"Lazarus Planet" is a 2023 American comic book crossover storyline written by Mark Waid and Gene Luen Yang, with art by Ricardo Federici and Billy Tan published by DC Comics. The event involves Chinese deities-turned demons Nezha and King Fire Bull, whose conflict causes a volcano on Lazarus Island to erupt, causing global magic  storms that both give superpowers and alter existing ones. The event received positive reviews, with critics praising the art, action, and main story while criticizing the tie-ins.

Publication history
In October 2022, during New York Comic Con, DC Comics announced a new event called Lazarus Planet which, along with Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths, will kickstart Dawn of DC. Batman/Superman: World's Finest (issues #1–5) and the Batman vs. Robin act as a prelude to Lazarus Planet. Lazarus Planet was followed up with a sequel called Lazarus Planet: Revenge of the Gods where Wonder Woman and Shazam fight. It was written by G. Willow Wilson, Becky Cloonan, Michael Conrad, and Josie Campbell and ran through the pages of Wonder Woman and the titular miniseries.

Plot

Prelude
During Batman and Robin's early adventures, they team up with Superman and the Doom Patrol to deal with the demon Nezha who was wreaking havoc in Gotham City and Metropolis. The Doom Patrol explain that over three millennia ago, Nezha was originally a human, and son of powerful war general Li Jing. After Nezha died in battle at a young age, Li Jing gave up all of his wealth and power to resurrect him, eventually entering the servitude of a magician who gave him the elixir of immortality out of pity.

Nezha was resurrected by the elixir but was enraged that his father lost all of his power and wealth and killed him. Nezha rebuilt his father's empire, made deals with demons and obtained magical weapons, becoming a demonic Devil Nezha. To stop Nezha, warriors from the House of Ji imprisoned him. In the 21st century, Nezha creates a new spell to free himself but was disgusted with how humans had advanced and desired to control the world.

Batman and Superman manage to stop Nezha by trapping him in the Phantom Zone, but Nezha slowly tries to break free. Superman pushes Nezha and himself in Nezha's prison (which is a huge doorway) on Lazarus Island but with the help of the Doom Patrol, Superman escapes the prison.

In the present, while Damian Wayne participates in a tournament on Lazarus Island, it is revealed that his great-grandmother, Mother's Soul, was brought back to life due to the Lazarus Pits, with Mother's Soul saying that they must free Nezha once more or else the world will be destroyed (hinting that she may have been the one who freed Nezha to fight Batman and Superman). One night, Bruce Wayne sees Alfred Pennyworth appear in front of him, which makes Bruce suspicious since he was killed by Bane during the City of Bane storyline. Bruce tests Alfred on a series of questions to make sure Alfred isn't the imposter, and while in the Batcave they see a possessed Damian, Jakeem Thunder and Timothy Hunter. Batman subdues the Hunters but Damian wounds him and escapes to meet up with Nezha and Mother Soul, who have sent various malicious mystics to capture powerful relics across the world, causing Earth's magic to go into havoc.

Investigating the magic imbalance, Batman tries meeting up with Zatanna but finds her hanging, but Zatanna reveals she is alive with Justice League Dark being preoccupied by Nezha's magic. Batman goes to Kentucky to meet a magician, Abel, where he learns about Damian's recent tournament on Lazarus Island, and learns that Mother Soul is the mother of Ra's al Ghul and that the Lazarus Pits are derived from Nezha's elixir of immortality. Batman realizes that Nezha corrupted Damian and tricked him into freeing himself from his prison, and has taken control of Dick Grayson, Tim Drake, Jason Todd, and Stephanie Brown.

While traveling to Lazarus Island, Batman realizes that Nezha has incapacitated Barbara Gordon and Batwoman while Talia al Ghul is held prisoner by Damian and Mother Soul. Nezha captures his old friend Pigsy and discovers that his son King Fire Bull has resurfaced on Earth with his own plans for world domination while Mother Soul forces the captured Black Alice to augment Doctor Fate's helmet with stolen magic. Batman manages to defeat all the former Robins, and allows Alfred to be killed by Nezha, revealing that he knew Alfred was fake when Alfred answered all of Batman's questions when they first met, but not contradict Batman's question when Nezha thought Batman was telling the truth. Alfred tells Batman to try to reconcile with Damian before passing away once more.

Damian confronts Batman who struggles due to his battles with the former Robins, but it is revealed that Batman freed Talia and disarms Nezha long enough for Batman to obtain Doctor Fate's helmet and frees everyone from Nezha's influence as well as teleports them away except Pigsy and Black Alice. Damian and Talia fight off Mother Soul where Mother Soul falls over a cliff. During the fight, Nezha mortally wounds Batman, but King Fire Bull arrives and fights Nezha off while Talia and Damian revive Batman by using Black Alice's and Pigsy's magic. Nezha flees, and King Fire Bull angrily causes the Lazarus Volcano to explode.

Main plot

Alpha
Damian flies Batman, Talia, and Black Alice out of the Lazarus Volcano while Supergirl notes that there is a big storm wrecking havoc on Earth. Damian and his group crash into the Hall of Justice where Supergirl, Power Girl, Blue Beetle, Mary Marvel, the Monkey Prince, Zatanna, Cyborg, and Blue Devil are. Damian brings everyone up to speed on what has happened and that King Fire Bull is the one responsible for the big storm. Zatanna notices that magic in general has gotten out of control, so Damian sends Mary Marvel, Zatanna, Cyborg, Blue Beetle and Power Girl to collect magical artifacts in the Tower of Fate, while Batman, Talia, and Supergirl will go find Nezha in the Himalayas and convince him to be an ally. While trying to breach the tower, Cyborg and Blue Beetle are attacked by King Fire Bull's bodyguard, the Silver Horn King.

Batman's group are confronted by King Fire Bull's other bodyguard, the Golden Horn King. While Blue Beetle and Supergirl distract the Golden Horn King, Batman and Talia are shocked to see Nezha being attacked by Swamp Thing and Poison Ivy, who are angered that the Lazarus Volcano explosion is poisoning the plants and Earth. Batman's group defeats Nezha, but Nezha's body slowly corrupts Batman, turning him into a demonic being. Mary Marvel's group gets closer to the Tower, and Mary yells her name, which causes people who were imprisoned by Nezha to be free. Damian is trying to figure out what is going on when he is suddenly confronted by Fire King Bull.

One of Pigsy's miniature clones visits the Monkey Prince at the Hall and explains Nezha's and King Fire Bull's origins. During his initial conquest as the Devil Nezha, the Chinese gods offered Nezha a chance at redemption, taking him to the Heavenly Realm and gifting him the Red Armillary Sash, which suppressed his evil and reverted him back into human form. Nezha ascended to deity status and became acquainted with Pigsy and his companions Monkey King and Sandy during their quest to reunite with their master. Following the war between Apokolips and the Heavenly Realm centuries ago, the then benevolent Nezha adopted Red Boy as his son after Darkseid murdered his parents King Bull Demon and Princess Iron Fan. Red Boy would later be consumed by his hate, eventually becoming the demonic King Fire Bull.

Omega
King Fire Bull is about to kill Black Alice but Zatanna tries to teleport Black Alice away to save her. Nezha prevents Black Alice from teleporting away and nearly rips her in half, but Monkey Prince arrives to save her. Hal Jordan, Superman, Jon Kent, Martian Manhunter, Yara Flor, Barry Allen and Sojourner Mullein arrive to apprehend King Fire Bull, but King Fire Bull manipulates the Lazarus Explosion to gain more power and overpower them and attempt to take control of them. Black Alice teleports to Zatanna and plans to absorb all of the Earth's magic at once. Black Alice makes Jim Corrigan the Spectre once more as well as have Enchantress use magic on her to seemingly sacrifice herself, which allows Nezha (possessing Batman) to find King Fire Bull. Nezha shoots lightning at King Fire Bull by channeling power from the Lazarus Explosion, which severely weakens King Fire Bull, and allows Zatanna and the rest of the magical users to appear in front of King Fire Bull. They manage to imprison King Fire Bull, but Zatanna warns Damian that magic will be more unpredictable before leaving. Damian sees Batman and hugs him, but is unaware that Nezha is still controlling him.

Sideplot

Assault on Krypton
While talking to Cat Grant about being part of the Daily Planet, Nia Nal is knocked unconscious after entering Batman's dream and the eruption of Lazarus Volcano. She arrives and meets up with Kara Zor-El and Damian where she gets brought up to speed and tells them the future has gone dark. Batman wakes up and tells Nia that the only way for them to know the true future is to get the Doctor Fate helmet from Khalid Nassour. Nia Nal manages to go to Khalid's dream, but Khalid does not recognize her but the helmet does. Nia Nal manages to retrieve the helmet, but she wakes up in a Lazarus Pit with the helmet. Meanwhile, Jon Kent confronts an individual who gains new powers due to the explosion on Lazarus Island. Mercy Graves is in LexCorp trying to protect Lex Luthor and the workers when a monstrous wolf appears, and Graves is hit with Lazarus radiation, gaining powerful transformative and regenerative abilities. After Mary Marvel said her name which freed all the imprisoned people, Power Girl is having hallucinations but manages to be free with the help of Lilith Clay.

We Once Were Gods
A family encounters a regular human washed up on the shore. However, it is revealed that the human was originally one of the amphibious monsters in the Trench and starts attacking the family, but Aquaman intervenes and saves them. Martian Manhunter observes how the eruption from the Lazarus Volcano has given everyone new powers. He observes an empath named Raphael Arce who tries to absorb all the pain from people who are painfully dying. Wonder Woman is sparring with a woman named Bia when Bia is taken by an undead Theseus and his army. Wonder Woman saves Bia from Theseus and with the help of Nubia, they defeat Theseus. Theseus reveals that the explosion from Lazarus Volcano has opened the gates of Hades, allowing the undead to return back to the mortal world. Mary Marvel meets Black Adam's new heir Malik, and they try to free Billy Batson from the Rock of Eternity. They reach Batson, who frees himself by absorbing the Rock of Eternity, but the wizard Shazam is angry at this and declares the Shazam family unworthy.

Legends Reborn
Renee Montoya learns that a man named George Dennis Elroy (a suspect who killed ten people) mysteriously disappeared. She learns that there was a victim who had body eaten by something sinister. Montoya goes into Elroy's apartment where she sees hostages there and confronts a monstrous Elroy but Elroy is defeated by her and the hostages. Raven and Beast Boy go see a house where a demon child is located, and manage to exorcise the demon. The demons explain that they were originally humans but the explosion from the Lazarus Volcano mutated them. Trigon dispatches Beast Boy, knocks out Raven, and takes the demons away. In Gotham City, Nightwing rescues City Boy who tries to go get a family heirloom in the sewers. Firestorm is flying when the Lazarus explosion separates him and Martin Stein. He merges with a man named Dr. Ramirez to defeat the shadow demon, but when Ronnie tries to separate, he realizes that the Matrix is stealing Ramirez's age for power.

Next Evolution
Red Hood stops a group of vigilantes called the Vigil from obtaining leftover Lazarus resin. Damian's girlfriend Flatline goes to Tokyo to confront Ubu, Ra's al Ghul's bodyguard. Flatline fights off Ubu and his bodyguards to find an Urn that has the ashes of Ra's al Ghul and sees him in front of her. Deadeye confronts his aunt Amanda Waller who reveals she's on Earth-Three. Deadeye explains how his shape-shifter partner Everyman was changed by the Lazarus explosion, and tried killing him. Red Canary tries studying for her chemistry test when she observes people being mutated by the Lazarus eruption. She asks for Sideways' help in dealing with the pigs.

Monkey Prince
Monkey Prince confronts Ultra-Humanite and his assistant and son-in-law Winston Shugel-Shen, the Monkey Prince's adoptive father, who are attempting to fix their Phantom Zone projector to capture the imprisoned Monkey King. During the scuffle, Winston is knocked unconscious and the Projector activates, sending the Monkey Prince to the Phantom Zone, where he meets the Monkey King, his real father, for the first time. The Monkey King uses his abilities to view the Monkey Prince's memories and is informed of conflict between Nezha and King Fire Bull. Realizing that Nezha has become corrupted without the Red Armillary Sash, the Monkey King implores his son to defeat Nezha and King Fire Bull and to seek out his mentor Tripiṭaka to help him escape his imprisonment from the Phantom Zone. Meanwhile, Ultra-Humanite deduces that the Monkey Prince is his adoptive grandson and after the Monkey Prince escapes the Phantom Zone, he injects him with nanobots to put him under his control.

Dark Fate
Huntress goes to Arkham Tower and confronts Onomatopoeia and other serial killers who are being controlled by Killer Moth due to the Lazarus Explosion. The Doom Patrol are confronted by monstrous clowns who are a kidnapped group of military men. Jules Jordan and their friend Micah receive powers from the Still Force and Avery Ho confronts them to offer help. While visiting their grandmother's grave in Gotham City's Chinatown, demon hunter Xanthe Zhou fends off an attack from several jiangshi with help from Cassandra Cain. John Constantine arrives to track down necromantic energy but the necromantic energy appears and captures Cain.

Aftermath

Batman vs. Robin
Possessing Batman's body, Nezha takes Damian back to the Batcave and demands King Fire Bull's whereabouts. Damian is able to escape the Batcave on his motorcycle but Nezha takes control of a Batmobile and gives chase. Talia radios Damian and informs him that Nezha's spirit has left his body and has been fully transferred into his father but warns him that exorcising Nezha would cause Batman to die from his earlier wounds. The Monkey Prince arrives and rescues Damian from Nezha and informs him that Nezha will become stronger the longer he stays in Batman's body. Damian formulates a plan to defeat Nezha and save his father. Damain lures Nezha to a Gotham City rooftop, where he, the Bat-Family (Nightwing, Red Hood, Tim Drake, Barbara Gordon, Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown) and the Monkey Prince subdue Nezha long enough for Zatanna, Enchantress and Pigsy to arrive with Nezha's body. The three sorcerers are able to transfer and bind Nezha's spirit back into his body with the Red Armillary Sash, but Batman is left mortally wounded. Damian offers his own life to save his father, but is told that his soul alone won't be able to save Batman. With Oracle's technology, Damian broadcasts a message to Gotham's citizens, urging them to help Batman in his greatest hour of need. Damian's words allow Gotham's citizens to give up small pieces of their souls, which are enough to revive Batman from death. The next morning, Damian confirms that that Lazarus Island has been evacuated, Lazarus Resin is gone from Earth and that Nezha and King Fire Bull have been imprisoned. Damian reconciles with Batman and comments that there is no team more formidable than Batman and Robin.

Monkey Prince
An unnamed Chinese demoness and her skeletal soldiers release a weakened King Fire Bull from his prison in the Atlantic Ocean. The Monkey Prince, Pigsy and Supergirl clean up Metropolis and are assisted by Princess Shellestriah, who wishes to be trained by Pigsy. The demoness' soldiers attack the four and while the Monkey Prince fights them off with his clones, some of the soldiers reveal that the Monkey Prince is not the Monkey King's son but a clone of the Monkey King who refused to revert back into hair. While the Monkey Prince is shaken by the revelation, the soldiers are able to capture Supergirl due to her weakness to magic and take her to King Fire Bull's lair, who proceeds to consume her qi to revitalize himself. While the three pursue the soldiers, Pigsy views the Monkey Prince's memories which confirm he was a clone created from the King's hairs. However, Pigsy explains that the Monkey Prince's inability to revert back into hair and choosing to believe that he is real proves that his is the Monkey King's son rather than his clone. With his newfound confidence, the Monkey Prince confronts and defeats King Fire Bull, who is resealed by Pigsy. As Supergirl thanks the Monkey Prince and his companions, the demoness flees unnoticed.

Characters introduced
The event introduced many new characters to the DC Universe. These include:

 Ash
 Beast Girl
 Bloodwynd (Raphael Arce)
 Circuit Breaker
 City Boy
 Deadeye
 Insomnia
 Psylosimon
 Trilogy
 The Vigil
 Xanthe Zhou

Titles involved

Prelude

Main story

Tie-in issues

Revenge of the Gods

Aftermath

Critical reception
According to Comicbookroundup, Lazarus Planet Alpha received an average rating of 7.9 out of 10 based on 13 reviews. Lazarus Planet: Assault on Krypton received an average rating of 8.1 out of 10 based on 7 reviews. Lazarus Planet: We Once Were Gods received an average rating of 7.7 out of 10 based on 9 reviews. Lazarus Planet: Legends Reborn received an average rating of 7 out of 10 based on 10 reviews. Lazarus Planet: Next Evolution received an average rating of 7.7 out of 10 based on 7 reviews. Monkey Prince #11 received an average rating of  8.4 out of 10 based on 5 reviews. Lazarus Planet Dark Fate received an average rating of 7.5 out of 10 based on 8 reviews. Lazarus Planet Omega received an average rating of 7.3 out of 10 based on 9 reviews.

References

Lazarus Planet


Charlotte Valandrey (29 November 1968 – 13 July 2022) was a French actress and author. After early success she was widely tipped for stardom, but her career took a more modest course until the release of her autobiography in 2005.

Early life
Born Anne-Charlotte Pascal into an affluent family, Valandrey grew up in Brittany in north-western France. From the age of six she lived in the small coastal town of Val-André, from which she took her professional name in 1985.

Career
Valandrey's debut film was Véra Belmont's 1985 political drama Red Kiss, in which she played Nadia. Her highly acclaimed performance as a young communist in 1950s Paris was rewarded with a César award nomination for "Most Promising Actress" the following year but she eventually lost to Charlotte Gainsbourg. She also won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 36th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1986, she appeared in the music video for David Bowie's song "As the World Falls Down" from the soundtrack for the movie Labyrinth (1986), although the video went unreleased until 1993.

Personal life
After making her debut, at the age of sixteen, in the film Red Kiss, she lived alone in a studio that her parents bought for her. Carefree and uninformed about the dangers involved, she had affairs with "a drug-addicted musician, and other boys at risk". In 1986, a few days before her eighteenth birthday, she learned that she was HIV-positive.

In 1999, she met Arthur Lecaisne with whom she married on 17 July 1999 at Pléneuf-Val-André. At the beginning of 2000, they had a daughter, Tara who is HIV-negative.

While separating from Arthur in 2002 and following a triple therapy which damaged her heart and caused her two heart attacks, her heart broke down, necrotic, and left her with only 10% heart capacity. On 4 November 2003, she received a transplant.

In March 2007, after selling over 280,000 copies of her book, Charlotte gave approval for its adaptation in the TV movie, L'Amour dans le sang. Produced by Dominique Besnehard for Mon Voisin Productions, it was first broadcast on 23 November 2008 on France 3.

On 8 June 2022, she announced that she was waiting for a second heart transplant because of new health problems. She received it on 14 June at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital but the transplant did not take.

Charlotte Valandrey died on 13 July 2022, at the age of 53. Her funeral took place in Pléneuf-Val-André. In the press release announcing the death, the family indicates that a tribute would be paid to her in Paris in September.

Charlotte was a patron of the Greffe de vie ("Foundation of Life Registry") and was committed to the cause of organ donation and transplantation.

Filmography

Theater

Author

Dubbing

References

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2022 deaths
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French film actresses
French stage actresses
Silver Bear for Best Actress winners
Heart transplant recipients
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The German Foundation for International Legal Cooperation (Deutsche Stiftung für Internationale Rechtliche Zusammenarbeit e.V. or IRZ) was set up in 1992 on the initiative of the German Federal Minister of Justice, Dr. Klaus Kinkel, as a registered non-profit association. Its headquarters are in Bonn, with an additional office in Berlin.

Tasks
The IRZ works with institutions involved in legal and judicial reform in almost 30 partner states. This cooperation covers the states of Eastern and Southeast Europe, the MENA region and the South Caucasus, central Asia and Vietnam.

Within the framework of providing advice on legislation, the IRZ organises expert discussions, helps with the development of draft legislation and promotes the continued training and education of law professionals from all kinds of disciplines. To this end, seminars, workshops and conferences are organised in the relevant partner states. The main focus here is on national legal reforms and German and European law. Working visits, work placements and job shadowing are also made available in Germany for training and education purposes, allowing a direct, practice-oriented exchange of experiences with German experts. The IRZ also does everything it can to support law students by working with universities, providing supplementary studies, seminars and lectures.

The IRZ is supported and assisted by its members and the board of trustees. These include personalities from the worlds of politics, business, management, academia and legal associations and companies. The IRZ can also rely on support from numerous other experienced experts from a wide variety of specialist areas of the law. This means that the IRZ can guarantee specialist expert advice and non-bureaucratic, fast, flexible and coordinated support over the long term for its partner states.

Objectives
Together with its partners, the IRZ develops and consolidates:
 Rule-of-law, democratic constitutional structures within the framework of the European approach to human rights
 An independent, operational judiciary including all the foundations for procedural law
 The private and commercial legal foundations for private law activities and business transactions
 The public law framework conditions for corporate activities
 The harmonisation of national legal systems with European law
 International legal assistance and cooperation in civil and criminal cases
 European standards, in particular for protecting human rights in criminal law, criminal procedural law and penitentiary law

Contracting authority
The IRZ is commissioned by the German Federal Government and is therefore primarily financed by the budget of the German Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection and by project funding from the German Federal Foreign Office. The IRZ also carries out projects as part of the European Union Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations.

Other websites
 IRZ
 BMJV feiert 25 Jahre IRZ vom 17.  Mai 2017
 IRZ Projekt in Tunesien im Kampagnenfilm 2016 des Auswärtigen Amts für die Kandidatur der BRD für einen Sitz im Sicherheitsrat der Vereinten Nationen
 Missionare in Rechtsfragen  In: General-Anzeiger Bonn Bonn vom 3. September 2013
 Susanne Klaiber: "Fettnäpfchen tunlichst vermeiden" In: Focus online vom 25. Mai 2011
 Juristische Entwicklungshelfer In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, 11. Mai 2011

1992 establishments in Germany
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Narrative exposition, now often simply exposition, is the insertion of background information within a story or narrative. This information can be about the setting, characters' backstories, prior plot events, historical context, etc. In literature, exposition appears in the form of expository writing embedded within the narrative.

Infodumping
An information dump (more commonly now, infodump) is a large drop of information by the author to provide background they deem necessary to continue the plot. This is ill-advised in narrative and is even worse when used in dialogue. There are cases where an information dump can work, but in many instances it slows down the plot or breaks immersion for the readers. Exposition works best when the author provides only the bare minimum of surface information and allows the readers to discover as they go.

Indirect exposition/incluing

Indirect exposition, sometimes called incluing, is a technique of worldbuilding in which the reader is gradually exposed to background information about the world in which a story is set. The idea is to clue the readers in to the world the author is building without them being aware of it. This can be done in a number of ways: through dialogues, flashbacks, characters' thoughts, background details, in-universe media, or the narrator telling a backstory.

Indirect exposition has always occurred in storytelling incidentally, but is first clearly identified, in the modern literary world, in the writing of Rudyard Kipling. In his stories set in India like The Jungle Book, Kipling was faced with the problem of Western readers not knowing the culture and environment of that land, so he gradually developed the technique of explaining through example. But this was relatively subtle, compared to Kipling's science fiction stories, where he used the technique much more obviously and necessarily, to explain an entirely fantastic world unknown to any reader, in his Aerial Board of Control universe, starting with the novella "With the Night Mail" (1905).

Kipling's writing influenced other science fiction writers, most notably the "Dean of Science Fiction", Robert Heinlein, who became known for his advanced rhetorical and storytelling techniques, including indirect exposition.

The word incluing is attributed to fantasy and science fiction author Jo Walton. She defined it as "the process of scattering information seamlessly through the text, as opposed to stopping the story to impart the information." "Information dump" (or info-dump) is the term given for overt exposition, which writers want to avoid. In an idiot lecture, characters tell each other information that needs to be explained for the purpose of the audience, but of which the characters in-universe would already be aware. Writers are advised to avoid writing dialogues beginning with "As you well know, Professor, a prime number is..."

See also
Show, don't tell

Notes

References

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Fiction-writing mode

Exposition (narrative)


The New Ross Piano Festival is an Irish festival of classical music which takes place annually in the County Wexford town of New Ross. The festival began in 2006 and features music for piano, whether as a solo instrument or as part of a chamber music ensemble.

Beginnings
The festival grew out of the activities of a group of local music enthusiasts, known as Music for New Ross. Since 1995 they had been organising live concerts in the New Ross area, which usually involved the hire of a grand piano. In 2005, they decided to develop a series of concerts around the hired piano and the idea of a festival was born. The first festival opened on 29 September 2006 with a performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata given by Hugh Tinney.

Organisation
The festival takes place over the course of four days at the end of September each year. The main venue is St. Mary's Church, New Ross. Since the festival began, the artistic director has been Irish pianist, Finghin Collins. His policy is to feature several of the guest pianists in each concert so audiences can experience the range of talent on offer without necessarily attending every event. As well as presenting established artists, the festival also provides opportunities for students and up-and-coming performers to take part in master classes and recitals.

Music and musicians
The festival encompasses a wide repertoire ranging from the baroque period to the twenty-first century. In 2011, a second grand piano was added and this allowed the inclusion of works for four and eight hands - in the latter case a transcription of Gioachino Rossini's William Tell Overture.

A number of compositions have been premièred in New Ross. In 2009, Finghin Collins gave the first performance in Ireland of Bertrand Dubedout's Vrishti. The 2011 programme included the world première of Belfast-born composer Stephen Gardner's Two Guys walk into a Piano Bar in a performance by Finghin Collins and Charles Owen.

Among the other artists who have played at the festival since its inception are Freddy Kempf, John O'Conor, Cristina Ortiz, Kathryn Stott and Piers Lane.

References

External links
Official web site
Music festivals established in 2006
Music festivals in Ireland

Classical music festivals in Ireland
Tourist attractions in County Wexford

New Ross Piano Festival


Robert Louis Moore (August 13, 1942 - June 18, 2016) was an American Jungian analyst and consultant in private practice in Chicago, Illinois. He was the Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Spirituality at the Chicago Theological Seminary; a training analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago; and director of research for the Institute for the Science of Psychoanalysis. Author and editor of numerous books in psychology and spirituality, he lectured internationally on his formulation of a Neo-Jungian paradigm for psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. He was working on Structural Psychoanalysis and Integrative Psychotherapy: A Neo-Jungian Paradigm at the time of his death.

Beginning in 2014 he had experienced a series of mini strokes and was subsequently suffering from vascular dementia.  The reporting of his death in 2016 suggested that he may have shot his wife and then himself, but the forensic report concluded that gunshot residue from a fired a gun was only found on the hands of his wife, Margaret Shanahan. The news report was disputed by his niece, Marina Moore Weems, in a 2022 interview in which she provided the forensic report and pointed out inconsistencies in statements about what was observed at the scene.

Life and career
Robert Louis Moore was born on August 13, 1942. His parents were Golden Franklin Moore Sr. and Margaret DePriest Moore. Moore has characterized his roots as "Cajun Catholic, Russian Jewish, and Scotch-Irish Protestant". He was married to Margaret Shanahan and lived in Chicago.

He earned a B.A. in Religion/Behavioral Science (1964 , Hendrix College), an  M.Th. in Psychology and Theology (1967, Southern Methodist University), an  M.Th. in Counseling Psychology and Religion (1968, Duke University), followed by a M.A. and Ph.D in Psychology and Religion (in 1970 and 1975, University of Chicago). He earned certifications in Adlerian Psychoanalysis (1983, Adler Institute) and Jungian Psychology (1987, C. G. Jung Institute). Moore was deeply impressed with three University of Chicago professors, Mircea Eliade, Victor Turner, and Paul Tillich.

His employment history shows that he found a home at the Chicago Theological Seminary: 1973-1977: Western Illinois University, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies; 1977-1979: Chicago Theological Seminary, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Religion; 1979-1982: Associate Professor of Psychology and Religion; 1982-2005: Professor of Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Spirituality; 2005–2016: Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Spirituality.

He was also employed from 1973 to 2016 in the private practice of psychotherapy; and from 1983 to 2016 in the private practice of psychoanalysis and as a consultant in organizational development and leadership and personal coaching.

Contributions in perspective

Introduction
As a psychoanalytic scientist, Moore worked on decoding and mapping the deep structures of the human self. His work on ritual process and the masculine psyche is today in the forefront of theory in masculine psychology, spirituality, and initiation.

The men's movement in the United States received a certain amount of notoriety for the practice of drumming. This practice is understood in terms of ritual processes. Many of our human ancestors worked out ritual processes, some of which did involve drumming and dancing and singing. From his cross-cultural study of ritual processes, Moore became convinced of the value of ritual process in actuating human potential. More specifically, he became convinced that ritual processes at their best can provide liminal experiences for certain participants that are instrumental in enabling those participants to actuate the potential of archetypal sources of energy (that is, sources of energy at the archetypal level of the human psyche).

Moore's views regarding ritual processes can be found in the transcribed lectures and essays published in The Archetype of Initiation: Sacred Space, Ritual Process, and Personal Transformation (2001), discussed below.

In addition to writing and editing numerous books, Moore frequently gave short courses at the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago, many of which are available from the institute on audiotapes.

Five key books
Moore is probably most widely known as the senior author, with Douglas Gillette, of a series of five books on the in-depth structure of the male psyche, drawing on the account of the archetypal level of the human psyche developed by C. G. Jung.
 King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine is an introductory overview of four key sources of energy at the archetypal level of the human psyche.
 The King Within: Accessing the King in the Male Psyche centers on the most important and most difficult source of energy for men to access.
 The Warrior Within: Accessing the Knight in the Male Psyche centers on the source of energy that boys and men usually learn how to access relatively early in life, but it takes time and effort to learn how to access the optimally mature form of this source of energy in the human psyche.
 The Magician Within: Accessing the Shaman in the Male Psyche centers on another form of energy that boys and men usually learn how to access at a relatively early age, but, once again, it takes time and effort to learn how to access the optimally mature form of this source of energy in the human psyche.
 The Lover Within: Accessing the Lover in the Male Psyche centers on a very tricky source of energy in the human psyche.

According to Moore and Gillette, for each optimal orientation for each of these four key sources of energy, there are two corresponding "shadow" forms of the source of the energy—two ways for each of them to be misdirected for only one healthy or optimal way for each of them to be oriented. Just as the authors have given four key sources of energy in the human psyche very colorful names that seem to personify each source, so too the authors give each of the bipolar "shadow" forms very colorful names that seem to personify them.

Even though Moore stresses the positive potential of the archetypes of maturity, as he styles the healthy forms of the archetypes (as distinct from the "shadow" forms), he also stresses that archetypes are not friendly. By this he means that they can be dangerous because they can take over a person. So they are best approached with caution.

Moore has also noted that various forms of masculine behavior are immature, and so he thinks it is important for men today to develop guidelines for directing their own personal development and decision making.

Three recent books
The 21st century has seen the publication of three new books by Moore that carry forward certain dimensions of his thought:
 2001: The Archetype of Initiation contains selected lectures and essays by Moore on sacred space, ritual process, and personal transformation. By the term "archetype" here Moore means the structure of personal initiation. By the term "initiation" here he means the processes whereby one leaves behind certain aspects of one's earlier life and moves toward a new constellation of one's life.
 2002: The Magician and the Analyst is a short treatise on the archetype of the Magus in occult spirituality and Jungian analysis. One usually moves from one constellation of one's life to a new constellation with the assistance of someone else, or of several others. The person(s) who plays this pivotal enabling role for someone else is drawing on energies at the archetypal level of the human psyche that Moore refers to as Magician energies or Magus energies.
 2003: Facing the Dragon: Confronting Personal and Spiritual Grandiosity is a collection of essays about various aspects of grandiosity. The point is to distinguish between grandiosity and true human greatness.

Publications

Books by Moore
 John Wesley and Authority: A Psychological Perspective (Scholars Press, 1979).
 The Archetype of Initiation: Sacred Space, Ritual Process, and Personal Transformation (Xlibris, 2001).
 The Magician and the Analyst: The Archetype of the Magus in Occult Spirituality and Jungian Analysis (Xlibris, 2002).
 Facing the Dragon: Confronting Personal and Spiritual Grandiosity (Chiron Publications, 2003).

Book with J. Gordon Melton
 The Cult Experience: Responding to the New Religious Pluralism (Pilgrim Press, 1982).

Books with Douglas Gillette
 King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine (HarperSanFrancisco, 1990).
 The King Within: Accessing the King in the Male Psyche (William Morrow, 1992).
 The Warrior Within: Accessing the Knight in the Male Psyche (William Morrow, 1992).
 The Magician Within: Accessing the Shaman in the Male Psyche (William Morrow, 1993).
 The Lover Within: Accessing the Lover in the Male Psyche (William Morrow, 1993).

Books edited by Moore
 Sources of Vitality in American Church Life (Exploration Press, 1978).
 Anthropology and the Study of Religion (with Frank Reynolds; Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1984).
 Jung's Challenge to Contemporary Religion (with ; Chiron Publications, 1987).
 Carl Jung and Christian Spirituality (Paulist Press, 1988).
 Jung and Christianity in Dialogue: Faith, Feminism, and Hermeneutics (with Daniel J. Meckel; Paulist Press, 1990).
 Self and Liberation: The Jung-Buddhist Dialogue (with Daniel J. Meckel; Paulist Press, 1992).

Moore also edited, or served as series editor of, a number of books in the Jung and Spirituality Series published by Paulist Press.

Carl Jung and Christian Spirituality, ed R. L. Moore.
Jung and Christianity in Dialogue, eds R.L. Moore and Daniel J Meckel.
Lord Of The Four Quarters, by John Weir Perry.
Jung and Shamanism in Dialogue, by C. Michael Smith.
Individuation and The Absolute, by Sean Kelly.
Dancing Between The Worlds, by Fred R. Gufstason.
In God's Shadow: The Collaboration of Victor White and C.G. Jung, by A. Lammers.
Jesus' Parables by Robert Winterhalter, with George Fisk.
The Unconscious Christian: Images Of God In Dreams, by James Hall.

References

External links
Moore's website
Chicago Center for Integrative Psychotherapy website
The ManKind Project

1942 births
2016 deaths
Men's movement in the United States
Hendrix College alumni
Perkins School of Theology alumni
Duke Divinity School alumni
University of Chicago alumni
Jungian psychologists

Robert L. Moore (psychologist)


Women in Cages is a 1971 women in prison sexploitation film directed by Gerardo de León and starring Jennifer Gan, Judy Brown, Roberta Collins, and Pam Grier. Co-produced by Roger Corman, it was prominently featured in the Planet Terror portion of the 2007 film Grindhouse. Grindhouse director Quentin Tarantino said of the film, "I'm a huge, huge fan of Gerry de Leon.... the film is just harsh, harsh, harsh." He described the final shot as one of "devastating despair".

Plot

Carol "Jeff" Jeffries (Jennifer Gan) is set up by her boyfriend, Rudy (Charlie Davao). Jeff does not realize that Rudy runs a ship-board prostitution, gambling, and drug dealing empire. Rudy sees the heat closing in on him and stashes his illegal goods in Jeff's purse.

Thrown into a harsh prison where the inmates are kept barefoot and subjected to hard labor and sadistic punishment, Jeff encounters Alabama (Pam Grier), a sadistic lesbian guard fond of torture. Cellmate Stokes (Roberta Collins) is a heroin addict who agrees to a plot against Jeff that will secure her more heroin. Another cellmate Sandy (Judy Brown) also agrees to a plot against Jeff that could secure her own release. Their other cellmate Theresa (Sofia Moran) is Alabama's girlfriend. Jeff endures a horrible experience made worse by her cellmates as she struggles day to day.

Finally realizing her boyfriend is not helping her, Jeff hopes to escape through the jungle. She then learns that local poachers are paid to track and kill escapees, who inevitably become lost in the wilds surrounding the prison.

When Theresa falls out of favor with Alabama and loses her privileged position in the cell block, escape becomes an attractive option to her. Theresa reveals that she knows the jungle well and can obtain outside help. Despite the fact that two of her three cellmates had previously agreed to covert plots against Jeff, all three of them accompany her on the escape.

DVD releases

Women in Cages has been issued numerous times on DVD since the original release and prior VHS issues due to continued interest in Roger Corman productions. Most recently it was released by Shout! Factory as part of Roger Corman's Cult Classics on June 21, 2011.

See also
 List of American films of 1971

References

External links

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1970s English-language films
Films directed by Gerardo de León
American sexploitation films
Women in prison films
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Gone Girl is a 2014 American crime thriller mystery movie set in Missouri. It is an adaptation of a novel by Gillian Flynn that is also called Gone Girl. The movie is about a man who is suspected of killing his wife after she goes missing. Ben Affleck plays Nick Dunne. Rosamund Pike plays his wife Amy.

The movie received positive reviews from critics. Its box office was very positive.

Release dates

2014 crime thriller movies
2014 mystery movies
Adultery in movies
2010s American crime thriller movies
American mystery movies
Antisocial personality disorder
2010s English-language movies
Movies set in Missouri
Movies about educators
Movies about missing people
Movies about murderers
Movies about suburbia
Movies about twins
Movies about writers
Movies based on books
Movies directed by David Fincher
Pregnancy movies

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Macuata is one of fourteen  Provinces in Fiji. It is on the island of Vanua Levu in the Northern Division. The main town is Labasa.

Macuata has a land area of 2004 square kilometers. About 66,000 people lived there in 2017. The Province has 114 villages spread over 12 districts.

Provinces of Fiji

Macuata Province


WebFetch is a set of Perl 5 modules written by Ian Kluft from 1998 through 2009 that provides a framework for retrieving information feeds from the Web, or posting a feed on a web site.  It is intended to be run on a Unix or Linux server automatically, such as from cron.  The current version 0.13 was released September 20, 2009.  It is Open Source software, licensed under the GNU General Public License.

WebFetch can collect various types of inputs via plugin modules and send or store them to various outputs also via plugin modules.  Inputs include RSS, Atom, local news feed files, and perl data structures.  Outputs include perl data structures, the Template Toolkit and pages in TWiki systems.

History
Before there were RSS and Atom aggregation, WebFetch started with modules to retrieve news in ad hoc feed formats of various web sites, including Slashdot.

WebFetch is available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. The following Perl modules are included with it.
 WebFetch::Input::Atom - Atom feed reader
 WebFetch::Input::PerlStruct - Perl structure input
 WebFetch::Input::RSS - RSS feed reader
 WebFetch::Input::SiteNews - local "site news" file reader
 WebFetch::Output::Dump - perl structure dump output
 WebFetch::Output::TT - Template Toolkit output
 WebFetch::Output::TWiki - TWiki page output

The following Perl modules were based on ad hoc news formats from before RSS, and in some cases web scraping.  They used to be provided with WebFetch in the past, but were deprecated and removed.
 WebFetch::CNETnews
 WebFetch::CNNsearch
 WebFetch::COLA
 WebFetch::DebianNews
 WebFetch::Freshmeat
 WebFetch::LinuxDevNet
 WebFetch::LinuxTelephony
 WebFetch::LinuxToday
 WebFetch::ListSubs
 WebFetch::Slashdot
 WebFetch::32BitsOnline
 WebFetch::YahooBiz

References

External links

 WebFetch Add-On for TWiki

Perl modules
Web software
News aggregators
Atom (Web standard)
Unix Internet software

WebFetch


The Central West is a region of New South Wales, Australia. The region is west of the Blue Mountains, which are west of Sydney. It has an area of 63,262 square kilometres (24,426 square miles). Major towns and cities in the Central West include the cities of Bathurst and Orange; and the large towns of Cowra and Parkes. Bathurst and Orange have campuses of Charles Sturt University, the only local provider of higher education for the region.

Regions of New South Wales

Central West (New South Wales)


Mitsuye Yamada (born July 5, 1923) is a Japanese American poet, essayist, and feminist and human rights activist. She is one of the first and most vocal Asian American women writers to write about the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans.

Early life
Mitsuye Yamada was born as Mitsuye Mei Yasutake in Fukuoka, Japan. Her parents were Jack Kaichiro Yasutake and Hide Shiraki Yasutake, both first-generation Japanese Americans (Issei) residing in Seattle, Washington. Her mother was visiting relatives in Japan when she was born, but had to return to Seattle to care for one of her brothers. Mitsuye was left in the care of a neighboring family in Fukuoka until she was 3 1/2 years old, when her father's friend brought her back to Seattle.

At age 9, she returned to Japan to live with her paternal grandparents for 18 months. Upon returning, she spent the remainder of her childhood in Seattle with her parents and three brothers. Mitsuye's family lived in Beacon Hill, an Asian residential enclave, and she graduated from Cleveland High School.

Incarceration
When World War II broke out, Mitsuye's father Jack Yasutake was branded an enemy alien and arrested on suspicion of espionage. Like hundreds of other Japanese Americans, he was arrested without proof of wrongdoing, and was later exonerated after the war. Jack worked as a translator for the Immigration and Naturalization Service and also was the head of the local Senryū poetry club.

In 1942, after Executive Order 9066 was signed, Mitsuye and the rest of her family were incarcerated at Minidoka War Relocation Center, Idaho.

Life after incarceration
Mitsuye was allowed to leave the concentration camp with her brother Mike because they renounced loyalty to the Emperor of Japan. Both went on to attend the University of Cincinnati. Mike was soon expelled because the U.S. Air Force was conducting "sensitive wartime research on campus and requested his removal" but Mitsuye was allowed to continue studying at the University (Yamada, 1981)

During the time of Mitsuye's upbringing, Japanese society did not offer women much freedom; they were unable to obtain higher education or choose a husband on their own accord. Yamada's personal and familiar ordeals throughout World War II and observations of her mother's way of life bring anti-racist and feminist attitudes to her works.

Mitsuye married Yoshikazu Yamada in 1950, and the couple had four children together. Mitsuye has seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Mitsuye became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1955. She considers herself Nisei (second-generation Japanese American).

Education and career
Although Yamada began her studies at the University of Cincinnati, she left in 1945 to attend New York University, where she received a B.A. in English and Art in 1947. She earned an M.A. in English Literature and Research from the University of Chicago in 1953. She began teaching at Cypress College in 1968, and retired in 1989 as a Professor of English.

She wrote her first book, Camp Notes and Other Poems, during and just after her internment during the Second World War, but it remained unpublished until 1976. In this collection, the "wartime conflicts of Japanese Americans are traced back to the injustice of Executive Order 9066 and to visible and invisible racism against Japanese and Americans of Japanese ancestry both inside and outside the camp." (Usui, 2002). Yamada's professed purpose for writing is to encourage Asian American women to speak out and defy the cultural codes that encourage Asian American women to be silent. (Sheffer, 2003). Yamada recognizes that Asian American women have not been fully represented as "sites of complex intersections of race, gender, and national identity." (Yamamoto, 2000). Yamada once said, "Asian Pacific women need to affirm our culture while working within to change it." (Geok-Lin, 1993).

Yamada's first publication was Camp Notes and Other Poems. The book is a chronological documentary, beginning with "Evacuation" from Seattle, moving in the camp through "Desert Storm," and concluding with poems recounting the move to Cincinnati. "Cincinnati" illustrates the visible racial violence and "The Question of Loyalty" shows the invisible humiliation of the Japanese during World War II. She wrote the book to promote public awareness surrounding the discrimination against the Japanese during the war and to prompt deeper discussion of these issues. With this publication, Yamada challenged Japanese traditions that demand silence from the female.

She contributed two essays to This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writings from Women of Color. (1981) "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster" reflects the double invisibility of being both Asian and a woman while "Asian Pacific American Women and Feminism" urges women of color to develop a feminist agenda that addresses their particular concerns. That same year, Yamada joined Nellie Wong in a biographical documentary on public television, "Mitsuye and Nellie: Two Asian-American Woman Poets." The film tells of actual events that happened to the speakers, their parents, grandparents and relatives. It uses poetry to tell Asian American history of biculturalism.

In 1982, she received a Vesta Award from the Los Angeles Woman's Building.

"Desert Run: Poems and Stories", returns to her experience at the internment camp. Here, Yamada explores her heritage and discovers that her identity involves a cultural straddle between Japan and the US, which she describes in "Guilty on Both Counts. " Some poems, especially "The Club," indicate that Yamada expanded her point of view to include feminist as well as racist issues because they recount sexual and domestic violence against women. Some of her poems are revisions of earlier versions in Camp Notes. The book contains the history and transition of the Japanese American in the U.S., including Yamada's perspective on gender discrimination.

At 96 years old, Yamada has released her latest work, Full Circle: New and Selected Poems
Publisher: University of California at Santa Barbara Department of Asian American Studies.

Works
1976 – Camp Notes and Other Poems
1976 – Anthologized in Poetry from Violence
1976 – Lighthouse
1976 – The Japanese-American Anthology
1981 – Mitsuye and Nellie: Two Asian-American Woman Poets
1989 – Desert Run: Poems and stories
1992 – Camp notes and other poems [2nd edition]
2003 – Three Asian American Writers Speak Out on Feminism
2019 — Full Circle: New and Selected Poems"

Compilation inclusions
Sowing Ti Leaves (Multicultural Women Writers, 1991)
"Invisibility is an unnatural disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman" (This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writings by women of color) ed. Cherrie L. Moraga/ Gloria E. Anzaldua
"Cultural Influences: Asian/Pacific American" (Women Poets of the World)
"Cincinnati" (Bold Words: A century of Asian American writing) ed. Rajini Srikanth and Esther Y. Iwanaga
"Looking Out" (New Worlds of Literature) ed. Jerome Beaty/J. Paul Hunter
"To the Lady" (Literature: Thinking, Reading and Writing Critically) ed. Sylvan Barnet, Morton Berman, William Burto, William E. Cain
"Cincinnati, 1943" (Sing, whisper, shout, PRAY! Feminist Visions for a just world) ed. M, Jacqui Alexander, Lisa Albrecht, Sharon Day, Mab Segrest
"Invisibility is an Unnatural disaster: reflections of an Asian American woman" (Constellations: A contextual reader for writers) ed. John Schilb, Elizabeth Flynn, John Clifford
"Desert Run" (Making Face, Making Soul: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Women of Color) ed. Gloria Anzaldua
"Marriage Was a Foreign Country" (Literature Alive! The Art of Oral Interpretation) ed. Teri gamble, Michael Gamble
"Warning" (Making More Waves: New Writing by Asian American Women) ed. Elaine H Kim, Lilia V Villanueva, And Asian United of California
"I learned to sew" (Southern California Women Writers and Artists) ed. Rara Avis
"Mitsuye Yamada" (Yellow Light: The Flowering of Asian-American Artists) ed. Amy Ling
"A Bedtime Story" (Arrangement in Literature) Medallion Edition/American Reads (textbook)
"Masks of Women" (On Women Turning 70) interviews by Cathleen Rountree
"She Often Spoke of Suicide" (My Story's On: Ordinary Women Extrodinary Lives) ed. Paula Ross
"Legacy of Silence" (Last Witnesses Reflection onf the Wartime Internemt of Japanese Americans) ed. Erica Harth
(Textbook but highlights teaching career) "Experiential Approaches to teaching Joy Kogawa's Obasan" (Teaching American Ethnic Literatures" ed. John R Maitino and David R Peck
"Living in a Transformed Desert" (Placing the Academy: Essays on landscape, work, and identity) ed. Jennifer Sinor and Rona Kaufman

Awards
1980 - Receives Orange County Arts Alliance Literary Arts Award.
1982 - Receives Vesta Award for Writing, Woman's Building of Los Angeles.
1983 - Serves as Resource Scholar, Multicultural Women's Institute, University of Chicago.
1984 - Receives Writer's Fellowship, Yaddo Artist Colony, Saratoga Springs, New York.
Receives Award for Contribution to the Status of Women from the organization Women For: Orange County.
1985 - Receives Women's Network Alert Literature Award.
1987 - Visiting Poet, Pitzer College, Claremont, California.
Receives Distinguished Teacher Award from North Orange County Community College District
Receives award for contributions to ethnic studies from MELUS.
1990-1991 - Receives Woman of Achievement Award from the Santiago Ranch Foundation.
1992 - Receives the Jesse Bernard Wise Women Award from the Center for Women's Policy Studies, Washington, D.C.
Commencement speaker at CSU Northridge.
1995 - Receives "Write On, Women!" award from the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research.
1997 - Receives Give Women Voice Award—during International Women's Day, U.S.A.
2007 - KCET Local Hero of the Year for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
2009 - Receives Honorary Doctorate, Simmons College Boston

 Boards
Yamada served on the national board of Amnesty International for two terms.

References
Notes

Sources
Lim, Shirley Geok-lin. (1993, Fall). Feminist and ethnic literary theories in Asian American literature. Feminist Studies, 19, 571.
Kolmar, W., & Bartkowski, F. (Eds.). (1999). Feminist theory: A reader. California: Mayfield Publishing company.
Sheffer, J. (2003). Three Asian American writers speak out on feminism. Iris, 47, 91.
Usui, M. The Literary Encyclopedia [Online Database] Yamada, Mitsuye. (March 21, 2002). Retrieved November 14, 2005, from http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4825
 Wong, N., Woo, M., Yamada, M. Three Asian American Writers Speak Out on Feminism, Radical Women Publications, 2003.
Yamada, M. (1981). Invisibility is an unnatural disaster: Reflections of an Asian American woman. In C. McCann, & S. Kim (eds.), Feminist theory reader: Local and global perspectives (pp. 174– 178). New York, NY: Taylor & Francis Books, Inc.
Yamamoto, T. (January 31, 2000). In/Visible difference:Asian American women and the politics of spectacle. Race, Gender, & Class,1,'' 43.
Mitsuye Yamada papers. MS-R071. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.

External links
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The Psychedelic Furs are an English rock band founded in London in February 1977. Led by lead vocalist Richard Butler and his brother Tim Butler on bass guitar, the Psychedelic Furs are one of the many acts spawned from the British post-punk scene. Their music went through several phases, from an initially austere art rock sound to later touching on new wave and hard rock.

The band had several hits in their early career. In 1986, filmmaker John Hughes used their song "Pretty in Pink" for his film of the same name. They went on hiatus after they finished touring in 1992, but resumed in 2000 and continue to perform live. The band released Made of Rain, their first studio album in nearly three decades, on 31 July 2020.

Career

Early days (1977–1980)
Richard Butler stated that the Psychedelic Furs began rehearsing in his family's front room but were soon banished because of the noise. The band was initially called RKO, then Radio. They later vacillated between calling themselves the Europeans and the Psychedelic Furs, playing gigs under both names before permanently settling on the latter. The word psychedelic was chosen to separate the band from punk rockers who ostentatiously scorned the legacy of 1960s rock music.

The band initially consisted of Richard Butler (vocals), Tim Butler (bass guitar), Duncan Kilburn (saxophone), Paul Wilson (drums), and Roger Morris (guitars). By 1979, this line-up had expanded to a sextet with Vince Ely replacing Wilson on drums and John Ashton joining as a second guitarist. The Psychedelic Furs' debut, a self-titled album released in March 1980, was produced by Steve Lillywhite. The album quickly established the band on radio in Europe and was a No. 18 hit in the UK Albums Chart. The album also found success in Germany, Italy, France, Spain and Australia.

Success (1981–1991)
The Furs found success in the US with their next release, 1981's Talk Talk Talk, which saw the band making its debut on the US Billboard 200 chart. In the UK, the album yielded two charting singles, "Dumb Waiters" and the original version of "Pretty in Pink". The latter song served as inspiration for the 1986 John Hughes film of the same name and was re-recorded for the platinum-selling soundtrack – though Richard Butler was later adamant that the cinematic interpretation had very little to do with the song's original intent.

In 1982, the band was reduced to a quartet with the departures of Morris and Kilburn and moved to the U.S. in search of a producer. The band recorded their next album, Forever Now, with record producer Todd Rundgren in Woodstock, New York. Released in September 1982, this album contained "Love My Way", which became another UK chart entry, and also their first US Billboard Hot 100 single.

Ely left the band after Forever Now (though he would later return in 1988). The next album, Mirror Moves was produced by Keith Forsey (who also programmed the drums and became the band's drummer) and featured the songs "The Ghost in You" and "Heaven". Both charted in the UK and "Heaven" became the band's highest charting UK hit at the time, peaking at No. 29. Columbia Records opted for "Here Come Cowboys" for the corresponding US release which failed to chart but "The Ghost In You" was a hit on the Billboard Hot 100. In Canada, "The Ghost In You" also charted. Mirror Moves became a Top 20 album on the Canadian Albums Chart and was named the No. 1 album of 1984 by Toronto new wave radio station CFNY.

By the mid-1980s, the band had become a staple on both US college radio and modern rock radio stations. Simultaneously, they were experiencing consistent mainstream success placing several singles in the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. Still, according to biographer Dave Thompson, they would "have more impact on future musicians than they ever did in the marketplace."

In 1986, the band recorded a new version of "Pretty in Pink" for the soundtrack of the film of the same name. Released as a single, it became their biggest hit to date in the US and their biggest UK hit. Butler later claimed that the success of "Pretty in Pink" caused the band to be pressured into entering the recording studio with producer Chris Kimsey to record a follow-up release before they were ready. The result was Midnight to Midnight, their biggest Top 40 success to date, but an album that Richard Butler later characterised as "hollow, vapid and weak". A more overtly commercial effort than their prior recordings, the album also featured the single "Heartbreak Beat", the Furs' biggest Top 40 hit in the US. The album also featured drummer Paul Garisto and saxophonist Mars Williams, both of whom toured with the band.

In the wake of Midnight to Midnight, Ely returned, and the Furs issued the single "All That Money Wants", a track recorded for the 1988 best-of compilation album All of This and Nothing. 1989's Book of Days, produced by the band and David M. Allen, featured the singles "Should God Forget" and "House". Produced by the band and Stephen Street, 1991's World Outside included the single "Until She Comes" and was the Furs' final studio album for more than two decades. From 1988 on, the Furs' singles had steady chart success with three No. 1 hits on the newly established US Modern Rock Tracks chart between 1988 and 1991. "All That Money Wants" was a No. 1 hit in 1988, while "House" topped the chart in 1990 and "Until She Comes" was No. 1 in 1991.

Hiatus and reunion (2000–present)

The band took a long break in the early 1990s, with Richard and Tim Butler going on to found Love Spit Love with Richard Fortus and Frank Ferrer (both of whom would later join Guns N' Roses). In 2000, Richard Butler, Tim Butler, and Ashton reformed the Psychedelic Furs. The touring lineup also included Fortus and, later, Ferrer. They released a live album, Beautiful Chaos: Greatest Hits Live , which included a new studio recording, "Alive (For Once in My Lifetime)".

In 2006, Richard Butler released a solo album, Richard Butler. Since re-forming in 2001, the band continued to tour worldwide. The current Psychedelic Furs touring line-up includes Richard Butler, Tim Butler, Williams, Amanda Kramer, and Rich Good.

In 2017, the band's 1984 single "The Ghost in You" was featured in the second season of Netflix hit series Stranger Things and was included on the Sony Music soundtrack companion to the season, Stranger Things: Music from the Netflix Original Series, released in October 2017. That same year, the band's 1982 single "Love My Way" was played several times in the Oscar-nominated film Call Me by Your Name.

The Psychedelic Furs released their eighth studio album Made of Rain on 31 July 2020 to positive reviews. This release marked the first full-length studio album by the band since 1991's World Outside. It became the band's second-highest charting UK Album ever and featured at the end-of-year Best Albums roundup in Mojo, Uncut, Classic Pop, ABC's Good Morning America and Vive Le Rock among others. "Don't Believe" the first single from the album was released on 20 January 2020. It was followed by "You'll Be Mine", "No-One" and "Come All Ye Faithful", each with an official lyric video.

The Strokes' Grammy Award-winning album The New Abnormal (2020) featured the song "Eternal Summer" which quotes the Furs' "The Ghost in You", for which songwriters Richard and Tim Butler received songwriting credits.

On 1 March 2021, the band released the official video for Made of Rains fifth single "Wrong Train". It premiered exclusively on NME.com and was inspired by Richard Butler's paintings. He starred in the video himself.

On 1 September 2021, two weeks before the Made of Rain Tour kicked-off, the band released a new single "Evergreen", from the Made of Rain sessions. According to Richard Butler it is about "memory and the passing of time."

Richard Butler co-wrote songs with Martin Gore for Depeche Mode's 2023 album Memento Mori, including the lead single "Ghosts Again".

MembersCurrent Richard Butler – vocals (1977–1992, 2000–present)
 Tim Butler – bass (1977–1992, 2000–present)
 Mars Williams – saxophone (1983–1989, 2005–present)
 Amanda Kramer – keyboards (2002–present)
 Rich Good – guitars (2009–present)
 Zachary Alford – drums (2021–present)Former members and Touring musicians Duncan Kilburn – saxophone, keyboards (1977–1982)
 Roger Morris – lead and rhythm guitar (1977–1982)
 Paul Wilson – drums (1977–1978)
 John Ashton – lead and rhythm guitar (1979–1992, 2000–2008)
 Vince Ely – drums (1979–1982, 1988–1990)
 Phill Calvert– drums (1982-1983)
 Gary Windo – saxophone (1982–1983)
 Mike Mooney – rhythm guitar (1984–1985)
 Ann Sheldon – cello (1982–1983)
 Paul Garisto – drums (1984–1988, 2009–2020)
 Marty Williamson – rhythm guitar (1986–1987)
 Ed Buller - keyboards (1982–1985)
 Roger O'Donnell – keyboards (1986–1987)
 Joe McGinty – keyboards (1989–1991)
 Knox Chandler – rhythm guitar, cello (1990–1991)
 Don Yallech – drums (1990–1992)
 Earl Harvin – drums (2000-2001)
 Frank Ferrer – drums (2001–2008)
 Richard Fortus – rhythm and lead guitar (2000–2002)Timeline'''

Discography

 The Psychedelic Furs (1980)
 Talk Talk Talk (1981)
 Forever Now (1982)
 Mirror Moves (1984)
 Midnight to Midnight (1987)
 Book of Days (1989)
 World Outside (1991)
 Made of Rain'' (2020)

References

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1977 establishments in England
British musical sextets
Columbia Records artists
English alternative rock groups
English new wave musical groups
English post-punk music groups
English rock music groups
Musical groups established in 1977
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Shin Okamoto (岡本信, Okamoto Shin, April 20, 1949; Kanagawa Prefecture - April 19, 2009 [age 59]; Atsugi) is a Japanese musician and lead vocalist for The Jaguars. He became famous through music and of course, the 1968 Japanese musical comedy adventure film, Make Way For The Jaguars (directed and written by Yôichi Maeda; produced by Shochiku)

Career
Born in the Kanagawa Prefecture in on April 20, 1949, Shin's birth name was Katsutaro Okamura (岡村勝太郎, Okamura Katsutarō). In 1964 at the age of 16, Shin joined The Play Five with Yukio Miya, which was created and became a lead vocalist. In 1967, when Yukio Miya and The Play Five changed their group name to "The Jaguars", they made their debut with "Want You See Again (君に会いたい, Kiminiaitai)" at Philips Records.

After the band dissolved in 1971, Shin became a solo singer and retired in 1973. After that, he continued his musical carrer in a band with Paul Daigenji and others, and while he was active as an actor, Shin also ran a high-class membership club in Kabukicho, Tokyo. With the reunion of original band in 1981, he was energetically performing live stage and TV appearances. Shin even joined the Tigers Memorial Club Band in 1988. On April 19, 2009, one day before his 60th birthday, an acquaintance woman was found his dead body in a bathtub in his apartment in Atsugi. It was not incidental, and it was subsequently determined that he had heart failure while taking a bath. According to psychiatrist and former member of the The Folk Crusaders Osamu Kitayama, confirmed to the Asahi Shimbun news article that Shin did in fact died from a heart failure. He was 59 years old at the time of his death, one day before he was 60.

According to Hisayuki Okitsu, a member guitarist of The Jaguars who has been friend with Shin for more than 40 years, Shin Okamoto has been battling with illness for the past few years, including repeated hospitalizations and discharges due to poor pancreas. He also suffered from pancreatitis two months before his death. His last TV appearance was "BS Eternal Music Complete Works-Group Sounds Complete Works-" (aired on NHK BS 2 Television), which was  broadcast on February 27, 2009, 3 months before he died. Shin Okamoto appeared solo on this program and sang "Want To See Again." The Ameba Blog was newly established on March 8, 2009, and the first entry was on April 21, 2009, and the obituary article of the person himself became the first article.

On May 20, 2009, a funeral was held in Tokyo, and Shin Okamoto said in his final words to Dr. Kitayama at the hospital, "I want to send a message with my music companions on August 13" from a member of The Jaguars at this seat. It was announced that a music funeral will be held on August 13, 2009.

1949 births
2009 deaths
Japanese musicians

Shin Okamoto


Switch used to be a mobile-only job-matching app that connects candidates directly to hiring managers. Candidates upload their resumes and connect their social and professional media profiles, but remain anonymous while searching. Users receive a daily set of job recommendations that fit their backgrounds and salary criteria, and swipe right to apply. Employers post many jobs on Switch directly, which eliminates the need for third-party job boards and recruiters, and connects job seekers to hiring managers. Switch reveals a candidate's identity to one employer at a time, only after the candidate matches with that employer. When candidates and employers match, they can chat within the app. Switch is available for iOS, with an Android version in development.

History

Founding
Yarden Tadmor founded Switch in New York City in January 2014. For the first 10 months, Tadmor funded the company himself. By December 2014, Switch had raised $1.4 million in funding from venture capitals firms Metamorphic Ventures, SG VC, BAM and Rhodium. Tadmor's inspiration for Switch came after being frustrated by his experience both as a job seeker, and also as a supervisor hiring at numerous technology startup companies.

Tadmor has said of Switch, "We operate on the five-second resume principle, which is usually the amount of time a recruiter spends on a resume. They scan through the typical data points and move on."

Switch was designed for passive job seekers to browse openings discreetly and connect quickly. Originally, Switch served only the New York metro area technology sector while in early beta, but Tadmor always intended to expand into national coverage. Soon, the company started including all major metropolitan markets across the U.S. In May 2015, Switch announced it would start sourcing tech and media jobs from all the job boards available online. Later in 2015, Switch began to post jobs in smaller urban areas. The company also expanded industries and jobs to include restaurant staff, retail sales, healthcare, nursing and education.

Tadmor subsequently founded Livekick, a one-on-one private fitness and yoga instruction company, based in New York.

Operation

In May 2015, Switch reported generating over 400,000 job applications. The company said that nine of the 50 largest websites in the U.S. were using the service. It had grown its customer base to thousands of companies in a few months from launch including Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, IBM, Yahoo!, eBay, DropBox, SoundCloud, and Wikipedia. John Cline, software development manager at eBay, told ABC's Good Morning America that Switch is now his "main way of finding new prospective employees."

Switch uses a double opt-in technique, meaning job seekers and employers must both say yes before moving forward. They also use swiping technology and intelligent matching algorithms to connect job seekers and employers. The user experience is different for each group, but the major attraction for both sides is the speed at which they can be connected.

Features
 Swipe is a major aspect of the Switch user experience. Job seekers swipe to apply to jobs, or left to pass on positions. Employers respond and swipe right to reciprocate interest, or left to eliminate the candidate.
 Direct connection between job seekers and employers allows hiring managers and job seekers to start an immediate conversation. Hiring managers can message with job seekers within the app, and both parties can quickly vet one another and decide whether to move forward.
 Easy profile creation from social media and in-app profile editing helps job seekers focus on finding a job.

Users
 Job Seekers can either load their profile manually or pull in professional credentials from social media. They can post validated photos on their Facebook account. Switch's matching algorithm analyzes the job seeker's location, experience, and skills to bring them jobs they may be interested in. Job seekers swipe to apply and, if the employer shows interest too, only then does Switch's system reveal the job seeker's identity to the corporate recruiter or hiring manager. The job seeker and hiring manager can then chat through the app.
 Employers behave similarly to job seekers. Hiring managers or corporate recruiters sign up online, add open positions, then view Switch-recommended candidates or wait for job seekers to swipe right. Employers can select relevant job seekers by swiping right on their profiles, then chat directly in the app.

Subscriptions

The app is currently free for users and employers.

Company overview

Financials

Switch closed out its seed round in May 2015 with $2 million in seed round funding. Investors include Marker VC, Metamorphic, Rhodium, 500 Startups, BAM, SG VC and Marcel Legrand. In a July 2015 interview with Tadmor, he claimed that Switch had raised $2.4 million to date.

Reception

Thanks to its swipe technology and double opt-in make-up, the media often refers to Switch as the Tinder for jobs. Switch has received features in lists and app reviews as an effective tool to improve your digital job search, particularly on the mobile platform.

"It's minimal effort to connect with relevant matches," said Good Morning America workplace contributor Tory Johnson. "Which is what everybody wants to find."

References

Application software
Professional networks
Companies based in New York (state)

Switch (app)


A statesman or stateswoman is a politician or a leader in an organization who has had a long and respected career at the national or international level.

Statesman or statesmen may also refer to:

Newspapers

United States
 The Statesman (Denver, Colorado), early name of the Denver Star, a defunct African American weekly newspaper published in Denver, Colorado
 The Statesman (Oregon), a newspaper in Salem, Oregon, merged into the Statesman Journal
 The Statesman (Pittsburgh), a 19th-century newspaper in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
 The Statesman (Stony Brook), the student newspaper of Stony Brook University, New York
 The Colorado Statesman, a now defunct weekly newspaper published in Denver, Colorado
 Idaho Statesman, a newspaper in Boise, Idaho
 Michigan Statesman, an early name of the Kalamazoo Gazette, Kalamazoo, Michigan
 Mountain Statesman, Grafton, West Virginia
 The Statesman (Georgia), newspaper published in Georgia in the period 1932-1956

Elsewhere
 The Canadian Statesman, published in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada from 1894 to 2008
 The Statesman Newspaper, the oldest mainstream newspaper in Ghana
 The Statesman (India), an Indian English newspaper
 Dainik Statesman, an Indian Bengali newspaper
 The Statesman (Pakistan), a Pakistani newspaper

Arts and entertainment
 Statesman (novel), a 1986 novel by Piers Anthony
 Statesman (Marvel Cinematic Universe), a spaceship in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
 The Statesmen, aka The Statesmen Quartet, a gospel music group
 Statesman, the American counterpart to the Kingsman organization in the film Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Automobiles
 Statesman (automobile), produced by Australian General Motors subsidiary Holden from 1971 to 1985
 Nash Statesman, produced by Nash, Nash-Kelvinator Corporation, and American Motors

Other uses
 , a British Royal Navy submarine
 Statesman (dialogue), a Socratic dialogue written by Plato
 The Statesman, an 1836 essay by Henry Taylor
 Packard Bell Statesman, an economy line of notebook computers introduced in 1993
 Statesman, a man who lives on a landed estate, in the dialect of the British Lake District

See also

 Statesman-Examiner, a weekly newspaper in Colville, Washington
 Austin American-Statesman, a newspaper in Austin, Texas
 London Statesman, two merchant ships
 New Statesmen (disambiguation)

Lists of newspapers

Statesman


Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset (August 29, 1709 – June 16, 1777) was a French poet and dramatist, best known for his poem Vert-Vert.

Life
He was born at Amiens. During the last twenty-five years of his life, he regretted the frivolity of his youth, which enabled him to produce his most famous poem. He was brought up by the Jesuits of Amiens. Accepted as a novice at the age of seventeen, he was sent to study at the Collège Louis le Grand in Paris. After completing his course he was appointed, at the age of nineteen, to a post as assistant master in a college at Rouen.

Gresset published Vert-Vert at Rouen in 1734. It is the humorous story of a parrot, the delight of a convent whose talk was all of prayers and pious ambitions, and how it was conveyed to another convent as a visitor to please the nuns. On the way it falls among bad companions, forgets its convent language, and shocks the sisters on arrival by profane swearing. It is sent back in disgrace, punished by solitude and plain bread, repents, reforms and is finally killed by kindness. The treatment of the subject, the atmosphere which surrounds it, and the delicacy with which the little prattling ways of the nuns, their jealousies and trifling concerns, are presented, takes the reader entirely by surprise. The poem stands absolutely unrivalled, even among French contes en vers.

Gresset, now famous, left Rouen for Paris, where he found refuge in the same garret which had sheltered him when a boy at the Collège Louis le Grand, and there wrote his second poem, La Chartreuse. It was followed by the Carême impromptu, the Lutrin vivant and Les Ombres. Soon, complaints were made to the fathers of the alleged licentiousness of his verses, the real cause of complaint being the ridicule which Vert-Vert seemed to throw upon the religious community and the anti-clerical tendency of the other poems. Gresset was transferred to the Jesuit school of La Flèche, and soon after (30 September 1735) left the Order, without having been ordained priest. Gresset, who had never been taught to stand alone, was devastated: he wrote a moving Adieux aux Jésuites.

He went to Paris in 1740 and there produced Edouard III, a tragedy (1740) and Sidnei (1745), a comedy. These were followed by Le Méchant which was qualified by Ferdinand Brunetière as the best verse comedy of the French 18th century theatre, even surpassing the Métromanie of Alexis Piron. Gresset was admitted to the Académie française in 1748. After his marriage, in 1751, to the daughter of a former mayor of Amiens, he withdrew to that city, where he carried on his literary activities through the 'Académie d'Amiens' which he had founded. However, going through a moral crisis and religious awakening he disowned the more frivolous writings of the past.
He died at Amiens on the 16 June 1777.

Works
1734: Vert-Vert, histoire d'un perroquet de Nevers
1734: Le Carème impromptu
1734: Le Lutrin vivant
1734: La Chartreuse
1734: Ombres
1740: Édouard III, tragedy, 22 January
1745: Sidney, drame en vers, 3 May
1747: Le Méchant, comédie en 5 actes, en vers, 15 April
1810: Le Parrain magnifique, poème en dix chants
 Correspondance avec Frédéric le Grand

Bibliography
 Louis-Nicolas de Cayrol, Essai historique sur la vie et les ouvrages de Gresset, Amiens, 1844
 J. Wogue, Jean-Baptiste Gresset; sa vie et ses œuvres, Paris, 1894
 P.G. Salazar, Le Théâtre de Gresset : reflet d'une époque, thèse de doctorat, Paris, 1977
 S. Lenel, Voltaire et Gresset, Paris, 1889 ; éd. Nabu Press, 2010

Notes

References

External links
Correspondence with Frederick the Great
Mircea Platon,  Physiocracy, Patriotism and Reform Catholicism in Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset's Anti-Philosophe Enlightenment, in French History, October 2011
Mircea Platon, Robespierre's Éloge De Gresset: Sources of Robespierre's Anti‐Philosophe Discourse, in Intellectual History Review, Volume 20, Issue 4, 2010

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1777 deaths
People from Amiens
18th-century French poets
18th-century French male writers
18th-century French dramatists and playwrights
Former Jesuits
Members of the Académie Française
Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni
French Jesuits

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Pregnant patients rights refers to the choices and legal rights available to a woman experiencing pregnancy or childbirth. Specifically those under medical care within a medical establishment or those under the care of a medical professional regardless of location ( under care of paramedics at home, family doctor via phone, etc. ).

There are many debates that arise from pregnancy rights, ranging from whether or not fertility treatments are 'right' or whether using surrogate mothers is wrong. It comes down to the mother's right. As a woman, there are more challenges than just the fundamentals of the decisions surrounding their pregnancy. Maternity leave, parental leave and the time allotted for these leaves varies from company to company.

The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) gathered in Cairo in September 1994 to discuss and "formulate a consensus position on population and development for the next 20 years". One of the other goals was to make education and medical services available to women while they are pregnant, and when the time comes, have delivery options available. A main concern has always been postnatal care; people think that the hardest part is the birth of the child but there are so many additional concerns once the child is born and brought into this world. Complications both prior to pregnancy, during delivery, and after delivery are a potential concern in all births, the ICPD talked about enhancing the available support for all women. Pregnancy rights throughout the world are not going to be the same in every single place but the ICPD is aiming to eliminate discrimination during pregnancy and make all pregnant patients' rights available to everyone.

Nurses and patients sometimes run into troubles because their opinions will often vary in what they think should be done in terms of termination or pre/post natal care.  As Kane, 2009 states "The NMC code of professional conduct states that: 'you must make the care of people your first concern'" enforcing that the nurses opinions really should be kept to themselves so as to not influence the decision of the patients.

Right's of pregnannts women
The rights of pregnant women are defined by a set of recognized rights and protections specified by national laws and international regulations. Here are some of the rights of pregnant women :
 Right to Access Healthcare: Pregnant women have the right to access necessary healthcare during their pregnancy. This includes regular check-ups and counseling on nutrition and fetal health.
 Right to Privacy and Confidentiality: The medical information of pregnant women should be treated with confidentiality and privacy, ensuring its security from any leaks.
 Maternity Leave Rights: Pregnant women have the right to maternity leave with pay, allowing them to rest and care for their infants.
 Non-Discrimination: Pregnant women should not face discrimination based on their physical condition, whether in the workplace or in daily life.
 Protection from Harmful Work: Pregnant women must be protected from tasks that could be harmful to their health and the health of the fetus.
 Breastfeeding Leave Rights: Working women have the right to breastfeeding leave to care for their infants.
 Right to Choose: Pregnant women have the right to make decisions regarding their pregnancy, including the choice to continue or terminate it.

It's important to consider that the respect and application of these rights can vary from one situation to another and may depend on social and legal contexts. These rights encompass the protection of pregnancy and maternity and the promotion of women's and fetal health.

Rights in Australia
In Australia pregnant women have the same rights as any other member of society. However, they do have some extra rights when it comes to their rights in the workforce.

Pregnant women' rights in the workforce
Under the Fair Work Act 2009 section  pregnant women are still entitled to the same amount of sick leave as any other individual as being pregnant does not classify as an illness. A Pregnant woman however is able to take unpaid leave for "special maternity leave", this is maternity leave that she can take if she has a pregnancy related illness or the pregnancy ends any time after the first trimester due to a miscarriage, a stillbirth or a termination.

Safe jobs is when the women moves to a safer job while being because her original job is dangerous to her and the baby. She will need to provide evidence that she can still work but unable to perform the original tasks and how long she shouldn't work in her job for. An example for proving these would be with a medical certificate. In the circumstances where there is no safer jobs to offer the women can take no safe jobs leave. The employee takes paid leave if she is entitled to unpaid parental leave and unpaid leave if she is not.

Discrimination in the workforce against pregnant women is illegal. This means that she can not be fired, lose hours, demoted and treated differently because of her pregnancy.

Terminating the pregnancy
In Australia the laws on termination change between each state and territory. In Western Australia termination is considered lawful up until 20 weeks of pregnancy. A termination after 20 weeks can only be undertaken if there is two medical practitioners from a panel of six that agree that the women or the fetus has or will have a serious medical condition if the pregnancy continued.

Islam and abortion rights
In Islamic jurisprudence, abortion is generally considered forbidden (haram) unless there is a threat to the life of the mother. However, there is a difference of opinion among religious scholars regarding the circumstances under which abortion may be considered permissible. Some scholars view abortion as permissible if there is a threat to the mother's health, if the pregnancy is a result of rape, or if it is determined that the fetus is suffering from severe abnormalities. Nevertheless, there is a general consensus among scholars that abortion for non-essential, material, or social reasons is not permissible.

Fatwas and legal rulings concerning abortion are a sensitive issue and depend on individual and surrounding circumstances. Some countries allow abortion under certain circumstances under civil and medical laws regulated by the state.

Immunisation
During pregnancy, women have the right to seek getting immunised with the influenza vaccine ("Flu Shot") and the adult dTpa vaccine (pertussis). Both of these vaccines are recommended; however, it is up to the individual whether or not to go ahead with the vaccinations.

immunization of pregnant women and ethics
Immunizing pregnant women presents specific ethical considerations due to the need to protect both the health of the mother and that of the fetus.

Risk and Benefit Assessment: Before administering vaccines to a pregnant woman, it is crucial to carefully assess the potential risks to both the mother and the fetus in relation to the benefits of vaccination. The decision should be based on strong scientific evidence and thorough ethical evaluation.

Informed Consent: Obtaining informed consent from the pregnant woman before proceeding with immunization is imperative. This involves providing clear information about potential benefits, possible risks, and available alternatives, so she can make an informed decision.

Safety and Efficacy: Vaccines administered to pregnant women should be pre-tested for safety and efficacy during pregnancy. It is essential to have robust scientific data to ensure that the benefits for the mother and the fetus outweigh any potential risks.

Communication and Transparency: Clear and transparent communication about the benefits, risks, and uncertainties associated with immunization during pregnancy is essential to build trust and facilitate informed decision-making. Information should be provided in an understandable and culturally sensitive manner.

Management of Adverse Effects: Having appropriate protocols for monitoring potential adverse effects of vaccines administered to pregnant women is important. Establishing mechanisms for monitoring and providing adequate care is essential to ensure the safety and well-being of pregnant women and their fetuses.

Immunizing pregnant women, therefore, requires a thorough ethical assessment that considers safety, efficacy, transparent communication, and informed consent. It is crucial to adopt a balanced approach that ensures the protection of maternal health while minimizing risks to the fetus.

References
5. Federal Register of Legislation. (2009). Fair Work act. Retrieved from https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2016C00332

6. Federal Register of Legislation. (2003). Sex Discrimination Amendment (pregnancy and work) act. Retrieved from                                                                                https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2004A01186

7. Parliament of Australia.(1998). Abortion law in Australia. Retrieved from http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/rp9899/99rp01

8. Australian Government Department of Health. (2015) Immunise Australia Program. Retrieved from http://www.immunise.health.gov.au/internet/immunise/publishing.nsf/Content/pregnant-women

Maternity in Australia
Health law
Women's rights
Midwifery

Pregnant patients' rights


Isatou Touray (born 17 March 1955) is a Gambian politician, activist, and social reformer. A noted campaigner against female genital mutilation (FGM), she became the first female Gambian presidential candidate in 2016, before dropping out to endorse Adama Barrow and Coalition 2016. She then served in Barrow's cabinet, as trade minister, and then as health minister. On 15 March 2019, Touray became Vice-President of The Gambia, replacing her predecessor, Ousainou Darboe in a major cabinet reshuffle.

Early life and education

Touray was born at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Bathurst, Colony of the Gambia, in 1955. She was brought up at 44 Grant Street in Bathurst, which was renamed Banjul in 1975. Her father was a native of Kaur. She attended Crab Island Secondary Technical School and was noted as a good athlete during her school days.

Touray attended Usman Danfodiyo University in Nigeria, graduating with a bachelor's degree in education and English. She then studied at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Netherlands, where she graduated with a master's degree in development studies. She completed a PhD in development studies at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, United Kingdom.

Career

Social activism

Touray is noted as an activist against female genital mutilation (FGM). She co-founded the Gambia Committee on Traditional Practices (GAMCOTRAP) in 1984, which is committed to ending FGM. She became executive director of GAMCOTRAP, frequently calling on politicians to outlaw FGM, despite government restrictions on reporting of the issue. In a 1998 symposium, religious leaders and medical personnel came together to sign the Banjul Declaration, which condemned the use of FGM. From 2006 to 2011, Touray was chairperson of the Gambia Chapter of the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP). She served as Secretary-General of the Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children from 2009 to 2014.

She also worked as deputy director of the Management Development Institute (MDI), where she founded a gender and development unit. However, she was forced to resign after repeated threats from authorities. She was twice arrested and accused on false charges, both times these were eventually dropped. The second time, she was only released after paying a €36,000 bail.

2016 presidential election

Touray announced that she would run as an Independent candidate in the 2016 presidential election on 2 September 2016. She became the first woman to run for President of the Gambia. During her announcement ceremony she said that, if elected, she would only serve a five-year term. Amie Bojang Sissoho chaired the meeting, and among the speakers were her husband and Fatoumata Tambajang. Her candidacy was supported by the Vanguard Africa Foundation. Touray said that, if elected, she would "restore the sovereignty of the people, end impunity and decentralise authority and power."

Opposition parties decided to form an electoral coalition to support one candidate in the election against Yahya Jammeh. Touray was initially part of the group that formed Coalition 2016, but was absent in their meeting on 30 October 2016 when delegates chose Adama Barrow as the candidate. However, on 4 November she announced her support for Barrow and withdrew from the race. Barrow subsequently won the 1 December election.

Ministerial career

Touray was appointed as Minister of Trade, Regional Integration and Employment in the Cabinet of Adama Barrow on 1 February 2017. In a July 2018 reshuffle, Touray was appointed as Minister of Health and Social Welfare.

Personal life
She is married to Dr Alhaji Malang Touray, a physician. They have four children and three grandchildren.

Recognition

 Women's Democracy Network's 2017 Jeanne J. Kirkpatrick Award

References

1955 births
Living people
Vice-presidents of the Gambia
Gambian women activists
Gambian feminists
Government ministers of the Gambia
People from Banjul
Usmanu Danfodiyo University alumni
Alumni of the University of Sussex
21st-century Gambian women politicians
21st-century Gambian politicians
Women government ministers of the Gambia
Women vice presidents in Africa

Isatou Touray


Arunabh Sarkar (; born 29 May 1941) is a Bangladeshi poet, columnist, literary editor, and freedom fighter. He was born in Tangail, Bangladesh. He received the 2009 Bangla Academy Literary Award for poetry, Arunabh also received the Tangail Sahitya Sangsad Poetry Award for 2007. He has published three collection of poems : Nagare Baul, Keu Kichhui Jane Na, and Narira Fere Na. Sarkar also edited the poetry magazine Eshika from 1969 to 1985  and has been a journalist for some 40 years.

References

Living people
1941 births
Bengali Hindus
Bangladeshi Hindus
Bangladeshi male poets
Recipients of Bangla Academy Award

Arunabh Sarkar