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The private funeral for Philip Seymour Hoffman in Manhattan on Friday attracted a sombre, star-studded audience that includes Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Ethan Hawke, Louis C.K., Ellen Burstyn and Spike Lee.
The list of mourners also included Michelle Williams, Julianne Moore, Joaquin Phoenix, Mary Louise Parker, John Slattery, Jerry Stiller, Marisa Tomei, Diane Sawyer and her director husband, Mike Nichols.
Hoffman, 46, was found dead Sunday of an apparent heroin overdose in his apartment. He leaves behind his partner of 15 years, Mimi O'Donnell, and their three children.
The ceremony was being held at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, the same limestone church that hosted the funerals of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Lena Horne and Aaliyah. The 1898 Baroque-style marble interior is reminiscent of a Roman basilica.
A larger memorial service is being planned for later this month. On Thursday evening, family and close friends gathered for a private wake at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home in Manhattan.
The rumpled, heavy-set Hoffman was known to dive into roles and was nominated for Academy Awards four times: for "Capote," ''The Master," ''Doubt," and "Charlie Wilson's War." He also received three Tony nominations for his work on Broadway, which included an acclaimed turn in 2012 as the weary and defeated Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman."
The theatre community mourned the actor Wednesday with a candlelit vigil outside his beloved LAByrinth Theatre Company downtown and with Broadway's marquee lights turned off for a minute.
More tests are needed to determine what exactly killed Hoffman, who was found with a syringe in his arm and what authorities said were dozens of packets of heroin in his apartment. Autopsy results were inconclusive, authorities said this week.
Hoffman spoke candidly over the years about past struggles with drug addiction. After 23 years sober, the versatile actor reportedly checked himself into rehab for 10 days last year after relapsing in 2012.
Amid an investigation into Hoffman's death, three people have been arraigned on drug charges, including one who is facing a felony charge of heroin possession with intent to sell. Lawyers for the three people charged vigorously denied their clients had any role in Hoffman's death.
Most of those who attended the funeral had deep ties to Hoffman. He and Blanchett co-starred in "The Talented Mr. Ripley," and Hoffman starred in Lee's "The 25th Hour." Burstyn and Hoffman were in "Red Dragon," and Hawke co-starred with Hoffman in "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead." Slattery directed Hoffman in his new film "God's Pocket," and Nichols directed Hoffman on Broadway in "Death of a Salesman." Phoenix shared the screen with Hoffman in "The Master."
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Appendix K
This mandated annual report is our analysis of faculty salaries at Penn State. The report is based on tables and figures provided by the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost with technical assistance from the Office of Planning and Institutional Assessment (OPIA) and the College of Medicine. A few observations that may be of interest to the general audience of the University Faculty Senate are summarized here. More detail is available in the supporting materials including comparisons with other institutions and comparisons among the colleges and campuses within Penn State. Previous annual reports and the tables and figures on which this report is based are available on the Web at http://www.senate.psu.edu/about_senate/committees/fb/13-14/salarytables.pdf. The pdf file of tables and figures is best viewed with Adobe Reader.
There are many statistical factors that contribute to differences in salary that make it difficult to draw direct inferences about individual faculty salaries from these data. Market forces related to discipline specific conditions, non-monetary compensation and benefits, and cost of living differences may not be accurately reflected in the data. Comparisons across institutions or across units within institutions are complicated by unequal distributions in key dimensions such as discipline, rank, length of time in rank, and length of employment. The data presented here are limited and do not always provide sufficient detail for drawing direct inferences about important issues pertaining to faculty compensation like gender or racial inequities. However, these data are useful for initiating discussion and to prompt further more detailed inquiry. The Committee on Faculty Benefits encourages the faculty at Penn State to use these data as a reference.
Salaries among faculty in Penn State's University Park–based colleges are similar to comparable salaries among institutions participating in the Association of American Universities Data Exchange (AAUDE). For the most recent year, 2012–2013, the ratio of Penn State salaries to AAUDE salaries is within 3 percent of the AAUDE average salary for about half of the college/rank comparisons. The highest ratio among all the college/rank comparisons is 1.12 for professors in the College of Information Sciences and Technology. The lowest ratios include a minimum of 0.85 for professors in the College of Arts & Architecture and 0.87 for professors in the Smeal College of Business and the College of Education (Table 1).
The ratios presented in Table 1 indicate that many of the college/rank ratios are lower in 2012–2013 than in 2011–2012. This change in Penn State's competitive position appears to be a result of more rapid increases in the average salaries at the AAUDE institutions. The cumulative percent changes presented in Table 3 show that, while every college/rank combination shows an increase in the average salary, in many cases the average salary among other AAUDE institutions is increasing at a faster rate.
This "losing ground" effect may also be seen when looking at the data from several years of the Report on Faculty Salaries. While the data show a steady increase in terms of raw dollar value (Figure 1; Figure 2), the increases are just keeping pace with inflation (Figure 3; Figure 4). The decline in Penn State's competitive position is also reflected in the University's ranking among selected peer institutions (Table 4). Among a group of 22 other public AAUDE institutions, Penn State had fallen from 5th in 2008–2009 to 9th for professors and 8th for associate professors in 2011–2012. This drop in the rankings may have been reversed as Penn State has moved up several positions in the most recent year, 2012–2013, to among the top of the rankings. Future reports shall continue to examine these rankings.
Among the group of Big Ten public institutions, Penn State's average salaries have been ranked consistently over recent years (Table 4). The average salary for professors and for associate professors has been among the top among the Big Ten public institutions since at least the 2004–05 academic year. Penn State's average salary for assistant professors is not as highly ranked among the Big Ten publics. Having ranked 3rd from 2004–05 to 2005–06, the average salary for assistant professors has consistently ranked from 5th to 7th since 2006–07.
Salaries in Penn State's campus-based colleges seem to rank in the middle among campuses at other Big Ten institutions (Table 7). When compared with campuses of the same type, salaries at Penn State's campus-based colleges are higher than campuses at other Big Ten institutions. However, these salaries may reflect regional wage differences as Penn State's average salaries are below the average salaries at other universities in Pennsylvania (Table 8) including the other state-related and state-owned universities. The average salaries at several of Penn State's campus-based colleges are near or below the average among the State System of Higher Education (SSHE) institutions (Table 8).
Salaries for Penn State's librarian faculty rank among the top compared to their peers at other public institutions in the Big Ten (Table 9). Penn State salaries for associate librarians and assistant librarians rank as the highest among public institutions in the Big Ten. Penn State's average librarian salary ranks second among public institutions in the Big Ten.
Among Penn State University Park–based colleges, the faculty in the Smeal College of Business have the highest salaries followed by the faculty in the College of Information Sciences and Technology. The colleges of Arts & Architecture and Communications are the lowest salaries among the Penn State University Park–based colleges. Of all the units with faculty, the University Libraries seem to have the lowest salaries (Table 11).
Variation in salary appears to increase with each higher rank (Table 10; Table 11). This increase in variation is apparent when the data are displayed graphically (Figure 1; Figure 5; Figure 6; Figure 7). The interquartile range (IQR)—the difference between the 75th and 25th percentiles—is typically greatest for professors. For instance, the IQR for standing appointment professors at Penn State University Park is $48,006. The IQR for standing appointment assistant professors at Penn State University Park is $16,257. The mean years in rank also increases with each higher rank, which may account for some of the variation in salary. While there is some increase in variation with each higher rank among the salaries at the Commonwealth Campuses, the IQR for standing appointment faculty at the Commonwealth Campuses tends to be much narrower—only $23,598 for standing appointment professors and $13,221 for standing appointment assistant professors.
Salaries at Penn State's Commonwealth Campuses are generally lower overall than salaries for the same academic rank and appointment type at Penn State University Park (Table 10). This pattern appears to also be true when comparing the salaries in the academic divisions within the campus-based colleges (Table 14) with salaries in colleges of similar disciplinary composition at Penn State University Park (Table 11).
Tables 12 and 13 provide the salary quartiles by gender. At the highest levels of aggregation found in Table 12, the salaries for females appear to be lower than those of males. These results should be interpreted with caution, however, as the male faculty members typically have higher mean years in rank and the level of aggregation does not take into consideration disproportionate representation among colleges and departments. Table 13 provides the salary quartiles by gender at the college-level. At this level, the difference in salaries between females and males diminishes. Graphically, many of the salary ranges by gender seem to overlap with their college counterparts (Figure 5; Figure 6; Figure 7). Where differences do exist, the higher salary range usually coincides with more mean years in rank. Further differentiation by department and/or academic discipline may explain some of the remaining differences. However, the data become sparser with each additional dimension, and at the college level there are data elements that were suppressed due to a low number of individuals. Further differentiation increases the amount of data that must be suppressed.
The Committee on Faculty Benefits has been asked to address the salaries among fixed-term faculty specifically. We commonly tend to use the phrase "fixed-term" when referring to individuals on fixed-term appointments with an academic rank of "instructor" or "lecturer." This is understandable as more than 60% of the individuals on fixed-term academic appointments have an academic rank of "instructor," "lecturer," "senior instructor," or "senior lecturer" and approximately 95% of the individuals holding those ranks are on "fixed-term" appointments (Table 10). However, it should be noted that under the University's human resources structure an individual's academic rank and their appointment type are separate and distinct. There exist individuals on fixed-term appointments holding nearly every possible academic rank. In fact, the next largest group of "fixed-term faculty" would be those holding the rank of "research associate" (Table 11).
Another area of confusion surrounding a discussion of "fixed-term faculty" involves part-time faculty appointments. The University defines full-time appointments as one of standing, fixed-term I, or fixed-term multi-year. There is also an appointment type of "fixed-term II" that is considered part-time under the University's definitions. The similarity in titles may be the cause of some confusion. As full-time appointments, faculty on fixed-term I or fixed-term multi-year appointments have been included in the Report on Faculty Salaries for many years. Data on part-time faculty, such as those on fixed-term II appointments, have historically not been included in the report due to a number of complicating factors among that class of faculty.
For reasons stated earlier, we limit our discussion of fixed-term faculty specifically to the population of individuals on full-time, fixed-term appointments holding an academic rank of "instructor," "lecturer," "senior instructor," or "senior lecturer." Even looking solely at this population there are cautions to note. For instance, there are more than 250 individuals from this population in the College of the Liberal Arts alone (Table 11). Since 20% of the total number of these faculty coming from just one college, it may be difficult to discern whether any conclusions drawn from the data reflect the University-wide population or are attributable to circumstances that exist solely within that college.
Just over 50% of the fixed-term instructors and lecturers are located at the Penn State University Park location. As with the standing appointment, professorial salaries, the highest fixed-term instructor/lecturer salaries at University Park are found in the Smeal College of Business. The interquartile range of salaries for instructors in the Smeal College of Business is comparable to the salaries for standing appointment associate professors in the other University Park-based colleges.
While all the other Penn State campuses combined make up less than half of the population of fixed-term instructors University-wide, the population of fixed-term instructors/lecturers is the largest category of faculty among the Commonwealth Campuses where about 38% of all faculty are fixed-term instructors/lecturers (Table 10). Further, while salaries at the Commonwealth Campuses are generally lower than the salaries for the same academic rank at Penn State University Park, the opposite is true among instructors/lecturers. The interquartile range of salary for fixed-term instructors/lecturers among faculty at the Commonwealth Campuses is several thousand dollars higher than their colleagues at Penn State University Park.
Although fixed-term instructors/lecturers generally earn more at the Commonwealth Campuses, salaries for faculty on fixed-term appointments are generally lower than faculty in the same rank on standing appointments. This differential may be due to differences in the length of service. Among standing appointment instructors/lecturers, mean "years in rank" of more than 20 years are not uncommon. While there is some anecdotal evidence to suggest that there are individuals among the Penn State faculty who have been on fixed-term appointments continuously renewed for many years, the nature of fixed-term appointments and the methods by which "years in rank" are recorded do not allow us to determine how long an individual has been in a particular fixed-term appointment.
The complete set of data accompanying this report consists of 15 tables and 9 figures. The tables may be considered in two major portions: the interinstitutional comparisons presented in Tables 1–9 and the intrainstitutional comparisons presented in Tables 10–15. The figures are based on data from Tables 10–15 and may also be considered part of the intrainstitutional comparisons. The interinstitutional comparisons in Tables 1–9 may be further divided according to the source of the data: the Association of American Universities Data Exchange, the American Association of University Professors, and the Association of Research Libraries.
Definition of salary The salaries presented in the supporting tables reflect contract salary. These salary figures do not include additional monies an individual may receive such as summer teaching, administrative stipends, or supplemental monies for extra assignments. The salary data also do not include fringe benefits such as the University's contribution to the individual's retirement plan, health insurance, or tuition discounts.
The salary data are defined on the basis of a 9-month (36-week) appointment. Unless otherwise noted, salaries for faculty members on 12-month (48-week) appointments are converted to a 9-month equivalent using a standard conversion factor of 0.818.
The Association of American Universities Data Exchange (AAUDE) is an organization composed of Association of American Universities (AAU) institutions that contribute their institutional data to the data exchange. The AAU describes itself as "an association of 61 leading public and private research universities in the United States and Canada." A recent listing of AAU member institutions is presented in Table 5. While all AAU institutions are eligible to participate in the data exchange, typically only between 50 and 60 percent of the member institutions will submit data to the AAUDE in any given year and are available for an institution's "main campus" only.
The AAUDE comparisons allow Penn State to benchmark our faculty salaries with other leading research institutions. Direct comparison to other institutions is not available as the confidentiality rules governing participation in the AAUDE prohibit individually identifying institutional data. However, the data may be useful for indicating Penn State's relative position among the group of AAUDE institutions. Tables 1–3 present comparisons with averages based on all institutions reporting to the AAUDE in the given year. Table 4 uses the AAUDE data to present Penn State's ranking among a select group of 22 public institutions in the AAUDE and among the other public institutions of the Big Ten.
College-level comparisons are possible using the AAUDE data because of Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) code data available in the AAUDE data set. The CIP codes are a taxonomic scheme developed by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) to support tracking and reporting of fields of study and program completions activity[1]. The college-level comparisons in Tables 1–3 compare each of Penn State's colleges with a composite of equivalent CIP codes from other AAUDE institutions.
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) conducts an annual survey of faculty compensation, the Faculty Compensation Survey (FCS). The results of the FCS are published in March–April issue of the AAUP magazine, Academe, as part of their Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession. The data from the FCS are used as the source for Tables 6–8. The availability of the FCS data permits direct interinstitutional comparisons. Table 6 presents Penn State's average salaries ranked among the average salaries for the other institutions in the Big Ten.
While Table 6 only includes the "main campuses" for each institution, Table 7 and Table 8 present Penn State's average salaries for University Park as well as for each of the campus-based colleges. Table 7 presents the average salaries at Penn State University Park and at each of the campus-based colleges ranked among the average salaries for other institutions in the Big Ten with satellite campuses. Table 8 focuses on more regional comparisons presenting the average salaries for Penn State University Park and each of the campus-based colleges in comparison to other institutions in Pennsylvania including a composite of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (SSHE) institutions.
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is an organization of 126 research libraries in the United States and Canada. Through membership in the ARL, Penn State shares salary-related data for our librarian faculty. Table 9 presents Penn State's librarian salaries in comparison to other institutions in the Big Ten. The ARL data are also aggregated with the AAUP data in Table 6, which also compares Penn State's salaries with other institutions in the Big Ten.
The intrainstitutional comparisons are based on Penn State's internal data sources. Tables 10–14 are based on a snapshot of the human resource database taken at the end of September 2013. These snapshot data are used for the University's official reporting activities. These data include all individuals classified as "academic" with a full-time appointment type—standing, fixed-term I, or fixed-term multi-year. Table 15 is provided by the Hershey Medical Center to provide information on average salaries for faculty at the Medical Center.
Tables 10–13 present salary quartiles and mean years in rank along a few key dimensions. Table 10 and Table 11 each present these data by rank within appointment type category—standing or fixed-term. Table 10 aggregates the data according to campus category while Table 11 aggregates the data by college or unit for the faculty at Penn State University Park. Tables 12 and 13 expand the presentation in Tables 10 and 11 presenting the data by gender within rank and appointment type category. Table 12 aggregates the data according to campus category. Table 13 presents the quartiles aggregated by college or unit for the faculty at Penn State University Park.
The salary quartiles for the campus-based colleges are presented in Table 14. Again the data are presented by rank within appointment type category. The data are aggregated by college and by division or department within the college.
The supporting materials accompanying this report offer a number of different perspectives on faculty salaries. The data presented in the supporting materials are an attempt to provide as objective an analysis as possible. However, readers are cautioned to consider the limitations of these data before drawing any conclusions based on the data presented here.
Direct comparisons with other institutions can be difficult as organizations differ in structure. Often there are unequal proportions among one or more key factors such as rank, academic discipline, age, and years of experience. The use of the average as the reported statistic further complicates the comparison, since the average is so susceptible to the influence of extreme values in the population.
Comparisons based on internal data may seem to be an opportunity to exercise more control over the chosen statistic. Many of the supporting tables accompanying this report present salary quartiles, which are much less likely to be influenced by extreme values. But interpreting differences between percentiles can be more difficult than differences based on the average. Unequal proportions among the groupings within the organization could create paradoxical situations where conclusions based on data at one level of aggregation may not be supported at a finer level of detail.
The data presented in the supporting tables reflect the entire population. Therefore, any differences between groupings are actual differences and the statistical significance of the difference is not an issue. Before drawing any conclusions from those differences, readers are reminded that there are many factors that affect an individual's salary. The data presented in the supporting tables reflect a few factors that seem most relevant to the interests of the Faculty Senate. Properly controlling for the number of factors known to affect an individual's salary would require an analysis beyond the scope of this report. There are also factors such as market forces, non-monetary compensation and benefits, lifestyle choices, professional reputation, and individual personality that are not reflected in the data.
The data available in the tables accompanying this report present a number of perspectives on faculty salaries at Penn State. Despite these many perspectives, these data reflect a limited view of faculty compensation. While it can be difficult to draw inferences from these limited data, the Committee on Faculty Benefits hopes that these data can be useful in enabling Penn State's faculty members to be better informed about their salary relative to their colleagues both within Penn State and at some of Penn State's peer institutions.
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Susan McGarry Basso
Gary L. Catchen
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Amy R. Dietz
Peter C. Jurs
Lori B. Miraldi
Rajen Mookerjee
Chris Muscarella
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Best of luck
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Thanks so much for your reply. I will check that out. Yeah I agree, we are having problems with finding a beautiful spot without the bad food and having to dance in a low ceiling banquet hall. I hope once this is out of the way the rest is a breeze :)
Hope you have a fabulous wedding!
re: sarakellenberger
Thanks Sara
For us once the caterer was sorted it all got much more relaxing.
Best of luck.
re: sarakellenberger
For a city on the water, we have a serious dearth of waterfront venues, as I discovered when planning my own nuptials.
Maybe give the Vancouver Museum a call. They had several options there for weddings, though I know at least one has changed. You can get married on the lawn in view of the beach and (this is the best part) bring in your own caterer). We found many places in town required using their in-house food services.
False Creek Yacht Club does have a lovely view and a nice wraparound deck. Drawback from attending weddings there is the many pillars which block guest sightlines during the ceremony.
Cecil Green is a lovely space but the food is very much wedding buffet, alas, from UBC food services, unless things have changed drastically since I organized a wedding there. You also have to watch their tendency to say they have room for your guests and then having them put one or more tables in the foyer (!) to accommodate. Again, big sightline issues and weird to have some of your party dining in the hallway.
re: grayelf
True enough on the sight line issues at false creek yacht club, that is one of the remains we decided to hold the actual ceremony at ferguson point.
re: grayelf
The Hart House (in Burnaby, adjacent city to Vancouver) on the "shores" of Deer Lake, offers wedding hosting:
And if I may take advantage here and make a plug for a friend of mine who is an amazing events photographer ......
re: LotusRapper
You may always make a plug for your friends :) Having recommendations is always a plus instead of picking blind from a list of vendors. There are some really beautiful shots in their portfolio.
Thank you LotusRapper
re: sarakellenberger
No problem Sara. I get no benefits from Alana by plugging her, other than seeing her very happy clients' (including ourselves) pictures on her sites. I can bet a bottom dollar everyone who looks over her photo galleries does so with a smile on their face. She is truly talented.
BTW, is this wedding your own or are you planning it on behalf for someone else ? Are there any friends/family etc. here in Vancouver who could go scout out the options you narrow down ? Always good to have folks on the ground, so to speak, to get first-hand impressions. And when is the special event to take place ? Given it's Apr. 2 and the wedding season is just around the corner, venues can get booked up superfast. When I booked Cecil Green for my own wedding it was in January and I had to pick the only date remaining for that year, which was September. Turned out to be the Labor Day long weekend so everything actually worked out perfectly timing-wise.
Another scenic but non-waterfront option to throw into the hat is the Van Dusen Botanical Garden's Shaughnessy Restaurant which sees a lot of weddings:
But it ain't no W/N. Vancouver.
re: LotusRapper
Agree with LR about getting someone "on the ground" to check out the venues, but even more importantly, to pre-taste the food. Some of the places mentioned on this thread and others have pretty mediocre food, particularly for a Chowhoundish wedding. I know it's more difficult logistically but getting a venue that allows outside catering can help with that. We were very happy with our caterer who now has his own cooking school that also caters.
re: grayelf
Hey Grayelf-
Would you mind recommending the cater you us. Do they specialize in a particular type of cuisine or fusion?
re: grayelf
GE - was yours chef Christophe and Le Zeste Catering ?
re: LotusRapper
All great info. Yes this is my wedding and we won't wed until Summer 2014, so I have a good amount of time to get this ball rolling. But as you have all mentioned and I have read Vancouver is a popular place to wed, thats why i'm trying to nail down a venue.
I hink when we find those few gems we will fly out to check them out and taste the food. Unfortunately we don't know anyone in Vancouver, we just have loved travelling there the past 8 years and loved it. :) Wow the Van Duesen is really beautiful with the open air feel. Is their food good?
Also what did you think of Cecil Green's food. I know they have a long standing contract with UBC Catering so there is no room to budge there. Food is pretty important to us, as we are very spoiled with restaurants and cuisine in SF.
re: sarakellenberger
Re: Cecil Green's catering (website here: http://www.catering.ubc.ca/)
I can only say from my own wedding experience which was almost 20 years ago (where did the time go ???) and don't recall if it was even the same company who had the contract with UBC at that time. The food was good, but then again I was in my 20's and "foodie" wasn't in my lexicon. We did the best we can selecting a midday hor d'oeuvres menu that suited our preferences and budget (IIRC ~ $30pp) excluding alcohol.
re: sarakellenberger
I've eaten at Cecil Green more recently than that (a wedding and an award ceremony). No joy there for a foodie but not offensive.
Van Dusen's catering is not good.
Both venues are lovely, offering indoor and outdoor options for your ceremony which is important in rain-prone-at-any-time-of-the-year Vancouver.
The caterer we used for our wedding was indeed Chef Christophe Kwiatkowsky. He was at the now-defunct Dubrulle Culinary School at the time and now is a principal at Northwest Culinary Academy http://www.chefdb.com/pl/17519/Northw... and also runs Le Zeste http://www.lezeste.com/.
He was very creative about supplying us with a la minute cooked items in a challenging environment with little or no real catering infrastructure on site, including bringing in barbeques to cook on the spot. I had several people say it was the best food they ever had at a wedding. He's also delightful to work with and took care of every request we had (even the bridezilla-y ones) while still coming in on budget.
Our food theme was things on sticks from around the world and he really translated that well to deliver great food to 65 people at once. I think he's pretty versatile in terms of types of cuisine. And lest you think from my description that this was a casual affair, it was quite elegant and all of the prep was done behind the scenes and presented artfully.
sarakellenberger, please feel free to drop me a line at the email in my profile if you have any other questions about planning a wedding in Vancouver that I might be able to help with (don't want to range too far afield on this here food board!). We get down to the Bay Area twice a year and love it to bits. All the best.
re: grayelf
Glad to hear it was Chef Christophe, whom I've had the honour and privilege of learning from in several classes I've taken at NWCAV. He's a master chef and a gentleman.
Not sure how much this thread might help (advice re: wedding venues with views, not necessarily waterfront), but there's only so many venues in town so maybe you can glean some useful info here:
FWIW, I wedded at Cecil Green. It's not waterfront in the pure sense of the word, but scenic nevertheless esp. on a good weather day when the North Shore mountains are in clear view. Easily accommodates 100 people, with catering to boot. But book early.
Vancouver Rowing Club in Stanley Park. False Creek Community Centre at Granville Island. Check with the new owners of the property at Monks on False Creek. Britannia Heritage Shipyard in Richmond (my personal favourite). The venue at Deas Island Regional Park in Delta. All will have various catering capacity.
(full disclosure - I am a personal chef and private caterer, and have provided service at all of the venues mentioned)
re: KarenDW
Thank you Karen. These look like some great "off the beaten path" venues.
Sorry... just re-reading your OP, and notice a preference for West/North Vancouver. The Silk Purse Gallery in West Van is a beautiful location. Just not sure of the maximum capacity.
Not sure if this was mentioned but Sage Bistro at UBC is a great venue. I had my wedding there ...my wife and I, as well as our guests, were very happy with Sage Bistro. Great food, service, view, grounds etc. And reasonable rates.
Not sure if he is still there, but Nicholas was in charge of the operations.
there's also this place - a fairly new (opened last year?) hotel at the foot of Lonsdale Ave in North Van - it is a funky industrial waterfront as you can see in the pix on their site - very historic and interesting - easy to access by the foot pax ferry if coming from downtown - otherwise, drive over one of the bridges - i have not stayed in this hotel tho i have been in the lobby / lounge area when hosted by someone else (ie i wasn't paying) - might be worth a call at this late date for a summer 2013 date - but maybe you are planning far in advance ... i agree with comment made by LotusRapper re: Cecil Greene venue - gorgeous on a clear day - it is out near UBC which is the west side of the city.
re: Georgia Strait
Thanks for the fun info Georgia Strait...love that name btw :) I will take a look at all of those. Our wedding isn't until 2014, taking this one slow so I'm pretty sure I'm on top of my game :)
Thx again!


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A new wave of so-called 'serious games' are mobilising the collective intelligence and imagination of gamers for real-world benefits in the diverse fields of science, politics and social development.
This is repositioning gaming as a productive enterprise, rather than merely passive, escapist, or simply a waste of time. Research suggests that gaming will dramatically transform the way that we communicate, build communities, and solve complex problems. The 'collective intelligence' of the world's gamers has been elevated as a valuable resource, which can be mobilised for strategic thinking and problem solving – outweighing the power of a supercomputer. The game 'Foldit' uses this collective intelligence to solve complex scientific problems which are beyond the capabilities of individual biochemists.
Jane McGonigal – a prominent figure head in gaming development – has designed several influential games such as 'Superbetter,' which includes personal challenges to improve health or support depression. The game 'The World without Oil' encourages players to imagine their responses to an oil shortage, generating content within an on-line community. At present, as a planet, we spend 3 billion hours a week gaming – what if it was possible to transform these gaming hours from a leisure activity into labour. And what if that labour was part of a collective effort beyond each participant's cognitive ability?
Astronauts have always been heroes. And ever since Neil Armstrong took one giant leap for mankind, astronauts seemed to become more real, more accessible and more broadcast.
The last months have provided extra entertainment from out of space, since the witty Commander Chris Hadfield used modern communication to show us down here how things work out there. He showed us how astronauts brush their teeth and even explained how a spaceship toilet functions. Almost 1 million people followed him on Twitter and learned how life feels when there is no gravity. He ended his space odyssey by performing a cover of David Bowie's 'Space Oddity' and delivering what we Earthlings now call the first music video filmed in space. The video has already had over 12 million views on YouTube.
Yet, we don't need to look at viral video numbers to guess the popularity of space. All it takes is for us to believe the unbelievable: that around 80.000 people subscribed to win a one way ticket to Mars, in the most literal way possible. Mars One is a project that will establish a permanent human settlement on Mars in 2023.
Applications are open on their homepage where they also explain more about the project: "Mars One intends to fund this decade-long endeavor by involving the whole world as the audience of an interactive, televised broadcast of every aspect of this mission, from the astronaut selections and their preparations to the arrival on Mars and their lives on the Red Planet."But be careful when signing those terms and conditions! The adventure goes one way only. There is no coming back from the Red Planet.
All of this other worldy activity will certainly raise the bar for future reality TV shows…
We have watched as Science has moved from being the domain of geeks with their graphic calculators to being a fascination for us all. With science programmes on prime time television and the Raspberry Pi encouraging children to learn to code and make their own inventions, people seem genuinely excited about Science again.
Topshop have even turned this interest into fashion, with a range of shirts declaring their obsession with all things technological.
It seems little surprise then, that in our survey of brands' cultural vibrancy – Cultural Traction - tech brands rule the roost. Google, Apple, Samsung and Microsoft dominate, with the highest scores for being inspiring, exciting, visionary and bold. It seems that these brands are able to harness our interest in technology in a way that stirs us to dream, to create and to glimpse the future.
Science and faith have stood opposed to each other for as long as anyone can remember. The two poles have recently been embodied in public debates between people like the late Christopher Hitchens and William Lane Craig. The battle is very much still alive and great thinkers both for and against religion continue to hold the public's attention. But between these two poles we have discovered a third world – a world less polarized and less concerned with the absolutes of organized religion and science.
A fascinating evangelist of this intriguing border world is Grant Morrison, who argues that people are creating new gods – gods agreed as not real, but who act as idols and messiahs nonetheless. His book Supergods takes an interesting and comprehensive look at superheroes, and at the way they've shaped and been shaped by generations.
We've recently come across the wonderful world of Manga Jesus – a faithful, but fantastical, comic book representation of the story of Jesus. Here, ancient scrolls and the modern high-quality printed text are presented in a way that has been traditionally reserved for geeky teens and eccentric collectors.
It all begs the question– is religion moving into a new space? A space of myth and story, where the battles with science matter less and faith is re-contextualised as heroic.
L'Oreal's new hair colour, Inoa, has taken an interesting stance on the science and technology often used to talk about beauty products. Their advert is reminiscent of sci-fi movie trailers – complete with glowing orbs, explosions, strobe lighting, threatening music and a naked woman curled in the foetal position as if she has been birthed from some otherworldly creature. It could almost be the trailer for Prometheus.
Inoa describes itself as "the hair colour of the future" and sells the fact that it is ammonia-free and odourless – this sci-fi aesthetic seems to us a pretty unconventional way to talk about a product being more natural, and it makes us cautious about putting it on our skin. We might go and see the movie though…
One look at the brain and it's got to make you wonder. It's nothing short of mind-boggling that from the ridged undulating pink walnut-shaped mass emerges the taste of a madeleine, the pain of a paper cut, or the happiness at the first day of spring. All from something that looks disturbingly like Krang from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Thankfully, it's not everyday that we get a peek.
It's no surprise that neuro is the buzzword of the moment. Neuromarketing. Neuroarchitecture. Neuroesthetics. Neurolinguistics. Neuroscience and the military is a whole battlefield in and of itself. There's Neuromanagement and even a drink called Neuro. It is easy to be swept away by the promise of an answer to the questions that have plagued philosophers and scientists for centuries. There is magic in solving the mysteries and in the physiological complexity that underpins the everyday experiences.
At the Wellcome Collection's Brains; The Mind as Matter exhibit we were intrigued by its focus on the brain as a physiological organ and nothing else. Implicit throughout is the realisation that however much we have desperately, painstakingly – and often painfully – attempted to understand how it works, we still can't explain the genius of Einstein, what keeps a memory from disease, what really makes me me. Despite every surgical operation and every experiment, the brain is one of the few remaining parts of ourselves that is not quite fully within our reach.
When we go back to 'neuro' as a buzzword, this is why we worry. Popular science, whilst brilliant at talking to the layman and inspiring generations of budding scientists, can often fall into reductionism. As a culture, it makes it all too easy to design, dismiss, and decide on things purely from the results of a few EEG studies. In the not-so-distant future will advertising be solely based on firing cells in a few test subjects at the business lab? Will we choose future employees, friends or life partners based on compatible brainwaves? Will art and music be created to follow an optimal algorithm of neural creativity? Will we become immobile physical beings, experiencing the fullness of life through virtual interaction, active in our minds only?
Western culture's obsession with control and logic pounces on any chance to drill down the complicated to a few simple truths, especially when it comes to understanding ourselves. The danger here is that tampering with, or tailoring directly for, the brain removes any chance for human error, spontaneity, or surprise. As homo sapiens we grow and learn by being exposed to novelty, it's the exercise of our minds. It's what creates culture; the result of subtle synergies and often chance. By pinning down, say, creativity, as Jonah Lehrer has not inelegantly achieved in his latest book Imagine, we worry that we put shackles to the freedom that lies at its very heart.
Of course, there is a flipside – in this case that the more we understand, the more we can treat disease, illness, even reassess the very definition of mental illness and make the most of what we have. The complexities, and ambiguities of the science need to be communicated and acknowledged, but not reduced, not simplified, and not confined to another buzzword.
The alarm bell rings just as you emerge from the sleep cycle, the perfect time to wake up. You rise and an icon on your phone gently reminds you to take your multi-vitamins. Every step you take on the walk to your train is logged and instantly merges with your cardiovascular score, which tells you that breakfast would be better with some protein. Welcome to the future. Or actually, the near present.
Personal data mining, personal analytics, or the more science-fiction-y term 'self-hacking' is not new. Nike+ pioneered it on a scale and seamlessness unseen before. And for centuries, thinkers have kept personal diaries to keep track of their lives. But with technological innovations, smartphones and the possibilities of the cloud, personal analytics is going to a whole new level. The buzz around Steven Wolfram's recent Wired post about his 20-year obsession with his own data just goes to show how much it captures the blogosphere's (or maybe just the geeks') imagination.
It's still early days. Many of the existing platforms are only devoted to a particular pocket of your life, like running (RunKeeper) or sleep (Zeo Coach). Jawbone UP, the most mainstream personal data tool, converges data from different aspects of daily activity – it was launched with much excitement, but was pulled in December because the technology didn't quite live up to the promise.
But that's starting to change. The growing 'self-hacker' movement passionately believe that ownership over personal data is empowering, allowing better choices and ultimately a life that is more aware, healthier and as a result even happier.
Tictrac, is one of the most sophisticated platforms yet. It gathers everything – blood pressure, what you ate for breakfast, how far you ran, what you weigh, how long you slept – under one dashboard. You can cross-reference, aggregate, and even visualise a complete picture of your life, so it is easy to transform into action. Those weight gains coinciding with work trips during the Winter? Next time you'll know to bring your running gear.
Is it the dawn of a new age of healthcare, where preventative and personalised is finally a reality? Or are these platforms an extension of our self-obsessed control-driven capitalist culture, destined only to fuel even more neuroses and disorders? We think self-hacking is a good thing. We see a future where medicine is holistic and forward thinking. In a way it feels closer to nature, because these data visualisations are reflections of what our bodies try to tell us but we miss or ignore.
Whatever you think, what's currently out there is almost certainly skimming the surface of what will be. The evolution of data mining is inevitable. How long it will take to become mainstream, how the web of privacy unfolds and how responsible we will be are measures which, for now, we have no data on at all.
Have you noticed something in the air? The whiff of acetic acid, the buzz of electrons, the spark of firing action potentials? The socially incompetent Beaker-like klutz who's suddenly the life of the party? We certainly have: science is back with a vengeance and we're positively charged (yes, pun intended) that people are once again excited about science.
This is what we think it's all about: because our world is more chaotic, uncertain and – with global warming – more fragile, we want to understand, control, and preserve it. So we turn to the only way we can: rationality and science. Or really to Brian Cox. Sure he's young, astronomically attractive for a physicist, and has a pop chart single to his name, but it's no accident he's a national hero. The atheism debate ignited by Richard Dawkins, and recently perpetuated by Alain de Botton, shows how science has replaced religion as an entity to be revered, almost worshipped. Just look at Jason Silva's bombastic videos about philosophy and physics. It's exhilarating, almost cultish, but you can't help but get sucked in.
Because of technological advances, science can now answer and reveal the most mystical questions of the universe – like the Large Hadron Collider at CERN explaining how it all started, the Cassini mission showing Saturn's splendour and neuroscience unravelling what makes you you. These are questions that every respectable spectacle wearing chic geek asks, meaning the media thrives from the labs' success and we all lap it up. Science is capturing the collective conscious imagination en mass (and yes, the 'e' is purposefully left out) to the extent that tattoos of Jesus have been replaced with tattoos of a double-helix.
Because science fiction now becomes reality at the speed of light we bask in the thrilling sensation of living in an Isaac Asimov imagined world. So we're set ablaze just by the possibilities of Microsoft's Kinect, by Apple's latest gadget release, and the first flight of the Virgin Galactic.
Because tech is cheap – and with TED and Wikipedia et al, the internet teaches all – garage science is the norm. 3D printers will soon be everywhere meaning you can soon create the unimaginable in your very own kitchen. Already this year man sent a rocket to space. And in this case, 'man' was 2 seventeen year olds, the rocket was home-made and piloted by a legoman – and was created in a suburban Canada backyard.
Because culture responds to culture, and after climategate there's no choice but to better communicate science – comedians like Matt Parker, artists like Katie Paterson (exhibiting now incidentally at the Haunch of Venison), institutions and organisations like the Wellcome Trust, Super/Collider and Guerilla Science are now curating and creating around science, propagating messages that are more engaging than a blackboard.
We love science once again because it makes us dream, it transforms dreams into life, and it explains why we even dream in the first place.


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The Miami Heat are trying to re-sign LeBron James, or at least get him to lower his asking price by putting together a great roster, but they aren't the only team who wants to make a run at signing the best player on the planet.
According to Steve Kyler of Basketball Insiders, the Cleveland Cavaliers want to get LeBron James back but he doesn't want to go back, putting his former team at the bottom of his free agent list.
Responding to a fan question about the Cleveland Cavaliers signing LeBron James, Kyler gave the following answer.
The Cavs are not getting LeBron James… so you can speculate on the 90 things you can say, but the Cavs are light years away from a championship and that's all that matters to LeBron.
Off all the teams that could get LeBron the Cavs are likely last on the list. Focus on what you have and that's a promising young team. LeBron has moved on, so should you.
This shouldn't come as that big of a surprise as the Cavaliers have little chance of landing any major free agent, let alone the best one on the market. Perhaps they put together a better push next offseason but this summer isn't looking too good for the Cavs and even if LeBron leaves Miami it won't be to return home.


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As the title suggests, everything on this blog concerns violence against trans women.
The Trans Women's Anti-Violence Project is a trans feminist project addressing issues of systematic, institutional and interpersonal violence and oppression experienced by trans women (those who were coercively assigned male at birth and identify or are identified as women/female) across multiple identities (e.g., race, class, dis/ability, citizen-status, nationality, sexuality, age, HIV status, and form, status, or age of transition, etc.)
Ida Hammer is a writer and social justice communicator. She organizes the Trans Women's Anti-Violence Project. She presents workshops and trainings on cis privilege and being a trans ally. She's also involved in organizing against sexualized violence. She's a proud dyke-identified trans woman and an organizer of the New York City Dyke March.
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The Onion posted a short article today, titled "Nation Did Not See Mark Wahlberg's Sex Change Coming". Inspired by this slice of totally-original-not-at-all-cliche-or-damaging humor, I whipped up a funny infographic for them, free of charge.
[Image is of a Venn Diagram titled, "What lazy-ass jokes are we making today?" 12% is "chick probably has a dick", 41% is "dude looks like a lady", 13% is "trannies are ugly amirite?", and 34% is "trans women (especially trans women of color) are at a much higher risk of being murdered than the general population". In the background there are drawings of somebody holding a knife, and a gun.]
While I was in Charlotte for the just concluded TransFaith In Color Conference, heard about another young African-American transwoman who has been killed in the Cincinnati suburb of Walnut Hills, OH. .
And as usual, we have another case of a n African-American transwoman beingdisrespectfully misgendered in the media, followed up by transphobic comments in the jacked up story on that media outlet's website.
And what aggravates me even further about the developing story besides the pimping of the Black trans prostitute meme, is before I left for Charlotte had to report about another Chicago trans woman who had been killed.
WKRC-TV. read your AP Stylebook as to the proper way to report on trans persons. Umm, never mind, I'll do it myself since you trained professional journalists can't seem to get it right the first time.
Before I do your job for you, here' the pertinent section of the AP Stylebook you need to pay fracking attention to since this probably won't be the last time you end up reporting on trans personstransgender-Use the pronoun preferred by the individuals who have acquired the physical characteristics of the opposite sex or present themselves in a way that does not correspond with their sex at birth.
If that preference is not expressed, use the pronoun consistent with the way the individuals live publicly.
Shortly after 10:30 PM EDT Saturday night, police were called to the parking lot of a Dairy Mart on E. McMillan Street near Victory Parkway Drive where they found 26 year old Kendall L. Hampton suffering from a gunshot wound She was rushed to University Hospital where she died
Anyone with information about this homicide is asked to call the Cincinnati Police Criminal Investigations Section at (513) 352-3542 or Crimestoppers at (513) 352-3040.
See WKRC-TV? That wasn't so hard was it? So what's your excuse for the piss-poor reporting in your story?
This is early info on the latest transwoman to die in 2012 Until I find out what Ms Hampton's femme name was, I will refer to her in this and subsequent posts by her initials.
And if someone has some more flattering photos of her than this po-po mugshot or info about Ms Hampton, please e-mail it to me ASAP.
It took Dateline NBC's Hoda Kotb approximately 13 minutes into her segment - on medical treatments for trans kids - to ask 11-year-old trans girl Josie Romero of Tucson, Arizona: "Do you feel trapped in the wrong body?"
Whenever this question is posed, I find it to be more of a leading statement rather than a true inquiry or invitation for a trans subject to speak about their life experience or outlook on their relationship with their bodies.
Whenever it's posed it never sits well with me. And here's why:
Janet Mock speaks out about the New York Times' trans-misogynist coverage of Lorena Escalera's death.
A wildly insensitive New York Times article on the life and death of trans artist and drag performer Lorena Escalera flared tensions between the [trans and] gender-variant community and the paper when it was published as part of the Sunday edition on May 14. The article, called "Woman Dies in a Brooklyn Fire That Is Deemed Suspicious," served as a painful exemplar of the media's salacious, oversexualized understanding of trans women of color, said Carmen Carrera, Escalera's friend and fellow trans-identified drag performer. Carrera is most widely known for her performance on the third season of Logo reality series RuPaul's Drag Race.
"You know what it is? I knew Lorena from shows we did in the New York City scene," said Carrera in an interview with me. "She was much more than what they were trying to portray her as. She was always happy, always having a good time. And she was definitely a big inspiration to me."
Left to right: Raven, Lorena Escalera, Carmen Carrera
Escalera, whose success as a drag performer likely inspired many, was a direct influence on Ms. Carrera, who recently came out as transgender herself.
"When I read that article, I was like, 'Wow, are you serious?'" she said. "They put her gender above everything else. My first thought was, 'When I die, is that how it'll be? Nothing's going to matter besides my gender? Nothing I do for others, nothing else? What's the point, then?'"
Carrera described her disgust with The New York Times' depiction of Escalera as "curvaceous" and the fact that the writers of the article (Al Baker and Nate Schweber) depicted Escalera as a 25-year-old woman who "often drew admiring glances in the gritty Brooklyn neighborhood where she was known to invite men for visits to her apartment."
"If she was a non-trans female that was killed, they wouldn't have described her like that," she said. "The article makes it OK to portray trans people like, 'Oh, she was an escort. Oh, she was promiscuous.' It's just disrespectful and shows so much ignorance."
Carrera, who recently made an appearance on the television show What Would You Do? as herself, said she lives as openly trans in order to combat such ignorance. In the episode of What Would You Do? Carrera plays a waitress confronting an angry longtime customer. The actor opposite Carrera is supposedly disgusted to find out that Carmen was once "Christopher" and used to identify as "he." The show was meant to raise awareness of trans issues.
"Sometimes I feel so discouraged," said Carrera. "Why do I feel like I can't have any pride in myself? The only thing that really keeps me focused is just doing what I do, doing my shows, being a positive role model. That's it."
Carrera says she chooses to live with "utmost fabulosity," regardless of offensive comments and questions thrown in her direction.
"No matter what they tell you, being trans is definitely nothing to be ashamed of. It's the coolest thing around," she said. "Believe that."
With a similar "utmost fabulosity," Janet Mock, an editor at People.com, recently began a Twitter campaign called "#girlslikeus" for trans women and girls of color whose identities are so often negatively portrayed in the media and elsewhere.
"Where do we begin?" said Mock in an interview with me regarding the Times article. "It's kind of like a double-edged sword. When [the media] finds out that someone is a trans person of color, they seem to either ignore the story or blow gross stereotypes of transgender women way out of proportion."
Lorena Escalera
Mock made reference to the lack of coverage for CeCe McDonald and Paige Clay, two trans women of color whose stories of injustice received virtually no mainstream media attention. She said that following the NYT article, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) contacted her for a statement after seeing her outrage over Escalara's story on Twitter. She gave them a statement, and GLAAD responded by amplifying the #girlslikeus campaign.
"I just felt bad for Lorena and the people who love her. It was a tough life to live, and she lived it gracefully and wonderfully," said Mock. "We lost someone who was very loved. And in that article, they stripped away her dignity in such a way that it was extremely disheartening. So it tells me: You can go to the pinnacle of what our community says is success, be a role model like her, and still be beat down. It was extremely upsetting."
Following a statement released by GLAAD, New York Times Metro Editor Carolyn Ryan issued a comment on behalf of the paper.
"We typically try to capture the personal stories of those whose lives are lost in a fire, and we sought to do so in this case," wrote Ryan. "We certainly did not mean any disrespect to the victim or those who knew her. But, in retrospect, we should have shown more care in our choice of words."
Janet Mock
"That's where it scares me," said Mock in response to the statement. She was frustrated not only with the Times' use of words such as "curvaceous" but with parts of the article that objectified Escalera as a person only emulating a woman, someone who tricked men into sleeping with her. At one point, the Times quotes Oscar Hernandez, a mechanic familiar with Escalera.
"For a man, he was gorgeous," Mr. Hernandez said in the article, which also quotes him as taking note of "Ms. Escalera's flowing hair and 'hourglass figure.'"
Is that type of reportage simply a misstep of word choice?
"It was just sloppy and arrogant," she said. "The Times won't even step up and say they were really wrong. It's beyond a choice of words. To me, this incident shows that [we as a community] are not organized enough yet to fight back at something like The New York Times. We need to organize. We need to make sure our voices matter."
In an attempt to provide this type of organized, vocal support for trans people in the press, a new grassroots group called the Trans/Gender Identity Media Advocacy (TIMA) organization is being formed on behalf of gender-variant people in the U.S. (full disclosure: I am an active member of the organization). TIMA aims to address egregious media portrayals such as Escalera's and supports accurate representations of gender-variant people in the media within larger conversations on race, ableism, class, and other intersecting identities. The group is offering free media consultations for trans/gender-nonconforming people involved in potential press projects, people who are currently having difficulty with the press, and media members covering trans-related topics. To contact TIMA, visit their website here.
"We need more support. And we need more sensitivity from the media. See, the thing is this, I love myself," said Carrera at the close of our interview. "I just wish people would accept me for how I accept myself. Accepting myself is hard enough. I can't please everyone; I just wish people would have respect, especially for someone like Lorena."
(Emerson Whitney, Huffington Post)
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On May 12 the New York Times ran a piece about a suspicious fire in Brooklyn where trans woman of color Lorena Escalera sadly died. Far from focusing on the facts of the case, the report included sensationalistic and sexualizing descriptions of her as "curvacious" and noted her "hourglass figure."
GLAAD has brought this matter to the NYT's attention already, whereby an editor called it a "poor choice of words" as though this ended the matter. At a time when anti-trans sentiment is high and sexualization of trans people still means they are denied basic civil rights, this is not good enough.
We the undersigned ask the NYT to print an apology acknowledging why the story was so deeply offensive, and to highlight the prejudice and discrimination trans people face in all spheres of life.
In response to criticism from the LGBT community and allies over its coverage of a fire that killed a transgender woman this weekend, the New York Times released a statement that reveals a lack of understanding of how serious this problem is.
New York Times Metro Editor Carolyn Ryan stated: "We typically try to capture the personal stories of those whose lives are lost in a fire, and we sought to do so in this case. We certainly did not mean any disrespect to the victim or those who knew her. But, in retrospect, we should have shown more care in our choice of words."
Unfortunately, the problem with the Times' article on the death of Lorena Escalera, a transgender woman of color, is bigger than their "choice of words" or with their attempt to "capture" her story. It's their failure to recognize trans women as women.
The decision by writers Al Baker and Nate Schweber to call her "curvaceous" in the first sentence was not a poor choice of words. It was a poor choice of focus. The way this entire article is framed comes directly from an idea that transgender women are curiosities. That they're other. That they should be treated differently than other people. Saying that Lorena was "called" Lorena, even though that is exactly how police identified her, was not a poor choice of words. It was a disrespectful jab at her identity as a trans woman, by implying that she wasn't really Lorena.
Lorena was a daughter. She was a friend. She was a beloved member of a community. But the only elements of her story that writers Al Baker and Nate Schweber seemed concerned with were; what she looked like, what her neighbors thought she looked like, and whether any items that would typically belong to a woman were in her apartment when it burned. Very little of this is relevant to the actual personal story of Lorena Escalera's life. It seems very clear that this personal information was included in order to "spice up" the story by exploiting Lorena's status as a transgender woman – not to actually inform readers about her life.
"As my city's and our nation's paper of record, I would expect the New York Times to treat any subject, regardless of their path in life, with dignity," said trans advocate and journalist Janet Mock. "In Lorena Escalera's life she was so much more than the demeaning, sexist portrait they painted of girls like us. It goes beyond a 'choice of words.' According to the Times' limiting, harmful portrait of Lorena, she was nothing more than a 'curvaceous' bombshell for men to gawk at. That is not the 'personal' story of any woman, and until we treat trans women like human beings - in life and death - with dignity, families and struggles, our society will never see us beyond pariahs in our communities.
Unfortunately, many Americans, including members of the media, do view transgender people – and trans women of color in particular – as curiosities at best, or not deserving of basic human dignity at worst. And very few Americans know any trans people in their day-to-day lives, so this viewpoint is never dispelled. This is why extra care must be taken when reporting on a story that involves a transgender person, especially if that person is no longer able to speak for themselves, as is the case here. Writers and editors alike must be made aware of how common this underlying bias is, and make a conscious effort to remove it when they see it.
This is where the Times' statement truly fails. Not only does it not show an understanding of what the problem with the original article was, it also makes no assurances to the community that it will educate its writers and editors about how to report on transgender people in the future. There's nothing forward-looking in the Times statement.
GLAAD did ask the Times to detail what steps will be taken in the future to ensure this doesn't happen again. We were told that this statement "will be all there is from us on this."
But this statement is not good enough. The New York Times has highlighted the personal and inspiring stories of transgender people in the recent past, including an article on Harmony Santana, Laverne Cox and other transgender actresses, a piece on triathlete Chris Mosier and one on classical pianist Sara Davis Buechner. We can be almost certain that the New York Times does understand the problems with its piece on Lorena, and is embarrassed that it ran. Now it's time for them to say so publicly, and to tell its readers that steps are being taken to ensure that an article like this won't be printed again. We thank members of the LGBT community, including trans leaders like Janet Mock, Autumn Sandeen, Laverne Cox, and Jennifer Finney Boylan, trans author and New York Times contributing writer, as well as Colorlines and Feministing, for bringing attention to this story. We hope to continue putting pressure on the Times until they offer assurances that changes will be made.
UPDATE: GLAAD said that when they reached out to the New York Times, they were given the statement below and told, this "will be all there is from us on this."
New York Times Metro Editor Carolyn Ryan stated: "We typically try to capture the personal stories of those whose lives are lost in a fire, and we sought to do so in this case. We certainly did not mean any disrespect to the victim or those who knew her. But, in retrospect, we should have shown more care in our choice of words."
GLAAD isn't satisfied, however, saying the Times' response "reveals a lack of understanding of how serious this problem is."
"Unfortunately, the problem with the Times' article on the death of Lorena Escalera, a transgender woman of color, is bigger than their "choice of words" or with their attempt to "capture" her story," wrote GLAAD today. "It's their failure to recognize trans-women as women."
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation eviscerated a New York Times article today about a transgender woman who died in a fire.
Lorena Escalera, 25, died Saturday in an early-morning fire in Bushwick. She was reportedly a dancer with the stage name "Lorena Xtravaganza" and performed in city clubs.
The group slams the newspaper for including details like Escalera being "curvaceous" and "known to invite men for visits to her apartment," which were both mentioned in the first sentence of the article.
The article also mentions that she was "called Lorena," later mentioning that the police reported her name as Lorena Escalera.
The group asks if she were not transgender, whether such details – including "wigs, women's shoes … makeup, hair spray, handbags" found in debris outside the apartment – would be included:Would the New York Times ever describe a woman who is not transgender, who had died in a fire, as "curvaceous" - in the first sentence, no less? Would it carefully note that her apartment contained makeup and "women's shoes?" Would it say that she was "called" whatever her name was - especially if police later identified her by that name?
The group said many people complained to them about the article.
Colorlines.com also wrote about the story, with the headline, "Transgender Woman Dies in Fire, So Of Course the News Is About Wild Sex."
A twenty-five year old woman was found dead in a four-story Brooklyn apartment building that caught on fire early Saturday morning. Police identified the victim as Lorena Escalera.
The New York Times on the other hand identified the woman that died in the fire as "curvaceous," someone who "drew admiring glances" in her "gritty Brooklyn neighborhood," and noted she was known to invite men for visits to her apartment.
Just to make sure we're all on the same a page, a woman was found dead and the first sentence in the New York Times story about the incident was: "She was 25 and curvaceous, and she often drew admiring glances in the gritty Brooklyn neighborhood where she was known to invite men for visits to her apartment, her neighbors and the authorities said."
The two Times writers Al Baker and Nate Schweber said Escalera was "called Lorena," as opposed to saying she was "named Lorena" or that she simply was Lorena.
The story that should have been about an apartment fire or even a suspicious fire instead turned in to the reporters interviewing neighbors about who Escalera was supposedly sleeping with and how she dressed.
Below is an excerpt from Baker and Schweber's story published in the Times on Saturday:
Oscar Hernandez, 30, a mechanic, said she had had some of her ribs removed in an effort to slim her waist.
"For a man, he was gorgeous," Mr. Hernandez said, noting Ms. Escalera's flowing hair and "hourglass figure."
Gary Hernandez, 25, a neighbor, said that Ms. Escalera had worked as an escort and that he regularly saw her advertising her service on an adult Web site.
"She was always on her laptop posting ads about herself," said Mr. Hernandez (who is not related to Oscar Hernandez). "Still, she was a nice person."
A debris pile outside the apartment, which is above a funeral home, contained many colorful items. Among them were wigs, women's shoes, coins from around the world, makeup, hair spray, handbags, a shopping bag from Spandex House, a red feather boa and a pamphlet on how to quit smoking.
Aaron McQuade, GLAAD's Director of News and Field Media questions how the Times would have covered the story if the word "transgender" was out of the equation:
Would the New York Times ever describe a woman who is not transgender, who had died in a fire, as "curvaceous" - in the first sentence, no less? Would it carefully note that her apartment contained makeup and "women's shoes?" Would it say that she was "called" whatever her name was - especially if police later identified her by that name?
McQuade noted on GLAAD's blog his organization has reached out the Times to ensure that "exploitative pieces like this" aren't printed in the future.
"Losing My Dignity: Lorena and Me"
Jahaira talks about how the New York Times and others in the media stripped her friend Lorena Escalera of her dignity by sensationalizing and sexualizing her life and death.
This weekend, the New York Times published an extremely exploitative article about a transgender woman who had died in a fire. The article, about Lorena Escalera, only mentions that she was killed in a fire after telling readers that she was "curvaceous," that she "drew admiring glances" in her "gritty Brooklyn neighborhood," that she "was known to invite men for visits to her apartment," that Lorena was "called Lorena" (as opposed to saying she was "named Lorena" or that she simply was Lorena) and that she "brought two men to her apartment" sometime between late Friday night and early Saturday morning.
The article by Al Baker and Nate Schweber treats Escalera completely disrespectfully, later describing a pile of debris outside the burned apartment which "contained many colorful items. Among them were wigs, women's shoes, coins from around the world, makeup, hair spray, handbags, a shopping bag from Spandex House, a red feather boa and a pamphlet on how to quit smoking."
Take the word "transgender" out of the equation.
Would the New York Times ever describe a woman who is not transgender, who had died in a fire, as "curvaceous" - in the first sentence, no less? Would it carefully note that her apartment contained makeup and "women's shoes?" Would it say that she was "called" whatever her name was - especially if police later identified her by that name?
Janet Mock and other noted leaders in the trans advocacy movement have been speaking out about this article online. Thank you to all of you who submitted incident reports about this article, or alerted us to it through Twitter. We are reaching out to the Times to discuss the many incident reports we received, and to ensure that exploitative pieces like this don't get printed in the future.
By now you've probably heard the story of trans woman and ballroom performer Lorena Escalera who was recently killed in an apartment fire labeled "suspicious" by police.
That the mainstream media would engage in transphobic language and slut-shaming accusations against Escalera should be a surprise to no one. That these attacks are coming from no lower source than the New York Times should surprise no one either. The paper routinely uses exploitative, demeaning and insulting language when discussing queer or otherwise marginalized people, and its slut-shaming of an 11-year-old girl who was gang raped in Texas last year makes their editorial decision to focus coverage on attacking Escalera's character merely par for the course.
The thankfully-dying rag, which vulturously exploits the struggles of disenfranchised and oppressed peoples while simultaneously boasting about its supposed status as the paragon of journalistic excellence, has long be a target of my hatred and scorn. Whatever laudable attributes the paper may have had in the the past, it has long served far better as kindling than as a legitimate source of information.
Feministing sums up their latest affront to journalism better than I ever could:
Lorena Escalera was a person. She was a performer in the ball scene. She died in a suspicious fire on Saturday. And she sure as hell does not deserve the treatment she's getting from the New York Times. This is how the paper's article about her death opens:
She was 25 and curvaceous, and she often drew admiring glances in the gritty Brooklyn neighborhood where she was known to invite men for visits to her apartment, her neighbors and the authorities said.
Called Lorena, she brought two men to her apartment, at 43 Furman Avenue in Bushwick, either late Friday night or in the early hours of Saturday, the police said.
A few paragraphs later, the article oh so cleverly reveals that Lorena was trans, or as the paper says, "she was born male." The article relies on accounts from Lorena's neighbors to paint a picture of her. Mostly, the account comes from two men, one of whom says he knew she did sex work because he saw her computer. The other guy is quoted as saying, "For a man, he was gorgeous. Hourglass figure." Because apparently those words really deserved to see print.
I'm flashing back to the New York Times' coverage of the gang rape in Cleveland, TX, when the paper interviewed neighbors to paint a picture of an 11-year old girl as a slut who was asking for it. Specific stereotypes about trans women are being deployed in this article, like that we're deceptive (it's not that she was Lorena, it's that she was called Lorena). But focusing on her appearance and bringing up sex work is the same old shit we always hear about how slutty women bring violence upon themselves. We don't yet know the details of what happened to Lorena, if it was even a murder, and already the Times is blaming the victim.
Just like rape is rape, murder is murder. And victim blaming is still bullshit.
I wrote a lot of posts about horrible news coverage of violence against trans folks when I first joined this site. I've had to write less of these posts as the media has started to finally catch on to the fact that it's still their job to report responsibly and professionally when the victim is trans. It is completely unacceptable this is still happening in the pages of the New York Times, especially after they were taken to task so publicly for victim blaming recently.
Other folks, including GLAAD, Janet Mock, and Autumn Sandeen are calling out this incredibly offensive and dangerous article as well. You can let the New York Times know you're sick and tired of their victim blaming and transphobia by writing to them here or tweeting @NYTimes.
I urge you to contact the New York Times and let your opinion of their "journalism" be known.
The murder of a transgender woman in downtown Oakland in late April has raised several coverage questions since the news broke.
On Bay Area news sites that have covered the story, readers have left comments critical of journalists for disclosing the victim's male birth name. They contend the media should only refer to her by the female name she adopted.
And a press spokesman for one transgender advocacy group has asked media outlets to refrain from using the victim's birth name in stories.
A separate question has arisen among LGBT news media professionals on the merits of publishing a photo of the murder victim at the crime scene.
While the use of the photo has drawn few complaints, a more heated debate has ensued about how the media should refer to the victim. Friends and former co-workers knew her as Brandy Martell.
They claim that Martell, who was shot by an unknown assailant early in the morning of Sunday, April 29, had legally changed her name and Martell was listed on her California driver's license.
But Martell's immediate family, including her sister and mother, have told the news media that they knew her as Milton Massey Jr. Both the Oakland Police Department and the Alameda County coroner's office have used that name in describing the victim's identity.
That has led to complaints about how the media, authorities and family members have been referring to Martell in articles and TV reports. One person left the following comment below the B.A.R.'s May 3 article:
… last night, KTVU (channel 2) News had a report on Brandy with Brandy's sister which was basically 3 minutes of endless misgendering, calling her repeatedly by her birth name and the sister saying how 'he' was still called by his birth name by the parents. It was a huge mark of disrespect to a woman who can't respond and has lived as a woman since the age of 18," wrote the person.
"No matter how much a family loves you or what supposed rights they have as the victim's relatives, they don't get to go on tv and do that. And shame, shame on the station for broadcasting it. It contributed nothing to the murder investigation. TV stations and family members don't OWN our gender identities… nor does the BAR."
According to the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association's Stylebook, the media is advised when writing about a transgender person to "use the name and personal pronouns that are consistent with the way the individual lives publicly."
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