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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280069632014-11-25T17:53:53.876-05:00CHANNEL SURFINGA blog about politics, poetry, sports and music.Hank Kalethttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28006963.post-18927278836498061372014-11-24T12:27:00.001-05:002014-11-24T12:27:23.388-05:00Doubling down on my no-endorsemenet stanceBack in the fall of 2013, I wrote a blog post critical of an endorsement editorial published by The Star-Ledger. The paper's editorial, which backed Gov. Chris Christie for re-election, can be summed up this way: The governor sucks, but Barbara Buono sucks more, and, besides, we like his views on school reform.

My response was simple: Stop making endorsements. If you feel that you have to endorse someone who does not live up to your standards, then maybe you need to rethink the entire process.

Not everyone agreed with me. Some said the newspaper endorsement was a long and necessary tradition -- one I used to subscribe to -- while others said that we should reserve the practice for those cases when a choice was clear.

I've thought about this on and off since my 2013 post and have wondered whether I was too harsh. In the end, I don't think so -- and today's odd, pre-endorsement endorsement on MyCentralJersey.com (home of The Courier-News and The Home News-Tribune) underscores my thinking. In it, MyCentralJersey.com essentially endorses a Republican Assemblyman without making an endorsement, pushing him to throw his hat in and saying he had qualities that would make him a good candidate. (The editorial also attacks the current redistricting rules as corrupt and overly partisan because the Legislature gets to pick the tie-breaking vote on the panel -- which is not accurate. The 13th member is appointed by the Redistricting Commission if there are seven votes in favor of the appointment. If not, the state Supreme Court chooses.)

Here is what MyCentralJersey has to say about Assemblyman Jon Bramnick, the subject of today's editorial. Bramnick, it says, "is a funny guy," who wants to remind public officials that they "should lighten up a little in trying to get things done."

MyCentralJersey calls that "a message public officials would do well to heed."

Most New Jerseyans would love to find a politician they can laugh with rather than laugh at. That doesn't mean treating the serious business of government and politics lightly. It does mean giving residents a sense that real people are in charge, people with an independent mind and a sense of humor and not just a collection of vaguely shady characters serving themselves and their benefactors instead of the public.
The governor would seem to fit the bill, but he

has turned out to be just as manipulative and abusive with his power as those of whom he had once been so critical. He earns points with the public for his own self-deprecating humor, but there's a phony quality to it that's been exposed by his thin-skinned arrogance and bullying nature.
Bramnick is different, the editorial says. He's a politician, to be sure, but he "also spends a lot of time talking about humor and civility in politics, not exactly common topics among lawmakers."

This, MyCentralJersey says, is of paramount concern. So, it goes on,

Here's hoping Bramnick does indeed toss his hat into the gubernatorial ring for 2017. Maybe he can be what Christie has only pretended to be — a leader who can distance himself from the usual political nonsense and govern the state responsibly. We'd still like to think that's possible. Hey, don't laugh.
My point here has nothing to do with Bramnick. He may very well turn out to be the best candidate for the job. My criticism is with MyCentralJersey, which has complicated future endorsements. Imagine you are another Republican down the road who loses out on an MyCentralJersey endorsement to Bramnick; you could make the case that the fix was in before you even attended an editorial board meeting.

As I said last year, we should move away from the personal endorsement and focus more on laying out the issues that matter, telling the reader why and then explaining where the candidates stand. Essentially, we should frame the debate, but let the voters decide what is most important.

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Hank Kalethttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28006963.post-91277133154625141252014-11-24T11:05:00.000-05:002014-11-24T11:05:15.640-05:00Otherness and the immigration debateApropos my post from last week on classiness and race, I recommend this Charles Blow column deconstructing the opposition to President Barack Obama's executive order on deportation.

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Hank Kalethttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28006963.post-6121694762751930712014-11-21T10:35:00.001-05:002014-11-21T10:35:24.843-05:00Quote of the Day
From William Grieder in The Nation:

The Republicans are a wholly owned subsidiary of the business-finance machine; the Democrats are rented.
Does this mean that electoral politics doesn't matter? No. It only means that we have to be more creative in how we approach it, while also being more aggressive outside the electoral arena. On this point, here is more from Greider:
What we need is a rump formation of dissenters who will break free of the Democratic Party's confines and set a new agenda that will build the good society rather than feed bloated wealth, disloyal corporations and absurd foreign wars. This is the politics the country needs: purposeful insurrection inside and outside party bounds, and a willingness to disrupt the regular order.
Historically, it is what made labor unions effective, along with so many other social and economic movements. The willingness to break with the system to generate change within the system created a moral urgency, a momentum that pushed the system to reform itself. The outsiders' efforts create space in which reformist insiders can work.

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Hank Kalethttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28006963.post-51970022236179318882014-11-19T11:44:00.001-05:002014-11-19T11:44:13.057-05:00The meaning of 'classiness' in a not-so-post-racial America

This meme has been circulating on Facebook -- and the responses to it offers an interesting glimpse into the growing divide in the United States.

I first came across it on a conservative friend's Facebook page. The post seems pretty straightforward to me, though it is based on a set of underlying assumptions and carries a subtle message that conservatives -- at least some of them -- are not likely to want to admit to holding.

Consider the image -- two generations of smiling, happy ex-presidents, who happen to be the last two Republicans to hold the office and who also happen to hail from a wealthy and influential family. They also are white. Then, consider the statement and follow-up question: "I miss having a classy first family. Do you?" It implies, rather unsubtly, that the Bushes' classiness is missed -- primarily because the current occupant of the White House apparently lacks class.

What is missing is a definition of class, though it is implied both by who is pictured and who is purposely not pictured but is central to the understanding of the entire meme. The Bushes have class, the meme says, and the Obamas do not.

What should we make of this? Perhaps this is a partisan meme, one based solely on party identification or ideology. That would equate class with being a Republican or with being a free-market ideologue and foreign-affairs hawk. But if this was about ideology or political party, as a friend points out, why raise the question of class?

The answer is that this meme is designed to plug into racial animus while allowing a level of plausible deniability. Conservatives can post this and claim they just miss the Bushes without having to own up to the inherent racially racial underpinnings of the image and text.

I explained it this way on a friend's Facebook page, and I think it sums up my thinking:

There is no doubt that this is built on the race/class trope, but I don't want to go so far as to say that all who deploy it see the racial aspect overtly. It is latent, subconscious, and the poster and many of the people who would deploy this would vehemently deny any racial animus -- and they would thoroughly believe their denials and are unlikely to question their own assumptions or the assumptions on which this is built. I agree ... that the hate of many Obama haters has little to do with race, though the tropes -- like this one -- too often come back to race, partly because we are in a political climate in which everything is on the table and anything that can be used against an opponent is fair game to trot out.
So, even if the posters of the meme do not think of themselves as racist, they are trafficking in racism. When I questioned the friend who had posted this originally about his definition of "class," he said "he knows it when he sees it." But what does he see? And is he willing to questions the assumptions that underlie what he sees?

That is, as I said later in the same Facebook discussion, "part of the difference between the fundamentalist mindset and others -- the ability to look inward and to examine one's beliefs, assumptions, etc."

We all have assumptions and biases that control much of our thinking, but intellectual growth demands that we constantly challenge them. This kind of post, however, allows for the bunker response -- when called on its underlying racism, the poster can plausibly deny the connection and claim that the critic of the post is being overly sensitive or dogmatic on the other side. Sadly, that is the state of our public discourse these days.

It is, as the phrase goes, "dog-whistle politics," the use of a phrase that has a certain meaning to certain people, and that is designed to rally the faithful without raising the hackles of the rest of us. "I'm not talking about race," the argument goes, even as the meme connects with the undercurrent of racism that continues to exist in polite, middle-class society. It is more subtle than the Jesse Helms "Hands" ad or the Willie Horton ad used by George H.W. Bush against Michael Dukakis in 1988. But it plays to the same instincts, nonetheless.

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Hank Kalethttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28006963.post-7678872257470691512014-11-15T22:21:00.000-05:002014-11-15T22:21:35.917-05:00Fundamentally speaking and the fallacy of associationLet's get this out of the way first: Bill Maher has a right to say what he wants about Islam, no matter how much it angers Muslims, or how offensive it may be. That is something built in to the structure of our system of laws. We have freedom of conscience (the five clauses of the First Amendment taken together).

Let's get another thing out of the way: I disagree vehemently with Maher and find what he said to be reductive and juvenile. He used the views of some Muslims as a cudgel against all Muslims, which is no different than most of the attacks on religious, racial and ethnic groups across history. Take a single tenet, or a characteristic, or even a single person, and then have that tenet, characteristic or person stand in for the broader group. It is a fallacy of association (as when we assign guilt to one because of his or her association with someone or something else) or composition (which assumes that something is true of the whole because it is true of a part).

I raise this because Maher and his monologue last month -- described by Jeffrey Taylor on Salon as a "'Real Time' monologue against liberals who treat Islam with excessive deference" and not as an attach on Islam -- continues to rile people. There was the Internet petition that garnered 5,000 signatures, as Taylor writes, "demanding that the University of California, Berkeley — long a beacon in the history of the American free-speech movement — rescind the invitation to Maher to deliver the fall 2014 commencement ceremony address because of his 'blatantly bigoted and racist' comments about Islam." And more recently, there was the Rula Jebreal, on Maher's show, taking Maher to task.

The Jebreal appearance is the target of the Taylor essay, and he makes several good points about Jebreal's argument -- assuming that Jebreal's argument was as simple as Taylor makes it out to be, that Jebreal was arguing that "critical speech about Islam cannot be tolerated in a public forum if it causes 'offense.'"

He quotes her as saying that the students "feel offended, feel offended, that . . . your views of Islam . . . the generalizations [that you're making] perpetuate bigotry . . . . I'm all for freedom of speech. I love debate, I hate monologues." This, of course, makes it sound like she is only talking about offense -- but what about those pesky little ellipses? Watch her complete remarks here, and you'll notice that she offers a more nuanced take. Is her argument flawed? Yes. But she also makes the point that Maher has conflated all Muslims into one, unthinking and violent horde -- which Maher, with his pithy responses ("Is there a gay bar in Gaza?"), seems find with.

But my point here is not to attack Maher -- I'm no fan of his brand of atheistic certainty any more than I am a fan of religious fundamentalists -- or to defend Jabreal. Her argument, while more nuanced than Taylor lets on, was badly flawed.

My issue is with Taylor's argument, which conflates criticism of Maher's take on Islam with efforts to censor speech. That is absurd. Maher's critics are not trying to shut him up -- even the Berkeley students asking that his commencement invitation be rescinded are still inviting him to debate his views on campus. (To be clear, I tend to be agnostic about commencement speakers because I find the entire commencement speech thing a racket. But if they are invited, let them speak, but also allow vibrant response and protest from the other side, even if it means disruption.) The critics aren't asking Maher to shut up. They are criticizing him for the things he says -- which, if I'm not mistaken, is exactly what free speech is supposed to be about.

I won't comment on Taylor's characterizing of the precepts of Islam -- that one must proactively declare one's faith in Islam,

the canonical texts of which inveigh against "unbelievers" and advocate violence and even warfare against them, with, at best, subservient dhimmi status and a special tax, the jizyah, imposed upon Jews and Christians
-- because I just don't have enough background to do so. I will say, however, that I have attended some Eastern Orthodox religious observances that still cite Jews as the killers of Christ, a belief that at an earlier date had been prominent among Christians.

But I will say that Taylor -- at least in this piece -- displays an uncomfortable certainty that does not allow for debate. Like Maher, he has crafted a narrative that immunizes him from criticism, that "Jebreal, Aslan and others" are "trying to stifle free speech about Islam," and that anyone who disagrees with his version of the truth is an enemy of the enlightenment.

Nonbelievers should not sit idly by as those who attack the single greatest historical enemy of human progress, organized religion, are intimidated or barred from the debating table (or the commencement-address podium).
That said, Maher and Taylor are right about at least one thing. Organized religion (and not just Islam) has been responsible for more than its share of organized and grassroots violence across the centuries -- though, as Karen Armstrong points out, much of the violence was actually perpetrated in the name of politics, wealth and power with those in control using religion as a weapon. But it also has been responsible for a lot of good -- the Northern abolitionist movement, the Catholic workers movement, the civil rights movement, the sanctuary movements of the '80s, and so on, were all influenced by religion. Religion and faith are complicated and contradictory and it is foolish of anyone to attempt to paint any religious faith with a single broad stroke. Doing so assumes that all members of a religious faith are no better than the worst members of those faiths, which is logically fallacious and counterproductive.

Religious belief and religious groups should not be immune to criticism, any more than political or commercial entities. But our criticisms need to be logically constructed and open to alternative points of view. The strand of atheism that Maher at least seems to represent, because of its unwillingness to admit any level of uncertainty on the issue of religion, is no better than the fundamentalist preacher who denounces Mormons and Jews.

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Hank Kalethttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28006963.post-1799539865903368812014-11-15T16:43:00.001-05:002014-11-15T16:43:44.145-05:00Where did the finger fall off?
From an ESPN story:

Canseco, who underwent the surgery last month after shooting himself in the hand, revealed that his finger fell off in a series of tweets Friday.
I know it's unlikely that anyone will think that the finger fell off in the tweets, but it's still sloppy placement. How about "revealed in a series of tweets Friday that his finger fell off"?

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Hank Kalethttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28006963.post-33456748278337547132014-11-12T14:08:00.003-05:002014-11-12T14:08:53.596-05:00With housing, as with food, the system is brokenMark Bittman's column in The New York Times makes the case that the unacceptably large portion of humanity that regularly faces hunger is not about food. There is enough food to go around; the issue is that too many lack the resources to buy into the food system as it currently exists.

The difference between you and the hungry is not production levels; it's money. There are no hungry people with money; there isn't a shortage of food, nor is there a distribution problem. There is an I-don't-have-the-land-and-resources-to-produce-my-own-food, nor-can-I-afford-to-buy-food problem.

His point is pretty simple. We produce plenty of food, so much, in fact, that we have created entire food products with no nutritional value and have opted to use others to feed our cars' engines. We have, he said, a "virtually unregulated food system that is geared toward making money rather than feeding people."

What struck me about his piece is not only his prescription -- shift to a more sustainable agricultural model -- but that the points he makes can be applied to other issues. Consider the housing dilemma. We have enough space -- whether it is land or existing housing -- to provide for the vast majority of people who need a roof over their heads. The problem is that our zoning and tax rules make the development of affordable rentals cost prohibitive. Throughout Central Jersey, for instance, we have endorsed 1-acre lots and other large-lot development -- ostensibly, to reduce the number of children who may enroll in local schools and, therefore, to control local school spending. But taxes continue to rise, even as the zoning rules create sprawl, drive up the price of housing and lead to economic (and often racial/ethnic) segregation. This, of course, is the goal.

We can build more houses for more people, but we need to change the way we think about zoning and taxes, and we need to rethink the kind of housing we need -- especially in our more well-off communities. Towns throughout the state have pushed the construction of warehouses to offset their tax burden. At the same time, these same towns have pushed hard to limit the number of moderate- and low-income housing units that can be built. Basically, they want the taxes that the warehouses pay, but they don't want the people who work in the warehouses to move into the neighborhood.

We also need a more robust minimum wage (more of a living wage), income supports and housing subsidies so that the poor can afford the housing that does exist.

As things stand, to paraphrase Bittman, we have a badly regulated housing system that is geared toward making money and insulating the affluent rather than putting a roof over everyone's head."

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Hank Kalethttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28006963.post-34270708006736336832014-11-10T11:12:00.002-05:002014-11-10T11:12:42.625-05:00Property crimes
The New York Times had a story yesterday on asset forfeiture -- or the ability of police departments to seize property from those alleged to have committed a crime.

The theory behind forfeiture -- as I understand it -- is that the taking of property connected to criminal activity acts as a deterrent, as a fine of sorts. The Times describes it this way. It

allows the government, without ever securing a conviction or even filing a criminal charge, to seize property suspected of having ties to crime. The practice, expanded during the war on drugs in the 1980s, has become a staple of law enforcement agencies because it helps finance their work. It is difficult to tell how much has been seized by state and local law enforcement, but under a Justice Department program, the value of assets seized has ballooned to $4.3 billion in the 2012 fiscal year from $407 million in 2001. Much of that money is shared with local police forces.
Police and prosecutors like it -- from their perspective, what's not to like? But it is, in many ways, an extra-legal measure -- legal, to be sure, but existing outside regular due process. Whereas, someone accused of a drug crime -- often cited as the most frequent use of the maneuver -- must have his case heard in court and a conviction won (or plea entered) before jail time can be assigned, property doesn't have the same rights. It gets taken on the strength of the accusation alone.

My phrasing is not accidental. Property seizure relies on the notion that the property is not just involved in the crime, but that it somehow commits the crime. It's a notion that shifts the due process question. Prosecutors don't have to worry that the "accused" -- the car, the flat-screen TV, the house -- will mount a vigorous defense, or any defense at all. The property is guilty when the prosecutor says the property is guilty.

Property owners can challenge this, but it is the now-former owner who must mount the affirmative case, must prove that the property shouldn't be seized. This -- to my non-lawyerly way of thinking -- would seem to violate the Fifth Amendment, which holds that no one should be "deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." The courts have upheld seizure rules, but the courts have granted overly wide latitude to police in a number of areas, this included. Essentially, the courts have generally said, the cops are right unless you can demonstrate they're not.

This inevitably leads to abuses -- such as the ones described by the Times, and others: cars and houses taken after relatively minor arrests, the use of forfeiture as punishment when convictions can't be won and the use of it as a threat to pressure suspects.

I remember a conversation early in my career as a journalist in which a narcotics officer told me how excited he was that the suspect's sports car was seized during a drug arrest. He'd now have the opportunity to drive around in a car he otherwise couldn't and the department couldn't afford. This was on the day of the arrest and well before any trial would take place. I was taken aback by the admission. I wish I had written a story about it at the time -- I was green and probably a little worried about damaging my access to the department. (I don't remember anything else about the case, unfortunately, just this conversation.) My point is not to attack this particular officer, but to point out how easily even the best can fall prey to the distorted incentives the forfeiture law creates.

As Lee McGrath, a lawyer for the Institute for Justice, a public interest law firm that has mounted a legal and public relations assault on civil forfeiture, pointed out to the Times, departments are "supplementing their budgets by engaging in the type of seizures that we've seen in Philadelphia and elsewhere."

And videos obtained by the Times offer an inside look at how "the nuts-and-bolts how-to of civil forfeiture is passed on in continuing education seminars for local prosecutors and law enforcement officials."

The Institute for Justice, which brought the videos to the attention of The Times, says they show how cynical the practice has become and how profit motives can outweigh public safety.

In the sessions, officials share tips on maximizing profits, defeating the objections of so-called "innocent owners" who were not present when the suspected offense occurred, and keeping the proceeds in the hands of law enforcement and out of general fund budgets.
This, as I said, is offers distorted incentives. There may be good arguments for some forfeiture efforts -- at most under extremely limited circumstances, I would argue -- but as with so much that has happened with law enforcement since Nixon used the "tough on crime" line as a cudgel, empowering police with new tools (see militarization of departments, a la Ferguson) often has dangerous side effects. Police are an important bulwark in our society, protecting us from harm and keeping the peace, but they also are an arm of state power and cannot be allowed unchecked power. The current forfeiture regime allows them that and it has to change.
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Hank Kalethttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28006963.post-75879016867174630812014-11-10T08:00:00.000-05:002014-11-10T08:00:05.251-05:00This mall is running like a ghost mall

The South Brunswick Square Mall is a ghost town -- or ghost mall. But that's no surprise. The mall, which is nearing 30 years in existence (it opened sometime in the mid- to late-'80s), has long had trouble keeping its storefronts filled.

I started writing about the shopping center in the early '90s, when one of its many revolving anchors fled. The mall has been home to an array of failing medium-size box stores -- Jamesway, Rickel, Channel -- and a supermarket. Macy's opened there temporarily, but didn't last long. And this has stressed the smaller merchants, of which there have been more than can be remembered.

Home Depot, which opened about 10 years ago $, and Bob's Discount Furniture are holding their own there now, but the food store closed and a new one is unlikely to move in, given the small space.

So, what to do? It's not an easy question, but it is one with which the community must grapple. The market ultimately will determine what happens to the center, but allowing it to live in limbo for as long as it has creates real and potential impacts.

First, a shopping center with empty storefronts can be an attractive nuisance. We're lucky that there are enough tenants right now to keep that from occurring, but vacancies do tend to breed vacancies, and so on.

There also are potential tax implications. Empty storefronts lead to tax appeals, which lead to a loss of revenue, both because the town has to pay back previously paid taxes and because the properties that appeal end up with lower bills going forward.

The appeals situation was so bad last year that the Township Council considered a revaluation -- a massive enterprise. Appeals, of course, are likely to happen during economic downturns as real market value and assessed value diverge. But things are made worse when you have a property that is badly underutilized, as is the case with the mall.

My sense, as I said, is that we probably want to get ahead of the market forces that might otherwise determine the future of the mall. That doesn't mean mandating what goes there, but looking at the zoning -- signage, parking, allowable square footage -- and trying to determine what will work best there. In the end, the mall may require a complete renovation -- remember, Home Depot revamped the back end of the property to suit its needs. In fact, it may need a fresh start, as we are seeing with the Marketplace on Route 27.

I certainly don't have the answers, but I would like to hear people asking the questions. So here goes: What would you like to see happen to the South Brunswick Square Mall?

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Hank Kalethttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28006963.post-38658945421051810472014-11-04T12:15:00.000-05:002014-11-04T12:16:01.821-05:00And the ballot is cast

I just cast my ballot. I won't say for whom, but it will say I voted against the bail reform question for open space and for the two Middlesex County questions -- non-binding -- calling for arts and women's health funding.

I'm generally critical of the notion that voting is our only democratic responsibility, but it is incredibly important. The way our money is spent (not just how much, even though conservatives want to paint that as the only question, but on what), how our land and resources are used, and how are democracy functions all depend on who we elect AND on whether we force ourselves into the conversation the rest of the year.

So, if you haven't cast a ballot, do so. And then get out there and hold accountable those we elect by showing up at meetings, calling their offices, protesting, writing -- whatever it takes.

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Hank Kalethttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28006963.post-79594309831368452892014-11-02T13:28:00.001-05:002014-11-02T13:28:12.982-05:00Food drive today

The South Brunswick Food Pantry's looking for help and there's a food drive today at Stop & Shop on Route 27. Help if you can.

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Hank Kalethttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28006963.post-27455120253311338222014-11-01T12:37:00.000-04:002014-11-01T12:41:57.941-04:00Kinnell's "transformation / as quick as a shooting star's"

Photo credit: Richard Brown, from GalwayKinnell.com

I missed the news when it first hit the wire, but the poetry world lost one of its most important voices this week when Galway Kinnell died at his home in Vermont on Tuesday. I fell in love with Kinnell's work in my 20s and have returned to it periodically since.

Poetry.org has a wonderful tribute, with photos and several poems. But I wanted to point to a particular poem. "The Bear," perhaps his most known poem (and one of a handful that turned me on to Kinnell's magnificent gift), is a wonderful exploration of mind and space and time and language. I've included a YouTube clip of his reading -- he also was a magnificent performer (I was lucky enough to see him read at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival in the early 1990s):

I came across "The Bear" originally in an anthology, but then found the book Body Rags, which contains "The Bear," as well as "Another Night in the Ruins" and "Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond." It is a remarkable collection that moved me away from the simple approach to poetry I had been following. I was, until that moment, pretending to be some kind of cross between a modernist a la Eliot (I had somehow yet to discover William Carlos Williams) and a beat a la Ginsberg and Corso, with a little Black Mountain tossed in for good measure. Kinnell helped me realize that there were other modes, other voices, and Body Rags sent me in new directions and made me consider the world and the language in new ways.

The literary magazine Cold Front noted Kinnell's death with one of his more recent poems, "A Promissory Note," which you can read here and which seems like a perfect epitaph for one of American poetry's most important voices.

Rest in peace, Mr. Kinnell.

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Hank Kalethttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28006963.post-48962856267857336442014-10-31T17:56:00.001-04:002014-10-31T17:56:21.087-04:00Not every opinion is equalThis is an interesting explanation by Patrick Stokes as to why all arguments are not equal and why journalists should strive for true balance -- seeking out all legitimate and appropriate views -- and avoid the false-equivalencies we tend to traffic in. His example -- the anti-vaccine movement -- is a good one, but one can also look at the attacks on climate scientists by business interests and a host of other issues to see how this works.

I see it in my classes as students substitute unverifiable opinion and belief for fact-based analysis in their papers and in class discussions, and as our political discourse is controlled more and more by shout-fest cable shows and radio hosts.

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Hank Kalethttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28006963.post-9694553787408808642014-10-31T14:11:00.003-04:002014-10-31T14:15:14.542-04:00Religious crime is in the eye of the beholderA 21-year-old Christian man is in custody on charges that he killed a college student in Oklahoma by attempting to behead him. It is a fairly nasty story that, unfortunately, points to the differing ways that we treat violence committed by religious people.

As KFOR in reports, "Isaiah Zoar Marin, 21, is accused of using a 'long knife or sword' to kill 19-year-old Jacob Andrew Crockett." The motive, according to the story, "is still unclear."

But here is the kicker: Police say "the case is not related to recent beheadings by Islamic extremists and said the case had no religious implications."

As a friend on Facebook points out, however, the story has religious fingerprints all over it -- and not Islam. Police say "Marin is a 'heavy drug user' and 'religious zealot,'" and that he "had been watching YouTube videos related to his Christian beliefs" when he committed the murder.

I have no reason to doubt the Stillwater Police Department's characterization of this as not religious in nature, but I have to wonder how this story would have played out were Marin a Muslim. Think of the New Jersey case from last year -- when a Muslim beheaded two men in South Jersey. The conservative media, especially the blogosphere, ran with it, offering headlines and stories like this one (there are does if you do a simple Google search):

BOMBSHELL: A Muslim Beheaded Two Christians in NJ… And the Media IGNORED It

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria recently beheaded two journalists and an aid worker. They followed up this atrocious act by calling on their supporters in the west to carry out attacks and beheadings on non-believers as well.

Perhaps coincidentally, but probably not, there was soon a beheading on a public street in London, as well as the highly publicized beheading in Oklahoma.

Although the connection between these beheadings and radical Islam is so obvious that a blind person could see it, President Obama has repeatedly claimed that the "Islamic" State has absolutely nothing to do with Islam, a foolishly disconnected theme that the liberal media has tried to run with.
The point, according to The Conservative Tribune, is that these kinds of stories are endemic to Islam, which is why it tried to paint the murder of two Coptic Christians last year as a religious crime.

Yusuf Ibrahim was arrested after the decapitated bodies of two Egyptian Coptic Christians were found buried in a shallow grave in the backyard of a home in New Jersey.

The Coptic community was shocked and saddened by the horrific incident, which appeared to be a "ritualistic killing, religious in nature".

Police described the killer as "ruthless" and "calculating" and said he deserves to be behind bars.

It should be noted that this occurred at about the same time that the Muslim Brotherhood was staking claim to control over Egypt, and were severely persecuting, crucifying, and beheading the Coptic Christian community in Egypt, one of the oldest Christian communities in the world.
Pretty strong stuff. And it is true that the police called him ruthless and calculating -- not in a religious way, however. Rather, he was described as a "ruthless and calculating individual." And police, as NJ.com reported in April, described Ibrahim as "shooting Hanny F. Tawadros, 25, and Amgad A. Konds, 27, in the chest during an argument inside a Mercedes Benz belonging to one of the victims."

Given Ibrahim's earlier arrest on car-jacking charges, one can probably assume that the motive for the crime being alleged probably has little to do with religion. But that has never stopped anyone from smearing Muslims to gain political points or to spread a message of hate.

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Hank Kalethttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28006963.post-17296309405942522812014-10-25T13:43:00.002-04:002014-10-25T13:43:59.939-04:00On Ebola: A rare case of ambivalence in the American pressI posted this to Facebook, but should probably have posted it here first. I found it refreshing that, in a news climate that privileges certainty over nuance, that has come to assume that answers are written in stone, we have a piece from a medical writer in Forbes that admits its ambivalence. Feel free to comment here or on the Facebook post.

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Hank Kalethttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28006963.post-49525188627792821362014-10-14T10:43:00.000-04:002014-10-14T10:43:03.020-04:00A poem by Alan DuganSuch a New York poem. Such a New York voice.

Alan Dugan should be a much greater part of the American consciousness. His poems capture something essential about urban life in the latter half of the 20th Century.

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Hank Kalethttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28006963.post-51343305276636509152014-10-03T20:55:00.001-04:002014-10-03T21:25:30.702-04:00Baseball time capsuleThe Huffington Post ran a story on a recently discovered footage of the Washington Senators and New York Giants in the 1924 World Series. The clip shows little the game has changed, in terms of its broad strokes -- including the unexpected image of a player sliding head first into first base. The Senators won the game and series 4-3.

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What is interesting is that the series was played on seven-straight days, starting on Oct. 4 (today's playoffs have just started) and ending Oct. 10 (the league championships are unlikely to have even started by Oct. 10 this year).

Maybe a Giants-Washington NLCS is in the cards (apologies to St. Louis for the pun). CORRECTION -- This is impossible, given that they are playing each other in the LDS.

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Hank Kalethttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28006963.post-24605866027293597372014-09-30T11:15:00.001-04:002014-09-30T11:15:44.172-04:00How to dismantle a reputation: Reviewing the new U2 release
I think it's safe to say that the U2-Apple merger has no winners. By invading its customers' iCloud accounts and giving them what many didn't want -- a free album by U2 -- Apple reinforced its image as the prototypical NSA-age super-corporation (yes, I have an iPhone, iPad, Mac and Cloud account), while also managing to remind its customers (and SNL) of the recent and very public "breach" (my word) of its iTunes security. (This Wired piece is typical of the response.)

U2, for its part, reminded the world that it is more than a rock band. It is, like Apple, a massive corporation and only functions as a musical act within this context. This is both a realization of Bono and the boys' long-term goal and a disavowal of the narrative that Bono sometimes likes to tell -- the one about being nothing more than a group of Irish lads who formed a small punk-rock outfit back in the day, and one that had a decidedly radical political view -- a narrative he explicitly and inexplicably linked to the free album release.

Consider this piece from Nico Lang on Salon and The Daily Dot. Lang traces the band's ups and downs -- the pompousness(and good music) of Rattle and Hum; the undeniable greatness of Achtung Baby; the interesting, if failed, experiments of Zooropa and Pop; and the move back to the mainstream with a series of solid (my take) albums during the 2000s.

Through out all of this, as Lang points out, the band was gaining a growing and deserved reputation for pretentiousness (all artists are pretentious on some level, though U2's level may never have been ascended to before). At the same time, Bono moved from sly and ironic Fly character to real-life Fly -- a man who seemed to enjoy trading on his fame, even if he often did so for what he believed were good causes. The character, of course, was meant as a send up of the smarmy celebrity -- though, unfortunately, that sense of daring and humor appears long gone, replaced with an earnestness that is off-putting. Bono now hangs with world leaders, including some very bad men, and the titans of new industry and pushes his tepid version of left capitalism and mushy political reforms while still talking of the band as though it is a quartet of rebels -- which is a bit of I intended irony, I guess.

The band has become, in a word as I said, a corporation.

This would be acceptable if the music matched the personal/band ambition. But what's become clear, as Lang says, is that U2's " recent output" -- its last (now) four albums -- is of a piece. There is a deadening sameness to them, a sense that the band was working from a template or formula. I am like Lang in that I am "someone who likes many U2 records" -- I probably like more of them than Lang, however. That said, I also agree that the band appears to have made a branding decision -- just as Toyota or GE might -- "to be a certain type of band."

If you liked the kind of music they were making with "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of," you might like No Line on the Horizon, a 2009 album filled with middle-brow jams. This was a time when even their politics seemed repackaged to fit their new global mindset. Instead of their signature songs about Irish pride, Bono wrote hippy-dippy lyrics about world peace that could play while you browse the aisles at Hobby Lobby.
The new disc, Songs of Innocence, is part of this branding, an album indistinguishable from the previous three but lacking the couple of stellar tunes that kept the U2 fans returning. There is no "Dirty Boots" here and, as the critics at Sound Opinions point out, no lyrical depth. (Favorite line from the podcast: "This is what a dinosaur does in its last days.") In fact, this is easily Bono's weakest set of lyrics -- they are not even worth quoting. Sound Opinions gave the record a vehement and effusive pair of "trash its" and I can only disagree with the vehemence. This is not so much an awful record as an uninspired one. It is background music that becomes less interesting with each listen. (How Rolling Stone -- the music writer Jim Testa alerted me to this -- gave it four stars is beyond me, though Rolling Stone is the U2 of music magazines.)

Is the often vituperative criticism just part of the backlash against the Apple stunt or maybe against Bono? Some do it is, to be sure. But one way of trying to judge this record is to remove the U2 baggage from the equation -- not an easy task. In this case, I asked myself what I'd think of Songs of Innocence were it the product of an unknown band. The answer? Not much. I'd probably not buy it, not recommend it or the band, would feel it to be derivative (Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot address this in their Sound Opinions take down when they describe the record rightly as a band imitating the bands that have imitated U2),

Ultimately, it is not a terrible record so much as a banal and inconsequential piece of radio fodder and would be forgotten were it not for the historic public relations blunder that accompanied its release. One can only hope that the massive scale of the Apple debacle does not obscure the power of the group's best work. If you want to know what I'm talking about listen to Boy, October, War, Under a Blood Red Sky, Unforgettable Fire, Wide Awake in America, The Joshua Tree, its masterpiece Achtung Baby or the two greatest hits compilations.

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Hank Kalethttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28006963.post-51783548921215063762014-09-26T19:33:00.001-04:002014-09-26T19:33:46.923-04:00Artistic License: The art of James Arthur

James Arthur, the author of Charms Against Lightning, is reading in Lambertville tomorrow. Here's my column on his appearance.

I'll be reading earlier in the day at the luncheon benefit for the ACME Screening Room in Lambertville. Afterward, there will be a showing of Jack Ballo's documentary Destiny's Bridge and an exhibit of photos by Sherry Rubel. The event is fold out.

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Hank Kalethttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28006963.post-3870605919103895142014-09-25T11:02:00.001-04:002014-09-25T11:02:43.254-04:00Two peas in a gubernatorial podCharles Stile at The Record uses his column today to analyze the under-reported "bromance" between Govs. Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo. As Stile points out, the two have engaged in what he calls "a political non-aggression pact that has been in force behind the scenes for several years and has benefited the careers of both men." Cuomo, for instance, has opted not to "hammer Christie throughout the furor" over the George Washington Bridge or to use his notoriety and name to help other Democrats -- whether in New York or New Jersey. Christie has done the same, in return, staying above last year's legislative races for the most part and staying out of the current New York gubernatorial race -- despite being president of the Republican Governors Association.

Stile says there are "practical and strategic reasons why both men have collaborated rather than clashed."
Both pitch themselves to the public as pragmatists who put the greater good ahead of partisan obligations. Attacking each other would only undermine that image.
Stile's focus is on Christie (he does write for a New Jersey audience), in particular, Christie's ability to co-opt Democrats by cutting deals that offer short-term gain to those Democrats while burnishing his image as a pragmatist.

What Stile doesn't discuss -- mostly due to space, I would argue -- is the transactional nature of the relationships crafted by both Christie and Cuomo (this has been written about in a number of places, but this offers a good overview of what I mean). Nor does he get into the ideological commonalities, which are striking once you remove social issues from the table. Both have placed the health of the corporate sector above other constituencies; both have made budget cutting their mantra; both have targeted public-employee unions; both have attacked public pensions; and both back the expansion of charter schools and school choice.

These commonalities -- and the apparent truce (of not alliance) between the two governors -- actually says a lot more about Cuomo than Christie. At least the New Jersey governor is being consistent. He's a conservative and he has attempted to govern as one, with the occasional bone tossed to his liberals (this is New Jersey, after all).

Cuomo, however, is a Democrat and the son of one of the leading liberals of the last quarter of the 20th Century. But he has never been a progressive -- he is from the Clinton wing of the Democratic Party, meaning he is more in tune with corporate interests than workers' interests. And while he has won some important victories on same-sex marriage and gun control, he has reversed course on campaign finance and ethics reform.

All of this is well-known -- and it is why he faced a spirited primary challenge from Zephyr Teachout. He is going to breeze to re-election (just like Christie) and his name will remain in play as a presidential contender, though his national reputation (again, like Christie's and also like Hillary Clinton's) is based mostly on a press-constructed image and not on what he actually stands for.

The social-issue efforts, of course, will make Cuomo palatable to Democrats, or palatable enough to excuse the rest of his agenda -- should the field clear (i.e., should Hillary opt out) and he toss his hat into the ring.

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Hank Kalethttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28006963.post-82929295414092801272014-09-24T19:07:00.001-04:002014-09-24T19:07:25.033-04:00Talking homelessness onWHYY
I recorded an explainer podcast for Newsworks NJ on the issue of homelessness in the state. You can listen here.

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Hank Kalethttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28006963.post-15196513558885347262014-09-23T11:48:00.000-04:002014-09-23T11:48:02.639-04:006 musical notes

Sept. 23 is one of those rare days for me, as a music fan. Four fine new album -- among many good ones -- were released by some of my favorite artists, and it is the birthday of not just one, but two of my personal musical lode stars.

What follows attempts a brief summary of the day:

Happy 65th birthday to Bruce Springsteen.

It's hard to imagine, but I've been listening to Bruce Sprinsteen for nearly 40 years (his career spans 41 years) and have seen him 10 times (plus once when he made a surprise appearance at the Stone Pony). The Boss has, in many ways, been as influential to my writing -- as poet and journalist -- and my political philosophy as William Carlos Williams, The New York Times, The Nation magazine and Howard Zinn.

Here is an interesting piece on Springsteen and history -- thanks to Eric Alterman for posting it to his Facebook page, which is where I first saw it -- that makes a strong case for The Boss' cultural and historical importance.

Here is a video of Bruce -- on the Born in the U.S.A. Tour -- performing my favorite of his songs, "Backstreets."

Happy birthday, John Coltrane.

The great saxophonist was the first jazz artist to capture my attention, and his magnum opus, so to speak, the brilliant A Love Supreme, remains a touchstone and foundation for my sense of sound and of spirituality.

New music:

Leonard Cohen (who turned 80 on Sunday) has released another understated poetic collection. Popular Problems may not be his best recording, but it is quite good and, as The Guardian writes, hopeful evidence that Cohen has more to say and will continue saying it well into his ninth decade.

Imelda May has released another rockabilly-jazz-punk hybrid, Tribal, one that crackles so energy (and features a ukelele version of Blondie's "Dreaming," of all things), thanks to one of the better bands in the business.

I love Chuck Prophet and I love his latest, Night Surfer, because it rocks and because his voice reminds me a bit of Iggy Pop on this one.

Tweedy is the side-project of Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy, and while the band takes his last name as it's own, it is not designed as a vanity project. The band features Tweedy's 18-year-old son Spencer on drums (he's damned good) and its debut album, Sukierae, was conceived and created as a family affair and is thematically centered on the cancer diagnosis of Tweedy's wife, Susan Miller -- listen to the Sound Opinions interview or read Greg Kot's Chicago Tribune piece for more on that.

The album, of course, is reminiscent of Wilco -- as with Wilco, Jeff writes and sings all the songs -- though it has a different sonic feel. Based on my first listen, it is one of the better releases of the year so far.
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Hank Kalethttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28006963.post-55851647715917446562014-09-22T21:43:00.004-04:002014-09-22T21:43:57.406-04:00Bringing Tent City's story to Lambertville

I'll be reading from As an Alien in a Land of Promise during a luncheon fundraiser for the ACME Screening Room in Lambertville on Saturday.

After the luncheon, there will be a showing of Jack Ballo's film and an exhibit of photos from Sherry Rubel.

The three of us spent the better part of a year visiting Tent City in Lakewood to document what can only be described as a community of internally displaced persons that sprouted in Ocean County. Lakewood officials fought the camp, which was closed earlier this year, and far too many have attempted to ignore the economic dysfunction that made it unfortunately necessary -- and makes it likely that others will continue to sprout.

Now, nearly two years after we began the project, we are back together to present our work to the public -- and, hopefully, to draw some attention to the plight of the homeless.

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Hank Kalethttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28006963.post-44258451765352525112014-09-19T14:27:00.000-04:002014-09-19T14:28:04.144-04:00Unnamed sources are at it again
NBC News reported last night that a federal probe has found no evidence that Gov. Chris Christie knew anything in advance about the closure in 2013 of the local lanes connecting with the George Washington Bridge.

The governor responded last night on 101.5 by saying he was unsurprised. Earlier in the day, he called for an end to the Legislative investigation, which he called a partisan witch hunt. The report, he essentially says, is a vindication. Time to move on.

Perhaps, but let's step back a bit and review what NBC actually reported.

The U.S. Justice Department investigation into Gov. Chris Christie's role in the George Washington Bridge lane closure scandal has thus far uncovered no evidence indicating that he either knew in advance or directed the closure of traffic lanes on the span, federal officials tell NBC 4 New York.

The September 2013 closures -- where several entrance lanes to the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee were shut down, causing a traffic nightmare for commuters -- has been the subject of several federal and state investigations.

Federal officials caution that the investigation that began nine months ago is ongoing and that no final determination has been made, but say that authorities haven't uncovered anything that indicates that Christie knew in advance or ordered the closure of traffic lanes.
Two things should be immediately apparent.

1. The sources for this report are anonymous and there is no indication that they can be verified independently.

2. These unnamed federal officials are careful to couch their terms -- nothing has been found "thus far" and the investigation "is ongoing and ... no final determination has been made."

I'm not questioning the report's accuracy, only its sourcing and presentation, which is far more definitive than the reporting seems to indicate.

This is especially true given that the U.S. attorney's office offered this curt comment to NJ.com:
"The investigation is not over," said Rebekah Carmichael, a spokeswoman for New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman.
But my post is not really about Christie or the bridge scandal. My issue here is with NBC's use of unnamed sources, a practice that remains widespread among journalists and often results in a distortion of the news and a commandeering of the political news cycle. Implying that the governor has been cleared -- which may turn out to be true -- could affect the way the story is reported going forward and, in turn, affect public opinion. It may have an impact on the presidential race, on state-level investigations and other matters.

All of this would be acceptable we're the information being provided to the public was more definitive. That is the trade-off we make. At this point, however, all we are tossing into the public space is speculation.

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Hank Kalethttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28006963.post-19579256086582141142014-09-18T16:36:00.001-04:002014-09-18T16:36:35.732-04:00Discontent bubbling up?
I haven't been following the Scottish independence referendum all that closely until this week, so I can't say whether a separate Scotland makes sense for the Scots -- and, besides, it's not my call; it's theirs. But this piece from The New York Times' Upshot blog offers an interesting take, placing the vote within the context of a rebellion against elites that has been bubbling up from below.

Neil Irwin, the author, connects the dots between the Scots, the Tea Party and a backlash within the European Union. While there are ideological differences -- the Scots are largely leftist while the Tea Party is to the extreme right -- there is a common thread: anger at governing institutions' failure to safeguard the population as the world economy tanked.

It is a crisis of the elites. Scotland's push for independence is driven by a conviction — one not ungrounded in reality — that the British ruling class has blundered through the last couple of decades. The same discontent applies to varying degrees in the United States and, especially, the eurozone. It is, in many ways, a defining feature of our time.

The rise of Catalan would-be secessionists in Spain, the rise of parties of the far right in European countries as diverse as Greece and Sweden, and the Tea Party in the United States are all rooted in a sense that, having been granted vast control over the levers of power, the political elite across the advanced world have made a mess of things.
As he says,

The details of the policy mistakes are different, as are the political movements that have arisen in protest. But together they are a reminder that no matter how entrenched our government institutions may seem, they rest on a bedrock assumption: that the leaders entrusted with power will deliver the goods.
When they don't, they supposed to face consequences. "Power," after all, "is not a right; it is a responsibility."

The choice that the Scots are making on Thursday is about whether the men and women who rule Britain messed things up so badly that they would rather go it alone. And so the results will ripple through world capitals from Athens to Washington: People don't think the way things are going is good enough, and voters are getting angry enough to want to do something about it.
Populist energy can swing both ways -- see Occupy and the Tea Party -- so the shape that a populist revolt might have in the United States is in dispute. As things stand, there remains more energy on the right than on the left, meaning that the most vulnerable populations might be endangered if the anger reaches a tipping point. That doesn't mean the left should abandon populism in favor of a broken meritocracy (see Chris Hayes' Twilight of the Elites), but rather that the left needs to develop a more effective populist infrastructure that speak more effectively to those who are angry over being left behind by American capitalism.

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|November 27, 2012 01:00 AM EST
-- HPV DNA detection finds disease missed by Pap cytology
PLEASANTON, California, Nov. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) today announces an expanded CE mark indication for the cobas® 4800 HPV Test. The newly expanded indication for the cobas® 4800 HPV Test as a primary screen means Pap cytology is no longer required as a co- or pre-test in countries that accept a CE mark. Persistent infection with Human Papillomavirus is the principal cause of cervical cancer in women. The expanded indication is supported by data to be presented at the International Papillomavirus Conference, November 30-December 6, 2012 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
"HPV testing provides a more sensitive level of screening than the Pap test. Whereas a Pap smear looks for abnormal cells, an HPV test looks for the presence of HPV DNA itself," says Eduardo Franco, director, Division of Cancer Epidemiology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. "The prevalence of HPV means that many women may test positive, so it is important to also identify those most at risk to progress to cervical cancer. Genotyping for HPV types 16 and 18 provides sufficient additional specificity to identify the women most at risk, and spares the rest from potentially unnecessary intervention. The two HPV genotypes, 16 and 18, account for 70% of cervical cancer cases."
HPV DNA testing has more traditionally been used as a co-test or reflex test to an abnormal or borderline cytology result. While Pap screening has dramatically decreased the prevalence of cervical cancer over the past several decades, Pap cytology has limitations due to low sensitivity and the subjective nature of results interpretation. However, studies show that HPV DNA testing is more sensitive than the Pap smear in picking up disease – important in a front-line screen. In the landmark ATHENA study, it is shown that the cobas® 4800 HPV Test finds disease that is missed by cytology - 1 in 10 women who tested positive for either HPV genotypes 16 or 18 by the Roche cobas® 4800 HPV Test already had evidence of cervical pre-cancer, even though their Pap test was normal.
Approximately 275,000 women worldwide still die of cervical cancer each year, and many countries are in the process of piloting HPV DNA testing as a primary screening replacement for Pap cytology. "Switching towards use of the cobas® 4800 HPV Test as a first line screen enables countries to implement strategies that catch more disease with fewer medical interventions, allows physicians to better manage their patients, and reduces economic costs to the healthcare system," said Paul Brown, Head of Roche Molecular Diagnostics.
The cobas® 4800 HPV Test is the only clinically validated, and FDA-approved test, that simultaneously provides pooled results on known "high-risk" genotypes and individual results on the highest-risk genotypes, HPV 16 and HPV 18, giving three results in just one test. The cobas® 4800 HPV Test has a fully automated sample preparation workflow process, and unique efficiency features allowing for higher throughput, making it well suited for high volume screening programs.
"As an organization committed to women's health, Roche Diagnostics is dedicated to keeping women healthy and improving patient care," Paul Brown continued. "Combined with our products from the mtm business acquisition announced last year, Roche has a broad cervical cancer prevention portfolio which redefines cervical cancer screening and more effectively guides patient management decisions."
International Papillomavirus Conference
Roche will present data which supports the cobas® 4800 HPV Test expanded indication as well as the broader Roche cervical cancer portfolio at the International Papillomavirus Conference, November 30-December 6, 2012 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Roche Satellite Symposium: Translating Science into Primary Screening Practice
Monday, 3 December, 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM, Puerto Rico Convention Center, Ballroom B
Primary HPV screening: Impact of varying the age of initiation on the performance of screening
Wright TC, Cox JT, Sharma A, Apple R, Behrens CM
Tuesday, 4 December, 2:00PM - 3:30PM, Room 208
3 Year cumulative incidence rates for high-grade cervical disease: Interim analysis from the ATHENA study
Castle PE, Wright TC, Stoler, MH, Zhang, Behrens CM
Tuesday, 4 December, 2:00PM- 3:30PM, Room 208
Intra-laboratory variation in the performance of liquid-based cytology; insights from ATHENA
Stoler MH, Wright TC, Apple R, Sharma A, Behrens CM
Tuesday, 4 December, 5:30PM - 7:30PM (Poster Session)
About the ATHENA Study
Roche's landmark ATHENA study for the cobas® 4800 HPV Test is the largest U.S.-based registration study for cervical cancer screening, including more than 47,000 women.
About the cobas® 4800 HPV Test and cobas® 4800 System
The cobas® 4800 HPV Test is a qualitative in-vitro test for the detection of Human Papillomavirus in patient specimens. The test utilizes amplification of target DNA by the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and nucleic acid hybridization for the detection of 14 high-risk (HR) HPV types in a single analysis. The test specifically identifies the high risk HPV types (31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59, 66 and 68), while simultaneously also detecting the highest risk types, HPV 16 and HPV 18. It is now available in the US and all countries accepting a CE mark.
The cobas® 4800 System is designed to deliver new standards in laboratory testing efficiency and medically relevant diagnostic information. The system offers true walk-away automation and can run up to 282 tests in less than 12 hours, providing rapid analysis of screening tests for HPV infections meeting the needs of the majority of clinical labs.
About Human Papillomavirus and Cervical Cancer
Persistent infection with Human Papillomavirus is the principal cause of cervical cancer in women, with HPV implicated in greater than 99 percent of cervical cancers worldwide. According to the National Cancer Institute, there are 12,200 new cases of cervical cancer in the United States annually and 4,210 deaths due to the disease. The World Health Organization estimates there are 470,000 new cases of cervical cancer annually.
About Roche
Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Roche is a leader in research-focused healthcare with combined strengths in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. Roche is the world's largest biotech company with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, virology, inflammation, metabolism and CNS. Roche is also the world leader in in-vitro diagnostics, tissue-based cancer diagnostics and a pioneer in diabetes management. Roche's personalized healthcare strategy aims at providing medicines and diagnostic tools that enable tangible improvements in the health, quality of life and survival of patients. In 2011, Roche had over 80,000 employees worldwide and invested over 8 billion Swiss francs in R&D. The Group posted sales of 42.5 billion Swiss francs. Genentech, United States, is a wholly owned member of the Roche Group. Roche has a majority stake in Chugai Pharmaceutical, Japan. For more information: www.roche.com.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Windstream, a leading provider of advanced network and cloud communications, has been named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9–11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York, NY. Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN), a FORTUNE 500 and S&P 500 company, is a leading provider of advanced network communications, including cloud computing and managed services, to businesses nationwide. The company also offers broadband, phone and digital TV services to consumers primarily in rural areas.
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The definition of IoT is not new, in fact it's been around for over a decade. What has changed is the public's awareness that the technology we use on a daily basis has caught up on the vision of an always on, always connected world. If you look into the details of what comprises the IoT, you'll see that it includes everything from cloud computing, Big Data analytics, "Things," Web communication, applications, network, storage, etc. It is essentially including everything connected online from hardware to software, or as we like to say, it's an Internet of many different things. The difference ...
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ARMONK, N.Y., Nov. 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it is bringing a greater level of control, security and flexibility to cloud-based application development and delivery with a single-tenant version of Bluemix, IBM's platform-as-a-service. The new platform enables developers to build ap...
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An entirely new security model is needed for the Internet of Things, or is it? Can we save some old and tested controls for this new and different environment? In his session at @ThingsExpo, New York's at the Javits Center, Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, reviewed hands-on lessons with IoT devices and reveal a new risk balance you might not expect. Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, has more than nineteen years' experience managing global security operations and assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. He is co-author of t...
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Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...
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Technology is enabling a new approach to collecting and using data. This approach, commonly referred to as the "Internet of Things" (IoT), enables businesses to use real-time data from all sorts of things including machines, devices and sensors to make better decisions, improve customer service, and lower the risk in the creation of new revenue opportunities. In his General Session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Dave Wagstaff, Vice President and Chief Architect at BSQUARE Corporation, discuss the real benefits to focus on, how to understand the requirements of a successful solution, the flow of ...
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The security devil is always in the details of the attack: the ones you've endured, the ones you prepare yourself to fend off, and the ones that, you fear, will catch you completely unaware and defenseless. The Internet of Things (IoT) is nothing if not an endless proliferation of details. It's the vision of a world in which continuous Internet connectivity and addressability is embedded into a growing range of human artifacts, into the natural world, and even into our smartphones, appliances, and physical persons. In the IoT vision, every new "thing" - sensor, actuator, data source, data con...
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"BSQUARE is in the business of selling software solutions for smart connected devices. It's obvious that IoT has moved from being a technology to being a fundamental part of business, and in the last 18 months people have said let's figure out how to do it and let's put some focus on it, " explained Dave Wagstaff, VP & Chief Architect, at BSQUARE Corporation, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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The 3rd International @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that it is now accepting Keynote Proposals. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal and enterprise IT since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago. All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices - computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors - connected to the Internet by 2020. This number will continue to grow at a rapid pace for the next several decades.
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