Book Review: The Death of the Necromancer
S. G. Baker Book Reviews September 8, 2018 October 30, 2018 5 Minutes
The Death of the Necromancer Synopsis
Nicholas Valiarde is a passionate, embittered nobleman with an enigmatic past. Consumed by thoughts of vengeance, he is consoled only by thoughts of the beautiful, dangerous Madeline. He is also the greatest thief in all of Ile-Rien… On the gas light streets of the city, he assumes the guise of a master criminal, stealing jewels from wealthy nobles to finance his quest for vengeance the murder of Count Montesq. Montesq orchestrated the wrongful execution of Nicholas's beloved godfather on false charges of necromancy–the art of divination through communion with spirits of the dead–a practice long outlawed in the kingdom of Ile-Rein.
But now Nicholas's murderous mission is being interrupted by a series of eerie, unexplainable, even fatal events. Someone with tremendous magical powers is opposing him. Children vanish, corpses assume the visage of real people, mortal spells are cast, and traces of necromantic power that hasn't been used for centuries are found. And when a spiritualist unwittingly leads Nicholas to a decrepit mansion, the monstrous nature of his peril finally emerges in harrowing detail. Nicholas and his compatriots must destroy an ancient and awesome evil. Even the help of Ile-Rien's greatest sorcerer may not be enough, for Nicholas faces a woefully mismatched battle–and unthinkable horrors await the loser.
(Via Goodreads)
About Martha Wells
Martha Wells has written many fantasy novels, including The Books of the Raksura series (beginning with The Cloud Roads), the Ile-Rien series (including The Death of the Necromancer) as well as YA fantasy novels, short stories, media tie-ins (for Star Wars and Stargate: Atlantis), and non-fiction. Her most recent fantasy novel is The Harbors of the Sun in 2017, the final novel in The Books of the Raksura series. She has a new series of SF novellas, The Murderbot Diaries, published by Tor.com in 2017 and 2018. She was also the lead writer for the story team of Magic: the Gathering's Dominaria expansion in 2018. She has won a Nebula Award, an ALA/YALSA Alex Award, a Locus Award, and her work has appeared on the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Award ballots, the USA Today Bestseller List, and the New York Times Bestseller List. Her books have been published in eleven languages.
(Via Martha Wells's Website)
Once again, I unwittingly picked up a sequel at the library, possibly because nowhere does the cover of Martha Wells's The Death of the Necromancer indicate Ile-Rien #2, possibly because my library branch simply doesn't carry the first in series installments. (Before proceeding to read The Death of the Necromancer, I started Black Heart, the third in Holly Black's The Curse Workers series and had to put it down on realizing my mistake. Possibly, I myself am cursed.)
However! While the narrative makes what I assume are some allusions to the previous book, they're explained well enough that I didn't feel lost without Ile-Rien #1. If you don't want to check out The Element of Fire before reading this one, you really don't have to.
Over-Arcing Content
High jinks rule the day throughout The Death of the Necromancer. The narrative comes packed with all kinds of sticky situations, clever escapes, "high-speed" horse cart chases, disguises, traps, schemes, and every aspect Victorian-era criminal life has to offer, plus necromancy. The characters operate on a morally ambiguous level, skirting the edges of ethics without resorting to unwarranted cruelty. (I would've accepted something grittier, but it was nice.)
The ragtag group of Nicholas Valiarde's followers reminded me very much of the Dregs from Six of Crows, one of my favorite books. I'm sure this has to do more with tropes than anything else, but they were character tropes that I already know I enjoy–the scheming, clever leader in Nicholas, the spitfire master of disguise in Madeleine, the fallen nobleman in Reynard, the surly bodyguard in Crack, etc.
Madeleine herself got not only just as much development as Nicholas but also point-of-view scenes throughout The Death of the Necromancer, convincing me that she functions as a co-main character. On top of that, the plot resolution(s) literally couldn't have happened without her. 10/10 lady lead character.
There also appeared Inspector Ronsarde and Doctor Halle, who look like Detective Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, but only if you squint. When their names turned up toward the beginning of the narrative, I never expected them to become integral to the story but what fun when they did. Also, Gay Undertones for Days.
The apparent main plot of The Death of the Necromancer cleverly fades back into a sub-plot as the narrative progresses, honing in on a comparison of Nicholas's mindset in his own scheme of revenge compared to that of the main villain. Wells also often encourages the reader to empathize with Nicholas, then reminds us how the other characters see him as someone capable of ruthlessness, how the truth of who he is probably lands somewhere between the two perspectives.
Romance. I'm an absolute sucker for a pre-established relationship. Nicholas and Madeleine had something going on before the beginning of the narrative, with their intimate understanding of each other, their muted pining and worry when apart, their silly attempts at stoicism toward one another. They spent the whole time being partners. In crime. Working together as a team. I ate that right up.
The final confrontation between our characters and the Big Bad had a lot more running around than seemed reasonable, but the final revelation of the villain and his clash with the heroes did not disappoint. The denouement of The Death of the Necromancer took its time with wrapping up, making sure to tie up any loose ends using elements sensibly pulled from the plot. It also allowed Nicholas, despite his status as some kind of hero-criminal as far as the crown was concerned, to pull the wool over everyone's eyes one last time, staying true to his clever nature.
I liked The Death of the Necromancer, but it took me approximately an entire month to read it. (Likely incurring a fee at the library because guess who didn't bother to renew?) Though the narrative featured many of the things I like–a ragtag bunch of morally neutral criminals, an intelligent mastermind leader, necromancy, a reasonable romantic element, and a realistic heroine–my main complaint comes of the pacing. Much as I said in my review of Sabriel, the somewhat older-fashioned narrative style just felt less punchy and more draggy.
The narrative also suffers some from too many similar names. A number of them start with an R or end in "-ard(e)" so that even up until the end, when I'd become familiar enough with the characters to tell them apart, I still had to stop and orient myself when one of these names reappeared on the page.
I'd absolutely recommend The Death of the Necromancer to fans of Sabriel for the many elements shared between the two, as well as to fans of Six of Crows for the Victorian-era heist aspect. Also for readers who enjoy a more subtle romance and plot integral heroines.
My rating: 4/5 stars
Goodreads raiting: 4.07 stars
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The problem is poverty: Evidence from Gerald Bracey
Stephen Krashen
The entire basis for the national standards/testing movement is our low scores on international tests when compared to other countries. Our scores, however, are only low because we have such a high percentage of children in poverty, compared to other countries that participate in international tests. When we consider only middle-class children who attend well-funded schools, our math scores are near the top of the world (Payne and Biddle, 1999).
Here is another analysis, using reading test scores, that comes to the same conclusion. The PIRLS test was given to ten year olds in 35 countries in their own language. Bracey (2009) presented this data, along with relevant socio-economic data on the poverty level of the schools American children attended (defined as participating in free or reduced price lunch programs):
American students attending schools with
- less than 10 percent in poverty averaged 589 (14% of students).
- 10-24.9% in poverty averaged 567 (20% of students)
- 25 to 49.9% in poverty averaged 551 (30% of students)
- 75% or more in poverty averaged 485 (15% of students)
Clearly, students in schools with lower levels of poverty did better. Of great interest to us is the fact that American children attending low poverty schools (25% or less) outscored the top scoring country, Sweden (561). Bracey also points out that "if the students in schools with 24-49.9% poverty constituted a nation, it would rank fourth among the 35 participating nations" (p. 155).
The problem is poverty, not our teachers, our unions, the parents, or the children. The solution is to protect our children from the disadvantages of poverty, through health care, nutrition, and access to books. Geoffrey Canada claims that his approach is to attempt to do just that in the Harlem Children's Zone schools (NY Times, October 12, 2010; but see Krashen, 2010a,b).
Thus far, the Arne Duncan department of education has chosen to ignore this route (while praising the Harlem Children's Zone), and spend billions on useless national standards and national tests, focusing on measuring rather than helping.
Bracey, G. 2009. Education Hell: Rhetoric Versus Reality. Alexandria, VA: Educational Research Service.
Payne, K. and Biddle, B. 1999. Poor school funding, child poverty, and mathematics achievement. Educational Researcher 28 (6): 4-13.
Krashen, S. 2010a. A suggestion for Geoffrey Canada. www.schoolsmatter.info. October 12, 2010.
Krashen, S. 2010b. Shocking revelations from Goeffrey Canada's autobiography. www.schoolsmatter.info. October 13, 2010.
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Town turbine to be shut down
Credit: By Emily Sussman, Falmouth Patch, falmouth.patch.com 9 November 2011 ~~
FALMOUTH – At last night's Town Meeting, the Board of Selectmen announced they had voted unanimously on a plan to immediately shut down the municipally operated, 1.65-megawatt wind turbine known as Wind 1, which is located at the town's wastewater treatment plant.
Selectmen Chair Mary Pat Flynn outlined the specifics of the plan, which would shut down Wind 1 until at least next spring's Annual Town Meeting. It was a deal that would presumably placate the turbine's abutters, who have long complained of adverse health effects as a result of having to live so close to the turbines.
In spite of the board's decision to shut down Wind 1, which the Selectmen had made shortly before last night's Town Meeting commenced, Flynn told voters that "we cannot lose sight of the strides we have made in the last ten years with regard to renewable energy."
As for Wind 2, the soon-to-be-online turbine also located at the wastewater treatment plant, Flynn said it would be commissioned for at least two months in order to study its effects on abutters. It will also be subject to the same restrictions that had been placed on Wind 1—namely, that it would be shut off when wind speeds reached over 23 mph.
In contrast to Monday night's Town Meeting, where residents and town officials debated for several hours over the fate of Article 9, a nonbinding article which would have given selectmen the option to shut down both of the town's wind turbines, Tuesday night's continuation of that debate took just over twenty minutes. After hearing the Selectmen's new plan, residents voted to indefinitely postpone the article.
Source: By Emily Sussman, Falmouth Patch, falmouth.patch.com 9 November 2011


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Ishmael Reed: 'Hamilton' is a bad jingoistic history, but nice eye candy
Oakland poet, activist and 'Hamilton' critic had received criticism for not having seen the show
Ishmael ReedMarch 27, 2019Updated: March 29, 2019, 1:32 pm
American poet, novelist, essayist, songwriter, playwright, educator, editor and publisher Ishmael Reed, who lives in Oakland. Photo: BAMPFA
I didn't intend to inspire a minor news cycle in early January, when I staged a reading of my script "The Haunting of Lin Manual Miranda" in New York, and became the de facto voice of dissent for Miranda's ultra-popular musical "Hamilton."
My real purpose for the trip was to attend the screening of "Personal Problems," a film that Steve Cannon, Walter Cotton and I produced in 1980. Then came the government shutdown, and the postponement of the showing. To make use of my time, I decided to round up some of the actors who had appeared in my 2017 play, "Life Among the Aryans," to read from the "Miranda" script, which is built around the historical fact that Alexander Hamilton was not an abolitionist. He had slaves. He was not an innocent man against the great sin of slavery. Of course, the title and content drew some attention from the New York critical community.
There were reviews of the reading, many critical of my criticism, in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the New York Observer, Billboard, Current Affairs and the Paris Review. The reading inspired an intelligent debate, led by Joy Behar, on "The View," while I was mocked on NPR's nerdy "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me."
Part of the negative response was derived from the surprise that I had not seen "Hamilton."
The touring cast of "Hamilton" at SHN's Orpheum Theatre. Photo: Joan Marcus , SHN
I hadn't, but I read Miranda's book and even quoted from it in my script — the part in the show where Hamilton argues against treating blacks as property. Wrong. Hamilton considered blacks as private property and also accused the British of "stealing negroes from their owners." "Hamilton" fans didn't want to hear it and left their venom in the comments section under stories by the New York Times and Broadway World. One of them wrote that I was better off here, in the U.S., than in Africa. I had a great time in Africa. Not once was I spied upon while shopping in a store.
But, to satisfy my critics, I recently attended a performance of "Hamilton: The Revolution" at the Orpheum in San Francisco. It is a bad jingoistic history salvaged by the brilliant performance of a multicultural cast — there was more diversity on stage than in the audience.
Sometimes, what was happening onstage was overwhelmed by a noisy bass line, and so I had more of an access to the lyrics by reading them than listening to them. I thought that the dancing was smart, though I recognized some moves from "A Chorus Line." This might be because choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler admires the work of Michael Bennett. Though the musical is billed as a hip-hop show, the hip-hop moves were kept at a minimum.
For eye candy, "Hamilton" is the tops. The set and costumes were dazzling and seemed historically accurate. Broadway knows how to put on a show. Miranda's songwriting abilities are hyped, however. He's no Cole Porter or Billy Strayhorn. OK, date me.
I winced for two hours as slave traffickers and owners like Hamilton, George Washington and members of Gen. Schuyler's family were portrayed as abolitionists. They weren't. They were cruel to their slaves. Archaeologists found the remains of their slaves and concluded that they were subjected to "back-breaking" work and suffered from malnutrition. Elizabeth, Hamilton's wife, helped her mother manage the slaves. Runaways like a black woman named Diana, who appears in my play, were punished, possibly murdered.
Phillipa Soo and Lin-Manuel Miranda as Eliza and Alexander Hamilton in "Hamilton." Photo: Joan Marcus, SHN
And where were these Schuyler women, party girls, when their father sold a whole family for $200? And what was their, and Elizabeth's fiance Hamilton's, position when Gen. Schuyler and his friends decided that any slave found a mile from his Albany plantation be shot?
Though thousands of poor, white women battled the idea of slavery, wealthy white women like the Schuylers were complicit and, according to historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, even bought slaves for themselves.
But critics who haven't seen my play and argue that I am critical of Miranda are wrong. I see Miranda as a victim of state historians. I call them historians of white history, like Jon Meacham who told a "Morning Joe" audience that slavery in America lasted 90 years and then corrected himself. To 100 years. A reminder: 2019 is the 400th anniversary of slaves arriving in Virginia. Meacham also has some kind words to say about Andrew Jackson, the Eichmann of Native American policy.
I can understand where Miranda found himself intellectually. Jesse James, the famed outlaw of 1800s America who was glorified in dozens of films, was one of my childhood heroes. Later I learned that he was a member of a Confederate guerrilla gang, Quantrill's Raiders. His brother Frank was one of those who entered Lawrence, Kan., and murdered 200 men. Their crime? Echoing Hamilton's complaint against the British: stealing blacks.
Though "Hamilton" has received a rapturous reception in the United States, Miranda was picketed by students in Puerto Rico. One student accused him of glorifying an oppressor and suggested that he do a musical about Harriet Tubman.
A full production of my play, " The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda," beginning May 23 at the Nuyorican Poets Café in New York, and directed by the award-winning Rome Neal, will not only present voices that are missing from "Hamilton: The Revolution" — Native Americans, slaves and white indentured servants — but also expose an upheaval that is happening in the American Historical Establishment as women, blacks, Native American and Latinx have their say.
Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed	Ishmael Reed is a noted poet, playwright, activist and professor at California College of the Arts.
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Textile makers in California's Bay Area will soon be forced to wear masks to protect themselves from the Zika virus
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The state is planning to ban the use of face coverings in workplaces by March 15.
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COVID-19: Teacher Perspectives on How Home Learning Successes and Challenges Underscore Pronounced Inequities
Corps members and alumni teachers serving low-income communities across Indianapolis share perspectives that highlight exacerbated inequities when it comes to student reach, engagement, and learning.
Cece Zhou
Director of Communications, Teach for America Indianapolis
As states and local school systems analyze the impact of the COVID-19 public health crisis on students and plan for school reopenings in the fall, teachers voice their perspectives from experiences working directly with students over the last several months.
The sudden transition to home learning has brought to light many of the inequities in our school systems; schools that serve low-income communities and communities of color were charged to find creative solutions to meet student needs across technology and internet access, meals, financial support, and trauma-informed practices, in order to maintain student engagement and retain high learning outcomes. Thousands of teachers and school leaders stepped up and exhibited courageous, collaborative, and resilient leadership during this time. In addition to their innovative approaches to address these needs, numerous organizations and corporations have also been instrumental in offering their support across funding, e-learning tools, and homework hotlines.
Yet, the NWEA "suggests that when students head back to school next fall, overall they are likely to retain about 70 percent of this year's gains in reading, compared with a typical school year, and less than 50 percent in math. Losses are likely to be more pronounced in the early grades, when students normally acquire many basic skills, and among those already facing steep inequities."
We interviewed corps members and alumni teachers about their experiences working with students during the spring, and below are various, though not comprehensive, excerpts from their responses. Overall key trends we heard included: students having different levels of access, missing community, and feeling nervousness about re-entry in the fall. It's important to note that both the challenges and early identified successes reveal disparities from school to school; our teachers acknowledge the magnitude of sustainable solutions that still need to be sought out when school reopens in the fall to address persisting inequities.
E-learning, Technology, and Internet Access
Strengths: Student participation, device distribution, and additional supplies to support with home learning
"The majority of our live Zoom classes are rooted in purposeful discussions, where students get to share their opinions and lesson responses to the group - it's been exciting to see our students become natural Zoomers." -Ashley Sciacca, Indy '10
"We distributed Chromebooks to students who didn't have devices at home." -Emily Emrick, Indy '19
"It started with distribution of 'grab bags' back in March which included work packets and all school supplies they would need as well as food for families as we figured out a more consistent schedule. At that time we had families sign up for the free 60 day internet if they needed it and grab available Chromebooks if they needed a computer/tablet. We ran out of those rather quickly but have since got more as well as passed out the iPads we had." -Taelor Garrett, Indy '19
Challenges: Technical difficulties and access to high-speed internet
"Most students have trouble navigating technical difficulties (wifi, computers, etc.) which makes me believe e-learning is very inequitable." -Megan Kostolansky, Indy '19
"My school distributed Chromebooks to our students. However, the real challenge was their households not having access to WiFi." -Alyssa McIntyre, Indy '18
Strengths: Regular contact, accountability, and ability to alternative-plan effectively
"I have been able to 'binge teach.' Within the first couple weeks of remote learning, I created and scheduled my lesson plans, tracking systems, student and parent communications to be sent out to the respective audiences weeks in advance. This freed up a lot of time that I have been able to use to engage with students and parents, and address other school-related tasks and projects." -Keith Thomas, Jr., Indy '11
"Teachers at our school are making daily contact with subgroups of students and their families. These touchpoints keep students connected to us as staff and to each other, but also help us hold students accountable to completing their daily work." -Ronak Shah, Indy '12
Challenges: Reaching all students, external environment factors, inconsistencies with contact
"It has been difficult to reach some families on a consistent basis." -Ashley Sciacca, Indy '10
"There are still students who fail to log on and complete any type of e-learning work or classes. The inconsistencies of e-learning [show] how it's only really beneficial to students have access… even with all of our efforts there are still many situations in which families aren't able to access those resources or they need help beyond what we can offer." -Juan Cahue, Indy '17
"Even with phone calls daily to parents, there are still so many outside factors that hinder our students from turning in work on time and logging in frequently to google classroom…Teachers and schools spend a lot of time creating the best learning environment for our kids. Without having control over their learning environment has meant that our students are not as engaged or consistent when it comes to their learning." -Alyssa McIntyre, Indy '18
Student Learning and Wellness
Strengths: Retaining high expectations and opportunities to check in on student wellness
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"Student wellness and health is crucial and a necessity for students to learn, so I make it a priority to always check in with students and provide them a sense of ease and reassurance through this unprecedented time." -Marialicia Chavez, Indy '17
Challenges: economic and financial impact on students supporting families, teaching rigorous skills
"Many of my students also have jobs. These jobs have either A) been completely shut down due to the closures or B) been ramped up, with increased hours and stress added to students who are already stressed and with limited time or access to resources. I've even had multiple students forced to work doubles or 6 days a week by their employers, which makes it virtually impossible for them to do their schoolwork. My school is trying to help and be as supportive as possible, but they had limited resources before all of this began." -Anonymous
"The most challenging aspect has been in being able to teach rigorous skills sufficiently well at a distance. While there are many skills students can do independently, and many that can be accomplished with some coaching and modeling, more complex stills such as extended writing, scientific method, project-based mathematics, and other similar tasks can really only be accomplished will in a collaborative classroom setting or with more hours of video instruction than there are teachers available to provide it." -Ronak Shah, Indy '12
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President Alexis Tsipras? Is that a joke?
Some on the left would rather wallow in impotence than support the Syriza's leader's bid to be president of European commission
Tue 21 Jan 2014 07.08 EST First published on Tue 21 Jan 2014 07.08 EST
Alexis Tsipras, the European Left party candidate for the European commission presidency. Photograph: Gabriel Pecot/AP
Alexis Tsipras, leader of the opposition in Greece, as a candidate for the president of the European commission? Is that a joke? The best answer to this question has recently been given by the Italian philosopher Franco Berardi Bifo, who said "I will vote for Tsipras, even if it's useless", and added in his characteristic tone: "Taking those 200 metres that separate me from the polling station is not such a big effort to make an action that is completely useless".
Even political philosophers Antonio Negri and Sandro Mezzadra, otherwise known as fierce critics of elections, acknowledge the relevance of the forthcoming European parliament elections.
Until recently Negri and Michael Hardt, in their "Declaration" (2012), celebrated the political maturity of the "indignados" who did not vote in the Spanish elections of 2011. However, it was precisely the lack of a credible left party that led to this abstinence. This time the situation is different, and there is a growing pan-European left power that is able to subvert and potentially disrupt the existing state of affairs. Negri and Mezzadra argue that the European elections in May 2014 are essential: "The issue of wages and the issue of income, the definition of rights and dimensions of welfare, the topic of constitutional transformations related to single countries and to the European constituent issue can, today, only be addressed at a European level. Outside of this sphere there is no such thing as political realism."
While the French philosopher Alain Badiou so persistently insists on "subtraction" from the state, for Negri it is clear that the forthcoming elections create a space for the imposition of a new "political grammar". And that is why Badiou, his sharp text published in Radical Philosophy, was wrong when speaking about the left's "contemporary impotence".
Badiou first accuses Costas Douzinas of "avowed optimism", arguing that there is nothing new in what Douzinas, in his book Philosophy and Resistance in Crisis, called a "new political subject". For Badiou, the demonstrations in Tahrir Square in Cairo and Athens' Syntagma Square are nothing but "the communist invariants". Here, there is no point going into Badiou's critique, it is simply enough to press Ctrl+F and find what is missing throughout his text: the word Syriza. Badiou does not ever mention the great political success of Alexis Tsipras's radical left party that leads all opinion polls in Greece.
Our contemporary impotence lies not so much in the fact that all these "communist invariants" failed to change the balance of power, but that one part of the left is not willing to accept the risk of engaging in institutional struggle, even at the cost of failure or defeat.
A nice illustration of this situation lies in the American sitcom Sex and the City. Charlotte, who is the opposite of the sexual predator Samantha, believes in romantic love and decides not to have sex with her fiancé Trey until the honeymoon. However, the night before the wedding she is confronted with Trey's impotence. Trying to find out whether it is a physical or psychological erectile dysfunction, Charlotte investigates whether Trey's erection wakes up when he goes to sleep.
Is the real problem only in the "head" or is it "physical"? It is no surprise that Charlotte one day discovers that her fiancé is actually masturbating in the bathroom to pornographic magazines. "Our contemporary impotence" comes exactly from this: on the one hand, we find the old left melancholy when it comes to waging concrete struggles in the existing institutions and in the streets and squares, and on the other hand, there is the masturbation on a utopia that will never come true.
Here we should use Badiou's own words and the lesson of his master [maître], Mao Zedong, who used to say: "No investigation, no right to speak!" In other words, to investigate a problem is, indeed, to try to solve it. The European elections offer an opportunity not only to new political parties but also to popular movements who can have their direct representatives in the existing institutions, with the goal to deliver at least minimum demands for social justice and effectively confront the policies of the Troika.
What we need today is a combination of the old Gramscian difference between the "war of position" and the "war of manoeuvre". It is becoming more and more clear that a movement without a party is impotent, and that a party without a movement can only repeat the failures of the past. We need both. And that's the reason why Tsipras's nomination as a candidate for the presidency of the European Commission is not a joke. Even if it seems useless, we should walk this 200 metres in order to step out from our contemporary impotence.
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You Probably Missed The Most Exciting Easter Egg In "Spider-Man: Homecoming"
Spoilers ahead for those who haven't had a chance to check out the film.
by Michael Blackmon
Posted on July 10, 2017, 7:12 pm
Spider-Man: Homecoming, starring Tom Holland as the iconic web-slinger, made its highly anticipated debut over the weekend.
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The film, which hasn't even been out for a full week, has already brought in more than $257 million worldwide.
The superhero movie delivers when it comes to fan service, but there was a subtle Marvel Comics reference that may have fallen under the radar of casual Spidey fans' senses.
In Homecoming, viewers first meet Aaron Davis (Donald Glover) when he tries to buy black market weapons from two henchmen of Adrian Toomes/Vulture (Michael Keaton).
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Spider-Man — who'd hidden from sight to observe the criminals showing off their product — eventually emerges and begins to fight with the men, leading to an elaborate chase scene.
Later in the movie, Spider-Man has another encounter with Aaron, where our hero corners the habitual offender in a parking garage and tries to intimidate him with a distorted voice that sounds a lot like Batman's.
The scene is actually really important, not only because Aaron gives Spider-Man details about what Vulture plans to do next — he's apparently had a change of heart about the villain's high-powered, illegal weapons — but also because...
...it's in this moment that Aaron tells Spider-Man that he has a nephew in the city, and that he doesn't want the weapons around because of how unsafe they are.
Though it's unclear what the Homecoming mention means for the future of Miles Morales in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it's definitely cool that Glover was the one to seemingly introduce the character, especially given his history with Marvel.
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Glover was part of a social media campaign in 2010, fueled by fans, to get him to play the next Spider-Man, but the role went to Andrew Garfield. Glover also voiced Miles Morales in the animated Disney XD series Ultimate Spider-Man.
So...unfortunately, Glover didn't become the next Spider-Man, but his small role in Homecoming could be a jumping-off point for the MCU to be even more inclusive when it comes to PoC superheroes.
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Cameroon: Restoring faith in Biya's government to encourage diaspora investment
By Maingi Gichuku on June 26, 2022 Investing
Cameroon President woos diaspora investors, but faces government is mistrust [Photo/Africa News]
Cameroon's President Paul Biya has dispatched a delegation to Europe in an effort to persuade well-off Cameroonians now residing in Europe to invest in their home country
The government would grant tax exemptions of up to forty per cent for investments made by members of the diaspora in Cameroon, as well as loans of up to ten thousand dollars with no interest rates for members of the diaspora who return to engage in agricultural and livestock.
For the first time, Cameroon's President Paul Biya has dispatched a delegation to Europe in an effort to persuade well-off Cameroonians now residing in Europe to invest in their home country.
However, members of Cameroon's diaspora claim that investors are discouraged by the autocratic procedures and corrupt nature of Biya's government.
According to government authorities, a delegation led by the Minister of Youth Affairs and Civic Education Mounouna Foutsou was deployed to Germany this week with the purpose of pleading with Cameroonians living there to invest in their home country.
Foutsou expressed his hope that all Cameroonians living abroad will put their disagreements aside in order to contribute to the nation's growth and development.
"The president reaffirmed his invitation to Cameroonians living in other countries to return home and help build the country."
"We use this chance to come and talk with the whole Cameroonian diaspora here in Europe so that we can tell them about the different opportunities the president of the republic and his government is offering so that the Cameroonian diaspora can come back and help the country grow," Foutsou said.
Foutsou stated that the government would grant tax exemptions of up to forty per cent for investments made by members of the diaspora in Cameroon, as well as loans of up to ten thousand dollars with no interest rates for members of the diaspora who return to engage in agricultural and livestock.
Kennedy Tumenta is an investor who hails from Cameroon but currently resides in Germany. He stated that many people living in the diaspora find it challenging to accept the promises that are made by their government at home.
He stated that investors are wary of the country because of widespread corruption, high tax rates, and disbelief in the leadership of President Biya, who has been in power for the past four decades.
"In Cameroon, freedom is curtailed, and people are afraid to move about, conduct business, and speak freely. Most diasporans believe there is significant corruption when it comes to establishing enterprises in the country and that the Northwest-Southwest crisis is not being treated seriously by the government "said Tumenta.
The only way they can show their frustration is by withdrawing their assets from the country or by attacking the head of state.
Since 2016, separatists in Cameroon, which is predominantly French-speaking, have been battling to carve out an independent English-speaking state within the country. The United Nations estimates that 3,300 people have lost their lives due to the violence.
As a result of hostility toward the government on the part of some Cameroonians living abroad, since the beginning of the year 2020, at least seven embassies belonging to Cameroon have been stormed and looted.
Felix Mbayu is a highly regarded officer working for the Ministry of External Relations in Cameroon. He said that citizens of Cameroon who participated in such demonstrations were harming the country's image.
"Those who have had a bad experience in Cameroon and have been unable to return are likely to have negative things to say about the country. Those who left Cameroon in search of a better life elsewhere and have found success there are the ones who return to Cameroon in search of business opportunities, "explained Mbayu.
Because of this, there are many medical doctors who have created hospitals and clinics and who bring medical supplies back to their native countries. You won't find them in any of those pointless marches elsewhere. In point of fact, when you criticise the place you call home, you bring shame upon yourself.
Cameroon woos diaspora investors, but faces government is mistrust [Photo/Voa News]
It is believed that five million Cameroonians currently reside outside of the country. According to the government, the most significant population of people from the diaspora lives in Nigeria, where there are approximately two million people.
Additionally, there are significant concentrations in the countries of France, Germany, Belgium, the United States and the United Kingdom.
African nations must do more to maximise the economic benefits of migration.
Remittances to Africa have doubled in the 20 years since 1990, reaching approximately $40 billion (2.6 per cent of GDP) in 2010. After the foreign direct investment, they are the continent's most significant source of net foreign inflows.
Remittances from Africa's Diaspora have surged by 260 per cent in the last decade, rising from US$11.2 billion in 2000 to about US$40 billion in 2010.
Remittances provide significant benefits to the countries of origin of migrants. Remittances are more stable than other sources of foreign exchange at the macro level; their variation is often countercyclical, assisting in the maintenance of consumption and investment during downturns; and they enhance the creditworthiness of a nation by boosting the volume and consistency of foreign exchange revenues.
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Boston: is this justice?
Sunday, May 17, 2015 Politics, Race No comments
by Nani Lawrence, Writing Intern
Boston bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, received the death sentence. You know this already. You've read all those articles questioning the morality of the death penalty. "Killing to prove killing is wrong" and "X amount of innocent inmates" aside—though pretty dang valid on their own—people forget that money makes the world go round.
Some people support the death penalty because it costs less to put an inmate to death than
to support them in prison for the rest of their lives. But is that actually true? It seems to depend on which state you're looking at. Even then, the answer appears ambiguous.
According to deathpenaltyinfo.org, a federal death penalty case typically costs over $620,000. When costs are less than $320,000, the probability of being sentenced to death increased roughly 25 percent. In California, these costs totaled $1.94 million, and incarceration as a whole totaled $1 billion. You could argue that these costs, while ridiculous, are just a one-time inconvenience. Fair.
Typically it costs anywhere from $20,000-$40,000 to house one inmate for one year, and sometimes more. TheLawDictionary.org estimates that housing one inmate in Guantanamo Bay costs taxpayers $900,000 a year. That's one year. (If that ain't enough justification to shut it down, what is.)
Prisoners have rights. They deserve health care. They deserve rehab. Some people "get" this. Largely, these and other essential needs account for the high costs taxpayers complain about and/or contribute to.
Here's another horrifying statistic that you should already know: "the land of the free" has the highest incarceration rate in the world. In 2008, the US locked up 751 people per 100,000 people. "If you count only adults, one in 100 Americans is locked up," wrote Adam Liptak for The New York Times. Can you imagine what that figure is, seven years later?
That seems like it just might be a whole heck of a lot of taxpayer money.
Dollars, sense, plus matters of morality—it may be time to rethink the death penalty. But these issues go WAY beyond that. To meaningfully reform the prison-industrial--the "penal system"--much, MUCH more has to change.
The increased costs of housing inmates are mainly due to an aging population's healthcare costs. In California, an inmate costs about $50,000. KPBS Web Producer Wendy Fry found after an inmate hits 55, "you can basically calculate three times the cost." California does have a high cost of living anyway, but spending on average $150,000 on just healthcare? That's pretty steep. Healthcare reform anyone?
Drug policy changes might improve our incarceration travesty. Non-violent crimes do NOT deserve a years-long-to-life sentence. In the article mentioned above, Liptak wrote:
People who commit nonviolent crimes in the rest of the world are less likely to receive prison time and certainly less likely to receive long sentences. The United States is, for instance, the only advanced country that incarcerates people for minor property crimes like passing bad checks, (James) Whitman wrote. Efforts to combat illegal drugs play a major role in explaining long prison sentences in the United States as well. In 1980, there were about 40,000 people in American jails and prisons for drug crimes. These days, there are almost 500,000.
(Note: James Whitman is a specialist in comparative law at Yale.)
It may be a bit much to ask our "great" country to learn from any other, or care about the impacts incarceration has on non-violent criminals' lives long after they're released, or understand that marijuana has very positive effects on otherwise hopeless patients. But one can hope, no matter how naively.
Tsarnaev, without question, deserves to pay for what he did. Taxpayers giving even one cent, however indirectly, to this low-life is unconscionable. If putting to death one horrible individual is the answer, can you sleep at night knowing you indirectly condone all of these other policies? The "penal system" needs a complete overhaul to serve the citizens of this country, instead of potentially ruining their lives on both sides of the fence. Maybe then, the U.S. might truly be "great" again


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Rajiv Kohli
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Area: Operations & Information Technology
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Rajiv Kohli is the John. N. Dalton Professor of Business at William & Mary. Dr. Kohli received his PhD in information systems from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He has taught at the University of Notre Dame, Lehigh University, University of Maryland College Park, and University of Maryland University College where he was awarded the Teaching Recognition Award. Studies have ranked Dr. Kohli among the top 20 MIS researchers worldwide. Dr. Kohli is ranked as #1 scholar in a recent study on Health Information Technology (HIT) thought leadership.
Dr. Kohli has held visiting positions at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Tsinghua University, RWTH Germany, National University of Singapore, City University of Hong Kong, as an Erskine fellow at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He was a visiting Gillings Fellow at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, England.
For over 15 years, Dr. Kohli has worked or consulted with IBM Global Services, SAS Corporation, United Parcel Service, Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc., AM General, MCI Telecommunications, Westinghouse Electronics, Wipro Corporation and Godrej Industries, in addition to several healthcare organizations. Dr. Kohli has served on the Board of Trustees of The Montessori Academy at Edison Lakes, Mishawaka. Prior to joining full-time academia in 2001, he was a Project Leader in Decision Support Services at Trinity Health.
Dr. Kohli's research is published in MIS Quarterly, Management Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly Executive, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Operations Management, and Decision Support Systems, among other journals. He is a coauthor of the book The IT Payoff: Measuring Business Value of Information Technology Investment, (2002) published by Financial Times Prentice-Hall.
Dr. Kohli is a Senior Editor for Information Systems Research. He has also served as a Senior Editor for MIS Quarterly and as a member of the editorial board of several international journals. He has also served as a guest Senior Editor for Information Systems Research special issue on healthcare and a special issue on Cocreating IS Value for MIS Quarterly.
Dr. Kohli is a honorary Fellow of the Cambridge Judge Business School and a Research Affiliate at MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research.
Thompson S., Whitaker J., Kohli, R. and Jones C. (Forthcoming) How Information Technology and Analytics Create Healthcare Value: A Theory of Temporal Displacement of Care, MIS Quarterly
Kohli, R. and Melville N., Digital Innovation: A Review and Synthesis (2019) Information Systems Journal, 29, 200-223.
Polykarpou, S., Antons, D., Salge, O., Barrett, M., Oborn, E. and Kohli, R. (2018) Justifying Health IT Investments: A Process Model of Framing Practices and Reputational Value, Information and Organization, 28 (4), 153-169.
Grover, V., Kohli, R. and Ramanlal, P. (2018) Being Mindful in Digital Initiatives, MIS Quarterly Executive, September 17:3, 223-236.
Kohli, R. and Tan, S L. (2016) Electronic Health Records: How Can Information Systems Researchers Contribute to Transforming Healthcare? MIS Quarterly, 40 (3), 553-573
Polykarpou, S., Antons, D., Salge, O., Barrett, M., Oborn E., and Kohli, R. The Business Value of Health IT: Towards a Multidimensional Perspective", accepted for the 2016 Academy of Management Meeting, Anaheim. *judged as one of the best accepted papers*
Antons, D., Salge, T.O., Kohli, R. Barrett M., and Oborn, E. (2015) The Social Value of Information Technology: How IT Investments Enhance Hospital Reputation, Proceedings of the Academy of Management *judged as one of the best accepted papers*
Anand, A., Sharma, R. and Kohli, R. (2015) Who Kicks Whom? Contextual and Temporal Effects in IT Performance-Use Relationship, Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems.
Kohli, R. and Thompson, S. (2015). Value Based Healthcare: Aligning Provider Incentives in Shared Savings Programs. Conference on Patient-Centric Healthcare Management in the Age of Analytics, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University.
Fernando, C., Sawchuck, V. Kohli, R., and Bradley J. (2015). Do Hospital Operations Enhance Patient Engagement? Evidence of HR Policies on Patient Satisfaction. Conference on Patient-Centric Healthcare Management in the Age of Analytics, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Wixom, B. and Kohli, R. (2015) Sprint Corporation's New Normal: Achieving Speed to Market in a Highly Competitive Marketplace, MIT Sloan CISR WP 041, March. 1-15.
Salge, T.O. Kohli, R. and Barrett, M. (2015) Investing in Information Systems: On the Behavioral and Institutional Search Mechanisms Underpinning Hospitals' IS Investment Decisions, MIS Quarterly, 39(1), 61-89.
Thompson S., Kohli R., Jones C., Lovejoy N., McGraves-Lloyd K., and Finison K., (2015) Evaluating Health Care Delivery Reform Initiatives in the Face of "Cost Disease" Population Health Management 18(1), 6-14.
Gholami, R. and Kohli, R. (2014) Review of Information Technology Value Research: A Triple Outcomes Perspective. Wiley Encyclopedia of Management, Editor-in-Chief: Cary Cooper. Volume 7 (Editors Straub, D. and Welke, R), Management Information Systems: Business Value of IT. ISBN: 978-1-119-97251-8
Hoadley, E. and Kohli, R. (2014) Business Value of IS Investments. Chapter in Computing Handbook Set. Information Systems and Information Technology. Section 9, Volume 2, Publisher: Taylor and Francis, Editor: Heikki Topi and Allen Tucker. ISBN 978-1-439-89854-3
Cichy, P., Salge, T.O., Kohli, R. (2014) Extending the Privacy Calculus: Role of Psychological Ownership, Proceedings of Thirty-Fifth International Conference on Information Systems,1-20.
Menon, N. and Kohli, R. (2013) Blunting Damocles' Sword: A Longitudinal Model of Healthcare IT Impact on Malpractice Insurance Premium and Quality of Patient Care. Information Systems Research. 24(4) 883-905.
Devaraj, S. Ow, T., Kohli, R. (2013) Examining the Impact of Information Technology and Patient Flow on Healthcare Performance: A Theory of Swift and Even Flow (TSEF) Perspective. Journal of Operations Management, 31, 181-192.
Grover, V. and Kohli, R. (2013) Revealing Your Hand: Caveats in Implementing Digital Business Strategy. MIS Quarterly, 37(2) 655-662.
Gholami, R. and Kohli, R. Review of Information Technology Value Research: A Triple Outcomes Perspective. Wiley Encyclopedia of Management, Editor-in-Chief: Cary Cooper. Volume 7 (Editors Straub, D. and Welke, R), Management Information Systems: Business Value of IT. (in press).
Hoadley, E. and Kohli, R. Business Value of IS Investments. Chapter in Computing Handbook Set. Information Systems and Information Technology. Section 9, Volume 2, Publisher: Taylor and Francis, Editor: Heikki Topi. (in press).
Yao, O., Sherer, S., Kohli, R., and Cederlund, J. (2013) Learning Curves in Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR) Information Systems: An Empirical Analysis from a Mobile Phone Manufacturer, Journal of Operations Management, 31, 285-297.
Kohli, R., Devaraj, S. and Ow, T., (2012). Does Information Technology investment influence a firm's market value? The case of Non Publicly Traded healthcare firms. MIS Quarterly, 36(4), 1145-1163.
Grover, V., and Kohli, R. (2012). Cocreating IT Value: New Capabilities and Metrics for Multifirm Environments, MIS Quarterly, 36(1), 225-232.
Kohli, R. and Johnson, S. (2011). Digital Transformation in Latecomer Industries: CIO and CEO Leadership Lessons from Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc., MIS Quarterly Executive 10(4), 141-156.
Sherer, S., Cederlund, J., Yao, O., and Kohli, R. (2011). Do Cultural Differences Matter in IT Implementation? A Multinational's Experience with CPFR, Journal of Global Information Management 19(4), 1-17.
Fichman, R., Kohli R., and Krishnan, R. (2011). Editorial Overview—The Role of Information Systems in Healthcare: Current Research and Future Trends, Information Systems Research, September, 22, pp. 419-428
Kohli, R., and Straub, D. (2011). Editor's Comments: How Reviewers Shape : A Primer for Reviewers and Editors, MIS Quarterly, 35(3) September, pp. iii-vii
Barrett, M., Velu, C., Kohli, R., Salge, T.O., and Simoes-Brown, D. (2011). Making the transition to collaborative innovation: Issues of readiness, trust and governance, National Endowment for Science, Technology, and the Arts (NESTA) UK. Business Briefing Report, March.
Salge, O., Kohli, R., and Barrett, M. (2011). Patterns of Technological Search: Institutional and Behavioral Triggers of IS Investment, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August 12-16, in San Antonio, Texas. **Winner of Best Interactive Paper Award**
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Healthcare Information Systems
Business Value of Information Technology
Innovation with IT


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Automated meal entitlement system, food trucks to improve Soldier dining experience
haw | August 28, 2018	| 0 Comments
The 25th Combat Aviation Brigade Dining Facility is located on Wheeler Army Airfield in Hawaii. (File photo)
Joe Lacdan
WASHINGTON — The Army is phasing out its manual meal card system after decades of use. Soldiers will be able to sit down to eat sooner at dining facilities across the Army as the service fully transitions to its new automated meal entitlement code system next month.
Now, instead of presenting a meal card, Soldiers will simply swipe their common access card containing an authorization code for the dining facility. The new system, developed by the Army's Software Engineering Center, allows for the reading of a meal entitlement code that is installed on the CAC by a
military personnel office.
Some installations have been testing the new system since January, but the deadline for all posts worldwide to transition to the new system is Oct. 1.
The automated system will make it easier for Soldiers to enter a DFAC, officials said, particularly those in large units.
"(The new system) will ultimately speed them through the line at the dining facility," said Jack Skelly, chief of the Food and Field Services Branch, Army G-4, at the Pentagon.
Secretary of the Army Mark Esper spends his day visiting with Soldiers in the Pacific area of responsibility in November 2017. (U.S. Secretary of the Army photo by John Martinez)
The Army actually began its pilot program in the fall of 2017 at three locations, including Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Virginia; Fort Gordon, Georgia; and Fort Bragg, North Carolina. In January 2018, the Army began implementing the program at other installations as well.
The new automated meal entitlement management system will not just impact Soldiers living in the barracks and eating at the dining facility. Even Soldiers receiving basic allowance for subsistence who are on temporary duty, special missions, institutional training or deployments will have a code for meals placed on their CAC.
"It will impact every Soldier," said Larry Lock, chief of Military Compensation and Entitlements. "What we're trying to do … is give commanders an efficient, effective system to account for a member's meal
entitlements."
The Army's meal card system dates back to the World War II era, though tweaks have been made over the years, Skelly said.
The old system often caused delays DFAC lines and presented an obstacle for Soldiers participating in large training exercises. Soldiers would have to manually sign into a written log after entering a DFAC or get checked into a log upon leaving. The automated configuration will also reduce errors.
"That's a very antiquated and labor-intensive program," Skelly said.
A smoother dining experience will help Soldiers focus on missions and training, he said, adding it falls in line with guidance set by Secretary of the Army Mark Esper.
The automated meal system is part of a larger push to remove manual mandatory tasks to headquarters and below elements of the Army, so units can focus on readiness and training, Skelly said.
When National Guard and Army Reserve units are mobilized, Soldiers from those units will benefit from the convenience as well, Lock said. Commanders will also be able track whether Soldiers are receiving their due entitlements.
MOBILE DFACs
In addition to automation of dining facilities, the Army will also soon roll out a "culinary outpost" for Soldiers. Food trucks with menu items prepared at Army dining facilities will service some Soldiers in garrison.
Pvt. 1st Class Willie Mills, an Army food service specialist with Headquarters Support Company, Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, 25th Infantry Division, seasons chicken before it can be cooked at the K-Quad Dining Facility in February 2015. (File photo)
"Soldiers can't always get back to their dining facility," Skelly said. "So we're taking (the dining facility) to them."
With the food trucks, Soldiers will enjoy a menu of healthy options. Healthy options might include an "Asian bowl," with an option to choose white or brown rice, for instance, Skelly said. The menus will also feature sandwiches, wraps, salads, fruit and lean beef burgers.
"All menus are designed to be healthier," Skelly said. "It's extending our feeding options."
The food trucks will be manned by three to four Soldiers and will feature a standardized menu, Skelly said. The location of food trucks and their status will be updated on an installation's social media pages, and unit commanders will also have the option to specially request mobilization of a food truck.
Skelly said the program is currently in the pilot stage and the Army has been testing food trucks at Fort Stewart, Georgia and Fort Carson, Colorado. Also this month, food kiosks are scheduled to open at Fort Stewart's Marne reception station and at Fort Carson.
Skelly said more of the kiosks are expected to open in indoor, high-traffic areas that have high concentrations of troops. These could include headquarters buildings, reception stations and locations that formerly housed dining facilities.
The kiosks will be manned by one to two Soldiers who will serve hot food and frozen entrees. The kiosks will also include a beverage station.
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Roots of public broadcasting can be found in Wisconsin's vision
By Jack Mitchell | December 7, 2016
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Children in a Wisconsin classroom listen to lessons broadcast by radio. (Photo courtesy of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives (ID S05822))
Children in a Wisconsin classroom listen to lessons broadcast by radio. In its time, WHA aimed to educate everyone in a state in which much of the population had not attended high school. (Photo courtesy of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives (ID S05822))
For years, Wisconsin's WHA Radio claimed that its first broadcast of voice and music in 1917 made it "the oldest station in the nation." Whether or not that claim is valid, the University of Wisconsin station's 100th anniversary does mark the beginning of not-for-profit public service broadcasting in the United States. WHA and public broadcasting share their 100th birthday because the concepts that define public broadcasting grew from WHA's "first broadcast" in 1917.
Other universities experimented with radio early in the 20th century, but few saw much use for the technology that intrigued their engineers and physicists. Institutions active in agricultural extension did see the technology's potential to deliver to farmers and their families useful tips, weather and market information. Indeed, such information found an early home on WHA.
The vision for WHA, however, went beyond agricultural extension. The station emerged in 1917 at the end of the progressive era in the state and at the university most closely identified with that early 20th-century reform movement. "The Wisconsin Idea" made the boundaries of the university the boundaries of the state and gave purpose to the broadcast apparatus that emerged from the university's physics lab.
The state government and the university set out to use radio to create a more enlightened and engaged community.
The term "The Wisconsin Idea" came from the title of a book that UW political science professor Charles McCarthy published in 1912. It marked the zenith of the progressive movement. A hundred years later, Sen. Bernie Sanders echoed the language and concepts that McCarthy used in The Wisconsin Idea. McCarthy's book attacked the corrupting power of moneyed interests and an unrestrained profit motive. He foresaw the day when a small group of powerful families would own most of the wealth as the rest of the population drifted into poverty. His book explained how Wisconsin progressives used state government and the state university to "empower" the middle class against the rich.
McCarthy described legislation that attacked concentrated economic power through laws regulating business, establishing workers' compensation, protecting the environment and limiting child labor. Other laws addressed political corruption by establishing a professional civil service system. Some legislation gave power directly to the people through primary elections, the direct election of U.S. senators, and the power to recall elected officials. Theodore Roosevelt's introduction to McCarthy's book described Wisconsin as "literally a laboratory for wise experimental legislation aiming to secure the social and political betterment of the people as a whole."
Before publishing his book, McCarthy had organized the University of Wisconsin's general extension division to promote his progressive vision. In addition to offering correspondence courses, the division organized public lectures and "fair and impartial debate" on important issues. McCarthy insisted that public tax money pay for these activities to keep them free of the corrupting power of private money. General extension put the university at the center of public life.
Also in 1912, university president Charles Van Hise called a conference of newspaper editors and critics to discuss the corrupting influence of "commercialism in journalism" — what he saw as the quest for profit over the search for truth in the journalism of the day. Conferees endorsed not-for-profit alternatives to commercial journalism, suggesting that universities, governments and foundations might fund and operate them. They did not envision broadcasting in 1912, but five years later university physicists gave them that instrument.
However, by the time WHA became fully operational in the decade after World War I, progressivism had faded as a national movement, and commercial interests dominated radio. Nonetheless, an attenuated Wisconsin Idea continued to pervade Madison. The state government and the university set out to use radio to create a more enlightened and engaged community: Ultimately, they built a network of nine FM stations and another AM station from the original WHA to create the Wisconsin State Broadcasting Service. Popularly known as "the State Stations," the FM network took to the air 20 years before the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967.
Why did this state and its university make such a major investment? Programs for schools were only part of the answer. University President Glenn Frank wrote that radio programming needed to promote "intelligence and moral responsibility" in the population as a whole and should encourage understanding among diverse groups.
A co-conspirator with Professor McCarthy in developing the Wisconsin Idea, Professor William Lighty, volunteered as WHA's first program director. He specifically rejected airing formal courses in favor of "broadcasts that have a general human interest appeal for the vast invisible audience, and at the same time to interpret the true spirit, the life and the work of the university." Essentially, Lighty wanted to deliver a broad liberal education to everyone in a state where much of the population had not attended high school and a surprising number were illiterate. He said he was "rationalizing" all citizens.
Lighty wanted programs that were accessible and entertaining as they sought to educate and inform. Extending this philosophy, one of his successors declared that "though produced amid academic surroundings, the programs are not permitted to become high brow." President Frank reminded programmers how easily listeners could turn "from dull quality to interesting frivolity with a simple twist of the dial."
Noncommercial public service broadcasting supports progressive values. … It seeks to empower ordinary citizens.
True to the progressive spirit in which it was conceived, WHA and the State Stations made an unusually strong commitment to fostering democratic debate and broad public participation in the political process. Some of the staunchest advocates for the State Stations justified them primarily on their service to a functioning democracy. In the early 1930s, WHA created the "Political Education Forum." It provided free and equal airtime to all candidates for statewide political office — progressive Republicans, stalwart Republicans, Democrats, Socialists, even Communists. The word "forum" turned up in many program titles as the station organized debates and discussions on issues of public concern. More than other noncommercial broadcasters of the time, Wisconsin's State Stations combined democratic access with authoritative education — and enough entertainment elements to attract and hold listeners.
In 1967, fifty years after WHA first broadcast voice and music, Congress enacted the Public Broadcasting Act. The legislation was part of President Johnson's Great Society, an array of reforms and government activism that echoed the progressive era initiatives exemplified in the Wisconsin Idea. The Carnegie Commission report that shaped the Public Broadcasting Act promised a societal transformation similar to that envisioned by Professor Lighty. Like the founders of WHA, the Carnegie Commission specifically rejected formal courses and narrow instruction in its vision of public broadcasting. Like the founders of WHA, the commission sought a more enlightened populace, a more integrated community and a better-functioning democracy.
In another parallel with the progressive era, however, the Great Society was quickly exhausted by a tragic war. Vietnam ended the optimism of the Great Society as surely as World War I disillusioned the progressives. Both reform movements ended, but the broadcast institutions they created survived with diminished ambitions.
Mitchell (Photo courtesy of UW School of Journalism and Mass Communication)
While public broadcasters rightly defend their programming against charges of "liberal bias," tax-supported public broadcasting is an inherently liberal institution. Created by progressives early in the 20th century and greatly expanded by another generation of progressives in the 1960s, noncommercial public service broadcasting supports progressive values. It serves a broad public interest beyond the array of individual interests served commercially. It promotes an educated populace and participatory democracy. It seeks to empower ordinary citizens. From its birth in The Wisconsin Idea a century ago, public broadcasting is a progressive enterprise that defies the gospel that the economic marketplace provides everything society needs and that profit is the only motive that serves the public good.
Jack Mitchell was the first employee of NPR and the first producer of All Things Considered. He spent most of his career in Wisconsin, however, as director of Wisconsin Public Radio and, later, as Professor of Journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Listener Supported: The Culture and History of Public Radio (Praeger, 2005) and Wisconsin on the Air: 100 Years of Public Broadcasting in the State that Invented It (Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2016). This essay was based on the latter.
This commentary appears as part of Rewind: The Roots of Public Media, our series of historical essays about public media created in partnership with the Radio Preservation Task Force. The RPTF is an initiative of the Library of Congress. Josh Shepperd, assistant professor of media studies at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., and national research director of the Radio Preservation Task Force, is Faculty Curator of the Rewind series. Email: shepperd@cua.edu
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Steve Bass on December 7, 2016 at 2:29 pm said:
Hi, Jack. Interesting article and makes the point about how critical the role of land grant universities (and particularly my alma mater) has been in the development of public broadcasting. As I write this, OPB celebrates its 94th year today, having been founded on December 7, 1922 at what is now Oregon State University, another great land grant university.


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Durham, North Carolina: Marc Lee… at the Heart of Music in Raleigh During the Rock N' Roll Marathon Series
Research Triangle radio personality, music & cultural project producer, promoter, agent: Blues, Jazz, Funk, R&B, Country, and Theatre Arts
CONSIDERED THE MINISTER OF CULTURE
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Organizational Productions
Marc has worked in the entertainment business since he was a teenager. His parents were part founders of a community radio station and Marc grew up working on promotions and advertising related to such events as the Bull Durham Blues Festival, Eno Festival, Centerfest, Black Diaspora Film Festival, Durham's Martin Luther King Jr. Parade, etc….
He has also had involvement with many musical acts including: Bo Diddley, Isaac Hayes, Wilson Pickett, Bobby Womack, Keb' Mo, Bobby Rush, Rod Piazza, Rosie Ledet, Shemekia Copeland, Buddy Guy, Koko Taylor, Atlantic Starr, the Delfonics, The Bar-Kays, Samecumba, African American Dance Ensemble, Bobby Hinton, MUGABEE, Roberta Flack, Maria Rolls, John Dee Holeman and many more…
His theatre and film relationships have include: Ruby Dee, Renee Fleming, Linda Humes, Ted Lansing, Haile Gerima, Dick Gregory, and he is a staple reading new scripts and promoting outstanding productions featured at the biennial National Black Theatre Festival in Winston Salem, North Carolina.
Today many of the arts and entertainment that comes to Durham especially at the Hayti Heritage Center has some input from Marc. His specialties are: Organizing Special Events, Negotiations, Public Relations, Announcing and MCing, Finding Quality Acts, Road crew management of Filmmakers and Musicians, Booking Entertainment, Helping Create Film and Theatre Works, Planning Festivals, talent procurement.
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Every Thursday afternoon, he hosts a Blues show on WCOM…………103.5 FM. It is entitled the Juke Joint and airs from 4 to 6 p.m…. (http://wcomfm.org/index.php/programs/our-schedule) . Marc will be creating an archive of Podcasts through iTunes with wcom-hifi.mp3. The website however for the station is www. communityradio.coop/ …It's a small station but a definite jewel in the radio community of RTP….Other announcers on this station are Larry Thomas, Dave Bellins, and Richard Brown…..
Marc on April 12, 2014 a typical weekend co-produced at the Pour House (located in Raleigh directly across from Moore Square) for a production which featured the Cedric Burnside Project with Lefty Williams.
Cedric Burnside is the grandson of the late blues legend R.L. Burnside.
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Here's a Recap of What Happened to Cisco on 'The Flash'
By Jamie Lerner
Mar. 30 2021, Updated 10:48 a.m. ET
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the last season of The Flash ended abruptly and unsatisfyingly. One of our favorite characters, Cisco, was absent, and Iris West-Allen (Candice Patton) has been stuck in the Mirrorverse. However, Cisco is central in The Flash Season 7 trailer, so it looks like he'll definitely be back to make a difference.
Cisco has been through a lot over the course of the show. Carlos Valdes, who plays the character, was in every episode since the inception of The Flash until Season 5, in which he wasn't in a few episodes. Then, in the midseason premiere of Season 6, which saw a reboot of the multiverse, he announced he would be leaving to catalog and learn about the new world. He hasn't returned to our screens since — until now.
A lot has happened to Cisco during the run of 'The Flash.'
When Cisco entered the Arrowverse in The Flash, he was the resident tech expert of Team Flash but was just a normal guy. However, Cisco later realized he was affected by the particle accelerator, which gave him the ability to manipulate the vibrational energy of reality. This turned him into a metahuman, and he took on the identity of "Vibe."
Cisco really brought a fun vibe to the show, whether he was a superhero or not, with his comic relief and working-class background. He created his own metahuman cure so that he could live a normal life, but then his powers were restored to him by the Monitor (LaMonica Garrett). However, once the new multiverse was created, Cisco once again lost his powers. That's a lot of power flip-flopping, and that's not all that happened to Cisco in his lifetime on The Flash.
Cisco left 'The Flash' temporarily as part of a storyline cut short, due to the pandemic.
When the Earth was essentially rebooted, Cisco didn't really know what to do or how to help. He felt that there were "more threats than ever," and Caitlin (Danielle Panabaker) encouraged him to take some time away from STAR Labs. Cisco decided this was the right thing to do, and he left Nash Wells (Thomas Cavanagh) in charge of Team Flash while he went out on his own.
At this point, many fans on the show were worried this meant that Cisco was leaving The Flash forever, but showrunner Eric Wallace eased our concerns. He let us know that Cisco would "be back very quickly." Little did he know that Season 6 would be cut short by the pandemic, and the storyline that would have been wrapped up last year was left on an even bigger cliffhanger.
TVLine spoke with Eric about how that would play into the new season of The Flash, and he confirmed that if they were able to have a proper season finale, Cisco definitely would have been back in time.
There are fan theories about what will happen to Cisco in 'The Flash' going forward.
One theory is that someone else will need to take over the role of Vibe, even if Cisco stays in his role as the tech expert for Team Flash. Some hope it will be Cisco's brother, Dante Ramon (Nicholas Gonzalez), since he's appeared sporadically throughout the show. Plus, it's possible he also could have received powers from the particle accelerator, and it seems like the show has been building up to repairing the relationship between Cisco and Dante.
ik we are getting closer to the end of the flash than the beginning (grant's words) but i really hope we get some more backstory for cisco & they actually mention his family or Anyone he knows outside of team flash esp since he did just travel all around... idk he deserves better
— aya (@chrolluv) March 3, 2021
Another thought is that because Brandon McKnight will be promoted to series regular as his character, Chester P. Runk, that he may take over some of Cisco's responsibilities. He's also a tech genius like Cisco, so we'll just have to watch and see how all their relationships play out on the new season of The Flash.
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China coronavirus infections spike in central city of Wuhan
By Reuters | March 5th 2020
People wearing protective face masks walk past laundry hanging outside a house at a residential area in Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak, Hubei province, China March 4, 2020 [Reuters]
Mainland China reported a rise in new confirmed cases of coronavirus on Thursday, reversing three straight days of declines, because of a spike in new infections in Wuhan, the city at the center of the outbreak.
Mainland China had 139 new confirmed cases as of Wednesday, the National Health Commission (NHC) said, bringing the total accumulated number of cases to 80,409. Authorities reported 119 new cases the previous day and 125 the day before that.
The increase was driven by more cases in Wuhan, the provincial capital of Hubei, where the virus is believed to have emerged in a market late last year.
Wuhan's new infections climbed to 131 from 114 a day earlier. There was no immediate elaboration and health officials were due to hold a briefing later in the day.
After what some critics said was an initially hesitant response to the new virus, China imposed sweeping restrictions to try to stop it, including transport suspensions, lockdowns of cities and extending a Lunar New Year holiday across the country.
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World Health Organization (WHO) officials have said other countries have much to learn from the way China has handled the outbreak and Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu said many countries had asked for help and China was responding.
The number of new confirmed cases in Hubei, excluding Wuhan, has remained in single digits for seven consecutive days, with three new infections recorded on Wednesday.
In the rest of mainland China, outside Hubei, there were only five new confirmed cases, the health commission said.
The death toll from the outbreak in mainland China had reached 3,012 as of the end of Wednesday, up by 31 from the previous day. Hubei accounted for all of the new deaths. In Wuhan, 23 people died.
With the downward trend in new cases, Chinese authorities have turned their attention to stopping the virus being brought in from new coronavirus hot spots abroad.
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The number of new infections overseas now exceeds the tally of new cases in China, with Italy, South Korea and Iran, in particular, seeing worrying spreads of the virus.
Authorities have asked overseas Chinese hoping to return home to reconsider their travel plans, while cities across the country have set up quarantine rules for those entering from high-risk places.
An infected person is known to have arrived in China from Iran, one of the virus' new hot spots, last week.
The cities of Shanghai and Guangdong have ordered people who have been in countries with severe outbreaks within the previous two weeks to stay in quarantine for 14 days.
The city of Chengdu in central Sichuan province said it was also ordering quarantine for such people.
The NHC has said authorities were transitioning from "overall containment to targeted containment" measures, with a focus on containment within communities, and medical treatment.
Ma told a briefing China would make donations to South Korea, Iraq, Cambodia and Sri Lanka, on top of what it has already given to Pakistan, Japan and Iran.
China was also considering responding to WHO call for donations, he said.
"Many of the countries which have requested for our help had actually helped us previously, so when we help these countries, it is to help them fight the virus, and also to repay their kindness," Ma said.
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by Kristofer Brozio • September 8, 2017
Cheats in video games have been around since video games were developed. Most hardcore and casual gamers are even familiar with traditional cheat codes like "Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Select Start" or also known as the Konami Code. Whether it's Sony PlayStation, Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo consoles, or even PC, cheat codes are not at all uncommon for video games. These cheats usually provide players invulnerability, unlimited supplies, complete weapons, and even unlock most stages and characters available in the game. Players in offline games have different reasons to use cheat codes, such as to explore the different features of the game, to get past a difficult level, or even just to have fun. But these cheats are sometimes considered to be unethical in massively multiplayer online (MMO) games such as World of Warcraft, League of Legends, Dota 2, Counter-Strike Global Offensive, and Call of Duty: World at War.