be able to single projects out and to define worth. Some creative endeavors are world-changing. I want to give a nod to photographers and artists working with images who inform us about the world and some of its urgent issues. As users and consumers, I want to believe we can leverage rapid publishing and sharing for political and social improvement.
Ruddy Roye was the first photographer to really stake his style on the meaningful caption. He ditched the hashtags and asked real people some real questions. Based in New York most of his portraits are of people in his neighborhood and jollies around the Big Apple. His feed drips with humanity and reveals stories you couldn't imagine. This is the REAL Humans OF New York! Also, I like to credit Roye for landing the fatal blow to the snarky #TLDR hashtag.
© EverydayAfrica
Peter DiCampo and fellow journalist Austin Merrill (both white American) set up the Everyday Africa after years of reporting from the continent and witnessing nothing but sensational and scary images of war, tragedy and the like. What about the normal everyday stuff? In an attempt to make the most of boring daily things, DiCampo and a wide cadre of collaborator quickly put together a simple, illuminating, sometimes colorful, and intimate Instagram feed. It's political but not difficult. Okay, so it's a free-for-all that promotes aesthetically ordinary pictures, but I'll take neoliberal relativism over neocolonialist manipulation every day of the week.
EverydayAfrica spurned dozens of loose collective of photographers who set up EverydayMiddleEast, EverydayAsia, EverydayIran and even EverydayBronx. Instagram sponsored an Everyday "Summit" at the 2014 Photoville Festival and ponied up cash to fly in contributors from all corners of the globe. These guys are much better IG-movement than the creepy Christians making VSCO lifestyle shots to pair with their #blessed affirmations and bible quotes.
Watch out though: EverydayUSA has some of the best photojournalists under it's belt. Photo-industry-folk reckon EverydayUSA will soon eclipse all the other accounts, at which point the whole Everyday movement may have announced its death. Get on this young movement while it's still fresh and focused on countries other than the one you live in.
© Mishka Henner
If there's a controversial topic Mishka Henner hasn't produced a body of work on, he's probably in his studio, right now, making it. From censorship, to prostitution in the Mediterranean, from military bases to big-ag food production, from war to big oil, Henner doesn't shy away from tough topics. His skill is to do so without really leaving his studio. Henner is one of the cleverest, canniest and hardest working artists dealing with Google and the machine age of image-making.
He winds people up with his methods that are anathema to photo-purists but what else is there to do with available imagery if not to capture, 'shop and frame it in political terms. Google is the all seeing eye that doesn't care.
© Tomas Van Houtryve
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism estimates American operated drones have killed between 2,296 and 3,718 people, as many as 957 of them civilians. That's a whole lot of killing.
The program of U.S. airstrikes which began in 2002, but was only publicly acknowledged in 2012 is a remote war driven by a remote technology. Belgian photographer Tomas Van Houtryve decided the best way to grab Americans' attention to the issue was to show them how drone attacks would appear in America.
There's no shortage of projects about drones to get us thinking about the issue. John Vigg has his Google surveilled drone research labs and airports; Jamie Bridle traced a drone shadow in Washington D.C. last year and launched Dronestagram to populate social media sites with satellite views of drone strike sites; Trevor Paglen has photographed drones at distance; and Raphaella Dallaporta took a drone to Afghanistan under the guise of an archaeological survey.
Most recently Not A Bug Splat made a splash. Cheeky and powerful the project installed massive portraits of children in regions subject to U.S. drone strikes, with the intent of pricking the conscience of remote U.S. drone operators stationed in Nevada about to bring the hammer of destruction down on that Waziristan village.
Screenshot of Josh Begley's Prison Map
Data artist Josh Begley specializing in scraping images from publicly available sources. He then creates App and websites to publish the info and produce push notifications you can't avoid.
For his project Prison Map, Begley took the GPS coordinates of every prison, jail and immigration detention center in America and fed them into a Google Maps API code he had modified. He ran the script and it spat out more than 5,300 satellite images — one for every locked facility in the U.S. The prison population in this country has grown 500% in the past 30 years. One in every one hundred adults is behind bars and most of them are poor people. The recurrent patterns of brutally functional architecture within Prison Map are staggering. We've been building prisons in high desert and rural backwaters. Begley makes the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) visible once more.
Likewise, for his project Profiling Is, Begley snagged the NYPD's surveillance shots of business and residences in the NY boroughs which were under monitoring.
He doesn't stop there. Begley's App MetaData alerts users to U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, Afghanistan and elsewhere. This didn't happen until the conclusion of a merrigoround of negotiation with the "apolitical" Apple. Begley finally got his drone strike App approved when he removed all mention the word drone! Now, you can get next-day updates of Obama's largely-ignored drone war on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen straight to your smartphone.
© Mari Bastashevski
Mari Bastashevski skirts a fine line between journalist, artist, researcher, photographer and tourist to dig up the personalities and money makers in the international arms trade. Here's the feature I did for WIRED a while back. Her ongoing project State Business is devastating inasmuch it reveals how pervasive and complicit most nations are in making billions on the slaughter of humans.The US, the UK, Croatia, Azerbaijan, Georgia; Bastashevski's following of the money takes us all over the place … sometimes even to the carport on the Facebook pages of international arms dealers.
If you can't beat 'em join 'em. In 2002, after Hasan Elahi was mistaken for someone on the terror watch list and detained for hours at Detroit airport, he decided he'd save the authorities the bother and monitor himself. Caustic, direct, creepy and amusing, Elahi photographed everything he did, ate, shit, saw and worked on. He also GPS tracked his every move on a live web map. The project is titled Tracking Transcience. One of the by-products of the self-monitoring is the creation of a typology of toilets. Taking sousveillance to another level and entertaining thousands while he does it. Brill.
© MigraZoom. A migrant on a cargo train traveling from Arriaga, Chiapas to Ixtepec, Oaxaca. After crossing the Mexican-Guatemalan border and traveling to Arriaga, migrants hitch a ride on top of cargo trains to Ixtepec. This trip takes about 12 hours. In addition to the risk of falling off the train (amputations and death are common), gangs frequently extort migrants, charging them $100 to ride. They face threats of being thrown off the train, kidnapped, raped or trafficked if they do not pay.
There's some great fine art projects out there about the U.S./Mexican border. Probably, the stand out is David Taylor's Working The Line, which documents the militarization of the border. But it can be criticised for being to distant and tends to rest on the creaking aesthetic mores of American landscape photography. If we want to see what is really going on during the tough journey's into North America, we should pay attention to MigraZoom, a project by Spanish-born photographer Encarni Pindado which puts disposable cameras in the hands of economic migrants during their perilous treks northward.
© David Taylor
Another beautifully shot and more unexpected treatment of new arrivals is Gabriele Stabile's Refugee Hotel which documents approved asylum seekers' first nights in America at four hotels adjacent to four hub airports through which new refugee migrants arrive. Respectful documentation that is pregnant with uncertainty.
Taylor's work is currently on show at the amazing 'Covert Operations' at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.
Photographer Hank Willis Thomas is a prolific force. One of his most recent projects Question Bridge is a platform for black males to ask other black males questions about black identity. Participants do so through video and provide answers similarly. Access is easy, involvement free, connections priceless and it works well in exhibition format too. The murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson is the latest incident to demonstrate to the entire nation our shared need to face racial inequality int he country. Willis Thomas is doing his bit.
© Lindsay Lochman and Barbara Ciurej
With Ag Gag laws becoming ever more common, clever responses to imaging industrial food production must be inventive. Lindsay Lochman & Barbara Ciurej rip on the much-mythologized West and specifically on the hero-worship of Carleton Watkins by constructing sugar-coated and corn-fed diorama reconstruction of Watkins' landscapes with shitty foodstuffs.
Will Potter ain't a photographer but he's putting imagery to good ends. Potter, a TED Fellow, has been reporting on the crack down on environmental activists under homeland security legislation that was designed to tackle terrorist. Instead of chasing bombchuckers, our law enforcement is going after tree huggers. The title of Potter's book, Green Is The New Red, say its all. Routinely, it has been eco-activists who've brought us the shocking footage from inside factory farms. Potter, continuing the tradition of expose, wants to fly drones over feedlots and take advantage of laws being slow to be written. Again, we seeing the convergence of technologies and activist peel back the layers of obscurity purposefully put over our shady business practices in years past.
© Donna Ferrato
The greatest photography work being done to reveal the entrapped, terrorized lives of those victim to domestic violence, is done — perhaps not unsurprisingly by female photographers. Donna Ferrato has trained a lens on the topic for decades. Recently, young gun Sara Naomi Lewkowicz captured similar images to Ferrato as an intimate witness to partner abuse. The parallels were saddening proving that this is a strand of violent psychology we just are not dealing with effectively. To be frank, the issue isn't being imaged enough; intimate partner abuse remains hidden behind closed doors.
Paula Bronstein was one of the earliest and most direct photographers to document the survivors of acid attacks in Asia. If we're to mention women's rights abroad we have to look at the work of Stephanie Sinclair, whose multiyear project Too Young To Wed is pitch perfect. Quiet, weighty, tragic and polychrome portraits of child brides throughout the world. Sinclair's had help from all the major distributors and grant makers to cast the net of her survey far and wide. The transmedia project is about as good as it gets in terms of audience engagement tactics too.
© Jim Goldberg
It's difficult to name a stand out photographer who has taken on the wealth gap in a resonant way. It sounds strange to say but maybe cash is difficult to shoot? This apparent lack is consistent with other art forms though. If Occupy taught us one thing, some issues are designed for public performance, demonstration, walking and protest signs. Think of music, for comparison. In the sixties musicians such as Joe Strummer and Nina Simone emerged with brilliant anger toward social injustice. Despite public disgust made visible in anti-Iraq-war protests and Occupy, there's not a protest song from the 21st century of note. Perhaps music isn't the format for anger or the wealth gap either?
Don't worry, I'm not being a pessimist here. Violent dismay certainly exists. I'm just not convinced art is the realm where we see the most direct political action. Gone are the days of the great labor photographers such as Lewis Hine and Jacob Riis. Inequality was laid bare in the photojournalism of the civil rights era (Ernest Cole, Charles Moore, Danny Lyon) and while those reportages were about money and opportunity they weren't primarily about the markets. Check out the work of Gregory Halpern for your modern day Milton Rogovin.
The most indelible and forthright description of wealth inequality is Jim Goldberg's Rich and Poor, which remains the high point and the tone at which aspiring photographers should aim.
Dang, that's been a lot of men's names. I think it right to end with LaToya Ruby Frazier's name then. She, better than anyone currently making work, ties together class, race, income, post-industrial America, public health, personal health, family and environmental hazard with her generational survey of the women in her family and her home town of Braddock, PA, in The Notion OF Family.
© La Toya Ruby Frazier
I've wondered before where all the photographs of solitary are. This question presupposes that the American public's exposure to the inside of these modern dungeons will spur a degree of enlightenment, consternation and protest.
Putting the veracity of that string of causality aside for a moment, it might be worth saying that photographs are perhaps not necessary to stir emotional and political response. Maybe sketches can do these things as well, or better?
An opportunity to discuss this will arise in the next few weeks at the UC Berkeley's Wurster Hall Gallery, in the College of Environmental Design.
Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR) present "Sentenced: Architecture and Human Rights," an exhibit about the architecture of incarceration featuring drawings of solitary confinement cells by people currently being held inside.
In addition, rarely seen designs for execution chambers built in the U.S. and photographs by Richard Ross will be on show.
"Sentenced: Architecture and Human Rights," highlights problematic and little-known spaces within United States prisons and detention centers that house activities deemed to violate human rights. What do these spaces have to teach us about the state of freedom in America?
The exhibit is free and open to the public M-F 10-5 until Nov. 21st, and the opening reception is this Tuesday, October 14th from 6-8pm, at which author Sarah Shourd, Professor Jill Stoner, and architect John MacAllister will be in attendance.
Here's the announcement and here's the Facebook event page.
"Tex Johnson, 60″ by Ron Levine, courtesy of the artist.
Later this week, I'll be attending the inaugural prison arts and activism conference, Marking Time.
Hosted by the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers, and across multiple venues, the event brings together an incredibly committed and skilled cohort of practitioners throughout many disciplines — from dance to yoga, from occupational health to sculpture, and from film making to social work.
I'll be moderating a panel discussion Imagery and Prisons: Engaging and Persuading Audiences, with Gregory Sale, Lorenzo Steele, Jr., and Mark Strandquist on Wednesday afternoon. In addition, a version of Prison Obscura will be on show at the Alfa Art Gallery in downtown New Brunswick.
To emphasise the breadth and depth of expertise I've copied out the schedule below. I have made bold and linked the names of artists, activists and academics' names with whose work I am already familiar … and admire.
I pepper the post with artworks made by photographic artists attending Marking Time.
Marking Time runs 8th-10th Oct. Registration for the conferecne is free.
See you in New Brunswick this Wednesday?!?!
"Allen and Tanasha, 1998." Family album. Courtesy of the Fleetwood family.
Session 1: 9: 30 – 10:45 am
PANEL: Creative Arts and Occupational Health (ZLD)
Susan Connor and Susanne Pitak Davis (Rutgers University Correctional Healthcare) "Finding Meaning Thru Art"
Karen Anne Melendez (Rutgers University Correctional Healthcare) "The Concert Performance with Adult Females in Correctional Health Care"
Moderator: Michael Rockland (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
WORKSHOP: Steps Taken: Footprints in the Cell (NBL)
Rachel Hoppenstein (Temple University)
Ann Marie Mantey (Temple University)
Session 2: 11:00 – 12:15 pm
PANEL: Law, News, and Art (ZLD)
Regina Austin (Penn Law School)
Ann Schwartzman (Pennsylvania Prison Society)
Tom Isler (Journalist/Filmaker)
Moderator: Tehama Lopez
WORKSHOP: Utilizing Dance as a Social Tool: Dance Making with Women in Prison (NBL)
Meredith-Lyn Avey (Avodah Dance)
Julie Gayer Kris (Avodah Dance)
LUNCH: 12:15 – 1:15 pm
Session 3: 1:15 – 2:30 pm
PANEL: Imagery and Prisons: Engaging and Persuading Audiences (ZLD)
Gregory Sale (Artist)
Lorenzo Steele, Jr. (Founder, Behind these Prison Walls)
Mark Strandquist (Artist)
Moderator: Pete Brook (Freelance Writer/Curator)
PRESENTATION: The Political and Educational Possibilities of Exhibitions (NBL)
David Adler (Independent Curator)
Sean Kelley (Eastern State Penitentiary)
Rickie Solinger (Independent Curator)
Session 4 2:45 – 4:00 pm
PANEL: About Time (ZLD)
Damon Locks (Prison and Neighborhood Arts Project)
Erica R. Meiners (Northeastern Illinois University/Prison and Neighborhood Arts Project)
Sarah Ross (School of the Art Institute of Chicago/ Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project)
Fereshteh Toosi (Columbia College Chicago)
Moderator: Donna Gustafson (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
PANEL: Best Practices: Arts, Prisons and Community Engagement (NBL)
Robyn Buseman (City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program)
Shani Jamila (Artist, Cultural Worker, Human Rights Advocate)
Kyes Stevens (Alabama Prison Arts and Education Project)
4:00 – 5:00 pm Artist Talk: Jesse Krimes (ZLD)
5:00– 5:45 pm Welcome Reception (ZL)
7:30 – 9:00 pm Opening Keynote: Reginald Dwayne Betts (KC)
Welcome Remarks: IRW Director Nicole Fleetwood
Introduction of Keynote: Dean Shadd Maruna, School of Criminal Justice – Rutgers, Newark
"Exercise Cages, New Mexico" by Dana Greene, courtesy of the artist.
"That Renown New Mexico Light" by Dana Greene, courtesy of the artist.
Session 1: 9: 30 – 10:45 am
PANEL: Theater in Prisons (ZLD)
Wende Ballew (Reforming Arts Incorporated, Georgia) "Theatre of the Oppressed in Women's Prisons: Highly Beneficial, Yet Hated"
Lisa Biggs (Michigan State University) "Demeter's Daughters: Reconsidering the Role of the Performing Arts in Incarcerated Women's Rehabilitation"
Karen Davis (Texas A&M) "Rituals that Rehabilitate: Learning Community from Shakespeare Behind Bars"
Bruce Levitt and Nicholas Fesette (Cornell University) "Where the Walls Contain Everything: The Birth and Growth of a Prison Theatre Group"
Moderator: Elin Diamond (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
PANEL: Prison Architecture, Space and Place (NBL)
Svetlana Djuric (Activist) and Nevena Dutina (Independent Scholar) "Living Prison"
Maria Gaspar (Artist) "The 96 Acres Project"
Vanessa Massaro, (Bucknell) "It's a revolving door": Rethinking the Borders of Carceral Spaces"
Moderator: Matthew B. Ferguson (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
Session 2 11:00 – 12:15 pm
PRESENTATION: Sustaining Engagement through Art: The US and Mexico (ZLD)
Phyllis Kornfeld (Independent Art Teacher, Author, Activist, Curator) "Thirty Years Teaching Art in Prison: Into the Unknown and Why We Need to Go There"
Marisa Belausteguigoitia (UNAM) "Mural Painting in Mexican Carceral Institutions"
WORKSHOP: The Arts: Essential Tools for Working with Women and Families impacted by Incarceration (NBL)
Kathy Borteck-Gersten (The Judy Dworin Performance Project)
Judy Dworin (The Judy Dworin Performance Project)
Joseph Lea (The Judy Dworin Performance Project)
Kathy Wyatt (The Judy Dworin Performance Project)
LUNCH: 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
Session 3 1:15 – 2:30 pm
PRESENTATION: Visualizing Bodies/Space: A Performative Picture of Justice System-Involved Girls & Women in Miami, FL (ZLD)
Nereida Garcia Ferraz (Artist/Women on the Rise!)
Jillian Hernandez (University of California-San Diego/Women on the Rise!)
Anya Wallace (Penn State University/Women on the Rise!)
Moderator: Ferris Olin (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
PANEL: 25 Years of the Creative Prison Arts Project: Connecting Incarcerated Artists with the University of Michigan Community (NBL)
Reuben Kenyatta (Independent Artist)
Ashley Lucas (University of Michigan)
Janie Paul (University of Michigan)
PRESENTATION: The Art of Surviving in Solitary Confinement (RAL)
Bonnie Kerness (American Friends Service Committee Prison Watch Program)
Ojore Lutalo (American Friends Service Committee Prison Watch Program)
"Theda Rice, 77″ by Ron Levine, courtesy of the artist.
Session 4 2:45 – 4:00 pm
PANEL: Restorative Arts and Aging in Prison (ZLD)
Aileen Hongo (Educator/Activist)
Anne Katz (University of Southern California)
Ron Levine (Artist)
WORKSHOP: The SwallowTale Project: Creative Writing for Incarcerated Women (NBL)
Angel Clark (Photographer/Filmmaker)
Bianca Spriggs (Artist/Poet)
Session 5 4:15 – 5:30 pm
PANEL: Resisting Guantanamo through Art and Law (ZLD)
Aliya Hana Hussain (Center for Constitutional Rights)
Matthew Daloisio (Witness against Torture)
Aaron Hughes (Independent Artist)
Moderator: Joshua Colangelo-Bryan (Dorsey & Whitney LLP)
WORKSHOP: Bar None: The Possibilities and Limitations of Theater Arts in Prison (NBL)
Max Forman-Mullin (Bar None Theater Company)
Julia Taylor (Bar None Theater Company)
5:45 – 6:45 pm Reception (NBL)
7:00 – 9:00 pm: Artist Talks: Russell Craig, Deborah Luster, Dean Gillispie, Jared Owen (AAG)
"Self Portrait" by Russell Craig, acrylic on cloth, 2014, courtesy of the artist.
"LCIW, St. Gabriel, Louisiana, Zelphea Adams" from One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, by Deborah Luster, courtesy of the artist.
Session 1: 9: 30 – 10:45 am
PANEL: Prison Lit (ZLD)
Helen Lee (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) "Eldridge Cleaver's SOUL ON ICE: A Rhetoric of Confrontation in Prison Writing"
Suzanne Uzzilia (CUNY Graduate Center) "Lolita's Legacy: The Mutual Imprisonment of Lolita Lebrón and Irene Vilar"
Carolina Villalba (University of Miami) "Radical Motherhood: Redressing the Imprisoned Body in Assata Shakur's Assata: An Autobiography"
Moderator: Monica Ríos (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
PANEL: Photographic Education Program at Penitentiary Centers in Venezuela: From the Lleca to the Cohue (ZMM)
Helena Acosta (Independent Curator)
Violette Bule (Photographer)
Moderator: Katie Mccollough (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
PANEL: Narrating Injustice: Youth and Mass Incarceration (BSF)
Sean Saifa M. Wall (Independent Artist) "Letters to an Unborn Son"
Richard Mora and Mary Christianakis (Occidental College) "(Re)writing Identities: Past, Present, and Future Narratives of Young People in Juvenile Detention Facilities"
Beth Ohlsson (Independent Educator) "Reaching through the Cracks: Connecting Incarcerated Parents with their Children through Story"
Moderator: Annie Fukushima (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
Session 2 11:00 – 12:15 pm
PANEL: Gender, Sexuality, and Systemic Injustices (ZLD)
Michelle Handelman (Filmmaker, Fashion Institute of Technology) "Beware the Lily Law: Tales of Transgender Inmates"
Tracy Huling (Prison Public Memory Project) "'She was incorrigible…' Building Public Memory About A Girl's Prison"
Carol Jacobsen (University of Michigan) "For Dear Life: Visual and Political Strategies for Freedom and Human Rights of Incarcerated Women"
Moderator: Simone A. James Alexander (Seton Hall University)
"Beware the Lily Law" by Michelle Handelman, high-definition video, sound, Installation at Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia. Photo credit: Laure Leber, 2014.
PANEL: Life Sentences: Memoir-Writing as Arts and Activism in a Maximum Security Women's Prison (ZMM)
Courtney Polidori (Rowan University)
Michele Lise Tarter (The College of New Jersey)
Samantha Zimbler (Oxford University Press)
Moderator: Fakhri Haghani (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
PANEL: The Politics of Imprisonment (BSF)
Dana Greene (New Mexico State University) "Carceral Frontier: The Borderlands of New Mexico's Prisons"
Marge Parsons (Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund) "Free the Spirit from Its Cell"
Jackie Sumell (Independent Artist) "The House That Herman Built"
Treacy Ziegler (Independent Artist) "Light and Shadow in a Prison Cell"
Moderator: Angus Gillespie (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
LUNCH: 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
Session 3 1:15 – 2:30 pm
PRESENTATION: Shakespeare in Prison (ZLD)
Tom Magill (Educational Shakespeare Company Ltd)
Curt Tofteland (Shakespeare Behind Bars)
PANEL: Building Effective Prison Arts Programs (ZMM)
Laurie Brooks (William James Association) "California Prison Arts: A Quantitative Evaluation"
Jeff Greene (Prison Arts Program at Community Partners in Action) "Beyond Stereotype: Building & Supporting Extraordinary Arts Programs in Prison"
Becky Mer (California Appellate Project/Prison Arts Coalition) "National Prison Arts Networking in the US: Lessons from the Prison Arts Coalition"
Moderator: Lee Bernstein
PANEL: Genre and Aesthetics in Prisons (BSF)
T.J. Desch Obi (Baruch College, CUNY) "Honor and the Aesthetics of Agon in Jailhouse Rock"
Anoop Mirpuri (Portland State University) "Genre and the Aesthetics of Prison Abolition"
Jon-Christian Suggs (John Jay College, CUNY) "Behind the Red Door: Real and Fictional Communism in Prison"
Ronak K. Kapadia (University of Illinois at Chicago) "US Military Imprisonment and the Sensorial Life of Empire"
Moderator: Jed Murr
Session 4 2:45 – 4:00 pm
PANEL: Twenty Years of Teaching Visual and Literary Arts in a Maximum-Security Prison (ZLD)
Rachel M. Simon (Marymount Manhattan College in Bedford Hills Correctional Facility)
Duston Spear (Marymount Manhattan College in Bedford Hills Correctional Facility)
WORKSHOP: Alternatives to Violence Workshops in Prison: Liminal Performances of Community and/as Activism (ZMM)
Chad Dell (Monmouth University)
Johanna Foster (Monmouth University)
Eleanor Novek (Monmouth University)
Deanna Shoemaker (Monmouth University)
WORKSHOP: More Than a Rap Sheet: The Real Stories of Incarcerated Women (BSF)
Amanda Edgar (Family Crisis Services)
Jen LaChance Sibley (Family Crisis Services)
Jenny Stasio (Family Crisis Services)
CLOSING REMARKS (ZLD): 4:00 – 4:30 pm
OPENING RECEPTION FOR PRISON OBSCURA (AAG):4:30 – 6:30 pm
EVENING EVENTS: 7:00 – 9:30 pm (SH)
Tales from the Cell, Mountainview Program
The Peculiar Patriot, Liza Jessie Peterson
Women on Our Own, acapella group of formerly incarcerated musicians
Films to be shown all day on October 9 & 10 at the Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, 162 Ryders Lane (Douglass Campus), schedule to be determined.
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Second Quarter Financial Highlights
-- The Company produced 4,388 dry metric tonnes of concentrate during the quarter with a metal content of 2.07 million pounds of copper, 2,155 ounces of gold and 6,673 ounces of silver. -- Sales of
$7.5 millionwere generated during the quarter from the shipping and provisional invoicing of 3,892.65 dry metric tonnes of concentrate containing 1.80 million pounds of payable copper, 2,191 and 2,353 ounces of payable gold and silver respectively. -- At quarter-end, 3,306.14 wet metric tonnes of non-invoiced concentrate remained at the Company's warehouses. -- Cash cost(1) (i.e. before depletion, amortization and royalties) for the quarter was $111.60per tonne of processed ore, or $1.01per pound of payable copper produced(2) -- Income from mining operations for the quarter was $2,460,682. -- Net loss for the quarter was $205,712. -- Net cash provided by operating activities for the quarter was $1,745,074.
Second Quarter Operations Review
The El Roble mine performed as planned during the second quarter with an increase of 48% and 88% in copper and gold produced respectively. The increase was driven by a combination of higher throughput and head grades offset by a slight decrease in metallurgical recovery. Cash costs(1) for quarter were
Second Quarter Operational Details
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q2 Total Q1 Total % Change ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Production (Contained in Concentrates)(i) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copper (000s pounds) 2,070 1,398 48% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gold (ounces) 2,155 1,147 88% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Silver (ounces) 6,673 3,461 93% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mine ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tonnes of ore mined 37,206 26,791 39% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mill ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tonnes processed 33,888 23,016 47% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tonnes processed per day 440.1 354.1 24% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copper grade (%) 3.07 3.01 2% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gold grade (g/t) 3.12 2.43 28% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Silver grade (g/t) 13.27 10.65 25% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recoveries ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copper (%) 90.09 91.53 -2% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gold (%) 63.41 63.73 -1% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Silver (%) 46.16 43.91 5% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Concentrates ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copper Concentrates (dmt) 4,388 2,735 60% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copper (%) 21.39 23.19 -8% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gold (g/t) 15.27 13.05 17% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Silver (g/t) 47.29 39.36 20% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Payable copper produced (000s lbs) 1,967 1,332 48% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cash cost per pound of payable copper(1)(2) ($/lbs) 1.01 1.33 -32% ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
(i)Subject to adjustments due to final settlement
The financial statements and MD&A are available on SEDAR and have also been posted on the company's website at http://www.aticomining.com/s/FinancialStatements.asp
El Roble is an operating underground copper and gold mine with a nominal mineral processing capacity of 400 tonnes per day. Over the past 22 years, the mine has processed 1.5 million tonnes of ore at an average head grade of 2.5% copper and an estimated 2.5 g/t gold. Copper and gold mineralization occurs within volcanogenic massive sulfide ("VMS") lenses.
Since entering into an option agreement in
National Instrument 43-101 compliant inferred mineral resource are 1.58 million tonnes grading 4.45 % copper and 3.17 g/t gold, at a cut-off grade of 0.72 % copper equivalent. Mineralization is open at depth and along strike, the Company plans to further test the limits of the resource.
On the larger land package, the Company has identified a prospective stratigraphic contact between volcanic rocks and black and grey cherts that has been traced by Atico geologists for ten kilometers. This contact has been determined to be an important control on VMS mineralization on which Atico has identified 15 prospective target areas for VMS type mineralization occurrence, which is the focus of the surface drill program at El Roble.
Qualified Person
Atico is a growth-oriented company, focused on exploring, developing and mining copper and gold projects in
Fernando E. Ganoza, CEO Atico Mining Corporation
Trading symbols: (TSX VENTURE:ATY) (PINKSHEETS:ATCMF)
Neither the
No securities regulatory authority has either approved or disapproved of the contents of this news release. The securities being offered have not been, and will not be, registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "U.S. Securities Act"), or any state securities laws, and may not be offered or sold in
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward Looking Statements
This announcement includes certain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Canadian securities legislation. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein, without limitation the use of net proceeds, are forward-looking statements. Forward- looking statements involve various risks and uncertainties and are based on certain factors and assumptions. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's expectations include uncertainties relating to interpretation of drill results and the geology, continuity and grade of mineral deposits; uncertainty of estimates of capital and operating costs; the need to obtain additional financing to maintain its interest in and/or explore and develop the Company's mineral projects; uncertainty of meeting anticipated program milestones for the Company's mineral projects; and other risks and uncertainties disclosed under the heading "Risk Factors" in the prospectus of the Company dated
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The items marked with a "(1)" are alternative performance measures and readers should refer to Non-GAAP Financial Measures in the Company's Management's Discussion and Analysis for the three and six months ended
(1) These are alternative performance measures; please refer to "Non-GAAP Financial Measures" at the end of this release.
(2) Net of by-product credits
Atico Mining CorporationInvestor Relations Igor Dutina+1.604.633.9022 Source: Atico Mining Corporation


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1. Gary Harris- stayed- It's tough to be dethroned when you score 19 points, snag 5 rebounds, and nab 4 steals in your only game of the week. The only thing that hurt Harris this week is a loss to Illinois, but this is an individual players ranking and not a team ranking. MSU didn't lose because of Harris, he came to play.
2. Nik Stauskas- stayed- Stauskas had another stellar week for the Wolverines. He scored 15 points in a tough victory against Purdue and put in 21 against Minnesota. He also dished out 7 assists this week. I think Stauskas is the best offensive player in the conference. It will be interesting to see who takes home player of the year honors between Stauskas and Harris, I think the season championship will push it Stauskas' way.
3. Kevin "Yogi" Ferrell- up 2- Yogi continues to score the ball at an impressive rate. He is one of three players in the conference to have multiple 20 point games this week; he scored 24 points against Wisconsin and 20 points against Ohio State. He led his team to two victories over ranked opponents this week, and still is a joy to watch with his quickness and ball handling displays.
4. Roy Devyn Marble- up 6- Marble benefits from having played three games this week, but they were three very good games. He was able to jump six spots because he scored 20 points in all three games: 24 against Minnesota, 20 against Indiana, and 21 against Purdue. He also had 16 dimes this week and played well defensively, he had 3 and 4 steals against Indiana and Purdue. Iowa has been struggling as of late, but it's not because of the play of Marble.
5. Sam Dekker- up 2- Dekker continued his solid play this week, and is leading a hot Wisconsin team into the final month of the season. Dekker stuffed the stat sheet all week, shredding Indiana for 16 points, 7 rebounds, and 3 blocks. He also chipped in 7 points, 8 rebounds, and 2 blocks against Penn State.
6. Terran Petteway- down 2- Petteway has had a great year, but struggled scoring the ball this week. His lack of scoring may be due to the tough defensive teams he played, Illinois and Northwestern. He was able to put in 13 points against Illinois and add 10 points against Northwestern. I expect one of the league's top scorers to get back on track this week.
7. D.J. Newbill- up 7- I already listed the first two players to score 20 plus points in multiple games this week, well, Newbill is the third. He had a spectacular week, he scored 23 points against both Ohio State and Wisconsin. He did this in spite of playing Ohio State, one of the top defensive teams in the country, and Wisconsin, an always formidable opponent that understands position defense with the best of them.
8. Caris LeVert- up 1- LeVert is said to be Michigan's toughest player to guard one-on-one, and yes, that is including Stauskas. LeVert doesn't lack talent, and he had a very solid week. He scored 14 points, grabbed 7 rebounds, and dished out 4 assists in a tough road win against Purdue. He had another quality game against Minnesota, scoring 13 points, dishing 5 assists, and snagging 3 rebounds. Other than good offensive performances, I believe LeVert's length, athleticism, and quick feet make him Michigan's best defender.
9. A.J. Hammons- up 4- Hammons is one of the most talented big men in the country. He just doesn't prove it every night. This week he did. Hammons battled through foul trouble against Michigan, but still helped his team almost pull the incredible upset against Michigan. He added 11 points, 6 rebounds, and 3 blocks. Hammons really stepped up his play against Iowa; he scored 16 points, grabbed 14 rebounds, and sent 4 blocks the other way. That makes a total of 7 blocks for the week, having rim protection like that changes the game for this Purdue ball club.
10. Tim Frazier- down 4- Frazier didn't have a bad week scoring the ball, he put up 16 against Ohio State and 10 against Wisconsin. They are both good defensive teams too. However, it was his 6 turnovers against Ohio State and a negative assist-to-turnover ratio for the week that had him fall in my rankings. I hate to see that stat for any point guard.
11. Aaron White- up from HM- White is the first player in my rankings to move from unranked to ranked. He can thank his stellar week; I consider it the best week for any player in the Big Ten. He nearly had three double-doubles in a single week, plus his length and game knowledge allows him to be a great defender. Enough of my talk, just look at his stats for the week. Against Minnesota he scored 21 points, grabbed 9 rebounds and picked 3 steals. Against Indiana he added 19 points, 10 rebounds and another 3 steals. To round out amazing week he scored 15 points and grabbed 10 rebounds against Penn State.
12. Adreian Payne- down 9- Payne takes the biggest slide this week, other than the players that fell off the list. Payne didn't receive help from the schedule, the Spartans only played one game and Payne failed to show up. Payne had his lowest scoring performance of the year, 4 points, and he also coughed up 4 turnovers. He did manage to grab 7 rebounds. I still consider Payne the most talented center in the country, but this was a very disappointing performance for the senior. Expect him to get it back on track for his final game in the Breslin this week.
13. Frank Kaminsky- down 2- Frank did what a Wisconsin center is expected to do this week, play solid. However, with some other incredible performances this week it cost him two spots. Kaminsky almost had a double-double against Indiana, scoring 10 points and grabbing 9 rebounds. He also had a 9 point and 6 rebound game against Penn State.
14. Deandre Mathieu- up from HM- Mathieu may be the quickest player in the conference. It is nearly impossible for defenses to keep him out of the paint, and Mathieu is fearless attacking the basket. Mathieu had an impressive game in the much needed victory against Iowa; he had 19 points, 7 assists, and 3 rebounds. He continued his stat sheet stuffing against Michigan, scoring 9 points, grabbing 7 rebounds, dishing 5 assists, and snagging 3 steals. If you haven't seen Mathieu play, I'd suggest watching this Junior College transfer play before the season ends.
15. Noah Vonleh- down 7- Vonleh is first in the conference as far as the NBA is concerned, but his lack of touches seems to be affecting his ability to stay highly ranked on my list. Vonleh had a great game against Wisconsin, scoring 18 points and grabbing 6 rebounds. 6 rebounds isn't a lot for this talented freshman, and he continued to struggle in that category against Iowa. Iowa was probably his worst game of the season; he only scored 4 points and grabbed 5 rebounds. Vonleh didn't play in Indiana's final game of the week against Ohio State, and surprisingly the Hoosiers still found a way to win. What may have been more surprising was the great play the Hoosiers received from Vonleh's backup, Hanner Perea.
Honorable Mention: Aaron Craft, Drew Crawford, LaQuinton Ross, Glenn Robinson III, Austin Hollins
Tags: Big Ten Big Ten Basketball Michigan State Michigan State Basketball Spartans


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Goss's bacterial wilt and leaf blight of corn
University of MissouriGoss's leaf blight. After several years of speculation about the occurrence of Goss's bacterial wilt and leaf blight of corn in Missouri, the disease has been officially confirmed from a corn leaf sample from Holt County, Mo. Corn plants in the field showed symptoms suggestive of Goss's bacterial wilt. When the leaf sample was submitted to the University of Missouri Plant Diagnostic Clinic, there was very pronounced bacterial streaming from affected tissues. The sample tested positive on the immunostrip test for Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis, the causal agent of bacteria canker in tomato. This test will also react with other species of Clavibacter including the one which causes Goss's wilt. The sample was negative on the ELISA test for the Stewart's wilt bacterium. Using a selective media, C. michiganensis nebraskensis was isolated from the infected tissue. Bacterial cultures were submitted to the University of Minnesota Plant Disease Clinic and personnel there used PCR and sequencing to confirm the identification of the bacterium.
Goss's bacterial wilt and leaf blight of corn is caused by the bacterium Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. nebraskensis. The disease was first reported from Dawson County in Nebraska in 1969. Over the next ten or so years it was identified in adjacent states. Since about 2006 there has a resurgence of the disease in Nebraska and it has been reported in many of the Corn Belt states.
The bacterial pathogen can cause two main types of symptoms, a leaf blight and a systemic wilt. The leaf blight phase of the disease is the most common. Initially water-soaked streaks may appear in leaf tissue. These water-soaked areas develop into lesions that are gray to light green to light yellow in color, have wavy, irregular edges and run parallel to leaf veins. Small, irregular, dark green to black water-soaked spots (often called freckles) occur within the lesions. Bacterial exudate or ooze may dry on the diseased leaf tissue. This dried exudate will appear shiny or glistening in sunlight. The presence of "freckles" within the lesions and dried bacterial exudate within the lesions are diagnostic features of Goss's leaf blight.
The leaf blight phase of the disease might be mistaken for Stewart's bacterial wilt or northern corn leaf blight. The lesions caused by Stewart's bacterial wilt are very similar to those caused by Goss's wilt and leaf blight. However, the appearance of freckles or dried bacterial exudate on the lesion surface are good indications that it is Goss's wilt rather than Stewart's wilt. Also Stewart's wilt is spread by the corn flea beetle so the presence of flea beetle feeding scars on leaves would suggest Stewart's wilt. Stewart's wilt has not been very prevalent in Missouri the last few years. Northern corn leaf blight lesions may have a water-soaked appearance initially. Lesions tend to be tan to brown to almost bleached in color and have slightly more defined or regular lesion margins or edges than the lesions of Goss's leaf blight. Northern corn leaf blight lesions may have distinct clumps of mold growth on the dead tissue which could be mistaken for the freckles of Goss's wilt. Older lesions of both Goss's wilt and Stewart's wilt may be colonized by secondary fungi so fungal growth within or over lesions in not a reliable diagnostic feature.
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